Evil Awe-Inspiring

"Billy Mountain Films"

A yellow plastic folder is in my hand, and there is such a big line on the cover of the first page.

"This company was founded in the 1960s and has gone through the golden age of Hollywood. You know that there have always been seven major movie company giants in Hollywood. The seven giants are undoubtedly the first group in the film world. And this The best development of Bilishan Film Company was in the mid-1990s. Although it still lags far behind the first group, it once entered the ranks of the second group. The most beautiful year, I have made two blockbuster movies, and the box office has exceeded ten million. One of them is still typical of the works with a wide reputation, and was also selected as the top ten North American box office of the year. Of course, that is also the most brilliant of this company. It's been one year, and it's the only one. "

"After entering the 21st century, because the company's largest shareholder's assets were in a bad state, the company's investment in movies was a bit confusing, and the decision-making mistakes made it wrong to cast two movies in a year, making the company lose money. Millions of dollars. What's more important is the loss of a year of important development time! It is worth mentioning that this company also has a legend ... Now the famous "Harry Potter" series of movies, British women Writer JK Rowling became a female writer whose annual income surpassed that of the Queen with this set. At the time, when "Harry Potter" was only a set of best-selling books, Warner, one of the seven major Hollywood giants, For more than 100,000 dollars, I bought the film rights of the first episode of "Harry Potter"! Later, you know, Harry Potter has become Warner's best-selling and most profitable movie in these years. A real cash cow and gold mine! ?? However, things are not so simple. To be correct, before Warner Company contacted Ms. Rowling to buy Harry Potter. There were other A Hollywood film company has already set its sights on this charming little wizard. It must be known that Harry Potter was far less famous than it is now! And that company was far ahead of the super giant Warner Sexually saw the market prospects of Harry Potter! This is undoubtedly a very clever approach ... and this company is 'Billy Hills Film Company.' "

"Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, Billy Mountain Films mistakenly invested in two other films, and as a result, the company lost millions of dollars, and more importantly, the confidence of shareholders and investors! These various reasons, As a result, Billy Hills finally failed to make the determination to buy the rights to Harry Potter, and then Harry Potter was bought by Warner ... Now everyone sees it. Any movie in the Harry Potter series The box office is calculated in the hundreds of millions of dollars! And the fifth Harry Potter film will also be released this summer. We can imagine. At that time, Billy Hill Film Company was at its most brilliant time, if they did not I made an investment mistake. I invested two loss-making films by mistake, but bought Harry Potter smoothly ... You know, this company and DreamWorks also had a cooperative relationship at that time ... Ebil Hill Movies The company's peak status at that time, coupled with the excellent production of DreamWorks, if let them catch the Harry Potter cash cow. Then now I have no doubt that this company even has With this the most profitable series of films to the world. Became the new giants of Hollywood! "

"However, history does not have the" if "hypothesis. Billy Hills missed Harry Potter, and the loss of the year put them in trouble, the company's cash flow was drying up, and investor confidence was insufficient. It also affected the operation of the company. As a result, in the next three years, they only shot a small-produced movie, and the box office was just barely. This was their worst time, fortunately. Later they have survived it. . This company has fallen behind from the second group, and has since been slumped. Now it has become a third-rate film company in Hollywood. However, although it is now a third-rate company, this company basically does not have the ability to make movies on its own, but they I still occasionally invest in some movies, or take over the work of other film companies, help others to release the film produced or take over some distribution and other tasks. It should be said that the size of this company is now small Some, but small and small, well-organized. If you inject sufficient funds, then this company is Often value in making those! They have their own independent release, distribution, operations, independent film production part, everything they have, just some small scale it. "

"Additionally, the current financial position of this company is ... red. They are basically on the verge of bankruptcy. Thanks to old Sorin. He was just a temporary interest a year ago and threw it away casually When millions came in, he originally planned to extend his tentacles to the movie industry, and wanted to make money by shooting movies.

It is a pity that he later put this plan on hold too old, and this company has been unable to get new capital inflows, has owed a large loan to the bank, and has now entered a dangerous stage of insolvency.

The bank's ultimatum is two, to repay the debt internally, or to prove that there is a sufficient amount of funds to re-inject into the company! Otherwise, two months later, the bank will apply to the local court for winding up and sell the company. In other words, the company went bankrupt. In fact, some of their assets are slightly mortgaged to banks. "

Yang Wei was sitting next to me. She didn't read the information at all, but she talked eloquently, and she obviously did a sufficient investigation of this company.

By the way, we are not in a conference room now, but at an altitude of 30,000 feet above the ground.

First Class on a North Atlantic United flight.

Yang Wei was sitting next to me. I supported my chin and patiently listened to her before I asked. "I have a problem. Generally speaking, banks will not easily force a company to go bankrupt, because once it goes bankrupt, Then it is equivalent to automatically forgive all debts, so it is the bank that loses. "

"Oh, that's because this company is definitely not able to pay back now." Yang smiled. "Now it seems that the company's film library and all its assets have been mortgaged to the bank anyway. Is the company anyway? May repay the debt, and the bank does not want to let their money fall into the water ...

The so-called early death and early birth, early application for bankruptcy and liquidation, the bank can also auction off the company's mortgage assets as soon as possible, at least part of the money can be exchanged to recover part of the loss. The situation now is that the bank has made a decision and can recover a little bit. Because if you continue to take off like this, the return of funds will be in the foreseeable future. "

I frowned and looked at Yang Wei: "Then this company has rotten as you said! Their bankruptcy is the best ending. The company has a large debt, and they are just a third-rate film company in Hollywood. If we If you want to take over, you have to spend money instead of paying off the company's loan debt ... Is the price too great, is it worth it? "

Yang Wei's tone was calm and very confident: "Of course it's worth it!"

She took the coffee in front of her, took a sip, and laughed: "I have been paying attention to this company for a long time. So I fully investigated it. I found some interesting things. Because the worst losses in history That year, the founder of this company, also the original 30 of the company, has left the company's shares and left the company. And the other two people in the decision-making layer who left the company together. That is, the decision-making layer in the company later Here, there is no real expert.

After that, the board of directors of the new company, which was nominated by the board of directors, apparently lacked an understanding of the film industry. The leadership is managed by the bank and the company's shareholders who have appointed a professional manager of a trust company. This professional manager is still an expert, so he can barely maintain the company to this day. However, frequent changes in the search for people caused some problems in their internal commitment. And I got an important piece of information, that this company still has some very valuable things, and these things, the current company leader is not clear about the details ?? If he knew, sell these things long ago Lost money! "

"Oh? What?" I wondered. "Is there anything else worthwhile in this company? Don't you say that all their valuable assets are mortgaged to the bank?"

"It's an appointment!" Yang Wei blinked, and she smiled slyly: "In Hollywood, sometimes a big-name director or a big-name star's movie appointment is worth tens of millions of calculations!"

Looking at my somewhat bewildered expression, Yang Wei's eyes were a little excited: "Don't understand? Come, I explain to you ... you will understand that we are now almost equivalent to holding a cornucopia in our hands!"

She quickly put down the coffee, and this time finally opened the yellow plastic folder in front of her. She flipped to the second page with a faint smile on her face, and said slowly ...