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Chapter 489 Who to choose?

Los Angeles.

"Mr. Su, here are some information about Hollywood film and television companies that I checked recently." Lu Lingyue has been here in Los Angeles for several days.

Su Wei has established a branch in Hollywood.

At that time, this branch was founded by Su Wei investing in Franklin.

This time, thanks to the existence of this company, Lu Lingyue didn't have to mobilize manpower from China.

Although the branch is almost a shell company, it still has a basic framework.

During this period of time, she took the people from the branch to really inquire about news about Hollywood film and television companies.

Her hard work paid off, and she actually found something.

"Damn it, these top film companies have all been invaded by giants now." Su Wei sat in the office and looked at what Lu Lingyue investigated.

I discovered that all of these movie giants in Hollywood have sold themselves out.

For example, Warner Films sold itself to AT&A Group and now becomes Time Warner.

Columbia Pictures also sold itself to Sony early on.

As for 20th Century Fox, it was acquired by Murdoch early.

Su Wei knew that 20th Century Fox would soon be sold to Disney by the old man Murdoch.

To be honest, Su Wei is also very greedy for 20th Century Fox.

After all, he not only has a big IP, but also a TV station.

But Su Wei was immediately put off after seeing its market value, because the purchase price would have exceeded US$50 billion.

The only one that has not been interfered by by giants is Disney.

But Disney's main business is located in amusement parks.

"Absolutely, because making a good movie now often costs hundreds of millions of dollars. If there is no strength, the film and television company will easily go bankrupt." In the past, Hollywood movies, hundreds of millions of dollars were a huge investment.

But in today's Hollywood, movies worth hundreds of millions can only be considered big productions.

A truly top-notch production costs more than 200 million.

MGM is a typical example. They invested in John Woo's film Whisperer.

Because of the box office failure, the company went bankrupt.

"It's been a while since you've been in Los Angeles this time. After inspecting for so long, are there any film companies you're optimistic about?" Su Wei gave all the inspection tasks to Lu Lingyue this time.

As for himself, of course he will continue playing golf.

After all, he came to Lu Lingyue just to do something.

She has been inspecting it for so many days. Now that she has called him here, she must be prepared.

"Didn't I tell you, Mr. Su, that MGM and Lionsgate are not bad companies? In fact, there is a better company, and that is Paramount." Previously, Lu Lingyue would meet with

Su Wei said MGM and Lionsgate.

She didn't mention Paramount, not because she forgot.

After all, Paramount is one of the six major film companies in Hollywood, and its reputation is definitely well-known.

The main reason she didn't mention it was because she didn't know it was for sale.

This time she got some useful news during her few days here.

"Panamount? Isn't it quite profitable? His parent company is willing to sell it?" Among the six major Hollywood film companies, Su Wei can afford Paramount.

But he remembered checking the information and found that Paramount's parent company was very wealthy.

And now that Transformers is booming, how can Paramount’s parent company be willing to sell this cash cow?

After all, Paramount is the chicken that lays golden eggs, and its parent company is not short of money.

"Mr. Su, Viacom Group, the parent company of Paramount, is the third largest media company in the United States. They actually wanted to sell Paramount in 2016. At that time, Wanda planned to take over, but because of

For some reasons, I gave up later." When Lu Lingyue first came here, she actually didn't know that Paramount was going to be sold.

So her main focus at that time was MGM and Lionsgate Pictures.

Until a local colleague asked her why she was following both of their companies but not Paramount.

After all, comparing Paramount to MGM and Lionsgate, it is simply the combination of their strengths.

It has the reputation of MGM and the performance of beating Lionsgate.

Only then did Lu Lingyue find out that Paramount was also for sale.

"So that's what happened, then I know. What's going on with MGM and Lionsgate, and why are they willing to sell?" Su Wei heard Lu Lingyue mention Wanda in 2016, and he immediately knew it was

What's going on?

Back then, Wanda grabbed projects that it shouldn't have grabbed, and then was targeted.

The only way to survive is through fire sales and hard work.

But it was that incident that allowed Wanda to escape the 20-year hurdle.

If that incident hadn't happened, Wanda might have succeeded in taking over Paramount.

With Wanda's status in the country, when both parties work together, he will really despise everything in the country.

"MGM is because it is now heavily in debt. Although it merged with Telescope Entertainment in 2010 and is still able to avoid bankruptcy, it is actually on the verge of survival and may collapse at any time.

Compared with MGM, Lionsgate Pictures has a more normal business, and unlike MGM, it will be sold simply because its current boss feels that the company's value is quite high and can be sold.

Good price." MGM, the film company, can be said to be a miracle in Hollywood.

Because Hollywood is what it is today because of its indelible contributions.

It was just that when the television industry was emerging, it failed to seize the opportunity, causing it to fall behind.

After decades of ups and downs, it is basically impossible to recover now.

Lionsgate is different, its boss is Canadian.

At the beginning, he really didn't expect Lionsgate to be where it is today.

So now that the value of Lionsgate Pictures is so high, he really wants to sell it.

After all, its opponents are all super conglomerates.

"So, we now have three companies to choose from: Paramount, MGM, and Lionsgate Pictures, right?" Zhang Ruoyu is extremely familiar with these three film companies.

After all, anyone who watches movies has basically seen the movies of these three companies.

MGM's Tom and Jerry, Gone with the Wind, 007 series, etc.

Paramount has Transformers, Star Trek, the Mission: Impossible series, and Forrest Gump.

Among these three film companies, the least famous is probably Lionsgate Pictures.

But it has produced many famous movies, such as The Expendables, The Hunger Games, and Lord of War.

Zhang Ruoyu still can't understand where Su Wei got his money.

He has already had more than 100 billion frozen, so how can he still have money to acquire these Hollywood film companies?

"Yes, but in my opinion, there is no need for MGM to acquire it at all, because after buying this company, it will be very difficult to make money. If Mr. Su is not short of money, then of course he will buy Paramount

The best, after all, it has big IPs like Star Trek and Transformers under its control.

Although Lionsgate Pictures is not a top film and television company, its current development is just short of a wealthy investor. If the money is in place, its future is really hard to say." After Lu Lingyue's analysis, she felt that it was better to buy Paramount and

Lionsgate is more profitable.

After all, of these two companies, one represents the present and the other represents the future.

As for MGM, it can only represent the glorious past.

But the wheels of time are rolling forward, and they should move forward instead of looking back for such antiques.

"I didn't expect that the famous MGM would fall to this level. Although we don't value MGM the least, just in case, we can talk to these three companies." If there was no Paramount,

In fact, Su Wei wanted to buy both MGM and Lionsgate Pictures.

When the time comes to merge the two companies, they may not be able to become the new Hollywood Big Six.

But now that there is a Paramount, this makes him hesitate.

Because of his company, there is no need to buy MGM and Lionsgate, because Paramount is the top six in Hollywood.

It's just that Su Wei wants to buy MGM because of a complex, which is the connection between MGM and China.

MGM opened a dance hall in the Magic City in 1932, the famous Paramount.

But now that it has become like this, it is really sad.

"Then if all three of them agree to sell, who will we choose?" Zhang Ruoyu had already made his choice in his heart.

That is, among the three, she chose Paramount, which seems to be the best at the moment.

After all, anyone who watches the movie knows how popular the Transformers movie is in China.

It's just that it's useless for her to choose, she still has to look at Su Wei.

"It depends on how sincere they are about selling the company." Su Wei himself wanted to buy MGM the most.

Because he spent so much money this time, he just needed an identity.

As for how much money he has to spend for this status, it doesn't matter to him.

Anyway, as long as he goes back, all the money in the country will be unfrozen.

"Mr. Su, when we acquire the film company this time, shall we talk to them ourselves?" Lu Lingyue is not good at acquisitions.

After all, she had always been an agent before.

But if Su Wei really has no one to send, it's not like she can't bite the bullet and go for it.

"How is it possible? I plan to leave this matter to Morgan Bank. After all, here in the United States, they are the professionals." Morgan Bank is the largest private bank in the world.

They are much more professional than Su Wei in acquiring and selling this area.

And if you find them, you will save a lot of things.

After all, Su Wei is Chinese. It is hard to say whether those companies in Hollywood will sell the company to Su Wei.

But with the participation of Morgan Bank, I believe they will convince those die-hards.

"Mr. Su, can I join in this negotiation?" Lu Lingyue heard about the negotiation and Su Wei handed it over to Morgan Bank.

With a learning attitude, she thought about joining in.

After all, being able to participate in such a large-scale acquisition will definitely be beneficial to her in the future.

"Of course you have to join in, not only you have to join in, but also Xiao Zhang has to join in." Zhang Ruoyu was a complete vase before.

But in the past month or so in Los Angeles, Zhang Ruoyu has grown very fast.

Many of Su Wei's matters are now handled by Zhang Ruoyu, and they are all done well.

If this is the case, then Su Wei plans to let her practice in this acquisition case.

Anyway, he basically had nothing to do until the acquisition was completed.

"Ah, there is still my business."

...

New York.

"Wow, this is New York. It feels completely different from Los Angeles." Zhang Ruoyu came to New York this time and felt that it was completely different from Los Angeles.

Because this place looks like a big city.

This is different from Los Angeles, here there is a city skyline.

Unlike Los Angeles, very tall buildings are rare in the city.

"It's really different. People in Los Angeles live in satellite cities, while New York is similar to the magic cities in China. Everyone lives in the city." Su Wei looked outside and found that the night view here was really beautiful.

However, as the largest city in the world, New York has such an urban landscape, which is normal.

As the second largest city in Los Angeles, there is a reason why the rich do not go to the city and only stay in satellite cities.

One is the urban area of ​​Los Angeles, which is full of homeless people.

The second reason, and the main reason, is because of the earthquake in Los Angeles.

So when Los Angeles was built, it was already proposed not to build a megacity, but to build a greater Los Angeles area.

"Then I still think Los Angeles is more comfortable. At least the sky over there is bluer. Mr. Su, those people below seem to be the people from JPMorgan Chase who came to pick us up." Zhang Ruoyu flew from the west coast to the east coast.

She could clearly feel that the sky on the east coast was a little grayer than that on the west coast.

Zhang Ruoyu is used to living in a place like Los Angeles, and is no longer suitable for life in a big city like New York.

After all, in Los Angeles, she often wears a T-shirt and goes out.

"It should be, we'll find out when we go down and take a look." Su Wei followed Zhang Ruoyu's guidance and saw a large motorcade at the airport.

There were no other convoys near it.

"Hello, Su, I am Johnson. I am an RM from Morgan Bank. Welcome to New York." The person who came to greet Su Wei this time was the title manager of Morgan Bank, which is also a customer relationship manager, who specializes in communicating with customers.

.

After all, Su Wei is in Morgan Bank, but his deposits have reached 22 billion US dollars.

Knowing that Su Wei was flying to New York today, of course they had to show their sincerity.

"Hello Johnson" Su Wei came to New York this time. He was originally looking for Morgan Bank.

So he had informed them before he came.

I believe they will take good care of him.

"After such a long flight, we have arranged a dinner. The three of you, please get on the bus first." Su Wei came over this time and had already told them what he was going to do.

The people at JP Morgan were really overjoyed when they heard Su Wei said that they would be asked to help negotiate.

After all, if such a big deal passes through their hands, they will definitely make a good profit.

"If you don't want to eat now, let's take us to the hotel to have a rest."

Do you have any good suggestions for these three companies?

(End of chapter)