Ace Hollywood

Although when talking about the Hollywood movie landscape, people still like to use the description of the Seven Hollywood, or the seven major movie studios. In fact, since the beginning of the new century, MGM has not had much noteworthy works. The "Legal Blonde" in which Daniel has a role can be said to be one of the very few MGM's worth mentioning in the past few years. money making movies. "Hotel Rwanda" is certainly one of them, but for MGM's massive debt pile, these occasional successes are not enough to save the long-established grid kingdom. It is no exaggeration to say that it is difficult to return. Under this premise, MGM shareholders, of course, want to revitalize the company, there are many ways, such as introducing media giants such as Disney or Warner, to make full use of their own Huge film library, but obviously, maybe the shareholders lack the motivation to do this, maybe media groups like Disney and Warner are not willing to intervene in MGM in this way, and this attempt went bankrupt.

Therefore, being acquired has become the only option for MGM shareholders. Since early last year, major competitors have begun to make offers to MGM shareholders. It is worth mentioning that the people who now control MGM His name is Kirk Kerkorian. This man first bought most of MGM's stock in 1969. To this day, he has bought and sold three times in the past 45 years, and each time he has made a lot of money. For him, Gaomei is not so much a career as a cash machine toying with applause. Such people want to run MGM well, somewhat delusional.

The international consortium headed by Sony successfully acquired the old record factory bmg last year, and the rumor of this acquisition of MGM has long been confirmed. It's a well-known fact that Sony intends to further establish itself in the home entertainment space with a vast library of MGM films and TV series.

Of course, Sony is not without rivals.

Time Warner is one of their biggest rivals.

Warner is only interested in MGM's film library. As the world's largest media group, this film library falls into the hands of Warner, and it will definitely show its strength in the fields of DVD and paid TV shows.

Previously, the news of Warner's offer of 4.5 billion US dollars also appeared in the newspapers, but then it began to be silenced, and the offer of the international consortium led by Sony was delayed. Although their idea of ​​acquiring MGM is much earlier than Warner, but as a consortium, the action seems to be inferior to Time Warner, but the media is rumored. They will give MGM the acquisition price of 5 billion US dollars, which is obviously enough to stimulate everyone's adrenaline - at the current price, it is higher than Warner's US $ 500 million, which must be an incredible figure, because the gap has been Too big for Warners to accept.

Now it seems. The delay in this competition between Warner and Sony is likely because Daniel stepped in at that moment. In other words, his intervention gave Cork a new opportunity, which delayed the entire acquisition process.

Neither Time Warner nor Sony's plans were disrupted.

Before dd Pictures disclosed its "Snake Swallowing Elephant" plan this time, Time Warner revised its bidding price and raised it by 100 million, while Sony called out a price of 4.8 billion.

Competitors show their horses.

The media, shocked by the news that dd Pictures "planned" to acquire MGM, are now turning their attention to what price they will quote.

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January 25. The 77th Academy Awards announced the nominations.

Martin Scorsese and DiCaprio's "The Aviator" repeated the nomination momentum of last year's "Return of the King", with 11 nominations that can be said to be invincible. Martin Foster's "Finding Neverland" and Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" followed with seven nominations.

But it was another movie that got the most attention.

"Social network".

Since the film was released two months ago, the box office has risen to 280 million, and now there are still 12 million at the box office on weekdays, and there is basically no suspense after grinding 300 million.

When Daniel's team and everyone in dd Pictures looked at him with that kind of awe, awe and fanatical eyes, Daniel still felt a little guilty - this was completely beyond his expectations. In his memory, the film did not have such a grand box office success. It seems that 100 million in North America has not been broken.

before the show. In Daniel's opinion, the fact that "The Social Network" can maintain a box office of around 100 million is quite satisfactory to him.

After all, "The Social Network", released in 2004, has no way to compare to 2010. 60 million users and 500 million are not comparable.

But what he didn't know was that the movie box office wasn't Facebook's financial report. Does not increase significantly as the number of users increases. On the contrary, now, everyone is full of curiosity and attention to the word social network. They have just come into contact with this term, and they are eager to learn more about the birth, development and future of this matter, which is the driving force of the movie box office. .

Important. Since the disclosure of "Social Network", Daniel's big news has been continuous in four or five months, each one is enough to make the media carnival for a month, he has almost never made a headline, and one depth bomb has made everyone His eyes have been on him, and naturally, "The Social Network" has also been on public opinion, which has led to the film's attention and achievements beyond expectations.

A wonderful accident, isn't it?

Daniel comforted himself like this when he was receiving admiration from his partners.

In the eyes of his colleagues and peers, Daniel is simply crazy. He secretly shot a medium-budget film with an investment of 40 million, which has harvested 300 million in North America, and currently has 380 million in the world, in 17 countries and regions. It has already been released, and the big ticket warehouses such as Britain, France, Germany and Japan have not yet been released. With the current international response, it can be said that even if it cannot be a big hit, it will definitely not miss.

It's another movie that makes a lot of money and makes a lot of money.

"Ghost Omen", "The House Collapses With Love", "The Chainsaw" and "The Social Network", these four films have pushed the global revenue of dd Pictures to 1 billion level, which is no doubt the top seven levels. With the revenue, coupled with the high profit margin, it can be said that this year, the financial situation of dd Films is very good and enviable.

This is enough to make many people feel a little sense of identification with dd Pictures eating MGM.

"The Social Network"'s nearly 300 million box office did not affect its competition for the Oscars.

Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Score, Editing, Sound.

6 nominations, second only to the top three favorites.

This result is obviously beyond the expectations of many people.

Such as the media giant - "New York Times".

"Oscar always seems to be very open-minded when it comes to Daniel. Commercial filmmakers have been calling for years, but they still can't change Oscar's habit of favoring 'art masterpieces' that don't box office. But obviously, whether it's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" or " Pirates of the Caribbean. Or this time, The Social Network, can be classified as a commercial film, especially the last one, which has a particularly strong 'commercial nature' - Daniel used this film to successfully promote the social network as a concept, and promote the success of mb on the NYSE. Became a billionaire. Oscar gave the green light for these three films, "The Return of the King" became the most awarded film in history, and Captain Jack of "Pirates of the Caribbean" won the title for Daniel The best actor has made great contributions, and the six nominations of "The Social Network" have been won without a fight."

The New York Times report, of course, vaguely wanted to cast Daniel as a black hand who could manipulate the Oscars, but this time it held back and didn't say it explicitly.

Relatively speaking, the more pure "Variety" is obviously more focused on itself when evaluating this nomination result.

"This is the third year in a row that Daniel has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. The first person to achieve this feat was Russell Crowe, an old friend of Daniel's. Now these two top Hollywood actors have a common topic for three years in a row. What is the feeling of being nominated? It's cool or torment? But there are differences. Crowe won the best actor in the second year, and he was disappointed before and after. Daniel took all the first two best actor awards to himself. In the hands of , thus greatly cutting off the age of the winner of the best actor.

If I were the best actor nominee for this year's Oscars, Leonardo, Johnny Depp or Clint Eastwood, I would breathe a sigh of relief, and the chances would go from 20% to 25% -- everyone Know that if the Oscars intend to continue their 77th class history, it is impossible to give the award to Daniel Sandler. Three consecutive? No, that's not a feat, it's not glory, it's suicide!

This time. Old Clint..."

The announcement of the Oscar nominations has somewhat weakened Daniel's limelight, which made him feel a lot of relief. Of course, that wouldn't be the average reader -- for them, though, it's all about Daniel. But the gimmicks are different, there is no aesthetic fatigue, the unveiling of new super-rich, Hollywood power changes, box office miracles, Oscar records, etc., each of which happens to the same person repeatedly.

How many secrets does he have?

This is the voice shared by many people.

But the leaders of the media group, including the Seventh Congress, cried out in their hearts very early: Stop. Daniel, stop for a moment and let's take a breath.

Oscar really just gave them a sigh of relief.

Of course, this does not include Time Warner Richard Parsons. As the parent company of Warner Bros. and the media empire behind Warner Bros. and New Line, Richard is of course very concerned about all of Daniel's actions.

Unlike the other seven companies, Time Warner has Internet media genes, and now Time Warner integrates AOL - the largest Internet service provider in the United States, and it can be said to be ahead of all other Hollywood in the Internet field. The studio's parent company. After mb was founded and achieved results, Time Warner has also been in contact with mb many times. Its cnn, its attempt to acquire mb has continued, and it has only eased after Google went public. Because Daniel never planned to sell mb, he didn't pay much attention to these. Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are too many funds interested in mb.

So, in the beginning, when the news of Daniel's intention to buy MGM came out, in Richard's opinion, maybe it was a precursor to mb and f2f trying to launch a pay movie feature on the Internet, which is of course a big deal for Time Warner. threat. But soon, Daniel's private visit made his mental activity turn one hundred and eighty degrees.

Daniel was visiting Richard's condo in New York.

Before that, the two of them were actually not familiar with each other, although Daniel basically started with "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", and this series was invested by New Line Cinema under Time Warner. However, Richard took over the current position in 2003. He was not in charge of the film department before, and he has little understanding of the projects of the affiliated companies that have the right to operate.

Strangers are always greeted with a few words at first.

Topics are ready-made. Recently, Daniel may not be short of topics. Anyone who has a heart can give him a few paragraphs.

Richard is a very humorous and friendly person. The most important thing is that Daniel came to the door today, the purpose is win-win rather than confrontation, the atmosphere is better and it is more natural.

"If I take MGM, I can sell its library to Warners."

When Daniel ended the previous topic-Richard teased that he was young and always "long-term", then he looked at Richard indifferently and said this sentence.

"I'm going to sell MGM's library!"

For sale, film library!

This made Richard lose his color in an instant. Of course, the acquisition of MGM was not the decision of the subsidiary Warner Bros. The parent company Time Warner really dominated it all, so Richard knew what Daniel said very well.

In fact, after the news that Time Warner wanted to buy MGM came out, there was a lot of speculation that Time Warner would shut down MGM's production department and all the studios, and they wanted only one thing, and that was MGM's vast and precious film library.

Now Daniel says he's willing to hand over the film library~www.wuxiamtl.com~ So what does he want?

"You only need MGM's production department and distribution channel? Or the copyright of the "007" series?" Richard quickly controlled his mood.

"Basically."

"It's not difficult for DD Pictures to develop its own production and distribution capabilities, I think, it just takes a little time. This is somewhat unbelievable."

Daniel suddenly smiled, "Richard, our position is not the same, Warner has a more complete distribution channel and a stronger production department than MGM, so you don't think those are important. But for dd Pictures , we have to develop these capabilities, of course not impossible, but Hollywood...sometimes it is not so logical. So by acquiring MGM to take over their studios and channels, it is possible for dd Pictures to do ” (To be continued.) WWW.GEILIWX.COM Happy reading every day