Rebirth Strongest Tycoon

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Chapter 904

After Rhodes Saxon left, Xia Yu did not plan to visit Ronald Reagan immediately. He had to wait for Rhodes Saxon to show his talents and change Ronald Reagan’s views before going. Push Rhodes Saxon most surely.

The top priority now is to hurry up and improve the layout of the film and television industry.

After reading so many days of information, Xia Yu has understood the pattern of the United States film industry today.

Today, there are still 8 Hollywood giants, Lianmei has not been acquired by MGM, and MGM and Columbia have not been acquired and integrated by Sony.

Because the ranking of the 8 Hollywood giants is easily changed by a movie, the ranking of the Hollywood giants is not fixed.

Take Universal Pictures. Although it is the oldest, it sometimes ranks first, and sometimes it has always been fascinated by investment, and even became a citizen of Hollywood 2nd class. But now it is backed by the powerful mca group and has signed many influential contracts. The powerful Hollywood director is now in the first class.

In general, the current Hollywood production field can be divided into two grades.

The first grades are Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Film Industries.

Although there is a gap in the strength of the five companies, it is not only a simple production, but also a complete distribution channel, and also involved in other related industries, with strong anti-risk ability and great influence, and they all have the strength to break each other’s arms.

The second grade is Disney, MGM and United Artists Company (Lianmei).

Disney’s trump card is animated films, but in recent years, the output has been low. As for family movies, they have long been unloved by audiences. However, Disney has not been keenly aware of the migration of market atmosphere in a timely manner, and naturally lost the youth and adult audiences. .

In addition, the Founder of the Disney Company died successively, and Roy Disney also died in 1978. At this time, the President of the Disney Company was Walt Disney’s son-in-law Ray Miller. Only a few members of the Disney family were in the company. Now the company has serious internal consumption. , And did not find a way out, so Disney’s influence in the field of film is declining.

Xia Yu saw the report stated that Disneyland and its sister project Disney world accounted for almost 40% of the entire Disney company’s revenue3, and barely managed to keep the production department in operation. This shows the plight of Disney.

What about MGM Films?

Once the unquestionable 1st place in the golden age of Hollywood, it shot “Gone with the Wind”, shaped “Cat and Mouse”, initiated the establishment of the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and launched the Oscars, so far taken by MGM The film won the most Oscars in Hollywood. It can be said that MGM is a symbol of Hollywood’s golden age.

But with the change of hands and acquisitions time and time again, MGM was tossed into the quagmire step by step.

Especially after the Las Vegas gambling tycoon Kirk Kerr Corey bought it as a tool for money laundering in 1970, MGM’s development path took a big turn, Kirk Kerr Corey 2 MGM changed hands and bought back twice.

Last year, Kirk Kerr Corey En even publicly announced that MGM has become a hotel company. As for the film business, it accounted for about 3% of the entire film market.

Once the number one giant in Hollywood has fallen to the point where it is now, Xia Yu can only lament Kirk Kerr’s awesomeness.

As for Lianmei, this film company founded by Chaplin to get rid of the shackles and exploitation of big film companies was controlled by Wall Street capitalists during the Great Depression. Later, after several changes of ownership, equity shares were very scattered.

And because Lianmei is the purest production company, the distribution channel can be said to be the worst among the 8 great big shots. Therefore, after continuous investment failures in recent years and defeat of the influence of independent producers, Now that its influence has been greatly weakened, Lianmei’s share of the film market is now about 3%, which is almost the same as that of MGM, which is pitifully low.

According to the analysis in the report, most of Lianmei’s assets today are virtual assets, and the most valuable are the huge film library and the copyright of the “007” series.

And because Lianmei’s current shareholders are basically Wall Street financial investors and don’t know much about movies. Now the company’s executive investment experience far exceeds its knowledge of the film industry, so the acquisition value is very low, even if the acquisition requires comprehensive A big change.

It’s not written in the report, but what Xia Yu also knows is that if it doesn’t interfere, MGM will acquire Lianmei in 1981 next year. From then on, Hollywood’s 8 great big shots will become 7 great big shots. Gradually disappeared in the long river of history.

In addition to today’s Hollywood 8 giants, there are other players in the United States film market. For example, Lucasfilm has relied on the “planet war” series in recent years, and its influence is not inferior to that of United States, but the distribution channel is completely dependent on 20 Century Fox, and most of the copyrights of the “planet war” series are in the hands of 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm could not squeeze Lianmei down.

So Xia Yu doesn’t care too much about film companies other than Hollywood’s 8 great big shots. With his current strength, film companies other than the 8 great big shots are not worth his hands on.

In the entire film industry, in addition to production and distribution, there are two important ones, that is, the brokerage and theater chain. These two are also the focus of Xia Yu’s layout.

In the field of celebrity brokerage, the later generation Hollywood Overlord’s CAA has only been established for less than 5 years at this time. Although it has shown signs of its rise, it is still just a little brother. The big names have only signed a few. The company’s annual revenue is only 15 years. million USD, the net profit is less than 5 million USD.

Now in this field, MCA Group, the parent company of Universal Pictures, is the well-deserved boss. The one-stop service model of “Actor + Director + Screenwriter + Behind-the-scenes” that CAA later became famous in the world was the one that MCA Group made into the mainstream.

Today’s CAA, in the United States celebrity brokerage field, not to mention the top 5, not even the top ten.

Finally, there is the cinema market.

At this time, the United States cinema market is in chaos. Due to the Paramount Act, Hollywood giants cannot own cinema chains, although many have secretly invested in some cinema chains or reached cooperation with some cinema chains. However, they are all tied up, unable to deliberately manipulate the theater market from behind to substantially integrate the theater market. Now the theater market is far from the oligarchy era.

Later generation North American Emperor Entertainment, AMC and Ximanke 3 large theater oligarchs, but once accounted for more than 50% of the number of North American theaters and screens, and the box office also accounted for more than half, the theaters’ voice is not generally large.

But now, according to the survey report, North America still has more than one Wan Family theater with 10000 7000 screens. The number of theaters and screens of the top 5 theater chains is less than 20% of the market!

The chaos of the theater market is exactly what Xia Yu wants to see most, because it means that the integration difficulty is very low. As long as you are willing to spend money and keep it fast enough, you can acquire and integrate a huge theater at a very fast speed. Line company.

In response to the information collected by Peter Lynch, Xia Yu quickly made an action plan.

On the film company’s side, they are doing their best to acquire MGM and Lianmei, which are the most difficult ones, and integrate them to re-participate in the competition in the film industry. They even make preparations to acquire Disney, whose brand value is seriously underestimated.

The brokerage company focused on grasping the future, using funds to pry open the door of CAA and take Michael Ovitz as his own use.

In the field of theaters, it is the simplest and crudest method to use money to create a theater network all over the United States.

And considering that Ronald Reagan has not yet relaxed the policy of the film industry, in order not to touch the “Paramount Act”, the theater company must hang up separately.

After the decision, Xia Yu immediately went to Polaris Capital to form a team to acquire United American Films and Disney.

At the same time, they arranged for the Hong Kong Global Cinemas Company to register a shell subsidiary offshore, and then the shell company commissioned Polaris Capital to purchase the cinema.

Then he commissioned Goldman Sachs Group to acquire King of Gambling Kirk Kerr Corey’s MGM Pictures Company. As for the MGM Hotel of the same name, it is not within the scope of the acquisition, and of course it is certainly not available.

In the end, Xia Yu went on his own and took some subordinates to Hollywood to meet the uncrowned king of later generation Hollywood.