Kang Jianfei stared at the stock prices of several Hollywood giants, so he naturally wanted to take action at the right time.

Among the major giants, MGM_United States Film Company was first excluded by Kang Jianfei. This unlucky Hollywood giant was tortured by three buyers since the 1970s, and various departments and subsidiaries were split and sold. It has now become an independent film company.

MGM is already a mess in the hands of former boss Turner Radio. After discovering that he couldn't afford the mud, Turner Radio took away the last valuable thing of MGM - the world's largest video library.

Now that MGM is in the hands of an Italian consortium, the only valuable thing is the copyright of the 007 series of movies, which was what the Italian consortium insisted on leaving when it bought MGM.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to spend a lot of money to buy an independent film company with heavy debt.

The 20th Century Fox was then ruled out, which was bought by media tycoon Murdoch two years ago. Murdoch is now ambitiously building a media empire. 20th Century Fox belongs to an important territory in his empire. Kang Jianfei can only buy it unless he has more malicious purchases with Murdoch.

Then among the major Hollywood movie giants, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia_Samsung Films, Warner Bros. Films and Walt Disney Company are left.

Among them, Disney has been very prosperous in recent years. It has acquired a small film company and established its own TV network. Kang Jianfei can't easily take it.

Universal Pictures’ situation is similar to Disney, which has been in charge of American music companies for more than 20 years. Not only does it make a lot of profit in the box office of movies, but it also operates well in TV movies, movie music and movie tourism.

What Kang Jianfei really liked and tried to buy was Paramount Pictures and Columbia_Samsung Films, and Turner Broadcasting Corporation, which bought MGM's film library (MGM's film library contains copyrights for all early films of Warner Bros., another Hollywood giant).

Paramount is now in the hands of Gulf Western Industrial. Its boss is a businessman who does not understand movies at all, but under his unreserved delegation, Paramount has frequently made good movies in the past twenty years and has always had a good profit. The real manager of Paramount is Barry Diller and his two assistants Michael Eisner and Jerever Cazenberg. These three brought Paramount, who once fell into trouble, back to the top throne of Hollywood.

But Barry Diller is aiming to build a new TV network. Three years ago, he was poached by Murdoch, who wanted to build a media empire. Paramount only has two assistants left, and his two assistants are not ordinary people. Michael Eisner is the head of future Disney. Jerever Cazenberg is the head of Future DreamWorks.

But now these two future great men are unable to take power. After Barry Diller left Paramount was controlled by a conservative, Paramount has been on a downward trend for the past three years. This performance is not good, but it has strong strength and unlimited potential. There are also two future great men's companies. In Kang Jianfei's eyes, it is simply a piece of fat.

As for Colombia_Samsung, the company's current owner is the famous Coca-Cola. Its operating conditions are not good or bad. Anyway, it's okay to be careless. In another time and space, two years later, a Japanese tycoon who was not short of money was a sucker who bought Colombia Samsung for a sky-high price of $6 billion, and then changed its name to Sony Films.

If Kang Jianfei insists on buying it, it is now a major stock market crash in the United States. The stock prices of Columbia Samsung and its parent company Coca-Cola have plummeted. Kang Jianfei can spend up to $2 billion to buy more than 60% of Columbia Samsung's shares - including several subsidiaries under Columbia Samsung.

Kang Jianfei has not finally decided which company to buy. He has transferred the funds to FFB and organized a professional team through the headhunter. In the next period of time, Kang Jianfei's acquisition team will also negotiate with Gulf West and Coca-Cola, and after determining the target, choose the right time to cooperate with the dark market acquisition method to take down one of the movie giants.

The most troublesome thing is Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Kang Jianfei's intention to buy this company is not only focused on MGM's film library, but also on the company's TV network.

Under the care of the US antitrust law, American film companies cannot operate theaters vertically. In addition to making good movies, it is also very important to become Hollywood giants. The parent companies of several Hollywood giants are either making TV, newspapers, or record companies. After Coca-Cola acquired Colombia-Samsung, it also acquired shares of other related media companies, so that it can make movies steadily.

After being resold several times, MGM lost this resource advantage in publicity and distribution, so that it has become an independent film company that no one wants.

Kang Jianfei acquired Hollywood movie giants not to show off his status. In addition to making money, he also had to publish Hong Kong films through this company. If he could own a newspaper or a TV network, then the future distribution and promotional matters would be twice the result with half the effort.

Turner Radio not only bought the world's largest video library from MGM and has a complete TV network. Kang Jianfei's determination to buy it is even stronger than buying a film company.

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Black Monday.

The US stock market plummeted, the European stock market plummeted, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore...all plummeted.

Kang Jianfei is not anxious about the acquisition plan. The US stock market will have to continue to fall for at least one or two months, and then it will only rise again after a period of downturn. Kang Jianfei has time to wait patiently.

While directing "My Savage Girlfriend", Kang Jianfei oralized the plot outline and created by screenwriters, "The Great Era" has completed the framework. Several senior securities traders and economists were invited by Dongshi Company to serve as consultants. With the help of these professionals, the screenwriters began to slowly modify and improve the script of "The Great Era".

This stock market crash has only two impacts for Hong Kong movies: one is that the box office of the movie may shrink for a certain period of time, because the social and economic downturn will bring many movie audiences back to the front of the TV; the other is that at least in the next six months, the overseas hot money in the Hong Kong film industry will decrease. The output of Hong Kong movies will drop slightly.

However, this situation will not last long. Hong Kong, Singapore and Southeast Asian countries may suffer heavy losses due to the stock market crash, but Taiwan will definitely recover quickly.

Due to the continued appreciation of the New Taiwan Dollar and the Japanese yen, coupled with the extremely prosperous industries in the two places, this stock market crash is a trivial matter for Taiwan and Japan. Not only will it recover in about half a year, but the stock markets of the two places will continue to rise like a rocket.

In the late 1980s, businessmen in Japan and Taiwan were so much money that they didn’t know where to invest, so they frantically invested and built factories in Southeast Asia and mainland China.

Taiwanese people call these years "money flooding", which means that Taiwan has so much money that it floods its ankles. At that time, Taiwan's attending doctor earned more than NT$300,000 per month, which is far higher than its Taiwanese colleagues 20 years later.

The original time and space port films flourished around 90 years, and to a large extent, it was a largely because of the blind investment of Taiwanese hot money to shoot Hong Kong films.

It was not until the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990 that Taiwan ended its so-called "great prosperity". The weighted index plummeted from 12,495 points to 2,485 points. Taiwan's economy has never recovered.

The same is true for Japan, and Japan and Taiwan are still in a carnival at this moment, and even the US stock market crash did not dampen the confidence of investors in both places.

What Kang Jianfei can do is to release movies to Japan in an audition. Anyway, the Japanese people have too much money to spend, and Japanese businessmen are still clamoring to buy the entire United States.

"Fang Fang" directed by Kang Jianfei was released in Japan at the end of October. Due to the popularity accumulated over the years, many Japanese fans rushed to Kang Jianfei to enter the cinema. As a result, they fell in love with Liang Jiahui and Sophie Marceau. "Fang Fang" finally took away a box office of $10.76 million in Japan, which was not very high. It is less than 2 billion in yen, but it is already very rare as a literary romance film.

"Fang Fang" was also widely praised when it was released in European countries. Liang Jiahui and Sophie Marceau became famous soaringly, but he was treated coldly when he was screened in North America.

Perhaps the American people are really not interested in this kind of film. After a lively publicity, the North American box office received a pitiful $2.15 million.

On the contrary, after "Mr. Smith" landed in Europe, the couple's killer action film was quite popular among European audiences, adding nearly $10 million to the global box office of the film.

Kang Jianfei quickly completed the filming of "My Savage Girlfriend" in November, and then worked hard to do the post-production work.

Time passed by slowly and slowly. Faced with the coming Christmas, Hong Kong businesses began to prepare for holiday promotions, and major film companies were also busy promoting Christmas movies.

However, since the end of October, the film market in Hong Kong has been a bit sluggish. Both DreamWorks and Jiahe have been prepared for the unsatisfactory box office.

The acquisition team hired by Kang Jianfei finally set its sights on Paramount Pictures after several contact negotiations with Paramount and Columbia.

This decision was concluded after data evaluation. Coca-Cola had no intention of selling Colombia Samsung. Even if Kang Jianfei made a secret transaction, he could only get up to 20% of the film company's shares. If he forced a purchase, he would have to spend a lot of money in vain.

As for Paramount Pictures, the film company's joint Gulf Western Industrial Company has suffered a setback in the past few years due to the US economic recession and has also suffered a significant impact in this stock market crash. In addition, Paramount Pictures has declined from prosperity three years ago and has not improved at all so far. Martin Davis, the boss of Gulf Western, has already planned to take action.

However, after a series of contacts and negotiations, Martin Davis did not want to sell all the Paramount shares in his hands. This guy is a very interesting person. He doesn't know movies at all, but he likes to invest in the cultural industry. He is not only the boss of Paramount, but also the major shareholder of Simon & Schuster Publishing Company, a giant in the American publishing industry.

If Japan's Sony went to acquire Paramount, Martin Davis, who was not short of money, wouldn't have dumped Sony at all. The reason why he agreed to sell part of Paramount shares is just because the buyer was Kang Jianfei.

Martin Davis didn't even know who Kang Jianfei was. After contacting Kang Jianfei's acquisition team, he got Kang Jianfei's information. As a result, he was shocked to see that Kang Jianfei's performance in the film field was really good, which made Martin Davis full of interest in Kang Jianfei. His wishful thinking was to sell part of Paramount shares to Kang Jianfei, and then let Kang Jianfei, a film professional, reverse Paramount's decline in the past three years.
Chapter completed!