Chapter 840 Wanda Acquires MGM
Zhang Jingchu was not the first to win the award, and even the Berlin Film Festival winner had already won it, but when she heard that "All Nights in the World" won the award, she was still so excited that she burst into tears, and her whole body was trembling from head to toe.
Seeing that Zhang Jingchu was sitting on the chair, she couldn't help crying, Zhang Ran quickly pulled her up, put her in a hug, patted her back gently, and said, "Be good, don't cry, don't cry!"
Zhang Jingchu chuckled and punched Zhang Ran: "Hate, you are the little baby!"
Yu Feihong and Yan Bingyan are both in their 30s. After hearing Neil Jordan read "All Nights in the World", the two of them jumped up, dancing like children, and then hugging each other with a smile.
After Zhang Jingchu hugged Zhang Ran, she hugged Yu Feihong and Yan Bingyan, and then hugged several domestic colleagues next to her. After receiving everyone's blessings, Zhang Jingchu pulled Yu Feihong and Yan Bingyan to the podium happily.
"What a good movie, congratulations!" Neil Jordan and Zhang Jingchu hugged, handed the trophy of Jin Qilin to Zhang Jingchu and then stepped aside.
Zhang Jingchu stood in the center of the stage, holding the trophy in her hand tightly, looked at the guests and audiences in the stands, and smiled and said, "Thank you to the Tokyo Film Festival, thank the film festival jury for awarding this award to me. Thank you to Sister Feihong, Sister Bingyan, and all the staff of the crew. Especially the author Chi Zijian, thank you for writing such a perfect one, there would not be this movie without her. This is my first movie, and I will make more and better movies in the future. I hope I can become a great director like Varda one day! Thank you everyone!"
As the words fell, applause also arose.
After Zhang Jingchu walked off the stage with a trophy and smiled, the Tokyo Film Festival came to an end successfully.
Chinese Film won five major awards: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Art Contribution Award and Most Popular Audience Award at the Tokyo Film Festival, which can be regarded as a great harvest.
Of course, a super unlucky guy was born at this Tokyo Film Festival, which is Neil Bergman, the director of "Intimate Grammar". According to the normal historical trajectory, he won the Golden Kirin Award for "Folding Wings" in 2002, and this year he will hold up the Golden Kirin Award for the second time with "Intimate Grammar". But in this life, he first snatched the Golden Kirin Award by Zhang Ran's "Explosive Drummer", and this time he was snatched the Golden Kirin Award by Zhang Jingchu's "All Nights in the World". Neil Bergman also didn't know. If he knew, he would definitely cry: "I have a grudge with you two, and will you let people live?"
After the news of a Chinese film victory at the Tokyo Film Festival was passed back to China, it quickly aroused heated discussions among netizens. At the opening of the film festival, a conflict occurred because the Taiwan Delegation of the Taiwan Delegation was unwilling to call China's Taiwan Delegation, and a storm broke out. Now mainland filmmakers have returned with great victory, while the Taiwan Delegation of the Taiwan Delegation has not won. Netizens feel proud and are cynical about the Taiwan Delegation.
"This year's Tokyo Film Festival was very popular, and all kinds of awards were won by our mainland actors. I really don't understand the feelings of those Taiwanese people crying and pulling their tie because they didn't have to walk the red carpet."
"Jingchu, Binbin, Wang Qianyuan, you are so powerful! Our mainland filmmakers are awesome! I'm so sad that the group of wind and wind are so sad!"
"Wanwan is so pitiful. She cried and called her parents on the spot, but as a result, Xiaoji.com gave the prize to mainland movies. Even Fan Binbin, who was not present, had the prize. I was so laughing to death!"
After the closing of the Tokyo Film Festival, Zhang Jingchu did not return to China with Yu Feihong and the others, but came to Ireland with Zhang Ran. After Zhang Ran took Zhang Jingchu to Dublin for two days, the filming of "The Apocalypse of the Future" restarted. Zhang Jingchu stayed on the crew and served as Zhang Ran's life assistant and deputy director.
After lunch that day, Zhang Ran and Robert De Niro chatted on the set. Zhang Jingchu ran over in a hurry, stuffed his phone into Zhang Ran's hand, and shouted: "Zhang Ran, take a look, something happened!"
When Zhang Ran heard something happened, he quickly picked up his phone and saw that the news title read: "Wanda Group acquired MGM Pictures for 6.5 billion yuan and ambitiously deployed in overseas markets."
At the beginning of this year, Zhang Ran heard Wu Ruide say that Wanda plans to acquire MGM and A. He is not surprised that Wanda acquires MGM. He waited until he read the content of the full film article and found out that Wanda Group and MGM Pictures held a signing ceremony in Peking this morning. Wanda acquired MGM Group for US$2 billion and also assumed MGM GM GM debt of up to 4 billion. Wanda will also invest US$500 million in filming, and the entire transaction is as high as US$6.5 billion.
When Wang Jianlin talked about this acquisition of MGM, he came up with three reasons: First, MGM's most valuable assets are the library of up to 4,000 film and television works, as well as the ownership of the "007" series of films, and half of the ownership of the "Hobbit" series of films, which can bring great synergy to Wanda's tourism industry and children's entertainment industry; Second, this acquisition will increase Wanda's voice in the global film market; Third, Wanda's film production companies can also learn the experience of Legend Pictures up close.
Looking at Wang Jianlin's proud face on his phone, Zhang Ran gave a sigh of relief. Wang Jianlin is indeed courageous in doing things. In 2005, Sony spent 4.8 billion to acquire MGM, but it did not change the trend of MGM's deteriorating situation. Under such circumstances, Wanda dared to spend $6.5 billion to accept MGM, a hot potato, which is really not something that ordinary people can do.
However, Zhang Ran also knew that Wang Jianlin dared to spend 6.5 billion to acquire MGM, and must have seen the key point of turning the dilemma around.
In the last life, Wanda acquired the Am Cinemas. At the beginning, many people were not optimistic about this acquisition. After all, theaters are already a sunset industry in the United States. Under the invasion of the Internet wave, it is becoming increasingly difficult to persuade people to enter the cinemas. Moreover, before the 2007 fiscal year, the cumulative loss amount reached more than US$500 million. After the 2007 fiscal year, it also lost more than US$2 billion. When Wanda acquired it, its debt was as high as US$2 billion. Therefore, many people said that Wanda lost money and made a lot of money to make a name for itself.
After acquiring Am, Wanda only took a year to turn Am into profits. Not long after, it was successfully listed in the United States, raising nearly US$400 million, and Wanda's shares in Am also doubled from US$700 million at the time of the acquisition to US$1.4 billion.
This time, Wanda's acquisition of MGM should have the same idea, which is to buy MGM, which is about to go bankrupt, turn the company into profits in a short period of time, and then repackage and list MGM. This is not a delusion. MGM has ownership of the "007" series of films and half of the ownership of "The Hobbit". As long as the two cards of "007" and "The Hobbit" are played well, Wanda can really turn MGM into profits and repackage and list.
After the last life of MGM went bankrupt and reorganized in 2010, "007: Skybreaker" achieved a box office of US$1.1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest box office in 007's history; "The Hobbit", co-starred with New Line Films, also achieved a box office of US$1.02 billion. Driven by the two movies, MGM generated revenue of US$1.4 billion and profit of US$128 million in 2012; by 2013, MGM's profit further increased to US$156 million. Due to the company's good performance, MGM was estimated to have reached US$8 billion before Zhang Ran's rebirth.
Wanda obviously saw the potential of "007" and "The Hobbit", the possibility of MGM turning losses into profits, and the possibility of MGM packaging listing, otherwise they would not have spent $6.5 billion to acquire MGM.
In Zhang Ran's view, Wanda's acquisition of MGM has many disadvantages. Commercial real estate companies like Wanda are responsible for themselves. Now Wanda's market value is close to 200 billion yuan, and its debt is more than 100 billion yuan. Together with the US$6.5 billion of acquisition of MGM, it is equivalent to adding more than 40 billion yuan in debt, which is even higher. Moreover, Wanda will acquire theaters in the next step, making itself the world's largest theater operator, and then establish its own issuance system. In this way, for another billion US dollars, Wanda's debt will be even higher. If the market continues to rise, Wanda's commercial will naturally rest assured, but once it goes down, it will be extremely risky!
In addition, one particularly fatal thing about Wanda is that Wanda is a real estate company and does not understand movies at all. Wang Jianlin is a bit eager for quick success and instant benefits when doing things, and is likely to blindly launch a movie project. This is a lesson from the past.
In 1989, Sony acquired Colombia for US$3.2 billion, but Sony did not understand movies at all. After Sony moved in, Colombia fell into huge losses. By 1995, the entire Colombia had a cumulative loss of US$3.2 billion. In the second year after Sony acquired Colombia, Sony's competitor Panasonic Group acquired Universal Pictures and its parent company Ma. Panasonic also did not understand movie operations were also in a hurry. In 1995, Panasonic killed Ma Su in tears and sold Ma to Canadian wine giant Sigma.
With Wang Jianlin's quick success and instant benefits, in Hollywood, it is a place that will kill people and make a life-threatening loss. Of course, even if Wang Jianlin would not have fallen, Zhang Ran found an opportunity to push him and let him fall into the pit!
However, this matter is not urgent. Now Zhang Ran and Century Dingfeng do not have the time to settle accounts with Wanda. Century Dingfeng is also planning an acquisition. This can be said to be a bet and the risks are very high. But as long as it succeeds, Century Dingfeng can be a truly first-class company.
Zhang Ran smiled slightly at Zhang Jingchu: "Wanda is nothing, our real opponent is not him. We have our own things to do, so we don't have to pay attention to them."
Zhang Jingchu was not clear about Zhang Ran’s plan, and she never asked about it. When she heard Zhang Ran say this, she said, “I heard that Wang Jianlin is a very small-minded person. Since he had a conflict with you, he will definitely continue to make small moves!”
Zhang Ran smiled and comforted, "Don't worry, now if we don't go to cause trouble for him, she should pray to God and Buddha, so how dare she provoke us?"
Time flies very quickly, and it is late November in a blink of an eye. The filming of "The Future Apocalypse" is coming to an end, and the final filming scene is coming as scheduled.
What I want today is a conversation between Colonel Gu and Major Adams before assassination. Colonel Gu told Adams that after the Langfang blocking war, the human army began to counterattack in full swing. In this case, the robot leader had decided to use nuclear bombs to destroy the earth's ecosystem and then destroy the entire carbon-based biosphere. Colonel Gu felt that this was wrong and decided to assassinate the robot's head, and his weapon was the saber that had been hanging around his waist for a long time.
This scene has many dialogues and many lines, and long lines. It is a big test for Robert De Niro, an old man who is nearly 70 years old.
The scene was filmed from morning to afternoon, and finally ushered in the last shot, and the real finale scene.rw
Chapter completed!