manynovel Chapter 1313
Chapter 1313
At this time, Fang Mingyuan could no longer care about the reaction of Sinopec and Sinopec in China after learning that Gazprom intends to cooperate with Hirakawa Petroleum Corporation to build a Sino-Russian natural gas pipeline. A formal agreement was reached to exchange 50.00% of the shares of Hong Kong Kumho Film Group for the [-]% of [-] shares held by Jobs in Pixar Animation Studios.
At first glance, this exchange ratio seems to be a disadvantage for Jobs, but considering Hong Kong Kumho Film Group's own assets and its position in the film industry, it also has shares in Pingchuan Petroleum Group, Kowloon Airlines, etc. , DreamWorks, Jade Bird Film Group, MGM Holdings, Longxing Construction Group and many other companies, from the perspective of net assets, Jobs did not suffer at all.
Since the Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company is not listed, it will naturally not disclose its financial statements to the outside world. Only after seeing the relevant documents brought by Fang Mingyuan did Jobs know that this emerging film company is actually such a huge business. empire!Although he only has 4% of the shares, he is already the No. 5 individual shareholder among the shareholders of Hong Kong Kumho Film Group, second only to Fang Mingyuan, Yu Qiuxia, and Fang Bin.Even if the shareholder of Pingchuan Petroleum Group Company is included, he is only ranked No. [-].
Both parties were sincere, and Fang Mingyuan took out real money. Naturally, everything went through the share exchange procedures smoothly, and the rest were just the procedures that should be followed, and it was only a matter of time.It's just that before Fang Mingyuan had time to celebrate, he received a call from Spielberg, asking him if he would like to increase the capital of DreamWorks!
Hong Kong Kumho Film Group has a 17.00% stake in DreamWorks and is an important shareholder of DreamWorks.But besides the film cooperation between the two parties, Fang Mingyuan was concerned with the operation of DreamWorks.Never interfered.But DreamWorks has made many popular and good films over the years, but there are not many examples of going to Maicheng.For example, the movie "Sinbad" released last year and the movie "Escape from Clone Island" released this summer did not perform well at the box office, and they couldn't even guarantee the company's balance of payments.
DreamWorks' record department has been sold to Universal Pictures, and the game department has been sold to Blizzard. Although the TV drama department is still there, the results are not good, and the Internet business.Even since the Nasdaq index plummeted and the Internet bubble burst that year, it has never been able to make a comeback.That's it, now DreamWorks' debt has reached 3000 million US dollars, which is close to DreamWorks' net assets!
In [-], Fang Mingyuan had an exchange with Spielberg about the future of DreamWorks, and proposed that he increase the capital of DreamWorks to solve the difficulties DreamWorks was facing.But then Spielberg and the three still rejected Fang Mingyuan's proposal - they were worried about Fang Mingyuan's capital increase.It will seriously affect the power distribution of DreamWorks.Although they admired Fang Mingyuan's talent, they didn't want to entrust their "dream" to others to realize it.Fang Mingyuan felt very sorry for this result, but he also expressed that it was understandable. Of course, it was impossible for him to let the three of them run DreamWorks after acquiring more equity.Rights and obligations must match.Duties but no rights, that's a slave!
Fortunately, he still has a 17.00% stake in DreamWorks.Even if Dreamworks had to be sold to the outside world as in the previous life, he still has enough voice to defend his own interests.Although he also paid attention to the poor box office performance of DreamWorks this year, he did not expect that the three of Spielberg and the others would decide to give in to themselves without any clues.
"Stephen, your decision is so sudden that I was caught off guard." Fang Mingyuan took the coffee from Li Xintong and put it in front of Spielberg.
Spielberg smiled bitterly and said: "Because we made this decision suddenly." Dreamworks' earnings last year were quite bad, and so far this year, due to the box office of "Escape from Clone Island" Far lower than expected, so DreamWorks is still in the red.At this time, Pixar Animation Studios, which had been discussing cooperation with DreamWorks, suddenly decided to abandon the cooperation, which dealt a heavy blow to DreamWorks. The controlling stake was handed over to Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company.
In fact, this choice of Jobs is not surprising when you think about it carefully. Although the Hong Kong Kumho Film Group is not a member of Hollywood, its good reputation over the years has made its films not only enjoy great preferential treatment in American movie theaters. , Even on a global scale, when movie theaters in various countries are arranging films, they also have a high opinion of the films produced by Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company-no one feels sorry for their own wallets. The high box office is also related to the income of these movie theater companies.Every year, movie theater companies in various countries look forward to the release of new works of Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company more than those movie fans.
At the beginning, Fang Mingyuan rejected Jobs’ proposal to hand over the works of Pixar Animation Studio to Hong Kong Kumho Film Group for distribution because he felt that it was meaningless to hand over the second hand, but Jobs transferred the controlling stake of Pixar Animation Studio to Hong Kong Kumho Film Group company, that has another meaning. The works of Pixar Animation Studios can be said to be the works of Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company. This alone will have a huge impact on the global box office appeal of Pixar Animation Studios' future works. I have stepped up a step—I have not seen the two works of Blue Sky Studios, which can be said to be little-known compared with Pixar Animation Studios, after they belonged to Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company. Is it soft to collect money in the market?
In addition, the three films "The Matrix", "Resident Evil" and "Ice Age 2" released by Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company worldwide this year have all been popular in the global film market. "It almost pulled down "Terminator 3" and became No.2 in the global movie box office.And in the second half of this year, "The Matrix 2" will be released. At that time, there will undoubtedly be another wave of "hackers" in the global film market.
According to the publicity of Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Company, the long-awaited "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" will also be released in the second half of this year. Since the first day, it has received great attention from the majority of book fans. Considering the popularity of the "Harry Potter" series of novels in the world, it can be said that as long as the movie can reach the upper-middle level, the box office must be quite amazing.And among the films invested heavily by Hong Kong Kumho Film Group, are there any works that can only reach the upper-level level in the eyes of movie fans?
"Not only am I tired, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are also tired. Over the years, we have invested countless efforts in DreamWorks, but the results can only be said to be unsatisfactory. Therefore, We hope to let go of this burden, concentrate on our own areas of interest, and hand over the management of the company to you." Spielberg sighed, "We also hope that the company can travel lightly. DreamWorks is our three People's 'dream', we don't want it to be shattered in the end."
Fang Mingyuan nodded. He could understand Spielberg's thoughts. The performance of DreamWorks had seriously involved their energies, and the three of them, except Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was an expert in company management, , and the other two were unable to fully devote themselves to the management of the company.
"Stephen, "Shrek" is about to be released, don't you guys wait?" Fang Mingyuan said. "Shrek" is a new film co-produced by Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Corporation and DreamWorks. Hong Kong Kumho Film Group Corporation produced the script, characters and 50.00% of the capital, and undertook a small part of the production work. Part of the work was undertaken by DreamWorks, which began production at the end of [-] and took more than four years. It can be described as a painstaking and painstaking masterpiece, and it is ready to be released worldwide in mid-to-late October.And Fang Mingyuan believed that it would achieve even more brilliant global box office results than in the previous life.
"Don't wait, even if its box office has won the number one cartoon in the world, if it can't change the status quo of the company, it will still go on the old road in the future." Spielberg smiled wryly, "In this era , has been different from the last century.”
DreamWorks was established in the early 90s of the last century, and it was from that time that blockbuster films with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars began to become the norm in Hollywood. Large investment and large productions also brought high box office and high risks!While the box office has repeatedly hit new highs, many film companies will also encounter difficulties in cash flow due to the failure of one or two big-budget films at the box office.MGM Films is undoubtedly the best precedent!
Many film companies in Hollywood, even those established film companies, cannot escape such a fate if they do not have the backing of strong funds.As for DreamWorks, it is a pity that although its shareholders are very rich, it does not have a parent company with strong funds to back it up. (to be continued~^~)