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Chapter 566 Takeover Offer
"I said how could Ali poach more than half of our "Painted Skin" team at the beginning of the year. It turns out that they also want to make "Liao Zhai"."

The flow of personnel in the film and television industry is very frequent, and it is normal to poach corners from each other.

Long distance almost hollowed out the Mango Variety Show team at the beginning.

Pang Hong, the producer of the "Painted Skin" series, said: "Last month, people from Ari came to the company and said they wanted to buy our "Painted Skin" special effects materials, but I did not agree."

If you can get the material library of "Painted Skin", it will save Ahli a lot of money, but these materials are remote treasures, so how can they be used by others.

"Do you think their movie can be made?"

"It can't be done." Despite the deviation, Cheng Yu'an is still not optimistic about Internet production, "Unless they don't intervene in shooting and production, and leave professional things to professional people."

Guo Fan said: "How is that possible? According to Ari's domineering personality, they will definitely follow him from beginning to end."

Guo Fan had contact with people in Ahri Films. At first, he thought it was an honor to be favored by such a big company as Ahri, but after a few months of contact, he found that they didn't know anything about film production.

In other words, the limited understanding is not enough to run a mature crew.

At that time, it was Ms. Zhang Wei, the president of Ahri Films who was in contact with him at that time.

"This woman has nothing in her stomach," Guo Fan shared his feelings about Ari. "She understands business management, but she doesn't understand the crew, let alone the production. What she showed me was not which actor's play is good, but the price-performance ratio. Gao, how to write the script, how to arrange the beginning and end of the plot, she is full of words about which celebrity has the most fans, the most traffic, who and who are the most popular CP, all of these.

"I asked her how to set up the crew, how the special effects team coordinated with the screenwriter, and how the production team ensured the progress and capital operation, and she didn't know three things.

"After the chat, I knew she was a layman."

But Pang Hong still raised his own concerns: "After all, 3.2 million real money, even if it is hit hard, it will produce a good film." Then he looked through the materials of Ari's "Nie Xiaoqian", "Look , He said that he would ask Weta Digital to do the special effects, and he would also ask Peter Jackson to be the director.”

Peter Jackson filming "Liao Zhai"?
Cheng Yu'an has dealt with Weta Digital, and his technology is really good, but his hands are also really bad.

"With a budget of 3.2 million, if Peter Jackson is really hired to direct, he will have to take half of the director's fee alone. Does he still have the money to make movies?

"Weta Digital's quotation has always been very high in the industry. Even if the price can be cut down, it will cost 3000 million US dollars to make "Nie Xiaoqian", and 3.2 million will be gone. How can he hire actors and crews?"

Don't look at what he says, look at what he does.

The announcement of "Little Qian from a Liaozhai Studio" announced Ahri's official entry into the film production industry. The industry is facing a formidable enemy. It feels that such a giant entering the production industry will bring unprecedented pressure to the film and television industry.

The most obvious manifestation reflected in the secondary market is that the valuation of Ahri Films has soared.

The start-up Ahri Films has not yet been listed, it is just an empty shell, and its valuation has exceeded [-] billion.

However, Yuanyuan refused to comment on Ahri's actions. Jiang Xuerou only said when participating in the film forum: "More and more companies are entering the film and television industry, which is of course a good thing. In the future, audiences will have more choices to watch movies."

Ari really knows marketing and strikes while the iron is hot. In the second week after the announcement of "Xiaoqian", he issued another announcement, saying that he had issued an acquisition offer to Tao Piao Piao Films, a subsidiary of Yuanyuan Technology, and planned to acquire Tao Piao at a price of 137 billion. vote 99% of the shares.

"Fate is a very wonderful thing. We both have a Taozi. We provide consumers with high-quality products, and Taopiaopiao provides high-quality online ticketing services for the audience. The inner genes of our two companies are very similar. I believe this cooperation will become a good story in the Chinese film industry."

In terms of online ticketing, Tao Piao Piao started relatively early and has a larger scale. Its market share ranks among the top three, but it has not been able to make a profit.

Meituan Films’ Maoyan Shadow Industry and Du Niang’s Nuomi are the biggest competitors of Tao Piao Piao.

There are other zero-zero platforms, and online ticketing is really a battle of the Warring States Period.

Long-distance Technology has to spend at least 10 billion on Taopiao tickets every year in order to maintain its current leading position in the market.

Ahri's acquisition offer is indeed very attractive, and many shareholders of Tao Piao Piao are tempted.

After throwing money in like this every year, there will be no profit in four or five years, and the shareholders are also anxious.

As a result, major shareholders put pressure on Zheng Qiao, the executive director and CEO of Long-distance Technology, asking him to agree to the acquisition of Ari.

As a laborer, Zheng Qiao also holds a part of the shares, and he is also very excited. If this acquisition can be facilitated, the shares in his hands will be cashed out, which will greatly improve his life.

But he has no control over this matter. The largest shareholder of Tao Piao Piao is Long-distance Technology, and the largest shareholder of Long-distance Technology is Long-distance Media, which is owned by Cheng Yuan.

Cheng Yu'an has a veto right, as long as he doesn't nod, Ari will not be able to complete the acquisition.

Cheng Yu'an held an emergency board meeting of Tao Piao Piao remotely in the Western Film and Television City the next night to discuss the acquisition.

Cheng Yu'an's attitude is very tough, he can sell anyone, but not Ari.

"I don't want to prevent everyone from getting rich. If everyone wants to leave the market, I can personally buy back the shares in your hands."

"Whoever sells is not selling, why can't it be Ari, the price he offered is also considered fair, and everyone can make money." If the acquisition is completed, all shareholders of Tao Piao Piao will make money, and the average return should be 70% %about.

"Ari doesn't understand movies, so if you sell tickets to him, he will ruin them."

"You don't care if he understands movies or not. He has money. We just need to sell it to him to make money. Don't we care how he manages it after we sell it to him?"

But Cheng Yu'an still couldn't make sense: "Even if you want to marry your daughter, you have to find a good in-law's family. It's definitely not easy to find tickets in Ari's in-law's house. I still say the same thing, if you want to leave, I will personally pay to buy it back."

"The competition in the ticketing market is so fierce now that we see only inflows but not outflows every year, and it is difficult for us to explain to shareholders. I will withdraw." Sequoia Capital announced its withdrawal.

Someone led the way, and then four investment institutions announced their withdrawal from Tao Piao Piao.

Cheng Yu'an didn't say much, and said that in the name of Yi'an Investment Management Co., Ltd. (Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei's family wealth management company), they will repurchase all the shares in their hands according to the current valuation of Tao Piao Piao Films.

The transaction will be completed within half a year.

Fortunately, the five shareholders who left did not hold a large shareholding, and one of the bank investment institutions that bought tickets did not leave. The funds used for the repurchase will not exceed 30 billion, which Cheng Yu'an can afford.

On the second day after the emergency board meeting, Remote Technology officially responded to Ahri’s acquisition case, saying that it had indeed received Ahri’s acquisition offer, but the company’s current operating conditions are good and its capital turnover is healthy, so it is not considering a sale for the time being.

Ali wasted a lot of effort.

　Now that I have written about Ari, let me say a few more words. It is not professionally written, so let's see what it means.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)