This director is very reliable

Chapter 271 How much money do we have? (fourth more)
The aftermath of the pony is here!

After the completion of the acquisition, Digital Domain was in a credit crisis due to its previous bankruptcy. All major production companies required to pay a high amount of funds as a deposit before handing over the special effects business to them. In addition, the protection of employees' rights and interests in the United States is very strict, and layoffs are very slow. , The situation of burning money is very serious.

The company is preparing to go public, and Xiao Ma is very worried that the losses of Digital Domain will have a negative impact on the listing...

How to do?
He could only agree with Che Feng's proposal to install Digital Domain in the Hong Kong shell company Aoliang Group controlled by him, and use secondary market financing to reduce the pressure on both parties.

Che Feng is the son-in-law of the president, and he borrowed 1500 million US dollars from him for the acquisition of Digital Domain...

and then?
After the backdoor listing of Digital Domain, Chefeng unilaterally terminated a series of cooperation plans with Xiaoma, including the plan to build a digital special effects base in Huairou. Even though Xiaoma had obtained government support and even subsidies, the project was still forced to abort...

According to the words of Li Ming's widow, Jin Yan, "People who work hard and those who only do capital operations cannot go together. Li Ming doesn't understand calculations and financial affairs in the capital market"!
Suffering a dark loss in the transaction with the powerful, Xiao Ma can only swallow the bitter fruit silently...

These are all things that only happened in 2013...

The current situation is that the capital market has begun to distrust Xiao Ma!
As mentioned above, the A-share black swan event came—on November 11, the China Securities Regulatory Commission launched an IPO self-examination and verification campaign without warning. The IPO was actually suspended and did not restart until January 30. For the pony who bet on the agreement, it is tantamount to a blow to the head.

And the miss of "囧囧 in Thailand" made Xiao Ma a laughing stock in the movie circle!

it is true…

A bunch of people in the capital circle feel that Pony is unreliable—with all kinds of internationalization strategies, you can’t even occupy the local box office. What kind of internationalization are you talking about?

In fact, Qian Xiaoma has it. After all, the 7.5 million financing has just been completed...

That's the problem, you have money, and Xu Zheng was looking for you in the first place, why didn't you invest?

Shen Changlin has no interest in ponies at all...

So he asked back: "Why invest?"

"...Little Ma Benteng is still very capable. I heard that their theater signboard has also been applied for. The next one should be a full industry chain model..."

"And their hugely expensive "Peace Wheel" is being filmed..."

"Then can you tell me why they didn't vote for "Lost in Thailand"?"

"... "

Guo Songjiang was speechless...

As the executive CEO, what he thinks is that if Changlin Film and Television becomes a shareholder of Pony and the two companies merge, then...

That's great!

"Don't aim too high, let's go step by step, shoot one by one!"

Yang Fan interjected: "But the film and television industry is always a high-risk industry, and we need some core assets!"

Indeed, the production of film and television dramas is very risky. For example, the operation cycle of a commercial film with a medium investment is basically between 1 and 1.5 years. In the end, the screening schedule of the movie was a one-shot deal;

Theatrical movies are basically losing a lot of money at present. There is a jingle in the industry that, on average, for every ten theater movies, it is "one gain, two equals and seven losses".

Coupled with policy risks, such as failure to pass the review, commonly known as "killed", the investment is all blind, and you can't get a penny back...

In short, many private film and television companies, on the surface, look very good, but in fact life is not easy.

Reflected in the company's business revenue and financial aspects, it is particularly unstable, showing some cyclical expansion and contraction characteristics, and other unpredictable problems.

But this line places special emphasis on publicity and hype, which can especially attract the attention of the media and the public!
Changlin Film and Television's undefeated record so far has become a benchmark in the mainland film industry...

It has also become the material of many scammers.

Of course Shen Changlin knew this, that's why he wanted to buy Maoyan!
Hearing this, he asked Yang Fan, "For example?"

"Cinema, special effects base or TV station!"

Shen Changlin took some time off and asked, "Then what does this have to do with Xiao Ma? Xiao Ma has a TV station?"

"I heard Xiao Ma signed a plan for a digital special effects base with the Huairou government..."

Guo Songjiang also added: "It was based on the name of Digital Domain, and then the government agreed, and got a subsidy!"

Well, 2012 is the overseas development year of "going global" for China's film and television industry. In May, Wanda Cinemas just acquired AMC in the United States;

The famous Hollywood director Mellon’s own special effects technology company cooperated with a local government in China in the summer of that year, and launched localized production and promotion of IMAX-related technologies in the local film and television technology industrial park.

According to media reports, Xiao Ma's acquisition is part of a series of "going international" actions by my country's film and television companies this year!

Of course, Guo Songjiang and Yang Fan are not ignorant people. Of course, they know that this acquisition is actually to imitate Cameron and the Tianjin government to establish an industrial base in the local area. In fact, it is real estate development in the name of a film industry base...

Shen Changlin shook his head: "You don't understand special effects!"

Lao Guo really wanted to refute, 'You don't know how to make money'...

Movies are hot now, and related topics can be hyped, special effects, cultural tourism, anyway, as long as it has something to do with film and television, if you hype it, it will double in no time!
Huayi Brothers had a market value of 800 billion at its peak, relying solely on making movies?
They just came out of playing Movie Town.

Shen Changlin shook his head: "The survival of special effects companies is highly dependent on the orders from the producers. The special effects industry is actually at the end of the entire film and television industry chain. It does not have a strong bargaining power. The income basically belongs to the nature of piecework wages."

"For a special effects company, the more orders you have, the more special effects personnel you need, but once the orders decrease, the employees you hire will have to eat dry food!"

"This thing has nothing to do with the base or not!"

After chatting for a while, Shen Changlin suddenly remembered something...

Then he asked, "How much money do we have now?"

"You mean working capital?"

"Correct!"

"About [-] million!"

[-] million...

Shen Changlin pondered for a while, a little less, but barely enough!
"Okay, please pay attention to the digital base negotiations between Xiao Ma and the Huairou government. If the time is right, we will take over!"

Yang Fan didn't quite understand: "...we take over? How?"

"Take over, build your own digital base, build a few studios..."

Guo Songjiang understood: "Are you not optimistic about Digital Domain?"

"...Of course I don't like it. A film and television company doesn't make good content, and all kinds of bragging about internationalization mean what? It means that they don't have confidence in their main business at all!"

Speaking of this, Shen Changlin suddenly came back to his senses: "That's not right, we only have [-] million funds in our account?"

"...Boss, we are already the film and television company with the most abundant cash flow in China!"

"Bring me the bill, let me see!"

(End of this chapter)