Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 247 2003 and 2004 of Liang Tianchi Film Industry
"Liang Tianchi Pictures invested in the production of 2003 films in 3, namely "Taken", "Saw 2" and "District [-]"!
"Taken" has a North American box office of 1.21 million US dollars, ranking 2003th in North America's 16 annual box office list!$2.07 million at the global box office!
《电锯惊魂2》北美票房8703万美元，排在了北美2003年年度票房排行榜的第34位！全球票房1.47亿美元！
"District [-]" is still in theaters, and the final box office is still uncertain!
Among them, "Taken" invested 350 million US dollars, the North American box office share was 1080 million US dollars (tax excluded), the global box office share was 420 million US dollars (tax excluded), and the copyright income was 800 million US dollars (tax excluded)!
In other words, after taking out the investment, "Taken" made a net profit of 1950 million US dollars!
"Chain Saw 2" invested 350 million US dollars, the North American box office share was 4100 million US dollars (tax excluded), and the global box office share was 1780 million US dollars (tax excluded)!
The net profit of "Chain Saw 2" was 5530 million U.S. dollars after excluding investment costs!
"The Ninth District" invested 1500 million US dollars, no income yet!

In addition, "Chain Saw 1" also brought the company a net profit of 1250 million US dollars in copyright income!

All in all, if the income from "The Ninth District" is not included, the film investment and production expenditure of Tianchi Films in 2003 was 2200 million US dollars.

The North American box office totaled 2.08 million US dollars, the global cumulative box office was 3.54 million US dollars, and the net profit was 8730 million US dollars! "Smart said like a few treasures.

Chen Hao nodded when he heard the words, he was not only happy for Smart's casual introduction of these data, but also surprised by the statistics of American Film Company.

Don't look at these costs, box office and profits are also in Huaxia Film Company, but this is what Smart said, and there are many things that have not been said in the document.

Including IMDB score, rotten tomato index, popcorn index, as well as various data such as the age distribution of moviegoers, gender ratio, satisfaction survey and so on!

Regardless of whether all the data is actually meaningful, but at least it looks professional and unaware!

"What about the plan for measuring Tianchi this year?" Chen Hao asked.

"So far, there is only one "Saw 3" that can be confirmed, and the investment budget is about 1000 million US dollars!
As for the second part of "Taken", I think it is best to wait until next year to release it, not only to avoid excessive consumption of the film's popularity in a short period of time, but also to increase fans' expectations, which is beneficial to the box office. said Smart.

Chen Hao nodded when he heard the words, hunger marketing!
"There are two parts that are uncertain. One is whether you have a new film, Mr. Chen, and the other is that I hope the company can invest in other small-budget films. The number is about 1-2, and the investment should not exceed US$300 million!" Smart said.

Investing in low-budget films was Smart's skill in the original company, so he naturally wanted to show off.

Chen Hao laughed and said, "I'm sure there will be a new film, but I'm not sure yet, because Warner Bros. has decided to restart Batman and is considering asking me to direct it.

If it is finally decided that I will direct, then the company will not have to spend money.

If it turns out it's not me, then I should be shooting a comedy with an investment budget of about $2500 million! "

Smart nodded when he heard the words, "In addition, I hope the company can get involved in film distribution. Although we are now working happily with Sony Columbia, we don't have our own distribution capabilities and are always under the control of others."

Chen Hao nodded in agreement when he heard the words, just think about the final result of DreamWorks!

"I started to get involved in the distribution work in the previous company, and I have already had initial results, and now I need to invest in and consolidate these results!" Smart said.

Upon hearing the words, Chen Hao said directly, "No problem, plus the film investment, I will directly leave 2000 million US dollars, if there are other circumstances, just invest money."

Smart was relieved when he heard the words. It seemed that Chen Hao still recognized and supported his work.

After finishing his work at Liangtianchi Pictures, Chen Hao was ready to return to China, but he made two more phone calls before returning to China.

On the first phone call, Chen Hao informed Greg Silverman of Warner Bros. that he was willing to direct the rebooted Batman!
Of course, Chen Hao is still only one of the four candidates, and it is still unknown whether he will direct the film in the end.

On the second call, Chen Hao called Davis.

Chen Hao had to pay attention to the issue of distribution that Smart said.

This is a big problem. A large part of the disbandment of DreamWorks was suffocated to death due to poor distribution capabilities. This is also the reason why Chen Hao bought Haotian Cinema in the Mainland.

It's just that in North America, the biggest distribution rights are basically the eight giants, and it's not easy to have the same distribution capabilities as them.

Not only must they have sufficient strength, but they must also face the competition from the eight giants.

Although Smart has achieved preliminary results in getting involved in the distribution, but no matter how big it is, it will not be too big. Being able to organize 500 theaters to show it will be the sky!

If you really want to establish a distribution channel of considerable size in a short period of time, you have to find a way from the eight giants.

Chen Hao soon thought of MGM, one of the eight giants of Hollywood, who was not doing well recently!

Because Wu Baige's "Wind Talker" failed miserably, and MGM has not released a big-selling film since entering the 21st century, it is showing signs of exhaustion, so now MGM is on the verge of bankruptcy!
And not long after, some consortiums headed by Sony formed an MGM holding company, and then acquired MGM Films through a leveraged buyout worth 48 billion US dollars!

If you say that everyone is a consortium, you may not think highly of Chen Hao.

But Chen Hao knew that the purpose of this consortium was not to manage MGM well and make it rejuvenate.

Just like Hollywood giants such as Warner Bros. and Universal, they also want to acquire MGM, but they also don't want to revive MGM, but want to shut down MGM directly.

MGM now wants to say that the most valuable thing is its huge film library. As a giant in the history of Hollywood, its film library has more than 7600 films!
Other giants in Hollywood want to take over this library, and then directly shut down MGM and get rid of a competitor.

Sony America wants to promote its own Blu-ray disc through this huge film library!
Another Comcast in the acquisition team also had a purpose. It was to use the film library to promote online video-on-demand, thereby driving Comcast's telecom operation business!

It's not about restarting MGM anyway!

Chen Hao's biggest purpose is for MGM's distribution channels. Of course, the film library is one of them. In addition, MGM's studio also has a certain value, so Chen Hao does not conflict with their purpose.

至于说钱！这起收购案虽然总额高达48亿美元，但是索尼只花了3亿美元就占股20%，整个团队6家一共筹集了14.5亿美元。

Among them, Sifang Group, the least, invested only 4500 million US dollars, accounting for 3% of the shares!

The rest of the money was borrowed by Sony and other groups from more than 20 banks on Wall Street, using the assets of MGM in the future as collateral.

Chen Hao doesn't have much money, but it is still possible to come up with 4500 million US dollars.

Of course, all of this is based on the best development assumptions. It's hard to say whether you can catch this ride!
But Chen Hao always has to give it a try before he is reconciled!

(End of this chapter)