Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 169: Soaring Status
But Gu Ming didn't expect that Ding Sanshi would hold on to the $40.

I know I will get a discount when I sell it.

But this discount is a bit beyond Gu Ming's psychological acceptance range.

Not even a 45% discount, $[-].

Since you won’t give it, then in my opinion, you might as well not give it to me.

Pull it down.

Let's not talk about it.

Gu Ming immediately decided not to sell it.

It's better to find a bank for mortgage.

You don’t need to go to any major international banks for this. You can find them all in China based on your reputation.

After some discussion, the bank accepted 40.00% of the stock value.

But as long as the money is not paid, there is no possibility of losing the shares.

Gu Ming accepted.

Wangyi’s 240 million shares were mortgaged at a discount of about US$500 million.

Then Gu Ming pledged part of Amazon's shares.

There is no way, Apple is too weak.

And he was reluctant to pledge.

Not to mention Penguin, if it doesn’t go public, it’s your pension.

Don't move without permission.

What if something goes wrong?

Don’t the stocks belong to the bank?

On the contrary, Amazon is doing well and has a good upward momentum.

I bought it at an average price of $120 and bought [-] million shares.

The stock price is now in the early [-]s.

Moreover, banks accept a 50.00% pledge ratio for Amazon shares.

60 shares were pledged.

Successfully exchanged it for US$500 million.

Got enough for 8000 million US dollars!

……

To mortgage so many shares, you have to go through a complicated process.

It is also more time consuming.

Gu Ming first asked Sophia to go to Artison Entertainment and quoted a price there, which was US$9000 million.

There is a slight gap between the fixed price of Artisan Entertainment.

But what is needed is this gap, so that shareholders can hold on a little longer and not be in a hurry to sell the company to Lions Gate.

Also give yourself time to raise funds.

8000 million was obtained from pledged stocks.

Plus the remaining 1000 million US dollars in Gu Ming's hands.

And the remaining 1000 million in the Daystar account.

A total of [-] million.

After calculation, capital was injected into Beidou Star Entertainment, Silk and Potato Investment respectively.

Then potatoes and silk are injected together.

Then, Beidou Star Entertainment’s equity structure underwent another adjustment.

Gu Ming holds 40.00% of the shares, Silk Investment holds 20.00% of the shares, and Potato Investment holds 30.00% of the shares.

Successfully reduced Gu Ming's personal shares to less than 50.00%, and the remaining shareholders are two seemingly unrelated offshore companies.

"call……"

He holds [-] million yuan in his hand, although he knows that as long as he doesn't commit suicide, just by buying stocks of famous and large companies, his future wealth will be many times that of [-] million yuan.

But this is working capital!
Gu Ming's heart also felt filled with pride.

He is about to usher in the biggest acquisition in his life.

"Come to think of it, wasn't this how Chen Youliang felt when he recruited Zhu Yuanzhang?"

"Pooh."

"That's not a good analogy."

Taking back what he just said, Gu Ming began to take action personally, and started negotiations with Sophia and the hired negotiation experts with Artison Entertainment.

Because of Gu Ming's participation, the company had been quoting [-] billion. Lionsgate Entertainment, which had historically completed acquisitions with [-] billion, raised its offer to [-] billion.

Then Gu Ming had no choice but to raise another $500 million.

Lionsgate follows again.

Gu Ming mentioned it again and put in all the funds.

Two billion!
The quotation from Artison Entertainment has been reached, but this is not an auction. Whoever pays the first price will sell the thing directly to you.

Therefore, Artisan Entertainment shareholders will not choose to sell the company just because you receive your own price.

Those shareholders still have to wait and see the reaction from Lions Gate.

Maybe it can be sold more expensively?

It's always good to make more money.

After quoting the price, Gu Ming relaxed.

This bid is Gu Ming's bottom line.

If Lionsgate could offer a higher price, he would not raise the price again.

I still have to waste my energy negotiating every day!
When will this continue?
Behind Lionsgate is a banking consortium. If he really wants to follow up, how much will he have to spend?

If the price is raised again, it is better to buy other distribution companies. The worst thing is that the number of movies in the library will be smaller and the distribution capabilities will be weak.

Save money!
Apart from the money spent on buying a distribution company, the remaining money can still be used to make movies.

A distribution company can't just produce one movie a year. Just the backlog of distribution expenses and other expenses also require a sum of funds. More than 1 million is just enough, so it can be reserved for use.

Fortunately, this price seems to have exceeded Lions Gate's bottom line.

No more price increases.

After waiting for half a month.

The shareholders of Artison Entertainment no longer wanted to wait, and were also worried that Gu Ming would change his mind.

Choose to sign a contract with Beidou Star Entertainment!
Two hundred million U.S. dollars, plus the burden of company debt, from now on, Artison Entertainment will be a subsidiary of Big Dipper Entertainment.After all, it is a second-tier distribution company that has produced many films. When the contract was signed, the money was paid, and the goods were delivered, there were still many media reports.

It also made some waves in Hollywood.

When people hear this, they will sigh, "Oh, that Artisan Entertainment has changed hands!"

Of course, that's all.

There are so many second-tier distribution companies in Hollywood, and it’s common for them to change their bosses. Who pays attention to this every day?
It’s not like the Six Greats changed hands.

Whatever you have to do, keep doing it.

……

this afternoon.

Sitting in the office of Beidou Star Entertainment.

Gu Ming felt indescribably excited.

From now on, when your films are distributed in North America, you no longer have to worry about the distribution company playing tricks on you.

In Hollywood, he is no longer a simple director, and his attractiveness in the eyes of actresses has suddenly increased!
After all, between capital and directors, capital is more attractive.

Not to mention domestically, as a major shareholder of a North American issuing company with a 40.00% share, the attraction is explosive!
In his previous life, International Zhang Neng was on the beach with a shareholder who had no control over any of Warner's actions and didn't even hold [-]% of the shares...

Why is my position not better than that of a shareholder?

After drinking five cups of tea in a row, Gu Ming suppressed the unbearable heat and made a call to Sophia to show him the script library of Artison Entertainment.

For a Hollywood company, distribution channels are important, but the film library and script library are the real foundation of a company.

Many of the best-selling works may have been gathering dust in the script library for years.

Let yourself see if there are any scripts in the script library of Artisan Entertainment waiting for you, a talented person, to discover them.

As soon as I hung up the phone, the phone rang again.

This time the call came from the front desk.

"Boss, Frank from Lionsgate Entertainment came over and said he wanted to talk to you about something."

"Oh?" Gu Ming raised his eyebrows.

I originally thought that the first person to come to the door would be Anthony from Sony Colombia.

I didn’t expect it to be a competitor, Lions Gate.

What is he doing here?
Buying film libraries and distribution companies?

The film library itself does not want to sell it.

But I just wanted to get rid of the global distribution department to avoid being crushed to death by the six major companies.

If he was willing to go forward and attract firepower, he really had no reason to refuse.

So I asked the front desk to invite the other party up.

"Congratulations." Frank stretched out his hand, "You made a good deal, but unfortunately, it is beyond my psychological price."

"Thank you, it's almost beyond my price range."

"Really? Then I should keep insisting."

Frank smiled and chatted with Gu Ming for a few words before getting to the point.

"Gu, are you interested in selling the film library and distribution department except North America? We can try to negotiate a price."

"There is no need to discuss the film library. You can try to set a price for distribution elsewhere."

"If you only have distribution networks elsewhere, I'll give you 7000 million."

"Then forget it." Gu Ming shook his head, "I can't accept this price."

“You must know that this is a global distribution capability!”

"The global distribution capabilities that DreamWorks has longed for!"

"Lionsgate has North American distribution capabilities. Once you have global distribution capabilities, you will immediately become one of the few companies that can distribute globally. This is a qualitative change for Lionsgate."

"And I spent 1 million to buy Artisan Entertainment, and I also carried a loan of more than 3 million, which is equivalent to an acquisition cost of more than [-] million."

“You don’t have to take on debt when buying a distribution network.”

"With a price of 7000 million, I can't see the sincerity."

"I believe that DreamWorks, which is crazy about its global distribution capabilities, will definitely give a higher price." Gu Ming directly raised the price of DreamWorks.

Of course, it's just for raising prices.

If it were really sold to DreamWorks, he would never do it.

This company is composed of Spielberg, a great live-action film director, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of Disney Studio who has produced several blockbuster animated films, and David Geffen, a music company boss. Film companies have been a thorn in the side of the Big Six in Hollywood since their birth.

Now they have been chasing and intercepting them all the way, and finally succeeded in controlling DreamWorks.

If he sells Artison Entertainment's global distribution network to it, he is afraid that the Big Six will not notice him.

Maybe with the combined efforts of the six major forces, one concentrated fire would kill him in seconds.

Gu Ming is not willing to commit suicide like this.

But Frank doesn’t know what Gu Ming is thinking!
In order to stabilize Gu Ming, he raised the price again. "Seventy-five million."

"Let me see your sincerity."

Gu Ming has been grinding prices with Frank in the office.

Maybe it's because Frank still has the funds used to buy Artisan Entertainment, or maybe he's afraid of attracting new competitors.

In the end, Frank agreed to the price of 2000 million offered by Gu Ming.

There is a premium.

The premium is quite high.

But there are many things in the world that you can't buy with money.

Frank should be secretly happy if he can buy it.

Before signing the contract, he was afraid that Gu Ming would raise the price again and kept it secret.

But a week later, when the dust settled, Frank couldn't help but laugh.

"Gu, you have made another profitable business, congratulations."

"I should congratulate you. With global distribution capabilities, your Lions Gate may become the new Big Seven." Gu Ming said.

"That's difficult."

"Speaking of which, if you ever want to sell your film library, you can come to me and I will give you a suitable price."

"If that day comes, I will!"

……

The day after Gu Ming sold the global distribution network to Lions Gate.

Anthony, who hadn't appeared for a long time and hadn't contacted Gu Ming, came over.

(End of this chapter)