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Text Chapter 390: Kill it while it is sick

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    A classic is a classic, and it can be said to be very powerful.  Nora Ephron immediately said that she had been attracted by the script and was willing to sign a contract with Phoenix Culture America to be the director of this film. At the same time, she felt lucky for her choice.  For this director who is destined to become famous, could he not be too stingy? You must know that this director was one of the important officials in the original Castle Rock Company. His role and significance are no less than that of the Seven Monsters of New Art City to Princess Jin. How could he not  Seriously win over.  In the end, Mo Fei gave Nora Ephron a treatment that was a bit unbelievable. As the director and screenwriter of Phoenix Culture, she can get 5% of the North American box office profit share of the movies she shoots and writes in the future.  , which means that the director and screenwriter receive 10% of the film's net profit from the North American box office, and are guaranteed to work on no less than one film per year.  This is an unimaginable contract for a new director.  Now she finally believes it. She is indeed not joking. Compared with giving 30% of the global profits to three or more people, giving 10% of the North American profits to one person is not too small.  For a Phoenix Culture film with a medium income, the final profit from a box office of 80 million US dollars is about 30 million or more. Even if it is only 5% pink, it will reach nearly 2 million. I definitely did it today.  The wisest decision in life.  As for Nora Ephron's doubts about the heroine Meg Ryan, a not-so-famous actor, Mo Fei smiled indifferently and confidently and said: "Nora. Don't worry, this actor is now  She is not famous yet. But she is destined to become a superstar. Believe me, she will give you a big surprise in this film.¡±¡­ After signing the contract and agreeing on the specific work procedures, Nuo Fei was sent away.  After finishing the rest of the work, La Ephron simply had something to eat while waiting to pick up Dai Mo Zhen at the airport.  Thinking about it, I was really excited. After all, I had been alone in an empty bed for many days.  Both of them have been together for a long time, and they had no other arrangements after meeting.  Just go back to the hotel and do whatever you need to do. You can put other things on hold for a while. Isn¡¯t that what you have to do at night?  After three spring breezes, it was already past four o'clock in the middle of the night. Dai Caishen was lying in Mo Fei's arms, harassing Mo Fei in a small area with his hair, but said unreasonably: "Well, let's talk about it first,  You can't touch me anymore, otherwise you won't be able to do anything tomorrow." "I don't care so much. If you can tease me, I have to endure it. What can you do to a man?  He turned over and pinned Dai Caishen underneath him.  He spread his legs arrogantly, raised his whip and mounted his horse, but then stopped moving.  After Dai Caishen rolled his eyes and said "Yeah" that sounded like a cry, a groan, or a gasp, he smiled and said: "That's it, that's it. Let's keep this posture and get down to business." "You.  Bad."  Dai Mozhen was pinned down by Mo Fei, and even with all her strength, she couldn't push Mo Fei even half an inch. She had no choice but to punch Mo Fei twice on the shoulder to relieve his anger, but she had no choice but to let Mo Fei do whatever he wanted.  "Now let's get down to business. If you handle it well, I will reward you with a few moves." Mo Fei said with a shameless smile and continued: "Then let's talk about the history of MGM first.  MGM was founded in 1924 by theater tycoon Marcus Lore, who merged three film companies, including Metro, Goldwyn and Louis Mayer, and took the same initial letter from each of the three companies, so  It's called 'MGM'. Before the 1950s, it had always been the largest company in the Hollywood film industry. The current Academy Awards were founded by MGM, and MGM itself has always insisted on 'for art.  And the purpose of art, and won more than 100 Oscar statuettes, and the number of films in the film library was more than 4,000. MGM was really beautiful at that time, gathering the most famous and powerful stars in Hollywood, Greta.  - Garbo, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh and other superstars were all under MGM, so that MGM at that time had a reputation of "there are more stars here than in heaven". It's a pity.  Unfortunately, in 1948, the antitrust act of the American industrial industry affected the film industry. MGM was also dismembered because it had the most complete and comprehensive film industry chain. The production company was required to only produce  Films were not allowed to take into account both distribution and theater business. MGM was forced to divest some of its businesses, completely shattering the complete industrial chain that had been tightly integrated for a long time. But what is ridiculous is that now, those film companies that benefited from the antitrust act have  But all of them have found strong backers, and only MGM is struggling to support it, struggling to support itself with the name of "the only independent production company among the eight major film companies". Speaking of MGM's situation, in fact, at the beginning.  It was not the worst time, but now is the worst time since gambling in Las Vegas.The real misfortune began after venue owner Kirk Kerkorian, a guy who earned his living by boxing and renting private jets, became a shareholder and eventually acquired MGM.  This guy has no interest in the film industry itself. His ultimate purpose in buying MGM is just to get a large amount of land under MGM's name.  Due to the expansion and development of the early film industry, many companies in Hollywood purchased a large amount of location land, and these lands are indeed located in the best filming areas now.  He could use the land to trade, invest in the construction of hotels and casinos, and eventually empty out MGM's land step by step.  In his opinion, MGM, which has lost its role, naturally has little value, but some people still remember it. Ted Turner, the owner of Turner Broadcasting Company, is also eyeing MGM now.  If I expected it right, his purpose in buying MGM was very simple, which was to get the copyrights for the more than 4,000 movies in the film library. Turner Broadcasting was a cable TV company, and they needed the movie rights very much.  However, after getting the film library, I bet Ted Turner will sell MGM or sell it to current owner Kirk Kerkorian, so that he can walk away.  ¡°None of these guys are fuel-efficient, they all start with crooked ideas. If they continue to mess around like this, MGM will really have nothing, and sooner or later it will end in failure.  Just two days ago, people from MGM came to talk about Pierce Brosnan's film contract. I was still hesitant about whether to cooperate, but now I feel that MGM is a good choice.  How about it? Do you have any methods or ideas?  " Could this be absolutely correct, because he was talking about it based on the history of MGM in his previous life. After Ted Turner got the ownership of the film library, he immediately sold MGM on the grounds that it was unable to repay its debts.  It fell back to Kirk Kerkorian. A few years later, an unlucky Italian took over the ownership of MGM through a loan from the French bank Cr¨¦dit Lyonnais, but because he could not make movies, he also suffered from economic and financial fraud.  After the problem was sorted out by the US government, MGM was sold to Credit Lyonnais. A few years later, Kirk Kerkorian didn't know why he was crazy. Maybe he wanted to achieve something through MGM.  Purpose, once again bought MGM from Cr¨¦dit Lyonnais. After many twists and turns, MGM finally fell into the hands of the Japanese. The only good thing Kirk Kerkorian did for MGM.  , after acquiring United Artists Pictures (United Artists Films - also called United Artists), it did not merge United Artists' huge film library into MGM, which also made United Artists also have a huge film library of more than 4,000 films.  , avoiding Ted Turner's robbery, but because of the final acquisition, all the film library content became the possession of the Japanese. After Sony acquired Columbia Pictures, it once again acquired MGM.  , and became one of the overlords of the film industry in Hollywood. It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t want to see others get rich, but I knew that MGM would end up like that, but I didn¡¯t take action when I had the opportunity, and ended up watching others play around.  It was so exciting that it made a lot of profits. I feel sorry for myself. It was really a bit too much. As for MGM, it cannot escape such a fate. If Phoenix Culture wants to secure its position in Hollywood, it must.  There has to be such a sign. So why not take advantage of the opportunity now? Instead, wait until Turner-Broadcasting takes over the film library and stare at it. By then, even if it buys MGM at a low price,  I feel sick in my heart. Maybe I haven¡¯t considered it, or maybe we can cooperate with MGM first, and then infiltrate and acquire it step by step. Even Turner Broadcasting can be used as an accomplice, just like he did with ATV.  It was just a brief thought, but he quickly rejected it. MGM and ATV are completely different. Although ATV is small, there are only two free TV stations in Hong Kong, and Phoenix Culture has been supporting it for so long.  , the influence ratio is not comparable to that of today's MGM. The number of films released by MGM every year cannot even reach double digits, and there are basically no films that are very good. What Kerkorian is playing is.  Hotels and gambling, Ted Turner is engaged in radio and television, no one will put their thoughts on movies, so one can imagine the fate of MGM. So maybe it can cooperate with ATV and help ATV become bigger.  And then attract the troublemakers, so that he can finally join ATV. And for Mo Fei, with the old fox Ju Degen around, he is too embarrassed to do anything. He can only pay attention to it after the unlucky two men take action.  maximize.  But as for MGM, it is one of the eight major Hollywood film companies in the United States. As the saying goes, "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse." After more than 70 years of history, if MGM can really have a chance to breathe,  , who would be willing to sell it, Ted Turner or Kerkorian? Could it be that they will never sell it again???The idea is to go to MGM.  If you want to take down MGM, you have to take advantage of its illness to kill it, or even make MGM even more sick before you can take action.  Of course, all kinds of interest still have to be recovered. For example, the land that Corcoran took away originally belonged to MGM. If you want to buy it, you have to buy it with all the tails, otherwise it will be like picking up rags.
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