Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2181 Find a way to make money

"Colombia? Why are you interested in them?"

After Lin Daoqiu arrived in LA, Langmeyer approached him immediately. While the two were chatting, Lin Daoqiu suddenly revealed his interest in Columbia Pictures.

"Now Paramount, Disney, and Columbia have formed an alliance against us. If I can buy Columbia Pictures, then this alliance will be over."

Langmeyer knew that Lin Daoqiu was a man with both ambition and means, but he didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu had just bought MGM less than two years ago, and at this time he had already started to set his sights on the next Hollywood film industry The company, his appetite is really too big, even a big company like Universal has no such idea.

Although Lin Daoqiu has never had contact with Columbia Pictures, he knows very well that if he wants to buy the company, the price has already reached more than 35 billion US dollars.

Based on Lin Daoqiu's current net worth, it can be said that it is very reluctant to buy Columbia Pictures, so he has to find someone to cooperate.

"This idea is really crazy, but if it were you, I don't think it's unusual."

Langmeyer shrugged. He was shocked at the beginning and now he has gradually accepted this fact.

"According to my understanding, Columbia Pictures' current valuation is at least 35 billion US dollars. I can't bear it alone, so I want to find Universal and Fox to cooperate, and the three together can eat Columbia Pictures."

For Lin Daoqiu's proposal, Langmeyer was more or less interested, but it can be said that he was not very interested.

Because Universal itself has already occupied a certain market share in Hollywood, if buying Columbia Pictures can increase Universal's market share, then he is willing to spend the money.

But the problem is that now Langmeyer feels that if Columbia Pictures is finally bought, Lin Daoqiu may be the one who will benefit the most, and then it will be his turn and Alan Ryder Jr., so this deal does not seem to be too much for them. cost-effective.

"How much do you plan to pay?"

"I will contribute 20 billion US dollars, and you will each contribute [-] to [-] billion US dollars. I will get [-]% of the shares, and then you will each get [-]% of the shares."

Lin Daoqiu's distribution is very reasonable, because he estimates that the final price will definitely exceed 35 billion, approaching the 40 billion mark.

But he still wanted to take control of the company's dominance, so he proposed that he take up [-]% of the shares.

"Sorry, I'm afraid I can't promise you here."

After thinking about it for a while, Langmeyer decided to reject Lin Daoqiu's request, because the deal was not expensive for Universal, and it was still in the situation that they wanted to spend a lot of money, which made Langmeyer even more embarrassed.

If it was two to three hundred million, then Langmeyer might still agree, but when it comes to an amount of one billion, this is not something he can casually agree to.

"I can understand, after all, buying Columbia Pictures will not be of great help to Universal, and I won't be surprised if you reject it."

Lin Daoqiu never thought that Langmeyer would immediately agree to it at the beginning, and he also thought that the other party would reject his proposal. After all, the biggest beneficiaries of this deal are MGM and himself.

"It's best if you can understand. After all, if such a large-scale acquisition is to be discussed by the board of directors, I believe those directors and shareholders will not agree with me."

Even Lang Mayer, who has such a good friendship with Lin Daoqiu, refused, and it was naturally even more impossible for little Alan Ryder to agree.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a lot of money, Lin Daoqiu really wanted to buy Columbia Pictures alone.

Now things have suddenly become difficult. Under the circumstances that Universal and Fox are unwilling to enter, it is almost unrealistic to buy Columbia Pictures.

Unless Lin Daoqiu is desperate and uses all the funds to acquire Columbia Pictures, but if that is the case, his liquidity will be in trouble all of a sudden.

Especially now that Lin Daoqiu is working with Baodao, there must be no problems in the capital chain, otherwise there will be big troubles.

This is all because I am too lazy. If I want to make money, I should honestly make more blockbuster movies in Hollywood to make money.

Now that such an opportunity arises, but I don't have the funds to use, in the end, I still have to blame Lin Daoqiu for being too lazy.

But even now that he is aware of such a situation, Lin Daoqiu still has no solution.

The only thing you can do is to mortgage MGM to the bank, and then take out a sum of money to add your own funds and then go to acquire Columbia Pictures.

But Lin Daoqiu is a person who doesn't like to borrow money from others. Even if financing with a bank is a very common thing, in Lin Daoqiu's view, as long as he borrows money from others, it doesn't matter who the borrower is. uncomfortable.

So Lin Daoqiu had already crossed out the way of borrowing money from the bank. At least in his opinion, if he was asked to borrow money to buy Columbia Pictures, he would rather not buy it.

After all, even if Columbia Pictures is bought, the funds in MGM and his hands will not skyrocket. After all, this is a long-term investment behavior, and the possibility of short-term profits basically does not exist.

If this is the case, Lin Daoqiu can only think of other ways. At this time, he suddenly thought of a person, the boss of Marvel, Ron Perelman.

At that time, Lin Daoqiu had talked to Ron Perelman about the acquisition of Marvel, but this Wall Street businessman seemed unwilling to let Lin Daoqiu make a profit.

Although the two didn't reach an agreement, according to what Ron Perelman revealed, Lin Daoqiu felt that the other party's asking price should not be lower than [-] million US dollars.

But what Lin Daoqiu didn't expect was that if he went to Ron Perelman for an offer, the other party would offer at least [-] million yuan.

But at this moment, if he doesn't rely on the superhero series to earn huge box office revenue for himself every year, then Lin Daoqiu really can't think of any other way to make him earn a lot of dollars every year.

So thinking of this, Lin Daoqiu immediately contacted Ron Perelman, planning to meet with him and talk about Marvel.

After this year, Ron Perelman can say very badly, because Marvel's business is very bad, so bad that he has been losing money.

Now Ron Perelman is ready to sell the copyright of the superhero series in exchange for cash. Otherwise, if this continues, he may not be able to continue to support such losses.

(End of this chapter)