my movie years

Chapter 290 The Great Plan
Zhang Hao has a definite schedule, so Charles Rowan feels much more at ease.

After chatting about other things for a while, Zhang Hao hesitated before saying, "Charles, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you."

"Oh?" Charles Rowan was curious: "What's the matter?"

"There's no one else here, so I'll be blunt." Zhang Hao went straight to the point: "I heard that Disney has ideas for [-]th Century Fox."

Charles Rowan was taken aback: "Where did you hear about this?"

Disney's secrecy is so good that other Hollywood companies don't even know that Disney has ideas for [-]th Century Fox.

Originally, Zhang Hao shouldn't have been involved in this matter, after all, he couldn't explain how he knew about Disney's internal actions.

It is estimated that this acquisition plan was discussed among Disney's top management, and no one else inside Disney, like the outside world, knew about it.

But there is no way, who makes Disney always have trouble with him!

Disney is like an oversized mosquito outside the glass, about the size of a chicken.Although it couldn't bite Zhang Hao, it was shaking around outside the glass enough to make Zhang Hao sick.

The most important thing is that Zhang Hao doesn't have such a big fly swatter, so he can't shoot Disney.

So Zhang Hao has to say that, regardless of whether it is true or not, Warner Pictures will always check it after hearing about it.After all, if it were true, then things would be a big deal.

Zhang Hao explained in organizational language: "You must have heard about Rupert Murdoch's wiretapping incident.

News Corporation has spun off Twentieth Century Fox as a separate subsidiary. "

"Yes," Charles Rowan nodded, he was not an idiot, and immediately saw some clues: "I know about this, I heard that Rupert Murdoch News Corporation is very short of funds now.

But major banks in North America and Europe refused to provide him with funds. Without a cash flow, News Corp. could not last long. "

"So, [-]th Century Fox has become an option." Zhang Hao thanked Charles Rowan for his brain power, and he did tell the facts that happened at the moment.

Zhang Hao went on to analyze: "The current performance of [-]th Century Fox is not very good, even worse than that of Sony Columbia.

The release of "X-Men: Apocalypse" this year gave them a little relief, but in the field of movies, everyone knows that there will never be a project that can make money without losing money.

I'm pretty sure [-]th Century Fox will be a liability to News Corp. once the next movie hits the street. "

"In order to reduce the burden and obtain cash flow, Rupert Murdoch may consider selling [-]th Century Fox." The more Charles Rowan analyzed it, the more likely it was.

Now he couldn't sit still anymore: "I'll take my leave first, Zhang..."

After all, Charles Rowan hurried away with his assistant.Da Mimi just came out of the kitchen and shouted for dinner, but it turned out that Charles Rowan was gone.

"What about others?" Da Mimi asked.

Zhang Hao shrugged and said, "I told him a shocking secret, and he has to rush back to deal with it now."

"What secret?"

"A big secret that can subvert Hollywood, and you will understand when the time comes." Zhang Hao made a fool of himself.

Da Mi Mi gave Zhang Hao a blank look: "Is there a big secret? I still have Da Mi Mi! Let's eat quickly..."

The driving of a married woman always comes so suddenly and unexpectedly.Zhang Hao shook his head with a smile, and helped Da Mimi go to the restaurant for dinner.

Turning his gaze back to Charles Rowan, he returned to the hotel and immediately ordered his assistant to buy the earliest flight back to Los Angeles.

Then Charles Rowan hurriedly called the president of Warner Pictures and told him what he had heard from Zhang Hao.

As Zhang Hao expected, the president of Warner Pictures didn't believe it at first.But for this kind of thing, I would rather believe it than believe it.

So the top management of Warner Pictures held an emergency meeting and notified the parent company Time Warner Group at the same time.

Every film company in Hollywood stands behind a huge media group.For example, Time Warner Group behind Warner Pictures, and Comcast Group behind Universal Pictures.

Sony, behind Columbia Pictures, and News Corp, behind Twentieth Century Fox.

The top management of Warner Pictures is very strange, and the News Corporation has fallen a little too fast.You must know that in 2014, News Corporation wanted to acquire Warner for US$800 billion, but it failed.

In fact, Time Warner itself is also facing the situation of being acquired. AT&T will acquire Warner at a price of 850 billion US dollars. At present, the two parties have basically reached an agreement.

Warner Pictures has nothing to do with these things that happen in the capital and financial circles.But if Disney acquires [-]th Century Fox, this matter will be a bit big.

If the acquisition is real, Time Warner and AT&T will be powerless to stop it according to the current situation.

But that's okay, Hollywood isn't just a Warner company.After Charles Rowan returned, reported the news to Time Warner executives, and made an analysis, the executives planned to contact other company executives immediately.

Not to save [-]th Century Fox, but to join this gluttonous feast.Compared with Disney eating alone, it is better to share with other companies, so that everyone can get rich.

Disney must want to monopolize it, otherwise the secrecy work would not be so good, and the past life was not revealed until the acquisition was nearly completed.

When it was exposed, other Hollywood companies could not intervene at all, and they were powerless to stop it.

In fact, Warner executives also doubted how Zhang Hao got the news.But this is not important, the most important task at the moment is to find out whether the news is true.

There is a Chinese proverb that says there is no impenetrable wall in the world.As long as there is an action, no matter how well the secrecy work is done, it will eventually leak out, it's just a matter of time.

In the past few years, Disney has made frequent moves. It first acquired Jobs' Pixar animation studio, then Marvel, and George Lucas' Lucasfilm.

Last year's Marvel movies and the reboot of "Star Wars" made Marvel a lot of money, and everyone saw it.

If Disney's acquisition of [-]th Century Fox succeeds, Hollywood will form a model of one superpower and many powerhouses.

This is contrary to the traditional Hollywood model and is resisted by traditional Hollywood forces.

So, under the calm water surface, the undercurrent began to surge.

Commercial espionage began to stage a spy drama comparable to "Mission: Impossible", and finally brought back accurate information at the cost of a fire in a secret Disney office.

Disney, indeed, plans to acquire [-]th Century Fox.

It's just that this year's [-]th Century Fox's film revenue is not bad, and it can still manage to maintain it, so the two parties are only in contact for the time being.

They are all talented people who have been in Hollywood for a long time, how can such an opportunity be missed.

So without telling Disney and [-]th Century Fox, Warner Pictures, Sony Columbia Cinemas, Universal and Paramount met immediately.

The four parties reached an alliance and joined in the battle to carve up [-]th Century Fox. How much they can grab depends on their own abilities.

After discussing the matter, Charles Rowan immediately called Zhang Hao and told him the latest situation.

This phone call is also an admission ticket, which means that Zhang Hao can lead Chinese capital to participate in the [-]th Century Fox battle.

Of course Zhang Hao knew that so much planning was just for this moment.

Not to mention the assets of [-]th Century Fox North America, just its overseas channels, distribution subsidiaries, etc., are all Zhang Hao's eyes.

Of course, this is bound to be a long tug-of-war, not something that can be done in a day or two or even a month or two.

Zhang Hao himself certainly doesn't have that much money, but he can raise it.

So Zhang Hao immediately flew to Shencheng to meet Boss Xiaoma.For this plan to succeed, it must have the support of penguins.

It is said that the capital market has no conscience. To cooperate with such a bigwig, one must also put aside personal likes and dislikes.

Boss Xiao Ma warmly received Zhang Hao, and the two chatted for more than two hours in Boss Xiao Ma's office.

Afterwards, the two flew to Shanghai together, and began to form a team to participate in this secret plan.

Outsiders still don't know about all this. They only know that Boss Ma and Zhang Hao are working on a big plan. No one knows what the plan is.

(End of this chapter)