Chapter 722： Rotten MGM

With the end of the Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood has another blockbuster acquisition news released-Disney acquired the Siliwood animation studio that originally belonged to New Universal for $2.2 billion in cash.

Disney is a listed company, and with such a large acquisition, it will take three months to complete the process.

The acquisition was finalized in mid-January, and it was hurriedly announced at the end of January, with an obvious purpose.

When New Universal was questioned by wind critics, Disney was behind it and showed a firm supportive attitude!

From this point of view, Dunn quite appreciate Michael Eisner's style.

Domineering dictatorship is not false, but also dare to act!

He can openly satirize Jobs for piracy in Congress, and he dares to show the alliance between Disney and New Universal in the whole society.

In any case, Dunn did them a big favor by selling Siliwood to Disney.

In return, Eisner is much better than Redstone in this regard.

With the acquisition of Discovery Communications Channel and the sale of Siliwood Animation Studios, at the beginning of the new year, the cash flow on the books of New Universal Group was left at $2.5 billion.

Among them, the North American headquarters has 1.46 billion US dollars, and the overseas headquarters has 1.04 billion US dollars.

Not much.

In order to get the aircraft carrier New Global to sail at full speed, it is necessary to rely on borrowing to survive.

Are you raising money?

Tang En has communicated with the chief financial officer, and the other party's statement is that the current debt of New Global is too low, and it is suspected of misappropriating money in the listing. It would be easier to ask to raise the debt to about $15 billion before filing to go public.

The more debts you owe, the more uncle you are. It is a common truth.

Fortunately, with the acquisition of MGM, the layout of New Universal in the film and television entertainment department has been completed 90%, almost.

MGM's delisting process is not over yet, but the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have reviewed it.

In other words, MGM is now a real new global industry!

Dunn can also really exercise power over MGM's life and death.

At this time, Dunn was sitting in the office, with Amy Pascal standing beside the desk, as if listening to teachings.

"Fatal Charm? How can such an old-fashioned and boring project pass the review? No wonder MGM's performance is so poor, and the production department is not as good as imdb's film critics!"

On Dunn's desk, there was a stack of thick scripts, as many as seven or eight.

Under Amy Pascal's astonished eyes, Dunn opened a script, glanced at it casually, and then threw it into the trash can, with disdain in his words.

"Boss, no... don't you need to study more?"

Amy Pascal was a little flustered.

Just taking a few glances and eliminating a project is too hasty, right?

This is the production department of MGM. It has been saved through hard work. At least respect the fruits of other people's labor, right?

"No need! Those wastes, dismiss them as soon as possible!"

Dunn is a foresight, and he has a negative impression of the group of people in power at MGM now.

In the previous life, after MGM was acquired by Sony at a high price, it once had high hopes.

The results of it?

Even with a huge copyright library and "007" support, the losses are getting worse!

By 2009, only to apply for bankruptcy and reorganization.

Later, Sony became ruthless, let go of the power and control of MGM, replaced all the horses of the Kirk Kerkorian department, and let a group of new people take the helm of MGM.

That's what followed the recovery.

The current MGM is still controlled by the direct descendants of Kirk Kerkorian.

""Beauty Shop"? So familiar?" Tang En picked up another script and asked pretendingly.

Amy Pascal hurriedly said: "In 2002, MGM released a movie "Barbershop", which was from a male perspective and had a good box office. This year, "Barbershop 2" will be launched again. "Beauty Shop" Movies are the women's version of Barbershop."

"Yeah." Dunn nodded, "This is okay, since it's a female perspective...Let's leave it to Rose Pictures to operate, it's a support for women's rights."

"it is good."

""The Talents"? (The literal translation is bigger than the sky Tang En frowned and said sarcastically: "It's bigger than the sky, why not go to the sky? It's ridiculous! If this kind of garbage movie is made, it's a waste of time! "

This time, I didn't even read the content of the script, just one title, and it was eliminated directly.

Amy Pascal was about to cry, and she dared to persuade: "Dawn, you... can you be more serious?"

"Huh?" Dunn stared.

Amy Pascal wanted to cry but said without tears: "Even if MGM's production department...is relatively poor, it can't be so sloppy, right? The preliminary preparations for these projects cost a lot of money."

"When it's interrupted, it's bound to be messed up!" Dunn snorted and waved his hand, "I know it! Amy, you haven't been working in New Universal for a long time, so you may not understand my way of working. It's fine for you to implement it, disputes are a waste of time."

Amy Pascal was speechless.

Next, "Jimmy Glick's Lalawood", "Out of Swimming", and "Madison" suffered successive cuts.

Tang En's method is almost the same. After flipping through the script a few times, he threw it directly into the trash can.

It seems that looking at it more is cumbersome.

"The remaining two movies, definitely no problem. 'Cool to the End' is a sequel to 'Short Man,' a dark comedy. 'Ghostbusters' is a remake of the old 1980s film, and it's also very interesting. The market is looking forward to it.”

These are Amy Pascal's two favorite movies. For fear of being eliminated by Dunn in a daze, I quickly recommend them.

"Oh."

Dunn blinked and opened the script of "A Cool to the End".

Amy Pascal said: "The crew of this film has been prepared. The director is Gary Gray, who has filmed "Ace vs. Ace" and "Two Days", which is very strong. The actor continues to be led by John Travolta Take it, the heroine is his co-star Uma Thurman in "Pleasant"..."

"Wait!" Tang En interrupted her with a wave of his hand, "The heroine is not good, she has to change."

Amy Pascal was stunned, "Huh?"

Dunn said: "Vulgar" and "Kill Bill" have imprisoned the image of Uma Thurman. She is an actress in a cult film. I see that the budget is 53 million US dollars here? This is a commercial film, you have to choose one An actress with market appeal."

"Who?"

"Charlize Theron."

At the Golden Globes dinner last night, Dunn chatted with Charlize Theron. She took a contract from Paramount and invited her to make a sci-fi action movie "Wonder Woman."

This is a big piece of shit!

Tang En warned her on the spot not to pick up!

As a friend, he couldn't have seen Paramount drag her into the fire pit.

If Paramount wanted to jump, it jumped on its own.

Don't hurt anyone!

Let Charlize Theron and director Gary Gray team up again for this cool piece.

Amy Pascal blinked and said with a smile: "She is the hottest actress this year. Of course, it would be best if she can participate in the role. In terms of production budget, the production budget needs to be increased by 10 million. Theron's remuneration is very good. Much taller."

"Transfer this movie to Universal Pictures, you can deal with it." Dunn waved his hand, and picked up the script and planning case of "Ghost Cry God Howl".

"what?"

Tang En first looked at the planning case and saw a person's name, his eyes lit up, and he subconsciously used a carbon pen to draw a circle on the name.

Chloe Moretz, what an amazing little loli!

Amy Pascal stepped forward and took a look, her face was a little weird: "Boss, she... She is only 7 years old this year, if you are interested, you can pick that Rachel, I have seen her, she is a very beautiful girl …”

"What are you thinking?" Tang En glared at her, then his face turned pale, and he coughed, "Rachel...Which Rachel?"

"Rachel Nichols, although she debuted a few years ago, she has the nickname of 'three highs' in the industry."

"Three highs?"

"Well, she is highly educated, tall, and has a good vision. She has a double major in mathematics and economics from Columbia University, and she is 1.78 meters tall. In the face of the suitors in the circle Many she dislikes Woolen cloth."

Tang En smiled, "Interesting."

"Or... let me call and ask her to come over?"

"Oh? Don't you say she has high eyesight?"

Amy Pascal smiled and said, "No matter how tall you are, you can't be taller than you."

"Forget it, highly educated actresses are a bit arrogant, like Nat. If you can't touch them, you won't touch them. I'm tired." Tang En waved his hand, then took a pen and drew a circle on the list of actors. "Ryan Monoz is the male lead, right? I've seen his play, it's not bad. You can focus on training with the girl Chloe Moretz."

"really!"

Amy Pascal was contemptuous.

Men, they are all lolicons!

However, with a solemn expression on her face, she said, "What about "007"?"

This is MGM's most important intellectual property!

As the head of Universal Pictures, of course she wants to win "007" to Universal Pictures.

"Let's leave it to Tang En Pictures. They are my old team. They operate big projects. They are more mature and experienced." Tang En said lightly.

Amy Pascal has 10,000 imbalances in her heart.

The descendants were indeed treated special.

The current Tang En Films is completely implementing Tang En's explosion strategy. The production cost of each film released will exceed 100 million US dollars.

In contrast, although Universal Pictures has more production, it is more profitable.

Of course, even so, it's much better than when she was in charge of Columbia Pictures in the past.

The position of the vice-chairman of the New Global Women's Empowerment Foundation alone is very prominent.

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