Chapter 46： Acquisition of an entertainment company

Hollywood has never been short of entertainment companies ready to sell.

Entertainment company is a general term. Nowadays, people's hearts are relatively large. When they register, they generally expand their business scope as much as possible.

For a company that makes a movie, they can sign a singer to make a record, and for a company that makes a record, they can sign a contract with a model to do catwalks or something. However, those who are not focused enough can rarely achieve great things, so one day they will go bankrupt if they don't sell.

Before Li Daniu came, he had asked Castro to contact some entertainment companies that were ready to sell. After comparing prices and hardware, he chose three companies this time and was going to investigate.

One of them was the company that asked Li Daniu to add one hundred thousand dollars just now, and then sent two models to him. But after seeing the photos of the two models, Li Daniu couldn't understand how the boss could have such confidence that the two models could be worth about 100,000 US dollars.

Although the figure is indeed very strong, but that appearance does not meet the standard of beauty that Li Daniu considers at all. However, Castro looked a little drooling.

Li Daniu, who had his eyes sharpened, decided to put that company on the final inspection.

It was a little embarrassing to arrive in Hollywood in a taxi and still plan to acquire an entertainment company. Li Daniu swears that next time he comes to the United States, he must buy a car of his own. Since he wants to earn a lot of money, he can't always demand that his life is not extravagant.

Li Daniu has always believed that those who know how to spend money to enjoy themselves are more motivated to make money.

As the place with the highest box office of movies produced in the world, Hollywood is naturally extremely prosperous. Not to mention those three-step entertainment companies, just say that those stores in Hollywood are full of luxury goods. When Li Daniu walked through a very ordinary door, he saw a piece of clothing with a price of 7688 US dollars from behind the window. .

Does a piece of clothing have to be so expensive? Or is everyone in Hollywood too rich?

Li Daniu and Castro arrived at the first entertainment company that was going to investigate, and the general manager of the entertainment company was in charge of receiving them.

"Mr. Tarek, you are welcome." The general manager gave a very warm welcome.

"Let's start directly." Li Daniu said that he is the king without seeing anyone, and now he can't show that score, isn't it embarrassing to say it?

"Okay." The general manager also understands the truth of talking to people when meeting people. Since Li Daniu likes to be direct, let's be direct.

"We can visit our warehouse first, all the valuable things are inside." The general manager walked straight to the back of the company with Li Daniu and Castro.

The company is located in an office building and has rented half a floor, half of which is the office area and the other half is the warehouse.

"This is the latest high-speed camera, we have two." The general manager began to introduce some items in the warehouse.

Li Daniu actually didn't know much about these things. He should have hired a professional to help him distinguish them, but Tuvalu really didn't have that kind of talent, so he had to bite the bullet and do it himself.

The basic equipment of this company is still very complete, including camera, radio, lighting and other equipment, instead of renting everything like some leather bag film companies. Li Daniu referred to the information on the encyclopedia and made a comparison, but found no big pits.

"In addition to these things, our company also owns some scripts. These scripts are very good. It's just because our boss really doesn't want to invest more energy in this area, so he wants to change hands."

The seller's words, of course, can't be trusted. Li Daniu is not stupid, there are many good scripts, but how many scripts can make money? If these scripts are made into movies, it is really possible to make a steady profit without losing money, then unless the boss of this company is kicked in the head by a donkey, it is absolutely impossible to change hands.

"I don't need these scripts." Li Daniu was not even interested in reading, and said, "I just want these devices and your company's staff."

"This...is not suitable." Of course, the general manager hoped that the scripts could be packaged and sold. Although these scripts did not cost too much money when they were bought back, they still accounted for 40% of the entire company's property. If the filming rights of these scripts are sold separately, it will be difficult to sell them in a short period of time, because Hollywood has never been short of scripts.

"In fact, I would rather register a company by myself than buy a company, but I don't like trouble." Li Daniu is from Tuvalu. Although his predecessor has lived in the United States for many years, he is still a foreigner. If you register a film company by yourself, it will be very troublesome. It will take at least half a year to complete those complicated procedures.

"I just want to make a movie of my own, so these scripts of yours are really useless to me, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood, of course I understand." The general manager has been in Hollywood for many years, what kind of person has he not met? The most indispensable thing in Hollywood is the kind of layman who thinks he has written a good script and then wants to make it into a blockbuster movie. In his opinion, Li Daniu is undoubtedly such a person.

"Actually, if you just want to make your own film, there is no need to buy a company. You can be an independent filmmaker yourself. After you finish filming, you just need to find a distribution company."

"I don't know how to make movies, so I need to find a director to shoot for me." Li Daniu has so many things to do, how can he devote himself to making movies physically and mentally? a movie company. Otherwise, we will be very passive when editing and releasing later.

"Well, since this is the case, we may not be able to reach a cooperation, because these scripts must be sold together with the company." The general manager felt that he had seen Li Daniu clearly, he was nothing more than a rich second generation from some country, I wrote a script by myself, and I want to come to Hollywood to play a ticket.

"In this case, we can only go to another one to have a look."

On the one hand, I don't want to waste money, and on the other hand, I don't want to sell them separately, so now it can basically be said that the negotiation has collapsed.

Perhaps it was because the general manager of this entertainment company also wanted to sell the company earlier. When sending Li Daniu out, he said: "If you find out at the next film company that they are also going to bundle the scripts for sale, maybe you can contact me again. I."

Li Daniu understands what the general manager means. In the hands of Hollywood film companies, UU Reading will more or less have the right to shoot some scripts. If the company is sold, these scripts must be packaged and sold together. .

When he arrived at the second company, Li Daniu was much more professional than the last time, not only because he had the previous company as a reference, but also because he didn’t need to hold his mobile phone all the time to read the equipment information on Encyclopedia.

The equipment of the two companies is similar, and it seems to be the standard configuration of a small entertainment company like Hollywood. It is said that it is an entertainment company, but in fact its main business is still movies. The only difference is that this entertainment company does not have as many scripts as the previous one, only two, and the prices are relatively cheap. The two scripts combined only sell for 50,000 US dollars.

Without further hesitation, Li Daniu decided to choose the second company. With Castro discussing the details with the person in charge of this company, Li Daniu didn't need to worry too much. In fact, he just needed an American film company. In this case, In the future, whether it is shooting a movie in the United States, or shooting a movie in other countries and releasing it in the United States, it will save a lot of trouble. The reason why the United States was chosen instead of other countries was not only because Hollywood is the benchmark of the global film industry, but also because the United States is the largest box office in the world, none of which has a total annual box office of more than tens of billions of dollars.

Standing next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of this company, Li Daniu looked at the sea in the distance, thinking in his heart, whether to make a movie first, after all, some movies still have a very deep memory for Li Daniu, and there is no need to do it next time. When traveling, take pictures after getting the samples.

If so, which one would it be? Recalling the first movie choices of other traversers, Li Daniu fell into a deep entanglement.

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