Chapter 225

Mark calculated an account. Now buying a building does not mean there is no room for operation, but it will aggravate their debt crisis. Last time Martin earned a building for them.

If you buy a building, it will take at least more than a year after completing the handover procedures and decoration. I'm afraid it will be good luck if the financial tsunami strikes just after entering the city and depreciates sharply immediately.

So he decided to oppose the purchase proposal and instead rented a six storey office building as the company headquarters in Williams business center on the outskirts of Burbank. The center has a full set of office facilities and checked in with bags. The main building is a 52 storey 20000 foot building, which is a nearby landmark building. It is a little biased now, but once it is fully put into operation, It will become the business center of several nearby communities.

What's better is that it is close to the hospital Megan bought. The hospital is large enough. A crew of grey intern is stationed, and it takes less than one-third of the space. Mark plans to further transform it into MM's studio. Iron man and mm invested films will complete the indoor play here. As for the purchase, it will wait after the subprime mortgage crisis.

Mark is a man who does what he says, but unlike the three DreamWorks, they founded DreamWorks with a capital of 2.6 billion. They are ambitious to build a new company that can't do without movies, television, music, games and networks. The most enviable thing is that they have almost no pressure of money. Their starting capital is as high as 2.6 billion US dollars, and Microsoft is the second leader, Paul Allen, the seventh richest man in the world, once vowed, "how much you want, how much I give".

Spielberg also personally designed the blueprint of DreamWorks. There is an abandoned airport of more than 1000 acres near the sea in the southwest of Los Angeles, where legendary tycoon Howard Hughes built his "sprucegoose" seaplane. There will be a huge studio, recording studio, rehearsal hall, theater and football field, with an estimated cost of 200 million US dollars.

However, ten years later, the DreamWorks Studios as expected were not completed, and the once brilliant DreamWorks began to decline. DreamWorks, once recognized as a generation giant, began to fail. Mark knew that he would soon be finished.

Mark's plan is that after DreamWorks is finished, they will take over the banner of DreamWorks and become small giants of the seven production systems. When the seven find their threat and isolate and encircle them like killing DreamWorks, it is the subprime mortgage crisis, the sharp depreciation of social assets, and the rapid development of Internet technology, Relying on Gu Ge with amazing market value and the ubiquitous online social Empire face-to-face book, I crush these grandchildren from the power of capital. If I don't want to be hedged and merged, I'll be a man with my tail, or I'll kill you with money.

This is Mark's development strategy for the next few years. As long as they survive the difficult years, they will become the challengers of the seven giants in Hollywood. The difference between Mark's mm and DreamWorks is that everyone has sufficient capital channels and advanced investment awareness, but mark is not as publicized as them. He has been quietly developing and insisting on building his own distribution channels. Up to now, It has the ability to distribute class a blockbusters in beimi.

Mark knows that what they lack is overseas distribution capacity, which can not be developed in a short time with money. It also lacks publicity channels and platforms. The traditional channels and platforms are in the hands of the seven, but it doesn't matter. Mm has the advantage of the Internet. The emergence of the Internet will surprise these media giants.

The biggest difference between mark and DreamWorks is that they want to be a subverter of the Hollywood system, while mark wants to be a player.

At that time, the three founders of DreamWorks were called "golden combination". They were like Skywalker in Star Wars. With the spirit of romance and freedom, they vowed to establish an independent film base outside the increasingly exhausted Hollywood desert, a 21st century, high-tech driven, worthy of Disney Warner's multimedia entertainment empire.

At that time, Hollywood was divided into two factions on this event. One faction believed that this was the greatest plan since Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks founded Lianyi company.

The other school thinks that the so-called DreamWorks are flashy. They count their fingers to see when it will close. A sentence from superstar Tom Hanks may represent the goodwill expectation of most Filmmakers: "for decades, almost all studios have been occupied by a group of lawyers and accountants, and DreamWorks may be different."

Mark is relatively pragmatic. Without this free and romantic spirit, he has greater ambition to degenerate into a consortium or media empire like Disney.

With the support of this concept, as the key to the development in the next few years and an important chip to dominate Hollywood, how could he allow marvel to drift away from Hollywood? He decided it strongly and resolutely.

In Marvel's ownership structure, once mark and Megan agree, it's no use for others to join hands to oppose. Megan has many fantastic ideas, but once she disagrees with mark, she immediately focuses on Mark's opinions. She and her brother enter the film industry at the same time, and their mm has become a company with a market value of more than 1 billion (including Marvel), Her brother's tianwu film industry has been losing money. At present, it has invested 50 million yuan, but it has not yet made a profit.

The blockbuster "top secret flight", which they made with Columbia film, fell into major turmoil because Sonny group withdrew from Hollywood. Everything was put on hold. I don't know when it will be released. Arrogance such as David also lost his temper. He lamented: "it's too difficult to survive in today's film industry, even the most outstanding talents."

But he was ridiculed: "the most outstanding talent? What did your sister Megan say?"

In fact, he is not the only one with such feelings? All independent production companies have this exclamation? Joe gang leader of Pixar studio? The Weinstein brothers of Miramax, Bob Shea of new line and his good friend Peter the great, who loved and killed each other, were one step away from the giants and were always rejected.

David watched MM's "wedding pride" achieve such good results, mixed with resentment. If it were my honor, how good would it be? I am Larry's best successor. I remember that I have been on the crew for more than half a year and personally involved in every link. People have gained ten pounds. He is only 20 years old and has a tendency to have a small stomach. He is mainly busy with work, forgetting to eat and sleep, and has no time to exercise. He has sacrificed too much and paid too much for this film. Now the film is successful, But he was stuck in a long wait. He couldn't stand all this.

In a rage, David took producer Michelle and rushed into the office of Martin, the new owner of Columbia film. However, due to a misunderstanding, he was used to traveling with more than a dozen bodyguards. They broke in again and almost clashed with Martin's bodyguards. Both sides pulled out pistols and almost did it.

Michelle's scalp is numb. This grumpy childe, we are asking for help, not slapping face. Can we succeed? After Martin took over Columbia film, he led a large number of accountants and lawyers to take over the inventory and receive property. The receiving staff did a good job. He had no interest in production and distribution, so he didn't bother to see these producers. Everything was missing, not for one person.

At a critical juncture, what is a critical juncture? Martin hired a large number of armed bodyguards of Blackwater company to stay here. At the command of the bodyguard captain, the tough security guards of these guys rushed in fully armed immediately.

As we all know, the security guards of Blackwater company recruit veterans who have been on the battlefield. This is a ruthless master who has seen blood and killed people.

"Stop! Let Ellison in!"

This was Martin's order. His men immediately put away their guns and made way, but David was only allowed to go in alone. David went in and saw Michael Leighton, the former chairman and CEO of Sonny entertainment, and Amy Pascal, the president of Columbia film company, come out. Before, they were the two who jointly controlled the Sonny film kingdom. Now their status is unknown, David nodded to them and strode into Martin's luxurious office.

Martin said, "for Megan's sake, I'll give you five minutes, and Megan is Mark's partner. I have face here."

David said, "I want you to see a movie. It's a super air war blockbuster. After watching it, you will agree to release it. Columbia company is such a big company, you can't let the publicity and Distribution Department idle."

Martin said: "the company is at an important moment of restructuring. All distribution businesses have stopped. This is the pain of restructuring. It will not operate again until the restructuring is completed and normal is restored."

David said: "there are so many people in the company, you can't let them idle, you should let them create value, and several blockbusters are pressed in your hands, and the capital can't flow, which will only tie the capital chain more tightly."

Martin said, "that's why those two came just now. I decided to let them test the water of two works, extreme agent 2 and national rival."

David was stunned and said, "what about top secret flight?"

Martin said, "this can only be decided after testing the water."

David said, "you mean indefinitely?"

Martin said, "if you want to say that, there's no problem."

David said, "I invested 30 million in this film. You can't do this to me."

Martin said: "Columbia film also invested US $100 million. We are the major shareholder. We also bet a lot of money here, Mr. Ellison, but we don't have much working capital. Before the Japanese left, they took all the money in the company's account, and there was no point left. The company couldn't even pay wages. I injected 100 million into it, which was only enough to pay a month's operating expenses and operate the two films As for "top secret flight", I've seen the sample film, which is quite good, but we don't have much balance in our account. "