Chapter 311: mgm offer

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After the premiere, Leonardo DiCaprio did not take a rest immediately when he returned to his home in North Hollywood. Instead, he quickly turned on his computer and browsed website forums one by one.

With the continuous development of the Internet, it has gradually become one of the important publicity platforms for Hollywood film companies, which can get the real reaction of the audience in the first time.

At this time Leonardo DiCaprio was somewhat anxious. This was his first major commercial film besides "Titanic".

At the beginning, he decided to appear in this film in order to prove his box office appeal, so that he could truly become a Hollywood superstar and completely get rid of the label of milky school.

Well, although he wasn't born as a milk-smelling actor, many media like to compare him with the milk-smelling actor.

In fact, "Titanic" is a global hit, and he has successfully taken the first step to become one of the most popular stars in Hollywood. Only by succeeding again can he fully prove his own commercial value.

He even directly called out a base salary of 25 million US dollars plus North American box office share to a group of Hollywood film companies, becoming a Hollywood superstar comparable to Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks.

The premiere of "Inception" has ended, and the first batch of audiences who entered the movie theater have returned home one after another, and word-of-mouth and reviews of various films have gradually appeared on the Internet.

"This film is undoubtedly a masterpiece. You can see dream stealers, outposts, dream builders, pretenders, and a group of unprecedented professions. They can easily travel through dream worlds, showing all kinds of incredible pictures , as if you can incarnate in it and become a member of the team."

"This is one of the best films I've seen directed by Ryan Gosling, surpassing many classic sci-fi films."

"A perfect dream world is constructed in the film. Those dream stealers can do whatever they want in the dream world. It is also a world full of magic. You can't guess what the world in front of you will look like in the next moment."

Seeing this, Leonardo DiCaprio couldn't help showing a smile, and continued to read the praises of the audience.

Although the vast majority of people praised the whole film and marveled at Ryan's expected $800 million global box office.

But as the leading actor in the film, Leonardo DiCaprio can share any honor that belongs to "Inception".

As long as talking about "Inception", he will always be a topic that cannot be bypassed.

Of course, there is no perfect film in the world, at least "Inception" is not perfect, a few viewers said that the plot of the film is too confusing to understand the plot in the film.

However, Leonardo - DiCaprio did not show any worries, this is only the opinion of a very small number of people, the vast majority of viewers agree that "Inception" is a classic film, and hope that Orion Pictures will release the disc soon piece.

At the same time, after finishing talking with Stan Lee, Ryan returned to the office of Orion Films, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw Charlize Theron, Jon Felthammer, Nancy Earl Terry, Sofia Coppola and others.

"Has the premiere data come out yet!" Ryan walked in and asked.

"Not long after it came out." Sofia Coppola held a data sheet in her hand, "A total of 680 audience members participated in the questionnaire survey, and they gave an average A﹢, and more than 80% of the audience thought that this It's an excellent sci-fi film."

"What about the Internet!" Ryan continued to ask.

"On the imdb website, there are a total of 4,325 user ratings, with an average score of 9.3." Jon Felthammer replied excitedly.

The imdb website is an Internet movie database. It was founded in 1990 and was fully acquired by Amazon last year. Ryan happens to be the largest individual shareholder of Amazon, so it is easy to get first-hand data.

"It's not bad." Ryan stretched his waist, "The next step is to see how the box office performance on the first day is."

Whether it is word-of-mouth from audience reviews or professional reviews from the media, it all depends on the film's box office performance.

There is no shortage of films in Hollywood that are well-received but hit the box office.

Similarly, there are Hollywood films that have a terrible reputation, but are blockbusters at the box office.

"Michael, I just had a call."

Nancy-Utley couldn't help but said: "The box office markets in many overseas countries and regions have received enthusiastic responses, and many theater companies have decided to increase the scale of film screenings."

"In addition, Michael just won the overseas distribution rights of "Notting Hill" starring Julia Roberts."

The North American distribution company of "Notting Hill" is Universal Pictures, which obtained the film's North American distribution rights at a very low price and made a fortune.

As for overseas distribution rights!

The British production company has been negotiating with a number of Hollywood distribution companies, until yesterday Michael Fang just reached a distribution condition with it.

Obtained the distribution rights of all overseas countries and regions except the United Kingdom and North America.

In order to obtain the overseas distribution rights of this film, Michael Kuhn spent a lot of thought, and finally, relying on his identity as a British company, he abruptly snatched it from Universal Pictures, and the overseas distribution of "Notting Hill" copyright.

"A news worthy of celebration." Ryan knew that the overseas box office of the original version of this film was quite good, even higher than most major Hollywood commercial films.

In the previous life, the North American box office of this film was 116 million US dollars, the UK box office was 31 million pounds, and the rest of the overseas box office market still made nearly 200 million US dollars at the box office.

The film grossed $363 million worldwide.

Julia Roberts, who starred in the film, is so popular. To put it bluntly, she can represent an era of Hollywood.

"It seems that Julia Roberts helped a lot." Nancy Utley said with some surprise.

Orion Pictures didn't have much social interaction with Julia Roberts, but her niece Emma Roberts had a few cameo roles.

"Say thank you to her for me."

A trace of strangeness flashed in Ryan's eyes, and he said, "There are other roles suitable for little girls. You can send Emma Roberts an audition invitation."

As Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Natalie Portman are getting older, they have long been unsuitable for roles under the age of ten.

Nancy-Utley nodded. There are some little girls in many films. Although there are not many shots, it is enough for a seven or eight-year-old girl.

Often guest starred in various films, not only can be familiar with the operation of the crew from an early age, cultivate acting talent, and even get more opportunities.

Of course, with Julia Roberts as a support, Emma Roberts will not lack opportunities in the future.

After chatting for a while, Ryan left Jon Fertimer and told several others to go out, including Charlize Theron also left the office together.

For a while, only Ryan and Jon Fertimer were left in the office.

"Have you made any progress?" Ryan asked, looking up.

"There has been some progress, but it's not ideal." Jon Felthammer said helplessly: "In addition to us, Sony and Time Warner Group seem to have shown interest in MGM. There is no official offer."

In the face of Hollywood's largest film library, no film company can remain indifferent.

Among them, Time Warner Group is the most anxious. Once MGM is acquired by other film companies, Time Warner Group will soon lose the copyrights of many films.

To put it bluntly, Sony and Time Warner Group only want MGM's film copyright library, not MGM itself.

The plan of Orion Films is also not too different, except that there is an additional member of the Film Association and some company shares held by MGM.

"What's the offer from MGM!" Ryan asked, tapping his fingers.

"$6 billion, and you need to take on all the debt." Jon Fertimer said an incredible price.

"Too much." Ryan shook his head, like a lion.

It is much higher than the price Sony paid for Columbia.

At least Columbia has a full global distribution pipeline, leaving MGM with just one mess.

In the previous life, it was not until 2004 that Sony and Time Warner Group formally bid for MGM.

Time Warner Group quoted US$11 per share, giving a purchase price of US$4.5 billion, and Sony's offer was slightly higher at US$11.25 per share, giving a purchase price of US$4.7 billion.

In the end, Sony raised the price per share to $12, and acquired MGM for about $5 billion, of which $2 billion needed to be used to repay debt.

"Continue to talk, we have plenty of time." It is impossible for Ryan to agree to such a price.

"That's all we can do for the time being." Jon Fertimer didn't have any good solutions either.

With $6 billion in cash and at least $1 billion in debt, the final purchase price will be close to $8 billion.

Right now MGM is not worth the price at all.

What's more, with the advent of 2000, the Internet bubble and the September 11 incident broke out one after another, which will severely damage many financial institutions in North America, and the economy will be in a slump.

In a short period of time~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it is difficult to have a second film company that can spend billions of dollars to compete with Orion Films.

The same goes for Sony and Time Warner.

"When the time is right, you can directly contact the top management of MGM in the name of Orion Pictures." Ryan quickly made a decision.

I believe it will be difficult for MGM's senior management to reject the acquisition of Orion Pictures.

Of course, the premise is that the purchase price must be reached with the shareholders of MGM first, otherwise, contacting with the senior management of MGM will only cause extra problems.

"In addition to negotiating with MGM's shareholders, we also need to get in touch with the banking structure behind MGM. The arrears of more than one billion US dollars is not a small number." Ryan couldn't help showing a smile as he spoke. meaning.

It can be seen from the acquisition of Marvel Comics that the role that a group of banking structures can play is beyond imagination.

Jon Fertimer nodded thoughtfully. Indeed, at least more than one billion dollars are owed, which is enough to cause headaches for any banking institution.