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Chapter 1111: The cake is so delicious

The latest website: To attract the attention of the media from all over the world to "Roman Holiday", whether the box office of this film can finally exceed 400 million to 500 million US dollars is basically determined by the quality of the film itself.

Li Changheng is not worried about the quality of the movie, because judging from the feedback from the audience interviewed in the past few days, the audience satisfaction is still very high.

Moreover, at the box office, the three-day box office in the United States reached 7.2 million, 8.5 million, and the third day of the Sunday box office directly broke 10 million, reaching 10.8 million.

It all shows that many Americans are attracted to the cinema by colleagues and friends who have watched the movie.

The overseas box office also shows an upward trend as the media of various countries continue to report the movie and the bombing case and when the 600 million US dollars will be returned to the Aoki Group, and more people pay attention to it.

Li Changheng, who had been worried for a few days, suddenly felt relieved.

The box office far exceeded expectations, and there is no doubt that the market value of Lianmei Pictures has skyrocketed.

When Randall-Hearst's media group bought shares, the market value of Lianmei was only 200 million US dollars. Although it has been rising in recent years, it has skyrocketed from 500 million to 800 million, which is indeed beyond the expectations of many people.

But thinking about it carefully, it feels normal.

In addition to the high probability of the box office explosion of "Roman Holiday", Lianmei itself has stable income that makes various media groups and Wall Street coveted.

In recent years, because Li Changheng has given several scripts, Lianmei has a movie box office exceeding 100 million yuan every year, and the annual profit is tens of millions of dollars. From the perspective of capital, it is worth investing and holding for a long time.

Although other low-cost comedies and horror films have profit and loss, the small cost means that the pressure to recover the cost is small.

Even if a few films lose money, subsequent sales of copies to South Asia and Europe will always recoup the cost.

The only trouble is that the recovery time for this part of the cost may be two or three years.

However, as long as the cost recovery period is extended, except for the first one or two years of financial reports, there are movies that are in a state of loss, the subsequent financial reports basically show that the company actually does not have a real loss in any movie.

Comparing the profitability of other Hollywood movie giants, Lianmei is instantly optimistic about investors, so that the market value is rising every year.

Waiting for the global box office of Roman Holiday, there is a high probability that it will exceed at least 300 million, or even 400,000,000 to 500 million US dollars.

Lianmei was immediately assessed by Wall Street as 800 million, and when the box office really exceeds 150 million and the filming cost of 50 million US dollars is recovered, the market value may rise again.

Become the first Hollywood giant with a market value of more than 1 billion US dollars.

As a result, some people in the media group could not sit still.

Although the external influence of the media industry is very large, it can even affect all aspects of society and general elections.

But the net profit of this industry is actually not high. After deducting all labor and operating costs, the annual net profit of 100 million US dollars is considered to be the only one.

And Lianmei can earn 70 million to 80 million yuan in one movie, and even rely on the follow-up peripherals to make a profit of 100 million to 200 million US dollars. How can we not make various media groups envy and coveted to death?

In addition, the media group, which only holds 20% of the shares of Lianmei, has risen by 4% and 6% respectively in the stock market for two consecutive days, instantly making the group's market value of 6 billion soar to 6.6 billion.

Immediately this made Randall Hirst and other shareholders unable to sit still.

If all the profits of "Roman Holiday" belong to the media group, and if it controls Lianmei, the company's market value will rise again, and it will definitely not be difficult to earn more than ten or two billion yuan.

If Li Changheng, the soul figure, can be completely restricted to the interior of Lianmei and Media Group, and continue to make one or two films with a box office of over 200 million to 300 million, or even just one film every year with a box office of over 100 million and a profit of tens of millions.

If the surrounding of the movie is like "Rome Since", the market value of the media group exceeds 10 billion, it is not impossible.

That's why Randall and the shareholders were impatient to exchange more shares of Lianmei with Li Changheng.

Moreover, whether it is Wall Street or media groups, in fact, they all hope to obtain a downstream channel such as a film and television production company.

But it's clear that no one wants a badly profitable company.

Wall Street is for hype, attracting more investors to participate, and then cutting leeks, so it is the most difficult for Wall Street to invade Hollywood.

And the media group is for more content.

The better the box office of their own movies, the more attractive they are to practitioners such as stars and directors.

The sales of newspapers and magazines are also better, which indirectly boosts the stock price of the media group.

But the problem is, the more profitable a Hollywood giant is, the less likely it is to want to be controlled by others.

On the contrary, it will prompt the film company to develop horizontally to grab the resources of the media group, and even develop itself into a new media giant.

The most successful example is Disney.

Therefore, shareholders such as Randallhurst would only exchange shares with Li Changheng so easily a few years ago.

The advantage of stock exchange is that in addition to not needing to use cash, it can also use the market value of the media group of 6.6 billion US dollars. The rolling type only uses one-sixth or even one-eighth of the shares, and it is possible to get Lianmei 31. % of the shares to achieve full control of the company.

And leaving 49% to Li Changheng, plus when signing the contract, will inevitably have certain restrictions on him, thus tying the soul of Li Changheng to the media group and United Pictures.

It's a pity that Li Changheng couldn't see the calculations of Randall Hirst and others.

It is possible to exchange shares, but either all of them should be exchanged, or other media companies will be introduced.

Lianmei is calculated at 1 billion US dollars, and Li Changheng's 80% of the shares can be exchanged for about 11 to 13% of the media group's shares.

In addition to the 7.5% obtained before, Li Changheng's shares reached more than 20% in an instant.

If you work hard, you may be able to hold 4 board seats with voting rights on the board of directors.

But if he only changed 31% and obtained about 4% to 5% of new shares, UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com would hold about 11%, 12%, and 7.5% of the shares, and it would not be much different for him.

It is better to fully blossom and acquire shares in other media groups.

At that time, Li Changheng will hold more than 5% of the shares in each company, and each company will get a board seat. At least the media in the United States will basically be unable to report any negative news related to him.

Even just starting from his own interests, Li Changheng felt that the latter choice was actually more beneficial to himself.

The only problem is that Hearst is already the largest company in this era in terms of print media, and other print media will either be merged or go bankrupt in the future.

From an investment point of view, it is not a good business to exchange shares with Lianmei and other media groups.

But this does not prevent Li Changheng from using this method as a bargaining chip with Hearst.

After learning about Li Changheng's thoughts, Randall Hirst and the shareholders of the media group were in chaos as Li Changheng expected.