Heads Up Hollywood

Chapter 153 The ban is lifted

"The Cannes Film Festival will start in ten days. Can you go?" Natalie's crisp voice was a bit coquettish on the phone.

Tang En said: "It's definitely possible!"

"But you're still banned from leaving the country."

"Maybe tomorrow at the latest. The ban will definitely be lifted. As I said, I will bring you the glory of art."

Natalie pouted and hummed: "It's like the Cannes Film Festival is held by your family. You said that if you win an award, you can win an award?"

Tang En smiled and said, "I'm not sure about 100% of the time, but there's always a 90% chance of winning, right? Besides, your performance in "The Girl Who Moves the Soul" is amazing enough!"

"But I still think Nicole plays better."

"You two are equally good!"

"Humph!" Natalie's voice changed slightly, sour, "Are you still living together now?"

Dunn made a haha, "By the way, Nate, do you still remember our agreement? Top 100 on the Forbes list?"

"That doesn't count, you bully people!" Natalie became anxious and said angrily, "You did it on purpose, you must have done it on purpose, right? You're tricking me!"

Dunn laughed.

Dunn's current assets of five or six billion US dollars are very easy, and in the 1999 global Forbes list, as long as his net worth exceeds 3 billion US dollars, he can enter the top 100.

In 2000, due to the financial crisis, the wealth of most of the rich shrunk seriously, and the wealth of Bill Gates shrunk by 30 billion US dollars.

With Dunn's current worth, Dunn is likely to be among the top 50 in the list of the world's richest people listed in the financial magazine "Forbes" published a month later.

Tang En smirked, "Then I don't care. Anyway, we agreed. As long as I have enough financial strength, you have to give me space in my private life, just like the first lady and the richest lady."

"Dawn, you bully people!" Natalie shouted dissatisfaction.

"A promise is a promise."

Dunn shook his head complacently.

On May 5, the Ministry of Justice finally lifted the investigation of Tang En, and found that Tang En's transactions in the stock market and futures market in the past three months were legal, and all income was legal income.

At the same time, the asset freeze on Dunn Capital and Dunn Pictures was lifted, and the request for Dunn's ban on leaving the country was terminated.

A big farce that has been noisy for 5 days, and it ended in a dull way.

Disney and Fox obviously won't let it go. Although Dunn did not commit a crime, he took advantage of the Nasdaq stock market crash to **** billions of dollars. This is always a fact, right?

Now, the whole investment market is panicking. Every day, news of investors committing suicide broke out on Wall Street. Tang En made a lot of money. Is it the hard-earned money of these people?

If the law does not work, then moral kidnapping!

Dunn is the murderer who indirectly killed the investors who committed suicide!

One wave has not settled, and another has risen.

Anyway, ordinary people are not afraid of big things, and they always like to watch lively events and jokes. Such topics are not lacking in attention and attraction.

The continued clamor of Disney and Fox does not seem to affect the normal operation of Dunn Films.

On the second day after the ban was lifted, Dunn Pictures announced a shocking news. Dunn Pictures spent $260 million, with $170 million in cash and $90 million in debt, to fully acquire the "Corolla" located in Corolla. "Free Star" TV company, including its starz TV and TV stations.

What surprised Hollywood was not that Dunn acquired this inconspicuous small company. There are dozens of professional cable TV stations in the United States, and starz is not top-notch.

But Dunn Pictures officially entered the TV field!

Earlier, Tang En Pictures announced that it would cooperate with DreamWorks to film "Band of Brothers" together. Everyone just thought that Tang En Pictures was only infiltrating the content of TV series, but they did not expect that they immediately began to deploy to the TV industry.

"Los Angeles Times" is not optimistic about the acquisition of Dunn Pictures, "starz TV station has 2.1 million subscribers and annual revenue of less than 60 million US dollars. Professional cable TV stations usually rely on the promotion of public TV stations to form their influence, and the strength of Tang En Films is weak, I am afraid it is difficult to bring qualitative changes to starz TV stations."

"New York Post" commentator Manu Claire believes that "the acquisition of starz TV is a wrong decision made by Dunn after a series of public criticism. He needs to calm down and re-plan the strategic direction of Dunn Films. Dunn Films The industry is an emerging film company that needs a stable foundation.”

"The Hollywood Reporter" warned Dunn through the lessons of DreamWorks, "DreamWorks was very ambitious when it started. It has not only a film department, but also TV, games, Internet, animation, music and many other departments. It turned out that they It was a waste of investors' money, and many departments have now been split, or sold, or closed. I hope that Dunn Pictures will not go down the same path of failure."

For the many questions from the media, Dunn Pictures responded calmly, only holding a press conference to announce a major reform of the starz sister TV station.

TV operator, from Disney to Comcast!

Because of the high subscription cost of professional cable TV, there are not many users, and the total number of users in the United States today is only 30 million.

Even when hbo was in full swing and professional cable TV stations became famous, the total number of users in the United States was only 55 million.

For example, hbo, the annual channel subscription cost is 100 US dollars, and the operating expenses of the operator's packaged sales are calculated at 25 US dollars. By no means every family can pay.

Especially for some young people who have just left their parents and go out to work, their choices are relatively cheap basic cable TV stations such as espn and amc and free public TV stations.

Starz TV has 2.1 million users, which sounds very small, but it has accounted for 7 of all subscribers, which is quite a lot, and hbo only has more than 7 million users.

Comcast naturally accepted all the gifts from Dunn!

With 2.1 million users, even if some redundant customers are removed, and there is one more TV station operated by starz, Comcast has added a full 1.6 million users!

What is this concept?

Two months ago, Comcast acquired lenfest, a telecom and TV operator, adding 1.3 million professional cable subscribers and spending a full $580 million!

Comcast shares rose $1.2 the day Dunn Pictures announced its partnership with Comcast.

And sending a big gift package Dian Mian En, naturally can get some rewards.

"Dawn, the recent publicity of Disney and Fox is very outrageous!" Comcast President Brian Roberts personally came forward to meet Dunn and express his gratitude to Dunn.

Tang En sighed, "There's no way, the media is in their hands, and I'm powerless even if I want to fight back."

Brian Roberts immediately said: "Disney has abc, Fox has the Fox network, but Comcast has the largest cable network in the United States, we can help you!"

Tang En hurriedly shook hands with him, with a grateful expression on his face, "Thank you so much. With your help, my ears can finally be cleansed."

Brian Roberts said with a smile: "Yes, we and Disney are competitors."

The corner of Dunn's mouth rose slightly and blinked, "By the way, I heard that Viacom's Children's Channel has been hit by Disney?"

"what?"

Brian Roberts was stunned for a moment, a little unable to keep up with Dunn's thinking.

Comcast is a partner, and the cable TV stations under the Viacom Group are all operated by Comcast.

Brian Roberts, of course, knew that Dunn was referring to the Nickelodeon Channel, and he was secretly amused.

It is rumored that this young man will get his revenge, but now it seems that it is true!

This kid is so daring, he wants to challenge Disney head-on!

However, Comcast is not afraid of Disney. Brian Roberts admires Dunn's boldness and called his assistant Kevin Hall to ask about Viacom's cable network.

Hearing Dunn's intentions, Kevin Hall hurriedly stated: "Indeed, Nickelodeon mainly broadcasts sitcoms, and Disney Channel broadcasts classic cartoons. But in recent years, Disney Channel has obviously been more ambitious~www.wuxiaspot .com~ has also started a reality show, which is robbing Nickelodeon of the market.”

Having said that, he glanced at Dunn cautiously.

Brian Roberts smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, Dunn is a friend."

Dunn has sent 1.6 million users through starz TV. This is a great favor. It is equivalent to tearing up his face with Disney. He can only be an ally of Comcast.

What's more, what secrets can a small children's channel hold?

Kevin Hall said solemnly: "I have some contacts with Yacom recently, and I heard that they are discussing internally whether to reorganize the Nickelodeon Channel to deal with Disney's offensive."

The corner of Tang En's mouth slightly raised.

Reshuffle the Nickelodeon Channel?

With the cheapest subscription fee in the United States, competing with Disney for the market of children's channels, even if there are more users, what's the use? What you earn is users, and what Disney earns is money!

Brian Roberts frowned, realizing the seriousness of the matter, "Disney Channel is working?"

Kevin Hall said with a solemn face, "Children's Channel is Disney's main strategic direction in the next year or two, and it is very likely that there will be a big deal!"

Brian Roberts' face changed suddenly.

Dunn was a little surprised when he listened to their vague words.

Disney Channel will unify the children's market, Dunn's foresight of course knows. Unexpectedly, Comcast's interior also had some hunch in advance.

This is the heritage and strength of large group companies, right?

"Maybe Dunn Pictures can help a little."

A flash of light flashed in Dunn's mind, and a bold idea suddenly appeared.

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Chapter 153 The ban is lifted