Post-shadow Development Plan

Qiye originally thought that Ziyuan's idea should be to acquire a small North American company and then develop slowly, but she didn't expect Ziyuan's appetite to be much bigger than Qiye imagined.

She planned to directly win the top eight United Artists, which Qiye never thought of.

As for eating United Artists, why did you want to get rid of MGM with Sony?

Of course it was because MGM had eaten United Artists back then.

In the 20s, Hollywood was not the Big Seven, it was the Big Eight.

At that time, MGM seized the weakness of United Artists, which was also one of the eight major companies, and acquired United Artists in one fell swoop, forming MGM-United Artists Entertainment.

However, now things are turning, and MGM, which is already on the verge of bankruptcy, is about to be annexed by Colombia and become history.

Correspondingly, the name of the Big Seven in Hollywood will soon become the Big Six in Hollywood.

The decline of MGM is obviously due to the failure of Wu Baige's "Wind Talker", which completely broke the backbone of MGM.

But in Qiye's view, "Windtalker" was just the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The real fault of MGM is that they don’t pay much attention to distribution channels, which makes them subject to other Hollywood companies even though they have the distribution rights of many IPs such as "Tom and Jerry" and "007".

Let your competitors distribute movies for you. Do you think that they will not attack you because you are also a member of the MPAA?

So, if you don't die at MGM, who will die?

The reason for this phenomenon is that MGM shut down its distribution department in the 70s.

At that time, MGM's idea was that the number of films released by itself was too small, and the cost of maintaining the department was much higher than the output of the department itself.

So for the sake of the company's operation, MGM directly shut down its distribution department.

However, everyone has seen the result.

In fact, MGM still has a distribution department, which is the distribution department of United Artists, which he annexed.

However, this distribution department was raised by a stepmother at all, and the parent company did not pay attention to distribution channels at all, and almost ignored this distribution department.

The reason why it was not abolished was entirely because the original acquisition agreement mentioned the need to retain the original company's employees, and they could not voluntarily lay off employees.

After that, the publishing department of United Artists could only support itself. Although it did not die, the business was shrinking year by year.

Qiye estimated that the attitude of MGM executives towards the distribution department at that time was to simply stand aside and let it fend for itself. When the last batch of employees in the distribution department retired, they could justifiably cancel the distribution department directly.

However, before the natural death of the distribution department, MGM itself played GG first.

Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise Jiufeng would not have had the chance to catch this leak.

"I've already gone to the distribution department of United Artists." Ziyuan said to Qiye, "Although there are only two or three kittens, the distribution channels in North America are still there, and the foundation is still there. If we can fill in the staff and develop slowly, there is still hope. of."

According to Ziyuan, although United Artists' distribution department is almost rotten, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Although there are not many people anymore, the distribution channels and previous theater chain agreements are all there.

As long as there are new employees to add, not to mention he is a hero, but he is also better than those small companies.

In particular, the distribution department also has a very complete distribution channel for TV stations, which is simply a surprise.

The only regret is that the international distribution channels of United Artists have completely disappeared.

As a result, European distribution channels need to be re-established.

However, Qiye and Ziyuan are very satisfied with the current result.

"That's not bad, no, it should be said to be great."

Qiye is also very happy with this result, the less exploitation, the more money he can make from fate.

"But it's a good thing you were able to persuade Sony to cooperate. I thought the two of you would fight forever."

In Qiye's view, this is already a comparable singularity.

"There are no eternal friends, nor eternal enemies, only eternal interests."

Shion uttered Churchill's famous words.

"Sony can't afford the acquisition of MGM by itself, so it can only cooperate with others."

Ziyuan got herself a cup of tea, she looked at the green liquid in the cup and said leisurely: "Other collaborators want the copyright that Sony also wants, but I only want the distribution department that he regards as a burden, what do you think he will choose?"

Qiye raised the corner of his mouth, he understood what Ziyuan meant.

This is like a rich man who already has a villa and looks at another villa, but what he wants most is not the villa, but the collection in the villa.

But the owner of this villa needs to sell the house together with his collection because of bankruptcy.

The rich can't afford the money to buy it all at once, so they can only find others to cooperate.

At this time, two people found the rich man and were willing to cooperate with him to buy the villa.

As a reward, one of them hopes to take away part of the collection in the villa; while the other person, he does not want the collection, but only the villa that is regarded as a burden by the rich.

Faced with such cooperation conditions, although the latter person and the rich man are business competitors, they are the best partners when it comes to buying collectibles.

Qiye knew that in the original world line, because there was no second partner, Sony could only share MGM's copyright library equally with others, which allowed Warner to obtain the copyright of "Tom and Jerry".

And this time, it is estimated that all the good things of MGM will belong to Sony, but Jiufeng who got the distribution channel is not at a loss.

It's all about what they need.