Chapter 550 Too insincere
Qiao Feng ambiguously expressed his interest in MGM, but this interest was not that big because of the risk, that is, the price problem.
The old fox Corkerian knew what Qiao Feng meant as soon as he heard it, but he just thought the price was not suitable. If the price was appropriate, Qiao Feng would definitely be very interested in MGM.
"Mr. Qiao, our MGM film library has the copyright of more than 4,000 movies, including extremely classic works such as Tarzan of the Apes, Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Soul Broken Blue Bridge, Philadelphia Story, Cats and Mouse. These are MGM's highest assets. With Mr. Qiao's genius and screenwriter skills, as long as you buy MGM, these classic movies will definitely be adapted and reappear on the big screen to reshape their glory one day in the future. "Corkarian is an old fox. Although he knows that Qiao Feng means to want him to reduce the price, he did not follow Qiao Feng's intention, but continued to talk about MGM's advantages.
And as Corkerian said, MGM's film library is so huge and excellent, it is indeed the best among all Hollywood film companies.
Just looking at the many excellent films that won the Oscars, you can also see them, and then looking at the names of the stars shining in Hollywood history.
MGM's most valuable asset, besides the lion, which is renowned in the film industry, is the remaining MPAA (American Film Association) rating all films released in the United States and lobbying for the interests of American films.
MPAA is headquartered in California. It was founded in 1922 and originally appeared as a trading organization in the film industry. It later entered the fields not only films released in theaters, but also television home photography and other areas of transmission systems that may appear in the future.
The American Film Association's main members are jointly held by the presidents and presidents of seven American film and television media giants.
In the past, there were eight companies, including Lianmei, so eight film companies including MGM, Columbia, and Twentieth Century Fox have always been known as the Eight Major Hollywood film companies.
However, United States fell behind first, and was acquired by MGM a few years ago. Therefore, Hollywood is now called the seven most powerful film companies called the seven major Hollywood film companies.
This association can be said to manage all aspects of many films produced by many Hollywood film companies.
In fact, not to mention anything else, just grading is enough to make other companies look up.
And this mpaa has become the organization that many small and medium-sized companies in Hollywood want to join the most, but the least likely to join. Because this organization is the best tool for large Hollywood companies to ensure their status and suppress small companies below.
The seven Hollywood nature will not allow other companies to covet their rights. It can be said without any hesitation that unless the luck is really good and the top Hollywood companies have to be treated equally, MPAA can only go out but not enter.
The seven major Hollywood lead a group of small and medium-sized companies, which can be said to be one of Hollywood's unspoken rules.
All companies that dare to challenge the seven major status and covet the seven major powers will be strangled mercilessly.
Just like the DreamWorks in the 1990s, its founders include Steven Spielberg, one of the most powerful directors. At that time, Spielberg had just finished filming Jurassic Park, which broke the box office record. With the title of the world's most popular director and the world's top tycoon David Geffen and former Disney chairman Jeffrey Carsonberg, three Jews founded DreamWorks.
The three of them have a partnership, they need money, connections, and filming skills. However, the DreamWorks, which were jointly developed successfully for a few years in the first few years, suffered the ruthless strangle of the seven major Hollywoods, including the 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Universal.
The last thing was that after ten years of its establishment, DreamWorks, which was once known as one of the new eight majors in Hollywood, was sold to Paramount, one of the original eight majors by three founders.
mpaa is a symbol of status and power. That library is a symbol of the foundation of a film company.
In terms of background, MGM is undoubtedly the strongest. As the old fox Corkerian said, the most valuable thing about MGM is its huge library of films, copyrights and information of those films.
Anyone who wins MGM means a huge library of more than 4,000 movies, which is unmatched by any newly established company.
These more than 4,000 films can not only enrich the film library, but also continue to sell copyrights, discs, and even adaptation rights. Just like the new father-in-law who was filmed by Qiao Feng and MGM, it is the original adaptation rights of the father-in-law.
All these authorizations are money, and there are quite a lot in a year.
However, this money is a drop in the bucket for a large film company, even if it can only make four or five movies a year.
Qiao Feng is actually very jealous of MGM's huge film library, but he didn't show it. He still smiled calmly and said: "Mr. Cokerian is right. MGM's film library is indeed very large and has many classic films.
But you didn't say that the most classic films were before the 1940s and 1950s. After that, there were not enough classics. And those classic films of the ages still had a deep imprint of the era.
Apart from authorized disc production and broadcasting on various channels, such videos are not of great value for adaptation."
Of course, Qiao Feng's words are pure nonsense, but he is a famous screenwriter and the one that Corkrien wants to sell. He is not up to him to decide whether it is suitable for adaptation.
Anyway, the price reduction is like this. Whether it is good or bad, it has to be said to be bad.
Just like the Chinese pawn shop, it is obviously an excellent fur coat, but it insists on saying that insects eat rats and bite them, and throw them away, just to reduce the price and make a big profit.
Qiao Feng wanted to talk about MGM and the film library that made him jealous, so that he could take the initiative in future price negotiations.
"1.5 billion, only $1.5 billion, Mr. Qiao can buy MGM, buy this long-standing and brilliant film company, a huge library of more than 4,000 movies, and the qualification of MPaa. "Joe Feng wanted to reduce the price, but Corkrien naturally didn't want to, so he no longer entangled with Qiao Feng about the advantages and disadvantages of MGM, and started his first offer straight to the point.
Chapter completed!