DreamWorks Pictures was going to be sold, which was completely expected by Xiang Nan.
Because he knows that in real life, DreamWorks Pictures has also sold out.
Therefore, he immediately sent someone to contact DreamWorks and prepared to acquire DreamWorks Pictures.
On the one hand, after acquiring DreamWorks, it acquired its film library. The DreamWorks film library includes "Artificial Intelligence", "Unlocked", "Saving Private Ryan", "The Galaxy", "Happiness" Terminal", "Anchorman", "Minority Report", "War of the Worlds" and other well-known movies.
These movies have very good reputation and box office, and are very valuable IPs.
On the one hand, acquiring DreamWorks Pictures will also get Steven Spielberg, one of the most outstanding directors in the world. Although Spielberg is nearly 7 years old, his creative energy is still very strong.
In the future, he will also produce a series of blockbuster movies such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "Transformers", "Iron Fist", "The Adventures of Tintin" and "Ready Player One".
Therefore, it is cost-effective to buy DreamWorks Pictures, of course, provided it is not too expensive.
DreamWorks Pictures is also very interested in acquiring Xiang Nande.
On the one hand, Spielberg has collaborated with Universal Pictures many times, such as "Jaws", "ET", "Jurassic Park"... He has collaborated with Universal on many films, and they have a very special relationship with each other. Good working relations.
On the one hand, Xiang Nan is a well-known good person in Hollywood. No matter which director he works with, he will not interfere too much in the other person's work. Therefore, Hollywood directors all like to work with him.
Spielberg has a contract with DreamWorks. Once DreamWorks is acquired, he will also go with it. At that time, if he encounters a boss who likes to interfere, his life will be miserable.
As a result, the two sides had a very lively conversation.
Although later, Paramount, Disney, Sony Pictures, etc. also wanted to acquire DreamWorks, but in the end Universal Pictures was superior and bought DreamWorks Pictures for one billion U.S. dollars. In addition, shoulder its $400 million debt. That's equivalent to spending $1.4 billion.
At such a price, to be honest, it's still a good deal. Not to mention anything else, Spielberg alone is worth more than a billion dollars.
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The news that Universal Pictures has acquired DreamWorks Pictures has caused huge waves in Hollywood.
On the one hand, people didn’t expect DreamWorks Pictures to sell out so quickly. You know, it was only founded in 1997, less than ten years ago, and it has released so many hit works. Everyone thought it was alive and well, but how could they have imagined that it would suddenly sell itself out.
For one thing, Universal Pictures has had a huge appetite in recent years. Carolco Pictures, MGM Pictures, Urban Entertainment... were all swallowed up by it. Universal Pictures currently has a film library with more than 12,000 films, making it one of the largest film libraries in the United States. Now he has swallowed DreamWorks again, which will strengthen Universal Pictures' strength.
The acquisition of DreamWorks from Universal Pictures has also made people further aware of the strength of Universal Pictures. Spending a billion dollars easily shows that it is really wealthy.
The acquisition of DreamWorks by Universal Pictures also caused Universal Pictures' stock price to rise by 10%. It can be seen that the investment community is still very optimistic about this transaction. I believe Universal Pictures' acquisition of DreamWorks will be beneficial to its future development.
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However, while the outside world was paying attention to Universal's acquisition of DreamWorks, Xiang Nan also made another acquisition. Although this acquisition is not eye-catching, it is more important than the acquisition of DreamWorks.
Because Xiang Nan acquired YouTube, which was founded less than five months ago.
YouTube was founded in February 2005 by Chinese network engineer Chen Shijun and his contemporaries Chad Holly and Judd Kalim.
The three of them were all former employees of PayPal. After being fired, they decided to start their own business, so they founded this website. The original intention was to share video clips among friends.
Unexpectedly, after its launch, it became very popular among netizens. Less than half a year after its launch, it already has tens of thousands of users, millions of video materials, and more than one million views every day. It is considered a very popular personal website on the current Internet.
Xiang Nan knows the value of YouTube. In his previous life, it was the largest video sharing website in the world, with tens of millions of views every day. If it were to be listed independently, its market value would likely be over 100 billion US dollars, even greater than Netflix.
But now Xiang Nan only spent 200 million US dollars to acquire it.
After all, YouTube’s profit prospects are still unclear, and in order to pay for bandwidth and allow users to have a smooth viewing experience, Chen Shijun and others even maxed out their credit cards.
If it doesn't get outside investment, YouTube is likely to go bankrupt. So buying it for $200 million at this time has already saved their lives.
The main reason why Xiang Nan did not continue to lower the price was because he would continue to use Chen Shijun and others to continue to develop and improve network streaming technology, so he could not do anything too extreme.
After Xiang Nan acquired YouTube, he continued to inject capital into developing technology, purchasing copyrights, and paying loans, which also allowed YouTube to develop rapidly.
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In August, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" was released.
The first two parts of "Pirates of the Caribbean" set off a movie-watching frenzy around the world when they were released. Johnny Depp played Captain Jack Sparrow and became one of the most famous characters in film history.
Now, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy has finally reached its climax. The nine pirate kings fight against the British Royal Navy. The scene is astonishing and the spirit is astonishing. It is the most thrilling and magnificent sea battle of the century that the audience has ever seen.
Therefore, after "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" was released, it received a huge reputation and became a box office hit, with the global box office reaching 960 million US dollars. If DVD sales and peripheral product sales are also included, this trilogy alone has brought tens of billions of dollars in revenue to Universal Pictures.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan immediately announced that "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" will be released soon, and Captain Jack Sparrow is about to embark on a new adventure.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation.
Fans were reluctant to say goodbye to Captain Jack Sparrow, so they were naturally happy to hear that he would return again.
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In the same month, Xiang Nan and the crew came to Baodao for filming, which immediately attracted Baodao media to follow up.
This made the crew a little uncomfortable. Because many media in Baodao did not follow the rules and actually sneaked into the crew to film the filming process, and also broadcast it in newspapers and TV stations, which caused a very bad impact.
Especially the scenes filmed in the Yao Ling Yao Building are the most important scenes in "Mission: Impossible 4". If it is leaked in advance, after watching it, the audience will lose curiosity and may not support it.
Therefore, in order to maintain confidentiality to the greatest extent possible, the crew had to strengthen security measures. No reporters were allowed to enter, and violators would be held accountable.
Xiang Nan also specially asked the intermediary to send a message to the Baodao media, hoping that they could cooperate with the work and not lose the face of Baodao people for some benefits.
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