I want to be a giant of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 452 [Third Line Attack 2]

Los Angeles

Beverly Hills is located in Los Angeles, USA. In the future, it will have the title of "the world's most distinguished residential area", and is known as the representative and symbol of wealth, fame and fortune.

The Los Angeles Beverly-Ritz Hotel (resort hotel) under the Shining Star Hotel Group is located on the refreshing and pleasant Pacific coast and at the foot of Beverly Hills.

Wu Guangyao took his four daughters to live in the presidential suite of the Beverly-Ritz Hotel, and summoned the acquisition team in the hotel's executive meeting room.

The first wave of acquisition teams summoned was the team whose acquisition targets were two Washington newspapers and AMC theaters;
Four members of Wu Guangyao's personal advisory group, Donald, president of Metro Group, Miller, chairman of Star Media, and Robertson, president of Tiger Fund, a group of seven came to the executive meeting room of the Ritz Hotel.

After reading the acquisition materials, Wu Guangyao said: "Mr. Miller, after acquiring two newspapers in Washington this time, you need to merge them immediately. The new newspaper is called "Washington Star". I need to explain!"

Miller quickly said: "Mr. Wu, don't worry, you will see a brand new "Washington Star" soon, I will mobilize the editors of Star Media UK to recreate this new newspaper, push explosive news, add great publicity”

Miller's attitude made Wu Guangyao feel that it was a very good choice to support him in his position!

Miller is only the third shareholder of Star Media, accounting for only 15% of the shares;

Moreover, Wu Guangyao is still his creditor. He lent him money to increase his shareholding to 15%. How could he be unfaithful to Wu Guangyao!
Besides, Metro Group holds 35% of the shares, Oriental Media holds 30% of the shares, and the chairman can be changed at any time. How dare Miller be unfaithful!

Wu Guangyao nodded and said, "The headline must be explosive, and the content must be short and clear. Only such a newspaper will have a market!"

Miller said with sincere admiration: "Without Mr. Wu's high opinion, Star Media would not be where it is today!"

Wu Guangyao waved his hand and was modest. He was just telling the theory of Murdoch in his previous life and became a time and space porter.

Then, everyone discussed the purchase price of the two Washington newspapers!
1100 million US dollars has become the bottom line that everyone thinks!
When the topic came to AMC Cinemas, everyone was shocked. This is a big acquisition case;

In the acquisition of AMC Cinemas, the main force is Metro Group, and the deputy is Tiger Fund.

Wu Guangyao said: "After the acquisition of AMC Cinemas, we will spend a huge amount of money to expand the scale through mergers and acquisitions and continuous construction of theaters. The funds are mainly loans and financing."

Everyone agreed with Wu Guangyao's point of view, the world has always been like this, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat dried shrimps;

If AMC theaters want to expand rapidly, the only way to achieve the goal is through mergers and acquisitions.

The second wave of acquisition team summoned by Wu Guangyao was led by Akio Morita of Lenovo Group;

Akio Morita was known as the God of Management in Japan in his previous life, so a takeover case would not be difficult for him;
There is nothing to explain, even if there is an explanation, Wu Guangyao will only explain it after the acquisition is completed.

The third wave of acquisition team is quite special. What is special is not the relationship between Chris and Mrs. Sutton, but that after MGM is acquired, it will become a diversified group company, with production, real estate, and hotels going hand in hand;
Then the new management team needs a soul figure to suppress the heads of the three industries. Chris is naturally suitable, because behind Chris is Wu Guangyao.

The management of real estate is organized by GH Real Estate, and the management of hotels is organized by Shining Star Hotel Group. As for the production, in principle, the original team will continue to manage it, unless the original management team does not cooperate.

After Wu Guangyao summoned the three waves of people, he no longer participated in the acquisition, and everyone only needed to regularly report to Wu Guangyao and the progress of the acquisition by phone.

As Wu Guangyao expected in advance, the series of acquisitions did not encounter too many setbacks;
If there is, it means that Stanley, the original owner of AMC Theaters, is more difficult to deal with. After all, AMC Theaters is his painstaking effort;

However, when Wu Guangyao ordered the acquisition team to only require an absolute holding of 67% of the shares, Stanley agreed without hesitation!

If the theater chain wants to develop, it must adopt mergers and acquisitions and build new movie theaters, so Stanley also likes to have a consortium join in.

Although Metro Group did not fully acquire AMC Cinemas, at least it has penetrated into the theaters in the United States. Next, Metro Group will acquire another theater in Europe to form a European and American cinema group company.

On this day, Wu Guangyao came to the headquarters of Universal Pictures in Los Angeles as the boss.

Because the company that acquired Universal Pictures was Sony, and Sony was a subsidiary of Lenovo Group, naturally Wu Guangyao's identity could not be hidden.

And there is no need to hide it. Film companies are not for sale in any country. American film companies have basically been resold in the hands of foreigners.

When Wu Guangyao came to Universal Pictures, he aroused everyone's curiosity!

"President, this is Mr. Sidney Simberg, the head of Universal Pictures!" Akio Morita introduced Wu Guangyao.

"Mr. Wu Guangyao, hello!" Sidney Simberg greeted warmly.

"Hello, Mr. Sidney Simberg, thank you for your dedication to Universal Pictures over the years!" Wu Guangyao said.

What Wu Guangyao said made Sidney Simberg feel cold. What does this new boss mean? Could it be that he wants to kick him away?
However, Wu Guangyao's words brought Sidney Schinberg's mood from hell to heaven.

"Next, we still need you. As Asians, we may not know much about European and American cultural systems, so you have a lot of decision-making power, and we will completely trust you and your team."

"Thank you Mr. Wu Guangyao for your trust, I will definitely not repay your great trust; you are a legendary businessman who has a great reputation in the United States and the world, so if you have opinions, we will definitely adopt them!"

Soon the two sides gained mutual trust and talked happily.

The reason why Wu Guangyao delegated power to Sidney Schinberg was because of the fact that in his previous life, the head of the American Music Company, Wal Zellman, sold Universal Pictures to the Japanese company Panasonic; however, the huge cultural differences made the new The owner was at a loss, and Panasonic sold Universal Pictures five years later.

Therefore, if Wu Guangyao allows Sony's management team to infiltrate Universal Pictures, he will definitely step into the old path of Panasonic in his previous life;

Instead of this, I might as well delegate power to the Americans, after all, what I value is profit.

In the conference room of Universal Pictures, Sidney Simberg introduced the management team and director of Universal Pictures to Wu Guangyao.

When introducing Steven Spielberg, Wu Guangyao said: "You must be a genius director!"

Everyone in the conference room was stunned. At this time, Steven Spielberg was only 23 years old, and he only officially directed the thriller horror drama "Night Gallery Season [-]" this year. It can be said that he has just started his career!

Seeing that everyone was surprised, Wu Guangyao said, "To be favored by President Sidney Simberg at such a young age, I think it must be a genius!"

"Ha ha"

Everyone finally realized that the new boss said that sentence based on this reason!
Understood, totally understandable!

Of course Wu Guangyao knows Steven Spielberg, because he has directed "Jaws", "Alien ET" and "Jurassic Park". Compliments.

After getting to know the person, Wu Guangyao said: "I am not proficient in making movies, but I think I am very talented in business. I personally think that making movies is a manifestation of business. Universal Pictures will continue to implement production in the future. Filmmaker system and sharing system, it can be said that directors, screenwriters, and leading actors can participate in movie profit dividends; and I plan to implement grading dividends for Universal Pictures’ movie box office. The higher the box office, the higher the director and screenwriter’s share. No matter what your status is, you can be a film production partner."

Hollywood directors and screenwriters are so important, many directors are also screenwriters, such as George Lucas
Wu Guangyao's words made everyone in the meeting room finally feel the courage of the world's richest man!
Everyone applauded to express their warm welcome to the new boss.

Wu Guangyao did not do anything to change history when he joined Universal Pictures this time;
"Jaws" will definitely come out ahead of schedule, but at this time the talented director Steven Spielberg has just started his training, so he can't shoot his first movie too early. In 1971, Wu Guangyao would let this The movie came out.

There is also a heavyweight - George Lucas, who has not yet joined the army, so Wu Guangyao is not in a hurry to recruit him.

(End of this chapter)