Chapter 228 The goal of 1.5 billion!(1/2)
"The Queen of Prada" is a fashion meeting on June 18, and experience the fashion transformation journey of the ugly duckling to the princess!
Do you still remember your heartbeat that moment when you were in that year? 8.8 The purest love!
This is the new headline of Miramax's official website. On the left and right are the promotional posters of "The Queen of Prada" and "The Fallen Hearts", on the left are "The Queen of Prada" and "The Fallen Hearts" and on the right are "The Fallen Hearts".
Meryl Streep's serious face and silver hair style, her fashionable outfit forms a perfect combination with Miranda's age in the play - the image of a stern and perverted old woman.
Anne Hathaway's youthful, beautiful and charming fashion makeup makes people shine, and forms a strong contrast with Meryl Streep.
The poster of "Heart Finger" on the right is about the childhood Julie and Bryce and the teenagers, whether it is Khloe Moretz or Emma Roberts. This pair is pleasing to the eye at first glance, and you can tell at first glance that it describes the youthful and exciting season of boys and girls.
These two films are also the first two films to be released by Chen Tian in 2004. After debuting in 2003, Chen Tian proved himself as fast as possible and won himself the title of Miracle Director.
He even labeled his video as Justin Chen's production as the best product, which countless directors dreamed of, but Chen Tian did it in just half a year.
Fans and Hollywood are looking forward to Chen Tian’s films, and Chen Tian does not have much competitors in these two schedules.
The releases with "The Queen of Prada" include "Happy End" starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones, "The World Tour of the World" starring Jackie Chan and "The 80th Day" and "Doing Ball War" filmed by Ben Stiller.
These three films are the biggest competitors of The Queen of Prada.
Among them, Jackie Chan's "80th Day Tour of the World" will be released two days earlier than several films. Such early releases are somewhat of a sign of avoiding the competitive pressure during the schedule.
The main opponent of "Falling in Hearts" is almost the only one of Tom Cruise's "Indirect Harm". The same day also released a love-themed film "Love Blacklist". On this day, "Falling in Hearts" doesn't seem to be very stressful.
However, Chen Tian knew that these three films were not very competitive, and for the new Miramax, these two films would also be the top priority.
So when the schedule was determined, I specially selected these two days. The purpose was to hope that "The Queen of Wearing Prada" and "The Heart Fallen" could get a good box office.
"Milla Max was actually acquired. Could this be an important moment in Hollywood movie history?"
"New Miramax, I have a feeling that they will hit the Hollywood giants."
"Justin Chen is enough to support Miramax alone. Look at his films last year. If they are all invested and produced by one company, then this company cannot be ignored."
"Will the Lions Gate be the most depressed? I finally reached an exaggerated agreement with Justin, but now I get nothing."
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There is crazy discussion on the Internet. The new Miramax Films will hold its first official meeting of the new company at 3 pm on April 28.
"Justin, thank you!" Wen Ziren didn't think he could join Miramax Pictures as well. He knew that although this company is now a small company that has separated from the giant Disney.
But he believes that the future of this company will be limitless. It is not just because there is Chen Tian here.
"James, we are old friends. If you don't have you, there would be no beginning for me, right?" Chen Tian patted Wen Ziren on the shoulder. "Go in."
He and Wan Ziren met first. If Wan Ziren hadn't helped the filming of "Burning Live" would not have been so smooth. The official completion of "Burning Live" would have resulted in everything that followed Chen Tian.
Moreover, his relationship with Scarlett is closely related to Wan Ziren. In the past six months, Wan Ziren has been his best friend.
The formation of a new Miramax Chen Tian listed Wen Ziren as the first senator without thinking, and Wen Ziren did not hesitate to receive Chen Tian’s invitation.
He even directly took out all his savings. Although the 10 million yuan capital was far from the acquisition price of 890 million yuan, it represented Wen Ziren's sincerity.
"Saw" will be released the day after tomorrow, the last day in April.
Although Lionsgate Films is the publisher of "Saw", Wan Ziren is the director of the film. Chen Tian believes that as long as this film is released, Wan Ziren's reputation will resound throughout the world.
After the opening film of St. Dennis International Film Festival "Saw" premiered as the opening film, many companies have raised olive branches to Wan Ziren. If Chen Tian had not agreed, Wan Ziren had signed a long-term contract with other companies.
At that time, Wen Ziren didn't know why Chen Tian disagreed, and did not ask specifically, so he directly refused invitations from major companies because of Chen Tian's words.
In Chen Tian's plan, Wan Ziren, who is good at horror films, will become an important force for the new Miramax.
Christopher Nolan came to Miramax's headquarters with the script of "Batman".
Looking at the 5-storey Miramax Building, Christopher Nolan took a deep breath. In fact, he has not completed the script of "Batman" yet, and has only been completed more than half of it. He and his younger brother Jonathan like this script very much, but he doesn't know if this script can impress Chen Tian and Warner Brothers.
If he cannot be impressed, he will have to start a new plan again. He does not want to miss a super opportunity like Batman.
When he received a call from Chen Tian, he thought Chen Tian wanted to read the script, so he felt a little nervous when he came to the Miramax building, worried that Chen Tian would give up on him because of the script.
"Hello sir, is there anything you have to do?" the front desk lady asked cordially to Christopher Nolan who had just walked into the building.
Christopher Nolan walked to the front desk: "I'm here to make an appointment. My name is Christopher Nolan. I made an appointment with Justin Chen at 3:00 this afternoon."
The front desk lady was still Miramax's original employee. She knew that three o'clock this afternoon was an important meeting of the company, so she immediately looked at Christopher Nolan with a different look: "Mr. Christopher Nolan, just do the elevator to the fifth floor."
In the large conference room on the fifth floor of Miramax, people came one after another.
This year, many senior executives of Miramax Pictures have resigned and have basically gained importance from other companies, and all this is due to Disney's high pressure and rumors that the Weinstein brothers are leaving.
Therefore, there are not many senior executives in the company, including Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and Jon Gordon, who are currently senior executives of Miramax, and Jon Gordon is the distribution department manager.
Chen Tian scanned everyone in the conference room. Today's meeting was the first meeting of New Miramax. It is also a very important meeting, which will determine how far Miramax will go in the next year and how far she can go in the future.
Christopher Nolan knocked on the door and walked in. The formation of more than a dozen people in the conference room scared him: "Justin. Is this?"
He thought Chen Tian wanted him to tell his script in front of so many people, but he had not faced so many people at once.
"Call you here for a meeting, sit next to James Wen, right there." Chen Tian pointed to the position next to Wen Ziren.
Christopher Nolan nodded. The man in his thirties was a little confused about what Chen Tian wanted to do. Recently, he also knew the rumors that Miramax was acquired. Today he also read the news and learned that Chen Tian was one of the bigwigs who acquired Miramax.
"From now on Hollywood, we have the names of our Ellisons, and those idiots who look down on us will regret it from today."
Chen Tian, who was sitting above, heard David Ellison's voice from afar. At this moment, it was David Ellison's brother and sister.
"Your voice is a little bit light, this is a company, not a home." Megan Ellison reminded helplessly.
Bang!
The door of the conference room was pushed open directly, and David Ellison looked at the conference room carelessly: "Hello everyone, I am David Ellison, this is my sister Megan.
Have you all been here?"
"There are two just apart, and now it's just right. Are you here?" Chen Tian looked at David Ellison and said with a smile. The acquisition of Miramax Ellison is the main force.
Chen Tian raised 80 million in cash himself, plus Scarlett and Wen Ziren's 10 million each, and Chen Tian took out 100 million US dollars in cash.
This is far from the 890 million required to acquire Miramax. The Ellison brother and sister took out $200 million respectively. Chen Tian used two 10% shares of Facebook and Tube as collateral to obtain $500 million in cash from Oracle.
It is obviously not worth so much money at the current value, but Larry Ellison became a good person, which made Chen Tian take out 600 million yuan alone, of which 400 million of them were used in this acquisition.
The Weinstein brothers took the remaining $100 million together, and this is all the funds for the acquisition of Miramax from Disney this time.
Chen Tian, Weinstein brothers, Ellison brothers, Wan Ziren, Scarlett Johnson, and five of them took out a total of US$900 million for acquisitions, and Chen Tian also guaranteed that Chen Tian could firmly rank as the first shareholder after the acquisition of Miramax.
"It seems I should be early next time. I hope everyone won't have a bad impression of me because of this. Actually, I am a good person." David Ellison said with a smile, then sat down at the front of the left, and Megan Ellison sat under him.
On the right side of Chen Tian are Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. This sitting also represents the status of Miramax personnel in the future.
Jon Gordon looked at Eric Lomis and was very worried. After all, Eric Lomis turned out to be the manager of MGM's distribution department. The company platform was bigger than Miramax, and he had nothing to do with Chen Tian, and he didn't know him at all before.
Eric Lomis is just the opposite. Not only have he worked with Lin Sen for many films, but the two have had a good personal relationship. He is worried that his position as the distribution manager will be replaced by Eric Lomis.
Chen Tian looked at the people who were sitting almost at the long conference table, looked up at the time, and it was exactly three o'clock.
Bang!
Bang!
Chen Tian clapped his hands, and everyone looked at Chen Tian.
“Welcome to Miramax, to be precise, the new Miramax Pictures. Today will be the first meeting of New Miramax Pictures and will be the most important day in New Miramax history.
Everyone here will be an important part of the new Miramax, and you will witness Miramax grow into an indispensable force in Hollywood.”
Except for Christopher Nolan, most of the others were very excited. Being able to participate in the creation and growth of a company is a dream for most filmmakers.
"Chris, please briefly talk about the main content of today's meeting." Chen Tian said toChris.
Chris used to work as a secretary in an electronics company, but Chen Tian couldn't find a suitable candidate for the time being, so he found Chris over. Wen Ziren had no objection to his wife being able to come. Instead, he was even happier.
"Hello everyone, my name is Chris, and I am Justin's assistant for the time being. Today's meeting mainly includes several contents, the composition of the first new Miramax and the working capital situation; the second new Miramax's department heads arranged; the third new Miramax's next work plan; the fourth next year's work goals;"
After saying that, Chris stood up and sent the printed documents in his hands to everyone in turn.
The eye-catching Miramax logo is on the first page of the document. This makes the Weinstein brothers feel a lot of identity.
Miramax's original financial officer Boone Duncan stood up: "Millamax Pictures was founded by Harvey and Bob. Later, it was acquired by Disney and gradually became an important film and television company in Hollywood. Some people even called Miramax the Ninth Pictures Company of Hollywood.
Now Miramax has officially left Disney today and has become a separate big family. It owns Dimen Pictures, and this acquisition costs 890 million yuan.
Among them, Justin Chen invested $580 million, of which $380 million was used for the acquisition; David and Meghan Ellison each invested $300 million, of which 200 million were each used for the acquisition. Harvey and Bob Weinstein each took out $50 million for the acquisition, and James, Mid Scarlett and Johnson each took out $10 million for the acquisition.
The seven of them will form the Miramax board of directors. After the first meeting of the board, Justin Chen will own 45% of Miramax, David Ellison and Megan Ellison respectively hold 15%.
Harvey Weinstein, Bowen Weinstein holds 7% respectively, James Mid Scarlett Johnson holds 3% and 2% respectively, and now the company still has 6% of its shares.
This 6% will be used to reward those who have made great contributions to the company, Boone Duncan, Eric Lomis, Jon Gordon, Tim Suscher, Nans, Christopher Nolan, and six people who have won 0.5% respectively, and the remaining 3% will be temporarily owned by Justin Chen."
Christopher Nolan thought there was something wrong with his ears. He didn't pay a penny to the company and actually obtained 0.5% of the shares. Although this 0.5% sounds not much, it is worth about $5 million based on the company's acquisition amount this time.
This was not a small amount for him, and at this moment, Chris placed a document in front of Christopher Nolan.
"Christopher, this is a signing agreement. If you can agree, you will own 0.5% of the shares, and also have all the conditions and rights in the agreement." Christopher Nolan opened the document and placed it in front of Christopher Nolan.
Tim Suschet, Nance, Eric Lomis, Jon Gordon and others had an agreement in front of them, but everyone's agreement was not exactly the same.
Christopher Nolan looked at it seriously, but he didn't expect Chen Tian to throw a signing agreement to him.
Boone Duncan paused and continued: "The company currently has $405 million in liquidity, which will be used to make the company's future start-up capital and our original capital. The board of directors decided that the company will not receive the remaining capital injection unless necessary."
To be continued...