Hollywood legendary director

After Zach Schneider and Abraham left, Lehman came to the finance room and asked the representative of the Huiji office stationed here: "What are the company's accounts this month?"

The man was a tall, thin, middle-aged white man with glasses. He smiled at Lehman, turned out the ledger and handed it to Lehman, while reporting: “The company’s revenue this month is mainly from Micro Love. For the North American box office share, Paramount’s account has been settled for 73.26 million in the past two weeks, and the peripheral income of the company’s previous works, including "Chain Saw", totals 6.23 million US dollars. In addition, Europa Pictures has already delivered the first part of the overseas share of "Wei Ai", which is about 13.25 million, and there are more than 70 million remaining, which will continue to be paid in the next few months."

Well, although "Micro Love" has not been completely downgraded from overseas, the cumulative total of each region has reached 230 million US dollars. According to the current trend, it is estimated that it is difficult to exceed 300 million, and it will fall between 250 million and 280 million. .

"In terms of expenditure, in addition to the daily management and salary of the staff, and the bonus issue a few days ago, a total of 7.42 million US dollars, plus 17.22 million in taxation, a total expenditure of 24.64 million."

This tax amount of more than 17 million is still due to the premise of active tax avoidance. This also makes Lehman understand why most of the rich in the United States like to support charities and establish personal foundations. If you don’t want to do something, you can get money. Let the state government take it away.Without him, there are too many tax names, and the taxes on the "middle class" are too high.

Lehman thought for a while and said: "In advance, I will pay 30 million to the bank account created by Schneider, and there will be a shooting budget of 30 million in the future. I will pay slowly depending on the shooting situation. Also, how much money do I have now? ?"

The financial representative took out another ledger and said: "The money did not go to the company's account, and it is all asking Paramount to directly credit your bank account. If you include the director's salary and part of the box office incentives, the total is 9 million US dollars. In addition, in terms of overseas and offline income, you can also draw a director’s share. In addition, Europa Pictures also gave an incentive red envelope of about 200,000."

With this calculation, Lehman's personal assets have reached more than 22 million US dollars, plus shares in the company and various studios, a Beverly Hills mansion and a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle.

Of course I am happy when I have money. After Lehman signed, let the firm continue to take care of his private property, and then said: "Remember to pay a part of the income to Ryan."

"Well, boss, I know. However, now adding the balance of the original company, as well as subsequent box office income and market revenue, the company’s book liquidity is likely to reach 500 million. Boss, you don’t want to try to invest this part of the money. Would you like it? We have a lot of good projects in our affairs, which can help you operate."

This accounting firm is the best in the industry. They have undertaken a lot of business. They also hope that Lehman will act as an agent for such fine assets. But the problem is that Lehman doesn't think there is a lot of money.

"The company has other plans." Lehman declined.

The man smiled and said no more.After all, it's best to be natural, and it doesn't matter if it can't. For him, it's all performance.

After Lyman checked the accounts, he left without explaining anything to him.

He has been thinking about distribution channels. After all, he has watched his own projects and worked hard to operate successfully. As a result, most of the profits have to be split with the channel dealers, and they are eaten in by others wantonly. , Said that he was very willing, then he certainly did not have that kind of good attitude.

Furthermore, the business is getting bigger and bigger, no matter what, for a production company, the importance of channels is understood.

No one wants to be caught by people all the time, even if Paramount is actually a good partner, but in the business field, it's not always the relationship.

Moreover, if the project is not profitable, Paramount must have no such good attitude.

If you want to have a company that can issue nationwide, Lehman has also roughly estimated the market, and it will take two to three years to pave the way for the establishment of the company. The cost is roughly between 100 million and 150 million. DreamWorks, this is how they established the North American distribution network.

There is also the acquisition of a company with a mature business, which will probably be more than 200 million, and the upper limit is extremely high.The reference object, Lionsgate, was with the support of major international investment banks behind them, waving banknotes, breaking into Hollywood, acquiring a company that was good at publishing and producing films, and stayed on their feet.

Lehman’s method is naturally the latter, which means that a large amount of liquidity needs to be prepared, sometimes even higher than the market price, in order to impress the hearts of those shareholders.

After all, for investors who can have a distribution company and have a good business, they can definitely make money. Just like the early Lionsgate, it’s easy to be a peddler and distribute the projects of many other small production companies. profit.

There is a clear prospect of a profitable company, and no one will sell it unless it pays a high price.

After Lehman walked out of the financial room and saw that the company had nothing to do, he planned to go to the Warner Studios to watch the "Gyro" movie that was playing together.

Before he could leave, the girl at the front desk of the company called and said that it was Johnson.

When Lehman heard this, he thought that he was ordered to collect information about suitable issuing companies in the industry.

I didn't expect it, but it didn't.

According to him, it is not easy to find an issuing company that has good conditions in all aspects and whose shareholders are willing to sell shares. He is still collecting information, but no prospects have been found.

"Then you come here, is there anything wrong?" Lyman asked.

"It's the headhunting company that has a goal. Didn't you find a few suitable company management? They found one."

"Who?" Lyman asked.

Johnson said: "The former executive of MGM Pictures, Benjamin Joseph."

"Will he come?" Lyman asked.

"This person left MGM six months ago and has never looked for a job. The headhunting company staff I arranged have contacted him, and he has plans to start a new job."

"Why did he leave MGM?" Lyman asked curiously.

"According to the situation investigated by the headhunting company, this person was a victim of MGM’s internal power struggle. The mutual intrusion between the senior management and the board of directors made him first assigned from the head office to the British branch as the executive president. Rose, but he stayed there for three years and failed to return to the core management of the head office, and then simply resigned."

"Then he is willing to join Firefly Pictures?"

"I don't know, but we have made an appointment to meet, the rest is whether our conditions can impress each other."