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These don't seem to be reasons.

After all, among the four Asian tigers, the other three have survived. There is no reason why South Korea, the leader, will fall down?

So, what is the problem?

In any case, let's scold first.

Anyway, it must be the fault of the government and the chaebol. Of course, Soros and the international speculators must also be at fault.

It's never wrong to scold.

For international capital, the accusations are focused on South Korea's mandatory foreign exchange controls and the closure of the stock and bond markets.Compared with Hong Kong, which still played games within the rules before, this is completely hooliganism.

Of course, everyone knows your difficulties.

If the stock and bond markets are not closed and foreign exchange controls are not implemented, perhaps one day later, South Korea's foreign exchange will be completely exhausted.

But this is not the reason for you to be a hooligan!

If other countries and regions do the same in the future, wouldn't it mean that the rules of the international financial market are completely invalid, and whoever wants to do what they want can do whatever they want, cheat if they want to, and turn the table if they want to.

Then how to play?

Therefore, when the news of Kim Young-sam's televised speech came out, both the authorities around the world and the giants of international financial capital expressed strong condemnation one after another.

Good thing...

The only thing that makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief is that South Korea has not completely fainted, and does not intend to lie down and let it be ridiculed, but has initiated a request for help from the IMF.As long as the IMF takes action, it is conceivable that South Korea's short-term financial shutdown will definitely recover quickly.

As a result, various stakeholders have launched lobbying in Washington.

Everyone knows that the IMF is controlled by the United States, regardless of other high-sounding names, and the United States has the final say.

US East Coast.

Northeast Long Island is part of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

It's a Tuesday morning here in New York.

This is already the third day since the heads of major Korean chaebols arrived in North America.

When everyone came to the United States, they were directly taken to Martha's Vineyard, which is far away from the urban area, and started negotiations with the two leaders of the Westeros system.This made it impossible for those who had hoped that the news of this contact would be exposed in order to ease the tension in South Korea.

That being the case, let's talk.

However, everyone's first reaction to the split and integration plan proposed by the Westeros system was strong opposition.

The characteristics of Korean chaebols are large and comprehensive. Everyone has always believed that the larger the company, the stronger its ability to face competition and resist risks. Even things like bankruptcy and bankruptcy are completely different from companies with a certain size. irrelevant.

This is too big to fail.

Simon Westero actually asked them to directly cut off some core businesses for industrial concentration, how could this be tolerated?However, as various news continued to come from Asia in the past few dozen hours, the leaders of the chaebols obviously lacked much confidence today.

Chapter 1248 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

After consecutive holidays, the working life of the North American public is gradually getting back on track. 【】

For Hollywood, the first full box office week in 1990 has passed quietly. During this week, "Batman: Beginning of War" is still the focus of everyone's attention.

From January 1th to January 5th, the third week of its release, the weekly box office of "Batman: Beginnings of War" experienced a significant drop, with a drop of 1% compared to last week.

However, due to the box office base of more than 8000 million US dollars last week, although "Batman: Beginning of War" fell by 33% this week, the box office revenue is still as high as 5951 million US dollars.In three weeks, the groundbreaking superhero film quickly crossed the $2 million mark, reaching $2 million.

In the light of "Batman: Begins", all other movies in the same period seem to be worthless.

Because the film received as much media attention as the box office, during this period of time, many news related to this film became the focus of media hype.

The first is naturally the dc superhero universe plan that was born with "Batman: Beginning of War".

According to various sources, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures will jointly develop a number of superhero film projects such as DC's Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in the next few years, and will integrate all of them through a complete story line. The films are connected in series to form a large-scale DC superhero movie universe series.

After the news was officially released, not only comic fans and movie fans were excited, but a large number of media also began to try their best to dig out more information about the DC movie universe plan. The high-level executives of Time Warner and Daenerys have become the pursuit of reporters these days object.

Pay close attention to the progress of the negotiations between the two companies on the implementation details of the DC movie universe plan. At the same time, after the "Batman: Beginning of War" celebration party last Saturday, another very topical gossip spread quickly.

At the beginning of the "Batman: Beginning of War" project, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Golino and other leading actors all signed long-term film contracts with Daenerys Entertainment. This is no secret to the outside world. At the beginning, many people questioned whether it was necessary for Daenerys Entertainment to do so.

As the box office of the film exploded, some of the main creators who were rumored to have signed long-term contracts became dissatisfied with the salary they received and hoped to renegotiate the agreement.

In order to express its dissatisfaction with this behavior, Daenerys Entertainment directly canceled the extra cash reward plan originally planned to give all crew members of "Batman: Beginning of War" a total of tens of millions of dollars.

This rumor was simply too topical, and enough to attract the attention of the public, so it was quickly hyped up.

The first thing the media talked about was how much money Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner could get from the release of Batman: Begins.

The domestic box office quickly reached $23 million in three weeks, and the North American box office of "Batman: Begins" has no problem reaching $4 million, and overseas is next.

Batman can be said to be one of the cultural symbols of Americans. Although it has a very wide popularity worldwide, overseas audiences will not have the deep feelings that Americans have accumulated over half a century.Before the film was released, some industry media judged that the film's overseas box office would definitely not exceed the local box office.

However, things developed beyond everyone's expectations.

This phenomenal superhero movie created by Simon Westeros is really full of groundbreaking, with a series of breathtaking movie technology and action design details, even if Batman is replaced by other characters, It can definitely be described as 'amazing', which is enough to ensure that overseas audiences will not have cultural barriers to acceptance.

Therefore, the media is now generally optimistic that the overseas box office scale of "Batman: Beginning of War" is enough to be equal to that in China.

Based on the global box office of 8 million U.S. dollars, the producer and distributor can probably recover 35 million U.S. dollars in box office revenue. According to the leaked distribution agreement information, Daenerys Entertainment should be about 25 million U.S. dollars.

According to the release progress of a movie in recent years, the money will probably be recovered within the next year.

Also able to reap most of the income within a year is the sales of film derivatives. According to the media's forecast of 20 billion US dollars in derivative sales in the next year, Daenerys Entertainment should be able to earn about 3 million US dollars, excluding the need to pay DC 10% of the comic book companies, leaving 27 billion US dollars.

Adding the above two together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to recover US$5 million in the next year with "Batman: Beginning of War".

Even if the film's production and distribution costs are directly counted as $1 million, Daenerys Entertainment's net profit from this project will reach $4 million in the next year.

Next, one year later, within the five-year income period, the subsequent derivative sales, video tape distribution, and TV broadcast income of "Batman: Beginning of War" will definitely be only higher than the previous two incomes.You should know that according to the latest recent statistics, with the further expansion of the video tape market, the average global video revenue of Hollywood movies has exceeded 45% of the total revenue, while the proportion of box office revenue to total revenue has dropped to less than 30%.

As a result, Batman Begins will be able to earn at least as much in follow-up channels as Daenerys Entertainment did in its first year.

Taken together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to earn at least US$8 million from the distribution of "Batman: Beginning of War" in the next five years.As the publisher, Time Warner's income from all aspects will not be less than 2 million US dollars.

$10 billion, which happens to be the total profit scale of "Batman: Beginning of War" generally recognized by most media.

Daenerys and Time Warner could make $10 billion with "Batman Begins." How much will the leading actors and actresses be paid?

The media immediately exposed it.

Adam Baldwin, Batman, $30.Valerie Golino, Catwoman, $20.

The sum of the two is only $50.

The salaries of other supporting actors in the film are even lower in comparison.

Because of the release of "Batman: Begins", Adam Baldwin and Valerie Golino have quickly accumulated a group of fans.

Seeing that idols can only get such a small salary, Daenerys and Time Warner can earn 10 billion US dollars under the media reports that are afraid of chaos. Naturally, they began to be dissatisfied. The phone call asked Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner to renegotiate the contract and give their idol a raise.

The relevant news was originally released by Daenerys Entertainment, so it is natural to respond quickly to this situation.

Although it has not been acquired by Time Warner, the channel of Turner Broadcasting Company, which has always maintained a close relationship with the company, made a special feature soon after the news fermented, visiting the last few Hollywood men who were shortlisted for the role of Batman last year. Actor status.

Compared with Adam Baldwin, who has already gained fame, among the last few shortlisted actors last year, the best-developed one just got a resident role in an abc TV series, and even more dramatic, some people even fell into the San Fernando Valley certain 'movie' sets of .

Subsequently, the "Hollywood Reporter" also exposed the details of Adam Baldwin's five film contracts.

In addition to the low salary of $30 for the first film, the total value of Adam Baldwin's remaining four film contracts is actually as high as $3000 million, and the average salary of $750 million is completely at the level of first-line stars.Compared with the salary Christopher Reeve received from the three "Superman" films, Daenerys Entertainment is already very generous.

"Hollywood Reporter" also pointed out that, relying on the popularity brought by participating in the "Batman" series, Adam Baldwin can not only take on other movies with the salary level of first-line stars, but also get many other lucrative advertising endorsement income, The accumulation of these is definitely higher than the income of most Hollywood stars.

Plus, the same goes for the rest of Batman Begins' rising stars.

Without the chance of "Batman Begins", most of these people would not be known to the public, and they would even be reduced to the status of those actors who were shortlisted for Batman before but failed.

Because of the importance of the DC movie universe project to Time Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Terry Semel directly stated in an interview with ABC "Good Morning America" ​​that Warner Bros. Pictures will never cooperate with films that lack the spirit of contract people cooperate.

Hollywood film companies usually sign additional option contracts with actors in their key projects, especially new actors. This matter actually represents the interests of the entire Hollywood studio class.

Therefore, with Terry Semel's statement, Hollywood studio executives such as Fox Films' Joe Ross and MGM-United Artists' Shirley Lansing have also spoken out, saying that they will resist the lack of contracts. Spiritual filmmaker.

Simple words are always lacking in convincing, but a seemingly unrelated incident that happened immediately after that made many Hollywood stars and filmmakers tremble in their hearts.

After finishing "Born on the Fourth of July" with Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone, who is preparing for his new film "The Gate", has publicly stated that he does not intend to invite Meg Ryan as his own to tell the gate. The biopic heroine of the band's story.

Subsequently, John Slesinger, a veteran Hollywood director who directed "Midnight Cowboy", also publicly clarified that his new film "Midnight Omen" has confirmed that Melanie Griffith will be used as the heroine. The news that G Ryan might be in the show is complete nonsense.

Immediately afterwards, it was reported that the well-known Hollywood photographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who had served as the photographer of famous films such as "Blood Labyrinth" and "Futurama", was preparing for his first directorial new film "The Addams Family" had a tough attitude. He told Paramount executives that if Paramount insisted on asking Meg Ryan to play the female lead, he himself would withdraw from the project. Collaboration with G Ryan.

Things happen again and again, as long as you are not stupid, you can probably see the problem.

The festivities between Meg Ryan and Daenerys Entertainment are almost completely public. The Hollywood actress who relied on "When Harry Met Sally" quickly became a top-notch actress and soon became famous with Daenerys Entertainment Released the remaining two film option contracts.

Daenerys Entertainment and CAA had a conflict because of the "Rain Man" incident. In the end, the seemingly irrelevant Meg Ryan and several main creators of "Rain Man" were terminated by CAA.

Unlike Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson and Tom Cruise, who are already deeply entrenched in Hollywood, Meg Ryan has just become famous and has not yet established a firm foothold in Hollywood.

Then, the actress first opened her mouth after becoming famous, and then terminated her contract with Daenerys Entertainment, and also participated in the "Rocket Specialist" that Paramount Pictures stole from Daenerys Entertainment. Come deeper.

Most importantly, the box office of "Rocketman" also ended in failure. In Hollywood, if you don't rely on the box office, then you are nothing.

Coupled with the current public opinion atmosphere.

Most people who pay attention to this matter will flash a proverb: beat the dog before ethelion.

Beating a dog in front of a lion.

To use a more appropriate idiom in Chinese to describe it, kill chickens to scare monkeys.

Even a year ago, if Daenerys Entertainment wanted to ban a first-line actress, it was wishful thinking.

However, last year's 10-film plan directly linked most of Hollywood with Daenerys Entertainment, and five of the traditional seven companies got the projects in the 10-film plan.For the remaining two, MGM also began to move closer to Daenerys Entertainment because of the intervention of Australian capital.

In the end, Paramount did not get the project in the 10-film plan because of the two scripts of "Rocket Expert" and "Firebird Attack", so there is no need to give Daenerys entertainment face.

Although the "Rocket Expert" project failed, as long as Meg Ryan is willing to significantly reduce her salary and rely on the popularity of "When Harry Met Sally", Paramount's management is still happy to pick up a bargain.

It's just that Daenerys Entertainment may not be able to influence the decisions of Paramount executives, but it is still easy to exert influence on specific film projects. The main creators of "The Addams Family" publicly resisted the cooperation with Meg Ryan is the result of Amy's efforts. Even if Paramount doesn't care about Daenerys Entertainment, these filmmakers are still looking forward to being able to work with Daenerys Entertainment cooperating.

After all, it is impossible for Paramount to force Meg Ryan against the wishes of all other main creators.

Outside of the Big Seven, under the leadership of Daenerys Entertainment, as long as there are other options, other second- and third-tier film companies simply can’t afford to make enemies for Meg Ryan.

A first-line actress completely lost her foothold in Hollywood in the blink of an eye in the face of the strength of Daenerys Entertainment. When many Hollywood stars were afraid of the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, the "Batman" who was still somewhat unwilling : The leading actor of "Batman" very cleverly dispelled all thoughts, and in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly", he took the initiative to express that he was very honored to be able to participate in the filming of "Batman" and would definitely try his best to play this role well in subsequent series, etc. .

After Adam Baldwin spoke, no matter whether he had some ideas or not, the other main creators also cleverly expressed their attitudes publicly or privately.

Therefore, this conflict that has not yet started quietly ended in an atmosphere of gossip.

A stick is always given a sweet date.

Daenerys Entertainment also announced later that because of the film's box office sales, it will issue an additional cash reward to all crew members who participated in the filming of "Batman: Beginning of War".

However, the total bonus for everyone was directly halved to 1000 million US dollars.

1000 million US dollars, 2000 million US dollars, compared to Daenerys Entertainment's income from the "Batman: Beginning of War" project, it is not worth mentioning, and the bonus is halved, which is also an attitude. [This chapter is first published.like.have.Voice.Novel Network, please remember the URL】

Chapter 1249 We all understand

The next day's secret consultations were held in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Chen Qing and James Raybould split into two teams. James was in charge of dealing with Hyundai and SK. Chen Qing only chose Samsung, which her boss obviously valued more.

Due to the sufficient preparation in advance, a basic agreement was reached in just one day.

Hyundai initially hoped that the Westeros system would help win Kia. James did not hide it, saying that he would hand over Kia to Samsung.However, it also promised that the Westeros system will assist Hyundai in annexing the larger Daewoo Group in the next few years.

Hyundai's Zheng Mengjiu didn't believe it at first, until he gave a series of financial data about Daewoo Group that even Hyundai failed to dig out.

Daewoo Group, the second largest chaebol in South Korea, has total liabilities of more than 700 billion U.S. dollars and a debt-to-asset ratio of 470%.In the next few years, the Westeros system is fully capable of creating several hurricanes against Daewoo.

In fact, it is still to kill chickens and monkeys.

The subtext of James' confession is very obvious. The Westeros system knows Daewoo's financial situation well, and it is the same for Hyundai.If Hyundai doesn't cooperate, this side doesn't mind creating a few hurricanes for Hyundai in the future.

SK is much smoother.

In addition to handing over half of the rights and interests in the communications industry, one of its two core businesses, the Westeros system basically provides SK with expansion plans, including promoting several other chaebols to reduce their investment in another core business of SK, the petrochemical industry. Siege, and assist SK to take over Hyundai's electronics business in its entirety, and may include Daewoo's semiconductor division in the future.

Chen Qing's side also went smoothly.

It was just a promise from Kia Motors that made Li Jianxi make concessions.

This is also the reason for the limited vision of Korean chaebols at this stage.

Before the crisis, four of the top ten chaebols in South Korea, Hyundai, Daewoo, Ssangyong, and Kia, had their core businesses in automobiles, which shows the proportion of the automobile industry in the Korean economy. industry reasons.