Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 299 Lin Yuan's Revenge Plan

Mr. Eisen took Lin Yuan's plan with some doubts.

What is this? Are you planning to start a new movie?
With some curiosity, he opened the plan.

After turning two pages, Mr. Eisen showed a strange expression. He looked up at Lin Yuan and continued reading.

He read the thin plan several times carefully, tapping his fingers on the desk, seeming a little hesitant.

Director Cohen was a little curious, but felt it was inconvenient to ask questions.

Seeing his expression, Lin Yuan smiled and took out another identical plan and handed it to Director Cohen: "If you're curious, take a look at it too."

"Is it really okay for me to watch this? If you want to keep it a secret, I'd rather not watch it." Director Cohen didn't answer.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Given our relationship, would I worry about you leaking information? Please give me some advice. As a senior veteran in the industry, please help me find some gaps and fill them in."

After hearing what Lin Yuan said, Director Cohen stopped hesitating and took the plan to read it carefully.

When he opened the plan, his expression immediately became as strange as Mr. Eisen's.

Director Cohen frowned, and after carefully reviewing the film several times, he sighed and said, "Youth is indeed full of vigor. When they are wronged, they immediately want to retaliate. I really admire the drive of young people."

"This isn't the first time. It can happen once or twice, but not three times. We can't always passively take a beating and then fight back. We have to take the initiative to attack. Offense is the best defense." Lin Yuan replied.

This plan was a revenge plan against MGM and Columbia Pictures.

Lin Yuan developed a three-step plan to achieve his goal:

The first step is to use various means to comprehensively attack the performance of these two companies.

Although Lin Yuan knew that the performance of these two film companies would continue to be poor in the next few years, they would go bankrupt and be acquired in a few years.

But this time is still too long for Lin Yuan. A few years is enough for his opponents to disgust him several times.

Therefore, Lin Yuan decided to accelerate the decline in performance of these two companies through his own efforts.

He decided to attack both public opinion and box office simultaneously to comprehensively attack his opponent's box office performance.

The failure of these three films by the opponent is not the end of the matter, but just the beginning!

The second step is to take advantage of the prediction of the opponent's performance decline, conduct short-selling transactions on the stock in advance, and comprehensively snipe the opponent's stock price.

In terms of the ability to generate financing, we can cut off the other party's possibility of struggling and counterattacking.

As for the third step, it is something that has happened in history.

Help foreign companies acquire and merge these two companies, so as to completely eliminate these two opponents.

The three steps are closely linked and highly feasible.

"In principle, I think there is no problem, but there are two key points that I want to understand in depth," Director Cohen asked.

"You say." "How can you guarantee that the box office sniping against MGM and Columbia Pictures will be successful? After all, the foundation of the box office is still the quality of the film. If they can ignore the quality of the film and succeed in sniping, then their actions against "King of Spy" would have achieved their goal long ago." Director Cohen asked.

To this, Lin Yuan smiled and replied, "This is one of my secrets, but I guarantee that I can accurately judge which movies are destined to fail at the box office and which ones are too tough to touch."

This is the advantage of rebirth.

MGM and Columbia Pictures each released nearly 20 films each year. Although they were generally unprofitable, when it came to individual films, there were still some excellent works with good reputation and box office.

For example, if Will Smith's "Bad Boys for Life" had not clashed with Lin Yuan's "The King's Avatar", it would have earned nearly 2 million US dollars in North America, ranking tenth in the year.

Unfortunately, after being pushed out to compete, it became cannon fodder, and now the estimated total box office is unlikely to even reach $1 million.

"Okay, the next question is, how are you going to snipe the other party's box office? As far as I know, we don't have that many movies that can be used to hit the other party's release schedule." Director Cohen asked the second question.

"Disrupt the other party's plans and create unexpected adverse factors, and then the other party will make mistakes, resulting in numerous loopholes and eventually self-collapse." Lin Yuan gave his answer.

"The operation of a large company is like a sophisticated instrument. If you want to cause problems, you don't necessarily need to blow up the entire machine. You only need to knock out some of its key parts, and then the operation will naturally malfunction, leading to a series of catastrophic events and ultimately self-destruction."

"As far as I know, MGM lost an additional $1.5 million and Columbia Pictures lost $1 million in this box office betting agreement. This does not include the reduction in expected revenue due to the decline in box office reputation. I estimate that the total combined losses should exceed $5 million."

Director Cohen nodded, thinking that Lin Yuan’s guess should be roughly accurate.

The box office betting agreement caused the two film companies to suffer heavy losses due to the huge success of "The King of Spy".

After these three films squeezed out the screening schedule, the audience developed a huge negative attitude and refused to watch these films, which led to a sharp drop in box office sales.

An example is that "Bad Boys 2.4", which was originally expected to earn $2 million at the box office, only earned less than $1 million.

Therefore, the combined losses of the two film companies must have exceeded $5 million.

Lin Yuan continued, "Although these two companies are large and powerful, they have clearly planned the use of every penny of their cash flow. Now that a large portion of their funds are missing, it's enough to make them feel overwhelmed."

"As long as I keep creating these unplanned negative events for them, it will be enough to trigger a chain reaction and lead to the collapse of the final performance."

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Director Cohen nodded.

Although they are the eight giants of Hollywood, and $5 million may not seem like a lot, every penny of a large company's money is planned for use. Once a sudden deficit occurs, it will lead to the need to embezzle and borrow from other links.

If such unexpected losses occur a few more times, it is very likely to lead to the overall collapse.

For example, Lin Yuan’s film company uses funds to the extreme. If a movie unexpectedly loses a large amount of money, his capital chain may immediately have problems.

Although large companies like MGM and Columbia Pictures certainly had more funds than Lin Yuan, they were not like Apple in later generations, which had an exaggerated $1500 billion on its books.

The two rival companies must have backup funds to prevent unexpected events, but if they continue to struggle a few more times, collapse is inevitable.

From this perspective, the failure of the attack on "Lord of the Bourne Legacy" has resulted in an additional $5 million loss, which has greatly damaged the health of the cash flow of the two major companies.

With such a good opportunity, shouldn't we seize the opportunity and kill you while you are still weak?
Lin Yuan didn't want to wait until the two companies had recovered before continuing to target him.

(End of this chapter)