Chapter 538: Acquisition of Wanda Cinema Line?
After a night of "being happy and satisfied", Meng Bai felt refreshed when he got up the next morning.
As for Bai Lu and Yang Chaoyue, the two girls woke up almost at the same time. The first person they saw after opening their eyes was each other, and then they couldn't help but recall the bad scene last night.
The two girls were embarrassed and angry, and they didn't talk to each other. They ran back to their respective rooms with their clothes.
Both of them were a little angry with Meng Bai. Although they had this guess in their hearts when they saw each other yesterday, and they knew that the boss must be thinking about this, they didn't expect that they would give it to him directly on the first day.
The only thing that can comfort or "deceive" yourself is that you were drunk last night and had no ability to resist, so the boss succeeded, otherwise you would definitely not be like this.
All day long, Bai Lu and Yang Chaoyue hid in their own rooms and didn't come out, trying to express their attitudes in this way.
Meng Bai didn't provoke them either. It's understandable. After all, there are still some little girls' self-esteem. Suddenly being put together with another woman will always make you emotional.
However, as the night fell again, he was not going to let the two girls "hide" like this any longer. It had already started yesterday, so there was no need to do anything else today.
After weighing it in his mind, he went to Bai Lu first. Although this girl is a few years older than Yang Chaoyue, she is actually easier to deceive, and soon she became obedient under his sweet talk.
Then, Meng Bai took advantage of the girl's peak and lost consciousness to pick her up, and then walked into the next room.
Originally, Yang Chaoyue was still pouting because of the voice on the opposite side, but the next second she found that her door was opened, and then a "huge" figure walked in.
She took another closer look and found that the woman opposite was hanging on the boss like a koala.
Before she could react to this scene, Meng Bai had already walked in front of her, holding her little head and fixing her in place.
Yang Chaoyue wanted to struggle to get up, but her strength was no match for Meng Bai. Then, she was half-pushed and half-pushed, and was put together with Bai Lu for the second time.
As the saying goes, once the door to compromise is opened, it is difficult to close it again. In the next few days, the two girls gradually got used to this absurd situation. After a few symbolic resistances, they simply started a "three-person fight against the landlord".
Of course, they also made excuses for themselves in their hearts, thinking that they were just like this during the few days they were in the villa.
As the saying goes, when you enter the garden, you don't think about the outsiders, and when you leave the garden, you don't think about the things in the garden. After leaving a few days later, everything will return to normal.
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The director of the district health and health department said that they would have to wait for five or six days, but in fact, Meng Bai and his friends stayed in the villa for ten days before they were confirmed to leave.
After he returned to Beijing North, he stayed at home for another two days, and was finally free after confirming that there was no influenza virus.
Compared with Shanghai, which has been silent throughout the city, the situation in other places is relatively stable, and it is not as nervous as it was at the beginning two years ago.
After leaving for half a month, everything in the company is normal. After all, the film and television company itself does not have too much work that must be handled offline. In addition to the filming of the crew, even post-production can be completed at home.
Arclight mainly focuses on asset-light projects such as investment and production. Although the flu has recurred in the past two years, the overall impact has not been great.
In contrast, the entertainment industry is the worst hit in the film industry, especially theaters and cinema chains. Not to mention the frequent closures, even if there is no risk, only half of the staff can be employed at most.
In addition, there are few projects that have been launched in the past two years, and there are only a few blockbuster films with appeal. Except for a few holiday seasons throughout the year, the rest of the time is almost in the red.
It’s not that the industry has not thought of a solution. After all, it is an online industry, and everyone prospers together. If the cinema chain and theaters go bankrupt, the upstream producers and distributors will also be doomed.
Therefore, since the beginning of last year, major film companies have opened up their own project libraries, taking out previous years' annual champion films such as "Wolf Warrior 2", "Operation Red Sea", "The Wandering Earth", "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes to the World", etc., and providing them to theaters for free.
No matter how much they earn, they will get it. Regardless of the effect, it is still a difficult time for the entire industry.
But even so, some people still can't hold on.
"Mr. Meng, Wanda is interested in selling Wanda Film's shares recently. Do you think we should consider taking over?"
Meng Bai received a call from Chen Zhixi, asking for his opinion.
Since Wanda's decline, it has been on the road of "selling assets" for many years. Cultural tourism projects, real estate projects, and entertainment projects have been sold one after another, and the money is sold to pay off debts quickly.
But it should be said that thanks to Boss Wang's rich family background, there are still many high-quality assets to support it after so many years of selling, so he did not follow the path of Evergrande.
Now it is the same. After almost all the assets that should be sold have been sold, Wanda finally set its sights on its own film business.
In fact, as early as last year, Wanda had already sold off AMC Cinemas and completely abandoned the overseas film market. Now continuing to sell domestic cinemas is also a strategic unification.
Wanda Cinemas is the bridge for Wanda Group to connect with the entertainment industry. The core value is the Wanda Cinemas that are spread across major commercial complexes across the country.
For Arclight, it doesn't really matter whether there are cinemas or not. But for Ruyi, a system that mainly makes movies, once it can control the cinemas, the benefits it brings are still hard to say, but the influence and company value will increase exponentially.
It is for this reason that Ruyi is still very willing to take over Wanda Cinemas.
However, there are pros and cons to everything. The acquisition of a large cinema chain with a system can certainly make the company's strength grow rapidly, but the financial pressure that comes with it is also huge.
Especially now that we are facing the recurrence of influenza, no one knows how the next trend will develop.
The stability of the past year made everyone feel that the situation was slowly improving. But this year, the second mutation of this wave of viruses after the beginning of the year has messed up the situation again.
Many people are wondering, since there is a second mutation, will there be a third and fourth mutation...
"We can contact Wanda first, and then wait and see in which direction the flu situation will change." Meng Bai said: "Anyway, Wanda wants to sell the cinema chain, the main reason is to pay off debts. Even if the situation improves later, the price will not fluctuate too much."
Chen Zhixi heard what Meng Bai meant, he was more inclined to play it safe.
But it makes sense, now that the flu is raging, all kinds of news on the market are messy, and it is really difficult to distinguish the truth from the false in a short period of time, so it is better to wait and see. Anyway,
there are only a few companies that have the ability and interest to take over Wanda, and there is no competitiveness, so there is no need to rush to act.
After chatting in detail for a while, the two of them roughly agreed on the idea.
After hanging up the phone, Meng Bai couldn't help but ponder. Ruyi is now considered a first-order company in the domestic film industry, with production investment and a production team. If it can take over the cinema chain, its status will undoubtedly be taken to a higher level.
By then, I will have my own people in every circle, and everyone who meets me will call me "the boss behind the scenes"!
(End of this chapter)
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