"Friends" re-enrolled actors, and only used newcomers, quickly spread throughout Hollywood and caused a huge sensation.

What Hollywood lacks the most is newcomers. Every year, dozens or even millions of people come here to try their luck, but only a few lucky people can get the chance to become famous. Most of them have been wasted their time and have not been favored by fate for a long time.

Just like Hengdian in China, among the hundreds of thousands of people, there are very few who can go from extras to the front line like Wang Baoqiang. More people work hard at the bottom all year round and cannot see a bright future.

Now, Friends announced that all newcomers were launched, which was a god-given opportunity for them. So after the news was revealed, hundreds of thousands of applicants were poured into the world's production, almost squeezing the company's door.

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"Brother, I want to buy a company." Xia Xue asked Xia Tian for advice.

"Buy a company?! What type?" Xia Tian asked curiously when he heard this.

"It is an animation company called Hannah Barbara animation company," Xia Xue explained, "founded in 1957 by William Hannah and Joseph Barbara, directors from MGM Pictures and directors of "Cats and Mouse".

It has produced many excellent works, and has won seven Academy Awards, one Governor Award, eight Emmy Awards, and one Golden Globe Award.

Its film library contains more than 3,000 cartoons, accounting for about one-third of American cartoons. Among them are classic works such as "Modern Primitive Man", "Scooby Dog", "Under Sea Elf", and "Smurfs".

"Oh, it sounds good." Xia Tian nodded with a smile when he heard this.

He knew that the American cartoon market was also very large. He had watched many American animations as a child, such as "Sheritor Bresta", "Extraordinary Princess - Cialis", "The Elf Under the Sea", etc. Don't forget the most classic "Cat and Mouse".

The audience of American cartoons is not only children, but also many adult-oriented works, such as "South Park", "Simpsons", "Bojake", "Rick and Modi", etc. These cartoons are very popular in the United States and around the world.

Moreover, the profits created by a good cartoon are not even worse than those of a popular American drama. For example, Fox's Mountain Treasure "The Simpsons" has been produced for thirty seasons so far, and it still has super high ratings and reputation, and has even become a popular symbol of American culture.

It can contribute hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising fees to Fox every year. In addition, its peripheral product development, copyright authorization, etc., also contributes continuous profits to Fox.

EA Games once developed a game called "The Simpsons: Depleted", which generated $23 million in revenue after three months of its launch, and 16 million people logged in every month, which shows its prosperity.

Moreover, good cartoons can last forever and are always popular. The most typical example is "Cat and Mouse", which was born in 1939. But until 2014, the past 75 years passed, it still remains unabashed by its classics, even like aging wine that has become more fragrant.

There is also Disney's mountain-town treasure "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck", which was born ten years earlier than "Cat and Mouse". But until the new century, they are still symbols of Disney and are constantly making money for the company.

Rejecting complete statistics, Mickey Mouse generated $4.7 billion in revenue in 2002 alone. In comparison, Will Smith, the most box office appeal among real-life movie stars and known as the "Honor of History", has accumulated a box office of only $5 billion in more than ten years since filming, which is just enough for Mickey Mouse's revenue in one year.

Mickey Mouse is not the most profitable animated character. There is another "big guy" in Disney that makes money more than it, that is Winnie the Pooh. It can generate 5.9 billion US dollars in revenue a year, and not rely on movies and animations, but on peripheral products development.

The whole world has no resistance to this brown bear holding a honeypot, and it is unwilling to let go of the goods printed with its patterns.

If Xia Xue could develop Hannah Barbara's animation characters as popular as Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh, she would have been unable to make any money.

Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh were already myths and were difficult to replicate, but it would be very good to produce works that are suitable for all ages and young, such as "Peppa Pig", "SpongeBob SquarePants", and "Power Girl".

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"It sounds very good." Xia Tian nodded and said, "How much does it cost?"

"It may cost 300 million US dollars." Xia Xue explained, "The broken ship also has three thousand nails, and its library is quite valuable."

"Yeah." Xia Tian nodded, not immediately deciding whether to buy it, "Little sister, why do you suddenly want to buy this animation company?"

"I saw this article in a magazine. The author introduced the company's current embarrassment and also remembered her childhood when she was watching cartoons in front of the TV." Xia Xue took out a magazine from her bag and turned to the article.

During its glorious period, Hannah Barbara Animation Company once controlled 80% of the American cartoon market. The "Smurfs", "Popeye", "Scooby Dogs" and "Modern Primitives" produced by it were all very popular back then.

But with the changes of the times, the tastes of the audience gradually changed, and Hannah Barbara's animation gradually lost its audience. Its market share gradually decreased from 80% of the previous to 20% of the current, and its profit level decreased significantly.

In addition, the parent company Taft Broadcasting Company is not well-managed, so Hannah Barbara Animation Company, which was once prominent, is facing a situation of selling itself.

"I think since it is in a bad situation now and it has many classic works, if you buy it, it will be very useful for enriching Snow Media and CBS's film library." Xia Xue said again.

Now Snow Media and CBS have many channels, which require a lot of content to support it. In addition to purchasing newly produced TV content, classic cartoons such as Popeye, Smurfs, and Undersea Elf are actually very popular.

By purchasing Hannah Barbara Animation Company, you can get the copyright of more than 3,500 cartoons and fill in many broadcast periods.

In addition, Snow Media also has cartoons produced by MGM Pictures before 1986. The famous "Cat and Mouse", "Pink Panther", "Tarzan of the Apes", etc. are now in Snow Media's library.

With Hannah Barbara's animation company's works, she can start several cartoon cable TV channels, which will definitely attract many children's audiences.
Chapter completed!