On Monday, April 11, the market was 8.32 million
Tomorrow's National Film (Incomplete Scheduling) Statistics:
#神奇动物: Dumbledore's Mystery #36.0%, 3.89 million, 4 days cumulative 65.98 million;
#Room Escape 2#14.0%, 890,000, 10 days accumulated 34.11 million;
#Moon fall #13.4%, 720,000, 124 million cumulative on the 18th;
#精灵旅社4: Transformation Adventure #12.0%, 690,000, 9 days cumulative 40.54 million;
#New Batman #5.5%, 580,000, 25 days accumulated 139 million;
#Uncharted #6.7%, 440,000, accumulated 110 million on the 29th;
#Chosin Lake's Shuimen Bridge #2.3%, 440,000, 70 days accumulated 4.053 billion;
#This killer is not too calm #2.3%, 170,000, 70 days accumulated 2.619 billion;
#奇迹 stupid kid #1.7%, 110,000, 70 days accumulated 1.374 billion;
#Bouquet of Love #1.0%, 80,000, 49 days accumulated 89.47 million;
On April 11, 2022, the national film schedule ended at about 20:00 (138384) at night, a decrease from yesterday (45805) shows.
The highest-scheduled films are:
Fantastic Beasts: Mysteries of Dumbledore (49853), Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2 (19399), MoonFall (18570), Elf Hostel 4: Transformation Adventure (16686), Uncharted (9287), New Batman (7670), Watergate Bridge on Chosin Lake (3301), This Killer Is Not Too Calm (3222), Miracle Stupid Kid (2368), Noah's Ark Crusoe 2 (1883).
The cities with the most screenings are:
Beijing (3354 games), Chongqing (2780 games), Shenzhen (2196 games), Hangzhou (2183 games), Wuhan (1713 games), Zhengzhou (1516 games), Xi'an (1364 games), Foshan (1250 games), Changsha (1175 games), Kunming (919 games).
A new streaming giant is born!
On April 8, local time, AT&T and Discovery announced that they had completed the transaction of merging AT&T's WarnerMedia business with Discovery.
It is worth noting that Warner Bros. Exploration will land on the NASDAQ on April 11 (next Monday) local time, with the ticker symbol "WBD".
The $43 billion merger was completed ahead of schedule
On April 8, local time, the merger of Discovery and Warner Media was officially completed. It is understood that the merger deal is that Discovery bought a 29% stake in Warner Media from AT&T, a giant in the US telecommunications industry, for $43 billion. Warner Bros., the new company after the merger, (Warner Bros. Discovery) is CEO of the current Discovery CEO, David Zaslav.
According to AT&T's previous announcement, the transaction is expected to close in the middle of this year. Industry insiders said that the formal merger of Discovery and Warner Media means the birth of a new giant in the streaming media field.
According to Warner Bros., the company positions itself as a "global leader in entertainment and streaming," covering content such as TV, movies, streaming and gaming. Warner Bros. explores combining WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading international entertainment and sports businesses.
Warner Bros. Discovery will include well-known movie and television platforms such as Warner Bros. Movies, DC Pictures, streaming HBO Max, HBO Channel, CNN Channel and Discovery Channel. These film and television platforms have film and television IP familiar to domestic audiences such as "Game of Thrones", "Harry Potter", DC Heroes Movies and Discovery Channel documentaries.
WarnerMedia announced this year that HBO Max and HBO Channels will have 73 million global paid subscribers by the end of 2021, while Discovery's Discovery Channel and Streaming Channel have 22 million subscribers.
Market sources said that after the merger, Warner Bros., which has nearly 100 million subscribers, will have the strength to call out the two giants of the current streaming media industry, Netflix (220 million subscribers) and Disney (130 million subscribers), and the streaming media market will usher in a giant player.
The new company lands on the NASDAQ next Monday
At the same time as the official announcement of the completion of the merger, AT&T and Discovery also announced that the new company Warner Bros. Exploration will begin trading on the NASDAQ on April 11 (next Monday) local time, with the stock code "WBD".
According to media reports, Warner Bros. explored a valuation of at least $114 billion. The company's revenue is expected to reach $54 billion next year.
In his April 8 announcement, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said, "With our asset strength and diversified business model, Warner Bros. Explore offers the most differentiated and complete content portfolio in film, television and streaming. ”
AT&T CEO John Stankey said in an April 8 announcement: "With the merger completed, we expect to invest in 5G and fiber at record levels in an effort to become the best broadband company in the United States." At the same time, we will pay more attention to shareholder returns and continue to pay attractive dividends, making us one of the highest dividend yields in the United States. ”
Streaming is fiercely competitive
In recent years, streaming media has been fiercely competitive. In May 2021, Disney announced plans to close 100 international TV channels, focusing on streaming services such as Disney+. It is reported that in 2020, the company has closed 30 international networks, including the Disney Channel in the United Kingdom. Disney Chief Financial Officer Kristen McCarthy mentioned on a conference call in February that significant spending will be invested in streaming in the second quarter of 2022, and that programming and production fees for the direct-to-consumer business are expected to increase by $800 million to $1 billion.
Also in May 2021, Amazon announced that it had reached a final merger agreement with MGM, where Amazon would acquire MGM for $8.45 billion. After the acquisition is completed, this will become the second largest acquisition in Amazon's development history.
On March 17 of this year, Amazon announced that it had completed an $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM Pictures. MGM has joined Prime Video and Amazon Studios. The deal will make Amazon's TV and movie library even stronger. MGM is the production company of the 007 series of films and owns the Epix cable channel.
Apple, which launched Apple TV+ in 2019 and officially entered the streaming media track, has not seen any obvious action in the past two years. Some netizens said that the content of Apple TV+ is not attractive for subscription, "really should receive one, directly expand the content."
London-based research firm Ampere Analysis expects spending across the streaming industry to total more than $230 billion this year, led by huge spending on sports rights by companies such as NBC Global parent companies Comcast and Disney at $22.7 billion and $33 billion, respectively.
Streaming "one brother" Netflix spends about $17 billion on content in 2021, while spending in 2022 is not announced. However, some analysts expect Netflix's spending on content in 2022 will increase by 25% compared with 2021 and 57% from 2020.
Market participants said, but for a streaming media company, there is no continuous quality content as a moat, and the loss of subscribers will become inevitable. Veteran media and technology giants have their own advantages in laying out streaming media, and who can laugh to the end, let's wait and see. (Source| Sina Finance)