I’m in Hollywood Chapter 170: Bottom line
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"Yes, Robert, that's why I invited you today, isn't it?" Since the other party started speaking first, Eric also readily opened the topic.
Robert · Xie Yigan smiled, concealing the embarrassment in his expression. In this secret confrontation, he clearly decided to admit defeat, but he had to go around again. When Eric said so, he once again had a fall Yu illusion.
Drinking a bitter bite of coffee stabilized my mood, and Robert said: "Okay, Eric, in fact, I am also very interested in the cooperation between us. Can you talk about your conditions first?"
"You know, Robert, what I value is the issuance channel of the new line, so I plan to buy the new line wholly, the initial offer price is 150 million USD, of course, this price can also be discussed, and, after completing the acquisition, I can also give you the position of Firefly CEO after the integration. You are only fifty years old and you do n’t want to retire, right? "
"I have been doing Boss for more than 20 years, and it has suddenly become a wage earner. Even CEO is not very attractive," Robert · Xie Yi smiled and spread his hands, continued: "Maybe both of us Can be merged, just like Metro Goldwyn Mayer-United Artists, the new line has a distribution channel, Firefly has excellent movie content, if we merge, maybe in the next few years, Hollywood will appear another name called Firefly-new line film giants, you say What about? "
"So how do you think the equity should be allocated after the merger?" Eric smiled when he heard Robert · Shay's words, Firefly-new line, which is very interesting, but Firefly is Firefly, he does not plan to drag it behind A small tail, the brand of the new line will certainly be retained, but it can only be used as a subsidiary of Firefly.
After hearing this question, Robert · Xie Yi glanced at Eric, and picked up his coffee cup to ponder. In fact, he started thinking about this issue when he received the invitation from Eric dinner. Firefly was established for more than half a year. The distribution capacity is zero, and the accumulation of the film library can also be ignored. It was originally worth a few dollars, but the reality is that the profitability of Firefly is really terrible.
Even if "Home Alone" is not counted as Firefly's work, it can not be included in it, but a 《Pretty Woman》 movie gets a profit of more than 100 million USD. If 《Running Out of Time》 local Box Office 200 million, overseas Box Office even the same 200 million, Firefly at least on Box Office You can also get the 80 million USD share, not to mention, Robert · Shay also learned that Eric will cooperate with Fox in the next two movies, and also produced three movies, of which "Home Alone 2" is a must-win, "Sleepless in Seattle" was personally directed by Eric, Tom · Hanks joined, and certainly not lost, the other three movies are said to be medium- and low-cost investments of no more than 10 million USD. With the reputation of Eric, they will definitely make a small profit. So all these statistics, if Firefly simply calculates the profit on Box Office this year, it may be worth the sum of the profits of at least two film giants Box Office, reaching a shocking 400 million USD or so.
The market value of a company is about ten times the annual profit of this company. For example, the six major companies, if the year is good, the annual profit is about 200 million USD, and the market value is generally 2 billion USD, as for Columbia now The skyrocketing market value is completely blown up. Before the Sony acquisition news was revealed, the market value of Columbia was also 2 billion. For the new line, of the six films produced and released last year, only one "Menggui Street 4" realized the profit of more than 10 million USD, and the other films added up to only a few million in profit, plus the surrounding share of video tapes, new The profit of the line last year was probably 30 million USD, that is to say, so calculated, the market value of the new line is around 300 million USD.
Of course, such a calculation method only gives the layman a rough impression.
In fact, the market value of a company ca n’t be counted as such. The new line achieved profit of 30 million USD last year. That ’s because of the good year, “Menggui Street 4” was also lucky to sell, while second part and third of 《A Nightmare on Elm Street》 The ministry only has a Box Office in the early 20s, and after the cost is divided, the two divisions basically do not make much money. Therefore, in the information obtained by Eric, the formal financial audit company only values the new line 150 million USD, and also counts the assets of the new line's film library, series of movies copyright and distribution channels. The very unstable annual profit is only a very Small reference.
But Firefly is very troublesome to calculate. Before and after Eric, it only spent less than 10 million USD funds on renting office space and purchasing equipment, plus half of "Home Alone" copyright, 《Pretty Woman》 copyright and 《Running Out of Time》 copyright and others Several movies copyright, you can say it is worth 100 million USD, can also be said to be worth 1billion USD.
So, when Eric asked how many of the combined company shares Robert was going to take, although it had been considered for several days, Robert was still unable to answer it for a while.
After thinking for a full five minutes, Robert picked up the coffee cup with his left hand and delivered it to his mouth. At the same time, his right hand was raised on the table, and he obviously stretched out three fingers with little confidence.
"Three percent?" Eric leaned forward and asked curiously.
Poof-
Robert · Xie Yi couldn't resist spraying out a bit of coffee. Fortunately, he turned in time so that he didn't spray all on the desktop and the opposite Eric, but because of the direction of turning his head, some drops of water splashed on the chest of the Aniston long skirt on.
Somewhat absent from the beginning little girl I didn't expect this to happen at all. I didn't even have time to dodge. Until I felt the chest was slightly moist, I exclaimed and grabbed the napkin to wipe the water stains on the chest. Eric , She does n’t understand what happened, only knows Eric Say something like ‘three percent’, and then her skirt suffers.
The restaurant ’s service is still in place. Seeing the situation here, a waiter quickly sent paper towel and helped clean the table and floor.
The wait staff took care of everything and quietly retreated a short distance away.
"I'm so sorry," Robert · Shay wiped his mouth and chest clothes with a napkin, expressed apology to Aniston, and turned to Eric, with a strong dissatisfaction in his expression: "Eric, don't I have worked hard for 20 Is the company of 2015 worth only 3% of your shares? If so, what else can we talk about? "
"Okay, I see, you mean ... 30%?" Eric confirmed again.
Robert · Xie Yi nodded: "I have accumulated some net worth in these years of operation, so I am not inclined to cash acquisition, I hope the two companies can merge, and, I want to take 30% Shares, this is my bottom line. "