I’m in Hollywood Chapter 739: Debt issues
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For the acquisition of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Flower Films's initial price was 1.5 billion USD, but Crédit Lyonnais S.A. hoped that the shares in his hands would be sold to 1.8 billion USD. Crédit Lyonnais S.A. has made up his mind to get rid of Hollywood completely, and there will be no interest disputes with Hollywood after the transaction. Therefore, the main points of negotiation between the two parties have always been concentrated on the final transaction price.
The two parties started negotiations from early June until the end of July. The reason why they could not reach an agreement was mainly because Crédit Lyonnais S.A. was waiting for the result of Box Office in "007 of GoldenEye". This film has Eric participation. The Box Office is still very much looking forward to. However, although "007 of GoldenEye" was unanimously praised after it was released, Box Office did not show a big explosion trend, especially compared with "Night at the Museum", which made Crédit Lyonnais S.A. not have much confidence.
After the release of Box Office in the first weekend of "007 of GoldenEye", both parties took a step back and reached the final intention of 1.6 billion USD. Of course, after the transaction is completed, Flower Films will bear the debt of 1.7 billion USD left over from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and the total transaction amount will reach 3.3 billion USD.
The day after the deal was finalized, an interesting comic appeared on the front page of 《Los Angeles Times》.
A giant anthropomorphic Firefly, wearing a small flower on his head, traversing the street with the 'd' sign like a Tyrannosaurus Rex in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", and Warner Paramount Universal Columbia hanging on the collapsed buildings on both sides of the street Eye-catching trademarks of other companies.
Under this comic, 《Los Angeles Times》 gave the arrogant title of "Firefly Invades Hollywood".
"Seven years ago," Home Alone "was born. With the ultra-low cost of 1 million USD, the world's harvest exceeds 500 million USD Box Office, and the whole Hollywood is the focus."
"But perhaps no one will think of it. Seven years later, the young man who created" Home Alone "at that time, at an amazing speed. He established his own media empire. At the same time, the territory of this emerging empire is almost The speed that is visible to the naked eye is expanding wildly. After the continuous annexation of the new line Disney ABC, this Firefly, which never seems to be, has 'planted' a dazzling flower outside its own system. "
"Before the Metro Goldwyn Mayer acquisition case, we can see that Flower Films launched the first part movie" Mission: Impossible "at the end of last year at the cost of 70 million USD. It won global's impressive 500 million USD score."
"This summer, the two films" Forrest Gump "and" Night at the Museum "produced by Flower Films have so far obtained North America Box Office of 190 million USD and 130 million USD, although the Box Office potential of the two films is far more than that, but From the opening of the summer file on May 26 to the present, the total Box Office of the North America summer file has totaled 16.800 million USD in the past ten weeks. Flower Films, a newborn baby, has unknowingly swallowed 19% of the market share. "
"If we expand our eyes a bit, we can find that the three films" The Lost World: Jurassic Park "," Independence Day "and" Toy Story 2 "released by Firefly Group have also accumulated 6.900 million USD local Box Office, and the Box Office potential of these films is also the same It has not been completely exhausted. But the sum of the two companies Box Office has occupied 61% of the Box Office for the entire ten-week summer period, leaving only Hollywood with a market share of less than 40% of all other peers. It is amazing. "
"It is not hard to see that when this flower that Eric Williams personally raised up completed the merger and integration of Metro Goldwyn Mayer DreamWorks, with a large number of profits such as the" Mission: Impossible "series" 007 "series 《Charlie's Angels》 series" Night at the Museum "series" Resident Evil "series The generous film project, at least, will soon be on the Film Industry business, reaching the point where it is comparable to Firefly Group, we can almost see the bleak situation of Hollywood and other Film Studio in the next few years. "
Although the article on 《Los Angeles Times》 is slightly exaggerated, it has aroused the attention of many people.
The seven major Film Studio of Hollywood have their own film production and distribution systems. and. Many resources are unique to these Film Studios, such as the cinema resources under Paramount. and so. Firefly and Flower Films want to completely monopolize the entire Hollywood movie market, unless all seven Film Studio are eaten down. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to achieve such an amazing market share every year. The reason why this year will be 60% of the market share of the two Film Studio, in the eyes of many people, can only be attributed to luck, Firefly and Flower Films luck is too good, and companies such as Warner luck is too bad, there is no Box Office Explosive video.
However, despite this, Flower Films's acquisition of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has caused the vigilance of several other major Film Studio. Warner Universal Paramount Columbia The executives of several companies understand that the best way to stop the expansion of Flower Films is to disturb the transaction at all costs.
However, the wish is beautiful, but the reality is that none of the other majors are willing to be this early bird.
After all, if you want to disturb this transaction, not only will you have to pay a high price, but you will also offend Firefly completely. Although everyone knows that this is 'sacrifice now and invest in the future', but has the courage to sacrifice the present Hollywood executives, but none of them.
As for the joint, let ’s say consider as finished. Waiting for several companies with different minds to negotiate the conditions for the union, perhaps Flower Films has grown into a towering tree.
Although privately, some people use the resources in their hands to play some tricks, even if they ca n’t stop the acquisition, they want Flower Films to pay more, but these tricks are often easily solved by the other party. After all, in this capital society, capital is the ultimate force. Firefly is now undoubtedly the most powerful media group of Hollywood capital.
Los Angeles.
In the Beverly mansion of Drew, the girl stood next to the hanger in the living room and hung on the hanger full of little dresses, and her small mouth kept chattering: "I really do n’t know what they think. Tax, ha, this method is old-fashioned, my tax bill is even whiter than Natasha, where can I find out what the problem is. Hum. If I let me know who did it, I must definitely teach him hard Pause. "
The time is already at the end of July, Flower Films in the previous two weeks. Signed acquisition agreements with Crédit Lyonnais S.A. and DreamWorks producers one after another. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer shares in the hands of Crédit Lyonnais S.A. are acquired in cash, and under the strong push of Eric. The merger and acquisition of DreamWorks used cash plus stocks, and the transaction price was 1 billion USD. The Vivendi, which previously participated in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer merger, invested 300 million and obtained 30% of the DreamWorks in the hands of Firefly. The shares held by other Europe shareholders of DreamWorks were converted to mergers. The company's equity.
After the integration is completed, in order to facilitate the equity operation, the new company is still dominated by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Group, Flower Films and DreamWorks and United Artists with 007copyright will be in the next few months. Gradually integrated into the production department of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the Metro Goldwyn Mayer label will be mainly used for film distribution in the future.
The brand-new Metro Goldwyn Mayer Group, Drew as the largest shareholder, individual holding 40%, Vivendi Group holding 20%, Limited Group holding 10%, DreamWorks original Europe shareholders holding 18%, the remaining 12% Circulation stocks.
Eric sat on the living room sofa, waiting for Drew to change clothes, and then rushed to the first press conference of the new Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Eric smiled at the corner of the mouth listening to the chatter of Drew. Looking over the new company's balance sheet.
After the integration is completed, in the eyes of Eric, the new Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The most valuable ones are undoubtedly the large-scale copyright, in addition to the huge library of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Although in the transaction between Kerkorian and Ted Turner in the 1980s, Metro Goldwyn Mayer lost the movie copyright before 1948, the remaining library after 1948 still has more than 4,000 movies and TV shows in the entire Hollywood It is also one of the best. In the original time and space, in order to promote the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film library to promote its own high-definition Blu-ray format, Sony made an injustice again in 2004. For this reason, 5billion USD was pulled out, showing the gold content of Metro Goldwyn Mayer film library.
Just. Metro Goldwyn Mayer has been struggling with difficulties for many years, and has not had enough energy to realize the resources of these libraries. It can only be said that it is a pity to authorize external video publishers and cable TV Station extensively. Now that we have accepted this resource, Eric will certainly not let this situation continue.
Eric is thinking about how to manage the huge library resources of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. When I heard the girl say that her tax bill is whiter than Natasha, she could n’t help but look up. The twins were wearing simple black t-shirts and washed jeans , Quietly helping Drew to pick up clothes, showing his face and arms with the amazing white unique to Slavic beauties.
Noting the eyes of Eric, Drew grinned and said, "Eric, they are whiter Oh when they are not wearing clothes."
With Drew's words, the twins' cheeks showed a faint blush and glanced at Eric with some embarrassment.
Eric smiled and turned his attention to Drew, who only wore a small body of Nei. Although he had passed his 20th birthday, but in recent years, the body of the girl who had quit the bad habits had hardly changed. The 1.63-meter-small man has bright white skin and tenderness, which is full of temptation.
Feeling the eyes that Eric fell on herself, the girl threw a small look at Eric, suggesting: "Eric, there is still time Oh."
"Changing your clothes quickly, do n’t linger anymore, we will arrive earlier."
"Then in the car."
"Don't make trouble."
"Hehe ..."
"Say the right thing," Eric's expression is straightened, saying: "Although your finances have no problems, the holdings in the new company are always too conspicuous. I plan to issue another 20% of the shares in Metro Goldwyn Mayer Well, it is probably 70 million shares. At the current stock price, you can draw around 1billion USD. By then, you and Limited ’s shares will remain together, and they will remain at about 40%. We will not lose control of the company. It can also allow the company to have more ample funds for its development in the next few years. What do you think? "
The girl finally chose a little pink dress, and when she wore it, she fluttered like a butterfly and rubbed on the Eric. She said, "Eric, you don't need to ask me anything about these things, everything about me It ’s all yours, you decide. ”
"Oh, I am actually a person who is not very good at making decisions for others," Eric said, arms around her waist.
"But I am not someone else, Eric, without you, I might be dead now."
Eric felt the small body attached to him, jokingly said: "Well, how is this word more and more like a soap opera, Aiya, neck, Biele is too tight, I will not have your name in my will."
"Well, I will die with you."
"Is this the second episode of the soap opera?"
"Wa~wū, I am serious."
"Okay, okay, time is up, let's go quickly."
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ’s Headquarters is located in Century City. Although the original studio was sold by Kerkorian in the 1980s, the Headquarters building of Metro Goldwyn Mayer is still preserved. As the old Film Studio that has been established for more than half a century, although it has begun to decline, Headquarters The building is still more stylish than the Flower Films office building in Venice Beach.
Flower Films and DreamWorks have not moved their offices here yet, but the press conference is still arranged in the most spacious conference hall of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters.
When Eric and Drew arrived at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters by car, the square outside the building was already full of reporters, and they noticed that the two of them were swarming up. The company's security team quickly opened the way for the two.
"Mr. Williams, will Firefly acquire Metro Goldwyn Mayer in the future?"
"Eric, Drew, do you have any plans to get married?"
"Eric, why did you completely strip Metro Goldwyn Mayer out of the Firefly system, taking into account the monopoly restrictions?"
"Will Metro Goldwyn Mayer expand as crazy as Firefly?"
"Eric, how do you plan to solve the debt problem of Metro Goldwyn Mayer?"
In a dazzling flash of light and a reporter ’s crazy questions, Eric hugged the girl ’s waist and walked through the crowd with security guards and disappeared into the building.
Walking into the building, Amy · Pascal, Frank · Makasso and other company executive teams and some superstars who will participate in this press conference have greeted them. At the command of Eric, Firefly Group executives did not attend this event Press conference.
Hello to everyone, everyone came to the conference site, and the staff is still debugging some equipment. In the conference hall of more than 200 square meters, a small stage was installed, and the stage background was the posters of the series of "007" 《Charlie's Angels》 "Night at the Museum" and other films owned by the company. (To be continued.)>