I’m in Hollywood Chapter 700: Fish in the net
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Eric simply ignored the problem of Gwyneth Paltrow, looked down at the file in hand, and asked, "Did you say that there was an audition today last night?"
Gwyneth Paltrow was not embarrassed at all. He propped his chin on the table and looked at Eric, saying: "Suddenly I think that script is really bad, do n’t go, Eric, I heard that your" The Matrix "has already started preparations Ah, I read that novel many times, do you think there is a suitable role for me? "
This woman really feels good about herself.
Eric smiled and said, "How is Heroine?"
Gwyneth Paltrow's eyes light up instantly: "Really?"
Eric shook his head without hesitation: "Fake."
Gwyneth Paltrow did n’t seem to be angry at all, and raised his hand and gently patted on the shoulder of Eric: "Eric, you are so bad."
There is still a lot of work to do. Eric does n’t have much time to coax a woman, let alone a woman who has no sense of herself. She is about to lose patience to drive her away, and the voice of small girl comes behind her: "Kate , I didn't think you started earlier than me. "
"Hi, Drew, good morning," Gwyneth Paltrow greeted small girl.
Eric feels that the girl is leaning on her back, turning her head to kiss on the girl ’s face, and she winks without a trace.
The girl smiled gigglingly, let go of Eric, and stretched out the Gwyneth Paltrow that was beside Eric: "Kate, let's go for breakfast, Natasha is ready."
Although Gwyneth Paltrow did not want to leave, he did not dare to refuse Drew ’s invitation and could only barely get up and walk away.
Calm down beside him. Eric's attention again shifted to the file in hand.
This is a directional bond financing contract and the result of lobbying by Chris and Irwin Jacobs in the recent period.
The contract content is Firefly investment to provide 300 million USD directed bond financing to telecommunications companies to specifically purchase CDMA base station equipment and mobile communication network solutions from Qualcomm. The bond has a maturity of five years and an annual interest rate of 3%.
After paying huge licensing fees for mobile spectrum licenses. In addition to AT&T, which is not bad money, other telecom operators are facing the problem of shortage of funds in the process of upgrading their communication networks to digitalization. Firefly already owns 40% of Qualcomm shares. As the largest shareholder far exceeding the shareholding of other shareholders, it almost already has absolute control of Qualcomm.
The financing contract in hand is actually equivalent to the price tag offered to Firefly for the shift to the CDMA technology camp.
Although he has already carried a huge debt of nearly 9billion USD, he has not hesitated to reject the Firefly shareholding plan. This decision is not difficult to understand. For a company with very broad development prospects, the cost of equity financing is much higher than that of bond financing. Like Firefly Group, although it also has huge debts, if Firefly Group lacks money, Eric will still choose to issue bonds instead of introducing other shareholders. As long as the future dividends of Firefly are shared through the difficult period of the past few years, after the completion of the mobile communication network, the operating conditions will soon improve and the huge debts will be slowly digested.
However. This contract also has the meaning of taking advantage of the robbery because it has already borne huge debts and raised funds publicly again. The annual interest rate must be at least 6% to ensure the success of financing, but the annual interest rate of this directional bond financing is only 3%. If you agree to this contract, only the interest item, Firefly will lose 10 million USD every year, not to mention 300 million USD If the principal is invested elsewhere, it is not impossible to double it several years later.
Eric does n’t know how the original CDMA technology was able to break through, but at this time. But he could not refuse the contract. Chris just communicated with him on the phone, just sign this contract. Pulling North America's second largest telecommunications operator into the CDMA camp is equivalent to bringing Qualcomm back to life. Just announce the news. Qualcomm's stock price can also rise at least 100%. Eric doesn't care much about the skyrocketing of Qualcomm stock price, because Firefly will never easily sell Qualcomm stock in his hand. What he valued most was the rapid promotion of CDMA.
Considering these, Eric remembered another thing that Chris said on the phone. Although the shareholding plan was rejected, the attitude was not so firm.
Although huge profits were achieved last year, its overly aggressive layout in the mobile communications business has caused widespread concern among investors. Most industry analysts believe that if large-scale national Mobile communication network, huge up-front investment will make this company impossible to generate any profit in the next three to five years, and even if the bet fails, the mobile communication industry has not reached the expected industry scale is likely to be due to the radicalization at this time The expansion strategy fell into a bankruptcy dilemma. These factors have led to a significant reduction in the success rate of debt financing. No investor is willing to buy corporate bonds that may go bankrupt in the next few years and can only choose to raise funds by issuing stocks.
At a reception at New York, Chris had contact with a director who revealed to him that he could issue Firefly with 10% of the total share capital, but the offer price was 1.6 billion USD, which was higher than the current stock price. 60%. Of course, this price cannot be the final transaction price, but if Firefly wants to conclude this transaction, paying a certain percentage of the premium is definitely inevitable. Eric is even more willing to absorb stocks from the open market, but compared with Qualcomm, the total share capital of the 30 million share capital after the issuance has reached an amazing 3.6 billion share, which is 120 times that of Qualcomm, and most of the stock holders are invested Funds whose purpose is not to easily sell stocks, and it is difficult to imagine becoming a major shareholder through the absorption of the circulation market.
Thinking in my heart, Eric writes a series of numbers in the notebook beside him, facing the 300 million USD debt financing. At least 30% premium should be required for the purchase of stocks, 1.3 billion USD. During this period of time has been brewing about the Cisco increase plan. Need more huge 2billion USD funds, just these. In total, it reaches 3.6 billion USD.
In addition, Yahoo CEO Ian Gunier recently discussed some Yahoo management's views on the company's future development plan by phone and email at Eric. If they follow their ideas, Yahoo will also become a big money-burning accountant in the next few years.
Even if Firefly Group keeps the annual profit of 2billion USD in the next few years, with Eric holding 73.7% of the company's shareholding ratio, he can only get 1.5 billion USD dividends every year. Although there are several other extras, it is not enough to support these plans.
Dishes consider as finished for a while. Eric can only make up his mind to take one step at a time. If it is not possible, then reduce the scale of some plans.
"Eric, what are you thinking?" small girl did not know when, and appeared next to Eric again, still following Gwyneth Paltrow.
"It's nothing, something about at sixes and sevens," Eric replied vaguely. There are outsiders, and he won't be as casual as he usually gets along. If something is revealed, it may cause unnecessary trouble.
small girl does n’t mind, just take the freshly brewed coffee from the Natasha that comes with it and pour it on the Eric. Say: "Eric, I went to the company, will you leave today?"
Eric shook his head and said, "No, I will wait for you to come back."
"Then I will leave you with a Natasha. What can she do?"
Eric smiled and said: "Still don't want it, you take it away. It always feels weird to take them apart."
"Okay, there is a maid's phone under the coffee table in the living room. They live in the nearby Cold Water Canyon. You can call them if you have something to do." small girl said another sentence and turned to leave. Seeing Gwyneth Paltrow without the meaning of moving footsteps, said: "Kate, come with me, take you to my company to see."
I realized there was an opportunity to be alone with Eric, how could Gwyneth Paltrow easily leave, and said: "Drew, you go first, I will leave as soon as I leave. I plan to go to Burbank, we are on a different path."
"Oh, then okay," small girl nodded, blinking at Eric in the face of Gwyneth Paltrow without hesitation, and walked towards the car where the twins had left the gate.
After a burst of engine sound, the mansion soon left only two people, Eric and Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Eric, can I sit here?"
Gwyneth Paltrow said, without waiting for his answer, he sat down beside him.
Eric has some headaches, and small girl is naughty again, knowing that she does n’t like this woman, she still keeps her.
"Eric, the twins are all called Natasha, which is quite interesting," Gwyneth Paltrow soon said nothing.
Eric replied casually: "My sister's name is Natasha. My sister's name is too long, or Russian. Everyone can't remember it, so I used to call it Natasha."
"Oh," Gwyneth Paltrow seems to be intrigued: "How can they tell who is calling when they are together?"
"Both are the same, why should we distinguish? When called together, it is called Natasha, and my sister will agree."
"It's really interesting, if only I could have such a pair of servants," Gwyneth Paltrow did not conceal the envy in his tone.
Eric smiled and turned his head to look at Gwyneth Paltrow, but there was a strange thought flashing in his heart. He couldn't help but look up again before grasping the idea just now.
"Seven".
Although I have been sorting out the movies in my memory recently, Eric still finds that he has forgotten this classic movie. Moreover, according to the information in the memory, "Seven" was released in 1995, and at least shoots should have started at this time.
But, Heroine is here, the actor is still in the TV circle, Eric has never heard the information of "Seven", if you do n’t see the Heroine that is not strong in the movie in front of you, neither Eric Know when you can remember again.
The original "Seven" in the space and time caused a sensation with its dark and desperate plot. It got Box Office of 300 million USD at the cost of 30 million USD worldwide, and it was once the new line Film Industry among the first line Film Studio. Iconic works.
Gwyneth Paltrow saw Eric inexplicably looked at himself a few times, his expression slightly moved, but his tone was reserved, and said: "Eric, what are you looking at?"
"Nothing," Eric said, picking up the phone next to him: "Sorry, Gwynnie, I need to make a few calls."
Gwyneth Paltrow's expression is a little bit grudge: "Is ... should I avoid it?"
Eric nodded, but remembered that she just helped herself think of a leaky video, and Eric was also embarrassed and harsh, saying: "You can go to the living room to watch TV for a while."
Gwyneth Paltrow felt that the tone of Eric softened, but it was very smart and no longer entangled, got up and walked towards the villa.
Eric took a mobile phone for a while and dialed the phone to the person in charge of the new line Film Industry, asking if there was a screenwriter named Andrew Kevin Walker.
Big Boss personally called, the person in charge of the new line Film Industry certainly did not dare to find out, but just dutifully followed the instructions of Eric to inquire relevant information.
Eric quickly got the Andrew Kevin Walker data. This screenwriter already has a work already released, called "Brainscan". In addition, Eric also successfully saw the name of "Seven".
The script of "Seven" did not deviate from the original track, and still fell into the hands of the new line, but the person in charge of the new line has been hesitant about this project because script is too dark, and there are not many selling points. In addition, I haven't been able to find a suitable Director, so I have been put on hold. Moreover, the new line originally made the budget for this script only 8 million USD, want to make a low-cost cult film, so this humble little project, did not appear in front of Eric.
Eric also knows that as his status improves, he will certainly not see many things that he could have encountered, which is also an unchangeable thing. After all, he only has so much energy and he cannot do everything.
The person in charge of the new line was instructed to bring script fax over and let the other party directly contact David Fincher to see themselves, and Eric hung up the phone.
Gwyneth Paltrow had any thoughts about watching TV. He kept looking at the probe in the villa and saw Eric hanging up the phone, so he could n’t wait to come out.
Come next to Eric and see fax machine on the long table making a clicking sound.
(To be continued.)