Chapter 550: DreamWorks
After Eric said the swap conditions, Marcel Vareno immediately did not want to, even if only calculating 75% of the shares of MGM in the hands of Lyon Credit Bank, the price of 1.2 billion US dollars is somewhat underestimated, Eric Given MGM's overall valuation is only $1.2 billion, and there is no shadow production company in the population, Eric has directly given a price of 800 million US dollars. ●⌒,
"Eric, this condition is too harsh, even if MGM's overall market capitalization is barely counted as $1.2 billion, the production company is definitely not worth 800 million."
Eric did not refute the meaning of Marcel Vareno. He smiled ridiculously at this French and nodded. "Of course, if you disagree, you can talk."
Marcel Novaret squatted and noticed the eyes of other people in the reception room, could not help but smile. He realized that at this point, since Eric had already spoken, MGM had no room for bargaining.
From the current situation, MGM is completely in a passive position. With the plan of the production company proposed by Eric, other major movie companies in Hollywood are sure to be very willing to undertake the distribution work. MGM has been able to get this. The second chance is mainly because of Eric's personal will. If he does not want to pay attention to MGM, he only needs to assist the production of MGM 007 series to get rid of the dark disk agreement brought by GATT. many.
Thinking of this, Marcel Vareno nodded helplessly: "Well, Eric, I will submit this proposal to the board of directors for discussion as soon as possible."
When it comes to this, it is basically finalized. As the owner, Nicholas Saidu is asking everyone to go to the restaurant for dinner. Suddenly he thinks of a question: "Eric, what is your name for the production company?"
Eric didn’t want to, and some of them lazily blurted out: “It’s called DreamWorks.”
"Dream factory, good name."
"Yeah, dream factory, very good meaning."
Everyone nodded and echoed, but Eric smiled a little bit funny. However, the new production company is indeed very similar to the DreamWorks format in the original time and space, the name is very appropriate, but. If Spielberg wants to do it again, he must choose another name for the film company.
After dinner at the Sedu family's house, Eric returned to the hotel by car. It was already at 10:30 in the evening, and the working hours were in Los Angeles. Eric called the Los Angeles Firefly headquarters to communicate today with Firefly's management and asked Michael Lynn to send a firefly's executive to participate in the negotiations of the new production company.
A few days later, a vice president of Firefly Films rushed to Paris to be responsible for the interest negotiations of Firefly Films at DreamWorks Film Production, and the final stop of the European promotion, Madrid, Spain. At the same time, the box office data of "Jurassic Park" in Paris was also released soon. "Jurassic Park" harvested more than 27 million francs in France in the first week, and "Sprout" with "Jurassic Park" The total box office in the first week was only over 6 million francs, although it was converted into US dollars. The cost of making Budding is only half that of Jurassic Park, but the production cost of more than 160 million francs is still the most costly film in the history of French cinema. After the data is released, the French media is of course once again in vain. The French capital is required to pay attention to local films.
However, Eric knows very well that many things have been settled in the dark, and this is the final stage of the GATT negotiations. In the face of the insistence of some European countries, the United States once again issued a tough one. The ultimatum, before December 15, 1993. If the GATT negotiations are still not reached, the entire agreement will be nullified. It is clear to all European countries that if the agreement is really abolished, then international trade will be in chaos for a long time. This is something that Europe is absolutely unable to bear in the period of economic recovery.
When I got the news, Eric had already traveled to Tokyo, Japan with the masters of Jurassic Park to prepare for the premiere of the film in Tokyo, Japan on July 29.
At the same time, the negotiations between Chris and Nokia Group have achieved certain results. The major shareholders of the Nokia Group have agreed to divest all other Nokia-owned companies that do not involve mobile communications from the group. The communications department continued to negotiate with Firefly. After the agreement is reached. The size of the assets involved in the negotiations will be reduced from $1.1 billion to around $700 million.
At the same time, Eric also learned from Chris that because the launch of the gsm network has been gradually recognized by European countries, more communication companies have begun to turn their attention to the development of gsm mobile phones. Once other mobile communication companies launch gsm mobile phones in time, Nokia Group’s accumulated time and technical advantages will no longer exist. Under such circumstances, Nokia urgently needs large sums of money to be used as new mobile phones to R&D and company products. Marketing promotion, therefore, the advantages of fireflies in negotiations will become more and more obvious.
Since the scale of the assets involved has been reduced to 700 million US dollars, Eric will tell Chris not to worry too much about the funds, the most important thing is to gain more share of Nokia's equity, after more understanding of the prospects of mobile phones. Chris also agreed with Eric's opinion.
Eric and the propaganda team are located in the Chiyoda-ku, downtown Tokyo. Because of the continuous outbreak of the Japanese economy in the 1980s, it was the period of the highest self-esteem of Japanese nationals. After Eric came to Tokyo, it was very clear. From the Japanese people who came into contact, I felt the kind of emotion that I always wanted to do something.
Tokyo in July was the hottest period of the year, and with no good feelings about the country, Eric did not stay in Japan for too long. After attending the premiere, he left Japan in a hurry, but the team’s Many people choose to stay and plan to travel in Tokyo. In addition to several countries across the sea, Japan’s international image in the West is very good, so most Westerners are very curious about Japan, plus Tokyo. It was the last stop of the Jurassic Park propaganda. Since it has already completed its work, Eric has not insisted on anything.
"Allen, you know, I used to have a dream when I was a child. Like a migratory bird, I can continue to migrate all year round. I am looking for a place where temperature is always maintained." At Los Angeles International Airport, there are several accompanying people. After getting off the plane, Eric took a deep breath and said to Allen who was walking around.
Allen knew that when Eric was eight years old, he moved to London from London with his father. He smiled and asked, "A dream before you were eight?"
Eric snorted. Nodded: "Yeah, that, you know, the weather in London has been very bad, I hate the cold and cold environment. Very annoying."
Allen smiled and asked, "What then?"
"Later," Eric waved and seemed to hug the bright sunshine around him: "I found out that Los Angeles is such a place. If you get here, you don't have to migrate."
"It seems that you don't like flying around the world," Allen said with a smile.
"Of course," Eric laughed.
Eric’s itinerary did not inform too many people. He walked out of the airport and picked up several official vehicles sent by Firefly Pictures. Eric also found Jeffrey standing at a business car with a smile.
"Jeffrey, how come you came in person?" Eric greeted him unexpectedly and hugged with Jeffrey.
"It’s just fine in the afternoon, I heard that you came back today and came over personally,” Jeffrey explained.
Eric let a few bodyguards who followed him on the earth to move freely, and sent away Allen before they got on a car with Jeffrey.
"Is there anything?" After the car started, Eric asked Jeffrey next to him.
Jeffrey shook his head with a smile: "Did we have been so rusty?"
Eric squatted and shook his head. Road: "Of course not, I am just a little surprised."
"I really have nothing to do today, so I will come in person," Jeffrey explained again. "But there is another small thing. I went to New York last week and saw two little guys."
"Oh?" Eric showed a puzzled expression.
"Kevin and Xia Xia are very cute," Jeffrey said, and seemed to be a little embarrassed to open up. "Eric. Emily has been in contact with Joan and Vicky very often, and you are more than My father has more contact with Chris, I just want you to ask me, when are the two of them married?"
It seems that caring for children's marriage is a common problem for parents all over the world. Eric laughed in his heart and said: "They don't mean, are they going to marry at the age of 30?"
"Thirty years old..." Jeffrey grinned. "Then you said, how old is Chris now?"
Eric squatted. He remembered when he first saw Chris, he was twenty-six years old, and now three years passed...
"Twenty-nine years old?"
Jeffrey nodded distressedly: "And, I know from Emily's father, in fact, Emily is one year older than Chris."
Eric couldn't help but show his distressed look. The apprentice said: "Jeffrey, I can't help you with this matter. You still need to be your father's personally. You know, usually do children. Most afraid of your parents, you say a few more times, maybe they can't help but get married?"
“Does this method work?” Jeffrey asked in search.
Eric thought that Chris and Emily were the kind of people who were determined to be determined. This method is not very effective, but he couldn't think of any suitable method: "I can only think of this."
"Then I try..." Jeffrey sighed and didn't talk about it any more. He asked: "I already know about the cooperation with the European film company. However, you don't think we just have to Is the 30% stake a bit low? With your current price, just being a producer is enough to take away 30% of the profits of a film?"
"I don't think this is a simple matter. Jeffrey, you think about it, what else does MGM have now?"
Jeffrey wondered: "007?"
Eric smiled and said: "Yeah, MGM now has 007 which can be used to get the chips. Of course, I am not referring to this. I mean, MGM is not even in the studio. They were sold by the old guy of Cork Kokorian and even changed to MGM Hotel. Therefore, although the newly established DreamWorks Film Company will cooperate with MGM, in terms of production, DreamWorks still depends on it. The resources of fireflies."
Jeffrey nodded in a clear way. He knew that Eric’s budget for making the company’s ten films was $800 million. In terms of the production cost of each movie in Hollywood, the ten films wanted to spend 800 million. The dollar is not that easy. The photographic base and special effects company of Firefly Films will certainly undertake most of the production work, so that even if no edge rubbing operation is used, Firefly Pictures can make a lot of money in the production process.
“Speaking, Stan Winston has chosen the location of the new studio in the digital space, intends to be based in Florida, where three years of tax exemption are given, and the new branch plans to build a state in the Florida capital. A studio of about 20,000 square meters," Jeffrey quickly talked about fireflies.
Although Eric has been paying attention to all aspects of Firefly's film business, it can't be known without any detail. Plus, he gave full autonomy in the digital field, so he heard this news for the first time, but Eric also has no opinion. The three-year tax exemption measure is also a good condition for the digital field. In exchange for Eric, it will also agree. Although the development trend of special effects companies is to develop overseas, At present, the profit rate of the special effects industry in North America is still very rich, and the special effects company is in the aristocratic era. Even after the establishment of the firefly software company, more and more special effects studios have been established, and this cannot be changed for the time being.
"That's fine. After the launch of Firefly Software, there will be more and more special effects companies in Los Angeles. It is also a good choice to set up a branch office in Florida." Eric nodded and smiled and said: "Maybe again In a few years, we have to set up our branch abroad."
"It shouldn't be necessary," Jeffrey wondered.
"Who knows," Eric spread his hand, and of course he can't now explain something like Jeffrey. (To be continued.) (To be continued.)