Chapter 739: Debt problem

Chapter 739: Debt problem

For MGM's acquisition, Flower Pictures initially offered $1.5 billion, while Lyon Credit Bank hopes to sell $1.8 billion in its shares. Lyon Credit Bank has made up its mind to completely get rid of Hollywood. After the transaction, it will not be entangled with Hollywood. Therefore, the main points of negotiation between the two sides have been concentrated on the final transaction price.

The two sides began negotiations in early June, until the end of July, the reason why they have not been able to reach an agreement, mainly because the Lyon Credit Bank is waiting for the box office result of "Golden Eye of 007", this film has Eric's participation, they are The box office of the film is still very much looking forward to. However, although the "Golden Eye of 007" was well received after the release, but the box office did not show a big trend, especially in comparison with the "Museum of the Museum", but also let the Lyon Credit Bank did not have much confidence.

After the first weekend of the "Golden Eye of 007" was released, the two sides took a step back and reached a final intention of 1.6 billion US dollars. Of course, after the transaction is completed, the flower film industry will bear the $1.7 billion debt left by MGM, the total transaction amount It reached $3.3 billion.

The day after the deal was finalized, a very interesting cartoon appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times.

An anthropomorphic giant firefly with a small flower on its head, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Jurassic Park 2, smashing through the streets marked with the 'd' sign, hanging on the collapsed buildings on both sides of the street. A prominent trademark for companies such as Warner, Paramount, Universal, and Columbia.

Under this comic, The Los Angeles Times gave the arrogant title of "Firefly Invading Hollywood."

"Seven years ago, "Little Ghosts" was born, with a low cost of 1 million US dollars, and more than 500 million US dollars at the box office worldwide, the whole Hollywood is in the eye."

"But perhaps no one will think. Seven years later, the young man who built "Little Ghosts" in the past, established his own media empire at an amazing speed. At the same time, the territory of this emerging empire is almost visible to the naked eye. The speed of the crazy expansion. After the continuous annexation of the new line, Disney, ab, this seemingly never fireflies, and outside the system, 'planted' a dazzling flower."

"Before the MGM acquisition, we can see that the first film "Mission Impossible" launched by Flower Pictures at the end of last year was worth nearly $500 million worldwide at a cost of $70 million. Bright eye results."

"This summer file, two films produced by Flower Pictures, "Forrest Gump" and "Museum of the Museum", have so far received $190 million and $130 million in North American box office, although the box office of the two films. The potential is far more than this, but from the summer of May 26 to the present, the North American summer file has accumulated a total of 1.68 billion US dollars in the past ten weeks, the flower studio this little newborn beast is already unknown. I feel that I have swallowed 19% of the market."

"If we expand our eyes, we can find that the three films released by the Firefly Group, Jurassic Park 2, "Don Liri" and "Toy Story 2" have also accumulated 690 million US dollars in local box office. The box office’s box office potential was also not completely exhausted, but the combined box office of the two companies already accounted for 61% of the 10-week box office in the summer, leaving only 40% of all other Hollywood counterparts with a market share. ""

“It’s not hard to see that this flower, which Eric Williams personally cultivated, completed the M&A integration of MGM and DreamWorks, with the “Mission Impossible” series, “007” series, “霹雳A large number of lucrative film projects such as the Angels series, the Museum Wonderful Night series, and the Resident Evil series, at least, will soon reach the level of the film business, which is comparable to the Firefly Group. We can almost see the future. A few years, the bleak situation of other Hollywood film companies."

Although the article in the Los Angeles Times is slightly exaggerated, it has attracted a lot of attention.

The seven major Hollywood studios have their own film production and distribution systems. and. Many resources are unique to these film companies, such as Paramount's theater resources. and so. Firefly and Flower Pictures want to completely monopolize the entire Hollywood movie market, unless all seven major film companies are eaten. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to achieve such an amazing market share every year. The reason why this year will be 60% market share by the two film companies, in the eyes of many people, can only be attributed to luck, the luck of fireflies and flower studios is too good, and the company of Warner and other companies is too bad, no There was a film at the box office.

However, despite this, the acquisition of MGM by Flower Pictures has also caused the vigilance of several other film companies. The top executives of several companies in Warner, Universal, Paramount, and Colombia understand that the best way to stop the expansion of the flower studio is to confuse the deal at all costs.

However, the wish is beautiful, but the reality is that no other family is willing to be the first bird.

After all, if you want to stir up the deal, you will not only have to pay a high price, but you will also completely sin the firefly. Although everyone knows that it is 'sacrificing the present, investing in the future', but having the sacrifice of this kind of courage, Hollywood is high. Tube, but none of them.

As for the union, forget it. Waiting for a few different minds to negotiate the conditions, perhaps the flower studio has grown into a towering tree.

Although privately, some people use the resources in their hands to play with some tricks. Even if they can't stop the acquisition, they must pay more for the flower studio. These tricks are often easily solved by the other party. After all, in this capital society, capital is the ultimate power, and fireflies are now undoubtedly the most powerful media group in Hollywood.

Los Angeles.

In Drew’s Beverly Mansion, Shantou stood in the living room’s hangers with small dresses and changed clothes. The small mouth kept on whispering: “I don’t know what they think, even people come to check me. The tax, ha, this method has long been old, my tax bill can be whiter than Natasha, where to find out what problems. Hey. If I let people know who is behind, absolutely must learn the lesson He has a meal."

The time is already at the end of July, and the flower industry has been in the first two weeks. The acquisition agreement was signed with Lyon Credit Bank and DreamWorks. The MGM shares in the hands of Lyon Credit Bank use cash acquisitions, and under the strong push of Eric. The acquisition of DreamWorks adopted cash and stocks at a transaction price of one billion US dollars. Vivendi, which had previously participated in MGM's acquisition, invested 300 million to acquire a 30% stake in DreamWorks' DreamWorks, and other European shareholders of DreamWorks. The shares held are converted into equity of the combined company.

After the completion of the integration, in order to facilitate equity operations, the new company is still dominated by the MGM Group, Flower Pictures and DreamWorks, and United States with 007 copyright will be in the next few months. Gradually integrated into the production department of MGM, MGM's label will be mainly used for film distribution in the future.

The new MGM Group, Drew as the largest shareholder, individual holding 40%, Weiwangdi Group holdings 20%, Ltd Group holding 10%, DreamWorks original European shareholders holding 18%, the remaining 12% are outstanding shares.

Eric sat on the sofa in the living room, waiting for Drew to change his clothes, and then rushed to the first press conference of the new MGM.

Eric’s mouth smirked at Drew’s chatter. Looking at the balance sheet of the new company.

After the integration, in the view of Eric, the new MGM. The most valuable is undoubtedly the copyright of those large movies, in addition to that is MGM's huge library.

Although in the 1980s, in the transaction between Kekrian and Ted Turner, MGM lost the film copyright before 1948, but the remaining 1948 film still has more than 4,000 film and television dramas. In the whole of Hollywood is also one of the best, in the original time and space, in order to promote the MGM film library to promote its own high-definition Blu-ray format, Sony once again made a big head in 2004. For this reason, $5 billion was generated, and the gold content of the MGM library was visible.

only. MGM has been struggling in these years and has not had enough energy to cash out these library resources. It is a pity that the external video tape publishers and cable TV stations can only be used for extensive authorization. Now that I have accepted this resource, Eric will certainly not let this situation continue.

Eric is considering how to manage MGM's huge library resources. He heard that Shantou said his tax bill is whiter than Natasha. He couldn't help but look up and the twins wore simple black t-shirts. And washed jeans, quietly help Drew pick clothes, the exposed face and arms are carrying the amazing white analysis unique to Slavic beauty.

Taking note of Eric's eyes, Drew licked his lips and said: "Eric, they are whiter when they don't wear clothes."

With Drew's words, the twins showed a faint blush on their cheeks, and some embarrassedly glanced at Eric.

Eric smiled and turned his attention to Drew’s only wearing a small body. Although he had already passed his 20th birthday, he had almost never changed his body because he had quit his original bad habits over the years. A small man of 1 meter 63, smooth and white skin, petite with a sense of flesh, full of temptation.

Feeling Erik's eyes on himself, Shantou threw a small look at Eric, suggesting: "Eric, there is still time."

"Come change clothes, don't wear any more, we always have to arrive earlier."

"That's in the car."

"Don't make trouble."

"Ha ha……"

“Speaking right,” Eric said with a positive expression. “Although your finances have no problems, the holdings in the new company are always too conspicuous. I plan to add another 20% of the shares to MGM. Well, it’s about 70 million shares. With the current stock price, you can get around $1 billion. By the time, you and the company’s shareholdings will remain at around 40%. We won’t lose the company. The control power can also make the company have more abundant funds for the development in the next few years. What do you think?"

Shantou finally picked a pink mini dress. After wearing it, the butterfly fluttered over and smashed it on Eric. "Eric, you don't have to ask me about these things, my Everything is yours, you decide."

"Oh, I am actually a person who is not very good at making decisions for others," Eric grabbed the waist of the girl, saying so.

"But I am not someone else, Eric, if you don't have me, I may be dead now."

Eric felt the little body attached to himself and joked: "How much, this word is more and more like a soap opera, oh, neck, Bielet is too tight, my name is not in your will."

"Hey, I will die with you."

“Is this the second episode of soap opera started?”

"Wow, I am serious."

"Okay, okay, time is up, let's hurry."

MGM's headquarters is located in Century City. Although the original studio was sold in Kokkian in the 1980s, MGM's headquarters building remains as a veteran film company that has been established for more than half a century. It started to fall, but the headquarters building is still a lot more than the office building of Flower Studios in Venice Beach.

Flower Studios and DreamWorks have not moved the office here, but the press conference is still arranged in one of the most spacious conference halls at MGM headquarters.

When Eric and Drew arrived at the MGM headquarters by car, the square outside the building was full of reporters, and they noticed that the two drivers had flocked. The company's security team also quickly opened the way for the two.

"Mr. Williams, will fireflies buy MGM in the future?"

"Eric, Drew, do you have plans to get married?"

"Eric, why did you completely strip MGM out of the firefly system, is it taking into account the monopoly restrictions?"

“Does MGM really expand like a firefly?”

"Eric, how are you going to solve MGM's debt problem?"

In a glaring flash and a crazy question from the reporter, Eric squatted on the waist of the **** and, under the security guard, walked through the crowd and disappeared into the building.

Into the building, Amy Pascal, Frank Makarso and other company executives and some of the superstars who will attend the conference have come up. Under Eric’s instructions, the Firefly Group’s executives Did not attend this conference.

I greeted everyone, and everyone came to the conference site. At this time, the staff was still working on some final equipment debugging. More than two hundred square meters of conference hall, installed a small stage, the background of the stage is the company's "007", "Jiao Jiaowa", "Museum of the Museum" and other series of posters. (To be continued.)