Chapter 166

Megan's malicious takeover is not a malicious takeover in the traditional sense.

For the traditional bona fide acquisition, the general process is as follows: the buyer first contacts the management of the acquired enterprise and tells the management of the acquisition intention. After the management and the Buyer negotiate, that is, after the management approves, they will recommend the details of the transaction to the shareholders of the acquired enterprise, and then the shareholders decide whether to accept the transaction.

Hostile takeover is different. The buyer does not contact the management, but directly sends a transaction invitation to the shareholders of the acquired enterprise. For example, first, the buyer already owns 6% of the shares in the target enterprise and has always wanted to find an opportunity to acquire the target enterprise. At this time, the buyer will send an acquisition invitation like other shareholders, saying that I want to pay 75 yuan per share (this offer is far from the supermarket value) For the purchase of 45% of the company's shares at the price of, how many days will this invitation remain valid (usually one or two weeks), or until 45% of the shares have been fully closed, and will not be closed after expiration.

If the invitation buys 45% of the shares, the buyer will own 51% of the shares, that is, the control of the company (here, it must be assumed that the company has only one kind of shares, and all shares have the same voting rights, rather than a double-layer ownership structure).

For example, in 1993, Viacom media tycoon ray Shidong bought paramount. At the beginning, he made a goodwill acquisition, but the management rejected it. As a result, he was sniped by Wall Street capital represented by Barry Diller, former president of paramount. As a result, rich and powerful ray Shidong changed to a malicious acquisition at a premium of 100%. This strong and rough style scared away Wall Street capital, Also let Paramount's shareholders scramble to sell their shares to him.

At that time, Paramount's market value was about 5 billion, and leishidong won it with 10 billion. Now Paramount's market value is also 10 billion, which will be the same price ten years later. Whether it is worth it depends on Paramount's strategic vision in the eyes of the tycoon.

Marvel doesn't apply this method. Logan holds more than 60% of the equity and creditor's rights, and is concentrated in the hands of Alan De, the founder and chairman of marvel. Some other retail shares have nothing to do with the Bureau. Without Logan's nod, Gen can't complete the acquisition. Marvel's share price is very low and is not afraid of shorting.

Hostile takeover is only applicable to companies with dozens or hundreds of shareholders. Megan's threatened hostile takeover is to short Revlon and convince him by attacking his lifeline. This method is often used by him, and the price is lower. This is also the reason why he has such a bad reputation. Now it's someone's turn to attack him with money, Now Logan is worried and angry: "I'm a hero of Perelman I, and now I'm bullied by a little girl."

In 1986, marvel was acquired by the new world film company, and later sold to Logan of Revlon in 1988. Under the operation of Perelman, marvel went public in 1991.

After listing, marvel began to expand wantonly. In addition to desperately launching comics, marvel also madly acquired other companies, including toy companies, card companies, comic distribution companies, etc. at the same time, marvel also carried huge debts.

When toy company toybiz was acquired, its shareholder avi Aland joined Marvel's animation department, and marvel film was established. However, at that time, Marvel's boss Logan only wanted to sell the adaptation right and didn't want to make a film himself. The adaptation right of X-Men was sold to 20th century fox, and the adaptation right of spider man was finally sold to Sony after a lawsuit.

In 1991, a group of star artists, such as Jim Lee and maillan, quit their own business and set up Image company. Manway lost the most appealing author. Finally, in the middle of 90s, the bubble of the comic industry burst, a large number of comic shops closed down, the sales channels of manwei were damaged, and the share price also fell all the way, so eventually they had to apply for bankruptcy reorganization. It took years to slow down.

Marvel is eager to reverse its decline and has made a lot of rash decisions. It has opened Marvel chain theme restaurants with a style similar to hard stone theme restaurants, and aimlessly sold the film shooting copyright of many comic characters to many Hollywood film companies. Now, watching the big sales of spider man and X-Men, it wants to make a lot of money by making its own films, However, their finances are not enough to afford the cost of shooting a special effect blockbuster, and they do not want to be a production company alone, but want to learn from Disney to build Marvel into an industrial key of content, channels and derivatives.

According to their internal valuation, it takes at least 500 million to build such an industrial chain from presence to absence. They applied for loans from Citibank and Merrill Lynch respectively, but they were rejected. (originally, they obtained 500 million loans from Merrill Lynch). Now they are in a dilemma.

Logan is also a veteran in business for more than ten years. He also knows that there is no good life after being targeted by predators. In fact, the other party's offer is not low, but who will have too much money? He also wants to put on a good play of the local western Gulf oil company selling paramount, but Megan is not easy to deceive, not to mention the old foxes behind him. He also knows that if he bites his hard teeth and doesn't sell, the other party has no way. He can't just grab it, but they always make Logan lose more than $100 or $200 million.

Megan was responsible for the acquisition of marvel. With the support of a team provided by Larry, she did quite well. Mark asked himself to do it, which was almost the same. Therefore, he stayed at his base camp and filmed Batman. However, the indoor play of Batman was almost done. They officially set off for Chicago for location shooting, Kevin has arranged everything over there.

They set out for Chicago. Gotham is an important place where the film story takes place. Chicago is not only used as the blueprint of Gotham City, but also used to shoot many exterior scenes showing the fictional city, including a spectacular car chase scene. The bat car flies along the carefully designed line like a fire arrow on the road and crashes into the police car.

This car chase shot was mainly shot on lowerwacker Avenue in the south of Chicago and received unprecedented support from Chicago. In order to shoot the crazy car chase scene, several blocks of the city were temporarily closed. Of course, they had to go after 12 p.m. in order to shoot this spectacular and thrilling car chase shot, they used two helicopters, Thirty stunt drivers and nearly 50 modified police cars crashed more than 30 cars during the shooting.

In some particularly difficult parts of the car chase lens, set shooting was used, and the roof model was built according to one-third of the proportion. When the house tiles were crushed and broken by the car, the effect could almost be confused with the real. When shooting the car chase, mark only had a very simple idea, how to shoot cool, and he pursued to make the film as visual impact as comics.

American audiences are the best. The ratings of police chasing speeding and racing party programs broadcast on TV are so high that the TV station keeps several helicopters and pilots on standby to capture real and exciting car chasing scenes.

Kevin is worried about Mark's literary style in the movie script. He is afraid that he will follow the old road of the Hulk. However, from the scenes, he will fight when he should fight and fly when he should. There is no paste at all, especially the car chasing scenes and fighting scenes. The cut effect is very cool, cool and durable, with both action beauty and authenticity, In particular, after mark killed two bandits, he mixed the nickname of Hollywood's first killer. This is a real hero who cleanly killed two murderers and smugglers in front of the monitor. The hero's good name can not be called by everyone. Now it seems that fans and fans no longer plan his scandal some time ago, and the powder dropped on the book has risen again.

Now Batman's moment of war is recognized as one of the most anticipated blockbusters next year. Many people are looking forward to what the action film made by the man who killed two bandits will be like. The momentum is not under the DreamWorks Animation blockbuster Shrek 2. Of course, it is also related to Warner's vigorous publicity and guidance.

Since they came to zhijiage, they had to visit the local snake, Oprah, to promote the film on the Oprah talk show and interact with the fans. This is Mark's first public appearance on TV after the Allen Show. Usually, he is very low-key, rarely attends activities and parties, rarely appears in newspapers and TV, and is busy with his work, They also showed the Batmobile at the same price as the armored monster, and asked the fans to take a group photo. A lucky audience was drawn from the scene to experience and drive the cool real Batmobile.

The carefully built bat car costs up to 1.5 million gold, and it is a huge beast that swallows oil. It can only run a mile a gallon of gasoline. Its actual speed in the film often reaches 110 mph. When it is racing in the street, (of course, stunt drivers) can't even catch up with the helicopter sometimes.

In order to shoot the high-speed bat car, the crew used the new Mercedes Benz ml camera car modified by Mercedes Benz AMG, and used the advanced remote control manipulator to shoot the car chasing scene, without slowing down the speed of the bat car, so it is extremely realistic and shocking.

During filming in Chicago, someone drunk saw the passing bat car, thought it was an alien car, and called the police, which shows how sci-fi the bat car is.

In order to attract more topics, the crew called the police and claimed that the crew had lost a complete set of Batman battle clothes and was willing to offer a reward of 200000 US dollars for recovery. Not surprisingly, this hyped news was on newspapers and television, and many people called for information. Local fans also mobilized to help find Batman battle clothes so as not to let Xiao Lizi, the most handsome Batman, run naked, Finally, the crew announced in the newspaper that it had found the Batman suit to stop this trend, which shows its great influence.

Mark received a call from Megan while filming the play of Batman chasing Scarecrow Brian played by little plum. Megan disguised her excitement and excitement and said, "Logan agreed."