Chapter 329

On the second day of the leibulde's dinner, Janet began to negotiate with Blackstone Group to acquire the equity of Blackstone financial management company.

Busy, Thursday will come soon.

Blockbuster chose to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Simon and Janet got up at seven o'clock and went directly to downtown. Wayne hueizanga, chairman and CEO of blockbuster, and Amy from danielis entertainment have arrived.

After a quick breakfast, everyone came to the hall of the NASDAQ Exchange on 42nd Street, which was already crowded.

In addition to the management of danielis and blockbuster, we also invited Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton and other movie stars to help us today.

If other companies want to do so, an expensive appearance fee is inevitable, and it is not necessary to get it. For danilisi entertainment, it can only be solved by a few calls. It's because the invited filmmakers who live in New York often don't even need to pay for the travel expenses.

Simon's presence is also of a helping nature.

After eight o'clock, with Janet showing her face in front of the media, they temporarily hid in the lounge upstairs of the exchange, waiting for the bell ringing ceremony.

Robert De Niro and others arrived one after another.

Simon also met Katherine Bigelow, whom he hadn't met for a while.

Catherine lived in New York most of the time after "Blue Angel of thunderbolt.".

Simon can feel that a woman is obviously deliberately alienating her from herself, and he doesn't demand it. Catherine has always been the kind of very independent personality, can not become a vassal of someone, Simon does not want Catherine to become his own vassal.

"This is a remake of an old 1962 film called" corner of terror ", which tells the story of a convicted criminal taking revenge on the judge and lawyer who sent him to prison. Spielberg has been working on the script adaptation of this project for a long time, but he hasn't been shooting. He recently asked Martin and I if they are interested in taking over. Martin has seen Steve's script and thinks it's bad, so he's still hesitating. "

The rest room.

Simon and De Niro are sitting on the sofa talking about recent events.

Martin Scorsese has been looking for his next new film while taking care of the later stage of "good guy". DeNiro is about to join the group and start shooting a biographical film "ask the sky without words", which is expected to be released at the end of the year. This makes him still maintain a relatively high yield of two big screen works this year.

The "corner of terror" we are talking about now can only be counted as next year's project.

The box office of "corner of terror" in my memory is very good, but since it's a project led by Spielberg, Simon doesn't intend to intervene.

Of course, if "corner of terror" is shot by universal as it was in the original time and space, and Simon can win universal this year, the film will still be in his own hands.

Amy and James have been paying close attention to the trend of MCA recently. Simon's plan is to find the right time to formally launch a tender offer to MCA after cersei's M & a business team is established. Such a business can just help cersei's M & a business team open up the situation.

After chatting with De Niro and others for a while, Simon gets up and comes to Janet and Catherine who are hiding and talking.

January is the coldest time of the year in New York. When we enter the room, we all take off our thick coats. Catherine is wearing a black turtleneck and is intimately leaning by Janet, who is wearing a white sweater. Naturally, she feels a little more comfortable.

This is a sofa for three. Catherine is next to an armrest. Janet was sitting in the middle.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet, who had been entangled with Catherine, immediately moved to the other side and gave Simon the middle position.

Simon also sat down impolitely, and saw that Catherine moved slightly to the side, so he deliberately leaned against the woman. Naturally, he lost a white eye.

Jeanette came to Simon's shoulder with a smile and said to Katherine across the man, "look, you're still such a jerk."

Simon pretended dissatisfaction and said, "when you say that, should you avoid the client?"

Janet said, "just to let you hear."

Katherine looked at the bickering with a smile and said, "I saw you fighting with people in Melbourne. Don't be like this again. You'll get hurt."

Simon nodded and asked, "how's your new film going? Can I help you?"

Katherine's new film is called "shock point", which is roughly regarded as a police and bandit film.

Simon has some impressions of the film. One of Keanu Reeves's early works, and Patrick Switz, the hero of ghost, are also involved in the film. The film's surfing and skydiving action plays are very classic. Although the anarchist views expressed are not popular with mainstream film critics, they are very successful in business and have a group of very loyal fans.

Until many years later, Megan Fox, a Hollywood actress who became famous by virtue of transformers, named her son Bodhi after the role played by Patrick Swayze in thriller point.Katherine heard Simon's question as if nothing had happened. She looked at the little man beside her with a smile and said, "warner has officially set up the project. Kenu and Patrick also agree to participate in the performance. It will probably start shooting in the second half of the year."

The cost of "Thriller" is expected to exceed $20 million, which is already a big production for Catherine.

Hollywood's prejudice against female directors is deep-rooted. Without Simon's help, Warner would not have agreed to invest so readily, and the original kenu Reeves and Patrick Switz would not have agreed to participate.

Catherine knew all this.

We were chatting. The time soon came to a quarter past nine. The staff came in to inform us that the bell ringing ceremony was about to begin, and everyone got up and left the lounge.

The exchange is already overcrowded.

Simon and others appeared on the stage, and the flashing light in the hall immediately went on again.

After Wayne hueyzanga's speech, everyone came to the operating desk and pressed the trading button together. The bell ringing ceremony was completed.

Next is the inquiry stage before opening.

Because the subscription demand during the roadshow was very strong, compared with the initial recommended price of US $13 to US $15, blockbuster's offering price was finally set at US $17, with 15 million new shares issued and US $255 million raised.

255 million US dollars, which is enough for the expansion of blockbuster in the next year.

Therefore, shareholders and management unanimously rejected the underwriter's proposal to increase the circulation.

In the first round of inquiry, the quotation jumped directly to the range of US $17.5 to US $18.5.

After completing their platform task, Simon and his party will leave temporarily. There will be a celebration reception at noon. Today's guests can decide whether to attend or not according to their own arrangements.

Simon is definitely going to the lunch party, but before that, there are still some things to go back to his Fifth Avenue apartment.

Catherine was going to leave, but Janet forced her to take her home.

There are already some people waiting here, from a genetic research institute in the UK.

It's very simple.

After collecting blood samples from Simon and Janet, several staff members confirmed something to Simon again and then left in a hurry to fly back to the UK.

Catherine looked on, feeling confused.

Janet whispered a few words in her ear before the woman understood.

Then, thinking of Simon and Janet about to get married, there was something sour in my heart.

Inside the hall of the NASDAQ Exchange.

After three consecutive rounds of bidding for an hour, blockbuster's opening price was finally confirmed as $19.50.

Then, the official trading began, and the stock price immediately broke through the $20 barrier.

At the beginning of the celebration reception at noon, the stock price of blockbuster has exceeded $23, and the afternoon trading is still very active.

By the end of Thursday's trading day, blockbuster's share price was finally set at $26.5, up 56% from the $17 issue price in one day, with a total market value of $2.199 billion.

As a result of participating in the subscription of the IPO, danielis Entertainment's shareholding in blockbuster remains at 35%.

The total cost of the two investments is about $210 million.

By the end of the day, the $210 million investment of danielis entertainment had increased to $770 million, with a return rate of more than 300% in just one year. In fact, the reason why the stock price of blockbuster rose sharply on the first day of listing was mainly due to the great success of danielis entertainment in this investment.

Denise Entertainment's huge book profits stimulate the enthusiasm of investors to buy, and the pursuit of the market, in turn, makes the investment of Denise entertainment more successful.

After the IPO, the majority shareholders and the management of the listed company should enter the silent period according to the Convention.

However, this will not hinder the normal operation of blockbuster.

On the second day after its listing, blockbuster announced that it would acquire Errol video chain company, which is headquartered in Baltimore on the east coast. Compared with blockbuster, which already has more than 1200 chain stores in North America, Errol only has 250 chain stores in New York, Washington and other states on the east coast.

The final purchase price reached by the two sides is US $40 million, which is in the form of cash plus stock. Blockbuster will also bear the debt of Errol.

The deal has been under negotiation during the IPO period of blockbuster, and the official announcement of the news the day after the listing is also a kind of good news.

After the completion of the deal, blockbuster will have more than 1500 chain stores. Although its market share is still less than 20%, blockbuster is also the largest video rental chain in North America.

According to the announcement of the acquisition of Errol, blockbuster's share price rose slightly again on Friday as expected, breaking through $28 at the end of Friday.

With the successful completion of IPO, blockbuster will also expand its overseas market.On the other hand, Blackstone Group received cersei capital's bid for Blackstone financial management company led by Lawrence Fink, and at the beginning, it directly refused.

Although there is a dispute between Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and Lawrence Fink, Blackstone's financial management company has performed very well since its establishment, and Blackstone is reluctant to let go of its fast-growing subsidiary.

It was not until Lawrence Fink threatened to lead the whole team away that Schwarzman reluctantly compromised, but he still offered a price of $200 million.

Blackstone's revenue last year was $33 million, and its net income before tax attributable to shareholders was about $7 million.

Because of the debt crisis in the second half of last year, even most of the listed financial companies on Wall Street had a price earnings ratio of only a dozen times. Blackstone Group's offer of US $200 million to Blackstone financial management company is equivalent to a price earnings ratio close to 30 times, which is naturally impossible for cersei capital to accept.

At the end of blockbuster's business, Janet stayed in New York to continue the negotiation with Blackstone Group on the acquisition and other departments of cersei capital. Simon returned to Los Angeles with Amy and others at the weekend.

Danielis entertainment, from January 12 to January 18, the box office of "Batman: the moment of war" still dropped by 31%, and received another $41.06 million. However, four weeks after the release, the cumulative box office of the film also quickly hit 271.75 million US dollars.

Meanwhile, on January 19, Denise Entertainment's first new film of 1990 was officially released, called "I'm going home.".

This is a film that Ella doichman bought from the Venice Film Festival last year. At that time, she chose three films, and only this one was finally negotiated.

"I'm going home" is starred by Gerald de padillo, a famous French actor who has more than 10 Caesar Award nominations and awards. It tells all kinds of interesting things that happened when an eccentric American cartoonist led his wife to travel to Paris. Just like "a fish named Wanda", which made fun of the cultural differences between Britain and France, "I'm going home" makes fun of the cultural differences between Britain and France Different.

However, since it was put in January, it is obvious that gaomen pictures did not expect much from the box office of the film. The number of screens opened is only 523, which is considered as a work to fill the release schedule.

Denise Entertainment's recent focus is February's "pretty girl.".

The film's confirmed release date is February 9, the week of Valentine's day.

At the beginning, the management didn't think much of the project, which was adapted from the black feature film to tell the love story between the call girl and the financier. However, the final effect of the film was excellent. If it wasn't for Denise entertainment, the film distribution plan for the whole year has been determined, and it will even consider changing to a more popular schedule.

In 1990, Denise entertainment had 12 confirmed movie releases. According to the release time, they are "I'm going home", "pretty girl", "crazy fat show", "children in cornfield 2", "ghost love", "bear turtle", "ghost", "journey to heaven", "angel and me at the same table"《 Dance with the wolf, the intersection of life and the kid in charge.

In addition to the films released by the company in person, there are also four works planned for last year's 10 films, namely sleeping with the enemy in cooperation with Fox, shaking the cradle's hand in cooperation with Disney, ten days of danger in cooperation with universal pictures and red powder alliance in cooperation with Columbia Pictures.

A total of 16 films, the same size as last year's release.

Simon's main job in returning to Los Angeles this time is to sort out these 16 films at various stages of production and distribution, and confirm some projects in 1991 in advance.

According to the plan, Pixar will launch its first 3D animated film Toy Story by the end of 1991, and the last film of scream series, scream 3, is scheduled to be released next year. In addition, there will be Madonna's music documentary, as well as foreign cooperation films such as "end of the world" and "Terminator 2".

It's just that it's obviously not enough.

Fortunately, with the continuous expansion of danielis entertainment, the company, like other Hollywood studios, has a number of projects in the pipeline that can be approved at any time. A large number of Hollywood independent producers are also looking forward to cooperating with danielis entertainment. These people have more projects in their hands.