Chapter 386

Michael owitz and his party just walked out of the Los Angeles International Airport. The assistant who came to pick them up reminded him that Lu wassalman, chairman of MCA, had been waiting for Mary ander Bay near the airport.

Arriving on a yacht in mariandel Bay, less than three kilometers north of Los Angeles International Airport, owitz saw vassalman, and his first reaction was to shake his head slightly.

It's already November 15.

Panasonic suddenly announced three days ago that it would give up the acquisition of MCA, which caught everyone by surprise.

Unwilling to give up, Michael owitz went to Japan in person after failing to communicate with Panasonic by telephone. Owitz, inspired by Lu wassalman, even hinted that MCA could accept a slightly lower offer than danielis entertainment, but still failed to persuade Takeo Guei to restart the acquisition of MCA.

Michael owitz is also regretful now. Last week, Meg Ryan gave up the lawsuit against danielis entertainment without warning. He had already raised his vigilance. However, he still didn't expect that he had made so many preparations to snipe danielis Entertainment's acquisition of MCA, but unexpectedly, the other party directly used a drastic move.

In the cabin of the yacht, owitz sat opposite to vassalman and said: "according to the information I collected, westero put forward another cooperation plan between danilisi entertainment and Panasonic. Panasonic was hesitant about whether to continue to increase the offer. After last week's secret meeting with westero, together with Panasonic's internal pressure, he finally decided to give up This acquisition. "

"Is there really no way back, or can I fly to Japan myself if I need to?" Lu wassalman asked

Michael owitz shook his head again and said: "I didn't get the contents of the cooperation plan between danilisi entertainment and Panasonic. However, according to Panasonic's words, westero showed great sincerity. Panasonic's senior management agreed that danilisi entertainment should give up the acquisition and cooperate with danilisi entertainment."

Lou wassalman frowned, thought of something a moment later, and then asked, "so, Mike, didn't you say that other companies in Japan are interested in acquiring Hollywood studios, Toshiba, ITO, or Sanyo?"

"this is what I said last year, but it was just last year," Michael Ovitz nodded and shook his head. "At that time, the Japanese stock market bubble had not yet been broken. Now the situation is different. Even if Panasonic's exit, it is also affected by the economic situation. The bronfmans in Canada are also interested in acquiring Hollywood studios. However, they do not have enough funds for the time being, so they can only participate in second tier companies such as Orion. Now the overall economic situation in Asia, North America and Europe is not very good. Therefore, it is very difficult for Lu to have another buyer interested in MCA in the short term. "

Michael owitz said, and both of them looked at each other for a moment.

After a moment's silence, Lou wassalman finally made up his mind and said, "Mike, in this case, give all the back hands you've prepared to my people."

Michael owitz nodded dispiritedly and said, "yes."

Now that Panasonic's withdrawal is irreparable, it's useless to use those means again. On the contrary, it will irritate the young man again and again. Thinking of this, owitz is a bit distressed. Perhaps, the incident of Meg Ryan has once again caused discord between danelis entertainment and CAA.

With that in mind, Michael owitz couldn't help asking vassalman, "Lu, are you going to cancel this acquisition?"

Lu wassalman had a wry smile on his face.

To be fair, Lou wassalman certainly wants to cancel the deal for the first time, because he has made several attempts to danilisi entertainment, and the other side's attitude is very firm. After the completion of the acquisition, he and Sid schinberg have to leave. Once so, they will leave the power center of Hollywood completely.

Lu wassalman would never want to let go so easily.

However, the $7 billion offer of danielis entertainment is almost twice the price of MCA at its lowest market value some time ago.

At present, the United States has been filled with the shadow of another war, and the industry is generally not optimistic about the next domestic economic trend, believing that it may continue to deteriorate. In this case, many shareholders of MCA want to accept the offer to cash out, but they don't care what the management will do after cash out.

Although he is the chairman and CEO of MCA and has been running the company for decades, Lu wassalman's shareholding in MCA is only about 5% and Sid schinberg's is only about 2%. The combined shareholding of the two can not cause much control.

In the past, the two were able to firmly control the company. This time, if they flagrantly violated the wishes of shareholders, even if they can finally upset the acquisition, they are likely to be ousted.

Therefore, now we can only use external force to force Denise entertainment to agree to more conditions, or force Denise entertainment to give up the acquisition.

Now that his physical condition has improved, Lu wassalman feels that he can take charge of MCA for a few more years until he is 80 years old. Moreover, he believes that the U.S. economy will definitely recover one day. The stock price of MCA is seriously undervalued due to the recent downturn in the U.S. stock market. In the next few years, there will be other buyers who can pay higher prices.Simon also happened to return from the east coast when Michael owitz and Lou wassalman met in secret.

After this period of negotiation, Bell Atlantic and westero have reached an initial acquisition agreement with a total value of $7 billion, which is equivalent to Simon's expectation a few days ago, and a full $1 billion lower than the initial budget. When the offer is agreed, other details will be pushed forward very quickly, even after the transaction is completed.

Therefore, as long as necessary, Simon can announce the details of the acquisition as early as next week.

The next day was November 16, Friday.

It's Thanksgiving Day and the weekend is coming. Janet has been busy on the west coast all this time. Simon goes to marydanilis studios as usual in the morning.

The box office data of the past week also appeared on Simon's desk for the first time after he entered the office.

The box office trend of "ten days of crisis" is as expected.

It was released on October 26, the third week of the film's opening.

After $17.16 million in the first week, the final decline of seven days in the next week was 35%, and it closed at $11.15 million. The decline narrowed to 21% in the third week from November 9 to November 15, continuing to earn $8.81 million.

In three weeks, the cumulative box office of "ten days in danger" reached $37.12 million.

What Simon pays more attention to today is "dancing with Wolves", which is quietly launched.

Dancing with wolves opened two weeks ago on November 2 with 16 screens in some core cities in North America. The average box office in the first seven days of the first week reached US $67000, indicating the potential of the film. Next week, the screen size of dance with the wolf increased to 51 yuan. With Denise's entertainment promotion and the film's word-of-mouth fermenting at the same time, the number of museums did not decrease but increased, reaching US $69000.

just two weeks of screening, dance with the wolf has accumulated US $4.63 million at the box office. Moreover, relying on the media's one-sided praise, this film about the history and politics of white Americans and Indians is extremely correct, and quickly promoted to the popular Oscar next year.

However, because the cinema version of dance with the wolf lasted for as long as three hours and started painting on a large scale this week, daenerys entertainment finally arranged only 1031 screens to accumulate long-term box office by relying on word-of-mouth and awards.

At the same time, with the official opening of the Thanksgiving season, in addition to the large-scale release of dance with the wolf, there are two other new films to be painted today, namely, Stallone's classic action film sequel "Rocky 5" and Disney's 2D animated film "little hero in distress".

After Panasonic announced this week that it would give up the acquisition of MCA, the board of MCA found various reasons to delay the approval of danilisi Entertainment's offer, but others were worried.

Like paramount.

Before Simon contacted Panasonic last week, in order to avoid paramount interfering in the acquisition, he temporarily promised to cooperate with the other party in two new films, and to maintain the status quo of USA TV station after the completion of MCA acquisition.

Chairman paramount clearly saw Simon's scruples and naturally wanted to sell. It not only requires that the number of cooperative films be increased to at least three, but also insists that the investment ratio of the two sides is 37 points, and danielis entertainment can only occupy 30%. At the same time, it also put forward more demands on USA TV station.

However, when Panasonic suddenly announced its withdrawal and the situation reversed, paramount was eager to reach cooperation.

Amy has investigated Paramount's original intention to block the acquisition by filing an antitrust lawsuit. However, after Panasonic quit, he probably realized the trend of the times, and paramount was eager to take advantage of danielis' promise of entertainment.

After all, if a lawsuit is filed, Paramount's chances of successfully blocking danielis Entertainment's acquisition of MCA are very low. Even if successfully prevented, paramount himself will not get much benefit, and the relationship between the two sides will deteriorate further.

Simon met Martin Davis in person in the morning and also made some concessions. Paramount gave up his appeal in USA TV station. In terms of film, he still maintained 50% of the investment ratio of both sides. At the same time, he increased the number of cooperative films to three. At the same time, the sequels of cooperative films were also included.

Through this cooperation, Denise entertainment also successfully obtained the film copyright of mission impossible, which paramount has been preparing.

As a result, after several ups and downs, Simon's memory of Hollywood's two most famous spy film series after the 1990s, mission impossible and spy film, all in his own hands.

After such a long busy time, I finally had a weekend off.

Move by the way.

The streamlined shell like structure of domay point manor, modeled on Simon's iron man villa in his memory, has become the focus of media attention since it was first formed.

With the completion of a silver building larger than Simon's memory on the cliff of domay point, the building has gradually attracted more and more public attention.

Of course, inevitably, it has once again become an evidence of many media criticisms of Simon's luxurious life.The villa finally completed covers an area of 5000 square meters. It looks like a museum on the outside, which is far more luxurious than the iron man villa generated by CG in my memory. The silver building spirals up in streamline style, with a total of three floors. If the underground garage imitating the iron man studio is included, the total internal space is more than 12000 square meters.

Compared with ordinary apartment villas, this shell like building can't even be simply described as "big".

If it has to be said, it is very big.

The final construction cost of the villa is far higher than expected, not counting the later decoration, but the main construction cost reaches 30 million US dollars.

Janet will not save in the later decoration and furniture, because she is still adding all kinds of things, and the final budget may even exceed the construction cost.

Therefore, the villa seems to be simple decoration, in fact, every place is expensive.

The couple used to live in a villa less than 500 meters to the west of domay point manor. Everything in the shell villa is ready-made. The so-called move is just to move some daily clothes and books, which took only half a day to basically complete.

It's only in the evening when all the details are settled.

Next to the huge glass curtain wall on the Bank of the cliff and facing the sea, Simon leans relaxed on the sofa. Janet curls up beside the man and looks at the magnificent sunset sea view outside the curtain wall. The woman whispers, "it's like a dream."

Simon rubbed his face on the woman's fragrant hair and said with a smile, "have you never thought of building such a house before?"

Janet shook her head on Simon's shoulder: "no, even if I want to, I really need to spend so much money to build such a house. Unless I sell my shares, the old man will definitely jump up."

"Isn't it your dowry? Of course, you can spend whatever you want. "

"I didn't think about looking for a man before. The stock under my name is the living expenses of my life. If I spend it all at once, the days after that will be miserable."

"Catherine told me," Simon said, still smiling, "why didn't you want a man?"

Janet raised her head and hit Simon lightly on the shoulder. She said, "I'll wait for you."

"Oh, it's an honor."

"Hum," Jeanette said triumphantly, but she took Simon's hand and held it in her arms. Her voice dropped a little, and she said, "in fact, she was liked by people and other boys very early. But maybe I'm too smart. Those guys let me down, so I'm going to be alone forever. "

"It's lonely to be alone forever."

"That's why God let me meet you."

"Well, many years later, when we see him, we must express our gratitude."

"Ha ha," Janet hit Simon again, looking at the more magnificent fire clouds outside the curtain wall, and said, "I really want to thank you. Otherwise, you may be alone forever."

"I'm not. I'm so popular with girls. If I didn't meet you, I would be the number one Playboy in Hollywood."

"Well, finally, Playboy..." Janet scratched her paws discontentedly. Simon made her wrists. Her body suddenly softened and she said angrily, "little bastard, you bully me again."

"Do you like being bullied by me?"

"I don't like it."

Simon added a little bit of strength and said, "another answer. "

" well I like it. "