America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 179 MGM’s plan to re-list and acquire Marvel

It is said that Wenwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes, and this is not true at all.

At night, when Eric saw that she really couldn't stand it anymore, he gave up on her.

This state lasted for three days, and the two seemed to be living as a couple.

Eat at home, watch TV shows, play games, and then ask for love non-stop.

During this period, I made a phone call to Sergey, a middle-aged man who lacked love. His voice sounded high-spirited.

"Sergey, where did you go that night? I could still see you at first, but then suddenly I found you disappeared, along with Kate Winslet."

Sergey laughed heartily: "We left before ten o'clock, and then went to the beach in Santa Monica for a walk, looking at the scenery, and chatting about life."

"What about after the walk?"

"After? After that I sent her home."

Even though the two of them were on the phone, Eric couldn't help but show a confused expression.

"Brother, don't tell me, you guys are really talking about life and life."

A determined voice came from the other side.

"Yes, that's it, young man, I know what's going on in your head, but sex is secondary to me."

"Have I played with too many women? White skin, yellow skin, black skin, mixed-color skin, tall, petite, sexy, cute, there are many who are more beautiful and tasteful than Kate."

"But I'm tired of pure sex. Mental harmony is the most important thing."

"Through one night of communication, Kate and I got to know each other better, and we found common hobbies and directions, which is far more comfortable than a bed exercise."

"You may not understand what I'm saying now, but with your status and resources, especially in Hollywood."

"Surrounded by all kinds of beauties and facing so many temptations and temptations, I believe you will understand one day."

"You must have experienced hundreds of battles by then, and you will naturally understand my mentality by then."

After listening to him talking a lot, Eric's only thought was, you are really wasting resources.

After finally creating the opportunity for you, don’t you think about yourself as a person with a wife? If someone knows about it, they will still get close to you? But this cannot be said.

"Okay buddy, this is your choice, this is the only way I can do it anyway."

"Eric, my brother, I will remember your help in my heart. If you need me in the future, I will do my best!"

After hanging up the phone, Theron lay on his chest and rubbed circles, and of course he heard the content of the call.

"You bad guy, look at your friends. The most important thing for a person is spiritual harmony. That's true."

Eric chuckled and said, "Baby, you have to look at things dialectically."

"He also said that he has played with all kinds of women, so it can be inferred that he is tired of playing or can't do it anymore, so he can only choose to be in tune with his spirit."

Theron climbed up and straddled him like a water snake, and asked condescendingly: "What about you? Sergey is only in the toy field, and you are a Hollywood tycoon."

"Let me think about it, how many women are you rumored to have had affairs with? And how many are there hiding in the dark?"

"I'm not! I didn't! Stop talking nonsense!"

Eric decisively denied the three consecutive scandals: "Gossips are all for hype. Don't you still know the virtues of those gossip tabloids?"

"Baby, you are the only one in my heart. You should feel my love!"

"Ah, disgusting!"

Ha ha ha ha

Happy time is always short, after three days of happy life.

Finally, at Theron's insistence, the two walked out of the apartment and returned to work.

The reason she gave was that career is the most important thing. You are a man and the head of such a large company, so you have a heavy burden.

If something important is delayed because of me, then the gain outweighs the loss and I will be hated to death.

But only Theron knows whether he really wants to return to work or is an excuse to escape from Eric's clutches.

Anyway, when she left, her walking posture changed.

The ground was plowed by oxen!

The crew of "House of Cards" continued to leave it to Andrea to deal with as usual, comforting her that if she had to hold on for a few more days, she would return.

Over at Meiyi Records, the team from MyKoo is in charge of the work and is handling matters related to the establishment of the company.

After the two communicated, they planned to set up the company in Los Angeles, specifically in Burbank.

This is the entertainment center of the United States. There are not only a large number of film and television companies, but also many record companies.

And it's very close to MGM, making it easy to communicate.

What Eric really pays attention to now are two things. One is the competition between Facebook and MySpace, and the other is communication with Marvel.

Myspace has been online for more than half a month. Due to Fox's all-out publicity, the momentum has been very high.

The brainwashing offensive is just like melatonin. As long as you are a Fox viewer, when you hear the word join, you can immediately think of myspace.

Although many people complain that it is as annoying as spam calls, the traffic it can attract is real.

However, attracting traffic is only the most basic thing. The key lies in how to retain users.

As a social software with similar functions to Facebook, MySpace is a chaser and must find unique tricks. The key cards it plays are personalization and edge-balling.

Since its launch, one of its strategies has been to recruit a large number of DJs, musicians, and spiritual boys and girls from major nightclubs and bars.

These musicians all have fans to some extent. Even if they are not big singers, they can bring in many users if they add up to a small amount and gather sand into a tower.

And those who are more attractive than them are those spiritual girls.

America is a country that is divided in many ways, and sex is one of them.

In the film and television works exported to the outside world, American girls are often very open-minded. They can play and do whatever they want. It is normal for them to break up at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

It makes sense but is not absolute, because in addition to the extremely open states, there are also many states that are extremely conservative, far more conservative than China.

For example, in states such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia, the church is powerful and every household believes in God. In their view, sex is just like the theory of evolution, a scourge.

Even twenty years later, LGBT has swept the Western world, but in conservative states such as Alabama, you will never see a demonstration in support of LGBT, because fanatics really dare to shoot you directly.

The people myspace is recruiting this time are from extremely sexually liberal states such as California and New York. According to surveys, cheating, cheating, and multiple relationships are the most rampant places in the United States.

Therefore, the spirited girls are all very open-minded. The photos on the homepage and the posing and posing are all reserved. Many of them only have a piece of cloth left, barely revealing anything.

Even a normal man can't resist this kind of trick, let alone those young men who are full of blood.

Ask yourself, have you ever downloaded Momo because you wanted to make a date? The reason is the same, so it is vulgar but it is very helpful in attracting traffic.

Eric also registered a test account and just smiled disdainfully when he saw this situation.

Relying on sidelines may be able to maintain temporary popularity, but it will damage the foundation of the network ecology.

If you don't engage in pornography, you won't get attention and you won't be able to attract fans. It will gradually turn into an arms race of who can be bigger.

But neither society nor the law will allow the emergence of a yellow base for all ages.

Time is still short, and public opinion and parents have not yet reacted.

When Myspace becomes bigger and more unscrupulous, and parents suddenly find that their underage children are browsing inappropriate information, how do you think they will react?

At that time, Eric can use public opinion to add fuel to the flames, and do whatever it takes to make things worse.

When pressure is put on myspace, it is impossible not to make corrections.

At that time, its important label was to be pornographic, and that was what everyone came for.

If you suddenly say I’m done with it, who among the users will still be willing to play with you? Wouldn’t it be more fun if I went to Facebook?

In addition to side effects, another feature of myspace is personalized main business settings.

Users can freely change the color, background, decoration, text content, etc. of their homepage.

This function is somewhat similar to the QQ space of later generations. You can make your own homepage flashy and blind others at a glance.

When non-mainstream culture was popular, many people must have had this experience and feeling.

Eric thought it was good after trying it, and wanted to arrange for Fitz to have a similar function.

But Fitz told him it's best not to do this, because it may look gorgeous, but it will cost you dearly.

"Boss, our team has conducted a step-by-step test on the personalization function of MySpace, which is to continuously decorate the personal homepage to make it more prosperous and complex."

"If the gorgeousness level is 1, then it looks beautiful."

"And when the glam level goes up to 10, it looks prettier."

"But when the gorgeousness level rises to 20, side effects begin to appear. The opening and refreshing speed of the homepage begins to lag."

"As that number continues to rise, the level of lag will continue to increase until it takes four or five minutes to open a home page."

"And after clicking it, there will continue to be lags, such as comments being posted, messages not being synchronized, etc."

"Boss, our company's software and hardware configurations are already the most advanced on the market. Problems will still occur. You can imagine the experience of ordinary users."

"It may be wonderful now, but in two or three months, the disadvantages will definitely show up."

After hearing what Fitz said, Eric couldn't help but think of Penguin Space again. Later, it was indeed lagging abnormally.

If a page cannot be opened for several minutes, who is still interested in continuing?

"What you said makes sense, what is your suggestion?"

"Boss, I think we just need to do our job well and don't need to worry about myspace's provocation at all."

"It has chosen a path of quick success and quick profit. It is not worthy of competing with Facebook. It will soon kill itself."

"According to the information I received, the joint promotion of Myspace among major companies and organizations did not go smoothly, and the results were almost as you predicted."

"Our promotion in major middle schools is going very well. Currently, the number of new middle school users has reached 3 million, and most of them are very active."

After thinking for a moment, Eric said: "Since myspace is so anxious to catch up with us, let's give it some power."

"Facebook has not released data to the outside world since its launch. You should prepare in the past few days to increase the data by 20% and publish it."

"Boss, is 20% too conservative? Or increase it to 50%. Without pressure, there will be no motivation."

"Is 50% too exaggerated? Can others believe it?"

Fitz chuckled and said, "We don't care whether most people believe it or not, but even if there is only a 1% chance that it is true, Myspace wouldn't dare not believe it."

"As long as it believes it, it will inevitably go to more extremes on the road of skirting the edge, and the hourglass of death will only flow faster and faster."

"Okay, let's do it like this."

With Facebook temporarily stable, Eric's focus became Marvel.

Since he planned to attack Marvel some time ago, Eric has been investigating and contacting relevant personnel.

According to the information obtained, Marvel's largest shareholder is Beechcraft Toys, accounting for 20% of the shares.

However, Beechcraft Toys is not directly involved in operations, but is more of an investment method.

But it would be wrong to say that it is completely ignored, because Marvel's two largest individual shareholders are Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad.

The former holds 17% of Marvel's shares, while the latter holds 10%.

According to Marvel's current market value, the combined shares of the two people are worth about US$200 million.

The two of them are also shareholders of Beechcraft Toys, but their proportion is not as large as that of Marvel.

So if you want to win Marvel, there are two ways in front of Eric.

The first way is to negotiate directly with Beech Toys to see if they can acquire this 20% stake, which is now valued at US$400 million.

MGM's current liquidity is sufficient, even a premium of US$100 million is enough.

But the process may take a long time, requiring board meetings and constant discussions and negotiations.

The second way is to find Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad, find a way to do their jobs, and buy the shares to become Marvel's largest shareholder.

Then when MGM went public and had sufficient funds, they bought back the equity from Beechcraft Toys.

According to Eric's plan, MGM's re-listing time is scheduled to be after the release of "Transformers".

Once it is relisted, it will surely be able to obtain billions of dollars in financing.

By then, even if the money owed to Kerkorian and the bank is repaid, it will still be enough to acquire Marvel.

What's more, I even bought Beechcraft toys together.

If the premium of 100 million is not enough, I will give you a premium of 200 million. If two is not enough, I will give you more. I will knock you out even if you give it a try. Who can have trouble with money?

"Chen Xing, how are the arrangements at Marvel?"

"Boss, we have made an appointment. Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad will be coming to Los Angeles in four days to solicit investments. We have made an appointment to meet them at the company."

If I can't get anything done today, I'll ask for leave tomorrow to do it.