America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 209 208. Women’s views on marriage, the arrival of the Golden Globe Awards

Beverly Hills, Cooper's House.

Under the bright moonlight, Eric stood on the balcony and answered the phone while looking at the swimming pool in the yard.

"Eric, congratulations to MGM for re-listing, and even more congratulations to you for becoming the world's richest young man."

On the overseas phone call, Han Sanping loudly spoke auspicious words.

However, Eric's ears almost grew calluses hearing these words. In fact, he had received too many congratulatory calls this day.

Not to mention the ears, even the eyes and fingers are sore and sleepy because they have to read and reply to text messages.

The only people who can be contacted on his personal phone number are acquaintances. It's not good for anyone to be ignored, and it doesn't look good if he doesn't reply.

After coming out of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, my father flew back to Los Angeles first, and Eric went to meet Sergey Hassenfeld.

This old boy is very proud now, not only emotionally, but also in career.

Emotionally, I had a passionate fight with Kate Winslet, and the withered heart seemed to come to life again. I stopped boxing and found a new exciting point.

He even had the idea of ​​divorcing his wife, but Eric advised him to think carefully. Marriage is not a trivial matter, especially for a rich and successful person like him.

The distribution of property is a big issue, as are the children, and his uncle Alan Hassenfeld will not agree.

Affected by the movie, Transformers toys were sold like crazy. Hasbro's stock price also rose sharply, almost catching up with MGM, and its market value exceeded 10 billion US dollars.

It's peak time and Alan Hassenfeld won't allow a bit of bad news to affect the stock price, including Sergey's marital problems.

Who makes Sergey the apparent leader of Hasbro?

His relationship with his uncle Alan was the exact opposite of Eric's relationship with Charlie Cooper.

MGM Eric was Prime Minister and Charlie Cooper was King.

Hasbro Allen is the prime minister, and Sergey is the king.

After listening to Eric's persuasion, the hot-headed Sergey gradually calmed down, knowing that his thoughts were too simple.

He hated Alan Hasenfeld more and more, and cursed loudly that with this old man around, he might not be able to turn around in his life.

Eric asked him about the sales volume of his toys again, and Sergey said that he didn't know the statistics yet, but he had a rough estimate.

In just over two months, the sales of Transformers toys have exceeded the sales of last year, almost twice as much.

If we follow this trend, we really hope to quadruple sales volume over time.

Once this number is reached, it means that the maximum terms of the gambling agreement signed by both parties will be honored.

Hasbro will then face two choices, either paying MGM 55% of the net profits from toys, which could reach $500 million or more.

Either that or it has to pay MGM 4% of its equity.

Once the equity is in the hands of MGM, there will be more manipulation methods. It can be sold directly to Eric personally. Anyway, MGM has the final say, but it is left to the right.

If he gets this 4% stake, Eric will have 20% of Hasbro's stake.

It will instantly surpass Alan Hasenfeld's 17% and become Hasbro's largest shareholder.

The key to the matter now is Sergey. Eric has helped him so much, and this guy is very dissatisfied with Allen. It is not difficult to deal with him.

Pulling back his thoughts, Eric said: "I can accept the first sentence of congratulations, but forget the second sentence. He is the world's number one young rich man."

"Those kind of things are all randomly arranged to attract attention. Only some public assets are calculated. The hidden assets of many big families and large groups are the majority, and they cannot be counted at all."

Old Han laughed loudly: "People have invisible assets, don't you? I don't believe you even if you say you don't have them!"

"In short, you are the richest person I know. On the Forbes list, there is only one Chinese shortlisted, Ding Lei who is engaged in the Internet."

"The gap is still quite big. If you have time to come over and guide the work, the wealthy people in the country will definitely be happy to come and take classes."

The two chatted for a few minutes before Eric made an excuse and hung up.

Han Sanping was right. Others had hidden assets, but he also had a lot of them.

Double Star Entertainment owns 45% of the shares. After more than half a year of operation, the company's products are now becoming more and more prosperous.

By the time "Peppa Pig" and "Rick and Morty" are produced, the products will be highly compatible with Double Star Entertainment. Although the peripheral products will not be as good as Transformers by then, they will definitely be big IP sales.

He originally spent 300 million US dollars to buy back these shares from Solni. Now the valuation has doubled, and it will double many times if the company goes public in the future.

The 16% stake in Hasbro is also worth a lot of money. According to the current stock price, it is more than 1.5 billion US dollars and still growing.

Not to mention the value of Facebook, YouTube and Lionheart. Now he really can't compare with those super second generations.

But given time, maybe only ten years, the name of the world's richest man will definitely be Eric Cooper, and he will hold it for a long time.

After making the phone call and returning to the dinner table, my mother complained with some dissatisfaction: "These people are serious, why don't they pay attention to the time? They can't let you eat something after half an hour."

The little nanny Lisa reheated the cold food: "Eat quickly Eric, there will definitely be a call later."

"It's okay. It will be fine after today. Hmm. Why is the stew so delicious today? It doesn't taste like chicken or pork. What is this?"

"It's ostrich meat. It tastes very good. It has been processed with special techniques." My mother said with a smile.

Eric nodded and took another big bite: "It's delicious. Why do you suddenly want to eat ostrich meat today?"

"It was given by others, and I just processed it a second time according to the method."

"Who sent it?"

"Nicole Kidman."

"Well"

Eric choked and quickly drank a sip of soup.

"Nicole Kidman? Why did she give you ostrich meat? No, how do you know each other? Don't you dislike her?"

Eric clearly remembers that after the Oscars last year, the scandal between himself and Nicole was flying all over the world.

My mother was quite dissatisfied when she heard about it. She had also heard about the bad debt between Nicole and Tom Cruise, so she didn't have a good impression of the other party.

"Eric, God teaches us to look at a person with our time and heart, not with our eyes. I must admit I was wrong."

"Based on past media reports, I made the incorrect judgment that Nicole was a problematic woman."

"But we met in church some time ago, and it turns out that she is also a devout Catholic and has a deep understanding of the Bible."

"We became friends and she gradually opened up and told me a lot about her past, including her bad marriage."

"But I have to keep her secret. I can't tell you the details, but it's really not Nicole's fault. She is also a victim."

"Those gossip tabloids are so annoying. They always make random reports based on rumors. They twist a good woman into a crazy woman."

Eric couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw his mother actually fighting over Nico.

He suddenly remembered that when the two of them got along some time ago, Nicole asked him if he usually went to church or something like that.

We chatted for a while, but Eric didn't take it seriously at all. After all, the two of them chatted too much, so who would care about this.

I didn't feel anything at that time, but now that I think about it, I guess this little bitch was trying to trick him.

Then she secretly contacted her mother without telling her, and successfully changed her image. The two actually became good friends, which was really surprising.

When the two of them became best friends and Eric had sex with her, it would be equivalent to directly performing "The Fatal Woman".

Thinking about herself, among the women, Nicole is undoubtedly the most active, and she often talks about marriage, intentionally or unintentionally.

Of course Eric knew what she was thinking, and usually just laughed it off.

She had been messing around a lot, so she probably felt a little resentful in her heart, so she occasionally made sudden attacks on herself.

She didn't have any bad intentions, it was more because she was much older than Eric and felt insecure deep down, so she was anxious.

She also talked about the topic of children, fearing that she might not be able to get pregnant easily in a few years, and now she is about to enter the threshold of advanced maternal age.

So deep down in my heart, I worry that Eric will make a sudden attack on me, but this time it may be more severe, maybe it will be a breakup.

In order to catch a man, I can only work harder and find a way.

The surprise kiss at the Emmy Awards was obviously a bad idea, and Eric taught her a lesson afterwards.

But this time Nicole seemed to have found the right way, and it was finally a good idea to break through from her mother.

Relatively speaking, several other women are not so active, at least they have not expressed their attitudes towards marriage.

Gadot is only 19 years old, and the Olsen sisters have just turned 18. They are too young to understand this.

Although Theron is 28 years old, the pain caused by her original family has made her very hostile to marriage, and she has some signs of celibacy.

At least Theron wasn't married before Eric crossed over.

Now that their careers are booming, they will be assigned jobs after the awards season, and they won't have to think about it so much when they are busy.

On January 22, just a week after MGM re-listed, the stock price, which had been flattening, suddenly jumped by more than 8%.

Because another incident happened that was enough to detonate Hollywood.

Charlie Cooper officially announced his retirement, and Eric Cooper took over the company completely.

Facts have proven Eric's ability, so the market is generally optimistic about it, and the stock price has naturally risen.

"Transformers" has also come to its end after two months of large-scale screenings. Currently, only remote areas in North America and some overseas countries are still continuing, but the impact is no longer significant.

The current total global box office is 943 million US dollars, and it can continue to stay in the championship seat for a while, but "Lord of the Rings 3" is about to catch up.

The North American box office of "Adele's Life" has exceeded 100 million, reaching an exaggerated US$145 million.

The overseas box office also earned US$32 million, reaching the top spot with a global box office of US$177 million.

It beat the global box office record of $108 million for a same-sex movie "The Hours".

"The Hours" was the film that won Nicole the Best Film Award last year.

Eric suddenly discovered that all of his women, except Gadot, had participated in same-sex movies.

It's good to think about it. When they sleep together in the future, I will definitely not be able to take care of so many people at the same time. It would be good to let them please each other.

The North American box office of "Sharknado 2" also exceeded 100 million, and it has already earned 132 million U.S. dollars, which is more than 10 million U.S. dollars more than the previous film, but its potential has been almost tapped.

This kind of movie is all about making quick money. It is specially released for die-hard fans, and the upper limit is locked. The advantage is that the cost is low, and you can make money no matter how you shoot it.

"The Devil Wears Prada" is relatively miserable. It only took in more than 17 million US dollars at the North American box office in three weeks. We can only hope that the upcoming Golden Globe Awards will help the film turn around.

On January 25, a grand movie party was held at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

The Golden Globe Awards, which will be broadcast live by NBC and watched by more than 28 million American viewers and nearly 400 million people around the world, are about to come.

As the two most important film awards in the United States, the Golden Globe Awards are known as the outpost of the Oscars.

Generally, movies and actors that win the Golden Globe's favor will also win Oscars at the same time, and the same attributes as the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

But looking at the world, the influence of the Golden Globe Awards far exceeds that of the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

If you don’t believe me, just ask. Not to mention Asia, very few people in Europe pay attention to the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

There are many films shortlisted this year, and "Lord of the Rings 3" undoubtedly takes the lead. Not only does it have the most nominations, it also has the greatest chance of winning.

It won 5 nominations for Best Drama Film, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Original Song for a Film and Best Original Score for a Film.

According to outside predictions, the probability of "Lord of the Rings 3" being nominated for leading actor was very low, but Russell Crowe has a high probability of being nominated for "Polar Expedition".

But "Expedition" was so badly beaten by "Transformers" that the global box office ended up being 89 million US dollars.

Compared with the investment of 150 million US dollars, Miramax almost lost money and its influence was greatly reduced.

So the nomination was given to Elijah Wood, who played Frodo. This is also the only actor nomination that has been received in the three Lord of the Rings films so far.

As the daughter of great director Francis Coppola, Sofia Coppola won three nominations for "Lost in Translation", but some media criticized her for relying on her father's influence.

Clint Eastwood participated with "Mystic River", MGM invested, and he is responsible for directing "Million Dollar Baby" which has begun filming.

Since the Golden Globe Awards is sponsored by the Foreign Correspondents Association, most of the judges are not professionals, so there are no technical awards such as Best Special Effects and Best Makeup.

Therefore, "Transformers" was miserable and only received one nomination for Best Film Score.

However, something has been lost, and "Adele's Life" won four awards for Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Actress in a Drama Series, Best Director and Best Screenplay, all of which are heavyweight awards.

"The Devil Wears Prada", with its darker plot, won two heavyweight nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Best Screenplay.

"Get Out" also received two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actor in a Drama Series.

MGM received a total of 9 nominations for four movies, ranking first!