I’m in Hollywood

Five years ago, Warner's Batman made a huge profit of no less than $1 billion at the box office and peripheral sales at a cost of $35 million.

After Ron Perelman confirmed his guess, he immediately thought that if Firefly covets Marvel, its goal must be a superhero that is as popular as its Batman, Superman and other characters. Movie rights.

Less than an hour after the call came to Marvel's New York headquarters, Ron Perelman looked at the faxed documents of several copyright transfer agreements in his hand and confirmed his guess 100%.

Although Firefly has only one insignificant Blade Warrior movie copyright, it is still in the hands of Firefly's New Line Pictures. However, since the second half of last year, Huahua Pictures, which was separated from the Firefly Group, has successively acquired Batman, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four from some small film companies that own the copyright of Marvel superhero movies by transferring the capital injection rights of their films. In addition, Huahua Pictures is still competing with some other film companies for the copyright of X-Men. This transaction should have ended in the first half of the year, but because of Huahua Pictures' participation , In order to be able to sell a better price, Marvel has been waiting for a price until now.

Ron Perelman began to think about the next step after calling Avi Allard by phone again and demanding that Marvel Avi Allard immediately stop all authorization of Marvel superhero characters.

The Firefly Group's statement in the morning did not mention the Disney animation department, but only issued a threat as a creditor of Marvel. Then, this shows that the Firefly Group did not give up the Disney animation department. In addition, Marvel at this time , Ron Perelman suddenly felt that he suddenly had two important chips. These two chips would not only allow him to obtain the seat of the board of directors of the Firefly Group, but may even go further and become a shareholder of the Firefly Group!

But right now. The most important thing is how to avoid the fate of bankruptcy protection that Marvel faces.

Once the New York District Court approves the bankruptcy protection request of creditors headed by Firefly Group, Marvel will face the fate of being taken over by creditors. At that time, Marvel will be completely out of its control. As a super capital player. Ron Perelman could instantly think of a series of ways to prevent Marvel from going bankrupt, but at the same time he realized that since the Firefly Group had been secretly planning for so long, the time left for him would definitely not be too generous. There may be less than two weeks left.

and. Most of the way to prevent Marvel from bankruptcy protection comes down to one word, money.

However, in order to settle into the Firefly Group's board of directors this time, Ron Perelman used all the liquidity of Andrews Holdings to buy the Firefly Group's bonds, some of which were temporarily forcibly transferred from holding subsidiaries such as Revlon. As a result, it is impossible for him to come up with enough funds for Marvel's capital operation in a short period of time.

Now, the original layout has become a kind of shackles.

If you want to get out of this predicament, you can only find a way to get enough external support.

Ron Perelman finds the list of the chief executives of the seven major Hollywood studios, weighs for a moment, and eliminates Columbia, Fox and MGM, which are closely associated with Firefly. Ron Perelman called his assistant and said, Help me make an appointment for Universal Michael Eisner, Time Warner Terry Semel and Paramount Shirley Lansing, as soon as possible.

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At Santa Monica Airport, Eric stood beside his car, waved at a Gulfstream business jet, and watched the Gulfstream run all the way to the sky.

In addition to Warren Buffett, Tom Murphy and David West, the business plane also includes Katzenberg and Firefly's chief legal officer, Edward Lewis, who will travel to New York together to use their connections and influence. Forced to lobby the New York District Court to approve Marvel's bankruptcy protection application in the shortest time possible.

After completely revealing his plans for Marvel in revenge. Eric believes that with Ron Perelman's shrewdness, he can definitely guess Firefly's coveted heart for Marvel. However, the chips in Firefly's hands far exceeded Ron Perelman's guess.

In addition to Marvel's Avi Arad who has been attracted by Firefly, in the process of absorbing Marvel bonds. Firefly also collected a lot of evidence that Ron Perelman used Marvel to conduct illegal capital operations.

Firefly was even aware of the amount of money that Ron Perelman used Andrews Holdings to embezzle Marvel's financing. Marvel currently has a total of $553 million in long-term bonds, but only $73 million of it has been used for Marvel's development in recent years, and the other $470 million has all flowed into the account of Andrews Holdings.

As long as he seizes control of Marvel and obtains more detailed and conclusive evidence, the price that Ron Perelman wants to get out of this crisis will far exceed the $470 million in benefits he has received.

Watching the Gulfstream business jet disappear into the sky. Eric only looked back and said to the female assistant Kelly Haynes next to him: Kelly, what do you think Ron Perelman will do next?

Of course it's to protect Marvel, Kelly followed Eric into the car and continued: The most direct way is to inject capital from major shareholders to push up Marvel's stock price, but Ron Perelman is in order to buy Firefly's bonds, he definitely doesn't have enough liquidity in his hands, and he doesn't have enough time to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funds. Since this method doesn't work, I think he will definitely find a way to create a very big positive news to stop Marvel from going bankrupt.

Good news, Eric leaned on the leather seat and said, Firefly wants Marvel, is it good news?

Kelly smiled: Of course, but most people certainly don't think so. Now the media around the firefly's recent events has become a mess, and before this matter is completely settled, It's not that easy to sort out the ins and outs of all this.

Eric narrowed his eyes relaxedly and said, The more chaos, the better for us. I think the next news will definitely make the situation even more chaotic.

When are you going to have a showdown with the animation department?

Eric smiled confidently and said, Wait, since Ron Perelman needs a piece of good news, Disney Animation's important 'good news' will definitely be used. (To be continued.)