I’m in Hollywood

Seeing that Elizabeth had to ask further questions, Eric shook his head and said, Don't ask about this, it's not clear now, but Marvel's dish is very big, and the Firefly family will definitely not be able to finish it. Everyone has a share. A book ww?w?·1k?a?nshu·”

After listening to Eric's nonsense, Elizabeth, who no longer intends to continue this topic, heard him say so, but became curious again, and even the fireflies couldn't eat, how much potential of Marvel should be.

Just as he was about to continue his questioning, a waiter hurried to Eric's side and said something in his ear.

Eric nodded to the waiter and said to Elizabeth, Come with me to meet the guests.

Elizabeth stood up and asked, Who is it?

Eric raised his arm towards Elizabeth, waited for the girl to hold him, and said, Terry Semel from Warners, so be more intimate.

Elizabeth immediately guessed Eric's intentions. If the two of them were close, Terry Semel, who came to Disney's animation department, would definitely re-evaluate Fox's competitiveness, and Firefly would get a higher offer. .

Hmph, you actually used me, Elizabeth complained a little, but still leaned on Eric obediently, and the two went out together.

Terry Semmel has a gray head and a pair of rimless glasses, and has the elegance of a scholar. Although he is just in his early fifties, he has worked at Warner for nearly 20 years and is one of several important successors trained by Steve Ross.

However, after the death of Steve Ross, Terry Semel, who became Time Warner through fierce internal competition, has not had a good time recently. On the big side, after Firefly and the M\u0026A case, Warner was immediately kicked down by Firefly and has been the media hegemony for many years. On the small side, in this hot summer season when the total box office volume once again broke the Hollywood box office record, Time Warner's film and television business bucked the trend and fell, reaching the lowest level of Time Warner's film and television business for many years. These have caused Terry Semel to receive tremendous pressure from all quarters almost every day recently.

Hearing that Firefly was about to sell Disney's animation division, Terry Semel knew right away that it was a great opportunity to extricate himself from his current predicament. ?One?Reading 1?k?a?n?s?hu?Firefly's starting price of 100 million US dollars is nothing for Time Warner, which has a scale of tens of billions of dollars. But if it can win the animation production department, Time Warner can immediately open up the animation film market that has never been successfully developed before. This will also be very good news for him personally.

After Terry Semel got out of the car, he saw Eric walking towards him. Just as he was about to meet him, he noticed Elizabeth beside Eric.

In recent years, Murdoch's outstanding daughter's achievements in Hollywood are obvious to all. Terry Semel had also vaguely heard that Elizabeth and Eric were close. But as Eric's status increases, he is afraid of his influence, and there are fewer and fewer reports on his private life in the media. Terry Semel really doesn't know what the relationship between the two is.

Seeing Elizabeth holding Eric's arm affectionately, Terry Semel's eyes suddenly narrowed. If Eric and Elizabeth are lovers, it will become a major factor in Warner's acquisition of Disney's animation division. After all, Fox will certainly not let this opportunity go easily.

Eric noticed the change in Terry Semel's expression, with a smile at the corner of his mouth, and took the initiative to extend his hand to the other party: Mr. Semel, welcome to Sharphorn Manor.

Terry Semel quickly put away his mind to deal with Eric, and greeted Elizabeth warmly, and the three walked towards the villa.

Eric, can we talk alone? Socialize with the guests in the hall. Terry Semel whispered to Eric.

Eric knew that Terry Semel just wanted to win the animation department before the public auction, and maybe he wanted to bargain for the copyright of animations such as The Lion King. Anyway, the animation department is the private property of Firefly. What form to sell in the final analysis depends on Eric's meaning.

However, the animation department was just a bait that Eric put out to attract the attention of Hollywood. Before he successfully won Marvel, he did not intend to have any entanglement with the other majors in this regard. He was just about to find an excuse to reject Terry Sai Mel, I heard someone report that Shirley Lansing of Paramount also rushed to the Pointe Manor.

Sorry, Mr. Semel. I need to pick up someone, maybe we can make another appointment, Eric apologized to Terry Semel, and walked out of the villa with Elizabeth again.

There are no permanent enemies in business either. Although Redstone did not appear in person due to the contradictions arising from the original Disney competition, he still sent Shirley Lansing, Paramount, to personally come to this party, which is very sensitive to the timing for many people. ??One Kanshu ww?w·1?k?anshu·

After Shirley Lansing, many important people in Hollywood also came to the scene for six consecutive years, but under the circumstances that everyone had their own thoughts, they were not able to contact Eric alone.

Although no reporters were invited to the party scene. But the competitive scene of Sharphorn Manor was immediately spread the next day. Afterwards, Eric simply let people publish the list of assets of the animation department and related information to be auctioned on the Yahoo website, which immediately caused a lot of heated discussion.

The focus of the media attention was mainly on the seemingly cheap reserve price of $100 million. You know, just a Lion King, the net profit brought to Firefly in the next few years will not be less than 100 million US dollars.

——To resist the invasion of capital by selling the Disney animation department, Eric Williams has undoubtedly made a very crazy, willful and stupid decision, although the box office value of the Disney animation department is in the entire Firefly Group system. The revenue ratio is very low, but don’t forget that Disney’s amusement parks, peripheral stores and franchised licensing businesses all need the locomotive effect of Disney animation. The box office success of “The Lion King” further proves the unlimited economic potential of Disney animation owners. It is difficult for us to Imagine where the Disney brand would go without the Disney animation division.

—Although we don't know exactly what Eric Williams' intentions are for abandoning Disney's animation division, the $100 million auction price shows the shrewdness of the Firefly Group, and this low pricing strategy will undoubtedly attract More investors interested in acquiring Disney's animation division will generate more intense competition in the auction process. At present, the three major Hollywood giants, Time Warner, Viacom and News Corp., have expressed their interest in Disney's animation division. With strong interest, French Vivendi Group and Canada Seagram Group, which are interested in entering Hollywood, also began to have close contact with Firefly executives, according to analysts at First Boston Bank. More than double what Firefly offered.

—Roy Disney, Walt Disney's nephew, publicly criticized Eric Williams for wantonly obliterating the spirit of Disney, claiming that without the Disney animation department, Walt Disney's ideas would be gone Exist. Walt Disney's daughter, Diana Disney Miller, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, also expressed her extreme disappointment at Firefly's decision.

—Eric Williams's talent in film and television has been proven countless times, so I think everyone should have a good reason to pay attention to another thing that happened at the same time as Firefly's sale of the animation department, That's why Firefly went so far as to wrestle Marvel Entertainment from Wall Street investor Ron Perelman. While most media tend to believe that this is Firefly's revenge for Ron Perelman's fanning of Firefly's creditors, Eric Williams' business performance over the past few years. I have absolutely no belief that the young Hollywood mogul would spend hundreds of millions of dollars on revenge against his enemies, especially since the whole thing was clearly well planned , even the legendary investor Warren Buffett is involved, this evidence is enough to prove that the whole thing is not revenge, perhaps, Marvel Entertainment in Eric Williams' eyes than the Disney animation that created The Lion King The department is even more important. If this is the case, if there is any bold investor who dares to snatch Marvel at this time, there will undoubtedly be unexpected gains.”

Ron Perelman sat in his luxury car, silently flipping through the thick stack of today's newspapers. In a piece of news about Firefly's imminent sale of the animation division, I finally saw a mention of Marvel, and the article in the Manhattan Morning Post is almost exactly the same as his recent speculation about a series of Marvel encounters.

However, Ron Perelman has no excitement at all to find a confidant, because two days ago, the New York District Court quickly approved the mandatory bankruptcy protection proposed by Marvel creditors with astonishing efficiency, and then, in the With the cooperation of Marvel Avi Allard, Marvel creditors represented by Katzenberg quickly took control of the Marvel board of directors.

The luxury car slowly stopped outside the Marvel headquarters on Midtown Street in Manhattan, after Ron Perelman got out of the car. Walked into Marvel's office building with an assistant.

It happened to be working time, and several Marvel employees were waiting for the elevator in the corner of the hall. When they saw Ron Perelman walk in, the people who were whispering immediately stopped talking. He tiptoed around Ron Perelman and headed for the safety stairs.

Ron Perelman has long known that most people in Marvel are very disgusted with him. If it was before, he would not care about these little people at all, but today, Ron Perelman looks like a plague avoider Like avoiding his Marvel staff. There was a sudden burst of anger in my heart.

Clenching his fists, Ron Perelman said to the assistant beside him in a gloomy tone: Neil, go write down the names of those people, and then notify the personnel department to let them all get out.

Assistant Neil glanced at the almost hysterical boss, wanting to remind something, Ron Perelman has roared: Even you want to resist me, I am still the master of Marvel!

Neil didn't dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly walked towards the safety stairs.

When he came to the floor of Marvel Entertainment's headquarters, Ron Perelman found that all the lights in the corridor were still on, and people in the conference room not far away from time to time were holding documents in and out. Luo felt inappropriate. En Perelman stepped up and walked into the conference room. Now Jeffrey Katzenberg, Avi Allard and others were all there, and it was obvious that those who were looking at various reports and financial data, Either a lawyer or an accountant.

Katzenberg, with faint dark circles under his eyes, heard the reminder from the people next to him, looked up from the pile of documents, saw Ron Perelman coming, raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and suddenly said: It's nine o'clock. clock.

Having said that, Katzenberg stood up from the seat and stretched his body, ordered his assistant to prepare breakfast for him, and then walked straight to the door. Ron Perelman had long expected that once Firefly took control of Marvel, he would definitely He would start with Marvel's financial situation as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that Katzenberg had already led someone to review Marvel's financial documents overnight without any notice, which made him just depressed. The anger exploded again, seeing Katzenberg walking towards him, Ron Perelman gritted his teeth and said: You didn't get my permission, it's illegal, I'll protest to the federal court, I Most definitely.

Katzenberg moved his stiff neck and came to Ron Perelman's side. He didn't mind Ron Perelman's threat, patted him on the shoulder a few times, and said, Go protest, Ron. But before that, I think we need to have a good talk, like that $470 million thing.

Katzenberg left the conference room with these few words, but Ron Perelman felt a chill in his heart. The number Katzenberg said at random was related to his appropriation of Marvel debt financing. amount is exactly the same. This likely means that, in just one night, Firefly has mastered enough. He just didn't know that Firefly had roughly mastered these data before attacking Marvel. If there was not enough evidence, the New York District Court would not have approved the bankruptcy protection application of Marvel creditors so quickly. All Katzenberg did at this time was to look for definitive evidence from Marvel's internal documents.

Unable to do Katzenberg, Ron Perelman reluctantly pointed his finger at Marvel Avi Allard: Avi, why did you betray me, don't forget, I supported you to get Marvel location?

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*ps: There is one more update

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