The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

"Acquisition of Columbia (TriStar) Films?" Ovitz couldn't fully conceal the surprise in his tone.

Erika sat with him in the Beverly Hills villa, facing the empty California mountain scenery, "Michael, in the entire Hollywood, there is no one who is more capable of handling large-scale mergers and acquisitions than you."

She showed amazing ambition, aiming at Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood's most important studios and a giant in the global film and entertainment industry.

Unexpectedly, Ovitz found that he should have such a feeling. He even felt that perhaps as early as many years ago, when he assisted Sony in acquiring this giant studio, Erica had already started planning in his heart, intending to one day Get Columbia Tristar with the Torch Goddess and Pegasus symbol.

"Right now is indeed an excellent opportunity," Ovitz thought and analyzed, "Sony has been deeply affected by the Japanese bubble economy crisis in recent years, and after entering Hollywood, it has repeatedly lost money at the box office, which not only seriously hinders the profitability of Sony headquarters, but also result in huge losses.”

Ovitz didn't ask Erica why he was being found, a career wreck who had been kicked out of Walt Disney executives and turned into a Hollywood bum, for a mega-acquisition that would rock Hollywood and Wall Street.

Years of mutual understanding and cooperation have made Ovitz and Erica have an unspeakable tacit understanding. She found him not only because of her trust in Ovitz's ability to handle large-scale mergers and acquisitions, but also because Ovitz was "dismantled" before the two. The equity that Weitz transferred to her free of charge.

Therefore, when he fell from the peak of Hollywood to the trough, she was willing to provide an opportunity for him to make a comeback.

Erica did not mention her 'friendly' assistance, but discussed more reasons for the merger with Ovitz in Business Talk, "In fact, about the data required to acquire Columbia Pictures from Sony One billion US dollars, my current financial situation is not the best, if I wait until "Titanic" is released, if it can sell well, both in terms of financial books and momentum, it will be more handy than it is now."

"But you're not going to wait another year?" Ovitz asked her. "Titanic" will be released at the end of the year, and the wait for the film to achieve box office or award prestige is obviously delayed until at least this time next year. .

"That's right, I'm worried that something will happen if it's delayed for another year." Erica didn't seem too proud and arrogant after the grand victory of "The English Patient" at the Oscars. She still acted calmly and calmly. wide awake.

Ovitz looked at her with a bit of embarrassment. The reason why he suffered a disastrous defeat was because he failed to stay sober and calm under the halo of the seat of "Hollywood's most powerful", so that he collapsed from the peak.

But Erica was not dizzy because of Hollywood's luxury and countless reputations, she still remained calm and vigilant.

In the Beverly Hills villa, she talked to Ovitz about the changes within Columbia Pictures, "Sony seems to have realized that the executives sent from the Tokyo headquarters are 'unsuitable' at Columbia Pictures, so they plan to Howard Sterling, a senior figure from Sony Corporation of America, was sent to lead the reform, and I learned that Sterling is a very talented and outstanding person."

"And if Howard Sterling has the ability to make Columbia Pictures profitable from now on," Ovitz immediately understood her concern, "Sony may refuse to sell Columbia Pictures, or even if Sony is willing to sell, it will eventually be completed. The amount of mergers and acquisitions will also increase significantly.”

Of course, Erica was unwilling to pay the extra money. She seemed a bit ruthless as a capitalist, "Columbia Pictures has suffered years of operating difficulties, and the company's market value has continued to decline. I don't plan to pay Sony more than $30 billion for the acquisition."

Ovitz also recognized her psychological price. He had the latest "Hollywood Reporter" newspaper on his hand, and picked it up so that Erica could read a piece of news, "Columbia Pictures' "Walking with the Devil" before It has just been released in a few days, with a budget of 600 million US dollars, but the final box office forecast in the United States is only 4000 million. Even if the global box office reaches [-] million, this is another terrible loss.”

Hollywood movies usually start to make a profit when the box office reaches 2.5 times to three times the budget. This undoubtedly means that "Walking with the Devil" may cost Columbia Pictures hundreds of millions of dollars.Ovitz suggested to Erica, "We should make an acquisition proposal to Sony as soon as possible."

"Are you planning to take advantage of another disastrous loss in Colombia to lower the acquisition price?" Erica immediately realized his plan.

Ovitz once again resumed the scheming of the wealthy and powerful in Hollywood, "This is a rare opportunity. If everything goes well, we can complete this merger within three months."

The depression of being 'kicked out' of Disney seems to have been swept away, and Ovitz even said to Erica a little desperately, "If you are in financial difficulties in the merger and acquisition case, I can pay a billion dollars to enter the game, if you are willing to cooperate with me If you become a partner again."

A billion dollars is undoubtedly a sky-high figure. In the entire Hollywood, there are only a handful of big shots who can put a billion dollars in their personal accounts. At least Erica's personal account does not have such a large amount of money.And Ovitz took out this money, even if he didn't say that he spent everything, it was not much worse.

In Erica's original plan, for the $30 billion required to acquire Columbia Pictures, the funds available to her independent studio were not enough to pay, and she did not intend to pay her lovely 'Park Industries Mr. CEO' borrowed money, though Peter was more than happy to do something for her.

Regarding the missing part of the 30 billion US dollars, Erica originally planned to borrow from the bank-her movies in recent years have been so popular that major banks in the United States have always been vying to finance her movies. The largest "fund pool".

However, Erika was a little worried at first, whether the bank believed that she had enough repayment ability for her ambitious plan to try to acquire Columbia Pictures, and was willing to lend her a loan.

And this worry disappeared after Parker Industries completed its listing. Erica owns 30% of the shares of Parker Industries. I am afraid that no bank will question her wealth.

But at this time, according to what Ovitz said, if he enters the game with a billion dollars and becomes her partner, Erica no longer needs to borrow from the bank. She looked at Ovitz and said, "I never think There are better partners in Hollywood than you."

Although this sentence contains some "friendship" of years of cooperation, it is also true to a certain extent. Even if Ovitz suffered Waterloo in the "Disney Battle", no one can deny that he still has residual influence with contacts.And his experience and ability to run a huge enterprise, which Erica lacked.

Regarding the acquisition of Columbia Pictures from Sony, Erica and Ovitz hit it off immediately and finally determined the psychological price of each other, "No more than 30 billion US dollars, and it is best to complete the acquisition at 28 billion."

From this day on, Erica began her massive mergers and acquisitions.

On the weekend, Erika stayed in the study all day, processing all kinds of materials to be provided to the US Securities Regulatory Commission, while listening to the sound of waves crashing on the Malibu beach.

She still has no real estate in Los Angeles, but recently she did not stay at the Sunset Hotel, but temporarily stayed at the Malibu Beach Manor where Harry Osborn lives. He recently came to the City of Angels from New York, hoping to spend the whole day see her.

For example, at this time, Harry was on the other side of the study, watching Erika talking to her chief financial officer, Keira Brown, "The financial data work is progressing smoothly, and next, we should trust Ovitz to start operating large-scale M&A talent."

After a whole day of document processing, Erika felt that her shoulders were a little stiff. She stood up from the high-back chair and walked to the open-air viewing platform on the other side of the study, continuing to talk with Kaila about work matters. After talking on the phone, I received another call from Ovitz.

She answered the phone and sat on the mast rail of the open-air viewing platform a little boldly. Although her posture seemed stable, Harry Osborn still walked towards her immediately, as if he was afraid that she would fall into the sea in the next second.

Harry stood in front of her with his hands on her waist, a little too close to her, and Erica didn't notice it for a while, and she was saying to Ovitz, "Of course, I will make sure that Columbia Film Most of the board members of the industry fell to me."

The blond-haired, blue-eyed man stared at her as if she had an endless stream of calls, and after Ovitz, a Columbia Pictures executive started talking to her again.As for Master Osborne, who had been neglected for a long time, he couldn't help feeling a little gloomy, and there was more malice in his blue eyes that he was afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

Harry's palms were still tightly gripping her waist, lest she become unstable and fall over, but his body began to separate her legs and placed them between them, so the gap between them was reduced to almost disappear, making them more snug. Close up.

So when Erica and the director were discussing the acquisition, they had to be distracted by the young and handsome man in front of them——

He was staring at her with lowered eyes, with the golden light of California behind him, his face was Germanic with blond hair and blue eyes, but his demeanor brought out the regular handsomeness and strong aristocratic air of British style, delicate and handsome, but also mean and sinister.

What else makes him dissatisfied?Erica put her arm on his shoulders, and continued to talk to the board member, "I think the board has had enough of years of box office losses and stock price losses."

She kept talking on the phone with a calm expression, but her eyes fell on Os himself in front of him. Even on the Southern California coast, he was still wearing a handmade custom suit, with a neat shirt, straight trousers, and even a gold pocket watch on his vest. Follow the habits of old New York money families.

Erica felt a little smothered as he watched his shirt button down to his throat, almost like a celibate clergyman.

But in the matter of abstinence, it seems that the more you abstain, the more you want.

For example, now, Erica feels that his behavior is gradually changing from 'platonic' to 'slutty' again, his arms are tightened on her body, his body is glowing eagerly, his face is buried in her neck and kissed, and her hair makes her feel a little itchy .

Erica tried to calm him down, but he didn't cooperate.

Harry was somewhat dissatisfied that Erica initially had insufficient funds in the acquisition, but she never thought of accepting his assistance.She always separates these things too clearly.

To this day, some people still slander her as a 'Nugget Girl', perhaps because of her powerful and wealthy predecessors, or simply because of her sexy appearance.

Harry finds it ridiculous, and sometimes he thinks she doesn't even remember that he's worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Of course Erica didn't know what Master Osborne was thinking at this time, she only felt that he even bit her neck a little bit hard, she almost let out a low voice, in order to prevent him from continuing to do some aggressive things Erica had to end the call as soon as possible.

And Harry Osborn was looking at her with raised eyebrows, his lips were a little too red, his eyes were provocative and reckless, and the body close to her was eager and hard.

Erica looked at the handsome gentleman whose shirt buttons were restrained to his throat, but whose blue eyes were so hot that they were almost on fire. She couldn't help but whispered, "You are simply... a babyvamp. [Little slut]"