Hollywood Hunter

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Michael Ovitz and his party had just walked out of Los Angeles International Airport, and the assistant who came to pick him up reminded him that mca chairman Lou Vasalman had been waiting in Mariandell Bay near the airport.

Arriving on a yacht in Mariander Bay, less than three kilometers north of Los Angeles International Airport, Ovitz shook his head slightly when he saw Vasalman.

The time is already November 15th.

Panasonic's abrupt announcement three days ago that it was abandoning its acquisition of mca caught everyone off guard.

Unwilling to give up, Michael Ovitz went to Japan in person after communicating with Panasonic on the phone to no avail. Ovitz, who was instructed by Lou Vasalman, even suggested that mca could accept a slightly lower offer than Daenerys Entertainment, but he still failed to persuade Akio Furui to restart the acquisition of mca.

Michael Ovitz also regrets it now. Last week, Meg Ryan gave up the planned lawsuit against Daenerys Entertainment without warning. He has already raised his vigilance, but he still did not expect that he secretly wanted to snipe Dany. Liz Entertainment made so many preparations for the acquisition of mca, but unexpectedly, the other party directly used a trick to draw wages from the bottom of the pot.

In the cabin of the yacht, Ovitz sat opposite Vasalman and said, "According to the information I collected, Westeros proposed another cooperation plan between Daenerys Entertainment and Panasonic, which Panasonic originally aimed at. Hesitant to continue raising the offer, Furui finally decided to abandon the acquisition after a meeting with Westeros last week and pressure from within Panasonic."

Lou Vassalman pressed: "Is there really no way to recover, or, if necessary, I can personally fly to Japan?"

Michael Ovitz shook his head again and said, "I didn't get the content of the cooperation plan between Daenerys Entertainment and Panasonic, but according to what Panasonic said, Westeros showed great sincerity, and Panasonic executives agreed. Think we should abandon the acquisition and work with Daenerys Entertainment.”

Lou Wassalman frowned, remembered something after a moment, and asked again: "So, Mike, didn't you say that there are other companies in Japan that are interested in buying Hollywood studios, Toshiba, Ito, or Sanyo?"

"This is what I said last year, but it was only last year," Michael Ovitz nodded, shook his head again, and said, "The Japanese stock market bubble hadn't burst yet, but the situation is different now. Even Panasonic's exit this time has Affected by the economic situation, the Bronfman family in Canada is also interested in acquiring Hollywood studios, but they do not have enough funds for the time being, so they can only test the waters by participating in second-tier companies such as Orion. Now Asia, North America and The overall economic situation in Europe is not very good, so Lu, it is difficult to see a second buyer interested in mca in the short term."

After Michael Ovitz finished speaking, the two looked at each other for a while.

After a while of silence, Lou Vasalman finally made up his mind and said, "Mike, since that's the case, hand over the backhands you prepared in advance to my people."

Michael Ovitz also nodded sullenly and said, "Yes."

Now that Panasonic's withdrawal is irreversible, it is useless to use those methods again, but it will anger the young man again and again. Thinking of this, Ovitz is a little distressed. Perhaps, the Meg Ryan incident has once again caused discord between Daenerys Entertainment and caa.

Thinking of this, Michael Ovitz couldn't help but ask Vasalman, "Lu, are you planning to cancel this acquisition?"

Lou Vasalman had a wry smile on his face.

In all fairness, Lou Vasalman certainly wanted to cancel the transaction as soon as possible, because he had made several attempts to Daenerys Entertainment, and the other party's attitude was very firm. After the acquisition was completed, he and Sid Simber Greg must resign. Once so, the two will completely leave the power center of Hollywood.

Lou Vasalman definitely didn't want to let go so easily.

However, Daenerys Entertainment's $7 billion offer is almost double the value of mca's lowest market value some time ago.

At present, the United States is already in the shadow of another war. The industry is generally not optimistic about the next domestic economic trend, and believes that it may continue to deteriorate. In this case, many shareholders of mca want to accept this offer and cash out, but they don't care what happens to the management after cashing out.

Although he is the chairman and ceo of mca, he has been running the company for decades. However, Lou Vasalman's shareholding in mca is only about 5%, and Sid Schinberg is only about 2%. People's holdings together don't give much control.

In the past, the two were able to firmly control the company. This time, if they blatantly went against the wishes of the shareholders, even if they were able to mess up the acquisition in the end, they were likely to be ousted.

Therefore, now we can only use external forces as much as possible to force Daenerys Entertainment to agree to more conditions of its own, or force Daenerys Entertainment to voluntarily abandon this acquisition.

Now that his physical condition has improved, Lou Vasalman feels that he can take charge of mca for a few more years until he is 80 years old. Moreover, he believes that the US economy will definitely recover one day. The stock price of mca is seriously undervalued due to the recent downturn in the US stock market. In the next few years, there will definitely be other buyers who can pay a higher price.

Simon also happened to be returning from the East Coast when Michael Ovitz and Lou Wassalman met in secret.

After this period of negotiation, Bell Atlantic and Westeros have reached an initial acquisition agreement worth a total of $7 billion, which is

Meng's expectations a few days ago were comparable, and a full $1 billion lower than the original budget. Once the quotation is agreed, other details and terms will be advanced rapidly, and it can even be negotiated after the transaction is completed.

As a result, Simon can announce details of the acquisition as early as next week if needed.

The next day is Friday, November 16th.

With Thanksgiving approaching and moving into the finally completed villa at Cape Dumay over the weekend, Janet has been busy on the West Coast all this time, and Simon rushes to work at Daenerys Studios in Malibu as usual in the morning.

The box office data for the past week also appeared on Simon's desk as soon as he entered the office.

The box office trend of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" is as expected.

Released on October 26, it was already the third week of the film's opening.

After the first week of $17.16 million, "Ten Days of Dangerous" ended up dropping 35% over the next seven days to collect another $11.15 million. In the third week of its release from November 9 to November 15, the decline narrowed to 21%, and it continued to make $8.81 million.

Three weeks after its opening, the cumulative box office of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" reached 37.12 million US dollars.

What Simon paid more attention to today was "Dancing with Wolves", which was quietly opened.

"Dancing With Wolves" opened on a 16-screen scale in some core cities in North America on November 2 two weeks ago. The average box office in the first seven days of the first week reached 67,000 US dollars, which had already heralded the film's success. Selling potential. In the second week of screening, the screen size of "Dancing With Wolves" increased to 51. With Daenerys Entertainment's announcement and the film's word-of-mouth fermenting at the same time, the venue did not drop but increased, reaching US$69,000.

In just two weeks of screening, "Dancing With Wolves" has accumulated $4.63 million at the box office. Moreover, relying on one-sided praise from the media, this film about the history and politics of white Americans and Indians in the United States has been quickly promoted to next year's Oscar favorite.

However, because the theatrical version of "Dancing With Wolves" was 3 hours long, and the film was launched on a large scale this week, Daenerys Entertainment finally arranged only 1,031 screens, intending to rely on word of mouth and awards to accumulate long-term box office.

At the same time, with the official opening of the Thanksgiving schedule, in addition to the large-scale release of "Dancing With Wolves", there are two other new films opened today, namely "Rocky 5", the sequel to Stallone's classic action film, and Disney's 2D Animated movie "Little Heroes of Rescue".

After Panasonic announced this week that it was abandoning the acquisition of mca, mca's board of directors found various reasons for delaying Daenerys Entertainment's offer, but others were a little anxious.

Like Paramount.

Before Simon contacted Panasonic last week, in order to prevent Paramount from interfering with the acquisition, he temporarily promised to cooperate with the other party on two new films, and to maintain the status quo of usa TV after the acquisition of mca.

The chairman of Paramount obviously saw Simon's scruples and naturally waited for the price. Not only did he demand to increase the number of cooperative films to at least 3, but he also insisted that the investment ratio of both parties should be 37%, and Daenerys Entertainment could only hold 30%. At the same time, he also made more demands on usa TV station.

However, when Panasonic suddenly announced its withdrawal and the situation was reversed, Paramount was eager to reach a cooperation.

Amy has investigated that Paramount had intended to thwart the acquisition by filing an antitrust lawsuit. However, after Panasonic withdrew, probably aware of the general trend, Paramount began to rush to settle the benefits promised by Daenerys Entertainment.

After all, the odds of Paramount being able to successfully block Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of mca are low if a lawsuit is filed. Even if it is successfully prevented, Paramount itself will not actually get much benefit, and the relationship between the two parties will further deteriorate.

Simon met with Martin Davis in person in the morning, and also made some concessions. Paramount gave up its demands on usa TV. In terms of movies, it still maintained a 50% investment ratio for both parties. At the same time, it increased the number of cooperative movies to three. Department, meanwhile, sequels to co-productions are counted.

Through this cooperation, Daenerys Entertainment also successfully obtained the film copyright of "Mission Impossible" that Paramount has been preparing.

So, after several ups and downs, the two most famous spy film series in Hollywood after the 1990s in Simon's memory, "Mission Impossible" and "Bourne Bound", are all in his own hands.

After working non-stop for so long, the weekend finally came off.

Just move.

The streamlined, shell-like structure of Cape Dumay Manor, modeled after Simon's memory of Iron Man's villa, has been the focus of much media attention since it first took shape.

The building has gradually attracted more and more public attention as a larger silver building than Simon remembered was completed on the cliffs of Cape Dumay.

Of course, it is inevitable that it will once again become a piece of evidence that many media criticize Simon's extravagant life.

The final completed villa only covers an area of ​​5,000 square meters. It looks like a museum on the outside. It is far more luxurious than the Iron Man villa generated only by CG in memory. The silver building hovers in a streamlined style, with a total of three floors. , If you count the underground garage modeled after the Iron Man studio, the interior space totals more than 12,000 square meters.

Compared with ordinary apartment villas, this shell-shaped building cannot even be simply described with a 'big' word.

If I had to say it, it was huge.

The final construction cost of the villa also far exceeded expectations, not counting the later decoration, but the main construction cost reached 30 million US dollars.

Janet will naturally not save in the later decoration and furniture,

The final budget may even exceed the construction cost, as things are still being added.

Therefore, the seemingly simple decoration in the villa is actually expensive.

The couple originally lived in a villa less than 500 meters west of Dumeijia Manor. Everything in the Shell Villa was ready-made. The so-called moving house just moved some daily clothes and books. It only took half a day. Get it done.

It was placed in small pieces until the evening, and all the details were initially settled, and then it settled down.

Next to the huge glass curtain wall facing the sea by the cliff, Simon leaned on the sofa relaxedly, Janet leaned against the man with her legs curled, looking at the magnificent sunset seascape outside the curtain wall, the woman whispered, "It's like a dream."

Simon rubbed his face on the woman's Xiangxiang's hair, and smiled with his legs crossed: "Have you never thought about building such a house before?"

Janet leaned on Simon's shoulder and shook her head: "No, even if I wanted to, it would cost so much money to build a house like this, unless I sold the stock in my name, but then the old man would definitely jump up. ."

"Isn't it your dowry? Of course you can spend it as you want."

"I never thought of looking for a man before. The stocks under my name are my living expenses for the rest of my life. If I spend it once, the future will be bleak."

"Catherine and I mentioned it," Simon said with a smile on his lips, "Why didn't you want to find a man in the first place?"

Janet raised her head and gently bumped it on Simon's shoulder, with a coquettish tone: "Wait for you."

"Oh, what an honor."

"Humph," Janet said proudly, but she pulled Simon's hand into her arms, her voice lowered a little, and said, "Actually, I was liked by people a long time ago, and I also liked other people. The boy. But maybe I'm too smart, those guys let me down, and I just plan to be alone forever."

"Always alone, very lonely."

"That's why God let me meet you."

"This, many years later, when we see his old man, we must express our gratitude."

"Hehe," Janet touched Simon again, looking at the more and more magnificent Huo Huoyun outside the curtain wall, and said, "I really want to thank you, otherwise, you may be alone forever."

"I won't. I am so attractive to girls. If I hadn't met you, I would have definitely become the number one playboy in Hollywood."

"Well, it's finally revealed, dude..." Janet scratched her paw in dissatisfaction, and when Simon made her wrist, her body suddenly softened, and she said angrily, "Little bastard, you are bullying me again."

"Do you like being bullied by me?"

"do not like."

Simon increased his strength slightly: "Change the answer."

"Yes, I like it."

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