Chapter 903: Even the Immortals are open for business
On the road in New York at night, Hermès staff drove the car, and Little John and Xiang Yang walked together.
In the car behind, Ding Zhong was also quietly exchanging views with Bea Shaffer.
From the attitude shown by Xiang Yang when the two parties separated, it was difficult to judge what he was thinking specifically.
So, looking at Xiangyang and looking out the window of the car, Little John couldn't help but said:
"Xiang, it seems that these guys are not easy to deal with."
Xiang Yang nodded, agreeing with this statement.
It is not the point that Oaktree Capital wants to obtain 20% of the shares of New DMG Media by assisting in this merger and acquisition.
The key is that only 80% of the shares were obtained for US$80 million.
And Oaktree Capital.
However, they can continue to suck blood from DMG Media without spending any real money.
Sure enough
The vultures of Wall Street are really good at calculating.
It's still a straight shot, I'm afraid you can't tell.
"Shaffer, contact Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas by the way." Xiang Yang made a decision quickly.
Even if Oaktree Capital is entrusted to initiate an acquisition, it must be based on the Asset Valuation Report approved by him.
Not provided by Oaktree Capital.
I'm sorry to say that even if China Television Media entrusts a professional investment bank to come up with an evaluation report from DMG Media, Xiangyang will not accept it.
Regardless of whether it is assessed using the income approach or the market approach, premiums are difficult to avoid.
China Television Media has already been fooled, but Xiangyang will not fall for it.
To put it simply, it can also be understood that Xiangyang had the idea of gambling against Oaktree Capital’s target of DMG Media worth US$100 million.
For 100 million US dollars, he can take 100% of the equity.
But 80 million won 80% of the equity, sorry.
From a business perspective, these are two completely different concepts.
"Mr. Ding, I'm afraid your time will be wasted." When walking into the hotel, Xiang Yang also apologized to Mr. Ding.
If this matter is delayed, it may not be just a short while.
"No hurry, no hurry." Ding Zhong waved his hand.
He also knows the ropes here.
"Wait a minute." Little John suddenly took out his mobile phone and called Xiang Yang and Ding Zhong who were about to go upstairs.
What was displayed on the screen was a call from Sony Pictures, one of the producers of "Resident Evil 5".
If you call me at this time, your intention is obvious.
"You answer it first, and we'll wait for you in the room." Xiang Yang looked at Little John expressionlessly, then pulled Ding Zhong into the arriving elevator.
Bea Shaffer made a contemptuous "hum" at the corner of her mouth.
She and Xiang Yang had the same attitude.
If you are told that nothing is wrong, you are blind here in Hollywood. You see, if something happens, the first person they will look for is you.
"I said."
Little John, who was left behind by several people, looked at the slowly closing elevator door and shouted speechless.
Didn't you let me contact the creative team of "Resident Evil 5" to contribute to FILA's subsequent brand marketing?
Lao Ding, why didn’t you leave?
After returning to the room about ten minutes later than Xiang Yang and the others, Little John shrugged helplessly when he came in, "Xiang, they want to meet you."
"Them? Who do you deserve?" Xiang Yang asked knowingly.
"People from DMG Media." Little John glanced at Xiang Yang, "Who else could it be?"
Xiangyang said "Oh" and said with a smile: "Then you didn't tell them that I was not free?"
He was not interested at all in meeting Xiao Wuge, Wu Bing, and that Dan or other American at this time.
Not now, not ever.
"How about you go meet me?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile, holding a bag in his hand.
Little John immediately became angry.
He rushed to Yang and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Why!"
"Uh" Xiang Yang blinked, yes, why?
Shrugging his shoulders, Xiang Yang took out the bottle of 1992 Screaming Eagle Winery Cabernet Sauvignon from the bag.
He took it out not for drinking today.
After all, Dou Sen and Curly Hair haven't come yet, but they were talking about this wine with Ding Zhong when they came up, so they let their friends enjoy it in advance.
"Where did you get this wine?" Little John's eyes were sharp.
It took him just one glance to recognize this expensive wine that had been rated 99 at the time.
As for whether this Cabernet Sauvignon is really worth $500,000.
It depends on the angle from which you stand.
At an auction organized under the banner of charity, this wine sold for US$500,000, let alone.
Even $1 million is not impossible.
However, as the pinnacle of worship wine, its rarity is indeed quite high.
But that's not the point. Xiang Yang, a guy who never paid much attention to red wine, was able to get such a top-notch bottle of red wine.
This.
He shouldn't have bought a fake one.
Little John, who tried to take the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from his friend's hand and observed it carefully, took two steps forward.
"What are you doing?" Xiang Yang, who had been on guard for a long time, handed it to Ding Zhong.
"Hey, Xiang, if you are willing to open it and let me taste it tonight, I will help you handle this matter." Rubbing his hands, Little John smiled and showed his attentiveness.
"I'm afraid not today." Xiang Yang shook his head, "But I will definitely call you when I drink."
"Really?"
Little John swallowed.
Ding Zhong knows red wine.
Little John, who had met him several times and had several exchanges on red wine, saw that he couldn't help but praise the bottle of wine for its near-perfect preservation, so he guessed one thing or two.
"But that's not necessarily the case. After all, you yelled at me just now, which made me very sad." Xiang Yang patted his friend's shoulder and said:
"You know, I also spent a lot of effort to get this bottle of red wine."
"." Little John smiled sarcastically.
That must be strenuous.
He had never been in JCE's wine cellar since he was a child, and this bottle of wine was top-notch in his father's collection.
"In this way, they will arrive tomorrow night. If you fly back to Los Angeles tonight, you might still be able to drink if you come back tomorrow afternoon." Xiang Yang continued.
"You" Little John was stunned.
Is this what people say?
No, this is because you don't regard him as a human being at all.
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome." Bea Shaffer, who had always wanted to find an opportunity to step on Little John, said:
"I still have a bottle. If you finish the job, it's not impossible for me to treat you to a drink."
Hearing this, Little John looked at Bei Shaffer and Xiang Yang in surprise.
Was this wine given to Xiangyang by Little Bee?
Where did she get so much money?
Uh.
She seems to be quite rich indeed, plus the returns her mother earned from investing in movies during this period.
It's not unreasonable to give Xiangyang a bottle of expensive red wine.
After all, Anna Wintour previously gave Liu Qianxi an expensive movie poster.
By the way
poster!
"Xiang, how about we discuss it." In Little John's eyes, drinking wine from a friend is different from drinking wine from Bea Shaffer.
Little John drank from her bottle.
Isn't it just a bottle of Screaming Eagle Winery's Cabernet Sauvignon from 1992? It's not like he's never seen it before. There is still a whole box of unopened wine in his father's wine cellar.
"I'll help you meet them, and I'll give you a poster of "Metropolis" as well, and how about you give me this bottle of wine?"
After mentally appraising the price, Little John felt that the deal could be done.
With his current influence in Hollywood, if he can find someone to match up with DiCaprio to buy the poster, the price will definitely not be too exaggerated.
And this wine.
He was going to take it home and drink it in front of JCE.
The whole bottle kind.
Let JCE see what arrogance means.
"Haha, okay! No problem!" Xiang Yang was so happy that he went crazy.
What about such a good thing?
You know, in order to decorate the walls of the castle, my wife spent a lot of her brain cells in this area.
I think she will definitely like this gift.
"Then I will do it now." Little John glanced at Ding Zhong, who was still enjoying the red wine.
"When you finish things first, I'll prepare another bottle for you." Xiang Yang had no intention of using this bottle of red wine in exchange.
I still have 4 bottles at home.
"Do you have any more there?" Little John frowned, feeling that something was a little strange.
"I'll spend money to buy it for you." Xiang Yang suppressed a smile and shrugged his shoulders: "Even if this wine is expensive, I can always buy it if I want to."
"That's true." Little John nodded. He lied for a bottle of wine, but Xiangyang was not guilty of lying.
"Then me." Taking out his mobile phone, Little John smiled.
Xiangyang waved his hand, "Go ahead, remember to deal with it as soon as possible and don't let them cause us any trouble."
He is not worried about DMG's iron triangle causing trouble in the acquisition.
Rather, they do not want Hermès Film Investment Company’s cooperation with Sony Pictures to be affected on the “Resident Evil 5” project.
After all, I have already told Li Bingbing.
How embarrassing it would be to be embarrassed in such a trivial matter.
"Okay, then we have an agreement." Little John clapped his friend's hand with a "snap" and said, "Mr. Ding, you are here too, be a witness for us."
As for Bea Shaffer.
Little John chose to deliberately ignore her presence.
"Haha, okay." Ding Zhong raised his head and smiled heartily.
I didn't realize that even if the first communication with Oaktree Capital did not achieve satisfactory results, they could still joke around easily.
This made him feel relaxed.
What to say.
I just thought it would be better to watch the show next time.
Good show.
Of course there is.
Little John's routine of confusing the public before the acquisition was completely different from Xiang Yang's.
Using his words, acquisitions are acquisitions. What’s the point of being secretive? Covering one's own purpose too much will create an illusion, making the acquired party think that they are afraid of being disrupted.
When he returned to the room, he directly dialed the phone number sent to him by the people at Sony Pictures.
Dan Mitzi.
Little John really didn't pay much attention to this person.
Faced with his generous admission, the DMG Iron Triangle was a little confused. What's going on?
No, if you want to acquire DMG Media, you can seek our opinion first!
Because in this matter, they are eager for it.
Waiting for the acquisition to be completed.
In the eyes of outsiders, doesn’t DMG Entertainment become a member of Hermès Film Investment Company’s layout in China?
How many people care whether DMG Media and DMG Entertainment are related or not?
When the time comes, spend some money to buy the draft and watch it online.
They were not the only ones who were also a little confused.
The next day, China Television Media’s executives saw [cross-border mergers and acquisitions? The title of Hermès planning to acquire US$80 million in cash was also obscured.
Han Sanping, who had just returned to the capital from the Altay region, was also confused.
Many netizens were also confused by the news that dominated the front pages of the media.
What is DMG Media?
If you don’t click in carefully, you will see that not many netizens know about the existence of this company.
After watching it, I half understand it.
However, many netizens said that through this news, they learned that there is such an entertainment company.
"Brother Xiao Ming, don't worry, it won't affect her." Liu Qianqian was filming the advertisement in the capital.
Huang Xiaoming wanted to come and ask about the specific situation, and he couldn't avoid visiting the class by the way.
What's more, Liu Qianqian didn't want to hide.
"Hey, Sissy, I'm causing trouble for you too." The smile on Huang Xiaoming's face was still a bit embarrassing.
But not coming is really not an option.
AB Yang is making trouble.
"Brother Xiao Ming, just tell her, it will never affect her." Liu Qianxi covered her mouth and smiled:
"I didn't realize it, but Brother Xiao Ming is quite interested."
"I'm in love." Huang Xiaoming was speechless. How could Xiang Yang and Liu Qianqian be so happy when they were in love?
His love affair was so tiring.
However, he himself was more or less interested in the acquisition. To be honest with Liu Qianqian, he also bought some stocks of companies that Xiangyang was optimistic about.
It just wasn’t the right time to enter.
As soon as he bought Tesla, it fell.
The rate of return can't keep up with Liu Qianqian's magical operation.
To be specific, it was a complete explosion.
Even if Liu Qianqian's Tesla stock has declined, she still has more than half of the profit thanks to her right purchase time.
For Huang Xiaoming, the income is red (the US stock market is rising when it is green).
Although he had communicated with Xiang Yang in the stock market, he knew that Xiang Yang must have asked Liu Qianqian to buy the stock, but based on their relationship, it was not a matter of saying who bought it.
But at the dinner table, when talking about the specific matters of this acquisition, Liu Qianqian said without knowing anything, "Brother Xiao Ming, I really don't understand this aspect."
She really doesn't know.
"Brother Xiao Ming, you know, I don't like to get involved in this, I just want to film well."
"Then when will you join the team? I can give you a formal visit." Huang Xiaoming asked with a smile.
"The specific time will probably wait until after the Spring Festival." Liu Qianqian calculated the time. She will be fully involved in the promotion of "Time Traveler". "By the way, Brother Xiao Ming, I have something to ask you."
"Well, you say."
"You have participated in more variety shows than me. Hey, can you tell me what I need to pay attention to?"
Liu Qianxi asked with a smile.
"Me?" Huang Xiaoming laughed. He actually appeared in many variety shows last year. Last year alone, I was featured in three issues of "Happy Camp" because of the promotion of my work.
The movie starring Liu Qianxi will be released soon.
It is indeed beneficial to have more variety shows when announcing the release.
Heat, always fried.
Whether it is a road show or a variety show, it is all to better increase the exposure of the work. This is the same as why Liu Qianqian has been busy making announcements during this period.
Brands also want to seize this wave of popularity to carry out necessary marketing.
"What, you want to be on that variety show?"
"Me~"
Liu Qianqian raised her lips, of course.
(End of chapter)