Chapter 183 178 MGM's Plan to Re-List and Acquire Marvel

Chapter 179 MGM's plan to re-list and acquire Marvel

It is said that gentle places are the graves of heroes, and this is absolutely true.

At night, Eric saw that she was really exhausted, so he gave up ravaging her.

This state lasted for three days, and the two of them lived like a married couple.

Eating at home, watching TV series, playing games, and then asking for love non-stop.

During this period, I called Sergey, the middle-aged man who lacked love, and the other party's voice sounded high-spirited.

"Sergey, where did you go that night? At first I could still see you, but then I suddenly found that you disappeared, and Kate Winslet."

Sergey laughed: "We left before ten o'clock, and then went to the beach in Santa Monica to take a walk, see the scenery, and talk about life."

"What happened after the walk?"

"After that? After that, I sent her home."

Even though the two were separated by the phone, Eric couldn't help showing a puzzled expression.

"Brother, don't tell me you guys are really talking about life."

A firm voice came from the other side.

"Yes, that's it, young man. I know what's going on in your head, but sex is secondary to me."

"I've played with many women, white, yellow, black, and mixed-colored, tall, petite, sexy, and cute. There are many who are prettier and more attractive than Kate."

"But I'm tired of pure sex. Spiritual compatibility is the most important thing."

"After a night of communication, Kate and I have a better understanding of each other. We have found common hobbies and directions, which is much more comfortable than a bed exercise."

"You may not understand what I said now, but with your status and resources, especially in Hollywood."

"Surrounded by all kinds of beauties, facing so many temptations and seductions, I believe you will understand one day."

"You must have been through a lot by then, and you will naturally understand my mentality."

Listening to him talking a lot, Eric's only thought was that you are a real waste of resources.

I've finally given you this opportunity, but don't you think about the fact that you have a wife, and if she knows, will she get close to you? But I can't say that.

"Okay, man, this is your choice, and I can only do this much."

"Eric, my brother, I'll remember your help, and I'll do my best if you need me in the future!"

After hanging up the phone, Charlize Theron lay on his chest and drew circles, and of course she heard the conversation.

"You bad guy, look at your friend, the most important thing for people is spiritual harmony, it's really well said."

Eric laughed: "Baby, you have to look at the problem dialectically."

"He also said that he has played with all kinds of women, so it can be inferred that he is tired of playing or can't do it anymore, so he can only choose spiritual harmony."

Theron climbed up like a water snake and sat on him, asking condescendingly: "What about you? Sergey is only in the toy field, but you are a Hollywood tycoon."

"Let me think about it, how many women have you had scandals with? And how many are hiding in the dark?"

"I'm not! I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!"

Eric decisively denied three times: "Scandals are used for hype, don't you know the morality of those gossip tabloids?"

"Baby, I only have you in my heart, you should feel my love!"

"Ah hate it!"

Hahahaha

Happy times are always short, and they lived happily for three days.

Finally, at Theron's strong request, the two walked out of the apartment and returned to work.

The reason she gave was that career was the most important thing. You are a man, and you are the helmsman of such a big company. You have a heavy burden on your shoulders.

If I delay important things because of me, it will not be worth it. I will be hated to death.

But whether she really wants to return to work or is using it as an excuse to escape Eric's clutches, only Charlize Theron knows.

Anyway, when she left, her walking posture changed.

The land was plowed by cattle!

As usual, the "House of Cards" crew continued to leave it to Andrea to deal with, comforting her that she would return after a few more days.

At the Meiyi Records, Michael's team was in charge of the work and was handling the relevant matters of the company's establishment.

After the two communicated, they planned to set up the company in Los Angeles, specifically in Burbank.

This is the entertainment center of the United States. There are not only a large number of film and television companies, but also many record companies.

And it is very close to MGM, which is convenient for communication.

Now there are two things that really make Eric pay attention to, one is the competition between Facebook and Myspace, and the other is the communication with Marvel.

Myspace has been online for more than half a month. Thanks to Fox's full-scale promotion, it has become very popular.

The brainwashing offensive is just like Melatonin. As long as you are a Fox audience, you will immediately think of Myspace when you hear the word "join".

Although many people complain that it is as annoying as a spam call, the traffic it attracts is real.

However, attracting traffic is only the most basic thing. The key lies in how to retain users.

As a social software with similar functions to Facebook, Myspace is a follower and must play a trick. The key cards it plays are personalization and edge balls.

Since its launch, one of its strategies has been to recruit a large number of DJs, musicians, and spiritual boys and girls from major nightclubs and bars.

These musicians have some fans. Even if they are not big singers, they can still bring a lot of users.

And those spiritual girls are more attractive than them.

The United States is divided in many aspects, and sex is one of them.

In the film and television works exported to foreign countries, American girls are often very open, playing and doing anything, and losing their virginity at the age of 14 or 15 is normal.

It makes sense but not absolute, because in addition to the extremely open ones, there are many states that are extremely conservative, and the degree of conservatism is far higher than that of China.

For example, in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and other states, the church is powerful, and every household believes in God. In their view, sex is like evolution, which is a flood and a beast.

Even though LGBT has swept the Western world 20 years later, you will never see a parade in support of LGBT in conservative states such as Alabama, because the fanatics will really dare to shoot you.

The people recruited by myspace this time are from states with extremely open sexuality, such as California and New York. According to surveys, cheating, cheating, and multiple relationships are the most rampant in the United States.

So the spirited girls are all very open, and the photos on their homepages are reserved, and many of them are just a piece of cloth, just short of exposing their nipples.

This kind of trick is unbearable for a normal man, let alone those young men who are full of blood.

Ask yourself, did you download Momo because you wanted to date Huobao? The reason is the same, so it is vulgar but very helpful for attracting traffic.

Eric also registered an account for testing, and he just laughed at this situation.

Relying on edge balls may maintain temporary popularity, but it will damage the foundation of the network ecology.

If you don't do pornography, you won't have attention, you won't attract fans, and it will gradually evolve into an arms race of who can be more lenient.

But society and the law will not allow the emergence of a pornographic base for all ages.

It is still short now, and public opinion and parents have not reacted yet.

When Myspace becomes bigger and more unscrupulous, parents suddenly find that their underage children are browsing bad information. What do you think they will react?

At that time, Eric can use public opinion to add fuel to the fire and make things bigger.

When pressure is given to Myspace, it is impossible not to rectify.

At that time, its important label was pornography, and everyone came for this.

If you suddenly say that you don’t want to do it anymore, who will be willing to play with you? Isn’t it better for me to go to Facebook?

In addition to skirting the rules, another feature of Myspace is personalized main business settings.

Users can change the color, background, decoration, text content, etc. of their homepage at will.

This function is somewhat similar to the QQ space in later generations. You can make your homepage fancy and blind others at a glance.

When non-mainstream culture was popular, many people must have had this experience and feeling.

Eric tried it and thought it was good, so he wanted to arrange for Fitz to have a similar function.

But Fitz told him that it would be better not to do so, because it looked gorgeous, but it would cost a lot behind the scenes.

"Boss, our team has conducted a step-by-step test on the personalized function of MySpace, which is to continuously decorate the personal homepage more prosperously and complexly."

"If the gorgeousness is 1, then it looks beautiful."

"And when the gorgeousness rises to 10, it looks even more beautiful."

"But when the gorgeousness rises to 20, the side effects begin to appear, and the opening and refreshing speed of the homepage begins to lag."

"As this number continues to rise, the lag will continue to increase until it takes four or five minutes to click on a homepage."

"And after clicking, there will be continued lags, such as comments being posted, messages cannot be synchronized, etc."

"Boss, our company's software and hardware configurations are already the most advanced on the market, and there are still problems. The experience of ordinary users can be imagined."

"It may be beautiful now, but in just two or three months, the disadvantages will definitely appear."

After listening to Fitz, Eric couldn't help but think of Penguin Space again, and it was indeed abnormally lag later.

Who would be interested in continuing if a page can't be refreshed for several minutes?

"What you said makes sense. What is your suggestion?"

"Boss, I think we just need to do our job well and don't need to care about Myspace's provocation."

"It has chosen a quick success and quick profit path. It is not worthy of competing with Facebook and will soon kill itself."

"According to the information I received, Myspace's joint promotion in major companies and organizations is not going smoothly, and the result is similar to your prediction."

"And our promotion in major middle schools is going very well. The number of new middle school users has reached 3 million, and most of them are very active."

After thinking for a moment, Eric said: "Since Myspace is so anxious to catch up with us, let's give it some motivation."

"Facebook has not released any data since it went online. You should prepare in the next few days and increase the data by 20%."

"Boss, is 20% too conservative? Or increase it by 50%. How can there be motivation without pressure?"

"Is 50% too exaggerated? Can others believe it?"

Fitz laughed and said, "We don't care whether ordinary people believe it or not, but even if there is only a 1% possibility that it is true, Myspace dare not disbelieve it."

"As long as it believes it, it will inevitably go to the extreme of skirting the edge, and the hourglass of death will only flow faster and faster."

"Okay, let's do it."

Facebook is temporarily stable, and Eric's focus has become Marvel.

Since he planned to take action against Marvel some time ago, Eric has been investigating and contacting relevant personnel.

The information obtained shows that the current largest shareholder of Marvel is Beech Toys, which holds a 20% stake.

However, Beech Toys does not directly participate in the operation, but is more of an investment method.

But it is not right to say that they don't care at all, because the two largest individual shareholders of Marvel are Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad.

The former holds 17% of Marvel's shares, and the latter holds 10%.

According to Marvel's current market value, the combined shares of the two are worth about $200 million.

And the two of them are also shareholders of Beech Toys, but their share is not as much as Marvel.

So if Eric wants to take over Marvel, there are two ways in front of him now.

The first way is to negotiate directly with Beech Toys to see if they can acquire the 20% stake, which is now valued at $400 million.

MGM's current liquidity is sufficient, even a premium of $100 million is enough.

But the process may be very long, with a board meeting and constant discussions and negotiations.

The second way is to find Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad, find a way to convince them, buy the shares and become the largest shareholder of Marvel.

Then wait until MGM goes public, and buy back the equity from Beech Toys when it has sufficient funds.

According to Eric's plan, MGM will be relisted after the release of Transformers.

Once relisted, it will surely receive billions of dollars in financing.

By then, even if the money owed to Kerkorian and the bank is repaid, it will be enough to acquire Marvel.

What's more, I will acquire Bicchi Toys as well.

If a 100 million premium is not enough, I will give a 200 million premium. If two is not enough, I will give more. I will knock you out. Who can resist money?

"Chen Xing, how are the arrangements at Marvel?"

"Boss, the time has been arranged. Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad will come to Los Angeles to attract investment in four days. I have arranged to meet them at the company."

I didn't get anything done today. I will take a leave tomorrow to do it.