Chapter 475： buy! buy!

Dunn has decided to shoot "Warcraft", provided that he can successfully acquire Blizzard.

The American drama "Warcraft" will complement each other better when it is combined with the "Warcraft" stand-alone game, "World of Warcraft" online game, and background novels.

As for whether Vivendi will sell Blizzard... As long as the price is in place, there is no suspense.

Vivendi's rough cutting of game companies, almost as well as EA, is notorious in the industry.

The Xue Leshan studio that produced "Half-Life" has been closed, and Blizzard North, which produced "Diablo", has also closed half of it. The Blizzard team has long been in conflict with the French and wants to change owners.

Video games are an unpredictable industry. In the past two decades, many famous game companies have also closed down, from handheld games, to video games, and now to computer games.

Times change too fast.

Even Microsoft has stumbled in the gaming industry.

Only Tang En can see through the direction of the times, dare to invest, and dare to promote the development of games.

After computer games, there are online games, then mobile games, and then multi-screen streaming video games...

The original game department of Universal Pictures was acquired by Vivendi, and the business was reorganized. The game department and Blizzard merged to become Vivendi Games, and even Universal Music was divided...

What Tang En has to do is to get back the assets belonging to Universal Pictures and the industries that belong to Hollywood!

After two weeks, the internal private placement of Dunn Pictures has been basically completed. The employees of Dunn Pictures subscribed a total of 38.7 million shares, and female stars who are closely related to Dunn subscribed for 7.84 million shares. Mel Gibson and Leonardo Ricaprio shared the remaining 3.46 million shares.

So far, the number of shareholders of Dunn Pictures has reached 1,635, and more than 90% of employees have obtained the opportunity to hold shares.

In particular, many of the royal teams who were promoted by Tang En from the bottom have become shareholders of the company and have the opportunity to become multi-millionaires in the future.

It will leap from the bottom of the society to the upper class in one fell swoop!

Due to the private placement of these 50 million original shares, Dunn Films also added nearly 500 million US dollars to the book.

However, this does not mean that the stock of Dunn Pictures, the price of one share is only 10 US dollars!

This is the original stock, which is the benefit that Dunn took out of his own shares and gave to the employees.

According to the estimates of the underwriter Citibank, the current market value of Dunn Pictures is not less than 13.5 billion US dollars!

Among them, the sta TV network has the highest valuation, as much as 2.2 billion US dollars!

Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Studios have also been valued at $2 billion due to the fire of superhero movies.

But this still can't reflect the value of Dunn Pictures!

Chief Financial Officer Brandi Norris came to report to Dunn, "Boss, I think the company should go public as soon as possible, and then we will launch a series of equity mergers and acquisitions. But the current valuation of mergers and acquisitions does not meet our expectations. Benefit."

Tang En shook his head, "The current economic situation... Let's wait a few years. Anyway, our next acquisitions are mainly cash acquisitions."

Dunn Pictures' acquisition of Dolby Laboratories and Pixar Studios has already been agreed, in a "cash + stock" situation.

But these two acquisitions are just petty troubles.

The highlight of the year is the acquisition of Universal Pictures, Universal Music and Blizzard Games!

Faced with a debt crisis, Vivendi, after changing the CEO, the first thing to do is to sell assets and repay debts.

At this time, what Vivendi needs is cash, not shares!

This is just in line with the status quo of Dunn Films.

Brandy Norris subscribed for 2.1 million original shares and is the 9th largest shareholder of Dunn Films. He is a "newcomer" and can have such a high subscription index. He must be full of gratitude to Dunn.

He paused for a while, and then said slowly: "Dolby's initial negotiation has been reached, and the other party's asking price is 450 million US dollars, which is in line with our psychological expectations."

Tang En's eyes lit up and he was very satisfied, "Good news, what's up? Their share requirements are very high?"

Brandi Norris nodded: "Dr. Dolby asked for $200 million in cash, plus 20 million shares. Based on Citibank's current valuation of $13.5 billion, our stock could reach $15.9. But according to Dolby , which would bring our stock price down to $12.50.”

Dunn Pictures now has 850 million shares, of which Dunn owns 800 million shares.

The issuance of an additional 20 million shares to acquire Dolby Laboratories has no effect on Dunn's control.

With his hands behind his back, Tang En paced the room and pondered for a while, "Dolby Laboratories, we must take it as soon as possible, so as not to have too many nightmares. Their offer... we can accept it!"

The prospects for Dolby Laboratories are so good that when it went public in 2005, its market value soared to more than $2 billion.

BUY NOW, ABSOLUTELY WINNING!

Brandi Norris frowned: "But the too-low stock price will affect our next negotiations with Pixar."

Dunn waved his hand, "Disney is putting pressure on him. Jobs can't wait. Pixar is a big problem for him. He wants to sell Pixar, and he is more eager than us to buy Pixar!"

Brandy Norris seemed to understand Dunn's meaning if he understood, "You mean... postpone the signing date of Dolby Laboratories, and settle the negotiations with Pixar before the acquisition is confirmed?"

Dunn said: "That's what it means, pay attention to confidentiality. Jobs has not been having a good time recently. Because of the piracy scandal, Apple is under a lot of pressure. He must want to solve the problem of Pixar as soon as possible. Inside, take Pixar!"

...

On March 21, 2002, Dunn Pictures and Pixar issued an announcement at the same time: Dunn Pictures spent 1.98 billion US dollars to acquire Pixar Animation Studio!

Because Pixar is a listed company, the specific acquisition situation is also made public.

Dunn Pictures will issue an additional 80 million shares of Dunn Pictures to Pixar shareholders with $680 million in cash.

According to this calculation, the share price of Dunn Pictures exceeded $16.3!

After the completion of this transaction, the total share capital of Dunn Pictures will reach 930 million shares, with a valuation of more than 15.1 billion US dollars! (Not counting Dolby Laboratories.)

Among them, Pixar's chairman Steve Jobs got 250 million US dollars and 48 million shares, and Dunn also got 15 million newly issued shares because he owns 15% of Pixar's shares.

Including the upcoming acquisition of Dolby Laboratories, the total share capital of Dunn Pictures has expanded to 950 million shares, of which Dunn owns 815 million shares, accounting for 85.7% of the total share capital, making him the largest shareholder worthy of the name!

The second largest shareholder... has changed from Bill McNick to Steve Jobs. Because of this Pixar transaction, he got 48 million shares, accounting for 5% of the total share capital of Dunn Pictures, and is the second largest shareholder. shareholder.

Dunn was in a good mood. He ate Pixar and Dolby Laboratories one after another, which lifted the spirits of Dunn Films up and down!

But some are happy and some are sad.

Dunn was happy, Disney was dumbfounded.

Michael Eisner could no longer sit firmly on Mount Tai, so he called Dunn directly.

Dunn was also polite and said with a smile: "Michael, I just finished the acquisition of Pixar, and I received too many congratulatory calls. I just didn't expect that you would call me to congratulate me."

Michael Eisner's words were directly blocked back almost crazy.

His days at Disney just got a little better, but he didn't expect Dunn to have another moth.

Isn't the acquisition of Pixar a break for Disney?

Over the years, Disney's animation industry has been completely supported by Pixar!

The entire Disney can recognize the role of Pixar, but unexpectedly, it was intercepted by Dunn.

With the relationship between Dunn and Disney, can the cooperation between Pixar and Disney continue?

Disney's board of directors has given Michael Eisner a death order, no matter what, we must keep the partnership with Pixar!

To renew!

To extend the contract!

Now Disney, the stock price is sluggish, and can no longer withstand the toss.

Michael Eisner was helpless, so he had to call Dunn himself, listening to Dunn's ridicule, he could only sigh, "Don, I'm convinced!"

"Mr. Eisner, what does this sentence mean? I don't understand." Tang En replied leisurely, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

Dunn wanted to cooperate sincerely with Michael Eisner for a while, but was tricked.

Chance, only once!

No matter whether you beg for mercy or promise, it is useless!

This time, Dunn only looked at the results.

A result that is in his interest!

If the other party is not satisfied, then completely say goodbye.

Tang En was fed up with that kind of tricks of falsehood and condescension.

Michael Eisner also knew that Dunn was holding seven inches, and he said: "Dawn, I understand what you mean, this time, I will try my best to win the board of directors and promise to do it! I just hope that Pixar can continue to be Disney's. Partner……"

"This is impossible!"

Before the other party could finish speaking, Tang En interrupted directly and sternly refused.

(Sanqi Chinese)