Chapter 379

As night fell, the bedroom of a penthouse on Lexington Avenue didn't turn on the light.

Weak city light through the window sprinkles on the bedrooms scattered big bed, dim light against the background, the air seems to be still floating with a faint sense of confusion, but no one on the bed.

In the corner by the window, a woman wrapped in a bath towel was curled up in a single sofa. Her fluffy and slightly wet hair covered half of her ruddy face. She tilted her head, and one hand was still on her lips. She did not dare to see the man sitting on the carpet to help her stretch her legs.

It's clearly his fault.

At one point, she felt like she was going to be killed.

However, he tried his best to hide the fact that he couldn't bear to blame the calf cramps. He was found just before taking a bath. He had a strong impulse to run away.

A moment later, his eyes glanced carefully again.

The man bowed his head and looked very serious and patient, so the tip of his foot gently touched his knee, suggesting that he was OK.

Simon looked up and asked softly, "do you want to rub the other side, too?"

No!

He yelled in his heart, still hiding his eyes, and whispered: "left leg, it's OK, you, it's time to go back to Greenwich."

Simon nodded and said, "I'll have some food delivered first."

The woman was stunned.

And then.

And then we're leaving.

Although I don't want to fight with Janet, it's the first time that I've just had a good time with this little man, even if he refuses a few times and tries to cheat himself.

There was some self pity.

Take your calves out of his hands and tuck them all in the sofa.

Looking at Sophia's appearance, Simon reached over and the woman felt his touch. She hid and turned her back to him.

The hand didn't give up. With a little force, Sophia's whole body was dragged down and landed on the carpet, and the towel couldn't help spreading.

The body of the jade is everywhere.

Wriggling to stay away from Simon, he couldn't resist the big hand that the man took lightly.

Had to look at the past wrongly, feel wet eyes, forced not to shed tears.

Simon saw the woman no longer trying to run away, stroked her face and said in a soft voice: "I can give you not much, what I should give, I will give you."

I know his words are only half said.

You can't give it. It's no use fighting and robbing.

Small and confrontation with him for a moment, know that the man is still waiting for his response, finally obedient hum.

Put down these, suddenly feel that he just a little mood some shouldn't, worried that he thought his answer is not sincere enough, cheek initiative to the man palm paste, said: "I, in the afternoon with food, in the kitchen, hot can."

Simon picked up the woman and put her on the big bed. He bowed his head and gave her a kiss on the lip and said, "wait a minute."

After a simple dinner, Simon returns to Greenwich.

Sofia has been living in Manhattan in recent days, so it's impossible for her to go back to Greenwich to look after her children together.

The next day was Saturday.

Simon and Janet went to a party hosted by Gucci at the Gramsci hotel in Manhattan in the evening. After spending the weekend on the east coast, they returned to Los Angeles.

In October, Denise entertainment has three films on display, namely, Jane Campion's "angels and me at the same table" on October 12, "Ju Dou" bought from Cannes Film Festival on October 19, and "danger 10" on October 26.

Angel at my table and Ju Dou are both released by gaomen Film Co., Ltd., and they are not ambitious at the box office. However, Ella doechman has already applied for the best foreign language film Oscar for the latter.

The focus is still on "ten days of crisis" in cooperation with Universal Pictures.

In the previous summer season, sleeping with the enemy and shaking the cradle's hand have both achieved excellent box office results. Therefore, universal is full of confidence in sleeping with the enemy, which belongs to the same type of crime thriller.

Ten days in danger is adapted from the original novel of Stephen King, a famous horror novelist. It is more famous than the former two. The two leading characters, Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon, are also well-known Hollywood stars.

Simon has seen this version of ten days of peril for more than one time before, and also participated in the production of the trailer.

Simon prefers the new version to the one starring Kathy Bates.

Susan Sarandon's performance is no less than that of Kathy Bates. Moreover, because of her beauty, the obvious sexual tension between the two protagonists adds some strange contrast and horror to the film.

Simon's return to Los Angeles, ten days in danger has entered the final stage of intensive Trailer launch.

As one of Denise Entertainment's 10 film plans, due to the high box office and attention of the previous two films, this new film has naturally attracted a lot of media attention, indirectly saving millions of dollars in marketing expenses for Universal Pictures, which is responsible for the distribution.In addition, the publicity and distribution of a series of films scheduled for the end of the year has already started.

Denise entertainment will launch four films in Thanksgiving and Christmas at the end of the year.

They are Kevin Costner's "dancing with Wolves" on November 2, the "pink League" with Columbia Pictures on November 23, Robert Altman's "intersection of life" on December 7 and the "kid in charge" on December 21.

In a word, dancing with wolves, which has won good internal reputation after several auditions, will become the public relations focus of danielis Entertainment's Oscar this year. It is reasonable to say that the film schedule is more suitable in December.

However, Simon also has box office ambitions for this film. In his memory, "dancing with Wolves" is also a box office movie with more than 180 million US dollars in North America. Therefore, in order to avoid conflicts with "kid in charge", Simon still put the film in November.

As for December's "intersection of life", this film will certainly pursue the Oscar nomination. However, as we all know, Robert Altman's works have always been unpopular with the Oscar judges. He has won the Golden Lion Award in Venice before, which can be regarded as success. The goal of this film is to accumulate long-term box office through the heat of the award season, and do not care about the awards What to expect.

The two commercial films, the pink League released by Columbia Pictures and the kid in charge produced by Denise entertainment, occupy two major schedules respectively. The publicity work is carried forward step by step. There is no need to say much about this.

October 11, Thursday.

In mid October, the shooting of Batman: The Dark Knight, which is far away from Australia, has entered the final stage and will be finished next week. Simon plans to fly to Melbourne next week to study and shoot the sample film together with several creators, so as to determine whether it needs to be remade.

At more than five o'clock in the afternoon, Simon, who will not leave work on time as usual, is discussing the later stage plan of the film with the creator of the silent lamb in the later stage center of the studio. The female assistant appears and whispers in Simon's ear.

Simon listened to Jennifer finish, thought about it, said: "the party or something, tomorrow morning, I will go to Burbank."

Janet has just told Simon that Lou wassalman can't bear to invite Simon to a reception tonight. By the way, she will talk about the MCA acquisition which is well known in Hollywood.

Simon just wants to go home after work. He doesn't want to be the kind of social creature who has to attend 200 parties every year, so he refuses.

The female assistant listened to Simon and turned away.

After Simon and Jonathan Demi, the director of "the silent lamb", finished their discussion, the female assistant appeared again and re stated the meeting time for tomorrow.

The next day, Simon first arrived at Denise studios, changed into an ordinary inconspicuous car and went to Burbank in a low-key way.

Lou Vasahlman is waiting for him in an office building in the northwest corner of Universal Studios.

When they met and exchanged a few words, vassalman got to the point and said, "Simon, we all know that you are interested in globegroup. A friend of mine at Citibank told me that you have signed a US $2 billion loan agreement with them. So, I don't understand what you're waiting for? "

Under normal circumstances, it is definitely not a wise behavior for the seller to ask the buyer to sell. It is equal to giving the initiative to the other party.

However, Simon was so calm this time that he dragged vassalman out of patience.

The 77 year old man is supposed to be the one who is not short of patience. However, seeing that the stock price of MCA is not too high due to danielis Entertainment's delay in making a statement, and Panasonic's urging, he has to take the initiative.

Simon is waiting, of course, for the New York side to prepare for the acquisition of Bell Atlantic.

Due to the official announcement of Panasonic's acquisition of MCA and the constant release of news that danilisi entertainment intends to participate in the bidding, the recent share price of MCA has been close to $60.

Now it is publicly reported that Simon believes that the share price of the company will go straight to $70. Once the market price of MCA stock exceeds Simon's upper limit, it will become a very troublesome problem, and it will be very difficult to reduce it.

At that time, MCA is also unlikely to accept danielis Entertainment's offer which is lower than the market price.

In contrast, if we can launch two acquisitions at the same time and make a gesture that we may give up one of them, the market performance will not be so fanatical.

At this time, in front of Lu wassalman, Simon would not tell the truth, but he said frankly: "Lu, I'm not sure whether I should participate in the MCA bidding. As you know, the development of dannilis entertainment is very good. I think dannilis entertainment will become strong enough even if it doesn't merge another Hollywood studio and only needs to work patiently for a few years Big. "

In fact, MCA's revenue in the last fiscal year was US $3.3 billion, and its net profit was US $296 million. This year, due to the poor box office performance of "back to the future 3", the revenue and profit performance will be even worse. In comparison, not to mention the estimated net profit of more than 1 billion US dollars, but in terms of revenue, danelis entertainment can also surpass MCA this year.The gap between the two sides is basically just an inside story.

Carefully speaking, Simon's excuse is really no problem. Danilisi entertainment has been patiently operating for several years, and can absolutely reach the level with the big seven or even the state of anti super.

However, it will take time after all.

even MCA's Universal Studios and record companies are not just relying on time to accumulate. Universal Studios Universal Studios ingrained in the days and months multiplying the Hollywood. If Danny rice entertainment is investing in the movie city project, there will be no IP problem in capital, but the new studios will not reach the ingrained and influential influence of Universal Studios and Disneyland.

is also a city that has been built up for many years.

The same is true for record companies.

Other than that, the huge music copyright Library of universal records is not a simple short-term accumulation.

What's more, MCA can also form a strong complementary relationship with Denise entertainment in distribution channels, cinema lines, film library, etc. Simon absolutely needs to buy this company.

Lu wassalman has been in Hollywood for more than half a century. Of course, he can see this, and said: "Simon, I had a communication with Matsushita's Akio Gujing last week. If you really don't want to participate, the MCA will submit Matsushita's offer to the board of directors for review and further shareholder voting next week at the latest. I know that many corporate bidders will participate in the eve of other people's shareholder voting, just like paramount last year, so that they can grasp the bottom cards and chips of competitors to the greatest extent. However, I don't think it is necessary for you at all. "

Simon thought.

Prior to the meeting, Simon also worried that MCA and Panasonic would reach a preliminary agreement this week and quickly launch a shareholder vote.

Now, according to vassalman, the board of directors of MCA will discuss the acquisition proposal of Panasonic next week, and it will take at least one week for further shareholder voting. Unconsciously, it will be the end of October, which coincides with Simon's schedule.

In that case, Simon was completely relieved.

However, after thinking about it for a moment, Simon said, "well, Lu, I'm really interested in MCA. However, I don't intend to have an unrestrained bidding war with Panasonic. If you agree, I hope Denise entertainment will sign a secret agreement of intent with MCA. Once the acquisition fails, Denise entertainment will not pay the exit fee."

Generally, considering the impact of the acquisition on the operation and stock price of the target enterprise, the party who initiates the acquisition usually promises to pay an exit fee after the failure of the acquisition, and the proportion is often between 1% and 5% of the market value of the target enterprise.

This means that, according to the original MCA's US $6.6 billion transaction price, once it wants to launch, the acquirer needs to pay an exit fee between us $66 million and US $330 million.

However, nothing is absolute.

As long as the two sides communicate properly, this fee can also be exempted.

When Warren Buffett and Tom Murphy's Metropolitan company acquired ABC TV network, Warren Buffett, who was in charge of that acquisition, proposed that if the acquisition failed, the metropolitan company would not pay a huge exit fee, and the then ABC TV network executives agreed.

Of course, the acquisition was a success in the end.

Lou wassalman's face hesitated at Simon's request.

He can understand that Simon's request is mainly to suppress the market's excessive pursuit of MCA shares. Once it is known that danielis entertainment can withdraw at will without paying any price, investors will be more cautious in the process of buying MCA shares.

However, the risk to MCA is very high.

When two companies bid for an enterprise, one side does not compete with the other side in the quotation, so there is no need to pay for the exit. Furthermore, if the winning party in the bidding process can not complete the acquisition due to the later negotiation or due to the influence of policy and supervision, it needs to pay the exit fee to give up the acquisition.

If we agree to Simon's terms at this time, once danilisi entertainment has squeezed Panasonic out, and then for some reason, it doesn't need to pay any price, then MCA will be ready to cry.

You know, once the acquisition completely fails, the first thing to come is that MCA's share price will fall sharply and return to the level before the acquisition. At that time, countless shareholders with heavy book losses will surely put pressure on the management.

On the other hand, after a toss of an acquisition, the operation of the enterprise itself will be seriously affected.

Just like MGM, if it had not been repeatedly sold back and forth in the 1980s, but had been patiently managed, this old studio would not have been half dead as it is now.