Heads Up Hollywood

Twain has already decided to shoot "Warcraft", the premise is that he can successfully acquire Blizzard.

"Warcraft" American TV series, combined with "Warcraft" stand-alone game, "World of Warcraft" online game, background novels, mix and match, will complement each other even more.

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 is almost as notorious as EA.

The Sierra Studio, which 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.

Electronic games are an unpredictable industry. Many famous game companies in the past two decades have also closed down one after another, from handheld games, to video games, and now to computer games.

Times change too fast.

Even Microsoft has stumbled in the gaming industry.

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

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

Universal Pictures originally had a game department. After being acquired by Vivendi, the business was reorganized, and the game department was merged with Blizzard to become Vivendi Games, and even Universal Music was also spun off...

All Tang En had to do was to get back the assets belonging to Universal Pictures and the industry belonging to Hollywood!

After two weeks, the internal private placement of Tang En Pictures has been basically completed. The employees of Tang En Pictures subscribed for 38.7 million shares in total, and the female stars closely related to Tang En subscribed for 7.84 million shares. Mel Gibson and Leonardo Ricaprio and the two divided up the remaining 3.46 million shares.

So far, the number of shareholders of Tang En Pictures has reached 1635, and more than 90% of the employees have obtained the opportunity to hold shares.

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

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

Due to the private placement of the 50 million original shares, Dunn Films has nearly 500 million US dollars more on its books.

However, this does not mean that the stock price of Tang En Pictures is only 10 US dollars!

This is the original stock, which is a benefit that Tang En took out his own stock and gave it to the employees.

According to the estimate of the underwriter Citibank, the current market value of Tang En Pictures is no 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 Pictures have also been valued at $2 billion because of the popularity of superhero movies.

But this still can't reflect the value of Twain Films!

Chief Financial Officer Brandy Norris came to report to Twain, "Boss, I think the company should go public as soon as possible. Next, we will launch a series of equity mergers and acquisitions. However, mergers and acquisitions at the current valuation are not in line with our vision." Benefit."

Tang En shook his head, "The current economic situation... wait a few years, anyway, our next acquisitions will mainly be cash acquisitions."

Dunn Pictures has already agreed to acquire Dolby Laboratories and Pixar Studios in a "cash + stock" situation.

But these two acquisitions are just a small deal.

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

Vivendi is facing a debt crisis. 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 current situation of Twain Films.

Brandy Norris subscribed for 2.1 million original shares and is the ninth largest shareholder of Tang En Pictures. As a "newcomer", he must be very grateful to Tang En for having such a high subscription target.

He paused, and then slowly said: "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 the matter? Their shareholding requirements are very high?"

Brandy Norris nodded and said: "Dr. Dolby asked for 200 million US dollars in cash, plus 20 million shares. According to the current valuation of us by Citibank at 13.5 billion US dollars, our stock can reach 15.9 US dollars. But according to Dolby's request, which would bring our share price down to $12.50."

Tang En Pictures currently has 850 million shares, of which Tang En is sitting on 800 million shares.

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

Tang En paced around the room with his hands behind his back, pondering for a while, "Dolby Laboratories, we must get it as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams. Their asking price...we can accept it!"

The prospect of Dolby Laboratories is so good that when it went public in 2005, its market value soared to more than 2 billion US dollars.

Buy it now and make a huge profit!

Brandy Norris frowned and said, "But the low stock price will affect our next negotiation with Pixar."

Tang En waved his hand, "Disney is exerting pressure. Jobs can't wait any longer. Pixar is a big trouble for him. He wants to sell Pixar's heart more eagerly than we buy Pixar!"

Brandy Norris seemed to understand Tang En's meaning if he realized something, "You mean...delay the signing date of Dolby Laboratories, and settle the negotiations with Pixar before confirming the completion of the acquisition?"

Tang En said: "That's what it means. Be careful to keep it secret. Jobs' life has not been easy recently. Because of the piracy incident, Apple is under a lot of pressure. He must want to solve the Pixar problem as soon as possible. Let's hurry up and try to finish it before this month." Come on, take down Pixar!"

...

On March 21, 2002, Tang En Pictures and Pixar issued an announcement at the same time: Tang En 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.

Tang En Pictures used 680 million US dollars in cash to issue another 80 million shares of Tang En Pictures to Pixar shareholders.

According to this calculation, the stock price of Tang En Pictures exceeded 16.3 US dollars!

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

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

Including the soon-to-be-completed acquisition of Dolby Laboratories, Tang En Pictures' total share capital has expanded to 950 million shares, of which Tang En owns 815 million shares, accounting for 85.7% of the total share capital, and is truly the largest shareholder!

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

Tang En was in a very good mood, eating Pixar and Dolby Laboratories one after another, which lifted the spirits of everyone in Tang En Pictures!

But some people are happy and some are sad.

Tang En was happy, but Disney was dumbfounded.

Michael Eisner could no longer sit still and dialed Tang En directly.

Tang En was not polite either, and said with a smile, "Michael, I just bought Pixar, and I received too many congratulatory calls. I just didn't expect that you would also call to congratulate me."

Michael Eisner's words were directly blocked back, and he was almost mad with anger.

His days at Disney had just gotten better, but he didn't expect that Twain would become a moth again.

Doesn't the acquisition of Pixar cut off Disney's back?

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

The entire Disney could recognize the role of Pixar, but unexpectedly, it was cut off by Tang En.

With Tang En's relationship with 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, with a sluggish stock price, can no longer afford to suffer.

Michael Eisner had no choice but to call Tang En himself. Hearing Tang En's ridicule, he could only sigh, "Tang En, I am 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.

Tang En wanted to cooperate sincerely with Michael Eisner for a while, but he was tricked.

There is only one chance!

It doesn't matter whether you beg for mercy or promise, it's useless!

This time, Dunn only looked at the result.

An outcome in his interest!

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

Tang En was fed up with that kind of hypocrisy and deception, one thing in front of one's face and another behind one's back.

Michael Eisner also knew that Tang En had taken him seven inches, and said with a sigh: "Tang En, I understand what you mean, this time, I will try my best to fight for the board of directors, and I promise to do it! I only 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 refused sternly.