Chapter 179 178. MGM's plan to re-list and acquire Marvel

It is said that the land of pleasure is the home of heroes, and this is absolutely true.

At night, Eric saw that she could no longer bear it, so he gave up on abusing her.

This state lasted for three days, and the two of them were just like living a married life.

Eat, watch TV series, play games at home, and then pursue love non-stop.

During this period, I called Sergey, the love-deprived middle-aged man, and the other party's voice sounded full of vigor and vitality.

"Sergey, where were you that night? I could see you at first, but then suddenly you disappeared, along with Kate Winslet."

Sergei chuckled: "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 about after the walk?"

"After that? Then I sent her home."

Even though they were separated by a phone call, Eric couldn't help but look puzzled.

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

A firm voice came from the other side.

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

"I've played with many women, haven't I? White, yellow, black, mixed-colored, tall, petite, sexy, 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 one night of communication, Kate and I got to know each other better. We found common interests and directions, which was far more comfortable than a bed exercise."

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

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

"By then, you must have experienced many battles and will naturally understand my mentality."

After listening to him talk for a long time, Eric's only thought was, you are such a fucking waste of resources.

I've finally created an opportunity for you, but don't you think about whether you are married or not? If she knows, she will still get close to you? But I can't say that.

"Well man, it's your choice. This is the best I can do."

"Eric, my brother, I will remember your help in my heart. If you need me in the future, I will do my best!"

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

"You bad guy, look at your friend. The most important thing for people is spiritual harmony. That's really true."

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

"He also said that he has played with all kinds of women, so we can infer that he is tired of playing or his lower body is not working anymore, so he can only choose mental coordination."

Theron climbed up like a water snake and sat on him, condescendingly questioning: "What about you? Sergey is only in the toy business, and 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 denied it three times decisively: "Rumors are all used for hype. Don't you know the morals of those gossip tabloids?"

"Baby, you are the only one in my heart. You should be able to feel my love!"

"Oh, yucky!"

Hahahaha Happy times are always short-lived. I lived a happy life 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 is more important. You are a man, and the helmsman of such a big company, and you have a heavy burden on your shoulders.

If I delay something important because of you, it will not be worth it and I will be hated to death.

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

Anyway, when she left, her walking posture changed.

The land was plowed by the cows! As usual, the crew of "House of Cards" continued to leave it to Andrea to deal with, comforting her that she could hold on for a few more days and they would be back.

Over at Meiyi Records, Maikou's team is in charge of the work and is handling matters related to the establishment of the company.

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. It not only has a large number of film and television companies, but also many record companies.

It is also very close to MGM, making communication convenient.

There are two things that really concern Eric now: 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, and thanks to Fox's all-out promotion, it has become very popular.

The brainwashing offensive is just like Melatonin. Any Fox audience who hears the word "join" will immediately think of Myspace.

Although many people complained that it was as annoying as spam calls, the traffic it attracted was real.

However, being able to attract 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 use its tricks. 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 energetic young men and women from major nightclubs and bars.

These musicians all have some fans. Even if they are not big stars, a little bit of fans can add up to a lot and bring in a lot of users.

What are more attractive than them are those spirited young girls.

America is a divided country in many ways, and sexuality is one of them.

In the film and television works exported abroad, American girls are often very open-minded and will play and do anything they want. It is normal for them to lose their virginity at the age of 14 or 15.

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

For example, in states such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia, the church is powerful and every household believes in God. In their eyes, sex is as terrible as the theory of evolution.

Even twenty years later, when LGBT swept the Western world, you would never see parades in support of LGBT in conservative states like Alabama, because fanatics would really dare to shoot you.

The people Myspace recruited this time are all from states with extremely liberal sexual relations, such as California and New York, which, according to investigations, are the places in the United States where cheating, infidelity, and multiple relationships are most rampant.

Therefore, all the spirited girls are very open. In the photos on their homepages, they are all reserved in their poses and coquettish looks. Many of them are just covered with a piece of cloth, almost revealing their nipples.

No normal man can resist this kind of trick, let alone those young men full of vigor and vitality.

Ask yourself, have you ever downloaded Momo because you wanted to make a date with Huobao? The principle is the same, it may be vulgar but it is very helpful in attracting traffic.

Eric also registered an account to test it, and just sneered when he saw this situation.

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

If you don't do pornographic things, you won't get attention and you won't be able to attract fans, and it will gradually turn into an arms race to see who can do the bigger thing.

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

There is still a short period of time, and public opinion and parents have not yet reacted.

When Myspace becomes bigger and more reckless, and parents suddenly find out that their underage children are browsing inappropriate content, what do you think their reaction will be? Eric can then use public opinion to fan the flames and make the matter bigger.

When pressure is put on MySpace, it is impossible not to make changes.

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

If you suddenly say you don't want to do it anymore, who will want to play with you? Wouldn't it be better for me to go to Facebook? In addition to skirting the rules, another feature of Myspace is the personalized main business settings.

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

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This function is somewhat similar to the QQ space in later generations, where you can make your homepage fancy and dazzling to others at first glance.

When alternative culture was popular, many people must have had this experience and feeling.

After trying it, Eric thought it was good and wanted to arrange for Fitz to have a similar function.

But Fitz told him it was better not to do that, because although it looked gorgeous, it would come at a high price.

"Boss, our team has conducted a step-by-step test of the personalization function of MySpace, which is to continuously decorate the personal homepage to be more prosperous and complex."

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

“And when the glam level goes up to 10, it looks even prettier.”

"But when the gorgeousness level was raised to 20, side effects began to appear, and the speed of opening and refreshing the homepage began to slow down."

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

“And after clicking on it, there will be further lags, such as comments being posted and messages not being synchronized, etc.”

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

“It may be good now, but in two or three months, the disadvantages will definitely become apparent.”

After listening to Fitz, Eric couldn't help but think of the Penguin Space again. Later, there was indeed an abnormal lag.

If a page cannot be refreshed for several minutes, who would be interested in continuing?

"You make sense. What's your suggestion?"

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

"It has chosen a path of quick success and instant benefits. It is not worthy of competing with Facebook at all. It will soon destroy itself."

"According to the information I received, Myspace's joint promotion within major companies and organizations did not go smoothly, and the result was similar to what you predicted."

"Our promotion in various middle schools has been going very well. Currently, the number of new middle school users has reached 3 million, and most of them are very active."

Eric thought for a moment and 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% and release it."

"Boss, isn't 20% too conservative? How about raising it to 50%? Without pressure, there will be no motivation."

“Isn’t 50% too exaggerated? Can others believe it?”

Fitz chuckled and said, "We don't care whether most people believe it or not, but even if there is only a 1% chance 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 this way."

Facebook was temporarily stable, so Eric's focus became Marvel.

Ever 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 is not directly involved in the operation, but rather serves as a form of investment.

But it would not be correct to say that it completely ignores it, because Marvel’s two largest individual shareholders are Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad.

The former holds a 17% stake in Marvel, while the latter holds a 10% stake.

Based on Marvel's current market value, the two people's shares combined are worth about US$320 million.

Both of them are also shareholders of Beach Toys, but their share is not as large as Marvel's.

So if Eric wants to take over Marvel, he now has two paths.

The first approach is to negotiate directly with Beech Toys to see if it is possible to acquire the 20% stake, which is now valued at US$240 million.

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

But the process may be very long, requiring board meetings and endless 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 Marvel's largest shareholder.

Then, when MGM went public and had sufficient funds, they would buy back the shares from Beech Toys.

According to Eric's plan, MGM would go public again after the release of Transformers.

Once it is listed again, it will definitely receive billions of dollars in financing.

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

What's worse, I even bought Beechcraft toys.

If a premium of 100 million is not enough, I will give you a premium of 200 million. If 2 is not enough, I will give you more. I will smash you until you are unconscious. Who can resist money?

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

"Boss, I've already made an appointment. Isaac Perlmutter and Avi Arad will be coming to Los Angeles to solicit investment in four days. I've arranged to meet them at the company."

If I don’t get anything done today, I’ll ask for leave tomorrow to do it.

(End of this chapter)