"It's not interesting, just want to remind Mr. Perelman that self-confidence is good, but sometimes self-confidence doesn't bring victory!"

Wu Jianye sat there, always with a smile on his face except when Penny said the wrong thing just now.

Perelman looked at Wu Jianye and didn't make a sound, and his wife Cohen next to him actually didn't say anything from beginning to end, but she wasn't just a vase, she had been observing Wu Jianye, to be honest, in North America, Wu Jianye has always been a man with an aura of mystery.

first became a best-selling author in North America with a "Jurassic Park", and then created a highly influential rock album "Born Out of the Sky", becoming the world's hottest rock star in those two years, but Wu Jianye did not develop in music at all, except for participating in a 'life-saving' concert, he never appeared in the music scene again.

Even the Grammy Awards ceremony did not participate, and it is precisely because of this that the singer of the music album with the highest sales of the year did not win an award on the Grammys.

Then Wu Jianye became a famous director in China, won the crown of the three major European film festivals, and now he has returned to North America and began to direct mainstream films in North America.

All this makes many media people want to dig out the roots of Wu Jianye thoroughly, and today Perelman came to see Wu Jianye, which was also specially proposed by Cohen to accompany him.

As a columnist, Cohen's business acumen is not bright, and he doesn't understand why Wu Jianye's words made Perelman, who has always been invincible in his mind, change his face greatly.

Just because Cohen doesn't understand doesn't mean the rest of the people don't understand.

Especially Nick and Perelman, when they reach their realm, they all know that Wu Jianye will definitely not be untargeted in such negotiations, which means that Wu Jianye must have his own support, and his reliance must have reached some agreement with Marvel's senior management.

As Wu Jianye said, if Perelman really goes public with Marvel, if Marvel's executives resign en masse, it will be an absolutely devastating blow to Marvel.

Then everything that Perelman did will end in failure, not only will he not make much money on the Marvel project, but he will even lose a lot.

This is something that Perelman will never allow to happen.

"Mr. Perelman, the Phantom is imperative for Marvel, we know that Mr. Perelman has always cared very much about Revlon, if you can sell Marvel in your hands to the Phantom, when Revlon goes public, Xiangjiang's Yaoguang Group can help Mr. Perelman open the Revlon market in Southeast Asia!"

The big stick is down, and all that's left is to give a sweet date.

Although many people talk about Perelman as a dealer who walks around the market with a calculator, there is one exception to the many companies that Perelman has acquired: Revlon.

In late 1985, Perelman, with Milken's backing, made a hostile $1.8 billion takeover of the cosmetics company through junk bonds.

The beauty industry was at a low point between 1974 and 1984. Affected by the weakness of the international cosmetics market, Revlon's turnover also fell sharply by 79%, and in 1985 it lost $28 million.

But Perelman is soberly aware that the cosmetics industry has shown signs of recovery, and this is the perfect time to seize the market.

After becoming chairman of the company's board of directors, Perelman overhauled the company's organizational structure. He sold off most of Revlon's supplement-making divisions for $1.4 billion because they made little or no profit.

Subsequently, the number of affiliated institutions was reduced from 100 to 20. While vigorously reducing the production of nutraceuticals, Perelman has made the revival of the beauty and cosmetics industry a top priority for the company, making every effort to resume the development of new cosmetic products, while improving advertising and sales measures.

After a round of transformation, Revlon's business flourished, with sales of $2.4 billion in 1987, up 41 percent from 1986. This has undoubtedly become one of the examples of the success of Perelman's merger.

After 11 years of patience, Perelman took Revlon Packaging public in 1996 with a total market capitalization of $1.05 billion and a stake of about 17 percent of the company himself.

However, in the 15 years since the company went public, Revlon's performance has been unsatisfactory. The company's stock price has fallen from a high of $55 in 1998 to a single-digit high, and now the company's stock price has recovered to about $14, but its market capitalization is just over $700 million.

During this period, Perelman sold some of Revlon's assets, bringing the company $3 billion in revenue, and spent another $500 million to buy some new brands. But in the face of increasing competition in the cosmetics industry, Perelman is increasingly under suspicion. Still, Perelman stubbornly believes Revlon has an optimistic outlook.

"It's the toughest deal I've been involved in so far, but I still believe that Revlon has tremendous value. It's the most exciting thing I've been in 20 years, it's an irreplaceable asset. Perelman said.

And the sweet dates that Wu Jianye handed to Perelman are Revlon, relying on the influence of Yaoguang Group in Southeast Asia, if you really want to help Perelman, then Revlon's future development direction may not necessarily appear in another time and space.

After listening to Perelman, his eyes also lit up, he knows better than anyone how big the market in Southeast Asia is, especially the rapid economic development of RB, Xiangjiang, Singapore, Wanwan and other places, and he has long been eyeing the market there.

At this time, no one thought what the future development of Marvel would be, Marvel was just a simple investment for him, and there was no way to compare with Revlon's status in his heart!

With sticks and sweet dates, Perelman's attitude has finally changed.

"I wonder what the price is on the Phantom's side?"

Wu Jianye stretched out a finger and said with a smile: "100 million! Mr. Perelman can earn 17.5 million US dollars in half a year, which is already a very good business!"

In the end, Perelman still agreed to Wu Jianye's offer, as Wu Jianye said, earning $17.5 million in half a year, which is already a very good result for Perelman's investment.

As for the $150 million mentioned earlier, both sides knew that the price was impossible, and after Penny said that sentence, Perelman once thought that this price was okay, but after Wu Jianye finished picking the stick and giving sweet dates, he knew that this price was impossible.

And Wu Jianye actually lost money, in his heart, buying Marvel should be around 95 million, just because of Penny's words, the phantom needs to pay 5 million more!

Thinking of this, Wu Jianye glanced at Penny, and the dissatisfaction in his heart became more and more intense.

After the two negotiated the general direction, the dinner was almost finished, and as for the specific details, it will be carried out by the negotiation teams of the two companies.

Seeing that the two of them finished talking, Nick said with a smile: "Since the business has been discussed, why don't we find a place to sit again!"

Penny's behavior just now, Nick naturally knows what the consequences are, although the cooperation between the Johnson family and Phantom Entertainment is not his responsibility, but it does involve the interests of his own family, plus Wu Jianye's status in the Phantom, others don't know, but Nick knows it clearly, and he doesn't want any cracks in the cooperation between the two sides because of this matter.

Wu Jianye looked at the time and said, "Just sit down and forget it, the crew still has a lot of problems to solve tomorrow's shooting, I need to go back and discuss it with the crew!"

After saying that, Wu Jianye stood up and shook hands with Perelman and the others to say goodbye, but in the end he still didn't talk to Penny, which made Penny even more angry, and even now Penny still doesn't think she did anything wrong.

She was about to say something, but was stopped by a look from Nick.

After Wu saw that the night left, Perelman and the Nick siblings also shook hands and said goodbye.

Sitting in his car, Perelman was in a somewhat complicated mood, and this confrontation with Wu Jianye could only be regarded as neither losing nor winning for him, which also made his impression of Wu Jianye even deeper.

Cohen asked with some incomprehension: "Before you came, didn't you say that the current value of Marvel is only about 100 million US dollars, and now that you sell it at this price, you also get the opportunity to cooperate with Yaoguang Group, why are you still unhappy?"

Perelman sighed and said, "This Wu Jianye is not simple." ”

Cohen: "How?"

Perelman smiled bitterly and said: "Before coming to the appointment, I did think that as long as Marvel could sell 100 million, it would be good, but that Penny's words were enough to increase the value of Marvel by 10 million, but that Wu Jianye only had an extremely brief change in expression, and immediately returned to normal, and even came up with some problems that I couldn't solve, if it weren't for Penny's words, it is estimated that Marvel would not be able to sell 100 million!"

"Aren't you worried that what Wu Jianye said before is false?" Cohen asked.

Perelman smiled and said: "No, this kind of thing is easy to check, if the Phantom is really interested in Marvel, they won't lie about this kind of thing, this Wu Jianye obviously contacted Marvel before meeting me, do you still remember that the Phantom bought the copyright of "Fantastic Four" and "Spider-Man" before? This already shows that they are bound to Marvel, and Wu Jianye can say that these things are arranged in advance.......

Speaking of this, Perelman cried and laughed again: "Now I believe that the news from the Xiangjiang side is true!"

Cohen nodded, not saying anything more, but she had already figured out what to do with her column.

Perelman lamented Wu Jianye's thoughtfulness, while Nick reprimanded Penny.

"Although you usually do some out-of-the-ordinary things, but you rarely make mistakes in the business field, why did you make such a big mistake today, do you know what kind of situation your words will put Wu Jianye's negotiations in? If he hadn't planned early, today's negotiations might have been ruined by your words!"

Penny has always been a person who is not afraid of heaven and earth, but she has always respected Nick very much, and now seeing Nick reprimanding herself so harshly, she is also aggrieved in her heart: "Who made that Wu Jianye angry with me all the time?"

"If you can't even distinguish between personal grievances and family interests, I doubt your ability in the future!" Nick did not forgive Penny.

"Brother, I know it's wrong, and I won't be in the future!" Penny didn't want to argue with Nick, so she quickly admitted her mistake.

"It's useless to tell me this, you still want to think about how to explain it to Grandpa!" Nick said.

"Grandpa, why do you want to explain it to grandpa?" Penny asked, if there is anyone in the family who scares Penny the most, then it must be her grandfather, although old Johnson seems to love himself very much, but as long as he makes a mistake, the punishment is unambiguous, before grandpa loved Daniel so much, isn't it also hung up and beaten?

"In the future, you should have less contact with Wu Jianye, I found that as long as it involves his affairs, your brain is not enough!" Nick said mercilessly.

"You're saying Wu Jianye will tell Grandpa about this!" Penny's voice became worried.

As soon as she finished speaking, Penny's phone rang.

Nick glanced at her and said, "Take it, it must be grandpa's call!"

Penny answered the phone with a somewhat ugly face, and her voice became coquettish: "Grandpa, is that you?"

"Back to Los Angeles right now!" Johnson Sr.'s powerful voice came over the phone!

Penny's face drooped and she said, "Got it!"

.......

Old Johnson can know about this, naturally Wu Jianye told him, this time the Phantom acquired Marvel, because of Penny's words, the Phantom spent an extra five million, because of the cooperation between the two sides, Wu Jianye has no way to clean up Penny directly, so find someone who can clean up Penny.

After returning to the hotel, Wu Jianye put aside the five million thing, and the joy in his heart was also revealed, and he was able to successfully win Marvel, which at least guaranteed that after entering the millennium, Phantom Entertainment had its own core competitiveness.

Different from another time and space, now after the acquisition of Marvel, coupled with the copyrights of "Spider-Man" and "Fantastic Four" that were bought before, the development of the Marvel Universe will be more free, and the IP value of the entire Marvel Universe will be comparable to the IP value of "Star Wars".

This is not only the value of the movie, but also the value of peripheral products that contain greater wealth, it can be said that just by virtue of one Marvel, it is enough to develop a complete media group.