Under the storm, it is hell for some, but heaven for others.

For example, Aurora Media, which is struggling with movie IP, began its acquisition journey in Hollywood in accordance with Liu Ruoyi's strategic guidance, and with the help of Caitlin's connections, Aurora Media first aimed at Marvel in distress.

Marvel, which holds a lot of superhero IP in his hand, is still eating the small profits of IP licensing at this time, Stan Lee has wanted to enter big movies for many years, but no real Hollywood big money is willing to help him, and then cultivate a new competitor.

Capital outside the circle is full of distrust of Stan Lee.

The desperate Stan Lee mortgaged his IP rights to the bank in exchange for filming his first big movie "Iron Man", but unfortunately, the film encountered a financial storm before it was completed.

This sudden financial tsunami not only made the bank that gave Stan Lee a loan start to frequently urge to repay the loan, but even the IP authorization fee with Marvel was reduced a lot.

There are bankrupt companies everywhere, and Hollywood is trembling in the face of the financial turmoil, and it does not dare to invest heavily in big productions.

The stubborn Stan Li Qiang continued to push forward the filming progress of "Iron Man", but the lack of food in his hands made him stretched thin, and he was almost unable to continue.

Bank loans?

Impossible, at this time, almost all banks are tightening their monetary policies to tide over the disaster, of course, some banks are still struggling to support now, but the end is already doomed.

Caitlyn's Hollywood friend inadvertently mentioned this, which made Caitlyn cheer up immediately.

Caitlin has always had her own ambitions, and the ceiling can be seen almost at a glance at the end of making music, and Liu Ruoyi's two albums have made North American Aurora short-lived.

But that's all, and the next few artists in the United States signed by Caitlin herself are still maintaining a small profit situation.

Only big movies have big opportunities, and Caitlin certainly knows what is the mainstream of infinite beauty in Hollywood.

It just so happens that Liu Ruoyi has been aiming at Hollywood for many years, but the previous Aurora Media itself is not strong enough, and the giants of Hollywood can only keep their saliva and stare at MGM being won by Sony the year before last.

But Liu Ruoyi's strength has skyrocketed since last year, and she has re-expressed a strong hunting interest in Hollywood, and Caitlin is a sharp knife in her hand, ready to find an opportunity to insert it at any time.

Today, the knife sits in Stan Lee's office.

"Mr. Lee, as mentioned on the phone, today I would like to discuss with Mr. Lee some ideas for solving the Marvel dilemma. Caitlin said straight to the point.

"Frankly speaking, Aurora Entertainment has a strong capital in its hands, which is enough to make Mr. Li's ideas come true. ”

Stan Lee looked at this little-known woman and frankly said that Stan Lee wouldn't have taken the time to meet her if it weren't for Caitlin claiming to have the capital to bring all his heroes to the big screen.

"How many?" Stan Lee was more blunt.

"There's many, many more," Caitlin has long been accustomed to the American way, "and if somebody in Hollywood wants to sell the company, we can buy any studio, I mean any!"

Stan Lee's eyes lit up, although he felt that this woman was suspected of bragging, but despite this, it should not be a problem to discount the money in this woman's hand to support a movie.

A singer named Annie, who she released a few years ago, also seems to have made a lot of money.

Stan Lee certainly knew something about Catelyn before meeting Catelyn.

"Miss Caitlin, I don't ask for much, if you're willing to shell out $50 million, I guarantee that three of the profits from this movie that will definitely make a lot of money will be yours. ”

$50 million, for Stan Lee at the moment, is equivalent to Marvel's lifeline, which can help him carry it for at least half a year.

He has experienced many major disasters and has long been experienced with such crises, and the most important thing now is to find the most cash flow to support it.

Getting through it, he imagined that people would always watch movies.

How much money did "Spider-Man" make? Stan Lee was heartbroken to think about, but unfortunately most of that money had nothing to do with him, and his licensing fees were simply not worth mentioning compared to the revenue.

"$3 billion! We will take Marvel, and then we will inject another $1 billion into Marvel Studios to support Mr. Lee's big movie career!"

Frankly, the price is very fair, basically Marvel's highest valuation before the financial crisis, and of course it has shrunk quite a bit now.

Behemoths like Lehman Brothers, which are incredible, have now shrunk to the point where they are not much more valued than those on the fringes of Hollywood like Marvel.

Stan Lee did not directly refuse.

He's really a little tempted.

"In addition, we can add a clause that Mr. Lee is the president for life of Marvel, unless Mr. Lee himself is willing to retire. ”

This condition was specially explained by Liu Ruoyi before she came.

For Marvel's Stan Lee, Liu Ruoyi still has some memories of her past life, knowing that this is a very commercially ambitious.

Of course, in other words, there is a strong love for power.

Therefore, after Caitlin threw out this condition, Stan Lee's heart jumped, and I have to say that this condition really touched him.

"Miss Caitlin, I don't like to joke, my Marvel is not for sale. After a moment's hesitation, Stan Lee refused.

"In the United States, everything has its own price, Mr. Li may wish to think about it, this is my business card, if Mr. Li has any ideas, please call me. ”

Caitlin is no longer stalking, it is enough to be able to make Stan Lee have the patience to listen to her offer today, and the next thing, if Stan Lee is interested in selling, then there will inevitably be an extremely difficult negotiation waiting for her.

But Caitlyn enjoyed it.

This is the right path for her to really step into Hollywood.

Aurora Entertainment's music career is just a little bit of fame.

Of course, for Caitlin, Aurora Entertainment also allowed her to achieve financial freedom.

Hong kong.

After listening to Vivian's return, Liu Ruoyi didn't say much about Marvel's affairs, and now that the price has been opened, Stan Lee will definitely contact Caitlyn again if he really wants to sell it for cash.

Liu Ruoyi believes that at this time, it is impossible for any Hollywood company to come up with her current high price.

The funds in his hand are swelling every day like blowing up balloons, and now Liu Ruoyi doesn't have much feeling about the amount of money at all.

Liu Ruoyi directly agreed to Zhang Rujin's capital plan to purchase enough equipment for two 28nm/22nm compatible production lines at the same time with a huge investment of nearly 10 billion US dollars.

The financing of the new phase of Heung Kong Zhongxin International has been approved by the board of directors of the company.

Of course, the chairman of the board of directors is Zhang Rujin himself, and as the named director inside, Liu Ruoyi will not object to him.

The four major families who stood in line in the early stage expressed their support, after each family took out 500 million US dollars, they no longer followed Liu Ruoyi crazy in the second round, and let their shares shrink significantly.

Anyway, in the first issue, their shares combined couldn't get the right to speak, so they simply let it go, and even the company's board of directors didn't bother to participate.

It's just that the smooth progress of the dragon factory has made these old foxes smell a hint of making money, but that's all, to be honest, they still have more experience in repairing houses.

This kind of high-tech gadget, even Li Chaoren, who is the most up-to-date with the times, said that he couldn't understand it.

Except for playing a good card with oranges, the Li family has not made any special achievements in this high-tech industry now.

The scise tossed by the youngest son, what a beautiful scenery it was when it was first figured out, and what the result was, everyone saw it, and all kinds of dazzling maneuvering techniques basically showed the peak skills of hype.

However, these do not help at all how the PCCW business should develop in order to open up the situation.

The scw was almost directly played to death by Xiao Lizi.

Fortunately, Liu Ruoyi took over.

Only then did PCCW begin to find the right path of development again, re-dominate the Xiangjiang telecom circle, and now have one foot deep into the treasure island.

and even the relatively wealthy metropolitan areas of Southeast Asia.

With more than 10 million users, PCCW is not comparable with several giant operators in the mainland in terms of the number of users, but in terms of business quality, it has surpassed the weakest one in the mainland, with a revenue of more than 80 billion yuan in 2007 and a net profit of more than 22 billion yuan, ranking among the top three Chinese telecom operators.

Although it still ranks fourth among mainland operators in terms of revenue, it has entered the top three in terms of profitability.

And there is not much difference with the second place, people believe that the profit of the three-looking two PCCW should soon surpass the current second, and even in terms of revenue, it may exceed the current third place 100 billion annual income level.

The mainland market is not accessible, but Southeast Asia has a population of more than 600 million, of which almost all the wealthy are concentrated in the big cities.

If this urbanized area with a middle-class population of more than 100 million is occupied by PCCW, the future of PCCW is clearly limitless.

Of course, it is still a bit early to say that this occupation is still a bit early, and PCCW currently has only four places to get 3G operation licenses: Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

The Lion City side watched too closely, and Liu Ruoyi made a lot of moves, but he couldn't cut in.

Moreover, Lion City Telecom has more than 100 million mobile subscribers, which is the second largest mobile subscriber in Asia.

However, Liu Ruoyi does not care so much, and has invested more than 30 billion yuan to build his latest mobile network in four countries.

Thanks to the rapid development and rapid cost reduction of mainland telecom equipment manufacturers, Liu's money is equivalent to almost two-thirds of the cost of building the network in the first place.

With such a leading cost advantage, Liu Ruoyi does not think that there will be no chance to compete with Lion City Telecom in the future.

Although there is no way to carry out the all-in-one network business in these places.

The investment funds are rapidly turning into base stations and back-end servers and switches, and the new generation of 3G bandwidth using the latest WCDMA enhanced HSDPA technology has a peak bandwidth of nearly 10Mbit/s, and the stability can reach 5Mbit/s.

Compared with the older generation of 3G, this is the killer feature of Liu Ruoyi's late-mover advantage.

It's just that all this can be done not only by the base station and the background system, but also by the new generation of mobile phones that support HSDPA technology, and the price is basically the level of the flagship mobile phones of various mobile phone manufacturers.

Therefore, Liu Ruoyi is looking forward to HTC's Android mobile phone more and more, in terms of specifications, this new mobile phone, codenamed One, condenses the current top CPU and display screen of mobile communication, and also supports the latest HSDPA standard on the baseband.

Although the price is a bit expensive even if it is developed, Liu Ruoyi feels that it is just right, and when it is born, it will be about the same time as the network construction takes shape.

If some consumers are blocked from the door because of the price, after 3 to 6 months of network tuning, you can customize a batch of relatively cheap HSDPA mobile phones with new specifications.

The routine of one net communication cannot be carried out in Southeast Asia, but Liu Ruoyi is ready to try the routine of bundling mobile phones to push business packages.

In the face of the upcoming mobile Internet era, Liu Ruoyi is full of excitement.

After harvesting this wave of Wall Street leeks, Liu Ruoyi is not afraid that her money will not find a source for spending.

In New York, Caitlin received a call from Stan Lee shorter than she expected.

Aurora Entertainment has officially opened negotiations with Marvel for the acquisition.

After the daily negotiations, Caitlin also needs to sort out the process and results of the negotiations and send them to the other side of the ocean, while Vivien follows to learn the negotiation skills and convey the latest instructions to Liu Ruoyi.

The financial crisis is still getting worse.

Belston, one of the top investment banks, is in bankruptcy.

The real estate investment trust filed for bankruptcy.

Central banks are bailing out the market, but the stock market is still not improving.

Immediately after that, Walmart and other entities also announced bad news.

The stock market fell sharply again.

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The financial crisis is spreading and worsening, and it is completely different from what Stan Lee imagined that it would soon pass.

The scope of this round of financial crisis far exceeds the scope of the Asian financial crisis directed by Soros, and Stan Lee is even more strapped for cash.

"Iron Man" is like a money shredder, constantly engulfing the cash in Stan Lee's hand.

At that time, Marvel did not have too many cash cows, and the income from relying on IP licensing could not withstand the huge investment black hole of "Iron Man".

$5 billion, Stan Lee offered his own price.

Caitlin said that it is impossible, Marvel has never had such a high valuation, not to mention that it is still in crisis.

$3.5 billion, Caitlin offered the second price within Liu's limit.

Stan Lee went back and thought about it for a few days.

No, I'm not happy with the price.

Let's think differently. Aurora Entertainment gave $4 billion, of which I cashed out $2 billion, and the other $1.5 billion was injected into Marvel as a capital for business development.

In terms of equity, Aurora Entertainment took 51%, while Stan Lee retained 49%!

The old fox just has a lot of eyes.

Caitlin asks for an adjournment to reconsider Stan Lee's proposal.

Although in terms of the amount of cash, Stan Lee took his share of Marvel's valuation of 4 billion and exchanged more than half of the equity for 2 billion.

However, Aurora Entertainment still needs to inject 1.5 billion, so that the remaining 49% of the shares are worth about 2.7 billion for Stan Lee, and after changing the way, Stan Lee still has a total gain of nearly 5 billion valuation.

But from the side of Aurora Entertainment, it seems a bit expensive to pay a total of $3.5 billion to get 51% of the equity, but after considering taking this IP company, it also holds close to 3 billion assets in his hands, more than half of which is still cash, and the premium given is not too high.

Liu Ruoyi no longer tossed with the other party, and directly instructed the counteroffer to become a 51% controlling stake in 2 billion cash and $1 billion in cash injection.

This balances Stan Lee's plan even more, allowing the old fox to cash out and pocket it safely, while also retaining about half of the possible future earnings.

Stan Lee didn't think about it for long, and then he agreed to this new plan, and the two sides made a deal!