Someone wants to buy Marvel, and Zhou Shi guesses with his ass that it is Disney. Under the financial crisis, the sales of Disney's theme parks and DVD business fell sharply, the company's annual revenue also fell sharply, and the movie revenue was also very low in the ranking of the top six in Hollywood. They now have a great need to find a new point of profitable growth.

Disney's "Princess" series has long been a huge attraction for little girls around the world, and Disney has always been a leader in the American family market. But this success is more in the girls' market and more marginalized in the boys' market, and if this does not change, Disney's development will always face very significant limitations. Marvel is different, although the most marketable American comic is DC Comics, but one DC belongs to Time Warner, and the other DC Comics is too dark and conflicts with Disney's culture. Marvel's heroes are more positive.

While there are huge risks associated with making superhero movies, and the comic book publishing industry is on the wane. But if Disney wants to break through the current development pattern, then acquiring Marvel is their best choice. Even among the 5,000 comic book heroes owned by Marvel, no more than 100 are truly worthy of Disney launching a global publishing and marketing platform and ultimately making a profit.

However, Zhou Shi has had ideas about Disney since he became a shareholder of Marvel, and when their stock price was below $20 and their market value was less than $30 billion, Zhou Shi began to acquire Disney shares. With a full billion dollars in stock and some stock options, he (which can be held jointly by a natural person or a company under his name) has a stake in Disney up to 4 percent, making him one of the majority shareholders of Disney. You must know that at this time, Jobs's stake in Disney was less than 8%.

Zhou Shi thought that he personally bought Apple and bought Baidu, I don't know why he didn't lack money, sure enough, the way of heaven is more than enough to make up for the shortage, and the way of people is not enough to give more than enough. Under various financial means, although he does not hold much cash, there are still many assets that can be realized at any time, such as crude oil and gold, which are being long, and stock index futures. Although there is a lot of debt, there is almost no risk. Unfortunately, such good days will soon come to an end, because the more he participates in the financial markets, the greater the impact on them. If Zhou Shi had been reborn after the subprime mortgage crisis and used the prophet, his profit in the financial market would not have reached 10 billion US dollars, and it should be said that it would not have been possible to earn 5 billion US dollars (investment company IPOs are not counted). Because there are hardly any sharp rises and falls after that, and the asset prices in the financial market are closely linked to the world's financial and economic environment, the general trend may be difficult to change, but small fluctuations are still very easy to change. Speculators who use the prophet are likely to be carelessly strangled by the predators in the market. Unlike the subprime mortgage crisis, Wall Street's giants are struggling to protect themselves, and few giants can change this trend. If there is a giant who wants to go long against the trend and stop Zhou Shi, then this giant may also have to take his net worth and life, because in doing so, he himself can't escape, and there are many people in the market who want to escape.

Fortunately, the price of gold peaked at more than $1,900 an ounce and then continued to fall, returning to around $1,100 and now less than $1,000. The trend of oil is more complicated, with wide fluctuations, but it is enough, and Zhou Shi's profit can allow him to have no financial problems in the past few years. In a few years, most of his companies should go public.

The next day, Zhou Shi found Marvel Chairman Isaac Palmart, and after Zhou Shi became a shareholder, his stake in Marvel dropped from 37 percent to 31 percent now. However, Marvel's stock price bucked the trend and now has a market capitalization of more than $2 billion. The success of Iron Man, as well as the next Marvel Universe plan, make more people optimistic about the future development of Marvel. Zhou Shi's stake in Marvel was finally maintained at 19.9%, and he and Isaac Palmat could basically influence the development of Marvel and make any decision. If there is a conflict between the two, then things will become more complicated.

"Mr. Palmart, I don't know what you think about the future of Marvel?" Zhou Shi was simple and straightforward

"What can you think, of course, I hope that the development of Marvel will be better, and we can spread Marvel's culture to the world. "Isaac Palmart

"But if we continue to develop normally, it will be difficult to achieve this goal," Zhou Shi

"The future of Marvel is yours, what do you think?" said Isaac Palmart, as Duncan said to LeBron James after a game in the NBA: "Boy, the future is yours." Then this old rascal touched other people's hairs and insisted on not retiring at the Spurs year after year. The implication is that the future is yours, but the present is mine.

"I want to buy MGM!" Zhou Shi

"MGM? "Isaac Palmart

MGM is a real mess, as early as 2005, it was acquired by Sony for $4.8 billion due to a $2 billion debt. But Sony, who is well-versed in finance, is not the kind of dirt bun of the last century, and this time they are a leveraged buyout. Sony's own expenditure was only $300 million, and it also obtained the distribution rights to MGM films, fulfilling their strategic goal: to make Sony's Blu-ray DCD beat Toshiba's HD. The vast majority of the losses came from Sony's collaborators at the time. So much so that by now, MGM's debt has exceeded $4 billion.

But even if it's worse, MGM is a library of 4,100 films and 10,600 TV episodes (which have decreased after a few changes), 170 Academy Awards, and the film and television rights to "007" and "The Hobbit." The rights to its library are licensed to pay-TV, cable networks and television stations around the world, with an average annual revenue of $600 million. Of course, this part of the income will have to be shared with other rights holders, and their share is roughly 300 million US dollars.

"If we can buy it, we can not only have 007, but also have hobbits, and more importantly, we can expand the living space of superheroes. "Zhou Shi is, what does MGM have to do with superheroes, he is just pretending to be profound.

"But have you ever thought that MGM is much bigger than us? And according to their debts, it is too much of a burden for us. "Palmat

"Perhaps, but according to our observations, MGM is not far from bankruptcy, and we may have a chance. "Zhou Shi

"They're going to go bankrupt again, and this time the Japanese won't save MGM?" said Palmart

"It's hard to say, and the chances of saving it are slim. "Zhou Shi

"Also, I won't save it!" Palmat also knew Zhou Shi's thoughts at this time, and when MGM went bankrupt and reorganized, and all the debts were sorted out, there would be no worries at that time, but what advantages did Marvel have at that time?

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