As a guest, Shirley Lansing invited Li Qingyuan to dinner, her husband William Friedkin is a great Oscar-winning director, and there are many works that may make Chinese audiences remember very few movies, so they are not very popular in China.

A simple American dinner was not to his liking, but the three of them, who had long been interested in working together, finally had a good conversation, and he felt that Shirley Lansing's joining DreamWorks was a sure thing.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Li Qingyuan received a call from Shirley Lansing, and she was ready to accept this challenge.

When I met Shirley Lansing again, she seemed to be a different person compared to yesterday, wearing a black women's suit, a silk scarf with a bow around her neck, and pointed black heels made her figure look even taller.

"Hey, Shirley, you're going to suck all the men in Hollywood!"

"Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Li, I would have thought the same if I were thirty years younger. ”

"It's really sad for the men in Hollywood, they don't have a chance!" Li Qingyuan said poorly.

Shirley Lansing couldn't cry or laugh, she didn't expect this person to be so improper, whether she was taken into the pit.

"Mr. Li, there is no one like you among the bosses of Hollywood Film and Television Company!"

"Uniqueness can show my specialness!" Li Qingyuan said shamelessly.

"Mr. Li, aren't you afraid of scaring me away?"

"Shirley, if you were so easy to scare away, Paramount would have gone out of business with you. ”

"Then it seems that I still have some ability, so what conditions are you going to use to keep me as capable person?"

"Isn't it very sincere to have an annual salary of 30 million plus 5% of the right to dividends?" Li Qingyuan shook three fingers in front of Shirley Lansing.

This income is much higher than Paramount, Li Qingyuan is indeed full of sincerity, Shirley Lanxin's red lips grinned and showed a row of white teeth and replied: "I feel your sincere sincerity!"

Now that you've accepted the job, it's up to you to negotiate the DreamWorks acquisition, and I hope you'll give me a satisfactory answer as soon as possible. ”

"Is Steven already interested in selling DreamWorks?" or is he struggling with his thoughts?"

"I'm waiting for a reply from Steven, he needs a moment to talk to his companion. ”

"Okay, during this time, I'll make a development plan first, boss, do you have any requirements?"

"I would like to make a few requests, first, DreamWorks must have its own distribution channels, and I don't want anyone to come to my neck; second, try to take the boutique route; third, do our best to develop Internet entertainment consumption projects, which is the trend in the Internet era; fourth, establish theme parks similar to 'Disney' to expand the influence of DreamWorks; fifth, acquire movie theater chains if funds allow. ”

Li Qingyuan said a little too much advice, and after Shirley Lansing opened his handbag and took out a notebook to make a record, he asked, "After acquiring DreamWorks, how much money are you going to invest?"

"I have prepared a sum of five billion dollars for the acquisition of DreamWorks and Marvel Comics, Marvel Comics has basically negotiated the price, DreamWorks needs you to work hard to lower their selling prices, and a small part of the saved funds will be used in Marvel Comics, and the majority will be placed in DreamWorks, I think two billion dollars should not be too much of a problem. ”

"Boss, the acquisition of DreamWorks requires at least three or four billion US dollars, how can you have the funds to provide us with development?" Shirley Lansing wondered.

"Steve is a smart guy, he won't rush to sell the DreamWorks animation division that has gone public, you just need to take down the film department. ”

"Alright, boss, you just wait for my good news. ”

……

Spielberg and his two companions discussed the sale of DreamWorks, and then spread the news that Helium Investments was going to buy DreamWorks through the mouths of ILM employees, so that any film companies interested in DreamWorks would come to the competition and raise the price of DreamWorks.

Universal Pictures and Paramount Qiqi, who got the news, came to the door, and the specific content of their negotiation was unknown to Li Qingyuan, which was a relatively common business method, and Li Qingyuan could only express helplessness.

This is a conspiracy, although the people are above board

When it comes out, he doesn't want to accept Spielberg's mercy, because he knows that Spielberg's movie "War of the Worlds" will be released in July, and the box office of this movie will be nearly 600 million US dollars.

He decided to turn passive into active, and made a phone call to Morgan and explained: "Morgan, you call the presidents of Universal and Paramount respectively, and promise to give them some preferential treatment and help in terms of funds so that they don't mess with DreamWorks." ”

"No problem, I'll get back to you as soon as possible. ”

After making an explanation, Li Qingyuan came to Shirley Lansing's villa again, he really liked the living environment here, but he couldn't enjoy it for the time being.

"Shirley, Paramount Brad Gray, you're an old acquaintance, I wonder if Stasi Schneider has a relationship over there?"

"Boss, what are you going to do? Let me convince them to give up their offer to DreamWorks?"

"I'm going to give them some concessions on bank loans in exchange for them giving up on buying DreamWorks, if you have a relationship with them, give them a phone call to communicate, it's better to have one more friend than one more enemy, isn't it!"

"With such conditions, I think they should understand how to choose!"

The second meeting with Spielberg, Li Qingyuan didn't care about his face as a great director, and complained as soon as he opened his mouth: "Steven, your approach has added a lot of trouble to me, you don't need to do it at all, DreamWorks is like your child, if you let DreamWorks face being swallowed up by other film and television companies for such a small profit, so that DreamWorks disappears in this world, don't you think it's a pity?"

"Mr. Li, DreamWorks is not going away, no matter who buys a DreamWorks, I will ask to maintain its independence, and this will be written into the contract!" Spielberg was unmoved.

Li Qingyuan shrugged and glanced at Shirley Lansing on the side, who showed a professional smile and said, "Steven, don't you think that a film and television company that exists alone, DreamWorks will have greater development? Compared with Universal and Paramount, Mr. Li will give me greater autonomy and invest more money, and it will develop into a more outstanding existence than Universal and Paramount!"

"No matter what kind of company DreamWorks develops, it will be someone else's company, and while I want it to be a great company, now all I care about is what price you give!"

Shirley Lansing set his eyes on Li Qingyuan, but he turned his head away and didn't see it, how much money can he buy DreamWorks He hopes that Shirley Lansing will make her own decisions, the road has been paved for her, and what to do is a test for her.

Shirley Lansing retracted her futile gaze, bit her lip, and replied, "As far as my estimate of DreamWorks is concerned, the film department of the animation department is only worth a billion dollars, but we are very sincere enough to give you a 10% premium." ”

After talking with David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg for a while, Spielberg replied on behalf of the two: "Although this price is very sincere, it is not in line with our expectations, so we can't agree." ”

"Steven, we've shown enough sincerity, are you still waiting for an offer from Universal and Paramount? What kind of attitude is Universal and Paramount, you can call and ask right away. ”

Spielberg was shocked, could it be that something had happened in a short period of time? He confessed and hurriedly pulled David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg out of the room.

In just a few minutes, the three of them walked in dejectedly, compared to the beginning of Zhizhu in hand, the three of them did not have a high-spirited posture at this time.

Spielberg took off his glasses and threw them on the table, sighed and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Li's strength to be so strong, and he sent the two film and television companies away in an instant." ”

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Steven, I just don't want to be bothered during the acquisition, it will waste a lot of time, and I don't have that much time to spend with them. ”

"Steven, don't digress and make your decision. Shirley Lansing interrupted Spielberg.

"Although you have no competitors, I am confident that War of the Worlds will be another blockbuster film from DreamWorks, which will greatly increase the value of DreamWorks. ”

"Yes

Count Steven, your "War of the Worlds" movie is a big hit, but what about the other movies? The three big selling movies are not worth a loss-making movie, if the box office of DreamWorks is not as good as expected, then your company can't even reach a billion dollars, are you really confident that all the movies produced by DreamWorks will be a big hit?"

Spielberg was silent, if all the movies were big hits, why would DreamWorks get to the point where they wouldn't sell today.

"In addition, tell Steven that you have not too good news, Mr. Li can stay in the United States for a short time, if he can't buy DreamWorks before he leaves the United States, he will have to give up this acquisition, so you'd better make a decision early, if you miss the opportunity, you will never come back!" Shirley Lansing sat upright and looked directly at Spielberg's psychological pressure that had once again increased him.

Li Qingyuan gave Shirley Lanxin a sunny smile and secretly gave her a thumbs up.

One bad news after another came, and the three of Spielberg got together to discuss for a while, and said: "Shirley, your offer does not meet our psychological expectations, unless you raise the offer, we can only express regret." ”

"Steven, your insatiable greed has refreshed my perception of you, did David and Jeffrey bring you to the bridle?" Shirley Lansing said with an angry face.

"No, no, Shirley, in business, I don't want to sell the film and television company I built myself, just like you said, DreamWorks is my child, carrying our dreams!"

Shirley Lan stared at Spielberg intently, glared fiercely for a while, and then softened and said, "Okay, for your dreams, I will increase the price for you by 50 million, you are satisfied!"

"No, Shirley, we can't accept your offer, at least 1.5 billion, otherwise we won't sell DreamWorks!"

"Steven, you are a lion with a big mouth, a fool will use 1.5 billion to buy your dream factory, 1.16 billion can't be more!"

"I can't accept the price difference is too far, 1.48 billion!"

"Come on, Steven, this is not a vegetable market, 1.18 billion, this is my last offer, if it doesn't work I'll go to Lionsgate, their development prospects are even broader, and they can save me some of the money." Shirley Lansing stood up slowly, and if she didn't get a clear answer, she would have walked away.

Li Qingyuan stood by Shirley Lansing's side very cooperatively, and looked at the slightly tangled expressions of the three people opposite with great interest, and the three of them seemed so helpless at this moment.

In the previous life, Spielberg and the three of them found Universal after the big sale of "War of the Worlds", and after several negotiations, it took several months to finally negotiate the price, but they didn't expect Universal to regret lowering the purchase price at the last moment, Spielberg couldn't bear it, found Paramount, and was finally pocketed by Paramount for $1.6 billion.

Now if he can buy DreamWorks for nearly 1.2 billion US dollars, Li Qingyuan feels that he has picked up a big bargain, in his opinion, even if he adds another 1200 million US dollars, it is completely acceptable, and now the price is far lower than his psychological expectations, it seems that looking for Shirley Lansing to be the president is the right person, Li Qingyuan can't help but be proud.

"1.25 billion, this is our final offer, if it doesn't work, we can really only apologize!" Spielberg said through gritted teeth, his bloody heart as if it had been slashed again.

"Old friend Steven, for the sake of so many years of friendship, 1.2 billion dollars! I won't come out again, now the greatest sincerity has been shown here, you can do it yourself. Shirley Lansing turned and walked away without hesitation.

The DreamWorks troika only struggled for three days before they came out and surrendered, and the three of them made many phone calls to promote their companies in these three days, but only Twentieth Century Fox was the one among the eight Hollywood companies that had the ability and leisure to buy them, but Murdoch did not want to offend Helium Star Investments, a Wall Street upstart, so he could only politely refuse their proposal.

In fact, they could not sell DreamWorks at all, but they were afraid that if the box office hit the street, the company would not be able to sell the price, so they could only reluctantly cut their love and sell DreamWorks to Li Qingyuan.

When the acquisition agreement was signed, both parties breathed a sigh of relief, one party lost the burden, and the other party got the company of their choice, which can be regarded as a happy thing.