Chapter 165 under the acquisition of Marvel
The hostile takeover Meghan is not a hostile takeover in the traditional sense.
In the case of a traditional bona fide takeover, the general process is as follows: the buyer first contacts the management of the acquired company to inform the management of the intention to buy, and after the management and the buyer have negotiated, that is, after the management approves, the details of the transaction will be recommended to the shareholders of the acquired company, and then the shareholders will decide whether to accept the transaction.
For example, first of all, the buyer already owns 6% of the shares in the target company and has been looking for an opportunity to acquire the target company, at this time, the buyer will send an acquisition invitation like other shareholders, saying that I want to acquire 45% of the company's shares at a price of 75 yuan per share (this offer is far more than the market value), and this invitation will be valid for several days (usually one or two weeks), or, until 45% The stock is not collected until it is full, and it will not be collected after expiration.
If the invitation buys 45% of the shares, then the buyer owns 51% of the shares, i.e. control of the company, (here it must be assumed that the company has only one type of stock, and all shares have the same voting rights, and not a two-tier shareholding structure).
For example, in 93, Viacom's media tycoon Lei Shidong acquired Paramount, which was initially issued a bona fide acquisition, but was rejected by the management, and was sniped by Wall Street capital, with Barry Diller, the former president of Paramount, as an agent, and as a result, the wealthy Lei Shidong changed to a hostile takeover and acquired it at a 100% premium.
At that time, Paramount's market value was about 5 billion, and Lei Shidong won it with 10 billion, and now Paramount's market value is also 10 billion, and it will be at this price ten years later, whether it is worth it depends on Paramount's strategic concept in the eyes of this tycoon.
Marvel does not apply this method, Rogan holds more than 60% of the equity and debt, and it is concentrated in the hands of Marvel founder and Marvel chairman Alander, and some other scattered stocks have nothing to do with the bureau, without Logan's nod, Megan cannot complete the acquisition, Marvel's stock price is extremely low, and he is not afraid of shorting.
Hostile takeovers are only applicable to companies with dozens or hundreds of shareholders, and Meghan's threatened hostile takeover is to short Revlon, by attacking his lifeline, to make him convincing, this method is commonly used by himself, and the price is lower, which is also the reason why his reputation is so bad, and now it is the turn of someone to commit murder with money and use this trick against him, and now Logan is sad and angry: "I, the hero of Perelman I, am actually being bullied by a little girl." β
In 1986, Marvel was acquired by New World Pictures, and later resold to Revlon's Logan in 1988, and under the operation of Perelman, in 1991, Marvel went public.
After going public, Marvel began to expand aggressively, in addition to desperately launching comics, it also frantically acquired other companies, including toy companies, card companies, comic distribution companies, etc., while also saddling huge debts.
When the toy company Toy Biz was acquired, its shareholder Avi Arand joined Marvel's animation division, and Marvel Movies was established, but Logan, the Marvel boss at the time, only wanted to sell the adaptation rights and did not want to make the movie himself, the X-Men adaptation rights were sold to Twentieth Century Fox, and the adaptation rights of Spider-Man were finally sold to Sony after a lawsuit.
In 1991, a group of star painters such as Jim Lee and McFarlane withdrew from Marvel and established the Image company, Marvel lost its most appealing author, and finally, in the mid-nineties, the bubble of the comic book industry burst, a large number of comic stores went bankrupt and closed, Marvel's sales channels were damaged, and the stock price also fell all the way, and finally had to file for bankruptcy and reorganization, and it took several years to recover.
Marvel was eager to reverse the decline and made a lot of rash decisions, opening the Marvel chain of themed restaurants, similar in style to Hard Rock-themed restaurants, and also aimlessly sold the film rights of many comic book characters to various Hollywood studios, and now looks at "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" is a big seller, and they want to make their own movies to make a lot of money, but their finances are not enough to afford the cost of shooting a special effects blockbuster, and they don't want to be a production company alone, but want to learn from Disney to build Marvel into an industry key for content, channels, and derivatives.
They internally estimated that they would need at least 500 million yuan to build such an industrial chain from existence to nothing, and they applied for loans from Citibank and Merrill Lynch respectively, but they were all rejected, (the original version they obtained a loan of 500 million from Merrill Lynch) Now they are in a dilemma.
Logan is also an old fritter in the business world for more than ten years, he also understands a little bit, he has not had a good life by being targeted by predators, in fact, the other party's offer is not low, but who would have too much money? He also wants to stage a good show of the local Western Gulf Oil Company selling Paramount, but Megan, this little girl, is not easy to fool, let alone the group of old foxes behind, he also understands a little, he gritted his teeth and did not sell, and the other party had no choice, so he couldn't come to rob it, but they would always make him Rogan lose one or two hundred million before he stopped.
Meghan was all in charge of the acquisition of Marvel, and with the support of a team that Larry had equipped for her, she did quite well, and Mark asked himself to do it, and it was almost the same, so he stayed at the base camp with peace of mind and filmed "Batman", but the indoor scenes of "Batman" were almost filmed, and they officially left for Chicago to shoot the location, and Kevin had arranged everything there.
They set off for Chicago, an important location in the film's story, which was used not only as a blueprint for Gotham City, but also for many exterior shots of the fictional city, including a spectacular car chase scene where the Batmobile sped like a rocket down the highway along an elaborate route and crashed into a pursuing police car.
This car chase shot was mainly filmed on Lower Wacker Avenue on the HN side of Chicago, and received unprecedented support from the city of Chicago, in order to shoot the crazy car chase scene, several blocks of the city were temporarily closed, of course, it had to be after 12 o'clock at night, in order to shoot this spectacular and thrilling car chase shot, they used two helicopters, 30 stunt drivers, nearly 50 modified police cars, and crashed more than 30 cars during the filming.
In some of the particularly tricky parts of the car chase shots, the roof model was built according to a third of the scale, when the roof tiles were crushed by the car, the effect can almost be fake, when shooting the car chase, Mark only has a very simple idea, how to be cool and how to shoot, he seeks to make the film as visually impactful as the comics.
The ratings of the programs of the police chasing speeding and drag racing parties on the TV station are so high that the TV station has several helicopters and the pilots are on standby at any time in order to shoot the real and exciting car chase scenes.
Kevin is worried about Mark's literary style in the movie script, for fear that he will embark on "The Hulk" The old way, but from the perspective of the filmed scenes, it should be fought when it should be fought, and it should be soaring, without any ambiguity, especially those groups of car chase scenes and fight scenes, the cut effect is very cool, very cool and attractive, both with action beauty and authenticity, especially after Mark killed the two bandits, he mixed the nickname of Hollywood's No. 1 killer, this is the real clean killing of two murderous bandits in front of the monitor, not everyone can call the reputation of this hero, and now fans and fans don't seem to be planning his scandal a while ago, and the fans who fell on Facebook have risen againγ
Now "Batman: Time to War" is recognized as one of the most anticipated blockbusters next year, and many people are looking forward to what the action movie of this man who killed two gangsters in a row will be like, and the momentum is not under the DreamWorks animated blockbuster "Shrek 2", of course, this is also related to Warner's vigorous promotion and guidance.
Now that they came to Zigag, they had to pay a visit to the head snake, Oprah, to promote the movie on "Oprah's Talk Show" and interact with fans, which is Mark in "The Allen Show" After his first public appearance on TV, he is usually very low-key, rarely attends events and parties, rarely appears in newspapers and TV, and is busy with work, they also showed the price of the iron monster like the Batmobile, and let fans take a group photo, and a lucky audience was drawn out on the spot to experience driving this cool real Batmobile.
The elaborate Batmobile cost 1.5 million gold and was an oil-eating monster that only lasted a mile with a gallon of gas, and its actual speed in the movies often reached 110 mph, and even helicopters sometimes couldn't catch up when racing through the streets.
In order to shoot the Batmobile at high speed, the crew used a new Mercedes-Benz ML camera vehicle modified by Mercedes-Benz AMG, using an advanced remote-controlled robotic arm to shoot the car chase scene, and there was no need to slow down the speed of the Batmobile, so it was extremely realistic and shocking.
During the filming in Chicago, a drunk man saw a speeding Batmobile, thought it was an alien car, and called the police, which shows how sci-fi this Batmobile is.
In order to attract more topicality, the crew called the police and claimed that the crew had lost a complete set of Batman suits and was willing to offer a reward of $200,000 to retrieve them.
Mark received a call from Meghan when he was filming the scene of Batman chasing down Brian the Scarecrow played by Little Plum, who concealed her excitement and excitement and said, "Logan agreed." β