Sid smiled slightly and shook his head, and Steve Keys immediately covered his mouth in shock: "You mean !!?" Even Carl Icahn couldn't help but jump his eyelids.

You must know that the current comic book company is not a valuable thing at all, especially since "Batman and Robin" in 97, comic book movies have always belonged to the fringe projects of Hollywood.

Previously, when Sid acquired Marvel, he invested hundreds of millions of dollars, which has been interpreted by the media and capital circles as "the willful move of the genius Sid".

Although DC Comics has not gone bankrupt several times like Marvel, it is only a small subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures in terms of its size.

It can't be worth the sky-high price of $2 billion!

You must know that Warner Pictures' budget for a whole year is around $2 billion, and this is the total budget of Warner Pictures for twenty or thirty films a year.

Even if they really spin off DC and go public, it can't be worth 2 billion.

Karl Icahn quickly calculated the benefits of the deal in his mind, just as Capital said, "Any capital that has 50 percent profit will dare to take risks, for 100 percent of the profit it will dare to trample on all human laws, and with 300 percent of the profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even to the risk of hanging its head." ”

So how much profit did Sid make for Carl Icahn and Steve Case?

Nearly 10 times, 1000% profit!

Even Carl Icahn couldn't help but feel his heart pounding.

In Sid's view, although Hollywood knows that DC Comics is a rich copyright resource library, it is just like Marvel, which has been unpopular for a long time.

Before the comic book movie was really successful, no one believed that this thing could make money.

What's more, now is the time when "fantasy movies" are popular, "The Matrix", "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", and "The Mummy" are the targets that Hollywood is chasing at the moment.

It is for the same reason that major studios, led by Warner and Disney, have set their sights on adaptations of children's literature such as "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Golden Compass".

Recently, Warner is fighting for the filming rights of "The Golden Compass" with its semi-independent subsidiary New Line Pictures, which has historically ignored New Line Pictures' "Golden Compass" because of its ownership of "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter".

But now that "Harry Potter" has changed hands, "The Matrix" has no successor, and it is obviously difficult to rely on a single "Lord of the Rings", and Warner, who saw the fire lion and Sony making a lot of money with "Harry Potter", is like seeing the Marvel Universe make a lot of money in history.

Because of the recent Wachowski brothers (future sisters), the back-to-back filming of "The Matrix 2 and 3" has frequently reported that the filming has not gone well, and the quality of the movie clips that have flowed out has also worried a group of executives led by Barry Meyer.

In order to strengthen the profitability of the parent company Warner, they competed with New Line Pictures for the filming rights of "The Golden Compass".

Now, in order to be able to get it done, they not only speed up the project of "The Golden Compass", but also hope to be more deeply involved in the operation of the project, rather than just being an outsider like "The Lord of the Rings".

But now that the new line of "The Lord of the Rings" has just been created, the film industry is in the limelight, and it does not take the aggressiveness of its parent company, Warner, at all.

Sid shook his two fingers and smiled faintly, "This is only the minimum bid, if necessary, we will add more." ”

Sid seemed to be the God of Wealth at this moment, putting a smile on Carl Icahn's face.

Although Warner Records successfully sold at a high price of $3 billion before, the next auction of Warner Books Group, which was regarded as a burden and a sunset, did not go so smoothly.

After many inquiries and evaluations, the entire Warner Book Group, which includes well-known magazines such as "Time" and "Fortune", is estimated at only between $4 and $500 million, which is not even a fraction of Warner Records.

And a French publishing company, which is the most promising for mergers and acquisitions, is still haggling with New York, and it is obvious that it is impossible to solve the battle in a short time.

This made Carl Icahn, who sold out Warner Records and thought for a while that the world was full of stupid people and rich people, couldn't help but doubt his birth.

"And, I don't think, is this a good start to the four-point plan?" Sid woke up from his dream, and Carl Icahn's eyes lit up, and he became the board of directors of AOL Time Warner, originally just to make his money by reselling stocks at a high price.

But now that Sid is holding the evidence of AOL's financial fraud, this can't help but make Carl Icahn jealous, and immediately think of his past methods to pull up the stock price, and the method of cashing out at a high level will definitely not work.

As long as Sid releases this news, then the stock price of AOL Time Warner will really be gone, not to mention him Carl Icahn, even if the king of heaven comes, he will not be able to pull the reins.

However, if the "four-point plan" is really implemented and the bloated and huge AOL Time Warner is spun off into four companies with different directions, then whether it is a spin-off or sale, or a stock price, there is room for maneuver, which is a hundred times better than the current passive situation.

In addition, for Steve Case, if he can be on the list of any of the spun-off companies, then his business career that is about to come to an end will also have a turnaround.

If there is any important thing that Warner learned after the AOL era was hit and went downhill, it is that people must be self-aware, and after the original creation of AOL AOL's big career, he once became the leader of the big names who were not listed, and even the president had to be ranked behind them.

But no one can break the rules of business, and smart people who have achieved great success will always forget that they can actually fail.

So, now for Steve Case, it's actually the last chance.

He and Carl Icahn exchanged glances, and couldn't help but make a decision in their hearts, and when he looked up at Sid again after the conversation, his eyes were still calm: "Then when do you want to trade?"

"Of course, the sooner the better, but I guess you two need to work together in this regard. Sid smiled faintly.

Steve Case shrugged, "Then it depends on Carl's sincerity." ”

"Well, I'll get in touch with the shareholders and not let the guys on the Time Warner side get the upper hand. Carl Icahn himself is a Wall Street icon, and with his connections among AOL Time Warner institutional investors and executives on AOL's side under Steve Case, this interesting "war" has only just begun.