Chapter 1148 The gamble of the century
The house was finally bought in the name of the company, the room was finely decorated, as long as the furniture and some household appliances were moved in, people could live in, Cheng Xiaoyu stayed in New York for a day and bought a lot of furniture with Xia Shamo, who was full of happiness, and then left for Monterrey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There were all kinds of newspapers and magazines on the plane, and Cheng Xiaoyu, who was bored, took it out and flipped it over, and saw the report of the "New York Times" in a few glances, "Huaxia local tyrant became the largest buyer of real estate in Manhattan", and then looked at the content, as if he was saying that the day before yesterday he bought three rooms in one57, and this business worth 150 million yuan caused a lot of sensation in the New York property market.
The New York Daily News analyzed that in recent years, no matter the number or amount of units purchased by Chinese people, Chinese people have ranked first in the New York property market. And interviewed the real estate agent who served them yesterday, Economist Daniel, who said: "The Chinese middle class mainly buys properties under $1.5 million, while the rich people choose properties above $10 million. While most of the demand for properties is residential, only 10% of the properties are pure investments. Our company is very welcome to Chinese buyers, because they generally pay in cash, and do not drag the mud and water, yesterday's four guests, just came to one57 to have a look, made a phone call, and decided to buy a sky-high luxury house. ”
However, this news only occupies a small page, and in the financial news, "Voice of Rain" occupies the front page headlines, because just yesterday morning, Chen Haoran submitted an offer to Citibank on behalf of "Voice of Rain" to bid for "EMI EMI".
Citibank has been conducting strategic reviews and listening to bids from companies around the world for months, according to people familiar with the matter. However, a Citibank spokesman would not comment for this at the moment.
In November, Citigroup's board of directors said it would be open to selling it after winning a lawsuit with Taifeng Capital and taking the entire stake in EMI.
At present, syco music, KKR, a joint venture between KKR and Bertelsmann, Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group have expressed their interest in buying from Citi.
But yesterday was the first music company with a Chinese background to submit a takeover offer directly to Citi, and it is unclear how much the Chinese music company may be willing to pay for the acquisition of EMI EMI, but people familiar with the matter said that EMI EMI is currently worth around $4.1 billion and any offer will certainly be higher than that.
According to data tracker Dealogic, if the deal is completed, it is likely to set a record for the largest transaction size of Huaxia's acquisition of a U.S. company.
In 2007, China Investment Corporation paid $4.5 billion to acquire a 9.1 percent stake in Morgan Stanley, the largest dollar investment by China AMC in a U.S. company to date.
Just last year, the "Xichu International Film Group" from Huaxia spent 2.6 billion US dollars to buy AMC Pictures, which became the second largest cinema chain in the world, and this time it is more exaggerated than last year's acquisition, after all, "Xichu International Film Group" has a Chinese state-owned background, and "Sound of Rain" is just a music company established less than two years ago, and its asset scale is more than 30 times different from that of "EMI Baidai".
The small record label currently has only six artists, including Mary Hughes, Mary Hughes's hand-picked successor Xia Shamo (The Guilty Crown), Justin Bieber and three newcomers who made it to the finals in "The Voice of America."
Although "The Sound of Rain" is not well-known, the two highest-selling records last year were from the music company called "The Sound of Rain", and Xia Shamo's "Summer.Rain" was called the last miracle of the record industry, selling 37 million copies.
According to this newspaper, the behind-the-scenes boss is Cheng Xiaoyu, the boss of Xichu Films, the Hollywood miracle director, and the CEO is his friend Chen Haoran, the drummer of the 'Guilty Crown'.
If 'Sound of Rain' can successfully complete this acquisition, it will become one of the world's top four music companies, complete an incredible triple jump, and successfully become one of the world's top four music companies."
The young director's ambitions are staggering, and he has completed his entire layout in the entertainment industry in less than two years, acquiring one of the four major special effects companies 'Digital Field', bypassing the 'Paramount Act' through the merger of 'United New Art Cinemas' and 'Huaxia Xichu' to own the world's second largest cinema chain, and is embarking on the establishment of his own film company's theme park.
Not only that, he has not forgotten to expand his territory in the music field, aiming at 'EMI Baidai', but at present, it is speculated that there is a funding gap of at least 3 billion yuan for the acquisition of 'EMI Baidai', and how to raise more than 3 billion yuan of funds to complete a giant merger and acquisition case with an enterprise value of about 4.1 billion US dollars and a total of more than 26 billion Chinese coins is not so simple.
Cheng Xiaoyu and his entertainment empire are facing more than that, as his 'Xichu Pictures' theme park in Monterey is also in a financial starvation, and although "Frozen" is expected to grossed more than a record billion dollars at the global box office, it will be difficult to heal.
Assuming that "Titanic", which will be launched on Christmas this year, cannot achieve good results and make a breakthrough in the 3D business, it will bring a fatal blow to Cheng Xiaoyu's entertainment empire.
If "The Sound of Rain" can successfully raise funds to complete the acquisition of EMI EMI, "Titanic" can also achieve global success, which means that "Xichu" and "The Sound of Rain" will achieve explosive growth, far away from all domestic film and record companies and other opponents in China, and become the Godzilla of the Chinese film industry.
But perhaps more importantly, for the first time, a giant entertainment company will emerge in Huaxia that is deeply involved in all aspects of the film and television industry, just like Paramount before 1948, completing the vertical integration of production, distribution and release.
We can foresee what this Godzilla will mean for the U.S. entertainment market and the Chinese entertainment market, which continues to expand.
This year, each of us will see with our own eyes a gamble of the century - Cheng Xiaoyu has turned out of the KQJ10 spades, just one ace of spades, overturning all competitors, or losing nothing, let us wait and see Director Cheng turn over the last big ship called "Titanic" ......."
Cheng Xiaoyu folded the newspaper after reading it without any fluctuation, and stuffed it into the net pocket in front of him, he closed his eyes and was just about to sleep, New York to San Jose Airport in Silicon Valley had to fly for six hours, he didn't sleep at all last night, and this was the opportunity to make up for sleep.