Cardinal Wang knelt on the ground, and did not dare to raise his head in an attempt to explain: it was not that he did not pay close attention to Gu Jie's movements. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThese days, Gu Mojie and Gu Yongjiang and Fei Liluo, the three giants of Hatsune Group's investment and acquisition, are all in Qiantang and have never left a step!

It can also be confirmed that they do not have a transatlantic conference call! Because all of Gu Mojie's mobile phone and landline phone communications, including personal location, were secretly monitored by the police in Qiantang.

As for whether it is possible to use the "first meeting video chat room" to discuss the acquisition business with outsiders, Wang does not dare to guarantee it.

But I believe that no one on the earth will negotiate such a big business through such means.

Compare your heart to any netizen: Can you use QQ chat to finalize a 15 billion yuan/2.3 billion US dollar acquisition?

Jiang Gongzi is angry.

Fortunately, at this time, a man in black in sunglasses under Jiang Gongzi came in and brought a piece of good news to rescue Cardinal Wang.

The man in black in sunglasses attached to Jiang Gongzi's ear and whispered: "I found out clearly, Gu Mojie entrusted an important friend in the United States to help him negotiate through the encrypted chat of 'first meeting'. Before finalizing the framework agreement, he also invited authoritative figures to help him mediate a guarantee privately. So, it's beyond our monitoring. ”

"Who? Who helped Gu Mojie do it? ”

"The person who specifically negotiated was a man named Jeffrey. Cartzenberg's American Jew, the owner of Hollywood's DreamWorks, Gu Mojie should have given him a commission. The private guarantee was made by the United States-Ambassador Mr. Randt. ”

"How did these people get involved with Gu Mojie?"

"Ambassador Redt seems to have been a friend of Gu Mojie when he buried Situ Leiden's bones. We checked with someone from the security department, and then Gu Mojie and Mr. Red talked secretly a few times. This time, the mediation call he made was also through the encrypted line of the US Embassy, so we really couldn't crack it, and it was no wonder that Comrade Wang was doing so.

He has been an investment advisor to the U.S. government for 20 years, and has a high reputation in the Sino-American multinational investment community. ”

"As for Jeffer Cartsenberg, he should have gotten acquainted with Gu Mojie when he first went to lobby the 'U.S. Basic Research Funds Tax Credit Donation' bill. Later, Gu Mojie also donated a sum of money to O'Dark Horse's campaign team. And Katzenberg was the Democratic Lord's leader in California, and he became acquainted with it. ”

Jiang Gongzi was still angry, and continued to ask: "Then what is the relationship between this Katsenberg and that Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic?" Can a casual broker have such a great prestige and negotiate a 15 billion yuan acquisition? Does he know how to do it? Gu Mojie is not afraid of being shaken by a straw bale and losing him billions of money? ”

"Lucasfilm is a San Francisco-based film company, and ILM, its subsidiary of Light & Magic, has a global number one position in this field.

The big studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, also have their eyes on ILM and want to buy them. However, the eight major publishers felt that the utilization rate of the purchase was not enough, and they were reluctant to pay this money; The Disney Company felt that the utilization rate was very high after the purchase, but Disney couldn't come up with so much money and never bought it. And this Katsenberg, who was already the CEO of Disney in the 80s, later jumped out in 1994 and set up his own DreamWorks to work alone.

For Industrial Light & Magic, Katzenberg is very familiar with it, and most of DreamWorks' 3D post-production special effects have cooperated with Industrial Light & Magic, so as long as he is willing to come forward to help Gu Mojie, it shouldn't be a problem to reach the acquisition draft - of course, it is estimated that for such a big business, Gu Mojie will also give Katzenberg's negotiation team tens of millions or even 100 million dollars in commissions. ”

The more Jiang Gongzi listened, the more depressed he became, so he couldn't hang a mouthful of old blood spurting out.

"And it was announced on Saturday, two days, enough time for the mouthpiece of the Hatsune Group to spread the good news. I don't know what it will look like when the market opens on Monday. ”

Jiang Gongzi took a sip hatefully and ordered: "Why don't you go and get me some VIP tickets for the 80,000-person venue at night!" I'd like to see what good news this guy can come up with. ”

The man in black immediately took his leave.

"What are you doing on your knees? Get lost! ”

Wang, who had been ignored for a long time, rolled away as if he had been amnestied.

……

Gangnam Meeting, dinner time.

Opposite Gu Mojie, there was a bald head, who was none other than the owner of DreamWorks, Jeffrey, who had flown in from San Francisco in person. Katsenberg.

This is the first time Gu Mojie has entertained foreigners at the Jiangnan Club - oh no, it should be said that it is white.

The furnishings and scenery of the Jiangnan Club, as well as the elaborate combination of Chinese and Western dishes, make Katsenberg, who has not been to China much, very novel.

In front of Gu Mojie, there was a document bag, which contained the framework agreement for the acquisition of Industrial Light and Magic, which had been signed by both parties.

In front of Katsenberg, there was also a bag of papers, which contained some bank notes with a maturity date. As long as the deal on Gu Mojie's side is correct, Katsenberg and his team can get about $50 million in commissions.

The calculation of the commission is a minimum plus a share, the minimum guarantee is $30 million, and the remaining $20 million is a commission for bargaining - at the beginning, Gu Mojie's proposed acquisition psychological price ceiling was $2.5 billion. For every 100 million that Carsenberg helps Gu Mojie cut, he can personally take 10%, that is, 10 million.

Historically, ILM and its parent company, Lucasfilm, were finally acquired by Disney on October 30, 2012. Disney's final investment is $4.05 billion. And Disney's payment method is cash and stock swap, not a direct wholly-owned cash acquisition like Gu Mojie.

Now, 40 months before Disney's acquisition.

But considering that Lucasfilm is an old company that has been established for more than 30 years, it is not in a very awesome rising period, and the market value has not doubled in more than 3 years. It can't be like a new company like "Legendary Pictures", which has only been in existence for a few years, and it is rapidly rising every year.

The $2.3 billion acquisition is already worth the price, and the negotiation power is also decent.

Moreover, the so-called "acquisition of Industrial Light and Magic" is actually just a general statement, in fact, this round of acquisitions also includes Skywalker Sound and Lucas Animation, both of which belong to Lucas, and the much smaller "Timber". It's just that these two companies are worth much less than ILM, only one or two hundred million dollars each.

Only the non-technical assets of Lucasfilm's film license management and sales, publishing and distribution companies were spun off and abandoned by Gu Mojie, and packaged and resold to other people in need.

Gu Mojie held the champagne and staggered with the other party.

"Jeff, I owe you a favor this time. In the future, DreamWorks will do special effects, and I will give you additional discounts. ”

"Then I'm welcome, I really can't afford to use the original price of Industrial Light and Magic." Katsenberg also responded modestly, with a very nice attitude and even a little excitement.

The discount of Industrial Light & Magic has a fatal attraction for every Hollywood person.

People who don't mix with the film industry may not know the value of the brand of Industrial Light and Magic, and they can't imagine that a big man like Katsenberg would take this kind of commitment so seriously.

In a few words, you can summarize the status of Industrial Light and Magic.

In the 30 years since the company was founded, it has won the "Oscar for Best Visual Effects" for 15 years.

Half of the world is divided.

The other film special effects companies on the planet are all packaged together, and the special effects awards they win are on par with those of industrial light and magic.

The pioneer of Hollywood special effects science fiction movies, the "Star Wars" series, is the work of Industrial Light and Magic back then.

This is one of the most technologically powerful film special effects companies on the planet.

Not one of them.

Hatsune Original, although it has many world-leading technologies in the field of glasses-free 3D, 3D light and shadow makeup, and even 3D animation.

However, Hatsune's original technical resources do not include special effects from traditional non-anime films.

In other words, Gu Mojie has been running a plug-in for so many years, and at best he has only achieved "the world's first special effects technology in the field of animation".

However, in the field of non-animation, ILM is still irrefutable in the world.

Now, this number one in the world is also in Gu Mojie's pocket.

Since then, Hatsune Original has had the special effects technology that is "the best in the world in the field, from animation to live-action films".

Gu Mojie and Kasenberg drank for a while, ate a few bites of food, and Kasenberg, whose freshness gradually passed, opened his mouth and sighed:

"To be honest, from the moment you bought Legendary Pictures, I expected you to covet the special effects companies in Silicon Valley. But I really didn't expect you to do it so quickly and buy Industrial Light & Magic. I think you're still in a hurry, this company is in your hands, I'm afraid the business volume can't be enough.

Hundreds of the top special effects engineers on the planet have a salary cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year -- you can't move anyone here without an annual salary of at least three or five hundred thousand dollars. Those high-level technical backbones, two million dollars a year. The eight major film companies didn't buy it, because they were afraid that after the purchase, the hostile company would not come to you to do special effects, and the market would not be full. ”

Katsenberg's words are really real, and at first glance, he is a family member who lives a life.

In fact, when Gu Mojie entrusted him to talk about the acquisition on May Day, Katsenberg had already said this once. It was not because Gu Mojie wanted to give him a commission that he tried his best to facilitate this deal without restraint.

This man is a friend.

Gu Mojie also already knows that in order to revitalize a company like Industrial Light & Magic, it needs to take on 20 films with a total budget of more than 100 million US dollars and a post-production special effects budget of more than 30 million US dollars a year to protect the capital.

The total annual special effects revenue needs to be 5~600 million US dollars. If you can earn more, you can talk about profits.

In the whole of Hollywood, there are more than 20 big productions of this level a year.

So, ILM is actually a company that makes a lot of money, but it doesn't make a lot of money. At the end of the day, it's the engineering team that is too expensive to work with.

When the boss of the company became Chinese, considering the self-esteem of Americans, the business volume of finding industrial light and magic to do special effects must have declined.

Carsenberg has already reminded Gu Mojie of this, and Gu Mojie also knows it.

He wasn't worried, though.

"Don't worry, I naturally have my own way of dealing with it. Moreover, I need this company because I have to cooperate with the unspoken rules of China's 'Domestic Film Protection Month' to ensure that more than 50% of the budget for the future production of Legendary Pictures is completed in China, so that I can enjoy the treatment of domestic films." That's a long story, I'll talk to you later. ”

"What? Are you going to buy ILM and relocate it to China? ”

"Or what do you think? If I wasn't afraid of shareholder obstruction, why would I buy 100% cash? Just learn from the equity swap mentioned by Disney, isn't it? ”

"I really can't understand you anymore......"

"You'll understand it in the future." Gu Mojie wiped his mouth, took lemon iced tea and rinsed his mouth, "After eating, I'll invite you to watch Mike's concert and take my helicopter." (To be continued.) )