According to the general situation, the mutual acquisition between companies is a matter that needs to be discussed slowly, but this kind of equal and friendly negotiation will bring a lot of unknowns to the whole project.

Unless the existence of the acquiree is dispensable to the acquirer - 'I bought you, maybe it will make me stronger, but if I don't buy you, I won't be weakened'.

Only in this case will there be true equality, and beyond that, any acquisition with a purpose is extremely aggressive, and the acquirer will not play its cards without figuring out the situation.

The situation of Roland and Blue Sky Studios belongs to the latter, as the future Hollywood Top 5 animation production company, the significance of Blue Sky Studios to Roland is self-evident, in this way, of course, he does not want this acquisition to have an accident, but now, the potential buyer of Blue Sky Studio knows his plan because of the cooperation contract?

Isn't this equivalent to fighting the landlord, pointing a bright card!

As a guy who really doesn't know what the concept of winning from only 200,000 to 5.78 million is, Roland not only didn't dare to point the super double, but also didn't dare to point the cards, because he was afraid that he would be killed by others with 17 cards.

But now, he has inadvertently embarked on the road of gambling monsters?

This......

'Hold the grass! Am I floating? ’

Roland had deep doubts about himself.

'Should I have asked things first?' ’

The furrow that ploughed the ground occupied his forehead.

After a brief flip through his memory, Roland found that since he made the Oscar deal, he seemed to be stepping on the clouds, and the word retirement was deeply engraved in his mind, not only that, but he was also afraid that others would not know that he had turned over as a serf and sang, and he had mentioned his impatience with his current identity in front of many people.

And this impatience reached a high point when it was invested in Google, and climbed to the top after sending Sony to a dead end!

After completing the transformation of capital, he felt that if he had money and fate, he could go all over the world, and compared the Shi Gran family, who also had production tools, to the second ancestor! Think of those who have worked their way up the ladder when they come to be a tool of production! "The Princess Diaries" is a project that has never been involved before, just do it! You can buy the big land of Disneyland!

While enjoying the friendliness transmitted by the outside world, he also unceremoniously commented on them!

And then......

Overturned.

"The animation companies that cooperate with the six major will all have exclusivity clauses, and this kind of thing can be learned through communication!"

"But when I learned from Steven that the founder of Blue Sky Studio and the founder of Pixar were friends, I directly ignored the addition of other information and went straight to Huanglong, thinking that I could easily win this project!"

"The success of Amazon, Apple, Gilead, and Google makes me think that relationships are everything!"

"But I missed one thing."

"From Blizzard at the beginning, to Marvel later, from the original Yahoo, to the current Google, these companies are things that capital can't look at, so when I use the power of capital to beat people, it is crushing to anyone."

"But once I set my sights on what other capital also wants, the previous crushing situation will not exist."

"It's like Microsoft wants Yahoo, although I have the idea of getting rid of it, but why don't he want it, I'll sell it?"

"Unless it's like dealing with Sony, and putting a gun directly at its head, otherwise, it's basically a hard hit."

"And this kind of hard-hitting is not what I'm good at, because those old things are all real knives and real guns from opponents of the same level all the way up, only me, who is holding my thighs to reduce the dimension of the opponent and grinding it all the way."

"This kind of dimensionality reduction strike has benefits, it allows me to accumulate unimaginable wealth in a short period of time, but it also has disadvantages, it will make me feel that except for the forces I borrowed, other opponents are spicy chickens!"

"Grass! Careless...... Careless! ”

After a brief review, Roland, who was sitting in the study, patted his head with emotion.

Taking advantage of the situation to suppress others is like taking the lead in a bloody battle, and after a single blow, the pain of the other party can make you feel very comfortable, and you will love the thrill of this conquest.

Even though evenly matched and-for-tat allows you to use all sorts of tricks to squeeze the opponent, the victory achieved by racking your brains in various positions is far less than the sense of accomplishment of a crushing game.

Therefore, liking to take advantage of the situation to oppress others, and getting used to taking advantage of the situation to oppress others, is actually a male instinct!

But this instinct will make people relax their vigilance!

After all, the little white rabbit and green tea, those are two ranks!

However, while recognizing his own problems, Roland does not feel how bad things are now.

Because Blue Sky Studio is the spare tire that Fox is looking for, after preparing to withdraw its own animation studio, the day Blue Sky Studio completes the contract for the "Frozen Planet" project is the day when Fox initiates the acquisition!

For Fox, the acquisition of Blue Sky Studio is a bottom-up choice, and it will not leave any opportunity for the outside world to spy on it, so if Roland wants to take Blue Sky Studio away in front of Fox, he can't communicate after Blue Sky Studio completes the contract for the "Frozen Planet" project!

Because at that time, the bottom line choice in Fox's eyes will become a mandatory project, and their desire for Blue Sky Studio will reach its peak with the withdrawal of their own animation studio, in this case, if someone competes, they will definitely fight with it, after all, no one wants their bottoms to be ripped off!

So—

"Even if I was careless, this matter did not go to the worst step."

"Because even Fox himself doesn't know whether to buy Blue Sky Studios right now!"

"But then again, it doesn't feel good to have this kind of initiative in the hands of others!"

"How many years? This seems like the second time I've encountered this kind of thing since Home Alone? ”

"Hey!" Roland shook his head with a laugh and self-deprecation.

Why does Roland want to become capital?

That's not because he hates the feeling of being controlled by capital!

Although in the acquisition of Blue Sky Studio, Fox, which is also a capital, did not take the initiative to control him, but the failure of 'I want to be my gain' still made Roland a little uncomfortable.

This kind of discomfort is not an instant hit, but also an unequal news.

Because of his carelessness, he only knew about Fox's situation, not the state of their parent company.

Such a mistake is unacceptable.

"Now, we can only hope that Fox doesn't poke things to News Corp."

"Otherwise...... Hey......"

"Is this the trouble that the poor don't understand?"

"It's so hard!"

…………

It's a pity that Roland miscalculated his influence.

Or rather, while capital brings him power, it also deprives him of the qualification to dream.

When Fox's staff at Blue Sky Studios learned that the studio's founder's friend at Disney had come to inquire on behalf of Roland, the news had already spread to the headquarters.

Peter Rice, president of Fox Film Entertainment, listened to his subordinates' debriefings in the first place;

Barry Diller, the owner of the Fox Group, had his men fax the contents of Peter Rice's submission to the parent company;

News Corp.'s chief content officer immediately reported it;

At nine o'clock that night, in front of Keith Murdoch, who had not yet left work, there was a pile of materials that smelled of ink.

Staring at the mountain of documents, which was almost five centimeters high, his entire body was shrouded in confusion.

The wrinkled face is full of folds, but the pupils under the lenses are shining with the opposite shrewdness.

After his subordinates explained the whole thing clearly, he slowly raised his head with one hand on his cheek and asked slowly in a gentle tone: "You mean, Roland Allen made an acquisition offer to Blue Sky Studio through Pixar?" ”

"Yes." The president of the content in the suit answered very decisively.

"Oh~" The old man nodded, and asked again: "Then what does this matter have to do with us?" ”

Although he is the chairman of the Fox Group, he does not care much about Fox's content production business.

As a media mogul, he has always regarded Time Warner's Ted Turner as a competitor, because in his opinion, mastering the channel is more effective than mastering the content - mastering the content, then you are just a good creator, and mastering the channel means that you can exploit those creators wantonly.

Since he understands the relationship between the food chain, he naturally knows how to make trade-offs with limited energy.

Therefore, in his eyes, Roland Allen and him will not be opponents in the same field at all.

And he doesn't want to be a rival to Roland Allen.

Because of the strong buying and selling of "Black Hawk Down", it makes people's scalp tingle!

In this way......

You subordinates are in a hurry to run over, isn't there some fuss?

But even if he thought about it, this old coin didn't show it immediately, and after listening to his inquiry, the president in charge of the content production of the subsidiary didn't immediately explain the key, but asked rhetorically-

"Boss, the company controlled by Roland Allen, you should know very well, right?"

"Yes, his net worth has long been more than mine, but we have a good cooperative relationship and have not been exposed."

"You've heard about last year's Oscar deal, right?"

"Yes, such a big deal, the people don't know about it."

"Now that you know about the deal, you should know that Roland Allen pulled Time Warner into Harry Potter, Universal into X-Men, and Disney into The Lord of the Rings in order to buy awards, right?"

"That's what you say? The investment in the first phase of the three projects exceeded 200 million, which is a big deal! Generous! ”

Speaking of this, the old coin couldn't help but sigh, "Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder identity is really useful, Wells Fargo didn't communicate with him, but as soon as the identity of the major shareholder comes out, his project can really be approved with his eyes closed!" ”

The old man's emotion made the content president of News Corp. hurriedly laugh.

And after his emotions gradually calmed down, the president, who had already laid the groundwork, hurriedly said: "Boss, you think those three projects are big, it's because you don't know Roland Allen's next series of operations." ”

"After the completion of "Spider-Man 3", the first thing Roland did was to take the initiative to promote the progress of the three projects, so that they could quickly get on the right track, and the second thing he did was to go to Disney and discuss cooperation with them!"

"According to our understanding, Roland Allen and Disney are negotiating two projects."

"First, it has to do with the Olsen sisters."

"He helped the Olsen sisters get another project at Disney."

"Second, it is related to Warcraft film and television."

He hopes that Warcraft Films and Disney can reach a long-term cooperation agreement to jointly create a live-action movie suitable for teenagers.

"The first project, Disney agreed, and the second project, Disney rejected."

So, two months ago, he asked Jon Landau to get the rights to shoot a project called "The Princess Diaries", and he was looking for a starring role, and wanted to shoot that movie himself.

"The whole process, it seems that there is no problem, but, in the process of looking for an actress, he seems to have only provided Jon Landau with the other party's name, as if he decided to let her play, that actress, and happened to participate in our Fox TV series, and at the same time he found the actress, he suddenly made an offer to Blue Sky Studios!"

"This kind of coincidence makes us very confused."

"So, let's guess that Roland Allen is acting with Disney!"

"Their goal from the beginning was Blue Sky Studio!"

"And this speculation of ours is also well-founded!"

"Because of the monopoly!"

"Disney has monopolized the entire animated film market since the 90s, and except for Warner's "Modern Primitives", no film company, including us, can stand out."

"In this case, even if they re-release the old work, they will be able to reap a lot of box office!"

"Because the audience doesn't have a choice at all, there are only those animated movies on the market!"

"So, after discovering that monopolistic behavior can make more profits on the basis of non-innovation, they want to continue this situation, so that it has become their goal to crack down on our animation industry."

"But under normal circumstances, they can't do that, because we don't want Disney to monopolize the entire market."

"The problem is, it's not the same now!"

"Because of the trade war, Sony was pressed to death by Roland Allen, let alone develop animated films, and before "Black Hawk Down" was released, I don't think they dared to continue to invest in this field! And Universal's parent company, Szgeland, is in financial trouble, and it simply can't support their continued development of animated films! ”

"Paramount hasn't won the top five at the box office for four years in a row, and they're all betting their confidence on Tom Cruise now! And Time Warner, who is now mobilizing a lot of money to make Harry Potter with Steven Spielberg, has no energy to manage animation development! ”

"In this way, four of the five opponents have gone, and we are left alone!"

"And we! The whole world knows we're going to cut the animation department! ”

"In this case, if we take away our alternatives first, won't we be able to animate them?"

"If that's true, then why did Disney choose Roland Allen for the collaboration?"

After listening to the subordinates' narration, although the old coin still looked confused, his body bowed there was already straight.

Like a sharp sword out of its sheath, there is a dead silence all over its body.

"Because right now, only Roland Allen can do that!" Seeing that his boss was serious, News Corp.'s content president was even more excited, "Because Roland Allen is Apple's major shareholder!" He was able to connect directly with Pixar! ”

Although Disney and Pixar also cooperated, the relationship between Disney and Pixar was far less close than that of Roland Allen and Steve Jobs! If Pixar comes forward, then Blue Sky Studio will definitely choose Roland Allen! But if it was Disney's move, Blue Sky Studios would definitely hesitate! Because back then, they came out of Disney! ”

"In addition, letting Roland Allen make a move can also deter competitors!"

"Because we all know that no one will tear their faces with him until the end, right?"

When the president of his own house turned from excitement to helplessness, the old coin sitting there suddenly laughed-

"Yes, you're right, until the end, no one in the circle wants to treat him as an enemy!"

"Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, are now eating the benefits he shared, Gilead is his link to the DOT, and Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn have already made three billion from him, and there will be more to come!"

"No one wants to tear their faces with this kind of person! No one wants to be on the opposite side of him! ”

"So what should we do when he comes out to us and asks for a business that we don't want?"

"You can analyze Disney and Roland Allen acting, so you should be able to analyze the solution, right?"

"We can't do anything but listen with our eyes wide open!"

"Because we don't know how important this company is to him!"

That's right! The old coin thinks that the analysis of these subordinates does make sense, but what is the use of this?

Knowing that Roland Allen was optimistic about Blue Sky Studios, he bought the studio before him?

What's the picture!

If Roland Allen were just a simple person, then of course they could!

But the problem is that his group is a bit big, so big that News Corp doesn't know how to start!

It is true that Microsoft in the technology field, Berkshire Hathaway in the investment field and the military-industrial complex behind the DOD have nothing to do with News Corporation, and they can't fight News Corp across borders because of the small contradiction between Roland Allen and News Corp.'s acquisition, but the problem is that News Corp. alone Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn can't stand it!

News Corp can grow and grow thanks to the hostile takeover of these two guys!

There are too many deals they make in private, and if they take out any of them, they can kill News Corp.!

In this case, if Blue Sky Studios is important to Roland Allen, then the old coin believes that Roland Allen only needs to reveal a little dissatisfaction when he sells Yahoo shares to them next time, and the two vampires will understand their intentions very clearly and offer a deal, saying that they can directly blow up News Corp.'s stock price!

Of course, if Blue Sky Studios is a must-win project for Roland Allen, then the old coin believes that Roland Allen only needs to reveal his grievances to Gilead's chairman, and the guy who received donations in the hurricane will unblock the Federal Communications Commission and let them review the legitimacy of News Corp.!

After all, News Corp. is still an Australian company!

Their headquarters are still in Australia! As long as the FCC feels that their business practices in America are stealing information from the American public, then this kind of investigation can go on forever!

Although these two may be the worst-case scenario, as a capital, isn't it the worst-case scenario that is the priority?

I know what your nuclear weapons are!

And then I will work out my response based on your nuclear weapons!

And in the face of the cards that Roland Allen may play, the old coin knows that it is the best thing to do to give up the business that the group company wants to give up, although it may be a little humiliating, but it is better than being hated by the guy who can throw out the nuclear weapons!

As an Australian company, as an Australian company that controls the media, the American authorities have countless ways to get it out, and all that's missing is an opportunity and a reason.

Roland Allen revealed some information, the happiest, that is Time Warner!

Old Coin believes that if the worst happens, Time Warner will be eager to jump out and prove to the world that he is Roland Allen's half-brother! If you News Corp bullied Roland Allen, you're bullying me!

Because of this, when he finished talking about the situation with a smile, the content president of News Corp. stopped talking.

Looking at the subordinates with lowered eyes, the old coin smiled and said: "Let's not care about how to deal with this matter first, you tell me first, if you are Roland Allen, why did you choose to cooperate with Disney?" ”

"I haven't been in contact with Roland Allen, but I think he's a guy who doesn't want to be controlled."

"Remember when filming on Titanic began?"

"Kate Winslet attended the Berlin Film Festival, and Roland Allen gave her clothes in front of the media."

"At that time, you wrote in the evaluation report you gave me - he is a person who knows how to use power to seek a better life for himself, and he is a person who knows how to use power to instruct others, he ......"

“…… It's like a person who is born with a knack for how to control the tools of production. ”

"Since you think he is a natural capitalist, in your previous analysis, he seems to be unprofitable."

"And this is not in line with the way capital operates."

Although the head of the subordinate analysis is Dao, the old coin still doesn't see what benefits Roland Allen can get from it!

Even if he is willing to believe the reasoning of his subordinates, the problem is that the arguments that support the reasoning are insufficient.

Disney and Roland Allen acting?

That's understandable!

But if Disney can monopolize the animated film market in this way, then what can Roland Allen get?

Nothing?

Earn a lonely one?

Is this in line with the style of the capitalists?

You know, the capitalists would rather pour out the milk than give it away for free!

In this case, if Roland Allen can't get the same profits, then these arguments are wrong!

But just when Lao Coin felt that his subordinates were a little worried, the president of News Corporation, who was still bowing his head, suddenly spoke: "Boss, what if...... I mean, what if, if Roland Allen, what he wants is our attitude? ”

“What？” The old coin did not understand the meaning of his subordinates.

This situation made the president of the tool man bury his head deeper-

"Boss, do you remember that after you learned that Time Warner was also going to enter the Internet industry, you were ready to follow along?"

"They're targeting AOL, and we're targeting two websites......"

"And those two websites seem to be in conflict with Roland Allen's company?"

“Damn！”

The unclear words made the old coin's complexion change in an instant!

If ten seconds ago, he thought his subordinates' guesses were a bit ridiculous, now he has become a solid supporter of the whole guess!

Roland Allen can't get anything out of this incident?

He doesn't need to get any benefits!

Because hitting Fox is the biggest benefit he can get!

Why?

Because they News Corp. have already started on Roland Allen's industry!

You've already raised your hand to beat me!

Can't I fight back?