Chapter 195: Prepare to invest in Disney, Director Chris
The next day, Zhang Xiao took Yang Mi to the most famous recording studio in Yuzhou to record the theme song of "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom".
At the same time, he also wrote two other songs that were popular all over the world and recorded them together, namely "Coolness" and "Flowers".
These two songs are the interlude and ending theme of the film.
Of course, director Lin Yifen was also there during the recording. When she saw the three songs given by Zhang Xiao, she simply hummed them again and could immediately tell that these three songs were all hits.
potential.
So I immediately decided to use them as the theme song and episode of the TV series "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom".
Zhang Xiao already has S-level ventriloquism skills and can perfectly express both male and female voices, so Lin Yifen hopes that Zhang Xiao can record all three songs as one of the promotion points of the TV series.
As an investor, Zhang Xiao naturally cooperated fully.
In this world, S-level singing skills represent the pinnacle of music. Zhang Xiao recorded these three songs in just one morning. Such an efficient recording speed shocked the recording studio at the scene.
After the recording was completed, Lin Yifen listened to it and greatly appreciated it.
Two days later, after Zhang Xiao sent Yang Mi to film school, he received a call from Kevin, the president of Marvel Company in Lighthouse Country.
"Mr. Zhang, I have been in contact with Disney recently. After our discussions, they are willing to pay 13 billion US dollars to buy our Marvel Comics Company."
After listening to Kevin's words, Zhang Xiao nodded. To be honest, the price was still very impressive. After all, Zhang Xiao's price at that time was 1.2 billion US dollars.
However, this was only the first condition, so Zhang Xiao asked again: "What about the conditions I proposed?"
His condition is naturally to become a shareholder of Disney.
Kevin on the other end of the phone said: "According to my investigation, there is a shareholder in the Disney Company who has financial problems and is planning to sell 6% of his shares. You can take over, but..."
"But what?" Zhang Xiao asked.
"But it requires a 10% premium!" Kevin thought for a while and told Zhang Xiao.
When Zhang Xiao stated his conditions, he did not say that he would acquire Disney's shares at a premium. He was also worried that Zhang Xiao would be angry. It seemed that it was only 10%, but the amount involved was not small.
The current market value of Disney is about 81 billion U.S. dollars. If the premium is 10%, it will be more than 90 billion. In other words, if Zhang Xiao wants to get 6% of Disney's shares, he will need to spend about 5.4 billion U.S. dollars.
And Zhang Xiao owns half of Marvel's equity. If Disney purchases US$13 billion, he can get US$6.5 billion.
Calculated in this way, Zhang Xiao's initial investment of 500 million US dollars not only brought him 6% of Disney shares, but also received a cash flow of 1.1 billion US dollars, which can be said to be a huge profit.
After settling the account, Zhang Xiao said to the other end of the phone: "Mr. Kevin, I am very interested in this business. I will go to New York soon. We will meet and discuss it in detail."
"Ah, oh, okay!" Obviously, Kevin didn't expect that Zhang Xiao would actually decide to buy Disney at a 10% premium.
This is an extra few hundred million US dollars taken out at once. He is worthy of being a boss!
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The next day, Zhang Xiao took a plane to New York.
When he came out of the airport, Kevin was already waiting for reception at the airport gate early.
At this time, he was chatting with an imposing middle-aged man. This man looked familiar to Zhang Xiao. It took him a long time to recognize the man's identity.
Famous Hollywood director Chris.
When Kevin saw Zhang Xiao coming out, his husband and Chris hugged each other and then came towards Zhang Xiao. Chris turned his head to look at Zhang Xiao curiously and left directly.
After getting in the car, Kevin looked at Zhang Xiao curiously and asked, "Mr. Zhang, why did you agree to acquire Disney's shares at a premium?"
Zhang Xiao smiled and said nothing.
Upon seeing this, Kevin continued: "Mr. Zhang, I have contacted Disney's shareholder Mr. Pete. His attitude is very firm. He will only agree to transfer the equity if there is a 10% premium on Disney's current market value. Otherwise, he will
I won’t negotiate with anyone.”
Zhang Xiao smiled and nodded, and said slowly: "Yeah, that's fine. Anyway, I have to wait until the money from Disney to buy Marvel arrives."
At this time, Kevin added: "Disney's cash reserves have always been very abundant. If it's 13 billion US dollars, they can take it out at any time. They just need to wait for us to sign the contract."
"Yes!" Zhang Xiao nodded with satisfaction and said: "Then let's start negotiations tomorrow, Mr. Kevin. I will ask my private investment consultant to assist you. I don't know much about these things, so I won't join in the fun.
Already."
"Okay, thank you Mr. Zhang for your trust." Kevin said gratefully.
He knew that Zhang Xiao had left all matters to himself to handle and became a legitimate spokesperson. This was also Zhang Xiao's cultivation of him.
Zhang Xiao suddenly called Director Chris whom he had just seen at the airport gate, and asked curiously: "By the way, Mr. Kevin, are you familiar with Director Chris?"
Kevin nodded and said, "He and I are classmates and we used to play together."
"Oh!" Zhang Xiao asked seemingly unintentionally: "What is he doing in New York?"
Kevin didn't hide anything, and said truthfully: "I heard that he came to audition for actors. He and Warner are preparing to join forces to create the second Batman movie "The Dark Knight" and are looking for suitable actors."
Hearing Kevin's words, Zhang Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and a ray of light shot out from his eyes.
This movie can be said to be very famous when it was on earth. Whether it is word-of-mouth or box office, it is the best among Chris's "Batman" trilogy.
So Zhang Xiao asked: "Isn't Batman already released? Why do we need to choose actors?"
Because Kevin and Chris are classmates, they may know more about it, and Zhang Xiao is Kevin's boss, so he told everything he knew.
"The Dark Knight has many new characters that require actors, among which the role of the number one villain, the Joker, is the most attractive."
"According to Chris, this character is even more charming than Batman, and in a week, Leonardo, Bradley, Ledger and twelve other Hollywood A-list stars will come to
Come to the audition."
Chapter completed!