Chapter 72: Bu Piao has been wandering for half his life, but he only regrets that he has never met his master.
Author: Qiyun
Chapter 72: Bu Piao has been wandering for half his life, but he only regrets that he has never met his master.
"Don't bully others too much——!!!"
Obadi was really angry. He had never been so angry in his life.
Not being a son of man is simply not being a son of man!
It's too much to continue to threaten him after taking 1 billion US dollars from him.
"Not convinced?"
Bai Ye raised her eyebrows:
"I'll give you three days, and then you can collect US$2 billion in bearer bonds for me."
"$2 billion?"
"$2 billion!"
"I just raised 1 billion U.S. dollars for you. These are all my loans. Where can I get you another 2 billion U.S. dollars?"
"Ah... go sell your butt." Bai Ye said: "There are so many billionaires in New York, all of them gay. With a body like yours, it's easy for you to get 2 billion US dollars."
Obadi: "..."
Even if he sells it as a sunflower, he still can't sell it for 2 billion US dollars.
"Three days!"
Bai Ye finally gave Obadi a deadline and hung up the phone.
"Farke! Farke! Farke! Damn it!"
Obadi angrily threw his phone to the ground, smashing it into pieces.
…
"Tangtang, I earned back the money I paid for you to buy the movie company."
When Tangtang washed up from the bathroom, Bai Ye shook the bearer bond in his hand and said with a smile.
"So fast?"
Tangtang said in surprise.
It only took her more than twenty minutes to wash up, and Bai Ye got back the money she spent to buy a medium-sized film company?
"When it comes to men, don't say fast, say fierce!"
Bai Ye gave Tangtang a serious and thoughtful education.
"Oh, I know."
Tangtang said obediently.
Arriving next to Bai Ye, Tangtang saw the bearer bond in Bai Ye's hand.
"These were all stolen from another person who was shorting the Stark Group?"
Tangtang asked curiously.
"Yes." Bai Ye said with a smile: "Not only this 1 billion US dollars in bearer bonds, but after three days, he will also have to give me another 2 billion US dollars in bearer bonds."
To be honest, blackmailing Obadi is much faster than going to Mexico to rob drug lords in the middle of the night. You know, he stayed in Mexico for two days, going back and forth, and he only managed to rob 7
Billions of dollars, and what about Obadi? In half a day, he got 1 billion U.S. dollars, and he didn’t have to run around. He could just sit in the office and direct Obadi to send the money to the designated location. What could be more exciting than this?
Is there a way to make money?
A wave of wealth!
No wonder the ancestors said that a man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass.
What a wise saying!
"So much money?" Tangtang was surprised and said, "Brother, the other party won't jump over the wall in a hurry and cause any danger to you, right?"
"He can't jump over the wall when he's in a hurry. He's showing off and I'm hiding. He doesn't even know who I am, so how can he jump?"
Bai Ye smiled and said:
"Don't worry, after we get the other 2 billion US dollars, we will give him another big deal, another 3 billion US dollars."
[Obadi: "..."]
If Obadi uses Jarvis to track Bai Ye, he may still be able to find Bai Ye's traces, but this is obviously impossible. Jarvis is absolutely loyal to Tony. Once Jarvis knows that Obadi is looking for the killer
Organize and attack Tony, then Jarvis will probably use all means to attack Obadi, and a strong artificial intelligence will hunt him down everywhere... Then Obadi will probably have a hard time finding a place in this world.
Therefore, Obadi did not dare to act recklessly, and Bai Ye naturally had nothing to fear.
To be honest, it was surprisingly easy to hack into Obadi's computer, because Obadi is too old, his thinking is old, and he can't keep up with the times. The computer's defense system is a fool's operation, but Obadi
He didn't dare to connect his computer to Jarvis because he had done too many things behind Tony's back, such as selling the Stark Group's arms to the black market. His partner, the Ten Rings Gang, had Stark in his hands.
The large amount of arms produced by the Croat Group was all produced by Obadi.
Once Tony learns that Obadi sold a large amount of Stark Group's arms to the black market, their friendship will probably come to an end.
"Okay, let's not talk about these things." Bai Ye said: "Let's figure out which one the film company should buy."
"Um."
Tangtang sat next to Bai Ye obediently.
Bai Ye put his arms around Tangtang and sat on his lap, letting the round peach outlined by his jeans fit him perfectly.
After kissing Tangtang hard on the face, Bai Ye turned on the computer and searched for the film company's information:
"Let's first take a look at which movie companies are worth buying."
When it comes to Hollywood, the first ones that bear the brunt are definitely the Big Six, well, that is, the six major Hollywood movie companies now, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Columbia, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount.
"Uh... We may not be able to afford the six major Hollywood properties for the time being. Each of them costs at least tens of billions of dollars."
In fact, the six major Hollywood companies are not just movie companies. They have merged with media groups and become a link in the media industry chain. The real names of the six major Hollywood companies should be ABC Disney, Time Warner, NBC Universal, and CBS Paramount.
, Fox Entertainment Group, and Sony Columbia did not merge with the media group, but it was a subsidiary of Sony Group, which immediately pushed up their market value infinitely, with a starting price of tens of billions of dollars.
Of course, when he succeeds in shorting Stark Group, Bai Ye will definitely have tens of billions of dollars in his hands. But if he has this money, Bai Ye will definitely choose to expand Sun Bank and Snap instead of acquiring movie companies that don't have much room for value-added.
For Internet companies, film companies make money too slowly and unacceptably. Baiye acquires film companies and will embed them with Tianmei Studio and Snap to form a part of the media group in the future to enhance their actual influence. There is no hope.
Make money from movie companies.
"Brother, even if you want to buy it, I will advise you!" Tangtang said with a smile: "It will definitely not be easy to control such a large company. How can you just buy it? And outsiders are acquiring it.
Hollywood film companies are basically cheated. I heard that Sony was cheated when it purchased Columbia, and spent at least several billion dollars in unjust money."
"You're talking about this, I know."
Bai Ye nodded.
The market price per share of Columbia was US$12 at the beginning of the year and was US$21 when Sony announced the merger, but Sony's final bid was US$27 per share.
The stock price doubled like crazy!
On September 25, 1989, Sony announced that it would spend US$3.4 billion to purchase Columbia's equity from The Coca-Cola Company and assume US$1.6 billion of Columbia's collateral debt, spending a total of US$5 billion.
By November 17, 1994, Sony announced in its quarterly financial report that the carrying amount of the company's investment in Columbia Pictures had decreased by $2.7 billion.
This loss is the largest loss suffered by a Japanese company in history.
It can be said that Hollywood directly swindled US$2.7 billion from Sony, the big bastard. It bought one Columbia company for the price of two Columbia companies, and it became a big grievance known to everyone in Hollywood.
Even Tangtang knows this well-known past event.
Tangshangjing said carefully:
"So, brother, let's buy a small and medium-sized film company first and establish a foothold in Hollywood. After we are familiar with the rules of Hollywood operation and will not be fooled by those people, we will try to acquire the six major Hollywood companies. I believe that with my brother
With your strength, this day will not be too far away."
Of course it was not far away, but Tangtang saw that Galaxy Capital in the white night could earn at least US$1 billion in the capital market at one time, and acquire the six major Hollywood companies with a price of tens of billions of US dollars. Is it difficult?
"Tangtang, you understand me."
Bai Ye laughed, planted another strawberry mark on Tangtang's neck, and continued to look for a suitable film company.
"Lionsgate Pictures should be considered the company with the best performance among the six major Hollywood companies. It is also an independent film company. Its valuation is not high. It should be able to get it for only US$78 million."
In his previous life, Bai Ye’s impression of Hollywood, apart from the Big Six and Netflix, the ones that impressed him most were probably Lionsgate and DreamWorks.
Lionsgate is one of the most famous independent production companies in Hollywood. It has received a total of 66 Academy Award nominations and 17 Academy Awards. It is worth mentioning that the company's most profitable thing is not the movie box office.
Nearly 70% of its revenue comes from the 13,000 film and television works in the copyright library.
Lionsgate uses the funds obtained from financing to continuously acquire and expand the film storage library, and then obtains profits, financing, and then expands the film storage library. If this process can be smoothed, the film storage library will become a continuous source of revenue for Lions Gate.
Relying on this business model, Lionsgate's profitability even surpasses that of the lower-ranked Hollywood Big Six.
"Brother, I heard that Frank Gusta, the chairman of Lionsgate Pictures, is a very stubborn person. He has always run Lionsgate Pictures as his business. If we invest in shares, it may not be a big problem, but I think
If we want to fully acquire Lionsgate Pictures, the problem will be huge." Tangtang said: "Furthermore, Lionsgate Pictures has been in deep debt crisis in the past two years, and its operating conditions are not very good. It is very likely that outside of the acquisition, we
We still need to raise another amount of money to resolve Lionsgate’s debt problem.”
"Hmm..." Bai Ye thought for a while and said: "Lionsgate Pictures only makes bloody, rough and rule-breaking movies, and they are eccentric. I guess there aren't many movies suitable for you, Tangtang, to play the heroine, forget it.
, find another one.”
Tangtang was stunned for a moment. She simply didn’t want Bai Ye to buy such an expensive company as Lionsgate just after entering Hollywood. Unexpectedly, Bai Ye thought that the movies produced by this company were not suitable for her to star in...
"hey-hey."
Tangtang giggled.
Well, after all, she was raised by Bai Ye since she was a child. If she doesn’t care for her, who will she care for?
“What about Legendary Pictures?”
Bai Ye asked again.
He found that Tangtang knew more about these film companies than he did, so he was too lazy to go online to collect information and just asked Tangtang directly.
Anyway, Tangtang would definitely not trick him.
"Uh..." Tangtang thought about it for a moment and said, "Brother, let's forget this. The relationship between Legendary Pictures is too complicated. It is not a company that makes movies, but a company that specializes in money laundering."
“Are there any movie companies in Hollywood that don’t launder money??”
The wonders of the white night.
Tangtang: "Everyone is laundering money, but other companies are laundering money secretly, but this company is laundering money blatantly and unscrupulously... Legendary Pictures is essentially a private equity fund."
"I understand when you put it like that. Are you the film company of Jiucai?" Bai Ye himself also likes to play the trick of Jiucai, but Jiucai is not willing to do it. Legendary Pictures is naturally excluded from the acquisition target. He
Pointing to another name on the computer, he asked: "Where is Summit Entertainment? How is this company?"
"Summit Entertainment..." Tangtang thought for a while and said: "This company is not bad. The shareholder structure is simple and not as complicated as Lionsgate Pictures and Legendary Pictures. In the early years, it was a company that operated overseas movie consignments.
However, in the past two years, they have been transforming and developing a distribution network, and have achieved some success. They are now a small but well-equipped medium-sized film company."
Bai Ye also has some impressions of Summit Entertainment. In 2008, he became a blockbuster with the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" directed by James Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow.
Later, Summit Entertainment invested in "The Twilight Saga", which grossed US$390 million worldwide at a cost of only US$37 million. From then on, Summit Entertainment began to truly join the top-level penny club in Hollywood.
At the same time, Summit Entertainment has produced a number of independent films that, although not very commercially successful, have featured heavyweight stars.
However, Summit Entertainment blindly invested in large-scale productions and its cash flow dried up, so it had to sell it to Lionsgate Pictures for US$412.5 million.
"Very good, then add this company to the acquisition list."
Next, Bai Ye and Tangtang took stock of various independent film companies in Hollywood, compared their advantages and disadvantages, and found several high-quality companies that could be acquired.
"Well, that's pretty much it."
Bai Ye stopped sifting.
There are thousands of film companies in Hollywood, but apart from the six major Hollywood companies, there are only a few good companies. It can be called gold mining. It is not easy.
"I will tell them to get in touch with the heads of these film companies to see which one is suitable for acquisition. If possible, they can acquire all of them. Anyway, the combined valuations of these film companies will
It’s less than 1 billion US dollars, it’s too cheap.”
Tangtang: "..."
Is a company valued at less than a billion dollars considered cheap?
Only a tall and thick brother can say such a thing.
"It's almost time to get off work, let's go have lunch together."
Bai Ye looked at the time and said.
"OK."
Tangtang smiled sweetly.
The two of them went downstairs together. Tangtang held Bai Ye's arm and said:
"Brother, I know there is a pizza shop nearby. It tastes very good. How about we go have pizza?"
"Of course. If you like to eat, I must also like it."
Bai Ye smiled and nodded.
After eating the pizza, the two of them went back to Tangtang's house.
Tangtang was quite busy at work, and Bai Ye went to Mexico for two more days. In total, the two of them hadn't seen each other for almost a week, and the longing in their hearts turned into the swaying of the bed.
…
"watt?"
When Bai Ye received the call, he had to temporarily put down the peach he was eating. He took it over and saw that it was Andy's call. There was no way to delay, so Bai Ye picked up the call.
"Yes, you heard it right. No matter what you are doing now, go back to AIM immediately."
Andy said with a dark look on his face.
When Bai Ye answered the phone just now, she could tell from the voice what Bai Ye was doing, and he was pulling radishes in the farmland again.
"What's going on?"
Bai Ye's fingers slid over the skin of Tangtang's fair back, and he said reluctantly:
"Do you have to go back now? Can you wait for me for half an hour?"
"Bai Ye!" Andy said angrily: "I'm not kidding you, come back quickly, otherwise, you will bear the consequences!"
After speaking, Andy hung up the phone, not giving Bai Ye a chance to bargain.
Can confidential matters be discussed on the phone?
Then in the eyes of a caring person, everything becomes transparent.
"well--!"
Bai Ye sighed heavily, patted Tangtang on the head and said:
"There is nothing we can do. There seems to be something urgent in the company. I have to rush there now."
"Oh." Tangtang was a little aggrieved, but she was still very obedient: "Brother, you go first, business is important."
"Well, be good." Bai Ye kissed Tangtang's pretty face and said with a smile, "I'll make it up to you next time."
After putting on his clothes, Baiye came out of Tangtang's house, took his Maybach 62S and went straight to the AIM company building.
"What happened? You have to call me back in such a hurry?"
As soon as Bai Ye came back, he was dragged by Andy to the monitoring room, where Becky was waiting.
Andy simply said: "Something happened to Maya Hansen."
Bai Ye's face suddenly became serious and he said:
"What's going on?"
"As we previously expected, Maya Hansen is already a scientist with a lot of thinking, just because we have established laboratories in Hengsan and Africa and are preparing to use a large number of rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees to build up the terminal virus.
The results of human experiments, Maya Hansen did not want her scientific results to be abused, and ultimately chose to betray."
Andy motioned towards Becky:
"It's up to you to tell him the specific situation."
"Okay." Becky pushed up her glasses and said, "Maya Hansen hasn't shown anything unusual recently, as usual, but I always felt that something was wrong, so I stepped up monitoring her.
Strength, white night, guess what I found? I found that Maya Hansen used the dark network to get in touch with a hacker group. By chance, I also fought against that hacker group, called the Rising Tide Group, which is almost all composed of a group of white leftists.
, doing their best to expose various dark deeds in the United States. In the view of the Department of Homeland Security, this is a group of cyber terrorists who specialize in destruction, and it is also an organization that the Department of Homeland Security is fully suppressing..."
Bai Ye looked up to the sky and sighed: "What the hell is this guy who's been living half his life, only regretting that he has never met the Ming Lord"..."
