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As many times in the past, the results of the 64th Academy Awards once again caused controversy in the media.
Three women were nominated for the best director Oscar at the same time. In the politically correct atmosphere of public opinion in the past few months, no one felt that this year's best director Oscar should not be awarded to one woman.
However, in the eyes of many media, the contrast between Barbara Streisand and the other two female directors nominated this time is too obvious.
You know, the media score of "years of wonder" in the Oscar eight to six is only 6.8, the other two movies, "the last flower" is 7.4, and "farewell to the piano" is as high as 9.2.
Even if the direction of the media can't represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, and even if Barbara Streisand's qualifications in Hollywood exceed those of the other two directors, it's just that "the storm of time" has won a best director, even the best film, which shows that the Oscar is too unfair.
Of course, some media experts have made an analysis from another angle.
According to these media, the three female directors' works, "the last flower" and "farewell to the piano" are all produced by danielis entertainment, which is the key to the Oscar results.
Because in the past few years.
The 61st Academy Award, best picture, rain man, danelis entertainment.
The 62nd Academy Award, best picture, driving for Miss Daisy, by Denise entertainment.
The 63rd Academy Award, best picture, dancing with wolves, danelis entertainment.
For three years in a row, danielis entertainment has won the best picture Oscar three times in a row. However, if this time, the best picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to danielis entertainment, then the Oscar will become the exclusive Oscar of danielis entertainment group.
Even though the past "Rain Man", "driving for Miss Daisy" and "dancing with the wolf" all have the excellent quality enough to win the best film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscar to become Denise's private domain.
Therefore, this time, the films produced by danelis entertainment, not counting the films released by other brands, still won 23 nominations, but only got two small golden men. This result is completely expected.
In short, Oscar is playing balance.
For this kind of balanced view of the media, the college naturally strongly denies it, and some college executives and the judges of the Olympic Prize who clearly know that "years of wonder" is run by the public relations team of gaomen film industry are mixed.
Since it's still an award operated by her own family, danielis certainly won't use public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Prize. She only adds fuel to the controversy among the three films, so as to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films.
"Farewell to the piano" and "the waves of time" were both released in December last year, but they were not released at this time.
As of last Friday, "farewell to the piano" took advantage of the attention of the award season that started at the beginning of the year to show on a small scale for more than three months, with a total box office of $36.32 million.
Compared with the production cost of $7 million, farewell to the piano, which is expected to hit the box office of $40 million before its next release, is definitely a big sell.
As of last Friday, the cumulative box office of "years of wonder" in North America was $71.51 million.
The mainstream movie directed and starred by Barbara Streisand is expected to exceed US $80 million at the box office in North America before the next film, as it has won many awards such as best picture.
"The last flower" was released on September 6 last year, and it was released in early December. The total box office in North America was $45.36 million, which was also a box office success.
After a three-month window break, Denise entertainment officially released the video of the film before the Oscars in early March.
Taking advantage of the popularity of the award season, the magazine has sold 730000 boxes in three weeks, and the total sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes in the future.
At an average videotape price of $30, the movie could sell as much as $60 million in videotapes, which is better than the box office.
With the Oscars held and the media controversy surrounding the award results, the box office and video sales figures of the three films all showed a significant increase in the new week.
In the final analysis, Oscar is not only a hall of honor for Hollywood, but also a commercial feast.
Cersei's rival, KKR, put forward a bid of $2.15 billion to its parent company, Ltd., on March 30. Simon dropped four women in Los Angeles and flew directly to New York.
The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations.
Besides the best actress in "farewell to the piano", daenerys entertainment is also Simon's first layout.
Many years later, the reason why the "Transformers" live action film once broke the box office record on the other side of the ocean was that in 1987, Hasbro company gave the "Transformers" animation to the local TV station for free, thus creating the national popularity of the image of transformers.In fact, the public relations of the marginal award of best foreign language film is not very difficult. This year, no other brilliant foreign language film has been shortlisted. The public relations team of gaomen film easily pushed the red lantern to the podium.
Hollywood is still immersed in the lingering charm of the Oscars, Simon the next day hosted a number of thank-you calls to sweep the matter to the past.
After KKR's bid, Blackstone also put forward cooperation suggestions to Apollo asset management team of cersei capital, hoping that both sides will jointly invest in bidding for Ltd.
If you don't have enough confidence in LTE or financial strength, choosing partners is a good choice.
However, this time, unlike Simmons, which has previously chosen to cooperate with other capital to acquire, cersei capital is neither lack of confidence nor lack of funds for Ltd, and does not intend to give half of its potential future earnings to Blackstone Group.
There are already two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing. Many arbitrage capital have entered the market to buy the shares of LTE, which leads to the further rapid rise of the share price of LTE.
On the day of KKR's offer, the market value of Ltd broke through $2 billion.
From US $1.3 billion two months ago to US $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the mood of the board of directors and major shareholders of Ltd quite complicated.
If, before the disclosure of the acquisition news, Ltd can have such a market value, depending on the confidence of the market, whether it is to issue additional shares or bond financing, the company can easily get through the cash dilemma which is not serious.
Now the situation is that the acquisition of LTE is almost a foregone conclusion.
Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the fall rate of the share price of Ltd will never be much slower than the rise rate. Even though the acquisition of cersei capital makes many shareholders aware of the potential of Ltd company, they are still more willing to directly choose high cash out than the sharp fall of share price.
"KKR still hasn't got rid of the haze of Reynolds nabesk's acquisition. In my personal judgment, the main reason why we bid for Ltd this time is that Henry Kravis of KKR hopes to revive KKR's morale through a successful acquisition. Maybe he also has the idea of diverting investors' attention."
In the conference room of cersei capital headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
Leon black, President of Apollo management company of cersei capital, is introducing the process of the acquisition: "because the negative impact of Reynolds nabesk is too great, the U.S. economy has not fully recovered now, and in the face of pressure from KKR's board of directors and investors, KKR will never offer unlimited prices. Therefore, 2.5 billion US dollars should be the limit of KKR. "
The acquisition of Reynolds nabesk is due to the irrational competition of all parties, and the quotation out of control led to a disaster.
Ltd's market value was only about $1.3 billion before the news of its acquisition leaked in February.
If KKR's offer exceeds US $2.6 billion, the 100% premium will undoubtedly make investors question again whether the private equity company will encounter the mistake of Reynolds nabesk acquisition.
Therefore, KKR is very likely to control the premium ceiling within 100%.
Cersei capital, with $2.5 billion, is also Simon's upper limit.
Even if they can't get the LTE, Simon won't allow the price to rise by even one dollar.
In fact, when the bidding comes to the end and the transaction price is almost the same, what we are competing for is more likely to be a specific trading scheme.
Simon thought about this and asked Leon black, "where's Blackstone?"
"I'm not sure for the time being, but Blackstone and we can't work together. They may turn to cooperate with KKR. To a large extent, both companies choose to bid because we are interested in LTE. They should not have enough confidence in the future of LTE. Of course, if KKR also refuses Blackstone's cooperation invitation, Steve Schwarzman is more likely to give up completely. He is a very cautious and conservative person. The current economic situation does not allow Blackstone to take too many risks. In addition, the fashion industry is not Blackstone's field of expertise. "
Simon, playing with a pencil in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "in this way, you try to contact some media and spread the news that KKR and Blackstone are just blindly following cersei capital, so as to make more impact as possible."
If any enterprise loses its own judgment and just follows others blindly, it will not win the trust of investors.
Leon Blake said: "there are already media comments like this. We can really add fuel to the fire. However, Simon, it may also attract other bidders. "
"You just hold on to the $2.5 billion price limit," Simon said. "Even if we fail, we still hold about 5% of the shares in Ltd. well, how much profit can we make if we sell them?"
"At least 50 million dollars."
"So, let's talk about your specific acquisition plan."
In the following more than an hour, in addition to the basic acquisition offer, they also readjusted the future payment form, management arrangement, means of relieving the cash pressure of Ltd and other acquisition matters.Simon finally agreed to retain 10% of the shares of the Wexner family, the major shareholder of Ltd, and the request of Leslie Wexner, the current chairman and CEO, to continue to hold the current position. Leslie Wexner is the founder of the Ltd group. At this time, the Wexner family still holds about 30% of the shares of the Ltd company.
In the original time and space, Ltd was controlled by Leslie Wexner until many years later. The later development of Ltd also proved the founder's ability. Cersei capital's acquisition is more of an investment. Simon has no plan to seize the control of Ltd.
The meeting ended and it was past five o'clock in the afternoon.
Simon and Janet went back to their fifth Avenue apartment together. On the way, they went to the site of the westero building.
Today is April 1st, Wednesday.
April Fool's day.
After the construction started in January, the original buildings have been demolished and the foundation is being excavated.
The workers had already left work. They just looked at the construction site and the couple left.
"After a long negotiation with the New York Metro Company, they agreed to add a subway station next to our building, but we had to pay for the renovation, which would cost about $10 million. Besides, there are many illegal workers in Eastern Europe among the workers employed by iron lion gate. James and I talked about this, and he said it's not a big problem. "
Janet and Simon talked about the building and soon went back to their apartment on Fifth Avenue.
Simon heard about illegal workers, but he didn't care too much: "there are probably no illegal workers on the construction sites in New York, because there are not enough local workers. What's more, even if something goes wrong, iron lion's Speer family can handle it. They have been in this business for nearly 100 years
Then she entered the apartment and met aliya makheji, a yoga teacher Janet had found in India.
After a few months of exercise, Janet's figure is better than before.
However, the Indian girl, who is very good at yoga and has first-class appearance and figure, has been staying.
Simon has seen aliya's physical softness no less than that of an acrobat. She is 100% soft, so he jokingly asked her if she had any plans to go to Hollywood.
In fact, there are many stars in Hollywood who have turned from fitness coaches to actors.
Steven Sieger was Michael owitz's Judo coach.
Aliya obviously has this kind of thought, but does not seem to lack further patience and ambition. Simon didn't care about it, so he let the Indian girl stay.
After taking a bath with Janet, the woman went to the kitchen to arrange dinner. Simon changed into a casual sweater and pants and sat on the sofa in the living room, watching CNN's instant news while holding a picture book.
Simon stops his brush and looks up at aliya putting a cup of coffee in front of him. He just smiles and turns his attention back to the sub shot painting in front of him.
A moment later.
Fragrance still did not disperse, ear also came a voice: "Sir, you are really good at painting."
Simon looked sideways. The Indian girl squatted beside him with her arms on the armrest of the sofa. Her eyes were full of curiosity and admiration.
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As many times in the past, the results of the 64th Academy Awards once again caused controversy in the media.
Three women were nominated for the best director Oscar at the same time. In the politically correct atmosphere of public opinion in the past few months, no one felt that this year's best director Oscar should not be awarded to one woman.
However, in the eyes of many media, the contrast between Barbara Streisand and the other two female directors nominated this time is too obvious.
You know, the media score of "years of wonder" in the Oscar eight to six is only 6.8, the other two movies, "the last flower" is 7.4, and "farewell to the piano" is as high as 9.2.
Even if the direction of the media can't represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, and even if Barbara Streisand's qualifications in Hollywood exceed those of the other two directors, it's just that "the storm of time" has won a best director, even the best film, which shows that the Oscar is too unfair.
Of course, some media experts have made an analysis from another angle.
According to these media, the three female directors' works, "the last flower" and "farewell to the piano" are all produced by danielis entertainment, which is the key to the Oscar results.
Because in the past few years.
The 61st Academy Award, best picture, rain man, danelis entertainment.
The 62nd Academy Award, best picture, driving for Miss Daisy, by Denise entertainment.
The 63rd Academy Award, best picture, dancing with wolves, danelis entertainment.
For three years in a row, danielis entertainment has won the best picture Oscar three times in a row. However, if this time, the best picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to danielis entertainment, then the Oscar will become the exclusive Oscar of danielis entertainment group.
Even though the past "Rain Man", "driving for Miss Daisy" and "dancing with the wolf" all have the excellent quality enough to win the best film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscar to become Denise's private domain.
Therefore, this time, the films produced by danelis entertainment, not counting the films released by other brands, still won 23 nominations, but only got two small golden men. This result is completely expected.
In short, Oscar is playing balance.
For this kind of balanced view of the media, the college naturally strongly denies it, and some college executives and the judges of the Olympic Prize who clearly know that "years of wonder" is run by the public relations team of gaomen film industry are mixed.
Since it's still an award operated by her own family, danielis certainly won't use public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Prize. She only adds fuel to the controversy among the three films, so as to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films.
"Farewell to the piano" and "the waves of time" were both released in December last year, but they were not released at this time.
As of last Friday, "farewell to the piano" took advantage of the attention of the award season that started at the beginning of the year to show on a small scale for more than three months, with a total box office of $36.32 million.
Compared with the production cost of $7 million, farewell to the piano, which is expected to hit the box office of $40 million before its next release, is definitely a big sell.
As of last Friday, the cumulative box office of "years of wonder" in North America was $71.51 million.
The mainstream movie directed and starred by Barbara Streisand is expected to exceed US $80 million at the box office in North America before the next film, as it has won many awards such as best picture.
"The last flower" was released on September 6 last year, and it was released in early December. The total box office in North America was $45.36 million, which was also a box office success.
After a three-month window break, Denise entertainment officially released the video of the film before the Oscars in early March.
Taking advantage of the popularity of the award season, the magazine has sold 730000 boxes in three weeks, and the total sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes in the future.
At an average videotape price of $30, the movie could sell as much as $60 million in videotapes, which is better than the box office.
With the Oscars held and the media controversy surrounding the award results, the box office and video sales figures of the three films all showed a significant increase in the new week.
In the final analysis, Oscar is not only a hall of honor for Hollywood, but also a commercial feast.
Cersei's rival, KKR, put forward a bid of $2.15 billion to its parent company, Ltd., on March 30. Simon dropped four women in Los Angeles and flew directly to New York.
The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations.
Besides the best actress in "farewell to the piano", daenerys entertainment is also Simon's first layout.
Many years later, the reason why the "Transformers" live action film once broke the box office record on the other side of the ocean was that in 1987, Hasbro company gave the "Transformers" animation to the local TV station for free, thus creating the national popularity of the image of transformers.In fact, the public relations of the marginal award of best foreign language film is not very difficult. This year, no other brilliant foreign language film has been shortlisted. The public relations team of gaomen film easily pushed the red lantern to the podium.
Hollywood is still immersed in the lingering charm of the Oscars, Simon the next day hosted a number of thank-you calls to sweep the matter to the past.
After KKR's bid, Blackstone also put forward cooperation suggestions to Apollo asset management team of cersei capital, hoping that both sides will jointly invest in bidding for Ltd.
If you don't have enough confidence in LTE or financial strength, choosing partners is a good choice.
However, this time, unlike Simmons, which has previously chosen to cooperate with other capital to acquire, cersei capital is neither lack of confidence nor lack of funds for Ltd, and does not intend to give half of its potential future earnings to Blackstone Group.
There are already two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing. Many arbitrage capital have entered the market to buy the shares of LTE, which leads to the further rapid rise of the share price of LTE.
On the day of KKR's offer, the market value of Ltd broke through $2 billion.
From US $1.3 billion two months ago to US $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the mood of the board of directors and major shareholders of Ltd quite complicated.
If, before the disclosure of the acquisition news, Ltd can have such a market value, depending on the confidence of the market, whether it is to issue additional shares or bond financing, the company can easily get through the cash dilemma which is not serious.
Now the situation is that the acquisition of LTE is almost a foregone conclusion.
Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the fall rate of the share price of Ltd will never be much slower than the rise rate. Even though the acquisition of cersei capital makes many shareholders aware of the potential of Ltd company, they are still more willing to directly choose high cash out than the sharp fall of share price.
"KKR still hasn't got rid of the haze of Reynolds nabesk's acquisition. In my personal judgment, the main reason why we bid for Ltd this time is that Henry Kravis of KKR hopes to revive KKR's morale through a successful acquisition. Maybe he also has the idea of diverting investors' attention."
In the conference room of cersei capital headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
Leon black, President of Apollo management company of cersei capital, is introducing the process of the acquisition: "because the negative impact of Reynolds nabesk is too great, the U.S. economy has not fully recovered now, and in the face of pressure from KKR's board of directors and investors, KKR will never offer unlimited prices. Therefore, 2.5 billion US dollars should be the limit of KKR. "
The acquisition of Reynolds nabesk is due to the irrational competition of all parties, and the quotation out of control led to a disaster.
Ltd's market value was only about $1.3 billion before the news of its acquisition leaked in February.
If KKR's offer exceeds US $2.6 billion, the 100% premium will undoubtedly make investors question again whether the private equity company will encounter the mistake of Reynolds nabesk acquisition.
Therefore, KKR is very likely to control the premium ceiling within 100%.
Cersei capital, with $2.5 billion, is also Simon's upper limit.
Even if they can't get the LTE, Simon won't allow the price to rise by even one dollar.
In fact, when the bidding comes to the end and the transaction price is almost the same, what we are competing for is more likely to be a specific trading scheme.
Simon thought about this and asked Leon black, "where's Blackstone?"
"I'm not sure for the time being, but Blackstone and we can't work together. They may turn to cooperate with KKR. To a large extent, both companies choose to bid because we are interested in LTE. They should not have enough confidence in the future of LTE. Of course, if KKR also refuses Blackstone's cooperation invitation, Steve Schwarzman is more likely to give up completely. He is a very cautious and conservative person. The current economic situation does not allow Blackstone to take too many risks. In addition, the fashion industry is not Blackstone's field of expertise. "
Simon, playing with a pencil in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "in this way, you try to contact some media and spread the news that KKR and Blackstone are just blindly following cersei capital, so as to make more impact as possible."
If any enterprise loses its own judgment and just follows others blindly, it will not win the trust of investors.
Leon Blake said: "there are already media comments like this. We can really add fuel to the fire. However, Simon, it may also attract other bidders. "
"You just hold on to the $2.5 billion price limit," Simon said. "Even if we fail, we still hold about 5% of the shares in Ltd. well, how much profit can we make if we sell them?"
"At least 50 million dollars."
"So, let's talk about your specific acquisition plan."
In the following more than an hour, in addition to the basic acquisition offer, they also readjusted the future payment form, management arrangement, means of relieving the cash pressure of Ltd and other acquisition matters.Simon finally agreed to retain 10% of the shares of the Wexner family, the major shareholder of Ltd, and the request of Leslie Wexner, the current chairman and CEO, to continue to hold the current position. Leslie Wexner is the founder of the Ltd group. At this time, the Wexner family still holds about 30% of the shares of the Ltd company.
In the original time and space, Ltd was controlled by Leslie Wexner until many years later. The later development of Ltd also proved the founder's ability. Cersei capital's acquisition is more of an investment. Simon has no plan to seize the control of Ltd.
The meeting ended and it was past five o'clock in the afternoon.
Simon and Janet went back to their fifth Avenue apartment together. On the way, they went to the site of the westero building.
Today is April 1st, Wednesday.
April Fool's day.
After the construction started in January, the original buildings have been demolished and the foundation is being excavated.
The workers had already left work. They just looked at the construction site and the couple left.
"After a long negotiation with the New York Metro Company, they agreed to add a subway station next to our building, but we had to pay for the renovation, which would cost about $10 million. Besides, there are many illegal workers in Eastern Europe among the workers employed by iron lion gate. James and I talked about this, and he said it's not a big problem. "
Janet and Simon talked about the building and soon went back to their apartment on Fifth Avenue.
Simon heard about illegal workers, but he didn't care too much: "there are probably no illegal workers on the construction sites in New York, because there are not enough local workers. What's more, even if something goes wrong, iron lion's Speer family can handle it. They have been in this business for nearly 100 years
Then she entered the apartment and met aliya makheji, a yoga teacher Janet had found in India.
After a few months of exercise, Janet's figure is better than before.
However, the Indian girl, who is very good at yoga and has first-class appearance and figure, has been staying.
Simon has seen aliya's physical softness no less than that of an acrobat. She is 100% soft, so he jokingly asked her if she had any plans to go to Hollywood.
In fact, there are many stars in Hollywood who have turned from fitness coaches to actors.
Steven Sieger was Michael owitz's Judo coach.
Aliya obviously has this kind of thought, but does not seem to lack further patience and ambition. Simon didn't care about it, so he let the Indian girl stay.
After taking a bath with Janet, the woman went to the kitchen to arrange dinner. Simon changed into a casual sweater and pants and sat on the sofa in the living room, watching CNN's instant news while holding a picture book.
Simon stops his brush and looks up at aliya putting a cup of coffee in front of him. He just smiles and turns his attention back to the sub shot painting in front of him.
A moment later.
Fragrance still did not disperse, ear also came a voice: "Sir, you are really good at painting."
Simon looked sideways. The Indian girl squatted beside him with her arms on the armrest of the sofa. Her eyes were full of curiosity and admiration.
As many times in the past, the results of the 64th Academy Awards once again caused controversy in the media. Three women were nominated for the best director Oscar at the same time. In the politically correct atmosphere of public opinion in the past few months, no one felt that this year's best director Oscar should not be awarded to one woman. However, in the eyes of many media, the contrast between Barbara Streisand and the other two female directors nominated this time is too obvious. You know, the media score of "years of wonder" in the Oscar eight to six is only 6.8, the other two movies, "the last flower" is 7.4, and "farewell to the piano" is as high as 9.2. Even if the direction of the media can't represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, and even if Barbara Streisand's qualifications in Hollywood exceed those of the other two directors, it's just that "the storm of time" has won a best director, even the best film, which shows that the Oscar is too unfair. Of course, some media experts have made an analysis from another angle. According to these media, the three female directors' works, "the last flower" and "farewell to the piano" are all produced by danielis entertainment, which is the key to the Oscar results. Because in the past few years. The 61st Academy Award, best picture, rain man, danelis entertainment. The 62nd Academy Award, best picture, driving for Miss Daisy, by Denise entertainment. The 63rd Academy Award, best picture, dancing with wolves, danelis entertainment. For three years in a row, danielis entertainment has won the best picture Oscar three times in a row. However, if this time, the best picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to danielis entertainment, then the Oscar will become the exclusive Oscar of danielis entertainment group. Even though the past "Rain Man", "driving for Miss Daisy" and "dancing with the wolf" all have the excellent quality enough to win the best film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscar to become Denise's private domain. Therefore, this time, the films produced by danelis entertainment, not counting the films released by other brands, still won 23 nominations, but only got two small golden men. This result is completely expected. In short, Oscar is playing balance. For this kind of balanced view of the media, the college naturally strongly denies it, and some college executives and the judges of the Olympic Prize who clearly know that "years of wonder" is run by the public relations team of gaomen film industry are mixed. Since it's still an award operated by her own family, danielis certainly won't use public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Prize. She only adds fuel to the controversy among the three films, so as to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films. "Farewell to the piano" and "the waves of time" were both released in December last year, but they were not released at this time. As of last Friday, "farewell to the piano" took advantage of the attention of the award season that started at the beginning of the year to show on a small scale for more than three months, with a total box office of $36.32 million. Compared with the production cost of $7 million, farewell to the piano, which is expected to hit the box office of $40 million before its next release, is definitely a big sell. As of last Friday, the cumulative box office of "years of wonder" in North America was $71.51 million. The mainstream movie directed and starred by Barbara Streisand is expected to exceed US $80 million at the box office in North America before the next film, as it has won many awards such as best picture. "The last flower" was released on September 6 last year, and it was released in early December. The total box office in North America was $45.36 million, which was also a box office success. After a three-month window break, Denise entertainment officially released the video of the film before the Oscars in early March. Taking advantage of the popularity of the award season, the magazine has sold 730000 boxes in three weeks, and the total sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes in the future. At an average videotape price of $30, the movie could sell as much as $60 million in videotapes, which is better than the box office. With the Oscars held and the media controversy surrounding the award results, the box office and video sales figures of the three films all showed a significant increase in the new week. In the final analysis, Oscar is not only a hall of honor for Hollywood, but also a commercial feast. Cersei's rival, KKR, put forward a bid of $2.15 billion to its parent company, Ltd., on March 30. Simon dropped four women in Los Angeles and flew directly to New York. The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations. Besides the best actress in "farewell to the piano", daenerys entertainment is also Simon's first layout. Many years later, the reason why the "Transformers" live action film once broke the box office record on the other side of the ocean was that in 1987, Hasbro company gave the "Transformers" animation to the local TV station for free, thus creating the national popularity of the image of transformers.In fact, the public relations of the marginal award of best foreign language film is not very difficult. This year, no other brilliant foreign language film has been shortlisted. The public relations team of gaomen film easily pushed the red lantern to the podium. Hollywood is still immersed in the lingering charm of the Oscars, Simon the next day hosted a number of thank-you calls to sweep the matter to the past. After KKR's bid, Blackstone also put forward cooperation suggestions to Apollo asset management team of cersei capital, hoping that both sides will jointly invest in bidding for Ltd. If you don't have enough confidence in LTE or financial strength, choosing partners is a good choice. However, this time, unlike Simmons, which has previously chosen to cooperate with other capital to acquire, cersei capital is neither lack of confidence nor lack of funds for Ltd, and does not intend to give half of its potential future earnings to Blackstone Group. There are already two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing. Many arbitrage capital have entered the market to buy the shares of LTE, which leads to the further rapid rise of the share price of LTE. On the day of KKR's offer, the market value of Ltd broke through $2 billion. From US $1.3 billion two months ago to US $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the mood of the board of directors and major shareholders of Ltd quite complicated. If, before the disclosure of the acquisition news, Ltd can have such a market value, depending on the confidence of the market, whether it is to issue additional shares or bond financing, the company can easily get through the cash dilemma which is not serious. Now the situation is that the acquisition of LTE is almost a foregone conclusion. Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the fall rate of the share price of Ltd will never be much slower than the rise rate. Even though the acquisition of cersei capital makes many shareholders aware of the potential of Ltd company, they are still more willing to directly choose high cash out than the sharp fall of share price. "KKR still hasn't got rid of the haze of Reynolds nabesk's acquisition. In my personal judgment, the main reason why we bid for Ltd this time is that Henry Kravis of KKR hopes to revive KKR's morale through a successful acquisition. Maybe he also has the idea of diverting investors' attention." In the conference room of cersei capital headquarters in midtown Manhattan. Leon black, President of Apollo management company of cersei capital, is introducing the process of the acquisition: "because the negative impact of Reynolds nabesk is too great, the U.S. economy has not fully recovered now, and in the face of pressure from KKR's board of directors and investors, KKR will never offer unlimited prices. Therefore, 2.5 billion US dollars should be the limit of KKR. " The acquisition of Reynolds nabesk is due to the irrational competition of all parties, and the quotation out of control led to a disaster. Ltd's market value was only about $1.3 billion before the news of its acquisition leaked in February. If KKR's offer exceeds US $2.6 billion, the 100% premium will undoubtedly make investors question again whether the private equity company will encounter the mistake of Reynolds nabesk acquisition. Therefore, KKR is very likely to control the premium ceiling within 100%. Cersei capital, with $2.5 billion, is also Simon's upper limit. Even if they can't get the LTE, Simon won't allow the price to rise by even one dollar. In fact, when the bidding comes to the end and the transaction price is almost the same, what we are competing for is more likely to be a specific trading scheme. Simon thought about this and asked Leon black, "where's Blackstone?" "I'm not sure for the time being, but Blackstone and we can't work together. They may turn to cooperate with KKR. To a large extent, both companies choose to bid because we are interested in LTE. They should not have enough confidence in the future of LTE. Of course, if KKR also refuses Blackstone's cooperation invitation, Steve Schwarzman is more likely to give up completely. He is a very cautious and conservative person. The current economic situation does not allow Blackstone to take too many risks. In addition, the fashion industry is not Blackstone's field of expertise. " Simon, playing with a pencil in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "in this way, you try to contact some media and spread the news that KKR and Blackstone are just blindly following cersei capital, so as to make more impact as possible." If any enterprise loses its own judgment and just follows others blindly, it will not win the trust of investors. Leon Blake said: "there are already media comments like this. We can really add fuel to the fire. However, Simon, it may also attract other bidders. " "You just hold on to the $2.5 billion price limit," Simon said. "Even if we fail, we still hold about 5% of the shares in Ltd. well, how much profit can we make if we sell them?" "At least 50 million dollars." "So, let's talk about your specific acquisition plan." In the following more than an hour, in addition to the basic acquisition offer, they also readjusted the future payment form, management arrangement, means of relieving the cash pressure of Ltd and other acquisition matters.Simon finally agreed to retain 10% of the shares of the Wexner family, the major shareholder of Ltd, and the request of Leslie Wexner, the current chairman and CEO, to continue to hold the current position. Leslie Wexner is the founder of the Ltd group. At this time, the Wexner family still holds about 30% of the shares of the Ltd company. In the original time and space, Ltd was controlled by Leslie Wexner until many years later. The later development of Ltd also proved the founder's ability. Cersei capital's acquisition is more of an investment. Simon has no plan to seize the control of Ltd. The meeting ended and it was past five o'clock in the afternoon. Simon and Janet went back to their fifth Avenue apartment together. On the way, they went to the site of the westero building. Today is April 1st, Wednesday. April Fool's day. After the construction started in January, the original buildings have been demolished and the foundation is being excavated. The workers had already left work. They just looked at the construction site and the couple left. "After a long negotiation with the New York Metro Company, they agreed to add a subway station next to our building, but we had to pay for the renovation, which would cost about $10 million. Besides, there are many illegal workers in Eastern Europe among the workers employed by iron lion gate. James and I talked about this, and he said it's not a big problem. " Janet and Simon talked about the building and soon went back to their apartment on Fifth Avenue. Simon heard about illegal workers, but he didn't care too much: "there are probably no illegal workers on the construction sites in New York, because there are not enough local workers. What's more, even if something goes wrong, iron lion's Speer family can handle it. They have been in this business for nearly 100 years Then she entered the apartment and met aliya makheji, a yoga teacher Janet had found in India. After a few months of exercise, Janet's figure is better than before. However, the Indian girl, who is very good at yoga and has first-class appearance and figure, has been staying. Simon has seen aliya's physical softness no less than that of an acrobat. She is 100% soft, so he jokingly asked her if she had any plans to go to Hollywood. In fact, there are many stars in Hollywood who have turned from fitness coaches to actors. Steven Sieger was Michael owitz's Judo coach. Aliya obviously has this kind of thought, but does not seem to lack further patience and ambition. Simon didn't care about it, so he let the Indian girl stay. After taking a bath with Janet, the woman went to the kitchen to arrange dinner. Simon changed into a casual sweater and pants and sat on the sofa in the living room, watching CNN's instant news while holding a picture book. Simon stops his brush and looks up at aliya putting a cup of coffee in front of him. He just smiles and turns his attention back to the sub shot painting in front of him. A moment later. Fragrance still did not disperse, ear also came a voice: "Sir, you are really good at painting." Simon looked sideways. The Indian girl squatted beside him with her arms on the armrest of the sofa. Her eyes were full of curiosity and admiration.
