Chapter 386 Stock market gains and the underrated "Jaws" (7K chapters, please subscribe~)

   New York, 5 Beekman Street, Beekman Hotel!

  This is a landmark building in Manhattan, only 500 meters away from the World Trade Center and the Brooklyn Bridge!

  Gould likes this place very much, and will choose to live here every time he comes to Manhattan.

  The interior of the Beekman Hotel is a huge nine-story atrium with a pyramid-shaped skylight on the top. There is a hotel lobby, lounge, and bar on the first floor!

Gould was sitting in the lounge, holding the freshly released "Wall Street Journal" this morning. In a place in the supplement, there was a message on it. This message was not many words, but it made Gould feel sad. Chill!

  Yesterday, Gould learned from Brown that someone was buying a large amount of his company's stock, which made Gould fly to New York early this morning to meet Brown.

  He came here this time to see who wants his company, and what does the other party mean?

There is no need to ask now, because there is an answer in the newspaper. A company called Beihai Investment has fallen in love with its own company and proposed to buy the current stock of Sears Department Store at a price of 1.8 US dollars per share. At the same time, in the announcement Beihai Investment also proposed that they already owned 22.5 million shares of Sears Department Store at this time, accounting for 15% of the issued shares of Sears Department Store.

  The goal of Beihai Investment is to acquire 52.5 million shares of Sears Department Store, accounting for 35% of the issued shares of Sears Department Store.

  With this announcement, it has already been explained that the other party wants to hostilely acquire the control of Sears Department Store.

   "Where did this Beihai investment come from?"

  Gould's hand clutching the newspaper showed blue veins, and his thick hair was clearly visible.

  Brown said helplessly: "Now I only know that the other party is an investment company registered overseas, and it has never appeared on Wall Street before!"

  Gould was not just laughing, but was still angry. He said in a cold voice, "That means the first company they acquired in North America was my Sears department store?"

  Brown nodded helplessly again.

   Not knowing whether to be happy or angry, Gould continued to ask: "Which securities company is helping them acquire my company's stock? You should know this, right?"

  Brown replied: "It has been investigated clearly, it is American Express!"

   Gould asked: "Can you find them?"

   Browne said: "It should be possible, but it will take time!"

   Gould preached: "Then go find it!"

  Brown looked at his watch and said, "It's less than ten minutes before the market opens!"

   Gould said: "Go to your securities firm, no matter what, I will never hand over the company to outsiders!"

   Browne nodded.

   The two got up, walked out of the Beekman Hotel, and arrived at Brown's securities company in a short while, and then Gould saw on the blackboard that his company's stock price opened at $1.8!

   And the trading volume of his own company's stock has become the stock with the largest trading volume during this time period.

  Brown's colleague Pesky is already competing for Gould and Beihai Investment for the odd shares of Sears Department Store in the stock market.

   "The other party has raised the price!"

   An hour later, Pesky reminded Gould aloud at this time, saying: "The other party raised the price of each share to $1.9 per share!"

   "Keep up!" Gould's forehead had blue veins!

   In addition, he is still looking at the gate far away from time to time. Brown has already gone to investigate the situation of Beihai Investment, and now he can only wait for the other party to come back!

  Time passed by every minute and every second, and Gould was deaf to the noisy voices around him. He is now closely watching the trading situation of his company's stock in black and white.

  10,000 shares!

  30,000 shares!

  10,000 shares!

   Fortunately, as of now, there has not been a large transaction like yesterday, which makes Gould seem calmer.

  As long as the purchase price of the two parties is the same, and the shares he holds in Sears Department Store are twice as much as that of the other party, as long as this rhythm is maintained, he can guarantee exclusive control of the company.

   "There are market rumors that American Express has contacted Goldman Sachs and is negotiating with the other party to acquire Sears' stock from Goldman Sachs!"

  Persky shouted immediately after answering a call.

Gould's face suddenly changed. When Sears Department Store was listed, it was Gao Sheng's IPO. At this time, Goldman Sachs still had a lot of shares in the company. The gap between them will definitely be reduced a lot immediately.

   "Look, they raised the purchase price again, it's already $2 per share!"

  As a stock analyst on Wall Street, the most basic ability is to see all directions and listen to all directions.

  Gould's body was swaying slightly. With the opponent's situation unknown, if he continued like this, would he still be able to keep the company?

   Just when Gould doubted himself, Browne finally came back!

   "I have found Linda, the manager of the American Express Securities Department, and the other party is willing to negotiate with us!" After meeting Gould, Browne directly pointed out the key to the problem!

  Hearing what Braun said, Gould hardly stopped and said, "Take me there!"

   After walking out of the securities firm, a gust of cool wind blew in, clearing Gould's Lingtai. He looked at Brown next to him and asked, "The other party is willing to see me at this time?"

   Now is the time when the two sides are fighting fiercely, and the other party is willing to see me?

  There are only two possibilities. The first one is to keep the tiger away from the mountain and continue to buy shares of Sears Department Store while he is away. The second possibility is that the other party didn’t really want to buy his company from the beginning!

  Brown obviously thought about it, and said apologetically: "My analysis before may be wrong. The other party doesn't really want to acquire your company, but wants to buy your company."

   "Snipe!" Gould spit out a word.

  Brown nodded silently.

  Gould's head is so big, how could his Sears department store be targeted by these robbers?

Stock market sniping, no matter what kind of operation it was before, in fact, there are only two results in the end, either you lose your money and avoid disasters, and the other party gets the benefits you want, or the company changes hands, and the other party conducts a drastic split for sale. Get the benefits you want.

   It was in this mood that Gould came to the place where the other party met, and then Gould's expression became more complicated.

  Because he just left the Beekman Hotel here this morning!

   It is still in the lounge just now.

   Gould saw a white male in his thirties sitting opposite him.

   "Make an offer!"

   At this time, Gould was thinking heavily, but he was helpless. The other party appeared so suddenly, it made him feel like a dream until now.

   Calculating with the mind but not the mind, this has given Gould a disadvantage.

The most important thing is that I can't even let the other party become the second largest shareholder of the company, because Gould understands that because of his self-willed expansion plan in the past few years, some people on the company's board of directors have already caused dissatisfaction. Such an expansion plan is a bit too aggressive.

   But this kind of voice could be suppressed by itself before, but now?

  If the other party contradicts himself on this point, Gould does not doubt this at all. These people who play stock market sniping are actually a group of merciless predators. They only want profits!

If they can't buy the stocks in their hands, they will definitely use their behavior without any moral bottom line to lure the company's directors, and they may even obtain the shares of most shareholders with less than their own shareholding ratio. Support, still drive yourself down from the position of company manager!

  Gould is no stranger to such a situation, because many of his friends have experienced it.

  Henry Clivey was a little excited in his heart. He didn't expect that Chu Huan would entrust such an important matter of negotiation to himself, but after the excitement passed, he calmed down.

  He has been on Wall Street for so many years, if he didn’t even have this bit of determination, he wouldn’t be the CEO of KKR later!

   "If Mr. Gould is willing, we are willing to sell all 25.86 million shares of Sears Department Store in our hands to Mr. Gould at the current price!"

  After a morning of acquisitions, Henry Clivey has another 5 million shares of Sears Department Store in his hands.

  The lion opened his mouth wide!

  Gould was taken aback when he heard Henry Clivey’s quotation, even though he was prepared in his heart, and then he preached.

   "This is impossible. The real stock price of Sears Department Store is not so high at all. If this is the case, then we can only split up and see the truth in the stock market!"

   Facing Gould's refusal, Henry Clivey didn't change his mood at all, he just said calmly: "Mr. Gould, I always like to do business directly.

  I think Mr. Gould will not be so eager to reject us after you know the bargaining chip we hold! "

   Gould's chest was heaving violently. He could hear that the other party was threatening him, but his obsession with Sears Department Store could not make him leave the meeting angrily, he just gave a dull sermon.

"you say!"

Henry Clivey smiled and said: "Our Beihai Investment now holds 25.86 million shares of your company, accounting for 17.24% of the shares issued by Sears Department Store. At the same time, we have signed a loan contract with Express Bank. A $30 million loan is readily available for our company, plus we have $14 million in cash on hand.

  In addition, Goldman Sachs is very satisfied with the offer made by our company.

  Finally, we have also contacted Glens Department Store. The other party is very interested in your company's stock in our hands. As long as we are willing to sell, the other party can take over at any time! "

   There is air conditioning in the lounge, but Gould is already sweating profusely.

  Glens Department Store has always been the most important competitor of Sears Department Store. If the other party becomes the second largest shareholder of Sears Department Store, then you will be finished!

   Unless you want to give up control of Sears.

   I have to say that Chu Huan and Jerry Kohlberg have studied Sears Department Store and Gould very thoroughly. The other party can give up anything, but they cannot give up Sears Department Store!

In fact, the most difficult part of this sniper battle is not the process of fighting Gould in the stock market. The most difficult thing is to investigate the situation of Sears Department Store and Gould. Only in this way can we contact Goldman Sachs according to their situation. Glens Department Store!

  Goldman Sachs and Glens Department Store acted as Chu Huan's wingmen in this sniper battle.

   But they don't do any good.

   At a price of US$2 per share, no matter who asks Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs will be willing to sell, and the same is true for Glens Department Store. If they can acquire their biggest rival, they cannot remain indifferent to such a temptation.

  Of course, if the transaction does not succeed in the end, both parties will definitely feel that they have been swindled.

  But Chu Huan doesn't care about these at all!

  The atmosphere at the scene was a bit condensed, which also made Gould feel helpless, because the attitude of the man in front of him was already obvious, and the other party was determined to eat him!

   Whether they want it or not, they have nothing to lose!

  But my side is different!

  After figuring this out, Gould tried his best to preach: "I need time to raise this money!"

   "We are aware of Mr. Gould's situation. I think two days should be enough!" Henry Clive said calmly.

"no problem!"

  After the two parties signed the agreement privately, the trader at Amex stopped the acquisition of Sears Department Store, and at the same time announced that it would stop the acquisition of Sears Department Store.

   This acquisition, in the eyes of those leeks, is like a farce.

  But among these elites on Wall Street, some people smell something different.

   This is the most classic stock market attack today!

   After signing the contract with Beihai Investment, the first thing Gould did was to fire Brown!

  Two days later, the account of Beihai Investment increased by 16 million, and now it is 70 million US dollars in cash!

  Chu Huan learned about Henry and George's record from Jerry Kohlberg, and said with a smile, "We can go to another company."

  Jerry Kohlberg suggested to Chu Huan: "Because of the Sears department store incident, someone on Wall Street will definitely pay attention to this matter. Next, our timeline may be extended!"

  Chu Huan must be aware of this point. Although it is not enough to startle the enemy, some listed companies must have begun to take precautions.

  So it is certain to extend the planning time!

"Can!"

   Just when Henry Clivey and George Roberts started to work on the second company Chu Huan had chosen, the promotion of "Jaws" was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

  With the injection of funds from Vertex Pictures, the publicity level of "Jaws" has obviously increased a lot.

   "A Huan, how did I hear that several major film studios in Hollywood are waiting to see the jokes of your friend's company?"

  Chu Huan came to Li Xiaolong's home in Hollywood today as a guest. At the dinner table, Li Xiaolong chatted about the hottest things in Hollywood right now.

  Promotion of "Jaws".

  Li Xiaolong knew about the relationship between Chu Huan and Kelly, and Li Xiaolong was now in Hollywood, and he and Kelly had met at several receptions, so they were quite familiar.

  Chu Huan preached indifferently: "What did they say?"

Li Xiaolong said: "According to the forecast of Universal Pictures, the box office of this film is only about 30 million to 50 million US dollars. Originally, the investment of this film was only 7 million US dollars. In terms of publicity expenses, the cost of the entire movie has reached 20 million US dollars."

  Hollywood movie box office share is a very complicated matter, even down to the different proportions of the box office share every week. For example, the box office share in the first two weeks of the movie is higher than the box office share in the third week, and so on!

   But in general, production companies can get between 40% and 55% of the domestic box office in North America.

   Of course, this is a normal situation. A strong film studio and a sequel to a blockbuster movie can allow the film production company to increase its box office share when negotiating with theaters.

  The most classic of these is that in the next century, when Disney produced "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", it negotiated with the theaters for a 70% box office share!

   "Jaws" is not a sequel to a blockbuster movie, and Vertex Pictures is not one of the top seven Hollywood studios, but because they handed over the movie to Universal Pictures for distribution, they finally negotiated with the theaters for a 50% share of the box office.

  Universal Pictures, as the distribution company of this film, was originally able to take 55% of the 50% box office share according to the contract finalized by the two parties.

   That is to say, if the box office of the movie "Jaws" in North America is 50 million US dollars, Universal Pictures can take away 13.75 million US dollars, which means they earned 2.75 million US dollars!

   But Vertex Pictures was only able to take away 11.25 million US dollars, earning 4.25 million US dollars!

   And that's after Jaws was the movie's top-grossing prediction!

   This is why Universal's Lou Warzerman finally chose to lower the promotional level of the film.

   But with Kelly re-signing the distribution contract with Universal, Vertex Pictures will bear 50% of the distribution promotion costs, which is 6.5 million US dollars.

   And the box office share of Universal Pictures has also dropped to 28%, which is no longer 55% of the previous 50% of the total box office!

  If the movie "Jaws" can still reach the box office of $260 million in North America in another time and space, then Vertex Pictures will get a share of the box office of $93.6 million.

   Netted $73.1 million!

   Chu Huan and Tsutsumi Yoshiaki agreed to invest 100 million US dollars in the Japanese real estate market, which is more than 20 million!

  However, Hollywood’s film income has never been just box office income, peripherals, TV copyright, and the videotape income that Chu Huan has obtained in advance.

  The most important thing is that the movie "Jaws" is a blockbuster series, and there will definitely be a sequel!

   As for whether to sell the copyright of the sequel at that time, or keep Vertex Pictures to develop it by itself, that is a matter for the future!

   "It's nothing more than pride that makes them habitually keep aloof!"

   After Chu Huan took a sip of the red wine in his glass, he preached indifferently.

  Li Xiaolong thought about it for a while. These studios in Hollywood are indeed doing this habitually. If it wasn’t for the success of his films, Hollywood would definitely criticize their own films now.

  Later, Chu Huan originally wanted to tell Li Xiaolong about Lin Zhengying. Xiangjiang's movie can be without a charterer, but it can't be without Uncle Jiu.

  Lin Zhengying is with Li Xiaolong, even if he is at the top of Hollywood, he is only at the level of Chang Wei. Instead, he might as well follow him back to Xiangjiang to film "Mr. Zombie", which should belong to him.

   But after thinking about it, this movie won’t come out until at least the 1980s. It doesn’t make sense to let people follow me back to Xiangjiang now. Who doesn’t have a Hollywood dream!

  So after thinking about it, I gave up.

  After having dinner at Li Xiaolong's home, Chu Huan returned to the apartment.

In the next few days, Chu Huan was basically an apartment, running around the hotel, listening to Kelly talk about the "Jaws" promotional activities, and at the same time talking to Henry Clivey and George Roberts in New York with Jerry Kohlberg. A sniper attack on the second company.

  As the publicity of "Jaws" is getting better, there are naturally more and more reports about this movie on the market.

   But just because there are too many reports, it doesn’t mean all the reports are good.

"A film with an investment of only 7 million US dollars, but chose to use A-level publicity specifications, such a situation is very rare in Hollywood, most of the cases are from the top seven, but now the movie "Jaws" comes from a The newly established film company - Vertex Films!

  In Hollywood, there is not a lot of information about this film company. I just know that they were founded last year and have two film projects under their name.

  The first film project is the upcoming "Jaws", and the second project is "Star Wars" produced by Lucasfilm.

Nowadays, some professionals in Hollywood are not very optimistic about the future box office potential of the movie "Jaws" after watching the sample of the movie. The promotional rating of the movie was downgraded from A to B.

The "Star Wars" project was bought from Twentieth Century Fox by Apex Pictures and a film company of Xiangjiang. mr. hifield didn't like the movie very much

  A newcomer film company, entering Hollywood for the first time, has the idea of ​​proving itself, which is understandable, but pins the development prospects of the company on two projects that are not optimistic, which is a bit unbelievable.

   Is Vertex Films ignorant of the operating rules of Hollywood, or does it believe in the box office of these two films?

   It seems that all of this will have to wait until the movie "Jaws" is released! '

   "It seems that "Hollywood Report" is not very optimistic about you!"

  Chu Huan looked at the contents of the "Hollywood Report" in his hand, and preached to Kelly.

  Kelly has become somewhat immune to reports of the bad box office of "Jaws" during this time, and said indifferently: "It's useless to explain anything now, let's wait until the movie is released!"

"That's right, the box office of a movie is the only rule of survival in Hollywood!" George Lucas also had a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter", but when he said this, George Lucas had already thrown the newspaper in his hand aside .

   Today Chu Huan and Kelly came to Lucasfilm to check the progress of "Star Wars".

  Uh, the filming has not officially started yet.

  Chu Huan laughed and teased George Lucas: "George, don't you want to finish your movie earlier, so that you can face those who look down on us?"

Originally, Chu Huan had discussed with George Lucas about launching a "Star Wars" fan comic, but now a year has passed, and George Lucas' "Star Wars" has not officially started filming. Of course, the matter of "Manga" will also be postponed!

  If everything goes according to George Lucas’s filming progress, next year’s Star Wars fan comics will be released in time!

   After all, the movie "Star Wars" needs to be released in 1977!

  George Lucas said with a smile: "I'm not that stupid. If the movie is completed in a hurry, it will be easier for these people to laugh at it. It's better to wait longer and release a movie that can shock everyone!"

   Having said that, George Lucas expressed his gratitude to Chu Huan and Kelly.

   "Chu, Ms. Kelly, I am very grateful to you two for your trust in me. If it is another film company, it must have sent countless people to urge me to complete the filming of this film as soon as possible!"

  Chu Huan and Kelly looked at each other and smiled. Are they in a hurry?

  In fact, I was anxious before this. Originally, according to Chu Huan's plan, even if the movie was released later, it would still need to borrow the distribution channel of 20th Century Fox.

  But now with the lessons of the movie "Jaws", Chu Huan is determined to let Vertex Pictures establish its own distribution channel.

  Chu Huan believes that after Kyushu has completed the construction of sales channels, the huge funds provided can easily allow Vertex Pictures to establish its own distribution channels.

   "Because we both believe in George's ability and talent, and we also believe that this movie, which has been devoted to you, will definitely be a success!"

  Chu Huan encouraged with a smile.

   "The same is true for us at Vertex Films!" Kelly echoed.

  George Lucas was a little excited. A film company that supported him made him feel extremely envious!

   Then Chu Huan and Kelly visited for a while and then left.

   On the way to leave Lucasfilm, Chu Huan saw the video of a family of brothers on the side of the road, stopped the car, and got out of the car with Kelly.

   "It's fine tonight, go back and watch two movies!" Chu Huan said to Kelly with a smile.

  Kelly held Chu Huan's arm and said with a smile, "Okay!"

  Brothers audio-visual insiders come and go, some choose video tapes, some choose Kyushu video recorders, and some choose cameras.

  Chu Huan glanced at Kelly. Originally, he wanted to choose a camera to go back to add to the fun, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. This thing is actually about whoever has a higher status is more likely to be affected.

  Finally, two movies were selected, and the two returned to the car and went straight to the apartment.

  The time soon came to May 20th, the day when "Jaws" will hold its premiere.

   But at this time, Jerry Kohlberg handed Chu Huan a copy of The Wall Street Journal.

  ‘A mysterious stock market sniper reappears in the North American stock market—who is Beihai Investment in the end! '

   There are still two chapters today, and the family affairs should be over today and tomorrow, when the time comes, I will resume updating and make up the chapters that I owe~~~

  

  

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