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"Yes, Robert, that's why I invited you today, isn't it?" Since the other party spoke first, Eric also readily picked up the topic.
Robert Shea smiled dryly, hiding the embarrassment in his expression. In this secret confrontation, he had already decided to admit defeat, but he had to go around again. When Eric said this, he once again felt a sense of disappointment. The illusion of downwind.
After taking a sip of bitter coffee to stabilize his mood, Robert said: "Okay, Eric, I'm actually quite interested in our cooperation. Can you tell me about your conditions first?"
"You know, Robert, what I value is the distribution channel of New Line, so I plan to acquire New Line wholly-owned. The initial asking price is 150 million US dollars. I can also give you the position of CEO of Firefly after the integration is completed, you are only fifty years old, you don’t want to retire, right?”
"I've been a boss for more than 20 years, and suddenly I became a wage earner. Even a CEO is not very attractive," Robert Shea spread his hands with a smile [8,, and continued: "Maybe the two of us It can be merged, just like MGM-United Artists, New Line has distribution channels, and Firefly has excellent movie content. If we merge, perhaps another movie called Firefly-New Line will appear in Hollywood in the next few years Big man, what do you say?"
"Then how do you think the equity should be distributed after the merger?" Eric smiled in his heart when he heard Robert Shea's words. Firefly-New Line is quite interesting, but a firefly is a firefly, and he doesn't intend to drag one behind Xiaowei, the label of Xinxian will definitely be retained, but it can only be used as a subsidiary of Firefly.
Hearing this question, Robert Shea glanced at Eric, picked up his coffee cup and meditated again. In fact, he had already started thinking about this question when he received Eric’s dinner invitation, because Firefly had only been established for more than half a year. , the distribution capacity is zero, and the accumulated film library is also negligible. It was not worth a few dollars, but the reality is that the profitability of Firefly is really terrible.
Even if "Home Alone" is not a Firefly work, it can be excluded from it, but "Pretty Woman" has earned more than 100 million US dollars in profits. If it is also 200 million, Firefly can get at least another 80 million US dollars in the box office. What's more, Robert Shea also learned that Eric will cooperate with Fox in two films next, and also produced Among the three movies, "Home Alone 2" is a must-win, "Sleepless in Seattle" is directed by Eric himself, and Tom Hanks joined, and it is certain that you can't lose money. The other three movies are said to be no more than one year. A medium-to-low-cost investment of tens of millions of dollars, with Eric's reputation, will definitely make a small profit. Then all these statistics, if Firefly simply calculates the box office profit this year, it may be worth at least two movie giants The sum of the box office profits reached a staggering $400 million or so.
And the market value of a company is about ten times the company's annual profit. For example, if the year is good for the Big Six, the annual profit is about 200 million U.S. dollars, and its market value is generally 2 billion U.S. dollars. As for Columbia's current soaring market value is completely inflated. Before the news of Sony's acquisition was revealed, Columbia's market value was also 2 billion. As for New Line, among the six films produced and distributed last year, only one "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4" achieved a profit of more than 10 million U.S. dollars, and the other several films combined only made a few million profits, plus video tapes and other peripherals. In terms of share, the profit of New Line last year was about 30 million US dollars, that is to say, based on this calculation, the market value of New Line is around 300 million US dollars.
Of course, such a calculation method only gives laymen a rough impression.
In fact, the market value of a company must not be calculated in this way. Last year, New Line achieved a profit of 30 million US dollars. Both the second and third films had a box office of just over 20 million yuan. After the cost was divided, the two films basically didn't make much money. Therefore, according to the information obtained by Eric, the formal financial audit company only valued New Line at 150 million U.S. dollars, and New Line’s film library, serial film copyrights, distribution channels and other assets were also counted. It was a very unstable year. Profit is only a small reference.
But Firefly is very troublesome to calculate. Eric only spent less than 10 million US dollars on renting office space and purchasing equipment, plus the copyright of "Home Alone", "Feng Yue" and "Dark War" " and a few other movie rights, you can say it's worth $100 million, you can say it's worth $1 billion.
Therefore, when Eric asked how many shares of the merged company Robert planned to get, although he had been thinking about it for several days, Robert still couldn't answer for a while.
After thinking for a full five minutes, Robert took the coffee cup with his left hand and brought it to his mouth. At the same time, he raised his right hand on the table, and stretched out three fingers obviously with some unconfidence.
"Three percent?" Eric leaned forward slightly and asked curiously.
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Robert Shea couldn't hold back his coffee and sprayed it out. Fortunately, he turned in time so that it didn't spray all over the table and Eric on the opposite side. However, because of the direction of turning his head, some water droplets splashed on the back of Aniston's dress. on the chest.
The little girl who was originally absent-minded didn't expect this to happen at all, and she didn't even have time to dodge, until she felt her chest was slightly wet, she exclaimed and grabbed the napkin to wipe the water stains on her chest, and at the same time glared dissatisfiedly Ke, she didn't know exactly what happened, all she knew was that Eric said 'three percent' or something, and her dress fell apart.
The service of the restaurant is still very good. Seeing the situation here, a waiter quickly delivered tissues and helped clean up the table and the floor at the same time.
A lot of the waiters packed everything up and quietly retreated not far away.
"I'm so sorry," Robert Shea wiped his mouth and clothes on his chest with a napkin, apologized to Aniston, and then turned to Eric with strong dissatisfaction in his expression: "Eric, did I work hard Is a company that has been around for twenty years worth only three percent to you? If that's the case, what else do we have to talk about?"
"Okay, I see, you mean... 30%?" Eric confirmed again.
Robert Shea nodded: "In these years of operation, I have accumulated some net worth, so I am not inclined to buy in cash. I hope that the two companies can be merged, and I want to take 30% of the shares. It’s my bottom line." (My novel "I Am Hollywood" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" on the top right Account "add friend", search the official account "qdread" and pay attention, hurry up!)