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Eric simply ignored Gwyneth Paltrow's question, looked down at the document in his hand, and asked, "Didn't you say last night that there is an audition today?"
Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't embarrassed at all, she leaned on the table and raised her chin to look at Eric, and said, "Suddenly I feel that the script is really terrible, so I don't mind going, Eric, I heard you The preparation of "The Matrix" has already started, I have read that novel many times, do you think there is a suitable role for me?"
This woman really feels good about herself.
Eric smiled and said, "How about the heroine?"
Gwyneth Paltrow's eyes lit up instantly: "Really?"
Eric shook his head without hesitation: "Fake."
Gwyneth Paltrow didn't seem to be angry at all, and raised her hand to pat Eric on the shoulder: "Eric, you are so bad."
There is still a lot of work to do in his hands. Eric doesn't have much time to coax a woman, let alone a woman who doesn't feel anything. Just about to lose patience and drive her away, Xiao Nizi's voice came from behind: " Kate, I didn't expect you to wake up earlier than me."
"Hi, Drew, good morning," Gwyneth Paltrow greeted the little girl.
Eric felt the girl pounce on his back, turned his head and kissed the girl's protruding cheek, and winked indistinctly.
The girl smiled, let go of Eric, and stretched out her hand to pull Gwyneth Paltrow who was beside Eric: "Kate, let's go to breakfast, Natasha is ready gone."
Although Gwyneth Paltrow didn't want to leave, she didn't dare to refuse Drew's invitation, so she could only reluctantly get up and walk away.
When the surrounding quieted down, Eric turned his attention to the documents in his hand again.
This is a directional bond financing contract, and it is also the result of recent lobbying by Chris and Owen Jacobs.
The content of the contract is that Firefly Investment will provide Verizon Telecom with US$300 million in directional bond financing to purchase CDMA base station equipment and mobile communication network solutions from Qualcomm. The bond period is five years. 3% annual interest rate.
After paying huge authorization fees for mobile spectrum licenses, except for AT-T, which is not short of money, other telecom operators, without exception, are facing a shortage of funds in the process of upgrading their communication networks to digitalization. Firefly already owns 40% of Qualcomm shares. As the largest shareholder far exceeding the shares held by other shareholders, it almost already has absolute control over Qualcomm.
The financing contract in hand is actually equivalent to Verizon's bargaining chip to Firefly in order to switch to the CDMA technology camp.
Although Verizon has already shouldered a huge debt of nearly 9 billion US dollars, it still rejected Firefly's shareholding plan without hesitation. This decision is not difficult to understand. For a company with very promising development prospects, the cost of equity financing is much higher than that of bond financing. Just like Firefly Group, if Firefly Group lacks money, Eric will also choose to issue bonds instead of introducing other shareholders to share Firefly’s future dividends. As long as Verizon survives the difficult period of the past few years, after the completion of the mobile communication network, the operating conditions will soon improve, and the huge debt will be slowly digested.
However, this contract also carries some hints of taking advantage of the fire. Because Verizon has already incurred huge debts, Verizon will open its financing again. The annual interest rate must be at least 6% to ensure the success of the financing. However, the annual interest rate of this directional bond financing is only 3%. If you agree to this contract, only the interest , Firefly loses 10 million U.S. dollars every year, not to mention the principal of 300 million U.S. dollars. If it is invested in other places, it is not impossible to double it in five years.
Eric didn't know how the original space-time CDMA technology broke through the siege. But at this time, he couldn't refuse the contract. Chris had just communicated with him on the phone, as long as this contract is signed, Verizon, the second largest telecom operator in North America, will be pulled into the CDMA camp. It is almost equivalent to bringing Qualcomm back to life. As long as the news is announced, Qualcomm's stock price can rise by at least 100%. Eric didn't care much about the surge in Qualcomm's stock price, because Firefly would never sell off his Qualcomm stock easily, and what he valued most was the rapid promotion of CDMA.
Thinking about this, Eric remembered another thing Chris said on the phone, although the shareholding plan was rejected by Verizon. But Sprint's attitude is not so firm.
Although Sprint achieved huge profits last year, its overly aggressive layout in the mobile communications business has aroused widespread concern among investors. Most industry analysts believe that if Sprint builds a nationwide mobile network on a large scale according to the established plan Communication network, the huge initial investment will make it impossible for the company to generate any profit in the next three to five years. Even, if the bet fails, the mobile communication industry has not reached the expected industrial scale, and Sprint is likely to lose due to the current situation. The aggressive expansion strategy fell into bankruptcy. These factors have led to a significant reduction in the success rate of Sprint's debt financing. No investors are willing to buy corporate bonds that may go bankrupt in the next few years, and Sprint can only choose to issue shares to raise funds.
At a reception in New York, Chris had contact with a director of Sprint, who revealed to him that Sprint could issue 10% of the total share capital to Firefly, but the asking price was $1.6 billion, which is higher than Sprint's current Shares are up 60%. Of course, this price cannot be the final transaction price, but Firefly must pay a certain percentage of premium if it wants to reach this deal. Eric is even more willing to absorb Sprint's shares from the open market, but compared to Qualcomm's total share capital of 30 million shares after additional issuance, Sprint's total share capital has reached an astonishing 3.6 billion shares, which is 120 times that of Qualcomm. Most of the investors are foundations that will not sell their stocks easily for investment purposes. It is difficult to imagine the difficulty of becoming a major shareholder through the absorption of the circulation market.
Thinking to himself, Eric wrote down a series of figures on the notebook next to him. For Verizon's $300 million debt financing, the acquisition of Sprint stock should require at least a 30% premium, $1.3 billion. The plan to increase Cisco's holdings that has been brewing during this period requires a larger fund of 2 billion U.S. dollars, just these. Added up to 3.6 billion US dollars.
In addition, Yahoo CEO Ian Grenier also discussed with Eric some of Yahoo's management's views on the company's future development plans through phone calls and emails recently. If they follow their ideas, the next few years. Yahoo will also be a cash burner.
Even if Firefly Group maintains an annual profit of US$2 billion in the next few years, based on Eric's 73.7% stake in the company, he can only receive US$1.5 billion in annual dividends. Although there are a few other side money, but not enough to support these plans.
After thinking about it for a while, Eric could only make up his mind to take one step at a time. If that doesn't work, reduce the size of some of the plans.
"Eric, what are you thinking?" Xiao Nizi reappeared next to Eric at some point, still following Gwyneth Paltrow.
"It's nothing, some messy things," Eric replied vaguely. With outsiders around, he wouldn't be as casual as he usually gets along with, in case something is revealed. It is likely to cause unnecessary trouble.
Xiao Nizi didn't mind, she took the freshly brewed coffee from Natasha who followed and poured it for Eric, and said, "Eric, I'm going to the company, will you leave today?"
Eric shook his head and said, "No, I'll wait for you to come back."
"Then I'll leave Natasha for you, just let her do whatever you want."
Eric said with a smile: "I don't want it anymore, you take them all away, it always feels a little strange to take them apart."
"Okay. There are maids' phones under the coffee table in the living room. They live in the nearby Lengshui Canyon. You can call them if you have anything to do," Xiao Nizi said again. Turning around to leave, seeing Gwyneth Paltrow, who had no intention of moving, said, "Kate, come with me, and take you to my company."
Realizing that there was an opportunity to be alone with Eric, how could Gwyneth Paltrow leave so easily. Said: "Drew, you go first, I just leave later by myself, I plan to go to Burbank, we have different paths."
"Oh, that's fine," Xiao Nizi nodded, and blinked funnyly at Eric in front of Gwyneth Paltrow without any scruples. Get out of the car and go.
After a burst of engine sound, only Eric and Gwyneth Paltrow were left in the mansion.
"Eric, can I sit here?"
Gwyneth Paltrow said, before he could answer, she sat down beside her.
Eric had a headache, and Xiao Nizi was naughty again. She knew that she didn't like this woman, so she kept her.
"Eric, it's interesting that the twins are named Natasha," Gwyneth Paltrow said quickly.
Eric replied casually: "My sister's name is Natasha. My sister's name is too long, and it's still in Russian. Everyone can't remember it, so I'm used to being called Natasha."
"Oh," Gwyneth Paltrow seemed to be interested: "Then how can you tell who is calling when the two of them are together?"
"Both are the same, why should they be distinguished? When they are together, they are called Natasha, and my sister will agree."
"It's really interesting, if only I could have such a pair of servants," Gwyneth Paltrow said without hiding the envy in her tone.
Eric smiled, turned his head and glanced at Gwyneth Paltrow, but an inexplicable thought flashed in his heart, he couldn't help but looked up again, and then grasped the thought just now.
"The Seven Deadly Sins".
Although he has been sorting out the movies in his memory recently, Eric still found that he had forgotten this classic movie. Moreover, according to the information in memory, "Seven Deadly Sins" was released in 1995, at least it should have started filming at this time.
However, the heroine is here, and the male protagonist is still in the TV industry. Eric has never heard of "The Seven Deadly Sins". Rick didn't know when he would be able to remember again.
The "Seven Deadly Sins" in the original time and space, with its dark and desperate plot, caused a sensation as soon as it was released. It won a box office of 300 million US dollars at a cost of 30 million US dollars worldwide. Iconic work by A-list studios.
Gwyneth Paltrow saw Eric looking at her a few more times inexplicably, her expression moved slightly, but her tone became reserved, and said, "Eric, what are you looking at?"
"It's nothing," Eric said, picking up the mobile phone next to him: "Sorry, Gwynnie, I have to make a few calls."
Gwyneth Paltrow's expression was a bit resentful: "Yes... Do you want me to avoid it?"
Eric nodded, but remembering that she just helped him remember a movie that slipped through the net, Eric was embarrassed to be so harsh, and said, "You can go to the living room and watch TV for a while."
Gwyneth Paltrow felt that Eric's tone had softened, but she was very smart to stop pestering her, got up and walked towards the villa.
Eric held the phone and thought for a while, then dialed the phone to the person in charge of New Line Films and asked if there was any information about a screenwriter named Andrew Kevin Walker.
The big boss called in person, and of course the person in charge of New Line Pictures didn't dare to get to the bottom of it, but dutifully followed Eric's instructions to inquire about relevant information.
Eric quickly got the information of Andrew Kevin Walker. This screenwriter already has a work that has already been released, called "Six Degrees of Tremor". In addition, Eric also successfully watched To the name of "The Seven Deadly Sins".
The script of "Seven Deadly Sins" did not deviate from the original track, and it still fell into the hands of New Line, but the person in charge of New Line has been hesitant about this project, because the script is too dark, and there is not even much to buy. I have not been able to find a suitable director, so I have been shelving it. Moreover, New Line's original budget for this script was only 8 million U.S. dollars, and they wanted to make a low-cost Cult film. Therefore, such a humble small project did not fall into Eric's side at all.
Eric also knows that with the promotion of status, he will definitely not see many things that he could have encountered, and this is something that cannot be changed. After all, he only has so much energy, and it is impossible to take care of everything.
After instructing the person in charge of the new line to fax the script, and then asked the other party to directly contact David Fincher to meet him, Eric hung up the phone.
Gwyneth Paltrow didn't want to watch TV, she kept looking around in the villa, and when she saw Eric hung up the phone, she couldn't wait to come out.
When I came to Eric, I saw the fax machine on the long table making a light rattle. (To be continued.)