Hollywood Hunter

The three major unions in Hollywood filed a lawsuit in Delaware Federal Court at the same time on Monday, November 19th, trying to prevent Daenerys Entertainment’s acquisition of MCA. The entire Westeros system is busy responding to this matter. Does not prevent the arrival of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving this year is November 22.

It happened to be snowing on the east coast. Simon really liked the atmosphere of snow during the holiday season, so he and Janet spent this Thanksgiving together at his manor in Greenwich.

After Thursday, another box office week in Hollywood has arrived.

Previously from November 16 to November 22, the first week of Thanksgiving, Stallone's new film "Rocky 5" successfully won the single-week box office championship.

However, the popularity of this action film series that once created a box office miracle is still not as popular as it used to be. It only got 19.6 million US dollars in the box office in the first week of the painting, and the reputation of film critics is not satisfactory. The media score is only about 5 points. The industry generally predicts that the film will fall between 40% and 50% the next week. The total box office in North America is expected to be less than 50 million US dollars. The producer can only expect to rely on overseas box office and other channels to recover costs.

"Dancing with Wolves" produced by Daenerys Entertainment ranked second. In the first week of the large-scale painting, the box office reached 12.67 million U.S. dollars. Compared with the screen of only 1031 yuan and the movie time of 3 hours, the single library exceeded The box office performance of $12,000 is excellent.

Counting the previous screening results, three weeks after the start of the painting, the cumulative box office of "Dancing with Wolves" reached $17.3 million, which is close to the film's $20 million production cost.

"Ten Days in Danger", which was released during Halloween, dropped 22% this week. It seems a pity that it failed to rebound on Thanksgiving. The film received another $6.87 million in seven days, and within four weeks of its opening, the cumulative box office reached $43.99 million.

Disney produced "Three Dads and One Baby" confirmed to be released on Wednesday, November 21st. With its excellent reputation and festive atmosphere, it earned 5.32 million US dollars in two days, which is a bit of a dark horse.

It is also the 2D animated film "The Little Hero" produced by Disney, with a box office of 4.79 million US dollars in the first week of the painting, ranking fifth.

Outside the top five, there are basically a bunch of old movies.

On November 23, the second week of the Thanksgiving holiday schedule, there are also three new films, namely Daenerys Entertainment and Columbia Pictures’ "Pink Alliance", Fox Pictures’ "Predator 2" and Warner Bros. Pictures The 2D animated film "The Nutcracker Little Prince".

Among them, the number of opening screens of "League of Pink" and "Predator 2" are more than 2,000, and "The Nutcracker" only has 906 screens, which is equivalent to Disney's "Little Hero" and belongs to the 2D animation of this era. The standard distribution model for movies.

Inside the manor on the northern outskirts of Greenwich.

Except for the main road, the other areas in the manor are still white and have not been cleaned up.

Sophia Fessy parked the car outside the main villa of the manor, got out of the car and opened the rear door. The two little guys couldn't wait to get off the car and ran to the approaching Janet.

Today is November 25th, Sunday.

It happened to be a sunny day. At ten o'clock in the morning, the air was still cold, but the sun looked brilliant.

As usual, Sophia came from Europe to see the children on weekends, and neither Simon nor Janet left the East Coast after Thanksgiving.

Stepping up to greet Janet, listening to a pair of children and Janet chatting, and quickly ran to build a snowman together, Sophia walked into the villa by herself.

The villa looked very warm. He took off his windbreaker and handed it to the greeted girl Bette. After asking, he learned that Simon was in the study room upstairs and went down the stairs to the second floor.

Simon was talking on the phone, and many documents were scattered on the desk. Hearing the knock on the door, he answered casually. Seeing Sophia's hesitant appearance after pushing the door, he smiled at the woman and signaled that it was all right, so Sophia walked in.

Trying to make herself seem as indifferent as possible, Sophia paced to the opposite side of Simon's desk, freely helping the man sort out the files on the desk, and listen to him talking to the opposite person.

The discussion is about the recent MCA acquisition.

Regarding how to deal with the lawsuits of the three major trade unions and other issues that follow, these things are not suitable for anyone to hear, but the man did not deliberately lower his voice to avoid himself, which made Sophia feel some warmth in his heart.

After placing several documents, the woman walked to the bookshelf again, pretending to look at the books on it. Turning his back to Simon, wondering if he was looking at himself.

Only after a while, the man's phone call still did not end.

Walking from one side of the bookshelf to the other, she could not jot down anything.

Putting down the Lola figure who had been playing for a while, turning around and looking over, Simon happened to hang up one call, but directly transferred the other.

Can't help but give birth to some grudges.

Then I felt that I was really hopeless, this little man, after all, was...so many years younger than himself.

Simon flipped through a piece of information, holding the microphone in his hand and discussing with the other person, inadvertently raised his head and noticed Sophia's expression, paused, and smiled and made a come over to the woman.

What did you do in the past?

Thinking about this, Sophia walked over.

As soon as he walked to his leather chair, he was pulled in his arms by the man.

The body was a little stiff, and he made a slight effort, but he did not dare to use too much force.

What if he lets go.

I didn't dare to speak, I was calling.

Moreover, just hugging himself, he didn't do other things too much.

When I first entered the door, it seemed to be locked.

Find a reason, completely let go, and sat obediently on the man's lap.

Seeing the man's multitasking appearance, he leaned over and stretched out his hand to help him hold the microphone and put it to his ear. The man got free with one hand, touched her earlobe, gently took off the silver earring that was specially worn today, and threw it on the table.

It turns out that he doesn't like women wearing ear studs.

Remember silently.

Change earrings next time, well, maybe he doesn't like it either. Probably don't wear anything.

Then don't wear anything.

After more than ten minutes, Simon finally put down the microphone, and the study became quiet, and the children's laughter happened to be heard from the window. Sophia suddenly became a little nervous, worried that he would not be able to help what he did at this time.

It's almost noon.

I quickly searched for a topic and asked, "The MCA matter, isn't it troublesome this time?"

Simon put his chin on the woman’s shoulder, sniffing the good smell of women, picked up a document on the desktop and continued to look at it, saying: "If the three major unions are just messing around, it will be really troublesome, but you just have to understand that they want Whatever you want, things are much easier."

I just heard him discussing with others. It seems that the biggest dissatisfaction with Daenerys Entertainment among the three major unions is probably that Simon moved many films overseas to shoot.

This has lost many job opportunities for native American filmmakers.

Thinking about it, Sophia casually said, "Well, the next Batman, is it going to be filmed in China?"

Simon smiled and said: "If they want something, I will give it before they can speak, it will only lead to lack of support. For those who deliberately trouble me, what they want, I am more inclined to let them lose More."

I vaguely remembered that he was chatting with someone just now, and he was going to broadcast a promotional video on the ABC TV network next week.

I listened carefully if I knew it, and now I don't know how to talk.

Fortunately, the hand that the man originally put on her waist got in from the hem of the clothes a little restlessly.

Staying in the manor for dinner at noon, Little Gemma was very careful and asked her mother if she had lost her earrings. Sophia seemed to have just found out, and then nodded, regretfully. The little girl was very sensible and persuaded a few words, just buy something if it is lost, but pay attention next time.

of course.

Then the little guy chased after him. Is his mother very hot? Why is his face a little red?

Hastily turned off the topic indiscriminately.

He noticed that the little man on the opposite side was grinning, not knowing whether he was stepped on or pinched, it seemed painful.

No sympathy at all.

Obviously, he said that it was almost noon, and he was so resistant, and he was going to mess up.

The new week is coming, and many people who are still paying attention to Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of MCA, unexpectedly ushered in another piece of news.

Westeros suddenly announced that it has reached a cash acquisition agreement with a total value of US$8.7 billion with Bell Atlantic, a telecom operator on the East Coast of the United States, of which US$7 billion will be paid in cash, and Bell Atlantic will assume a total of US$1.7 billion. Debt.

Bell Atlantic’s board of directors announced that it will hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on December 3 to vote on the acquisition.

However, according to the subsequent exposure of the Wall Street Journal, at the same time as the approval of the board of directors, Westeros has obtained the approval of about 25% of the important shareholders in advance. That is to say, the shareholder voting process has almost been approved. .

What Westeros needs to fight for is the approval of the US Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission.

As if to prepare for the approval of the two major regulatory agencies, the "New York Times" immediately released the news that as long as the acquisition is approved, Simon Westero will transfer the $8 billion hoarded overseas. Go back to China and use it to pay for this acquisition.

Calculated at a capital gains tax of 28%, this would mean a huge tax of more than $2 billion.

With the deterioration of the overall economic environment in the United States, the government's fiscal deficit has continued to rise, and taxes exceeding US$2 billion in one-time payments are definitely not optional for the federal government.

Moreover, although the federal government has many restrictions on the telecommunications industry, it is only acquiring a regional telecommunications operator. Unless it is deliberately finding fault, there are really not many regulatory obstacles.

However, someone jumped out immediately.

But it was Motorola, who had a big holiday with Westeros.

Motorola cited the provisions of the Telecommunications Act promulgated during the AT-T split in 1984 and pointed out that Westeros owns a telecommunications equipment company named Nokia. Although this company is established overseas, it still violates the telecommunications bill in the previous year. Operators are not allowed to get involved in terms of telecommunication equipment production.

Moreover, Robert Galvin, Motorola’s retired former chairman, also appeared in a CBS news talk show in person, violently criticizing Simon’s private luxury life and saying that the federal government should take measures to restrict another capital oligarch. The United States does not need a second Rockefeller family.

Simon's accusation against Robert Galvin was only heard at the time. However, Westeros responded to Motorola’s demands for the first time, stating that Nokia’s business will be limited to Europe. As long as the acquisition of Bell Atlantic is completed, Nokia will withdraw all North American businesses that have already started to test the waters, and even Including a technology research institute in Silicon Valley.

You come and go in the media, and many viewers are still a little bit confused.

what's going on?

Isn't it Daenerys Entertainment is seeking to acquire MCA, why suddenly became Westeros acquiring Bell Atlantic?

Or is it that Simon Westero planned to acquire Bell Atlantic, and MCA is just a cover?

This is not reasonable.

In order to acquire MCA, Daenerys Entertainment squeezed Panasonic out of its competitors through a very generous agreement. If it were so easy to give up, even Panasonic would not be able to agree.

or.

Simon Westero is here, two-lane operation?

Initiate two acquisitions at once?

This……

After all, the people who eat melon are just watching the excitement. With the announcement of one piece of news, the stock prices of Bell Atlantic and MCA have made the most direct response, because the agreement between the two parties has basically been reached. In the following days, the market transaction volume Bell Atlantic's stock price has risen by only 8%, while MCA's stock price has fallen by a full 11%, falling from a high of $69 to $61.

In terms of MCA, some people don't care, or even cheer, Daenerys Entertainment just abandons the acquisition.

But many shareholders who want to cash out at a high position are reluctant.

Some shareholders have even threatened that if Daenerys Entertainment easily abandons the acquisition, they will initiate a class action lawsuit.

The three major Hollywood labor unions who sharpened their knives were also a little bit unaware. How could they have brought out a Bell Atlantic takeover case with one punch.

When many people did not respond, the ABC TV network suddenly began to play an advertisement. This is an investment advertisement for the film and television industry issued by the Australian government. The 1 minute 30 second advertisement will show the cities, grasslands, deserts, and deserts owned by Australia. The beautiful scenery of snow-capped mountains, jungles, etc. are displayed vividly, and various preferential policies of Australia for overseas filmmakers are also introduced.

As if singing a double reed, Daenerys Entertainment immediately announced that it had signed six film production memorandums with a total value of US$300 million with the Victorian Government of Australia. The Victorian Government will provide Daenerys Entertainment with a unified 20% tax rebate plan. .

In exchange, these six films will all be produced in Australia in the next three years, including the later stages of the film, and more than 70% of the crew will be hired from Australia. Therefore, this program will directly or indirectly bring tens of thousands of jobs to Victoria.

Moreover, the two sides jointly stated that there will be more in-depth and extensive cooperation in the future.

The most fundamental significance of the existence of major Hollywood guilds is to ensure a series of work rights for their members.

Daenerys Entertainment directly transferred film production overseas, which is tantamount to another draw from the bottom of the pan.

Even if the job is gone, how to protect the rights of work.

After the Australian movie promotion and the $300 million memorandum, there was news that Daenerys Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal and the company’s TV business president Robert Iger were after the Thanksgiving holiday. I personally rushed to Toronto, Canada to inspect and contact the local government, planning to build another film and television production base in Toronto, mainly for the production of TV programs.

After several years of patient management, Daenerys Entertainment has long been a TV content provider that cannot be underestimated. If hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in TV production are transferred overseas, the local entertainment industry in the United States will obviously lose a large number of jobs.

Therefore, this news is undoubtedly another big punch for the three major unions.