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Tangtang said in surprise.

It only took her more than twenty minutes to wash up, and Bai Ye got back the money to buy a medium-sized film company?

"To men, you can't say fast, you have to say fierce!"

Bai Ye gave Tangtang a serious and earnest lecture.

"Oh, I know."

Tangtang said obediently.

When she came to Bai Ye's side, Tangtang saw the bearer bonds in Bai Ye's hand.

"Were these stolen from another person who shorted Stark Group?"

Tangtang asked curiously.

"Yes." Bai Ye said with a smile, "Not only this $10 billion bearer bond, but in three days, he has to give me another $20 billion bearer bonds."

To be honest, blackmailing Obadi is much faster than going to Mexico to rob drug lords at night. You know, he stayed in Mexico for two days, going back and forth, and it took an unknown amount of time, but he only managed to rob 7 million US dollars. But Obadi got 10 billion US dollars in half a day, and he didn't have to run around. He could just sit in his office and command Obadi to send the money to the designated location. Is there any better way to make money than this?

A wave of Baofu!

No wonder our ancestors said that a man cannot become rich without unexpected wealth, and a horse cannot grow fat without night grass.

Wise words!

"So much money?" Tangtang was surprised and said, "Brother, the other party won't be desperate and cause any danger to you, right?"

"Even if he's desperate, he can't jump over the wall. He's in the light and I'm in the dark. He doesn't even know who I am, so how can he jump over the wall?"

Bai Ye smiled and said:

"Don't worry, after we get the other $20 billion, we'll ask him for another big sum of $30 billion."

[Obadi: “…”]

If Obadiah used Jarvis to track White Night, he might be able to find White Night's whereabouts, but this is obviously impossible. Jarvis is absolutely loyal to Tony. Once Jarvis knows that Obadiah is looking for a killer organization and attacks Tony, then Jarvis will probably take all means to attack Obadiah. A strong artificial intelligence is chasing him everywhere... then Obadiah will probably have a hard time finding a place in this world.

So since Obadi doesn't dare to do anything rash, Bai Ye naturally has nothing to be afraid of.

Honestly speaking, it was unexpectedly easy to hack into Obadiah's computer, because Obadiah was too old and his thinking was outdated. He simply couldn't keep up with the times. The computer's defense system was a fool-proof operation, but Obadiah didn't dare to connect his computer to JARVIS because he had done too many things behind Tony's back, such as selling Stark Group's munitions on the black market. His partners, the Ten Rings, had a large amount of Stark Group's munitions, and it was all done by Obadiah.

Once Tony found out that Obadiah sold a large amount of Stark Group's arms to the black market, the friendship between them would probably be over.

"Okay, let's not talk about these things anymore." Bai Ye said, "Let's figure out which one the film company should buy."

"Ah."

Tangtang sat obediently beside Bai Ye.

Bai Ye reached out and embraced Tangtang, holding her and sitting on his lap, so that her round peach, outlined by her jeans, fit perfectly against him.

After giving Tangtang a big kiss on the face, Bai Ye turned on the computer and searched for information about the film company:

"Let's first take a look at which film companies are worth buying."

When it comes to Hollywood, the first ones that come to mind are definitely the Big Six, well, that is, the current six major Hollywood film studios, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Columbia, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount.

"Uh...We may not be able to afford the Big Six in Hollywood for now. Each one costs at least tens of billions of dollars."

In fact, the Big Six in Hollywood are not just film companies, they have all merged with media groups and become a link in the media industry chain. The real names of the Big Six in Hollywood should be ABC Disney, Time Warner, NBC Universal, CBS Paramount, and Fox Entertainment Group, while Sony Columbia did not merge with the media group but is a subsidiary of Sony Group, which instantly pushed up their market value, with the starting price being hundreds of billions of dollars.

Of course, once the short selling of Stark Group is successful, Bai Ye will definitely have hundreds of billions of dollars in his hands. But if he has this money, Bai Ye will definitely choose to expand Sun Bank and Snap rather than acquire a film company that does not have much room for value-added.

For Internet companies, film companies make money too slowly, too slowly to be acceptable. Bai Ye acquired the film company with the intention of embedding it with Tianmei Studios and Snap to form a part of the media group in the future to enhance its actual influence, but it does not expect to make money from the film company.

"Brother, even if you want to buy it, I have to persuade you!" Tangtang said with a smile, "It's definitely not easy to control such a big company. How can you just buy it? Besides, outsiders who acquire Hollywood film companies will basically be cheated. I heard that Sony was cheated badly when it bought Columbia, and spent at least several billion dollars in unnecessary money."

"I know what you are talking about."

Bai Ye nodded.

The market price of Columbia shares was $12 at the beginning of the year, and it was $21 when Sony announced the acquisition, but Sony's final bid was $27 per share.

The stock price has doubled like crazy!

On September 1989, 9, Sony announced that it would spend $25 billion to purchase Columbia's equity from Coca-Cola and assume Columbia's $34 billion in associated debt, for a total of $16 billion.

By November 1994, 11, Sony announced in its quarterly financial report that the book value of its investment in Columbia Pictures had been reduced by $17 billion.

This loss is the largest loss ever suffered by a Japanese company in history.

It can be said that Hollywood directly cheated $27 billion from Sony, the big sucker. It bought one Columbia Company with the price of two Columbia Companies, and became a well-known sucker in Hollywood.

Even Tangtang knows this well-known past.

Tangtang said carefully:

"So, brother, let's buy a small or medium-sized film company first, and gain a foothold in Hollywood. Once we are familiar with the rules of Hollywood and will not be cheated by those people, we can try to acquire the Big Six in Hollywood. I believe that with your strength, this day will not be too far away."

Of course, looking not far away, Tangtang saw that Bai Ye’s Galaxy Capital could make at least $10 billion in the capital market at one time. Is it difficult to acquire the six major Hollywood companies with a price of tens of billions of dollars?

"Tangtang, you understand me."

Bai Ye laughed, planted another strawberry mark on Tangtang's neck, and continued to look for a suitable film company.

Legendary Pictures, DreamWorks, Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment, Lakeview Pictures, Dimension Films, Screen Gems…

"Lionsgate is probably the company with the best performance after the Big Six in Hollywood, and it's also an independent film company with a low valuation. We should be able to get it with just $700 million to $800 million."

In Bai Ye’s previous life, his deepest impression of Hollywood, apart from the Big Six and Netflix, was probably Lionsgate and DreamWorks.

Lionsgate is one of the most famous independent film production companies in Hollywood, with 66 Academy Award nominations and 17 Academy Awards. It is worth mentioning that the company's most profitable source is not the movie box office, but nearly 13000% of its revenue comes from the film and television works in its copyright library.

Lionsgate uses the funds raised from financing to continuously acquire and expand its film library, then obtain profits, raise funds, and expand its film library again. If this process can go smoothly, the film library will become a continuous source of income for Lionsgate.

Relying on this business model, Lionsgate's profitability even surpasses the lower-ranked Big Six Hollywood studios.

"Brother, I heard that Lionsgate's chairman, Frank Gustaf, is a very stubborn person. He has been running Lionsgate as his own business. If we invest in it, it may not be a big problem, but if we want to acquire Lionsgate in its entirety, it will be a big problem." Tangtang said, "In addition, Lionsgate has been in a debt crisis in the past two years, and its operating conditions are not very good. It is very likely that in addition to the acquisition, we will have to spend more money to solve Lionsgate's debt problem."

"Hmm..." Bai Ye thought for a moment and said, "Lionsgate only makes bloody, rough and rule-breaking movies. They take an unconventional approach. I guess there aren't many movies suitable for you, Tangtang, to play the leading role. Forget it, let's go to another one."

Tangtang was stunned for a moment. She simply didn't want Bai Ye to buy such an expensive company as Lionsgate just after entering Hollywood. Unexpectedly, Bai Ye thought that the movies produced by this company were not suitable for her to act in...

"hey-hey."

Tangtang smiled foolishly.

Well, after all, Bai Ye raised her since she was a child, so who else could I love if not her?

"What about Legendary Pictures?"

Bai Ye asked again.

He found that Tangtang knew much more about these film companies than he did, so he was too lazy to go online to collect information bit by bit and just asked Tangtang directly.

Anyway, Tangtang will definitely not cheat him.

"Uh..." Tangtang pondered for a moment and said, "Brother, let's forget about this. Legendary Pictures has too many complicated relationships. It's not a company that makes good movies, but a company that specializes in money laundering."

“Is there any movie company in Hollywood that doesn’t launder money?”

White night strange road.

Tangtang: "Everyone is laundering money, but other companies are laundering money secretly, but this company is blatantly and unscrupulously laundering money... Legendary Pictures is essentially a private equity fund."

"I understand what you said. Is it the film company of that leeks?" Bai Ye himself also likes to play the leeks' routine, but the leeks are not willing to do so. Legendary Pictures is naturally excluded as an acquisition target. He pointed to another name on the computer and asked: "What about Summit Entertainment? How about this company?"

"Summit Entertainment..." Tangtang thought for a moment and said, "This company is not bad. Its shareholder structure is simple, not as complicated as Lionsgate and Legendary Pictures. In the early years, it was a company that operated overseas film sales. However, in the past two years, they have been transforming and building a distribution network. They have achieved some success and can be regarded as a medium-sized film company that is small but complete."

Bai Ye also had some impression of Summit Entertainment, which made a splash in 2008 with the Oscar-winning film “The Hurt Locker” directed by James Cameron’s ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow.

Later, Summit Entertainment made the right bet on "Twilight", which grossed $3700 million worldwide at a cost of only $3.9 million. From then on, Summit Entertainment truly joined the top money-sharing club in Hollywood.

At the same time, Summit Entertainment has produced a number of independent films that, although not very commercially successful, have many heavyweight stars and are quite distinctive.

However, Summit Entertainment later blindly invested in big productions, and its cash flow dried up, so it had to be sold to Lionsgate for US$4.125 million.

"Very good, then add this company to the acquisition list."

Next, Bai Ye and Tangtang took stock of various independent film companies in Hollywood, compared their advantages and disadvantages, and found several high-quality companies that could be acquired.

"Well, that's pretty much it."

Bai Ye stopped screening.

There are thousands of film companies in Hollywood, but apart from the six major Hollywood companies, there are only a few good companies. It is really not easy to find gold in the world.

"I'll instruct them to contact the heads of these film companies and see which one is suitable for acquisition. If possible, we can acquire all of them. Anyway, the combined valuation of these film companies is less than $10 billion, which is too cheap."

Tangtang: "..."

Is a company with a valuation of less than $1 billion considered cheap?

Only a big and strong brother could say such words.

"It's almost time to get off work, let's go have lunch together."

Bai Ye looked at the time and said.

"Ok."

Tangtang smiled sweetly.

The two of them went downstairs together. Tangtang took Baiye's arm and said:

"Brother, I know there's a pizza shop nearby that tastes really good. How about we go there and eat some pizza?"

"Of course, if you like the food, I will definitely like it too."

Bai Ye smiled and nodded.

After eating pizza, the two went back to Tangtang's house.

Tangtang was busy with work, and Bai Ye went to Mexico for two days. All in all, the two hadn't seen each other for almost a week. The longing in their hearts turned into the swaying of the bed.

……

"watt?"

When Bai Ye received the call, he had to temporarily put down the peach he was eating. He picked it up and saw that it was Andy calling. There was no way to delay, so Bai Ye answered the phone.

"Yes, you heard me right. No matter what you are doing now, go back to AIM immediately."

Andy said with a dark face.

When Bai Ye answered the phone just now, she could tell what Bai Ye was doing from his voice: he was pulling radishes in the farmland again.

"What is it?"

Bai Ye's fingers slid across the skin on Tangtang's fair back, and he said reluctantly:

"Do we have to go back now? Can you wait for me for half an hour?"

"Bai Ye!" Andy said angrily, "I'm not kidding you, come back quickly, otherwise, you will bear the consequences!"

After saying that, Andy hung up the phone, leaving Bai Ye no chance to bargain.

Can confidential matters be discussed over the phone?

Then in the eyes of those who are attentive, everything becomes transparent.

"well--!"

Bai Ye sighed heavily, patted Tangtang's head, and said:

"There's no other way. Something urgent seems to have happened at the company. I have to rush over now."

"Oh." Tangtang felt a little aggrieved, but she was still very obedient: "Then brother, you go first, business is more important."

"Yeah, good girl." Bai Ye kissed Tangtang on the pretty face and said with a smile, "I'll make it up to you next time."

After putting on his clothes, Bai Ye came out of Tangtang's house and drove his Maybach 62S straight to the AIM company building.

"What on earth happened? Why did you have to call me back so urgently?"

As soon as Bai Ye came back, he was dragged by Andy to the monitoring room, where Becky was waiting.

Andy said simply, "Maya Hansen is in trouble."

Bai Ye's expression suddenly became serious and he said:

"what's the situation?"

"As we expected, Maya Hansen is already a scientist with white leftist thinking. Just because we set up laboratories in Hengsan and Africa and were going to use a large number of rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees to collect the results of human experiments on the Extremis virus, Maya Hansen didn't want her scientific results to be abused, so she chose to betray us in the end."

Andy gestured to Becky: