Chapter 217: Jeffrey Katzenberg's Calculations

On the morning of October 19th, the mountains were covered with a layer of soft milky white, and the white mist rendered everything hazy and psychedelic. Located in Tianwu Films in West Hollywood, Yang Cheng was lying listlessly in David Ellison's office On the sofa on the sofa, with one hand covering the sun, while holding the phone in the other hand, he was boringly sending flirtatious messages to Sunny.

Early this morning, Yang Cheng was woken up by a call from David Ellison, and asked him to meet at the company. It is said that Jeffrey responded to New Era Media's quotation. Now that the matter is at hand, Yang Cheng didn't care about it. The little brother who was a pillar of the sky, drove over in a bumpy car.

Speaking of this matter, I felt aggrieved. According to the atmosphere last night, it was a matter of course for Yang Cheng and Sunny to go to Wushan Yunyu together while drinking, but when they came out of the bar, Sunny's mother called and urged her Go home and have a look, Sunny can't bear to see Yang Cheng lonely and wants to refuse, but Yang Cheng can't do this, her daughter has already arrived at the door, so she can't follow Dayu's water control and come to the house three times without entering, right?

Suppressing the heat in her lower abdomen and sending Sunny home, Yang Cheng guessed maliciously that this was Li Xiuman's revenge on him, otherwise why is it so coincidental that her mother called on the second day after Sunny returned to Los Angeles? Yang Cheng never believed in coincidences.

Well, without mentioning this, my heart is full of tears.

After waiting in Ellison's office for about 5 minutes, there was a sound outside the door. It is no need to guess that the boss of Tianwu Films has arrived, because no one is rushing to make noise at the door of his office except David Ellison. This guy Usually not very serious, but still have unique features in the management of the company.

"Jason, I'm sorry, have you been waiting for a long time?" David Ellison pushed the door open, picked up Yang Cheng's untouched cold coffee on the coffee table and swallowed it in one gulp, "fuck, I'm thirsty."

"You just came back from Africa?" Yang Cheng mercilessly laughed at the ragged David Ellison at this time, not exaggerating at all, the originally noble blond hair was in a mess, and the shirt on his face was stained with different stains , There are coffee, earthy, uh~ there seems to be pasta sauce.

David Ellison slumped on the sofa in frustration and waved his hands, "Forget it, I had a fight with Dakota Johnson's boyfriend."

Yang Cheng was taken aback, and immediately became gossipy. The reason why happiness is called happiness is based on the pain of others, such as you are richer than others, you are more handsome than others, you are more talented than others, your girlfriend's Qiu Da waited, "What's the situation? She still has a boyfriend?"

"Nonsense, is it strange that a beautiful girl doesn't have a boyfriend?" David Ellison complained angrily, apparently Yang Cheng asked a question that seemed idiotic to him.

Yang Cheng was also not polite, and immediately replied, "You deserve it, who told you not to be fully prepared before picking up girls? There must be investigations that should be done, right? It's a shame!"

David Ellison's face was embarrassing. It was obvious that Yang Cheng had hit the point. This time he really took it lightly, and killed him without doing any investigation. It would be easy to fight with someone, but when he met someone with a hot temper It's not impossible to pull out the gun directly.

"Wait, where is your bodyguard? What is the background of the other party? Have you eliminated all your bodyguards?" Yang Cheng suddenly became puzzled. It stands to reason that David Ellison has 3-5 bodyguards around him all the year round. They would just watch their boss being bullied?

Yang Cheng's question made David Ellison, who had lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, even more unwilling to look up, and muttered embarrassedly, "Didn't I drive them away just to pick up girls?"

Fortunately, Yang Cheng's hearing is online, so he didn't miss the joke that was enough to make him laugh for half a year, "Wow~David, why didn't I realize that you are so funny?"

"Get out, I won't give up! Are you still talking about business?" David Ellison threw a pillow at Yang Cheng angrily.

"OK, OK, let's get down to business, how did Jeffrey reply?" Yang Cheng took a few deep breaths, stopped smiling, and said seriously.

David Ellison rolled his eyes, and stopped laughing and cursing, "Jeffrey's original words are: Thank you for the offer from New Era Media, this is a very sincere price, but can I see your offer?" determination?"

Yang Cheng raised her eyebrows, rubbed her chin, and murmured, "What does Jeffrey mean?"

David Ellison thought he was asking him, and spread his hands, "I don't know, maybe I'm not satisfied with the price?"

"No, no, given Jeffrey's piss, I'm afraid he wants to complete this merger and acquisition by way of stock exchange." Yang Cheng guessed thoughtfully.

"Share replacement? With New Era Media? He has a lot of appetite." David Ellison sarcastically said in a bad tone.

"It's normal. Compared with the one-time cash, holding the shares of New Era Media is more in line with long-term interests, and it can leave a precious legacy for the family. I will try my best to fight for it." Yang Cheng didn't think about it. Resentful emotions, businessmen are insatiable, and they will never ask for more than 50 cents.

"So you agree?" David Ellison asked suspiciously.

Yang Cheng sneered, "How is it possible? If Jeffrey is willing to condescend to New Era Media to continue to take charge of the animation department, maybe I will consider giving him a part of the equity, but this old guy had a problem with Michael Eisner back then, and now he will willingly obey I’m a young man’s management? Don’t worry, I’ll meet with him when I find a chance, and some things can only be analyzed in person. Softbank and Hasbro have already withdrawn, right?”

David Ellison couldn't keep up with the rhythm, raised his hand to press the void, returned to the desk, pressed the call phone, asked the secretary to bring in two cups of coffee again, and replied with a foul breath, "According to my knowledge Yes, they were just trying to catch the leak, and we raised the price to $27, which clearly exceeded their expectations."

Soon, Ellison's blond secretary delivered two cups of high-quality coffee. Although it was not freshly ground coffee beans, it tasted mellow and delicious. David Ellison did not shy away from it, and in front of Yang Cheng A slap on the secretary's buttocks made the secretary look ashamed, she gave Yang Cheng a charming look and ran out, then closed the office door casually.

Yang Cheng took a sip of his coffee speechlessly, and continued to ask, "So our current opponents are only Disney, Comcast, the Wall Street consortium, and the Wanda Group of country Z, right?"

"That's right. Among them, Disney and Comcast are our main opponents, and their determination is stronger." David Ellison gave an affirmative answer.

"No, I met with Universal's Donna Round yesterday. Her analysis is very reasonable. Disney already has Pixar Studios. Buying DreamWorks is undoubtedly a waste of resources. Robert Iger's cunning fox Don't know?" Yang Cheng shared the analysis of Donna Langde yesterday.

Sipping coffee, he continued, "So I agree with Donna's analysis. Robert Iger just wants to act as a crap stick, muddy the water, and mess up the situation. Of course, if he has the opportunity to win DreamWorks, he will not back down. Potential enemies are killed in the cradle, adding to Disney's dominance."

David Ellison pondered, "So we can rule out Disney?"

Yang Cheng shook his head and vetoed, "Of course not, we must not relax on Disney. After all, this is just our conjecture. The real decision is not in our hands. We must beware of accidents, but we can also focus more on Kang. Custer, this is our direct opponent, no matter which one of us gets DreamWorks Animation, each other is even more powerful."

"Okay, so what should we do?" David Ellison chose to give up thinking. He is still suitable for making movies, and he has never been interested in business wars. If it were his crazy father, things would be interesting. What? Comcast or Disney, let's talk about it after spraying.

"We still have to find a way to get out of Comcast's bottom line. Secondly, we have to take the initiative to do something to make Jeffrey's balance tilt towards us." Yang Cheng also has no specific implementation plan, and can only vaguely put forward general ideas .

"Actually, I think Jeffrey still has hope for DreamWorks to maintain its independence." David Ellison is certainly not a useless person. He calmed down for a moment and gave a new view.

Yang Cheng was taken aback, he also wanted to change his mind, "Tell me."

"Have you heard of this project? It is an animated blockbuster led by Jeffrey, and DreamWorks has given high expectations." David Ellison has been responsible for collecting information on competitors and acquisition targets, so a lot of information he has at hand is Yang Cheng didn't know.

"I don't know, is it a sequel?" Yang Cheng guessed confusedly.

"No, but it was created by the original crew of the movie. Jeffrey regards it as a turnaround to restore DreamWorks' decline. If the box office of this movie meets expectations, DreamWorks' long-standing financial problems will be greatly alleviated. As long as It's not out of the question to give Jeffrey some time to breathe and lead DreamWorks back to the top."

The news provided by David Ellison attracted Yang Cheng's attention. Jeffrey Katzenberg is a man who is good at creating miracles. He switched from Paramount, where he had worked for 11 years, to Disney to take charge of Disney's animation department. While creating countless classics, it also earned huge expansion funds for Disney.

Then he resolutely retired from Disney and chose to start from scratch with Spielberg and David Geffen. In fact, in the peak years of DreamWorks, its annual revenue was comparable to that of the top six, and even ranked among the top 10. Among the top five, Jeffrey Katzenberg contributed a lot.

For such talents, no one can ignore them at will.

Yang Cheng was wondering before, how could such a strong and individual Jeffrey Katzenberg sell his hard work so easily, and Jeffrey's reply to the quotation from New Star Media, now he wants to understand , It turns out that one hand of cards and two hands are prepared, which is easy to calculate. . .