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Chapter 388 Counterattack(1/2)

The three major Hollywood unions filed a lawsuit in the Delaware federal court on Monday, November 19, trying to prevent Daenerys Entertainment from acquiring the MCA. The entire Westeros system is busy dealing with this matter, but it does not prevent the arrival of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving this year is November 22.

It happened to snow on the East Coast. Simon liked the atmosphere of snow again during the festival, so he spent this Thanksgiving with Janet at Greenwich's estate.

After Thursday, another Hollywood box office work is coming.

Previously, from November 16 to November 22, in 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, which once created a box office miracle, is still not as popular as before. It only received $19.6 million in the first week of the painting, and the reputation of the film reviews was also unsatisfactory. The media's comprehensive score was only about 5 points. The industry generally predicts that the movie will fall between 40% and 50% in the next week, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than $50 million. The producers can only look forward to relying on overseas box office and other channels to recover their costs.

"Dancing with Wolves" produced by Daenerys Entertainment ranked second, with a large-scale painting first week, with a box office of US$12.67 million. Compared with the screening of only 1,031 yuan and a three-hour movie duration, the box office of more than US$12,000 in a single museum is very outstanding.

Including the previous preview results, after three weeks of painting, "Dancing with Wolves" has a cumulative box office of US$17.3 million, which is close to the production cost of US$20 million.

"Ten Dangerous Days" released during Halloween fell 22% this week, and it seems a pity that it failed to rebound during the Thanksgiving period. The film collected another $6.87 million in seven days, and the painting started for four weeks, with a cumulative box office of $43.99 million.

"Three Dads and One Baby", which was confirmed to be released on Wednesday, November 21, has earned $5.32 million in two days with its excellent reputation and festive atmosphere, which is quite a bit of a dark horse.

The 2D animated film "The Little Hero" produced by Disney has a box office of US$4.79 million in the first seven days of the first week of the painting, ranking fifth.

In addition to the top five, there are basically a bunch of old movies.

On November 23, the second week of Thanksgiving, there are also three new films, namely "The Red Pink League" cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment and Columbia Pictures, "Pretty 2" by Fox Pictures and "The Little Animated Film of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Among them, the number of screens for "Red Pink League" and "Pretty 2" has more than 2,000 yuan, while "The Little Prince of Nutcracker" has only 906 yuan, which is equivalent to Disney's "Salvation of Little Heroes" and belongs to the standard distribution model of 2D animated movies in this era.

Inside the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

Except for the main road, other areas in the manor are still snow-white and no cleaning has been carried out.

Sofia Fessi parked his car outside the manor's villa, got out of the car and opened the rear door. The two little guys couldn't wait to get out of the car and ran to Janet who was coming.

Today is Sunday, November 25th.

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

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

He went up to say hello to Janet. Listening to the chattering of his children and Janet, he soon ran to build a snowman together, and Sophia walked into the villa by herself.

The villa looked very warm. He took off his windbreaker and handed it to the B girl Betsy who was coming over. He asked, and learned that Simon was in the study upstairs, so he followed the stairs to the second floor.

Simon was making a phone call, and there were many documents scattered on the desk. Hearing the knock on the door, he responded casually. Seeing Sophia hesitant after pushing the door, she smiled at the woman and signaled that it was okay. Sophia walked in.

Trying to make himself seem as if nothing had happened, Sophia walked across from Simon's desk and helped the man sort out the documents on the desktop to listen to him talking to the other person.

What is being discussed is the recent MCA acquisition case.

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

After putting several documents in place, the woman walked to the bookshelf and pretended to look at the books on it. She turned her back to Simon, wondering if he would be looking at him.

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

She couldn't remember anything from the bookshelf to the other side.

He put down the figure in his hand and played with it for a while, turned around and looked over. Simon happened to hang up a phone call, but directly transferred to another one.

I couldn't help but feel some resentment.

Then I felt that I was hopeless. This little man, after all, was younger than me... so many years old.

Simon flipped through a piece of information with all his heart, held the microphone in his hand and discussed with the other side. He looked up inadvertently and noticed Sophia's expression. He paused, smiled and made a gesture towards the woman.

What did you do in the past?

Thinking of this, Sophia walked over.

As soon as he walked to his leather chair, the man hugged his waist and pulled it into his arms.

My body was a little stiff, and I struggled gently, but I didn't dare to exert too much force.

What if he lets go?

He didn't dare to speak, he was calling.

Moreover, he just hugged himself, and he didn't do anything too much.

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

Find a reason, completely relieve yourself, and sit obediently on the man's lap.

Seeing the man's intention of using it for several years, he turned his hand sideways and stretched out his hand to help him hold the microphone and put it in his ear. The man left one hand and touched her earlobe. He gently took off the silver earrings he had worn on today and threw them on the table.

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

Remember silently.

Next time I change my earrings, well, maybe he doesn't like them either. Maybe he wants to wear nothing.

Then don't wear anything.

More than ten minutes later, Simon finally put down the microphone, the study room became quiet, and the laughter of the children outdoors came from the window. Sophia was suddenly a little nervous again, worried that he would not be able to help but do something at this time.

It's already noon.

He quickly found a topic and asked, "Is the MCA business a lot troublesome this time?"

Simon's chin was placed on the side of the woman's shoulder, smelling the nice smell of a woman, picked up a document on the desktop and continued to look through it, saying, "If the three unions are just messing around, it will be very troublesome, but as long as you understand what they want, things will be much easier."

I just heard him discussing with someone. It seemed that the three unions were most dissatisfied with Daenerys Entertainment. Perhaps Simon moved many of the videos overseas to shoot.

This has caused many job opportunities for native American filmmakers.

Thinking to himself, Sophia said casually: "Well, the next Batman film is going to be returned to China for filming?"

Simon smiled and said, "If they want something and I give it before I even speak, it will only lead to a lack of heart. For those who deliberately cause trouble for me, I tend to lose more of what they want."

I vaguely remembered that he had just talked with someone and would broadcast promotional short videos on ABC TV next week.

I would have listened carefully if I had known it, but now I don’t know how to talk.

Fortunately, the hand that the man had originally hugged her waist crawled into the hem of the clothes restlessly.

At noon, she stayed in the manor for dinner. Little Gemma was very careful and asked her mother if she had lost her earrings. Sophia seemed to have just discovered it, and then nodded, looking very sorry. The little girl advised her a few words very sensible and said, "If you lose the things, you can buy them, but you should pay attention next time."

certainly.

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

He quickly changed the topic.

I noticed the little man opposite him grinning. I don’t know if he was stepped on or pinched, but it seemed to hurt.

Not sympathetic at all.

It was almost noon, but it was so resistant and he still had to do whatever he wanted.

With the arrival of the new week, many publics who are still paying attention to the news of Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of MCA, unexpectedly came another sensational news.

Westeros suddenly announced that it had reached a cash acquisition agreement with Bell Atlantic on the East Coast of the United States with a total value of US$8.7 billion, of which US$7 billion is paid in cash and also bears a total of US$1.7 billion in Bell Atlantic's liabilities.

The Bell Atlantic 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 news exposed by the Wall Street Journal, while obtaining the approval of the board of directors, Westeros has already won the recognition of about 25% of important shareholders in advance, which means that the shareholder voting process has almost been for sure.

What Westeros needs to strive for is only the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission.

As if in order to gain approval from the two major regulatory authorities, the New York Times immediately announced that as long as the acquisition is approved, Simon Westeros will transfer the $8 billion heaped overseas back to China to pay for the expenses of this acquisition.

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

As the overall economic environment in the United States deteriorates, the government's fiscal deficit continues to rise, taxes of more than $2 billion at one time are absolutely not optional for the federal government.

Moreover, although the federal government has many restrictions on the telecommunications industry, it is really not many regulatory obstacles to acquiring a regional telecommunications operator unless it is deliberately looking for trouble.

However, someone jumped out immediately.

However, Motorola, which had a big holiday with Westeros before.

Motorola cites the provisions of the Telecommunications Act promulgated during the AT-T splitting case in 1984, pointing out that Westeros owns a telecommunications equipment company called Nokia. Although the company is located overseas, it still violates the provisions in the bill that year that year that telecommunications operators are not allowed to get involved in the field of telecommunications equipment production.

Moreover, Motorola's retired former chairman Robert Galvin also appeared in a news interview program on CBS, fiercely criticizing Simon's private luxury life and saying that the federal government should take measures to limit the emergence of another capital oligarch, and the United States does not need a second Rockefeller family.

Simon didn't hear Robert Galvin's accusations at the time. However, Westeros responded to Motorola's demands at the first time, saying that Nokia's business will be limited to Europe. As long as the acquisition of Bell Atlantic is completed, Nokia will completely withdraw its North American business that has begun to test the waters, including a technology institute established in Silicon Valley.

Everyone is talking back and forth in the media, and many spectators are still a little confused.

What is the situation?

Isn't Daenerys Entertainment seeking to acquire MCA? Why did it suddenly turn into Westeros' acquisition of Bell Atlantic?

Or is Simon Westeros originally planned to acquire Bell Atlantic Ocean, and MCA is just a cover?

This is not reasonable either.

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

or.

Simon Westeros is this in, two-line operation?

Two acquisitions were initiated at once?
To be continued...
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