In late October, the end of the year was approaching again before we knew it.

This year's Halloween is not just Daenerys Entertainment's finale of the last "Scream" series, "Scream 3".

After the merger of MCA, the two largest Universal Studios in Los Angeles and Orlando will also hold a bigger Halloween themed event.

Through the coordination of the theme park management team, this time, the films such as "Scream", "The God of Death", "Butterfly Effect", and "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" that Simon has participated in since his debut will appear in the Halloween-themed activities of the two major Universal Studios.

Friday, October 25.

"Scream 3" officially opened in North America with a screen size of 2,672.

At the same time, from October 25 to November 3, the ten-day Universal Studios Halloween themed event kicked off.

Simon has been following up on the final preparations for the Halloween themed event at Universal Burbank in recent days, and was not able to return to Malibu Daenerys Cinema until Friday afternoon to handle some other things at hand.

"From the recent negotiation results, if we want to win ea in full, the final offer should be around $1.2 billion. Because we already own 35% of the company's shares, the additional cash we need to pay is about $800 million."

"A $800 million, the company's debt cut this year is also $800 million, which is equivalent to increasing the debt ratio to the level when it just acquired MCA at the beginning of the year."

Nancy smiled and said, "But it's worth it, and if we continue to hesitate, the next price will only be higher. The internet-related concept stocks are rising lately, and ea happens to release the online real-time strategy game Dune Castle, so, you know."

In the office loft on the second floor of the cinema.

Nancy Brill is discussing the progress of the negotiations for the full acquisition of EA with Simon.

Although ystore has made a very good start.

However, Simon also knows that traditional game publishers will not be replaced by online publishers like ystore for a long time in the future.

Ea has accumulated ten years of accumulation and has been focusing on operating PC games since its establishment. Over the years, a large number of classic PC games copyrights have been accumulated, among which sports games are beyond the reach of other game manufacturers.

Moreover, ea also has a complete PC game distribution team and the experience of PC game production and distribution accumulated over the years, which are the foundation of this company.

Because it is attached to the vigorous Westeros system, it has developed very rapidly, and the stock price of EA is no longer the same as when Daenerys Entertainment invested in two years ago.

When it first acquired EA, Daenerys Entertainment acquired 35% of the company's equity, only $50 million, and EA's market value was only $170 million.

In two years, EA's market value has increased by five times due to factors such as the successful entry into the console game market, the rise of online game concepts and the success of the "Dune" series of real-time strategy games, and the continuous and rapid expansion of the company itself.

Recently, ea's market value is US$910 million. If you want to acquire this company in full, US$1.2 billion is also a necessary premium. Moreover, this US$1.2 billion is mainly because ea has maintained a relatively high price-to-earnings ratio and has a certain bubble in its stock price.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to win the company at a premium of less than 50%.

Although the acquisition cost soared, considering that EA's future market value potential is expected to reach $50 billion, Simon has nothing to feel sorry for.

800 million US dollars is not a big burden for Daenerys Entertainment today.

After winning ea in full, Daenerys Entertainment can also integrate it with its own Blizzard Studio.

In the past two years, while continuing to develop the series "Teacher of Tinto" in the main series, Blizzard Studio has also produced some other very good console games. In addition to Nintendo's special places, this studio has become North America's leading console game company.

The integration of ea, which focuses on PC games and Blizzard, which focuses on console games, can also achieve complementarity to a certain extent.

Nancy continued to discuss other details about the acquisition of ea with Simon. The small senior executive finally closed his memo and asked another thing: "So, Simon, Blockbuster, what are you going to do?"

Simon shook his head slightly and said, "We probably can't afford Blockbuster's current market value."

Compared with the EA, which is only a billion-level EA, Blockbuster's recent market value has reached US$5.3 billion.

Moreover, Simon could clearly feel that with the careful care of the small senior executive, Blockbuster is very different from Blockbuster, who is blindly pursuing expansion in his memory.

Now, it is no exaggeration to say that Blockbuster is the "Walmart" in the video tape chain industry.

The reason why the Walton family has been able to occupy five places in the top ten of the rich list this year is mainly because Walmart is still maintaining strong growth in the context of the sluggish U.S. economy.

How fierce the competition in the retail industry is, it can be seen that there are all kinds of supermarkets of all sizes that can be seen everywhere.

It is definitely not something that ordinary people can do that Walmart can stand out in such a red ocean market.

same.

Video tape chain has even lower thresholds than supermarkets.

Today, Blockbuster has also become the one who stands out in this industry.

The data analysis system and warehousing and logistics system owned by Blockbuster are incomparable to other companies of the same type. Blockbuster's employees also have a set of business rules that are different from other chain stores of the same type.

Even the types of videotapes, placement rules, store employees, etc. of Blockbuster's chain stores are based on the company's increasingly perfect data analysis system for repeated testing and demonstration.

All of this ultimately creates the lowest cost and highest efficiency of Blockbuster.

Data on customer satisfaction and other data from Blockbuster are far higher than those of other companies in the same industry.

Currently, Blockbuster has more than 3,000 chain stores in North America, the UK, Australia and other markets, but this company has no tendency to have large companies such as inefficiency and bloated staff.

In 1991, Blockbuster's revenue will reach about US$2.3 billion, and its market share will also increase from the initial 5% to 31% now.

It is expected that Blockbuster will reach Simon's expected market share of 50% in the next two years.

Even if Blockbuster invests most of its revenue in corporate expansion, the company's expected net profit margin this year is expected to reach about 11%, which means a net profit of US$250 million.

Daenerys Entertainment holds only 35% of the shares in Blockbuster. According to convention, the company's revenue will not be calculated in the revenue data of Daenerys Entertainment. Otherwise, Daenerys Entertainment will also become a giant with a revenue scale of 10 billion US dollars.

Because of its market value of more than $5 billion and the extremely high vitality shown by this company, most investors cannot easily sell Blockbuster stocks, and Daenerys Entertainment can no longer use enough funds to acquire the company.

In memory, Viacom, controlled by Sam Redstone, acquired Blockbuster for $8 billion in 1993.

Now, although Blockbuster's market value has just exceeded $5 billion, Simon believes that even if Lei Shidong takes action now, $8 billion will not be able to swallow the company, and Daenerys Entertainment will not be able to sell it at all.

Therefore, maintaining control over Blockbuster and its existing 35% stake is the best choice for Daenerys Entertainment.

After talking with Nancy, Simon rushed to the post-production center on the first floor. "Wonder Woman" has been successfully completed recently and has returned to North America to start the post-production.

I was busy until five o'clock and got off work on time.

Back at Dumei Point Manor, Janet just returned home.

As the number of months of pregnancy increased, Janet's mood became more and more fickle and showed obvious anxiety, but the woman did not leave what she should do.

Last time Sandra reminded about the baby party, Simon and Janet mentioned it.

Although she showed resistance to a little guy who was about to be born, the woman began to prepare for this matter seriously and the party was scheduled for noon tomorrow.

There was no work arrangement on the weekend, Simon prepared dinner himself, and Janet also wrapped around the kitchen with her big belly, occasionally helping her, and by the way, Barabala talked about all kinds of trivialities.

Simon's cooking skills are just average. On weekdays, several carefully trained girls are responsible for Janet's daily diet.

If you occasionally cook in person, what both of you enjoy is just a feeling of being at home.

"Speaking of this, there will be surprises tomorrow, guess what?"

Simon cut the carrot and said in the woman's tone: "Will your parents come here?"

Janet picked up a slice of Simon's cut carrot and chewed it in small mouths, saying, "Of course not, but it's not too far, guess again."

Simon paused and said, "Will your aunt come here?"

Then he was beaten.

Simon didn't hide, and smiled and said, "You asked me to guess."

"Well, my aunt will indeed come tomorrow, but there are Pat and Sarah."

Patrick Johnston and Sarah Keiston.

Simon remembered the Latin girl with the 'Devil' tattoo on her shoulders and asked with a smile: "What are they doing in Los Angeles?"

"Of course I'm visiting my sister," Janet said for granted, then changed his tone again, gloating: "Actually, the old man started urging the marriage."

"Then, they thought they could escape by running here?"

"It should be time to the UK."

The two of them unknowingly ignored the other person.

After saying a few words, Janet sat down on the stool next to the kitchen counter, lay on the kitchen counter with her arms supporting her face and continued to watch Simon prepare for dinner, and said for a moment, "Simon, I don't want to have another baby in the future."

Simon knew that Janet didn't like the feeling of having a big belly all day long, which was a very obvious bondage for women who liked to be free.

In this society, the lower the desire for childbirth is often, and to a large extent, there should be such a reason.

Simon nodded with a smile and said, "Then let's just give birth to this one."

Janet frowned again with distress and said, "But how could the Westeros have only one child? What if Mel did like Pat in the future?"

Since the baby is sure to be called Melbourne in the future, Janet also began to directly call the little guy's nickname.

Simon thought about Patrick Johnston's personality and was also a little worried. When he took himself to the Pike family's boxing ring to fight, Simon still wanted to beat up this brother-in-law.

However, now everything must follow Janet's tone first, and Simon said calmly: "Then you will teach him well in the future."

"I don't want to worry about it, I really want to throw him to my parents."

Simon continued to nod: "Well, it might be better to let them teach."

Janet looked at Simon and suddenly hummed twice.

Simon glanced at the rice porridge next to him, put the carrots that had just been cut in, and smiled and said, "What's wrong?"

"Do you want to have children with other women?"

"yes."

"Come on, let me call first."
To be continued...