Chapter 324 (1/2)
Amy said: ”yes, but this year and next year are definitely not good. If everything goes well, the earliest IPO of the company will be in 1992.”
With the continuous expansion of business vision, Simon gradually no longer resists the issue of IPO. He also understands that if Denise entertainment wants to continue to grow in the future, it is necessary to go public no matter from all aspects.
Simon talked to Amy about this topic because of her salary contract.
At the beginning, Amy signed a contract with Simon, including the corresponding cash dividends and the same amount of equity awards. Although the outside world has a variety of valuations on Denise entertainment, the company has not been listed after all, and Amy's equity awards are difficult to quantify.
Amy's contract will expire at the beginning of next year. Simon hopes to postpone the equity award to her until the company goes public. Amy also agrees.
When Nancy heard Amy say this, she grasped another meaning in her words acutely and repeated tentatively, ”if everything goes well?”
”Don't speculate,” Amy interrupted with a smile. ”Speaking of it, the main building of Malibu Daniels studio has been completed. Would you like to have a look tomorrow and choose an office building to design and decorate?”
”Of course, I won't save money for our boss.”
Nancy said, still can't help thinking about what just happened.
Cersei capital has accumulated a large amount of funds overseas. As long as it is not too stupid, it should be clear that this money can only be spent as soon as possible to reflect its value. Hoarding will only devalue in the continuous inflation.
Among the companies in the westero system, Daniels entertainment is the most suitable and needed to use this fund for large-scale expansion. Obviously, the expansion target will only be the top seven Hollywood companies.
Nancy has even locked in the merger target in the twinkling of an eye.
Now, Columbia and MGM, the seven biggest Hollywood companies, have just changed hands. They can't be sold again in a short time. Simon should also look down on these two companies.
Rupert Murdoch is ambitious to build his own global media empire and will not sell fox.
Although paramount has just experienced the failure of rocket expert, the company's film business in the past two years has been excellent, and its stock price is on the high side. Paramount chairman Martin Davis has rejected several merger offers in recent years and is not a good target.
Time Warner is too big for Denise entertainment.
Disney is in a state of rapid recovery in recent years, and its stock price is growing rapidly. The bass family and Disney family, which hold a large number of shares in the company, will not sell easily.
Finally, only MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, is left.
If it was Nancy herself, she would not hesitate to choose MCA.
Besides movies, MCA's business in TV, music and theme park can form a strong complementarity to danielis entertainment. Moreover, Lu wassalman, the old chairman of MCA, did not resist outside acquisitions like Martin Davis.
The next afternoon.
Because it's Saturday night, there's a celebration party for Batman: the moment of war. Denise Entertainment's executives, big and small, all come to Malibu to check out the movie city park they will live in in the middle of this year.
The hillside, five kilometers from California Highway 1 to Malibu, is not what it used to be.
After a year of construction, the main buildings in the top-down three areas of the studio have been completed.
There are five three to five storey office buildings in the top administrative district, which are different from the old-fashioned small buildings and bungalow buildings in the traditional movie city. These five office buildings are all designed in the style of high glass curtain wall. The styles are different, and the simplicity shows the fashion and modern design aesthetic feeling.
In addition to the office, the five buildings also include restaurants, cafes, gyms and other staff activities and leisure areas.
On the second floor, the most prominent are three two-story factory office loft buildings with a length of 150 meters and a width of 30 meters. The appearance of loft is a combination of red brick walls, tempered glass and black steel beams. The roof also adopts loft style roof design, which is full of artistic style.
In this era, loft model office buildings have not yet sprung up.
Therefore, Simon surprised many people when he first drew the draft drawings himself, and the effect after the completion of the building was also excellent.
The three office lofts will accommodate creative departments such as Pixar Animation, Denise special effects, Blizzard studio and Marvel Entertainment's West Coast team.
At present, the scale of several teams in Pixar is not large. However, even considering the expansion factors in the future, the theoretical double-layer 9000 square meters of internal space in each office loft is enough to accommodate 500 to 1000 people.
In addition to the three office lofts, a large-scale circular FRP style activity center has been built on the second floor, covering an area of 2500 square meters. Inside, there is a hall with a capacity of 1200 people and several small halls with a capacity of 100 people, which can be used for film screening, holding parties and conferences.The bottom floor of the studio is six studios with different specifications and a large post production center.
Of course, these are just the main buildings in the studio.
In addition to only five office buildings on the top floor, there are other restaurants, shops, warehouses and dormitories on the second and third floors.
However, with a total area of 50 hectares, the area of all these buildings is not large.
Because of the popularity of cars in the United States and the lack of public transportation in Los Angeles, not counting the land used for greening and reserve, the largest area in the movie city is actually the parking lot. In the top-down three storey Park, there are six parking lots, large and small, which can accommodate 3000 cars under full load.
After walking around the studio, others are still visiting. Amy, Nancy and Jennifer come to the second floor near the guardrail of the parking lot on the edge of the cliff.
Leaning against the railings, there is a cliff more than ten meters under her feet. In the distance, there is a blue scene of sea and sky. Nancy took a deep breath and curiously pointed to the shell like building of domay point manor in the distance. She asked Jennifer, ”when can it be built there? It looks so beautiful?”
When Simon is not in Los Angeles, the female assistant has to balance the multiple roles of assistant and housekeeper.
Following Nancy's eyes, Jennifer said, ”it's going to be next year at the earliest. The interior decoration is very troublesome. A lot of things have to be customized.”
Nancy leaned forward enviously and said bitterly, ”if you want to build such a conspicuous villa, someone will say that boss is luxurious again. Hurst has been criticized for many years.”
William Randolph Hirst, the founder of Hirst group, spent most of his life building Hirst castle in San Simon, California. Until many years later, he has been criticized as a luxury by many people.
”Simon is just building a house that he likes. It's not as luxurious as hurst,” she said
Nancy nodded solemnly, but in a sarcastic tone, and said, ”yes, yes, Simon did everything right.”
Jennifer's face is reddish and she's going to ignore Nancy.
Nancy looked back, turned to look at the lofts on the second floor of the park, and said to Amy, ”I'd rather work in these loft like buildings. It's much better than those office buildings above. I think it's more creative for employees. ”
”So these three buildings are for Pixar and them,” Amy said. ”But if you really want to bring your own department to work here, you can. These lofts now have a lot of spare space. You can use the second layer of loft 3. ”
”That's settled. I'll take time to discuss the decoration plan with the designer.”
Nancy immediately nodded her head. She didn't care about the potential status difference between the administrative area on the first floor and the office area on the second floor. Her own comfort is the most important thing. Moreover, when the consumer goods department moved to the second floor, no one dared to despise it.
With that, Nancy looked around the open space and thought of yesterday again. She asked Amy tentatively, ”our office buildings in Santa Monica and Burbank are rented. Just move them over and return them. But Amy, it's empty enough. What if we have a second studio park? ”
The three men by the railing were extremely clever. Hearing what Nancy said, Jennifer looked at them suspiciously.
Nancy noticed the look in Jennifer's eyes and couldn't help joking: ”really, even Jennie knows. I'm going to be kept from you.”
As Simon's closest person in the company and James's relationship, Jennifer naturally knows that danilisi entertainment plans to acquire MCA. Although Simon is in Australia recently, he has been discussing this with James and Amy. Sometimes he needs a female assistant to help him deliver a message.
Amy said with a smile, ”then pretend you don't know. You're just the president of the consumer goods department. You really want to take my place.”