Chapter 329 (1/2)

On the second day of the leibulde's dinner, Janet began to negotiate with Blackstone Group to acquire the equity of Blackstone financial management company.

Busy, Thursday will come soon.

Blockbuster chose to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Simon and Janet got up at seven o'clock and went directly to downtown. Wayne hueizanga, chairman and CEO of blockbuster, and Amy from danielis entertainment have arrived.

After a quick breakfast, everyone came to the hall of the NASDAQ Exchange on 42nd Street, which was already crowded.

In addition to the management of danielis and blockbuster, we also invited Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton and other movie stars to help us today.

If other companies want to do so, an expensive appearance fee is inevitable, and it is not necessary to get it. For danilisi entertainment, it can only be solved by a few calls. It's because the invited filmmakers who live in New York often don't even need to pay for the travel expenses.

Simon's presence is also of a helping nature.

After eight o'clock, with Janet showing her face in front of the media, they temporarily hid in the lounge upstairs of the exchange, waiting for the bell ringing ceremony.

Robert De Niro and others arrived one after another.

Simon also met Katherine Bigelow, whom he hadn't met for a while.

Catherine lived in New York most of the time after ”Blue Angel of thunderbolt.”.

Simon can feel that a woman is obviously deliberately alienating her from herself, and he doesn't demand it. Catherine has always been the kind of very independent personality, can not become a vassal of someone, Simon does not want Catherine to become his own vassal.

”This is a remake of an old 1962 film called” corner of terror ”, which tells the story of a convicted criminal taking revenge on the judge and lawyer who sent him to prison. Spielberg has been working on the script adaptation of this project for a long time, but he hasn't been shooting. He recently asked Martin and I if they are interested in taking over. Martin has seen Steve's script and thinks it's bad, so he's still hesitating. ”

The rest room.

Simon and De Niro are sitting on the sofa talking about recent events.

Martin Scorsese has been looking for his next new film while taking care of the later stage of ”good guy”. DeNiro is about to join the group and start shooting a biographical film ”ask the sky without words”, which is expected to be released at the end of the year. This makes him still maintain a relatively high yield of two big screen works this year.

The ”corner of terror” we are talking about now can only be counted as next year's project.

The box office of ”corner of terror” in my memory is very good, but since it's a project led by Spielberg, Simon doesn't intend to intervene.

Of course, if ”corner of terror” is shot by universal as it was in the original time and space, and Simon can win universal this year, the film will still be in his own hands.

Amy and James have been paying close attention to the trend of MCA recently. Simon's plan is to find the right time to formally launch a tender offer to MCA after cersei's M & a business team is established. Such a business can just help cersei's M & a business team open up the situation.

After chatting with De Niro and others for a while, Simon gets up and comes to Janet and Catherine who are hiding and talking.

January is the coldest time of the year in New York. When we enter the room, we all take off our thick coats. Catherine is wearing a black turtleneck and is intimately leaning by Janet, who is wearing a white sweater. Naturally, she feels a little more comfortable.

This is a sofa for three. Catherine is next to an armrest. Janet was sitting in the middle.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet, who had been entangled with Catherine, immediately moved to the other side and gave Simon the middle position.

Simon also sat down impolitely, and saw that Catherine moved slightly to the side, so he deliberately leaned against the woman. Naturally, he lost a white eye.

Jeanette came to Simon's shoulder with a smile and said to Katherine across the man, ”look, you're still such a jerk.”

Simon pretended dissatisfaction and said, ”when you say that, should you avoid the client?”

Janet said, ”just to let you hear.”

Katherine looked at the bickering with a smile and said, ”I saw you fighting with people in Melbourne. Don't be like this again. You'll get hurt.”

Simon nodded and asked, ”how's your new film going? Can I help you?”

Katherine's new film is called ”shock point”, which is roughly regarded as a police and bandit film.

Simon has some impressions of the film. One of Keanu Reeves's early works, and Patrick Switz, the hero of ghost, are also involved in the film. The film's surfing and skydiving action plays are very classic. Although the anarchist views expressed are not popular with mainstream film critics, they are very successful in business and have a group of very loyal fans.

Until many years later, Megan Fox, a Hollywood actress who became famous by virtue of transformers, named her son Bodhi after the role played by Patrick Swayze in thriller point.Katherine heard Simon's question as if nothing had happened. She looked at the little man beside her with a smile and said, ”warner has officially set up the project. Kenu and Patrick also agree to participate in the performance. It will probably start shooting in the second half of the year.”

The cost of ”Thriller” is expected to exceed $20 million, which is already a big production for Catherine.

Hollywood's prejudice against female directors is deep-rooted. Without Simon's help, Warner would not have agreed to invest so readily, and the original kenu Reeves and Patrick Switz would not have agreed to participate.

Catherine knew all this.

We were chatting. The time soon came to a quarter past nine. The staff came in to inform us that the bell ringing ceremony was about to begin, and everyone got up and left the lounge.

The exchange is already overcrowded.

Simon and others appeared on the stage, and the flashing light in the hall immediately went on again.

After Wayne hueyzanga's speech, everyone came to the operating desk and pressed the trading button together. The bell ringing ceremony was completed.

Next is the inquiry stage before opening.

Because the subscription demand during the roadshow was very strong, compared with the initial recommended price of US $13 to US $15, blockbuster's offering price was finally set at US $17, with 15 million new shares issued and US $255 million raised.

255 million US dollars, which is enough for the expansion of blockbuster in the next year.

Therefore, shareholders and management unanimously rejected the underwriter's proposal to increase the circulation.

In the first round of inquiry, the quotation jumped directly to the range of US $17.5 to US $18.5.

After completing their platform task, Simon and his party will leave temporarily. There will be a celebration reception at noon. Today's guests can decide whether to attend or not according to their own arrangements.