Heads Up Hollywood

Tang En went to see a ballet performance, quietly, without being known by the outside world.

However, news of his participation in the Tribeca Film Festival spread throughout New York.

The next day, he received as many as a dozen invitations to meet.

The chairman and CEO of NBC, Steve Burke, wanted to talk to him about movies, Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, wanted to have afternoon tea with him, and there were more Wall Street bankers, including Citigroup. , Goldman Sachs and other banks have also moved closer.

The current debt ratio of New Global Group is too low to meet the listing standards.

It is rumored that the New Global Group will go public in 2006, such a grand plan, major investment banks must be involved.

Provide loans first, and then help with IPO financing!

Of course, even if the debt ratio is zero, if the company does too much, the government will force the company to go public after a long time. Only when it is listed can it accept public supervision, avoid many black-box operations, and be open and transparent.

The government can also better grasp the company's specific financial situation, and then collect statistics and comprehensively analyze the country's economic environment.

The current scale of New Global has been achieved, but there is not enough time to meet the standard for mandatory listing.

The debt is too low, and it does not meet the asset-liability ratio requirements of the China Securities Regulatory Commission for IPO companies, otherwise it will be suspected of misappropriating money.

In the coming year, New Global will inevitably have huge debts, at least US$10 billion in scale!

Tang En is an artist, he is not interested in Wall Street capitalists.

Moreover, he doesn't know anything about financial operations, so it's not easy to intervene rashly.

Professional things should be done by professional people.

New Universal Group has set up an "IPO Initiation Committee", including Dunn, Jobs, Jack Welch, Rudy Giuliani, Barry Diller, Robert Iger, Bill McNick, Dr. Randy Norris, Carol Melton and other major shareholders and key executives are among them.

The listing project has officially started.

For such a big matter, Tang En's personal will must also be subject to the committee's decision.

Dunn took the time to meet with Murdoch and chat about the British TV station.

At present, News Corporation holds Sky TV, but it does not fully hold it, mainly because of insufficient funds. This has led to Sky's board of directors being undisciplined, often making trouble and opposing decisions at the top.

Although Murdoch is an Australian, his style of doing things is completely American. As long as he can make money, he can do anything!

For example, Twentieth Century Fox, which is controlled by News Corporation, is dominated by the will of News Corporation, and there is almost no controversy among other shareholders.

Europeans are different, especially the British, who are popular with the aristocrats, who want to make money and be decent.

Murdoch was very irritable.

He no longer wants to cooperate with the British, but the American way, which is more commercial and marketable!

However, there are not many opportunities for operation.

Well now, Tang En appeared!

New Global Rise!

In particular, Dunn and the BBC have deep conflicts, which increases the possibility of cooperation between New Universal and Sky Television Network.

Murdoch believes that the opportunity has come!

If Twain can be pulled over and New Universal can buy the remaining shares of Sky TV, then it will be the best of both worlds.

Tang En can exert influence in the British media industry, and Murdoch can also smoothly control Sky TV.

Anyway, New Universal is rich!

In the first three quarters, New Global’s revenue reached US$22.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%, and its pre-tax profit also exceeded US$4 billion.

It can be called as rich as oil!

In particular, if New Global wants to go public, it will have to borrow money from banks to increase its debt ratio, and the cash flow will be even higher.

It is conceivable that in the next year or two, New Global Group will definitely make big moves!

A big move that can cost a fortune!

Taking a stake in Sky TV is an opportunity.

40% of the shares, based on the current size of Sky TV, will be worth between US$6 billion and US$8 billion.

Unexpectedly, Tang En refused immediately.

His attitude is clear.

Sky TV is mainly engaged in paid cable channels, headquartered in the UK, but its branches are almost all over Europe, and under the influence of News Corporation, its market share is getting higher and higher.

It can be said that the potential is very good.

However, Starz TV station under the New Universal Group, with the help of Comcast, is entering the European market.

At present, the European branch headquarters has been built in Germany.

Europe's pursuit of art is much higher than that of the United States, so the scale of acceptance is also larger.

Starz TV station is a restricted professional cable TV station in the United States, which is a niche station. But going to Europe is different. With the influence of excellent American dramas such as "Band of Brothers", "Vice President", "Six Feet Under" and "The Walking Dead", it will definitely become a popular TV station.

This will lead to some market competition between Starz TV and Sky TV in the future.

Once the deal is concluded, there will be more troubles in the future than the conflicts between the British and Murdoch!

It is absolutely impossible to invest in Sky TV.

However, Tang En still felt a headache.

Some lost their way.

The time to go public that is most in line with New Global's interests must be before the subprime mortgage crisis.

The subprime mortgage crisis has led to a tightening of monetary conditions around the world.

At that time, whoever has money will be the uncle!

At that time, the entire American economy was in decline, and the stock markets around the world were sluggish. All companies suffered a sharp decline in performance and were hit by a cash flow crisis.

Lehman Brothers, an investment bank including world-class giants, fell into bankruptcy.

With the help of the subprime mortgage crisis, selling those junk bonds in the futures market, of course, can make a lot of money, but the reputation is too bad. Even if you really make a lot of money, you will definitely be blacklisted by the Federal Reserve and the US government.

The loss outweighs the gain.

More importantly, the United States has a legal system of the sea and a jury system. The strictness of financial supervision is beyond imagination.

It is not judges who decide cases in the courts, but many other professionals recruited from the society, such as students, doctors, farmers, grocery store owners, and so on.

There are no laws in the legal system of the sea, only cases and the current social environment.

Especially the complex financial system, it is even more "follow one's inclinations".

Many members of the jury are illiterate, let alone understand the law, and their basis for judging cases is often to judge others by themselves. They will think: "If their children ruin their neighbors' property by reselling toys, then they will definitely punish the children severely. "

For the same reason, of course capitalists can't do this!

Then, the jury can arbitrarily give a conclusion-guilty.

So in the United States, if you can be private, you can do it privately, and if you can avoid going to the court, then don't go to the court.

The jury is mostly made up of poor people, and the mentality of sympathizing with the weak is very obvious, and it is very unfriendly to the powerful and powerful.

Rich people would rather be extorted from a large sum of money than go to court.

Moreover, even if you can get through various relationships, if you don't enter the court, it is not difficult to end well.

Soros used the baht, the British pound, and the Hong Kong dollar so aggressively back then, but he was strictly monitored by countries all over the world. The transfer of funds from his Quantum Fund was strictly regulated and restricted.

Then, several financial operations of Quantum Fund were hit, and a large number of investors withdrew their funds one after another, and quickly fell into disrepair.

Tang En couldn't do things like making money and getting a bad reputation.

The nature of the subprime mortgage crisis is too serious.

The destructive power is at least a hundred times that of the Internet bubble crisis!

Besides, Tang En even had foresight. The financial method of making money by reselling junk bonds is really a rookie's way of playing, and it's too low-level.

He can make a lot of money and become an international friend welcomed by countries all over the world.

Wielding a big stick of money, as a savior, to "save" those troubled companies, this is a good thing to gain both fame and fortune.

In 2006, New Global would expand its shares and go public. After the subprime mortgage crisis, they bought back the shares at a low price, in the name of benefiting shareholders...

There are too many benign financial means that can be used.

The invincible News Corporation started from the subprime mortgage crisis, and its performance declined rapidly like a roller coaster.

That would be the perfect time for New Universal to acquire 20th Century Fox from News Corporation!

Tang En's overall strategic vision for New Global is very clear.

Only now he has a headache.

It will be a few years before the attack on 20th Century Fox.

What about the near future?

You can't finish the loan and deposit all the money back to the bank, right?

Too much money, how to spend is also a problem.

...

After chatting with Murdoch once, Tang En met with Steve Burke and Salzberg, the boss of the "New York Times", and everyone else declined one by one.

But there was an invitation, but Tang En's eyes lit up.

It turned out to be her?

The editor-in-chief of "VOGUE", Anna Wintour, known as the "Queen of Fashion"!

Tang En has met her several times, and she can be seen at every Vanity Fair party after the Oscar ceremony, and the fashion ball at the Metropolitan Museum is even more handwritten by her.

Tang En didn't have much contact with her, so he was very interested in making friends with her.

Fashion is always a woman's favorite.

Both Natalie and Scarlett are like this, and Gal Gadot is even more exaggerated. I have told him several times on the phone that if she has the opportunity in the future, she wants to run her own fashion brand...

I don't know if I was a fool when I was a soldier. I didn't have any studies, but I thought about starting a business.

However, all the women made demands, so Tang En naturally wanted to take care of them.

This time, Anna Wintour's invitation was accepted without even thinking about it.

This was already the second day Tang En came to New York.

Sharapova flew over from Moscow specially to date Tang En.

Tang En didn't see anything either. That night, he bought a small gift, took Sharapova with him, and took a helicopter to a villa in the east of Long Island.

Anna Wintour is the queen of fashion, almost every woman's idol.

Especially women who are famous and have a pursuit of clothing, they simply regard Anna Wintour as their model.

Sharapova is happy.