I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 496

[Chapter 493 The Wolf of Hollywood]

Joanna didn’t react as much as Virginia, and said with a smile, “If you’re not afraid of future children complaining that you’re naming them indiscriminately, just call Hawaiian . . . x.”

“It’s better than calling Kevin or Angie. Like, when you grow up, you find that there are a lot of people with the same name around, right?” Eric subconsciously began to complain again.

Seeing that Joanna agreed so easily, Virginia immediately felt a sense of loss that a toy she didn’t like was taken away like a treasure by others, and pulled Eric’s sleeve: “Ai Rick, there is another one.”

Eric thought for a while and shook his head: “No, the two names you just named are just for the little guy in your stomach, and Joan’s is called Hawaii. .” “Uh

…”

Virginia opened her mouth in dissatisfaction, but couldn’t speak, and Joanna laughed softly.

…

The news of Joanna’s sudden fainting during the filming of the movie has attracted a lot of media attention. Then, the spokesperson of Joanna’s agency suddenly announced that Joanna was withdrawing from the crew due to illness, but did not say what Joanna got. disease, and thus aroused all kinds of speculation.

In this case, the news of Virginia’s withdrawal from another movie of Carlock Films was dug up by the paparazzi almost at the same time. The relationship between the two women’s best friends is not a secret in the circle, and the sensitive media immediately realized it. There is some kind of unknown inside story, so a lot of paparazzi began to hear the news.

Universal Pictures is naturally tight-lipped about the news of Joanna’s resignation.

Michael Eisner called after learning that Eric had rushed back to New York, and Eric naturally had to take the initiative to owe this favor.

As for Carlock.

This film company, which is backed by German investors, has always had deep pockets because of Germany’s special film tax rebate policy. It is famous for making high-investment films, and likes to cooperate with internationally renowned stars such as Schwarzenegger and Stallone. It is the first investment in space and time. The over 100 million movie “Terminator 2” is the work of Carlock Films.

However, the Germans just want to make money from movies, and don’t want to offend Hollywood’s local snakes.

After promising some cooperation conditions, Eric didn’t even spend a penny in liquidated damages.

Take Virginia’s contract back.

After dealing with these things, Eric planned to bring the two girls back to Los Angeles. The temperature in New York at the end of September had dropped to below 20 degrees, and Southampton, in the suburbs of New York, looked even colder.

It’s not very suitable for pregnant women, but Virginia doesn’t know what to think, but she doesn’t want to go back to Los Angeles. Eric has no choice but to stay temporarily. However, in order to prevent the paparazzi from finding Virginia’s house, Ai Rick had to temporarily rent a mansion in neighboring East Hampton and

moved in with two women.

Eric returned to New York for three days because of good secrecy.

The news has never been revealed, but Eric couldn’t hide it from those close to him.

Especially Chris Hansen, who has been living in New York.

“Eric, didn’t Chris say come at twelve o’clock, it’s been five minutes now, do you want to call and ask?” Virginia stuck her head out of the kitchen and shouted to Eric .

Eric glanced at his watch and said, “Don’t worry. Maybe something happened, and also. Don’t make trouble in the kitchen, right?”

“I’m afraid the food they cook doesn’t suit your taste.” Virginia rolled her eyes at Eric, then turned around and walked into the kitchen, commanding the cook.

Although Eric said this, he also felt a little strange. Chris has always been a very punctual person and will not be late for no reason.

After thinking for a while, Eric picked up the remote control to turn off the TV, got up and walked out of the villa.

Joanna, who was reading in the corridor, saw Eric come out and looked here. Eric pointed to the door, picked up a pair of sunglasses, and walked out.

East Hampton is located at the easternmost point of Long Island. There are more top billionaires living here than Southampton. Spielberg owns a five-hectare manor called ‘Gorgeous Farm’.

But wealthy people who buy property in East Hampton are usually just thinking about escaping the heat, because the summer here is so pleasant.

It is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of the residents who are like migratory birds have returned to more livable residences, so the town seems a little deserted and empty.

Just as Eric walked out of the gate, he saw Chris driving over in a white BMW sedan with his girlfriend Emily Brighton sitting in the co-pilot.

The two also saw Eric, slowed down the car and greeted him before driving the car into the yard.

After handing the gift to the servant, Chris said apologetically, ” Eric

, I’m so sorry, I’m late. I just met an acquaintance when I was passing by, and I had to get out of the car and say hello.”

After Chris and Emily hugged, they said, “It’s okay, it’s not a serious date, but I’m curious about who can make you stop and say hello.”

Chris smiled and walked over to him again. Virginia and Joanna greeted each other, and said to Eric: “Remember when we first met, didn’t you say the wolf of Wall Street, that guy just now is the standard Wolf of Wall Street, As a financial expert, I only worked with Morgan Stanley for a period of time because of a single business. This person has a bad reputation among investors, but I admire his capital operation methods. ”

Oh, now I’m more curious, what’s his name, have I heard of it?”

“Ron Perelman,” Chris said a name, and continued: “I don’t think you I’ve heard of it.”

Eric was about to nod his head when Chris continued, “However, a company he recently ran has some connections with Hollywood, the Marvel Entertainment Group, which is mainly engaged in comic book publishing, as well as toy production. and animation companies and the like.”

Eric suddenly raised his eyebrows when he heard the name, and stopped subconsciously: “Marvel Comics. Of course I have heard of this company.”

“Not Marvel Comics, Marvel Entertainment Group is the parent company of Marvel Comics.”

“Okay, please don’t talk about these things. Come in, it’s time to eat,” Virginia quickly reminded when the two men seemed to be standing outside the door to chat.

“Okay, let’s go in,” Eric reluctantly gestured to Chris, but said, “Tell me about this company later. I’m very curious.”

“No problem,” Ke Rees said: “But I have another surprise for you. Well, well, let’s have dinner first.” The

group chatted and laughed and walked into the restaurant, where the servants had already placed the meals on the table.

Eric personally brought red wine to Chris and Emily, poured some for himself, and put the wine bottle aside, and the two women drank the juice intuitively.

Seeing this scene, Emily Brighton raised her eyebrows slightly, glanced at her boyfriend, and hesitated.

“They’re pregnant and can’t drink,” Eric noted Emily’s expression.

He took the initiative to explain that he had never thought of denying his child, and of course there was no need to hide it from relatives and friends.

“Actually, you can drink a little.” Emily was a little surprised at Eric’s calmness, and then said with a casual smile, but quickly shook her head: “However, it’s better not to drink.”

Eric also Then he smiled and said to Chris, “That’s right, Chris. That one just now, about the Marvel Entertainment Group. Can you tell me about it?”

Although the two did not meet often, Chris was still very familiar with Eric. ‘s: “Are you interested in this company?”

“Sure, you should have seen the success of the Batman franchise, right?”

“Batman Returns sucks in my opinion, I’m a comic book fan,” Chris shook his head regretfully, but quickly got to the point: “If you want to win Marvel Entertainment If so, now is not a good time. Didn’t I just say that Ron Perelman is a master at playing capital. He made his fortune by acquiring companies and then selling them, just like you did in “Pretty Woman” It’s like Edward. I remember that Ron Perelman spent 80 million dollars to buy most of the assets of the Marvel Entertainment Group three years ago, but he didn’t buy these for business purposes, and, over the past few years, Marvel Entertainment The business has also been declining, but, guess how much Ron Perelman has made from Marvel Entertainment in recent years?”

After Chris finished speaking, Virginia couldn’t help it: “It cost 8,000 yuan. If

you buy it, you will earn at least half of it, right?”

“You underestimate these wolves of Wall Street too much,” Chris smiled and looked at the crowd: “Let’s guess.”

Joanna smiled reservedly, obviously She didn’t know anything about it and didn’t want to guess.

Emily, who was sitting next to Chris, thought for a while and said, “Based on the investment returns of those Wall Street tycoons, I think that in three years, the annual 30% profit should double to 80 to 100 million. Left and right.”

“No, it’s still too conservative, Eric, what do you think?” Chris looked at Eric again.

Eric shrugged: “I don’t care, he definitely doesn’t earn as much as me anyway.”

“Uh…”

“Haha…” Seeing Chris’s expression as if he was choked, the three women laughed at the same time .

Chris also smiled and said, “This is different. The opportunities brought about by the Gulf War will never be encountered by many people in their entire lives. Most of this depends on luck. They are real strengths.”

“Okay, Chris .

, stop going in circles, and reveal the mystery to everyone.”

Chris nodded and said, “Five hundred million dollars.”

“No, so much?” Emily couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Indeed, this is still a number that has been published,” Chris said firmly.

Eric also became curious: “Didn’t you just say that Marvel Entertainment’s business has been losing money, so how did he make it?”

Chris said: “In the past three years, Ron Perelman has used the Marvel Entertainment Group as a As collateral, through the issuance of bonds, at least US$500 million was cashed out from the capital market.”

“How could someone be so foolish as to buy bonds from a company worth only US$80 million, and buy 500 million? ”

That’s why I said that Ron Perelman is the real wolf of Wall Street. He sold all the corporate bonds worth $500 million with his superb capital operation methods. These bonds have now been returned to the The junk bonds of the class and the lowest level, once they expire, if Amazed Entertainment cannot repay on time, the company may go bankrupt and reorganize at any time, but Ron Perelman has received $500 million in funds to use in other Business.”

Joanna couldn’t help but softly interjected at this time: “This should be illegal, right?”

Chris smiled, but made an expression that you understand, Emily took the initiative to explain: “If It should be illegal to look into it, but I haven’t seen a few Wall Street tycoons put in jail between bankruptcy, and as long as they don’t make a comeback, the law basically doesn’t have much effect on these people. I think even in the future He was brought to court by those bondholders, and the compensation he made was only a tiny fraction of the profits generated by the $500 million.”

Chris hummed in agreement and said to Eric: “So, Ai Rick, if you want to take down the Marvel Entertainment Group, now is not a good time, as long as you have this idea now, and Ron Perelman finds out, then you can just wait to be the culprit.”

“Then if If you want to buy Marvel Entertainment, when do you think I should do it?” Eric asked.

Chris thought about it and said, “Ron Perelman has basically drained the value of Amaze Entertainment Group. I think he will treat this company as a company for at most two years. If you are really interested, I can help you collect some information, and then we will wait for the right time to shoot.”

“Then you should hurry up, Chris, take this matter as a very important thing. Let’s do it,” Eric said solemnly: “I have also seen some comics from Marvel, and they have much more popular comic characters than they have. I think the value of this company is definitely much higher than imagined.

” Reese stopped his movements and glanced at Eric: “So, you are planning to buy this company?”

“Of course, I am serious.”

“Well, I will put this matter on In my heart.” Chris nodded, and everyone changed the subject immediately. Because of Eric’s calmness, everyone did not shy away from the pregnancy of the two women. Eric also asked about Chris and Emily’s plans. When will you be married.

“It depends on what she means, but the last time my dad came to New York, he also hoped that we could at least get engaged first,” Chris was a little helpless when he heard this question, and Emily lowered her head uncharacteristically this time, as if she was a little embarrassed .

(To be continued)

[End of this Chapter]