I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 657

[Chapter 651 It will be gone soon]

“Ron, I’m a professional manager, not a capital player,” Avi Allard said, pointing to the outdated office supplies in the conference room, “Look at what you’ve done over the years, you only know that there is no Moderately squeeze any residual value of Marvel. Many people have left in the past few years. The company has no life and is still carrying huge debts. If it continues, Marvel will definitely die. I am just saving this company. , isn’t it?”

Ron Perelman’s face was a little embarrassed, but he immediately retorted angrily: “But you shouldn’t betray me, if you have any opinions, you can discuss it with me.

” Wei Arad heard Ron Perelman’s words, and almost wanted to laugh out: “Ron, don’t you really remember, how many times I’ve ‘consulted’ with you almost like a prayer Have you been?”

I don’t know if it was embarrassment or embarrassment, Ron Perelman burst into blood and emphasized again, almost incoherently: “You… don’t forget, I am the owner of this company. ”

It won’t be soon,” Avi Allard suddenly lost interest in talking with Ron Perelman, dropped the sentence coldly, and also walked out of the conference room.

More than half an hour later, Katzenberg, Avi Allard, Ron Perelman, and their respective lawyers gathered in another Marvel conference room.

As if he didn’t notice Ron Perelman, who had become aggressive again after cleaning up his emotions, Katzenberg opened the stack of thick documents that he had temporarily sorted out last night, and said straight to the point: “Ron, now you have two One option. First. Private settlement. Andrews Holdings pays a sum of money. Buys all outstanding Marvel shares on the market at the current share price, and then implements a 100% debt-to-equity swap strategy, handing Marvel to us, I Personally, I think this is the best way to solve the current situation.”

Hearing Ron Perelman’s cold snort, Katzenberg didn’t mind, and continued in a cold and formulaic tone, saying: “Then, second. We will file an application against Andrews Holdings for encroaching on Marvel. Investigate the behavior of debt financing. Although this investigation and subsequent litigation will be protracted, no matter how long it is delayed, and all the evidence is conclusive, you will still have to refund all the debt financing that embezzled Marvel. In addition, you will also face Huge fines vstyle_txt;, I assure you, there is not a billion dollars, you don’t want to understand this lawsuit, spend the billion dollars. I think you are not far from bankruptcy.”

Sitting Ron Perel A middle-aged man next to Mann said, “Mr. Katzenberg, can I take it that you are intimidating my client?”

Katzenberg glanced at Ron Perelman’s lawyer.

With a half-smile, he said, “You should know that I’m a movie maker, so don’t use the usual lines in movies to talk nonsense on this occasion. It will make you look very

unprofessional.”

The cheeky,

ignorant of Katzenberg’s sarcasm insisted: “Mr. Katzenberg, you didn’t answer my question.”

Katzenberg shrugged: “I didn’t intimidate your client, I’m just stating a basic fact, and some determination of the Firefly Group.”

Ron Perelman stopped the private lawyer who wanted to say anything, and said to Katzenberg: “Jeffrey, these two I will not choose any of these conditions. Don’t forget, Marvel’s bankruptcy protection period is one month. As long as I can come up with a reasonable solution to the current matter within one month, Marvel will still be mine. Don’t even try to steal it.”

“Yes, it’s a month, but…” Katzenberg said contemptuously: “You can’t come up with any way to bring Marvel back to life, because the current Marvel is just an empty space. Shell, except for the toy department, which can barely function, Marvel movies, empty shell; Marvel TV, empty shell; music department, empty shell; even the root of Marvel, the comics department, responsible for two years ago “X-Men”, “Fantastic Four” and other major popular comics, the seven main writers have all left, and now they are no different from empty shells, Mr. Ron Perelman, tell me, how do you plan to make Marvel come back to life?”

Ron Perelman roared at Katzenberg without hesitation: “Don’t think I don’t know, Firefly Group doesn’t care what you say at all, what you really want is just comics. The superhero copyright of Marvel is just, I tell you, you will never succeed, I would rather sell Marvel to any third party for a dollar, and not give it to Firefly.” Katzenberg,

who was already very hot Grid also raised his voice: “But you don’t have the authority to sell Marvel a dollar to a third party now, because the federal court will not allow you to do this kind of action that damages the interests of creditors, even if you want to sell, you can only Sell it to Firefly.”

“Don’t even think about it, I’ve always been the only one who stole things from others, and no one can snatch away what belongs to me.”

“Do you think it’s still the 1980s? Go to Xiacheng District and see. , De Chong Securities has long ceased to exist, no—exist—exist—!”

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The already very unfriendly meeting soon broke out into a heated quarrel, with almost no time between the two sides. When they were about to face each other, Avi Allard and others who were watching came back to their senses and quickly pulled Katzenberg and Ron Perelman away.

After frantically dropping the entire office, Ron Perelman finally calmed down and left Marvel headquarters with his lawyer and assistant without saying hello.

Eric, who was in Los Angeles, immediately learned the news of the conflict between the two from Avi Arad, who was worried that things would change again because of this quarrel, but he was not too worried. To take down Marvel, Eric could have put Frank Wells in charge of it, but doing so would only give Ron Perelman an inch.

Katzenberg’s strong and irascible character is just right to restrain Ron Perelman’s insatiable greed.

After the first negotiation broke up unhappily, Ron Perelman did not continue to contact Firefly, but flew to Los Angeles immediately, in an attempt to once again transfer the burden of Marvel, a doomed burden, to several major Hollywood studios. Hollywood, with all its eyes on Disney’s animation department, still ignored Ron Perelman.

Even Michael Eisner, who realized that it was impossible to get Panasonic’s support to acquire the animation department, did not intend to take action, because he also realized with great regret that the Japanese would also not support Universal because of the conflict between Marvel and Firefly.

Subsequently, Ron Perelman still did not give up to test some companies interested in the entertainment industry.

But most of the weaker companies do not want to provoke the capital power represented by the first and second richest people in the United States at the same time.

Companies with sufficient strength also realize that if they want to solve the predicament of Marvel, they need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in funds, but even if they grab Marvel and want to develop Marvel’s movie rights, they still cannot do without the support of Hollywood.

And as Hollywood’s biggest local snake, Firefly will certainly not let these outsiders who have robbed their ‘prey’ have a good life, and in the end it will not be worth the gain.

In desperation, Ron Perelman even came up with the idea of the firefly long-term bond in his hand.

But in the end it was still nothing, UU read www.sonicmtl.com not to mention that the bond of Andrews Holdings was only worth $400 million, which could not make up for Marvel’s deficit, and realized that Ron Perelman’s recent In a dilemma, those investment companies that are interested in taking over the bonds offer lower prices one by one, and the highest bid is also discounted by 10%. Ron Perelman is also unacceptable.

After more than a week, the Firefly didn’t seem to have any intention of urging, but Ron Perelman found that he was at a dead end.

If the stalemate continues, and after a month of bankruptcy protection, there is still no feasible company restructuring measures, and Marvel will face forced bankruptcy liquidation.

Early in the morning of August 21, Avi Allard just sat in his office when he received a call from Ron Perelman, a hoarse voice in the microphone barely supported the last bit of strength: “I don’t want to see you again. To Jeffrey Katzenberg, I want Eric Williams to interview me personally.”

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*(To be continued.)

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[End of this Chapter]