New York 2006

Chapter 270 Reactions from around the world

Taylor, who is currently hosting the Let It Go and Love global tour in St. Louis, Missouri, came to Osaka Castle Concert Hall in the afternoon to finish preparations, and then gathered with the tour team in a large room at the backstage of the venue, watching TV and eating pizza and chatting.

Taylor asked her mother beside her: "Are you ready for the super fan party after the concert?"

"Okay, drinks, snacks, game consoles and TVs are all ready."

"That's good." Taylor felt a little proud in her heart. She was the one who came up with the super fans party after the concert, and she paid special attention to this party.

During each concert, she will send a team of people to randomly search for ardent hardcore fans, fans wearing fancy clothes and slogans, or fans who are having a great time, and invite them to the after-concert party to hang out with them. Meet in person.

This party has now spread throughout the fan community and is known as the T Party.

Many people who came to the concert held signs, hoping to get passes to the T party.This virtually increased the popularity of the concert.

My mother asked with some concern: "Can you still hold on to the high-intensity concerts these days?"

"Totally OK!" Taylor was very excited: "Mom. Don't you know me yet? Standing on the stage is my dream."

"Okay, but you still have to pay attention to your health..." My mother said halfway, and suddenly looked around with some doubts. The tour team who had been chatting just now all quieted down and concentrated on watching TV.

One person took the remote control and turned up the sound, perhaps because he couldn't hear clearly.Taylor and his mother, who were sitting a little further away, also heard the sound on the TV.

On the TV was FOX News, and the host said: "Today at noon, the Marvel acquisition case that lasted for more than a month finally came to an end. Logic officially completed the acquisition of Marvel at a price of 38 billion U.S. dollars."

The TV screen switched and we came to a room. The signing ceremony was over. Logic and a group of people stood in front, accepting interviews from reporters and taking photos.

In addition to her ex-boyfriend, Taylor recognized two other people, one was John Waldron of Goldman Sachs and the other was Musk.None of the others knew themselves.

Alas, how does that fair and fat Chinese American steal the spotlight?
The reporter asked: "Logic, after you complete the acquisition of Marvel, what will you do with Marvel next?"

"I will continue to maintain Marvel's independent brand and will not interfere too much in the normal operations of Marvel."

Luo Ji on TV continued: "Of course, I acquired Marvel because I was optimistic about the Marvel Cinematic Universe strategy. Therefore, I will inject capital into Marvel to solve Marvel's financial difficulties and ensure Marvel's cinematic universe strategy. It can be implemented smoothly. I believe that next year, there will be two Marvel movies to meet you."

The TV screen returned to the studio at this time, and the host asked a white male guest: "What do you think of Logic's acquisition?"

The white male guest said: "To be honest, I'm not optimistic. Logic's acquisition of Marvel this time is too expensive, with a price-to-earnings ratio of 40 times. I don't think Logic is the investment genius the media calls him. He's like an impulse. A patient young man who wants to get what he wants by any means necessary.”

The host said: "Indeed, according to insiders of this acquisition, the reason why they agreed to such a high offer from Marvel was because Logic lost patience after long negotiations, so he finally agreed to Marvel's offer. .”

After watching the news, the tour team glanced at Taylor from time to time, trying to see her reaction.But I only saw her talking to her mother, and there was nothing unusual about her.

Mom looked at Taylor and said, "I remember you said that you lent Logic 6000 million yuan, so he used it to acquire Marvel?"

"Yeah." Taylor's eyes were a little dodgey.

Mom looked at Taylor's reaction and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have no problem with this at all. Besides, he originally earned most of the 6000 million for you. I completely understand you lending him money for emergencies. "

Taylor touched his head, looked at his mother and said with some anxiety: "Well, after the news of his acquisition of Marvel broke out, I knew the purpose of his borrowing money, so I invested the 6000 million, which probably occupied 2.6% stake.”

Mom was stunned for a while and then said: "He, didn't he object?"

"No, he agreed."

Mom asked tentatively: "Um...what exactly do you think?"

"Of course it's for investment purposes." Taylor said nonchalantly: "SolarCity, which I invested with him at the beginning, has increased in value by about 1.8% after one round of financing. It has increased four times. His investment vision is still very good."

Mom said with some suspicion: "Don't you have any other purpose?"

Taylor said angrily: "What's the purpose? I'm just friends with him now."

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In the Hollywood Hills, Kristen and her best friend Dakota were sitting at home, watching TV, chatting and spanking.

Dakota asked with some confusion: "Did you successfully audition for the female lead in Warner's "The Book of Eli" some time ago?"

"Successful." Kristen said, "Filming will start in May."

Dakota said with some envy: "This is a big investment of 8000 million, starring Denzel Washington, you are so lucky!"

Kristen also has vanity, and whispered mysteriously: "The director originally chose Mila Kunis, but in the end, Warner CEO David Zaslav said hello, and they chose me."

Dakota said in surprise: "Do you still know the CEO of Warner?"

"Where did I go to meet this big shot?" Kristen waved her hand in embarrassment: "It was Logic who said hello to him before he intervened."

"Okay." Dakota didn't doubt the truth of her best friend's words, she believed it in an instant.She just felt a little sour in her heart.

Because a newspaper said some time ago that Warner released "Twilight" globally last year and earned at least [-] million US dollars. Logic and Warner are currently in a honeymoon period.

Suddenly, the local entertainment station in Los Angeles appeared on TV with her best friend and boyfriend Logic.Both of them looked at it seriously.

This is a gossip show that likes to find a few female guests of various ethnic groups to talk about celebrity scandals.

A white female guest asked: "Will Logic and Taylor get back together?"

The female host said doubtfully: "Why do you say that?"

The white female guest looked surprised: "Didn't you read the financial news this morning? This time Logic formed a consortium to acquire Marvel. He personally invested 13.4 billion US dollars, occupying 58% of the shares. Taylor invested 6000 million US dollars. , occupying 2.6% of the shares.”

Dakota, who was in front of the TV, looked at her best friend with schadenfreude.The joyful expression on her face just now disappeared, replaced by a solemn expression.

Hum hum, I told you to show off just now.

"This doesn't mean anything. They have invested in the company SolarCity together before." The female host continued: "Moreover, after the Grammys, they both said that they are now friends. I think this is just normal business. cooperate."

"I think so too." Another Chinese female guest said: "I think Logic might get together with Kristen?"

The host said: "Are you talking about Twilight Girl?"

"Yeah." The Chinese female guest continued: "Twilight has been single since she broke up with her ex-boyfriend last year. And Logic has also been single after the divorce. Let's take a look at the interaction between the two of them at the Oscars."

The TV screen changed, showing a scene of Luo Ji "when he was sick" at the Oscars.The interaction between the two is very close.

Kristen saw this scene and a smile appeared on her face.

The words of the white female guest interrupted her smile: "This doesn't mean anything, it's just the concern of the crew colleagues."

"What you said is possible, but don't you think the two of them are a good match?" the Chinese female guest continued: "They are the Twilight group!" The white female guest immediately retorted: "I don't think so, I still think he and Taylor A better match."

On television, the Taylorists and Twilighters argued about this.

The female host saw that the situation was about to get heated, so she tried to smooth things over: "What you two said makes sense. I suggest that the paparazzi pay attention to the three of them. Maybe they can dig out some great information!"

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Netizens acted very quickly and put the video clips about Luo Ji in today's news into a post.

The male host said eloquently: "Watch international news below. Today, Luo Ji, a well-known Chinese entrepreneur, singer, and actor in the United States, officially acquired the famous American comic and film company Marvel Entertainment for a price of 38 billion U.S. dollars. . Below is an interview with him by our reporter."

The screen switched to a female reporter holding a microphone and interviewing in Mandarin: "Mr. Luo Ji, what is your purpose in acquiring Marvel this time?"

"I like comics very much and have been reading them since I was a child." Luo Ji said seriously, "I am also very optimistic about Marvel's superhero strategy, so this acquisition was made."

The female host then asked: "So, do you have any plans to make a Chinese superhero movie next?"

Luo Ji smiled and said, "Of course, the Chinese superhero Shang-Chi is a strategy that Marvel has already formulated. I just need to follow their plan."

"Will you play this role?"

"Probably not." Luo Ji smiled and said, "My focus is still on music. Just filming "Twilight" made me a little tired. Human energy is limited."

The female host then said: "Would you choose Chinese actors for this movie?"

Luo Ji said, "As long as you meet the requirements, I will consider it regardless of your nationality."

After about 3 minutes of interview, the screen returned to the studio.

The host continued: "In recent years, in addition to Luo Ji, many famous Chinese celebrities have emerged in the United States, including Oscar-winning director Li Yu, David Sun of Kingston Technology Co., Ltd., Tang Zhongying of Down Industries, Jerry Yang of Yahoo, and founder of Nvidia. Renxun Huang.

There are already hundreds of discussions under the post.

Who among you knows Shang-Chi? If a mainland star plays this movie, who should you choose?
Awesome, Luo Ji, on the news!
It seems that from now on we can no longer call him Luo Ji, but should call him Boss Luo.

Luo Ji, can you please stop doing your job? You are a singer, how come you have become an entrepreneur in the blink of an eye?

I’m a man and I just finished taking a logic class!
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At the same time, according to the "Lianhe Zaobao" report, the Marvel acquisition is also being discussed in the Chinese circles in Southeast Asia.During this period, it attracted the attention of some people, and some people started discussing it online.

"Hahahaha, have you noticed? At the signing site, that white and fat Chinese always steals the spotlight."

"I know him. He is Jho Low, a Chinese from Malaysia. I heard he is a billionaire. I didn't expect him to know Logic."

"Jho Low is very famous in Hollywood and is Lindsay Lohan's new boyfriend. He's a big shot."

"Don't talk about him, Logic is still awesome! This is 38 billion yuan!"

"The Light of the Chinese!"

Netizens only discussed the superficial aspects, while some elites analyzed the details of the acquisition.Singapore has established its national sovereign funds less than five years ago, and Temasek Investment Fund is one of them.

Temasek Fund's current scale exceeds $1000 billion and is very well-known around the world.

They noticed that one of the partners in this Marvel acquisition was the Malaysian sovereign fund. They invested 7000 million U.S. dollars, accounting for about 3%.

The Chinese head of Temasek Fund asked his cronies: "Why did Malaysia's sovereign foundation invest in Logic?"

"Maybe it's because of Low Taek Jho." The confidant replied: "He is a Malay-Chinese."

"Do you think we should get in touch with Logic?"

The confidant said: "If we want to get in touch, we do have opportunities now. In the past few months, Logic's Internet companies, Holi Game Company, and the Southeast Asian branch of WeChat have settled in Singapore. If we want to get in touch, we can contact them through them. "

The person in charge of Temasek thought for a moment: "Okay, you can ask someone to make arrangements."

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In Los Angeles, Disney CEO Robert Iger frowned as he looked at the Wall Street Journal in his hand.

He said to his cronies: "How come we just discussed the possibility of acquiring Marvel two days ago, and today the news broke that Logic has successfully acquired Marvel?"

"This must be a coincidence." The confidant said: "Didn't someone say it in the media? The long negotiations made Logic lose his patience, and he finally agreed to Marvel's price of 38 billion US dollars."

"Well, that guy Logic does seem quite impatient."

Disney CEO Robert Iger didn’t have too much doubt. He sighed: “To be honest, Marvel is really suitable for Disney. In recent years, we have won the [-] New Year Award with “Hannah Montana”, “Cinderella” and “Marvel”. With characters like Snow White, Disney has long been a popular brand with girls, but it hasn’t been as successful with boys. Marvel could have made up for that. We just discovered Marvel a little late.”

The confidant immediately said: "Whether Marvel's movie universe strategy will be successful or not remains to be seen."

"Marvel's Iron Man has been successful." Robert Iger said: "Don't look at the mainstream media saying that Logic's acquisition is not good and criticizing Logic, but that is only because Logic has achieved such a big success at such a young age. Success is just a little sour.”

"And he's half Chinese," the confidant added.

Robert Iger glared at his cronies: "Don't say such politically incorrect words in the future. Remember we are Jewish!"

"Okay." The confidant agreed immediately.

Robert Egger said: "Then activate the backup plan."

"Dark Horse Comics and Image Comics?"

Robert Egger said: "Image Comics is excluded. This company was established by cartoonists in order to obtain comic copyrights. The company itself does not have copyrights. After the acquisition is successful, it has to negotiate with those cartoonists one by one. It is very special. trouble."

"Uh-huh."

"Submit the proposal to acquire Dark Horse Comics to the board of directors as soon as possible."

The confidant nodded in agreement: "Okay."

Robert Egger thought for a while and continued: "Act quickly this time and submit it today. This is the only one left on the market. Maybe if it is slow, it will attract other competitors."

　Logic and others contributed 23 billion US dollars in cash, so the shareholding ratio was calculated based on this figure.Goldman Sachs's 15 billion belongs to mortgage loans and does not count shares.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)