Chapter 906: Evasion

Both Eric and Katzenberg hope that the expansion of the Firefly Studios theme park project will proceed quietly.

However, many things are destined to be difficult to achieve. On the second day after the opening of the "Titanic" themed exhibition hall, there were a lot of news in the media that the Firefly Group was about to build a theme park on the basis of Playa Vista Studios. He even professionally analyzed the most likely eastward expansion plan of Firefly Studios.

Later, the staff who had secretly been in contact with the residents on the east side of Firefly Studios for a period of time reported that all the residents who had almost agreed to sell their real estate backed out. Although most of them were willing to continue the negotiation, without exception, they raised the quotation to an unacceptable price. Some residents even offered a sky-high price of US$1 million for a property worth less than US$100,000.

In this case, you don't need to think too much about it. Someone must be playing tricks. As for who it is, it's easier to guess.

On the contrary, the plan to acquire 160 hectares of land west of Lincoln Avenue went very smoothly. As soon as Firefly Group proposed it, Playa Vista District agreed, and the offer was only 50% higher than the original purchase of the studio land by Firefly.

It is not difficult to imagine that Playa Vista is eager for the Firefly Group to build a theme park in its own urban area. After all, the prosperity of a large-scale theme park can not only pay hundreds of millions of taxes for the local area every year, but also create a large number of job opportunities. In the United States, taxation and employment are basically indicators for judging the performance of the governing system at all levels. From the federal president to the mayor of a small town, if you want to win the support of voters, you cannot escape these two indexes.

Due to the disruption, the plan to expand eastward will not work in the short term. The management had to let the theme park design team plan the land west of Lincoln Avenue as much as possible, trying to come up with a more feasible plan.

Eric secretly handed over his and Caroline's hair to Katzenberg on Saturday night, and the other party promised to hand over the results to Eric on Monday, but Katzenberg called apologetically the next day. The phone call said that the relative test of cousins ​​requested by Eric is more difficult, and it may take three days to get accurate results.

In this way, it was not until the second Wednesday, early in the morning, that Katzenberg brought a thick stack of appraisal reports in Eric's office in Firefly Studios.

"For the sake of confidentiality, I specially asked someone to take it to San Francisco for an appraisal," Katzenberg took out the appraisal report from the file bag and put it in front of Eric, and continued: "The report was just sent this morning. Here, the doctor in charge of the identification told me that they compared all 46 chromosomes of the two samples one by one, and selected nine preliminary matching chromosomes for further fixed-point detection. Among the 50 DNA loci samples of the nine chromosomes, Only one site was different, and the matching rate reached 98%, and then they took another 50 DNA sites for testing, and this time they all matched."

When Katzenberg said this, seeing that Eric had read the report intently, he stopped talking, greeted him softly, and left his office quietly.

The entire appraisal report has more than 20 pages, and the content is far more detailed than that of Katzenberg, and it also comes with a lot of professional comparison pictures.

Eric finished the report quietly, looked at the affirmative conclusion on the last page, was silent for a while, then got up and walked to the shredder, and stuffed the report in his hand into the shredder together with the kraft paper bag.

In all fairness, Eric has no interest in the life experience of this body. If it wasn't for Caroline, even if he noticed something, he wouldn't take the initiative to confirm it. After sorting out some details in his mind, Eric realized that perhaps, that woman had no intention of getting to know each other, which is actually the best.

He was staring at a pile of confetti in a daze when the office door was knocked twice. Eric responded and turned around.

Caroline walked in with a stack of documents and noticed Eric standing next to the shredder,

There was still a weird expression on his face when he looked at himself, and he asked in confusion: "Eric, what's wrong?"

"No," Eric shook his head and made a habitual joke: "I'm not used to it, I almost thought that elementary school students invaded my office."

Caroline wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction, but the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, ignoring Eric's teasing, she put a few folders on Eric's desk, and said: "These are all things you need to read today. Signed, in addition, Ms. Pascale called, MGM's negotiation with Rainbow Media has come to fruition, and she wants to make an appointment to talk to you."

"Call her now." Eric sat down behind the desk and said, "Also, I forgot to mention yesterday that I will reserve a seat in the restaurant on the ship at noon. I want to treat someone to dinner."

"Okay," Caroline nodded to write it down, and after confirming that Eric had no other orders, she turned and left the office.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Eric took out a pen from the pen holder and held it in his hand, then opened the first document, which was the next stage of the purchase plan of the Clover Fund.

Entering the end of July, Thailand's monetary and financial market has become a mess. International currency speculators have turned their attention to the Indonesian rupiah, the second piece of fat in Southeast Asia, after they have sucked the bones of Thailand.

Affected by the large-scale outbreak of the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, the North American Nasdaq Index has fluctuated quite frequently in the past month, and the original rapid upward trend has temporarily stopped.

Although there are more pessimistic remarks on the Nasdaq market, Eric understands that this is the last opportunity for Clover Fund to buy it stocks at a lower price. Therefore, in the next three months, Eric had someone draw up a stock investment plan of up to 1.5 billion US dollars, which also led to the original plan of 2 billion US dollars of stock investment this year, which will eventually be increased to 3 billion US dollars or more. However, the overall performance of the Firefly Group has increased in recent years, and hit films such as "Titanic" and "Finding Nemo" have brought Firefly a large amount of unexpected profits. Some of the criticisms, but there is no firm opposition.

Eric carefully read the purchase plan and looked at a list of popular high-tech companies. Eric suddenly remembered Larry Ellison, who hadn't heard from him for a long time, and didn't know the other party's plan to raise funds for the acquisition of Apple. How is it going.

Thinking in his heart, Eric picked up the phone and dialed it, and chatted for a few words. Although Larry Ellison had a warm tone, when talking about the acquisition of Apple, Eric noticed that Larry Ellison Sen was a little evasive when he spoke.

After hanging up the phone, Eric thought for a while, shook his head and smiled, then picked up the phone on the table and called Caroline, but it was Melanie who answered the phone. He didn't mind, and ordered: "Melanie , get someone to look up how Larry Ellison's plan to raise money to buy Apple is going." (To be continued.)