Overall, Washimine's acquisition of Fox was very smooth.
After a simple government review and confirmation that there was no monopoly behavior, the federal government approved Washimine's acquisition.
After the relevant federal government departments announced the result, the deal worth tens of billions of dollars was officially completed.
According to the agreement, Washimine Group will pay the full amount within the next six months.
The first payment of $10 billion has already been deposited into News Corp's accounts.
For News Corporation, which has been troubled by a lack of capital for a long time, this is like a blessing in disguise.
In addition, Washimine Entertainment finally stopped its actions of attacking News Corporation, and the News Corporation's "phone-hacking scandal" finally did not deteriorate to the final stage.
But everyone understands that after suffering such a disaster, News Corporation is unlikely to become a world-class company again.
Old Murdoch finally managed to preserve the Murdoch family's position in News Corporation.
But as a price, a large number of News Corporation executives, including Murdoch Jr., became scapegoats for the incident.
What awaits these people is jail.
Nanaya was very moved when he heard that Murdoch Jr. was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison.
In order to make the other party's prison life more comfortable in the next few decades, Nanaya specially prepared three boxes full of gifts for him.
Inside are condoms added with wind oil, underwear added with wind oil, enema added with wind oil, and lubricant added with wind oil.
Nanaya believed that these things would bring the other party a very "comfortable" prison life experience.
Well, the kind that lets out heart-wrenching howls every day.
Shion was not as fierce as Nanaya, and she was kind enough to hire a professional medical team.
To ensure that little Murdoch's body can always be in the best condition to "enjoy" the seven-night Fengyoujing package.
After the deal was actually reached, Washimine, as the winner of this war, naturally began to count the spoils.
In addition to the previous Blue Sky Studios, what makes Washimine Entertainment most happy is Fox's copyright library.
"Star Wars", "Night at the Museum", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Avatar", "Predator", etc.
These successful commercial film series IPs are the best gifts Fox has left to Washimine Entertainment.
Among them, the return of Marvel character copyrights undoubtedly made Marvel even happier.
Although Marvel Studios, led by Kevin Feige, has no plans to add the "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" series to the MCU for the time being.
The former already has a relatively complete worldview and a fixed fan base.
Forcibly joining the MCU would not only disrupt their own plans, but would also cause dissatisfaction among fans.
As for the latter, the impact of the failure of "Fantastic Four" in previous years has not yet ended.
This IP needs to be refrigerated for a while.
The return of these characters is not without its benefits, though.
The story of "X-Men" can be continued. In Nanaya's memory, "First Class ", "Days of Future Past", "Logan 3" and "Deadpool" are all very successful commercial films. There is no reason why Washimine would not come to shoot them.
On the other hand, it will at least be much easier for Marvel to make MCU movies in the future.
For example, Scarlet Witch was finally able to use her own code name instead of always being called Wanda.
When filming "Guardians of the Galaxy", there was no need to be humble and ask Fox for the copyright.
These are the advantages Washimine has gained after acquiring Fox's part of the Marvel character copyright library.
The above-mentioned ones are still the most luxurious parts of Fox's copyright library, just like strawberries on a cream cake.
It is the most delicious and essential part, but the real highlight is not this.
The copyrights to more than 20,000 film and television dramas, a script library that fills several rooms, and countless copyright agreements.
These are the true values of Fox, a century-old company.
Now, everything that Fox has accumulated since 1934 has become Washimine's collection.
Washimine Entertainment is just the one that benefited the most from this acquisition within the Washimine Group.
Other departments and branches of Washimine Group also achieved good profits.
The most important thing is that Washimine has filled in all the areas that he was unable to get involved in before.
Take music records, for example.
Before acquiring Fox, Washimine needed to cooperate with record companies whenever he released a movie or a game soundtrack.
Although the albums sold very well, a lot of money was still earned by the record companies.
This time, Washimine can directly let his new record company produce it.
In this way, profits will naturally be greatly increased.
It can be said that the addition of Fox has made up for Washimine's previously weak or even non-existent business.
When the Washimine Group completes the integration of Fox's resources next year, a new entertainment empire will rise like the rising sun.
But this was after Washimine was able to completely absorb Fox. Corporate acquisitions are never just about buying the other party.
The real difficulty for a buyer is how to digest the acquired company.
In fact, most of the failed acquisition cases of companies basically have problems in this link.
Because they were unable to digest the acquired businesses, they ultimately had to spit them out again.
The loss in this buying and selling process is tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
Washimine's situation is more complicated. After buying Lucasfilm, it immediately acquired Fox.
Although the scale of Lucasfilm is incomparable to that of Fox, it also involves several departments and hundreds of employees.
In order to avoid a tragic situation like Ford, which acquired a large number of car brands but eventually sold them one by one.
Shion has decided that Washimine will adopt a contractionary management strategy for the next period of time.
The film and game departments will continue to complete projects according to previous plans, but other departments will focus on digesting Lucas and Fox.
If all goes well, Shion believes that all Fox films will be put back into production before the end of next year, and Lucasfilm will start a new Star Wars project.
In order to ensure the transfer of power during the management change, Shion did not kick Jim Ganopoulos out directly.
However, the other party will certainly not be able to continue to sit in Fox's management.
Shion gave the other party a consulting position and asked him to help her complete the business of Washimine's merger with Fox as an advisor.
Jim Ganopoulos has worked at Fox for many years and is more familiar with the company than Murdoch Sr.
It would be no problem for him to help control Fox.
Once Washimine takes full control of Fox, Jim can collect his pension and leave.
This is still good, at least Jim had a relatively decent exit.
Marvel's Avi Arad wasn't so lucky.
Shion hated him because of the leak of "Thor".
After dealing with News Corporation, Shion took Avi Arad to court.
A long time ago, Miss Katsushira, the special entertainment reporter of Washimine Entertainment, provided Nanaya with the evidence that Avi Arad leaked the original film of "Thor".
Avi Arad couldn't make excuses even if he wanted to.
However, what surprised Nanaya was that Avi Arad readily admitted his crime and was willing to accept punishment.
However, given that Avi Arad is so old, it will take some time to know whether the court will sentence him to imprisonment.
In short, the grievances between Washimine and News Corporation finally came to a successful conclusion in 2010.
The war ended with Washimine's complete victory, and the loser News Corporation will never have the chance to rise again.
All I can say is that time travelers should never be provoked.
Fox's affairs were far more complicated than Nanaya had imagined.
When Nanaya finally got over this incident and returned to the FGO crew, he met Ori with dark circles under his eyes.
"Senior, you still remember to come back!"
Ori's face showed an expression like a ghost seeking revenge.
"Um, sorry..."
Without a second's hesitation, Nanaya immediately gave in.
The intensity of knitting work has been really high recently.
After finishing filming the movie, Nanaya just left and left all matters to Orilai.
But Ori doesn't just have to complete Nanaya's work, he also has his own work to do.
So Ori had to supervise the post-production of "Prologue" while also supervising Peter Jackson's set.
During this period, Ori was busy with work almost every day.
Fortunately, Fatty Peter is now on the Chaldea studio and has not yet started filming the singularity plot.
Otherwise, I would have to fly back and forth between the United States and New Zealand.
If that happened, Ori would definitely tie Nanaya up in a tortoise shell bondage and throw him into Tokyo Bay.
Nanaya certainly knew how hard Ori worked, so he could only bear Ori's complaints.
Fortunately, Ori was just complaining.
Because he also knew that Nanaya was not being lazy this time, but really had something to do.
But Ori still had some complaints because she was overwhelmed by so much work that she couldn't breathe for several days.
"Anyway, if this happens again next time, Senior, you must send me help, otherwise I will really collapse!"
"Yes, yes, you are right."
Nanaya agreed and wrote down the content in a small notebook.
"…"
Ori raised an eyebrow.
Nanaya is really obedient now.
This feeling of punching cotton made him feel a little uncomfortable.
But it doesn't matter, there are ways to make yourself comfortable.
Pop.
Ori moved a thick stack of documents to Nanaya's desk.
"What...what is this?"
Nanaya was stunned by this extremely visually oppressive thing, and the corners of his eyes began to twitch wildly.
"This is the work left over from the time you were away, senior." Ori said with a bright smile.
"Why are there so many? You are obviously..."
"I should deal with it, right?"
Ori said the second half of the sentence for Nanaya.
Nanaya nodded his head vigorously.
"I'm sorry, these things need to be confirmed by you personally, Senior."
"Um...how long do I have to do this?" Nanaya asked weakly.
"I think we'll have to stay up all night today."
Ori said something very scary with a smile on his face.