Mark Harner also had his friends' doubts. He suspected that Deep Space Company was behind Doctor Cat Company, and at the same time he wondered why Deep Space Company wanted to take over PETS.
Based on the information he has obtained so far, it is possible that the Deep Space Company took over pets for the sake of Amazon. After all, Amazon has spent more than 50 million US dollars on pets before.
However, this kind of bailout behavior is really unbelievable and cannot be done by normal people.
If Deep Space really has so much money to rescue the market, it might as well invest all the money in Amazon. At least it can extend Amazon's life for a while, and maybe it can also pull up the stock price, and then sell their shares.
Throw it out and reap a wave of retail investors.
"That chain pet hospital you mentioned..."
"Cat's Sky was originally a well-known pet hospital in the local area. However, their development speed has been relatively slow. They have only developed a few stores over the years. However, after being acquired by Deep Space Company, their expansion speed has become much faster.
And now the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. It can be seen that their goal is to become a national chain of pet hospitals."
Hana thought for a while and asked, "Then do they need pets to develop their pet hospital?"
"Well... although they all serve pets, pets are not of much use to Cat Sky. Pets does not have pet medical business. If Deep Space Company wants to use the Internet to expand the scale of its pet hospital...
"
"You've assumed that Doctor Cat is behind Deep Space?"
"You have led me astray... If the cat doctors want to use the Internet to expand the scale of the pet hospital, then they can open another website without spending a lot of money to acquire pets. In my opinion, the most valuable thing about pets is theirs
Warehouses, channels, and then there’s their mascot.”
Hana shook his head, "It's useless no matter how much we guess, we'll just have to wait and see what happens next."
"If Doctor Cat is really the Deep Space Company behind Doctor Cat, do you think their move will be a good thing for Internet companies or..."
"I don't know." Hana sighed, "I have no idea what the Deep Space Company wants to do, let alone whether everything they do is correct. Maybe we still need to wait until the tide calms down before we know.
What on earth is the Deep Space Corporation going to do?"
"Alan Abelson now publishes comments in Barron's every few days. Every time he talks about Deep Space and Amazon, but the old man can't talk about anything now."
Hana sneered, "According to what he said, both Amazon and Deep Space Company will go bankrupt, but in fact, I won't talk about Amazon. If Deep Space Company can go bankrupt, I am willing to take off my clothes and run under Wall Street."
Circle. This time pets is acquired, Alan Abelson will definitely publish another article, and I will come and see what he will say when the time comes."
"Yes, I'm looking forward to it too."
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Mark Harner's guess was correct. Just two days after the news about PETS's imminent merger and acquisition came out, Alan Abelson published an article focusing on analyzing this transaction.
Like the mainstream view, Alan Abelson is also not optimistic about this transaction, thinking that it is an "ignorant" transaction. In this transaction, the happiest person should be the entire PETS company, because if Doctor Cat
If they don't take action, their company will face liquidation.
Now that Doctor Cat has taken action, employees will not have to lose their jobs, and investors will still be able to get some of their blood back, so they will not lose all their money.
A company like PETS has very few fixed assets. If it were to be liquidated, there would be nothing that could be liquidated. Most of the money invested by early investors was spent on marketing.
Although marketing is not a waste of time, it can also create brand value, but if your company can't survive, why do you talk about brand value with others? Not to mention that PETS has only been established for a short time, and it doesn't have much brand value itself.
In the last part of the article, Alan Abelson specifically praised Dr. Cat and Dr. Cat’s boss, saying that Dr. Cat’s actions were no different from doing charity.
On the surface, this was a compliment, but in fact it was a mockery. He was mocking Doctor Cat's boss for being stupid and rich, and this investment would definitely end in failure.
Moreover, the article also hints everywhere that the Deep Space Company is behind Doctor Cat, because only the Deep Space Company has both the motivation and the ability to do this.
Alan Abelson believes that there is a lot of cash lying in the accounts of Deep Space Company, which makes Deep Space Company lack rationality when making decisions. Combined with the recent mergers and acquisitions of Deep Space Company, what industry does Deep Space Company seem to have?
Everyone wants to get involved, and this kind of investment strategy that casts a net everywhere is very risky.
This argument is mentioned in almost every article written by Alan Abelson, and this time is certainly no exception. He believes that compared with the previous acquisition of BenQ Dentsu, the acquisition of PETS this time has no future.
Perhaps with the subsequent capital investment from Deep Space Company, PETS can still survive, but it will definitely not last long. After Deep Space Company loses two to three billion US dollars, it will let go.
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After the news that Pets was about to be acquired, many people speculated that Deep Space Company was behind Doctor Cat. However, the official website of Deep Space Company quickly came out to clarify that the company had not had any contact with Doctor Cat. Deep Space Company even more
There are no shares in Doctor Cat.
However, just because Deep Space came out to clarify, many people believe that Deep Space is behind Doctor Cat.
Because according to the past style of Deep Space Company, if there is no shadow of their company behind Doctor Cat, then they will definitely not come out and say anything. But now they have come out to clarify, but it feels like there is no silver in this place.
However, no matter what the media speculated, Deep Space Company did not come out with any other explanation. Instead, it announced the release of "The Martian" a few days after the incident came out.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As soon as this news came out, it really diverted the attention of many netizens, because everyone has been paying attention to the news of the release of "The Martian" for more than half a year.
After the official Deep Space tribe just released a new tribe that day, the main creative staff also forwarded this tribe one after another.
In addition to the main creative staff of the movie, many other deep space celebrities also reposted the tribe.
Zhang Yimou was one of the first to forward it. After "Golden Dream" was released, he stayed in the United States and never left. He paid attention to the box office of the movie every day. When he saw the release of "The Martian", he forwarded it to the tribe.
After Zhang Yimou forwarded this post, many netizens congratulated Zhang Yimou, because just yesterday, the North American box office of "Golden Dreamland" exceeded 100 million US dollars, and Zhang Yimou also became the third person to have a single movie with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars.
A Chinese director with US dollars.
Before Zhang Yimou, the two directors whose single film box office exceeded 100 million were Liu Weiqiang, director of "Infernal Affairs", and John Woo, director of "Face".
According to the current situation, it is a certainty that "Golden Dreams" will surpass "Infernal Affairs" at the box office.
It is still uncertain whether it can surpass "Face". Although the North American box office of "Face" was only 110 million U.S. dollars, the global box office was close to 250 million U.S. dollars.
If the North American box office of "Golden Dreams" can eventually exceed 180 million US dollars, then the global total box office will basically be able to surpass "Face/Off".
Judging from the current data, there is still great hope that the North American box office of "Golden Dreams" will eventually exceed 180 million US dollars.
Even if the North American box office of "Golden Dreams" cannot exceed US$180 million, Zhang Yimou is actually satisfied at the moment. His goal is not high. As long as the global box office of "Golden Dreams" can exceed US$150 million, he will be satisfied.
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But now it seems that the North American box office alone is over 150 million US dollars, so the problem is not particularly big. The global box office is completely aiming for more than 200 million US dollars.
With this experience, Zhang Yimou has also tasted the benefits. Recently, in addition to paying attention to the box office of "Golden Dreams", he is also thinking about what to make the next movie.
He had quite a few scripts on hand, some of which were pretty good, but none of them gave him a strong impulse.
A few years ago, he wanted to make a martial arts film because he liked Gu Long, but he never had a suitable script. He wanted to write it, but he couldn't come up with the feeling.
He had talked about this matter with Yu Dong before and wanted to hear Yu Dong talk about it from a professional perspective, but when it came to martial arts novels, Yu Dong, who always liked to encourage people, kept telling him not to make martial arts movies.
Because of Yu Dong's advice, Zhang Yimou put this matter aside.
After watching "Golden Dreamland", Zhang Yimou also figured out that he should not write the script himself. It was a thankless task and it would be better to just find a good story to film.
He himself also knows that he is not good at using structure to tell stories, but is good at using color.
This time when filming "Golden Dreamland", the film still used the structure of the novel, and then filled the original skeleton with flesh and blood and painted it with color.
This approach is undoubtedly successful.
In fact, Zhang Yimou already had a script in mind that he wanted to film, which was also a novel by Yu Dong, but he was embarrassed to ask for it directly because the book was too heavy.
Yu Dong's novels include extremely popular popular novels such as "Second World", "Resident Evil" and "The Martian", as well as very literary novels such as "Going West", "The Curse" and "Death of a Widow".
Strong serious novels, and the sales volume of the latter is often much lower than that of the former.
But there is one book that is an exception, and that is "Old Book", which is a literary and best-selling novel among Yu Dong's many works. It is even more popular than those popular novels.
Earlier, the sales volume of "Old Books" exceeded 40 million copies, and now the sales volume has reached 100 million copies.
Zhang Yimou had never mentioned filming "Old Book" before, partly because he was embarrassed, and partly because the book was too famous and the filming process was too stressful.
When he was filming "Golden Dreams", he was very stressed, fearing that the film would not turn out well and be scolded by the readers of "Golden Dreams".
Now that the movie has been released, the reviews are pretty good and the box office is also very good, but some voices can still be heard saying that the movie is far inferior to the novel. However, compared to the positive reviews, these voices are relatively small and have not had much impact on Zhang Yimou.
But "Old Book" is different. The pressure of shooting an old book is definitely much higher than that of "Golden Dreamland".
Moreover, it is very difficult to obtain a high box office based on the theme of "Old Books". No matter how good "Golden Dreams" is, there are some hunting plots in it, which can stimulate the audience's attention.
In addition to "Old Books", Zhang Yimou also wants to shoot "The Da Vinci Code". I often talked about semiotics when chatting with Yu Dong before, and he is also quite interested in semiotics.
And "The Da Vinci Code" suits him very well. If this novel is to be adapted into a movie, the original structure is difficult and does not need to be broken. Instead, some genius ideas are needed in terms of color.
Zhang Yimou has also been hesitating between these two novels recently, not knowing which one to choose.
If other directors knew Zhang Yimou's idea, they would probably vomit blood. It would be even more difficult for others to get the film and television adaptation rights of Yu Dong's novel, so Zhang Yimou chose the other side.
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A few days after Yu Dong returned to Jinling, he received a call from Zhang Yimou from the United States.
After the call was connected, Zhang Yimou hesitated. Yu Dong thought it was because the signal was not good, "The signal is not very good today. Hang up now and dial again later."
Hearing that Yu Dong was about to hang up, Zhang Yimou hurriedly said, "It's not that the signal is bad."
Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "Then what the hell are you doing? You're hemming and hawing."
"Hey, there's something I'm embarrassed to tell you."
"If you are embarrassed, then don't speak, otherwise I will be embarrassed to refuse." Yu Dong said with a smile.
Zhang Yimou chuckled, "Nothing else, I just want to ask if you still have the film and television adaptation rights for "The Da Vinci Code"?"
"No more."
Zhang Yimou was stunned: "He's not here anymore? Who gave it to him?"
Yu Dong said with a smile, "All the copyrights of my works are entrusted to Deep Space Company. Naturally, they are no longer in my hands. The film and television adaptation rights of "The Da Vinci Code" have not yet been sold out. Why do you ask this? Are you interested?
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"I'm a little interested."
"Okay, someone offered us US$8 million before, but we didn't sell it. If you want to buy it, I'll give you a friendly price, it's only US$6.5 million."
Hearing the price of 6.5 million U.S. dollars, Zhang Yimou took a breath. Let alone 6.5 million U.S. dollars, even if it was 6.5 million yuan, he couldn't get it now.
"Here, how can I afford this... No, I didn't say I wanted to buy it either."
Yu Dong laughed and said, "I know what you are thinking. You want our company to find the money to film it ourselves, and then hire you as the director, right?"
"That's right."
"Lao Mouzi, I'm not telling you, you are still a little timid. Now that "Golden Dreams" is doing so well at the box office, and your reputation in Hollywood has also been established, is it not easy to make some money to make a movie? You first
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