Chapter 131

One day I got a girlfriend October 5. Abel, who was in Los Angeles at the time, signed a stock transfer agreement with Kerkorian, who represented MGM's board of directors. And announced the news in the evening. Immediately after that, this announcement was published in major newspapers the next day, an arrow created thousands of waves. Unlike the Marvel acquisition, Marvel in 2000 was just a small shrimp. Because it changed hands, except with comic book industry partners like DC. Very few people will take this seriously. MGM may be different because it is one of eight major Hollywood companies with a long history. Once upon a time, in the 1930s and 1940s, there was the undisputed number one mogul during Hollywood's golden age. Despite losing money every year, MGM is still a famous movie brand in Hollywood and even in the US. Since MGM changed ownership, even major newspapers outside the entertainment industry have reported on this. The next day, October 6, was also Monday. Founded in 1889, with a daily circulation of more than 2 million, it has become the largest paid-circulation financial newspaper in the United States. The second issue of the Wall Street Journal had the following headline: "Are Wall Street giants invading Hollywood? Just below the news headline is a large black-and-white photo of the MGM logo, which is the classic roaring lion symbol. In the photo, a giant crocodile with the word "Wall Street" engraved on its body opens its bloody mouth and bites the MGM lion. [Recalling the founding date of MGM, it was 1922. Two years later, Mr. Lowe, owner of Rockwell Corporation, merged the Mitro Motion Picture Company, the Galwin Motion Picture Company and the L.B. Production Company. Meyer would found MGM. ] [He started from scratch and gradually created his own Hollywood kingdom. Over the past 78 years, he has accompanied more than four generations of Americans as they grew up. He tailor-made Hollywood's image, he was the first king of Hollywood, and now it's changing hands again. ] Just yesterday, the former richest man in Los Angeles, Kerkorian, on behalf of the MGM board of directors, transferred all the shares he owned to "ab Smith Entertainment". ] [ab Smith Entertainment is a company wholly owned by Wall Street financial businessman Abel Smith, which also means that MGM Movies has completely changed its business. ] [MGM said that under the agreement, ab Smith Entertainment will buy MGM shares for $9/share in cash, equivalent to a total value of $2.212 billion. Additionally, it will assume MGM's approximately $800 million in debt. MGM also announced they received a $150 million deposit on the same day. Subsequent payments, according to the agreement, will be made in installments within a week. ] [This also means that this is an acquisition worth more than $3 billion. ] [The author has no way of guessing the thoughts of Mr. Smith, owner of ab Smith Entertainment. The darling of Wall Street has always been good at fighting in the sea of ​​capitalism but this time he suddenly invested in Hollywood. This is the first time Wall Street has called on a Hollywood giant. What exactly does Mr. Smith do? This newspaper has no way of knowing, but the author believes that Hollywood will be even more vibrant in the near future. ] The Wall Street Journal has always operated relatively professionally and is the favorite newspaper of the American upper class. But the average American prefers to watch the excitement. They don't care why Abel bought MGM, they just want to know how much Abel is worth, how many daughters he has, and other interesting things. That's why popular newspapers specialize in publishing news that ordinary Americans like to hear. [Hollywood business owners, beware! ] Before Manhattan District Attorney Robert, The Los Angeles Times, unwittingly entering into an ill-advised collaboration with Abel, hatched a grand scheme: [Grandfather. Smith has acquired more than one MGM in Hollywood. At the same time, this gentleman also bought Marvel and invested in many movies! ] [Of those, only MGM, the Wall Street giant, will spend $3.1 billion (including debt). Plus Marvel's $100 million, investment in movies and tens of millions of other dollars. It is said that he is still in Silicon Valley and has invested hundreds of millions of dollars. ] [This time, this gentleman from the East Coast, the settlement amount is nearly 4 billion US dollars. ] [He buys companies like you buy potatoes in the supermarket. The MGM merger is by no means the end. Who will be next? ] [World's youngest billionaire! ] The boss of "New York Times" had a relationship with Abel and the conversation at that time was quite good. The other party even called Abel this time and received the inside information published today. [MGM will directly swallow Marvel. It is known that MGM will have hundreds more Marvel superhero IPs, in addition to more than 4,000 movies and 17,000 episodes. ] [In addition, Mr. Abel Smith will inject $500 million into MGM to further develop Marvel blockbusters and Mr. James Cameron's superhero movies. ] [Grandfather. Smith, as boss of it all, controls the equity value of these companies to the tune of four billion US dollars. ] [Even without counting the net assets of other companies, its assets clearly exceed the data shown on Forbes. ] [The author estimates Mr. Smith's assets to be much higher than the actual amount reported by Forbes! The author boldly guesses that Mr. Smith may now have a net worth of tens of billions of dollars! ] [According to the Forbes list, the youngest person with tens of billions of dollars is also over 50 years old and will not be asked whether he is called the world's youngest billionaire. ] [.] Covering the acquisition of MGM, and at the same time starting to cover Abel, this series of public opinion storms began. That day, the acquisition of MGM became the topic of major media in the US. Discussions filled the newspapers and many feared that the Wall Street giants would destroy MGM. But there are also a lot of people standing up and saying how bad is MGM, how bad can it be? The new boss just came in and offered $500 million, and he also found Cameron and brought Marvel into it. Compared to the previous Kerkorian, it's a hundred times better! More and more people talk about Abel Smith, he is super young and super rich. Everyone wondered how he could make so much money at such a young age. Initially, many people thought that the reason Abel Smith was so rich was because he had a good father. But soon an article appeared on the Internet. The host of the post said he is from Tarrant County, Texas and knew Abel and his family when he was a child. In this article, There's even a photo of Emily Smith, three-time winner of Tarrant's wool sweep competition. Emily dresses simply in the photo, no different from most middle-aged American women. Doesn't have the aura of a rich woman at all. There are also photos of Abel's father, Alexander Smith, wearing tattered jeans, smoking a pipe and driving an old harvester to harvest pasture. The post affirms that new super-rich Abe Smith's entire fortune comes from himself. Because Abel Smith's family is just a "normal" farming family in Texas. There are hundreds of thousands of families like this in America! This article received a lot of praise and likes, and it became popular on the Internet at a breakneck speed in a very short time. Even many major newspapers republished its content. Above all is the experience of this new super-rich class, which is also consistent with the American dream. Americans love to watch this type of news. The US government is also happy to promote such an American dream by beautifying the lighthouse. thus attracting people from other parts of the world. Soon after, many online articles revealed some "secrets" of emerging tycoon Abe Smith. For example, there is a post in which the poster claims he is an employee of the IRS. In his message was a photo of Abel Smith's tax returns from the past ten months. Tax returns show that this very wealthy person paid a huge amount of taxes in ten months. This post appeared out of nowhere and was deleted when it became popular. But before being deleted, the photo of the tax return inside was saved and reposted many times. The numbers in the tax return made many American netizens think it was impossible. They questioned the authenticity of the tax return in this post. Public interest grew and finally IRS Deputy Director Jed "had" to stand up and agree to be interviewed by the American Sun newspaper. In the interview, Assistant Director Jed said. This Internet tax return is real. But the employee who leaked taxpayer information behaved very badly. The IRS will punish this employee internally and apologize for the problems this employee caused the company. Just when everyone was surprised In fact, there are very rich people who pay a lot of taxes. UNICEF President Kelly Svensson, based in New York, agreed to an interview with the New York Observer magazine. During the interview, The woman begins, Talk about the foundation's various philanthropic efforts to help children around the world. Finally, Ms. Kelly accidentally told the New York Observer reporter: "In previous years we did not have enough capital. We all need the support of the General Assembly. But this year it is not necessary, because this year Mr. Smith gave us 5 million US dollars. has changed our future work. It went very well" This interview has been found by many people on the Internet. Internet users who once thought the super-rich had to pay a lot of taxes now find themselves once again refreshing their understanding of the super-rich. As soon as someone asks me questions, When I suspected the Mr. Smith that Mrs. Kelly mentioned was not necessarily Abel Smith. overnight, More and more charitable funds are being established They said they also received a generous donation from Mr. Abel Smith. There are "good people" who have accurately calculated the numbers announced by these funds. Then American Internet users discovered it. This super rich person, in more than 10 months, the amount of charitable donations has exceeded 60 million USD. And no charity is given in its own name. This last point is very important and many "Internet users" who posted messages emphasized it. and all public opinion, When it developed around October 15, it was the time when public opinion was most excited about this emerging group of super-rich. Almost all American media reported on it. So that day, this super rich person announced a new news. In an exclusive interview with the latest issue of the "New York Observer", he confirmed that his superstar lingerie brand - Elizabeth's back garden, is called Isha. This year it will be December 24, Christmas Eve. In the middle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York, there will be a giant superstar underwear parade! At that time, in addition to Isha's own models, many Hollywood actors and superstars will also appear in the super show called "Isha Show". This news was quickly confirmed by the New York City government. City government spokesman Harry said in an interview with reporters: "New York is an inclusive and diverse city. It is wonderful and allows every citizen and American to have access to all cultures legally and reasonably within its borders. As long as it respects this objective, it will be supported by the New City." York, York!" This new one, Immediately, most Internet users in the US who were initially interested in the super rich turned their attention to the so-called "Isa Show". Immediately after that, two days later, the media took photos of Yisha's contract model. With Boss, Abel appeared on Los Angeles beaches and shopping streets in Beverly Hills. Immediately, most of the American media began to focus frantically on this issue. This is the perfect image of super tax payer, super philanthropist and super rich Mr. Abe Smith, the first time a scandal appeared in the media! Everyone is curious about what kind of woman can win the "heart" of this tycoon! Many people immediately noticed this young, beautiful and sexy model Gisele Bundchen. In the United States, at least 20 to 30 million people have participated in the debate about whether Gisele Bundchen is the girlfriend of the new super rich. So, the next day, the media was abuzz about Abel's new scandal. The heroine of this scandal transformed into a young model named Carmen Kess. In the photo, Carmen Kath and Abel appeared together outside the movie theater to watch MGM's latest movie. In the photo, the two look intimate and give off a vague atmosphere. They are no different from boyfriends and girlfriends. This caused netizens and the American public to scream "FXXK playboy! » » But on Tuesday, another media outlet returned to Abel's new scandal. This time, the female protagonist was replaced by female protagonist Jessica Alba in the science fiction film "Dark Angel of the Last Days" produced by Cameron, which was just released online on October 17 this year. . Like the two previous models, young actress Jessica Alba was immediately pushed to the front row. His name along with the newly published work "Dark Angel of the Last Days" suddenly became known to more than 100 million Americans. Like the previous two parts, Jessica Alba immediately became famous. Then on the fourth day, American Internet users, the American public and readers. Sure enough, they appeared again in today's new article. Found news about this awesome new guy with his new girlfriend. The female protagonist this time has been replaced by an actress named Anne Hathaway. The same youthful beauty, hot body, intimate posture like Abel Smith, ambiguous movements and hot atmosphere. After the first three installments, Anne Hathaway followed suit. Meanwhile, Disney's Chicken Thieves was announced the same day. The super youth movie "The Princess Diaries" starring Anne Hathaway will end next April! People in heat are called flies. Then on Thursday, the person appearing next to Abe Smith transformed into an actress loved by many American netizens, named Charlize Theron. Then, on the same day, MGM also definitively announced that Miss Charlize Theron would join MGM and become the female lead in super director Cameron's masterpiece. The following entries are identical to the first four. Then the sixth day, the seventh day, the eighth day, the ninth day Under constant bombardment by American Internet users, the American public, and American readers. When they have to deal with a scandal like this about Abel Smith again. Everyone is a little numb. Many people on the Internet affirm: "I don't care about a guy like that, his new girlfriend is super hot! He's handsome, rich, pays a lot of taxes and is a super philanthropist! A guy like that, girlfriend His is twice that of Hugh Hefner." and JE." Doesn't matter! Please stop posting his gossip, we're all sick of it!" Hugh Hefner is the founder of the famous magazine "Playboy". It is said that there are over 2,000 girlfriends and she is one of the most envied and hated by many American men and LSPs. This voice of Internet users is also present on the Internet and receives support from a large number of Internet users. "That's right. Such a rich man has impeccable conduct. He's not married yet so it doesn't matter how many girlfriends he has, right? "Don't say Abel Smith is so rich. Around me there are many men who are not as rich as him, their girlfriends change every few days! If possible, I also want to become Smith's boyfriend!" "Yeah I think so too. He is really much more handsome than those rich old men. I think he will be at a disadvantage when he is with these women! "I think his girlfriend is fake, let's check, these women are actually actresses and models in his company. Even though she's beautiful, she only plays small roles! In this way, Mr. Smith wanted to indirectly encourage these women. Women! He just does it for work. » "." Similar public opinion is forming, eventually affecting the entire Internet. And the new super tycoon who has received a lot of attention from everyone, Mr. Abel Smith, seems to have heard everyone's wishes. Day eleven, October 24. The latest news he gave in the media is that he finally stopped flirting with his new girlfriend and showed off dog food together. That day he said: will distribute the prize money in its own newspaper, the American Sun. From 10,000 USD per day to 1 million USD per month. When seeing this news, many Americans were stunned. Most people don't know what American Sun's "press bonus" is. But I heard there are millions of dollars in rewards every month so there are a lot of people looking. After checking, I discovered that it was actually this diary after it was purchased by Mr. Smith. He will receive a bonus every day in the newspaper. Simply buy a copy of "The American Sun" for $1.60, cut out a special section and mail it to the newspaper's headquarters. You will then be able to participate in daily draws. The prize is a check for $10,000. Before this event, the reward was 10,000 USD per day. After Abel announced this time, the bonus was changed to once a month, one million dollars each time. The winning conditions remain the same as at the beginning, namely purchasing a copy of American Sun. Cut a special spot on the head and send this small piece of paper to the newspaper headquarters. "American Sun" will then randomly select a winner for the second month. Once the winner is drawn, it will be announced in the newspaper and a check for one million dollars will be given directly to the winner. Previously, more than thirty lucky people won prizes worth 10,000 USD. The winners, including some on the Internet, confirmed the news. Plus, Abe Smith is hot right now. Let this news and stories spread across America at lightning speed. It's not clear, but in this "Storm Smith", "American Sun" is already causing a stir. This time it burned completely.

The 300,000 newspapers printed the next day were sold out in just one morning. On Tuesday, that number rose to 800,000 and on Wednesday to more than a million. In just a few days, Colleagues in the American journalism industry were helpless and shocked when they found out.

In just one month, with the appearance of Abel Smith. In the industry there is a newspaper with stable daily sales of over one million copies per day. Regarding this issue, October 28. The New York Times summarizes the hottest events of the past month.

This newspaper summarized the events of that month under the title "Hurricane Smith." And Smith Storm became an American term. It is used to describe a person or object that suddenly catches fire. (end of this chapter)