Finally, after the whole thing had been fermenting for a day, the FBI took Murdoch Jr. away from the Fox Building.
Although the reason announced to the public was to question Murdoch Jr. about recent events, any discerning person could see that this matter was definitely not that simple.
The current Fox Group's film company has entered a state of shutdown.
Although the crews are still operating and filming movies, those that have been completed cannot proceed to post-production.
Fortunately, most of Fox's big productions have already been released, and the remaining ones are some small productions.
From a financial perspective, at least Fox's financial pressure will not become greater.
As for the Fox TV channel, although the programs are still being produced, all the staff are absent-minded during the weekdays, causing the quality of the programs to plummet.
Naturally, the show's ratings also went down.
The entire Fox Group is in a panic, and no one knows what will happen tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, Jim Ganopoulos's position became more secure.
On the one hand, he had worked at Fox for many years and had enough prestige, and he was one of the few senior executives who was not implicated in the [wiretapping] incident.
On the other hand, Fox's board of directors couldn't find anyone more suitable.
There are people who can nominate someone, but it would be better for Jim Ganopoulos to continue doing his job than to let someone with no experience in managing Fox run the company during this crisis.
This result made Jim a little amused and helpless. After Murdoch Jr. got into trouble, he thought he was definitely dead.
He even wrote his resignation letter and was ready to leave at any time.
Although he was not involved in Murdoch Jr.'s affairs, he was undoubtedly an insider.
But Jim never expected that he would keep his job in such a dramatic way.
Of course, he wasn't very happy either.
Given the current mess at Fox, he might as well just walk away.
But after all, after working at Fox for so many years, Jim Ganopoulos still has very deep feelings for the company.
So he still tried his best to find a way to keep the company going until the new boss took over.
Yes, new boss.
Even though there is no indication now that Fox will be sold, Jim Ganopoulos believes it is only a matter of time before Fox changes ownership.
After all, News Corporation is already on the verge of collapse, and after this turmoil it may even be weaker than Fox.
Under such circumstances, it is not impossible for News Corp to sell it.
Of course, it is also possible that the News Troupe declines so badly that Fox will need to provide a transfusion to the parent company.
If it was Fox, which was doing well in the past, maybe it could be done, but now...
The leaders are in such a predicament after the failure of consecutive major investment projects and the broken capital chain...
The result of all these factors is that investors have lost confidence in Fox.
Although News Corp. acquired Fox, Fox's board of directors is not just News Corp.
Other shareholders will never allow Fox to become a victim of News Corporation, so they will definitely actively seek a buyer to sell their assets.
The so-called sharing of hardships is complete bullshit to these people.
They agreed to News Corporation's entry into Fox because of the benefits involved.
Now that News Corporation has harmed their interests, they won't think there is anything wrong with kicking it out.
Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately.
This sentence best describes the current situation between News Corporation and Fox.
Jim Ganopoulos even suspected that some shareholders had already contacted those buyers, eager to sell their shares.
After all, every day that passes, Fox's stock is worth less than it was yesterday.
Stopping losses in time is something all investors will do.
In fact, Jim Ganopoulos's guess was not wrong.
"We are very happy to cooperate with each other this time, Mr. Corrine."
Shion smiled and shook hands with the man across the table from her.
The man had a cold face and he didn't know what to say.
When I invested in Fox, it was clearly a high-quality asset.
At that time, Fox became famous all over the world with "Titanic", and the "X-Men" series showed unlimited commercial prospects.
But in just a few years, Fox stock has become a junk asset that everyone hates.
Especially in the past few days, he has lost millions of dollars.
The culprit who caused this result is now sitting in front of him. What's even more infuriating is that he still wants to sell Fox shares to her!
Mr. Corrine really didn't want to do that if he could help it.
But at present, Shion Washimine is the only buyer willing to acquire Fox shares at a 20% premium.
While Aster's bid is based on current Fox shares, the problem is that others have less.
In the eyes of those people, a 10% premium is considered generous.
Mr. Crane is not the kind of person like Murdoch Jr. who would rather fight for personal gain at any cost.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Mr. Corian had no choice but to sell his shares to Washimine Shion.
Because he was afraid that Fox's stock price would fall further and he really would not be able to bear the loss.
Of course, a transaction is a transaction, and Mr. Coreyen will not be happy with the woman just because she offered a good price.
"That's it then. Goodbye."
Mr. Crane walked out of the room and slammed the door behind him.
He had already guessed what Washimine would do next, but it had nothing to do with him anymore.
"What a grumpy old man."
Shion played with her nails gently, a disdainful smile on her face.
"Are we going to continue to acquire shares of Fox?"
Iioka, who was standing behind Shion, asked quietly.
Shion shook her head: "Not for now. The shares we hold have reached the critical point where they need to be disclosed to the shareholders' meeting."
During this period, Shion took advantage of the plummeting share price of Fox and found a way to acquire a portion of shares.
Of course, in order to avoid alerting the Murdoch family, Shion adopted the method of individual separate acquisitions.
She, Nanaya, Shiki Matsuno, Ori and the Wettin sisters all bought some Fox shares in their personal names.
Although everyone is making acquisitions at the critical juncture, the quantities are not large and are all below the standard for the number of shares to be submitted to the shareholders' meeting.
But all added together it's already a lot.
But Shion plans to stop for the time being.
"The next priority is to complete the acquisition of Lucasfilm as soon as possible. As for Fox, we can talk about it later. Now is not the time to explore the bottom."
Shion said quietly, her tone full of confidence.
"Okay, I understand."
Iioka nodded. He always supported Shion's decisions 100%.
Currently, the negotiations between Washimine and Lucasfilm have reached the final stage.
After several months of negotiations, the two sides finally agreed to a total price of US$4.2 billion.
Although it was slightly higher than what Shion had initially expected, it was still within an acceptable range overall.
Lucasfilm, on the other hand, was somewhat dissatisfied, as some people felt that the price could be a little higher.
But no matter what, the Washimine family is the only one in Hollywood that has the money to buy Lucasfilm.
Fox was eliminated due to the recent scandal, and Warner is still fighting with News Corporation and cannot extricate itself.
The performance of several other Hollywood companies has not been very good recently, so even if you want to buy them, you are powerless.
Disney really wanted to buy Lucasfilm, but their price went no higher than $3.5 billion.
Because of Nanaya's butterfly effect, the acquisition of Lucasfilm was done much earlier than in his previous life.
Disney simply couldn't come up with that much money at that time.
All in all, this acquisition was relatively satisfactory to both the buyer and the seller.
Washimine not only owns "Star Wars", the top film IP in the history of the Western world, but also has the technically superior special effects team of Light & Magic Industries under his command.
Of course, Lucasfilm also has many miscellaneous assets, such as Lucas' animation, comics and game departments.
These departments were set up by Lucas to produce Star Wars peripherals, but they were of little use to Washimine.
Washimine itself has the best game department in the world, and its comics department is even more useless than Marvel.
From this perspective, it seems that the animation department has no overlap with Washimine's existing industries.
But don't forget that Washimine has already started to acquire Fox.
If all goes well, Fox's Blue Sky Animation Studio will be brought under Washimine's control.
The animation department of Lucasfilm is far inferior to this animation studio that produced "Ice Age" in terms of technical strength and creativity.
Of course, due to the acquisition agreement between Washimine and Lucasfilm, Washimine will eliminate these departments but will not lay off employees within the departments.
These people will be assigned to other similar departments in Washimine.
Among these employees, the happiest ones are those in the gaming department.
For all game makers in Europe and the United States, Washimine's game department is a holy place they yearn for.
Just like the status of Jerusalem in the hearts of religious believers, Washimine's game department is always the first choice for European and American game workers.
In their eyes, there are only two types of game companies, one is Washimine, and the other is the others.
Apart from starting their own business to make independent games, Washimine's game department is the company they most aspire to be, and all other game companies are just backup plans.
So when Washimine announced the way to deal with the Lucasfilm staff, all the practitioners in the European and American game industry looked at their colleagues in the game department of Lucasfilm with envy and jealousy.
In terms of technology and ability, these people definitely cannot enter Washimine.
But now, because of their luck, they can actually become members of Washimine.
How could this not make them jealous!