Qiao Feng has always known about his ambitions for Hollywood, or that there is no one in the entertainment industry in any country in the world who has no ambitions for Hollywood.

It's just that Qiao Feng never expected that Sony, which was supposed to start with Hollywood next year, suddenly made a move for Mao, and changed his goal, and he didn't ask to buy Columbia, but to buy a rotten piece of.

Could it be that this is the embodiment of his influence on the world, Qiao Feng thought.

"It's Mike Ovitz who is the matchmaker for Sony, and we're afraid we're hopeless." Shi Nansheng said with an ugly face.

Because Mike Ovitz is a big man in Hollywood, he is the best agent in Hollywood.

Originally, seeing that MGM was about to be bought by his boss, and then the vice president of the financial director company might work in the seven major Hollywood film companies, which was influential, and suddenly killed a strong competitor and snatched the meat from his mouth, it was strange that Shi Nansheng was happy.

"Mike Ovitz?" Qiao Feng chuckled after hearing this: "He's not as powerful as you say."

"However, it has always been rumored in the industry that he is the mastermind behind Hollywood, and even the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers in the United States with a large circulation and authority have reported on it. Shi Nansheng felt that Qiao Feng was a little underestimated, which was very undeserved, especially when the chances of victory on his side were already small.

"Hehe, Nan Sheng, believe me, he's really not that good." Qiao Feng smiled indifferently.

Sony's sudden kill of Qiao Feng was really unexpected, but if Sony can help them achieve a 50% success rate just because of Mike Ovitz, it would be really an exaggeration.

Mike Ovitz is indeed very powerful, and Qiao Feng has heard many rumors about him, and it is even very detailed.

Ovitz was born on December 14, 1946 in Chicago, USA, to Jewish parents. Ovitz was an extrovert and courageous person from an early age, and he had considerable organizational and leadership skills. He was a frequent captain on the minor league baseball team, and at school he was the vice president of the student body, especially asking questions.

In the summer of 1965, Ovitz was admitted to the University of California. Before the holiday, Universal Film and Television came to the school to recruit tour guides, and Ovitz successfully got this offer. The job not only earned Ovitz $250 a month, but it also gave him a real feel for Hollywood.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Ovitz quickly became assistant to the director of tourism at 20th Century Fox Films, where he was responsible for designing tours, itineraries and coordinating various tasks, a job that paid $800 a month. In the 20th century, Fox's "happy" experience made him completely attached to Hollywood, and since then he has completely changed the course of his life.

In 1969, Ovitz graduated from university and decided to become an agent. After successfully moving into William Morris, a veteran agency founded in 1898, Ovitz was assigned to the most basic mail room, where he was responsible for distributing various scripts. Ovitz worked very hard, because he knew that this was the most basic training before becoming an agent, and to become a tool, this process could not be omitted, only accelerated.

In an entertainment agency, it takes four or five years for a newcomer to the mail room to become an agent, but it only took seven months for Ovitz to enter this industry, which is unprecedented.

The secret of his success is to work overtime, in addition to working overtime, he also took the initiative to send a promotion memorandum to his boss to publicize his various achievements.

As a result, Ovitz was soon appointed as assistant to the company's president, just 100 days after Ovitz officially took up the job. Four months later, Ovitz qualified as an agent, setting a record that has been expected by an agency to this day.

In January 1975, Ovitz and his four brothers left William Morris with mixed emotions and founded CAA, an innovative acting agency.

In order to expand his star resources, Ovitz began to poach in the same industry, and Maddy Baum, a partner of another entertainment agency, soon joined Ovitz's camp. After Baum's pointing, Ovitz suddenly became clear about the power structure of Hollywood, and it turned out that there was a second hand behind the stars - lawyers. Through the lawyer channel, Sean Connery, the actor of 007 at the time, officially signed a contract with CAA in February 1979, and a superstar finally appeared on CAA's customer list.

Ovitz has since gone out of control and has begun to revolutionize the brokerage industry. In the past, when a TV station wanted to produce a program, it had to find hosts, actors, producers, playwrights, etc., and it needed to deal with a large number of different agents. Ovitz launched a "one-stop" service. In addition to this, Ovitz has also significantly reduced the commission rate in order to attract celebrities. By 1980, CAA had recruited Oscar-winning stars such as Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman, as well as box office big-names such as action star Stallone, and the era of future superstar Tom Stallone began.

CAA's growth went smoothly and soon surpassed William Morris to become Hollywood's No. 1 agency with the most and biggest stars.

By this time, the rumors began to circulate in Hollywood that the last decade of the 20th century belonged to Ovitz.

Others say that Ovitz is the most powerful man in Hollywood, and all the big-name stars are pawns in front of him.

In Hollywood movies, superstars such as Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman are the absolute protagonists, and they (she) have created characters that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the world with their superb acting skills.

But in Hollywood reality, they are just a chess piece, just like a prop in a movie, and everything is at the mercy of the big hands behind the scenes.

This big hand, which controls the vast majority of movie stars and directors and can turn the clouds throughout Hollywood at any time, is Michael Owitz, the head of the innovative entertainment agency CAA.

Similar words are widely circulated in Hollywood, not to mention Shi Nansheng, an outsider, even those second- and third-tier stars who have been in Hollywood all year round take similar words seriously, and even regard them as golden rules.

Qiao Feng scoffed at this.

Because, when anyone reaches the status of Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and others, they are no longer ordinary stars.

Tom Cruise can be a bargain with Paramount because of the salary problem of the Mission: Impossible series, and finally end with a compromise with a company like Paramount.

And Mike Ovitz fought for it and the pinnacle of his life was just to become the president of Disney at the same level as Paramount.

It is a big joke for such a person to say that he is the most powerful person in Hollywood, and that those superstars are his pawns.

Mike Ovitz is great, but at best he is a servant for those superstars, and nothing else.

For Mike Ovitz in Sony's purchase of MGM, Qiao Feng positioned him as a broker with good connections and good words, that's all.