CAA's action against the Phantom soon spread throughout Hollywood, and several major production companies got the news as soon as possible.

Eisner sat in his chair and listened to his men report to him.

"Boss, what are we going to do if the Phantom finds us?" asked Eisner's assistant Paul after he finished the whole story.

Now that Phantom Media and Disney are partners, now that Phantom is targeted by CAA and there is a shortage of actors, in Paul's opinion, Phantom will definitely seek help from allies.

Eisner pondered for a moment and said, "The CAA has indeed gone too far in the past two years!"

In the late 80s and throughout the 90s, Hollywood ushered in a sharp increase in actors' salaries and soaring production costs, one of the main reasons for this was the rampant CAA's packaging policy.

With the popularity of CAA's packaging policy in Hollywood, directors and actors have more negotiating capital when negotiating with production companies, and production companies have to pinch their noses and agree to increase their salaries.

Paul continued, "Then we help the Phantom?"

Eisner asked, "Did the Phantom call us?"

Paul shook his head, looking a little puzzled, and said: "No, this is also my strange place, the phantom at this time is a critical period of reorganization, CAA suddenly came to such a moment, the phantom must be in crisis, but the strange thing is that the phantom has not contacted us until now, hoping to boycott CAA together." ”

Eisner pondered, and after a moment, asked, "Do you say that CAA grows up to be a big threat to us, or is it that Phantom grows up to be a big threat to us?"

Paul knew the character of his boss, and when he asked this, he actually had the answer in his heart, and what he had to do was to guess what Eisner was thinking.

"I don't think they're a small threat to us!" Paul replied with an ambiguous choice.

As a result, Eisner smiled, "Yes, whether it is the Phantom or CAA, it may be our opponent in the future, if the Phantom successfully completes the reorganization, then the Phantom will become the largest production company in Hollywood, and it will inevitably take our cake at that time, but CAA can target the Phantom now, so will they use the same method against us in the future?"

"Where do we go from here?"

This time Paul didn't answer, just looked at Eisner quietly.......

Eisner thought for a moment and said, "Is there any way to make both of them lose both? Only then can Disney find the best place for us!"

Finally, Eisner stood up and said, "In this way, whether it is the Phantom or the CAA calling, they all say that we have a deep cooperation with each other, and it is inconvenient to meddle in this matter." ”

"In the past two days, help me make an appointment with the A-level stars of Hera's agent and the A-level star of CAA, although we Disney do not work as agents, it is still necessary to maintain some good relations with them!"

Eisner also saw the energy of CAA in this action of CAA, in the final analysis, as long as Disney can maintain a good cooperative relationship with these stars and directors, even if CAA wants to take action against Disney in the future, it must consider the mood of signing stars and directors by itself.

As for the battle between CAA and the Phantom, in Eisner's opinion, it doesn't matter who wins and who loses, the important thing is that Disney has to find its own interests in this battle!

Eisner's decision is actually similar to the decision of several other production companies, and for a while, Hollywood's top stars and directors have become sweet.

.......

Spielberg and Lucas were also discussing this ** at this time, the inertia of history made Spielberg sign to CAA even if he did not get the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park", and became CAA's anchor.

"Did you already know about this?" asked Lucas, the cigar in his hand, slowly emitting a hint of smoke.

Spielberg nodded and said, "Yes, before the CAA operation, Ovitz called me!"

Lucas said: "The timing of CAA's move this time is very critical!"

Everyone knows that now the Phantom is busy with the restructuring of the media group, but at this time, the CAA launched an operation against the Phantom and caught the Phantom by surprise.

Spielberg smiled: "I am also very shocked by Ovitz's operation, I didn't expect him to be so courageous, but this matter is always good for us!"

Lucas smiled, and then said: "But you still have to remind CAA not to be careless, you must know that the phantom is no longer the original phantom, and it is impossible not to fight back against this matter!"

Spielberg said: "I have discussed this matter with Ovitz, even if the Phantom takes action, it is estimated that it will work hard from the contracted actors and directors of CAA, but in my opinion, there is no need to worry too much, after all, the core actors and directors of CAA have stood with us and had conflicts with the Phantom, even if these conflicts have been diluted a lot now, but these people will definitely have a lot of concerns, and it is not so easy to be rebelled by the Phantom!"

This is actually one of the reasons why CAA dares to go to war with the Phantom, for CAA, their packaging policy has made many actors and directors profitable, and at the same time, the core resources in their hands have almost all had conflicts with the Phantom, such as Dustin Hoffman, Spielberg and others, there is a direct contradiction.

Even if the phantom wants to poach people, it may not be successful, as long as these core resources can be firmly controlled by CAA, those second-level actors and directors cannot do without CAA's packaging policy, and CAA is not afraid of Phantom's poaching!

.......

In the office of Ovitz, the other two shareholders of CAA, Meyer and Harper, are sitting on the sofa with wine glasses in their hands, celebrating with Ovitz!

When CAA was founded, there were actually five founders, but the other two left later, leaving only the three of them, with 55% of the shares held by Ovitz and 22.5% each held by Meyer and Harper.

So in CAA it can be said that Ovitz is a word!

Meyer said with a smile: "The company has contacted BC, and the actors who retired from ABC will be arranged to BC's TV production!"

Although the operation against the phantom was a thunderous operation, CAA was not reckless, and before the action, it had already contacted the two major BC TV stations to send out its contracted actors.

Harper asked, "What are the reactions of the company's actors?"

Meyer smiled: "Don't worry, the movies and TV series filmed by Phantom and ABC are mainly based on the contracted actors of Hera's agent, and the other actors you are looking for are some supporting roles, such an opportunity to appear on the screen is actually indifferent to the second- and third-rate actors in the company!"

Because of Hera's agent, almost all of the Phantom's big productions are signed actors by Hera's agent, which makes the packaging policy implemented by CAA not be well promoted by Phantom, and the two sides already have deep grievances, coupled with the previous conflict, CAA dared to resolutely implement the action against Phantom!

Ovitz sat on his sofa, the corners of his eyes raised slightly, and said with a smile: "But we can't be careless, the phantom is not the previous phantom after all, the phantom who acquired ABC is about to make up for its business shortcomings, and now we must show our CAA's ability when they don't react, so that the other party knows that they can't get involved in any field!"

"Our ultimate goal is to cooperate with the Phantom, and this action is related to the cooperation between our two sides in the future. ”

There is no doubt about the strength of the Phantom, but now Ovitz can also see that the Phantom Media is being reorganized, it can be said that their strength is the weakest at this time, if the internal reorganization of the Phantom Media is successful in the future, then it will be unrealistic for CAA to do it again!

In Ovitz's heart, what he really wants to do is not to suppress the Phantom, but to use this action to tell the Phantom the strength of CAA, in the past cooperation, CAA has always been unable to get the Phantom's core business, which has always been a pain in Ovitz's heart.

With the development of the Phantom, Ovitz knows that he can no longer wait for the growth of Hera's agent, who is backed by the Phantom, if he really waits for the Phantom's reorganization to be completed, then Hera's agent will definitely become one of the most important opponents of CAA in the future.

Ovitz didn't want to see that happen.

"Did you say the Phantom would sell Hera to us?" Meyer asked, a little confused.

Prior to this, the three of them had already met to discuss this matter, and the ultimate goal of CAA's action was to force the Phantom to sell Hera's agent to him, and at the same time obtain cooperation with the Phantom.

Although Ovitz has not read the quotations of the great man, he also knows that negotiations are made, so in his opinion, first of all, CAA should show his muscles to the phantom, and only in this way can he take the initiative in the subsequent negotiations!

Ovitz smiled, "Why not, did you do everything I asked you to do?"

Meyer said: "I have been in contact with Arnold Schwarzenegger and others, these people are still more interested in cooperating with our CAA, but because they signed long-term contracts with Hera's agent at the beginning, and the liquidated damages are very high, it is not easy to poach them!"

The CAA not only has to do something to the Phantom, but also has to poach Hera's agent.

"Tell them that if they want to terminate their contract with Hera's agent, we at CAA can hire a lawyer and pay liquidated damages!"

Harper said with some concern: "That's a lot of money!"

Ovitz smiled: "Don't worry, do you know what business is the most profitable in this world? is the monopoly, as long as we can buy Hera's agent, then in the whole Hollywood is what our CAA says, and then these losses will be trivial!"

Hearing Ovitz say this, Meyer and Harper also smiled happily.

Since founding CAA in 1975, they have grown from a small workshop to what is now Hollywood's premier agency, Sean Connery, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Stephen Seger, Spielberg, Francesco Polla, .......

These top stars and directors have become CAA contracted actors and directors, and it can be said that all of this has been done with the efforts of Ovitz, and it is under the leadership of Ovitz that they have become the most successful agency in Hollywood step by step, and at the same time have a stronger voice in Hollywood than several major studios.

Now Ovitz has finally set his sights on Hera's agent, the Phantom, and they also believe that Ovitz can lead CAA to continue to glory!

"By the way, is there a director or actor who told you that Hera's agent has a poaching operation?" Ovitz knew that the Phantom would not stop there.

For CAA, the core resources are always the actors, directors and others in their hands, but whether it is Spielberg and others, or Ovitz know that their core actors and directors are more or less on the opposite side of the phantom when Spielberg vs. Wu Jianye.

Under such a premise, it is very difficult for Hera's agent to poach.

Meyer smiled and said, "Don't worry, I've already called them separately, and there is no movement on Hera's agent now!"

After listening to this, Ovitz and Harper also smiled happily.

"By the way, there is one thing, Wu Jianye once found one of our contracted actors and wanted to invite her to participate in a ABC TV series, and Wu Jianye had already told her that this TV series would be the most important TV series of the year on ABC!" Meyer thought of the report that his subordinates had reported to him.

Ovitz was slightly stunned and asked, "What level of actor?"

Meyer smiled: "It's just a little actor, but he looks very beautiful!"

Ovitz nodded and understood what Meyer meant, but Wu Jianye's previous screenwriting works were popular Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and others, which shows that Wu Jianye is also very discerning in discovering new talents.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Call that actor in, I'll take a look!"

Meyer nodded, picked up the phone in Ovitz's office, made a call, and Aniston walked in shortly after.

At this time, Aniston was still very dissatisfied, after all, being able to appear in the works written by Wu Jianye was a very rare opportunity for every rookie actor, but because of CAA's actions, she was going to lose this opportunity now.

After Ovitz saw Aniston, his eyes also lit up, even in Hollywood, where there are so many beautiful women, Aniston's appearance is still top-notch.

"Aniston, don't worry, the company has already discussed with CBS, the other party is now working on a TV series, and we have recommended you to play an important supporting role in the past!" "After seeing Aniston, with his years of experience, Ovitz knew that with Aniston's current appearance, he could definitely try to focus on training.

Aniston had a smile on her face, but she was smiling bitterly in her heart, she still knew which important supporting role and the work written by Wu Jianye, the protagonist of ABC's highlight this year, was more important.

But just as she was about to reply, the phone on Ovitz's desk suddenly rang

Ovitz smiled and picked up the phone, but then the expression on his face became wrong.......