The press conference held by the Phantom this time was obviously of a higher level than the others.

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, and the largest newspapers in the United States all came to Los Angeles to attend the Phantom's press conference.

This is a press conference that will change the landscape of the media industry in the United States!

The New York Times described the press conference with such a headline!

And Linda did not disappoint everyone, the first content announced at the press conference was enough to attract everyone's attention!

"After the acquisition of ABC TV Network, Phantom Entertainment will officially reorganize and form the Phantom Media Group, which belongs to Phantom!"

Although it is no longer a secret that Phantom Entertainment will set up its own media group, when the news spread, it still shocked many reporters!

"After the reorganization, Phantom Media will be reorganized with its existing subsidiaries, and at the same time, the Phantom Media headquarters will be established ......."

Subsequently, Linda announced the organizational structure of Phantom Media.

The original Phantom Entertainment was renamed Phantom Pictures, which will be responsible for the development of Phantom Media's core business, the film industry, and Linda announced the Phantom Pictures' investment and shooting of films in the coming year and the upcoming film plans.

Marvel Entertainment also officially changed its name to Marvel Studios, but in the past two years, Marvel has not had its own movie shooting, which is expected by many reporters, after all, the movies of comic heroes are not popular in North America.

At the same time, Phantom Media also took out the distribution department separately and re-established a distribution company called Phantom Distribution.

Because ABC TV Network has just been acquired, Linda did not announce the decision to remove the management, and even highly recognized the previous management's management of ABC TV Network.

As for whether the management will be removed after the follow-up Phantom Media completely controls the ABC TV network, that's a story for later!

Subsequent Ryan Publishing, Toy Biz Toys, Oceanwide Cinemas, and Hera Brokerage will all restructure and restructure their businesses to a certain extent, cutting unnecessary departments and retaining their core businesses.

As for the studio and the Phantom Cinema, it will also be completed next year!

Finally, Phantom Media will also set up its own sports division, which will be used to manage its four sports clubs!

Every word Linda said will be conveyed to the audience in the United States as quickly as possible through the reporters who are here today.

A large consortium with assets worth more than $20 billion wants to restructure, and it is not a matter of simply holding two meetings.

It will be a very powerful test for Linda to go through countless group meetings, as well as to gauge the mood of each company and the relationship between each company.

In fact, the restructuring of Phantom Media took three months to come to an end, but the results were also very happy for every shareholder of Phantom Media.

After the reorganization, the market value of Phantom Media is not a simple addition calculation of 1+1=2 at all, but the result of 1+1>2!

When the restructuring of Phantom Media was completed in May, the latest valuation given by Wall Street also reached a valuation of $30 billion!

This is why many businessmen like to use mergers and acquisitions to expand their business territory, which involves too many intangible assets!

Back in February!

After the press conference of Phantom Media, Linda found Wu Jianye again!

This time, Linda found Wu Jianye in order to step down from the position of CEO of Phantom Pictures.

At this time, Linda was already the CEO of Phantom Media, and naturally she could no longer serve as the CEO of Phantom Pictures.

"Here are a few candidates I listed, you can take a look at their information!" Linda recommended the candidates she had listed to Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye was in Linda's hands and took over the candidate information she recommended.

There are a total of five people who are all high-level executives of Phantom Entertainment, and after Wu Jianye looked around, he pointed to one of the candidates and said, "Just him!"

The person designated by Wu Jianye is actually an acquaintance, Matthew Murphy, who was once in charge of Phantom Entertainment's distribution business in Europe!

"Then I'll let him see you!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "You can arrange the time!"

Matthew Murphy as the new CEO of Phantom Pictures does not mean how outstanding his ability is, in fact, the five people handed over by Linda are all about the same ability, and if you want to talk about the contribution to the company, it can't be said that who is worse than the other.

The reason that really made Wu Jianye decide to let Matthew Murphy be the CEO of Phantom Pictures is that Wu Jianye is more familiar with him, and after getting along several times, Matthew Murphy's behavior also makes Wu Jianye more satisfied.

It is enough to be measured, to know what to ask and what not to ask, and to be able to complete the things that are given to him smoothly.

At the beginning, Wu Jianye's behavior at the three major film festivals was simply to regard Linda as his subordinate, and Matthew Murphy must have been aware of it, but he never asked about it.

And Matthew Murphy did help the company open up the distribution network in Europe.

As for the manager who was once in charge of the Phantom Entertainment distribution business, he was transferred to the newly established Phantom Distribution as the general manager.

In fact, when Wu Jianye and Linda were discussing the group's future development plan, Linda saw two file files on Wu Jianye's desk, she was too familiar with such file files, almost every time Wu Jianye took out a movie script that sold well, she would use this kind of file file.

So when the two finished talking about the development plan of Phantom Pictures, Linda pointed to the file on the table and said with a smile on her face, "This is?"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "This is the planning of a variety show I wrote for ABC and the script of a TV series, you can pick it up and take a look!"

Linda was slightly stunned, she thought this was a movie script, but she didn't expect it to be a script for a variety show and TV series prepared for ABC TV Network!

However, out of trust in Wu Jianye's screenwriting ability, Linda still read the script of the TV series first!

"Friends"?

If you ask friends who like to watch American dramas in the era when Wu Jianye was reborn, what American drama classics are, then there will definitely be many people who say TV series such as "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", and "House of Cards".

Or "Shameless", "Jade Hope City", "Prison Break", .......

But for Americans in the 90s, there is a TV series that has to be mentioned, that is, a total of 10 seasons of "Friends"!

10 seasons of "Friends", each season in the top 10 ratings in the United States, ranked first among the 100 most popular American dramas selected by the authoritative American media "Hollywood Reporter" in 2015.

To put it simply, "Friends" is Huaxia's "Journey to the West" and "Huanzhu Gege"!

It is a must-see classic work every year.

In another time and space, even if "Friends" has ended, it can still bring $1 billion a year to CBS, and the six leading actors have signed a 2% share agreement with CBS, which means that the six of them can get 20 million paid if they don't do anything every year!

Even in the year when Wu Jianye was reborn, Warner Media took back the exclusive broadcast rights of "Friends" from FLIX, and took a sky-high price of 450 million US dollars!

Such a classic work, Wu Jianye is naturally impossible to let go!

Linda is now reading the script very quickly, and it didn't take long to finish reading the script of the first three episodes, Wu Jianye knew the power of this TV series, and Linda didn't know, but now she no longer doubts Wu Jianye's ability to write the script: "This TV series, when are you going to let ABC broadcast?"

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "Let's go summer this summer!"

Linda nodded, "Okay, I'll let ABC follow up!"

Wu saw that Linda didn't take it very seriously, and emphasized: "This TV series is going to be broadcast as ABC's most important TV series of the year!"

When Linda heard this, she glanced at Wu Jianye seriously, "Okay, I understand, I will follow up on this matter personally!"

Wu Jianye nodded at this time, indicating that he was satisfied with Linda's attitude.

"In terms of actors, I have already chosen Rachel's role, let ABC choose the rest!"

Rachel's role, Wu Jianye is naturally ready to leave it to his sweetheart Aniston, saying that Aniston when she was young was really very beautiful.

After the two finished talking about "Friends", Linda looked at the planning book about the variety show again!

"Who wants to be a millionaire!" Linda's eyes lit up just when she saw the name, and she was much more excited than when she saw "Friends" just now.

Sometimes a name can make people feel the urge to read it.

Whether it is doing variety shows or writing, the name is very important, which is why later generations of online writers always rack their brains to think of various titles when opening a new book!

"It's an interesting name, and if I were a casual viewer, I'd have the urge to read it if I were a casual viewer!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Look slowly, don't worry!"

Then Linda took a serious look at Wu Jianye's planning book, and this time it took even longer than "Friends".

In fact, the planning book of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" does not have many pages, but when Linda was reading it, she was extremely serious, thinking about the problems that might be encountered in every link if such a show was really produced.

The only way to solve your worries is to get rich!

Horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, and people have no windfall and no wealth!

Everyone has the desire to get rich overnight, whether it is North America or other places, and now the show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" perfectly illustrates such an opportunity!

As long as you can answer fifteen questions correctly, you can become a millionaire, and no matter what kind of person you are, after hearing such a publicity stunt, you will definitely be immediately tempted.

At the same time, such a program also gives those viewers a stimulating sense of substitution.

When Linda saw the end, the amazement in her heart for Wu Jianye could only be described by Wei Xiaobao's sentence: My worship of you is like a surging river, endless.

This is not an exaggeration, and even after reading this planning book, Linda may think of the impact more clearly than Wu Jianye.

"The planning of this show is definitely a genius move!" Linda used all the gorgeous words she could think of to start using Wu Jianye's body.

"I don't know what your head thinks, such a genius idea......."

"Stop, stop!"

Wu Jianye hurriedly stopped Linda's exaggerated admiration and said, "Since you have no objection to this variety show, let ABC quickly come up with a specific implementation plan!"

Linda's face at this time was like a flower, and she said with a smile: "Don't worry, I believe that when this plan is given to them, they will immediately set up the project without my urging!"

Wu Jianye smiled, judging from Linda's reaction to the two projects of "Friends" and "Millionaire", it can be seen that she is obviously more confident in "Millionaire", but Wu Jianye is not in the mood to correct Linda's thoughts at this time.

"Friends" will only let people see her true power after she is officially broadcast!

If you look at the pure viewership group, the ratings of a single episode of "Friends" may not be as high as the ratings of "Millionaire".

But if you look at it from the perspective of revenue, "Friends" is a nuclear bomb in the TV drama industry, who blows it up knows.

In fact, "Friends" is only not as high as "Millionaire" in terms of average ratings, but if you single out the highest ratings of "Friends", it is actually overwhelming.

In the ratings record in North America, the final episode of the final season of "Friends" was watched by more than 50 million people, only less than the Super Bowl audience that year.

In this world, not only Chinese people like nostalgia, but also Americans.

At this time, Linda got this project, and her heart has flown to ABC, and she is ready to take these two projects to ABC Town, although now the Phantom has wholly acquired ABC, but the senior management of ABC has not been replaced, which means that they have super high influence in ABC.

If the Phantom wants to truly control ABC, there is still a long way to go.

And now the "Friends" and "Millionaires" that Wu Jianye took out are the weapons that Linda uses to open the ABC barrier!

Wu Jianye looked at Linda's preparation to leave, smiled and waved his hand, telling Linda not to be in such a hurry, his business has not been finished yet.

Linda said with some excitement: "Wu, now that we have these two projects, we can win over our own people in ABC, as long as they are no longer monolithic, it will not be far from us to really take over ABC!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "ABC is just a .asxs. of our TV network, do you think ABC is already our end point in terms of TV network? No, he is just a .asxs.!"