Chapter 55: Madness

John, who has set up the situation, quietly waits for the time to come, the night before dawn is always the darkest, if you want to see the dawn, you must have a heart that can bear loneliness.

Michael Ovitz in the CAA headquarters is also waiting, in order to successfully snipe John's movie, he invited the CEOs of several major film companies, and after promising heavy profits, he finally got the unanimous consent of the presidents of several major film companies, which made him more domineering in the head-to-head confrontation with John.

"Albert, is there any movement on John's side?" Michael Ovitz wanted to see how John resisted. It gives him a lot of pleasure to watch his prey in the net dying and struggling, so he wants John to struggle more intensely so that he will be more excited.

"No! Waitis Albert shook his head.

"Why didn't there be any movement? Is that guy going to sit still and wait to die?" a hint of loss rose in Michael Ovitz's heart, he spent so much money, and John was so uncooperative.

"Albert, continue to keep an eye on Crown Studios and ICM, and report any disturbances immediately. Michael Ovitz was a little depressed, and he hoped that John would struggle a little, and then he would be able to show his strength, stomp John to the ground, step on 10,000 feet, and let John know the consequences of despising him.

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As the sun slowly sets in the west, the hustle and bustle of the city gradually returns to calm, but in New York's RCA Records, it's still a hot scene until late at night.

"Jack! The original soundtrack of "Stealing Love" has all been transported to the designated place, and the delivery is clear. Tom Henson asked, looking at the director of operations at RCA Records with red eyes. In order to complete the task assigned by John, he had not closed his eyes for two days.

"Yes, President, just now, I have received the message that the soundtrack will be delivered at the next location, and I am now waiting for the record to be released tomorrow. Operations Director Jack Cooper replied as he looked at Tom Henson with red eyes. In order to transport 8 million soundtrack records to the designated location, he did not close his eyes for two days. This kind of high-intensity work was the first time he encountered it when he came to RCA.

"Great, finally got the job done. When Tom Hansen finished speaking, he closed his eyes and snored on his desk.

And Jack Cooper walked out of the office lightly, and he needed a good night's sleep.

Just as Tom Henson and Jack Cooper were in their dreams, the sun slowly rose in the east, waking up the sleeping city, and the speeding cars on the road drove people to their offices, and the ordinary day quietly came in the midst of this noise.

AT&T business hall located on Fifth Avenue in New York also started a day of office, unlike usual, usually only human voices in the business hall today suddenly sounded music, each business counter in addition to the business introduction sheet, but also placed dozens of records, next to the record posted a leaflet, the content of the leaflet is very simple, pre-deposit 200 US dollars phone bill, give away a "Stealing Love" movie soundtrack.

The idea of using an AT&T shop to sell records was exactly what John had in mind.

AT&T, as the world's largest communications company, is a giant in the United States, and it is also a subsidiary of the Morgan consortium, which later acquired Time Warner for a total purchase price of $108.7 billion.

The reason why John asked AT&T to sell the soundtrack for himself was because it was distributed in tens of thousands of business halls throughout North America, which had more sales channels than those so-called record distribution companies, and the AT&T business hall received many more people every day than those record stores, so John naturally hit AT&T with the idea.

In the small town of Greenwich in New York, Penny's store also opened its doors early in the morning and started the day's business. Like AT&T, music is also playing in Penny's store today, and the original soundtrack record of "Stealing Love" is also placed on the cashier in the store, and there is also a flyer on the side of the record, but the content on the flyer is not the same as AT&T, but it is similar, AT&T is a pre-deposit to pay for the original soundtrack record, while Penney is a member who purchases $300 or more to get the soundtrack record.

It was also John's job to get Penney to sell records.

Penny & Co. is the largest store and drug retailer in the United States, with more than 2,000 pharmacy chains and more than 1,000 stores in the United States, and is part of the Morgan consortium.

Its huge daily traffic is unmatched by any record sales channel, so John naturally has to take advantage of it, and no one has stipulated that retail stores and pharmacies are not allowed to sell records, and John does not sell them, but gives them away.

On the surface, it seems that it is a loss to send the soundtrack record out, but John, AT&T, and Penney will not suffer, but the profit point will be converted to another place.

At the same time, General Motors, Morgan Bank, Starbucks, NBC, and NBC in the United States, broadcast ...... And so the company sounded the music on this day. John made good use of the companies owned by the Morgan consortium, as long as they had stores or publicity channels, and he wanted to use his own resources to expand the audience with the soundtrack.

It is worth mentioning that in 1987, when Howard Schultz was pulling investors everywhere, John instigated the elder Morgan's assistant Archie to buy Starbucks. As for KFC and Pizza Hut, John didn't dare to think about it, because these two restaurants belonged to Pepsi, and it was very difficult for John to get these two restaurants in the hands of the cunning Roger Enrique, so he could only give up regrettably.

After using his family's resources, Morgan Alliance members and product implanters John did not let go, Walmart, Citibank, PepsiCo's KFC and Pizza Hut, United Department Store, Macy's ...... and other companies will help John sell and promote the soundtrack record of "Stealing Love".

Although John has added new channels to the traditional distribution channels, this does not mean that he has to abandon the traditional record distribution channels, RCA as an established record company, its own distribution channels are very strong in the industry, so it is naturally impossible for John to abandon them.

In such a frenzied release of the soundtrack record of "Stealing Love", John's purpose is very simple, whether it is out shopping, buying medicine, handling telecommunications, banking, drinking coffee, having dinner, riding in the car, or staying at home to watch TV, the music of the soundtrack record must be heard in the ears.

He wanted the music from the soundtrack to spread throughout the United States. Let everyone remember one name this winter, "Stealing Love".