Regarding Thomas's sudden request, Nie Wei thought about it for a while and did not refuse.

Because after thinking about it, this is really a more suitable choice for emergencies.

According to Nie Wei's understanding, Thomas has been working in Hollywood for nearly twenty years, and he did not become Disney's management at the beginning, but climbed up from the bottom little by little.

Thomas is a man with both grassroots and management experience, especially when he was offered the position of Head of Overseas Business for supporting the success of League of Assassins two years ago, which allowed him to make up for the lack of overseas business.

Of course, Thomas's shortcomings are also obvious.

First of all, he does not have a high degree, and the school he graduated from can only be regarded as second-rate in the United States, which is one of the reasons why he has been slow to be promoted over the years.

However, this is not what Nie Wei likes, not that Nie Wei does not look at academic qualifications, in fact, when Fanxing chooses employees, the first thing to examine is also academic qualifications, although academic qualifications and abilities are not necessarily completely proportional, but at least the higher the education, the more knowledge a person obtains, the better his ability may be.

As for Thomas, because Nie Wei already knows something about him and knows his ability, his academic qualifications have become a secondary thing, and Nie Wei never thought that the CEO he chose must be the kind of Ivy League school, as long as he has the ability and can bring good development to the company, there is no problem.

As for Nie Wei's most uneasy about Thomas, she has never held the position of president, and she is still skeptical that he can control a company Nie Wei, which is why Nie Wei is ready to investigate him.

Nie Wei had already figured out that if the company was successfully acquired, then there would be a bunch of troubles to deal with, and that was the time to verify whether Thomas was suitable for the position of CEO of the company.

If he could solve these troubles quickly and smoothly on his own, then Nie Wei would give him a chance.

If not, then Nie Wei can only apologize and choose someone else.

Although the talks between "The Martian" and Disney have collapsed, this does not mean that there is no other choice, in fact, during the period of contact between Huayi and Disney, no less than 20 Hollywood companies with film distribution capabilities have asked about the willingness to cooperate with Huayi.

And there are many big companies among them that are with Disney.

Among them even includes Paramount Pictures, which had a fierce competition with Nie Wei before.

Even after watching the film, the manager of Paramount Pictures specially invited the staff of Huayi to have a sumptuous dinner, and expressed his appreciation for the film more than once during the dinner.

In the subsequent tentative contact, their negotiators did not express the idea that the share was ridiculous when Huayi proposed the 'harsh' condition of 5% of the distribution share, but further negotiated on this basis.

"We won't make the same mistake as Disney, we should give a certain concession to a good movie, and "The Martian" is a movie that is worthy of our concessions, we negotiate in good faith, and I hope that you can also hand over this film to us for distribution, and we will give it the greatest support. "During one of the negotiations, Paramount's negotiator made these words.

Paramount showed sincerity to negotiate, and Huayi naturally had to show sincerity as well.

The two sides went from trying to make a goal acceptable to both parties, and in the end they were even two decimal places, after all, even 0.01% could represent hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars behind it.

After a week of talks, the conditions were finally reached on the premise that both parties were interested in cooperating, and in the end, Paramount could get 7.86% of the film's North American box office profit for the distribution fee of "The Martian".

In this batch of foreign films, it can be said that "The Martian" is already the lowest percentage of the distribution share of these films.

For Nie Wei, he was very satisfied with this result.

Of course, Paramount is not a loss, you must know that the box office estimate given to this movie by their company is a full 200 million yuan, excluding the messy taxes, if the film can really meet the estimates of those in the company, then Paramount will also have nearly 10 million US dollars in revenue.

In addition, it can earn a publicity fee from Huayi, and together, the profit should easily exceed 10 million US dollars.

The most important thing is that they hope that this cooperation can repair the relationship with Nie Wei.

After all, as the largest film company in Hollywood, they produce a lot more movies every year than Huayi, and there are also some films released to Huaxia every year, such as for Paramount's current ace series "Transformers", Huaxia has become its second largest box office base in the world, and even has the potential to exceed the local box office in North America.

This makes them unable to ignore one person, and that is Nie Wei.

After all, Nie Weike is by far the world's largest cinema chain, and he not only owns the No. 1 cinema chain in Huaxia, but also the second largest cinema chain in North America, AMC, was also acquired by him.

What's even more terrifying is that many of Nie Wei's cinemas are in a vertical management model, and he has many cinemas that are completely his own.

If Nie Wei really holds a grudge against Paramount, then whether it is North America or China, Paramount's movies will obviously not benefit Nie Wei's theaters.

In order to seek cooperation in interests, Paramount naturally took the initiative to show goodwill, especially under the premise that the movie "The Martian" is really excellent, Paramount feels that it can not only ensure its own interests, but also repair the relationship with Nie Wei, which is a completely win-win move.

After negotiating the release, the rest is some step-by-step things, and what Nie Wei needs to do now is to cut out two versions of the trailer as promotion, and then wait for the release date to be determined, and hold a grand premiere.

In addition, Nie Wei has also been preparing for the acquisition of Max Films.

Speaking of which, this time can be regarded as a coincidence, originally Nie Wei did not plan to buy a Hollywood company at present, but what he was buying was a large newspaper in the United States, the Los Angeles Times.

Because of the rapid development of the Internet, many physical newspapers and magazines in the United States have been impacted, including the Los Angeles Times, which has been published for more than 100 years.

At its peak, the Los Angeles Times had a circulation of around two million copies, but today that number has dropped to less than 600,000.

Behind this decline is the successive deficits of its owner, Tribune Group.

According to information obtained by Nie Wei from some sources, the current total assets of the Tribune Newspaper Group are about 8 billion yuan, but its debts exceed 10 billion yuan.

In order for the company to survive, they must have strong men break their wrists.

There are not many companies that can take over the Los Angeles Times, the influence of paper media is declining year by year, while the influence of online media is increasing year by year, and many people are not optimistic about the survival environment of these physical newspapers, they feel that they would rather invest their money in Google, Facebook, and even the starry Weibo than waste on these century-old newspapers.

These people believe that if their money buys these physical newspapers, it will only devalue the money.

But Nie Wei didn't think so.

In Nie Wei's view, even if the Internet develops, it is impossible to completely replace physical newspapers and periodicals, just as physical books will not be completely replaced.

And when he bought this company, he was not going to make a profit.

What he needs is to expand his influence in North America, and the acquisition of a century-old newspaper is undoubtedly the most suitable for Nie Wei.

Therefore, Nie Wei's investment company quickly contacted the Tribune Group, and the other party was also anxious to sell the newspaper to deal with the group's financial constraints, so the negotiations between the two sides were relatively smooth, and it only took about a month or so for the Los Angeles Times to become Nie Wei's company at a price of 550 million.

After the acquisition of this newspaper, Nie Wei did not change its personnel structure in the slightest.

After all, he didn't know any professional newspaper talents in North America, and it was better to use these old employees than to find a stranger to ruin the current LA Times as a whole.

After all, they have cooperated for many years and have a full tacit understanding.

And Nie Wei's move also allowed the Los Angeles Times to quickly stabilize after experiencing a change of owner, and then brought an opportunity for Nie Wei to acquire Max Films next.

Even Nie Wei couldn't have imagined that he had just collapsed with Disney, and the following employees brought him such a useful message, which was like a sleepy person sending a pillow.

And this news content is exactly about the Wayne brothers.

When Nie Wei saw the content of the news, he couldn't help but be surprised, and he knew very well that as long as such news was reported, then the Wayne brothers were destined to become street rats in the industry, and there was only one way to wait for them.

That is to sell Max Films and change to another industry.

Although the mistakes made by the Wayne brothers are likely to be made by other film and television company owners, there are some things that you are afraid of putting on the surface, just like in the NBA, the owner of a certain team was exposed to discriminatory remarks, and under the conclusive evidence, he could only sell the team and be kicked out of the NBA.

There are some things that you can say in private in the United States, but once they are put on the table, then it can cause big problems.

And Nie Wei knew that as long as the news in his hand broke out, the Wayne brothers would obviously not be much better than the NBA owner this time.

And this is giving Nie the only good opportunity to step into Hollywood.

Max Films, the company Nie Wei, knows it, because he has cooperated with many film companies in Huaxia, including Huayi.

Nie Wei also knows about their business situation, which is a rare film company in Hollywood that has no debts and runs a very healthy film company.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Wayne brothers are too small, and it is difficult for you to see Max Films invest in shooting any big productions, what they are best at is to make a big deal with small things, even if they lose, the loss will not be very large.

It is with such a little accumulation that Max Films has developed from a small company to the present, even if it is Hollywood, where giants gather, they can be regarded as having a place.

In Nie Wei's view, with such a well-established film company and its own funds, it may not be impossible to develop Max Films into a first-class or even top film company in Hollywood.

And after having this company, those films of Huayi in the future will have a stable distribution in the United States, and even Nie Wei will make movies completely under the name of Max Films.

Thomas has always been curious about why Max Films became Nie Wei's target, and even went out of his way to inquire about the news with friends who work at Max, but the news he got told him that Max Films has not had any major changes, and even the development is not bad.

A friend jokingly told him that he would invite Thomas to dinner when he led the month-end bonus.

And these news made Thomas even more puzzled, how many times did Nie Wei pay a premium to acquire such a well-run company, so that the vampire-like Wayne brothers would dedicate their own company with both hands?

50 percent, 100 percent, or even 200 percent?

If it really costs that much money, Thomas thinks it would be better to invest in his new film company.

Soon his doubts were solved, and the Los Angeles Times gave him an answer that surprised him.

"X, lies and vanity fair, the Oscar promoter in people's eyes, what is the true face behind it?"

The Los Angeles Times devoted an entire headline page to the Wayne brothers' scandal, and the story was not just about one thing, but about the Wayne brothers' mistakes over the past three decades.

Thomas's eyes widened, and he even felt that these reporters were like gods, how the hell did they find so many victims, the oldest of whom were twenty-five years apart.

But at the same time, Thomas also understands that the Wayne brothers are finished, maybe they made mistakes Hollywood has made many people, but who made them unlucky and stabbed out by the newspapers?

While Thomas was watching the news, countless people saw the news, and the Wayne brothers unsurprisingly became the street rats condemned by people across the United States, of course, some of these denunciators may be more jealous and angry.

For the first time in two years, the Los Angeles Times won the opportunity to reprint three times, which greatly encouraged the entire newspaper.

Some of them even felt that Nie Wei was their lucky guardian, otherwise why Nie Wei would have been able to get such a big news when he bought the newspaper, and its performance would have skyrocketed.

Subsequently, Hollywood's regulatory organization also issued an ultimatum to the Wayne brothers to get out of Hollywood, all of which was obviously going according to the script set by Nie Wei.

The Wayne brothers' exit was a foregone conclusion, but the brothers obviously didn't want to sell the company cheaply, and they sold it for as much as $600 million.

For this selling price, many investors who want to pick up the bargain are beginning to shy away, and they are also waiting for the Wayne brothers to reduce the price themselves.

After all, they have no room to survive in Hollywood, and there is no director and actor who originally intended to film for his company, so if such a stalemate continues, their company will only become less and less valuable, and their maintenance of daily operations is also a huge expense.