Chapter 75: The Black Couch and the Red Couch
Each other has a love concubine.
The deal between the Abel and Weinstein brothers was quickly completed.
Through a gambling contract, Abel used $100 million as a bargaining chip to acquire Miramax Films, one of the most powerful independent Hollywood film companies.
By the way, it changed its name to Sefrosa Films.
The Weinstein brothers, if all goes well, could get $100 million over the next 10 years.
$100 million doesn't seem like much.
But the two brothers have been working hard for nearly 20 years now, and neither of them has a personal net worth of more than $30 million now. If you can get $100 million after 10 years, even if two people divide it equally, it will be $50 million. Even if inflation is taken into account, they will reap more benefits than they have in the past 20 years.
What's more, this is just a gambling contract, they work in the new Sephorosa Film Company, and they also have a salary and a certain amount of dividends.
So Hollywood is actually very sad, even if the two brothers work hard until 2018, they will become terrible giants in Hollywood. But excluding Hollywood, they are actually nothing in the capital, at most two small shrimps.
After 30 years of inflation, the personal assets of the two brothers are between hundreds of millions of dollars and $1 billion. With such a little personal asset, his influence in Hollywood is already one of the best.
Whether it is Hollywood or the entertainment industry, it is nothing in front of real capital. The same is true for the media industry as a whole. It's just that the media industry controls the mouthpiece of public opinion, and the influence and power of society are more powerful than those industries that make money more than them.
So even if he becomes the king of Hollywood, if he has no influence in other industries, he is just dominating the media industry or the entertainment industry.
For the company's arrangement, after the contract was signed, Abel also clearly expressed his arrangement:
Bob and Alvertelli were to do some handovers, and the Weinstein brothers were in charge of the company's main experience.
But Abel is the big boss, of course, you need to install your own people in the company. First of all, Alvertelli will move into the company as the chief financial officer and personnel director, taking over the most important financial and personnel rights of the company, acting on behalf of Abel as the boss and chairman.
Bob Weinstein is still in charge of the company's administration as he has in the past, as well as the management of various other logistics of the company.
Harvey Weinstein's responsibilities became heavier, and he became head of the film department, head of the agency department, and public relations manager of Severosa Films.
Basically, the Weinstein brothers are in charge of the behind-the-scenes preparation, distribution and promotion of the film, as well as the PR film awards.
However, the financial and personnel rights, as well as the various supervision rights of the company, were in charge of the people on Abel's side led by Alvertley.
The division of labor is clear.
The business side of things is settled.
Next, of course, it's time for some enjoyable "desserts".
Bob and Alvertelli went to hand over the work, and Harvey took the big boss with a smile and wandered around the company.
One is to let Abel know what the current Sephorosa Film Company is like and what specific staff it has.
Both, too, are the emotionally intelligent Weinstein brothers who show loyalty. Let the people in the company know that they have now changed bosses. And it shows that the Weinstein brothers didn't mean to be an empty boss.
At least not on the bright side.
All the way down, Abel just kept smiling, and other managers or key staff members of the company greeted him one after another.
to half an hour later.
Harvey brought Abel to the chairman's office prepared for Abel, and it was obvious that it was an office that had just been urgently renovated in the past few days.
"It's nice here. After coming in, after taking a look at the decoration, Abel commented.
Inside the office is a distinctly modernist style that was popular throughout the Los Angeles neighborhood from 1970 to 2019. It's the kind of glass or decoration material that is bright everywhere and reflective everywhere.
Especially......
Abel noticed that there were two sets of sofas in the large office, one of which was a black leather sofa in a more remote corner. The other set, near the boss's desk, is a red faux-fur sofa.
Seeing these two sets of sofas of different colors, Abel couldn't help but show a meaningful smile.
You must know that since the end of Hollywood's golden age, under the crazy awakening of women's rights. No one in Hollywood, or in the media industry, or in the entertainment industry, or in the office of a boss or management member who has a relationship with the entertainment industry, dares to get a set of red sofas.
Because according to the Hollywood tradition, make a set of red sofas or red chairs in the boss's office.
That's almost telling people out there, if you want to get a role, follow the rules of Hollywood!
What are the rules in Hollywood?
What you want to get, you have to pay something! What you pay can be the sweat of hard work, it can be the improvement of acting skills, it can be the influence of various stars, it can be the ability to improve all kinds of box office, and of course, it can also be some kind of convenient payment - such as the body.
Seeing Abel staring at the two sets of sofas, Harvey Weinstein smiled, "Boss." Both sofas are custom-made, one is made by IKEA and is cheaper. The black set is. And this set of red ......"
"We spent $80,000 on a special Siberian Bear suede sofa from Jazz Henry. As for why the fur of polar bears is red, it is because it is dyed with special pigments, which guarantees that it will not lose color, and it has good water absorption, no matter what water is poured on it, it will definitely not produce a peculiar smell!"
Harvey swore by it.
Especially when it comes to the two special properties of the sofa, which are waterproof and will not be contaminated with odors, it also aggravates the sound.
This made Abel couldn't help laughing, patted the tall fat man who was half a head shorter than himself, and said with a smile: "Good job." Harvey. But I think it's better to put the two crests together, with the red ones coming closer to my side and the black ones on the outside. ”
Harvey was stunned for a moment.
He nodded immediately and replied affirmatively, "Of course there is no problem, my boss." ”
That's it.
As long as it is a smarter actress, when she enters the boss's office and sees two sofas with such a sharp color contrast, she should know how to choose.
Sit on top of the black and there's not much to say. Sit down on the red couch and ...... Come on, let's talk about the heroine.
Young people nowadays really know how to play!
Harvey thought.