Chapter 750: No One in My Eyes (12,000 per day, ask for subscription)
After James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger became slightly famous with "The Terminator", several brokerage companies came to them, but the dispatches were ordinary agents, and it was the first time that the big boss of such a brokerage company went out in person, and they naturally attached great importance to it.
When they met Michael Owitz, they also learned a little bit about CAA, and they knew that it was a small company, signing some actors who were not too well-known, directors and even screenwriters, and at the same time their business was not only Hollywood, but also the sports world, and just last year they signed one of the best players in the NBA, Magic Johnson.
Both of them are people with pursuits, and after learning about CAA, they didn't want to sign an agent contract with CAA, but at this time they were more inclined to sign with William Morris, the largest agency in Hollywood at this time, although they came only as an agent.
However, when they met Michael Owitz, they were persuaded by Michael Owitz.
"Our CAA brand culture is teamwork, the organizational structure is also flat, the cooperation is based on complete equality, and the customer list is also shared, which means that it is not a broker of our company that serves you, but the whole company, and at the same time, in daily affairs, you will also have a whole team to serve you, and the economist will communicate and exchange information with other colleagues at any time!"
"Our company is now committed to winning the 'advance total box office' model for its directors and actors to win the 'advance total box office' with the big Hollywood studios, so as to get the maximum benefit for you......"
The whole meeting is basically Michael Owitz talking about CAA, and James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger listening, they may both be geniuses in terms of movies, but they are not so geniuses in the other aspect, Michael Owitz is talking about their CAA system that has not yet succeeded, but it is enough to make the hearts of these two listeners.
In particular, the account-sharing model of the 'advance total box office' made the two even more excited, and at this time, both James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger were a little dissatisfied with the contract they signed with Shahai Entertainment before.
Especially Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film reviews in the past few days have made him know that he is the soul of the movie "Terminator", and if the later series is to be filmed, he will not be able to do without himself at all, so he is more and more dissatisfied with the previous contract at this time.
If it weren't for the huge amount of liquidated damages in it, he would really be ready to pick on it with Shahai Entertainment.
The account-sharing model of the 'advance total box office' can be said to be one of the main culprits of the rise in Hollywood actors' salaries and the sharp rise in film production costs.
It is precisely because of this that he gave up fighting against Rongle, because as long as Rongle re-establishes a brokerage company and takes the lead in launching this model, it will definitely be able to attract countless actors, directors and screenwriters.
At the same time, Rong Le also told him about the mode of production and packaging, which almost opened another door for Michael Owitz's brokerage company.
In the end, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger got lost in the beautiful blueprint drawn by Michael Owitz, and at the same time, signed his name in the agency contract of CAA.
In this way, these two cash cows are inseparable from Rongle's control.
The myth of "Terminator" continues, and in the second week, "Terminator" once again hit 13 million US dollars at the box office, which means that Shahai Entertainment has recouped its costs and achieved profitability in North American box office revenue alone, and at the same time, Hollywood studios also know that through Rongle's relationship, the release of "Terminator" in Asia has been pushed on the agenda, and they know that there is less and less profit margin left for them.
MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Bros., Universal, United Arts, 20th Century Fox, and Disney used to be known as Hollywood's eight major film production companies.
However, before that, United Arts had been acquired by MGM, so at this time Hollywood was left with only the remaining seven largest production companies, and as for the Dream Factory, which everyone was familiar with later, it had not yet been established at this time.
Among the seven majors, MGM's boycott of Shahai Entertainment is the most clear and firm, which includes not only the extra price paid by MGM when it acquired Lianyi, but also the reason why Kirk Corian coveted the shares of Haojiang Tourism and Entertainment Company in Rongle's hands.
Although they are known as the seven major Hollywood film studios, there are also strong and weak among them.
For example, Disney, the Hollywood giant that everyone knows in later generations, is now also mired in the quagmire and cannot extricate itself, and at the same time the internal factional struggle is fierce.
If Disney is still a weak chicken, then Twentieth Century Fox can be regarded as a real powerhouse, they were just bought by oil tycoon M. Davis the year before last, so it can be said that they have plenty of money in their hands, and they are also responsible for investing in and distributing Lucasfilm's "Star Wars", which alone can make Twentieth Century Fox stand tall in Hollywood.
At the same time, another series of Shahai Entertainment's "Home Alone", which Rong Le is eyeing and is already secretly producing, is also produced by Twentieth Century Fox.
When there was no interest before, Twentieth Century Fox could accept MGM's boycott of Shahai Entertainment, but now Shahai Entertainment has not sold the European distribution rights of the series "Terminator", which is a cash cow, with this cash cow, Twentieth Century Fox is still in charge of the agreement with MGM.
So at this time, Twentieth Century Fox contacted Rongle through George Lucas.
Rong Le met the distribution manager of Twentieth Century Fox at Shahai Entertainment, Culbarry!
Kalbari wasn't tall, not as big as the average white American, and more like an Asian if you didn't look at the skin.
Without waiting for Shahai Entertainment's secretary to report, Kalbari had already pushed the door and walked into Rongle's office, and Rongle's temporary secretary said embarrassedly: "Chairman, I didn't stop him from walking in by himself!"
Rong Le waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you go down first!"
Kalbari tilted his head slightly and said, "Hello Mr. Rong, I am Kalbarry from the Twentieth Century Fox Publishing Department! This time I came to your company to win the European distribution rights of "Terminator"!"
When Rong Le saw his appearance, he didn't bother to shake hands with him, and said, "Please take a seat!"
After Kalbari sat down, Rong Le asked, "I wonder what price your company wants to pay to obtain the distribution rights of Terminator?"
Kalbari glanced at Rongle in front of him, a yellow-skinned monkey, he was lucky enough to make a blockbuster movie, if it wasn't for the general manager's order, he could have let a staff member come over, and he personally came to talk to him about cooperation, which really gave him face.
"For three million dollars, we at Twentieth Century Fox bought the European distribution rights of "The Terminator", and at the same time the agency rights of the "Terminator" videotapes in the European region!"
Wow, what a lion's mouth, three million dollars is like taking away the European distribution rights of "Terminator" and the agency rights of the videotape.
Rong Le looked at Kalbarry, and really wanted to know who gave him the courage to make him open his mouth so much.
"You're kidding!" Rong Le said.
"We Twentieth Century Fox never joke, you and I are well aware of the situation of your company, if it weren't for our Twentieth Century Fox, your company wouldn't even have the three million!" Culbarry's tone was a little impatient, a small company boycotted by the seven major Hollywood studios, Twentieth Century Fox was willing to lend a hand, and he was not satisfied.
Rong Le's expression gradually cooled down, and for this kind of arrogant and arrogant person, Rong Le also lost interest in negotiating with him.
"Since that's the case, then there's no need for us to talk about it anymore, come and see off the guests!" Rong Le said coldly.
Kalbarry looked at Rong Le with some surprise, don't say that they are Shahai Entertainment, that is, those well-known independent production companies in Hollywood, it is also an undesirable thing to be able to get the distribution of Twentieth Century Fox, and now he Carl Barry is out in person, and the other party dares to bombard himself.
"Mr. Rong, I want you to know who you're talking to!"
Rong Le smiled, laughing unscrupulously, and the dissatisfaction just now disappeared immediately, he finally knew why Twentieth Century Fox had so many blockbuster series of movies such as "Home Alone", "X-Men", "Opposite Sex", etc., and was able to repeatedly have crises, been repeatedly sold off, and was acquired by others.
It's all because they're dying themselves. A glimpse of the whole picture, just one Kalbari can tell how their entire company is doing.
However, although Rong Le's dissatisfaction has disappeared, it does not mean that he can tolerate such a small character being arrogant in front of him.
With a cold expression, he stood up, looked at Kalbari condescendingly, and said, "Then do you know who you are talking to, even if Davis is here, he doesn't dare to talk to me like this!"
Rong Le is no longer Wuxia Ameng, and the assets in his hands are tens of billions, perhaps it is the Chinese blood in his body that makes him always uphold the way of humility, but this does not mean that he does not have his own majesty.
So when he stared at Kalbari like this, Kalbari's heart trembled, and suddenly he remembered that Rongle was not just the owner of a Hollywood film production company, he also had another identity.
Chairman of Tunan Technology Group!
It's just the American branch of Tunan Technology Group, which is a giant in the United States at this time, and the games they produce every year are a grand event in the game industry, and there are also home game consoles, Game-boy, Walkman and other products are all among the highest sales of similar products, and although the American branch has never announced its own performance, but there are also American newspapers to make evaluations, and the sales of the American branch of Tunan Technology Group last year reached a terrifying amount of two billion US dollars.
Such an amount has already exceeded the box office total of Twentieth Century Fox in a year!
And he's just a manager of a distribution department at Twentieth Century Fox......
Many things are like this, when they don't recognize the reality, people like to paralyze themselves and don't want to know things, but when they really think about these things, they know how ignorant and ridiculous they are.
Kalbari walked away in a gloomy manner, silently, and no longer had the arrogance he had before.
.........
When Rong Le returned to Beverly Villa, he happened to see Guan Fairy holding Rong Jingshi for amusement, while Hu Yinmeng was looking at them with a smile on the side.
When Rong Le brought Guan Fairy to the United States, he took Guan Fairy to live here, Hu Yinmeng naturally didn't say anything, but Xuan Shifang's attitude was a little unreasonable, it stands to reason that Xuan Shifang should have a diswelcome attitude towards Guan Fairy, but the reality is that Xuan Shifang likes Guan Fairy very much.
It wasn't until the evening when Rong Le whipped Guan Fairy and begged for mercy again and again that Guan Fairy said that Xuan Shifang wanted Guan Fairy to be Hu Yinmeng's gold medal undercover agent in Xiangjiang.
Xuan Shifang also thought so when he saw that Guan Fairy was young, but Guan Fairy was so easy to be bought, and now Guan Fairy is only a man in Rongle, but don't forget that in another time and space, Guan Fairy is known as a rich killer.
This also shows that she has won countless battles, it can be said that Guan Fairy's talent in this area is full, even if Guan Fairy has no combat experience in this area in this time and space, but many of these talents are innate, so Xuan Shifang made a mistake after all.
"Brother Le, you're back!" Hu Yinmeng and Guan Fairy saw Rong Le.
Rong Le walked over, hugged Rong Jingshi, and smiled happily: "Are you good today!"
Rong Jingshi didn't know if Rong Le was obedient before, but now she must be not well-behaved, because just as Rong Le just hugged Rong Jingshi over, Rong Jingshi rewarded her with a soak of children's urine.
"Haha!" Hu Yinmeng and Guan Fairy looked at it and laughed. Rong Le also lightly tapped the tip of his daughter's nose and said with a smile: "You little ancestor!"
At this time, the nurse also came over to take Rong Jingshi in Rong Le's hands and help her change her clothes, and Rong Le had no choice but to take a bath and change clothes.
When Rong Le came out, Hu Yinmeng said: "A call came from home this morning, it was a person from Xiangjiang, named Liu Luanxiong, who said that he wanted to visit you!"
Liu Luanxiong had been staring at the matter of American bonds in New York before, and now he should have some time to come and see Rongle.
"Did he say when he was coming?" Rong Le asked.
"He said it was tomorrow's plane to LA!" Hu Yinmeng said.
"Well, tomorrow arrange for the driver at home to pick him up, and then send him to the Hilton Hotel, and say that I will meet him when I am done!"
Tomorrow morning, Rong Le will also meet with people from Disney's distribution department. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~