268 acquisition of Hollywood Studios2
David Frankl was in a bad mood today. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info He bet it's the worst in 18 years. Just this morning, McKenna and his son called him and said they wanted to talk to him, and he knew that the company was going to be sold. Lao Luo's business has been worse every year in the past two years, and he has heard about it, but what he didn't expect was that the boss actually reached the point of selling the film company. Frankl's dream is that the boss will one day pay a sum of money to make a movie that will make a Hollywood sensation, but that dream has not yet come true. He didn't want to fight with Universal, Warner, MGM, Paramount, Columbia、... Such a giant company to compete with. He just wants to see a good movie come out of the company he manages.
What he didn't expect was that the boss actually sold the company to a Japanese, who was a business partner in Asia. In other places, Asians are portrayed as old-fashioned and cautious. And Hollywood is controlled by Wall Street. Where money speaks, he doesn't believe that Asians will have the courage to invest in making a big-budget movie, and he doesn't want to serve Asians who respect the inferior and inferior.
"Maybe the new boss will let the yellow-skinned man be the general manager. I should consider another way to make a living!" Frankl said to himself in his mind.
The negotiations between the two sides proceeded quickly, taking only three days. Just like going to the supermarket to buy a Coke, there was not even the bargain he expected, and it seemed that the boss really needed a lot of cash to make up for the shortfall in the business. A week later, Japan's Warner Studios' appointed agent will come over, which is also the time frame that Frankl has set for himself to make a final decision.
"You're Mr. David Frankl? I'm Chen San of Warner Pictures in Japan, and we Asians generally like to call other people's head streets or jobs. But there is also a saying in Huaxia that is called a mountain singing a mountain song. Just call me Chen!" Frankl met the agent at the Shangri-La Hotel in Los Angeles. Much younger than he had imagined.
"Chen, I'm David Frankl. You can just call me David!" Frankl said cautiously.
"David, you personally drove me up, thank you so much!" Lu Ming smiled, and the other party's caution made him feel a little ridiculous.
"It's okay, this is what I should do. You are not familiar with transportation, I will pick you up, so that you can familiarize yourself with the environment of the greater Los Angeles area as soon as possible, which is beneficial to your future work. Frankl said, "Chen, have you ever been an actor before?" and the English accent of the other man's pure English London accent surprised him a little.
"Actors? Oh, I've made occasional cameos, and they've all been small roles. Lu Ming replied with a smile.
"Oh, Chen, not only do you surprise me at how familiar you are with your English, but you also look a lot like the lead actor in an Asian movie I saw the other day, but you don't look cooler than you. Frankl complimented.
"Language is just a tool. David, if you are fluent in Mandarin, no one in Asia will see you as an ordinary Chinese. As for the Asian movie you mentioned, the actor in it was indeed my temporary cameo......"
"Ah......" Frank's mouth was wide open to accommodate an egg, and he looked at the young man in front of him with disbelief and a little excessive, it turned out that the boss from Asia was still a big star, which was too.
"Doesn't that sound incredible, but let's get back to business, are you still most worried about managing McKenna Pictures in the future? Lu Ming sat in the co-pilot's seat.
"Sitting in the back, we have a distinction between class, subject and guest, and intimacy. Sit in front of us, and we will be equal. Lu Ming said with a smile.
"Listen to it!" Lu Ming's actions made Frankl feel a lot better.
"You can think of me as a boss, but I want you to think of you as an actor, and I'm here to make a movie rather than to run a company. Lu Ming glanced at Frankl, who was concentrating on driving Qifeng, "You have served this company for eighteen years, making a small company live a vibrant life in Hollywood, a place full of peers, who else would be more suitable to be this general manager than you?"
Frankl was a little confused.
"There is also a saying in Huaxia. It is called 'the tree falls and the monkey is scattered', which means that when the backbone of the organization leaves, the other people who are attached to the backbone will leave, because the new backbone usually starts anew. Lu Ming looked ahead, "However, I don't think so, I won't interfere in the management of the company." You, Mr. David Frankell, are still the General Manager. Not only that, but I need you to recruit because we need to do a big job!"
"Ye, do you really want to invest in filming?" Frankl was a little excited. Lu Ming's favorability in his mind has grown to 90 percent.
"Well, of course, I spent fifty million dollars across the Pacific Ocean. It's not a sightseeing spot. How about David, would you like to help me?" Lu Ming said sincerely, "I heard that Americans are willing to take risks in order to succeed!"
"Of course! Now I kind of believe that the McKenna Film takeover may have been a turning point. "Frankl was dancing a little bit and even took his hands off the wheel.
"Beware!David, before you make a movie, you have to get me to my destination safely, right?" Lu Ming joked.
"I'm sorry, Ye, I'm so excited!" Frankl apologized.
Sometimes, life is like a dream, and the U.S. economy has been hit hard by the financial tsunami that swept the Americas due to the 9/11 incident in the United States. Otherwise, how could a Hollywood studio like McKenna Pictures be willing to be bought by a Japanese film company? However, now that the wood has been completed, life has to go on, and Lu Ming has rarely become serious, and he can no longer be idle, after all, the current company has not been smoothly handed over. It seems that the Japanese film industry has entered Hollywood for the first time in history, maybe the last time it was really in Lu Ming's memory that it appeared in the other world, MGM and Columbia are all subsidiaries of Japan's Sony, and Columbia is also a company of South Korea's Samsung Film Group, it's amazing to put it here, but Lu Ming doesn't have the energy to explore such trivial matters, and the most important thing is to get the urgent things done first. (To be continued.) )