Viacom had reached an agreement, but Gray led the opposition of Paramount's management, which made things changeable, and Dawman personally stepped in to reassure Gray, but he couldn't change his mind.

Lei Shidong in the National Entertainment Company and Viacom, both a tyrant, the master of the same, he married the second lady at the age of eighty, and won the unanimous support of the people around him, this is Lady Paula can calm his anger, now Lei Shidong has greatly restrained his temper, and he is willing to hand over many things to the left and right arms Sally and Dawman, and his son Brent has already been out.

But this time, Gray openly and resolutely opposed the parent company's policy, and neither Sally nor Dawman could convince him, so Lei Shidong had to personally go out to appease Gray, promising to give more support.

Gray is an opinionated, tenacious man who decides that by selling UPN, Paramount will inevitably decline, so he decides not to agree.

Lei Shidong is not a good-tempered person, and was annoyed by this guy's stubbornness, and said: "The decision to sell UPN is a decision of all shareholders, and it is not a request for your consent, but a request for you to execute. ”

"As long as I'm the CEO of Paramount, I'm not going to sell UPN," Gray said. ”

UPN is a chicken rib for Viacom, but it is extremely important for Paramount, and it is a company that is not good at paying less, and without the TV network, what is the difference between Paramount and the big studios such as MGM, Pixar, and New Line? As for the protection of CBS, who was in charge and who was the deputy at that time? CBS was a larger enterprise than Paramount, and the level was higher.

Lei Shidong said: "As a senior executive, you must understand the difficulties of the board of directors, and look at the problem from a higher level, the business vacated by UPN is in charge of CBS, and our cooperation will be more effective, I ask you to implement this order?"

Gray said angrily, "You are strangling and castrating Paramount!

Lei Shidong was furious, slapped the table and said, "Damn! Why are you so narrow-sighted? I really don't know how you, the president of Paramount, became the president, and what about your overall situation and leadership temperament?"

Gray saw that he couldn't do anything, so he had to resign and retire.

Brad Gray took office, before Hollywood strong woman Shirley Lansing had been in charge of Paramount for 12 years, because of the sluggish performance in the next few years, was criticized by the industry for a lack of risk-taking, forced to step down, the industry at that time generally believed that Paramount may be forced to merge with other companies in the near future, resulting in Hollywood Big Six into Big Five.

In the original version, Gray took charge of Paramount, but the box office success continued, Paramount released "Shrek 3" and "Star Trek" two IP sequels in 2007, plus the first screen "Transformers", in 2011 Paramount was responsible for the release of "Captain America", "Thor" two super blockbusters plus "Transformers 3", "Kung Fu Panda", "Smart: Ghost Record" series sequels, which made Paramount the box office champion.

Behind all this is the result of "friends", at the end of last year, Gray, who had just taken office, snatched Spielberg's DreamWorks from Universal for a price of 1.6 billion US dollars, at the same time, Paramount also reached an agreement with DreamWorks Animation, which had been spun off from DreamWorks two years ago, and will be responsible for the distribution of DreamWorks Animation until the end of 2012, DreamWorks Animation is the most profitable animation company in Hollywood, Paramount's four highest-grossing films in 07 "Shrek 3", "Transformers", " The Bee Movie and The Ice Blade Duo were all from DreamWorks, and Paramount was able to hold on to second place in the next two years, although it didn't stay on top.

Later, although it declined due to the separation from DreamWorks, DreamWorks Animation, Marvel, and the market recession, Paramount under the leadership of Gray did have a brilliant future, and now with the emergence of Mark's layout, the storm caused by this butterfly is getting bigger and bigger, and it has also changed the fate of many people.

Everyone's position is different, destined to look at the problem in a different way, Gray is so strong, to the surprise of Lei Shidong, this makes his insistence hesitant, if Paramount resigns en masse, it will be more than worth the loss, and he will become a joke.

The media industry and the entertainment industry are playing eyeball economy, and the Hollywood film industry is the most dazzling pearl in the world, these media groups, there is no giant film company as a brand, and it is in vain to call themselves big companies, Viacom Group also joined the competition for world dominance after acquiring Paramount, Paramount is the core flagship in Viacom Group, once there is turmoil, the stock price of the whole group will fall, but the good news is that he resigned angrily, only Gray, and the rest of the management were silent.

Larry and Iger both have their own channels of information, and they all know about what happened in Viacom, and they look at each other and laugh, this UPN is in their pockets.

However, during the deadline set by Larry, Dawman, the vice president of Viacom, called, and they refused to sell UPN, which surprised Larry, Iger, and Mark, and they didn't know what the hell was Lei Shidong doing? If he didn't sell it, why did he drive Gray's right-hand man away? Is this asking for trouble, as the president of the Big Six, this position is very important, whether it is appointed or dismissed, it must be discussed and approved by the board of directors, and any reckless move will be turbulent.

Larry saw the doorway, Gray led the troops to rebel, violated the taboo of Lei Shidong, this kind of person is not worthy of forgiveness, if there is any dissatisfaction, pull a vote to resign, this has formed a atmosphere, so who is the boss and who is working?

Mark felt a little pity, but Larry and Iger felt that it was not a big problem, there were so many TV stations in the United States, and most of them were willing to pay money, and some of them were willing to flatter MM.

The co-president of ICM expressed his willingness to act as a middleman to facilitate the deal, Nancy Josephson became the co-president of ICM in 1998, which was also the first time that a woman climbed to the top of the pyramid of Hollywood's top agency, Nancy Josephson is the daughter of Marvin Josephson, the founder of ICM, a former entertainment lawyer, who joined the company in 1986, and her greatest achievement was the package sale of "Six People" to NBC.

In 1975, billionaire Marvin Josephson merged the Innovation Management Association and the internationally renowned brokerage company into one, this new company is ICM, at the beginning of its establishment, ICM is a subsidiary of the listed company Josephson International, Marvin Josephson is not an insider in the brokerage industry, he just saw that the brokerage industry is very profitable, and wants to come in and make a big profit, however, most of the energy of the new company is spent on personnel disputes, and CAA, which was founded in the same year, took the opportunity to rise.

It wasn't until 1980 that Jeffrey J., a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, was a broker. In 1986, ICM took advantage of the fact that William Morris, the head of the century-old William Morris, had no leader after the death of its owner, Stan Carmen, and grabbed a lot of celebrities and made a fortune, and in the '87-'88 fiscal year, ICM's revenue was as high as $56 million, which was a very staggering figure for a brokerage company in the '88s, and in '88, Marvin Josephson took the company private, and he and several senior managers of the company bought 60 percent of the shares for $70 million, a few years later, he sold his shares to a partner.

Since the 90s, ICM has become a top player in Hollywood, and two CAA partners, Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer, have jumped ship to take charge of Disney and Universal respectively. In addition, they developed corporate clients to convince American Express to sponsor Paul McCartney's U.S. tour.

However, in recent years, ICM has lost several important clients, including Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, the end of "Friends" has also made them devastated and urgently need to start a new business, as the president of Hollywood's top agency, he is naturally well-informed, as one of the giant brokerage companies, they also have extremely rich connections in the management of Time Warner, this time MM waved a check, ready to enter the TV industry, smelled the money, they immediately volunteered and were willing to be agents.

After discussing with Iger, Mark, David, and Meghan, Larry decided to let ICM's Nancy come out and authorize them to contact Time Warner to explore the possibility of acquiring TV B.

Judging from the last negotiation, they are a little anxious, such a big deal, should not be in person, should be allowed to do this line of brokers, which allows both parties to have a choice, now it is fast, but all of a sudden the negotiation collapsed, want to start negotiations again, it is unlikely, if you let the agent go out, it will not be so sharp.

And Nancy, an eight-sided agent, is well versed in negotiation, and has deep connections in Time Warner, of course, this offer is not expensive, which involves billions of big transactions, of course, it is impossible to take ten percent of the commission, but it is not hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars that can be sent, but Mark and Iger These wealthy owners all think that if they can successfully acquire a large national television network, spend tens of millions of commissions, it is also worth it.

Whether it is UNP or B, these TV stations that have long cooperated with the operation of giant film companies are exactly what MM urgently needs.

In Larry's words, don't be afraid, what we have is money, and it's a big deal to build our own national television network like News Corp.