Chapter 85: Hollywood Roundtable!!
Seeing Kevin come in, Owen hugged him, warmly beckoned him to sit down, and said happily, "My friend, I heard that you have gone to Asia." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info How, are you having fun there??Are there any pretty girls who have introduced me to me, you know, I have three ex-girlfriends who are all Asian, and I'm obsessed with them. ”
"It's not bad there, but I'm not going to pick up girls. I found a partner in Huaxia and sold 51% of the company's equity, and now I want to bring that partner back to regain momentum and make movies together. ”
Seeing him say this, Owen was surprised: "Are you crazy?? actually let people buy your company......" Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed and gave Kevin a thumbs up, and said in a praising tone: "But that's okay, now you and I have been reduced to talking in our respective territories, and we have become the second in ten thousand years behind the boss." ”
"I'm not the second in 10,000 years, although I'm not a major shareholder in the company now, but I'm equal to that partner. ”
"Come on, the company's shares account for 51 percent, you are 49 percent, and you have no authority in the company. ”
Glancing at him, Owen Sim suddenly touched under the sofa, and a grenade was suddenly taken out by him, and he said to Kevin: "Do you want me to help you and make him completely disappear in Austin!!"
Seeing that he was crazy and came up again, Kevin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "This is absolutely not good, I appreciate this partner, our cooperation is sincere on both sides." "He knows this person's temper very well, he is really crazy and wants to come up, even God dares to blow up.
"Haha, it's okay if you don't. ”
Seeing his nervous state, Owen laughed, then shoved the grenade into his hand, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Why don't you blow up my damn Balang brother with this one and help me??"
"I think you're really crazy, do you know that your words have reached Balang's ears, and your Oudian Hotel, which was founded with a family business, can't be saved. ”
Owen stood up when he heard this, and said with a deep look in his eyes: "Kevin, so this matter has to be decided immediately! You help me and I will help you, let's just them, if you succeed, you have what you want, if you fail...... There's nothing to say, anyway, with my brother, I don't have the right to inherit the family, and your company is someone else's now, so there's nothing to be afraid of!!!In this world, whoever is ruthless is in charge......
At this point, Owen drew a cross on his chest, crossed his hands into fists on his chest, bowed his head and muttered silently: "God, please forgive me for my sins, but this is what your child Lucifer seduced me to say, who called him my idol! Who told us all to live in hell!!"
This one, who is completely mentally abnormal, went out without taking medicine. Every time he sees him, Kevin has a feeling of shock, for fear that if he is not careful, he will be tricked into smashing and looting, and they will do something together that they have no way back.
"Owen, I want to see Barang, you can help me make an appointment with him. ”
Shaking his head helplessly, Kevin directly stated the purpose of the trip. When Owen heard this, he said with joy on his face: "You agreed to help me blow him up!"
"No!!"
Kevin's face changed and he said sharply: "I want to continue to cooperate with the Oudian Cinema Line, and I want to talk to Balang about the renewal of the contract between the Cinema Line and our company, don't get me wrong, I will keep it secret for you tonight, but you also have to be careful of Balang, I think he has heard some of your words a long time ago, the reason why you didn't move is because you are brothers, and you have only said it all these years, and you have not done anything unfavorable to the family, if you are serious, he will definitely deal with you first." ”
Faced with this, Owen nodded again and again when he heard this, and exclaimed: "It's still an old friend's thoughtfulness, don't worry, I know what to do in my heart, and no one wants to know my plan before the day of the officer." ”
Sure enough, he still wanted to do it, Kevin said helplessly: "I don't want to get involved in your business, but Jorbalam's business??"
"Don't worry, I'll pass it on to you, but I can't guarantee whether Balang wants to see you or not. After all, Wright's works over the years have brought a lot of negative impact to our theaters, Balang is a businessman, as a businessman, he only has interests in his eyes, and he will not care about his friends like me. ”
Faced with this sentence, Kevin was silent, he gave Owen Shaogong's mobile phone number, and said meaningfully: "I can't help you with your business, but it doesn't mean that my partner can't help you either, he is very powerful in Huaxia, maybe you are the same people." ”
Owen Sim waved his hand helplessly, took the mobile phone number and saw Kevin go, and fell into his own madness again, he first sent his cronies to ask him to find an acquaintance to buy a batch of munitions in an unlicensed underground weapons store, with those plus some of his private collection, the amount is quite a lot, and it is not a problem to equip a hundred-person commando. Then he kept thinking about which of his subordinates were loyal to him, and even found a small notebook, wrote down the names of trustworthy people one by one, and then made a few more phone calls to go out, and made an appointment with several gangs of outlaws, not too small, intending to use money to let them cross the line and make a profit.
In the next few days, Wright Film and Television Company was officially delisted and replaced with the signboard of Menghang, and at the press conference, Shao Gong and Kevin Wright faced the reporter camera together and gave a grand unveiling ceremony to the new company.
Since then, the Dream Airlines branch has officially settled in Austin, Texas, and Wright Film and Television Company has also become the first film and television company in the magnesium country to be acquired by foreign forces. When the other seven veteran companies saw this scene, they all sneered, laughing at Kevin Wright for being incompetent, and actually cheapening outsiders and not cheapening their own people.
At this time, in a huge conference room of Warner Pictures in New York, there were a total of eight seats around a super huge round table, but now there were six seats occupied, two vacant, one for Kevin Wright, and the other for the president of MGM Films.
Speaking of MGM Films, although it was founded a few years later than Warner Bros., it shot one of the most outstanding films in the history of MGM film "Gone with the Wind", created an enduring screen classic - 007, initiated the establishment of the MGM Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, and launched the Oscar......
You know, any of the above achievements can make this company immortal, not to mention several myths in one. MGM Studios' Leo Lion, once a symbol of magnesium nation, created the myth of a movie released every week with its star-studded stars.
Unfortunately, from the 50s, there was a crisis in the MGM film industry, and MGM's film production declined year by year, and by the early 70s to the 80s, only three or four films were made every year. In the 90s, many new and old competitors emerged, such as Wright, Pixar, DreamWorks, etc., all of which seized the business opportunities of new special effects technology and animation technology, and took a crucial step in new fields.
Compared to those opponents, MGM seems old-school and immutable, in order to choose a new path, he chose to go public, and the equity is out, although they have made a lot of money in the stock market, after stepping into the 21st century, the company has a serious lack of blockbusters, resulting in a serious decline in fame and stock market stocks. Finally, it was acquired by a consortium led by Sony at a high price of $4.8 billion in 05.
Originally, the annual roundtable meeting was held at MGM Group, but unfortunately after MGM was acquired, the meeting venue was changed to Warner Bros. headquarters in New York. And this year, the news of Wright being acquired again came out, which can make the eight major Hollywood film and television companies become the six major companies in an instant.
At this time, due to the dim light in the room, no one sitting here could see their faces clearly, and the president of Warner New York said: "Wright was bought by an outside force, which is another old company after MGM was acquired last year." I'm angry at this result, Sony is a group that bought MGM, they have a lot of money, we can't do anything, as long as they don't make a heavyweight work, they can't threaten us. But this Dream Voyage from China, I don't know how much you know about it!"
"I don't understand, Wright Film and Television Company has long been out of business, and if it is not acquired by outsiders, it will also be acquired by us. ”
The president of Paramount Pictures took a puff of strong cigar smoke, looked at the members in the office, and said with a displeased expression: "If it weren't for the fact that we negotiated the acquisition with DreamWorks at the end of last year, Wright would have been a subsidiary of our Paramount Pictures Company a long time ago." ”
Paramount Pictures is known for its starry symbol of snow-capped mountains. In fact, it is also very appropriate to use the mountain as a metaphor for Paramount's position in the film industry. Because in the first 30 years of its existence, the company overtook it and the film and television companies with many stars, high-quality films and theater chains all over the United States, and firmly held the hegemony of Hollywood for several years.
Although Paramount also experienced a low period later, from 1994 to 2004, Paramount entered another prosperous period under the management of Shirley Lansing, and now only Paramount can compete with Warner in the magnesium country.