Chapter 653: Regret
Bobby Brighton is the manager of the distribution department of Universal Pictures, although on the surface, he seems to be the manager of the distribution department only in the middle and senior management, but in fact, as the manager of the production department of one of the two most important departments of a film company, Bobby Brighton has much more power than expected. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, he is not only the manager of the Global Issuance Division, but also the majority shareholder of Universal, and he also serves as an independent director on the Board of Directors.
Bobby Brighton's shares in Universal, it would be an exaggeration to make him president of Universal, but he likes to sit in the position of manager of the issuance department.
Because Bobby Brighton is known as the distribution expert of Hollywood's three gold medal publishers.
Fifty-five-year-old Bobby Brighton, since he was in his twenties, he has been in this industry with his predecessors, and has been engaged in film distribution all year round, and now, although he only serves as the manager of the global distribution department, he has even more power than many of Universal's top executives.
In terms of distribution, he is the No.1 of Universal.
And he was able to work hard for more than 30 years to achieve this position, one is his meticulous work, and another more important reason is that it comes from a special talent he was born with - intuition.
Of course, this intuition is only limited to his feelings about the movie, and other things such as finance, lotteries, etc., he can only scratch blind.
Bobby Brighton's intuition is very powerful, even magical, and he can always rely on this magical talent to find a good movie at the first time, and even if the movie has not been seen yet, he can grasp the movie with this magical intuition.
When he was thirty-two years old, with his own efforts, he became the manager of the distribution department of a Hollywood film company, and as a result, with his terrible intuition about movies, he discovered several obscure films in a row in five years, and several of them he even heard a general introduction, and took the initiative to go to the door to see the preview screening, and all these films were signed by him.
Although the distribution ability of that film company is very weak, and the company's strength is even more inadequate, with these good films, this film company has made a lot of money, and in just a few years, it has become a second-tier film company in Hollywood.
And Bobby Brighton, who was only 37 years old at the time, was also immediately caught by Mr. Merkel, the big boss of Universal, who started by running casinos, and directly poached Bobby Brighton to Universal, with a high salary and shares in Universal, and let him serve as the manager of the global distribution department.
Bobby Brighton also lived up to Merkel's vision, and in the position of the global distribution department, dozens of good films have been excavated in a row, including two Oscar Best Films!
And Bobby Brighton also relied on this series of excellent records to save Universal from the troubled world back then, so that Universal, which was almost on the verge of bankruptcy, was revitalized in one fell swoop, and became a very strong film company among the six major Hollywood film companies.
Bobby Brighton has also become one of the most indispensable people in the world with his excellent distribution ability and terrifying photo skills!
If it weren't for his lack of interest in management, Merkel would have even been willing to make him the president of Universal, becoming the second person in Universal's second place after Merkel.
Originally, Bobby Brighton had a more important meeting to attend today, but overheard his subordinates discussing the new film preview of the Grandmaster, and Bobby Brighton called his subordinates over and asked about the new film preview meeting.
Then, with his magical intuition, Bobby Brighton directly pushed down today's meeting and drove to the Warner Bros. headquarters building alone.
Michael Shaw, the manager of distribution at Warner Bros., is depressed today.
Originally, Dwayne Johnson approached him and asked him to watch the movie "Forrest Gump" filmed by the grandmaster, which made him very unhappy, but for the sake of Dwayne Johnson's face, Michael Shaw still agreed to the great director's request.
Michael Shaw is well aware of how important Dwayg Johnson is to Warner Bros., and he doesn't want to offend the director for a movie.
Of course, Michael Shaw, the name of the Grandmaster, has heard of it, and although he is very impressed by the fact that the Grandmaster has achieved great success in several industries, Michael Shaw is still a little dismissive of the Grandmaster's rash switch to making movies.
For Michael Shaw, a director, he doesn't think the Grandmaster will be successful in this cross-industry operation. In his cognition, the grandmaster is a Chinese after all, and has Dahua ever produced any top directors? Even Zheng Zesheng and Zhou Weidao, two top directors, they have worked hard for several years after coming to Hollywood before they gradually got ahead.
As the most well-known Chinese director in Hollywood, Michael Shaw is also very clear about the process of Zheng Zesheng and Zhou Weidao working hard in Hollywood. Back then, when these two big directors had not yet made a name for themselves in Hollywood, they also made films and begged grandpa and grandma everywhere to find distributors......
No matter how strong you are, Grandmaster, can you be stronger than Zheng Zesheng and Zhou Weidao?
But even if he didn't look good at the grandmaster, Michael Shaw still organized a test screening, after all, Dwayg Johnson's face can't be refuted......
What Michael Shaw didn't expect was that this test screening would alarm so many old rivals, and all the important figures in the distribution departments of the other five major Hollywood studios came.
The worst thing is that Bobby Brighton, who all the publishers hated so much, actually came!
Is the Grandmaster's movie so appealing?
Or are these uninvited guys all die-hard fans of the Grandmaster?
Michael Shaw is very disdainful of these guys who come to mess around, but he is helpless, who made him organize this test screening without telling his subordinates to keep it strictly secret?
As a result, after the news leaked out somehow, all these guys came!
Don't you want to think that the Grandmaster is just a newcomer to the film industry, this is just the first movie he has made, you guys with status, is it worth doing this?
Don't you know that your time is worth far more than this movie?
I complained in my heart, I complained in my heart, everyone came, and Michael Shaw could only welcome it with a smile.
It's all in a circle, and I don't see anyone who looks up and looks down all day long, and he Michael Shaw has to give this face!
As a result, halfway through the movie, Michael Shaw almost went crazy on the spot!
He swore that if he knew that the bastard was leaking the news of this test screening, then he would have to skin that guy as a warning!
Damn, what kind of movie is this made by a rookie director? It's Zheng Zesheng and Zhou Weidao plus Dwayne Johnson, the three of them together may not be able to make such a classic movie, right?