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After five hours of non-stop bargaining, the two sides finally reached an agreement on the wholly-owned acquisition of Universal Pictures, and the acquisition contract was signed on the spot.

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For $1.7 billion, Chicago Rock Management wholly acquired all the shares of Universal Pictures, of which $1 billion was used to pay off the company's debts, and $700 million in cash was transferred to the seller's bank account within three days.

The acquisition will be effective from the moment it is signed.

That is to say, from now on, Universal Pictures has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chicago Rock Management Company, and in the future, it will develop independently, finance, and be responsible for its own profits and losses, and Long Zheng will become the new boss of Universal Pictures.

After signing the purchase contract, the seller refused Ryuzheng's invitation to dinner and soon left. And the people of Universal Pictures Company stayed, because these people are the management of Universal Pictures, and in the future, they will only be responsible for the boss of Long Zheng.

Since the management of Universal Pictures is here, Long Zheng called everyone for an emergency meeting after the dinner.

There were six people attending the meeting, in addition to Long Zheng and Jenny, there were also four general managers, operations directors, art directors, and administrative and financial directors of Universal Pictures.

Although Long Zheng already knew the whole thing about Universal Pictures, he still asked the general manager of Universal Pictures to give a detailed introduction to the company's current operating conditions.

Universal Pictures has always implemented a general manager responsibility system, and the general manager is directly responsible to the boss. Under the general manager, there are three directors -- the operation director, the art director, and the administrative and financial director, and the three directors are responsible for their own responsibilities to jointly assist the general manager in managing the company.

Among them, the director of operations is responsible for the planning department and the customer department; The art director is in charge of the production department; The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for the Administration, Personnel Department, and Finance Department.

For Universal Pictures, the most important manager is not the general manager, but the art director. Because the art director is directly responsible for the production of Universal Pictures' films, his work performance directly determines whether Universal Pictures is profitable or loss-making.

It's a pity that none of the dozen or so directors signed by the production department of Universal Pictures is a master director in his own right.

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The four-member management team consisting of Universal's general manager, chief of operations, artistic director, and chief executive and financial officer has been in charge of Universal for five years.

In the past five years, this management team has been full of ambition, because of the company's equity change and shortage of funds, Universal Pictures is quite a bit of "Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year".

In the huge conference room, the four of them put forward a total of five new movie production proposals, but after listening to the movie script, Long Zheng did not hesitate to reject it directly.

As for the five new film shooting plans proposed by the four people, Long Zheng can only use two words to describe them -- "bad movies."

Not to talk nonsense, Long Zheng decided to take out a movie script written by himself and edited by Jenny and handed it to the four of them.

After receiving Long Zheng's instructions, Jenny gave the copied script outline to the general manager, director of operations, art director, and administrative and financial director of Universal Pictures.

Strictly speaking, only the art director of the four executives of Universal Pictures is a film production professional, and he is the only one who can tell whether a movie script is good or bad.

"The script for the biographical film Lincoln was inspired by the historical work The Rival's Team: Lincoln's Political Wisdom."

opened the outline of the movie script, and such a sentence came into the eyes of the four people.

"In 1865, as the four-year Civil War came to an end, President Abraham Lincoln ushered in his second term as president."

With the script outline in hand, the art director took a deep seat and read it carefully: "For the last four months of his life and term, President Lincoln was engaged in a battle that was harder than the Civil War: pushing for the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress. This bill would legally and permanently abolish the existence of slavery in the United States. However, the timing of the amendment was unusually bad: the idea of abolition lacked the response of the people; Congress is controlled by conservative forces; The radicals who supported abolitionism were also unhappy with Lincoln's style. When the secessed Southern states expressed their desire to return to the negotiating table and end the Civil War, Lincoln found himself faced with a painful dilemma: should he make a compromise peace, or should he stick to his inner morality? Is it to end slavery, or to end war? ”

"If slavery is not wrong, there is no right one. This is the main idea that the movie "Lincoln" needs to express. ”

After the four of them finished reading the outline of the movie script, Long Zheng said: "In this movie, the protagonist Lincoln is a politician full of flexibility and wisdom, and he is also the commander of the three armed forces; He is a loving father who has lost his beloved son, and a husband who feels guilty. At the moment when his country was at its most confused, Lincoln looked beyond the war with superhuman foresight and devoted all his efforts to the great game of changing the direction of a nation. He wanted to convince the American people that when people of different colors looked up, they would see the same starry sky. Through this film, viewers will step into the greatest achievement of President Lincoln's life: the abolition of slavery. ”

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"Boss, the idea of this movie is really great and very artistic. However, "

Looking at Long Zheng, the art director changed his words: "The production cost of this film is less than 10 million US dollars, and this is still on the premise of hiring well-known directors and big-name actors." Without the cool big scenes of Hollywood blockbusters, such a low-cost production may be difficult to have box office appeal. ”

"No box office appeal?"

Shaking his head, Long Zheng's eyes looked at the director of operations: "I will give the planning department 10 million US dollars for publicity, can you guarantee that this film will reach a box office of 50 million US dollars." ”

"$50 million at the box office?" The director of operations weighed it for a long time and nodded firmly: "With the artistic value of this movie, the $10 million publicity cost plus three months of publicity time, the $50 million box office is not a problem." ”

"Three months of publicity time?" Long Zheng secretly weighed it and said loudly: "Okay, the production of the movie "Lincoln" starts from this moment, because there are no big scenes in this movie, I will give you three months, complete all the production of the movie by the end of May, and release it nationwide in June." ”

Looking at the general manager, operation director, art director, and administrative and financial director of Universal Pictures, Long Zheng's tone was unquestionable.

"Don't worry, boss!"

In front of Long Zheng, the four of them glanced at each other and agreed. (To be continued.) )