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Li Xiaole was watching Scarlett think from a distance, when he was caught off guard, an obese white man suddenly pounced on him and kissed him on the cheek, and then smiled with a drunken face: "Long live Sony~Ariaddo (Japanese pronunciation)~"

Li Xiaole could only walk away in disgust, touched his face and muttered: "Damn Yankee...... The company is going bankrupt, and it's still so bad. I was in no mood to look at the beauty anymore, and after looking for a long time, I saw an Asian face next to me looking left and right, thinking that it should be the staff of MGM and couldn't help but walk over and ask: "Hey, I'm sorry to ask if Lei Ting is not here." ”

"You must be Li Xiaole of the Black Pearl Company......?" The gray-haired Asian immediately laughed and asked, "Ray just told me that he wanted me to wait for you here, hello, I'm Aoki from the Propaganda Department." ”

"It's nice here." Hearing the Japanese accent, Li Xiaole quickly guessed that it was the person arranged by Sony after acquiring MGM.

"There are still a few floors that have not been renovated, and they will be more beautiful in the future." Aoki smiled in fluent English, "Let's go, I'll take you to see Ray, she's talking to Mr. Foudy about things." ”

The two walked to the back floor and came to an office, Aoki had not yet knocked on the door, but the door opened as soon as it touched, and the two saw a fat white man in his fifties with a big back behind the desk smoking a cigarette with his back to this side, and spraying perfume on his armpits.

"Foday~ This is Mr. Li Xiaole of the Black Pearl Company, Lei's boss." Aoki said with a dry cough.

"Oh~I have admired your name for a long time~" Fody put away the perfume bottle, turned around and patted his hands to extinguish the cigarette, stretched out his fat hands and shook hands with Li Xiaole: "Lei went out to get the information, and I'll be back later." ”

"Hello, Foday." Li Xiaole greeted him while looking at the new CEO elected by Sony after he became the chairman of the MGM board.

"Mr. Li, I really have to envy you, with a haode business partner like Lei, hehe, you don't know how much pressure she put on me, if she attacks me so much, I'm afraid I will have to disarm and surrender."

"I think Tom Cruise's partner, Miss Wagner, has worked you~"

Li Xiaole chatted casually with the executive general manager of MGM, and felt that the other party was obviously not as difficult as Lee Canon, and it was obvious that Sony was a moderate like Han Sanpin in order to stabilize the turbulent situation, but there was one thing that annoyed him, Nima ...... This old bastard is obviously interested in Lei Ting, there is a clear hint in his words that he should let Lei Ting have more contact with him, and the acquisition of Luen Mei will be successful, this old bastard~! This is to make the old cow eat tender grass~!

"Why are you here?" At this time, Lei Ting, who was wearing a sexy and gorgeous black evening dress, walked in sexily, glanced at Li Xiaole, and then said to the document in his hand: "This is the latest financial statement of the Black Pearl Company you want, then I will go out first, and we will talk about it tomorrow after you take a look." ”

After saying hello, Lei Ting pulled Li Xiaole out of the room, walked out of the corridor and pressed the elevator, after getting on the elevator, Lei Ting let out a sigh of relief, took out a small laptop from her handbag, and played softly, without speaking, obviously a little unhappy...... Li Xiaole himself felt strange, he weishenme was coming? It's a bit like the mentality of trying to catch your lover if you're out hooking up with other men......

His gaze inadvertently drifted to Lei Ting's delicate imprint on the side of the white and beautiful neck, and the black scorpion tattoo composed of Greek letters, and the strange and sinful atmosphere stimulated his primitive desire again...... I couldn't help but lean over and secretly sniff her body fragrance.

However, finding that her delicate and exposed shoulder skin was a little excessive, Li Xiaole couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, and muttered:

"Sister Tingting, don't work so hard, I'm going to be jealous when I talk about business and sell my hue so much......"

"I'm not as boring as you think, I'm just picking up girls." Lei Ting turned her head and frowned slightly, but her appearance was extremely charming, and Li Xiaole couldn't help but be stunned.

"If I hadn't known you were engaged, I would have thought you were having sexual fantasies about me right now." Lei Ting looked coldly at Li Xiaole, who looked obscene.

"President He, told you all this?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"Tell me okay, at least if you meet another woman in the United States except me, I'll help her keep an eye on you." Lei Ting's evil eyes looked at him and said.

"Except for you......" Li Xiaole heard three words, and he didn't know whether to be happy or excellent...... Unconsciously stripped Lei Ting's evening dress in his mind, fantasizing about her wonderful carcass......

The elevator door opened with a "ding" sound that brought him back to his senses, and he couldn't help shaking his head to regain consciousness, and he couldn't go to the parking lot with Lei Ting.

"Agai~Send us back to the hotel~" As soon as he got in the car, Li Xiaole asked the most critical question: "Sister Tingting, how is the acquisition going now?" ”

"It's a bit of a problem." Lei Ting shook her head a little irritably, and spread out the laptop in front of Li Xiaole.

"What's going on, now our acquisition amount should be more than 180 million, doesn't it mean that it shouldn't be a problem to get 50% of his shares for about 150 million?" Li Xiaole looked at the dense numbers on the report and said strangely.

"It should have been done, but that Tom Cruise didn't know what the nerves were, and he was suddenly willing to pay 170 million yuan, and now his bid is higher than ours." Lei Ting also said with a cold face:

"Luen Mei is just a shell company, in the past 20 years, except for the 007 series, I have not participated in the production, the only valuable asset is the copyright of those old movies, the copyright of the 007 series is not in his hands, and the production rights of this series in the next 12 years MGM is not willing to let go, how to calculate the market value is at most 200 million to break the sky, we buy it at a price of 150000 50% has exceeded expectations, I don't understand what this Tom Cruise wants to do?"

At this time, Ah Gai, who was listening to their conversation on the side, couldn't help but open his mouth wide, turned around and exclaimed, "Boss, Miss Lei...... You're not kidding, can our company get 100 million? Is it USD or RMB? ”

"Pay attention to the front and drive well~Agai~!" Li Xiaole shouted, and Ah Gai shrank his head and looked back at the front, and couldn't help but marvel in his heart...... Oh my God...... What kind of boss am I with, are they insane, or are they really from a Chinese super-corporation...... One, two hundred million!? also competes with Tom Cruise, the Miss Ray who seems to live in the refrigerator has never mentioned it,

"In my opinion, it's still too late for us to withdraw the acquisition, we can set up our own film company, I checked, according to California law, as long as we find a partner in the United States, it is completely okay, you give me a month, I can definitely handle it." Lei Ting suggested, she couldn't figure out the point of breaking the bank and buying a worthless company.

"It's really not good, you don't have to set up your own company, just compete as an independent individual to compete for the directors of those large groups, I believe that with your strength, you will definitely have the opportunity, and the money you make may not be less than that of opening your own company."

"No, Sister Tingting, you don't understand, we have to buy Luen Mei, otherwise I won't have the three most important things." Li Xiaole sighed helplessly and said, Tom Cruise is not a fool, and the empty shell of Lianmei is worth far more than more than 100 million US dollars for the two of them.

"What two?" Lei Ting asked.

"First final editing rights." Li Xiaole stretched out a finger: "In Hollywood, that is, in what we filmmakers call the big league, ordinary directors only have the right to shoot films, and only producers and a few top directors can have the final editing rights. ”

Many fans don't know that Hollywood's production method is very mature, and there are different people controlling all links, and the finished film made by ordinary directors may be completely different from the final edited film style, which is completely decided by the editors assigned by the production company.

For example, when Mel Gibson was filming "Braveheart", he spent $1.3 million to shoot a big scene at the beginning of the scene, but it was cut by the studio editor without even a second, and the actor-director, the producer, could only roar at home: "My 1.3 million is gone!! But there was nothing to be done.

This is also the production company's attempt to prevent director Zuihou's work from being too focused on personal pursuits and leaving the market.

So after the movie is released, many veteran fans will wait for the so-called "director's cut" to appear in the DVD market to watch what the film director originally wanted to express.

But on the other hand, this makes many Hollywood movies seem to be carved out of a mold, a complete routine, and only those top directors, such as Spielberg, James Cameron, Nolan, and other directors, have the right to ensure that their films are completely their own style.

Lei Ting listened silently, she didn't understand artistic things, and she couldn't ask any questions.

"Second," Li Xiaole stretched out his second finger and said slowly:

"And the most important thing, we can't build our own film projects, except for small productions, according to the convention of the alliance, if we want to make A-level films, there are only three ways to build and open new film projects by ourselves.

For the first time, it was the traditional large production companies, such as Paramount and Warner, who bought the rights to the script, recruited producers, screenwriters, actors, directors, and contacted all parties to start filming and distributing the film.

Secondly, and the most common way now, is to have a giant brokerage company like CAA match the screenwriters and actors of the brokerage company, set up the project, buy the copyright, and provide one-stop service, and then bid for the six major companies of the project, and the six major companies will shoot and distribute it, and the two companies will share the production profits proportionally.

zuihou is the practice of second- or third-tier film companies in the alliance, to develop haode scripts to contact agencies like CAA, organize the signing of actors, and then hand over to the parent company with the channel to raise funds, and they are only responsible for the filming process, and share the interests with the six majors, which is also the route we will take after the acquisition of Luen Mei. ”