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"Because, I've signed some first-class behind-the-scenes talent and built my own team." Tom Cruise smiled brightly, this is the reason why Weishenme dared to buy Lianmei, he has been in the industry for 20 years, at the beginning of his tenure as a producer under Paramount, he was already determined to build his own first-class shooting team, and now he has mastered this most important resource, and he does not have to worry about the influence of internal corruption at MGM.

"So, Lee~" Tom Cruise affectionately hugged Li Xiaole's shoulder: "You won't worry, we are good friends, my shooting team is yours, let's make Lianmei bigger together~"

"Xiexie, Tom." Li Xiaole nodded gratefully, he knew that Tom Cruise really regarded him as a friend.

"MGM will be me and yours from now on." Tom Cruise's eyes flashed with ambition: "Good news for you, my script for "The Lion's Mouth" has been approved by the MGM Green Light Committee. ”

"How so? Didn't that script just a few months ago? Li Xiaole suddenly felt that something was wrong, "The Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" should not be filmed and released until next year, which shortened the script revision time by a year, which is obviously problematic.

"We got through the green light committee and asked them to focus on revising us within a week, rest assured, the original script is very mature, and it is just a formality in their hands."

"Tom, I wonder how you got through the Streetlight Committee?" Li Xiaole frowned and asked.

"This ......" Tom Cruise originally wanted to blurt out, but seeing that Wagner gently pulled down his sleeve, he could only loosen his shoulders and pretend to smile mysteriously: "This will be kept secret." ”

Li Xiaole sighed in his heart, he understood that it was useless for him to say anything, Tom Cruise does have a strong network, can invite the most haode actors, and also build a first-class team, but as the most successful actor on Shijie, he ignores an important point, that is, the importance of the screenwriting team and director to the film.

MGM's third-rate team of writers and doctors, as well as Tom Cruise's self-centered and willful hand-picked director's approach, the future failure is almost doomed, of course, this can't be blamed on Tom Cruise, just like James in the NBA, Kobe Bryant's top stars, after they have won countless victories, after getting all the praise and halo, they will habitually ignore the role of the coach and team doctor in the team, thinking that they themselves are the decisive factor in victory.

It's hard for them to understand that every component of a team is indispensable to be successful, whether it's a team or a movie.

When Li Xiaole and Tom Cruise entered the conference hall, Foudy and Canon had already sat down on their own sides, and they all nodded and said hello when they saw them come in.

Foudy saw that everyone was here, and then he made a quiet gesture to everyone: "Alright, everyone, you can get started." ”

The executives of the companies next to him hurriedly put the preparation documents in front of the capital and sorted them out a little, and straightened their ties with their hands to prepare to start.

The person presiding over the meeting was not CEO Foudy sent by Sony, but Leigh Canon with an indifferent face, just seeing him cough dryly, his eyes swept over everyone:

"It's still the same as last time, and the heads of various departments report their budgets to Mr. Foday for review."

"Remember to write the data in detail, Mr. Foday is assigned by Sony Corporation to lead us, and he is not familiar with our company's business, so you can't let him not understand the content of your work." Canon unhurriedly began to set up the meeting:

"As everyone knows, although Sony has injected capital into our MGM, but in fact it is only an equity acquisition, we still have two billion debts, and the movies produced by our company last year, "Brothers Grimm", "New Joy", and "Hara Hairdresser" have lost money at the box office, so we should try to reduce the specifications of the movies this year, except for the "007" series, only launch those small and medium-sized movies with a cost of less than 50 million US dollars......"

As Canon said this, everyone looked at Tom Cruise in unison, and it was clear that no one else could develop a movie above $50 million, and he was the only one who could do it.

"Mr. Foday, do you think this direction conflicts with Sony's instructions?" Canon looked at Foudy with a sense of oppression in his eyes.

"Well, I think this is completely in line with the direction of the head office." Foudie smiled and nodded, but there was some unwillingness in his eyes, after all, Cannon so obviously set him up in the air to make him a CEO very faceless, but what could he do? With the real power of MGM Cork behind his back, he can't make any moves at all, Sony's acquisition claims 4 billion, but in fact, the equity acquisition is only half of the market value, that is, more than 2 billion, and Kork's MGM debt is 2 billion, Sony can't shake Kok's real control of MGM.

After the library that Sony needs is in hand, the only thing Sony has to do is to transfer all the rights in the library to Sony before MGM goes out of business again.

In fact, Foday even knows that he is just a pawn abandoned by Sony, because as long as this matter is completed, and MGM is closed down again after the two companies divide the interests, he, the CEO, will be removed as a scapegoat, spurned by everyone in the industry, and his future is destined to be gray.

As for Foday personally, his only slim hope is that Tom Cruise can rise and bring MGM back to life, then he, as CEO, may usher in a real turnaround......

"Okay, if the company has any production projects that need to be produced this time, you can report them to Mr. Foday." Canon looked at a few people in the production department: "This year, our company is responsible for the production and distribution of "007 Casino Royale", which is an important project, I can honestly tell you that the company does not have too many resources to produce other projects, you have to think about this carefully." ”

The people in MGM's production department all look at me, and several production managers actually have a few pre-sale contracts in their hands, but when they heard Canon's words, they could only shrink back in anger and bow their heads and remain silent.

Everyone knows that the real king of MGM is the financial predator Cork, and Canon is Cork's most ferocious dog, and whoever provokes him will be bitten by him, so that he has a nickname called "Israeli Bulldog", and no one dares to disobey him.

In the end, MGM's production department fell silent, and no one dared to raise their hands.

Canon's eyes flickered and he looked quite satisfied, and turned his head to look at Tom Cruise: "What about Luen Mei Company?" ”

"We have." Tom Cruise threw a stack of pre-sale contracts directly in front of Canon and smiled, "Please take a look." ”

"Isn't this the script just been revised and the pre-sale contract has already been obtained?" Seeing the name of "The Lion in the Sheep's Mouth" on the pre-sale contract, Canon frowned deeply, leaned forward with his tall body, picked up the contract and flipped through it.

Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep ...... actor and director Robert Redford, a veteran Hollywood actor, and Tom Cruise himself...... Although it is a boring story for audiences over 35 years old, with such a strong cast, it still got a pre-sale contract of 21 million, Canon knocked on the table coldly, and didn't speak for a long time, and the people in the hall felt inexplicable pressure.

"I said, in addition to the previous series of films, we don't develop projects with more than 50 million US dollars, if you follow this pre-sale contract, then the production investment is 63 million, and the publicity cost is two-thirds of it, which is more than 40 million, I'm really sorry, our group can't come up with so much money for distribution......"

Canon said expressionlessly, but he was sneering in his heart, this Tom Cruise really wanted to show his skills in the United States as he imagined, but as long as he relied on MGM's "screenwriter doctor" team, this movie was destined to be a failure, of course he wanted this stupid actor to make this idiot movie~ But this alone is far from enough, it is better to pull Foday in, let Sony be responsible for the distribution, and let these two people die together.

As long as this movie fails, then Tom Cruise and Foday will lose the support of Sony, everything will be under his control, and the two biggest threats to him will be eliminated together, how perfect it must all be, Canon conceived his own Jihua in his heart.

"I think so." Foday, who had been a little depressed, suddenly shook his fat face, suddenly raised his voice as if he was energetic, and said with a smile on his face:

"I have applied to the head office to distribute this film, and I don't need MGM to be responsible for the publicity work, I have communicated with the head office, and in the future, my head office can be responsible for the promotion and distribution of the film of Luen Mei Company, which can also reduce MGM's burden, killing two birds with one stone."

Li Xiaole, who had been sitting silently next to him, felt a tense heart when he heard this, he seemed to finally know that Tom Cruise Weishenme could "get through" the Green Light Committee, and the supporter behind him was the CEO Fat Foday, but as soon as he thought of MGM's future development, he immediately understood that all this was likely a conspiracy designed by the businessman Canon.

The future failure of "The Lion's Mouth" will cause Tom Cruise and Canon to lose the support of Sony at the same time...... United States will be isolated, and even more terrible because of his own entry into the United States, the time has been advanced by another year, in the original version, Tom Cruise only got 3500 investment because of the decline in popularity, but now he can still get 63 million investment quota, the disaster of "Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" will make them fall into a catastrophe that will never fall......

Seeing that Canon frowned, he sighed helplessly and said, "Since the head office has made a decision, it's not my turn to intervene." Tom Cruise and Foday looked at each other, both showing victorious smiles, and Li Xiaole was even more sure of his guess, there was no way...... It was no longer possible to stop Tom Cruise and Foday from jumping into the pit smartly, Li Xiaole watched all this as a bystander and sighed, all parties shili had their own shrewd calculations, but they didn't seem to notice him, and couldn't help sneering in their hearts.

Without him, history would have moved in its original trajectory, but with his presence, everything would have changed dramatically......