Chapter 933: Forget it
"Ms. Fleming, it's me, APLUS."
Everything is settled, Kunes pleads guilty, Simon Schuster loses his wife and loses his army, public opinion dies down, and his friendship with Johnny Carson is restored. The old man is very shrewd, he knows that he is a kind person who advocates win-win, and the gambling agreement is not harsh, and his autobiography will definitely make money, so the next step is the buyer's publishing house.
You don't need to buy it right away, memoirs, the old man slowly recalls it and doesn't know how long it will take, hire a trustworthy writer to stay with him in Bamberk for a long time, and wait until the manuscript is completed. The publishing house is a distribution channel, and it is very expensive to raise, and the situation of paper media is not as good as a year, and it is difficult to buy it early and suffer a loss.
Radio, television, record labels, film companies, websites, magazines, tabloids, and before you know it, the puzzle of A+ Media Group, which is small and complete, is about to be collected!
What's left missing? Cinemas? Issuing company? Song Ya hummed a song and dialed Shirley Fleming, editor-in-chief of America Music Magazine, "I heard that Litman is about to go bankrupt?" ”
It just so happened that there was something more colasy, the print mogul Leetman, who sold him America Music Magazine...... Well, he was worth more than 100 million at the time, and now he doesn't have to call him a tycoon, not long ago he was on the verge of bankruptcy by financial news.
Song Ya remembered that he had a publishing house, and if the business was cooked or not, it was better to ask the price first, hehe, this time is different from the past.
"What do you mean? Are you sarcastic about me? "The old lady's sensitive high society self-esteem flares up.
At the beginning, you were tricked by Littleman, and you almost didn't even have to be the editor-in-chief, and in the end, it didn't depend on me? Hum!
"You misunderstood, I just heard that he was selling his company to survive, and he has a small publishing house, right?" Song Ya asked.
"Yes, the family business, it's called Littleman Press."
"That's his lifeblood and family totem, and he will never sell it unless he has to, and he sold his soap opera digest magazine to News Corp. the year before last to bail out," said Shirlen Fleming, who has been peddling high-fidelity magazines recently. ”
Lo and behold, a review and gossip magazine around soap operas, a magazine that introduces professional audio equipment and advertising promotions, specializing in these niche print media, in today's rise of the Internet, who is not bankrupt?
"Are you going to buy a hi-fi magazine?"
"Litman has put it in a bag with his shares in modern photography, stereo commentary, and guns and hunting, and the current offer seems to be 100 million," Shelle Fleming asked. ”
Burst! Photography, Stereo ...... Still hunting? What are these things, I want to sell 100 million!
"Forget it, I'm just asking. By the way, do you know a veteran biographer in New York? I wanted the best and commissioned him to write a memoir for Johnny Carson. ”
The old lady is the daughter of Belle Fleming, after so many years of cooperation, there is no problem with character and connections, "Of course I know!" You wait for my news! ”
Writing a memoir for Johnny Carson was a chance to become famous, and the old lady was very active in reaching out to friends.
Song Ya put down the microphone in a good mood, and then saw Linton and a group of men in suits rushing into the conference room, and immediately blackened his face.
"Mr. Alexander Song, this is a script confidentiality agreement signed between you and your wholly-owned A+ Film Studios and Hollywood Pictures, and this is the relevant evidence that A+ Film Studios leaked the original script content to Los Angeles prosecutors, which is the ...... that Hollywood Pictures owns the adaptation rights, script adaptation rights and ownership of the cat-and-mouse game"
The men in the suits took out documents and spread them out on the table with expressionless faces.
"I'm just cooperating with the police investigation."
The trouble is solved, and the cost of crisis public relations can be relied on best, Song Ya looked at Linton, "I eliminated a big scandal for Hollywood Studios and even Disney!" ”
Linton raised his hand in surrender, signaling that he could not be the master.
But under a non-disclosure agreement, the leak of the original script must be agreed upon by the partners, A+ Studios and Hollywood Studios. This was the specific provision at that time, which had already been marked. The head of the man in the suit flipped through the contract and pointed somewhere.
"Then let's take a lawsuit." Song Ya showed a lazy look that didn't care.
"That's right...... All right. The other party was not verbose, put away the documents and got up collectively.
"Forget it, forget it......"
Yeremov hurriedly stopped people, "Don't be such a boss, they are Disney's legal department." ”
Song Ya pursed her lips and didn't want to speak.
"Forget it, APLUS, if it goes to court, we both spend a lot of legal fees, and you still have to lose money in the end." Linton also advised.
"As a friend, you should have firmly supported me at that time." Song Ya blamed him, "It's all up to me to do it alone, isn't it good for you to turn out the results?" ”
"It's not interesting to say this, it's not that you don't know my difficulties." Linton smiled wryly, "And aren't you also guarding against me?" You didn't even tell me! ”
"I'm not guarding against you, I'm just trying to ...... as soon as possible Forget it, how much do I have to lose? ”
As a Disney executive, Linton is really inconvenient to pull the shelf, after all, Johnny Carson and Kunes are also part of the screenwriting team. And the situation seemed calm at the time, but the window of time to resolve the reconciliation between Kunes and Johnny Carson was only two days, and when he reported it layer by layer, if he was involved in the internal power struggle of Ovitz's Disney, who wanted to take advantage of the fire, the daylily would be cold.
"Ten times 500,000, the terms of the contract are here, and I have also marked them." Disney's legal department noted.
"Then it's better to go to court!" Song Ya was furious, "See you later!" I'm on set! ”
"Don't do this, don't ...... like this"
Hamlin quickly sat down the boss and said to the other party: "We are willing to pay reasonable compensation, and today everyone is negotiating for a specific amount, isn't it?" ”
Linton also began to whisper persuasion to the head of the legal department.
"Okay." The other party agrees.
In the end, Song Ya gritted his teeth, signed under the figure of 3.5 million with the tip of the pen, and finally cut the paper because of too much force.
"It's a seven-fold discount, which is not bad." After Linton sent the people from the legal department out, Hamlin said.
"Yes, that's good."
"Yes, yes."
Yeremov, Hayden, and Sloan all nodded.
Song Ya closed his eyes and counted the accounts, 12 million in reserves, losing money, hiring Cochranga, and other costs, such as the campaign funds donated to Los Angeles District Attorney Gilgahiti, for such a crisis PR that he completely took care of, and only spent 7 million.
Daniel was right when he said to himself, if he were white, this so-called crisis would really be just a small problem, but he would have to pay a price far beyond that of whites of the same level!
He can't wait for Karl to just kill Kunes now!
Only Ms. Sloan understood herself, and reached over and pressed her shoulder, "Don't worry about APLUS, it will get better and better in the future." ”
"I'm skeptical."
Song Ya didn't bother anymore: "Forget it, just get it done." Hayden, help Amy find a new house in Beverly Hills, and get it all done with a budget of seven million or less. ”