Chapter 737: Ron Meyer

In addition to A+ Pictures, Universal, Amperin Entertainment, and Geffen Pictures all participated, but in terms of production, it was A+ Pictures and Amperin Entertainment that had a tacit cooperation in the first part.

Schinberg, who had even personally involved in the casting, left his job, and David Geffen, who was busy with DreamWorks, was not in the mood to care about this little thing, he didn't even send someone, but entrusted the decision to Catherine.

One of the five founders of the CAA, Ron Meyer later had a bad relationship with Ovitz, who was ousted from power in the final years of his last years at the helm of the CAA, but now ...... The winner, Ovitz, gave up the loot CAA to go to Disney, and he somehow managed to gain the trust of Bronffman Jr. to take over Universal Pictures, and the two 'old brothers' who had worked together and competed for two decades now met on a new battlefield......"

On the way, Yeremov kept supplementing Song Ya with the background of the new president of Universal Pictures.

"Is it good for you William Morris that the two founders left CAA one after another?" Song Ya asked Hayden.

"Of course, now there are several young agents in CAA who have similar influence to Jackinsley, and they will bite each other crazy for power."

Hayden was very happy, and he poached Ovitz and Ron Meyer successively, and I don't know if it counts as another way for the seven major distribution companies to take a salary from CAA, anyway, William Morris seems to have a real opportunity this time.

"APLUS, Yeremov, Hayden, Linda."

The group met Catherine and his wife outside the conference room, "Universal's decision is very hasty, and our producer will vent......ilate in advance," Catherine's style is still consistent and there is no nonsense, "Although there is a high probability that the water world will be pounced in the future, but raising the file is not necessarily a good thing for us, because the movie was originally scheduled to be released on Valentine's Day next year, and now our publicity and distribution work has not been carried out at all, and the movie and actors have not been warmed up, which is not good." And even if Universal needs to dance out of the sequel of my life to save the emergency, it may not really be able to be assigned to any too good schedule...... Also, the sequel is a project led by Szeinberg, and it's hard to say whether the new president, Ron Meyer, will be happy about the project's success. ”

"I see, your opinion is important to me."

Before the people from the world arrived, two groups of people walked into the conference room and waited, "Is Mr. Szynberg so decisive?" ”

"I heard that Mr. Bronfman Jr. was angry after reading the final version of the future water world, and he threatened to put him in the dock if he didn't get out of the house automatically, and the 170 million project must be reflected in the overall purchase price of Seagram to take over Universal from Panasonic, and I don't know how much pension Simberg took advantage of the management chaos before Panasonic was about to leave."

Catherine smiled: "Of course, the result is not bad, like Columbia Pictures' Gubel, Hinberg left with dignity in the name of starting his own production company, and Bronfman Jr. also invested a lot of money in his new company, which is considered benevolent." ”

"What about Ron Meyer? Will he be honest? Song Ya asked again.

"He is a loser in the CAA internal struggle for power, and after he is lucky to get the power of Universal Pictures, he will definitely do a good job to prove himself again, and your friend Doug Morris is similar, he resigned after not staying long as the president of Warner Music, and now he is trusted by Bronfman Jr. to become the president of Universal Music, and he should not mess around anymore. Little Bronfman has a good eye for picking people, and he also has the bearing of a noble son......"

Catherine seemed to mean something.

"It looks like so."

Song Ya nodded, the so-called Doug Morris messed around, is that he and Daniel teamed up with other record companies to force major stores to maintain record prices, and finally attracted an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, right?

Doug Morris is smarter than Daniel, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he resigned directly from Warner and ran away, of course, there are his connections and accumulation that are deeper than Daniel's, and there are more reasons for turning over.

Unlike Daniel, who has experienced the fiasco of Baidai Beimi, if he is swept away by Sony Columbia Records, it is completely impossible to regain the position of president of one of the Big Six.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Ron Meyer, about fifty years old, of course Jewish, had only been in office for a few days, and he could be very busy, "No more nonsense, we want to bring the dance out of my life sequel to the end of August, what do you think?" ”

Because he is a senior agent, he always has a kind smile on his face, and he seems to be much easier to get along with than other Hollywood executives.

At the same time, his assistant distributed the documents to Song Ya and others.

"The end of August? I thought it would be earlier. Catherine was not satisfied, the end of August was already at the end of the summer season, most of the middle schools had already started, "Can't it be a little earlier?" The target audience for the sequel to Dance My Life is middle school students. ”

Ron Meyer shook his head, "No way, this is the time at the earliest, APLUS, your soundtrack?" ”

"I'm still figuring it out."

Because the movie was scheduled for Valentine's Day next year, he and Universal agreed in the soundtrack contract that it could be completed before October, and it was the distribution company's business to arrange the schedule, but now if you want to raise the file, the Universal family will not count, and he unexpectedly gained a lot of right to speak.

"Can you get it done by mid-August? It can't be later than that. Ron Meyer asked.

"On the issue of schedules, at the end of August, the middle school will have classes with Mr. Meyer."

Song Ya communicated with Catherine before she came, "If you are willing to move the schedule forward, I can work overtime......"

"I can't go any further." Ron Meyer refused.

"You have another movie scheduled for that schedule?" Catherine asked.

"Yes, Pig Baby, an animal comedy, 30 million production cost, I've seen the finished film, the children must like it, and it's a family carnival type."

Ron Meyer replied: "We have moved its schedule forward a little bit, this film is adapted from the British children's writer Dick King Smith's Shepherd Pig, the audience is familiar with it, the pre-release is already underway, you should know Catherine, we can't stuff more at that point in time." ”

Everyone tacitly agreed not to talk about the future water world project.

"That's right, Ron, if the sequel to Dance My Life is scheduled for the summer, we're willing to take the risk of missing the upfront publicity."

Catherine said: "Otherwise, it is better to stay in next year's Valentine's Day schedule, after all, at that time young people have the time and motivation to go to the theater." ”

"Okay, I understand, anyway, you think about it again, time waits for no one."

Ron Meyer hurriedly stood up, not hiding his annoyance, and smiled embarrassedly, "Sorry, I'm too much to do right now, you know, it's a mess here." ”

"It's fine."

Catherine shook his hand, "I can understand you Ron, too. ”

"By the way, there's a party at my house tomorrow night, will you come? And APLUS? Yeremov? ”

He shook hands with Song Ya warmly, "Oh, my lucky Hayden. He gave Hayden a hug, "You know what? The people at CAA are jealous of you. ”

"I'm not all lucky." Hayden heard the teasing meaning in his words and said with a straight face.

"Haha, just kidding, I'll see you tomorrow night, I hope I'll hear good news then."

Ron Meyer politely sent everyone out of the room.

"This guy was calling me a few months ago for his artists to audition for a cat-and-mouse game."

After getting into the car, Hayden was still angry about Ron Meyer's joke just now, and Yeremov, who he didn't deal with much, also helped talk this time.

"yes, what's the spirit?" Hayden chimed in.

The status of the people is very different now, Song Ya is not in the mood to participate in the complaining conference under his hands, "It's still early, I thought it would be a difficult negotiation." Mike, go to Sherin Fenna, I want to accompany little Robb. ”