Chapter 112: The New Year Is Coming

Sadler finally accepted De La Hoya, not really believing in Wang Lei's "physiognomy technique", but let Cruise test De La Hoya, and found that this kid was indeed amazingly talented and a good seedling. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although Sadler already has two of the best disciples, Wang Lei and Foreman, no one will be too good to have too many disciples.

Because De La Hoya was only 16 years old, and his parents had to sign off to leave the old boxing school and join the new gym, Sadler handed the matter over to Crews.

Crews has now been promoted to assistant coach by Sadler, and he does have a hand at coaching new players, and when Sadler retires in old age, he may have the opportunity to inherit Sadler's boxing gym and become a new famous coach.

In Wang Lei's view, the relationship between Sadler and Cruise is like that of Tyson's "adoptive father" D'Amato and former coach Rooney.

After five more rounds of combat practice with Foreman, Wang Lei left the gym and returned home.

There happened to be a guest waiting for him at home, and Zhou Yuqiang brought him.

The person who came was Chand Cohen, who found him again through Zhou Yuqiang, and wanted to ask Wang Lei for the script and copyright of the sequels to "Die Hard" and "Home Alone".

Last time "Home Alone" failed to participate in the investment, Chand Cohen regretted it so much, this time he said that he would also win the sequel copyright and script of "Home Alone".

Although the action movie "Die Hard" is not as popular as "Home Alone", it has a good reputation and box office, and it has also made Bruce Willis an action star, and his value has exploded.

After research, Columbia Pictures' production department unanimously agreed that "Die Hard" can also be made into a series, and if it is made well, it may be able to grossify hundreds of millions of dollars at the North American box office.

So here comes Chand Cohen.

Knowing that he couldn't negotiate directly with Wang Lei, Chand Cohen was soft and Zhou Yuqiang, and Zhou Yuqiang was so entangled by him that he couldn't help it, so he took him to San Francisco to see Wang Lei.

Wang Lei was a little surprised by the relationship between Chand Cohen and Zhou Yuqiang, but Zhou Yuqiang quietly told him a shocking news.

This Chand Cohen is a!

This news shocked Wang Lei a lot, and he didn't dare to share a room with Chand Cohen.

But thinking of his plan, Wang Lei still endured his discomfort and received Chand Cohen.

Wang Lei is willing to give the rights and scripts for the sequels to "Die Hard" and "Home Alone" to Chand Cohen for free, on the condition that Chand Cohen help him buy 20 percent of Columbia Pictures' shares and make him a shareholder of Columbia Pictures.

Zhou Yuqiang had already found out for him that 49 percent of Columbia's shares were in the hands of Coca-Cola, while Chand Cohen's father and uncle had only 31 percent of the shares, and the rest of the shares were distributed among a few small shareholders.

Although Wang Lei has written several blockbuster scripts for Columbia Pictures in the past two years, Columbia Pictures is still underrun and has a lot of debt, and Coca-Cola is trying to sell its shares. In the previous life, the Japanese Sony company took the opportunity to take over Columbia Pictures.

Wang Lei wanted to sabotage Sony's plan and take Columbia Pictures into his own hands.

It's just that he is now worth only 300 million US dollars, and he can't compete with the wealthy Sony company, so he retreats and only asks for 20 percent of the shares, and in the future, he can not participate in the company's decision-making, only provide the script, but ask for the right of first refusal to acquire other shares.

The Cohen family was not allowed to sell the remaining shares for three years, and had to convince the owners of the Coca-Cola Company unless he abandoned the acquisition within three years.

Wang Lei is confident that he will earn more than 2 billion US dollars within three years and completely control Columbia Pictures into his own hands.

Although Chand Cohen was surprised by Wang Lei's request, he agreed to talk to his father and uncle, but the news he brought was not very satisfactory to Wang Lei.

The Coen brothers and Coca-Cola's shareholder, Gejiet, rejected Mr. Wang's request, arguing that $300 million plus two film rights were too small to buy up to 5 percent of Columbia Pictures.

As a small shareholder who only gets dividends and has no right to speak, Wang Lei naturally will not agree, and after arguing with Chand Cohen, his real goal was finally revealed.

He could not have a stake in Columbia Pictures, but he wanted full ownership of Columbia Pictures' Samsung TV Group.

Columbia Pictures' Samsung TV Group is not the same thing as South Korea's Samsung, but has partnered with HBO and CBS to specialize in TV shows. It's one of the biggest names in the TV industry, with 260 TV series with 23,000 episodes, and two of the hottest entertainment programs in TV history.

Wang Lei is interested in Samsung TV Group because he wants to make Samsung his own TV network, with the countless American dramas and entertainment programs he has watched in his previous life, as long as the acquisition is successful, Samsung TV can not only become his mouthpiece in the future, but also develop into the fourth TV network next to the three major American TV networks ABC, CBS and NBC.

Although TV is more profitable than movies, the Coen brothers and Coca-Cola's Gejiet obviously don't like Samsung TV Group, or they are anxious to make a move, and after a few days of discussion, they agreed to Wang Lei's request.

However, the Coen brothers also demanded the rights to the sequel to "Midnight Bells".

Wang Lei agreed.

So, after three full days of negotiations between Wang Lei's personal lawyer, Zhou Yuqiang, and the lawyers sent by the Coen brothers and Gejiete, an agreement was finally reached.

Wang Lei's $250 million investment, coupled with the rights to the sequels to "Die Hard," "Home Alone" and "Midnight Bell," was intensified by the acquisition of all shares of Columbia Pictures' Samsung TV Group.

Wang Lei, who believed in Zhou Yuqiang's ability, signed his name without taking a serious look at the agreement.

Since then, Wang Lei has added a TV group company to his hands.

Wang Lei did not manage the TV conglomerate, but wrote a plan to Zhou Yuqiang, asking her to recruit talents to manage the company according to the plan, and at the same time to strengthen the cooperation with HBO and CBS.

Wang Lei changed the name of the TV group company to "Netflix" in English and "Netflix" in Chinese.

With the help of a headhunter, Zhou Yuqiang quickly selected a person named Reed Hastings, who was also the senior of Wang Lei and Zhou Yuwei, and had graduated from Stanford University.

After Zhou Yuqiang passed the careful assessment, she was appointed as the deputy general manager of "Netflix", and the position was only under her, the self-appointed CEO, and Wang Lei's plan was handed over to him.

After reading the plan, Reed Hastings felt that Wang Lei knew everything, and said that he would definitely assist Zhou Yuqiang in managing Netflix and strive to make it the most famous TV network in the United States and even the world.

After Wang Lei met with this Reed Hasjens senior, he threw out a plan to shoot a TV series, asking him to find someone to shoot next year and then sell it to CBS TV network.

This TV series is called "Friends", Wang Lei only wrote the script for the first five episodes, and the rest is all outlines, so Hasjens found another screenwriter to write it.

"Friends" is the only American drama in Wang Lei's previous life that he watched from beginning to end and watched twice repeatedly.

Because it is rumored that this American drama is "plagiarized" from the domestic drama "Love Apartment", after Wang Lei watched ten seasons of "Friends", he found that there was indeed a lot of content that was "plagiarized" from "Love Apartment", and many plots were almost identical.

After the successful acquisition of Columbia's Samsung TV Group and its reorganization into "Netflix", the time has been in February of the eighth year.

It's time for the Spring Festival again.

Wang Lei went to Boston with the Zhou sisters the day before the Spring Festival, paid New Year's greetings to Grandpa Zhou and his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and had a reunion dinner with them.

In the future, the parents-in-law and the family knew that Wang Lei had acquired a TV group and let Zhou Yuqiang be the CEO to manage the TV group, and they were very satisfied with Wang Lei.

Especially Grandpa Zhou, he felt that asking Wang Lei, who was still a baby, to marry Zhou Yuwei was really the wisest thing he had done in his life.

However, not everyone thinks so, and Wang Lei doesn't know if it's an illusion, when he was having a reunion dinner, he always felt that his mother-in-law, Sun Yuting, kept looking back and forth between him and Zhou Yuqiang.

That look made him a little creepy!

After spending Chinese New Year's Eve in Boston's Chinatown, Wang Lei and the Zhou sisters flew back to San Francisco on the first day of the new year the next day, and continued to celebrate the New Year with his family in San Francisco's Chinatown.

After a few days off after the New Year, it was just a few days before he took on Roy Jones Jr., Foreman and Tyson.

Wang Lei then came to the boxing gym again, and after practicing boxing with Foreman for a few days, he flew to Las Vegas together to prepare for the upcoming match.