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Viacom Group.

It is the parent company of Paramount, one of the six largest Hollywood media groups, and the third largest media group in the United States, second only to the existence of Time Warner Group and News Corp. It has 39 local TV stations across the United States, and dozens of This radio station is very powerful.

In addition, it also owns MTV, a music and television station that is extremely profitable.

You must know that MTV Music TV Station, but the world's largest music TV station, is not one of them. It can provide Viacom Group with more than 7 billion US dollars in revenue every year.

however!

However, at the moment, Summer Redstone, chairman of Viacom Group, is very angry.

"Asshole~"

"This damn bastard~"

"First, my dearest son Brent, he actually took me to court, accused me, saying that I used a campaign to force him out of the family business, and it made a lot of noise and made me lost in front of people all over the world. face."

"But... now?"

"I never thought that my beloved nephew, Michael, would even dare to sue me?!"

"Ask me 4 billion dollars?"

"What's a joke? Why didn't he say that I would give him the entire Paramount Pictures?!"

"Huh~"

At this moment, the 76-year-old Emperor Lei Shidong of Paramount has completely transformed into an extremely angry lion, whose majesty is still there for a long time.

Sentence after sentence against his son and nephew!

They scolded them for being ungrateful and disregarding the affection between father and son.

Yesterday afternoon, the Los Angeles District Court opened. Lei Shidong attended the trial as the defendant. He saw three people he didn't want to see, and the blood pressure came up.

Former wife: Phyllis;

Son: Brent;

Nephew: Michael;

...

"The three of them are my enemies. They don't want to squeeze money from me all the time. They are vampires and disgusting assholes. They should go to hell and be judged by Satan. They should be thankful that it is not a medieval era, otherwise I They will definitely be killed one after another!"

Lei Shidong gritted his teeth and cursed again.

For a while, the entire large office was silent, and none of the group executives present dared to speak.

"Dad, it hurts so much."

The only person who dared to speak stood up. She was Redstone's daughter, Sally, 40 years old.

Currently, she is also working for Viacom Group as one of the executives and one of the heirs of the old fellow Redstone.

The angry Lei Shidong saw his daughter Sally talking, and suddenly laughed a lot.

Show a rare gentleness.

"Sally, you still love me, Dad. It's not like the three bastards of Phillis, Brent and Michael~" Lei Shidong said solemnly.

Upon hearing this, Sally said immediately: "Don't worry, Dad, I am not my mother Phyllis, nor my brother Brent, nor Michael, and I will always support your decision."

~

At this moment, Redstone's secretary Joanna knocked on the office door and pushed in.

"Boss, Mr. Jordan from Paramount Pictures, and Mr. Zucker Wald are here." Secretary Joanna said.

"Oh?"

In an instant, Lei Shidong, whose eyes were still slightly muddy just now, flashed with energy.

"Joanna, you can bring in Zhuke Wald and Jordan. Well, as for the others to do their own things, you can save Sally." Redstone ordered.

"Yes, boss."

"Yes, Dad."

Everyone responded, and after a few seconds, only Lei Shidong and his daughter Sari were left in the huge office.

"Dad, I heard that you asked Zhuke Wald to come over to make him the producer of the "Tomb Raider" project?" Shari asked.

"Yes!"

Not to mention it's okay, when talking about this, Lei Shidong, who had just put out a lot of fire, burst out with a rage in his heart.

"This bunch of trash..."

So far, this year's performance of Paramount Pictures has made Redstone, who has always been dissatisfied with the old and strong, very dissatisfied.

As of the end of September 1999, only one of the top ten films in the annual box office rankings in North America was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Moreover, the film "The Running Bride", which occupies the top ten rankings, was jointly produced and distributed by Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures, and was not led and independently completed by Paramount.

Paramount Pictures, one of the six largest, still need to be the face of the overlord?

Are you ashamed?

Compared with other companies that are the same as Hollywood's top six, their performance is far worse.

Take a look at the other films produced by Paramount Pictures on the list. The best-performing film is "Double Crisis", but in North America, it only got 116 million US dollars at the box office, which does not match the top six. One of the status.

More importantly...this movie...lost money.

Well, at least, but relying on box office profit, it is impossible to recover the cost.

"As for other movies, hey, let's not talk about it, at most it is a small profit. The performance is far worse than the previous year, of course, last year's performance was not very good." Lei Shidong said angrily.

Anyone can hear that he is extremely dissatisfied with Paramount Pictures' performance.

Had it not been for the absence of suitable talents to take over Paramount, with his violent temper, the entire Paramount executives would have been cleared away.

Shari wondered: "Zuke Wald, as the producer of the "Tomb Raider" project, will definitely be able to get a high box office and reshape the six dignities of Paramount?"

She always felt that Zhu Ke was too young, a little unreliable.

Oh my god~

A 20-year-old producer, where can he be better?

"Ha ha!"

Redstone smiled and said: "Don't think that Zhuke Wald is young, you can despise him. You are not responsible for the group's film and television entertainment projects, so you don't know enough about him."

"but!"

"Looking at his screenwriter and producer's works, whether it is the early "Lola Run", or the recent "Spartan 300 Warriors", or even the animated film "Finding Nemo", it is a rare one. The boutiques I have seen have achieved high-yield box office results."

After a pause, he said: "If he is not capable, how can he become the youngest billionaire?"

Of course, there is one word Lei Shidong did not say.

The "Tomb Raider" project was originally a game project. Paramount Pictures obtained the copyright of the film and television adaptation. Zhu Ke once asked for it from Paramount.

As a result, naturally there was no suspense... was rejected.

Zhu Ke, who smelled blood like a shark, was naturally unwilling to simply give up. After a lot of hard work, he absolutely invested in capital and joined the "Tomb Raider" project.

"Although Zhuke is a bastard and shameless enough, but his vision is not bad, maybe the "Tomb Raider" project has a head start?"

The executives of Paramount Pictures are speculating.

Thanks to the recent explosion of "Finding Nemo", Paramount's boss Thunder Stone Dongfang proposed that Zhu Ke join the "Tomb Raider" project as a producer.

Well, Zhuke seemed silly throughout the buying process.

But in fact, Zhu Ke also has bad intentions and ulterior motives.

~

The knock on the door sounded again.

"Hi, Zhuke, you guys are finally here!" Redstone stood up to welcome him and gave Zhuke a big hug.

Naturally, Zhu Ke was also false.

"This is my daughter Sally, my best heir." Lei Shidong introduced his daughter.

Zhuke immediately became happy when he saw it.

The best heir?

Funny~

Lei Shidong's recent property lawsuit with his ex-wife, son, and nephew, Zhu Ke paid no attention to, and became a savage eater.

As for Redstone’s daughter, and he is the best heir Sally in his mouth, Zhuke, as a traverser, knows that in 2012, Redstone and Sally, the father and daughter, had a hard time. There was a lot of turmoil, and it was much more turbulent than the previous family disturbances.

Even more, the two broke apart publicly, claiming that they would not be in contact with each other!

"Tsk tusk tusk ~ precious father-daughter affection, but, there will be a time when you will be forced." Zhu Ke secretly smiled.

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