King of Hollywood

The Night Visit to the Vampires meeting was quite successful, and although Rice still had doubts about Cruz's role as Lester, it didn't show up. After all, she herself admitted that Cruz was a good fit just for the purpose of dressing up.

Jordan had no other opinion. In fact, he had long wanted to direct a vampire-related film. All he was worried about was Adrian pointing his finger at the directorial work, but Adrian had made it clear from the outset that he would take full responsibility for the directorial work and naturally did not hesitate to respond. Besides, the three stars fit his heart perfectly, and the script adapts to his appetite.

“I'm getting more and more fond of this character now, Ed, and you're a good producer.” It's not surprising that Cruz is equally exciting, as he is the only major player in the entire crew, and everyone else has shown him the respect he deserves.

By contrast, Brad is much more modest, and although he's a few years older than Adrian, he's not stingy about the word ”thank you", and he's very sincere about it, and no wonder he ends up a star as a choreographer. It's a shame to meet Adrian now, but I'm afraid something doesn't belong to him anymore.

As for Kirsten, it goes without saying that everyone likes her. A good, cute girl is always adorable, and a good, cute, but very playful girl is even more adorable. But after the meeting, she went back to New York with her mother, and she had a lot of plays on her side of the Tasty Love crew.

If there's any regret in meeting, it's that Cruz's beautiful wife didn't show up.

Once this was done, he threw it to the cinema, and Adrian put it into something more important. In fact, if Rice and Kirsten hadn't both rushed back, the first thing he would have done was definitely this.

It's not that complicated, it's going out with some guy, playing ball, working out, steaming saunas, whatever, and talking about what's on top of the decision.

“Things aren't going so well, Lei Shidong clearly wants to, and I think he might raise more money, not less than $11 billion - our company is still a little too young.” In the hot sauna, Claude picked up a white towel hanging around his neck and wiped his face full of sweat, then exhaled for a long time.

Adrian wasn't so polite. Although he also wore a white towel around his neck, he wiped it directly on his face with his hands. * * It was all sweat: “So what are you going to do? ”

“If you agree with me to spend more money...”

“You know that's impossible, Claude, you promised me you wouldn't affect the acquisition of TBS. ”

Claude was interrupted by Adrian before he could finish, and he was still in a non-negotiable tone, so Claude shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, I get it. It's just a shame. It's a good opportunity."

The acquisition of Paramount, the plan that Claude had mentioned to Adrian at the Famous Grounds party, had already been proposed to Adrian long before Oscar and had given him a viable strategy through extensive information analysis. Adrian responded to his request after a long time of reflection, merely stating that the acquisition of TBS could not be affected.

“No problem," Claude replied confidently at the outset, saying that, according to his analysis, if everything went well, it would take up to $9 billion to take down Paramount, and then raise another amount of money through the relationship that could totally buy TBS again.

He just didn't expect it, did he, Summer? Thunderstone and Barry? Diller has shown a strong interest in Paramount by joining in one after another. The two guys were no longer fuel savers, and Diller spared no effort in launching a malicious takeover war, while Thunderstone, who was under threat of divorce, tried to dissuade his wife and make a statement claiming that there was no divorce to guarantee investor confidence.

During Adrian's time in New York filmmaking, Claude didn't have much of an advantage because of the lack of congeniality of the AC media, coupled with Adrian's "TBS First” principle. If you can't raise the purchase price, you might lose to these two guys.

“Well, Claude, don't worry about it. Believe me, in six or seven years we will have better and more appropriate goals.” Adrian slapped him on the shoulder and said in a comforting tone.

He knew that Claude was proposing the plan for the company's development, and that as long as Paramount was successfully acquired, the overseas distribution rights and voice would be fine, their position in Hollywood would rise and AC Media would become a frontline media company. However, in Adrian's view, this is not the best opportunity and the acquisition of TBS is much more important than the acquisition of one of the seven major film companies.

After watching a lot of movie-related acquisitions in his previous life, he remembered some of the more famous cases where several major television networks had been acquired in 90 years, and it would be difficult to get another chance if we didn't do it now. As for film companies, there are better options in the first year after the twenty-first century, and they will be more adequately funded at that time.

Now, of course, it would be easier and easier if the successful acquisition of Paramount were guaranteed "tbs first”, with an established film company, so Adrian had no objection at the time.

“Will there be better goals in six or seven years? Have you begun prophecy again?” Claude asked with a smile.

“You can think of it that way.” Adrian shrugged.

“Okay, well, if you say one word, I'll have to give what I might have gotten to someone else.” Claude sighed a long time, but everyone could hear him, and he was just kidding.

“In your personality, would it be easy to give it to someone else?” Adrian snorted.

“Of course not, I'm ready," Claude wiped his face with a towel again.

“I knew it. Let's hear it.” Adrian reveals the divine colour of listening.

“Let Diller and Thunderstone argue, and we'll be watching, and sooner or later they'll notice the weight of the stock in our hands and pull us together.” Claude said with a gesture.

Adrian moved slightly: "Which way do you think it would be better to reverse it? ”

“Thunderstone.” Claude gave the answer when he thought about it.

“Why?” Adrian frowned, “Diller's not bad either. ”

“Based on your plans and ideas, the benefits of working with Viacom are obviously even greater.” Claude also raised his eyebrows.

“Are you going to take this opportunity to hold a stake in Viacom?” Adrian revealed a surprise.

“If I could, I'd like to join the board.” Claude smiled.

“Thunderstone will not allow anyone to share his rights.” Adrian warned.

“It doesn't matter. We won't be in conflict with him, will we?” Claude, look at Adrian. "Anyway, cross shareholding is normal. Besides, isn't there a miracle director like you? ”

When Adrian settled in, he laughed: "Well, I agree. ”

Viacom's MTV network alone is enough for them to do so, not to mention to join forces further in some respects, at least for a long time without being the main competitors to each other.

“Well, let's get out of here. It's been steaming long enough. It's time to get out.” Adrian stood up.

“By the way, Ed,” Claude thought of something calling him, “there's a liquor party at the Beverly Hills tomorrow night, and I thought you might want to come along. ”

“Wine party? Oh, give me a break, Claude.” Adrian's face was bitter, "I attended a lot of my uncle's parties in New York, and now it's easy to go back to Los Angeles, let me just calm down a little. ”

“Not much at my uncle's party?” Claude laughed and said, “I don't believe you" clearly on his face.

“Of course, if you don't believe me, you can call Uncle Anderson for confirmation.” Adrian said with no change of colour, then shifted the subject: “By the way, I've heard about the Clinton administration...”

“Yes, I know that I have confirmed and let people in since you called, and the Clinton administration obviously intends to make another payment to the Japanese, so we don't have to be too polite.” Claude waved his hand and watched Adrian increase his tone: “Ed, let's just deal with it. ”

Adrian looked back at Claude and sighed after a while: “You know, Claude, when I was directing a new movie in New York, although I only attended two reunions hosted by my uncle, I sometimes preferred not to attend one. ”

He made a gesture and continued: "He invited almost all Wall Street executives, along with several city councillors, state councillors and a congressman. If Greenspan wasn't in Washington, he would certainly have invited him. ”

“It's a good thing," said Claude immediately.

“Of course it's good for you, but me? You know how embarrassed I am about these guys? I have no idea what they're talking about. If it's about movies or computers or the Internet, I can plug in a few words, but finance...” Adrian makes gestures, "apart from laughing silly or laughing silly, I often want to see how good you should be here. ”

Claude Haha laughed and made several successive moves against Adrian, who seemed helpless and angry, before thinking about something: “I remember you saying before that the godfather and your uncle didn't seem to get along very well? ”

“Yes, in fact, Uncle Anderson always wanted to make up, but he couldn't pull his face off, and as a result... he never had a chance again - this is what my aunt told me, and my uncle wouldn't say this at all; then he was dissatisfied and ashamed that I didn't mention him in my Oscar award winning speech - this is what my aunt told me, and my uncle would never admit it. So I wanted to express my apologies in this way, to me and to my father. ”

“Ha, that's awkward. ”

“Who says no? But more importantly, it's also sending a message to my cousin, my uncle's son Victor, that if you can be as good as Ed, I can do it for you.”

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