King of Hollywood

Chapter 77: Retrieving a Round

Everywhere, the Mén of the Department of Political Affairs or the board of directors of a large corporation, there is always a power struggle, which is the best chuny, no one wants to taste the sweetness it brings, how can Disney be the exception?

Yes, Michael? Eisner was a man of great skill, and Disney's board of directors became almost his monologue. In fact, on another parallel timeline, he had been in power for almost a decade, and the board members were either in the heart of the company or attached to him, and Eisner was almost anything.

Although such an overly powerful figure would never end well, and Eisner was eventually kicked off the board in a very disgraceful manner, it cannot be denied that he was still quite a legendary figure. If he succeeds in acquiring ABC, the Disney board will still be unable to escape his fate in two or three years, unfortunately with an extra Adrian.

Disney's interior is not a piece of steel now, and many people have microwords for the acquisition of ABC. After all, ABC has already lost too long and is likely to be a huge burden for Dinesh. Not everyone has a vision of forward-looking XING. Besides, ABC on the other parallel line did start to make a profit after losing 10 years. So Claude had no difficulty getting in touch with someone who wanted to replace Eisner, like Jeffrey? Craven.

Craven is also a more qualified director in Disney, he was a member of the board before Eisner, watching as Eisner stepped up his rights and expelled his friends from the board, inevitably feeling sad about the rabbit's death, coupled with feelings for Disney's animation and dissatisfaction with Eisner's strategy on it, and opposing the acquisition of ABC, it can be said that it fits with Claude, the only question is whether the other party can offer this opportunity.

So when Pixar relied on "Toy Mobilization" to raise his eyebrows, Disney started talking inside, and Cox, the head of the animation department, repeatedly persuaded Eisner not to give up on Pixar. Most people knew that, but Eisner didn't pay any attention to it, so he realized that Craven, who had the opportunity, immediately started to wreak havoc with the well-connected people.

Unfortunately, Eisner is Eisner, who has been sitting in this position for seven or eight years, and has taken control of Disney to a certain degree, even with the butterfly Adrian, and if he doesn't have a jiāo episode with him, Eisner will no doubt have complete control of Disney, so how could Craven be his opponent?

Immediately after the meeting, Eisner began to reorganize the interior, so as not to hesitate to announce his authority, Craven was struck by surprise, and several previously contacted persons quickly disintegrated under each other's wrists. He fell back and resigned, and eventually he was expelled from the board of directors.

At one point, Disney's insiders were panicked and disturbed, and a number of economic critics criticized Eisner's hardship as not helping to stabilize the situation.

“Anyway, Michael? Eisner did make a mistake in his decision, and Jeffrey? Craven's request was not excessive, but Michael, instead of responding accordingly, kicked him off the board, which, while entrenching his position, also had a considerable negative impact.” That's what an article in the Wall Street Journal says.

As a result, Eisner went on to pacify, although he had been in power for a long time and was tough, but his accomplishments were there after all, and with a lot of help from his heart, he declared to the outside world that this was just a normal adjustment arrangement, and to the animation department that he would never reduce his support for them, so he calmed down internally within a short time.

Doesn't seem to have achieved what Adrian was expecting, however, even a moment of hesitation and confusion on many things is enough for the other party to turn it upside down.

“Well, you win again, and while I believe you should be able to succeed, your eyes are always sharp, but I didn't expect to succeed to this point.” Claude was delighted to hear from the phone.

“So are you going to worship me?” Adrian joked and sighed again: "But I didn't expect Craven to lose so quickly and so thoroughly, if only he could hold on for a while longer. ”

“It's okay, we've got what we want anyway.” Claude didn't mean it.

Claude quickly reversed the negotiations with ABC on the occasion of Eisner's handling of Disney's internal mix of luàn. Look at Eisner, although he's very skilled and capable, he's got a lot of enemies, and he doesn't necessarily think about success everywhere. What he sees in you is more of a position and influence in the broadcaster. Unlike us, we are young, but we are more dynamic and less constrained, and the prospects for development are much better than they are.

Of course, Adriana's famous keen eyes have grown, and everyone knows what happened to this ugly Silicon Valley duck when he first took over Pix, and now only two years later he's turned into a white swan that everyone envies. And now that BS is evolving, thinking about the achievements of this miracle director selling nong on TV, it seems that AC Media is also a good option.

“If Craven had known the end result, he wondered if he would have agreed to your offer.” Adrian exclaimed.

“Even if he doesn't say yes, there will always be others who don't like Eisner, and there will always be people who think they're right," Claude said with a smile. "Besides, Craven wasn't prepared at all. If it were me, even if it was inevitable that he would eventually be swept out of mén, it would never be so soon, only to say that Craven lacked the ability to think. ”

“I heard you had a meeting with Eisner at the bar before, and he didn't seem very nice.” Adrian suddenly came up with something.

“Not really, just a little ridiculous nong, seems a little uncomfortable," Claude recalled, "don't worry, you also said that everyone wears a mask on these occasions, even if they want to beat each other up, they have to smile and talk to jiāo. As for Eisner's possible counterattack, heh, since we have the initiative now, how can I let him succeed? ”

“Sounds like the godfather and my uncle are ready.” Adrian suddenly sighed, and if the AC media exceeded Disney's size in the future, this would have to happen.

“Sometimes it's not good to think too much,” Claude seemed to know what he was thinking, and said there, "I remember you quoting the saying before? Japan or China? This means that even if there is no road on the mountain, it will become a road when people walk up. ”

“Of course it's China,” Adrian said amusedly, listening to his description, "OK, I get it. ”

Sharing is inevitable, so it's inevitable that this happens, but it's been a long time. Even so, it's not hard to hold the company as long as you stay profitable and support Claude yourself. How could Eisner have claimed power in Disney? It's not because he's grown Disney from billions to billions today, so why bother with it now?

“Let's just say, Pix, after such a brilliant success, aren't you going to try harder?” Claude then changed the subject.

“You know, my principle is to just ask about what's inside Pix, and they have their own system, and they're also the souls of the animations they make. Adrian replied," Of course, I will advise them, depending on what they do. ”

If I remember correctly, after the unprecedented success of Toy Mobilization, Jobs put Pix on the market. But Adrian did not intend to do so, and now is not the best chance to go public, and Pix has a much wider outlook than you might imagine, and every animation of it is extremely popular, so that in the last two or three years it will go public, and the market value will definitely be several times what it is today.

Adrian understood Jobs' approach. After all, Pix lost almost a decade at that time. Although Toy Mobilization was a big deal, he wanted to not only share the box office with Disney, but the surrounding copyright belonged to Disney, which is arguably just a comparison of scenery. Jobs' main jing power was not on Pixar, and he couldn't afford any more money, so he had to choose listing finance.

Unlike now, Adrian bought back his contract with Disney early on, and the surrounding copyrights were in the hands of Pix and AC Media, but from the wild rush caused by Woody and Bass' toys, you can see how amazing the surrounding profits are. Everyone knows that the most profitable thing about animation is the periphery, Disney can grow to the scale that it is now, and those periphery profits are a big part of it, which is one of the reasons why Disney has such a big response inside, as chairman of a well-known old brand animation company, but has lost such a large féirou because of the small profits, and the directors don't ask about the famous part, which is weird, only because of the pressure from Eisner, no one but Craven dared to wreak a disaster.

“I assure you that their splendor is only just beginning.” Adrian said so and then thought of Jobs.

After Pixar's eyebrows were exhaled, the media were not less cynical about Jobs when they were chasing him, saying that he missed a great opportunity, or that he worked hard for several years and ended up making a wedding dress for others, and so on, forgetting that just a few months ago they praised him for making a good jiāo Easy.

But Jobs himself didn't seem to take it personally, Adrian was bi two days ago, but went to a party with Claude, and then met this middle-aged man. He congratulated him calmly and asked about Camor, Rust, etc., and promised Adrian that he would come back to Pix sometime. Although this was basically a compliment, Jobs acted well and had no other bad feelings at all. Others, of course, were the same, and soon after a few words started talking about his company and introducing new technologies.

Not ecstatic because of his success, not regretting his mistakes, after being swept out of mén by the apple, his change was huge, but this is the person who made the big deal, then the glory is not accidental, counting that he should be ready to go back to the apple. Adrian thinks so. Not yet, if you remember correctly, ā hand opportunities will soon be available.

It's a coincidence to know, or a coincidence to see a movie on the Internet in a previous life. I didn't expect it to be useful now, but it will take at least two years.

“By the way, Claude, how was that thing before?” Thinking of the network Adrian remembers another thing.

“Which one?” Claude immediately questioned that he had a lot to do every day, and he really didn't remember what Adrian said.

“That movie site in England. ”

“Oh, yes, I remember, according to their contacts, they were already willing to set up a commercial company, but were sceptical about our motives. ”

“What are you going to do? ”

“There are many ways to take this down, if you really want to. ”

“No, no, no, we have to be their brand, and if it's just a website, we can afford to build one, but word of mouth is hard to say. They're free, but they're a lot of shadow mi working together to build it, and the reputation in the network is more important than reality, if we force these shadow mi to build another one and pull the popularity over.” Adrian said it was a long time ago, "so I suggest we talk to them first, for example, by funding them to set up a business company, at the cost that we have the right to prioritize the use of the database -- they have to be quite rich -- that we can use the information they collect when we promote or do something about the topic, and that we have new or old movie updates that can be placed on their website at the outset. ”

“Then wait a long time before penetrating slowly, keeping the site's reputation and holding it in your hands, is that right?” Claude took it up with a smile on his face, "well, I love the offer, it fits my style. ”

“So that's it, jiāo gave it to you.” Adrian said, finally picked up the phone and Jiāo gave it to Charlize in the car, sitting next to him.

“British Film Website? The one you wanted me to collect six weeks ago?” Charlize, who put the phone away, asked, and when he came here, he looked at the driver and the bodyguard sitting in front of him and chose to ignore them and touch them back and forth on his thighs.

“Yes, imdb, very good film material was created in 1990 and has a reputation among film mics.” Adrian gauged Charlize with a smile on his face and had no intention of retracting his hand.

Charlize dresses officially in formal occasions, like when he goes out in his office or as a producer and talks to stars. Frankly, she is quite charming in a black or grey ol costume. Although she has only been a model for a short time, she has a strong clothes rack. Plus her long legs in black sè transparent stockings make her feel very xing.

“Yeah, your eyes rarely go wrong, do they?” Charlize glanced at him.

Adrian Haha laughed and finally withdrew his hand.

The Internet Movie Database, or IMDB for short, is an online database of movie actors, movies, television shows, TV stars, video games and filmmaking, and is only a medium but Adrian knows how famous the site and its Movie 250 rankings will be in the future.

Countless people are looking for movies in this leaderboard, and countless people compete for ranking, as if they haven't seen the top 10 movies on the leaderboard, they don't deserve to talk about movies at all. Adrian admitted that the movies on the leaderboard were still very sè, but really sè to the point where everyone should see them? Not necessarily, but from the crowd effect after all.

While the IMDB voting system is indeed good, the eligible voters have survived by hundreds of thousands, and there are five billion people - six billion in the future - in the world. How many more members can represent? But if you look at the normal shadow mi, it will tend to be like the IMDB, and this is the effect of the brand.

How could he let go of this opportunity as Adrian, who aspires to develop AC Media? Knowing that the opportunity for the Internet to grow is imminent.

With imdb and rotten tomatoes, the voice in commentary and information-gathering will increase dramatically in the future, but I'm afraid rotten tomatoes won't be built in a few years, perhaps one step ahead?

Adrian vetoed the idea just as it emerged. He knows less about rotten tomatoes than imdb. It's likely that nong would have been awkward in advance, so let's wait for them to show up. As for the possibility of being dropped by his butterfly, he already has imdb, and he doesn't have rotten tomatoes or rotten apples or anything like that, just pay a little attention then.

Just as he was thinking, the car had driven into a charming villa.

“Hi, Tommy.” When Adrian and Tom got out of the car? Cruz said hello.

“Ha, finally waiting for you. You're too slow, Ed.” Cruz, who stood by mén's mouth, smiled and shook his hand, then looked at Charlize beside him, "your nv secretary is still so pretty. ”

Charlize replied with a faint smile and said nothing.

“I'm from another neighborhood, and you're not unaware of certain sections of the road.” Adrian shrugged a little helplessly, looking around at the same time, but didn't see Nicole.

“Do you have any suggestions, Tommy?” Coming to the living room and Cruz's agent and arriving step by step, Bosworth's head sent a greeting, and Adrian sat down and went straight to the subject.

“Oh, of course, about the male role, of all the candidates you've offered, I think, little Cuba? Godin's the best, I know him, he's a black actor out of sè.” Cruz answered with a little superiority in his tone.

“Really?” Adrian frowned, looking like Godin had a good relationship with him, "I thought he could. ”

Cruz's smile was much warmer and he sat up straight: "As for the nv character, I recommend Renee? Ziwig. ”

“Really?” Adrian's eyes squinted, “I've made up my mind, Kate? Blanchett starred, and the Australian nv actor played sè. ”

“No, no, no.” Cruz shook his head, “Kate? Blanchett doesn't fit, Renee is the best option. ”