King of Hollywood

Chapter 250 UNCLEED

For a movie company, the library is always the most important thing for a movie company that wants to move forward rather than tailgate behind a big company. As long as there are enough repositories, even if they are hit harder, they have the principal money to rise again, and vice versa, they are vulnerable. []

Film libraries are not so built up, make their own products, buy others, or clearly attribute copyright at the time of issuance, etc., there are many means, but there are also many competitors, and in the end it is still up to the financial resources. Miramax built more than 700 repositories for more than 20 years, and Bosworth has been hovering around the second and third lines for a long time, with very few different repositories and fewer new lines, only 500.

Nearly 2,000 movie galleries are already good for medium-sized companies, but not enough compared to large ones. Which of the seven biggest movie companies doesn't have thousands of movie galleries? Even now, there are more than 3,000 globes at the back of the ranks. Now that AC Media has acquired Worldwide, the library in hand is over 5,000, basically the top three.

Just like that, Adrian won't be as happy as he is now, and in addition to these 5,000 + galleries, TBS has a lot to offer. Back in the early '90s, Ted? Turner had thought about acquiring MGM, but for some well-known reasons, the deal went off, but Turner didn't stop, and took the opportunity to scrape most of MGM's library.

As you know, there were seven major movie companies in Hollywood, but before the 1980s, that number was eight, and there was also the location of the United States Film Company. This house was first run by Charlie? It took Chaplin and his friends more than a decade to set up a small company that culminated in the thirties and remained steady despite the ups and downs that followed.

Unfortunately, there will always be unexpected accidents in the world, and at the end of the seventies, the United States spent 40 million dollars investing in the Gates of Heaven, eventually losing blood and eventually being merged by MGM. The same first-line movie company, the same old qualifications, you can imagine how much MGM's library has enriched.

However, McGomey quickly stepped into the aftermath of the United States, and while there was no risk of merger due to investment failures, the gradual decline was unstoppable, not to mention bosses like Cochrane. That's why after 10 years, I was in danger of being acquired by TBS, and even though I finally got rid of that danger, I paid a great price.

Of course, gold signs like “007” are impossible to sell, but Turner has taken the copyright to at least 3,000 films, so today, AC Media has a library of nearly 9,000 films.

“This means that we are in undefeated ground.” Adrian said that to Claude more than once.

Nearly 9,000 movie libraries can earn tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year, even though they have to be shared with other copyright owners, but they are also quite profitable. Think about it, sitting still has a lot of money smashed over your head, which is why Adrian would say to emphasize that it has stood undefeated, if the dream factory were crowded with such a huge library, it would never last.

And besides the movie gallery, there are also animation galleries, TV movie galleries, etc., not only did TBS recover the movie copyright from MGM, but also half of the copyright of Cat and Mouse, as well as a lot of animation films. Now, it seems that the right decision is to acquire TBS or ABC, even to finance Wall Street.

“Well, then it's time for us to prepare for the loss.” That's what Claude said.

“Now?” Adrian picked the eyebrows, slightly surprised, "Seems a little early, doesn't it? Less words”

“Oh, what do you suggest?” Claude asked immediately.

“Don't you think," Adrian looked at him, "is the IT unit a little overheated? Cisco will soon have a market value of over 100 billion, higher than Microsoft, and once more than General Electric after the launch of Win98. ”

“So what?” Claude shrugged, "since Apple was born, the IT industry has been creating miracles, why not now? By the way, Jobs is a great guy, and Apple has a small profit today. ”

“Come on, Claude, I'm serious," Adrian interrupted him, "you know, that plan or did I come up with, at first we were the only ones doing it covertly, and now, how many people are doing it? ”

“Well, what are you trying to say, Ed?” Claude, open the door. "Is it going to crash? ”

“You have to admit, it's possible, and quite likely,” Adrian shrugged, "just wondering when it's going to happen again. ”

“So...”

“Slightly later, wait till mid-2000. How about that? ”

Claude didn't talk, he just looked at Adrian with a sparkling eye, and it took a while to say, "Do you have a hunch, Ed? ”

“No, just worried,” Adrian smiled, “even people like me can see the uncertainty in it, don't believe you won't see it, don't you want to stop...”

He made a gesture, didn't speak anymore, Claude didn't, and then another moment passed.

“We don't have to do this, we just have to hide it, it's just a little bit troublesome.” Claude said, "I'll keep an eye out, and if that happens, I won't be polite. ”

“If you say so, then do as you plan.” After a few minutes of reflection, Adrian said.

So-called reserve losses are not really making their own company lose, only fools do, and Claude means processing the underlying book data to make the company look like a loser in order to cope with the tax authorities and the public. This is not an offence, but it is calculated in a somewhat special way, with different principal, expected profits and actual profits, to the extent that it is actually profitable but shows a loss on the book. Basically, companies in the United States do that, so you don't have to worry about anything.

Now, with the chassis firmly anchored, the AC media has entered a relatively stable development zone, and Claude will naturally seek greater profits.

But Adrian has more ideas, as he said before, when the foundation is built, it's time to move on to the castle, and you can't work so hard to build a solid foundation and build a thatch house on it, can you? Adrian knew his strengths and weaknesses, so he left them to Claude, who was only responsible for his point of view.

Claude proved to be doing quite well, not to mention several of the company's acquisitions, and both the Hearst Group and the Newhouse Group enjoyed working together after the earlier decision to work with traditional media groups. However, contrary to Adrian's expectations, Hearst Group and AC Media worked more closely together.

Hearst Group is not only a publishing giant, it also involves a lot of other things. For example, they have launched their own channel and have worked with ABC before. Naturally, they are very concerned about the olive branches that the AC media extends. Claude didn't let go of this opportunity and cooperated fully with them on TV, and it was his proposal to broadcast Will and Grace on their channel, where Hearst Group needed AC media so badly that it was very tight.

The Newhouse Group, on the other hand, concentrates entirely on newspapers and magazines, and several famous magazines such as New Yorkers, Famous Places, Fashion, etc. are all needed by the AC media, so they have more than enough to face Claude. But Newhouse is also currently on the march network, and AC Media has a good investment in IT, so the two sides are working well together on this, but not as closely as Hearst Group.

Adrian was not mindful, although he had failed to achieve the desired goal, and after a few years after the millennium, the situation would soon disappear and, at present, only become more intimate.

Anyway, Adrian needed Claude to take the helm, so he had any plans to ventilate him, but this time it was hard to make it so clear that the loss of profits on the books was just a head start, and then step by step he brought the topic to the top of what he wanted to say, after all... the prophet wasn't so easy to do, it was dangerous to jump wire.

Claude's answer satisfied him. Adrian prepared a lot of remarks, you know next year is the craziest year, and now it's just the beginning. Even the guys on Wall Street who are ready to cut wool aren't sure what the bubbles are, let alone Adrian, who has never been good at finance.

Well, anyway, it was a long way off, and even if Adrian had a huge acquisition plan, Claude promised to keep an eye on it, so he turned his attention to something else.

“Stop, Ivy, stop, you know, you're like a monkey just drilled out of a cage right now.” Adrian, listen to me. Eric? Norton spoke aloud to Ivel, who was doing a flip in the room.

“You're the monkey, Ed," even Ivier, who finally stopped after a few flips, waved a fist-threatening shout, suddenly causing a laugh.

“Well, even if I were a monkey, that would be a monkey king, but you, you should be a circus monkey.” Adrian said with no courtesy.

The girl's face immediately darkened, biting her lips staring at Adrian like a cannibal, as if she were going to rush up and bite him at any moment. No smoke makeup, no T-shirts and deliberately broken jeans, no canvas shoes, no different from ordinary western girls today, but cute, especially now, so Adrian can't help but tease her.

“Well, Ivy, Eric tells me you've got your own route. Tell me, have you settled down?”. Adrian shifted the subject when she saw the girl's drum appearance growing.

Sure enough, when it came to music, Ivel, who was still angry, immediately frowned and smiled: "Sure, don't you think rock is cool?”.

“Just cool?” Adrian looked at her and asked.

“Not only is it cool, but it's... it's also very...” The girl frowned “and it's” been half a day since she came up with the right adjective and waved impatiently: "Anyway, if I like rock 'n' roll as a singer, of course I should choose my favorite music to work with, right?”

“Well, that's settled.” Adrian sighed in his heart and said so.

Frankly, in the long run, rock 'n' roll wasn't exactly for Ivel, and in my memory, although the first period was very hot and brilliant, the second began to be a bit of a bummer. But then again, there will be a situation related to a lot of factors. Besides, there is not only one type of rock and roll. Since she likes this, she “still" chose this, and Norton also thinks she has a development prospect on this, so do it.

As the girl said, being a singer can't work in the direction of the music she likes, which is a terrible thing to do.

“Fine, then I'll let them arrange a formal course for you soon, and don't lazy at that time," Adrian said, “and don't leave any other courses you've already taken behind. ”

“I know, I'll try very hard," Averill stood up to his little chest.

“In that case, everyone would say," I'm busy, but I'll never take the time to check it out. If you don't meet my requirements, Ivy, you're dead, "Adrian said, holding her arms down and watching her half-threatening half-joke.

“You are very nagging, like an old man...” The young girl made a ghost face of him, turned her eyes and thought of something to laugh at, “... like an old man, uncleed. ”

“What do you... call me?” Adrian first coughed like he was choking, staring straight at Ivel.

“Uncleed, is there something wrong?". Ivel blinked and looked innocent and upright.

“This...” Adrian plugged for a moment, while the others beside him struggled to hold their laughs.

“That's it, uncleed, I'm leaving.” After looking at the time, Ivier smiled and said, proud of herself, apparently exasperated by her ill breath.

“Well, I'll let the driver take you back.” Adrian took a long breath and tried to make himself look as calm as he had just been.

After saying goodbye to the others, Ivel walked up to the door and waved at him: "Thank you, uncleed. ”

When she said the last two words, she deliberately raised her voice and heard a particularly funny voice, and the people in the room laughed.

Damn little girl Adrian rolled her white eyes and began to wonder if it was right to bring this little rock 'n' roll witch from Canada.

Upon Adrian's return from Napani, MU sent someone to test Aveline, needless to say, to open a training contract. And then when the summer vacation was over, Irvell came to Los Angeles as an exchange student, in Adrian's place, and it was too easy to fix this, and even arranged a boarding house for her, at Jules' house, head of the editorial board.

In fact, at first Adrian wanted to put her in the producer Melanie's house, which was Scarlett's mother, two girls as big as she could talk about, and Scarlett had a brother, a sister, and a twin brother, and Aveline should love a family with more children. But Melanie often goes back to New York, and more importantly, it's a divorced family, so it's okay to think about it.

Then the Julius family became the first choice, their family was very harmonious, some neutral daughters, although only 7 years old, but the big ones were easy to get along with, and they loved music, so they were asking Ivier for her opinion and eventually decided to stay at their house.

The reality is similar to Adrian's expectations, and even though she's half Christine's age, she gets along well with her and often plays guitar singing to her. Although she was a little uncomfortable in the first two or three days of her life in the United States, the teenage girl quickly settled down and made a few friends who could talk to her at school, and then started basic training until today.

“It's up to you, Eric, to tap into her potential.” Adrian patted Norton on the shoulder, lifting his leg and walking out.

“No problem. She'll be as good as Britney and Christina.” Norton replied, "It took a while for them to smile again,“ and frankly, I think Aveline is a good fit for you. ”

The room burst into laughter and several staff members lay down on the table. Adrian, who walked to the door, glanced back at these guys, made a mouthful of "you're all assholes” and quickly left.

It's impossible to say not to be angry, but it's not because the staff are joking, he's not a cheap person, but Ivel's name is really a hassle, psychologically speaking...

“Don't rush, don't jump to conclusions. Who can say this must be a bad thing?” Adrian whispered to himself and opened the door to the private lounge.

Just closed, one hand reached out from behind and hugged him in the waist, and then a slightly sharp voice rang out behind him: "Oh, I miss you, Uncle Ed. ”

“Well, Bob, you didn't learn anything like that.” Adrian smiled and pulled out the girl behind him.

“Why?” Britney asked with some surprise, "My voice is already pointy. ”

“Yes, it's pointy, but your features aren't so easily covered up,” Adrian sat on the couch and patted himself on the thigh, "that wonderful, sweet magnetic sound that I could hear in a moment. ”

The girl frowned and laughed, jumping on the couch and slipping into his arms.

“When did you pick this up?” Adrian asked again.

“When Ivel left to call you, the door was open, and everyone in the aisle heard me, and I was nearby, of course.” Britney laughed, “Uncle Ed, that's an interesting name. ”

She stumbled in front of Adrian, puking in a vague breath, and the light in her eyes flashed: "Shall I call you that too?”.

This is a tempting proposition, Britney has already been eaten by him with his belt bones, if… but Adrian quickly shook his head and changed his smiley face: “What are you up to, Bob? ”

Chapter 250 UNCLEED