King of Hollywood

Chapter 73 Appetizers

“Hey, Claude, have you seen the Wall Street Journal today? I like their title, Ten Years: Adrian? Colwell and Claude? The Rise of the Media Empire in Rowley," I hope you don't mind putting your name behind me. ”Standing on the balcony of Malibu Sea View Villa, Adrian looks at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance and in the morning sun

o Shiny sea, vibrant talk to Claude,

Although he was wearing only a pajama and the coast of Los Angeles was still a little cold in February, he didn't care, the newspaper in his hand.

“It doesn't matter if they don't mention my name, everyone knows I've left you empty," Claude's humor came over the phone, "and it's not your style to wake me up for such a small thing, Ed. ”

“Though our journey is far from over, it is now entirely laudable, isn't it?” Adrian shrugged.

“But the Wall Street Journal doesn't detail how we rose, and if you really want to act, man, take the Times interview, they've never wanted you on their cover like you do now.” Claude Haha laughed over the phone.

“I will, I promise, as long as they are sincere.” Adrian also laughed, "Times has invited him to the cover countless times, but every time for a variety of reasons has failed, now with the official acquisition of AC Media… becoming the world's first media group, into an era of unfaithful mergers with the United States online, Warner will also begin to adjust his strategy, the simplest of which is to invite Adrian to the cover of Times.

“After all, even I was surprised that you offered 30 billion dollars.” Adrian changed the subject.

“We want to buy as soon as possible, but we also want to buy at full cost, and of course we have to offer a price that will impress them.” Claude smiled softly, "Don't worry, man, it's gonna take at least two or three years to get this deal all done, and we've got enough time to make adjustments that won't go too far. ”

“Well, it's all yours.” Adrian didn't go after him, he thought for a few seconds and said, “Honestly, man, don't you think this is a good time to get involved in Internet services? ”

“Why did you suddenly think of this? Don't forget, it's nothing but a TV business, but with everything else, we're monopolized.” Claude's tone was surprising and laughing at the same time, obviously not taking the word monopoly to heart and believing that he must have thought about it… it was a good springboard, Claude, "Adrian said directly of his thoughts," TV networks are their main business, but not their only business, communications and the Internet business, they have the same, just not as the TV business operates. Now that you already have business, it's no problem to get a large number of users by acquiring a small company, and you said before that you still have two to three trading periods, they can do that in the meantime, nobody can say anything, you should be more familiar with drilling this void. ”

He paused for two seconds, and when Claude over there digested, he said, "Then invested in transforming the network, developing voice digital phones, and bringing broadband Internet access, cable TV, and IP phones together to share a single network, then... development will outgrow what you and I imagined. Of course, we've only just entered the field of network operations, certainly not as proficient as other companies of our kind, even if… so let's see how other companies do it, like - Concaster! ”

Speaking of which, he couldn't help but laugh a little.

“Well, I'll let people talk about a workable xing,” Claude promised after thinking about it, "but now you have to say something that you don't know about network operations? ”

“Please, Claude, this little thing has emptied everything I have in this area, so don't flatter me like that.” Adrian sighed, but the smile in the corner of his mouth widened a lot, "Okay, that's it, I won't bother you, if you still want to sleep, bye. ”

Turning off the phone, Adrian stretched out a lazy waist in response to the sea breeze, and that's all he could give about the operation of the network. He didn't exaggerate what he said to Claude. It did strangle his mind and took a lot of work to find a way to expand on Concaster based on... this clue, and then... nothing happened. After all, Adrian was just a director in his previous life. Something about network operations was also a little bit involved because of the comedy. It was good to remember, and the rest was left to professionals to do.

It can be expected that even if they do their best to support it and everything moves in the direction of hope, profits are up to two-thirds of what Concaster remembers, and if things don't go very well, maybe even half, after all, AC Media is now involved in network operations and there are many competitors.

But that doesn't matter, enough profit for AC Media to keep up the world's first momentum, and that's why Adrian made these suggestions to Claude. While AC Media is finally the world's biggest media company to celebrate, it's far from stopping, and Adrian's custom is that this is just the beginning.

Despite the fact that AC Media is now out-of-the-box, it's a little bit worse than the old media groups, so it's not easy to keep the world's number one name, at least the news groups are right behind us. Coupled with plenty of opportunities, why can't we continue to build a stronger foundation and make the Empire even more ambitious?

Beyond that, influence and voice are two things, and while AC Media may have had enough influence in the media industry, Adrian's voice in Hollywood has not yet reached the level he wants. Modern society is doomed to a unique paradigm that will not succeed, and it is impossible to have only one voice in Hollywood, so Adrian is looking for a dominant voice - at least 80% of people will be proactive when he speaks to him, true or false, and it doesn't matter if the rest of us sing the opposite, which is the King of Hollywood!

It's hard, it's easy. Why do so many famous, talented Hollywood producers, actresses just turn their backs on Adrian? Because he's the only one who can do it, and whoever he wants can get red. Can he turn it into a box office poison, Julia? Roberts East Mountain rises again. Can he make Drew repent? Barry Moore, get back on your feet. Can he get Monica from the model? Belucci gets Oscar's best actress, and he gets Naomi for ten years? Watts became famous… doing things that ordinary people can't do is that simple.

All Adrian's plans revolve around this, starting before this year, and the growing AC media can give him the strongest support, as he said to Claude, this will be the first year that AC Media has demonstrated its strength, the acquisition… will be the first, the second in May and the third at the end of the year. Sure, just once more, but that's just an appetizer, not counting.

In short, it took so much effort to make AC Media the number one in the world, and it was time to counterfeed, when his plan came true...

“Ed?” Just as Adrian rejuvenated his Abacus, a somewhat lazy voice came into his ear and turned around and saw Miranda? Cole stood at the balcony door with fluffy hair, blue sè eyes with some mi paste, white sè blanket wrapped around her body grabbed by her hands in front of xiong, white shoulder and neck luolu outside.

“Why don't you get some sleep?” Adrian laughed and walked over, wěn took her into the room after her chun valve, "Don't stand outside, the weather is still a little cold. ”

“I woke up to see you not around, a little scared...” Miranda explained with some embarrassment.

“Sorry, baby, it was my fault,” Adrian hugged her and kissed her again, “I wanted to come down for breakfast and wake you up again, but I couldn't help but call my buddy after reading the paper, and we talked about it now. ”

He walked into the kitchen with her in his arms: "What do you want to eat? It's too complicated for me to do. ”

“You're so sweet, Ed.” Miranda whispered around his neck, "No wonder so many women like you. ”

“Thank you, that's my biggest compliment.” Adrian Haha laughed, putting her on the kitchen table, "so? ”

“Whatever you eat, I eat.” Miranda laughed and said, "Two shallow bars and blue eyes make her look mighty, and Adrian couldn't help but faint for two seconds.

“Really?” His smile got a little deep and he leaned over her forehead, "What if I wanted to eat you? ”

Miranda shrunk her neck independently and flashed a little fear on her pretty face. She seemed to have been tortured enough last night, but immediately two more red clouds appeared, and her * * little tui stretched out and rubbed on Adrian's big tui, which obviously made her taste the wonderful * *, despite the torment.

“Just don't go too far.” Girl jiāo said shyly, the next second she shouted and was pressed against the table by Adrian, and then her mouth was jammed.

After what happened in Australia, being taken to the United States for a series of model training, and Victoria's secret letter of intent, Miranda was simply taken into her hands by Adrian. In fact, he could have hugged her at the end of last year, and Miranda already had a little “you can do whatever you want" in her, even though she hasn't been modeling for long, and secondary school was spent in Catholic church schools, but she didn't know anything about it.

What's more, as Victoria's secret to being Red Model Alexander? Ambrose also frequently came to guide her, and the implication between the words was obvious, and what Adrian had done for her in Australia, made Miranda feel that it was not a bad thing to talk to him.

But Adrian would have preferred to be able to get there and make a good impression on her, otherwise she would have woken up with Alexander today.

He has always been Valentine's Day, because whoever he spends time with will only offend more people, so it's easy, of course, to have flowers, chocolate, and all kinds of special sè gifts that they like, which is not an easy thing - chocolate is always made by him. Forgive me, but the next day, no woman was willing to accompany her, even Ivanka and Charlize, which was not comparable to last Christmas, which, despite being boycotted together, could go to another woman as long as he was willing and not afraid of the consequences, but Valentine's Day had almost become the norm so far.

It's amazing how some of them don't connect with each other, but they reject it very implicitly. Is that a woman's instinct? Although, Adrian could do something tough, like Rachel, who was the most suitable person; or Charlize, who might say yes, if he pleaded bitterly; and Natalie, who could not refuse his request now. But it's hard to predict what the consequences will be.

So, on the night of February 15, Adrian chose to go out to a bar, to be alone, and then, in some bar, met Miranda, who was out playing with Alexander. The rest goes without saying that Miranda also received his flowers and gifts on Valentine's Day, along with the seeds of the past six months, so she finally leaned into his arms.

“Maybe we should go somewhere else…” Miranda said at the time, then hesitated to look at Alexander, Adrian's relationship with Alexander without guessing and knowing, and Alexander didn't seem to refuse.

In the end, however, Adrian returned to Malibu with only Miranda, speaking a few words to Alexander before leaving.

Alexander didn't take it personally, and with two years of deep knowledge of Adrian, she was obedient to him, and she knew her situation, and she didn't mind having a companion in Victoria's secret - from the moment he had Miranda coached herself, Alexander knew how Adrian felt about the girl. As for the rules of the alliance, oh, it was after 12: 00, and the rules had expired.

“You're too mighty, baby.” Adrian exclaimed in admiration as he kissed wěn with the leftover snow * *.

Blue sè's eyes were filled with mi divine sè, and Miranda was completely in love, shaking her head and ting her body. Adrian smiled softly, bowing down to cling to the girl, and launched a fiercer attack. In the sun, a man and a woman tangled together on a long table in the kitchen playing a primitive and your-human movement.

ac media acquisitions... although there was a lot of response in the entertainment industry, then their eyes were drawn to something else, anyway, the most affected by this acquisitions is the media industry, the entertainment industry naturally pays more attention to entertainment news than ac media acquisitions... more notably, after two days of Valentine's Day, the 73rd Oscar Golden Statue Award nomination list came out fresh.

“The new Oscar nomination list has finally come out, and I bet this is definitely the most surprising one, and regardless of the end result, it will occupy a place in film history - even if it is small.” There have been press presenters who have commented on this in their coverage.

Indeed, many people are either happy or frustrated or excited when they get this list, and then open their mouths when they figure out what this latter stands for.

Five of the best films were nominated, Global's Gladiator, Focused Drug Network, New Line's Little Sunshine Beauty, Miramax's Never Compromise, and Sleeping Tiger Tiger Dragon. Global, Miramax, and New Line were all under the same parent company's banner, and the focus was under Global's banner. Yes, five of the best films nominated came from AC Media!

This is an exaggeration, even though two of the best movie contenders have occasionally appeared before, from the same media group, but all for the first time like now. Yet there is some regret in Adrian's eyes that if the best films can now be finalised in ten pieces, two more places will also belong to AC Media.

"Bones in Winter" should have had the best film nomination, but the reality and depth were slightly worse than "Drug Network," the inspiration was less than "Never Compromise," plus all Adrian's work, the film academy judges would not want to recreate what happened two years ago on the Oscar, and naturally fell off the charts. And the Apple Winery Law is not as warm as the Little Sunshine Beauty in terms of warming people's hearts. After all, it's a little further on the timeline. Plus, the Film Academy is also trying to ask for a new change. It's a shame that The Tiger Tiger Dragon came to the door, so there's no such thing as this movie.

Well, if you think that's all, then it's a big mistake. After the best movie nomination, it's naturally the best director nomination, Radley from Gladiator? Scott, Steven from Drug Network? Soderberg, Adrian of Never Compromise? Corwell, Lee Ann from Waiting Tiger's Hidden Dragon, and Stephen from Jump Out of My Heaven and Earth? Dadley.

Different, isn't it? Unfortunately, that didn't work, because "Jump Out of My Heaven" was released by the focus under Globe, so the work of the five directors came from AC Media!

The next best lead is a little better. Just Russell? Crowe starred in "Gladiators" by AC Media's Universal Film Industry, but by the best of the men, four more nominations, John from "Bones in Winter"? Hucks, Albert of Never Compromise? Fanny, Alan from Little Sunshine? Akin, Michael from the Apple Winery Rules? Kane.

And then the best lead nomination, no doubt about it, Julia? Roberts is up there, and she's not the one who gets the most attention.