Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

I have always known Qiao Feng's ambitions for Hollywood, or that there is no one in the entertainment industry in any country in the world who has ambitions for Hollywood.

It’s just that Qiao Feng never expected that Sony, who was supposed to start with Hollywood next year, suddenly shot for Mao, and also changed his goal. He didn’t even buy Columbia but wanted to buy a shit-like MGM. .

Could it be that this is a manifestation of his influence on this world, Qiao Feng thought.

"It's Mike Ovitz who matched Sony, I'm afraid we are hopeless." Shi Nansheng said with an ugly face.

Because Mike Ovitz is a big man in Hollywood and the best broker in Hollywood. With him, Sony bought MGM, and the ten achievements have reached 50%.

Originally, I saw that MGM was about to be bought by my boss, and then I, the vice president of the financial director company, may work in the seven major Hollywood film companies, and he has an influence. Suddenly, he turned out a powerful The competitor snatched the meat from his mouth. It is strange that Shi Nansheng is happy.

"Mike Ovitz?" Qiao Feng chuckled after hearing this: "He is not as good as you said."

"However, the industry has always said that he is behind the scenes of Hollywood. Even the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other American newspapers with large circulation and authority have reported this. And, according to what I learned in Hollywood Understandably, Mike Ovitz is indeed so powerful. "Shi Nansheng feels that Qiao Feng is a little underestimated, which should not be, especially when his chances of winning are not big.

"Hehe, Nan Sheng, believe me, he is really not that good." Qiao Feng smiled lightly.

It’s really unexpected that Sony’s sudden defeat of Qiao Feng, but if Sony can help them achieve a 50% success rate because of Mike Ovitz alone, that’s really an exaggeration.

Mike Ovitz is indeed very good, and Qiao Feng has heard of rumors about him too, even very detailed.

Born in Ovitz in Chicago, USA on December 14, 1946, his parents were Jewish.Ovitz has been outgoing and courageous since he was a child, and has quite high organizational and leadership skills.He often serves as the captain of the minor league baseball team, has been the vice chairman of the student union at school, and especially likes to ask questions in class.

In the summer of 1965, Ovitz was admitted to the University of California.Before the holidays, Universal Pictures came to the school to recruit tour guides, and Ovitz successfully got the offer.This job not only brought Ovitz a monthly salary of $250, but also brought him a true feeling of Hollywood.

After coming to Los Angeles, Ovitz quickly became the assistant director of travel for 20th Century Fox Film Company, responsible for designing travel content, routes and various coordination tasks. The salary of this job reached 800 US dollars a month.This "happy" experience for Fox in the 20th century made him completely connected with Hollywood, and has completely changed the course of life since then.

In 1969, after graduating from Ovitz University, he determined to be an agent.After successfully entering William Morris, an established brokerage company founded in 1898, Ovitz was assigned to the most basic mail room to distribute various performance scripts.Ovitz worked very hard, because he knew that this was the most basic training before becoming an agent. To be successful, this process cannot be omitted, only speed can be increased.

It takes four or five years for a newcomer in the mail room to become an agent in a performing arts agency. However, after Ovitz entered the business, it took only seven months, which is unprecedented.

The secret of his success is to work overtime. In addition to overtime, he took the initiative to send a promotion memo to his boss to promote his various credits.

As a result, Ovitz quickly received a new appointment as an assistant to the company's president, and at this time it was only 100 days before Ovitz officially started working.Four months later, Ovitz was qualified as a broker, and he created a record that has been hoped for in a brokerage company so far.

In January 1975, Ovitz and his four brothers left William Morris with a complex and excited mood, and established CAA, an innovative acting agency by themselves.

In order to expand the star resources, Ovitz began to dig in the same industry, and Mardi Baum, a partner of another performing arts agency, soon joined Ovitz’s camp.After Baum's advice, Ovitz has a clear view of Hollywood's power structure. It turns out that there is a second hand behind the star-a lawyer.Through the channel of lawyers, Sean Connery, the then 007 actor, officially signed a contract with CAA in February 1979, and a superstar finally appeared on the CAA client list.

Ovitz was out of control and began to revolutionize the brokerage industry.In the past, a TV station had to find a host, an actor, a producer, a playwright, etc. to produce a program, and needed to deal with a large number of different agents.Ovitz launched a "one-stop" service.In addition to this, Ovitz has also significantly reduced the commission ratio to attract stars.By 1980, CAA had recruited Oscar movie stars such as Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman, and box office big names such as action star Stallone, and the era of the future superstar Tom King has begun.

CAA developed smoothly and soon surpassed William Morris to become the No. 1 brokerage company in Hollywood with the largest number of stars.

By this time, some words began to circulate in Hollywood: The last ten years of the 20th century belonged to Ovitz.

Others say that Ovitz is the most powerful man in Hollywood, and all big stars are pawns in front of him.

This sentence will be said even ten years later. In Hollywood movies, superstars such as Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman are the absolute protagonists, he (she) With their superb acting skills, they have created deep-rooted characters for the whole world.

But in Hollywood reality, they are just chess pieces, just like props in movies, everything is at the mercy of the big hands behind the scenes.

This one who controls most movie stars and directors, and who can upset the entire Hollywood at any time is Michael Ovitz, the head of the innovative acting agency CAA.

Similar words are widely circulated in Hollywood, not to mention Shi Nansheng, an outsider, those second and third-tier stars who have been in Hollywood all year round take similar words seriously, and even treat them as golden rules.

Qiao Feng scoffed at this.

Because, when anyone reaches the status of Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, etc., he is no longer an ordinary star.

It can be said that they can top a super entertainment company alone. Tom Cruise can end up with a compromise and compromise with a company like Paramount due to the pay issue of the Mission Impossible series and Paramount’s hard work.

And Mike Ovitz fought for it and the pinnacle of his life was nothing more than becoming the president of Disney at the same level as Paramount. In the end, he was driven out of Disney in embarrassment.

Such people say that he is the most powerful man in Hollywood, and those superstars are his pawns, which is simply a big joke.

Mike Ovitz is great, but at best he is a server for those superstars. Apart from that, there is no other identity.

Regarding Mike Ovitz’s purchase of MGM by Sony this time, Qiao Feng positioned him as a broker with good connections and good words, and nothing more.