American Fortune Life

"The shares of NBC Universal accounted for 80% of the shares of General Motors and 20% of the shares of Vivendi. Vivendi was originally a waterworks in France. It acquired Universal Film and Entertainment Company in 2001, hoping to create a world-leading media and entertainment company. Giants, but quickly fell into trouble due to over-expansion.

In 2004, General Electric acquired an 80% stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment for US$14 billion. NBC restructured assets with Vivendi's Universal Studios and cable networks to create NBCUniversal.

Since then, NBC has owned more cable TV networks, and through packaged sales, it has increased its attractiveness to advertisers and increased the room and cost of bargaining with cable operators.

NBC Universal's business includes NBC TV stations, 10 TV stations in the United States, and 16 TV stations under Telemundo Communications Group. The above TV stations occupy a total of 30% of the market share in the United States. Universal Pictures and four theme parks, as well as 24 TV stations such as CNBC Cable channels and six digital outlets.

The merger of General Electric and Vivendi Universal has enabled NBC Universal to have more cable and satellite channels in Europe and Asia, as well as Universal Studios and Universal Theme Park, forming a super collection of 5,000 movies and 35,000 hours of TV programs. library. "

Listening to the introduction of his subordinates, Andy is more and more satisfied with this ready-made media kingdom. As long as he can take control of this kingdom, carry out some operations, and finally completely complete the private ownership, then he will leap into the ranks of the News Corporation and the Times. Warner keeps pace with the media predators.

Who would want to start from scratch and slowly accumulate strength to carry out counterattacks if they can reach the sky in one step? After all, the market share is so large that it has already been divided up by these behemoths.

"Investigate Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, analyze him, I need to know how to deal with this person before meeting. Also, conduct a more in-depth investigation on NBC Universal, I want to be clear Know the dilemmas and problems they face."

Andy thought for a while, and said to the think tanks in the video, "I'm leaving for New York tomorrow."

"Understood, boss."

Ending the video connection, Andy sat on the boss chair, thinking quietly. In the past few years, Universal Pictures has not had any particularly famous "blockbuster" movies, unlike Disney's "General Mobilization" series and Warner Bros. "Harry Potter" series, Paramount has "Transformers" series. Finally, there was a "Fast and Furious" that was stolen by him.

This has made Universal Pictures seem quite ordinary in the whole of Hollywood in the past few years. This has also led to the fact that in the competition among the six major Hollywood studios in the past many years, the results of Universal Pictures have not always been very good, and they have always hovered in the middle and lower positions.

Although compared with other major Hollywood studios, Universal Pictures' performance is not so impressive, but this does not prevent Universal Pictures from being a film company with an annual box office profit of over 100 million US dollars and a valuation close to 10 billion US dollars. One of the biggest ones in the world.

If it can really enter NBC Universal, then the addition of Summit Entertainment and Weinstein Films will undoubtedly make Universal Pictures even stronger.

Thinking of this, Andy began to think anxiously that once in charge, the board of directors will definitely occupy a dominant position in the distribution of power. There is no doubt about this. The president of Universal Pictures and the president of NBC must be replaced. If he is his own person, Karl will naturally be stuffed into the board of directors by him. . .

Picking up the phone, Andy called Rob Freeman, the CEO of Summit Entertainment. He didn't tell the other party about his plan to acquire NBC Universal, but simply chatted with him to learn about Summit Entertainment's recent and next-level developments. Company arrangements and operations.

Rob Freeman's talent in the film industry is unquestionable. The former CEO of Paramount, running a medium-sized film company is absolutely at his fingertips, especially when he has abundant resources and sufficient funds.

Now Summit Entertainment is completely on the fast track of rapid development.

"Boss, "Ghost Story" has entered the announcement period, and it will become our company's main movie for this year's Halloween schedule..."

"Well, it depends on the publicity whether it can create a miracle. I have great expectations for this pseudo-documentary. I hope it can become our horror film's flagship product. Don't be stingy with the publicity and distribution. For us, there is almost no cost at all, if the box office is hot, then immediately start the second film, and strive to become a series of movies that attract money."

When it comes to "Ghost Story", Andy is also looking forward to it, looking forward to the box office miracle of this pseudo-documentary to be realized in his own hands. Whether it is the commentary on Carl's superb vision or the rise of Summit Entertainment, it will be the most important thing. A bold stroke.

After finishing the call, Andy began to consider in advance the personnel arrangement and power structure after becoming the master of NBC Universal. Although it was a bit impatient to think about naming the child without even getting married, but he planned ahead, even if he could not become the master in the end. NBCUniversal also needs to prepare for the next group integration.

At night, in the dimly lit bedroom, two elongated and deformed shadows are entangled together.

"You really want to buy NBC Universal?!"

"... How many times have you asked? Can you concentrate!"

Charlize wrapped her arms around Andy's neck, she rolled her eyes like silk, her pretty face was rosy, biting the corner of her cheeks, she said in a trembling voice: "Aren't I shocked, woo woo. . . ”

"Shock Nima, let you not concentrate! See if I don't kill you..."

In the morning of the next day, after Andy kissed little Laura's fair and tender face a few times, he said goodbye to Charlize, who was rosy and reluctant, and then boarded a helicopter to fly to the little Palace of Versailles.

The convoy had been waiting for a long time in the Little Palace of Versailles, and Andy didn't waste any more time. He got into the car, and the convoy drove away quickly and went straight to the airport.

On the private apron at the airport, Andy, who got out of the car, saw Scarlett with her hair tied up, wearing a dark red vest, and a pair of raw-edged jeans standing in front of the cabin door of a private plane.

Andy couldn't help smiling, and quickly climbed up the hanging ladder, came to Scarlett's side, put his arms around her waist, bowed his head and kissed her, smiled and said, "Have you visited it? How do you feel?"

Scarlett walked into the cabin with her arms around Andy's bear waist, and raised her eyebrows mockingly: "The whole is not bad, but seeing those golden decorations makes people feel like a nouveau riche, which fits well The taste of that nouveau riche daughter!"

Andy twitched his mouth unnaturally, shook his head and laughed, and slapped her Fatbuttock hard, in exchange for Scarlett's coquettish eyes. After sitting in the seat and fastening the seat belt, Andy smiled Said: "Have you contacted the campaign team of Ao Hei Niu?"

"Well, when I return to New York this time, I will hold one. After all, New York is my home stadium. The first one will be held in New York, and the effect will be better. Aoheiu is very grateful for my support and invited me to participate in his The inauguration ceremony." With a calm smile on her pretty face, Scarlett raised her eyebrows and said to Andy.

Andy curled his lips, shook his head and said with a smile: "This guy is confident. Before the election is over, he started to waver. Maybe he thought you fell in love with him, haha."

Scarlett looked at Andy with a smirk, and then said with a coquettish smile: "This is a common problem of you men, you are always self-righteous, if you look at you more, you will think that you are narcissistic. It's like, all of them are like dogs in love."

The corner of Andy's mouth twitched. At this time, the feeling of weightlessness came, but it soon became stable. He unfastened his seat belt, reached out and raised his eyebrows at Scarlett to invite: "Now the dog invites you to visit the Supermarket. Daiso, how is it?"

Scarlett smiled coquettishly and put her hand on Andy's, and teased with her smoky voice: "The dog is so good!"

"Wow woof..."

Andy picked up Scarlett, patted her PIGU and barked twice like a dog, and said with a smile: "Then, next, the dog wants...you!"

"puff--"

"You're such a bastard!" Scarlett scolded a little angrily.