American Fortune Life

To be honest, in recent years, the Big Six in Hollywood have more or less started to go downhill. Faced with the predicament, each of the Big Six has embarked on two completely different trajectories - one is to die and survive, and the other is in jeopardy.

The former is represented by Disney, while the latter is represented by Salted Fish Paramount.

Although Universal Pictures, which has been sold off many times, has Salted Fish Paramount at the bottom, it is not much better. Therefore, this universal "rescue" campaign must begin.

For Andy Smith now, his entertainment media layout has been completed, and it is only a matter of time before this new entertainment media empire becomes brilliant.

Sitting on thousands of comic characters under Marvel, owning the powerful publicity machine of NBC, and embracing the IP gold mine that Universal Pictures has accumulated over the past 76 years, Universal Pictures has abundant resources in terms of film content. dig.

In addition, NBC Universal has a complete industrial chain - media network, theme park, film and television entertainment, consumer goods and interactive entertainment five major sectors, so that NBC Universal's IP can continue to flow in the industrial chain and add value.

Possessing a wealth of IP, which allows it to flow continuously in the complete industrial chain, this is what Andy Smith is looking forward to most and has been working hard to realize the "inner circulation matrix of the round revenue model". Well, to put it simply It is the ecological cycle system.

Andy is aware of his shortcomings in corporate management, and has never planned to intervene in the daily operations and management of various companies without self-knowledge. If he wants to grow his entertainment media empire, the unity of the management of each company and the CEO's business Family spirit is the top priority.

For a very large enterprise, the corporate governance structure is of course not tied to one person, but in the creative industry, entrepreneurs are just like artists, and the CEO's vision and full power allocation do have a profound impact on the six major companies. The ups and downs of the film company's fortunes.

Andy is very satisfied with the CEO of Rob Freeman. Rob Freeman played a vital role in the strong rise of Summit Entertainment. That's why he asked Rob Freeman to be the CEO of Universal Pictures. .

The first company meeting after taking over took almost two hours before it ended. In the president's office, Andy sat leisurely on the sofa, smiling and talking to Adam Ferguson and Rob Freeman sitting across from him.

"What do you guys think of the idea of ​​bringing DreamWorks into our tank?"

Rob Freeman's eyes lit up, and he exchanged glances with Adam Ferguson. Adam Ferguson had guessed that the big boss had this idea during lunch, and he was not surprised to hear this idea now.

"Boss, do you want DreamWorks to be a subsidiary or a partnership?" Rob Freeman asked.

"Cooperative relationship, New DreamWorks no longer has a film library, and some of them are just some shooting projects and a few films in production, so the value of the acquisition is not great." Andy said with a smile.

Adam Ferguson and Rob Freeman nodded approvingly. The most valuable thing for a film company is the film library. Without the film library, an empty shell company is not very attractive to Universal Pictures. .

"Currently, the company has a total of 2,585 publishers, 1,401 in Los Angeles, 404 in the London office, and 780 in other parts of the world. At the same time, it cooperates with Paramount in 16 offices around the world, and cooperates with other third parties in 31 offices.

Coupled with Summit Entertainment's distribution channels, this gives the company great influence and control over global distribution.

However, the distribution system is not running at full capacity due to the throttling policy. DreamWorks is undoubtedly an extraordinary creative team. If they can join our chariot, I believe it will allow Universal Pictures to make full use of every month. One resource, more efficient operation.

According to the data, in recent years, Global's performance has grown by more than 90% relying on the international market. It can be seen that a strong international distribution system will also become a strong guarantee for us to obtain high box office revenue.

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Over the past year or so, Rob Freeman has gained a deep understanding of Andy, the big boss. Although the young big boss can give his subordinates full trust and autonomy, if he really thinks that he can help the big boss make decisions, he is definitely looking for a dead end.

When the Big Boss asked for an opinion, he had already made a decision, and all he needed was for his subordinates to come up with more detailed data to support or verify whether his final decision was correct or not.

As Rob Freeman, who has personally experienced the whole process of Dove Occupying Magpie's Nest Summit Entertainment, he would never pretend to be smart or underestimate the words of the big boss. He knew that his young boss's methods were not usually ruthless.

"Yeah." Andy nodded in satisfaction, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "That's it, I will ask Steven to talk, if I can convince him, I will leave the negotiation to you There are two."

"Good boss."

Hearing the two people's responses, Andy smiled slightly, and said to Rob Freeman: "The three Korean actresses who came with me are newly signed by my agency. An actor from his own agency."

"Understood." Rob Freeman responded with a serious expression. He has long been used to this. Over the past year or so, most of the supporting actresses in Summit Entertainment's movies have been actresses from new power companies. , he also knows his boss's flirtatious temperament, and making the boss happy is also what his subordinate needs to do.

Take someone's money, eat someone's food, and if you want to last long, you have to serve someone!

"Boss, I have already talked with Tom Cruise. He is very tempted by our olive branch. I believe he will agree to cooperate with us in a short time. However, he hopes to meet and talk with you. . . ”

Andy finished his coffee, looked at his watch, and was about to stand up and leave when Adam Ferguson reported with a smile.

"No time." Andy didn't even think about it, he refused directly, and then said: "Tell him that we sincerely want to cooperate with him is enough."

Adam Ferguson just nodded and smiled when he heard the boss's words. Since 2006, affected by the negative news, Tom Cruise's career situation has not been as good as before. In order to ensure that the filming of smaller films can be completed, he has already The salary has been reduced continuously.

Universal Pictures extended an olive branch to him at this time, which is undoubtedly an opportunity he urgently needs. Meeting the big boss is nothing more than Tom Cruise's ridiculous arrogance. At the same time, he also hopes to send a message to the outside world that he is still the darling of Hollywood.

"Although Tom Cruise is arrogant and greedy, he is indeed a box office star with strong appeal that Hollywood currently lacks.

There is no problem with short-term cooperation, as long as he feels that he is out of the predicament, it will definitely sprout in a solid state. "

Rob Freeman, who has had a long relationship with Tom Cruise, sneered.

"Then use the contract to trap him to death. I believe he will not refuse a slightly harsher condition." Andy raised the corner of his mouth, with a sneer, stood up from the sofa, tugged the hem of his suit, and said lightly.

Leaving the president's office, I came to the lounge next to me, and saw Son Yejin's three daughters drinking coffee and chatting. Before, they took an electric car and walked around the entire Universal Studios.

"Are you tired? How do you feel after watching it?"

"Sitting in the car without taking a step, how could you be tired." Han Caiying shook her head and smiled.

"The only regret is that the time is not in a hurry, and I didn't play any of the rides. I really want to play all the rides." Sun Yizhen put down her coffee cup, stood up, and said a little depressed.

"In Korea, there is no chance to play freely in the playground. Otherwise, let's play together tomorrow." Han Jiaren blinked her cute eyes, and said with some expectation.

"Hehe, you can play anytime you want, let's go, I'll take you to eat delicious food to make up for it." After Andy said with a smile, he turned and walked out, followed by the three girls.