Heads Up Hollywood

New Universal is marching towards the fashion consumer goods industry.

Last year, the acquisition of Prada was completed, and the main goal this year is to win Victoria's Secret.

This task is personally in charge of the No. 3 brain and president of New Global, Robert Iger, and the specifications are very high!

Unexpectedly, before Victoria's Secret was done, the big boss Tang En quickly cut through the mess, broke out halfway, and quickly settled another luxury brand - Oakley.

At the same time, there is also Jim Jannard, the great creative god that Tang En values ​​very much.

Jim Jannard is not really a capitalist.

Just like Elon Musk, he does not pursue the goal of increasing wealth. He chose to join New Universal mainly because of the strength of New Universal and its solid foundation in the hardware layout of the film and television industry.

This will provide enough convenience for him to realize his grander ambitions in the future.

The two sides did not argue too much about the value of Oakley sunglasses. The price was 1.25 billion U.S. dollars, and the merger was completed in the form of "1 billion U.S. dollars in stock + 250 million U.S. dollars in cash".

"Oakley" has officially become a luxury brand under New Universal!

After completing this transaction, Jim Jannard also became the fifth largest shareholder of New Universal after Tang En, Jobs, Dolby and Son, and the Prada family with 7.4 million shares.

The position of director is essential, it is a manifestation of self-interest.

Real power is also essential.

After New Global completes the acquisition of Oakley, Jim Jannard will resign from the CEO position of Oakley, but he will still be the chairman and decide the company's strategic decisions.

He started a sunglasses company because he loved it!

During the development of Oakley Company in the past 30 years, all the creative posters, advertising designs, high-definition photos and marketing slogans of the company were completed by him.

It was impossible for him to completely let go of his own child, "Oakley".

Of course, more energy must be invested in the red company.

This is a start-up company.

However, he didn't let go.

Tang En once planned to spend 200 million US dollars to buy it, but was rejected by Jim Jannard, and only accepted 10% financing of New Universal's 20 million US dollars.

Oakley is willing to sell to New Universal because this "child" has grown up and matured.

The red company has just been born, and he can only feel at ease if he takes it with him personally.

If you really bring the red company to join New Global, you will inevitably be subject to some group policy intervention and many "suggestions" and "restrictions" from high-level officials during the development process.

What Jim Jannard wants to start is a company of his own dreams, not a profitable company in the hands of others.

Of course, the road was not blocked.

Jim Jannard's ability to accept 10% of New Global's financing has already explained the problem.

After a few years, he has successfully developed the red_one digital camera, and the company's structure is approaching completeness. It may not be impossible for the two parties to cooperate.

After all, in Jim Jannard's view, the digital video camera industry...is still too small to satisfy all his ambitions.

Dolby Laboratories, imax, and other related film and television smart industries under New Universal have higher room for integration and expansion.

At that time, Jim Jannard will become famous with the release of the 4k ultra-clear red_one digital camera, and Twain will have enough reasons to offer him a high position and pull him to New Universal.

He can be directly assigned the position of Vice President of the Interactive Entertainment Department, in charge of a series of hardware products in the film and television industry such as Dolby Laboratories, imax, and red.

Among them, even artificial intelligence must be included!

Last month, Dr. Dolby reported to Twain, explaining that while Dolby Laboratories is developing professional film and television business, it must also devote itself to home entertainment film and television business.

The former is aimed at cinemas, such as Dolby Surround, Dolby Vision, Dolby Cinema and other projects. The latter is for home theater and personal entertainment, such as Dolby high-definition video player, Dolby sound and other projects.

Dr. Dolby pointed out that Dolby Laboratories should immediately launch a new project - Dolby Speaker.

Not a traditional speaker, but a wireless smart speaker!

To combine wireless technology with high-quality sound. Not only can support local music, but also support Internet radio and online music services.

In the future, an artificial intelligence system will also be installed in the speaker to control the playback of music through voice communication.

This is a very advanced concept.

Tang En deeply agrees with this.

It seems that the future Apple speakers, Amazon speakers, and Sonos speakers will be popular all over the world, adding a lot of fun to personal entertainment and convenience to personal life.

At present, Apple and Amazon have not yet launched the speaker business, but Sonos has already been established. It is a very popular emerging speaker manufacturer in Silicon Valley, and a lot of venture capital funds are pouring in.

This is the current investment outlet.

Acquire Sonos?

no need!

In terms of technology, Dolby Laboratories is going to explode Sonos! In the field of sound quality and sound effects, Dolby Laboratories is the number one in the world!

It is entirely possible for Dolby Laboratories to create a new project internally and develop its own "Dolby Wireless Smart Speaker"!

However, this is a very complex and huge system engineering.

Especially when it comes to the field of artificial intelligence, this will be a super giant industry in the future.

Dolby and his son are scientists, can they control such a big strategic direction?

What's more, because of the emergence of New Universal, the current world entertainment structure is very different from the previous life.

Netflix belongs to New Universal, Starz belongs to New Universal, and Universal Music and Blizzard Entertainment belong to New Universal.

The role of Dolby speakers is not just to listen to music wirelessly, it should be the same as Amazon speakers and Apple speakers, forming a complete ecological chain of hardware products, which should be used together.

Through the speaker's artificial intelligence system, you can order Netflix video programs, watch starz TV's exquisite American dramas, recite popular reviews on imdb and Rotten Tomatoes, and purchase tickets through the online ticketing platform of New Universal...

Even with Tang En's relationship with Amazon, Google, and Tesla, Dolby speakers in the future can even directly voice shopping, voice Google, voice remote control electric cars, and more Internet of Things homes... Apple's products don't matter, It is impossible to open source to external products.

This is the proper role of Dolby speakers in the new global entertainment industry in the future.

Top priority!

Tang En didn't think that Dolby and his son could do such a major core project well.

Let them slowly develop the audio prototype first.

In the future, when Jim Jannard has mastered digital cameras, he can be recruited to take charge of all hardware products under New Universal, forming an industrial chain integration of film and television content, consumer entertainment and hardware products.

On the day of Oakley's signing ceremony, Dunn and Jim Jannard both appeared.

Tang En couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

Not to mention, this unattractive bald man, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, really looks like a business elite, and his image and temperament are very similar to Jeff Bezos.

...

Alison Mack is just an actor.

According to Natalie, it is an "idiot actress". This is not a sarcasm, but the status quo of the industry.

The group of actors is full of idiots.

George Paxton has a "detective team" of elite soldiers, and it is not easy to investigate her.

Only the next day, Tang En received a detailed investigation report.

Sure enough, the crew of "Smallville" was poisoned.

Alison Mack is the female lead of "Smallville", and the second female lead, Kerstin Kreuk, followed her to the training course. Some other cast members are still on the sidelines.

However, according to the investigation report, it seems...it really isn't a fraudulent organization.

They really go to class, really receive training, learn psychology, learn success, learn women's self-awareness improvement, learn senior manager success projects, and so on.

Even Alison Mack pays for her lessons.

It's just that the cost will not be so outrageously high, only a few thousand dollars.

That's where it gets interesting.

Not a scam?

Then it must be brainwashed!

Thousands of dollars in training courses... could go to MIT for some cheap version of MBA!

It's worth mentioning that this Alison Mack... is quite pretty, with a chubby face and a feeling of baby fat, very cute, a bit like Miranda Kerr.

"It shouldn't be a scam gang."

On the phone, George Paxton gave Tang En an answer.

Tang En frowned: "But she did blackmail rich girls."

George Paxton said: "This organization only recruits women, and many of them are poor women at the bottom. It is impossible for them to pay thousands of dollars in training fees. Compensating for the low is also a way to quickly expand the membership of the organization."

"It's not that simple." Tang En shook his head, pondered for a while, and said, "Do you have a feeling that this organization...is similar to Scientology?"

"Scientology?"

George Paxton's voice changed slightly.

If so, then things are really complicated.

But thinking about it again, it seems that this is really the case!

To attract celebrities to join the group; to charge high tuition fees in the form of training; to use this high-sounding banner to recruit students...

One is science, the other is feminism...

"No problem, I will step up the investigation right away!" George Paxton responded immediately.

Scientology has such a bad reputation.

However, there are people who believe it!

The most famous believer... is Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise!

The reason why Tom Cruise's relationship in Hollywood was indifferent, his emotional intelligence was not good, and his marriages ended badly was entirely caused by this science.

Many countries in Europe and Asia have ordered the prohibition of spreading Scientology. This is a truly illegal cult!

. Nine Heavens Emperor