World-class directors in the entertainment industry

In the last century, in January 1975, Michael Ovitz and his four brothers left WMA, the William Morris Agency, with complicated and exciting emotions, and established their own Innovative Entertainment Agency - referred to as

:CAA.

These five people founded CAA, and Martin Bob was one of the five brothers.

The CAA president at that time was Michael Ovitz, the oldest and most capable of the five brothers.

In 1988, the island country's electronics giant Sony took the initiative to find CAA and came to visit the already successful CAA president Michael Ovitz, hoping that he would help Sony enter Hollywood.

In October 1989, under the operation of Michael Ovitz, Sony successfully acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment, one of the eight largest film and television companies in Hollywood at the time, for US$3.4 billion.

Later, a bigger business came to our door. The island country was in a real estate boom period at that time, and the real estate in the island country was expanding, so they arrogantly announced that they wanted to buy the United States.

After seeing Sony's operations, Panasonic, another giant company in the island country at that time, was also interested in entering Hollywood and had tens of billions of dollars in disposable funds.

Michael Ovitz recommended Universal Pictures and its parent company American Music Company [MCA] to Panasonic, which Sony had failed to acquire.

In order to complete this transaction, Michael Ovitz secretly and frequently shuttled between the island country and the United States. In order to reduce unnecessary complications, he even carefully planned the time when he called his company and friends.

A year later, the deal that seemed impossible to outsiders was completed.

In September 1990, Panasonic announced the acquisition of MCA for US$6.59 billion.

Michael Ovitz's busy year was not in vain. After the transaction was completed, he personally received US$40 million in remuneration.

From these two transactions, Michael Ovitz's personal income reached hundreds of millions of dollars, and CAA also made a lot of money. These two transactions also established Ovitz's status as a super "promoter" in Hollywood.

While achieving CAA, Ovitz became a superstar agent in Hollywood and was elected "The Most Influential Person in Hollywood" for three consecutive years.

But he was still thinking about new challenges, and in August 1995, Ovitz was announced as President of Disney.

Unfortunately, this vigorous career transition was a mistake. In the autumn of 1996, Ovitz's 50th birthday was approaching, and the plan to drive Ovitz out of Disney was also being intensively planned.

In January 1997, Ovitz was "kicked out" of Disney. As compensation, Eisner, then Disney's president, agreed to pay Michael Ovitz $120 million.

Ovitz later recalled: "Eisner was not supposed to be managing so many things himself. He said I didn't understand what I was doing."

Ovitz then came out again and established Artist Management Group (AMG).

As he said himself: The entertainment industry is his favorite place, and he is willing to give everything he has here.

Today's AMG agency is just one of many agencies in Hollywood and is a small shrimp.

CAA, once founded by Michael Ovitz, now dominates the world's largest agency.

And Martin Bob, who once founded CAA with Michael Ovitz, is sitting in the seat of CAA president. Although Martin's ability is not as strong as Michael Ovitz, he has become an old fox over the years. At this time

He began to fool Scott Bochetta, the president of Big Machine Records in front of him.

"Scott, I heard that Miss Swift's contract with Big Machine Company will expire next year. I don't know how you and Miss Swift are talking about renewing the contract, but as far as I know, it seems that Swift

Miss Te seems to be undecided about renewing her contract with the big machine company..."

Martin smoked his cigar leisurely and continued to hit Scott in front of him with a smile.

In the past, brokerage companies were just brokerage companies, but since the last century, Michael Ovitz, the then president of CAA, has become a middleman and promoter, not only personally reaping high rewards, but also making CAA richer and richer.

Gu Li

After seeing the profits from Michael Ovitz, Hollywood agencies have since become willing to act as middlemen.

Martin Bob, Michael Ovitz's partner at the time, naturally learned the essence.

"Taylor, CAA, Chinese director Qin, Martin, this should include Qin, who is now known as the world's new super director, right? There is a lot of news about him and Taylor..."

When Scott Borchetta heard Martin's words, he did not refute anything. Instead, he pondered for a moment and found the context.

People who can independently create and develop a company are not fools by any means. The angry brain calms down, and the smart IQ begins to occupy the high ground of Scott Bochetta.

"Yeah... just like you said, Scott, since you know the relationship between Qin and Swift, why bother to say more? Qin is not an American man like him. He is a Chinese, but he has nothing to do with feelings.

He is more important than money, so it goes without saying that he cares about Miss Swift's future."

Martin nodded openly and admitted this, but his words were confusing, making it unclear how much role Qin Dong played in CAA's insistence on acquiring Big Machine.

"Chinese people value relationships. I've heard of this. So, Martin, who else is the acquirer you mentioned? Maybe you can tell me?"

Scott Borchetta didn't have any doubts when he heard this, because the Chinese people's love is something that the whole world knows.

It was just Martin's previous threat that made Scott realize one thing, that is, this acquisition cannot be blocked casually and must be taken seriously, so Scott asked directly, wanting to know who else was involved.

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"NO, Scott, I can't say more to you for the time being. I can only reveal it to you after you sign the agreement to sell. I can only tell you now that there are several parties involved, and we, CAA, according to the agreement,

It only occupies 10% of the future acquisitions, so you know, Scott, if you can't even resist our CAA, then you can't refuse the other parties, otherwise, the result may be...

"

Martin directly refused to answer when he heard this. Instead, he revealed in his words that the acquirer was bigger and more powerful than CAA. Once Scott refused, the acquirer might be doomed.

If he treats others, Martin may be gentler, but when it comes to Scott Borchetta, Martin directly threatens him.

Because neither Scott Borchetta nor his Borchetta family has anything to fear from Martin.

This family is just a middle-class family. They only work for others. They are similar to white-collar families. Such families have their own big houses, mid-to-high-end cars, and savings. Their life is very good, but that's all.

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Martin has already investigated this kind of family clearly. The Borchetta family has no connections. If they had connections, they wouldn't be like this.

Therefore, when it came to Scott Borchetta, Martin didn't bother to find other tricks. He first acted like a polite corporal and came four times in half a month. Four times he visited in person, which gave him enough face. This fourth time, he directly threatened to fall out.

stand up.

"...Martin, I think I need time..."

Scott Borchetta certainly understood Martin's threat.

CAA has made Scott Borchetta despair, not to mention the big boss that even CAA is afraid of, which is an existence that Scott Borchetta and Big Machine Records cannot resist.

As for doubts, Scott Borchetta did not doubt Martin's words. After all, the Martin in front of him was the president of CAA, the world's largest agency. With his status and identity, it was impossible to deceive him.

"Of course, I understand you, Scott, three days is enough. Three days later, I will come in person for the fifth time. I hope that we can happily sign the agreement by then, and I hope that we can happily pick up the red wine glass together."

Celebrate, I think you won’t let me down, Scott, I don’t want to visit for the sixth time..."

Martin smiled and nodded, stood up, left a threatening word, and left gracefully.

"Fake..."

Scott Borchetta was left angrily smashing things in the office to vent his anger.