Chapter 342

Viacom has reached an agreement for a long time, but the opposition of paramount management led by gray has changed things. Daoman personally went out and comforted gray repeatedly, but he can't change his mind.

Leishidong was a tyrant in both the national entertainment company and Viacom. He married the second wife at the age of 80 and won the unanimous support of people around him. This is that Mrs. Paula can calm his anger. Now leishidong has greatly restrained his temper. He is willing to leave many things to Sally and daoman, his left and right arms, and his son Brent, Already out.

But this time gray openly and resolutely opposed the parent company's policy. Sally and daoman couldn't convince him. Leishidong had to appease gray personally and promised more support.

Gray is a stubborn and one-sided man. He believes that Paramount will inevitably decline if he sells UPN, so he decides not to agree.

Lei Shidong is not a good tempered person. He was angry at this guy's stubborn contradict and said: "selling UPN is the decision of all shareholders. It doesn't require your consent, but your implementation."

Gray said: "as long as I am the CEO of paramount one day, I will never sell UPN."

UPN is a chicken rib for Viacom, but it is extremely important for paramount. It is a poor enterprise that is pure in money. Without the TV network, what is the difference between paramount and the big studios such as MGM, Pixar and Xinxian? As for the protection of CBS, who was in charge and who was deputy at that time? CBS is a larger enterprise and higher level than paramount.

Leishi said: "as a senior, you must understand the difficulties of the board of directors and look at the problem from a higher level. The business vacated by UPN is in the charge of CBS, and our cooperation will be more effective. I ask you to execute this order?"

Gray said angrily, "you are strangling and castrating paramount! What a short-sighted man“

Lei Shidong was so angry that he patted the table and said, "Damn it! Why are your eyes so narrow? I don't know how you, President paramount, became president. What's your overall view and leadership temperament?"

Gray saw that he couldn't do anything, so he had to resign and retire.

Brad gray took office. Before that, Sherry Lansing, a strong woman in Hollywood, had controlled paramount for 12 years. Because of the sluggish performance in the following years, she was criticized by the industry for lack of adventurous spirit and was forced to step down. At that time, the industry generally believed that paramount might be forced to merge with other companies in the near future, resulting in the transformation of Hollywood's six big companies into five big companies.

In the original version, Gray was in charge of paramount, but there were many box office masterpieces. Paramount released two IP sequels of Shrek 3 and star trek in 2007, plus transformers, which was first released on the screen. Paramount was responsible for releasing two super blockbusters of Captain America and Thor, transformers 3 and Kung Fu panda in 2011 The sequel of "smart: Ghost record" series made paramount the box office champion.

Behind all this is "friends" As a result, at the end of last year, gray, who just took office, won Spielberg's DreamWorks from globegroup at a price of US $1.6 billion. At the same time, paramount also reached an agreement with DreamWorks Animation, which was spun off from DreamWorks two years ago, and will be responsible for the distribution of DreamWorks motion pictures until the end of 2012. DreamWorks Animation is the most profitable animation in Hollywood Painting company, Paramount's four best-selling films in 2007, "Shrek 3", "Transformers", "Bee Movie" and "ice skate Duo" all came from DreamWorks. In the next two years, paramount could not continue to hold the championship, but he could also hold the second place.

Later, although it declined due to the separation from DreamWorks, DreamWorks Animation, marvel and the market downturn, paramount under Gray's leadership did have glory. Now, with the emergence of Mark's layout, the storm caused by the butterfly has become more and more serious, which has also changed the fate of many people. Gray has withered before he bloomed. It can only be said that he had a dream 。

Everyone's different positions are destined to look at problems in different ways. Gray is so strong that he was surprised by leishidong, which makes his persistence hesitant. If paramount resigns collectively, it will not pay off, and he will become a joke.

The media industry and entertainment circle play an eye economy, and Hollywood film industry is the most dazzling pearl in the world. These media groups have no giant film company as a brand, and it is in vain to claim to be a big company. Viacom group also joined the world after acquiring paramount. Paramount is the core flagship of Viacom group. Once there is turmoil, the whole group will be destroyed The stock price will fall, but the good news is that he resigned angrily. Only gray and the rest of the management were silent.

Larry and egger have their own news channels. They all know what happened in Viacom. They smile at each other. UPN is in their pocket.

However, in the deadline set by Larry, daoman, the vice president of Viacom, called and they refused to sell UPN. This answer surprised Larry, egger and mark. I don't know what the hell Redstone was doing? Since he didn't sell, why did he have to help gray away? Is this asking for trouble? As the president of the big six, this position is very important, no matter what Appointment or dismissal must be discussed and agreed by the board of directors, and any reckless move will be turbulent.

Larry saw the way. Gray led the army to revolt and violated leishidong taboo. This kind of person is not worth forgiving. If there is any dissatisfaction, he will pull one person to resign, which has formed a climate. Who is the boss and who works?

Mark thought it was a pity, but Larry and egger thought it was not a big problem. So many TV stations in the United States accounted for most of the money. Some of them were willing to wink at mm. Some people at Time Warner heard the news, and someone called before Larry's deadline, and some brokers in the middle said they were willing to go through the needle in the middle.

The co president of ICM expressed her willingness to act as an intermediary to facilitate the transaction. Nancy Josephson became the co president of ICM in 1998, which was the first time that women climbed to the top pyramid of Hollywood brokerage company. Nancy Josephson, the daughter of ICM founder Marvin Josephson and a former entertainment lawyer, entered the company in 1986, Her greatest achievement was to package and sell the "line of six" to NBC.

In 1975, the billionaire Marvin Josephson combined the Innovation Management Association and the internationally famous brokerage company into one. This new company is ICM. At the beginning of its establishment, ICM was a subsidiary of Josephson international, a listed company. Marvin Josephson was not an insider in the brokerage industry. He just saw that the brokerage industry was very profitable, Want to come in and make a big profit, however, most of the energy of the new company is spent on personnel disputes, and CAA, founded in the same year, took the opportunity to rise.

It was not until 1980 when Jeffrey Berg, a broker who graduated from Berkeley, California, became president that ICM returned to the right track, mainly brokerage business. In 1986, ICM took advantage of the opportunity of a group of dragons without a head after the death of Stan Carmen, the leader of the century old store William Morris, to grab a pile of stars and make a lot of money. In the financial year 1987-88, ICM's income was as high as $56 million. In the 1980s, it was a very amazing figure for a brokerage company. In 1988, Marvin Josephson privatized the company. He and several senior managers of the company bought 60% of the shares for $70 million. A few years later, he sold his shares to his partners.

Since the 1990s, ICM has been a top player in Hollywood. Two CAA partners, Michael owitz and Ron Mayer, have changed jobs one after another to take charge of Disney and universal respectively. ICM took advantage of the chaos and looting and got several big stars. In addition, they developed corporate clients and persuaded American Express to sponsor Paul McCartney's US tour.

However, in recent years, ICM has lost several important customers, including Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. The end of friends has also greatly damaged their vitality and urgently needed to start new business. As the president of Hollywood's top brokerage company, it is naturally a well-informed and exquisite generation, As one of the giant brokerage companies, they also have extremely rich contacts in the management of Time Warner. This time, mm waved a check to enter the television industry. Smelling the smell of money, they immediately volunteered and were willing to be brokers.

After discussing with egger, mark, David and Megan, Larry decided to let Nancy of ICM come out and authorize them to contact time warner to explore the possibility of acquiring WB TV.

From the last negotiation, they were a little aggressive. Such a big deal should not end in person. They should let the brokers who are used to this business, which gives both sides a choice. Now it's fast, but the negotiation collapsed all of a sudden. It's unlikely to start the negotiation again. If the brokers were allowed to act, it wouldn't be so sharp.

Nancy, an exquisite broker, knows the way of negotiation and has deep contacts in Time Warner. Of course, the offer is not cheap. It involves billions of big transactions. Of course, it is impossible to draw 10% commission, but it is not something that tens of thousands and millions can be sent off. However, the tycoons such as mark and egger believe that if we can successfully acquire a large national television network, It's worth spending tens of millions of commissions.

Whether unp or WB, these TV stations that have long cooperated with the giant film companies are what mm urgently needs. Having such TV stations to wave the flag and shout for mm and apply grease and powder can make mm go to a higher level.

In Larry's words, don't be afraid. We have plenty of money. It's a big deal to build our own national TV network like news corporation.