Chapter 383

In the mansion on the hillside of palisade in Los Angeles, as soon as Simon got out of the car, Amy Pascal welcomed him.

They came to a living room on the second floor of the villa. When they saw them enter, they stood up on the sofa in the living room. In addition to Simon's female assistant, Jennifer Leibold, the other person is somewhat unexpected, Meg Ryan.

Just nodding slightly, Simon sat down on the sofa beside him, looked at Meg Ryan, and said in a flat voice, "to be specific, what's going on?"

Meg Ryan carefully looked at the young man on the opposite sofa. The first time we met, he was not that kind of approachable temperament. He had been up and down in the shadow of this young man for more than a year. Seeing her again at this time, he seemed to be more alienated.

Noticing his eyes again, Meg Ryan cheered up and talked about recent events.

Relying on "when Harry meets Sally" to become a first-line actress, but after last year's inexplicably implicated incident, Meg Ryan suddenly fell into the situation of no film to shoot for a year in a row. For a time, Meg Ryan almost collapsed and resented a young man with growing power in Hollywood.

So when Michael owitz came to her and wanted her to file a public lawsuit against Denise entertainment, Meg Ryan immediately agreed.

There's no way out anyway.

However, as things approached, Meg Ryan became more and more nervous.

Because she gradually understood that Michael owitz just wanted to use the lawsuit to stop danilisi Entertainment's acquisition of MCA.

And the more he thought about it, the more Meg Ryan felt like a pawn in the whole thing.

Michael owitz's promise to help her claim huge compensation from Denise entertainment and help her revive her career after the event is unlikely to be realized in Meg Ryan's view.

Meg Ryan secretly consulted her lawyer for more than one time, and the response was that owitz had not found enough litigation reasons and evidence for her. The best result was that danilisi entertainment was forced by public opinion to seek a private settlement as soon as possible and compensate for it.

However, this lawsuit may destroy a big business worth billions of dollars.

Some hateful young man blocked her just because she terminated her contract early after she became famous. If her relationship messed up a multi billion dollar acquisition, she didn't know what would happen.

As for CAA, the talent agency failed to protect her last year. Meg Ryan doesn't think that Michael owitz will really spare no effort to help her under the pressure of the whole danilisi entertainment and a $21 billion super rich.

Or, even if owitz is really willing to do so, when most of Hollywood is closely connected with Denise entertainment, and when she spoils a multi billion dollar business of Denise entertainment, which leads to the intensification of the conflict between the two sides, MEG Raines does not think that the major studios will risk offending westero to cooperate with her.

When Michael owitz informed her yesterday that she would formally file a lawsuit against danielis entertainment in the near future, Meg Ryan, who has been hesitating for a long time, finally made up her mind to seek cooperation with Simon westero in turn.

Although this will certainly offend CAA, it is not wrong to choose the stronger one between Michael owitz and Simon westero. If westero still refuses to lift the ban on him afterwards, there is nothing to lose anyway, and it is not too late for her to file a lawsuit.

Simon listened to Meg Ryan's story, looking through a prepared indictment, took her to finish, looked up and asked, "is there anything else besides that the actors' Union will cooperate with you in this lawsuit?"

Meg Ryan thought about it and said, "there should be more, but Mike When owitz talks to me, he only talks about me

Simon withdrew his direct gaze at Meg Ryan and leaned back on the sofa to think.

If it is other times, such a lawsuit is nothing to danielis entertainment. Almost any large enterprise is surrounded by all kinds of lawsuits all the year round.

However, at the critical moment of danielis Entertainment's acquisition of MCA, the sudden appearance of such a lawsuit that danielis entertainment uses its own industry advantages to suppress the actors in the circle will definitely easily cause the media and the public to worry about and denounce the continued expansion of danielis entertainment.

In the original time and space, influenced by the "eavesdropping scandal", news corporation had to give up its long-standing wholly-owned acquisition of sky television. Because the timing of the two incidents at that time was very coincidental, it is difficult to say whether there was any causal relationship between them.

Denise entertainment is clearly going to face the same situation.

Of course, there are differences.

If there is any connection between the "eavesdropping scandal" incident in my memory, it may be that the whole British people do not want News Corporation to expand further, because Murdoch's manipulation of British public opinion has left everyone on pins and needles.Now Simon knows that many people in Hollywood must have doubts about danielis Entertainment's acquisition of MCA, but few of them will really come out against it. Michael owitz obviously did this just to ensure that his employer Panasonic could successfully complete the acquisition, and then he could get tens of millions of dollars in M & a consulting fees.

After carefully combing in his mind, Simon opened his eyes and looked at Meg Ryan with a worried look. He took out a checkbook from his pocket, put it on his knee, wrote a picture, tore it off, handed it to the coffee table in front of him, and said to Meg Ryan, "wait, let Jennie contact wma for you, or you want to go to ICM, and sign a new agency contract. Denise entertainment can sign another movie with you if you like. In addition, this is for you. Take the money and go abroad for a few months. Come back after the new year. "

Meg Ryan finally breathed a sigh of relief at Simon's words, even a feeling of bitterness.

Simon's assistant personally introduced the brokerage company to her, which was enough to show danielis Entertainment's attitude. If she signed a film contract with danielis entertainment, she would have completely lifted the ban.

Then, after looking at the check on the coffee table, Meg Ryan didn't know if she should get up and get it.

Simon did not wait for her action, said to the female assistant: "Jennie, you take Miss Ryan away first, Amy and I still have something to talk about."

Jennifer nodded, got up to help pick up the check, handed it to Meg Ryan, who was on the other side of the table, and said, "Miss Ryan, come with me."

Meg Ryan took the check and followed her. She walked out the door and across the corridor until she stepped up the stairs. Then she took a careful look at the check in her hand and almost staggered.

Five million dollars.

Far more than she expected.

In a word, Meg Ryan has not only failed to get a film contract this year, but also started to run out of money.

After becoming famous with "when Harry meets Sally", she signed the second film about "rocket expert". All the remuneration was used to pay for the termination of the option agreement for breaking away from daenerys entertainment, and none of the endorsements who were originally in contact with her was received because of the rumors that she was blocked in the circle.

I just heard that the young man wanted to send himself abroad. I thought that he would only sign a check for hundreds of thousands of dollars at most. I didn't expect that the actual number was 10 times more than she expected.

Although he felt very disheartened, deep down in his heart, Meg Ryan found that the resentment he had accumulated for more than a year against the young man almost disappeared, leaving only some complex emotions with unknown meaning.

At least, he's much better than Michael owitz.

Also Hollywood bigwig, Michael owitz just gave her some short promises that are hard to fulfill. Westrow was able to sign a check for $5 million, and she was able to get rid of all the restrictions.

When Jennifer takes Meg Ryan away, Amy can't help asking, "Simon, are you going to Japan right away?"

Simon nodded and said, "of course, now more."

"Well, what about this side?"

Simon solemnly said: "I may think things a little simple, but now there is still room for recovery."

Amy didn't answer, just waiting for Simon to continue.

Simon sorted out his thoughts again and said, "the key is one thing, conflict of interest. If we buy MCA, which party's interests will be affected, which party may jump out to stop it. In Hollywood, we don't have a good relationship with several major trade unions. It's not surprising that they will jump out. However, there is not much resistance from the trade union. We have joined the producers' Union and signed formal agreements with several major trade unions. Even if they want to stop it, they can only express some concerns in a broad way, or come up with practical evidence to prove that daenerys entertainment has infringed on the interests of union members. Now that Meg Ryan has backed away, I don't think they can find any other evidence. Another resistance may come from our Hollywood counterparts. "

At this point, Simon suddenly stopped talking.

Amy waited for a moment and said tentatively, "Paramount?"

Simon nodded: "paramount."

Now eight Hollywood, danelis entertainment and other six have deep or shallow cooperation. What's more, fox, Warner Bros. and MGM, the three partners of the six universities, will definitely not jump out. Columbia and Disney are unlikely to come out. Globegroup is a party, and it is impossible to oppose its acquisition.

In the end, only paramount, who had been deliberately left aside by Simon, was left.

In the next few years, with the horizontal expansion of the media industry, film and television, and the further opening of legal restrictions, this integration will be further accelerated.

Although we have missed universal, daenerys entertainment does not have no other choice, but it is absolutely difficult to form a strong complementary company with daenerys entertainment at the right price.

Not even Disney, who became one of Hollywood's biggest players many years later.Although Disney also operates theme park business, it does not have much accumulation in record, TV and cinema at this time. As for animation business, it will overlap with Denise entertainment. What's more, Disney's current main 2D animated films are doomed to be eliminated by 3D animated films, so it will have to face the trouble of pruning and cutting leaves to buy them.

Time Warner, which cooperates closely with Denise entertainment but has many internal disputes, is even worse.

Simon doesn't like the others.

In order to successfully complete the two acquisitions in hand, some small disputes must be abandoned. After all, the two plays paramount stole from Simon didn't do any good.

After making up his mind, Simon said to Amy, "you'll contact Martin Davis of paramount in a moment and ask him if he's interested in the two films. In addition, as long as daenerys entertainment completes the acquisition of MCA, I can guarantee that both MCA and paramount hold 50% of the shares of USA TV station to maintain the original equity status. Unless paramount actively sells, otherwise, daenerys entertainment only seeks the management right of USA TV station. With some of our accumulated experience in the television industry, I'm sure Martin Davis will not be indifferent. "

Amy nodded, admiring her boss's decision not to procrastinate. After thinking about it, she said, "I remember you wanted to buy the movie adaptation right of mission impossible in Paramount's hands. Maybe it could be included in the two movie contracts."

Simon wondered: "isn't mission impossible established?"

"It should be delayed. Anyway, I didn't hear the news of shooting. As long as we don't start shooting, we can get the project. "

"As long as paramount is willing to share the project, I can be a writer and producer myself."

Amy said with a smile, "this should be no problem."

Simon added: "in addition to paramount, you've recently asked the company's PR team to keep a close eye on the media. Well, isn't the end of the year schedule about to start? This time, we'll take an extra $20 million to publicize our films. Just don't rush to sign a contract and talk with the media slowly, so that they can know how rich the advertising order is. "

Amy hesitated a little: "20 million, it seems a little more?"

Among the films released by danielis entertainment at the end of the year, only dance with the wolf and the kid is in charge of the house are the more important ones. The other ones are not expecting much from the box office, or other studios are responsible for the distribution.

Simon insisted: "it's settled. The money that should be spent must be spent. Moreover, the money will not be spent in vain after all. It will definitely benefit our box office. Even if not, it can let the media know that danelis entertainment is a very generous advertiser. It's not worth giving up such a big client for several reports. "

"Well, I'll talk to Bob and them tomorrow."

"And try to find out what else owitz has planned."

"I will."

After Simon explained this, he thought about it for a moment and asked Amy, "do you have anything to add?"

Amy said with a smile, "you've finished speaking for the moment. I can't think of it for a moment, but as long as I think of it, I will do it as soon as possible."

Simon nodded and said, "in this case, I'll wait for Japan. If you come across anything here, please contact me at any time."