Chapter 1049? Crazy Chase
Chapter 1050 Crazy Chase
'Click! '
The next day, Song Ya was woken up by the sound of closing the door gently, he opened his eyes, Amy and Shakira were there, it was Mira who had just left.
The suite converted from the studio lounge had no windows, so he couldn't rely on the natural light outside to confirm the time. He glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table, and it was only after six o'clock.
But he had to get up, the filming task was very tight, and he had to finish filming his scenes and return to Chicago. He yawned and got up to wash up.
"Today's shooting schedule." In the dressing room outside, Taraji had already prepared breakfast.
"Um."
Song Ya took a brief look, and the director Larry arranged to make up shots of the football game during the day, which were close-up shots of himself dribbling and shooting.
In the evening, there was a confession scene and a kiss scene with Mira in the grove.
"Another full and busy day!" He sighed while eating.
"A lot of media want to interview you and talk about the new president of Sony Columbia Records." Taraji said.
"Did Rick Rubin call me back?"
"No."
"That's all pushed."
Song Ya wants to communicate with Rick Rubin first before expressing his position.
Motura failed to 'restore', so the current situation is simple. He only has the position of MJ manager. Since MJ rejected Hayden, the preparation of public opinion on his side has begun.
Just right, didn't MJ suddenly marry a white nurse in Australia? For MJ fans, especially female fans, this is no less than a bolt from the blue. The daughter of his ex-wife Elvis Presley has the same identity and appearance as him, and the nurse named Debbie Luo is not only ordinary-looking, but also aged Almost forty years old! She was born in 1958!
It was like a flower stuck in cow dung, and his fans were heartbroken.
One MJ fan swears on the fan page of the American music website, saying that marrying Debbie Loe was definitely not MJ's original intention, and that he was being manipulated by those around him.
This post caught Delay's attention,
After discussing with Song Ya, the two and Ms. Sloan quickly finalized and concocted a conspiracy theory based on the views of that post: MJ is indeed controlled by a group of dangerous villains around him, and the manager Motura is The boss behind the scenes, the big villain, and then reasonably extended the black material that Motura racially discriminates, monitors its artists, suppresses Mariah Carey, APLUS and other African-American stars.
Originally, MJ was not favored by the tabloids, and now there are quite a few entertaining journalists who are lazy and "smart" and spend time at various sources of gossip on the Internet, copying the news. These carefully crafted new posts have already been spread through Di Lai's account. .
After MJ fans and melon eaters were guided, some people also began to call on him to replace Motura, or expressed that they did not understand why such a person should be kept by his side.
"Since Motura confirmed last night that he will not go back to Sony Columbia Records, I think that starting today, the mainstream media will no longer have any scruples."
In the afternoon, after Song Ya had just finished shooting a shot of wildly celebrating with her teammates after scoring a goal, Ms. Sloan hurried back from Washington.
"hope so."
For the mainstream media, I still lack influence. When it comes to the matter of another black light, A+CN, inner city broadcasting company, BET and other black media will be "closed on time", so I can only make the dishes as delicious as possible first. Everything is ready, served out, the initiative to eat or not is still in the mainstream media itself.
"Good job, Sloan, well done." He gave Sloan a big hug.
"Um."
Sloan stood upright, without any response from his body, and continued to talk about business, "Underwood hinted to me that he put a lot of pressure on Howard Stringer, that's why Rick Rubin made it out last night, you take the time to call Thank him."
"This guy, after things are done, he will always point to himself to claim credit. In fact, how much effect he has really played... Who knows?"
This kind of thing can't be explained to each other, and Song Ya expressed distrust of Underwood, a habitual offender who cheated on points.
"You don't lose a piece of meat with a thank you call," says Sloan.
"Of course, I will call. You rest first, and I will be right back."
The crew was urging, Song Ya opened the door of her makeup car, ran back to the court and filmed a scene where she was intercepted by her opponent because she played too alone.
"Pass me the ball! Don't you see me running out of space!?"
Mira, a teammate disguised as a man, rushed over and yelled and complained in her ear.
In this plot, the two were having conflicts due to misunderstandings, and Song Ya pushed her away with a straight face, ignoring her, and being cold and violent.
"Card!"
Old Larry called to stop, and after a while he made an announcement in satisfaction, "Uh, APLUS, someone called me just now and said that people from Twentieth Century Fox will be here later to visit you." He stopped the man who hurried back to the makeup van Song Ya.
"I know."
Song Ya nodded to express his knowledge. Since he expressed his intention to invest in the Titanic to Xiao Lizi's agent yesterday, the president of Fox Films called him in person in the morning, and then they found their agent Donovan to help talk about the project. At noon, he simply called Yeremov, who was in Los Angeles, to the Fox headquarters, making it clear that he would frantically pursue his potential financial backer who could save his bankruptcy crisis.
"By the way, what did Jesse Helms' people say?"
The Titanic project has burned more than 100 million yuan, and it can't afford to wait for a long delay in time. Fox Films urgently needs life-saving money, so this investment should enter the negotiation stage and the results should come soon. Although there is Paramount Pictures as a competitor, the initiative is completely in my hands now. I have money and I am willing to invest, but there is no rush. Let Yeremov chat first and try to get the best investment conditions. , the key is that the box office share and follow-up income will not be cheated. 60 million is enough for Hollywood to make a single blockbuster action movie. This is not a small amount of money.
The man with facial paralysis looked relaxed and happy, and Song Ya returned to the makeup car to continue the conversation with Sloan, which was the main purpose of her trip to Washington.
"The softening of the special prosecutor's attitude should be due to the black material of Dan Burton's extramarital affairs in Gordon's hands."
Sure enough, Sloan said: "I have asked Gordon to suspend breaking the news, but the investigation still needs to continue and try to dig out more. This means that we have a nuclear bomb in our hands."
"If I had known this way, I wouldn't have spent so much money hiring a lawyer..."
It was a wonderful development. Neither Song Ya nor Sloan expected that Jesse Helms would do so much for Dumbleton, and they couldn't help feeling a little regretful.
"What?" Sloane murmured under his breath.
"Nothing." Song Ya shook her head.
The filming continued, and the two chatted when they had time. After communicating important matters, Sloan asked about his meeting with Ovitz last night.
"Ovitz didn't bring me any surprises."
Ovitz arrived very late last night, and the two chatted for a long time, which was not to Songya's liking. He guessed it was because Ovitz originally planned to return to Sony Columbia Records with Motura. The attitude of the savior came to occupy a strong position, but all this disappeared with the appearance of Rick Rubin, the dark horse.
So Ovitz talked about his good relationship with the senior management of Benzi headquarters all night. After all, he was the one who facilitated Sony, Panasonic and other book companies to acquire Columbia Pictures, Sony Columbia Records and Universal. It is not surprising that there is a close relationship there.
But Song Ya doesn't need these things very much now, and he and Sony will be separated soon, and the high-level executives there will not reconcile with themselves just for the sake of Ovitz's face.
"A CEO who has just been kicked out by the top seven in Hollywood came across the United States to meet you at such a critical moment, which shows how important you are to him," Sloan said.
"Well, Disney Emperor Eisner gave him 140 million severance pay, but at the same time he also signed a non-compete clause not to hold positions in other companies in the film industry, so the other six big Hollywood are out of play, CAA and William Morris Waiting for the major brokerage companies to join forces to block him, it will be hard to find a star like me now."
Song Ya agreed with Sloan, "The problem now is: Ovitz doesn't want to leave if he sticks to me. He must get something from me, and his use value to me is not high. Understand that, so now he's kind of annoying."
"How?" asked Sloan.
"The 140 million that Eisner promised to give him still has a turning point. Disney's board of directors approved it, but shareholders disagree, and they want to file a lawsuit against the board of directors..."
The reason why he can be called the emperor is that Eisner’s control over Disney’s board of directors reached its peak after driving out Katzenberg and Ovitz in succession. He bought many directors and senior management with options and super high salaries. The contract he and Ovitz gave during the honeymoon period was also very good, so Ovitz was able to take advantage of Eisner's eagerness to drive him away and dig 140 million.
But the shareholders didn’t want to bear it any longer. Their shares were diluted by the options and super high salaries that Eisner gave himself and the executives year after year. The board of directors countered, claiming to initiate a lawsuit.
Therefore, it is not certain how much Ovitz will get for the 140 million in the end. It depends on the outcome of the lawsuit between Disney shareholders and the board of directors. This is 140 million, and the lawsuit is likely to last for many years.
"Ovitz tried his best to show me his wide circle of friends. He revealed that the world's second richest man, legendary investor Warren Buffett and Apple founder and owner of Pixar Animation Steve Jobs were all behind him in his confrontation with Eisner. Behind Jobs is Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Barbara..."
Song Ya imitated Ovitz's tone and said to Sloan.
"Those big guys backed him and were just happy to see him get rid of Eisner, right?"
Sloan said with a smile: "But he failed, so he lost his use value to those tycoons, otherwise why would he come to chase you madly?"
"That's right, it doesn't mean anything to me if he blows up the social circle so much. After all, I don't plan to change the brokerage company for the time being. He is not the broker who can think carefully from the perspective of clients. He is now the broker in my hands. Billionaires who have money but can’t find a way to start a new career.”
Song Ya said: "He wants much more from me than I imagined, because we lack trust in each other... It seems that he wants to grab some handles from me, so I just said that he has become a little annoying .”
"Handle? If you don't cooperate with him, will he fight against you in the Barn case?" Sloan asked.
"No, if he dares to threaten like this, he will immediately become my enemy."
Song Ya shook his head, "It's still the 140 million. He hinted to me that Disney's payment method may not be entirely in cash. Maybe he will take Metropolis records out of Disney at a discount, because he can't go back to the film company because of the competition clause. But could go into the record business... and maybe journalism, you remember when he said he was going to take some ace journalists out of ABC? Without Disney's distribution system, Metropolis is worth nothing to me, I'm for that The potential of signing singers prepared by record companies will be buried."
"That means we have one more game object."
After all, it was Ovitz, who used to be the master of the wind and rain. Sloan was a little worried, "If he wants to do bad things, the destructive power will be astonishing."
"I'm getting a little tired from the constant fighting, Sloane..."
Song Ya doesn't want to add another enemy of Ovitz's level to fight back and forth. Motura, the former president of one of the six major record companies, is still alive and kicking, "In short, I decided to skip the mutual testing and game stage. , do business with him first, and become friends and partners.”
"what business?"
"The publishing house, Littman also called me today. The news that I intend to spend 60 million to invest in the Titanic spread quickly. Litman was afraid that I would change my mind. He said that he had divested the assets in the package. For those conservative media, the acquisition negotiations can start again. And I will sign a gambling agreement with Ovitz, and he will take charge of the acquisition on my behalf. Goodman and Hamlin’s law firm will assist and supervise, from If Littman lowers the price more, Ovitz can get more commission, this is his old business, and it is also my first trial cooperation with him.”
Song Ya replied: "It just so happens that I don't have the energy to play marathon negotiations with Littman right now, so let that guy be dealt with by Ovitz."