Chapter 1468 The Supermarket Opens

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"The aftermath of Sony's shock has not settled down. Nobuyuki Idei announced today that he will step down as CEO and be replaced by Ken Kutaragi, the father of PS..."

On April 9th, Sony finally came to the end of their tossing. Song Ya happened to be summoned by his ex-wife and went to the two people's former love nest: the Malibu beach villa to attend a party.

The ex-wife has changed agents and private lawyers, and most of the people here today are new friends, such as Lee Daniels, the producer of "Dance of Death Row", and the film co-invested and produced by Lee Daniels and directed by Lee Daniels himself 'Smart Girls' cast member.

Newman, her manager at Sony Columbia Records, is one of the few familiar faces, "Where's Howard Stringer?" The news is very short. Newman, who has heard various rumors inside Sony Columbia Records, gestures to the TV. Complaint: "Didn't he say that he will at least add another vice chairman position?"

"Because of MJ?" Hayden asked.

This time, Sony and the "Alliance of Injury" are very concerted to deal with his high-profile rebellion in London, accusing Sony and Howard Stringer, and he himself is still involved in a new case. His image in the US media has changed to that of a "Weird Jack" who is not satisfied with driving away a president, Rick Rubin, and is desperate to divert public attention.

However, MJ's appeal to fans is still strong, and protesters gathered outside Sony Columbia Records headquarters in New York soon. Unfortunately, he is not as popular as he was ten years ago, and the proportion of middle-aged aunts in the protesters seems to be very high.

"It's possible that MJ's image in the eyes of the Japanese people is still very positive, and maybe Sony's top management has been affected." It's a matter of personal future, Newman echoed, and ran outside on the beach to make a phone call.

Song Ya and Hayden looked at each other. MJ set the target of accusation on Howard Stringer. It was a tacit understanding between the two parties. It happened that the luck seemed to be good, just in time for Sony's market value to plummet and the internal turmoil period of internal and external troubles.

Under tremendous internal and external pressure, Kutaragi Takeshi, who successfully launched the PS game console, will be very popular in the capital market, and the stock price may rise tomorrow in response. Ken Kutaragi is a manager of standard engineer thinking, an idealistic technical madman. His upper CEO taking power is not good for PS competitor XBOX, but in Sony's internal resource competition, his electronic product faction will be against Howard Stringer from now on. The Beimi entertainment empire at the helm has a great advantage.

Of course, Song Ya would like to see Howard Stringer's personal power stop expanding, and Hayden, who was deeply involved in this matter, also knew it well, but it was inconvenient for the two of them to talk about it immediately because there were people coming and going at the Malibu Villa.

'The US army entered Baghra...'

The TV began to broadcast the news of the frontline war again,

In just 21 days, the 400,000 regular Iraqi troops were wiped out. On the small screen, the people of Baghdad were eating pots of milk and lining the road to welcome the king who entered the city in a Humvee and an Abrams tank.

In terms of war, the George dynasty is really too powerful!

Hitting anyone is abuse, and Song Ya has to accept that.

"Hmph..."

At this time, the ex-wife came to the back, "Introduce me, Mira Sorvino, Melo La Waters."

While introducing the other two leading actors of "Smart Girl", she observed secretly, until she felt that her little ex-husband had really never dealt with the two women before, and she was relieved.

"Hello."

Song Ya socialized with two long-established actresses very politely. Smart Girl is a follow-up film of the 2000 hit movie Charlie's Angels. Naturally, it also needs three heroines. The ex-wife has spent money to collect a lot of them over the years. The script, Smart Girl is one of them, and Lee Daniels picks and chooses this one.

The ex-wife, who was afraid of being robbed of the limelight, intervened domineeringly in the casting, and chose two older Caucasian actresses whose acting skills and status could satisfy Lee Daniels.

Mira Sorvino is the daughter of Paul Sorvino, an old Italian drama star. In her early years with Harvey and Quentin Tarantino, she was very famous in various awards seasons, and even won an Oscar.

Song Ya still remembers the scene of her thanking Harvey and Quentin at the awards ceremony that year.

Of course, her momentum is no longer what it used to be, just like Ashley Judd, another big beauty whom Song Ya is more familiar with. She was half-blocked by Hollywood after she fell out with Harvey and the gang. Now I can only take over the tens of thousands of small projects from my ex-wife.

She and Melora Waters were born in 1967 and 1960, and they are considered to be well-maintained, and their charm is still there.

In front of the black pharaoh and his DIVA ex-wife who are the top rich man, the king of pop, and a Hollywood tycoon, the two mature women are flirting aggressively like peacocks spreading their tails.

Anyway, the crew has closed the filming, and they are ambitiously scheduled for the summer vacation in July. After the cooperation, the two of them have had enough of their ex-wife's princess disease, and there is nothing to be afraid of. Song Ya just complimented her a few words, and both of them laughed exaggeratedly. .

"come over."

The ex-wife was unhappy, and hooked her fingers to lead the little ex-husband to a secluded place, "Did you help me mention the signing of the contract during the meeting with the people from Capitol Records?"

No one was willing to pay the 100 million signing bonus. As the contract expiration date approached, she became more and more anxious. DIVA couldn't admit that she had fallen into a situation where no one wanted her.

"I mentioned it." Song Ya replied: "They can't afford it, and the current situation of EMI is also very bad."

"Where's Viking Beimi?"

"I also mentioned..."

"Fart!" She was instantly furious if she didn't let go, "I met people from Viking Beimi yesterday, and they said you didn't mention it!"

"Aw!"

Song Ya was slapped on the arm, but she was wrong again, "I did forget when I was negotiating with Viking Beimi, but Capitol Records really mentioned it..."

"Lies are full of words! You don't care about my business at all!"

"You ask for less signing bonus and still worry about not leaving home?"

"No! I want 100 million!" The ex-wife shouted, scratching her neck.

"It's really impossible to communicate... ouch!"

"I want 100 million!"

"Aw! Aw!"

"Mr. APLUS! Mimi!"

Just next to the training, it might as well be touched by Newman, just in time to bump into the scene of domestic violence, "Uh, you two go ahead..."

"No, what's the matter?" Song Ya hurriedly called him back who was about to slip away.

"I heard that Howard Stringer got a vacant position, and Sony's board of directors promised to delegate power to him to unify the command of Sony's global entertainment business." Newman said.

"oh?"

Song Ya was taken aback for a while, "What do you mean by vacant position?"

"It's just not officially appointed, but he will be the top person in charge of Sony's global entertainment business." Newman explained, "Maybe Sony wants to wait for him to deal with the trouble caused by MJ."

That is to say, Sony executives decided to continue to trust Howard Stringer, but because of MJ's rebellion by name, Sony does not intend to give the outside world a reason to promote him at this time?

Song Ya rubbed her chin to analyze the latest information.

It's a pity, but it's also very reasonable, relying on MJ's empty teeth, he will definitely not be able to bring down Howard Stringer...

"Oh, by the way, and Vivendi Universal has put Universal Pictures, Universal Music, Universal Studios, and American Television Network on the shelves." Newman added.

"I know that." Song Ya knew the news a long time ago, and she wished to mess it up.

"There are also EMI and BMG, and their parent companies are also planning to make a move."

"Um."

EMI's own business situation is bad. BMG, which bet on the teenage pop genre, has a good momentum, but it is dragged down by the parent company Bertelsmann Group. Although it has not been officially informed, Song Ya also knows that it will happen sooner or later, which is not surprising.

Otherwise, his own Beats music store would not have negotiated so smoothly with the two high-level executives.

"Warner is also planning to sell Warner Records..."

"WTF?" Song Ya really didn't know, "Where did you hear that?"

This relationship is good, except for Sony and Disney, the other four don't plan to continue playing, right? The record industry is indeed sunset, but not so sunset, right?

"Their parent company, AOL Time Warner Group, just let the wind go."

Newman said: "Maybe it's because we heard that there are big buyers who are interested in buying Universal Music. Everyone hopes to sell at this time and attract the attention of big buyers. At worst, it can suppress Universal's price..."

This analysis seems more reasonable, "General Electric NBC?" Song Ya has a wider source of information, and he can guess who the big buyer Newman is talking about.

"right!"

Relying on the innovative GE financial model: that is, the financial business has expanded its customer base with the help of the giant GE, and the high-return, fast-turnover financial business has brought substantial revenue and profits, provided sufficient cash flow, and improved GE's credit rating . GE's high credit rating in turn reduces the financing cost of financial business, and industrial capital and financial capital effectively realize the dual synergy of operation and finance.

General Electric (GE) is still the world's largest company with a market capitalization of more than 300 billion dollars, and General Electric's NBC television network is also the world's top media giant. It is really easy to win Universal Music.

"Don't you all want to be in the record business?"

The ex-wife was sobbing when she heard it, and the 100 million signing bonus seemed to be out of the question, "It sounds like a supermarket sale on Black Friday..."

"Why!"

Newman also felt sympathetic. His subordinate DIVA was about to leave, so he naturally wanted to keep him, but he also knew that Sony Columbia Records, which was in internal chaos, could not be willing to bleed, so it was a dilemma!

And Song Ya began to seriously consider taking advantage of the opening time of the supermarket to win one of the top six. It is impossible for Universal to get involved, and BMG certainly cannot afford it, but EMI and Warner can be included in the hunting scope...

The three of them have their own thoughts in the sea breeze.

At this time, Hayden also came over and gave him his mobile phone.

"Aplus, Mr. Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, invited us to meet!" Sloan said excitedly on the other end of the phone.