Chapter 1477 The First Battle of Disney

"Fxxkyou Jesse! No...no no, listen to me Jesse..."

At the beginning of November, the R Kelly case still had repercussions. Song Ya, who had gone to Los Angeles, found that some African-American media figures and celebrities were still accusing "the Cook County State Attorney who is obsessed with suppressing the light of black people", that is, Ai lycia.

This is... a bit irritating. He called Jesse Jackson and asked: "You guys promised me in Boston!"

"Yes, we promised, but that woman must be willing to cooperate with us!"

Jesse Jackson argued: "Put some speeches in support of equal rights and racial reconciliation, go to Chicago South City Hospital to pull the little hands of black sick children in front of the camera... We have arranged everything, but she just refuses to do it! Up to now, she She still complains to the media from time to time that R Kelly escaped the crime by spending a lot of money to buy witnesses and hire dream lawyers... There is nothing we can do about her attitude!"

Song Ya blinked her eyes when she heard the words, as if it made sense, and said, "I'll figure it out anyway." She put away her phone, pushed the door and got out of the car.

He looked up at the exterior wall of the building. Adriana Lima was holding a large advertising poster of the second-generation Beats Walkman, and walked into the department store under the guard of bodyguards and reception staff.

The Beverly Center, not far from Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, is where Palm/Beats' first directly-operated store in Los Angeles is located.

"Ahhh!"

When taking the escalator upstairs, the female customers who found the King of Pop, the billionaire, and the diamond bachelor APLUS were screaming excitedly, and all the upstairs were leaning over the railings on each floor, and there were crowds of people.

Song Ya squeezed out a smile, waved her hands up and down and blew kisses, taking care of every floor.

"Mr. APLUS, we need to hurry up..."

The manager of the shopping mall led the security staff to maintain order in an emergency.

"OK."

Song Yashi hurriedly walked a few steps, and shook hands with Palm and Beats company executives, store managers, and shop assistants who lined up to welcome them.

This store is next door to the Motorola store, and there are also mobile phone brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel, and Blackberry nearby.

For Palm, which only makes smartphones and PDAs, the main competitor in the same niche is Blackberry.

They have an exclusive unlimited e-mail service. When the September 11 incident occurred, almost all communication equipment in the United States was paralyzed. It is said that only Deputy Commander Cheney’s BlackBerry successfully connected to the wireless Internet. It has also triggered follow-up purchases by high-end business people.

In fact, although BlackBerry is smaller than Palm's Tero series, its performance and richness of functions are far inferior.

Accompanied by the film crew, Song Ya and his team began to visit the interior of the store.

"This is our walkman counter, Beats walkmans of various models..."

The store manager introduced them to everyone one by one. The store design here also follows the self-service shopping concept of GAP and Apple, and samples are placed on the table.

Near the Beats exhibition area, there is a row of computers placed against the wall with high chairs in front, all of which can access the Internet, which is convenient for the clerk to teach customers to register and download genuine songs.

"How's the business?" Song Ya casually picked up a prototype Palm PDA to play with.

"Very well, the rush-buying line here on the day of the sale is very long." The store manager replied.

"Well, well, good."

Song Ya nodded frequently and praised and walked slowly into the small warehouse in the store. There are some shelves here, storing goods and machines returned by users and sent for repair. It seems that everything is in order.

But his mood today is actually not very good, "Go out first, Donna..."

When Beats president Donna Dubinsky was left alone in the small warehouse, she turned black, "I read the news that our Walkmans have been returned on a large scale abroad, and users are also complaining on the forum?"

"Uh, yes, some minor issues, but not directly related to our product, the Walkman hardware is fine, it's just our music store..."

Donna Dubinsky hurriedly explained in a low voice.

It turns out that because the Beats music store does not adopt the closed software environment of Apple, the user experience is much more convenient, but at the same time, it has to face the problem of coexistence with other software in the Windows system. The accident this time came from the anti-virus software. They will identify a dll file of the Beats music store background suite that requires extremely high system permissions due to anti-piracy requirements as a computer virus alarm and delete it.

The Beats music store has only communicated and tested with some major companies with a high market share in Beimi, such as Symantec, Mcafee and other anti-virus giants. When the music store is used by users outside Beimi, which is not the main market, the problem arises. Antivirus software began to suffer mass manslaughter, rendering it unusable for users.

Ordinary users who don't understand technology panic immediately when they see the virus error report. They immediately return the newly purchased Walkman, send it for repair, complain on the forum countless, and there are extremely negative news such as "Beats music store has brought poison" It also spread quickly.

Song Ya was secretly happy that the arrogant Apple gave him the opportunity to catch up, but he didn't expect that in reality, he was pecking at each other...

"After all, the time is too fast, half a year..."

Being glared at one by one by the old black boss in a small closed room, Donna Dubinsky was still very panicked and tried to find reasons, "We will communicate with major global manufacturers immediately, adding a whitelist, very good deal with it, and they themselves are eager to address the damage the manslaughter issue has caused to their own software reputation."

"Anyway, hurry up! I don't want to hear any more excuses!"

Song Ya trained her a few words, and when she went out, she resumed her warm smile, and took a series of photos with everyone in the store, successfully completing the task of building momentum.

The shopping mall has pulled up isolation ropes on both sides of the storefront, and the troublemakers who came to see APLUS have formed two human walls behind the ropes, because various mobile phone manufacturers have removed the 300,000-pixel cameras from the Tero series in their pockets. The high-end models are decentralized, and many people are already holding up their mobile phones to take pictures of themselves.

"APLUS! APLUS!"

Song Ya stood still under the door of the store, smiled and waved, gave a thumbs up, like scissors hands, and generously let them take enough shots.

"APLUS!"

When he switched his body to the other side, there was a blond hair bouncing behind the wall calling himself. This ugly, hoarse female voice seemed familiar? Song Ya took a closer look, and sure enough, she recognized her face. It was Scarlett Johansson, a rising Hollywood star who has become popular recently.

So he smiled and gestured for the security to let Scarlett and her assistant-like white aunt come in.

"Hey! What a coincidence!"

With a single ponytail, plain face, jeans, a white T and a leather jacket, except for the expensive bag on her shoulder, she looks like an ordinary short white girl who is a little prettier.

Scarlett came over to shake hands generously under the eyes of everyone, "I was upstairs just now, where are you?"

Upstairs, LV and other big-name clothing stores gather together, and Song Ya's forests often come.

hey-hey……

After the two films starring her, Lost in Tokyo and Girl with a Pearl Earring, were released one after another this year, Scarlett's acting skills have received unanimous praise. Among the new Hollywood actresses of her generation, she has the smoothest career and the highest voice. .

But it seems that the fame is not enough, most of the passers-by in the distance are indifferent to her, and she has not yet had the opportunity to establish her status by selling commercial blockbusters.

Finally grown up! Song Ya glanced at her chest, which was at least as good as Christina Ricci, restrained the urge to lick her lips, and pointed to the Palm/Beats sign above her head.

"Oh, your business."

After leaving the team in 2001, Scarlett had matured in all aspects, and immediately realized that both brands belonged to Black Pharaoh.

"Yes. Uh..."

Song Ya motioned to him, "But I'm going to go, together?"

"OK."

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Moreover, her bold and unrestrained style of life caught Song Ya, a scumbag, a little off guard. After leaving the camera and people's sight, she didn't even leave the Beverly Center building. into the bathroom.

The wild young actress is really uncompressing.

Song Ya didn't even bother to answer the non-stop ringing of her mobile phone, and tried her best to sprint for this friendly match.

"You have my phone number?"

Finally, Scarlett tidied her clothes and asked with a smile. After getting a negative answer, she took out a pen and paper from her bag and left her private phone number, obviously very satisfied with the game.

"The new generation of actresses are becoming more and more independent..."

Afterwards, she didn't take the opportunity to ask for resources, and didn't mention any romance hype. Song Ya watched the back of Scarlett who left so gracefully, spread her five fingers, and sighed in her heart while putting it in front of her eyes, and praised the progress of society. Slowly pick up the phone.

There were more than a dozen missed calls, all from Linton.

He quickly called back.

"APLUS, what were you doing just now?! Forget about this, come on, Bruckheimer and I are waiting for you!"

Linton urged so hard that he hurriedly set off for the appointment.

During this period of time, he stayed in Los Angeles mainly because of Linton's affairs, or Disney's affairs, because in about ten days, Roy Disney, the head of the Disney family, will be 72 years old. The twelve-year-old board faces an exit mechanism.

It is generally believed that it is not good if there is no member of the Disney family on the board of directors, so on the same day, Disney will hold an enlarged meeting of the board of directors to discuss amending the charter so that Roy can remain on the board of directors.

But with Roy and Disney Emperor Eisner having turned against each other in recent years, His Majesty the Emperor should have decided not to allow Roy to fulfill his wish.

Linton's current royalist camp has already been preparing for the upcoming Disney court struggle launched by His Majesty the Emperor.

The royalist party is currently stronger, but Roy is not without the power to fight back.

Just as Jobs noticed early on that former CEO Amelio helped him search for Apple stocks in the primary market, Song Ya also sensed the hidden crisis behind her family and decided to sit in Los Angeles during this time to help Linton.

Because after the global box office of Finding Nemo produced by Jobs Pixar animation surpassed Disney’s own Lion King, the five animation contracts signed by Pixar animation and Disney that year have been completed. Just at this critical juncture, Disney is facing contract renewal negotiations with Pixar The problem.

In addition to Finding Nemo, the other four are Toy Story One and Two, A Bug's Life, and Monsters, Inc. The five animated feature films not only created extremely high distribution revenue for Disney, but also brought amazing profits to Disneyland and its peripherals. .

And these are the lifeblood of Disney animation and Disneyland managed by Roy. Roy has already expressed his support for keeping Pixar animation and completed the contract renewal with Jobs.

Since Jobs did not realize the great value of Pixar animation in his early years, he suffered a lot from signing the first long-term contract with Disney. Now it is impossible to talk so well, and he has already offered a very high price for the next long-term contract.

Jobs not only asked for higher box office and copyright share, but also asked Disney to pay a certain share to let him join the Disney board of directors.

It is impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to agree to this condition. Jobs has long challenged his authority with Buffett and Ovitz. After Ovitz failed, Buffett can clear out the stock and leave. Jobs, who has a long-term contract with Pixar, can run away Not to lose, coupled with Jobs's arrogant personality, so he has been complaining about him for many years, expressing his dissatisfaction with Disney's squeezing of Pixar animation, and the relationship between the two parties is very bad.

His Majesty the Emperor must stop Jobs this time, even if doing so will cause loss of commercial interests to Disney.

He should have also realized that Jobs may have secretly teamed up with Roy.

Song Ya is now helping Linton, that is, helping His Majesty.

Although he and Linton had a good relationship with Roy Disney in the early years, but now...

The situation is different.

Roy isn't going to let it go.

The situation has gradually become clear. Roy's side has the support of Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Animation, Disneyland, Pixar Animation, a large number of toys, holidays, and other peripheral companies responsible for the distribution of cartoons, as well as some shareholders and directors.

On the royalist side, Eisner has established a strong alliance of interests to control authority over the years, as well as allies that his cronies Linton and others have worked privately for many years.

In addition to the record department composed of companies such as Disney Records, A+ Records, and Metropolitan Records, there is also Disney's live-action film department that has direct internal competition with the animation department, including Touchstone Films, Bowei Films, A+ Entertainment...

Those who choose to wait and see for the time being include, in addition to Roy, two other big hilltops that Eisner has publicly claimed to be considered as successors, the former Senate majority leader, independent director George Mitchell and his faction, and Robert Iger Leading the ABC Television Network faction.

George Mitchell has stronger political and business relations, and Robert Iger, who is backed by ABC, is stronger.

Those up for sale include the Weinstein Brothers’ Miramax and Dimension Pictures, as well as super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who is likely to be promoted to the top of the Hollywood power list this year.

Harvey has zero credibility, no one can believe what he says, and he doesn't like His Majesty the Emperor, so Jerry Bruckheimer is the main target of Linton's recent strategy.

"Jerry."

"APLUS."

When Song Ya hurried to the golf course, Linton and Bruckheimer had been playing together for a long time. They had been friends since the days when the Hollywood film industry still existed.

But the relationship is also hard to say close. Bruckheimer, who has produced blockbusters such as Top Gun, did not need to rely on Linton from the beginning. The relationship between the two is very equal. In the joint production of Bruckheimer and Hollywood Pictures After the island, Linton, who kept rushing to the street, needed to rely more on the other party.

And now, Bruckheimer has completely become a god in Hollywood by relying on "Pirates of the Caribbean" with a global box office of 650 million this summer, and Disney's original intention of investing in Pirates of the Caribbean was just to make a promotional film for the pirate ship project in Disneyland, although he It was a live-action movie, but it happened to be distributed through Walt Disney Pictures, which is usually responsible for animated feature films.

Whichever side Bruckheimer chooses to lean on makes sense.

After exchanging pleasantries, Song Ya helped Linton to draw him together, and at the same time, the two exchanged eyes frantically as soon as they were free.

The arrival of the tens of billions of tycoons has brought some touches to Bruckheimer, but it still seems not enough to make him rashly choose to intervene in the Disney high-level struggle.

Song Ya agreed with Linton and made some conditions, but they didn't scratch his itch.

"No way, for a production company owner like him who is living a comfortable life, there is no need to get involved..."

Bruckheimer and the two reminisce about their time working together in Hollywood, and they didn't tell the truth in the end.

Linton looked at his back with regret, and asked Song Ya: "Are there any arrangements for the evening?"

"I'll listen to you during this time." Song Ya replied very righteously.

"Okay, then I invite Harvey to have dinner tonight?" Linton was very happy, and immediately raised his wrist to look at his watch.

"Can."

Song Yaming knew that Harvey would definitely talk to him about MJ's affairs at night, but since Linton didn't know about it, he didn't say anything, shrugged and nodded in agreement.