Chapter 1497 Separation

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"Michael, no, Michael, you listen to me first..."

In a rage, Paulson changed his itinerary and flew to Los Angeles in person. In the Disney chairman's office, he and George Mitchell sandwiched CEO Michael Eisner between them. He interrupted Eisner forcefully: " Things are very simple, things are very simple Michael! We replace two of our own people at the general meeting of shareholders. It doesn’t matter whether APLUS leaves or not, you introduce Katzenberg or make a deal with Jobs! It’s up to you! We will protect you It’s over!”

On one side is the former Senate majority leader and the current chairman of Disney, and on the other side is the chairman of Goldman Sachs. Eisner can't stand the emperor's airs and feels the pressure, but he is still sober in his heart.

Two seats of your own? Replace one seat with the representative of Goldman Sachs, another seat with Harvey who wears the same pants as you, and let me pass this year, and then what? I self-destructed the control of the board of directors, got rid of Linton, who at least appeared to be my own person, and lost my prestige in front of the company's management. In the future, I can only rely on you and let you slaughter me! ?

Credit to Goldman Sachs?

what is that?

"No, Katzenberg can't settle." Still using Katzenberg as a shield for the time being, "If we don't give him a seat, he won't come."

"Oh Damn!"

George Mitchell swears, "Michael! Katzenberg has separated DreamWorks Animation! He is so willing to do so! It took a lot of effort to get Spielberg and David Geffen down. ...You deliberately gave him the hope of getting a board seat! It was all done!"

"George..."

Paulson raised his hand to stop the powerful old man, and turned to patiently persuade Eisner: "I will talk to Katzenberg in person later, and let him wait until next year. He will not be missing from the board of directors, no matter what. Why is it too late this year, isn't it? Let's stabilize him first. Of course, Katzenberg... I understand your concerns. It might be better to keep Pixar animation. I also know that you have some initiative now, it's all good , whatever, in short we have no conflict of interest in this matter, you decide..."

"Alright alright……"

Eisner made some calculations in his mind. If the chairman of Goldman Sachs went to lobby Katzenberg in person, the probability of success was very high. The card in his hand was invalid, so he decided to drag his words and agreed verbally, "I'm very strange, Henry, are you here today to guarantee that APLUS will be kicked out of Disney? Getting rid of Linton means that APLUS will definitely leave." He asked.

"That's not the case. We have invested a lot of money in Disney. No one likes instability. Doesn't APLUS's history with Sony Columbia and Universal prove it?"

Of course Paulson wouldn't admit it, saying, "Maybe you shouldn't have taken him in the first place."

"Um……"

When Eisner pondered, his eyes drifted to the chair of chairman that now belongs to George Mitchell. He recalled the scene of APLUS sitting on it to demonstrate. As soon as that picture appeared in his mind, he felt deeply humiliated And anger, maybe Paulson was right, he shouldn't have taken in APLUS in the first place...

But strengthening George Mitchell's authority is not what I want...

This steel wire is really difficult to walk!

"So we're done?" George Mitchell asked.

"That's a deal."

Eisner turned his head at the door of the office that no longer belonged to him, "But the premise of everything is that you help me stabilize the stock price, at least before the shareholder meeting."

"no problem!"

Paulson agreed.

Watching Eisner leave, George Mitchell picked up the microphone on the landline, "I'm here to ask Katzenberg?"

"No, call Robert Iger here first."

Paulson thought for a while and replied: "Then ask Katzenberg... It would be best to help me meet Roy Disney as well."

"Roy is a bit strange, APLUS, he won't turn his back when voting at the shareholders' meeting, will he?"

At this time, the Songya-Linton camp has not realized the danger,

Linton's re-election feels okay, so this year's shareholders meeting is a good time to attack, use a vote of no confidence to get rid of another director who is loyal to Eisner, and then replace someone from the side of the board on the subsequent board, while using Goldman Sachs and Harvey introduced Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation to complete the goal of driving Jobs away.

Then, you can chase Goldman Sachs outside and Eisner inside.

"probably not."

Linton has a good sense of smell. After he raised his concerns, Song Ya turned on the computer and logged on to the 'Save Disney' website. Roy insisted on cleaning up the portal. If Eisner didn't get out of Disney for a day, the Save Disney movement he led would not be disbanded. .

The website is still running well, and even underwent a technical upgrade at the beginning of the year, although the public opinion exposure has gradually died down after Eisner gave up the Disney chairman seat.

Goldman Sachs, George Mitchell, Harvey, Eisner, Linton, myself, Jobs, Robert Iger, Katzenberg, Roy Disney, each party has different interests in this extremely complex multi-party game, It's just a matter of difference.

Even the short-term and long-term interests of each party are different. For example, Katzenberg naturally hopes to cooperate with Eisner and others to drive out Pixar animation in the short term and replace it with his DreamWorks animation, but he will not do it for a long time. Endurance once again succumbs to Eisner.

Another example is Roy. Although the old man is now desperate to drive Eisner away, he also maintains a good relationship with the Sonja-Linton Alliance and the Jobs-Robert Iger Alliance. In the long run, he naturally hopes that the Disney family regained power, and Disney continued to thrive in the final years of his life.

All camps are in two boats, or even more boats, sometimes cooperating and sometimes fighting.

But that's what makes it interesting, isn't it?

"In any case, we have done what we can, and we will go all out next month. The awards ceremony has begun, let's watch it first..."

On February 25, 2005, the seventy-seventh Oscars continued to be held at the Kodak Theater. This year belongs to Harvey, Warner, Martin Scorsese, and Xiao Li's "Aviator", the old cowboy Is Twood's 'Million Dollar Baby', and the biopic 'Soul Singer' about Ray Charles, a black soul veteran.

Little Li, whose private life is chaotic, has lost a lot of appearance, but he has begun to look like a mature movie star. The Aviator is a biopic of the legendary tycoon Howard Hughes. Life is like a play, and a play is like life. A filmmaker, the crew power of a top Hollywood male star, with a suit and leather shoes and a combed back hair, he began to have the temperament of both a tycoon and a superstar at the awards ceremony, and he became more and more popular with the judges.

However, he still missed the trophy, but the supporting actress Cate Blanchett won the Concubine Ying.

"This kid."

Song Ya didn't go to the awards ceremony this year, but stayed in Beverly Hills to watch the TV broadcast with his friends and subordinates. When Xiao Lizi appeared on the screen, he laughed and cursed. With the position of Xiao Lizi today, A+ Entertainment can't afford to hire him if it doesn't start a first-line big production, so for him, Martin Scorsese's Italian gang and Harvey, two groups of people I don't like, Song Ya has no reason to be angry.

"Havi's Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Palme d'Or wasn't even in the Best Documentary Feature category," Linton said.

"Um."

The conservative old white male Oscar judges hated that documentary very much. This year is a conservative year. Except for the soul singer who helped the male lead Jamie Foxx get the best actor with the full support of himself and the black group, the big winner can only be the old cowboy, a million dollars Baby took away all the heavyweight awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, etc. Aviator barely kept it with Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography and other three technical awards. The face of the king of Weichong Awards.

The same is true for American society, which is becoming more and more divided. While liberal artists gradually began to fight against the war and criticize the atrocities and prisoner abuse scandals committed by the US Army in the Middle East, the Southern Chicks, the top country music group under Sony Columbia Records, has been accused of Anti-war speeches have been tacitly blocked. This is not a double standard of the public, but the judging standards of the free and conservative groups have gone in diametrically opposite directions.

Not everyone can be popular and anti-war. What Madonna can do, the Southern Chicks can't. Losing the love of the conservative white market, they can't sell records immediately.

Besides, Fahrenheit 9/11 was launched by Harvey when he hit a wall at Disney, so he encouraged Columbia Pictures to release it. He did get a lot of honors and made a lot of money, but he also offended more people.

The same thing happened to the Dixie Chicks was the Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson, the boss of the Australian Gang, but the reason was just the opposite. The religious theme movie that contributed a lot of box office to the conservative crowd was dominant in the Jewish community because it didn’t please the Jewish people. Hollywood also received a cold reception, with three technical nominations and no prizes.

"James Caviezel just played Jesus, contributed the best acting skills of his career, and achieved excellent box office results, but this year's resources are very poor, and he has been asking us if we have any work."

Daniel wanted to take care of the little brother he accepted when he was in the Cold Mountain project, and said.

"He's all Jesus, and he's become a god. We should ask him to take care of him."

Yeremov, a Jew, utters strange things.

"Stop talking nonsense."

The two have always been at loggerheads, and Song Ya stopped the signs of bickering in time, "We don't have a job, and even if we do, we can't afford his salary."

"Just because that fantasy martial arts blockbuster was thrown away, it made you disheartened? APLUS, don't be like this, what's the use of asking Yeremov to buy the copyrights of those bad movies all day long? Why don't you pick some good projects and try it out?" Fight, you may not lose if you gamble." Daniel said again.

Since last summer, in addition to producing TV shows such as Hip-Hop Competition and Grey's Anatomy, A+ Entertainment has focused on finding scattered film copyrights from small and medium-sized companies in the film industry to enrich the copyright library.

There is a big plan implied in it. Daniel didn't even know Yeremov, who was in charge of it, but Linton knew it. He immediately raised his wrist and looked at his watch to stop this topic. , let’s go to the Vanity Fair dinner.”

Everyone had already put on their formal clothes and followed the vice president of Disney into the car and rushed to their destination.

Today, Song Ya has several important tasks, so talk to Katzenberg and Warner's Kevin Tsujihara respectively.

Kevin Tsujihara was staying with Doug Morris. Song Ya walked into the fragrant breeze, and noticed Doug Morris's red tie at the dinner party with countless beautiful faces, but the other party shook his head slightly, indicating that it was not the time yet.

Hayden behind Song Yachao tilted his head, Hayden understood, and tacitly left the main force to wait for an opportunity near the two of them.

"Jenny! Director Blake..."

Amy, who was holding Song Ya's arm, also saw a familiar figure at this time. Jennifer Connelly, as the first prince of Disney and the girlfriend of director Blake Eisner, was standing not far away, and she greeted loudly.

"Hello, APLUS, Amy."

"Hello."

"I didn't see you at the awards ceremony just now."

The two couples began to socialize naturally. Blake should know the current tension between his father and the tenth richest man in the entire meter, but he didn't care. As an artist, he just wanted to make a good movie.

"Amy and I didn't go to the scene." Song Ya shook hands with him and hugged Jenny, "Why is your Sahara scheduled for April?"

A super-big production whose production cost has exceeded 160 million yuan has not been included in the summer file, which should show that the distributor Paramount is very pessimistic.

"No way, they want to get the film started as soon as possible, after all, it has been delayed for too long."

Blake, whose future was clouded, replied, "It doesn't matter, April is fine. I'm confident that Sahara will get long-term screenings. Are you coming to APLUS for the premiere?"

"I'll go when I have time."

According to Jenny privately, due to the interruption of filming due to the 9/11 incident and the major change of the main creator, Paramount itself should bear at least half of the responsibility for the overspending of this project, and the remaining half is Blake's first first-line blockbuster directed by his career. Too many artistic ideas, due to too much excellence, so...

The ending is hard to say, after all, there are precedents such as the failed Future Water World and the successful Titanic.

Now Song Ya won't deliberately target her because the other party's father hates Wu Jiwu, but there is no need to continue coaxing. After a brief chat, she gave Jenny a wink, and then went their separate ways.

"Congratulations Jamie."

He and Amy socialized with the black group of Lu Yu again. When the new actor Jamie Foxx met him for the first time, he was still auditioning to dance the first male lead in my life. Now his status in Hollywood is very different. Surrounded by A group of people, mostly Spike Lee, Taraji and other familiar faces, Song Ya hugged them with great joy.

"Oh yes, Daniels."

He caught a glimpse of Lee Daniels, a well-known African-American producer who accompanied his ex-wife Mariah Carey to jump over the smart girl. Looking at the body language, he seemed to be deliberately avoiding his gaze? Are you still upset about the old grudges about Dance of the Condemned and Requiem for a Dream? He stared at each other, "Mimi said you won't return her calls?"

"Uh, no, maybe I was too busy to notice." Lee Daniels made an excuse with a bitter face.

"Have a good chat with her. She said that she has prepared another script and plans to continue working with you." Song Ya frowned and gestured for a phone call.

"I'll call back right away."

Li Daniels did not dare to disobey the super tycoon and the richest man in the ethnic group in front of him, but his face was ashen, and he secretly cursed the two couples in his heart.

"Um."

Then came across a random question, Song Ya's attention was quickly diverted, because Linton gestured to him from a distance, "I'll go over."

He leaves Amy behind to join Linton, and the two soon meet Katzenberg.

After painstaking efforts to separate DreamWorks Animation, Katzenberg and David Geffen became friends, and the relationship with Spielberg was also alienated. Pixar's position in Disney's distribution system, his career and future will be much stronger than staying at DreamWorks, which has lost its rank among the top eight Hollywood film companies, and his personal wealth will also skyrocket.

"We know you've become very close to Harvey recently, and we know who's behind Harvey, but I would say that our position at Disney determines our say in this business."

In the matter of wooing Katzenberg, the alliance between Song Ya and Linton was a big step too late, and because they supported David Geffen to tie him up before, they became hostile to each other, but there is still a chance to make up for it. We still have the same interest in getting rid of Jobs," Song Ya said.

"I agree."

Naturally, people like Katzenberg would not regard the Black Pharaoh as the stunned young man who was talking about the DTS business in the past, and he would not disclose the interview with Paulson before. Without Jobs' Pixar animation, his situation in Hollywood would be very embarrassing, "So will you support me? APLUS, Linton."

"Yes, I promise."

Both Song Ya and Linton nodded, and Linton said: "After you enter the Disney system, I think whether Harvey, Goldman Sachs or Eisner will lose their value to you, right? My live-action film department also doesn't want to continue There is a conflict with the animation department, we need to unite."

"oh?"

When Katzenberg was under one man and over ten thousand people at Disney, Linton was only the president of the Hollywood film industry under the cover of His Majesty the Emperor, and his status was very different. When he was driven away, the two sides had a verbal quarrel, but he still had a certain degree of respect. With an advantage in his heart, he raised his eyebrows and joked: "Our royalist leader said that?"

"Our Emperor's Majesty has long since lost his mind." Song Ya resolved Linton's embarrassment.

"I agree."

Anyway, it’s a great thing for me. The two major powers in Disney are willing to support me at least at this stage. Katzenberg feels that he is getting closer to returning to Disney. I don’t understand, what do you want to get from Disney? APLUS.”

"I just want to be safe."

Song Ya raised her hands to express her heart, "I can't be the chairman of Disney, and I still have self-knowledge."

"oh?"

It was only the last step, but because of His Majesty's statement of power, he did not become the chairman of Disney. It was Katzenberg's heart disease. After he understood the hint, he was instantly tempted. They can't give it, and it's impossible for them to harm themselves.

"You're a Disney veteran, we all respect you, old man George Mitchell isn't even one of us."

Linton also hit the snake with the stick. He and Katzenberg are both Jewish, and this is their own.

After talking about it, the conversation went well later, and both Song Ya and Linton breathed a sigh of relief.

"let me go!"

When he came out, he ran into Harvey who was talking about just now. This dead fat pig was harassing the actress Kate Beckinsale in the flying family.

After beating Hollywood unconscious for many years, Song Ya knows very well that there are not many good birds here. Universal likes to hold cult-style lewd parties, chaotic Warner executives who use their own skills, David Geffen harassing the same sex, and many disgusting guys in Disney even fall in love with As a minor, Harvey's hobbies are really not comparable to those, but he always likes to prove his so-called power and "masculine charm" in public, which is too annoying.

If it was Kate Beckinsale who starred in The Mystery of Ancient Paintings in 1995, Song Ya, who had seen the exposed scenes in that film, would be interested. Ten years later, she...

Although the figure is maintained very well, but in the eyes of Qian Fan's exhausted self, he is not very capable of fighting.

Kate Beckinsale, who was born in a British class and has won the heroine of the super blockbuster Pearl Harbor, seems to be unwilling to sell Harvey. She was scolded and struggled while being hugged around the waist, but a woman, who knows Do you agree with your heart...

Although Harvey is currently allied with Goldman Sachs and George Mitchell, because of MJ's matter, he has also had verbal conflicts with himself, but the two parties may have certain common interests in the future.

"You're watching, Harvey."

So when Song Ya passed by, he just smiled and gave a mild piece of advice.

"Don't mind your own business!"

But Harvey now thinks that he is not the one who led his subordinates to hide silently when he witnessed the head-on confrontation between the Black Pharaoh and Universal Emperor Bronfman Jr.

This... I can't leave, there are people around, and Song Ya, who hasn't been humiliated for a long time, stops immediately, "What did you just say?"

"Look at you, look at you, APLUS..."

Harvey roughly pushed Kate Beckinsale aside, he must have drunk a lot of wine, the fat pig's face was flushed, and he was gesticulating arrogantly with his big belly, "You, what's wrong with you now? Where did the polite young man who came to me and begged me to invest in dancing my life go? Do you think you can surpass Hollywood with... two dollars? Are you the emperor of Hollywood?"

"What are you talking about!? You're drunk Harvey!" Linton reprimanded him.

"Go back to where you should be, Mr. Vice President." Harvey retorted without giving him face.

"I'm not, and neither are you, so hang on, Harvey."

Song Ya pointed to her eyes, then pointed at him contemptuously, "I'm watching, and I see it too."

"you……"

Harvey was furious and wanted to retaliate. His younger brother Bob rushed over and hugged him, and stopped the conflict from escalating in time. "He's drunk, Mr. APLUS, Mr. Linton."

"What sir..."

"Let's go, let's go to Harvey over there." Bob half pushed and half coaxed his brother away.

"Go to Warner Records! Oh, yes, I forgot, you can't afford Warner Records! Let go of me, Bob!" Harvey rolled away like a meat ball and was still making noise.

"What kind of drunken madness..."

Song Ya shrugged to Xiao Lizi and other stars of the pilot crew who had gathered here.

"Leo, Longnosee..." He greeted Xiao Lizi.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Little Lizi squeezed out a humble smile and nodded.

"Um."

No time to tease him, Song Ya saw Hayden rushing over and secretly gave herself a wink, and strode to the next date.

"After we've won, I'll tell him to go off, Linton," he said to Linton.

"It's disgusting!"

Kate Beckinsale deliberately arranged the evening clothes messed up by Harvey with large body language in front of the crew colleagues. None of these people disappeared just now, and now they all ran out. She pointed at Sang Huai, "Thank you for showing up in time !"

"Warner Records?"

Cate Blanchett, who just got the statuette tonight, thoughtfully pointed to the direction where the Black Pharaoh disappeared, "I just saw Mr. Tsujihara over there, and Doug Morris, the former president of Universal Music, APLUS is going to Do you want to talk to him about it?"

"That should be it." Xiao Lizi knew the black pharaoh better.

"Steve, Goldman Sachs and Eisner took out Katzenberg, leaving Pixar with the last window left..."

At the same time, Robert Iger told Jobs the result of his dealings with all parties, "Katenberg's DreamWorks Animation is all ready, and the situation is different."

"What is this!? An ultimatum? Robert, I don't accept any ultimatum!"

Jobs was furious, and Robert Iger's attitude at both ends made him even more angry, "Everyone who believes in Eisner's perverted power maniac will end badly, Katzenberg? Think about how he got out of Disney in the past. Yes! And Ovitz..."

"Don't be so arrogant at this time Steve, the initiative is still in our hands, as long as you publicly say that you are willing to lead Pixar to stay, even if you hint...Disney is inclined to choose you and your Pixar after all, The Goldman Sachs gang and Eisner are now willing to accept all your conditions, including a share in the entire field, didn’t you want this at the beginning?”

"Arrogance made me, Apple, NeXT, and Pixar!"

Jobs hung up the phone.

'Jobs announced that the Cars story, which will start painting in the summer, is the last animated feature film that Pixar and Disney will cooperate with, after which the two parties will completely end their cooperative relationship. '

'AOL Time Warner announced that their negotiations with APLUS and several consortiums have been completed. Warner Music will be sold for 2.5 billion yuan and the other party will assume 500 million yuan in debt. '

On March 1, 2005, two news broke at almost the same time.

The next day, Disney's stock price plummeted.

"We will try our best to save it, but don't be so anxious, for the time being..."

When Paulson's voice came, Eisner's hand holding the microphone dropped weakly, and he no longer wanted to hear any words from the other party.