Chapter 1502 I'm the Main One

"Pounce! I pounce on Angang!"

In May, Jenny, who came back from a foreign run to announce the news, threw herself into Song Ya's arms and cried: "It's so miserable..."

Prince Blake's production cost of Sahara is 160 million, tens of millions of publicity expenses, the box office of Beimi is less than 70 million, and it is even more unpopular outside the United States. It is not even 70 million, which is more expensive than Charis The Alexander the Great played completely.

Just started painting at the beginning of the month, directed by Ridley Scott, the epic blockbuster Kingdom of Heaven produced and released by Fox Films has received rave reviews and is about to rush, but the global box office can still reach 200 million at least, and the production cost is not as good as sahara...

"Think about the good, at least I can earn the salary..."

Harley, Charis, and now Jenny again, the box office poison physique of the forests has become more and more obvious, and ex-wife behaviors have become more frequent. The big pot, Harley and Jenny can't do it. Needless to say, Catwoman is the main heroine of the show. The producers and distributors also have great expectations for the Sahara heroine to carry the box office, giving Jenny the main role and publicity. resource.

The furious tycoon Anschutz and Paramount are pursuing the responsibility, and the director Blake is the first to bear the brunt. He and Matthew McConaughey and Jenny, the male and female protagonists, have dimmed their development prospects in superstitious Hollywood in an instant.

But Jenny already has a way out, and she can hold an executive position at Houghton Mifflin Publishing House without taking a break. Song Ya comforted her: "Help the publisher keep an eye on the release of Twilight during this time, That book had a very good response among female groups. The first edition of Twilight: Twilight was released in March, and it fermented unexpectedly quickly. Now it has rushed into the top ten of the New York Times bestseller list. Xuelin is planning to publish It was made into a movie."

"impossible!?"

Jenny, who had just returned home, was taken aback.

"You don't know? They said they reviewed it for you before signing the contract with the author. Don't you like it?" Song Ya was very surprised.

"Uh, I... considered optimistic, but I didn't expect it to be so popular..."

Jenny lied without changing her face, "Huh? What is this?" She played her acting skills, pretending to be attracted by an email on the computer screen, to divert the attention of the man and boss.

"The list of our personnel who participated in the two-day signing ceremony."

With so much to do, Song Ya, who has long been careless about the internal affairs of his company, no doubt has him. His thoughts were mobilized back to business, Ren Jenny sat on his lap, and he picked up the microphone of the landline, "Doug, I read the list, it's a bit...too white ,What do you think?"

"It is my fault.

"Doug Morris on the other end of the phone immediately admitted his mistake, "I will adjust immediately. "

"Well, I don't want to be surrounded by a group of white people in the news footage at that time."

"I'm going to have some African-American executives from Atlantic Records come over."

"Yes, a conspicuous position."

"A conspicuous location...Where's Quincy?"

"I will not meet the job requirements of that old thing..."

"It's okay. Even if he has grievances, he definitely doesn't want to miss such an important occasion tomorrow. I'll call him. I still have a few thin noodles."

"Emmmm..."

"It's not good to get rid of Quincy on such an occasion, Boss, after all, he has a place in the music industry."

"Okay, okay, then I'll leave it to you..."

"no problem."

Jenny listened to the man talking on the phone with her ears open, and soon realized that they were discussing the details of the ceremony related to the completion of the acquisition of Warner Records, which was Warner Records, the top giant in the recording industry...

Is the super merger case of 2.5 billion knives plus 500 million debts, 3 billion knives, finally settled?

She kissed the man's cheek, and adjusted her posture so that the tricky hand could go to his favorite place more smoothly, and then quietly studied the list...

Philip Purcell, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley.

John Howard, CEO of Bear Stearns Commercial Bank.

Samuel, Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Dick Thornborough, former Governor of Pennsylvania, Attorney General of the United States, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, is now a senior partner of PGE Law Firm.

Roger Ibbotson, founder and chairman of Morningstar.

Joe Mansuto, founder and largest shareholder of Morningstar.

O'Grady, president of Northern Trust.

Amelio, the former CEO of Apple, is currently the CEO of First Bank of New Jersey.

Dr. Chen, former general manager of A+ venture capital company, is currently the CEO of the first investment bank in New Jersey.

David Geffen, founder of DreamWorks, chairman of DreamWorks Music and Geffen Pictures.

Katzenberg, founder of DreamWorks, chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Animation.

Doug Morris, former president of Atlantic Records, Warner Music, and Universal Music, is the new CEO of Warner Music.

Donna Dubinsky, CEO of Betas Corporation.

This list of mostly top old white men is really dizzying, and Jenny knows that the people on the list should all be involved in the acquisition of Warner Records, that is to say, they are all men's partners, "I I'm free, do you need a female companion then?" With the man's caress and teasing, she became softer and weaker, whispering emotionally in the ear of the man who had just put down the phone, boldly recommending herself.

"That occasion? Not suitable."

Unexpectedly, the other party was still so calm and ruthless, "Probably Donna will be my female companion temporarily." He also joked with the only female executive on the list.

"Oh. Then..."

The phone rang suddenly, and she pouted uncomfortably.

"Linton, what's the matter?"

"APLUS, after acquiring Warner, you still plan to..."

"You wait a moment."

As soon as Linton mentioned the Warner acquisition case in an eager tone, Song Ya knew what he was going to say next, and immediately turned Jenny's head away from the microphone, not wanting her to hear it.

Unexpectedly, Jenny misunderstood, returned a seductive wink, and then slid down silently.

"Okay, let's talk."

"Are you still planning to fire the troika of Warner Music's CEO, president, and general manager, and replace all the top management with your own people?" Linton really asked this question.

"almost……"

"It's not the same, give me a letter, APLUS! You know, Eisner and the others have been intimidating the Disney executives with your big layoffs after the acquisition of IBM's PC department. They said that after you and I won control of Disney Doing the same thing, if you keep doing it at Warner, it's not going to help me unite people."

"Business...is business. I can't please the people on your side by leaving an element of instability for Warner Records."

"Leave one of the troikas, even if it's temporary, okay? At least show your gentle side to the outside world? If you seem too ruthless... You know what many Disney executives are worried about us now, especially when Ai I have almost won over those guys that Sina placed in the supervisory board and various important institutions to eat and die, and the timing is very sensitive now."

"I know the timing is sensitive, but Warner Records is a three billion dollar business, and this company that is built on top of each other and used to drag each other down needs a complete reorganization. I can't make fun of it, otherwise at this moment In the sluggish environment of the recording industry, there will still be huge losses.”

"As soon as the news comes out, my side will face a crisis."

"Don't be afraid, you are a little concerned about Linton right now. Our most important goal at Disney is to facilitate the EGM. Shareholders will not hate an iron-fisted and cold-blooded layoff maniac..."

At this time, the secretary knocked on the door outside, "Boss, a lady named Kat Dairins is outside, and she said she made an appointment with you."

"Okay, let her..."

Song Ya originally planned to tell her to wait, but when she felt that Jenny wanted to give up halfway, she changed her mind and squeezed the back of her head narrowly, "Let her in!"

At the same time, Disney headquarters.

"APLUS makes mistakes, I know him."

Jobs didn't accept the invitation he sent, but he didn't reject it. Generally speaking, he didn't respond. However, this has already aroused huge speculation from all parties, and Disney's stock price has thus entered a new round of recovery cycle. He was very proud of himself, and he said to George Mitchell: "Look at it, as soon as he kills the original management of Warner Records, everyone on the Disney side will be frightened. Those who are in a group have to reconsider whether they can keep their positions in the new Disney company of the APLUS-Linton alliance. I am afraid that by then too many people will wish that they would leave early..."

"Michael, you..."

George Mitchell rested his cheeks, and was not interested in this topic, "If, I mean, if Jobs really promised to come to Disney, would you keep his promise and leave?"

"Yes, of course."

Eisner fully agreed. He knew very well that Jobs would most likely not be willing to leave Apple, which was gaining momentum. What about the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders that we will face before? Will your Jobs camp help me, the person who led you here, pass the test? Hehe, if I step down before then, your chances of being in charge of Disney will be gone.

There are too many benefits of this life-threatening fight. The Goldman Sachs and George Mitchell alliance kept their promise and gave up the DreamWorks Animation that introduced Katzenberg. Then Katzenberg, who was teased and suddenly lost at both ends, was left to join forces with APLUS-Lin Will APLUS agree to Katzenberg? Great probability! Because I know the character of that kid in APLUS, he had reached a verbal deal with Katzenberg before, which is no secret to Goldman Sachs and Harvey who were very close to Katzenberg! So unless Katzenberg abandons APLUS first, he is unlikely to renege on his promise. In this regard, he is indeed not very cold-blooded, and even a bit dead-headed!

As long as the Goldman Sachs-George Mitchell alliance completely throws off the burden of introducing DreamWorks Animation, the closer Katzenberg and APLUS get, the more Jobs will be inclined to attack them. Now Jobs’ silence is proof, otherwise According to the character of the tech maniac who had already announced that he would end his cooperation with Disney after the Cars project, he had already started to mock me in front of the media for bowing his head and graciously inviting me!

And Jobs' refusal to make a statement hit hard on Robert Iger, who had already "rebelled". Those middle-level media people in the ABC department who were extremely sensitive to the direction of the wind were already looking forward to the boss's boss at the helm of Disney's future, but Robert Iger quietly lost Disney's internal resources at the same time. If they are all counting on Jobs to come, at least before coming, how can they continue to make trouble with me who is about to give way to Jobs?

Moreover, when Jobs came to be CEO, Robert Iger's promotion path was also cut off.

The conspiracy of alienation is easy to use, so it can be used here!

Besides, I still have a plan. The most perfect situation is that Jobs hesitates until the second half of the year. After the EGM is difficult to deliver, if APLUS chooses to leave, then Linton will definitely be finished, and I will calmly lick the supporters he took away from me. Come back, if APLUS chooses to stay, then I can use him to continue to play the power balance game with Jobs.

Maybe you can find an opportunity to take away George Mitchell and Goldman Sachs in front of you, then Jobs will come and go back to be the chairman!

Jobs is not in good health, Roy Disney doesn't look like he has a few years to live, and Disney's stock price is rising again!

And the pacemaker inside me is still beating well!

Timing, timing is everything!

"Be careful not to play off."

Of course, there will be no fools left in this round, George Mitchell said suddenly as if he had seen through his heart.

"Don't worry, you will know if my judgment on APLUS is accurate."

Eisner answered confidently.

"You disgust APLUS, don't let me face such an embarrassing situation next time."

On the day of the official completion of the acquisition ceremony with Warner, Jenny complained all the way and sent him out of the house. The dignified movie concubine was bumped into by a new Hollywood actress who had just grown up and was humbly flattering the black pharaoh. Thinking of his face still having a fever, I can't wait to find a seam in the ground to get in.

"Didn't we get along very well afterwards?"

At the party at David Geffen's house, the new friendly match partner Kat Dennings has an amazing body that is not inferior to her, and she is a more authentic Jewish person than her, "You have a match, Jenny, hehe..."

Song Ya grinned as she recalled the double serving of big cream cake that night, making fun of it.

"Disgusting, don't allow it next time!"

"Okay, okay, not next time."

"Is there a live broadcast of today's ceremony?"

"How can it be broadcast live...wait for the news."

"Well, I'll watch."

"goodbye."

For the first time among the owners of the world's top music groups, African and Chinese names appeared. Alexander Song, the mixed-race pop superstar whose stage name is APLUS, and a multi-billionaire completed the acquisition of Warner Records today...APLUS gave it to himself The 30th birthday gift provided a shot in the arm for the flagging record industry. '

The news scene at noon is such a scene: Song Ya, who is tall, handsome and increasingly mature and tycoon, shakes hands with Warner executive Kevin Tsujihara and others, and then introduces Doug Morris and Beats, who will soon be at the helm of New Warner Music Donna Dubinsky, CEO of the company, at this time Philip Purcell, chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, grabbed his shoulder and whispered. Chairman Samuel and other white bosses talked and laughed calmly, and waited until the staff greeted them before going to their seats.

After the signing was completed, he handed the document to Quincy Jones and other Warner African-American music circle celebrities and high-level executives who acted as the background version. Everyone embraced warmly and embraced each other's shoulders to witness this historic moment.

"oh!"

Linda of the A+ line was limited to the company’s release date and was still on Disney records, so she was unable to attend the scene in person. Aunt Hei was as excited as her compatriots such as Quincy Jones on the TV. She watched this scene with her heart in her hands. .

"There is nothing more exciting than Linda! APLUS is the messenger of God! Black Prophet! One born to know!"

MC Hammer, who has not changed his original intention after being admitted to a mental hospital twice, shouted behind her: "This is just a small step for him to prove his great power to the world! He will be omnipotent in the end! Let him be the master! Follow me I sing!"

MC Hammer said a lot at a very fast speed, and then turned to direct Aunt Susie, Pastor William, NAS and other relatives and friends who gathered to watch the news, "Get ready... all! Daddy wild boar wild boar..."

So everyone sang along, singing and dancing.

"SHXT, this kid is out of this world, isn't he?"

At another party scene in New York, after the arch enemy Su Ge Knight entered the palace for the second time, the relaxed bragging dad stared enviously at Song Ya in the picture, and asked Jazzy next to him, "Will you also go to Warner?"

"have no idea."

Jazzy, whose net worth has risen rapidly but will never be able to touch the black pharaoh's tail, shrugged, "He's the boss, it's up to him whether he goes or not."

"Warner has Madonna, two DIVAs." Foxy Brown, a rapper who has never concealed her jealousy for her Metropolitan Records colleagues Beyoncé and Alicia Keys, took the opportunity to provoke.

"I don't care, it's fine."

Alicia Keys never took her eyes off Song Ya on the TV, "He is so handsome today." She commented on her female follower with a smile.

Beyoncé glanced at her and rolled her eyes several times.

"It's like a dream. I made my debut in 1984, and became popular on the west coast in 1988..."

Dre shook his head and lamented to his friend.

"Today we need to open champagne for the boss to celebrate!"

The happiest person in the audience was Damon Dash. He brought a whole box of champagne with the Ace-shaped trademark in the playing cards. "Try the Ace of Spades that I made with the boss! It's fresh!"

"Please help promote it."

Rhythm and blues queen Aaliyah also helped her boyfriend's business promotion, and poured wine for her friends: "Dame said this is the best champagne."

"Just now I seem to have seen Katzenberg in the news of the acquisition ceremony of Warner Records."

Jobs received a call from Robert Iger, "APLUS did this... The signal released is already obvious. Now as long as we stay, APLUS has to go and accompany Katzenberg to find the next home."

"I see, I still come as planned, Robert, I'm sorry, I know that this time will damage your reputation in Disney, and if I choose plan B, your situation there will be even more embarrassing." People say sorry.

"It doesn't matter, I've already seen through it. Disney is in such a mess now, whether it's worth staying or not is already a question mark." Robert Iger replied openly.

"Well, don't worry, I will arrange it no matter what..."

"Morgan Stanley's Purcell went to the signing ceremony between APLUS and Warner." Eisner also saw someone who could be used in the news, and he called Paulson.

"Purcell himself is about to be forced to step down by the Morgan Stanley Department, a dying man." Paulson knew what the other party was implying, and replied in a good voice: "It's more embarrassing than your situation at Disney."

"Hahaha!"

Eisner was not angry, laughed, and continued to tease, "Then isn't he looking for a new job?"

"he?"

Paulson looked down on Purcell's opponent very much, "He will bring America to hell."

On the other side of Beverly Hills, after watching the news with Harley, who was pregnant with the other forests, Jenny started to flush involuntarily, and asked unsatisfactorily, "He didn't arrange a celebration party today?"

"No, maybe this is not something worth celebrating."

Harry replied lazily.

"Mira, when did you switch to Warner?" Jenny asked Mira again.

"Never mind him!"

Mira suddenly pulled out a test stick, "I've got OOO! HARLEY! LOOK!" screaming and celebrating.

"sorrow……"

Xue Linfen rolled her eyes at the fussy Mira, she turned her face to the sofa while lying down, and continued to hold 'Twilight' repeatedly.

'Edward's eyes turned completely black, and I remembered, something he never wanted me to know. Alice must have been preoccupied with her own business...or she must have been careful with her own thoughts when he was around-apparently he had no idea that she had drilled me into the technicalities of the vampiric transformation. He was surprised and angry. His nostrils were distended, and his mouth looked as if hewn out of stone...'

"Oh!" She read the words at the end of the volume softly, and was so moved that she pressed the open book to her heart and closed her eyes to savor the aftertaste.

"When are you coming back?"

A bunch of stupid women! Jenny simply called the man directly, "Is the news going to be late? Isn't it over there?"

"No, I'm in a meeting... let's talk about it later, okay?"

Beep beep, the phone was hung up.

"How could Madonna come to such an occasion, she didn't come, I won't meet her, and there is no party, really no..."

In fact, Song Ya was answering a call from his ex-wife, "I know that I will be her boss from today on, if you think about Mimi this way, she is now a money printing machine for you and Little Rega... Don't make noise, I Knowing that the album you released at Viking failed miserably, Viking wants to terminate your contract? I don’t know, Warner... I just took over and I don’t know the specific situation, I still have something to hang up on my side!”

The ex-wife was not happy in Viking, the sales of her first album fell below her career record, and the two got tired of seeing each other less than a year after the honeymoon period.

It seems that Warner's career has been targeted again. This is, Song Ya hangs up the phone decisively.

"Warner Records is yours, APLUS."

Philip Purcell, chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, saw him come back to socialize, and asked: "Although everyone likes your radical layoff plan, but...hehe, will it affect Disney's goodwill towards you? "

"Disney has nothing to do with Warner, anyway, I will hand it all over to Doug."

People of this level can't hide anything, Song Ya pushed Doug Morris out with a red tie.

"By the way, Mr. Purcell, you are the senior of APLUS, right?"

Doug Morris entered the role very tactfully, and began to tactfully help the boss build relationships.

"Haha, that's right."

Purcell studied at the Business School of the University of Chicago, and later worked for Sears, a local giant in Chicago. In fact, many of the bigwigs present today either have a Chicago or University of Chicago education background, or have or are still developing their careers in Chicago. People will always form a circle unconsciously.

However, Purcell is currently in a bad personal situation at Morgan Stanley. After his Tianhui department merged with the original Morgan Stanley department, he has been fighting openly and secretly for nearly ten years. In March this year, eight prominent former Morgan Stanley veterans jointly signed a letter to the board of directors , the letter accused Purcell of incompetent leadership as CEO and demanded an immediate change of leadership from the board.

Purcell has actually done a good job. After he took office, Morgan Stanley’s shareholder return rate was as high as 258%. In 2000, it surpassed Goldman Sachs to become the world’s largest investment bank. Completed the transcendence, but there are some "little" problems of senior managers similar to Eisner, such as nepotism, arbitrariness, and money in their own coffers.

The outside world generally believes that Morgan Stanley has inherited the most powerful financial group in American history: Most of the aristocratic blood of the Morgan consortium represents the glorious history of American financial giants dominating the modern global financial market. The spirit of blue blood is also the real reason for the outbreak of conflicts.

Purcell and his Tian Hui family fell into an absolute disadvantage, and it was almost a foregone conclusion to leave.

but……

Going through the revolving door to become the finance minister is also a way, isn't it? When the Georgian dynasty urgently needed personnel...

The momentum in the financial circle has plummeted, but at least his public image is stronger than Paulson's...

Still from Chicago.

"Eisner seems to have expected that you will empty out the management. He is spreading to others what will happen if you and Linton control Disney."

John Howard, CEO of Bear Stearns Commercial Bank, has worked with Disney for a long time and has a closer relationship with Eisner. He blinked his eyes and suggested jokingly: "It may be better to wait. This is my personal advice, free of charge. .”

"What do you think, Doug?" Song Ya still threw it to Doug Morris.

"I have neither the right nor the obligation to ask the boss about other business."

Doug Morris, who had been handed over earlier, smiled cooperatively: "As far as Warner Records is concerned, I have a new plan, and I will use professional musicians who know more about fashion trends to enrich the management..."

"Quincy Jones?" David Geffen, who only contributed some money to follow up and was not qualified to participate in management, pointed to the back of Quincy Jones not far away.

"that……"

Song Ya was about to say that his old stuff couldn't keep up with fashion, but Rashida, who was elusive and haunted, followed his father into this kind of occasion, smiled flatteringly and leaned over to hold his arm, "Let me introduce, this Quincy's daughter, Rashida."

Doug Morris, the new CEO of Warner Records, then announced a bloody layoff plan. The former Warner Records executives were almost wiped out. One of the former LAFACE Records bosses, Antonio Reid, whose stage name is L.A. Reid, will be invited to serve President...'

‘APLUS continued his iron-fisted style after purchasing the IBM PC department, greatly streamlining management and reducing costs...’

'But APLUS should be very clear that in the record industry he is most familiar with, this radical approach is likely to lead to disastrous consequences. According to sources, many high-level officials who have been kicked out threatened to take away well-known singers under Warner Records... ...'

Quincy Jones, who embraced and danced enthusiastically with APLUS in front of the camera during the day, changed his face at night and yelled at APLUS to reporters. He blamed APLUS for betraying his trust, betraying his help, and called APLUS that ruthless villain... Quincy Jones West Jones found nothing in this personnel quake at Warner Records. '

"So that's how it is. You said that you hit Harley. Today is not suitable for celebrating."

Jenny, who didn't wait until the night for the man to come back, finally woke up.

"Hahaha!"

And Eisner and George Mitchell both laughed, "What did I say?" Eisner picked up the phone, not wanting to delay for a second, energetically called the target person immediately, and Linton's phone people'.

"APLUS doesn't care about our feelings at all!"

The executive vice president of Bowei Films also complained to Linton, "Now it's better, many people who have been won by us have retreated again, APLUS can't always be like this, just forget it once, IBM is manufacturing, and Warner Music Let's come here... Those guys that Eisner has been raising for many years are redundant employees who will be ruthlessly laid off by a boss like APLUS, and they know it very well!"

"Aplus's copyright and asset management company got 51% of the shares of Warner Music, that is, excluding the banks under his control, he personally paid 50% of the 2.5 billion yuan. One, 1.275 billion dollars."

After calculation, someone said: "We thought he bought Warner just to force Eisner, but now it is obvious that he must manage Warner Records well! The interests in Disney are not as good!"

"If he doesn't get enough shares in Warner, it won't be worthwhile to move A+ Records and Metropolitan Records, and it won't have a deterrent effect." Someone retorted.

"Then can he still afford the money to redeem himself and leave?"

"Before today, who knew where he got the 1.275 billion cash!? That's 1.275 billion!"

"Stop arguing, the board of supervisors... said he has to think about it again." Someone put down the phone to announce the new news.

Linton, who had a headache from the quarrel, had to call Song Ya again.

"I'm the master! Linton!"

Song Ya also showed greatness, "They hit theirs, we hit ours, grasp the main contradiction, I don't want those high-level executives, I want the hearts of Disney shareholders!"

Rashida, who was kneeling and apologizing for her father, looked up at the extremely domineering man, took a few gulps of fresh air and continued to shed tears, really busy without a trace of coping.