Chapter 711 Signing a Contract with Comcast

The latest website: Batman Forever is a movie... just like the usual routine of blockbuster movies, handsome men and beautiful women, action, special effects, amusing, thriller, emotional drama, everything is a little bit, quite satisfactory, all the acting skills are online, and there are comic superheroes bonus.

Song Ya felt that the reason why film critics criticized the film and director Joe Schumacher was that they liked Tim Burton's dark gothic style. Anyway, I don't have such a preference. To be honest, it looks okay. It is indeed not as good as the first Batman film directed by Tim Burton, because there is Nicholson's clown in that film, but it is not necessarily worse than the second Batman Returns, at least Jim Carrey's Riddler is very brilliant, Nicole Kee Deman is also more eye-catching than Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.

It's a pity that the Americans really don't want to see the Australian big white girl, she has become one of the focus of verbal criticism, saying that Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman specially learned taekwondo for the last one, and she worked hard in the play wearing a sexy black tights Acting in a fight scene, but in this one, she is just a beautiful vase.

But soon, the reality proved that Song Ya's judgment was questionable, and it was only the second week of the painting. This Warner masterpiece with a production cost of over 100 million yuan, which was announced and released separately, was so focused that it could not reach the main theme of Apollo 13. Squeezed directly from the top of the box office rankings.

Same as last year's Forrest Gump, the summer file, the main theme, starring Tom Hanks, the familiar three magic weapons, the only change is that the publisher has changed from Paramount to Universal, and the budget is only half of Batman Forever.

"Mr. Simberg, congratulations. Universal's Apollo 13 box office is a big hit. I heard that the final global box office is likely to exceed 500 million?"

Song Ya called Universal President Simberg to congratulate him. It happened that the filming of the sequel of "Dancing My Life" had just closed after nearly three months of filming, and the issue of schedule was about to be put on the agenda.

But Simberg didn't seem to be in a good mood, "Maybe, uh, APLUS, I've been a little busy recently, you know, the painting of the future water world will start in late July, you don't care about dancing the sequel of my life Let’s talk about it with the executives.”

"OK, then I won't bother you, Mr. Simberg."

Song Ya hung up the phone strangely, "What's wrong with this old man?"

Everyone else present smiled and shook their heads.

"You guys made the situation a bit bigger today, which is different from what I imagined, Mr. Roberts."

Song Ya smiled at the CEO of Comcast next to him. Today, he came to the Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia to formally sign the contract. The other party specially organized a grand press conference and invited many reporters to the scene. There will also be a media dinner in the evening.

"I want to say to the outside world that we welcome you to the Comcast family,

APLUS. "

The Roberts family actually doesn’t have many shares in Comcast, but they still control the behemoth across TV, telecommunications, Internet, cable and other industries very securely, because his family owns almost all of Comcast’s assets. B shares with high voting rights, Roberts Jr. can definitely be regarded as the top tycoon in the industry, although his personal worth is far inferior to that of another tycoon, John Malone.

"I'm honored, but... honestly I'm kind of flattered."

Song Ya feels that the other party is deliberately making a big fanfare, setting herself up in front of the media, and then forcing herself to invest heavily in the new TV station for the sake of face...

Hmph, I'm not a shameless person, Song Ya sneered silently in her heart.

"It doesn't matter, the basis of our cooperation is here." Little Roberts didn't know his mental activities, and he pressed the thick contract text on the table with one palm and laughed.

"Yes."

Song Ya looked back and saw that the logos of Comcast and A+CN were pasted across the wall, which was very formal. Alicia wore a decent professional attire, suppressed her excitement and stood at the back, facing herself. After closing his eyes, he immediately gave a thumbs up quietly.

This time, with the joint help of Morningstar, Yongdao and Alicia Law Firm, a moderate exclusive broadcast contract was negotiated with Comcast, which is graded according to the rating data of the trial broadcast with gradually increasing duration, and each milestone node Each channel corresponds to the different channel resources given by Comcast, and the risks of both parties are controllable. The worst result is that Song Ya spends a lot of money to get a small channel with little influence. So, at worst, it's just another bad channel, and every cable operator has a lot of bad channels anyway.

"Gentlemen, let's get started." Comcast's staff came over to remind.

"OK."

The two suppressed their smiles, adjusted their suits at the same time, sat upright, opened the beautifully bound folder in front of them, and the cameras of the reporters in front of them began to work crazily.

"Here, here." Alicia leaned over slightly, softly pointing Song Ya to sign everywhere in the contract, "Okay, next and Mr. Roberts..."

Song Ya put down the signature pen, turned her head and exchanged a smile with Roberts Jr., the two stood up tacitly, handed the contract text to each other's hands, and then kept this posture side by side, facing the camera of the reporter, facing the bright as day The flash smiles...

"What conditions did you give Gordon to make him willing to leave BET?"

After talking about the scene and answering the reporter's questions, the two reunited at the media dinner at night, and Roberts Jr. was most interested in Gordon's job-hopping.

"Now we can talk about it, actually..." Song Ya blinked, "He came to me on his own initiative, otherwise I wouldn't have the intention of being an African-American news station at all."

"Oh, I see, because Johnson let BET focus on entertainment content, Gordon is dissatisfied, right?" Roberts Jr. obviously knows BET very well.

"Almost, and he also hopes that his career plan will enter the field of TV station management. For this, he will leave the powerful BET and start all over again." Song Ya nodded, "And I give him better treatment than BET, the president of A+CN , the producer, regular host and editor-in-chief of the evening news show, with a four-year guarantee of 10 million yuan, and a salary of up to 20 million yuan according to the ratings, and some stock option incentives."

"Four years is a bit short, isn't it?" Roberts Jr. asked, "The leading hosts in the industry who have the ability to write and direct usually sign super-long contracts, otherwise they will lose a lot of viewers if they change jobs after four years."

"He refused, and I also... a little hesitant."

Song Ya told the truth, "He did almost nothing during the preparatory stage of the TV station, and I had to devote my energy to help him comfort Johnson, so I had to urgently introduce Morningstar's professional services, which cost a lot of money."

"Well, building a TV station is a long marathon, who else did you recruit?" Roberts Jr. asked.

"It's inconvenient to disclose for the time being, and there's no rush, right? Our first phase of the pilot program is only the evening news, and it will be the end of the year." Song Ya asked back.

"Well, don't save money on strong male news anchors, that's my advice."

Roberts Jr. kindly reminded: "This kind of person has the ability to edit and direct, and is the mouthpiece of the TV station. The audience will not care about the staff who write the script behind the scenes, but will only put all the glory and trust on them. Everyone is a TV station. If the money is not enough, they will inevitably use their influence on the public to cash out from other places, which will cause more damage to the reputation of the TV station.”

"I'll give Gordon..."

Song Ya feels that he has given Gordon a lot, and his influence is only limited to the black group, and he is completely unable to compete with the news hosts and talk show bosses of the three major wireless stations who have won billions of dollars in top contracts for many years. compared to. An annual salary of up to 5 million, as well as management positions and option incentives must be interesting...

You must know that Will Smith, who became popular again in April this year due to the box office upset of Jedi Men, has won two Grammy Awards and participated in ABC TV series for six years. His handsome appearance also has a wide audience. Only after Jedi Men were finally able to get a five million salary offer in Hollywood.

"Gordon's treatment is no problem, I just remind you in good faith, in addition to money, you have to be careful to tolerate all kinds of eccentricities of male hosts, in the top Western media such as NBC and BBC, some well-known hosts or TV stations High-level executives will do dirty things in private, and everyone is used to helping to cover it up. As a new player in the industry, you must also abide by the tacit understanding of the industry, at least not have any naive heroism ideas." Roberts Jr. said.

"I know, CNBC's Roger Ailes is just..." Song Ya also knows something, and now there is a lot of rumors in the industry, that guy is crazy about the female employees and hostesses in the station, and even GE, the capital behind NBC, is almost covered Can't stop.

"Ah, you have to pay attention from now on." Little Roberts raised his glass.

"Okay, I see." Song Ya clinked glasses with him to show that he was educated.

"Mr. Roberts, APLUS." Philby, a well-known music critic who had been messing around in Philadelphia, came over to say hello.

Little Roberts exchanged a few polite greetings with him before pleading guilty and disappeared from the dinner.

"The world is changing too fast, right APLUS?"

Philby's writing has always been acrimonious, but people who leave the pen and keyboard will be much more embarrassing, "Who would have thought that the first single of the new album of the MJ brothers and sisters who airborne to the fourth place in the B list lost one place in the second week!"

"hehe……"

Song Ya didn't take his word for it, it was Biggie who squeezed the MJ brothers and sisters out, and he actually contributed the rap part to a song in MJ's new album, but... his "One More Chance" in the first album last year suddenly rose, really Let MJ go on.

But the magic of this thing is that Biggie's wife Faith Evans sang in the song One More Chance, and her lyrics in it have a line 'Biggie gimme one more chance', although the original meaning of the song was definitely not Begging Biggie to 'give me another chance' for the fact that she was slept by 2PAC, but combined with 2PAC's triumphant bragging and revelations before, the popularity of this song at this weird time point is too much.

"Those African-American DJs are too bad. Maybe Biggie is now angry that his song has rushed to the top of the B-list for the first time?"

Philby said with a smirk: "2PAC is also releasing songs one after another in prison. The war between the east and west coast hip-hop circles, as well as the public accusations of the top politicians of the elephant party will not prevent them from making a lot of money. But this money Biggie has earned. It’s too embarrassing, if I were Biggie, I would just find a way to kill 2PAC in prison, otherwise I will be ridiculed for the rest of my life.”

"hey-hey!"

Song Ya hurriedly stepped away from the big mouth, "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't hear anything just now."