I’m in Hollywood

Eric ended his call with Amy Pascal at noon and flew to San Francisco in the afternoon. burning book library

In addition to visiting fireflyer's assembly plant, Eric is most concerned about the development progress of several products in the Firefly Electronics plan.

For any high-tech company, product marketing is important, but technology and patent reserves are the foundation of a high-tech company's ultimate survival. Therefore, Eric specially asked Victor McNally to introduce the research and development results of Firefly Electronics in recent months. Although the first-generation fireflyer player was quite popular, there is still a lot of room for improvement in terms of battery durability, storage capacity, and audio decoding. The reason why Eric has always let Victor McNally, who is mainly responsible for technology research and development, as the CEO of Firefly Electronics, is also implicitly expressing his fundamental attitude towards Firefly Electronics' business strategy.

Back to Los Angeles, the time is already seven o'clock in the evening.

Eric took Kelly off the plane and just left the Santa Monica Airport by car. He planned to take Kelly home first, and then return to the Sharphorn Manor, when the phone in his pocket rang.

Kelly sat next to Eric and hung up the phone after listening to him chatting with the other side, and asked, Eric, or MGM?

Eric put away the phone, nodded and said, Pierre Truk refused to leave and was still spending time in Century City, saying that he must see me today.

Why don't we go and have a look?

I'll just go over by myself, I'll take you home first.

After sending Kelly back to her residence in the North District of Santa Monica, Eric told the driver to turn around and rush to the MGM headquarters in Century City.

The MGM headquarters is a building shrouded in tempered glass on a modest street not far from the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard in Century City. After a circle around Santa Monica, Eric drove to Century City. The sky was already dark, and the shops on both sides of the street began to light up with colorful lights.

Just as the car turned into the street where the MGM headquarters is located, Eric heard a faint noise and looked out through the front window of the car. In front of the MGM building, people holding various signs were shouting Something, almost completely blocked the entire street.

The driver automatically slowed down and turned his head to look at Eric inquiringly.

Eric stared at the crowd for a few seconds, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

Real movie fans usually only come to express their wishes during working hours. Now it is obviously time for get off work. According to common sense, most of the employees of MGM headquarters have already gone home from get off work. Who is protesting at this time?

Do some people think that they will sell the agent movie universe because of the dissatisfaction of fans like the original Matrix?

Looking back, Eric ordered: Don't worry about them, just drive into the underground parking lot.

In front of the building, the crowd noticed a black sedan swerving into the street, only to consciously move out of the way.

However, the media reporters who have been here all the time noticed the striking Rolls-Royce logo in front of the car, and they were keenly aware of what they were doing, so they gathered around them one after another. Someone even boldly stood in front of the car and raised the camera, trying to confirm the identity of the passengers in the car through the front window of the car, but the other party was quickly pulled away by the security guard who rushed out of the building, and the Rolls-Royce smoothly drove into the side of the building. Alley, into the underground parking lot.

Taking the elevator to the top floor of the office building, Eric hugged the girl who came out and nodded to Amy Pascal. Without saying anything, he went straight to the outside of a conference room and pushed in the door.

There was only one middle-aged man who had stood up in the empty conference room. He was about fifty years old, wearing a black suit and rimless glasses.

Sit down, Mr. Truk, Eric didn't mean to greet the other party, nor did he deliberately walk to the main seat of the conference table, open a chair at will, sit down, look at the other party, and said: So , you want to see me?

Although he is also in a high position in the Vivendi Group,

Pierre Truk still felt a faint sense of oppression when facing Eric. The ignorant are fearless, and conversely, after spending many years in the workplace, Pierre Truk is better able to understand how much power this young man holds in his hands.

However, thinking of the advice of the top officials of Vivendi and the promise of Richard Lovett, Pierre Truk still tried his best to maintain his momentum, sat down calmly, and said, Yes, Williams Sir, I think we need to talk.

Eric looked at him and said lightly, Then what?

Pierre Truk glanced at Drew and Amy who were sitting next to Eric, straightened his body without a trace, and said solemnly, Mr. Williams, we are all grateful for your support for Mi. The changes brought about by MGM, however, we also hope that you will not continue to interfere in the management of MGM. For MGM, you are just an outsider after all. As the second largest shareholder of MGM, we ask the management The decision to remove Pierce Brosnan must be reversed immediately, and doing so will only destroy the entire spy universe. While you built the spy universe, we will never deny it, but we will not allow you to put it destroyed.

Eric tapped his fingers twice on the smooth conference table, nodded slightly, and said, Go ahead, now that you're here, does Vivendi have any comments on MGM's management?

Pierre Truk felt that Eric was a bit pretentious and did not show weakness, and continued: Of course, Vivendi does not approve of MGM's continuous purchase of e! Entertainment TV and one-time investment in recent months. The $300 million launch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the acquisition of a stake in Rainbow Media have made several rash business decisions. The company is just recovering, and in order to complete these plans, a large corporate bond issue is likely to put MGM back on the road. into the debt quagmire. We hope that management will be able to gradually implement these plans with a more prudent plan.”

Eric waited for a moment, made sure that Pierre Truk had finished speaking, nodded again, and said: Well, in that case, Mr. Truk, let me tell you how to solve this matter. First of all, As MGM's second largest shareholder, Vivendi has only 16% of the voting rights, and even if several other European shareholders are all on Vivendi's side, your voting rights are only 31%, which is not enough to decide anything. So, you have three choices, first, find a way to become the controlling shareholder of MGM, then you can remove the company's board of directors and management, and implement all the decisions you want. Second, be yourself in peace The second largest shareholder of MGM, accept all decisions made by MGM's existing board of directors and management. Third, if you can't bear to be ignored, you can choose to sell your MGM shares, and I can arrange funds to take over at any time. The shares in your hands. So, is there any problem?

Halfway through Eric's speech, Pierre Truk had the urge to flip the table. He felt that Eric was just kidding himself, forcibly patiently waited for Eric to finish speaking. Truk said slowly: Mr. Williams, are you kidding me?

Oh, Eric suddenly remembered something, patted his forehead suddenly, and said, I almost forgot, I'm just an outsider. So, if you want to hear it, I can ask Drew or Amy to repeat it again. After what I just said, they should be considered insiders, right?

Pierre Truk turned to look at the girl and Amy: Miss Barrymore, Ms. Pascal, are you really willing to let Williams ruin everything?

Amy's expression was a little hesitant, she turned her head to look at the two people beside her, noticed that Eric was looking at her with a smile, her heart froze, her eyes were dodged, but her mind was firm, and she turned to Pierre Truk. : Mr. Truk, Eric's decision is the management's decision. If you think it is necessary, we can convene the board of directors for a vote.

The four independent directors of MGM's seven directors were all selected at the behest of Eric, and Pierre Truk didn't have to think to know which side these people would stand on.

Realizing that today was doomed to fail, Pierre Truk clenched his palm on the conference table, not knowing what to say for a while.

But Eric didn't want to continue to spend time with Pierre Truk. He patted the girl next to him and said, Let's go, we definitely haven't had dinner yet, right?

Well, the girl came over like a kitten, and stood up together with Eric's arm.

Amy, please entertain Mr. Truk, Eric instructed Amy Pascal, then turned to look at Pierre Truk, the smile on his face remained the same, just restrained With an expression on his face, his eyes were slightly cold, and he said, Speaking of which, Mr. Truk, some of your words just now are quite reasonable, and MGM should be more stable. Therefore, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ukan (w.ukan) should be invested by Firefly, and MGM only needs to be responsible for the distribution.”

Pierre Truk was still a little stunned, but Amy looked over in surprise.

In fact, Amy also felt that it was too risky to invest 300 million US dollars in the Lord of the Rings trilogy at one time, and once hoped that Firefly could participate in the investment together. However, she did not expect that Eric would suddenly take away the entire project, leaving only MGM with the distribution rights. However, after noticing that Eric finished saying these words, he glanced at her again, and Amy suddenly realized that Eric might have meant to warn her by doing so.

Perhaps, his performance today is indeed too forward-looking and seems too indecisive.

Even without any holdings in MGM, the whole of Hollywood knows that the big studio has always been under Eric's control. Also the female head of one of the seven majors, Amy is very clear that the autonomy she gets from Eric is far more than Paramount's Shirley Lansing, which was originally one of Eric's trust in her. kind of sign. However, if she continues to worry about losing Brosnan for the 007 series, she will also soon lose Eric's trust.

After secretly self-examination, Amy no longer hesitated, got up to send Eric and Drew away, then turned around and said to Pierre Truk, who was still sitting on the other side of the conference table: Mr. Truk , it's a little late, do you need me to arrange a car to take you to the hotel?

When he came back to his senses, Pierre found that Eric and Drew had left, and suddenly raised some expectations. To Amy: Ms. Pascal, why don't we have dinner together and chat by the way?

Amy shook her head politely and didn't find any reason. She just refused: Sorry, Mr. Truk, if you don't need a car, I'll take you downstairs. (To be continued.)