I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 935

[Chapter 901 If you want to hear]

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

In addition to visiting the assembly plant of fireflyer

, Eric is most concerned about the research and 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 made 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 in the car. He planned to take Kelly home first, and then return to the Sharphorn Manor, when the mobile phone in his pocket rang.

Kelly sat next to Eric and hung up the phone after listening to him and the other side chatting for a while, 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.”

“Or, let’s go and have a look?”

“I’ll just go there 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 head 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 the fans like the original “The Matrix”?

Looking back, Eric instructed: “Don’t mind them, just drive into the underground parking lot.”

In front of the building, the crowd noticed a black car turning into the street, but consciously moved 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 , do you want to see me?”

Although he was 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 management of Vivendi and the promise of Richard Lovett, Pierre Truk tried his best to maintain his aura, sat down calmly, and said, “Yes, Williams Sir, I think we have to talk.”

Eric looked at him and said lightly: “Then what?”

Pierre Truk glanced at Drew and Amy who were sitting beside Eric, He straightened his body and said solemnly: “Mr. Williams, we are very grateful for the changes you have brought to MGM, but we also hope that you will not continue to interfere in the management of MGM. For MGM, you are an outsider after all. As MGM’s second-largest shareholder, we demand that management must immediately reverse the decision to replace Pierce Brosnan, which will only destroy the entire spy movie universe. Although the spy movie You built the universe with your own hands, we will never deny this, but we will not allow you to destroy it.”

Eric tapped his fingers on the clean conference table twice, nodded slightly, and said: ” Continue, now that we are here, does Vivendi still have any opinions 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 I agree with MGM’s many rash business decisions in recent months, including buying e! Entertainment TV, investing $300 million in one-time investment to launch the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and acquiring shares in Rainbow Media. The company is just recovering. , in order to complete these plans to issue large corporate bonds, it is likely to drag MGM back into the debt quagmire. We hope that management can gradually implement these plans with a more robust 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 words, 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 before Pierre Truk slowly said, “Mr. Williams, are you kidding me?”

“Oh,” Eric seemed to suddenly remember something. He patted his forehead 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 what I just said, they should be considered insiders, right? 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 , turned his head to look at the two people beside him, noticed that Eric was smiling at her, his heart froze, his eyes were dodged, but his mind was firm, he turned to Pierre Truk and said: “Mr. Truk , Eric’s decision is the decision of the management, if you think it is necessary, we can convene the board of directors for a vote.”

Four of MGM’s seven directors are independent directors, all of which are at the behest of Eric. Pierre Truk didn’t have to think to know which side these people would be 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 spending time with Pierre Truk. He patted the girl next to him and said, “Let’s go, we must not have dinner yet, right?

” posted it over, 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 and glanced at her again, Amy suddenly realized that Eric might be warning her by doing this.

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Com’s own performance today is indeed too forward-looking and seems too indecisive.

Even with no 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 already 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, saying to Amy: “Pascal Ms. Er, why don’t we all have dinner together and chat by the way?”

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

[End of this Chapter]