Chicago 1990

The courtesy car slowly stopped in front of the red carpet in front of the Egyptian Theater. "I heard that the Chinese Theater is looking for a buyer." Hayden said.

"Oh."

Song Ya didn't feel cold to the so-called Chinese style building built at the beginning of the last century. After agreeing casually, he took a deep breath and got out of the car.

"APLUS! Amy!"

The flashlight and the noise of movie fans instantly filled the world. He was still in good shape at the age of thirty. After beckoning and smiling programmatically, he immediately turned back and gently supported Amy.

Today, Amy wore a costume from Enchanted Romance, a white princess dress, and exaggerated and cute puff sleeves. There are not many opportunities for this kind of premiere and award ceremony. She always uses the wedding dress Like carefully.

"Is your wedding time near?"

In the eyes of the outside world, the two people who have been running for many years should also have results. All the way to the interview area, the reporter asked this in the first sentence.

"in plan."

This was exactly what Amy meant. She looked at Song Ya happily and answered with a sweet smile.

"APLUS, you accused the Disney CEO before..."

But the atmosphere was quickly destroyed. The reporter Song Yachong asked with a smile smiled and waved his hand to decline. Today is the premiere of the movie "Sahara" directed by Eisner's eldest son. It is too embarrassing to talk about it.

"Thank you for coming, APLUS, Amy..."

Director Blake Eisner was waiting behind the huge stone pillars of the theater. He greeted the two enthusiastically, "I don’t know what happened between you and Michael. His character is always like this. I will show you for him. Apologize…"

Blake could not have heard of the lively Disney Civil War. He first apologized to Song Ya on behalf of his father, and then asked with a smile: "But I don't think this will affect the friendship between us, right?"

"Of course, I admire your artistic style Blake."

The two of them are currently regarded as artists, and Song Ya asked with concern: "How is it? Has the box office forecast data come out?"

"Not very beautiful."

Blake was very nervous about his first commercial blockbuster, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"It doesn't matter, Director Cameron said the same to me when the Titanic was first released."

Song Ya gave an example and made Blake and his distributor Paramount executives laugh.

"Matthew! Jennifer!"

At this time, there was even greater cheers from the red carpet. The most watched couple at the premiere, the male and female lead arrived.

Texas boys Matthew McConaughey and Jenny’s love affair hype has been around for a while, and the two clasped their fingers on the red carpet, showing their affection.

With a huge production cost of 160 million, all relevant personnel are betting on the future, and the promotion that can bring the box office is very dedicated.

Jenny saw the figure of the true emperor from a distance. The Egyptian theater and the black pharaoh are very good. After she has done all the red carpet duties dedicatedly, Shi Shiran and Matthew McConaughey walked over, "Director Blake, oh... Ai Rice, long time no see."

She has the advantages of height and figure. She deliberately suppressed Amy's blood with a majestic low-cut outfit by embracing, "APLUS..."

"You are so beautiful Jenny today."

Song Ya also gave a courteous hug and kissed her face close to her face. Jenny knew what she liked and maintained a slightly plump body shape. She was slightly tanned only because of the film's desert location scenes too many shots.

"Please come in."

Everyone called friends to walk into the theater, but the distributor, Paramount, seemed to have sent someone to guide him and Amy. Song Ya was a little puzzled and separated from Jenny and the others for a short time, and was taken to the first row of the auditorium. Inside corner.

"Mr. Anschutz?"

After seeing the people next to him clearly, Song Ya's doubts are resolved. Philip Anshuz, the super rich, his business partner who was so hot during the global tour that year.

"APLUS." Anshuz greeted briefly, "Thank you for coming."

"All friends."

Song Ya knew that this ‘Sahara’ was one of the other’s investment projects in Hollywood, and that Paramount was just releasing it.

"What happened to you and Blake's father?"

Anschutz was obviously not in a very good mood. The movie hit the September 11th incident head on when it started in 2001, and it was delayed until 2005. It was also assigned to the off-season schedule by Paramount in April.

As the sixth super-rich in the world with a net worth of 16.5 billion in 1999, Anshuze has begun to lose money in the new millennium. This year his net worth has plummeted to half of his own. This is still on the books. There are still a lot of mines in between.

The biggest setback came from a listed company under his cooperating with Salomon Smith Barney’s financial fraud and was involved in the Enron incident. Because he was betting on the Georges, he was being accused of the New York Donkey Party: former First Lady Senator and Wall Street Sheriff Pitzer teamed up in mixed doubles.

The Georgian dynasty supported his oil company to drill wells in Montana, but after a huge investment in the early stage, it was disturbed by the environmental protection organization and the local Native Indian tribe.

Also, relying on the convenience of the largest individual shareholder of the United Pacific Railroad, he laid all-digital optical fiber infrastructure along the Pacific Railroad, and entered the promising telecommunications and broadband business in one fell swoop, but he never expected to hit the Internet bubble head-on. .

After the September 11th Incident, he began to hunt down the Beimi movie chain theater chain dealers, and won one of the largest theater chain dealers: Emperor Cinemas, thus becoming a big player in Hollywood, but the Emperor Cinemas and his previous purchases The entry of small and medium-sized theaters exceeded the monopoly red line in some states in the United States, and later had to be forced to sell some of them cheaply...

As for the layout to coordinate with the theater, he has also invested in a series of companies in Hollywood, and most of them have not seen any money back. The most important project at the moment is the Sahara where he is personally present.

Anyway, in addition to real estate, performing arts brokers, and investment in sports circles, what has he done in recent years to lose money?

"Eisner must leave Disney, everyone is fed up with him."

Anshuz should have a small amount of Disney shares in his hands, and his friendship with Eisner is also good, otherwise he would not use such good resources to take care of Blake. Maybe this meeting was deliberate, but Song Ya, who has jumped back, has nothing. State the position with a psychological burden.

"Hey…"

Anshuz sighed tiredly, and did not continue the topic.

The lights in the projection hall went out one by one, and Song Ya also concentrated on watching the movie.

He hadn't watched the previous screening. According to Jenny's description and the unbanned film review, Sahara is probably an adventure action film with a mixed style of Raiders of the Lost Ark and 007.

The opening scene was a well-made naval battle between the North and South Army, and the restored first-generation steam ironclad made a magnificent appearance. Song Ya observed that Blake's big scene dispatching ability was obviously not as good as Cameron's, but this is normal. The truck driver's director is full. There is only one in the world.

Then came the standard Raiders of the Raiders type of treasure hunt plot. After the Southern Army failed, a ship loaded a large amount of gold coins and fled to Africa. The male lead team was funded by wealthy businessmen and embarked on a journey.

This plot is quite popular. Some top wealthy people, such as Microsoft founder Paul Allen, are spending a lot of money to fund teams to salvage well-known sunken ships in the global waters.

"Who dare to believe that the desert that has not been in the past for 40 years suddenly rained during the filming..."

When the desolate desert appeared in the wide-angle picture, Anshuzi suddenly vomited.

It seems that because of this, the crew’s location was completely destroyed and had to be rebuilt, losing a lot of money?

Song Ya remembered that Jenny once called and complained to herself about this incident, "Similarly, director Cameron encountered too many accidents during the filming of the Titanic. As long as the movie can sell well, everything is not a problem. ." So he used the example of a truck driver to comfort each other.

"Yeah." Anshuz said nothing again.

Song Ya didn’t like the African plot after stepping into the desert. Unexpectedly, the 2005 movie still had a strong Western-centrism. The protagonists encountered various emergencies in the desert, and there were too many conspiracies in the play. An illogical dramatic reversal.

Only Jenny running in the desert with only a small vest, the picture of jumping and jumping is bloody, it is one of the few bright spots in the second half.

Song Ya licked her lips and started looking at Jenny.

"That Blake, why don't you want to use low-level means to please the audience? Even the truck driver knows to send Kate Winslet's benefits on the Titanic..."

Anshuz said faintly with resentment again: "It's even more incomparable with those movies of your A+ entertainment."

"PG13 classification."

Fifty Shades of Gray and other A+ entertainment movies have always been relentless. Song Ya knows that he has a generous reputation in this area, and now has to continue to comfort Anshuz. If Jenny did not expose the camera in this film, it would be quite true. It's a bit violent. Blake's artistic persistence is worthy of admiration, but he doesn't mind it. At least doing it will be good for the subsequent rental market.

"Congratulations, Matthew, Jenny."

At the end of the premiere, the professional film critics in the back did not seem to be too enthusiastic. Anyway, it had nothing to do with him. Song Ya warmly complimented the two protagonists, and at the same time gave Jenny a wink hint that Jenny can understand where to go after the celebration party. Find your own.

"Why is Blake's father suddenly willing to give up his position to Jobs?"

The next day, Jenny covered the sky with a bath towel, and walked towards the real man who was concentrating on sending and receiving emails in front of the computer.

"Who knows what conspiracy the old thing hides."

Song Ya embraced her in his arms, frowned while making mischief with his big hands.

His Majesty’s move to Tianwaifeixian instantly put himself and Linton together. It seems that the goal is very clear. Disney used the acquisition of Pixar Animation, which is likely to be a stock exchange merger and acquisition method to introduce Jobs to Disney, and then naturally give way.

This does seem to have a lot of benefits. The veteran tech hero who created Apple in one hand and saved Apple’s second job as CEO. Disney shareholders are naturally willing to completely cut off his most uneasy Catsenberg’s dream. The way back to the factory animation.

For Jobs, the bulk of his assets is not in Apple but in Pixar animation, so Jobs seems likely to agree.

The direct transfer of the CEO position to Steve Jobs also allowed Eisner and Jobs to exchange interests directly, repair the relationship, and make the difference without the middleman Robert Iger...

For investors, His Majesty took the initiative to abdicate and replaced it with Steve Jobs, whose business ability is undoubted. This good news may make Disney's stock price recover quickly. They expressed their optimism and support with actions.

Goldman Sachs should be able to squeeze his nose and accept it. Jobs is indeed stronger than Katzenberg, but it is not so great that it affects the power that Goldman Sachs and George Mitchell have just established at Disney. Jobs himself has always been unfamiliar with the chairmanship.

But the only sticking point is also obvious, that is, does His Majesty the Emperor really intend to abdicate this time? If he is willing to abdicate, why bother to go to Jobs, who had never concealed his hatred of him before, after the rebellion?

"Will Jobs himself?" Jenny asked.

"I don't know, he hasn't expressed his opinion yet..." Song Ya looked out the window, his eyes deeper and deeper.

In Silicon Valley, Jobs, who was getting lighter and lighter due to illness, was pacing in the office with his chin, and his subordinates watched him with concern, "Boss, do you want to make a statement?"

"No, not for the time being, I haven't thought about it..." Jobs shook his head, "You go out first."

The eyes of the people dimmed, Apple is recovering rapidly, and everyone does not want to see the leader leave to work for Disney.

Jobs’ authority in Apple has become like a king. At the Apple shareholder meeting that just opened, the APLUS power, which holds more than 8% of the shares, was blocked from the board of directors by all the shareholders. If it weren’t for this The emperor of Apple led everyone to resolutely resist, which is very difficult to achieve. Everyone dared not say anything, they should withdraw.

"Robert Iger has warned several times that this is just a conspiracy by Eisner, obviously to separate your relationship."

A close friend, Oracle founder Larry Ellison persuaded on the phone: "If you agree, Robert Iger will be disappointed in us and give Eisner a chance to re-enter the ABC department."

"I know, I was thinking..."

Jobs undoubtedly has a deeper feeling for Apple, but because of this, the Pixar animation with a big net worth will definitely be offered a very good price by Eisner, who is making a life-saving straw. This is a rare high-point shot opportunity that can make oneself. More concentrated on operating Apple, and have plenty of funds to resist the powerful offensive of the black pharaoh against Apple.

Compared to making peace with Eisner, one of the most disgusting people, he is more disgusted to work for the black pharaoh at the son-like Apple company.

In the face of these interests, what is the friendship with Robert Iger?

If you can master Disney's supreme power, and at the same time gradually shift the focus of assets to Apple, it might not be a more comfortable choice for yourself.

That is Disney, which owns the ABC television network and one of the top seven in Hollywood!

Eisner's grasp of the interests of the people is still sharp!

"If you are fooled by Eisner, who is already at the end of the road, think about it, how people will evaluate and laugh at you in the future," Ellison said.

"I know it all in my heart, Larry."

After talking with the other party, Jobs took a long test, and then pressed the intercom, "When is the launch of our new iPodNano product?"

"September 7th."

"Okay, I know."

At the same time, Paulson’s helicopter landed on the tarmac of a golf course in Burbank, Los Angeles. When he and his entourage came down, they saw the golf clubs in there at a glance, smiling and waiting for themselves. His tolerance and confidence seemed to be complete. The returned Disney Emperor Eisner, and George Mitchell next to him.

George Mitchell's mood was not so good anymore, and he kept a straight face.

"You should notify us in advance instead of playing another surprise attack."

Paulson complained against the roar of the helicopter rotor.

"You promised me, UU reading www.uukānshu.com Katzenberg or Jobs, whichever is fine."

Old God Eisner responded: "Remember?"

"Hehe, Katzenberg and Harvey are mad." George Mitchell complained.

"I will take care of them to die."

Eisner also changed his face and gave the old man a domineering look, "Come on, let's play a good game before I leave." He stretched out his hand and pressed Paulson's back, inviting warmly.

"Jobs agreed to meet us?" Paulson was gently pushed forward by him.

"Not yet, give him some time."

Eisner smiled and replied: "Let's go, we will accompany you to change clothes first, and sometimes we have time to discuss follow-up actions."

"call…"

Paulson let out a suffocating breath half-reluctantly, his eyes attracted by the red flagpole waving in the wind on the green in the distance.