Legendary Hollywood Producer

For the next few days, Roman has been wandering back and forth between Manhai Entertainment's film "The Devil Wearing Prada" crew set and Burbank's home. Until one day, George, the president of the distribution department of Paramount Pictures, called him to inform him that he was going to hold a celebration party for the sale of the "Hangover" movie, hoping to get the cooperation of Manhai Entertainment.

However, the movie "The Hangover" was produced by Manhai Entertainment. The North American distributor is also a company owned by Roman. Paramount Pictures only owns the overseas distribution rights of the film. Why would you want to hold a celebration party for the film? No production company has any intentions in this regard. As a partner, Paramount seems to be eager to make this happen. When Roman finished answering the phone, he couldn't figure out the use of Paramount's sorrowful operation. After many inquiries, the matter gradually became clear.

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Robert Evans is a white man in his fifties. He is the chairman of Paramount Pictures and also serves as the company's CEO.

At this time, he was smoking in the office, hoping to calm down his mood.

Just now, he received a call from the chairman of the parent company.

On the phone, he was criticized by the person in charge behind Paramount Pictures, and even later stated him directly. If it continues like this next year, he can get out.

The reason that makes the big boss so angry is of course the development of Paramount Pictures.

Not long ago, the six major Hollywood companies successively gave out their own company's annual financial statements at the end of the year.

According to the report, there is a result: Paramount Pictures ranked first from the bottom in this year's North American market competition, and this position is usually Columbia Pictures. Coincidentally, Robert Evans has just taken over as the president of Paramount Pictures, and the company's performance is at the bottom of the rankings.

Moreover, the worst thing is that the company's performance this year is not only poor, and the profit from movies is also very unsatisfactory compared with previous years. If it weren't for the huge profits brought by the offline home entertainment market from the classic movies that have been filmed before, Paramount Pictures is experiencing negative growth.

In other words, without those old folks who are constantly making blood, the profits that Paramount Pictures made in the film market this year are not enough to support the normal operation of the company.

It’s no wonder that the funder behind will be dissatisfied. Even if the company’s performance is worse than that of other companies, the profit is still left over from the bottom line. How can this allow the funder to hold on to the company’s new president? confidence.

Therefore, it was clearly stated on the phone that if the company's performance in the next year is not good, then the new president of Robert Evans will have to look good.

Smoking a cigarette, Robert Evans thought about it for a while on the sofa, and then notified the executives of Paramount Pictures that there will be an important meeting to be there.

As the notice time for the meeting approached, all executives from Paramount Pictures showed up.

Sunlight came in through the window, and a group of senior figures from Paramount Pictures found their seats in the arranged meeting room and sat down.

At this time, the meeting had not yet started, and the executives were chatting with each other to discuss solutions.

They all understand what will be discussed in today's meeting, and everyone knows what is revealed in the annual financial statements of Paramount Pictures.

Soon, Robert Evans walked in and started a meeting.

The new president of Paramount Pictures first talked about a lot of issues related to the company's production and distribution of movies this year, and then he talked about the current situation of the company.

The current Paramount Pictures industry seems to be in a very weak situation in the development of the film they are most familiar with. In the whole 2004, there was no popular and popular film. This kind of thing, in the past, is impossible. occurring.

Let's count the brilliance of Paramount Pictures. Since the 1960s, this company has been well-known throughout the North American film circle for its production of film masterpieces that are rich in audience reputation and box office results. During this period, Paramount Pictures’ real power figures changed very quickly, but no matter who took the stage, it would not affect the company’s film quality.

"Wings" and "I am not an angel" were filmed and produced during the Adolf-Chukor period; "The Godfather" and "Love Story" were filmed and produced after Michael Eisner took over as the president; later produced during the Barry-Diller period "Indiana Jones" and "Detective Beverly Hills" were produced; under the management of the previous president Shirley Lanxin, the company filmed and produced "Brave Heart", "Forrest Gump" and "VCD "Mission Impossible", "Trumen's World", "Saving Private Ryan" and "Titanic" co-financed with Twentieth Century Fox.

Over the years, Paramount Pictures has always achieved good results in film production. This phenomenon did not stop until the new president Robert Evans took over.

So at this meeting, President Robert Evans specifically emphasized the need to strengthen the company's film production and development capabilities.

How to enhance it? Robert Evans gave his answer.

His plan is to acquire DreamWorks to solve the problem of Paramount Pictures' sluggish film development.

This year, DreamWorks has vaguely become the seventh largest in Hollywood. In fact, compared to the performance in the North American film market this year, Paramount Pictures is really not an opponent of DreamWorks, and even ranked second from the bottom. Columbia Pictures also can't compare. In addition to the fact that DreamWorks does not have the background of the Six Hollywood, after all, it has not been established for a long time and has not enough accumulation. What it still lacks is a channel that can be distributed in overseas markets.

Robert Evans also understands the situation inside DreamWorks.

The Big Three, who used to work closely and co-founded the company together, over the years, because of the company's development and the distribution of benefits, have long been a fellow traveler and have drifted farther and farther away.

This is also an important reason why Robert Evans proposed to acquire DreamWorks. The discord between the Big Three can give Paramount Pictures more opportunities to intervene. Moreover, Steven Spielberg, who is responsible for the production and distribution of DreamWorks and controls the power of film and television, has a good relationship with Paramount Pictures and can win over the soul of DreamWorks in film and television production. It would be even more helpful for acquisitions. To disintegrate from within the enemy is always the easiest and most labor-saving way.

President Robert Evans’s proposal was unanimously endorsed by the executives present, and everyone expressed a good impression of the arrival of DreamWorks.