Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

If there is no sudden rise of Jed Sherman, then Sally Redstone is indeed a new generation of legends in Hollywood.After all, in such an era, female executives are still extremely rare.Although Sally joined the Viacom Group by virtue of her identity as the Redstone family, her performance in the past three years as a Viacom Group has been remarkable.

First of all, Sally entrusted Paramount and DreamWorks to take charge of the film field she was not familiar with. Therefore, Paramount and DreamWorks have been making good films in the past three years. In the TV field that Sally is familiar with, She carried out drastic reforms.She merged Viacom's cable TV companies into Viacom Networks, not only reached cooperation agreements with Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, becoming the largest entertainment cable TV network in the United States, but also It is the acquisition of several TV stations in Los Angeles and New York, trying to broadcast terrestrial TV in the two most important viewing markets on the east coast and west coast.

Under the general brand of Viacom Networks, Sally subdivided two organizations, MTV Television Network and Bet Television Network. The mtv television network is aimed at viewers in North America, Europe and Asia, while the bet television network is aimed at African-American viewing families. The bet TV network not only consolidated the number one African-American TV channel in the United States, but also developed three sub-channels, bet jazz channel, bet gospel channel and bet hip-hop channel under the original bet TV network.

Due to the larger MTV television network, Sally was further subdivided into three armies: entertainment channel group, music channel group and family channel group.The entertainment channel group includes Comedy Central, the largest comedy channel in the United States; the music channel group is naturally the major channels of mtv; the family entertainment channel group is the major channels of Nickelodeon.After Sally integrated and subdivided Viacom's major cable channels, Viacom's network not only achieved extremely high ratings in the United States and Canada, but also achieved extremely high ratings in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Even the two emerging markets of Europe and Asia have also achieved good returns.

Sally's efforts in the past three years have not only been praised by Viacom's board of directors, but also by the American media. There was even an issue of "Time Magazine" with her as the cover, and the title of the cover was "Queen of Cable TV" .

It was also because of Sally's more mature performance recently that Jed agreed to have an interview with Sally. Although Galaxy Movies is now asking Paramount, it does not mean that Jed is willing to accept insults in the past.Paramount currently holds the right to adapt the three superhero works of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor, and these three superheroes are an important part of the "Marvel Ultimate Universe Plan".

Because of this, Jed agreed.The place Sally gave was the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Seeing this address, Jed couldn't help curling his lips.As expected of a girl, if you choose a place to eat, you should also choose such a flashy place.Although there are not many Michelin star restaurants in Los Angeles, there are still many delicious restaurants.It's the kind of socialite who likes to dine at the Four Seasons hotel, after all, where the paparazzi are second only to the bars near Sunset Boulevard.

When Jed arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel, he found countless entertainment reporters and paparazzi at the entrance taking pictures of stars and celebrities.When Jed got out of the car, reporters and paparazzi immediately surrounded him.Who is Jed Sherman?The favorite news machine of American entertainment reporters, coupled with the recent conflicts between him and Oscar and his investment mistakes, casual words can stimulate sales and ratings.

However, Jed was obviously not interested in entangled with these paparazzi. Under the guard of the hotel boy, Jed entered the tropical garden restaurant of the Four Seasons Hotel located in □.The Tropical Garden Restaurant is considered a well-known specialty restaurant in Los Angeles, because the entire restaurant is located in a garden full of flowers.It can be described as the fragrance of birds and flowers, and there are also very special Thai dishes on offer.Under the guidance of the waiter, Jed found a table in the restaurant next to a cold spring.Although it is still a cold and warm spring, the temperature control system of the entire restaurant has already made everyone feel like midsummer.

And Sally Redstone was drinking a drink in a big Hawaiian-style skirt. After seeing Jed coming, she smiled and said: "I heard from my father that you have almost no taboos, so I ordered the one here." Special, I hope you will." Then she looked at the waiter and said, "Serve! By the way, bring out my Romanee-Conti 1952."

Although Jed didn't feel much about drinking red wine, but John around him was as keen on collecting red wine as most Italians.What's more, since Romanee-Conti is known as the top four wineries in France, Jade has never heard of it no matter how ignorant he is.And I heard from John that the most collectible wines of Romanee-Conti are the two vintages of 1945 and 1952. In 1945, due to natural and man-made disasters, only 600 bottles of wine were produced that year, so it was extremely rare; while in 1952, it was the first batch of wine produced by Romanee-Conti after changing grape varieties, full of so-called "wildness" and "youth". "Aesthetic.

"The ordinary wine of Romanee-Conti is my favorite. Although it is the most representative wine in France, it is full of French and exotic feeling." The waiter poured red wine for Jed and Sally, and Sally introduced Said, "Especially the 1952 Romanee is my favorite. The aroma of opening the bottle has already made me feel the greeting from the East. The mixture of violets and musks also reveals the faint woody aroma of riverside shrubs, And on the palate it's the perfect game-fowl flavor."

Jed took a sip and found that it was no different from the red wine John usually provided.Jed couldn't help laughing that he was still a layman. No wonder John didn't ask him to drink red wine anymore. Every time he drank, he just found some beer.Along with the entrance of red wine, the Tropical Garden Restaurant also served various meals.In Hong Kong in his previous life, Thai curry was popular for a while, so Jed was not particularly surprised.

At the end of the meal, Jed suddenly asked: "Ms. Lei Shidong, you invited me to eat Thai food, and you prepared Romanee-Conti in such a luxurious place. What is it for?"

"For your 'Marvel Ultimate Universe Plan'!" Sally smiled, "Don't be angry, your broken plan has long been exposed, but it's just because of your face, people don't want to expose it to the media. Don't worry, Paramount has no interest in filming Marvel heroes, as long as you agree to two conditions, I will offer the rights to adapt Captain America, Iron Man and Thor, without any money."

"Tell me!" Jed's face was so dark that water dripped down his face. It turned out that the group of commercial spies did not aim at nothing, but deliberately set up a situation to make him jump when he knew that he had the "Marvel Ultimate Universe Plan".Although this made Jed more passive, it also made the range of the target a lot smaller.

"First thing, Paramount wants the authorship rights of the movies adapted from the three superheroes and the joint authorship rights of your ultimate universe movie; the second thing is to help my Viacom enter the Asian market!" Sarah Li put forward her own conditions unceremoniously.

"Ms. Lei Shidong's appetite is too big!" Jed sneered, "Paramount intends to take away the authorship rights of my four series of movies without spending a penny or a little effort, and I have to help Entering the Asian market with your TV station?"

"You think my terms are too high, so you can counter the price." Sally shook her glass, "Don't be angry, we are allies now!"

"I don't need to discuss the authorship of the movie Iron Man and the Ultimate Universe. The first two episodes of Thor and Captain America can be co-authored by Paramount, but you have to pay 30% of the movie budget." Jed also took a sip of wine , "If you can accept this condition, I will help you open up the viewing market in Asia. But you also understand the particularity of the mainland market. In mainland China, I can only help your MTV and Nickelodeon channels enter. And in order not to offend Who, the programs of MTV China Channel and Nick China Channel must be produced separately, and the TV station in my hand has the power of supervision."

After listening for a while, Sally suddenly laughed, "Mr. Sherman, you are too cunning! You have represented all of my MTV and Nickelodeon business in Asia. Pay a penny. Tsk tsk! On behalf of Paramount, Thor and Captain America only need the joint authorship rights of the first episode. As for the production budget, it should be offset with the transfer fee of your adaptation rights. At the same time, mtv and Nick Family are two television networks in Southeast Asia , Japan, South Korea and Greater China, I will transfer the agency rights to Asia Broadcasting Group under your name, and we will sign the contract every five years. I will waive the authorization fee for the first year, but starting next year, I will not only authorize The cost is [-]% of the advertising revenue.”

Jed showed a bitter expression, "Ms. Lei Shidong, how can you do business like this? You have to ask for authorization fees and advertisements?"

"Don't hide it from me, Mr. Sherman." Sally said with a smile, "You have two record companies in Asia, Media Asia Music Group and Sherman Music Entertainment Group, and the big platform of mtv is not enough for you. ? You want to pave the way for your singers, and I want my annual financial report to look good, so we still have a common purpose. I have waived the first year's fee, what else do you want?"

"Okay." Jed shrugged, he had to admire Sally for throwing a bait he had to bite.

The newly formed Media Asia-Sherman Music Group alliance has already been attacked by Sony and Universal in Asia, and even the neutral bmg and emi are also vaguely playing tricks in the dark.If I have the big platform of mtv in my hands, I really have a lot to do.What's more, the Nick family channel is not useless. With the birth of the post-00s in China, a generation of parents who love children the most in China has also been born.Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon, and Nickelodeon Cartoon fully meet the needs of parents. As long as this channel can be launched in the Chinese market, the future of the Nickelodeon family in China will be very promising. Withered and destroyed generally occupy the entire market.

There is no need for the relevant mainland agencies to interfere with this kind of family children's channel. In fact, Jed doesn't think he will lose money.But he didn't intend to just let Sally go like this, so he rolled his eyes and raised an opinion with Sally.