Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Matthew’s question made both Jed and John very nervous. Although later generations of the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have endorsed the adoption of children by homosexual families, they believe that homosexual families and heterosexual families will encounter the same difficulties in adopting children. There are no other problems because it is a gay family.But Jed is very clear that in this society where homosexuality has always been a minority, children from gay families actually have more pressure than children from single-parent families, because they cannot understand why there are two fathers or two mothers in the family .Of course, this is not a problem that cannot be solved, it just needs parents and the society to give children more care.

Fortunately, the educational institutions that Jed chose for the two children were very noble and focused on protecting the children's privacy, so it was out of Jed and John's medical care that the two children didn't get confused until this time.After consulting with child education experts and child psychologists, Jed and John spoke openly and honestly with their two children on the last day of their vacation.Including why the family has two dads and no mother, and the blood relationship between the two children and the two dads.But both Jed and John promise that they really love Matthew and Flora.After the lecture, although Matthew was a little confused, he didn't care about this issue any more.

On the contrary, Flora showed an expression of "I knew it was like this", and she seemed relieved and said, "I finally know why my brother is so ugly, that's great, I don't have to worry about being as ugly as Matthew in the future!"

Because Flora inherited John's Italian ancestry, and the surrogate mother may have some Spanish ancestry, Flora was a supermodel at a young age, and Shirley Lansing even proposed to make Flora a child star several times.However, Flora's gloating expression hurt Matthew's self-esteem a bit. Matthew retorted: "What's wrong with me? Cindy said she likes me very much."

"Yes, our Matthew is not ugly at all." Jed quickly comforted Matthew, but he suddenly realized that he heard something, "Wait, who is Cindy? Matthew, is your little girlfriend? Why? Won't tell us?"

"Haha, it's up to you!" Flora smiled triumphantly again, "Father and Daddy, that Cindy is the child of Mrs. Taylor's family in Belleair Hills."

Jed showed a clear expression. The three most expensive communities in Los Angeles - Beverly Hills, Bel Air Hills and Holmby Hills are also called the "Platinum Triangle" because they are at the top of a triangle.A family that can own a property here and have children who can go to the preschool that Matthew attended is naturally rich or expensive.It's just that what Jed didn't expect was that Matthew had a little girlfriend at such a young age, which was beyond Jed's expectation.

After returning from their holiday in New Zealand, Jed and John naturally boarded a flight back to Los Angeles.After the two handed over the child to the nanny and bodyguards and left through the VIP channel, the two joined hands to qualify and held a small press conference in an open space outside the airport.You must know that as the two most famous celebrities in Los Angeles, John and Jed jointly missed the entire awards season, which made all entertainment reporters and paparazzi feel incredible.The final investigation was that the two took their children to the UK for Christmas, and then stayed in New Zealand until March before returning.Two celebrities suddenly disappeared for almost a quarter, and of course the reporters would not let them go.

"First of all, I would like to thank the reporters for their concern for us. Yes, our vacation is very pleasant." Jed responded with a smile, "I know you want to ask me what I think about this Oscar? What I want to say is, What else can I think? Anyway, whether I am praising or criticizing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not have any opinions on my opinions." Jed said very aggrieved, and immediately made the reporters show that he would Heart smile.Since the beginning of the new century, the conflict between Jed and the academy has become more and more serious, and the academy's suppression of Jed at the Oscars has become more and more obvious, but the two sides have not yet completely torn faces. "But we do have important news to announce. First, Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group has submitted a listing application to the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. I believe we will receive a good one in the third quarter. Response. While I believe the Dow Jones does not include our stock in their '30 Industrials' index, the 'Nasdaq 100' and 'S&P 500', I think We still have a chance. Second, as a writer, director and producer, I will re-engage with the Writers Guild, Directors Guild and Producers Guild, and of course my partner, Mr. John Colombo Join the Producers Association as the chairman of MGM Pictures. Third, Mr. Columbo and I have reached a consensus with Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg and others. We will host a The 'North American Publishers Club' invites all publishers to join us."

If Jed's suggestion that Sherman go public is a cliché, the news that he and John will return to major Hollywood unions is surprising news.You must know that Jed was forced to leave the screenwriters' union and directors' union in order to avoid being overly jealous by the academy, and only retained his status as a member of the producers' union.Before making this decision, Jed was the vice chairman of the executive councils of the three major trade unions, and he was almost the speaker of the three trade unions.And this North American Distributors Club directly stabbed the Motion Picture Association of America. The former name of the Motion Picture Association of America was the "United States of America Producers and Distributors".

Although the Motion Picture Association of America is the only association in the United States that has the qualifications to approve the distribution of film companies, the actual jurisdiction of this association is only the western United States. The New England region in the eastern United States and the vast rural areas in the south are not so obedient. More important Unfortunately, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, which make up the North American box office, are completely outside the jurisdiction of the association.It’s just that everyone cooperated happily in the past, so it feels like the American Motion Picture Association dominates the world.

Interesting to say, the original film center of the United States should be New York.Although the world knows the Lumiere brothers as the inventors of film, it was Edison who actually improved the silent film equipment and invented the sound film.That's right, the great inventor Edison (not the one who took the photo).However, Hollywood deliberately did not promote Edison on various occasions because of the grievances between Hollywood and Edison. It can be said that without Edison's aggressiveness, there would be no Hollywood.After Edison improved film equipment and invented sound films, he established the Edison Film Company, monopolizing all film-related patented technologies.

In order to ensure his own profits, Edison set a very high licensing fee for film patents. For other film companies, it is almost a company that will go bankrupt after making one film.So American film companies have fled to the western United States to escape the shackles of Edison's patents.It can be said that despite the fact that Hollywood is now cracking down on piracy all over the world, they were actually established on the basis of avoiding intellectual property rights.After American movies gained a foothold in Hollywood, they also supported companies such as Westinghouse Electric and used their inventions to finally circumvent Edison's "patent wall". This brought about the golden age of Hollywood.

So there have always been two film centers in the United States, Los Angeles in the west and New York in the east.It's just that New York has completely declined under Edison's toss, but the lean camel is bigger than the horse, so New York and New England don't care so much about Hollywood's many regulations, and the American Film Association has no choice but to close its eyes due to the dark history of the year. eyes.As for the South, after the Civil War, there was still a lot of "anti-Federalist" forces there.They think that since you think we are rural people, then I will not abide by your broken city rules, so the influence of the American Motion Picture Association is relatively limited.

And Jade's establishment of the North American Publishers Club this time is obviously to unify the large and small publishers in the United States, Canada, and Central and North America.In this club, there are not only rising stars such as Galaxy, CBS Movies and DreamWorks, but also veterans such as Paramount and MGM. The whole club can be described as star-studded.And what makes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feel the most painful is that the club actually proposed to independently or jointly build more than 20 professional training institutions in North America and the Asia-Pacific region to train professional actors, photographers and directors.Although American movies are invincible in the world, European movies can entangle the United States in many places. The most important thing is that there are many educational institutions in Europe that export professional talents for European and even global movies.Although there are no USC, NYU or UCLA, they are nothing compared to Europe.

What the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is most afraid of now is that the club suddenly announces that it will establish an award, and the status of the Oscars will be challenged.However, Jed did not make it easy for the academy. Although the North American Film Distributors Club did not establish an award, it chose to reach a cooperation agreement with the International Film Producers Association.Since the North American Film Distributors Club is a regional pan-national organization; at the same time it is a non-normative association, the International Federation of Film Producers only granted the club international observer status.

However, after the two parties colluded together, the North American Film Distributors Club announced that it would give special cooperation status to 14 competition-type non-specialized feature film festivals recognized by the International Film Producers Association, and would help the award-winning films of these film festivals enter the North American market .This immediately made the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feel tight. Jed did not set up any awards to directly challenge Oscar, but suddenly supported 14 little brothers for Oscar to distract attention.More importantly, behind these 14 little brothers are all key support projects of governments of various countries or regions, and the college has no guts to suppress them.

Moreover, the club also announced that the next step would be to select cooperation partners from 28 competition-type special film festivals. As soon as this news was released, the South Korean government began to lobby the club on behalf of the Busan Film Festival and the Jeonju Film Festival.You must know that the Koreans are dissatisfied with the recent situation that the Chinese have the Shanghai Film Festival, the Japanese have the Tokyo Film Festival, but the Koreans do not.It is said that the South Korean government expressed its full support for Busan, trying its best to help Jeonju, and strive to be shortlisted for double prizes.Even the South Korean government clearly stated that it can sponsor the club's office expenses for the next 50 years.