"Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Miller."

"You're welcome, we're partners."

In front of the banquet hall of the Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, Garcia Rodriguez shook hands with Miller of Emperor Entertainment and said goodbye. He soon took the elevator to the first floor. As soon as he walked into the hall, someone suddenly greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Good evening, Mr. Rodriguez." He was greeted by a new face.

Garcia responded politely: "Hello."

The man quickly introduced himself: "I am Richard Frey from Guanghui International. Can I take up a few minutes to chat with you?"

Garcia was a little confused. She had never heard of the name of this company. Among the companies that Embassy Film has business dealings, there should not be this name.

The assistant who followed him whispered in advance: "Headhunting Company."

This is not the first time Garcia has met her, so she declined, "Sorry, I'm in a hurry."

Richard Frey was prepared and whispered: "It was Mr. Diego Mendes who introduced me to me."

Diego Mendes is a classmate of Garcia Rodriguez. He helped a lot back then. When he heard this name, Garcia Rodriguez thought for a moment and said, "Five minutes."

Richard Frey quickly said, "Please here."

After finding a quiet place to sit down at the rest, Garcia raised her hand and looked at her watch. On the one hand, she didn't want to get too entangled with the people in the headhunting company, but on the other hand, there was something really wrong.

The company will hold a meeting in the afternoon to discuss the promotion of "The Passion of Jesus" with Mel Gibson.

This movie will be released in February.

Mel Gibson is a bit difficult to deal with, and Ronan attaches great importance to this film, and Garcia must attend.

Richard Frey had known before coming, and knew that the person sitting opposite was a big shot in the film industry, so he was sure of being busy, so he quickly said: "Mr. Rodriguez, are you interested in changing to a larger platform to develop? It is wider than the Embassy Film and Relativity Entertainment? The salary increases by 20% compared to the current minimum, and there are also heavy prizes every year..."

What is a larger platform than Relativity Entertainment? It is not difficult to guess that Garcia is one of the six major Hollywood companies.

This is not the first time that the top six people in Hollywood have come to poach, and it will not be the last time. Garcia smiled and said, "If you are talking about these things, there is no need to continue."

He stood up and was not going to talk to him anymore.

Richard Frey hurriedly said: "Mr. Rodriguez..."

Garcia Rodriguez didn't give him the chance to continue: "I don't know which company you are representing, but there is one thing I can remind you that I signed a non-compete agreement with the company, and the liquidated damages are as high as $200 million."

Richard Frey was silent in an instant.

Garcia shook her head slightly and left with her assistant.

Is there anything wrong with leaving Relativity Entertainment now? Not to mention the first-class salary in the industry, the core management team had options last year. With the current rapid development trend of the entire group company, what is the value of the Embassy Film Industry in the future?

Relativity Entertainment’s salary is no lower than the six major companies. Will the six major companies break the salary balance of the entire company by one person?

Garcia has a very clear understanding that in the past two years, the group's annual profit in the film industry exceeded US$500 million for the first time, ranking fourth in Hollywood, which inevitably attracted the attention of large companies.

Since the second half of last year, Relativity Entertainment has encountered a situation similar to DreamWorks. He doesn't know where he stretched out his hoe and always wants to dig out the corners of the company. Some employees have also resigned under the temptation of high salaries.

Those big companies regard relativity entertainment as a dream factory.

Unfortunately, Relativity Entertainment is not a dream factory!

But not everyone has to withstand the temptation. The core personnel have high salaries and high positions. There are countless people below who are staring at their positions, and there are many people with some abilities and feel that they should sit at a high position.

When opportunities arise, some of the people who have good abilities and have not signed a non-compete agreement will naturally consider their future.

This is human nature.

In the office of Relativity Entertainment, Ronan looked at the latest resignation reports from Connie, confirmed his name and position, and signed it on it.

These are middle-level personnel, and he and Robert Eiger need to sign together with resignation.

After signing the letter, Ronan asked Connie: "How many people have resigned this month."

"Embassy Films, Shahai Entertainment, and the headquarters, there are 18 people in total." Connie has statistics: "It's nearly twice as many as last month."

Ronan asked, “What about recruitment?”

Connie quickly replied: "There are newcomers who are constantly joining, and our salary and development prospects are very attractive."

Ronan nodded. These people's resignation would have some impact, but the impact was actually not big.

This is how commercial companies are. In the words of the other side of the Pacific, they are just soldiers who are fighting for battle.

Relativity Entertainment has already gotten on the right track. Not to mention these middle-level personnel, even if core personnel leave, it will not affect the entire company.

Connie reminded: "These people are all changing jobs. I have made people pay special attention to it. Recently, headhunting companies have taken frequent moves against us. Seven of the 18 people who resigned were resignation reports in the past week."

Ronan couldn't help laughing: "It seems that we have attracted the attention of some people."

Connie knew what Ronan was saying and continued: "Assistant Department, my deputy, I also had a headhunter contact yesterday, but she refused."

Luo Nan was very curious. Which of the six major companies is targeting Relativity Entertainment?

In the past two years, DreamWorks' rapid development momentum has weakened, and the momentum of relativity entertainment has become increasingly fierce. The shields ahead can no longer cover Relativity entertainment.

I heard that Spielberg's life is not easy, but DreamWorks should be able to last for a while. It is said that it successfully raised funds from India in October last year.

There is news circulating everywhere in the circle. Paramount Pictures is pressing against DreamWorks step by step, hoping that Spielberg will give up the distribution business and ask DreamWorks to sign a long-term distribution agreement with Paramount Pictures.

This can be said to be the first step for Paramount Pictures to swallow DreamWorks.

Ronan remembers very clearly that after DreamWorks gave up distribution business and independence, he sold himself to Paramount Pictures. At about the end of 2005 or 2006, Spielberg finally gave up his dream of establishing DreamWorks. Faced with Paramount Pictures' step-by-step pressing, he chose to compromise.

DreamWorks also completely split from an independent entertainment group company and eventually turned into a pure production company.

The Transformers series filmed and produced by DreamWorks was released by Paramount Pictures.

From then on, DreamWorks completely lost its independence and replaced multiple cooperative publishers. Spielberg rarely even directed the films invested in and filmed by DreamWorks.

Now it seems that DreamWorks switched to Paramount Pictures and almost became a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. It is also the result of Paramount Pictures taking the initiative and pressing step by step several years in advance.

Ronan didn't want to be confused and said to Connie: "Let me check it out carefully and find out which companies or companies behind our headhunting company."

Connie said, "I'll have someone check it out."

Seeing that Ronan had nothing else to do, Connie left the office.

Before Ronan finished reading an email, Connie came back and said, "Ms. Shirley Lansing has arrived. I have asked her to go to the reception room first."

This was a meeting that I had made an appointment a few days ago. Luo Nan put down the work at hand and went directly to the reception room.

"Hello, Shirley." Ronan entered the reception room and greeted enthusiastically: "Welcome to Relativity Entertainment."

This is a woman who is about to turn 60, and she is the most powerful woman in Hollywood.

Shirley Lansing responded with a smile, shook hands, and said, "Long time no see, I want to talk to my old friend."

Ronan dared not underestimate this woman. A woman who can use the resources at hand to play Spielberg and is more than just described as powerful.

"You call and I'll go there." Ronan said with a smile.

Shirley Lansing looked at the movie poster hanging on the wall of the reception room: "I'm curious about your relativity entertainment, and I want to come and have a look. You did a pretty good job last year."

Ronan was modest: "It's incomparable to Paramount Pictures."

Shirley Lansing looked at Ronan: "Relativity Entertainment's performance last year was better than Paramount Pictures."

"That's the movie business," said Ronan. "In terms of comprehensive business, Relativity Entertainment is much worse than Paramount. We are just starting out in some businesses."

Shirley Lansing was extremely experienced and took the opportunity to say: "Paramount Pictures can help Relativity Entertainment in some businesses, and that's not a problem."

Help? How could Ronan believe this nonsense and help the final relativity entertainment change its surname Paramount or Viacom?

Luo Nan smiled but said nothing, and there were some words that didn't need to be said too thoroughly.

"I talked to Mr. Summer Redstone a few days ago." Shirley Lansing said with a smile: "Ronan, Mr. Redstone talked about you. He admired you very much and believed that Viacom and Relativity Entertainment can strengthen cooperation."

Ronan smiled and said, "I admire Mr. Lei Shidong very much."

Of course, this kind of thing is just to say. There is a competitive relationship between Relativity Entertainment and Viacom. In addition to the film business, there is also an offline market.

Although after PepsiCo, it became a grandmother who didn't love his uncle or love him, it was ultimately a subsidiary of the industry giant and Viacom. Now it is fiercely competitive with Netflix in the leasing market, and was beaten by Netflix and closed one after another in the loss-making store...

If PepsiCo does not carry out revolutionary changes, it will only disappear in the long river of history in its competition with Netflix.

This videotape rental chain is Viacom's important cash flow provider.
Chapter completed!