Sometimes the key to instilling your ideas into others is to make enough preparations beforehand.
What Ronald wants Little Bronfman to accept is actually a chain of ideas. First, Universal Pictures and Universal Records are very good assets. The best way to buy them from Panasonic is to use cash premiums.
, let the Japanese withdraw with dignity.
Second, Ovitz can do many things in the transaction, but he is definitely not suitable to be Party A's leader of such a multinational enterprise and its CEO.
The difficulty in this matter is to make Little Bronfman accept these two points at the same time. If he accepts the second point and fails to accept the first point, then the business may not be done. Ovitz will continue to stay
At CAA, he continued to bully executives at major studios.
And if he accepts the first point, but fails to accept the second point, then all the things Ronald has worked hard to do will become a laughing stock. Ovitz generously took over the MCA acquired by Bronfman Jr.
He became the CEO of a large media group that he dreamed of, and changed from a Party B who needed to provide services everywhere, to a Party A who could easily listen to Party B's proposals and get things done with just a few words.
Now the first point has gradually subtly influenced Bronfman Jr., especially Barbra Streisand, whose influence on him can be said to be very great.
No matter how stubborn a person is, he still has a kind of recognition of authority when dealing with the idols of his youth. This is because when a person is a teenager, the hormones in the body explode, leaving unique memories that few experiences can.
To replace the memory of youth.
Similarly, the second point also had some impact because of Barbra Streisand's complaints about Ovitz. However, to ensure that this point is achieved, Ronald must help find a suitable replacement for Bronfman Jr. -
—Ovitz’s colleague, Ron Meyer.
However, they cannot meet at Ronald's home. There is no way to keep this kind of situation confidential. Anyone's extra words may cause the matter to go unnoticed and eventually come to naught.
Therefore, Ronald did not introduce some CEO candidates to him as Bronfman Jr. expected, but only made preparations. Now Bronfman Jr.'s mentality has been changed by Barbra Streisand
After adjusting, he also became dissatisfied with Ovitz's treatment of his idol Streisand when he was young.
In other words, Bronfman Jr. is now very open to looking for other replacements. When Ron Meyer met with him, he no longer needed to convince him why Ovitz was not suitable to acquire the future MCA.
CEO, and just convince him that Meyer himself is a suitable candidate.
Anyone who has ever worked in sales knows that if your customers are ready to listen to your sales speech, then the difficulty has been reduced by 90%...
After attending Ronald's party, Bronfman Jr. took his private plane to New York, where he worked closely with people from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on acquisitions.
In order to hide his identity from others, Ron Meyer did not take a commercial flight where his itinerary could be traced. Instead, he secretly drove to the airport alone and boarded Ronald's private jet with several suits.
Ronald happened to be going to New York to meet Disney Chairman Eisner, who was also on Wall Street. Such a trip was far away from Ovitz's hometown of Los Angeles, and the chairman of two major listed companies was covering him up. Even if the secret was accidentally leaked, he would be caught.
When people know this, it is difficult to associate it with Seagram's Little Bronfman.
"Why did you bring so many scripts?" Ronald looked at Ron Meyer who was boarding the plane with Richard. Apart from some luggage, there was only a big box of scripts. He took it out after getting on the plane.
Read these two thick volumes carefully.
"I am an agent, Ronald. And I represent all stars, such as Stallone. Not everyone is as lucky as your agent Richard."
Ron Meyer made a little joke with a wink, then ordered a glass of red wine and began to read the script with concentration.
"Okay, bring me my script too..." Ronald felt that he seemed a little too free compared to an agent like Meyer. He also took out the script prepared by his assistant and began to browse it.
However, Ronald's Daydream Pictures has a dedicated script department. David Simkins knows Ronald's taste very well, which means that he helps Ronald screen the script in advance, and then makes every script.
After receiving very good screenwriting tips, it took much less effort for him to read.
After reading the script for a while, Ronald soon became bored. He walked to the back of the plane and called Helen Slater, who was waiting for him in New York.
"Honey, are you okay? How is little Linda..."
"Ronnie, I'm fine, I just miss you. Linda sometimes smiles at your photos and videos..."
"Oh, I miss her too. Fortunately, I will see her soon..."
Satellite calls on the plane are not cheap, but with Ronald's current net worth, these costs are completely indifferent. After making the call, his mind went to Helen and her daughter in the distance, and the script he just read was lost.
On the seat next to me.
"Ronald, can I use your satellite phone? I have some work matters." Ron Meyer also put down the script. He had many things to do and couldn't relax on the plane.
"Of course, use it as you like." Ronald suddenly felt that the agent's work was really very busy. Compared to Richard, he treated himself in the same way and had to do a lot of preparation work that he couldn't see.
Party A and Party B in Hollywood also have very different jobs. For example, if you want to read the script, you can read it, and if you don’t want to, you can read it. There is no problem. But the agent must read it through, otherwise you will not have the answer if a client asks.
Then they will feel that paying you a 10% commission is not feeding the dog?
This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! Ronald looked at his script, which is a story about a dancer. In order to raise her children, a single mother engaged in an immoral profession. During the performance, she was harassed
, at this time, a regular customer came to her rescue. Unexpectedly, this regular customer turned out to be a member of Congress and was caught on video...
Ronald feels that this script is still very interesting if a suitable heroine and director can be found. However, there are two directors who are good at shooting this kind of subject, one is Paul Verhoeven of the Netherlands, and the other is
Adrian Lyne in Britain, I wonder if they are still interested in continuing to make movies like this.
If one of them can agree, then it is very likely to make a profit. As for the heroine, Ronald thought about it. He must not let Diane or Helen be interested in the movie... Otherwise, forget it...
Seeing Ron Meyer working so hard on the phone, Ronald felt bored, and his eyelids gradually became heavy...
"yeah……"
Ronald dreamed of a scene, which seemed to be the movie of this script. Demi Moore was wearing a white men's shirt, with shoulder-length hair, moving forward powerfully to the beat of music, and then exerted her strength,
The white buttons flew out.
"Good guy, it's true that Diane or Helen can't be cast...but how could Demi Moore take such a role?"
Ronald didn't think very clearly, and then he saw the figures of several actors who often appeared in TV series. For example, the one who played the congressman was Burt Reynolds.
From what he saw of the plot, what could he say about the movie? It was very boring, like a Roger Corman-style B-movie.
If it weren't for Demi Moore's figure and face, she would obviously look like a middle-aged actor now. Ronald would have doubted whether this was the kind of movie Demi Moore shot when she had no money.
"Daxmn it, how can you make so much money in such a short period of time!"
On the plane, Ron Meyer hung up the phone and complained angrily. It was exactly the same as what Demi Moore said in the movie in Ronald's dream, but in Demi's mouth, there was a man's sentence.
The sound seemed so uncoordinated that Ronald felt strange and woke up.
"What's wrong?" Ronald touched the blanket placed by the stewardess on his body and said to Ron Meyer.
"I'm sorry, Ronald, did I wake you up? Hey, I shouldn't have said this to anyone else, but you are the boss of a listed company, so it doesn't matter if I say it. Stallone's current state is a bit...
Too bad..."
Ron Meyer knew that Ronald and Stallone didn't get along very well, so he told some stories about Stallone's recent behavior to show his loyalty to Ronald.
He talked to Meyer on the phone for ten hours yesterday. Stallone is a very self-centered person, and he wants Meyer to provide him with a film salary that can earn him tens of millions of dollars, and also allow him to regain his
Critically recognized film.
Ron Meyer very patiently explained to Stallone what kind of genre films he needed now. But no matter what Meyer said, Stallone would always lose interest in the end. And Stallone had a very bad quirk. After he lost interest,
It would be like pressing the reset button, asking Meyer to think of another way, and start over again from the beginning.
Sometimes, Meyer acted as if nothing was wrong, being very patient and not showing any dissatisfaction. But the resentment accumulated in this way was also very shocking. After talking to Stallone on the plane, she once again encountered Stallone's malicious reboot.
A very well-educated person like Ye couldn't help but get angry.
In his decades-long career as an agent, Ron Meyer's first big client was Stallone. But now, when encountering such a thing, Ron Meyer is a little bit defeated by such a bad client.
After saying this, Meyer seemed to realize that he had lost his temper, so he asked Ronald not to pay attention to his sudden outburst, and then sat back in his chair to read his script.
Ronald didn't take it seriously. For a fool like Stallone, Meyer was interested in the script of Beverly Cop back then and wanted to persuade Stallone to take the role. However, Stallone himself was unwilling to act, thus giving Eddie Murphy an advantage.
.
Now he has to torture Meyer again to get a script that will make him stand up. God may have exhausted his patience with him. Those missed scripts were all caused by Stallone's arrogance and ignorance. Even Meyer can't find them now.
Maybe he has found a new good script that can turn him around.
Thinking of these things, the poor Party B agents had to endure, Ronald also felt that they were very pitiful. No wonder that when they got older, Ovitz and Meyer rushed to escape from the agent industry and go to
Be the Party A.
However, he should not be so arrogant and rude towards Richard, right? With this in mind, Ronald fell asleep.
However, the Demi Moore movie that I dreamed about just now was not continued. Ronald woke up again, 6 hours later. The plane had already begun to lower its altitude and circle, preparing to land at the New Jersey airport.
"Oh my God, haven't you had any rest in the past five hours?" After waking up, the first thing I saw was Meyer there, holding a cup of black coffee in his hand and drinking it down. Two people next to him
He has added many post-it notes to this script and written down his opinions densely.
It seems that he used the time on the plane to read the two scripts carefully.
"Oh, poor Ron. Ronald waved and asked the flight attendant to pour him and Meyer each a glass of good red wine."
"Are you working too hard? You are the vice president of CAA. Is it necessary?" Ronald took a sip of red wine and looked at his script. He could read it if he wanted to, but not if he didn't want to.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Hey..." Meyer looked envious, but he did not continue. In his heart, he was very envious of Ronald. At his status, everyone in Hollywood
Everyone calls him, but he doesn't have to call anyone back.
In New York, Ronald attended a buffet attended mainly by Wall Street investors and analysts. Ed Bastian mainly dealt with them, and he could relax a little without having to answer difficult questions.
Occasionally, people ask him questions, and they are all art-related questions. Ronald is very satisfied with this state, especially after comparing it with Ron Meyer.
"It seems that having a good CEO is indeed very important." Little Bronfman, who came to the buffet at the same time, watched for a long time and then came over and said to Ronald. He was very interested in becoming the chairman of a listed company.
He is very interested, but as a CEO, he feels that he does not want to live the life of Party B.
"Of course Ed turned out to be my accountant. He became a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers at a very young age. If the conditions I gave him were not good enough, he would have gone to other multinational companies to serve as CFO.
It’s my job.”
Ronald raised his glass, implying that it would take a lot of effort to find the right CEO.
"Ronald, who is this?" Ron Meyer "happened" to come over, and then pretended to have just recognized Little Bronfman, "You must be Edgar from Seagram Company
Mr. Bronfman, I’m Ron Meyer, partner at CAA.”
"Mr. Bronfman is my father, you can call me Edgar." After hearing Meyer's self-introduction, little Bronfman couldn't help but feel moved. He is also very familiar with the history of Hollywood in the past twenty or thirty years.
A partner at CAA, Meyer's professionalism is on par with Ovitz.
Moreover, compared to Ovitz, who has a better reputation as a "tyrant", he seems to be much easier to get along with.
Seeing that they both had what they wanted and that they were chatting happily, Ronald walked away quietly, just as his own agent Richard came up to him over there.
"Ronald, Christie Turlington is in New York preparing for ready-to-wear shows for Dior, Chanel and Versace, and she would love to meet you..."
"You know, I'm here to see Helen and Linda." Ronald raised his glass.
"Christie said that there are some new models this year who have great potential, and they also need some protectors like you and her back then..."
"Richard, does it bore you to do these things for me? Am I a high-maintenance customer?"
"On the contrary, Ronald, you are one of the best clients in Hollywood." Richard smiled and pushed up his glasses, "This is not a problem at all. I have experienced it myself, and I also know that CAA stars are very interested in each other.
Those weird and difficult requests for the opposite sex or the same sex that the agent has made... You are simply equivalent to the ascetic life in Hollywood. I have to say, proper relaxation is necessary."
Richard told Ronald that there was no such thing as all the arrangements were in place. "If you are not interested in newcomers, then the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer has also come to New York and will open one of her stores here.
Fashionable Cafe, I think Turlington will understand..."
"Hmm...?" Ronald couldn't help but start imagining, and suddenly became alert. The magic power of Party B is really strong. Although Party A is relaxed, he must be careful not to fall into this gentle land arranged by Party B and think that he is really charming.