Chapter 682 'Friends' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'
The press conference held by Phantom this time was obviously of a higher level than other press conferences.
The largest newspapers in the United States, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News, all came to Los Angeles to attend the Phantom press conference.
This is a press conference that changes the landscape of the American media industry!
The New York Times used this headline to describe this press conference!
And Linda did not disappoint everyone. The first content announced at the press conference was enough to attract everyone's attention!
"After Phantom Entertainment acquires ABC Television Network, it will formally reorganize and form Phantom Media Group, which belongs to Phantom!"
Although it is no longer a secret that Phantom Entertainment will form its own media group, when the news spread, it still shocked many reporters!
"After the reorganization, Phantom Media will reorganize its existing subsidiaries and establish the Phantom Media headquarters..."
Linda then announced the organizational structure of Phantom Media.
The original Phantom Entertainment was renamed Phantom Pictures, and will be specifically responsible for Phantom Media's core business and the development of the film industry. At the same time, Linda announced the movies that Phantom Pictures will invest in and shoot in the next year and its upcoming movie plans.
Marvel Entertainment has also officially changed its name to Marvel Studios. However, Marvel has not produced its own movies in the past two years. This is what many reporters expected. After all, movies based on comic book heroes are not very popular in North America.
At the same time, Phantom Media separated the distribution department and re-established a distribution company called Phantom Publishing.
Since the abc television network had just been acquired, Linda did not announce her decision to replace the management, and even highly recognized the previous management's management of the abc television network.
As for whether the management will be replaced after Phantom Media completely controls the ABC TV network, that is a matter for another day!
Subsequently, Lane Publishing, Toy Biz Toys, Oceanwide Cinemas, and Hera Agency will all reorganize and reconstruct their businesses to a certain extent, cutting off unnecessary departments and retaining their core businesses.
The studio and Phantom Cinema will be completed next year!
Finally, Phantom Media will also set up its own sports department to manage its four sports clubs!
Every word Linda says will be conveyed to audiences across the United States as quickly as possible through the reporters present today.
If a large consortium with assets worth over US$20 billion wants to reorganize, it cannot be solved by simply holding two meetings.
This involves going through countless group meetings, and at the same time measuring the emotions of each company and the relationship between them. This will be a very powerful test for Linda.
In fact, it took three months for the restructuring of Phantom Media to be completed, but the results also made every shareholder of Phantom Media very happy.
After the reorganization, the market value of Phantom Media is not a simple addition calculation of 11=2, but the result of 11>2!
When the restructuring of Phantom Media was completed in May, the latest valuation given by Wall Street also reached a valuation of US$30 billion!
This is why many businessmen like to use mergers and acquisitions to expand their business territory. There are too many intangible assets involved!
Time goes back to February!
After holding the press conference of Phantom Media, Linda found Wu Jianye again!
This time Linda found Wu Jianye to step down as CEO of Phantom Pictures.
At this time, Linda was already the CEO of Phantom Media, so naturally she could no longer serve as the CEO of Phantom Pictures.
"These are the candidates I have listed. Please take a look at their information!" Linda recommended the candidates she had listed to Wu Jianye.
Wu Jianye took the candidate information she recommended from Linda's hand.
There were a total of five people who were all senior executives of Phantom Entertainment. After Wu Jianye looked around, he pointed at one of the candidates and said, "Just him!"
The candidate designated by Wu Jianye was actually an acquaintance, Matthew Murphy, who used to be in charge of Phantom Entertainment’s European distribution business!
"Then I'll let him come and see you!" Linda said.
Wu Jianye nodded and said, "You can arrange the time!"
Matthew Murphy is appointed as the new CEO of Phantom Pictures. It’s not just about how outstanding his abilities are. In fact, the five people Linda handed over have similar abilities. When it comes to their contribution to the company, it’s hard to say who is inferior to the other.
Where has it gone?
The real reason why Wu Jianye decided to appoint Matthew Murphy as the CEO of Phantom Pictures was that Wu Jianye was familiar with him, and after getting along with him several times, Matthew Murphy's behavior also made Wu Jianye compare him.
satisfy.
It is enough to have a sense of proportion, know what can and cannot be asked, and be able to successfully complete the tasks assigned to him.
When Wu Jianye acted at the three major film festivals, he simply regarded Linda as his subordinate. Matthew Murphy must have been aware of it, but he never asked about this matter.
And Matthew Murphy really helped the company open up its distribution network in Europe.
As for the manager who was once in charge of the distribution business of Phantom Entertainment, he was transferred to the newly established Phantom Publishing as the general manager.
In fact, just when Wu Jianye and Linda were discussing the group's future development plan, Linda saw two files on Wu Jianye's desk. She was so familiar with such files that Wu Jianye almost
Every time a big-selling movie script is released, it will be packaged in this kind of file.
So after the two of them talked about the development plan of Phantom Pictures, Linda pointed to the file on the table and said with a smile on her face: "This is it?"
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "This is a variety show plan and a TV series script that I wrote for ABC. Pick it up and have a look!"
Linda was slightly stunned. She originally thought it was a movie script, but she didn't expect it to be a script for a variety show and TV series prepared for the ABC TV network!
However, out of trust in Wu Jianye's screenwriting ability, Linda read the script of the TV series first!
"Friends"?
If you asked friends who liked watching American TV series in the era when Wu Jianye was reborn, what American TV series are classics, then many people would definitely say "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "House of Cards" and the like.
TV drama.
Or "Shameless", "Sex and the City", "Prison Break"...
But for Americans in the 1990s, there is one TV series that must be mentioned, that is, there were 10 seasons of "Friends"!
Each of the 10 seasons of "Friends" has been in the top ten in the United States, and ranked first among the 100 most popular American dramas selected by the authoritative American media "The Hollywood Reporter" in 2015.
To put it simply, "Friends" is China's "Journey to the West" and "My Fair Princess"!
It is a must-see classic every year.
In another time and space, even if "Friends" has ended, it can still bring $1 billion in revenue to CBS every year, and the six leading actors have signed a 2% share agreement with CBS, which means that the six of them earn everything every year.
If you don’t do it, you can get a reward of 20 million yuan!
Even in the year when Wu Jianye was reborn, Warner Media paid a sky-high price of US$450 million to take back "Friends" from flix!
Of course, Wu Jianye couldn't let such a classic work go!
Linda reads scripts very quickly now, and she finished reading the first three episodes in a short time. Wu Jianye knows the power of this TV series, but Linda does not, but now she no longer
He doubted Wu Jianye's ability to write scripts again: "When do you plan to have ABC broadcast this TV series?"
Wu Jianye thought for a moment and said, "Let's have summer vacation this year!"
Linda nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask ABC to follow up!"
Wu Jianye didn't seem to take Linda very seriously and emphasized: "This TV series will be broadcast as ABC's most important TV series this year!"
When Linda heard this, she took a serious look at Wu Jianye and said, "Okay, I understand, I will follow up on this matter personally!"
Wu Jianye nodded, indicating that he was satisfied with Linda's attitude.
"In terms of actors, I already have a candidate for the role of Rachel. Let ABC choose the others carefully!"
Wu Jianye naturally planned to leave the role of Rachel to his sweetheart Aniston. Speaking of which, Aniston was really very beautiful when she was young.
After the two finished talking about "Friends", Linda read the planning book about the variety show again!
""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"!" Linda's eyes lit up just when she saw this name, and she was much more excited than when she saw "Friends" just now.
Sometimes a name can make people want to read more.
Whether you are doing a variety show or writing a novel, the name is very important. This is why later generations of Internet writers always have to rack their brains to think of various book titles when they open a new book!
"This name is very interesting. If I were an ordinary viewer, just this name would make me want to watch it!" Linda said.
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Take your time and watch, don't be in a hurry!"
Linda then read Wu Jianye's plan carefully, and this time it took even longer than "Friends".
In fact, the planning book for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" doesn't have many pages, but when Linda was reading it, she was extremely serious, thinking about how to produce such a program in every aspect.
possible problems encountered.
The only way to relieve worries is to get rich suddenly!
A horse will not be fat without night grass, and a man will not be rich without windfall!
Everyone has the desire to get rich overnight, whether in North America or elsewhere, and now the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" perfectly interprets such an opportunity!
As long as you can answer fifteen questions correctly, you can become a millionaire. No matter what kind of person you are, you will definitely be tempted immediately after hearing such a publicity stunt.
At the same time, such a program also gives those viewers an exciting sense of immersion.
When Linda saw the end, her admiration for Wu Jianye in her heart could only be described by Wei Xiaobao's words: My admiration for you is like a torrential river, endless.
This is not an exaggeration at all. Even after Linda read this plan, she could think of the impact more clearly than Wu Jianye.
"The planning of this program is definitely a genius move!" Linda began to use all the beautiful words she could think of on Wu Jianye.
"I really don't know what's going on in your head, such a genius idea..."
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Wu Jianye quickly stopped Linda's exaggerated praise and said: "Since you have no objection to this variety show, let ABC quickly come up with a specific implementation plan!"
Linda's face at this time was like a flower blooming, and she said with a smile: "Don't worry, I believe that when this planning document is given to them, they will immediately establish the project themselves without my urging!
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Wu Jianye laughed. Judging from Linda's reactions to the two projects "Friends" and "Millionaire", it can be seen that she is obviously more confident in "Millionaire", but Wu
At this time of night, I was not in the mood to correct Linda's thoughts.
"Friends" will only let people see her true power after she is officially aired!
If we look at the ratings alone, the ratings of a single episode of "Friends" may not be as high as the ratings of "Millions".
But if you look at it from the perspective of revenue, "Friends" is the nuclear bomb in the TV drama industry. Who knows who bombs it.
In fact, "Friends" is only not as high as "Millionaire" in terms of average ratings, but if you single out "Friends" as having the highest ratings, it actually crushes them all.
In North American ratings records, the final episode of the final season of "Friends" was watched by more than 50 million people, which was only less than the number of viewers of the Super Bowl that year.
The Chinese are not the only ones in the world who like nostalgia, Americans do the same.
At this time, Linda got this car project, and her heart had already flown to ABC, and she was going to take these two projects to ABC's town. Although Phantom has now fully acquired ABC, the top management of ABC has not been replaced.
In other words, they have a very high influence on ABC.
If Phantom wants to truly control ABC, there is still a long way to go.
And now the "Friends" and "Millionaire" that Wu Jianye brought out are the weapons Linda uses to open the ABC barrier!
Wu Jianye saw Linda preparing to leave, smiled and waved his hand, telling Linda not to be so anxious, as he hadn't finished talking yet.
Linda said with some excitement: "Wu, now that we have these two projects, we can recruit our own people in ABC. As long as they are no longer monolithic, it will not be far away for us to truly take over ABC!"
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "ABC is just a starting point for our TV network layout. Do you think ABC is the end of our TV network? No, it is just a starting point!"