Hollywood Domination Chapter 197: Jenny’s progress

"But they put forward some very different opinions on the share." Cesare continued, his lips tightly pursed, "There is a big gap between the minimum conditions that we expected to be able to negotiate. "

In the complicated business world, especially in Hollywood, just sitting down and negotiating between the two parties does not mean that the negotiation will be successful. In many cases, the film studio will be like Cameron. In fact, there are preset answers. Just like now, due to the face of Jenny and the obvious inclinations shown by Cameron and others, Fox will definitely not categorically reject their investment proposal, but does this mean that they will really sink their hearts and accept cooperation? , don't make it a stumbling block? That's too hard to say. For Dameng, their second task is to find out whether Fox has the sincerity to negotiate, or whether they plan to advance step by step, and finally push the profit margin of Dameng to the thinnest, or simply shoot After two episodes, I will make up for the remaining 100 million.

Of course, Jenny discussed with Cesare before and predicted Fox's mentality, so when Cesare opened her mouth, she had some ominous premonition, "What conditions did they offer?"

"Publication is discounted into the cost and shared in proportion." Cesare said with a gloomy expression, "The same is true for DVD sales, and the rest of the doll peripherals, fan meeting income, etc., have to be deducted as usual. Expenditures are recorded in the project budget, and finally we share 18% of the investment scale as dividends."

Not only did they cut the share to 18%, but also deducted the cost. Jenny's face was completely gloomy, "Don't tell me that Fox refused us to join the distribution work."

"You guessed right." Cesare tapped the pen on the paper, calmly and slightly mockingly said, "They don't want to be disturbed by inexperienced big dreams."

"Why don't they just reject us?" Jenny asked, "Does Fox think I'm a fool? Even if I don't have a good degree, at least I have an agent who graduated from a prestigious school-who would allow that conditions? Unless they want to send money to Fox."

Rejecting Dameng's participation in the distribution work, and using the publicity cost to fold it into the film cost to calculate the share, Fox's global distribution report of one billion will not be too much, experienced accountants can definitely make such an account, and What does Dameng use to audit and check the accounts? That's a global announcement. So, it's hard to say whether Jenny's 100 million capital will be returned in the end. She is not a philanthropist. As for borrowing money from Fox for free? Even if Fox promised to guarantee a return of 100 million, she would not do such a stupid thing. A few years of interest-free loans is a rare good thing for the company. What kind of friendship does she have with Fox to help it like this?

Of course, in practice, the cost of publicity and distribution may not be able to make an exaggerated figure of one billion, but what Jenny wants is to multiply the 100 million several times, instead of just getting back a profit of tens of millions , so her bottom line is that she can only get 18%, which is also the share of these capitals, but the global distribution of Fox must have the auditors designated by Dameng and its own employees participate in the whole process, including the publicity and distribution budget. Dameng agrees, otherwise Fox can still black out the share that should be given by falsely reporting the budget and deducting box office profits. ——Of course, they will have a very beautiful contract, but on this big project that is almost a gamble on everything, people who believe that big companies will strictly abide by the contract and act according to their conscience... Maybe they shouldn't start a company at all.

Extraordinary asking prices, paying back the money after landing, business is always going to be back and forth, the 20% they offer is also a tentative price, but this test is still sincere, Fox's current asking price is either Jenny was fooling around, or she didn't want to cooperate at all, and she was about to overturn the table, and Jenny didn't intend to make it easier for them, she reached out and asked for a cell phone at Chesare, "Let me call James-are they really Forgot that there is still a big film company behind me?"

Cesare put the phone on the table, but stopped Jenny from reaching for it, "The threat of James is like a nuclear weapon. It is most powerful when it is not used. Unless Disney really has the sincerity to take over, don't take it lightly." Make this complaint call."

Jenny savored his words and had to admit that it made sense, she was a little embarrassed, "Sorry, I shouldn't be emotional when making business decisions. So what do you think now? Fox and our bottom line It doesn't fit at all, do you think we can resolve our differences through negotiation? Or can we just accept that Dameng can't invest in "Avatar"? To be honest, if Dameng can't invest in "Avatar", I don't even want to act that much."

"I want to hear your opinion." Cesare seemed to have already had a certain analysis and conclusion on this matter, but he didn't immediately force-feed it to Jenny, instead he leaned back and used He said in a challenging tone, "Try to analyze some fresh things for my reference, Jefferson."

His attitude was somewhat provocative, but his body language was relaxed. Jenny knew that this was another random spot-check exam, and now she welcomes such an exam. The days of learning the basics of Hollywood under Ray's tutelage made her feel that her life was still under control and moving forward-making her feel that she was still strong in the face of death threats.

"Well, Fox's attitude is indeed incomprehensible, such a condition is almost a red cloth waved in front of the bull," she said while thinking, "It can even be said that he deliberately hopes that we will be angry-why? Aren't they afraid of losing me? If I wasn't crazy about Avatar - not wanting to do it so morbidly, I wouldn't be able to join the project after hearing such conditions. If they want to push me away, They don't have to do this, there are many other ways, this is the worst way - I am a box office guarantee, a big star, why Fox wants to offend me, their enemy is the rest of the big five - ah - "

She has a clue, "Maybe Fox does not necessarily need such conditions, but they want to see how I will react in the face of such a difficult negotiation situation-I will hold my breath and continue to communicate, announced Do you want to quit the project, or—"

"Or just pull Disney directly and win the project over there?" Cesare finished speaking for her, and he applauded softly, "Excellent, this is also an interpretation I will make .”

Just like Jenny is afraid of Fox's troubles, Fox is also afraid of recruiting a 25-year-old boy for such a big project, and wants to toss this turbulent project to Disney all day long. This move is very cheap. , but it is undeniably effective. Jenny continued to try to analyze, "If I have this idea, Fox will probably give up on me, and would rather bear a heavy loss than tolerate Dameng's involvement. If Dameng continues to negotiate, Fox will not only confirm Dameng's sincerity, Moreover, they also took the initiative and advantage in the negotiation, and things will develop in their favor. Is it?"

Cesare didn't make a sound, but the faint approval in his eyes made Jenny applaud herself, "How should we deal with it... well, we should at least equalize the starting point of the negotiation to the normal bargaining price, instead of Negotiations based on this slave contract."

This is all about the goal, what means should be used to achieve it? Jenny was still a little uncertain about the specific approach and skills. She stuttered for a while, looked at Cesare with trepidation, and said tentatively, "Any business starts with people? Never underestimate the role of people?"

This is a sentence in Cesare's teaching. The corners of Chesare's lips curled up slightly, and he nodded reservedly. "Surprisingly, despite your low enthusiasm for your studies, you are a really good student."

"Okay, then we should find a heavyweight from the decision-making level of this matter now, and let him believe that this is an independent decision of Dameng. Fox is expected to cooperate with movie stars for a long time. I need Fox to show basic respect. Negotiations must at least start according to the rules of the six major cooperations, and at least start with the terms of cooperation between the six major companies and small companies, not in this "Hollywood movie scam" The terms listed——It makes me feel insulted.” Jenny said—Hollywood movie scam is a very popular investment scam in Europe and Japan. There's a Jen script that might even actually raise enough money to start filming, and they're sure to make money—because these naive investors are signing contracts full of these shallow pitfalls from Fox, of course for For outsiders, there is no way to know all this. Their enthusiasm is so great that they will increase investment again and again, which is also the motivation for these scammers to start shooting projects. And once the project is announced to be shut down, according to the terms of the contract, the victim will not get a penny back, and all of this is even completely legal-this is almost the condition that Fox offered today.

"Then what we have to do next is just wait, waiting for this high-level executive to persuade others, change their attitude towards the big dream, and of course apply appropriate pressure at the same time." Jenny said honestly, "But I'm not sure Don't use the James card, well, this is all my answer - where is my score, Mr. Cesare?"

"This is not a solid case," Cesare said, sitting up too - the moment of relief was over. "It's also difficult for me to rate you, because I can't tell what Fox's real intentions are, and of course I can't be sure where their bottom line is and what countermeasures they will take. This is the real business world compared to a simple casting game. / The more fascinating part of salary negotiation-this is a bigger game, even the most capable people can't control everything, everyone can only accept this: the future is hidden in the fog, and any decision is a game between two sides results."

He paused appetizingly, and then continued, "At present, all I can say is that this is the countermeasure I will take. Is it perfect? ​​Maybe not, but at this stage, since we have two If there is unanimous agreement of shareholders, then it can be called the official countermeasure adopted by Dameng."

Jenny couldn't help smiling. Although she had made some important decisions for the company before, whether it was investing in "Avatar" or producing "Prada", the sense of accomplishment that gave her was not entirely based on her own efforts and knowledge It is better to make such a not-too-complicated inference, "Is this the first time that our company has made decisions on public affairs in the form of 'consensus between the two shareholders' that complies with the provisions of the articles of association?"

"Yes, quite literally, you've already started helping." Cesare said in a flat tone of 'that's exaggerated', and Jeanne made a face at him, and he admitted with a chuckle Nodded, "Well, I'm serious, and I'm not being polite—you're improving very fast, maybe after a few more years of experience, you'll be able to really help the company's actual business gone."

The word a few years is obviously not what Jenny wanted, she continued to maintain her twisted grimace, and gave up with a smile after a while, "A few years? You completely underestimate me, Cesare, maybe next year Now, the person sitting at the bottom will become you."

"Really?" Cesare raised his eyebrows and asked with interest, "Your thinking is very good and very operable-then tell me, which high-level should we choose as the breakthrough? "

Jenny froze immediately—although her idea was good, without intelligence support, it was still completely pragmatic. "I'm talking about next year, next year! Not now—but, have you found someone, so soon?"

"I'm still narrowing it down," Cesare said, "but it's not too hard a multiple-choice question if you know the inside of Fox, it's all about the numbers, but in the end it all works out for Your personal judgment, that is, your intuition gives way - a new golden sentence, I suggest you write it down."

Jenny understands what he means. In fact, Cesare has always been like this, relying on rigorous data analysis to build his understanding and guesses about others, and using excellent intuition and courage to control it, but even so, this sentence The words still sounded a little teasing - Jenny's selling of her magical intuition was still in progress, but it was obvious that Cesare was completely unfazed by it now.

"I really feel that you are laughing at me." She muttered while looking for a pen, but she could only accept Cesare's ridicule: There is no way, at this stage she really can only retreat, "About today's Don’t you have nothing else to say? How will the follow-up public opinion be guided? Of course, I know you haven’t held a meeting with Judy, and you haven’t received the data provided by Jim, but I guess you should already have a case..."

While absent-mindedly concerned about the subsequent development of public opinion, she was absent-mindedly thinking about something: an idea slowly emerged from Jenny's mind-she will have nothing to do in the next few months, rather than continuing to attend classes , or fall in love with Chris on vacation (it’s not that Jenny doesn’t like this idea, but for her, a vacation of more than ten days seems to be a bit of a luxury), she can actually do some more meaningful work, for example-personal The producer of "Monroe One Week" - this seems to play a big role in her turning from retreat to pragmatism as soon as possible...

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For Jenny, unless the police miraculously catch the murderer, the impact of this incident will probably stop here. The best way to deal with it is to continue her life unaffected and not to indulge In such thoughts. However, to the outside world, the influence of successive big news has just expanded—it's like after a stone falls into the water, the center has returned to calm, but the surrounding ripples are not so easy to calm down.

"How can such a thing happen!" Jon waved his hands excitedly, "J.J will almost become a character like John Lennon, but the media is still paying attention to her relationship with Christopher— —This is simply ridiculous!"

Her opinion also represents the opinion of most Jenny fans. They have long known that Jenny and Chris are good friends, and after breaking up with her fiancé, Jenny is now in a lonely period. The family can be relied on. Chris dressed up and went to the police station to visit her. The scene of the two embracing is also regarded as a symbol of friendship and family affection. Jenny's fans have greatly increased their affection for Chris, and many people even feel that they It would be nice to be together. ——Although Chris has a rich love history before, this is commonplace for Hollywood, and fans are unlikely to be disappointed with him because of this. As long as he does not take drugs, does not racism, and does not violate the bottom line, Chris’s behavior will be public. I don't think it hurts at all, and I don't think he and Jenny are so unsuitable because of this. It's just that Jenny had a fiance before, and he and Chris rarely met in private. On the contrary, Chris and Josh have a closer relationship, so although some people wrote about Jenny and His fanfiction, but the peloton didn't take it seriously.

Now, when both of them are single, Christopher still decisively made such a heart-warming move. When the hero rescued the beauty and escorted Jennifer, who was trapped in the police station for questioning and bewildered, back to the hotel (in the understanding of fans, Jennifer At the police station, they must have been asked by the police to go there for questioning, just like Jodie Foster after the Reagan assassination, they were all in a vulnerable state of being oppressed by the police and the media, and even in a vulnerable state of secondary injury ), the mood of many fans began to change. They felt that if Jenny could have such a considerate boyfriend as Christopher, then of course it would be the best thing.

As for Chris's fans, they are of course happy to see the development trend of their friendship. After all, compared with Chris's former supermodel girlfriend, Jenny is more ideal in all aspects. If Chris really When I'm with her, I don't feel like playing in the world like I used to. It's more or less like meeting true love and settling down.

Compared to this big news, the fact that Jenny received death threats did not cause any serious consequences, but instead became a topic of curiosity among passers-by. Christopher's fans didn't react particularly strongly to this, although It is also with a condemning attitude, but more concerned about the subsequent development of the relationship between the two.

One side is more worried about the safety of their idols, while the other side is holding photos of Chris embracing Jenny in the police station and guarding her to leave the police station and yelling that they match. Although Jenny and Chris have started to gossip, the fans of both sides love each other Even his idols have no objections, but the fan base has clashed several times. Some radical fans have appealed under the news for Josh to come back to visit his ex-fiancée who is in need of him. It is clear that they want the two to get back together.

Clicked on the forum and took a few glances, seeing the endless event-related posts, Jon closed the page a little tiredly, now she only hopes that the police can quickly arrest this lunatic, or J.J releases some news, To dilute these boring guesses now - however, she was worried that doing so would anger the madman.

"Such a person should be sentenced to death." She has always been very mild-tempered and expressed her support for the death penalty for the first time, because Jon has seen some similar cases these days, and most of the harassed stars paid He paid a serious price, because even if he is arrested, this kind of behavior cannot be sentenced to a severe sentence, and after Stalker is released from prison, generally speaking, the harassment will intensify, just like chewing gum that cannot be shaken off, disgusting and annoying. "I wish God would replace the incompetent judicial system and punish such evil."

Among Jenny's fans, there are not a few people who have similar ideas to her, because the American judicial system is not synonymous with efficiency and justice in many cases, especially in such high-profile cases, even if the criminal is arrested Anyone with a bit of social experience who can get good defense resources knows that it is very difficult for Jenny to get rid of this very dangerous perverted fan through the judiciary, and this is even based on the extremely efficient arrest of the criminal by the police station basically. Rather than hoping that justice will be declared through the judicial process, it is better to hope that God will punish this sinner—or there are fans of Jenny, a high-level official in the CIA and FBI, who will come forward to take over the case and solve the case in a storm. By the way, during the arrest process It is more realistic to "manslaughter" the criminal.

Of course, this idea is just a ridiculous delusion for Jon, and it disappears after shaking in her mind, not to mention that she doesn't have such a social relationship, even if she does, it's the same thing , It is another matter to use it for a strange star. ——However, for others, a similar derivation process leads to completely different conclusions.

In such cases, the police are very difficult to rely on. Even Los Angeles has limited police resources. In this international metropolis where homicides occur frequently, police resources must give priority to homicides. It can be clearly stated , if too many valuable clues are not found within a few days, the case may cool down so slowly and eventually become an unsolved case.

Unless...

Chris asked for leave to go back to Los Angeles. After making sure that Jenny was in a stable mood, and arranged for her to move into his house, he hurried back to England to continue filming. . And Jenny continues to stay in the hotel for the past few days, and Claudia and Mary are temporarily staying here to accompany her—she doesn't want to live in Malibu alone before Chris returns to China. But this morning when she woke up together, she received an unexpected call.

"Jennifer, this is George." George Clooney said brightly on the other end of the phone, "Listen, I heard what happened to you recently-I also heard that this case has entered a bottleneck, Listen, regarding this matter, I think I have some channels to help you...