Hollywood Domination Chapter 387: The poor get rich

In poverty or in wealth, in health or in sickness, I love and respect you, 'till death do us part - a marriage vow that would probably be changed in Hollywood to 'till divorce do us part', in Los Angeles In Beverly Hills, divorce and marriage are commonplace. Celebrities are used to using prenuptial agreements to protect themselves, but even in Beverly Hills, like Jenny and Cesare, they take into account the timing and timing of divorce when they get married. Couples in this way should be rare, after all, the absolute number of celebrities who really need to use fake marriages to hype is not that many.

This marriage must be divorced, how to divorce? Of course, the most convenient thing is to get a divorce after the Disney shares bought in the name of Jenny enter the lifting period and can be transferred again a few months later, so that all legal procedures can be completed smoothly without making news or attracting some unwanted people. focus on. More importantly, according to the time of Jenny's shareholding and the two-year lifting period, this time point should be after March 2012-in terms of the big movement when they got engaged, they divorced after one year of marriage, no matter the reason Anything will make Jenny a laughing stock. The tacit understanding reached between the two parties was in May 2012. The whole marriage lasted for three years, neither long nor short. The details of how to cover up were agreed upon, although so far, this agreement has not been fulfilled because of the busy schedule of the two.

Although the excuse for the divorce has not been negotiated yet, but anyway, it is a bit too early to discuss the details of the divorce almost two years in advance, right?

"Are you saying that we will start to hype the disagreement from now on?" Jenny asked curiously, this is also an inference from the conversation between the two just now. Of course it's going well, but isn't it a little too early? After all, it's basically separation and divorce after this, which will give people the feeling of turning against each other, which is also not good for you to continue to be CEO in the future."

They have discussed before, the general direction of divorce is still to 'love into family, amicable breakup', unless the two 'personal affairs' are discovered, and the evidence is hard to imagine, they will use love to change Divorce as an excuse, of course, is also convenient for continuing to work closely after divorce.

"There is no need to hype the disagreement," Cesare frowned—it seemed that he didn't think deeply about this matter. The idea is to follow the hype of the Oscars in 2009. We are actively persuading the public to believe in this story. This is essentially a kind of confrontation. You always need to explain the fact that we have been away for a long time. Understand the confrontation, which will also encourage the media to continue to release negative news. They know that as long as they publish a few more reports, they will get some posed street photos. But what if we give up persuasion? The public can imagine for themselves, we will not Give any response, of course, this does not mean that we will not appear in a shot in the future—"

"I see what you mean." Jenny said quickly, "just don't respond to negative media coverage - like Brad and Angelina, it doesn't matter what other people think of our relationship , so maybe there won’t be too many discussions on the day of the divorce.”

"Yes, after all, three years is still not too long for such a grand marriage proposal, and it will always be ridiculed," Cesare paused, "or it can't be said to be ridicule-this kind of scandal is very important to It is commonplace for legendary actresses. Without such a few failed marriages, your image may be too perfect and reduced to falsehood. It is not a big problem to admit that you have failed, but it will have a positive effect on your public image. The benefit. ——Yes, we have had problems since we got married for a year, and the long-term separation made the passion fade too quickly. We are still more suitable to be relatives..."

"Understood." Jenny grinned: it was also good news for her to be exempted from a job that she didn't like so much. "I have no objection, of course, I have to say hello to Judy tomorrow."

Seeing the subtle changes in Cesare's expression, she couldn't help feeling amused - Cesare has always disliked performing in front of the public, although he has no psychological pressure when he arranges for others to perform, "but , this incident has made my evaluation of you a little lower, to be honest, Chesa, I didn't expect you to be such a person."

This sentence was obviously beyond Cesare's expectation, he raised his eyebrows high, and made a startled, even somewhat defensive movement - he raised his hands in front of his body, as if to resist Jenny What happened next was like a joke, which removed all the commercial and formulaic focus between his brows, making him look extraordinarily young, "what?"

"Remember what you said to me every time I wanted to force myself to do those nasty things?" Jenny put her feet under her body, crossed her hips and straightened her back solemnly, letting go Lowered the volume. "Striving for excellence, Jefferson, always seeking - but now, ah, it's going to be staged again, I hate it, hmm... Is there any way I can get away with it? Got it! Let's switch Think about it!"

"But in fact," Cesare immediately defended himself quickly. "The reason why I was able to make a detour is that I came up with another way of thinking. This doesn't mean lowering the requirements on myself—"

Glancing at Jenny, he showed a faint smile, as if he had expected Jenny's reaction, but he finished his sentence, "It's more like an IQ advantage, isn't it? If you're smart enough, you always I can find a second, more labor-saving path.”

"So you mean I'm not smart enough?" Jenny raised her voice.

But Cesare still spoke quickly, "If you still can't understand what I mean - if you still need to ask, I think the answer is self-evident."

Jenny pulled out a pillow from her waist and threw him, Cesare raised his head and laughed, "So, you have given up on defeating me in terms of IQ now?"

After throwing away two or three pillows, Jenny couldn't help laughing—Cesare is really indebted sometimes, and he is even more indebted because he is smart. "To be precise, you aroused my interest in communicating with you with my fists-did you watch the movie? Remember what Kelly said to Tom? It's not a good thing that the boss is too smart."

"As far as Dameng's current equity relationship is concerned, you are my boss." Cesare returned the pillow to her, turned on the computer again, and said in a serious tone, "Are you going to receive some emails? It has been a few weeks since the company's last quarter's financial report came out, but you have been in Yosemite before, and I didn't forward it to you."

Jenny held her head and groaned, but she still nodded in the end, "Send it here, I'll find time to read it—do you have any thoughts on the comic thing I talked about today?"

"It is actually not difficult to set up a comic studio. As long as you are willing to pay a high salary, you can always find an artist." Cesare said. However, if you are asking for my opinion, you can wait for this matter, and it will not be too late to consider after the global box office of "Code Shero" comes out in the first week."

"You mean—" said Jenny.

"Yes." Cesare nodded. "Both DC and Marvel definitely want to eat her. If we form a competitive relationship, it will be more beneficial to us."

Marvel is now the same as Dameng, both of which are Disney. As an investor, Warner is qualified. The price will be crazy - of course, the premise is that the popularity of "Code Shero" is really so high.

"In this case, the expenses will be reduced again." Jenny did not object to Cesare, but said with a slight frown, "We still have a lot of cash in the account—do we have to implement dividends again?" ?”

"At least for now, the company really has no place to spend money without developing the TV business." Cesare said, "It should be a better way to implement dividends, at least before the next payment cycle , we really can’t find any investment projects.”

This is the limitation of the scale of the film industry. Companies in the expansion period are generally short of money, but for Dameng, with limited plates, the current annual output is basically enough to the limit of the existing staff Now, even if we want to expand the number of employees and increase production, we still can’t find suitable projects. The rule of winner-take-all and loser-lose in this industry also limits the company’s endless expansion, so Dameng is now holding the settlement of the first issue of "Avatar" The abundant cash returned, I really don't know what to do with it. I thought it would cost me a little money to open a manga studio, but now I don’t even need to prepare this money. If I want to start a new project, now there are two series of ya movie Dameng, and I am planning to share the comedy film with it. SNL helped make one to test the waters, and there is also "Dragon and Tiger Boys", action blockbusters include the "Shero" series, it is not suitable to distract energy, if you want to develop new projects, art movies and romance movies are two very risky Gao is a big money-loser, for which Jenny's golden finger of the prophet can't play a role at all, and Cesare has not become interested in these two fields for the time being, and found a good script. Meng seems to have nothing to worry about in the next few years, and this will add a lot of cash and I don't know how to invest it.

"You know, it's actually a really good time to do TV shows." When she first came back from Yosemite, Jenny did find it difficult to integrate into life in Los Angeles, but once she got used to Los Angeles, she knew she would go back to After Yosemite, it will take a few days to get rid of these flashy games-however, this kind of game does not lose its charm, just like the success of "Code Shero", this feeling of really affecting reality, It also fascinated her. Jenny moved a little, looking at Cesare cautiously. "Now that we are a subsidiary of Disney, we should still have a lot of advantages in abc. Even if we don't sell to abc, we don't have to worry about no TV station coming to negotiate with the name of Big Dream-of course, the current situation is even worse than the four It was much better five years ago."

Not long after Dameng was founded, before and after Cesare decided to join, the two of them did intend to invest in several self-produced dramas of major TV stations to share the cost of the first season, but due to the willingness of major TV stations to seek investment The TV dramas in the TV series are all smug - they are interested in investing in CBS's "The Big Bang Theory", but this kind of comedy whose biggest cost is the actor's salary, almost no TV station will use it to seek investment, and only those who will seek investment "Edge of Crisis" is a sci-fi TV series with a large investment, and the ratings of such TV series are often not high, and they can't make much money in advertising fees. Dameng didn't come out to do charity, so in the end, he didn't take advantage of this.

However, both of them were newcomers in the field of production at that time. Even Cesare had never really directed a movie, and Jeanne only had some fragmented experience. But now, Dameng can even make "Codename Shero" by himself. It is no longer a problem to make a TV series, and he has a lot of money in terms of funds-the investment for a season of TV series is about 100 million U.S. dollars. It's no longer a problem for Dameng, and they can afford it. And if you can make your own TV series, the first and second round broadcast rights, overseas copyrights, dvd, on-demand and other income belong to the production company, and the big TV stations only buy the first round broadcast rights. The price will also increase accordingly—in a word, Dameng now has the right to enjoy the first-class contract. Even if abc refuses to give it, other TV stations can offer a superior contract with an annual negotiated price, not like some small productions Just like the platform, a low-price contract lasts for several years, even if the ratings are good, it doesn't have much to do with them. For Dameng, now is an ideal time to enter the game, except...

"Adding a TV drama production company is of course a good idea, but it is really difficult for us to find suitable management candidates at present," Cesare shook his head, "The employees in both the distribution department and the production department are too young, and for For the person in charge of a subsidiary company, recruiting through headhunting seems too rash."

A CEO who can handle the company's daily administrative affairs and has excellent professional ability is indeed not so easy to find. Jenny's lips moved a little, but she didn't say a word: In fact, the most reasonable way is of course for her to take care of it for a period of time For Dream Movies, let Cesare catch Big Dream TV, wait until Dream TV is on the right track, or select, or hire suitable candidates from outside, and then return to Dream Movies to take the helm. However, that also meant that she could not make films for a long time, and this was indeed unacceptable to her.

"Then let's implement the dividends first," she breathed out, and said with some guilt: With the relationship between the two now, Jenny no longer needs to worry that Cesare will **** the dominance. On the contrary, now This dominance has long been a heavy burden, and what they are arguing about is who should bear less—and although Cesare has never expressed his willingness to return to the helm, for her to leave the company's business and go to win Meidi didn't complain at all about her actions, but because her private career affected the company's development, she still felt a little bit uneasy about her conscience. "At least for half a year, we don't have to worry about this problem."

By early next year, "Avatar"'s DVD income, TV broadcasting rights, peripheral dividends and other dividends should be paid in full, and that means a lot of cash.

Cesare nodded, and didn't catch what Jenny deliberately said, and pursued the TV series, "Remove the expenses of "Dragon and Tiger Boys" and leave a fortune for SNL comedy, of course And the publicity expenses of "The Hunger Games", we should be able to get more than 60 million dividends."

As for the rest of the payables, they all come from their sources—this is why Jenny needs to read the financial report. A company of this size has money transactions almost every day. Without the financial report, it is absolutely impossible for her to understand it now. Big Dream's financial profile.

"That's more than 30 million yuan per person." Jenny hummed, "How do you plan to spend it?"

"Diversified investments." Cesare revealed an unsurprising answer, "Although the stock market is in a downturn, it is also a good time to enter the game. In the long run, stocks, bonds, and funds are still anti-inflation Great tool."

"It's almost the same as what Jin told me—are you sure there is no possibility of losing money?" Jenny asked—after years of hard work, after "Avatar", she finally completed her own transformation. Deposits are always stretched. When you have sufficient cash, you need to consider the proposition of "fighting inflation", which is exclusive to the rich. "I think that in my assets, the shares of stocks are already quite a lot, you know, shares of Disney, shares of Big Dream-I want to try something different."

"You mean?" Cesare raised his eyebrows curiously, as if he didn't expect Jenny to have this side.

"Why do you think of me like that?" Jenny said defensively, "Can't I have my own opinion about investing? I didn't have money before—"

She couldn't continue acting, she chuckled lightly, "It's a thought that popped up tonight, I think—my gut feeling——"

She laughed a few times before saying, "Tell me, mobile apps are still quite profitable, just tonight at the party, I met a man named Charles Colin, he said he was tikt- recently The founder of the ticket-buying app whose mobile phone is quite popular, of course, is also my fan, and we chatted speculatively. He said that the company is preparing to raise a round of financing recently, and it feels like this is a good opportunity. What do you think? "

"I've heard of tikt," Cesare said noncommittally, he opened his calendar and glanced at it, "I'm free for lunch this Thursday, give me his phone number, and I'll have lunch with him. "

"—Uh, good." Jenny said, she was a little surprised: Although the two are now a husband and wife in name, they are still financially independent from each other. This kind of investment behavior is not Cesare's responsibility. Now he The intersection with Jenny's personal acting career, except for the occasional guest role as a planner for her, is actually less and less. Even out of friendship, Cesare doesn't seem to be directly involved in such a deep character. It would be more in line with his style to recommend a pretty good financial planner, just like he recommended her to Maggie. ...

He lowered his head and rummaged through the Kun bag. Jenny wanted to make fun of him, but she looked at Cesare's side face and hesitated. Embarrassed and odd, he silently offered Charles' business card with both hands.