I’m in Hollywood Chapter 901: If you want to listen

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Eric ended the call with Amy · Pascal at noon, and flew to San Francisco in the afternoon.

In addition to visiting the assembly plant of Fireflyer, Eric is most concerned about the development progress of several products in the Firefly electronic plan.

For any high-tech company, product marketing is important, but technology and patent reserves are the basis for a high-tech company to survive. Therefore, Eric deliberately asked Victor McNeilly to introduce the research and development achievements of Firefly electronics in recent months. Although the first generation Fireflyer player is quite popular, there are still many areas for improvement in terms of battery durability, storage capacity, audio decoding, etc. The reason why Eric has always let Victor McNally, who is mainly responsible for technology research and development, as the CEO of Firefly Electronics, is also vaguely showing his fundamental attitude to the Firefly electronic business strategy.

Return to Los Angeles, the time is already seven o'clock in the evening.

Eric got off the plane with Kelly, just left the Santa Monica airport by car, and planned to send Kelly home first, then return to Cliff Peak Manor, the phone in the pocket rang.

Kelly sat beside Eric, hung up the phone after listening to a few words with him, and asked, "Eric, or Metro Goldwyn Mayer?"

Eric put the phone away and nodded: "Pierre Truk refused to leave and was still consuming it in Century City, saying he must see me today."

"Otherwise, shall we go over and see?"

"I will do it myself, I will take you home first."

The Kelly was returned to the residence of Santa Monica Shibei District, and Eric ordered the driver to turn around and rush to the Century City Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters is a building enveloped in tempered glass, located on a not-too-spacious street not far from the intersection of Santa Monica Avenue and Will Xie Avenue in Century City. After making a circle around Santa Monica, Eric drove to Century City, the sky was dark, and the shops on both sides of the street began to light up colorful lights.

Just after the car turned into the street where Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters was located, Eric heard the faint noise and looked out through the front window of the car. In front of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer building, the crowd holding all kinds of slogans are shouting, almost completely blocked The entire street.

The driver automatically slowed down the car and turned his head to look at Eric inquiringly.

Eric stared at the crowd for a few seconds, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

True fans usually only run to express their wishes during working hours. Now it is obviously already off hours. According to common sense, most employees of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters have already returned home from work. At this time, who are they protesting to?

Does some people think that they will sell the agent movie universe because of the dissatisfaction of the fans as in the original "The Matrix"?

Withdrawing his gaze, Eric commanded: "Don't worry about them, just drive directly into the underground parking lot."

In front of the building, the crowd noticed that a black car turned into the street, but consciously gave way to the road.

However, the media reporters who have been staying here noticed the striking Rolls-Royce logo in front of the car, keenly aware of what, and gathered around. Some people even boldly stood in front of the car and raised camera, trying to confirm the identity of the passengers in the car through the front window. However, the other party was quickly pulled away by the security guard who rushed out of the building, and Rolls-Royce successfully drove into the side lane of the building. Enter the underground parking lot.

Taking the elevator to the top floor of the office building, Eric hugged the greeted girl and nodded towards Amy · Pascal. Without saying anything, she went straight to a conference room and pushed the door in.

There is only one middle-aged man standing in the empty conference room, about fifty years old, wearing a black suit, with frameless glasses, and a gentle look. I think it should be Pierre · Truck.

"Sit down, Mr. Truk," Eric did not mean to greet the other party, nor did he deliberately walk to the meeting table main seat, pull a chair freely and sit down, looking at the other party, saying: "So , Do you want to see me? "

Although in the Vivendi group is also in a high position, Pierre · Truk still feels a slight sense of oppression in the face of Eric. The ignorant are fearless, and in turn, Pierre · Truck is more able to understand how much power the young man has in front of him in the workplace for many years.

However, thinking of Vivendi ’s senior leadership ’s advice and Richard Lovett ’s promise, Pierre · Truck still tried to maintain his momentum and sat down calmly, saying, “Yes, Mr. Williams, I think we Have to talk. "

Eric looked at him and said lightly: "What then?"

Pierre · Truck glanced at Drew and Amy sitting next to Eric, straightened his body without any traces, and solemnly said: "Mr. Williams, we are very grateful for the changes you bring to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, but We also hope that you will not continue to intervene in the management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. For Metro Goldwyn Mayer, you are only an outsider after all. As the second largest shareholder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, we require the management to immediately withdraw the decision to replace Pierce Brosnan. Will destroy the entire Agent Movie Universe. Although the Agent Movie Universe was built by you, we will never deny this, but we will not allow you to destroy it. "

The Eric finger tapped twice on the clean meeting table and nodded slightly, saying: "Continue, since it is coming, does Vivendi have any opinions on the management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer?"

Pierre · Truck feels that Eric has some pretense gestures, and does not show weakness. He continued: "Of course, Vivendi does not approve of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's continuous purchase of E! Entertainment TV Station in recent months, one-time investment 300 million USD launched the" The Lord of the Rings " Qu and acquisition of Rainbow Media shares and many other rash business decisions. This company is just recovering. In order to complete these plans, the massive issuance of corporate bonds is likely to drag Metro Goldwyn Mayer back into the debt mud. We hope that management can A more robust plan to gradually realize these plans. "

Eric waited for a moment to make sure that Pierre · Truck had finished speaking and nodded again, saying: "Well, since this is the case, Mr. Truk, let me tell you how to resolve this matter. First, as The second largest shareholder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Vivendi has only 16% of the voting rights. Even if all the other Europe shareholders are on the Vivendi side, your voting rights are only 31%, which is not enough to decide anything. So, you have three Choice, first, find a way to make yourself a controlling shareholder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, then you can replace the company Board of Directors and management, and implement all the decisions you want. Second, An’an is the second largest shareholder, accept Metro Goldwyn Mayer has all the decisions made by Board of Directors and the management. Thirdly, if you ca n’t bear being ignored, you can choose to sell the Metro Goldwyn Mayer stock, I can arrange funds to take over your shares at any time. So, what ’s the problem? Is it? "

Eric was halfway through, Pierre · Truck had already had an impulse to lift the table. He felt that Eric was just playing with himself, forcing himself to wait for Eric to finish, Pierre · Truck slowly said : "Mr. Williams, are you teasing me?"

"Oh," Eric suddenly thought of something, and suddenly shot his forehead, saying: "I almost forgot, I am just an outsider. So, if you want to listen, I can make Drew or Amy repeat again As I said, they should be considered insiders, right? "

Pierre · Truck turned to look at the girl and Amy: "Miss Barrymore, Ms. Pascal, are you really willing to let Williams destroy all this?"

Amy's expression was a little hesitant. She turned to look at the two people beside her, and noticed that Eric was looking at her with a smile, her heart sighed, her eyes dodged, but her thoughts were firm, and she turned to Pierre · Truck: Mr. Truk, the decision of Eric is the decision of the management. If you think it is necessary, we can call Board of Directors to vote. "

Four out of seven independent directors of Metro Goldwyn Mayer were all selected under the instigation of Eric. Pierre · Truck need not know which side these people will stand on without thinking.

Realizing that today is destined to return without success, Pierre · Truck's palm on meeting table is clenched tightly, and I don't know what to say for a while.

Eric did n’t want to continue to consume with Pierre · Truck, patted the girl next to him, and said: "Let's go, surely we haven't had dinner yet, right?"

"Well," the girl came over like a kitten and stood up holding Eric's arm.

"Amy, please entertain Mr. Truk," Eric said to Amy · Pascal, and turned to look at Pierre · Truck, the smile on his face remained unchanged, but his expression was converged Slightly cold, said: "Speaking of it, Mr. Truk, some of what you just said is still very reasonable. Metro Goldwyn Mayer should indeed be more robust. So, the" The Lord of the Rings "trilogy is invested by Firefly, Metro Goldwyn Mayer only needs to be responsible for issuance. "

Pierre · Truck was a little stunned, but Amy looked over in surprise.

In fact, Amy also feels that it is too risky to invest 300 million USD in the "The Lord of the Rings" ​​trilogy at one time, and once hoped that Firefly can participate in the investment together. However, she did not expect that Eric would suddenly take the entire project away, leaving only Metro Goldwyn Mayer with a right to issue. However, I noticed that Eric finished speaking these words and glanced at her again. Amy suddenly realized that Eric might have warned her in doing so.

Perhaps, my performance today is too far-sighted and indecisive.

Even if there is no shareholding in Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the entire Hollywood knows that this big Film Studio has always been under the control of Eric. It is also the female head of one of the seven major groups. Amy is well aware that the autonomy it has obtained from Eric is far more than that of Paramount's Sherry · Lansing, which was originally a sign of Eric's trust in her. However, if she continues to lose and lose for the 007 series, she will soon lose the trust of Eric.

Secretly self-examined, Amy no longer hesitated, got up and sent Eric and Drew away, then turned back to Pierre · Truck, who was still sitting on the other side of meeting table, said: "Mr. Truk, the time is already a little bit Late, do I need a car to take you to the hotel? "

Recently, Pierre found that Eric and Drew had left, and suddenly raised some expectations for Amy: "Ms. Pascal, would you like to have a dinner together, please chat by the way?"

Amy shook his head politely, without any reason, but refused: "Sorry, Mr. Truk, if you do n’t need a car, I will send you downstairs." (To be continued.)