King of Hollywood Chapter 18: Please leave in a mellow attitude

The morning sun is falling in the yard. The automatic sprinkler is rotating and spraying water. The water drops are crystal clear in the sun. This Monday is a good day again. Thomas Mottola tightened the collar in the mirror and observed it carefully from top to bottom, left, and right. After confirming that there was no problem, he ordered the servant a few words, and then walked out of the villa with a briefcase.

At this time, a car came in slowly. After stopping in front of him, Sam Tanaka, who was driving, immediately got off and walked around, opening the door for Mottola. [m]

"Thank you, Sam, I'm so sorry to let you pick me up." Mottola adjusted his clothes and sat in with a smile.

"This is what I should do. It's my pleasure to work with Mr. Mottola for the acquisition of M Records for more than a month." Tanaka humbled slightly.

"Me too, Sam, you did a great job. Without you, we may have to spend more time and energy." Mottola laughed and made a driving gesture, "Go away , Let's enjoy the victory."

He was so complacent. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the street scene that was constantly receding outside the window. The smile on his face could not stop overflowing. On Friday, Eric Norton, the artistic director of M Records, finally fell to them secretly. In this way, even if the media can get enough funds, they will be unable to return to the sky. When today’s contract is signed, they It was absolutely perfect to hand over M Records completely.

Motola’s mood is getting better and better, and the copyright of the record in MJ’s hands is finally returned to him, as well as the entire M record. Norton said that although the two popular super girl idols adore Adrian, it is not impossible to pull them over. This is really great. The media probably suffered such a major setback for the first time. At the thought of seeing the ugly faces of Adrian and Claude in a few minutes, the Sony Records couldn't help but want to hum a small song.

Soon, they came out of M Records, stopped and met with some of their own leaders, and then gave a few words. Motola then took a group into the building. Then led by the reception staff to the outside of the meeting room.

Entering the spacious meeting room, Mottola froze. Because there are only three people sitting inside, Claude Ron Reese, Adrian? Kewell, and... Penelope Cruz? !

Even Mottola, when he saw Penelope, had a flash of surprise on his face. Did they find out? However, he quickly relaxed, and it didn't matter if they found out. Email could not be used as evidence. It would be a big deal to sell Penelope to them. You can also save yourself a fortune.

"You are really on time, Thomas." Adrian smiled and said hello first, and Claude, who was sitting on the top, also smiled. Only Penelope had no expression on his face.

"Punctuality is a virtue, Mr. Adrian." Although still feeling something was wrong, Mottola remained polite.

"Then let's get started quickly, be aware that wasting other people's time for no reason is murder." Adrian made a gesture of invitation. Then Claude pushed the two folders over.

"This is a very philosophical sentence, Mr. Adrian." Mottola once again doubted the **** of huò, even with the people around him including Tanaka, which is too strange, the other side Only three people come. One of them has nothing to do with this matter. What are they thinking? Doesn't it seem like a total defeat?

"We have already signed. Mr. Thomas, only you are left now." Claude made a please gesture.

Motora frowned, and immediately began to flip through the folder in front of her, even sitting down. Just turned a few pages, his face yīn up, glanced at the smiling Adrian and Claude, and speeded up the speed of reading, Rao is so, he still spent several minutes to finish reading, and then snapped Closed the folder very angry.

"Are you kidding me? Or do you want to use this method to satisfy your pitiful, unwilling self-esteem?" Mottola said unkindly, "If you still have a little demeanor, then Take out the real contract and sign your name, not this inexplicable thing!"

"I think you must have misunderstood something, Mr. Thomas, this is indeed today's contract." Claude said seriously.

"Do you think I am a kid?!" Mottola finally couldn't help but growled. "Or did you treat Sony Records as your own thing, thinking that you can decide my company's affairs at will?"

"Don't move, Mr. Thomas, so let me explain." Claude knocked on the table, still smiling with the hateful look in Mottola's eyes.

"Everyone thought that we had nothing to do with the whole situation before. In fact, they were wrong. The countermeasures have already begun. It is very simple to solve these problems, but they and you both don't know." Claude's tone was very Easily, "You think that joining Warner, Disney, Fox, and telling Viacom to watch, can cause trouble for our acquisition? Well, I admit that it did cause a little trouble, but it's just a little bit. "

"Redstone is smarter than you think, Thomas and Murdoch are also more cunning than you think." Adrian inserted a sentence next to it, with a little disdain and cynicism.

"Before we started, Red Stone, who smelled the wind, took the initiative to contact us." Claude made a gesture, "and then made the right decision."

"A TV series, "Intern Doctor", is expected to be watched by more than 10 million people in the first season. The same is true for "Office", which can also be watched by more than 10 million people in the first season." Adrian was inserted again , Pointedly pointed at himself, "I said everything."

"That's it," Claude glanced at his buddy. "Of course, I won't go into the details."

"Let me show off that there will be no problems, Crow, such an opportunity is rare." Adrian laughed.

The muscles on Mottola's face twitched, staring at them and never speaking.

"Fox is just a bystander from beginning to end. In this situation, they will only extend their paws with full confidence, and then quickly withdraw, trying to use them as a gun, then You have to have enough strength, so it is very simple to let them stop." Crowder continued. "Then, Warner may be a little more troublesome. Unfortunately, they are now constantly involved with AOL, and really have no energy to deal with other situations. Although they compete with us in many places, only a little benefit is enough to let them close. Now."

He said he spread his hands here: "So. The only thing left is Disney. Are they really interested in Universal Music? Or is this just Michael Eisner's complaint? Besides, they are not peaceful inside, Roy Disney recently publicly announced that if Michael Eisner insists on his own way, he will resign from his position on the board of directors, as the only member of the Disney family who still serves on the board of directors, once he resigns. One thing, Eisner will fall sooner or later. So, last Friday afternoon, we have officially acquired Universal Music, but only delayed to release the news today. Just a few hours later."

"So what?" Mottola squeezed these words out of his teeth. His figure that had never appeared on his side made him feel less and less good. "This has nothing to do with today. Any relationship!"

"Yes," Claude smiled grumpily. "I just wanted to say. Some things look complicated, but they are easy to solve. After all, it's just a matter of interest. We can give The benefits of Sony as a whole are far more than the benefits that a record company will bring, even if this record company has the copyright of Elvis and the Beatles."

"Sony Pictures has lost "Spider-Man" but there are other comic heroes, not to mention that we are preparing to make "X-Men" into a large series and plan to invite them to participate." Pause for two seconds Zhong, he continued again, "As for the entire Sony Group, we also have a lot of things that can be exchanged, such as..."

Claude looked at Adrian, and the latter shrugged: "Support them in the format standard of the new generation of high-definition DVD, you know, we have tens of thousands of film libraries, four major film and television production companies 'S profitability is also very good, and at the same time, we are also a major shareholder of Apple."

He made a slightly ironic smile: "Sony’s main business is electronics manufacturing, and the profits of movies and records are at least after the first three-you really think I’m just going to talk about record copyright with MJ on a whim. We? We put you in the plan from the beginning! Of course, your strategy is really effective. It sounds surprising, but you shouldn’t be stupid enough to buy my woman, Thomas."

Adrian haha ​​hugged Penelope's shoulder with a smile: "At the beginning, Pepe told me the whole thing, and then I asked her to use the time we openly invite to trust you, and use it again and again. Some vague information deepened this impression and eventually misled you. The news that we were completely in trouble more than a week ago and even Eric Norton started to shake will surely make you remember, Thomas."

Motola’s face became more and more ugly, looking at Penelope, who was always expressionless, his eyes seemed to be about to burst into flames, his hands clenched into fists, and it took his strength to reach his mouth. "

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"Of course, Eric also helped a lot. If it wasn't for him to work with you, we would get back all the equity and cross-share at most, instead of having a seat on the board of Sony Records as now." Adrian continued with a smile, "As for the funds, don't worry, I called my uncle and it was resolved. He is a very responsible and decent person, I just moved him in one sentence: You want these in American culture The precious heritage that holds an important position in China is in our hands? Or is it given to a group controlled by Japanese funds?"

At this time, several people who have followed this contract have already read this contract. As Thomas Motola’s cronies, they all turned pale. Especially Sam Tanaka, most of this plan was planned and implemented by him. Once Mottola signed it, he must leave. However, Mottola still seems unwilling, he gritted his teeth and looked at Claude and Adrian: "I will not sign, I will bring it to the board..."

But they didn’t give him any chance, Claude interrupted him directly: "Okay, Thomas, this is useless, you know very well, you have lost, the people you have to wait for will always Will not come, and the people behind you have just secretly called Sony Records over the phone to verify. Signed, at least you can also step down decently; no sign. Not only will the board of directors be directly deposed, all benefits will be great The range has shrunk. Neither we nor Sony will give you a chance."

"The board of directors is not just our request to hide information from you. You have to understand, Thomas," Adrian also smiled at the moment and his tone became unkind. "So, please sign this contract and then leave here in a mellow manner."

Motora's mouth twitched twice, no more like the previous rage. The whole person instantly seemed to be several years old, silent for several minutes, and finally opened the contract in front of him and took out a pen. Shivering and signed his name on it. Then, leaving behind the pen and turning around without saying a word, some stumbled away from the meeting room, and the few people left watching me and I saw you, and finally retreated out in vain. Tanaka was ashamed.

"You are too mean, Ed." After they left, Claude laughed, "Leaving here in a rounded manner? Oh, I think this may be the most popular non-swearing word this year. Way of cursing people."

"Why are you so polite with him. Crow, although in the end we won. This guy still caused us a certain loss. To be honest, I hope to lose this contract on the board of Sony Records. Go to his face." Adrian said lazily.

"You always have to consider the face of Sony Records. After all, Thomas Mottola is theirs, and has been doing well. If we don’t have enough backhands and cards, he will definitely be treated as a hero. "Claude shrugged, then glanced at Penelope, who was already sitting like a needle felt next to Adrian, and then stood up: "Well, you still have things to deal with, I won't delay you."

As Claude left the meeting room, Adrian stood up and let out a breath, still not speaking, Penelope next to him had already thumped down on his knees, shaking violently in the face of nobody: "Sorry, Ed I'm sorry! I was wrong, my head was fainted before they were gu huò, I just...I just..."

"You just think I can't give you more, right, Pepe." Adrian didn't glance at her, and came to a small table in the meeting room and poured himself a cup of coffee.

"Listen to me, Ed! Listen to me!" Penelope's knee rubs against the ground with a dull sound, and when passing a chair, he accidentally hangs out the stockings on tuǐ. , But she ignored it at all and just looked at Adrian with a pleading, "Please forgive me, Ed! Please! I don’t know why I would agree to it at that time, I shouldn’t participate in these... I really don’t know why... "

The once charming eyes were filled with fear and apprehension, tears began to permeate, and the face of the remorse god, kneeling on the ground with his arms, his head trembling.

"I understand you, Pepe, everyone has ambitions and everyone wants to achieve their own ambitions, which is normal," Adrian took a sip of coffee and finally turned around, looking at Pene from the top Luopu, "However, there are many ways to achieve ambition, some of the risks are small and the gains are small, some of the risks are high and the gains are high, but why did you choose the most risky and the most uncertain but the most What about the stupid kind?"

"I know, I'm so stupid, Ed, please, I'm a fool, please, forgive me." Penelope said in tears.

"Don't do this, Pepe," Adrian sighed and put down the cup in his hand. "Anyway, in these months, most of the time we still get along very happily."

"If...if...you want now..." Penelope quickly squeezed a smile.

"I have always had a clear grudge, so..." Adrian ignored it, took out the checkbook from his arms, and wrote a few strokes and tore it off, "This 3 million is my compensation to you. "

Speaking, he smiled and walked to Penelope who was kneeling on the ground, leaned over and put the cheque along her neckline, and pinched two on the pair of sticks.

I thought Penelope, who got the hint, was overjoyed, and immediately stretched out his hand to hug Adrian's big tuǐ, but the other person turned around and left her empty.

"Then," Adrian, who leaned on the long table, folded his smile, and his condescending gaze became cold, "Get back to Spain, and never let me see you in Hollywood!"

After a few years of intermittent development in Hollywood, Penelope Cruz, known as the national treasure of Spain, suddenly returned to Spain quietly. There were many opinions, and some people thought that she was not used to the style of Hollywood~IndoMTL.com ~ So I still choose to come back. There are also speculations about what major events she seemed to be involved in and had to come back to discover her Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar holding the former opinion.

Penelope said nothing, but announced in a low-key that he would not go to Hollywood anymore, and then received a small production in Spain, and then worked with Almodovar again. But it is strange that this time she did not know why she had a big fight with Almodovar on the set, so that she finally announced her withdrawal from the crew, Almodovar publicly announced that she had become an unreasonable splash fù, and vowed to never cooperate with her again.

But then, Penelope announced his withdrawal from the entertainment industry. Excited people immediately started all kinds of speculations again. A large number of reporters also wanted to interview her to find out what happened. But she seemed to have expected it. Within a few days after the announcement, she and her family disappeared without a trace. No one had seen Penelope since.

Later, as certain things in Hollywood spread, various gossip and rumors began to spread. Some people said that they saw a bartender who looked like her in Barcelona, ​​and some said she was in Amsterdam. Prostitutes and others said that she started a love website and became an adult movie actor. However, these gossips and rumors soon became calm, and after the speed of updating in the entertainment circle was such, it was not long before this former Latin wild rose was completely forgotten by people. Q! .