Hollywood Starts with Animation

Viacom Group.

It is the parent company of Paramount, one of the six major Hollywood, and is the third largest media group in the United States, second only to Time Warner Group and News Corp. A radio station, can be described as powerful.

And, it also owns MTV, an extremely lucrative music television station.

You must know that MTV music television station, but the world's largest music television station, is not one of them, and can provide more than 7 billion US dollars in revenue for Viacom Group every year.

However!

However, at the moment, Summer Redstone, chairman of Viacom Group, was very angry.

"Asshole~"

"This damn bastard~"

"First, my dearest son, Brent, who actually took me to court, suing me, saying that I used a campaign to force him out of the family business, causing a lot of uproar and losing me in front of people all over the world. face."

"But... now what?"

"I never imagined that my most beloved nephew, Michael, would dare to sue me?!"

"And claim $4 billion from me?"

"What are you kidding? Why didn't he say I gave him the entire Paramount Pictures?!"

"Humph~"

At this moment, the 76-year-old Paramount Emperor Lei Shidong has completely turned into an incomparably angry lion, and his majesty still exists for a long time.

One sentence after another accusing his son and nephew!

They were scolded for being ungrateful and disregarding the affection between father and son.

Yesterday afternoon, the district court in Los Angeles opened. Lei Shidong attended the trial as the defendant and saw three people he didn't want to see, and his blood pressure suddenly rose.

Ex-wife: Phyllis;

Son: Brent;

Nephew: Michael;

...

"The three of them are my enemies,

Not wanting to squeeze money out of me all the time, they're vampires, they're disgusting worms, and they deserve to go to hell and be judged by Satan. They should be thankful that this is not the Middle Ages, otherwise I would have slaughtered them knife after knife! "

Lei Shidong gritted his teeth and cursed again.

For a while, the entire huge office was silent, and none of the group executives present dared to speak.

"Dad, you are so angry."

The only person who dared to speak stood up. She was Redstone's daughter, Shari, now 40 years old.

At present, she is also working in Viacom Group as one of the executives and one of the heirs of the old guy Redstone.

An angry Redstone laughed a lot when he saw his daughter Sally talking.

Showing rare tenderness.

"Sally, it's you who loves me dearly. Unlike the three bastards Phyllis, Brent, and Michael~" Lei Shidong said solemnly.

Hearing this, Sally said immediately, "Don't worry, Dad, I'm not my mother Phyllis, nor my brother Brent, nor Michael, and I will always support your decision."

dong dong dong~

At this moment, Joanna, Redstone's secretary, knocked on the door of the office and pushed in.

"Boss, Mr. Jordan from Paramount Pictures, and Mr. Zucker Wald are here," said secretary Joanna.

"Oh?"

In an instant, Lei Shidong, whose eyes were still slightly cloudy just now, flashed light in his eyes.

"Joanna, you bring in Zucker Wald and Jordan. Well, as for the others, Sally, please stay." Redstone ordered.

"Yes, boss."

"Yes, Dad."

Everyone responded, and after a few seconds, only Lei Shidong and his daughter Sally were left in the huge office.

"Dad, I heard that you asked for Zucker Wald to be a producer on the Tomb Raider project?" Sally asked.

"That's right!"

Not to mention it's okay, as soon as he mentioned this, Lei Shidong, who had just put out a lot of fire, burst out with anger in his heart.

"These rubbish..."

Up to now, the performance of Paramount Pictures this year has made Redstone, who has always been dissatisfied with the old and strong, very dissatisfied.

As of the end of September 1999, only one of the top ten films in the North American annual box office was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Moreover, the film "Running Bride", which occupies the top ten rankings, was jointly produced and distributed by Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures, and was not led and independently completed by Paramount.

Paramount Pictures, one of the six majors, do you want the face of being a hegemon?

Is it embarrassing?

Compared with several other companies in Hollywood's Big Six, the performance is far worse.

Let’s take a look at the other films produced by Paramount Pictures on the list. The best film is “Double Crisis”, which can only get a box office of 116 million US dollars in North America, which does not match the top six. one of the status.

More critically... the movie... loses money.

Well, at least but with box office profits, it is impossible to recover the cost.

"As for other movies, hey, let's not talk about it, it's just a small profit. The performance is far worse than the previous year. Of course, last year's performance was not very good." Redstone said angrily.

Anyone could hear that he was extremely dissatisfied with Paramount Pictures' performance.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no suitable talent to take over Paramount, with his violent temper, all the executives of Paramount would have been cleaned up long ago.

Sally wondered: "As the producer of the "Tomb Raider" project, will Zucker Wald be able to achieve a high box office and restore the dignity of the Paramount Six?"

She always felt that Zu Ke was too young and unreliable.

oh my god~

How can a producer in his 20s be so powerful?

"Ha ha!"

Lei Shidong smiled and said, "Don't think that Zucker Wald is young, so you can despise him. You are not in charge of the group's film and television entertainment projects, so you don't know him well enough."

"But!"

"Looking at his work as a screenwriter and producer, whether it is the early "Lola Run", or the recent "Spartan 300 Warriors", or even the animated film "Finding Nemo", it is a rare one. The boutiques I have seen have achieved high-yield box office results.”

After a pause, he added, "If he doesn't have the ability, how can he become the youngest billionaire?"

Of course, there was one sentence that Redstone didn't say.

The "Tomb Raider" project was originally a game project. Paramount Pictures obtained the copyright of film and television adaptation, and Zucker once asked Paramount to buy it.

As a result, there is no suspense of course... rejected.

Zucker, who smells blood like a shark, is naturally unwilling to simply give up. After a lot of hard work, he will definitely invest in capital and join the project of "Tomb Raider".

"Although this guy is asshole and shameless, Zucker has a good vision. Maybe the project of "Tomb Raider" has a head start?"

The executives of Paramount Pictures have speculated.

Thanks to the explosion of "Finding Nemo" not long ago, Paramount's boss Lei Shi Dongfang proposed to let Zucker join the "Tomb Raider" project as a producer.

Well, throughout the buying process, Zucker looked like a fool.

But in fact, Zucker also has bad intentions and ulterior motives.

dong dong dong~

The knock on the door sounded again.

"Hey, Zucker, you're finally here!" Redstone stood up to welcome him and gave Zucker a big hug.

Of course, Zu Ke was also hypocritical.

"This is my daughter Sally, my best heir." Redstone introduced his daughter.

When Zucker saw it, he was immediately happy.

The best heir?

be funny~

Lei Shidong recently had a lawsuit with his ex-wife, son, and nephew for the property. Zu Ke paid a lot of attention and became a melon eater.

As for Lei Shidong's daughter, who is the best heir Sally in his mouth, Zu Ke is a transmigrator, but he knows that in 2012, Lei Shidong and Sally, the father and daughter, had a fierce fight, It caused a lot of uproar, much more turbulent than the previous family turmoil.

Even, the two broke openly, claiming that they would never be in contact with each other!

"Tsk tsk tsk~ precious father-daughter affection, but there will be times when you will be torn apart in the future." Zu Ke secretly laughed.

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