Hollywood Starts with Animation

Zucker, led by two ace bodyguards, drove to the UPN headquarters building.

All right. A small 4-story building, the kind that is inconspicuous in America.

In fact, the same is true. UPN's ratings are too low, and it has to lose a lot of money every year. Compared with many TV networks under the Viacom Group, it has no sense of existence at all, otherwise Paramount would not be able to sell it. to Zucker.

"Boss, you've come. If you don't come, I'll have to go to your villa in person." Lawyer Zhang Weiwei was already waiting at the door.

Of course, he wasn't alone in waiting.

Beside him, there were several people accompanying him. They are both UPN executives.

As for UPN's original CEO, he was reassigned back to Viacom Group long ago when the company was acquired by Zucker.

"Sorry everyone, just wait." Zucker folded his hands together and apologized.

"Mr. Wald, you are too kind."

Everyone is waiting, including lawyer Zhang Wei, what can they say?

Could it be that he pointed at Zhu Ke's nose and scolded: You are already 20 minutes late? !

All employees of the Operations Department, Production Department, Family Entertainment Department, Finance Department, News Department, etc., excluding the reporters who went out to interview, there are a total of 130 people, and now they are all gathered in the lobby on the first floor. Waiting for the speech of the new boss Zucker.

"Gentlemen and ladies, take it easy, I'm not an ogre!"

Zhu Ke's exaggerated jokes still have some effect.

At least the restless people can relax a little.

After all, in the vast majority of cases, the first thing a new boss does is to lay off some employees.

Although the per capita salary in the United States is not low, the cost of living pressure they face is also extremely high. Mortgage, car loans, insurance, alimony, etc., are all huge expenses. Once you get laid off, it means losing your salary, and the vampire bank will definitely cut a piece of meat out of you.

"Okay guys, the layoffs you're worried about won't happen with me!"

Zhu Ke looked down at everyone and smiled: "Of course, this will not happen in the short term. I will give you two months. Once someone makes me think that you are not worthy of this salary, the result must be to leave, understand? ?"

clear?

Of course they understand!

The vast majority of capitalists are not enthusiasts for public welfare.

At least not Zucker.

To be precise, in addition to tax avoidance, Zucker donated a sum of money and bought a few meals of corn to send to Africa; as for the rest, he did not invest a cent in public welfare undertakings!

Hehe, I don't like donating money to America, you bite me!

"You just understand."

"Before the acquisition of UPN, I also learned about it, the ratings are low, and it loses money every year; the viewership rate is less than 1% all the year round, and even last year, the overall one-year viewership rate dropped to 1%. 0.5%.”

"Tsk tsk tsk~!"

"This rating, even if I don't buy it, is basically not far from bankruptcy."

As Zhu Ke's voice fell, the faces of everyone present were extremely ugly.

They want to rebut.

But the fact is, what is the objection?

Zucker's speech was very brief, less than three minutes in total.

In fact, despite the fact that many celebrities and bosses in the United States like to give speeches and are keen to give long speeches, they are actually still a minority. In most cases, no matter how much you talk, there is no real dollar value. So, Zucker quickly ended his speech.

The next key work is to hold a meeting with UPN executives.

"Boss, the conference room is here.

"A bald middle-aged man said respectfully.

"Thank you." Zucker responded calmly.

Soon, Zhu Ke and the master lawyer, together with all the executives, entered the conference room.

The number of participants was small, only 8 people.

Zhang Wei seemed to see Zhu Ke's doubts, and immediately explained: "Boss, there are 20 senior executives before UPN was acquired, most of them are working in Viacom Group, so the acquisition case Once it was over, they went back to Viacom."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Zu Ke looked at everyone: "That is to say, many departments are currently lacking supervisors?"

"Yes, sir," explained one of the executives.

Then only the remaining 6 executives introduced themselves.

For the 6 of them, before the acquisition, Zucker also did some work. They can't be said to be particularly good, but they can barely do their jobs, and Zucker won't touch them in a short time.

But there is one important point!

UPN now lacks a CEO who can control the overall situation!

It is difficult to transfer Victor over to serve as the CEO of UPN. After a little thought, Zucker rejected the idea.

The recent work at Wald Pictures is enough to keep Victor busy. He simply can't find time to deal with UPN's problems.

As for Zucker himself as CEO of UPN?

Come on!

Don't you know how much you weigh yourself?

Of course, it doesn't mean that Zhu Ke, who has studied for a period of time, is completely unable to take up this job himself, it is because Zu Ke has other jobs to work on. What's more, Zhu Ke, who was a little lazy, didn't want to work so hard.

"I do it in the east, do it in the west, and then enjoy a wave of life, isn't it delicious?"

Therefore, the recruitment of UPN's CEO has become a top priority in the current work.

"Not only the recruitment of the CEO, but also the recruitment of other departments, which must be completed in the near future. Zhang Wei, leave this to you, and you will contact the headhunting company later." Zhu Ke said solemnly.

"Okay, boss." Zhang Wei agreed.

As for the executives of the company, when they looked at Zhu Ke's burning eyes, Zu Ke completely turned a blind eye.

Do you want to be CEO too?

Go dream!

If you have the ability to be CEOs, will UPN's overall ratings for the whole year be less than 0.5% today?

Of course, it is not ruled out that they are capable, because their previous status was low and there was no suitable platform for them to develop.

But Zucker didn't want to wait!

Rather than excavating them, Zucker prefers to excavate the future big cows and small demons that he knows.

......

Back to the villa.

Zucker was alone in the study, writing and drawing.

2% of Yahoo, now worth $40 million;

Wald Pictures, valued at $30 million, is expected to have more than $70 million in cash on its books when the movie "Juno" is settled;

Standard Bank of California, valued at $20 million;

45% stake in Icq, valued at $3.5 million;

......

Well, Zucker is counting his personal wealth.

All together add up to more than 200 million US dollars.

Of course, this is excluding the loan owed to the bank. If you remove the loan, your net worth is also $150 million.

"It's really not easy for me to cross over here!"

While sighing, Zucker couldn't help but think that "Hard Candy" was treated differently by the theaters on the eve of its release, and the number of screens released was seriously insufficient; the movie "Juno" was hostile to the big company Warner because of its popularity at the box office.

All kinds of fuss, Zucker is an acquisition.

The idea of ​​building or acquiring a media empire has become more and more important.

"I now have a film company, distribution networks in several states, instant messaging, TV stations, and surrounding chain stores. Now there are other corners and corners. It can be regarded as a small media empire!"

That is to say, Zhu Ke's media empire ambition has now achieved a small step, and the next focus is how to achieve ***.

《》The second one is delivered!