Heads Up Hollywood

The entire reception will last about 3 hours.

Halfway through, the dignitaries left, and it turned into a big Hollywood party.

At this time, those young Hollywood newcomers who had tried their best to squeeze in finally had a chance to be seated.

When Tang En sent Jack Welch away, he met such a person.

"Wow! Dunn! Oh no, Mr. Walker!"

This pretty crazy girl was wearing a white and holy long dress, with a blooming white flower pinned in her hair, her eyes flashed a bit coquettishly, she jumped up excitedly when she saw Tang En, and ran away inappropriately to him.

Tang En was slightly taken aback. On such an occasion, he had never met such a "disrespectful" girl.

"Mr. Walker, my name is Zooey Deschanel, I'm an actress and a band singer. I acted in "Almost Famous", which was released by Universal Pictures, and I was nominated for an Oscar. His band is also signed to Universal Records. I came here today to get Mr. Morris's permission."

She spoke very fast, afraid that she would not be able to attract Tang En's attention.

The Mr. Morris she mentioned is Doug Morris, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music. He is a very capable manager and he was at the reception.

But Tang En cared more about her—Zoe Deschanel.

"No wonder it looks so familiar..."

Tang En took a few glances at her, and then smiled lightly, "Hello, Zoe, I like your eyes, which are as quiet as a lake and as deep as an ocean."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Zooey Deschanel almost jumped up happily.

Tang En asked with a smile: "You came alone?"

"No... uh, there's another friend."

Then, she pointed at the girl in the red skirt next to her, and her expression changed.

She found that her friend was squeezing her arms forward, revealing more of her charm under the already low-cut neckline.

"Bitch!"

Zooey Deschanel cursed bitterly.

Tang En almost laughed out loud.

The girl's face was also very familiar. It was the actress Kate Hudson from "Almost Famous". She had really big and plump breasts.

It's just that she debuted a few years earlier than Zooey Deschanel, and she wasn't too rash.

"She is very beautiful." Tang En said casually.

"Ah?" Zooey Deschanel gritted her teeth, raised her head, and said in disbelief, "My breasts are prettier than his, but I never show them off!"

Tang En narrowed his eyes slightly, "Oh? Really?"

"It's true!"

"I only trust my own eyes."

Although Zooey Deschanel was not a big girl, she was definitely not a match for an old driver like Tang En, and her face immediately turned red.

Tang En stopped teasing her, and hooked Kate Hudson, whose eyes were full of expectation.

A bright smile immediately appeared on her nervous face, and she walked over quickly.

Zooey Deschanel panicked at once, and said eagerly: "I... I can, Mr. Walker, we can date."

Kate Hudson stroked her hair by her ears, put on a charming pose, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Walker, what are you talking about? So happy?"

Tang En didn't answer her question, looked at his watch, and said nonchalantly, "The reception will be over in two hours, it's too long. I happened to book a suite on the top floor, would you like to go up with me...to chat ?”

"Chat...chat?"

Kate Hudson opened her mouth, a little surprised, and looked at Zooey Deschanel.

Tang En said calmly: "It's okay, if you want to continue attending the reception, I can find other friends."

"Just... just chatting?"

Kate Hudson's heart was beating wildly. This was the first time she saw Tang En, and the first time she spoke, the other party made such a request, which was really embarrassing.

Tang En glanced at her with a faint smile.

No one is stupid, you can just chat here, do you have to go to the guest room upstairs?

Both of them had heard of Tang En's name.

Zooey Deschanel took a deep breath, took Tang En's arm, and raised her chin, "Okay, I also want to chat with Mr. Walker for a while."

"Let's go." Tang En smiled at her and walked towards the elevator.

After a while, I heard a rush of high-heeled shoes behind me.

Tang En just hooked the corner of his mouth, and turned his head with a surprised expression, "Kate?"

Kate Hudson clutched her chest, just like Zooey Deschanel just now, took a deep breath and forced a smile on her face, "I also want to... chat with Mr. Walker a little longer sentence, can you?"

Zooey Deschanel was disgusted, contemptuous, and cursed a hundred times in her heart: "Bichi!"

It might be a sweet process to "chat" alone with Tang En.

But adding another woman would be too annoying.

Tang En was of course very satisfied with the result, and smiled happily, "Okay, welcome!"

You can relax again.

...

On September 2, the U.S. Department of Justice officially issued a notice that Tang En Pictures' acquisition of some assets of Vivendi's entertainment department complied with laws and regulations and passed judicial review.

Universal Pictures, Universal Music, USA Television Network, Blizzard, and Houghton Mifflin Press have officially become Twain's company!

Tang En also immediately felt the ecstasy brought about by the great merger.

Congratulatory calls kept coming into his office.

Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks sincerely said: "You fulfilled my dream that I didn't! Congratulations!"

Bob Shea of ​​New Line Films said with emotion: "You have set an example for all independent film companies in Hollywood."

Even Tom Cruise called Tang En for the first time. He first apologized for not being able to attend yesterday's reception, and then sincerely congratulated Tang En.

With Tom Cruise's personality, Dunn could tell that the call must have been urged by the brokerage company.

MGM has entered the auction market, half of the "credit" is John Wu's "Windtalker", and half of the "credit" is Tom Cruise.

Since they worked together on "Mission: Impossible 2", both of them have encountered serious career crises in Hollywood.

In the afternoon of that day, Tang En set up an inspection team to inspect these newly acquired companies.

The first stop was Universal Pictures, which is less than 50 kilometers away from Tang En Pictures' new headquarters park.

The inspection team included Bill McNick, Brandy Norris, West Cotton, Tosca Musk, Moritz Eckhart, James Summers, Glenn Moore Gan, Ira Fisher, et al.

As a consultant, Jack Welch also needs to understand these new assets.

Tang En has been cooperating with Universal Studios for the past few years, and he has been to Universal Studios for countless times.

But this time the feeling is completely different from the past.

This time, he will visit the world as the master!

Ron Meyer, chairman of Universal Pictures, followed him and introduced the company to him in detail.

Tang En met with the heads of various departments, and inspected the film production department, TV production department, marketing department, home entertainment department, copyright department and other departments.

Also check out the employment contracts of Lon Mayer, Donna Langley, Adam Ferguson and more.

This link made the senior officials of Universal Pictures very nervous.

Everyone knows that after this big transaction is completed, there will be a large-scale corporate restructuring.

This means that some people will be promoted, some will be demoted, and some will even be fired directly.

Bill McNick stood behind a figure to Dunn's left, read these employment contracts, frowned, and said in a cold tone, "No wonder Universal doesn't make any money!"

This sentence is very heavy.

In order to maintain the internal stability of Universal Pictures and avoid the turmoil of Columbia Pictures, the French paid the senior executives of Universal Pictures 10%-20% higher salaries than the industry generally.

The high-level executives of Universal Pictures looked a little ugly.

Tang En nodded and said, "The salary structure must be unified as soon as possible."

Bill McNick looked around at the management of Universal Pictures, and said lightly: "You don't have to worry, even if there will be some salary cuts, it must be in line with the general environment of Hollywood."

Tang En frowned and looked back at him.

This Bill McNick, feels like talking too much today?

But after thinking about it, it became clear that Bill McNick was the president of Dunn Pictures, and these people in front of him were all executives of Universal Pictures, so this was to show off their prestige, right?

Tang En was a little dissatisfied.

His boss hasn't commented yet.

Bill McNick can't wait?

Jack Welch is well-informed. He knows that internal stability is the most important thing when it is not a power struggle. He smiled and smoothed things over: "I am critical of many mergers and acquisitions that have occurred over the years. But I think, The merger of the two companies is the most sensible choice from both a financial and an operational point of view.”

Lon Mayer smiled and said: "Yes, not to mention the combined advantages of production and distribution, tax alone can save tens of millions of dollars every year."

Adam Ferguson said right away: "Last year, the turnover of Universal Studios was as high as 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. In the first three quarters of this year, it has already exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars. If we have the trademarks of Marvel and Pixar, we can completely seize more There are a lot of tourism and vacation markets, and it is a challenge to Disney."

This is to demonstrate the value of "Global"!

Bill McNick directly poured cold water on it, "Last year, Disney's revenue through the tourism and vacation segment was 6 billion US dollars, which is 5 times that of Universal Studios!"

Tang En waved his hand and said: "Traveling is an important direction, and we must increase investment in the future. Let's go, go to the distribution department to have a look."

In his view, Universal Pictures has too many flaws and needs a lot of adjustments.

Not only does Universal Studios need adjustments, but the distribution department also needs a huge overhaul.

It is true that Universal Pictures has a global distribution channel, but the scale is much smaller than that of Disney, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox. In some countries, the distribution channel is shared with Paramount, and in some countries, there is no distribution branch at all.

It is true that this will reduce costs, but it will also severely restrict the influence of the "Global" brand on a global scale.

To change!