Heads Up Hollywood

Tang En was very vigilant.

The merger between AOL and Time Warner is the biggest tragedy in the history of American companies.

In the early days of the merger, Ted Turner, as the company's largest individual shareholder, once had a stock market value of $10 billion, becoming one of the richest people in the world.

Soon, as the stock price fell day by day, 80% of the property was wiped out, and the speed of wealth depreciation was equivalent to a decrease of 10 million US dollars in one day, which lasted for 2 and a half years.

This long process of evaporating wealth can be imagined as mental torture for an old man in his sixties.

While the wealth has been greatly lost, Ted Turner's personal life is also very unfortunate.

His ten-year marriage to movie star Jane Fonda came to an end when his youngest daughter's child died prematurely due to a genetic defect.

Such an old guy whose life is full of ups and downs, can still make such self-deprecating jokes in front of Tang En, which shows how powerful he is.

"You mentioned aol America Online, I suddenly remembered, recently...Netflix is ​​increasing day by day?" Ted Turner's cloudy eyes were shining brightly.

Tang En responded calmly: "Yes, the price has been reduced, and the user growth is relatively fast."

"How many users?"

Ted Turner didn't seem to care about this kind of internal privacy, and asked openly.

After a moment of hesitation, Tang En said calmly, "More than 7.2 million."

"Not a lot!" Ted Turner shook his head. "How about this, why don't AOL and Netflix reach a cooperation? AOL has more than 30 million users."

Tang En's expression changed slightly.

Old guy, you really have no good intentions!

It is true that aol America Online has 30 million users. However, with the rise of the Internet, more operators, suppliers and service providers have emerged.

Aol's performance and the number of users have been declining year after year.

Even, AOL Time Warner is studying the name change, requesting to change the name of the group company back to Time Warner.

aol...completely cumbersome.

Furthermore, aol's reputation is really bad!

Not to mention the Great Merger of the Century, the content services provided by aol America Online... also have a very bad reputation.

AOL was born when the Internet was just emerging.

What was the purpose of Internet users at that time?

Seventy-eight times out of ten, it's to watch free adult videos!

Correspondingly, it also brought aol America Online's reputation bad.

In the US, if someone says "I'm using aol America Online", it's like saying "I'm watching porn".

Letting aol AOL cooperate with Netflix, isn't this hacking for Netflix?

What a fart the user is using!

Let aol AOL users come to Netflix to watch adult videos?

America Online's business, within AOL Time Warner, is about to become the target of public criticism. Would Tang En foolishly include the hugely popular project Netflix?

Go dreaming!

"Hehe, that's unnecessary. Netflix has just reached a cooperation with Google, so there is no need for the help of AOL." Tang En tried his best to decline.

Ted Turner is not an ordinary person. If he can not offend, he will not offend.

As a media tycoon, Ted Turner single-handedly created the tbs television network, cnn news network and tnt television network.

Especially the cnn news network, which is the most famous TV news station in the world!

However, how did the CNN news network grow up?

In the early 1980s, Ted Turner proposed the concept of a cable news network, and public opinion was in an uproar.

As we all know, there is no money in TV news, and news programming has always been a public service in order to comply with FCC regulations. But Ted Turner wants to make news, and it will be broadcast 24 hours a day, and it will be profitable. Isn't this the biggest joke in the world?

The results of it?

Ted Turner sued the FCC, arguing that the official organization interfered with the freedom of the press. Then they sued the White House Press Office, arguing that they violated the "Fair Trade Act."

The lawsuit went all the way to the Federal Supreme Court, and after the verdict, Ted Turner won a big victory!

The cnn news network came into being.

However, how can CNN News Network beat the news services of established free TV stations like CBS, ABC, and NBC?

Ted Turner and the Bush family, have a close relationship.

During the Gulf War, the US military ordered all foreign journalists to leave the country!

The international signals of news from the three major TV stations were all interrupted.

Only cnn news network has obtained the charter qualification to stay and report on the Gulf War!

During the gulf war, cnn news network relied on the most advanced communication technology to make audiences in 150 countries and regions around the world become witnesses of this war that attracted worldwide attention.

The bombing of Baghdad by multinational forces and other live reports has become a household scoop.

The cnn news network became famous in one fell swoop and attracted worldwide attention!

It is precisely because of this incident that Ted Turner, the boss of CNN News Network, became Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1991.

This also led to the merger of Time Warner and Turner Group.

Now, Bush Sr. has stepped down, and Bush Jr. has come to power again.

Ted Turner's background relationship is very strong, if you can not mess with him, don't mess with him.

Regarding Tang En's refusal, Ted Turner seemed to have guessed it, his face was calm, he nodded slightly, and said meaningfully: "The box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is very high!"

coming!

Still here!

Tang En's heart skipped a beat, and he pretended to be humble and said: "No, hehe. The box office of "Harry Potter 2" is good, but compared with "Lord of the Rings 3", it's not far behind."

The corner of Ted Turner's mouth hooked, and he said lightly: "How many movies will New Universal release next year?"

"About 50, there is no Varnado." Dunn responded with a smile.

In the past ten years, Warner Bros. has released between 50 and 60 films per year; the second echelon is Disney, Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Paramount, with around 30 films per year. The last one is MGM, which has 10-15 films per year, and its operating conditions are not even as good as Warner's New Line Pictures.

However, after Tang En integrated Universal Pictures, Tang En Pictures, Marvel Pictures, Rose Pictures, Focus Pictures, Rampage Pictures, Pixar, Sillywood and other film companies, the overall volume has surpassed Warner Bros. .

If you include MGM, which is about to be integrated, it will secure the position of the boss.

Ted Turner shook his head and said worriedly: "New Universal and Warner have released so many movies every year, and an average of one new movie every week. This may stimulate competition."

Tang En said with a smile: "Competition is a good thing, competition can better promote the development of the market."

Ted Turner took a deep look at him, "But too fierce competition can easily cause huge loss of profits. Because of the relationship between "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the box office of "The Matrix 3" is at least higher than that of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". It is estimated to be 400 million US dollars lower! For Warner, it will lose 200 million US dollars just for the box office share!"

Tang En suppressed his anger and forced a smile, "You can't say that, can you? As early as a few years ago, I set the schedule for the "Harry Potter" series of films. Besides, the schedule of "The Matrix 3" really Is that correct?"

Ted Turner said solemnly: "If I remember correctly, Dunn Pictures and Warner jointly obtained the copyright of "Harry Potter". In the end, you exclusively monopolized the copyright. Can you give an explanation? ?"

A look of anger appeared on Tang En's face. He looked at Barry Meyer beside him, and said displeasedly, "You should be very clear about this matter, right? Tang En Pictures paid a very high price for this!"

"It has nothing to do with him!" Ted Turner waved his hand, did not give Barry Meyer a chance to speak, and immediately started playing rogue, "I know, isn't it the copyright of "The Chronicles of Narnia"? You use Half of the copyright of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series has obtained all the copyrights of "Harry Potter". However, we paid a copyright fee for this, a total of 5 million U.S. dollars!"

"Since I know, why do I still need to ask?"

Tang En's tone was already very bad.

I am really disgusted with this kind of old guy who relies on selling old things.

Before there was Summer Redstone, and later there was Ted Turner. How come people in that era are all virtuous?

Ted Turner said coldly: "Young man, are you bullying me, an old guy who can't understand the situation? The "Harry Potter" series of movies are all very popular, but "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" Experienced a fiasco at the box office! Are these two movie series at the same level?"

"What do you mean, black and white, you still want to breach the contract?" Tang En narrowed his eyes.

Ted Turner said indifferently: "Breaching the contract is not a deal, it's just that the deal a few years ago caused too much loss for Warner. This is not a fair deal."

"Oh! It's not fair?" Tang En held back his anger and stared at him, "Ted, it seems that the fairness in your eyes is different from the fairness we generally understand? Barry, what do you think?"

"Hehe, there is something to discuss."

Naturally, Barry Mayer wouldn't be as rude as Ted Turner, pretending to be a good old man.

For him, Ted Turner became the best. No, and there is no need to offend Tang En.

There are too many lessons learned!

Warner Bros.'s performance really went wrong, and it was he, the CEO, who was responsible, not the semi-retired Ted Turner.

Ted Turner taught Tang En earnestly and earnestly in the attitude of an elder, saying: "Young man, in this world, things are not black and white. You are capable, but you don't necessarily have the ability to do whatever you want. Wealthy people Earning together is the last word. The food is too ugly, and sooner or later it will arouse public outrage.”

"Like Mr. Redstone?"

Tang En hooked the corner of his mouth, full of contempt.

"you!"

Ted Turner's tone froze, his expression turned cold.

"I'm sorry, I still have something to do, so let's go first."

Tang En ignored Ted Turner's cannibalistic eyes, waved his hand casually, turned his head and left.

Leave no room for maneuver.

Trying to take advantage of me after watching Harry Potter sell out?

Are you dementia? !

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