Little Ling'er smiled and whined for a while, not sure whether he was talking about something or something else. But something interesting happened. The little guy spread his hands and stretched out to Xiao Ran. Xiao Ran suddenly became happy and lowered his head.

Let the little Ling'er touch it, which is a different kind of satisfaction and happiness.

"Dad!" Xiao Qing was brought over by her grandma at some point. Seeing Xiao Ran holding her sister, she also stretched out her hands: "I want to hug..."

Xiao Ran glanced at Lin Qingxia helplessly, handed Xiao Ling'er to her, and then held Xiao Qing in her arms. Lin Qingxia stared at Xiao Ran with envy, and her mother even narrowed her eyes with laughter:

"This is like a family. Little Ling'er is always so clingy to you, and Qingxia is really jealous!"

Xiao Ran sighed with emotion. He didn't like children before, but now he likes them so much. People always change so much that even he can't believe it. But he has to admit that after having these two children, the whole family has changed a lot.

My life seemed to have a center, and there was a lot more laughter.

On the third day, Xiao Ran and his men appeared in Los Angeles. Many times, the Hollywood that people refer to in general is actually the entire city of Los Angeles. In fact, the so-called Hollywood town only has Paramount and Universal left (actually only the former, the address of Universal's headquarters cannot be found)

(I had no choice but to arrange it here), Universal has a Universal Studios theme park here. This is the Hollywood in the eyes of the local Chinese.

Tom Pylock, the president of Universal Pictures, was very depressed. He did not expect that Panasonic, a wealthy boss, would sell them like this. He glanced at the reporters preparing on the other side inadvertently and couldn't help but sneer. (Silent)

Doc became a U.S. citizen in order to facilitate competition, and the WTO requires China to open its television media market. From this, it can be speculated that in theory, there are no issues such as nationality, so it is assumed that he can enter the television media industry of other countries)

Some people came out of the exit soon. Pylock and his right-hand man looked at each other and felt even more amused. He was thinking that this miracle of the East was so rich that he actually flew with others. It would be better to buy a private jet by himself.

convenient.

It's just that he doesn't feel like laughing at all now. Whether he can continue to stay in this position depends on what his current boss thinks. For this reason, he had to write down the boss's appearance last night, but he always

He felt that all Asians looked the same, so he had to go through a lot of trouble to write it down.

Seeing a familiar young man smiling happily and coming out followed by a group of people, Pylock guessed that this was his boss. To confirm, he took out the newspaper and compared it. Then he approached him and stretched out his hand and smiled.

Welcome: "Chairman Xiao, welcome to Los Angeles!"

Xiao Ran narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the fifty-year-old old guy in front of him with a smile. He knew very well the mentality of this guy. However, he had no intention of getting rid of this guy. After all, without such a familiar person, there would still be a lot of trouble.

So, he stretched out his hand to shake it and said with a smile: "Mr. Pylock, I feel extremely honored!"

The reporters all rushed forward. Countless microphones and cameras were facing Xiao Ran. Sunshine and Monkey separated the crowd for Xiao Ran and squeezed a way out for Xiao Ran. At this time, a female reporter squeezed hard: "Mr. Xiao,

We are reporters from CNN, may I ask you..."

"I'm sorry. You know I just got off the plane and I'm very tired. Let's talk another day, okay?" Xiao Ran smiled kindly and answered in fluent English before getting in the car amidst everyone's questions. This is a car.

Rolls-Royce, something that made Xiao Ran sad the moment he saw it.

After arriving at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Xiao Ran introduced Han Long to Pylock. Sunshine and Monkey checked the room for a while to make sure there were no bugs, and then nodded to Xiao Ran. Pylock was confused.

Looking at the sunshine and the monkey's movements, I don't know what they are doing.

"Mr. Pylock, you are a senior power person in Hollywood. It is Universal's honor to get your help!" After everyone sat down, Xiao Ran stared at Pylock with a smile and said: "So, I very much hope that you can continue to serve as

President of Universal, lead Universal on the road to glory!"

As soon as these words came out, Pylock immediately calmed down. Since he no longer had to worry about being laid off, he looked much more relaxed, thinking that the Chinese still need me to take care of business: "Of course, Chairman Xiao,

I will definitely try my best.”

"However, you know the stupid things Sony did in Colombia, and I don't plan to make the same mistake!" Xiao Ran's expression suddenly became serious. When he mentioned Colombia, Pylock's heart shrank slightly. Xiao Ran said in a deep voice.

: "So, Han Long will serve as vice president, and his subordinates will hold various positions in the film studio."

Pylock broke out in a cold sweat. In this way, it meant that the people brought by Xiao Ran would crowd out some people. It seemed that layoffs were unavoidable. He quickly asked cautiously: "Just in this way,

It is likely to cause other people to lose their jobs..."

Xiao Ran smiled slightly. In fact, he didn't bring many people. They were mainly people who would hold important positions at Universal. Han Long would supervise Pylon. With Han Long in charge, Xiao Ran was sure that it was unlikely that the film would suffer too much loss.

In fact, Xiao Ran has been training people like Han Long for a long time, so that they can gradually adapt to the sales planning in North America. For example, Xiao Ran sent Han Long here shortly after the North American branch was established for half a year to investigate the market and understand the situation.

What kind of movies does the North American market need? Now is the time to put it to use. As for Ge Wenqiu and the guys from the North American branch of Phantom, that is what Xiao Ran needs to focus on.

The next day, Xiao Ran attended the company's high-level meeting. After getting to know the heads of various departments, Xiao Ran said nothing more and asked Han Long to explain the head office's strategy and establish a certain prestige for him.

"The head office believes that Universal can increase its efforts to develop into theme parks. In terms of film production and investment, President Pylock and I will personally finalize the decision." Han Long's name looks very powerful, but in fact it is just a name that looks like a name.

A fairly ordinary guy, but now he was conveying Xiao Ran's will, which made him feel extra sonorous.

"At the same time, the head office's branch in North America will become an independent subsidiary, and we will establish a strategic partnership with this company!" Han Long said in one breath, glancing at both sides of the long conference table.

The senior executive then continued: "The company will develop into theme companies, media and cable TV networks, and will become the largest comprehensive entertainment company in North America within five years!"

Han Long sat down and saw the senior management talking about it. Xiao Ran knocked on the table a few times, stood up with a strong movement, looked around and said in a strong tone: "The American Music Company under the company will be divided into

Split it out and merge with Tianlai Music Company, what do you think?"

No one said anything. This was not a shareholders' meeting. Who could change what Xiao Ran decided? After Tianlai Snake Tunxiang acquired PolyGram, it became the world's largest music company (I ignored it earlier, PolyGram really

Very powerful), if it can merge with Zhan, a music company owned by Universal that has a considerable market, Tianlai will be able to take the top spot in music.

In fact, Xiao Ran is very insidious. He plans to let Universal develop horizontally, just like Disney, using its own brand to develop horizontally and expand into the television industry and other aspects. At that time, Universal can continue to operate, or it can be divided into

Sell ​​it off and keep the theme park and television media businesses.

Don't think that Xiao Ran intends to make a loss-making business. Disney also produces movies, TV shows, theme parks, etc., but its market value reached nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars in the late 1990s. If it operates for a few years, with the Phantom in hand

With the countless creative ideas and scripts we have mastered, we will be able to earn billions of dollars when we spin them off and sell them to Universal.

Of course, if it was Li Ka-shing, he would definitely have done it this way. This is what Li Chaoren is best at. However, since the Phantom Group is centered on movies, and Xiao Ran is not just chasing profits, so the spin-off and sale is just for the time being.

Just a possible idea.

For all the senior executives of Universal, the entry of Phantom into Universal is not necessarily a bad thing. The original old owner Panasonic neither wants to follow the electronic entertainment route like Sony, nor does it want to be dragged down by the film business like Sony. As a result, it did not even provide funds.

No amount of support and caution allowed Panasonic to maintain a situation of neither losing money nor making a profit in the past two years.

The Phantom is different. Everyone here basically knows the existence of the Phantom. The core business of the Phantom is movies. Naturally, the new owner can give appropriate and correct plans in terms of business strategy. And since it can acquire Universal, then

He must still have a lot of money on hand. Therefore, it is obviously good to have such a financial backer.

A lot of things were decided at this meeting. Xiao Ran basically did not perform any operations on Universal. This is the United States, not Hong Kong, which he still knows very well. Besides, Universal itself has no problems, it is just that it was ostracized by its peers.

It's just very depressing.

Xiao Ran's explanation to Han Long and Pylock was very simple. Phantom does not need financing for profitable films, let alone financing for expansion. The head office will fully support it financially. Because Phantom has plenty of money, there is no need to divide the profits.

To others. The first distribution task of Phantom after taking over Universal, and the distribution focus that Xiao Ran continued to explain, was "Jurassic Park".

Different from the situation in Hong Kong and Europe, Hollywood passed the anti-monopoly law for the film industry as early as the 1940s and 1950s. It separated the theater chain as an exhibitor from the film production and distribution companies, and restricted the production and distribution companies to the theater chain companies.

The number of holdings prevents theater chains, distribution and production companies from joining forces to suppress other small companies.

However, even so, the Seven Kingdoms still control part of the equity of the five major theater chains in the United States: Royal, AMC, NewMark, Carmike, and Luce. These five major theater chains, which are undergoing transformation to keep up with the times, account for the total number of theaters and screens in the United States.

The number is at least 40 percent.

Universal controls part of the equity of Royal, New Mark and Luce, and the two together account for about a quarter of the current more than 20,000 screens. In fact, at the beginning of the 21st century, there were 6,000 screens in the United States.

There are many theaters, but there are basically no premiere theaters with more than 4,000 theaters. This proves that these major theater chains are not necessarily monolithic.

Of course, Xiao Ran is not worried about the lack of distribution channels for Universal's films. After all, the Royal, New Mark and Luce combined have more than 2,000 theaters. Strictly speaking, the current equity of the Seven Kingdoms is still quite simple. For example, the Phantom this time

It was thanks to Panasonic that we were able to fully acquire Universal.

By the end of the 1990s, the equity ownership of Hollywood film companies was extremely chaotic. It could be said that each company controlled the equity of the other, and it was impossible to figure out where the hell the financing was going. However, the Seven King Kong

It is still very active in controlling the equity of theater chains. For example, Time Warner also controls part of the equity of Royal.

While Han Long and Pylock were sweating and busy arranging things, Xiao Ran was staring with interest at the people coming in and out of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Among them were big stars and politicians, whom Xiao Ran only knew.

There are only some celebrities.

Soon, Xiao Ran ushered in the person he was going to meet this time, Ted Turner, the vice chairman of Time Warner. This old guy was a typical self-made gambler. For such a character, Xiao Ran still had some reservations.

Very respectful.

Turner is only in his fifties, but he doesn't look too old. Just walking with Xiao Ran is like the setting sun compared with the noon sun. As the big brother of Time Warner, Turner came to see Xiao Ran in person.

Obviously it's not as simple as imagined.

After arriving at the atmospheric coffee shop and sitting down, the wrinkled Turner ordered coffee and then looked at Xiao Ran and said: "Mr. Xiao, your appearance shocked us all, and now we are all

I really want to understand what you mean. Of course, I think you understand what I mean."

Xiao Ran thanked the waiter and then gently swayed the water in the cup. Turner obviously did not represent the entire Hollywood, but his words also represented Warner's wishes, which was a bit tricky.

He had anticipated this, and now he calmly stared into those blue eyes and said: "Mr. Turner, I think you also understand that I am not here to cause chaos. In the East, you will follow my instructions."

Follow the rules, here, I can abide by the rules here."
Chapter completed!