Chapter 458 Speculation

There are more and more reporters blocking the door of the company.

Hearing Julie Stewart's complaint, Ryan, after signing it, handed over his approved script for the fourth Scream, saying, I'm sorry, Julie, because I personal problems, which brought a lot of inconvenience to the company.”

Ryan... Julius Stewart seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he held back.

Faced with this situation, Ryan wisely chose to turn a blind eye and asked a question about his work, How about the movie adaptation rights of the road girl killer?

We made a deal with Shelby.

The woman surrendered directly in front of the money, and the other was the trouble, Irene Warnos herself hasn't responded yet.

Find someone to find a way to get in touch with her. Although it's okay to skip her filming, Ryan doesn't want to cause some trouble in the follow-up, Even a person who wants to die has something he cares about and is tempted by. If possible, let Hill than to see her.

As for the Hilby woman, money was easy.

Since Charlize Theron firmly chose to stand by his side, Ryan will naturally give the corresponding return.

After saying a few other things, Julius Stewart left the office. When passing through the corridor near the outer floor, it seemed that he could still hear clutter from the front of the company building, from Ryan's appearance at Jenkins Films. From that moment on, more and more reporters gathered.

To be precise, this is Ryan's private affairs, but Julis is very worried that these private affairs are likely to have adverse effects on Jenkins Films.

Compared with other Hollywood production companies, the shareholders and management of Jenkins Pictures are very united, which is also an important reason for the company to maintain high efficiency. Now people from Wall Street have invested in shares. With this incident again, can everything be the same as before?

You know, Nicole Kidman has been the chairman of the company...

Shaking her head, Julis entered her office. She trusted Ryan to handle it all.

After entering the working state. Ryan just threw away all his worries and went into Hollywood for so many years. He knows very well what it is to have a foothold in this Vanity Fair.

Except for film affairs, Ryan rarely interferes with the normal operation of the company, but he will take the initiative to understand what he should know.

Not to mention the low-budget series released in the first half of the year.

The most important work of Jenkins Films this summer is The Matrix 2: Reloaded. Although this film has fallen a lot from the first film, it still created a hacker craze in North America and has become the most popular film so far. The highest-grossing film in North America this year.

It has been more than two months since the film landed in North America, and the box office has exceeded 300 million US dollars. It has become the first North American film to exceed 300 million US dollars at the box office this year, but there are less than 1,000 theaters remaining. The number of viewers is showing a plummeting state, and the potential of the market is almost drained.

If nothing else, the North American box office of The Matrix 2: Reloaded will increase by 10-20 million US dollars at most, and it is impossible to exceed 350 million US dollars...

but. Among the movies that have been confirmed to be released this year, Ryan has not seen the names that can be super-sold in his previous life. The results of The Matrix 2: Reloaded can basically be scheduled to be the champion of this year's North American box office rankings.

Whether it is Men 100% cooperating with Paramount, or Gladiator produced by Jenkins Pictures, it is difficult to shake The Matrix 2: Reloaded at the box office, its biggest competition The opponent is from Pixar Studio, and the upcoming Monster Power Company chose the Thanksgiving Christmas file.

Because of Ryan's relationship, this animated feature film was approved earlier and completed earlier than the previous life.

Also because of the lack of Disney's constraints and sufficient funds, Pixar is also faster in technology research and development than in its previous life. I believe that the protagonist of Monsters, Inc. will bring a shock to the industry.

Looking through the emails sent by Pixar, Ryan naturally thought of Disney. Compared with the beginning of the year, Disney management, who was busy stabilizing the stock price, had much less private spying on Pixar. After all, stable internal expansion is external expansion. Base.

The details of the stock market crash in the previous life, Ryan only knows some superficial things, the specific chain reaction is unknown, and now the sharp decline of the Nasdaq index has driven the collective decline of the stock market, and the panic selling has continued one after another. appeared, and even media conglomerates like Time Warner, Comscart, and Viacom were affected.

Walt Disney is no exception. Many shareholders have chosen to cash out, and some small shareholders have changed their shares.

Naturally, Ryan would not miss this opportunity. The investment team bought Disney stocks one after another through more than a dozen secret accounts.

With enough shares, he will have a say in Disney's next shareholders meeting, and maybe he will be able to squeeze into Disney's board of directors. What will Michael Eisner look like then?

Of course, Ryan is just thinking about it. If you want to be a member of Disney's board of directors, you can't do it with shares in your hands.

According to the governance rules of listed companies of the New York Stock Exchange, all listed companies should have outside directors, whose number should account for more than half of the board members. , the vast majority of members are outside directors, and the chairman of the committee is the executive director.

According to the design of the legal system, the nomination committee's responsibility is to make a final opinion on the company's important personnel appointments, make reasonable judgments on the qualifications of the proposed personnel, and regularly evaluate the competence of the current senior employees of the company.

However, this rule does not apply to Disney at all. Since taking office in 1984, Michael Eisner has not only developed Disney into a media conglomerate with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, but has also turned management into his own monopoly.

This greedy professional manager is a master of power, taking advantage of the loopholes in Disney's management, constantly excluding dissidents in the management, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has made great achievements for Disney, and left Disney in anger. The other two founded DreamWorks, not unrelated to Michael Eisner's suppression.

Knowing yourself and knowing the enemy, you will be safe in a hundred battles. Even if you are reborn here from the other side, Ryan still thinks this is a wise saying.

Michael Eisner is acting in private, how could he choose to back down with his character?

In fact, his investigation and consulting company has found a lot of information about the other party, and there are not a few things that have inspired Ryan and awakened his few related memories.

And he also thoroughly understood Michael Eisner's ambitions.

A few years ago, Roy Disney and Michael Eisner had a sharp conflict. The only member of the Disney family in the company, once proposed to let his son into the management of the company in order to prepare for the future handover of the Disney family, but was met with Michael Eisner's ruthless obstruction.

Faced with this situation, the Disney family is powerless. The only share in their hands has long lost control of Walt Disney. On the other hand, the board vote has become synonymous with Eisner's personal will. .

These are all smooth and wide-ranging things, and Ryan has heard of it for a long time. It was not until Garcia Rodriguez sent some of the investigation materials to George that he knew that Michael Eisner's ambitions were not limited to this.

At the ownership level, the Disney tyrant kept raising his salary and stock options, and asked Grave Crystal, the most prominent compensation consultant in the United States, to draft a contract between the two parties. The core of this contract is a high salary plus a lot of stock options. .

In simple words, it is to take advantage of the opportunity to control Disney, and take the opportunity to increase its shareholding when the company raises and issues additional shares.

By the mid-1990s, Michael Eisner had become the largest shareholder after Roy Disney, and by last year, Michael Eisner's stock had approached 6%, completely surpassing Roy Disney and becoming The largest individual shareholder of Walt Disney.

Although most of Disney's shares are held in the hands of a large number of investment groups on Wall Street, these people invest for profit. As long as the people in charge of Disney can bring enough profits, they don't care who is sitting on it. The last name is Disney, or the last name is Eisner.

In the process of controlling Disney's board of directors for nearly 20 years, step by step, little by little, he put our own people into the board of directors, and took advantage of various opportunities to win over allies to increase his shareholding. Michael Eisner put it in this way The board, which exercised corporate powers on behalf of the general meeting, was hijacked to become his personal board.

Although there is no shortage of opposition, he can always think of ways to solve it, such as using common interests such as Pixar Studios.

Interest can blind many people's eyes. According to Ryan's speculation, even if Disney swallows Pixar, Roy Disney will still inevitably get out of the board of directors.

He remembered very clearly that Disney had a clause that directors over the age of 72 must retire. This clause used by the Disney brothers to keep the company alive will definitely become the last blood of the Disney family in the company. Terminator.

When the biggest opponent, an outsider on Ehrlich's board, an other than himself, a stumbling block that needs to be eliminated in the end, Michael Eisner can achieve complete control over Disney, and even put the Disney stole it for himself and turned it into his own kingdom.

The servant has since become the master!

Although this is speculation based on the available information, Ryan is aware of people's greed and what he wants to do. Why would Michael Eisner, the current chairman and chairman of Disney, let it go? ()