On March 15, 1998, after winning the 12th consecutive box office championship of North Mi Week, the big ship finally ushered in a strong enemy, the British-Minian co-production starring Xiao Lizi: The Man in the Iron Mask, based on Alexandre Dumas, which depicts the story of Prince Philippe, Louis XIV's twin brother.

At present, the Titanic is only narrowly ahead of 300,000 knives, and the record is likely to be ended.

Xiao Lizi is undoubtedly the world's most popular male star.

MGM Pictures, the distributor of the Man in the Iron Mask, is now in a worse situation than Fox Pictures before the big ship set sail, and has entered a state of bankruptcy protection.

On the same day, the RIAA Copyright Dispute Board narrowly failed to approve the proposal to issue a second round of advertising bans.

"Daniel Glass? Didn't he ever be the president of Sony Columbia Records? How did you become the chair of the Copyright Dispute Board? He's very close to APLUS, right? ”

Little Bronfman was greatly dissatisfied when he heard the news, and began to care about the details, "Also your old friend? He questioned Germoris.

"Daniel supports us, he and APLUS have a falling out, it's Warner and Disney."

Doug Morris sweated in his heart, he thought that Sony Columbia would definitely join the ranks of opponents, Rick Rubin said the same thing to himself that day, but no, fortunately, Disney also ran the ticket, one positive and one negative.

"Anyway, kill him." Bronfman Jr. picked up the phone.

"What?" Doug Morris misunderstood.

"Fuck off that Daniel Glass."

Fortunately, the rich third generation didn't want to play the gangster, so he dialed directly to the chairman of the RIAA.

The board of directors of the RIAA has more than 20 seats, because of the drastic mergers and acquisitions in the 90s and the untimely change of power caused by internal bureaucracy, except for a few directors who have been installed in recent years, the other members are basically from the original MCA, Warner Records, the original Columbia Records, Disney, ABC, CBS, NBC and other old giants of the United States.

"But Daniel's term is not over yet, and he will not be re-elected until ......the end of the year," Doug Morris reminded.

"Then at the end of the year, there must be something wrong with him." Bronfman Jr. had a good instinct and asked the chairman of the RIAA to remove Daniel at the end of the year.

But the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, "No, let them vote again next week, and if the result is still like this, Daniel must step down immediately, and you will tell him for me." ”

"Good...... Good. ”

With his energy, he could definitely do it if he went to the RIAA in person, and Doug Morris could only agree.

"Boss, the crew is waiting." The assistant came in to remind.

"Hmm."

Bronfman Jr. grabbed his coat and said, "Don't disappoint me again. Drop the sentence and hurry out the door.

He was going to visit the book, and Doug Morris seized this opportunity to report, originally feeling that with his character, his attention would soon be diverted, but unfortunately he couldn't do it.

"What to do? Have you spoken to Mr. Bronfman Jr.? ”

He had no choice but to turn to David Geffen again.

"We've talked." David Geffen really looked for a chance to talk, but he didn't risk being suspicious at all to say anything, otherwise it would affect the big plan, "I know, I'll talk about it when I find a chance to meet with APLUS." ”

"Okay, please."

"I'm in Los Angeles on the 20th." With Daniel's cooperation in the first battle of the RIAA, Song Ya was in a good mood and replied to David Geffen's invitation to meet on the phone.

"That might be a little late...... David Geffen told him about the seriousness of the matter.

"There's no way, the study task is too heavy." Even if someone helps, law school is not so easy to mess with, "I really can't spare time before the twentieth. ”

"Then I'll go over, and you can arrange a suitable reason." David Geffen is positive and cautious.

"No problem, I'm sorry Mr. Geffen."

The next day, David Geffen received an invitation to the inauguration of A+ Records' headquarters, and on March 18, he arrived in Chicago.

Neither of them wanted to attend the party, and after attending the ceremony and being photographed, they went into the new chairman's office on the top floor.

"Sorry, I haven't decorated this place yet." Song Ya diligently poured him a glass of wine.

"I didn't see Milla Jovovich?" David Geffen asked.

The new headquarters was unveiled, and naturally its singers came to cheer, but Mira refused, "She got the heroine of Warner's sci-fi blockbuster soldiers, and she was very busy and couldn't be separated." ”

Song Yachai couldn't take care of it because he had officially announced that Shakira had not been in contact with him for a long time, "Please take a seat." ”

"Haha."

David Geffen was allowed to sit down at the floppy boss's desk and looked around the empty office, "Do you have a room across from it?" He smiled and pointed to the A+CN building outside the window.

"There's a small one that's usually supposed to stay here. The big one was given to Ms. Sloane, CEO of Littleman Media. ”

Song Ya sat across from him.

"OK, time is pressing, no more small talk."

David Geffen switched his expression to the right color and said, "It's hard for you to get a satisfactory result from the RIAA in a few days of revoting, APLUS, if the listing of Littleman Media doesn't go well, how are you going to deal with it?" ”

"I don't know, Mr. Geffen, that's tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions......"

How to deal with it? Why don't you lose so much money if I lose so much money? Trouble, anyway, he is familiar with the road, and he has enough experience in rebellion.

Song Ya thought to herself.

"You can't resist the energy of Little Bronfman, APLUS, the Bronfman family......"

David Geffen could probably guess and warned: "Not to mention politicians and upper resources, before the old Bronfman was whitewashed, his family supplied Al Capone and other Chicago mafia bigwigs during the Prohibition period, even in Chicago, it is easy to find you some trouble." ”

"It's really inexplicable from M-FXXK!" Song Ya repeated this sentence during this time, "I know, but who would have thought that I would offend him? ”

"You still don't know little Mr. Bronfman." David Geffen said.

"I regret dying, but I really only went to him once to ask for Latin TV!" Song Ya was very aggrieved, "It was Ms. Sloan who instigated me, I knew he was so sensitive......"

"Oh?" David Geffen secretly wrote down Latin TV.

"Help me, Mr. Geffen."

Song Ya also knew that since the other party was willing to come over, there must be a way, and made an offer: "After the matter is completed, I am willing to hand over the girl next door to your Dream Factory for distribution." ”

"What...... What girl next door? ”

"I'm going to take Xiao Lizi's head to make a movie, an R-rated youth sex comedy." Song Ya replied, "According to his current popularity, he will definitely help you make money." ”

"Poof......

David Geffen spat out a sip of wine, "I thought it was a cold mountain...... Hollywood is all about it. ”

"Leng Shan's film adaptation rights may not be able to win."

Leng Shan has decided to co-produce with Disney's Touchstone Pictures, as the president of Disney Copyright Company, the big-mouthed Barrington thanked him for helping in the RIAA vote, as for why he didn't cooperate with Hollywood Studios, another label under Disney, Linton was flashed in time, and naturally he would not provide any performance to the managers who inherited the mess he left behind.

"R-rated sex comedy...... Wow, Xiao Lizi is willing to sign? How much is paid? David Geffen asked.

"Anyway, he signed it, and the salary of five million was capped."

Song Ya replied angrily, if he continues to fight like this, he will spend a lot of money just to buy these help flash and move forces, and if Leng Shan can get it, the production of Apocalypse's pure music soundtrack will also be handed over to Daniel's personal label.

"Poof!"

Pick up the money! David Geffen gave a thumbs up, and then looked up and down at the mixed-race guy in front of him, a billionaire, "You're very good at taking chances." ”

"Yes, they all begged me to invest in the Titanic at the time, and now? Hehe. "Fox Pictures and Xiao Lizi are infinitely beautiful, but they are already hiding from themselves and Yeremov, and they are warm and cold......

As the first in the history of Xinke film, it is estimated that there will be a lot of tears in the future for the box office share, but it is just not annoying for the time being.

"Actually, I still advise you to endure this time, and even take the initiative, such as removing the song files uploaded by users without permission like MP3 websites. That's piracy after all, and you don't take care of it. ”

David Geffen said: "Is there really no way to get Bronfman Jr. and minimize the losses of Littleman's IPO? ”

"Now I want to kneel, and Wall Street and the online industry won't allow me to kneel."

Song Ya didn't tell a lie, he took out a document from the safe and showed it to David Geffen, "This is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that is currently being planned, which involves some terms of record and film copyrights, and the Internet industry and Wall Street are repeatedly fighting with Hollywood and the record industry. If the American music website takes the initiative to remove user data when the law is still in the gray area, it will have a bad demonstration effect on the bill, and peers will go crazy! Afterwards they will definitely squeeze out the traitors! After Littman Media offended Wall Street and the Internet industry, it was forced to go public, and the result would be even worse! ”

"Hmm."

David Geffen certainly knew about this, "I and Bronfman Jr.'s interests in the entertainment industry are among the promoters of this bill, and you, APLUS, are in an awkward position right now. ”

"Who's to say it's not, but I can accept it no matter what the details of this bill are, as long as it's not now! The IPO is less than twenty days away! ”

David Geffen observed that Song Ya's eyes suddenly revealed a fierceness, and knew that this young man was indeed a little pressed, and he also didn't want to make things bigger and cause A+ Records to rebel!

He knew that the eye medicine would not be too ruthless, and he didn't expect little Bronfman to be so persistent, pretending to rub his eyebrows in distress in front of Song Ya, "Anyway, you know little Bronfman's character now?" Lessons learned? ”

"I won't go to him to talk about any bad business when I die in the future, I'm so careful!"

Song Ya didn't know that his complaint had tempted David Geffen to really make up his mind to help, "OK, no matter what, I'll help your Littleman Media go public smoothly, but you must secretly support us in the Digital Millennium Act in the future, and you are no longer allowed to be a wallhead." Otherwise......"

"Of course, of course."

Song Ya was overjoyed, "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, but we need to plan the specifics, the character of Bronfman Jr...... Need to come along, you know? We ...... it this way."

The two heads were together, and their voices were getting lower and lower.