Li Xiaole was watching Scarlett from a distance thinking, and was caught off guard by an obese white man who suddenly rushed over and hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, then smiled with alcohol on his face and said, "Long live Sony~Ariado (Japanese pronunciation)~"

Li Xiaole could only walk away with disgust, touched her face and muttered: "Damn American... the company is going to go bankrupt, and she is still so proud." She no longer had the mood to look at the beauty. After searching for a long time, she saw an Asian face next to her looking around. She thought it should be a staff member of MGM. She couldn't help but walk over and asked: "Hi, sorry, please ask if Lei Ting is here."

"You must be Li Xiaole from the Black Pearl Company..." The Asian man with gray hair immediately smiled and asked back, "Lei just told me that he wanted me to wait for you here. Hello, I am Aoki from the Propaganda Department."

"It's really good here." Hearing the Japanese accent, Li Xiaole quickly guessed that it was someone arranged by Sony after acquiring MGM.

"There are still several layers that have not been renovated, and they will be more beautiful in the future." Aoki smiled in fluent English: "Let's go, I'll take you to see Lei. She is talking to Mr. Fody."

The two walked to the back floor and came to an office. Before Aoki knocked on the door, the door opened as soon as he touched it. They saw a fat white man in his fifties with a big back head combed behind the desk smoking a cigarette with his back to him, while spraying perfume under his armpit.

"Fudi~ This is Mr. Li Xiaole of Black Pearl Company and Lei's boss." Aoki introduced with a dry cough.

"Oh~ I admire your name for a long time~" Fodi put away the perfume bottle, turned around and patted his hands to extinguish the cigarette, stretched out his fat hands and shook hands with Li Xiaole: "Lei went out to get the information, and he will be back later."

"Hello, Forddy." Li Xiaole greeted and looked at the new CEO recommended by Sony in front of him after taking over the MGM board of directors.

"Mr. Li, I really have to envy you. Have a good business partner like Lei. Haha, you don't know how much pressure she put on me. If she attacked me so much, I might have surrendered."

"I think Tom Cruise's partner Miss Wagner has not put any effort into you~"

Li Xiaole chatted with the executive general manager of MGM for a few casual words, and felt that the other party was obviously not as difficult as Li Canon. It was obvious that Sony was a moderate person like Han Sanpin in order to stabilize the turbulent situation, but it made him very annoyed. Damn... This old bastard is obviously interested in Lei Ting. There is a clear hint in his words that let him ask Lei Ting to have more contact with him and the acquisition of Lianmei will succeed. This old bastard~! This is to eat young grass~!

"Why are you here?" At this time, Lei Ting, wearing a sexy and gorgeous black evening dress, walked in sexy and boundlessly, looked at Li Xiaole, and took the document in her hand, saying, "This is the latest financial statement of Black Pearl Company you want. Then I'll go out first. We'll talk about it tomorrow after you check it out."

After saying hello, Lei Ting pulled Li Xiaole out of the room, walked out of the corridor and pressed the elevator. After getting on the elevator, Lei Ting let out a light breath, took out a small laptop from her handbag, typing it gently, and didn't say anything, obviously a little unhappy... Li Xiaole himself also felt strange, why did he come? It was a bit like trying to catch his lover or not to hook up with other men outside...

His eyes accidentally floated to Lei Ting's delicate and delicate neck, and the black scorpion tattoo composed of Greek letters. The strange and sinful atmosphere once again stimulated his original desire... He couldn't help but lean over and secretly sniff her body fragrance.

However, Li Xiaole couldn't help feeling unhappy and muttered:

"Sister Tingting, don't be so hard. I'm jealous when talking about business and selling my looks like this..."

"I'm not as bored as you think. I'm just picking up girls." Lei Ting turned around and frowned slightly, but her appearance was extremely charming. Li Xiaole couldn't help but be stunned.

"If I hadn't known that you were engaged, I would have thought you were having sexual fantasies about me now." Lei Ting said coldly at Li Xiaole, who looked slutty.

"Have you told you this?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"Is it okay to tell me? At least except for me, if you still touch other women in the United States, I will help her stare at you." Lei Ting said with evil eyes at him.

"Except you..." Li Xiaole heard three words and didn't know whether to be happy or good... He unconsciously took off Lei Ting's evening dress in his mind, fantasizing about her beautiful body...

The "ding" sound of the elevator door opened made him come to his senses. He couldn't help but shake his head and recover. He couldn't go to the parking lot with Lei Ting.

"Agai~ Send us back to the hotel~" As soon as he got on the car, Li Xiaole asked the most critical question: "Sister Tingting, how is the acquisition going now?"

"Something is wrong." Lei Ting shook her head irritably and spread her laptop in front of Li Xiaole.

"What's going on? Our acquisition amount should be more than 180 million yuan now. Isn't it a problem to get 50% of his shares by about 150 million yuan?" Li Xiaole said strangely, looking at the dense numbers on the financial statements.

"It should have been done, but Tom Cruise didn't know what kind of nerves he had, and suddenly he was willing to pay 170 million yuan. Now his bid is higher than us." Lei Ting also said with a cold face:

"United States is just a shell company. It has never participated in the production except for the 007 series. The only valuable asset is the copyright of those old movies. The copyright of the 007 series is not in his hands. MGM is unwilling to let go of the production rights of this series in the next 12 years. How to calculate the market value at most is 200 million. We bought it at a price of 15,000 million and 50% of the time it has exceeded expectations. I don't understand what Tom Cruise wants to do?"

At this time, Agai, who was listening to their conversation, couldn't help but open his mouth wide and turned around and exclaimed: "Boss, Miss Lei... You are not kidding, can our company pay 100 million? Is it US dollars or RMB?"

"Please drive well in front~ Agai~!" Li Xiaole yelled, and Agai shrank his head and looked back at the front, and couldn't help but sigh... Oh my God... What kind of boss did I follow? Are they crazy or really from a super company in China... One, two hundred million!? I'm still competing with Tom Cruise. Miss Lei, who seems to live in a refrigerator, has never mentioned it before.

"In my opinion, it's still time for us to withdraw the acquisition now. We can set up a film company by ourselves. I've checked it. According to California's laws, it's perfectly OK as long as we find partners in the United States. If you give me a month, I will definitely be able to do it." Lei Ting suggested. She really couldn't figure out what the meaning of spending all the money and acquiring a worthless company was.

"If it really doesn't work, you don't have to set up your own company. Just be an independent individual to compete for directors of those large groups. I believe that with your strength, you will definitely have the opportunity, and the money you earn may not be enough to start your own company."

"No, Sister Tingting, you don't understand. We must acquire Lianmei, otherwise I will have no two of the most important things." Li Xiaole sighed helplessly. Tom Cruise is not a fool. Lianmei's empty shell is worth much more than this million US dollars to both of them.

"What two things?" Lei Ting asked.

"The first final editing right." Li Xiaole stretched out a finger: "In Hollywood, which is what we call the major leagues of films, ordinary directors only have the right to shoot movies, while only producers and a few top directors can have the right to edit the final editing right. If we do not acquire United American companies, we will not have this power. I cannot guarantee that my movies can achieve the best results."

Many movie fans are not aware that Hollywood's production methods are already very mature, and there are different people in all aspects to control them. The films produced by ordinary directors may be completely different from the films that were finalized, and are completely decided by the editor assigned by the production company.

For example, when Mel Gibson was filming "Brave Heart", he spent 1.3 million US dollars to shoot a big scene at the beginning, but was cut by the studio editor for not even a second. At that time, the actor and director, the producer could only roar at home: "My 1.3 million is gone!!!" but there was nothing he could do.

This is also the production company that is leaving the market in order to prevent the director from focusing too much on his personal pursuits in his final work.

So after the movie is released, many senior movie fans will wait for the so-called "director editing version" to appear in the DVD market to watch what the director originally wanted to express.

But on the other hand, this makes many Hollywood movies look like they are carved from the same mold, and they are completely a routine. Only those top directors, such as Spielberg, James Cameron, and Nolan, have this right to ensure that their movies are completely their own style.

Lei Ting didn't say anything. She didn't understand artistic matters and couldn't ask any questions.

"Second" Li Xiaole stretched out his second finger and said slowly:

"It is also the most critical thing. We cannot build film projects ourselves. Except for small productions, we don't count. According to the convention of the alliance, if we want to make A-level movies, there are only three ways to build and open new film projects ourselves.

For the first time, traditional large-scale production companies, such as Paramount and Warner, purchased script copyrights, recruited producers, screenwriters, actors, directors, and contacted all aspects to start filming and distributing. This process requires connections and money. Only those six strong companies can do it. This is the traditional way of the early alliances, but now the Six Majors themselves rarely do such troubles, and only develop series projects that are sure to make money like "Harry Potter".

Secondly, and the most common way now is to establish a project by a giant brokerage company like Caa, which combines the screenwriters and actors of the brokerage company, purchase copyrights, and then bid for the six major companies of the project, and the six majors of the filming and distribution, and the two companies divide the production profits in proportion.
Chapter completed!