"Because, I have signed some first-class behind-the-scenes talents and formed my own team." Tom Cruise laughed brilliantly. This is why he dared to acquire Lianmei. He has been in the industry for 20 years and was determined to build his own first-class shooting team when he was a producer under Paramount. Now he has mastered this most important resource and has no need to worry about the influence of corruption within MGM.

"So, Lee~" Tom Cruise embraced Li Xiaole's shoulder affectionately: "You won't worry, we are good friends, my shooting team is yours, let's make Lianmei bigger~"

"Thank you, Tom." Li Xiaole nodded gratefully. He knew that Tom Cruise really regarded him as a friend.

"MGM will be mine and you in the future." Tom Cruise's eyes shining with ambitious light: "Tell you good news, my script "The Lion Enters the Mouth of the Sheep" has passed the review of the MGM Green Light Committee."

"How could this happen? Didn't that script be written a few months ago?" Li Xiaole suddenly felt something was wrong. "The Lion Enters the Mouth of the Sheep" should have been filmed and released next year, which shortened the revision time of the script for a year, which is obviously a problem.

"We opened the Green Light Committee and let them concentrate on revising it for us within a week. Don't worry, the original script was very mature, and it was just a formality in their hands."

"Tom, I want to know how you can open the street light committee?" Li Xiaole asked with a frown.

"This..." Tom Cruise wanted to blurt out, but seeing Wagner gently pulling his sleeves, he could only loosen his shoulders and smile mysteriously: "This is going to be kept secret."

Li Xiaole sighed in his heart. He understood that nothing he said was useless. Tom Cruise does have strong connections and can invite the best actors and build a first-class team. However, as the most successful actor in the world, he ignored the important point, that is, the importance of the screenwriter team and director for the film.

MGM's third-rate screenwriter doctor team and Tom Cruise's approach to acting willful and arbitrarily, future failures are almost destined. Of course, this cannot be blamed for Tom Cruise. Just like James in the NBA and Kobe's top stars, after they have won countless victories and received all praise and halos, they will habitually ignore the role of coaches and team doctors in the team, believing that they themselves are the decisive factors for victory.

It is difficult for them to understand that whether it is a team or a movie, if you want to succeed, every component of the team is indispensable.

When Li Xiaole and Tom Cruise entered the conference hall, Forddy and Cannon had already sat down on their own. When they saw them coming in, they nodded as saying hello.

Seeing that everyone was here, Fodi made a quiet gesture to everyone: "Okay, everyone, we can start."

The senior executives of the company next to them quickly put all the prepared documents in front of them and prepared to start with their own tie.

The person who presided over the meeting was not the ceo Fordie sent by Sony, but the indifferent Li Canon. He just watched him cough dryly and his eyes swept across everyone and said:

"It's the same as last time, the heads of various departments reported their budgets to Mr. Fodi for a review."

"Remember that the data should be written in detail. Mr. Fodi is the leader assigned by Sony Corporation. He is not familiar with our company's business. You can't let him not understand your work." Canon began to arrange the meeting slowly:

"As everyone knows, although Sony has invested in our MGM, it is actually just an equity acquisition. We still have 2 billion in debt. The movies produced by our company last year, "Grimm Brothers", "New Happy Hall" and "Hala Hairdresser", have all suffered losses in the box office, so we should try to reduce the specifications of the movies this year. In addition to the "007" series, we will only launch small and medium-sized movies with a cost of less than 50 million US dollars..."

When Canon said this, everyone looked at Tom Cruise. Obviously, others could not develop movies worth more than $50 million, only he could do this.

"Mr. Fodi, do you think this direction conflicts with the instructions from Sony Corporation?" Canon looked at Fodi with a sense of oppression in his eyes.

"Well, I think this is exactly the same as the direction of the head office." Forddy smiled and nodded, but he was a little unwilling to give in. After all, Canon made him look so obvious that he was embarrassed by his CEO, but what can it do? With Cork, the real ruler in MGM, supported him, he could not do anything at all. Sony's acquisition claimed 4 billion to the outside world, but in fact, the equity acquisition was only half of the market value, which is only more than 100 million yuan. Cork's debt was 100 million yuan, and Sony could not shake Cork's real control over MGM.

For Sony, after getting the film library he needed, the only thing Sony has to do is to transfer all the copyrights of the film library to Sony before MGM goes bankrupt again.

In fact, Fodi even knew that he was just a pawn abandoned by Sony, because after completing this matter, when MGM went bankrupt again after the two companies divided the interests of MGM, he would be dismissed as a scapegoat and despised by everyone in this industry, and his future is destined to be gray.

As Fody personally, his only slim hope is to expect Tom Cruise to rise and bring MGM back to life, so his CEO may usher in a real turning point...

"Okay, if you need a production project in the company this time, you can submit it to Mr. Fody." Canon looked at several people in the production department: "This year our company is responsible for the production and distribution of "007 Casino Royale", which is an important project. I can honestly tell you that the company does not have much resources to produce other projects, and you must consider this clearly."

Everyone in the MGM production department looked at me and saw that several producers actually held several pre-sale contracts in their hands, but when they heard Canon's words, they could only retreat back in anger and lowered their heads and remained silent.

Everyone knows that the real king at MGM is the financial tycoon Cork, and Cannon is the most fierce dog in Cork. Anyone who provokes him will be bitten by him and finally pack up and leave, so that he has a nickname called "Israel Bulldog", and no one dares to disobey him.

In the end, MGM's production department was silent, and no one dared to raise his hand.

Canon's eyes flashed and looked quite satisfied, and turned to look at Tom Cruise: "What about United States?"

"We have it." Tom Cruise threw a stack of pre-sale contracts in front of Cannon and smiled: "Please check it out."

"Isn't this the script just revised and I've got the pre-sale contract?" Seeing the name of "The Lion Enters the Sheep's Mouth" on the pre-sale contract, Canon frowned deeply, leaned forward, picked up the contract and read it.

Oscar legendary actress Meryl Streep... The Hollywood veteran actor Robert Redford, an actor and director, and Tom Cruise himself... Although it is a boring story for audiences over 35 years old, with such a strong cast, he still got a pre-sale contract of 21 million yuan. Canon knocked on the table coldly and didn't say anything for a long time. Everyone in the hall felt inexplicably pressure.

"I said that except for the previous series of movies, we do not develop projects worth more than US$50 million. If you follow your pre-sale contract, the production investment will be 63 million, and the promotion cost is two-thirds of it, which is only more than 40 million. I am really sorry, our group cannot afford so much funds for issuance..."

Canon said expressionlessly, but he was sneering in his heart. Tom Cruise was indeed the same as he imagined. He wanted to show his skills in United States. However, as long as he relied on MGM's "screenwriter and doctor" team, the movie was destined to be a failure. Of course, he wanted to let this idiot actor make this idiot movie~ but this alone was far from enough. It would be better to bring Foddy in, let Sony be responsible for the release, and let the two die together.

As long as this movie fails, Tom Cruise and Fody will lose Sony's support, and everything at MGM will be in his control. These two biggest threats to him will be eliminated. How perfect it is. Canon is conceiving his plan in his mind.

"I think it's OK." Forddy, who had been a little depressed, suddenly shook his fat face, suddenly raised his voice as if he was energetic, and said with a smile on his face:

"I have applied to the head office to release this movie. I don't need to let MGM be responsible for the publicity work. I have communicated with the head office. In the future, the promotion and distribution of Lianmei's films can be carried out by my head office. This can also reduce the burden on MGM and kill two birds with one stone."

Li Xiaole, who had been sitting next to him without saying a word, felt nervous when he heard this. He seemed to finally know why Tom Cruise could "open" the Green Light Committee. The supporter behind him was this ceo fat man Fody. However, when he thought of MGM's future development, he immediately understood that all this was probably a conspiracy designed by Canon, the businessman.

The future failure of "The Lion Enters the Mouth of the Sheep" will cause Tom Cruise and Canon to lose Sony's support at the same time... United States will be isolated, and the even more deadly movie is one year ahead of schedule because of its own participation in United States. In the original version, Tom Cruise only received 3,500 investment due to his decline in popularity, but now he can still get 63 million investment. The doubled disaster of "The Lion Enters the Mouth of the Sheep" will make them in a stalemate...

Looking at Cannon's brows, he sighed helplessly and said, "Since the headquarters has a decision, it's not my turn to interrupt." Tom Cruise and Fordy looked at each other, showing the winner's smile. Li Xiaole was even more sure of his guess. There was no way... He could no longer stop Tom Cruise and Fordy from jumping into the pit clever way. As a bystander, Li Xiaole sighed as he watched all this. All forces were using their smart abacus, but they seemed to have not noticed him, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
Chapter completed!