American Scandal King

Chapter 306: The Rise of LANN
After completing the acquisition of Mirak Bank, Ian bought the Lille Company of Minova as Clara said.

Because of his face, when he offered 80 million, no one competed with him, allowing Ian to easily win.

Next, Ian merged Mirak Bank into First Lino and changed its name...Changing the name is a good way to eliminate past problems.

In a sense, no matter what sins this company has committed in the past, as long as it changes its boss, changes its name, and makes some slight adjustments to the decoration, it can be reborn with a clear conscience.

Very shameless!
Very effective!
Then it’s time to continue pushing forward negotiations with JPMorgan Chase.

Today, as usual, Ian went out to find some ingredients and then attended a banquet.

When I returned to the office at noon, the new secretary-general Edith walked straight in.

The girl said with a bright smile, "Disney's Eisner said he could buy back Pirates of the Caribbean for $4.5 million."

Ian laughed: "That's impossible! Tell him it's either 10 million, or % of the profits from Pirates of the Caribbean merchandise plus million."

Pirates of the Caribbean is not just about the pirate ship, their various small toys are the real draw.

Of course, Eisner could not agree to this condition, but doing business is about giving the other party the right to choose.

If you give up paying for the peripherals, then just spend double the price to buy back Pirates of the Caribbean.

That's right, Ian Carr's investments have always yielded returns of tenfold or a hundredfold, and I only want one times the profit from you.

Edith smiled and said, "He said he could give you the follow-up promotion for Pirates of the Caribbean."

Ian shook his head: "That's not within the scope of negotiation."

Carr Media is constantly producing explosive news, and coupled with Ian Carr's deterrent power, no Hollywood company dares not to promote him. It's just a matter of proportion.

For example, 60th Century Fox now receives % of its film promotions from the Carl Group.

Other film and television companies give him between 20-40%, while DreamWorks gives him 50%.

Even Paramount Pictures, with whom he has a bad relationship, will give him 5%.

Disney's publicity and distribution business was previously around 20%, and as Ian's influence in Hollywood grows, the proportion will continue to increase.

So Ian wouldn't bring this up for negotiation.

After thinking about it for a moment, Ian added, "But if he's willing to buy it for $7.5 million, I can give him a Johnny Depp-style low-pay contract."

Johnny Depp's subsequent salary for Pirates of the Caribbean was sky-high, reaching over 100 million!

And because he was at UTA from the beginning, his share was only 5%, and Depp had the right to refuse before the contract expired.

The key is that this person has no black material.

No pedophilia, no drug abuse, no domestic violence...

I hate people like this!

A star who doesn’t cause trouble is not a good artist!
After all, even if your salary is 5 million, % is only million.

In that case, I'll sacrifice your profit for my gain.

There is no big boss who doesn't cheat people.

You should know that Ian Carr had already signed a fixed salary for Johnny Depp for the Pirates of the Caribbean series in advance, and it was the highest priority - this cannot be considered a scam, it was your own misjudgment of the prospects of Pirates of the Caribbean.

As long as Eisner agrees, the agreement will be handed over to Eisner, and Depp's salary for Pirates of the Caribbean will be reduced by half.

But if Eisner doesn't agree, I will use this salary agreement to exchange for a new UTA profit-sharing agreement with Depp.

Edith nodded. "Yes, sir." She flipped through the documents in her hand and said, "Meihe Construction Company said they have no major projects this year and their revenue in the first half of the year was only 20 million."

California Highway 1 was renovated, but the overloaded drivers of the Bowden Transportation Company were not efficient enough and failed to damage the highway.

Chinese workers, why do you build such good roads when you have nothing to do?
Hate!

There are no major projects in California for the time being, and the key is that California is not ruled by one Congressman Cherry, which resulted in Ian not being able to help the construction company get any big business in the first half of this year.

The main reason is that the governor's power is not in his hands.

Ian narrowed his eyes.

In the original time and space, after California Governor Davis was re-elected, his political performance was poor, the fiscal deficit increased dramatically, and the Republican Party launched a recall campaign.

A recall election was held on October 2003, 10, shortly after Schwarzenegger took office.

Over the past period of time, Ian and Schwarzenegger had met several times and had some acquaintance, but they were still not familiar enough.

Should we launch a recall campaign in advance?
The key is that there is also a Michael Jackson child molestation case waiting for him to deal with in November... The Michael Jackson child molestation case actually came out as early as 11, and it has been intermittent since then, becoming the biggest shadow in his life.

It reappeared at the beginning of this year, but the real outbreak did not occur until November 11 this year.

Ian didn't intend to suppress this matter. He had to wait for it to break out and then solve it himself. Only then would Michael Jackson be grateful to him... He had also had a contract with UTA a long time ago, and the share was only 3%.

It must be 20%!

In that case, there's no need to get together.

Good news requires control of rhythm!

Thinking of this, Ian said, "Ask Jody Harry what major projects are coming up in California soon. Give me a list."

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Two days later, Lockbridge Pictures and Disney officially reached an agreement.

Bridgestone Pictures sold the copyright of Pirates of the Caribbean back to Disney for $3 million. At the same time, Bridgestone Pictures can obtain a 12% share of the box office revenue of the subsequent Pirates of the Caribbean sequels developed by Disney, but this does not include peripheral products.

Eisner did not ask for Johnny Depp's contract. He had not yet realized how many Pirates of the Caribbean films he would develop in the future... The total box office of Pirates of the Caribbean will be as high as 45 billion, and the first film is only 6 million, which means there will be about 4.6 million in profits in the future.

Eisner therefore also failed to recognize Johnny Depp's central importance to the film.

So Ian informed UTA and used this agreement to change Johnny Depp's share to 12%.

It’s less than 20%, what a pity.

Bridgestone Pictures earned $6.5 million from Pirates of the Caribbean (plus $3 million from the first film), all of which will be used to invest in new copyright acquisitions and investments. As Bridgestone continues its acquisitions, it will soon become a major Hollywood studio.

This is also the only film industry giant that does not engage in any film and television development, and it is also the film and television giant with the least employees - the entire film industry has a total of 21 people, mainly responsible for legal, financial and communication liaisons.

After completing this, Ian continued his investment business and acquired Netflix. At this time, Netflix was already a well-established company, but ultimately not as strong as it later became. He also acquired shares in gaming companies like Blizzard, but these were held for a short period of time and would be sold later, essentially using them to repay debts to Japan without changing the underlying assets.

At the same time, Ian Carr also took advantage of his unique position in Hollywood to acquire a large number of excellent Hollywood film and television works at low prices, which led to the rapid development of LANN and a surge in the number of users.

Coupled with the support of a bunch of major news such as "Running with Saddam" and the Mirak Bank robbery, Ian Carr once again completed the bet ahead of schedule, reaching the agreed number of users, with a valuation of over 10 billion, and the number of users is still growing rapidly, and it is expected that 20 billion is not far away.

In this situation, Rudolf Murdoch chose to add funds to secure shares without hesitation.

He paid Ian 18 billion for this.

The rapid expansion of LANN represents the rise of another powerful news network in the United States, officially making the number of American news networks from the top five to the top six.

(End of this chapter)