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Chapter 680 "Friends" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"

The press conference held by Phantom this time is obviously higher than other conferences.

"Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", "Washington Post", "Los Angeles Times", "New York Daily News" these largest newspapers in the United States have come to Los Angeles to participate in the press conference of the Phantom.

This is a press conference that changes the pattern of the American media industry!

The New York Times described this press conference with such a headline!

And Linda did not disappoint everyone, the first content announced at the press conference was enough to attract everyone's attention!

"After Phantom Entertainment acquires the ABC TV network, it will formally reorganize and form Phantom Media Group belonging to Phantom!"

Although it is no longer a secret that Phantom Entertainment will form its own media group, when the news spread, it still shocked many reporters!
"After the reorganization, Phantom Media will use its existing subsidiaries to reorganize and establish the headquarters of Phantom Media at the same time."

Then Linda announced the organizational structure of Phantom Media.

The original Phantom Entertainment changed its name to Phantom Pictures, and will be responsible for the core business of Phantom Media, the development of the film industry. At the same time, Linda announced the films that Phantom Pictures will invest in the next year and the upcoming film plans.

Marvel Entertainment also officially changed its name to Marvel Pictures, but in the past two years, Marvel has not produced its own movies, which is expected by many reporters. After all, movies about comic heroes are not very popular in North America.

At the same time, Phantom Media also took out the distribution department and reorganized a distribution company called Phantom Publishing.

Because the ABC TV network was just acquired, Linda did not announce the decision to replace the management, and even highly recognized the previous management's management of the ABC TV network.

As for whether Phantom Media will remove the management after it completely controls the ABC TV network, that's another story!

Afterwards, Ryan Publishing, Toy Biz Toys, Oceanwide Cinemas, and Hera Brokers will all reorganize and restructure their businesses to a certain extent, cutting off unnecessary departments and retaining their core businesses.

As for the studio and Phantom Studios, they will also be completed next year!

Finally, Phantom Media will also set up its own sports business department to manage its four sports clubs!

Every word Linda said will be conveyed to audiences across the United States as quickly as possible through the reporters present today.

A large consortium with an asset value of more than 200 billion U.S. dollars wants to reorganize, and it cannot be resolved simply by holding two meetings.

There will be countless group meetings, and at the same time, the emotions of each company and the relationship between each other will be weighed. This will be a very powerful test for Linda.

In fact, it took three full months for Phantom Media's reorganization to be considered over, but the results made every shareholder of Phantom Media very happy.

重组后的魅影传媒，市值根本不是1+1=2这么简单的加法计算，而是1+1>2的结果！
When Phantom Media's reorganization was completed in May, the latest valuation given by Wall Street also reached a valuation of 300 billion US dollars!
This is why many businessmen like to use mergers and acquisitions to expand their business territory. There are too many intangible assets involved!
Back to February!

After the press conference of Phantom Media, Linda found Wu Jianye again!

This time Linda approached Wu Jianye to step down as the CEO of Phantom Pictures.

At this time, Linda was already the CEO of Phantom Media, so naturally she could no longer be the CEO of Phantom Films.

"Here are a few candidates I listed, take a look at their information!" Linda recommended the candidates she had listed to Wu Jianye.

In Linda's hands, Wu Jianye took over the candidate materials recommended by her.

There are a total of five people who are high-level executives of Phantom Entertainment. After looking around, Wu Jianye pointed to one of the candidates and said, "Just him!"

The candidate Wu Jianye appointed was actually an acquaintance, Matthew Murphy who was in charge of Phantom Entertainment's distribution business in Europe!

"Then I'll let him come to see you!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "You arrange the time!"

The fact that Matthew Murphy is the new CEO of Phantom Films does not mean that his abilities are outstanding. In fact, the five people handed over by Linda have similar abilities. In terms of contribution to the company, no one is inferior to the other. Where did it go.

The real reason why Wu Jianye decided to appoint Matthew Murphy as the CEO of Phantom Pictures was that Wu Jianye was familiar with him, and after getting along with him several times, Matthew Murphy's behavior also made Wu Jianye more familiar with him. satisfy.

It is enough to be measured, to know what to ask and what not to ask, and to be able to complete the tasks assigned to him smoothly.

When Wu Jianye acted at the three major film festivals, he regarded Linda as his subordinate, and Matthew Murphy must have noticed it, but he never asked about it.

And Matthew Murphy did help the company open up the distribution network in Europe.

As for the manager who used to be in charge of the distribution business of Phantom Entertainment, he was transferred to the newly established Phantom Publishing as the general manager.

In fact, when Wu Jianye and Linda were discussing the group's future development plan, Linda saw two files on Wu Jianye's desk. She was so familiar with such files that Wu Jianye almost Every time a big-selling movie script comes out, it will be packed in this kind of file.

So when the two finished talking about the development plan of Phantom Pictures, Linda pointed to the documents on the table and said with a smile on her face, "This is it?"

Wu Jianye chuckled, and said, "This is the planning of a variety show and the script of a TV series I wrote for ABC. You can pick it up and have a look!"

Linda was slightly taken aback. She thought it was a movie script, but she didn't expect it to be a script for a variety show and TV series prepared for ABC TV network!
However, out of trust in Wu Jianye's screenwriting ability, Linda still read the script of the TV series first!
"Friends"?
If you asked friends who liked to watch American dramas in the era when Wu Jianye was reborn, what are the classics of American dramas, then many people would definitely say "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "House of Cards" and the like TV drama.

Or Shameless, Sex and the City, Prison Break.
But for Americans in the 90s, there is a TV series that has to be mentioned, that is, there are 10 seasons of "Friends" in total!
The 10 seasons of "Friends", each of which is in the top ten in the United States, ranked first among the 2015 most popular American dramas selected by the authoritative American media "Hollywood Report" in 100.

To put it simply, "Friends" is China's "Journey to the West" and "My Fair Princess"!
A must-see classic every year.

In another time and space, even if "Friends" is over, it can still bring CBS an annual income of 10 billion U.S. dollars, and because the six leading actors signed a 2% sharing agreement with CBS, that is to say, the six of them get nothing every year. If you don't do it, you can get a reward of 2000 million!

Even in the year when Wu Jianye was reborn, WarnerMedia paid a sky-high price of 4.5 million U.S. dollars in order to regain the exclusive broadcasting rights of "Friends" from Netflix!

It is impossible for Wu Jianye to let go of such a classic work!
Linda reads the script very fast now, and finished reading the script of the first three episodes in a short time. Wu Jianye knows the power of this TV series, but Linda doesn't know it, but now she is no longer Doubt Wu Jianye's ability to write scripts anymore: "When are you going to let ABC broadcast this TV series?"

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "Let's take a summer vacation this year!"

Linda nodded and said, "Okay, I'll let ABC follow up!"

Seeing Linda at night, Wu Jian did not pay much attention to it, and emphasized: "This TV series will be aired as ABC's most important TV series this year!"

Linda took a serious look at Wu Jianye when she heard this, "Okay, I understand, I will follow up on this matter myself!"

Only then did Wu Jianye nodded, expressing his satisfaction with Linda's attitude.

"In terms of actors, I already have candidates for the role of Rachel, and let ABC carefully choose the others!"

The role of Rachel, Wu Jianye is naturally going to leave it to sweetheart Aniston. It is said that Aniston was really very beautiful when she was young.

After the two finished talking about "Friends", Linda read the planning book about variety shows again!

""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"!" Linda's eyes lit up just seeing the name, and she was much more excited than when she saw "Friends" just now.

Sometimes a name can make people have the urge to read on.

No matter if you are doing a variety show or writing a novel, the name is very important, which is why later generations of Internet writers always have to rack their brains to think of various titles when they open a new book!
"This name is very interesting. If I were an ordinary audience, I would have the urge to watch it just because of this name!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Look slowly, don't worry!"

Then Linda seriously read Wu Jianye's plan, and this time it took even longer than "Friends".

In fact, the planning book of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" doesn't have many pages, but when Linda was reading it, she was extremely serious, thinking that if such a program is really produced, there will be some problems in every link. possible problems.

How to solve worries, only get rich!
Horses are no night grass and they are not fat, and people are not rich without windfalls!
Everyone has the desire to get rich overnight, no matter in North America or elsewhere, and now the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" perfectly interprets such an opportunity!
As long as you can answer fifteen questions correctly, you can become a millionaire. No matter what kind of person you are, after hearing such a publicity stunt, you will definitely be tempted immediately.

At the same time, such a program also gave those audiences a stimulating sense of substitution.

When Linda watched the last scene, she could only use Wei Xiaobao's words to describe Wu Jianye's amazement in her heart: My admiration for you is like a torrent of rivers.

This is not an exaggeration at all. Even after reading the planning book, Linda may have thought of the impact more clearly than Wu Jianye.

"The planning of this show is definitely an act of genius!" Linda used all the gorgeous words she could think of, and began to use Wu Jianye.

"I really don't know what's going on in your head, such a genius idea"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Wu Jianye quickly stopped Linda's exaggerated admiration, and said, "Since you have no objection to this variety show, let ABC quickly come up with a specific implementation plan!"

Linda's face at this time was like a flower blooming, and she said with a smile: "Don't worry, I believe that when the plan is handed over to them, they will immediately approve the project without me urging them! "

Wu Jianye chuckled. Judging from Linda's reaction to the two projects of "Friends" and "Millionaire", it can be seen that she is obviously more confident in "Millionaire", but Wu At this time, Jian Ye was not in the mood to correct Linda's thoughts.

"Friends" will only let people see her true power after she is officially broadcast!

If we look at the pure audience group, the ratings of a single episode of "Friends" may not be as high as that of "Millionaire".

But from the perspective of revenue, "Friends" is the nuclear bomb in the TV drama industry, and whoever bombs it will know.

In fact, "Friends" is only not as high as "Millionaire" in terms of average ratings, but if you single out the highest ratings of "Friends", it actually crushes everything.

In the ratings record in North America, the last episode of the last season of "Friends" had more than 5000 million viewers, which was only less than the Super Bowl viewership of that year.

In this world, Chinese people are not the only ones who like nostalgia, Americans also do the same.

At this time, Linda got this project, and her heart had already flown to ABC, and she was going to take these two projects to the town of ABC. Although the Phantom has now fully acquired ABC, the top management of ABC has not replaced them. In other words, they have a super high influence in ABC.

If Phantom wants to truly control ABC, there is still a long way to go.

And now "Friends" and "Millionaire" that Wu Jianye brought out are the weapons that Linda used to break through the barriers of ABC!
Seeing Linda preparing to leave, Wu Jianye waved his hand with a smile, telling Linda not to be so anxious, as he hasn't finished his business yet.

Linda said excitedly: "Wu, now that we have these two projects, we can recruit our own people in ABC. As long as they are no longer monolithic, it will not be far for us to truly take over ABC!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "ABC is just a starting point for our TV network layout. Do you think ABC is already the end point of our TV network? No, it is just a starting point!"

(End of this chapter)