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Chapter 685 The CAA with the Chances of Winning (4200+ chapters, please subscribe~)

CAA's actions against the Phantom quickly spread in Hollywood, and several major production companies got the news immediately.

Eisner sat in his chair, listening to his subordinates report the matter to him.

"Boss, if the Phantom finds us, what shall we do?" Eisner's assistant Paul asked after explaining the whole thing.

Phantom Media and Disney are now partners. Now that Phantom is being targeted by CAA and there is a shortage of actors, in Paul's opinion, Phantom will definitely seek help from allies.

Eisner pondered for a moment, and said, "CAA has indeed gone too far in the past two years!"

At the end of the 80s and throughout the 90s, Hollywood experienced a surge in actors' salaries and production costs. One of the main reasons for this is the rampant CAA packaging policy.

With the popularity of CAA's packaging policy in Hollywood, directors and actors have more negotiating capital when negotiating with the production company, and the production company has to hold their noses and agree to increase the pay.

Paul continued to ask: "Then we help the Phantom?"

"Did the Phantom call us?" Eisner asked.

Paul shook his head, looking a little puzzled, and said: "No, this is also my strange point. The Phantom is at a critical period of reorganization. CAA suddenly came here. The Phantom must be in crisis, but it is strange. What's worse is that Phantom hasn't contacted us until now, hoping to boycott CAA together."

Eisner fell into deep thought, and after a while, he asked, "Do you think CAA is the bigger threat to us when it grows up, or is the bigger threat to us when the Phantom grows up?"

Paul knew the character of his boss, and when he asked this question, he actually already had the answer in his heart. What he had to do was to guess what Eisner was thinking.

"I don't think they are a small threat to us!" Paul chose an ambiguous answer.

But Eisner smiled, "Yes, both Phantom and CAA may be our opponents in the future. If Phantom successfully completes the reorganization, then Phantom will become the largest production company in Hollywood. We want to take our cake, but CAA can target the Phantom now, so will they use the same method to deal with us in the future?"

"Where should we go then?"

This time Paul didn't answer, just looked at Eisner quietly.
Eisner thought for a while and said, "Is there any way to make both of them lose? Only in this way can Disney find the most beneficial place for us!"

Finally Eisner stood up and said, "So, whether it's Phantom or CAA calling, they all say that we have deep cooperation with each other, and it's inconvenient to intervene in this matter."

"In the past two days, help me make an appointment with the A-level stars of Hera's agency and the A-level stars of CAA. Although we Disney does not work as an agent, it is still necessary to maintain some good relationships with them!"

Eisner has also seen the power of CAA in this action of CAA. After all, as long as Disney can maintain a good cooperative relationship with these stars and directors, even if CAA wants to take actions against Disney in the future, it must consider itself. The mood of signing stars and directors.

As for the battle between CAA and The Phantom, in Eisner's view, it doesn't matter who wins or loses. The important thing is that Disney should find its own interests in this battle!

Eisner's decision was actually similar to the decisions of several other production companies. For a while, top Hollywood stars and directors became popular.

Spielberg and Lucas were also discussing this incident at this time. The inertia of history made Spielberg sign with CAA even if he did not get the right to adapt "Jurassic Park". Received CAA's Dinghaishenzhen.

"Did you already know about this?" Lucas asked with the cigar in his hand slowly smoking.

Spielberg nodded and said, "Yes, Ovitz called me before the CAA action!"

Lucas said: "The timing of CAA's action this time is very critical!"

Everyone knows that the Phantom is currently busy with the reorganization of the media group, but at this time CAA launched an action against the Phantom, which caught the Phantom by surprise.

Spielberg said with a smile: "I was also very shocked by Ovitz's action this time. I didn't expect him to be so bold, but this matter is always good for us!"

Lucas smiled, and then said: "But you still have to remind CAA not to be careless. You must know that the Phantom is no longer the original Phantom. It is impossible not to fight back against this matter!"

Spielberg said: "I have already discussed this matter with Ovitz. Even if the Phantom takes action, it is estimated that it will work hard on CAA's contracted actors and directors. Don't worry too much. After all, the core actors and directors of CAA have stood with us and had conflicts with the Phantom. Even though these conflicts have faded a lot now, these people must have a lot of concerns. , it is not so easy to be rebelled by the phantom!"

This is actually one of the reasons why CAA dared to fight against Phantom. For CAA, their packaging policy has benefited many actors and directors. At the same time, their core resources have almost always had conflicts with Phantom. For example, Dustin Hoffman, Spielberg and others have direct contradictions.

Even if Phantom wants to poach people, it may not be successful. As long as these core resources can be firmly controlled by CAA, those second-level actors and directors cannot do without CAA's packaging policy, and CAA will not be afraid Phantom poached people!
In the headquarters of CAA, in Ovitz's office, the other two shareholders of CAA, Meyer and Harper, are sitting on the sofa with wine glasses in their hands, celebrating with Ovitz!

When CAA was founded, there were actually five founders, but the other two left later, leaving only the three of them, who hold 55% of the shares in CAA Ovitz, while Mayer and Harper hold the shares respectively 22.5%.

Therefore, at CAA, it can be said that Ovitz speaks for himself!
Meyer said with a smile: "The company has already contacted CBS and NBC, and the actors who quit ABC will be arranged to go to the TV production of CBS and NBC!"

Although the action against the Phantom was a thunderous action, CAA did not act recklessly. Before the action, it had already contacted the two major TV stations, CBS and NBC, and sent out its contracted actors.

Harper asked from the side: "How did the actors in the company react?"

Meyer smiled and said: "Don't worry, the movies and TV series shot by Phantom and ABC originally used the contracted actors of Hera's agency as the main roles, and the other actors they found were supporting roles. It doesn’t matter to a second- or third-rate actor!”

Because of Hera's management, many of Phantom's major productions are almost all contracted actors of Hera's management, which makes CAA's package policy not well promoted in Phantom, and the two sides already have deep grievances. Coupled with the previous conflicts, CAA dared to take action against the Phantom!

Ovitz sat on his sofa, with the corners of his eyes slightly raised, and said with a smile: "But we can't be careless, after all, Phantom is not what it used to be. After acquiring ABC's Phantom, it is almost time to make up for its own business shortcomings. , Now we have to show our CAA ability when they haven't reacted, and let them know that they can't get involved in any field!"

"Our ultimate goal is to cooperate with Phantom. This action is related to our future cooperation, which one has more say."

There is no doubt about the strength of the Phantom, but now Ovitz has also seen it. The Phantom Media, which is being reorganized, can be said to be the weakest at this time. It's unrealistic to think about it!
In Ovitz's heart, what he really needs to do is not to suppress the Phantom, but to use this action to tell the Phantom the strength of CAA. In the past cooperation, CAA has always been unable to get the core business of the Phantom. A pain in Ovitz's heart.

With the development of Phantom, Ovitz knew that he could no longer wait for Hera's agent to grow up. Hera's agent was backed by Phantom. If he really waited for Phantom's reorganization to complete, then Hera's agent would definitely become the most important CAA in the future. one of the opponents.

Ovitz doesn't want to see that happen.

"Do you think Phantom will sell Hera's agency to us?" Meyer asked with some doubts.

Prior to this, the three of them had already held a meeting to discuss this matter. The ultimate goal of the CAA operation was to force Phantom to sell Hera's agent to herself, and at the same time obtain cooperation with Phantom.

Although Ovitz has never read the Quotations of Great Men, he also knows that the negotiation is done by typing, so in his opinion, first of all, CAA should show its muscles to the Phantom. Only in this way can it take the initiative in the subsequent negotiations!
Ovitz laughed: "Why not, did you do everything I asked you to do?"

Meyer said: "I have already contacted Arnold Schwarzenegger and others. These people are still more interested in cooperating with our CAA, but because they signed long-term contracts with Hera's agent at the beginning, and The liquidated damages are very high, so it is not easy to recruit them!"

CAA not only wants to deal with Phantom, but also poach Hera's agent.

Ovitz said: "Tell them that if they want to terminate the contract with Hera, CAA can hire lawyers and pay liquidated damages for them!"

Harper said worriedly, "This is a lot of money!"

Ovitz smiled and said: "Don't worry, do you know what business is the most profitable in this world? It is a monopoly. As long as we can acquire the Hera brokerage, then in the whole Hollywood, it is what our CAA says. Losses are trivial!"

Hearing what Ovitz said, Meyer and Harper also smiled happily.

Since the establishment of CAA in 1975, they have made it from a small workshop to the leading agency in Hollywood, Sean Connery, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise , Steven Seagal, Spielberg, Francisco Coppola.
These top stars and directors have all become contracted actors and directors of CAA. It can be said that all of this was done with the efforts of Ovitz, and it was under the leadership of Ovitz that they gradually became the most famous in Hollywood. A successful brokerage company also has a stronger say in Hollywood than several major production companies.

Now Ovitz has finally set his sights on Hera's agent, Phantom. They also believe that Ovitz can lead CAA to glory!

"By the way, is there any director or actor who can tell you that Hera's agent is poaching people?" Ovitz knew that Phantom would definitely not stop there.

For CAA, the core resources are always in the hands of actors, directors and others, but whether it is Spielberg and others, or Ovitz knows that their core actors and directors, more or less at the beginning When Pierberg fought Wu Jianye, he was on the opposite side of Phantom.

Under such a major premise, it is very difficult for Hera's agent to poach corners.

Meyer smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have already called them separately, and there is no movement from Hera's agent now!"

Ovitz and Harper also showed happy smiles after listening.

"By the way, there is one thing. Before Wu Jianye found one of our contracted actors and wanted to invite her to participate in a TV series on ABC, and Wu Jianye had already told her that this TV series would be ABC's most popular TV series this year. An important TV series!" Meyer thought of the report that his subordinates had given him before.

Ovitz was slightly taken aback, and asked, "What level of actor?"

Meyer said with a smile: "It's just a young actor, but he looks very beautiful!"

Only then did Ovitz nod his head, understanding what Meyer meant, but Wu Jianye's previous screenplay made Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, etc. popular It can be seen that Wu Jianye is also very discerning in discovering new talents.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Call that actor in, and I'll take a look!"

Mayer nodded, picked up the phone in Ovitz's office, made a call, and Aniston walked in shortly after.

At this time, Aniston was still very dissatisfied. After all, being able to act in the work written by Wu Jianye is a very rare opportunity for every new actor, but because of CAA's actions, he is about to lose this opportunity now. .

After Ovitz saw Aniston, his eyes lit up. Even in Hollywood, where there are so many beauties, Aniston's appearance is still top-notch.

"Aniston, don't worry, the company has already discussed with CBS, and the other party is currently making a TV series, and we have already recommended you to play an important supporting role in the past!" After seeing Aniston, Ovitz relied on his With years of experience, I know that with Aniston's current appearance, she can definitely try to focus on cultivating her.

Aniston had a smile on her face, but she was smiling wryly in her heart. She could clearly distinguish between the important supporting role and the work written by Wu Jianye, the protagonist of ABC's main show this year.

But just when she was about to answer, the phone on Ovitz's desk suddenly rang

Ovitz picked up the phone with a smile, but then the expression on his face became wrong
(End of this chapter)