Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 263 MPAA Member
In the restroom of the bar, Sophie Marceau leaned against the wall, hugged the man tightly and kissed him passionately. Her clothes were half undressed, which was extremely seductive!
Aaron lay on top of the girl, panting and rubbing her delicate body, "You are a little different tonight."

Sophie Marceau smiled, held Aaron's waist and blew a breath in the man's ear, "Well, what's the difference?"

"Uh, just, really excited!"

"Maybe it's because Four Weddings and a Funeral dominated at the BAFTAs?"

The two were talking when suddenly, an unbearable noise came from the toilet next door. Aaron and Sophie Marceau looked at each other and understood!

Then, Sophie Marceau smiled, let go of the man and squatted down.

"Hmm," Aaron groaned, reaching out to stroke the girl's hair...

In 1994, the 66th Academy Awards was held at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles. Holly Hunter of "The Piano" won the Oscar for Best Actress, and child star Anna Paquin also defeated Winona Ryder to win the Best Supporting Actress Award.

Director Jane Campion only won the Best Original Screenplay award, and "The Piano Lesson" missed out on Best Director and Best Picture awards!
Tom Hanks lived up to expectations and won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the movie "Philadelphia Story".

However, Aaron paid special attention to the Chinese film "Farewell My Concubine", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with good reputation under the publicity of Crescent Films.

After winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!
At the same time, Vanity Fair, a fashion magazine under the Condé Nast Group, specially organized an Oscars celebration;
Some Hollywood celebrities and stars who won Oscars were invited and gathered at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Hollywood for a grand celebration banquet.

"Vanity Fair Dinner?" Aaron was a little surprised when he arrived at the Sunset Tower Hotel. It was the future famous Vanity Fair Dinner!

Graydon Carter, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, did have some brains, and Vanity Fair flourished under the leadership of its former editor-in-chief, Tina Brown;
Now, although Tina Brown has been transferred to The New Yorker, another magazine under Condé Nast, as editor-in-chief, her successor Graydon Carter is also very good.

Later, Aaron met Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Valenti became the president of the MPAA in 1966 and continues to serve in that position to this day.
As a politician, Jack Valenti's contribution to Hollywood is indelible, as he established the American film rating system.

The emergence of the film rating system also allowed American films to escape the fate of passing or failing under the Hays Act;
Allowing the audience to protect their children from harmful information through their own choices is a great achievement that is enough to make Jack Valenti famous in film history!
"Aaron, it seems that you are very obsessed with Shuguang joining the MPAA and becoming an official member." Faced with Aaron Anderson's question, Jack Valenti was also somewhat helpless.

“The MPAA’s current seven official seats are difficult to change;”

"If Shuguang wants to join, the best way is through inheritance or replacement!"

Aaron took a sip of his wine and said, "What this means is that there will be no new seats added to the current MPAA official membership quota."

Jack Valenti spread his hands and said, "That's why MPAA membership is so important!"

The MPAA controls the film rating system, and the seven major film companies, as formal members, have strangled a lifeline; currently, the MPAA's review mechanism is clearly biased towards the seven major film companies.

After talking with Jack Valenti, Aaron finally understood that if he wanted to join the MPAA now, he could only acquire one of the seven major film companies or join one of the seven!
Warner Bros. belongs to Time Warner, Columbia TriStar belongs to Sony, 20th Century Fox belongs to News Corp., Paramount belongs to Viacom, and Disney is also difficult to sell;
Now, the most likely to change hands are Panasonic's Universal and Credit Lyonnais's MGM United Artists.

At night, in the villa in Bel Air, Aaron was lying on the bed looking at the ceiling, thinking in his mind about the possibility of Dawn acquiring Universal or MGM!
Suddenly, Sophie Marceau crawled out from under the quilt and lay on the man's chest. "What's wrong? Are you not interested?"

Aaron patted the girl in his arms and said, "I was just thinking about something. You often go back to Paris, and now the French Pathé Film Company has found a new investor;"

"For Credit Lyonnais, MGM should also be looking to sell. What do you think would happen if I took over MGM/United Artists?"

Sophie Marceau blinked. "Last year, Credit Lyonnais was planning to split up MGM United Artists and sell assets to raise funds."

"A French newspaper reported that MGM and United Artists' most important assets are their film library of over 1100 films, primarily United Artists, as well as MGM's brand and existing projects."

"The reason why it wasn't sold is that after studying the situation, Credit Lyonnais injected more capital into MGM. After a period of experience, they may be able to sell MGM at a higher price."

“Credit Lyonnais won’t hold onto MGM for too long!”

Aaron smiled. He could see that Credit Lyonnais must have been persuaded by CAA.

After handling the transactions between Columbia and Universal, Michael Ovitz also had the idea of running a large film company, but he could not avoid the antitrust law.

Through Credit Lyonnais, CAA and Credit Lyonnais have signed a deep cooperation agreement. Many of MGM's current works are CAA's packaged projects.
Not only that, CAA has also taken over the task of helping the Seagram Group enter Hollywood, and its target has also shifted from Time Warner Group to Panasonic's Universal.

With the passing of former Time Warner chairman Steve Ross, the new chairman, Gerald Levine, has explicitly rejected Seagram's capital injection;

Seagram's idea of slowly taking control of Time Warner by injecting capital was shattered because Time Warner introduced new investors, Liberty Media Group of the United States, Itochu Corporation and Toshiba of Japan!

Currently, Panasonic's new president, Yoichi Morishita, has an ambivalent attitude towards Hollywood and has made no secret of his desire to get rid of the burden of MCA Universal.

Compared with several other film groups, Universal and MGM have the most uncertainties and are more likely to change owners.

(End of this chapter)