Chapter 209 The exchange of benefits that Kate wants, the real master behind DreamWorks
Let Kate talk about the project?
Hearing these words, Roland hesitated a little. He thought the old man wanted to put the whole thing on the table and explain it clearly.
"Steven, is this unnecessary?"
""Saving Private Ryan" is a collaboration between us. Although it will sell a lot of resources for the Olympics, I don't want to say it for the time being. I want to make it public after the matter is finished, so..."
"Why don't you call her over?"
In Roland's view, it is reasonable for Spielberg to be wary of Kate.
Because his first marriage ended in a dismal ending.
Not only that, but the prenuptial agreement was ruled invalid by the court due to problems. Therefore, in that marriage, the old man paid a breakup fee of 100 million yuan. As his own person recognized by the old man, it was normal to warn Roland.
If it were a truck driver, Roland believed that after hearing such a 'stupid beep' plan for the Olympic Games, the guy who suffered a lot must have raised his hand and slapped himself.
After all, that irascible old man lost his family property in many divorce cases!
Of course, it’s okay to lose the family property. The most important thing is that the "Terminator" series didn't get it back in the end. This is the real injury.
It is because I have witnessed the **** facts with my own eyes that I know that feelings are the most expensive business in the world, so when talking about love with them, it is better to talk about money first. As long as the property distribution is settled, everything else can be done slowly. slow-growing.
It's not snobbery, it's self-responsibility.
Like what Roland is talking about now?
With the nature of Spielberg and Cameron, they will definitely let the woman know first how much this trophy will cost!
I can fulfill your wish, but you have to know how much I have paid to help you realize your wish!
There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and all the gains are nothing but the exchange of benefits!
However-
Roland's brain circuit, and Spielberg, are not on the same channel at all.
He will remind Roland, but not now.
It hasn't reached the point of discussing marriage yet. With David Olsen here, the old man believes that no one can cheat Roland's property.
However, Roland can instantly think of his own property when he changes his face. This kind of vigilance reassures him.
Even if the two of them had a wrong idea, the old man still went down the **** and said: "You still know that you have a lot of property? I thought you were going to give it all away!"
"Since you don't want to tell her, then I won't mention Chongao."
Hearing what the other party said, Roland breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could express his thanks, a turning point came again.
"but…"
"People can still see."
"There is currently a problem with the project "Saving Private Ryan"..."
After the old man babbled about the fact that the British Ministry of Defense did not give him face, Roland, who knew the cause and effect, relaxed a lot. After seeing Roland's relaxed appearance, the old man smiled and said: "How do I feel?" , Do you think this matter is very simple? I have contacted Paramount, and they just refused to let go. "
"Didn't you already give me the answer?"
As long as the old man does not expose his plan, Roland will not care about the other party's knowingly asking.
"You think Kate can solve this matter, and I think the same as you."
"Really?" Hearing what Roland said, the old man's smile became wider, "Do you think she will readily agree?"
"Of course! I have this confidence..."
"Then you call her up?"
"Not now, it's five o'clock, let's go eat first."
Roland glanced at his watch and said, "I'll ask her to go to your house to eat."
"You don't know each other yet, don't you think it's embarrassing for me to call her up to talk about things?"
"I talked about the project behind her back and didn't let her know the truth. As a result, we talked about the problem and found that she could solve it, so I asked her to come up to help. Isn't this just to deprive people of their right to know, but Thinking about squeezing?"
"She is not a tool to help me solve all problems. Since I want her to help, I have to explain the matter to her clearly. I will give her an order in front of you. She may give me face now, but go back After that, I was miserable..."
When Roland shook his eyebrows and said bluntly that he was going to the old man's house for a meal, the old man was extremely surprised by what he said. Although many Hollywood people are supporters of feminism, in fact...
Isn’t everyone saying one thing and doing another?
Just the idea of letting the wife return to the family has already demonstrated their machismo.
Not to mention, everything in life is centered on them.
But Roland hated this kind of practice of using it when it is called and leaving it when it is useless.
Because his father treated his mother like this in his previous life.
If you are told to do one thing, you will do it, why ask so many questions?
Worried that I lied to you?
I'm your husband!
It is true that when he started dating Kate, he did have the idea of treating the other party as a tool in his mind.
But now...
If he really did this, wouldn't he become the father he least wanted to be?
Turn Kate into a babysitter? Use the feelings cultivated by both parties to squeeze each other to the fullest?
He can't do this.
Because of this kind of oppression, it’s the same as ‘You lost only a leg, but what she lost was love! ’ This kind of logical kidnapping by ghosts is just as disgusting.
"Okay, go to my house for dinner."
"Let's talk after eating."
Roland was firm, and Spielberg didn't force it.
What's more, even if Roland didn't offer to have dinner together, he would still ask to see Kate.
He wanted to see whether Kate had four arms and eight legs and could hold Roland tightly, or whether she had a gentle personality that kept Roland entangled and didn't want to leave. After all, his student had earned so much money so hard, and he had to pay for it immediately. She smashed most of it.
However, after the two parties met, Spielberg looked at it for a while, but didn't find many advantages from Kate.
Isn't it just white skin, better figure, exquisite facial features, and soft voice, does it have something to do with it?
There are too many blonde girls like this in Hollywood!
Hollywood has never been short of beauties. Even if Roland doesn't like the slender ones, there are quite a few beauties in the golden age. The old man thought that a rich and handsome young man like Roland would be very carefree in his private life, but he didn't. Cheng Xiang...
This has been determined to be hanged on a crooked neck tree?
This really doesn't look like a young man!
With a puzzled mind, Spielberg finished his dinner, and after he called the two of them to the study and continued to talk about his project following the topics left on the table, he just said When "Saving Private Ryan" may go to the UK for filming, Kate, who 'accompanied' Roland to listen, suddenly brightened her eyes.
As he went on to say that this time could be as long as three months...
Spielberg, who had been watching Kate from the corner of his eye, noticed that the girl laughed immediately.
"Is there something wrong with our schedule?"
"Does it make you happy?"
Spielberg, who was a little puzzled, asked the confusion in his heart. Faced with this sudden question, Kate, who had been being silly all the time, was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yeah, England is my hometown after all..."
"Of course I'm happy that you went to film there!"
What?
Spielberg didn't get Kate's idea. After staring at her with doubts for two seconds, he turned his gaze and looked at Roland, wanting to find the answer to the question. As his gaze shifted, he had already guessed that Kate Roland, who was thinking in his heart, did not answer directly, but turned his head to look at the other party, and poured a basin of cold water, "But... the British Ministry of Defense refused to lend us."
uh-huh?
The smile on Kate's face froze when she was still silly. After he finished listening to Roland's explanation, how could she, who smiled again, not understand the meaning of the old and the young? He said: "The British Ministry of Defense refuses to borrow people? I can solve this matter..."
"When Kenneth was working on "Henry V", in order to make a good film of the British-French battle where the two armies fought hand-to-hand, he directly asked Prince Philip to borrow soldiers to cooperate...Kenneth can borrow soldiers under 2,000 people, of course..."
"If non-local crews use it, the cost will be higher..."
OK...
Roland smiled at Spielberg.
The old man was stunned.
Although he had guessed that with the current relationship between Kate and Roland, the other party would definitely help, but he didn't expect the girl to agree so happily, and it was hard for him to accept it so happily.
Because he's used to trading.
But before he could express his emotion for young people's views on making friends, Kate suddenly changed the topic.
"However, there is one thing I have to make clear in advance."
Eh!
The meat scene is coming!
That's right!
All the gains are just exchange of benefits!
"Okay, you say." Spielberg, who never believed in women, nodded.
"I want the crew's shooting schedule." Kate put forward her request.
Shooting schedule?
Smelling this object, Spielberg was confused again.
This kind of thing is not confidential, Kate can just ask Roland for it, there is no need to raise it cautiously!
And after seeing the old man frowning again, Roland, who knew it well, didn't bother to watch the two play charades here, so he just spread the whole topic, "Steven, she wants to know when our crew will be on vacation Woolen cloth!"
"When we're on vacation, she'll take me to her house, right?"
In the first half of the sentence, Roland directed at Spielberg, while the last rhetorical question pointed to Kate.
The helpless voice also made Kate nod in satisfaction, "Since you understand it? Then you consciously go to my house when the time comes..."
"If you dare to say No, I won't borrow someone for you!"
That’s right, when Roland learned that Spielberg wanted Kate to solve the filming problem of "Saving Private Ryan" in the UK, he knew that this kind of problem was not a problem at all...
Because the movie was filmed in the UK, wouldn't that just fulfill Kate's wish?
Currently, Kate is in a state of semi-employment, with no filming and no friends.
When Roland is on vacation, she can still run around with Roland. If Roland is working, then she can only go home and stay.
After all, both parties had agreed before, Roland gave her some time, while she tried to forget about Oscar.
Before forgetting the award, Roland went to work, and she was embarrassed to follow the whole process.
The kind of unjustified guarding is a bit too much.
However, once Roland is going to film in England, hey, that will be her home game...
My home is in England, where can you dump me?
I have no filming because of you. When I was bored, I went out for a walk, and I happened to walk to your crew...
This is fate!
And when you were resting, you accompanied me around the shooting location, and then wandered to my house...
Isn’t this God’s will?
In this way, of course Roland confidently told Spielberg that what you think is not a problem at all.
Of course, this does not mean that there is a problem with the sentence 'all gains are exchanged for benefits'.
It was the exchange that Kate wanted, which was to send Roland to her house...
She hasn't reported her revenge on Christmas Eve last year!
Didn't you, Roland, make me extremely nervous? I have to make you tremble this time too!
After the old man understood all this, the breath of a long sigh was comparable to that of a truck driver who had been eating dog food for half a year.
Old, really old, unable to keep up with the times.
They have never seen such a crooked young man in their life!
When Spielberg saw Roland nodding helplessly, expressing that he would not back down, the project plan for "Saving Private Ryan" was directly thrown on the table by the old man... talk? What else is there to talk about now?
In the project, the biggest problem has been solved, but in the communication, the biggest worry is right in front of you!
However, the dissolution of the partnership as soon as the matter is resolved, no matter how you look at it, there is a sense of utilitarianism.
While abandoning the project, Roland and the old man's next topic of conversation shifted to the development of DreamWorks.
Compared with the repeated "stupid beep" behavior of Warcraft Film and Television, DreamWorks is really a bit vigorous now, and after the two sides chatted, Roland discovered that it turned out that Spielberg was the The real helm of DreamWorks.
Yes, even though DreamWorks is divided into three companies, the live-action film part is controlled by the old man, the animation part is controlled by Jeffrey Katzenberg, and the record part is represented by David Geffen. Listen to the old man alone.
Take DreamWorks Animation as an example, it is a company that was spun off from Amblin Entertainment!
When the old man's student, Robert Zemeckis, filmed "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Amblin Entertainment specially set up an animation department called Amblimation, which was responsible for making animations, but because the old man didn't do much. Animated films, so after the establishment of DreamWorks, this historical department was shut down, and its own assets were converted into DreamWorks shares.
All the people who worked in it before have been merged into the current DreamWorks Animation.
Not only that, but since 1995, DreamWorks has also established a company called PDI with Pacific Digital Image Corporation. The target is Steve Jobs' Pixar animation. The old man who is obsessed with technology feels that traditional animation Has come to the end of history, the computer animation that Steve Jobs fiddled with, that is the real future.
so…
Dreamworks Animation seems to be Jeffrey Katzenberg's department, but the people and things inside are what the old man said.
One, he has a lot of shares.
Second, he mastered the core computer animation production company that DreamWorks Animation relies on.
The same is true for other departments such as DreamWorks Electronic Interactive Entertainment and record companies.
On the surface, the three giants of DreamWorks are invincible in terms of content. Backed by Microsoft, Samsung and Chase, the capital flow is also very abundant. It belongs to the structure of a serious health group, but in fact, this company is still an old man. of one word.
Spielberg said go to the left, then the guy below can't go to the right...
After learning about this distribution situation, Roland immediately understood why the DreamWorks in his previous life was separated so easily.
David Geffen is also a big guy anyway, how can he let Spielberg wantonly knead?
And when the entire company is its own industry, since it knows that it can't beat the top six, of course it is mainly about making money!
After all, without people and money, it’s hard to get through!
If I lose money, it’s me who loses, so of course I have to weigh the pros and cons!
"Oh! What a long time? DreamWorks is still yours alone?"
When Roland heard this amazing fact, his face was full of surprise.
"It's not mine! I just have a bigger vote."
Spielberg corrected Roland's words.
"Okay, okay, bigger voting rights, just the voting rights that can dominate the sale of the company."
Roland was too lazy to pick words with the other party, but he muttered to himself in his heart—
‘Since Pixar does not own the copyright of its own animations, and the only way to maximize its benefits is to be acquired by Disney, then I will buy your DreamWorks Animations first...’
'It doesn't matter if you can't get "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo", but also "Shrek", "Madagascar", "Kung Fu Panda", "How to Train Your Dragon"...'
'Of course, if you can withstand the attack of the Big Six, why not buy it...'
If Spielberg knows that the guy in front of him who is repeatedly jumping around in Hollywood, accumulating funds, just for acquisitions, has his eyes on his own company, and when he wants to dismember DreamWorks...
He will definitely slap him with a big ear!
Is your special code my student!
It’s okay to cause me to be misunderstood by the Sixth!
Now secretly trying to dismember my company?
I have taught you in a special way!
And if the idea is exposed, Roland actually has something to say—
‘The acquisition of DreamWorks Animation is just for a better acquisition of Disney…’
Note: ①Spielberg cheated himself and gave a 100 million breakup fee. It should go without saying; and Cameron married Anne Heard at the beginning, just to get back the copyright routine of "Terminator". I wrote it, Anne Heard knew that Cameron had no feelings for her, and the two got married because of "Terminator", but Cameron first sold the copyright to Anne Heard in exchange for the opportunity to direct After the movie became a big success, he married the other party when he had the idea of a sequel. Unfortunately, there was a sequel, but the copyright did not belong to him. This was revealed by Ellison Jr. when he bought the copyright of "Terminator". He said that Cameron wanted to take back the copyright in 1991. He tried all methods but failed. He was moved by his persistence. ②It was previously written that the boss’s wife doesn’t make movies, and Cameron missed a lot of scenes. His current wife has also quit the circle. Cameron himself said that he likes his wife’s low profile. ③DreamWorks has been absolutely controlled by Spielberg from the very beginning, and it is not the Big Three promoted by the media at all. The information comes from Comcast’s equity financial report when NBC Universal acquired DreamWorks in 2016. In order to control the company and obtain absolute control, Comcast also acquired the restructured Amblin Entertainment while acquiring DreamWorks. If it were not for Comcast’s disclosure of the acquisition, the outside world would not believe that after the company changed hands several times, the voting rights in the hands of the old man could still turn the company into a Eloquent.
(end of this chapter)