Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

No TV station can get rid of the attributes of news media, so for TV stations, news programs are the programs where each TV station lives and works.According to the provisions of the "Antitrust Law", TV stations have handed over their respective TV dramas, entertainment variety shows and sports programs to relevant third-party companies for production, but only news programs are independently produced by each TV station.

Due to the vast territory of the United States, national-level TV stations will set up branches or "second headquarters" in major cities across the country, but the news center must be with the TV station headquarters, because this is the most critical program of the TV station.The most important news program of each TV station is the "evening news" period at [-] pm, so the four major wireless TV stations have launched their own ace news columns during this time period.

ABC has ABC World News; NBC has NBC Nightly News; CBS has CBS Nightly News; Of course, it is "CBS Evening News".Since the evening news period is only one hour, the four major wireless TV stations rarely arrange online interviews during this time period, but tonight, "CBS Evening News", the big brother of the four major wireless news programs, made an exception. They arranged for Jed A 10-minute online interview.

The reason why the "CBS Evening News" program group made an exception is that Jed's recent topics have been too much and too attention-grabbing.First of all, in the middle of the year, Miramax Films, also owned by Disney, jumped out to accuse Galaxy Films of disregarding the "friendship of the same family" and cut off "The English Patient" halfway; ” and expressed dissatisfaction with the distribution work of “Galaxy Europa Film Company”; and then Jade took over the largest Chinese bank in the United States, East West Bank, and completed a series of restructuring work... The news spanned the two popular pages of entertainment and finance, making " CBS Evening News had to pay attention.

The original CBS plan was to complete the interview on the daytime news program "CBS This Morning", and then make a feature review on the "CBS Evening News" that night, but this plan was rejected by Jed's personal lawyer John with "Thank you. Mr. Herman was not used to getting up early" on the grounds that he refused.

Although John's reason made CBS choke to death, but he had to swallow his breath and agree. Who made Jed the most popular news person at this time?If CBS doesn't do it, some TV stations will do it, especially CNN even agreed to invite Jed to do the first interview at the cost of the "Information Room" feature plus the "Larry King Live" interview.Faced with John's pressure, CBS had no choice but to agree.

"An interview on a daytime news program just wants to get our first interview, thinking too much!" After hanging up the phone, John couldn't help complaining. "I didn't expect that after we came back this time, you would immediately become the favorite of the news media."

"It seems that you are not a sweet potato." Jed laughed, "Tell me, how many interview invitations have you received?"

John, as Jed's personal lawyer and closest working partner, many TV media that could not invite Jed instead turned their targets to John.In particular, John was also Jade's full companion on this trip to Asia, so naturally there are more secrets to be discovered.John does not rule out being interviewed by the news media now, after all, this is also one of his jobs.He must represent his boss to make some remarks, whether true or false, in short, it is to prevent those predators from focusing on Jed, a fat sheep.

"Not a lot." John replied with a smile. "MSNBC's "First Impressions" tomorrow morning, then CBS's "Talk", the afternoon has interviews with the "Financial Times" and "Wall Street Journal", and finally in the evening. There’s a show on The Tonight Show.”

"I think you need to arrange an agent." Jed shook his head.

The connection location of "CBS Evening News" is in Jed's study in Beverly Hills. The Sherman mansion where Jed lives is one of the villas with the largest area and the best view in Beverly Hills.When the "CBS Evening News" program group moved in, they were taken aback by the size of the Sherman mansion.In order to show the friendship of the landlord, Jed also specially took the program team to visit the Sherman Mansion.Despite its size, the Sherman Mansion is not the kind of mansion built for parties.

There are a large number of trees and tall shrubs in front of the mansion to block the view from the outside.Flowers are abundantly planted in the vestibule surrounded by trees and shrubs, while flowers surround the fountain in front of the great home.When the mansion was being rebuilt, Jed's father specially invited a Feng Shui master from the East to arrange it.A large number of shrubs and trees not only block the sight of the outside world, but more importantly, "block evil".Because the Orientals believe that it is unlucky for the door to face the road directly, and the fountain and goldfish pond in front of the gate are clearly for the purpose of gathering wealth.Moreover, in order to avoid direct ventilation from the front and rear doors, a simple and simple screen carved from sandalwood was specially placed in the room.The Sherman Mansion does not adopt the exaggerated decoration of the Baroque style, nor is it the kind of Victorian luxury, but adopts the delicate beauty of the Rococo style.

Since Jade's mother is half of Chinese descent, many styles of oriental gardens were also introduced.In particular, the garden in the backyard of the Sherman Mansion is completely in the style of Suzhou gardens, revealing the Zen spirit of the unity of man and nature.

Obviously, the garden part of the backyard of Jed’s house surprised the members of the CBS news team. Thomson, the chief reporter in charge of the interview, couldn’t help but admire: “Mr. ) magazine, but let me say that your backyard is probably the prettiest family backyard in America."

Tom proposes to set the interview scene in the backyard, but Jed declines. "Mr. Thomson, as you know, this backyard is the exclusive property of my family and close friends. It is quite unusual for me to invite you to visit, and I do not want to show this garden to a national audience because it is ours. The most private part of the home."

Thomson looked regretful, but said he could understand.Americans still attach great importance to family. Since Jed said that this garden is exclusive to the family, they should respect the family's choice.Just like many people are reluctant to disclose the decoration of their bedroom, because it is too private.So in the end, I put the interview place in Jed's study.But the decoration of Jade's study is still so luxurious that the interview team was surprised. The carpet is a purely purchased Persian carpet, while there are various oriental calligraphy on the wall, and there are said to be very expensive orchids in the corner.And Jade's desk is said to be purchased from the red sandalwood desk of Hu Xueyan's family, the richest man in China in the late Qing Dynasty. It is said that there are only two such desks in the world.The bookshelf is also made of huanghuali, which is said to have been displayed in the Qianlong palace in the Qing Dynasty.The Xuande furnace on the desk is of course authentic, and it is burning the best Laoshan sandalwood from India.When Jed introduced the furnishings in the room to the news team, these well-informed reporters were shocked again.Come to think of it, how long is the history of the United States?And any year in this room can kill American history in seconds.

The interview team managed to choose an angle to shoot in Jade's office, because the desk was too big to shoot; and there were too many Chinese calligraphy banners or hanging strips in other places, which couldn't stand the strong light at all.After everything was ready, Jed looked at the TV in front of him, which was broadcasting "CBS Evening News" live simultaneously, and then the host threw the question over. "We are very pleased to have Mr. Jed Sherman at his home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles today. Mr. Sherman, how do you see the accusations from Disney movies and Miramax movies?"

"It's pure slander!" Jed replied seriously, ""Titanic" involves too many related companies, so I can't say too much for the time being, but the release contract of this movie was before we signed a cooperation agreement with Disney. , Our agreement also stipulates that there is no privilege to retroactively contract before, so the accusation of Disney movies is completely untenable. As for Miramax, I can only say that the conditions I gave are better than theirs, so it is won the rights to distribute the film. If Miramax thinks my actions are illegal, he can sue us in the UK or the US."

Jed dismissed the accusations of Disney and Miramax lightly. In fact, they are just sinicized. After all, they are legally untenable. "CBS Evening News" did not dwell on this topic, and quickly shifted the issue to the restructuring of East West Bank.In order to promote East West Bank, Jade introduced several important mergers and acquisitions and cooperation cases in detail.Although East West Bank will still focus on attracting savings from Chinese or ethnic Chinese users in the future, it still needs to expand its influence in other ethnic groups.Jed can weaken the Chinese meaning of East West Bank, but use EastWest Bank, the English name of East West Bank, for introduction.He believes that East West Bank was originally a communication platform between Asia and the Americas, and it will continue to do so now.Jed said that the future East West Bank will be the best partner for American capital to enter Asia.

The 10-minute online interview ended quickly, but Jed still left a lot of doubts for the reporters to play.Financial reporters can analyze the future positioning of East West Bank and the impact of the cooperation between East West Bank and Bank of East Asia on the Asian banking industry; entertainment reporters can analyze the movies "The English Patient" and "Titanic". Since "Titanic" is going to hit the most successful commercial blockbuster in American film history, the publicity will naturally start early.Now we want to let everyone know about "Titanic", but there are no stills, promotional videos and related plot introductions. Hunger marketing will definitely force the audience to take the initiative to pay attention to all news about "Titanic".In the news that is true or false, the audience will be willing to finally walk into the cinema to see the difference between this movie and their expectations.Of course, Cameron thought the film would shock all audiences.

But Jed was really thinking about a shocking scene. He planned to arrange an opening shot of a plane crashing into a building in John Woo's "Face Changing".This shot will be shot with an IMAX camera and made into a 3D version.Undoubtedly this will increase the production cost of "Face Changing".Fortunately, Jade only intended to use IMAX cameras for this scene, otherwise the cost would be so high that Jiafei exercised his veto power to refuse to pay the fee.

The author has something to say: Hu Xueyan was indeed the richest man in China in the late Qing Dynasty. Some people even think that he should be the richest man in the world. It is reported that his assets at that time should be as high as 20 billion US dollars... Remember, this was the era of the late Qing Dynasty.

In addition, Hu Xueyan does have a huge red sandalwood desk, which should be the largest in the world.There are actually only three red sandalwood desks that can reach this scale, two belong to Hu Xueyan, and the other is used by the royal family.

Hu Xueyan's largest desk has disappeared, and some people think it is in the hands of the Japanese.The smaller one is now on display in Hu Xueyan's former residence.

The desk that originally belonged to the royal family of the Qing Dynasty has now become one of Zhongnanhai's decorations. Whenever there are important documents to be signed, they will sign on that desk specially, which can be regarded as a symbol.