Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Relying on information provided by John, Lee led the FBI to raid Japantown in Westchester County, New York.But when they arrived, the building was already empty, and after forensic investigation, it was indeed the office of an organization.It's a pity that no one has left useful information to the FBI, which makes Li very annoyed.Of course, Li was not the only one who was annoyed, John was also unusually annoyed.

Seemingly in retaliation, such operations erupted in New York City after Los Angeles and San Francisco sparked purges of Japanese and Vietnamese gangsters.It's just that the current mayors of New York are quite strong, and they all focus on fighting gangs, so the gang operations in New York are not as successful as those in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but they are enough to make the Vietnamese gang and the black dragon feel uncomfortable.But soon the Japanese and Vietnamese also understood where the revenge came from, but they didn't have the psychology of anti-retaliation.

First of all, he is indeed untenable morally, and secondly, his strength has been weakened to a very weak point, and if he continues to make trouble, it will be a road to complete destruction.Since there is no way to retaliate, then the only thing to do is ask for forgiveness.Since everyone is in the United States, all losses can be measured in money. The person involved, Jed Sherman, did not lose his life because of this, so everyone might as well talk about the price of the settlement.

Lin Bo'an and the mafia also have this intention. To put it bluntly, most people in the world are still doing it for profit.Is it really because there is no capital to deal with the Japanese and Vietnamese?The territory of Chinese and Italians has also been harassed by Russians, Eastern Europeans and Mexicans recently.Therefore, everyone decided to reconcile as soon as possible.

As the biggest victim, Jed now has a huge asset catalog in front of him.According to the terms of the settlement, Jed can pick up about $300 million in property from these asset lists.Jed scanned the asset catalog a little bit, and naturally he would not choose cash, because it is very likely that the Ministry of Finance will not be targeted in the name of "money laundering".

It has to be said that this group of Japanese and Vietnamese has managed a lot of property in the United States, but unfortunately most of them are laundromats or restaurants that are convenient for money laundering.Jed glanced around, and finally chose a TV station in New York, in addition to some stocks.Jed deliberately avoided things like real estate, because this is what gangsters like, and Jed can't afford to rob these things with his allies.Sure enough, both the Mafia and Lin Bo'an were very satisfied with Jed's choice.After the things are selected, the two parties will naturally reconcile.However, it will take time to transfer these things, so Jed is quite at ease in his private ward to recuperate.

With the New York TV station, it is one step closer to forming a national wireless TV network.There are only four national-level wireless TV networks in the United States: ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. In the future, Warner will form the CW TV network with the United Paramount Network under CBS to become the fifth largest TV network.Everyone knows that the coverage of wireless TV stations is actually limited, so it is necessary to arrange their own transfer stations in each key city.The transfer station must also have the qualification of a wireless TV station, so every wireless TV station is actually a very precious resource.Because the only agency in the United States that can authorize wireless TV licenses is the Federal Communications Regulatory Commission, and their licenses are rarely issued.

There are two types of affiliated TV stations of TVB. One is affiliated stations, which broadcast programs of the parent station around the clock; the other is member stations, which selectively rebroadcast or simulcast the programs of the parent station.The number of the former in the wireless TV network is not large, because too much will lead to "antitrust lawsuits"; the latter is the mainstream.The member stations are controlled by the parent station, but they have their own autonomy. For example, their news programs are not necessarily all the news of the parent station.It may be about half an hour of the mother station's news, and the rest is its own news program.

Because there are very few affiliated stations, the location is very important.The main viewing market in the United States is the California region, so a TV network often has seven to eight affiliated stations, but at least four are deployed in California.Generally speaking, the affiliated stations of a TV network must cover at least the Northern California area represented by the San Francisco Bay Area, the Southern California area represented by the Greater Los Angeles area, the Greater New York metropolitan area represented by New York City, and the Philadelphia area represented. The New England region represented by Chicago, the Great Lakes region represented by Chicago, and the southern United States represented by Houston.

After winning Los Angeles and San Francisco, Jed is now offering New York City. How can he not be moved?

In addition to being complacent about getting a TV station in New York, Jed also expressed his willingness to contact Jed to talk about co-production of the TV series "Prison Storm". HBO is a cable channel owned by Warner Corporation. It was originally a movie channel, and later transformed into a film and television drama channel with TV dramas as the main movie and supplemented by movies.

In order to fill the blank of HBO's transformation, Warner also specially created Cinemax, a pure movie channel.As a cable TV drama channel, it must have its own characteristics in order to survive.For example, the Comedy Central channel is pure comedy, while the science fiction channel is mainly science fiction dramas and fantasy dramas. The characteristic of HBO is "Sword Walking".

Throughout the history of HBO's development, they would not dare to broadcast TV series without them.From young promiscuity to homosexuality, HBO's mission is that as long as you dare to film and the film looks good, I will dare to release it.Of course, in addition to this fishy content, HBO will also broadcast some very in-depth TV series.Therefore, many TV drama producers regard HBO as a sacred place for TV drama creation, because the only criterion for judging you here is "whether it looks good or not".

But at this time, HBO is just a purely movie channel, and they have no plans to enter the TV drama market.It's just that the idea proposed by Jed really satisfied the HBO executives. You must know that this executive once formulated an extremely arrogant slogan for HBO, "This is not a TV station, this is HBO."In a word, we, HBO, want to be an absolutely different TV station.

And the script that Jed came up with really satisfied them. The name of the script only has two letters, "OZ".Jed explained that this is "Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary", which means that this is a prison with the highest security level, and the criminals who can be held here are naturally the most dangerous criminals in the United States.And this prison story happened in a certain area of ​​this prison, and Jed gave this area a very romantic name "Emeraldcity".

This place does not have the darkness of a general prison, on the contrary, it seems to be a simple and clean business hotel.In this area, all places are separated by thick safety glass, and all the behaviors of the prisoners are clearly displayed for everyone to see.Even your every move in the toilet will be monitored clearly. As for what you want to disturb, it is very likely that it will be broadcast live simultaneously in the whole district.

Here, all the prisoners have lost their humanity, but it is an extremely human collision area.In such a dangerous place, the hero Jed arranged for it was a hapless lawyer.According to ordinary people's thinking, this unlucky lawyer will lose his chrysanthemum's chastity in less than a day, and will definitely die in a month at most.

"Mr. Sherman, I have to admit that HBO is attracted by this script. We love this script!" HBO's program director Charles said in a very exaggerated tone, "We can tell Mr. Sherman For this matter, we will complete the transformation in the last year, from a pure movie channel to a film and television drama channel, and at the same time we will try to produce our own TV series. Thank God, you sent this script to us. But, thank you Mr. Erman, we can't accept the terms that the copyright of this TV series is owned by Dongfeng TV. We can even pay more, but the copyright must belong to us. This is the first series of HBO, I don't want us to revisit this series in the future Someone has to pay for it.”

Jed understands Charles' feelings very well, and no one wants to not even own the copyright of the first TV series he produced.However, Dongfeng TV, as one of the few independent TV drama production companies in the United States, will one day become a subsidiary of other TV stations if it does not have the copyright in hand.Therefore, for Dongfeng TV, the retention of copyright is the ultimate dogmatic principle of the company and must not be violated.

Jed thought for a long time, and replied: "Charles, it's not that I don't want to compromise, but once we agree to this precedent, it will open a Pandora's box for Dongfeng. We now have two options to choose from." : First, the copyright belongs to us, but if any of HBO’s affiliated channels around the world wants to broadcast this TV series, they can buy it at the best price and have the right of first refusal; second, the copyright belongs to both of us, no matter who You have to pay for the use, and we are sharing the profits, how about it?"

It's not that Charles has never thought about acquiring Dongfeng TV, but the problem is that HBO has limited capital, and the parent company will not provide financial assistance.Of course, the most important thing is that Dongfeng TV Company is a private company. As long as Jed doesn't want to sell, who can complete the acquisition.

Charles thought about Jed's two plans. The first plan was naturally unacceptable, but the second plan was not necessarily better than the first one.Because in comparison, the only place where Dongfeng TV needs to use this copyright again is to make video tapes or DVDs, which is what HBO is bound to do.As for selling it to other TV stations, Dongfeng probably doesn't have the idea.In the end, the bulk of the so-called copyright purchase income does not come from yourself?

Charles also struggled for a while, and finally replied: "We accept the second plan, but I ask HBO to purchase the first price including the premiere rights and the second round of reruns."

Asking a lot of money to pay back the money on the spot, Charles is nothing more than buying the price of two broadcasts in a package.Jed thought for a while and nodded in agreement, but added: "The second round of rebroadcast must be completed within one year after the first round, otherwise the cost will be calculated separately."

After the two parties confirmed that there was no problem, it was natural that the legal and accounting departments of the two companies began to calculate and compare the contracts.And Jed's injury gradually recovered. Just when Jed was about to be discharged from the hospital, John, who had been missing for a long time, returned.When he saw Jed, his face was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, we didn't catch that person."

"It's okay, it will be time for them to pay back soon." Jed smiled coldly.It is already 1996, and one year later will be the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, and it is also the best time to deal with Japan.