Chapter 458 Speculation
"There are more and more reporters blocking the company's door."
After hearing Julius Stewart's complaint, Ryan handed over the script for the fourth part of "Scream" that he confirmed, and said, "I'm sorry, Julius, because of my personal problems, has brought a lot of inconvenience to the company."
"Ryan..." Julius Stewart seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he still endured it.
Faced with this situation, Ryan wisely chose to turn a blind eye and asked about his work questions, "How is the right to discuss the film adaptation rights of the road female killer?"
"We reached an agreement with Hillby."
The woman surrendered directly in front of money, and the other one was trouble, "Irene Vornos herself has not responded."
"Look for someone to find a way to contact her." Although it is okay to skip her shooting, Ryan does not want to cause some subsequent trouble. "Even if the person who is determined to die has something to care about and be moved. If possible, let Hillby see her."
As for that woman Hillby, money can be easily handled.
Since Charlize Theron firmly chose to stand by his side, Ryan will naturally give corresponding rewards.
After saying a few other things, Julius Stewart left the office and passed the corridor near the outer floor, he seemed to hear the messy sounds coming from the front of the company building. From the moment Ryan appeared at Jenkins Film, more and more reporters gathered.
To be precise, this is Ryan's private affairs, but Julius is very worried. These private affairs are likely to have adverse effects on Jenkins Pictures.
Compared with other Hollywood production companies, Jenkins Pictures' shareholders and management are extremely united. This is also an important reason why the company maintains high efficiency. Now Wall Street people have invested in it first, and with this incident, can everything still be like before?
You know, Nicole Kidman has always served as the chairman of the company...
Shaking his head, Julis entered her office, and she believed that Ryan could handle it all.
After entering Hollywood for so many years, Ryan knew very well what was the fundamental reason for gaining a foothold in this fame and fortune.
In addition to film affairs, Ryan rarely interferes in the normal operation of the company, but he will take the initiative to understand what he should know.
Not to mention the low-cost series released in the first half of the year, Jenkins Films' most heavyweight work this summer is "The Matrix 2: Reloading". Although this movie has dropped a lot compared to the first one, it still creates a hacker craze in North America, becoming the highest-grossing movie in North America so far.
The movie has been in North America for more than two months, and its box office has exceeded 300 million US dollars, becoming the first movie in North America to have a box office of more than 300 million US dollars this year. However, the remaining theaters are less than 1,000, and the number of viewers is showing a straight decline. The market potential is almost drained.
If nothing unexpected happens, the North American box office of "The Matrix 2: Reloading" will increase by at most another 10 million to 20 million US dollars, which cannot exceed 350 million US dollars...
However, among the movies that have been confirmed to be released this year, Ryan did not see a name that could be sold very well in his previous life. The results of "The Matrix 2: Reloading" can basically be booked for this year's North American box office rankings.
Whether it is "100% Men" that works with Paramount or "Gladiator" independently produced by Jenkins Films, it is difficult to shake "The Matrix 2: Reloading" at the box office. Its biggest competitor comes from Pixar Studios, and the upcoming "Monster Electric Company" has chosen the Thanksgiving Christmas.
Because of Ryan, this animated feature film was launched earlier, and was completed earlier than in the previous life.
Because of the lack of Disney's constraints and sufficient funds, Pixar's speed in technology research and development is faster than in previous lives. I believe that the protagonist of "Monster Electric Power Company" will bring a shock to the industry.
Looking through the emails sent by Pixar, Ryan naturally remembered Disney. Compared with the Disney management who was busy stabilizing stock prices at the beginning of the year, the private spy on Pixar has decreased a lot. After all, a stable internal is the basis for external expansion.
In the details of the stock market crash in the previous life, Ryan only knew some superficial things, and the specific chain reaction was unknown. However, the current sharp decline in the Nasdaq index has led to a collective decline in the stock market, and panic selling has emerged one after another. Even media groups such as Time Warner, Conscart and Viacom have been affected.
Walt Disney is no exception. Many shareholders have chosen to cash out, and some small shareholders have transferred their shares one after another.
Ryan naturally would not miss this opportunity. The investment team has taken Disney stocks through more than a dozen secret accounts.
With enough shares, when Disney holds its next shareholders' meeting, he will have the right to speak. He may still be able to squeeze into Disney's board of directors. What will Michael Eisner look like then?
Of course, Ryan is just thinking about it. It is not possible to be a member of Disney's board of directors if he has shares.
According to the governance rules of the New York Stock Exchange listed companies, all listed companies shall establish external directors, and their number shall account for more than half of the members of the board of directors. The nomination committee under the board of directors shall be composed of all or more than half of the external directors. Disney Company has a nomination committee, with the vast majority of members being external directors and the chairman of the committee being executive directors.
According to the design of the legal system, the responsibilities of the nomination committee are to make independent opinions on the company's important personnel appointments, make reasonable judgments on the qualifications of the personnel to be used, and regularly evaluate the competence of the current company's senior staff.
However, this regulation does not apply to Disney at all. Since taking office in 1984, Michael Eisner has not only developed Disney into a media group with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, but also turned the management into his arbitrary and arbitrary deeds.
This greedy professional manager is a good at engaging in power. He takes advantage of the loopholes in Disney's management and constantly rejects dissidents in the management. For example, Jeffrey Carsonberg, who made great achievements in Disney's military, left Disney in anger and founded DreamWorks with two other people, which is related to Michael Eisner's suppression.
Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Even if you are reborn from the other side, Ryan still believes that this is a true saying.
Michael Eisner is doing actions in private. How could he choose to give in with his personality?
In fact, his investigation and consulting company has found a large amount of information about the other party, including many things that inspired Ryan and awakened his few related memories.
And he also thoroughly learned about Michael Eisner's ambitions.
A few years ago, Roy Disney and Michael Eisner had a sharp conflict. The only member of the Disney family in the company once proposed to let his son enter the company's management to prepare for the future handover of the Disney family, but was ruthlessly blocked by Michael Eisner.
Faced with this situation, the Disney family was powerless. The only stake in their hands had long lost control of Walt Disney. On the other hand, board voting has become synonymous with Eisner's personal will.
These are all smooth and extensive things, and Ryan had heard of them for a long time. It was not until Garcia Rodriguez sent some of the investigation into George that he knew that Michael Eisner's ambition was not only that.
On the ownership level, the Disney tyrant has been constantly increasing his salary and stock options, and asked Grave Crystal, the most outstanding compensation consultant in the United States to draft a contract between the two parties. The core of this contract is a high salary plus a large number of stock options.
To put it simply, it is to take advantage of the opportunity to control Disney and take the opportunity to increase your holdings when the company raises funds and issues additional shares.
By the mid-1990s, Michael Eisner became the largest shareholder after Roy Disney. Last year, Michael Eisner's stock had reached nearly 6%, completely surpassing Roy Disney and becoming Walt Disney's largest individual shareholder.
Although most of Disney's shares are in the hands of a large and small investment group on Wall Street, these people invest in it for profit. As long as the people in charge of Disney can bring enough profits, they will not matter whether the person sitting on it is Disney or Eisner.
In the process of manipulating the Disney company's board of directors for nearly 20 years, step by step, stuffing "one of their own people" into the board of directors bit by bit, and using various opportunities to win over the alliance to increase their holdings, Michael Eisner hijacked the board of directors that exercised the company's power on behalf of the shareholders' meeting into his personal board of directors.
Although there are many oppositions among them, he can always find ways to solve them, such as using common interests such as Pixar Studios.
Interests can blind many people's eyes. According to Ryan's speculation, even if Disney swallows Pixar, Roy Disney will still be unable to escape the fate of rolling out of the board of directors.
He remembers it very clearly that Disney has a clause that directors over the age of 72 must retire, and this clause that Disney Brothers use to keep the company alive will definitely become the terminator of the Disney family's last bloodline at the company.
When the biggest opponent, an "outsider" on the Ai's board of directors, a "non-one" and a "stumbling block that needs to be eliminated in the end disappeared, Michael Eisner could achieve complete control of Disney's company, and even steal Disney for himself and become his own independent kingdom.
From then on, the servant became the master!
Chapter completed!