Chicago 1990

"Fxxkyou Jesse! No...no no, you listen to me Jesse..."

At the beginning of November, there were still aftermaths in the R Kelly case. Song Ya, who had gone to Los Angeles, found that some African-American media people and celebrities were still accusing'the Cook County State Prosecutor who is obsessed with suppressing the light of black people', that is, Ai Licia.

That's... a bit irritating. He called and questioned Jesse Jackson: "You guys promised me in Boston!"

"Yes, we promised, but that woman must be willing to cooperate with us!"

Jessie Jackson argued: "Publish some talks in support of equal rights and racial reconciliation, go to Chicago South City Hospital to pull the little hand of a black sick child in front of the camera... We have arranged everything, but she just refuses to do it! Up to now, she I still complain to the media from time to time that R Kelly escaped the guilt by smashing huge amounts of money to buy witnesses and hiring a dream lawyer team... Her attitude, we can't help it!"

Song Ya blinked his eyes when he heard the words, as if that was the truth, and dropped the sentence: "Anyway, I will figure it out." So he put away the phone, pushed the door and got out of the car.

He looked up at the outer wall of the building. Adriana Lima, holding a large advertising poster of the second-generation Beats Walkman, walked into the department store under the **** of bodyguards and reception staff.

Not far from Beverly Hills and West Hollywood in Beverly Center, Palm/Beats' first direct franchise store in Los Angeles is located inside.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

When taking the escalator upstairs, the female customers who found the king of fashion, billionaires, and diamond bachelors APLUS were all screaming excitedly.

Song Ya squeezed out a smile and waved up and down to blow kisses, taking care of every floor.

"Mr. APLUS, we need to hurry up..."

The manager of the mall took the security staff sweating urgently to maintain order.

"OK."

Song Yashi took a few steps and shook hands cordially with Palm and Beats executives, store managers, and shop assistants who lined up to welcome them.

This store is located next door to the Motorola store. There are also mobile phone brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel, and BlackBerry nearby.

For Palm, which only makes smartphones and PDAs, the main competitor in the same niche is BlackBerry. They have an exclusive unlimited e-mail service. When the September 11th incident occurred, almost all communication equipment in the United States was paralyzed. Legend has it that only the deputy commander Cheney The successful connection of the BlackBerry mobile phone to the wireless Internet was greatly appreciated by the party government. The subsequent wave of government procurement triggered high-end business people to follow suit.

In fact, although BlackBerry phones are smaller than Palm's Tero series, their performance and feature richness are far inferior.

Accompanied by the film crew, Song Ya and his party began to visit the interior of the store.

"This is our Walkman counter, various types of Beats Walkman..."

The store manager introduced everyone one by one. The store design here also followed the GAP and Apple's self-service shopping concepts, and the samples were all on the table.

Near the Beats exhibition area, there is also a row of computers placed against the wall with high chairs in front, all of which can be accessed online, so that the shop assistants can teach customers to register and download genuine songs.

"How's the business?" Song Ya picked up a PalmPDA prototype to play with.

"Very well, there was a long queue on the day of sale." The store manager replied.

"Uh, uh, good."

Song Ya frequently nodded and praised her slowly walking into the small warehouse in the storefront. There were some shelves, storing goods and the machines returned and repaired by users. Everything seemed to be in order.

But his mood today is actually not very good, "You guys go out first, Donna..."

When Donna Dubinski, president of Beats, was left alone in the small warehouse, she became black. "I read the news that our Walkman has been returned on a large scale abroad, and users are also complaining on the forum?"

"Uh, yes, some minor problems, but they are not directly related to our products, and the hardware of the Walkman is okay. It's just our music store..."

Donna Dubinsky quickly explained in a low voice.

It turned out that because the Beats music store did not use Apple’s closed software environment, it gave users a much more convenient experience, but at the same time had to face the problem of coexistence with other software in the Windows system. This incident came from antivirus software. They will consider a certain dll file of the Beats Music Store backend suite that requires extremely high system permissions due to anti-piracy requirements as a computer virus alarm and delete it.

The Beats Music Store only communicated with and tested with some big companies with a high market share in North Mi, such as Symantec, Mcafee and other anti-virus giants. When the music store is used by users outside of North Mi in non-main markets, the problem is coming. Anti-virus software began to appear large-scale manslaughter, resulting in users unable to use.

Ordinary users who don’t understand the technology panic as soon as they see the virus report. Numerous people who return their newly bought Walkman immediately, send them for repair, and complain about it on forums. Very negative news such as'Beats Music Store.' Also spread quickly.

Song Yaben chuckled at the arrogant Apple giving the opportunity to catch up, but he didn't expect that in reality it would be pecking at each other...

"After all, time is too late, half a year..."

Donna Dubinski was still panicked when he was glared one-on-one by the **** boss in a closed small room, looking for reasons. "We will communicate with major global manufacturers immediately and add a whitelist. It's very good. They are also eager to solve the damage to their software reputation caused by the manslaughter problem."

"Anyway, hurry up! I don't want to listen to excuses anymore!"

Song Ya gave her a few words, and returned to her warm smile when she went out, and took a series of photos with everyone in the store, successfully completing the task of creating momentum.

Shopping malls have pulled up isolation ropes on both sides of the storefront. Those who look at APLUS have formed two human walls behind the ropes, because various mobile phone manufacturers have already put 300,000-pixel cameras from their Tero series in their pockets. High-end models are decentralized, and many people are already holding their mobile phones to take pictures of themselves.

"APLUS! APLUS!"

Song Ya stood still under the front of the store, smiled and waved, thumbs up, more generous than scissor hands, and let them take enough pictures.

"APLUS!"

When the body was switched to face the other side, there was blond hair on the back of the human wall yelling to himself. This unpleasant husky female voice seemed a bit familiar? Song Ya took a closer look, and sure enough, she recognized that it was Scarlett Johansson, a popular Hollywood star recently.

So he smiled and made a gesture to ask the security guard to let in Scarlett and the white aunt who looked like her assistant.

"Hey! What a coincidence!"

Single ponytail, plain face, jeans, white T with leather jacket, except for the expensive bag on the shoulder, it looks like a pretty ordinary short white girl.

Scarlett walked over and shook hands freely in full view, "I was upstairs just now, are you here?"

Upstairs, LV and other big-name clothing stores gather together, and Songya’s forests often come.

Hey-hey……

This year, after the two films starring Lost in Tokyo and The Girl Wearing Pearl Earrings were released one after another, Scarlett’s acting was well received. Among her new generation of Hollywood actresses, she is already the one with the most prosperous career and the loudest voice. .

But it seems that the reputation is not enough. Most passers-by in the distance have no feeling for her. She hasn't got the chance to establish her position by popular commercial blockbusters.

Finally grown up! Song Ya's eyes swept across her chest, at least not losing to Christina Ricci, resisting the urge to lick her lips, and raised her finger to the Palm/Beats sign on top of her head.

"Oh, your business."

After sending a farewell to the team in 2001, Scarlett was very mature in all aspects, and immediately realized that these two brands belonged to the Black Pharaoh.

"Yes. Uh..."

Song Ya motioned to him, "But I'm going to go now, together?"

"OK."

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Moreover, the boldness of her life style made Song Ya, a scumbag, caught off guard. After leaving the camera and people’s field of vision, even the Beverly Center building did not come out. After a few words of each other, they hugged each other in a hug and got in. The bathroom.

The wild young actress is really uncompressed.

Song Ya didn't even bother to deal with the constant ringing of cell phone bells, and did his best to sprint for this friendly match.

"Do you have my phone?"

Finally, Scarlett finished her clothes and asked with a smile. After getting a negative answer, she took out a pen and paper from her bag and left her private phone number, obviously very satisfied with the game.

"Sure enough, the new generation of actresses are becoming more and more independent..."

Afterwards, he didn't take the opportunity to ask for resources or mention any romance hype. Song Ya watched Scarlett, who had just left so coolly, spread his five fingers, and sighed and praised the progress of society in his heart while reminiscing in front of him. Pick up the phone slowly.

More than a dozen missed calls, all from Linton.

He quickly called back.

"APLUS, what did you just do? Forget it, don't talk about it, come on, Brookeheimer and I are waiting for you!"

Linton urged hard, he hurriedly set off for the appointment.

During this time, he stayed in Los Angeles mainly for Linton's business, or Disney's business, because about ten days later, Roy Disney, the head of the Disney family, will be 72 years old. According to Disney's board of directors, it will reach seven. The twelve-year-old board faces an exit mechanism.

It is generally believed that it is not good if there is a member of the Disney family on the board of directors. Therefore, on the same day, Disney will hold an enlarged board meeting to discuss and amend this charter so that Roy can remain on the board of directors.

However, as Roy and Disney Emperor Eisner have turned against each other in recent years, His Majesty the Emperor should have decided not to let Roy achieve his wish.

Linton's current royalist camp is already preparing to cooperate with the battle for the Disney court that His Majesty is about to launch.

The royalist party is currently stronger, but Roy is not without the power to fight back.

Just as Steve Jobs noticed that former CEO Amelio helped him search for Apple stock in the primary market, Song Ya also sensed the hidden crisis behind his family and decided to sit in Los Angeles during this time to help Linton.

Because Finding Nemo produced by Jobs Pixar animation surpassed Disney’s own Lion Queen in the global box office, the five animation long-term contracts signed by Pixar Animation and Disney that year have been executed. At this critical moment, Dinis is facing renewal negotiations with Pixar. The problem.

In addition to Finding Nemo, the other four are Toy Story I and II, Bug Crisis, and Monster Power. The five animated feature films have not only created extremely high distribution revenue for Disney, but also brought amazing profits to Disneyland and surrounding areas. .

These are the lifebloods of the Disney animation and Disneyland system managed by Roy. Roy has already expressed his support for keeping Pixar Animation and renewing his contract with Jobs.

Since Jobs did not realize the great value of Pixar Animation in his early years, he was very disadvantaged when he signed the first long-term contract with Disney. Now it is impossible to talk so easily. He has already paid a very high price for the next long-term contract.

Jobs not only asked for a higher box office and copyright share, but also asked Disney to pay a certain amount of shares to allow him to enter the Disney board.

His Majesty the Emperor could not agree to this condition. Jobs had long joined Buffett and Ovitz to challenge his authority. After Ovitz failed, Buffett could empty the stock and walk away, and Steve Jobs, who had a long-term contract with Pixar animation, could run. In addition, with Jobs' arrogant character, he has been complaining about him for many years, expressing dissatisfaction with Disney's squeeze of Pixar animation. The relationship between the two parties is very bad.

This time, His Majesty the Emperor must stop Jobs, even if doing so would cause the loss of commercial interests to Disney.

He should also be aware that Jobs may have secretly teamed up with Roy.

Song Ya is now helping Linton, that is, helping Your Majesty.

Although he and Linton had a good relationship with Roy Disney in the early years, but now...

The situation is different.

Roy won't catch it all.

The situation has gradually become clear. Roy has the support of Walt Dines Pictures, Disney Animation, Disneyland, Pixar Animation, which is responsible for the distribution of cartoons, as well as a large number of toys, vacations, and other peripheral companies, as well as some shareholders and directors.

On the royalist side, Eisner has established a solid interest alliance established for many years to control his authority, and his cronies such as Linton and others have been allies in private for many years.

In addition to the recording department composed of Disney Records, A+ Records, Metropolis Records and other companies, there is also Disney's live-action film department that has direct internal competition with the animation department, including Touchstone Pictures, Bowei Pictures, A+ Entertainment...

In addition to Roy, two other big mountains that Eisner has publicly claimed to be considered as successors are the former Senate majority leader, independent director George Mitchell and his faction, and Robert Iger. Leading the ABC television network faction.

George Mitchell has stronger political and business relations, and Robert Iger, who is backed by ABC, is stronger.

Waiting for the price are the Weinstein brothers' Miramax and Emperor Gate Pictures, as well as the super producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who is likely to be promoted to the top of the Hollywood power list this year, and other small and medium forces.

Harvey's credibility is zero, no one dares to believe what he says, and he doesn't like the emperor, so Jerry Brookheimer is Linton's main target in the near future.

"Jerry."

"APLUS."

When Song Ya hurried to the golf course, Linton and Bruckheimer had been playing for a long time, and they had been friends since the time when Hollywood films still existed.

But it’s hard to say that the relationship is close. Bruckheimer, who has produced blockbuster hits like Lingyun, didn’t have to rely on Linton from the beginning. The relationship between the two is very equal. Bruckheimer and Hollywood Films teamed up to produce a courageous film. After the island, Linton, who kept on the street, had to rely on the other side even more.

And now, Bruckheimer has relied on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" with a global box office of 650 million this year to complete the gods in Hollywood. In addition, Disney's investment in Pirates of the Caribbean was originally intended to be a promotional film for the pirate ship project in Disneyland. It was a live-action movie, but it happened to be released by Walt Disney Pictures, which is responsible for the customary animation feature film.

Which side Bruckheimer chooses makes sense.

After the greeting, Song Ya helped Linton draw together, and at the same time the two exchanged their eyes frantically as soon as they were empty.

The arrival of the billionaire tycoon brought some touches to Bruckheimer~www.NovelMTL.com~, but it still seems not enough to make him rashly choose to intervene in Disney's high-level struggle.

Song Ya agreed with Linton to open some conditions, but did not scratch him.

"No way, for the production company boss who has a very comfortable life like this, there is no need to blend in..."

Bruckheimer and the two reminisced about the past when they worked together in the Hollywood film industry, but in the end they didn't leave a word of truth.

Linton looked at him regretfully and asked Song Ya, "Are there any arrangements for the evening?"

"I'll listen to you during this time." Song Ya replied loyally.

"Okay, then I ask Harvey to have dinner?" Linton was very happy and immediately raised his wrist to look at his watch.

"Can."

Song Yaming knew that Harvey would talk to himself about MJ's stuff in the evening, but since Linton didn't know it, he didn't say anything, shrugged and nodded in agreement.