Paramount is the oldest among the major Hollywood giants. After entering 1993, it fell into a whirlpool of trouble, gradually affecting its daily operations.

Just at the beginning of this year, after four consecutive years of observation, Viacom Group, which has an absolute controlling stake in Summer Redstone, filed a good faith acquisition of Paramount Pictures.

Originally, everything was going smoothly, but who knew that the situation changed suddenly last month.

Redstone's wife, like Summer Redstone's first two large acquisitions, filed a divorce application to the court again. If the court ruled that they divorce, then Redstone, who had half of their property equally divided, would face danger in both the current merger and acquisition and the full control of Viacom. He had to urge his wife to withdraw the application and calm the flames in the backyard.

At the same time, Barry Diller, the president of another media giant, the American TV Shopping Network, also wanted to acquire Paramount Pictures, and it received support from some people on Wall Street, gathering a large amount of funds.

In this way, the acquisition has been in a stalemate and it is difficult to find out in a few months.

Paramount's management inevitably fell into a split. Some of the people represented by Shirley Lansing are supporters of Viacom, some of them are supporters of Barry Diller, and others who want to maintain Pat's status.

Although Ryan remembers that Viacom finally successfully acquired Paramount, the specific process and time are not something he can know. Besides, this kind of acquisition case that can often cost dozens or even tens of billions of dollars is not something he can get involved in now.

"Ryan, what did you and Jim discuss just now?" Shirley Lansing asked unwillingly.

"The story of a ship."

Ryan squeezed his eyes at Cameron, neither of them had any intention of revealing to the outside.

"How about choosing me as the captain?"

Arnold Schwarzenegger came over with a wine glass.

"Are you sure?" Ryan deliberately looked him up and down, "The captain sank into the bottom of the sea with his car."

"seabed?"

"Come on, Arnold." Ryan changed the subject, "I heard you were injured while filming a horse riding scene?"

"Yes." Schwarzenegger touched his ribs. "Fortunately, he was only slightly injured and had no broken ribs."

This time when filming "The True Lies", the injuries were far greater than those of the main actors in the crew. Several of the crew suffered minor or serious injuries, which is also one of the reasons why the movie has been delayed for so long.

Since you are here in this kind of occasion, you must not be socialized. With Schwarzenegger's introduction, Ryan met many people in and outside the circle. Although he is still young, his youthful appearance, elegant etiquette and funny conversation can always win the favor of a lot of people.

"So, goodbye Arnold." As midnight approached, Ryan and others walked out of the restaurant. He chatted with Cameron for a while, but ended up forgetting the time, "And you, Jim. If you have time, you and Linda are welcome to visit Beverly Hills."

"We will definitely come to visit when Nicole comes back from the outing location."

Standing at the door waiting for the car, Linda Hamilton held Cameron's arm and said with a smile.

"Okay, I will definitely cook myself and entertain you."

"We have signed a contract with theaters, which involves the interests of advertisers, sponsors, and peripheral manufacturers. If the release date is pushed back at will, it will not only waste the huge publicity expenses invested in advance, but also pay a large liquidated damages..."

The Japanese are not fools either. The interests involved in such large investments of tens of millions of dollars have been won by the head office without much effort.

"I haven't taken any other films in the past year just to prepare for "The Furious Flames". "In the TV interview program, Tom Cruise was talking, "I wrote the script together. There will be many unexpected scenes in the movie, and all the action scenes are played by me personally, and I absolutely did not use any substitutes."

As he said that, he rolled up his trousers, revealing several small scars on his calves that were not very obvious. "The action scenes of this movie are absolutely wonderful, and I dare say it will create a new pattern in action movies."

"I heard you still have investments in it? Have you been a producer?" the host asked in cooperation.

"Yes, Cruise Pictures invested 15 million dollars, and Tony Scott and I worked together as producers of the film. We are confident that we can bring more auditions than Top Gun to audiences across the United States..."

Although the movie is still a while away, the promotional station for the summer season has started in advance. The limelight about "Flames of the Sky" and "Jurassic Park" even surpassed the upcoming Oscars.

The Internet in this era is not yet mature, and it is far from the influence of traditional media. Although Ryan has a lot of experience in personal hype, he is a layman in how to promote movies.

Of course, it would be different if you go to the lowest-level theater chain to promote it. After all, I had too many contacts in my previous life.

He knew a lot about the promotional methods of movies, which was viral marketing, but it could not play a big role. First, it lacked a powerful network carrier, and second, it was not able to master the degree well.

Viral marketing has actually appeared a long time ago, but it only developed completely after the Internet flourished. Moreover, it has very big flaws. Once it exceeds people's psychological tolerance, it will only bring disgust.

People who are just starting to eat crabs will get unexpected benefits, but if they use them too many times, the effect of this thing will plummet.

As for the hype without bottom line, it does not conform to Ryan's future positioning. There is no need to kill a thousand enemies and hurt himself by himself.

"The image of the dinosaurs in the film originally came from me, but when we made the movie, we hired professional archaeologists and naturalists. I believe everyone has seen the vision dinosaurs in the trailer. What I want to say is that when the Tyrannosaurus Rex appears in the movie, it will definitely give people an unprecedented surprise. Stephen did a great job, and Industrial Light and Magic. They joined forces to reproduce those prehistoric monsters, which were even better than I thought! I promise that everyone will see the extremely real dinosaurs!"
Chapter completed!