Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0354 Who is in favor? Who is against?
When Nan Yi arrived at No. 5103, he saw Rachel in the glass house next to the swimming pool. The air conditioner was on and she was wearing a bikini, handling official business while basking in the sun.
“I know how to enjoy myself.”
Nan Yi picked up the coffee pot on the coffee table and poured himself a cup of iced coffee.
"Of course, I work hard just to enjoy myself. Adam, you should also learn to enjoy life and make it more colorful."
“Oh, where’s Barry Diller’s information?”
"The one at the bottom." Rachel pointed to the pile of documents on the coffee table and said, "There's a study on the second floor. You can take it there and read it. If you have any questions, you can call me."
Rachel implied that the glass house was her private territory.
Nan Yi picked up the information and looked at Rachel from head to toe. "She has a good figure."
Rachel rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "Thank you on behalf of my boyfriend."
"Uh-huh, you have a boyfriend? Why didn't you report it?"
"I mean my future boyfriend."
"Rachel, don't be in a hurry to find a boyfriend. You can wait until you are forty and find a twenty-year-old. Find out about the land in Beverly Hills. I can help you build a manor here. You can pick any handsome man in Hollywood."
"Ha, I don't believe you're so kind, Adam. Are you eyeing the Beverly Hills property again?"
"Yes, I am optimistic about the future housing prices here. Pan American needs to add a real estate business. Do a survey of the land here. When you get the report, let me review it. You should be ready to hold the Pan American board meeting."
After Morgan acquired a stake in Pan American, Pan American Holdings has met with the board of directors. Pan American is no longer a one-man show by Nan Yi, and all major decisions need to be discussed and decided by the board of directors.
"By the way, when we meet at the board meeting, let's talk about salary increases. I suggest that starting from March this year, everyone's salary be increased by 15%. Also, let's mention that I be recruited as a strategic advisor to Pan Am. My annual salary shouldn't be too high. Twenty million is about right, after tax."
"Hiss, twenty million is after tax. Morgan's director representative will not agree to it."
"You just need to bring it up, and it's up to Morgan to decide whether to agree or not." Nan Yi said indifferently.
He believed that Morgan would agree. In terms of shares, Nan Yi firmly controlled the right of approval and veto, but he would not choose to abuse this right.
Pan American will continue to absorb shareholders until shareholders other than Nan hold about 55% of the shares. Nan's shares have long been broken up into pieces. In the near future, on the surface, Morgan will be Pan American's largest shareholder, with Nan hidden behind the scenes.
Nan Yi has been making concessions since Morgan acquired the shares. Pan American is developing very well. If Nan Yi puts his name on the board and receives an annual salary that is not too excessive, Morgan will most likely agree.
Isn’t the reason why Morgan invested in Pan American because Pan American, which is controlled by Nan Yi, has promising development prospects?
They can understand that Nan Yi, who can play a big role, will receive a high salary, but bargaining is inevitable, and the after-tax amount will most likely become before-tax amount.
A change of one word could mean a difference of millions in the amount of money Nan Yi could get.
After Reagan came to power, although taxes were reduced, the original base was high. Even if it was reduced a little, the expenditure was still relatively high. If Nan Yi took it directly, he could get about 56% of the 20 million. With some tricks to prevent the IRS from getting angry, this number could be increased to 65%.
After paying some consumption tax, we should be able to get about 70%. Nan Yi will lose at least 6 million US dollars.
If you want to suffer less losses, you have to resort to unsavory means.
For example, some company executives in later generations who are very smart but do not have sky-high salaries will turn themselves into a company. The relationship between them and the company they work for is not an employment relationship but a simple business relationship.
When he consumes, he will also use the name of his own company to avoid high personal taxes.
Some people will also register their unemployed wives to the company where they work, split their salary in two and pay it to both of them, which can also lower the personal tax base.
If that is still not enough, parents, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law who are unemployed can all be asked to join in to bring the base number even lower.
There are many seemingly smart methods , it just depends on whether you choose to use them or not.
Nan Yi doesn’t care whether others use it or not. He won’t choose to use it anyway. His feathers are very precious.
"Okay, I'll bring it up at the board meeting," Rachel agreed.
Nan Yi nodded, took the documents and walked into the house. The bodyguards' inspection was over, and he could move freely in the house.
He sat down on the big chair in the study, wiped the corners of the big desk to make sure there was no dust on his fingers, then he unfolded Barry Diller's information and began to read it.
According to the data, Paramount began to decline in the 1960s. Adolf Zukor, who is still in power, is over 80 years old. The company is sadly unable to understand what kind of movies the new generation of audiences want to watch.
By 1966, the company fell into the hands of Gulf Western Industries, and the Zucker era officially came to an end.
Although the new president, Robert Evans, was an unknown figure in the film industry, he was very capable. Under his leadership, Paramount produced such commercially successful films as "Love Story", "Chinatown" and "The Godfather", and recovered its vitality.
Robert Evans served as the captain of Paramount for eight years. In 1976, Barry Diller, who came from the television industry, came on the scene. He and his two assistants, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, brought Paramount back to the top position in Hollywood.
Barry Diller's forte is high-concept films, which have achieved huge success with the help of simple and powerful stories and large-scale publicity. His representative works include the musicals "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease", the horror film "Halloween", the action-adventure film "Indiana Jones" and the police and gangster film "The Black Widow".
In just over eight years, Barry Diller brought Paramount from the last position among the Big Eight studios to the top position among the Big Seven [that's right, the Big Eight became the Big Seven during this period, in 1981].
However, Barry Diller's ideal was to establish a new television network, but Martin Davis, the owner of parent company Gulf Western, had no intention of taking such an adventure.
After reading the information, Nan Yi was sure that Barry Diller was a good talent. He was indeed a good choice to be the president of Red Sofa. However, the TV network...
It's not impossible to join, but you just need to have a good talk with Barry Diller and focus more on TV dramas and entertainment programs, and less on news programs.
"TV network..."
Nan Yi recalled the variety shows he could remember in his mind. He remembered quite a few names, but he seemed to have never watched a variety show in its entirety. He only remembered turning around, clapping, and playing the victim. He also had read some negative reports on the Internet. If he was asked to come up with a complete program plan, he certainly couldn't do it.
Every line of work has its own tricks. For example, how to sell misery, who should sell it, and when should it be sold? There are definitely some rules to this.
"Yes, we have to employ a large group of variety show planners, but it's worth it. We should be able to make a lot of money from selling the copyright in the future."
Nan Yi is certain that this Barry Diller is the Barry Diller he remembers in his mind, so this person will not work for him forever and will go out to work on his own sooner or later.
In order to recruit him, the ownership of shares cannot be given, but the shareholder rights can be enjoyed, and the dividends during his tenure may be increased.
Nan Yi calculated Barry Diller's salary at Paramount. He could probably get around two million US dollars a year. With an additional five hundred thousand, no, six hundred thousand, to support him in establishing a TV network, he believed that Barry Diller would definitely come.
His two assistants also had to be poached over, and the three-horse team continued to gallop on the red sofa.
Having made up his mind, Nan Yi put Barry Diller's matter aside for the time being and started thinking about the matters of the screenwriter studio and the column planning studio.
The copyright will definitely be worth a high price in the future, and the studio must be independent. It cannot be established under the name of Red Sofa and 20th Century Fox. After taking over all the copyrights of 20th Century Fox, this company will have to be sold. I believe Disney will be happy to take it over.
Hongshafa will definitely go public, and its shares will be diluted in the future. As for the copyright, Nan Yi still wants to keep it among his own people and not allow outsiders to get involved.
As for 20th Century Fox's film and peripheral distribution channels, Red Sofa should be able to replicate its own channel in ten years.
Having made up his mind, Nan Yi also knew what to do in Hollywood.
The next day, Nan Yi asked someone to register a company called Gunshou. Of course, the company’s English name was not Cheater (the best translation of Gunshou), but Gunner. From a foreigner’s perspective, this company should be called “Sharpshooter”.
By extension, it implies that the company's scripts and planning will be very popular with the audience, and its positioning is very accurate, so it can be regarded as a sharpshooter.
In terms of equity division, Nan Youqiong secretly holds 80%; Nan Ruoyin holds 15%, which will be disclosed to the public at an appropriate time; and the remaining 5% is reserved for profit distribution to outstanding employees of the company.
In 1989, Rachel Nan, a 14-year-old female writer, published her first work, "To Be Determined", which sold tens of millions of copies and earned royalties of over 100 million US dollars. Just when everyone thought she was going to continue with her second work, she chose to go to college for further studies.
While studying at university, he created the Fox Network portal platform, and within three months [to be determined], he attracted an angel investment of 10 million US dollars from the richest man Wei Ye...
The world's number one portal must be a fox, not a tiger or a lion, and the number one person on the Internet must be Nan Ruoyin and Nan Yi. Who agrees and who disagrees?
If anyone dares to object, Nan Yi will make him unable to drive a Mazda!
As long as the Nan family does not collapse, Nan Ruoyin will definitely be a business genius, no matter how bad she is.
