Unlike the business philosophy of Redstone Content as the king, Murdoch prefers channel expansion, which is why News Group's territory is larger than Viacom...

Due to the rise of Fox TV and Twentieth Century Fox Film Company, Murdoch's business focus has gradually focused on the North American mainland.

Barry Diller's resignation instantly caused News Corp to lose an important pillar in the film and television media business in the United States. Murdoch had to take action in person for the time being. These days, Murdoch has been presiding over the overall situation at Fox headquarters in Los Angeles.

The success of "Friends", "X Archives" and "Who Will Be a Millionaire" has made Fox TV develop much smoother than in the original time and space. Inspired by Warner's N and the resource advantages of News Corp itself, Murdoch has recently begun preparing for Fox News.

Another day of busyness is about to pass, and when it is about to get off work, Murdoch's assistant suddenly knocks on the door and walks into the office and handes him a document: "Mr. Murdoch, this is a press release that Mars Allen, editor-in-chief of the New York Post, just faxed. Maybe you need to take a look at it yourself."

Murdoch believed that his assistant would not send an insignificant press release. Since this article was handed to him, there must be something special.

"Let's put it here, I'll see later," Murdoch waved his hand, and the assistant left the office politely.

After quickly reviewing the last few documents at hand, Murdoch picked up the press release sent by his assistant, looked at the name of the article, and frowned slightly. As a media tycoon who started with news, Murdoch only read the first few paragraphs and confirmed that this was a completely stolen gossip. It might bring some topics to the readers, but it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among the parties involved.

After reading it quickly, Murdoch couldn't help but pick up another document he had just read, which was part of the financial statements of Fox TV's media content expenditure this year.

Murdoch's eyes soon fell on the column about "Terminator 2". After a Hollywood movie was broadcast, the second round was the release of videotapes, followed by the third round on major mainstream TV stations, cable TV stations and local TV stations in North America.

After completing the theater playback and distribution of videotapes, "Terminator 2" began to bid for TV stations. Generally, in order to maximize profits, movies are often played on paid cable stations first, and then free wireless stations are considered.

However, due to the shareholding relationship between Firefly and Fox TV, Firefly made an exception to sell the first round of broadcast rights to Fox TV. However, the price is still not cheap. For just four first rounds of broadcasts, Fox had to pay up to $16 million in authorization fees, an average of $4 million per time.

Fox and Fireflies have always been a pleasant cooperation, but if the article in front of him was published from the New York Post, it would not only be regarded as a provocation by Eric. Other media forces would also think that there was a crack in the cooperation between Fireflies and Fox, which is obviously a scene that many people like.

Although he realized the weak position in cooperation with Fireflies made Murdoch feel very uncomfortable. He would not make any extreme actions, and called out his assistant again and explained: "Tell Mars Allen that if there is another press release about Eric Williams, just press it down directly, and other reports should be clicked."

"I get it, Mr. Murdoch," the assistant nodded and walked out.

After looking at the time, Murdoch stuffed the manuscript into his briefcase and went home from get off work.

Last year's "The End of Flower" won five Oscar nominations. Elizabeth originally planned a PR party with Drew. In the evening, he received a call from his father and had to rush back to his family's Los Angeles home for dinner.

After dinner, looking at his daughter who was obviously absent-minded when she came to the study with her, Murdoch couldn't help but scold her, "It's so big, I can't be more steady."

Elizabeth sat down in an office chair, raised her legs and said with a smile: "You should say this to my two baby brothers. Tsk tsk, I heard that James has been fascinated by rock and roll recently. What kind of people are there in the rock circle? I hope he won't bring you a pale daughter-in-law back one day. Oh, this 'daughter-in-law' may not be a woman."

When he mentioned his two sons, Murdoch, he had a headache. Looking at his daughter's teasing expression, he immediately became angry: "What about you, you are twenty-four, and it's time to consider getting married."

Elizabeth's eyes immediately became a little erratic, and she changed the subject impatiently: "Dad, what's the matter if you call me back? If it's okay, I'll leave. There are still a lot of things."

Murdoch had no choice but to use his stubborn daughter. He knew that he would say that this girl could really leave, so he had to start the topic helplessly.

"That's right. I just felt that Fox was a bit weak in content production recently. How do you think Fox acquired TG Film Company?" Murdoch, the daughter opposite, said bluntly without hiding the reason.

Elizabeth spread her hands and said, "Dad, you know that this kind of thing is not something that the three of us girls can decide. That guy has to nod and agree. Even if it acquires it, it is useless. TG and Firefly have signed an issuance contract. In addition, don't make the idea of ​​Firefly. Now, even if Firefly has the remaining high-quality projects, it will definitely hand it over to Disney. After all, Fox still has to do it himself."

Of course, Murdoch understood what Elizabeth said, but now the cost of film investment is increasing and the risks are increasing, but the big-production films produced by Fox in recent years have not achieved any outstanding results. The box office failure of "Cutting the Throat Island" last summer, and the box office disappointment of Spielberg's "Captain Hawke" at the end of the year made many film companies realize that big-production films are not so easy to play with. When all film companies began to treat big-investment films with caution, Firefly announced four film production plans with a total investment of more than $300 million, which made people admire Eric's confidence and courage in film investment.

"Didn't Firefly announce the production plans for four movies? Do you think Fox is likely to participate in the investment? After all, that's $300 million. Firefly just acquired Disney. The funds should be tight."

Elizabeth shook her head: "The possibility is not high. Only when the film company is not very sure about the project, will the film company introduce external investment. How could the project he personally cares about is not sure? Moreover, that guy is now regarded as an extremely conservative business operator by Wall Street, advocating low debt and abundant cash flow. If he doesn't have that much money, he would definitely not have launched such a plan."

Murdoch sighed and glanced at his daughter. The subtext obviously means that nothing can be said, what else can you do?

Elizabeth glared back with dissatisfaction: "Old man, you won't let your daughter sell her looks, right? Don't even think about it!"

Murdoch was instantly angrily angry, shook his head with a wry smile, took out the manuscript from his briefcase and threw it to Elizabeth: "This was handed over by the editor-in-chief of the New York Post in the afternoon, take it."

Elizabeth took it over and flipped it out curiously. Although she knew that most of the report was nonsense, she still said politely: "Come again, what a bastard, sooner or later, she fell on a woman."

...

"Bitch." At noon the next day, at Julia's mansion in Beverly Hills, several women had lunch and talked about this, and Elizabeth said again hatefully.

"Bastard," Julia on the other side of the sofa also smiled and agreed.

Tina Fei, who was holding a little girl, smiled without following, but the one-year-old girl in her arms immediately shouted: "Dandan!"

Drew looked through the manuscript in front of him and said, "You don't know what's going on, you'd better think about how to deal with it."

"Who wants to cure the aftermath for him? I'll hand him over the manuscript and let him deal with it himself."

"February 10th is the Super Bowl final. Eric has been busy editing the trailer for "Tornado" these days. It's better not to bother him about these things," Drew carefully read the manuscript twice, then put it in his bag, and asked Elizabeth: "Do you have the contact information of the paparazzi who wrote this article? You have to get the recording back first."

Julia saw Drew's serious look and said, "There is no need to be so troublesome, anyway, the manuscript has been suppressed."

"Of course it is necessary. Not only that, but also to warn the girl's father that profit-oriented little people often become very troublesome."

Elizabeth smiled and said, "Ha, you seem to be very experienced."

"Of course, because I have such a pair of parents, I understand what such people often do," Drew said with some self-deprecating words, then narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the three people in front of him. His tone became hoarse and evil: "No one can interfere with Eric, let alone hurt him, and you can't."

For a moment, Julia felt Drew like a cat with a faint eyes appearing in a horror movie, as if ready to pounce on him at any time.

Elizabeth also felt like she wanted to get goosebumps and said guiltily: "I just said a few words to him, and I didn't wrong him. He was... just... well, okay, I'll find you the contact information of that paparazzi."

Elizabeth soon found out the contact information of the man named Cole Anderson. After Drew wrote it down, he took Tina Fei away from Julia's house.

Listening to the sound of the car leaving in Drew's villa next door, Julia grinned at Elizabeth: "What a little lunatic, I was shocked just now."

Elizabeth listened to the sound of the car engine going away, turned her head and looked up and down, then remembered herself, shrugged, and turned toward the room.

Julia followed her with the little girl who was dozing off with her head in her arms and said, "Liz, why are you weird? You can't be crazy too."

"I have to go to the set of "The Disguised Strange" in the afternoon to get crazy. However, you will be crazy sooner or later when you are idle at home. It's better to film early."

"I have started to choose scripts recently. Hey, do you think there are some movies I can act in tg?"

"Why, do you want to act like a crazy woman like Nicole Kidman?"

"You're really sour in your tone of saying this. You're still complaining that Eric didn't hand over "The Scoundrel Flower" to TG. Drew clearly said that he had other arrangements."

"How dare I blame him? I'm afraid I'll be killed by Dru."

...

After exchanging a check for recording of the interview, Drew hurried to Disney's production center with Tina Fey.

Because of Drew's relationship with Eric, Billy Clark, the film "Mickey Mouse Club" program, heard the notification from the studio guard, quickly came out in person.

"Hello, Miss Barrymore," Billy Clark felt a little strange. Eric had just visited Mickey Mouse Club the day before yesterday, but he didn't expect that one more day had arrived.

Drew shook hands with Billy Clark with great talent, and the two came to Billy Clark's office together, and Drew took out the manuscript and recording.

Billy Clark read the manuscript and listened to another recording, and his expression became a little uneasy. He knew that these things would definitely cause trouble for Eric. You know, the well-known director Woody Allen just got involved in the scandal of adoptive daughters. If the media caught similar news, they would definitely hype it up. If this kind of thing really happens, the program team will definitely be in trouble.

"Miss Barrymore, what do you mean?"

"Mr. Clark, this matter has nothing to do with you, there is no need to be nervous," Drew said with a smile, "Just call the girl's father to come over and I'll talk to him in person. Also, can I give me a copy of the information about the few young actors who visited Eric's house that day?"

"Of course, of course, I'll do it now," said Billy Clark, hurriedly leaving the office.

Drew quickly got the detailed information of the seven teenagers, quickly searched it, and quickly eliminated five of them, leaving only information about two little girls, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.

After carefully looking at the photo photos of the two girls, the girl curled her lips and asked Tina. Fei beside her, "Tina, what do you think of them?"

Tina Fei looked at the photos and said, "It's very cute. Disney's children's channel and the little actors selected are of course very likable. Drew, I think Mr. Williams is not that kind of person. He must have just invited these teenagers to visit the sharp corner manor."

"No, you don't understand," Drew shook his head and said, "After getting along with Eric for a long time, you will find that he often uses that strange look, and I can't tell what it means to look at some people, just like, well, it seems like I've known them for a long time, I'm sure there are such little guys among these seven people."

"Ah..." Tina Fei opened her mouth in surprise, trying to say something, but she just asked subconsciously: "Then, did he do it when he looked at me?"
Chapter completed!