Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion Chapter 508 - 407: Overbearing Female CEO2

Dadalio laughed.

"Pitiful?"

"Yes, Jennifer is a minor actress, and you are a big movie company boss. When you're together, it feels like you, the big boss, are taking advantage of her."

Dadalio said with a laugh, covering her red lips.

Link gave a slight smile, thought for a mont, and it did seem sowhat like that.

They walked the neon-lit streets for a long ti, until the sky was full of stars and they sweated profusely, before they finally returned to Dadalio's apartnt.

Bathing, kissing, making love.

Doing everything they loved, all over again.

The next morning, they ran together on the streets of West Hollywood again. After nine o'clock, he drove Dadalio to her company, ending their date, and headed back to take charge at Lionsgate Films.

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After returning to the office, he continued reviewing the docunts he hadn't finished the day before, mainly Lionsgate Films' movie plans for the latter half of the year.

Originally, Lionsgate had a $180 million external debt. After delisting, they lost a financing platform and money beca even tighter.

He planned to cut a few high-investnt projects, focusing funds on producing low-cost horror films, indie films, and developing valuable series like "The Hunger Gas."

By keeping the company's movie projects to about ten per year, they would save on expenses.

For this reason, he invited Vice Chairman Jon Fellemay and CEO Steven Bicks for a talk, seeking their opinions.

After all, before March, the company's developnt plan was formulated by Jon and several other executives, and getting their views would help things go more smoothly.

Jon Fellemay agreed with his suggestion to cut a few movie projects to ensure the company's stable transition.

Because the company was now delisted and could no longer finance through the stock market as before - taking profits when earnings were good and sharing the risk when they weren't.

Without extra funds, cutting a few projects to maintain the stability of others was a necessity.

But exactly how many to cut, how many to keep, and which movie projects to retain required careful deliberation.

Link nodded in agreent. He planned to personally visit the production departnt when he had the ti, looking for a few box-office hits he'd heard of to make.

He definitely wanted to avoid "big pit" movies like "Waterworld," "Shutter Island," and "Windtalkers."

However, regarding the developnt of new series, Fellemay had a different point of view.

Such films required high investnt, had a long payback period, and carried higher risks. The existing "The Hunger Gas" would keep the production departnt busy for a few years, and other series could wait until the company's financial health improved.

Link thought it over and agreed with his proposal.

The company was short on funds now, and barely maintaining their existing projects. Starting another would impact the rest.

But being unable to afford developnt now didn't an they wouldn't be able to afford it in the future.

He intended to continue looking at bestsellers, trying to find a few novels with transformational value and buy the rights.

If they had the funds later, they could develop them. And even if they didn't have the funds, having the rights in hand was better than letting a competitor make a movie and earn money from it.

With an annual North Arican box office total around $10 billion, if a competitor earned an extra billion, Lionsgate Films would earn a billion less, increasing the pressure.

This was the law of the jungle in Hollywood: when an opportunity arose to create difficulties for a competitor, it was imperative to strike imdiately, with no room for leniency.

While Link was chatting with Jon Fellemay, his secretary ca in to report that Ryan Kavanaugh, President of Relativity dia, had co to visit him.

The headquarters of Relativity dia was also in Santa Monica, on neighboring 102nd Street, not far away.

This company was founded in 2004, with President Ryan Kavanaugh originating from Wall Street. In '04, he raised nearly $1 billion from the hedge fund managent company Elliott Managent to invest in Hollywood movies.

Initially participating in multiple projects mainly controlled by Universal and Sony, he made quite a profit and beca a new aristocrat in the film industry as well as one of the more successful film companies in recent years in the field of independent production.

Projects like "King of Kung Fu," "Fast & Furious 3," "The Pursuit of Happyness," "The Mummy 3," "Public Enemies," "The Season of the Witch," "The Social Network," and others.

And the upcoming Bradley Cubo-starring "Limitless," Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke-starring "War God," directed by Steven Soderbergh "Knockout," are all fairly well-known film projects.

With a current market value between $180 million and $200 million, it nearly doubled since '09, earning it the title of Hollywood's ninth major.

And because of the good performance last year, Ryan Kavanaugh was nad by "Variety" at the beginning of the year as a 'Billion Dollar Producer' and 'Personality of the Year.'

However, Link rembered that Relativity dia didn't stay pleased for long.

Backed by Wall Street hedge fund companies, with their strong profit-seeking nature and impatience for quick success, and considering that film is an art demanding ticulous attention to detail, Relativity dia, after '09, financed hundreds of millions annually for film production. They released more film projects than established independent film companies like Lionsgate, New Line, and Weinstein Company.

By 2015, due to too many invested projects and excessive financing, slow capital return led to a broken capital chain and eventual bankruptcy; it beca a classic case of Wall Street capital failing in Hollywood.

"Ha ha, Mr. Link Baker, I've finally t you in person. I'm a fan of yours," said Ryan Kavanaugh.

Ryan Kavanaugh was a man in his thirties, chubby, with reddish-brown short hair and stubble, dressed in a gray suit, extending his hand from afar.