Chapter 568： Headhunting

"Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Miller."

"You are welcome, we are partners."

In front of the banquet hall of the Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, Garcia Rodriguez shook hands with Miller of Emperor Entertainment, and quickly took the elevator to the first floor. Just walked into the lobby, suddenly someone greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Good evening, Mr. Rodriguez." It was a freshman who said hello.

Garcia responded politely: "Hello."

This person hurriedly introduced himself: "I am Richard Frey from Korn Ferry International, can I take a few minutes to chat for a while?"

Garcia was a little confused. He had never heard of this company's name. Among the companies that Embassy Pictures has business dealings with, there should be no such name.

The assistant next to him whispered in advance: "Headhunting company."

It's not the first time that Garcia has met, and declined: "Sorry, I'm in a hurry."

Richard Frey was prepared, and whispered: "Mr. Diego Mendes introduced me."

Diego Mendes was a classmate of Garcia Rodríguez. He helped a lot back then. Hearing this name, Garcia Rodríguez thought for a while and said, "Five minutes."

Richard Frey said quickly: "Please here."

I found a quiet place to sit down in the rest area, and Garcia raised his hand to look at the watch. On the one hand, he didn't want to get too entangled with the headhunting company, on the other hand, there was really something wrong.

In the afternoon the company will have a meeting to discuss the promotion of "The Passion of the Christ" with Mel Gibson.

This film will be released in February.

Mel Gibson is a bit difficult to deal with, Ronan attaches great importance to this film, Garcia must be present.

Richard Frey knew about it before he came, knowing that there is a big figure in the film industry sitting opposite, and he is busy, he said quickly: "Mr. Rodriguez, do you intend to change to a larger platform for development? It is broader than the Embassy Film Industry and Relativity Entertainment? Salary is increased by 20% from the current minimum, and there are heavy awards every year..."

What is a bigger platform than Relativity Entertainment? Garcia is not hard to guess, one of the six major Hollywood companies.

This is not the first time that the Big Six people in Hollywood have come to dig a wall, and it will not be the last. Garcia smiled and said, "If you want to talk about this, there is no need to go on."

He stood up, not going to talk to him anymore.

Richard Frey said quickly: "Mr. Rodriguez..."

García Rodríguez did not give him a chance to continue: "I don't know which company you are coming here on behalf of, but I can remind you that I have signed a non-competition agreement with the company, and the penalty is as high as 2 One hundred million U.S. dollars."

Richard Frey was silent for an instant.

Garcia shook his head slightly and left with his assistant.

Is there something wrong with leaving relativity entertainment now? Not to mention the top salaries in the industry, the core management team had options last year. With the rapid development of the entire group company today, what is the value of Embassy Pictures in the future?

The salary of Relativity Entertainment is not lower than that of the Big Six. Will the Big Six companies break the salary balance of the entire company because of one person?

Garcia has a very clear understanding. In the past two years, Relativity Entertainment has developed rapidly. The annual profit of the group company's film industry exceeded US$500 million for the first time, ranking fourth in Hollywood, which inevitably attracted the attention of large companies.

Since the second half of last year, Relativity Entertainment has encountered a situation similar to DreamWorks. I don’t know where the **** came from, and always want to dig the corner of the company. Some employees have also resigned under the temptation of high salaries.

Those big companies treat Relativity Entertainment as a dream factory.

Unfortunately, Relativity Entertainment is not a dream factory!

But not everyone has the temptation to live up to the temptation. The core staff are highly paid and in high positions. There are countless people below who are staring at their positions. Many of them have some abilities and feel that they should sit in a high position.

When opportunities arise, some of them who have good abilities and have not signed a non-competition agreement will naturally think about their future.

This is human nature.

In the office of Relativity Entertainment, Ronan looked at the latest resignation reports that Connie had sent over, and after confirming the name and position, he signed it.

These are all middle-level personnel, and resignation requires him to sign with Robert Iger.

Ronan finished signing and asked Connie: "How many people have resigned this month."

"Embassy Pictures, Shahai Entertainment, plus the head office, there are a total of 18 people." Connie has a statistic: "It's nearly doubled from last month."

Ronan asked, "What about recruitment?"

Connie replied quickly: "There are also new people joining constantly. Our salary and development prospects are very attractive."

Ronan nodded. The resignation of these people would have some impact, but the impact was not significant.

Commercial companies are like this, in the words of the other side of the Pacific Ocean, they are battalion and running soldiers.

Relativity Entertainment has been on the right track, not to mention these middle-level personnel, even if the core personnel leave, it will not affect the entire company.

Connie reminded: "These people are job-hopping, and I have paid special attention to them. Recently, headhunting companies have frequently attacked us. Of the 18 people who resigned, seven of them submitted resignation reports within the last week."

Ronan couldn't help laughing: "It seems we have attracted some people's attention."

Connie knew what Ronan was talking about, and said: "Assistant Department, my deputy, I had contact with a headhunter yesterday, but she refused."

Ronan is very curious, which one or several of the six major companies is eyeing Relativity Entertainment?

In the past two years, the rapid development momentum of DreamWorks has declined, and the momentum of relativity entertainment has become more and more fierce. The front shield can no longer cover the relativity entertainment.

I heard that Spielberg's life is not easy, but DreamWorks should be able to survive for a while. It is said that it successfully raised funds from India in October last year.

There is currently news circulating in the circle that Paramount Pictures is pressing on DreamWorks step by step, wanting Spielberg to abandon the distribution business and let DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures sign a long-term distribution agreement.

This can be said to be the first step for Paramount Pictures to devour DreamWorks.

Ronan remembers very clearly that after DreamWorks gave up its distribution business and independence, he sold it to Paramount Pictures. It was about the end of 2005 or 2006. Spielberg finally gave up when he founded DreamWorks. Dream, facing Paramount Pictures’ steadily pressing on, chose the path of compromise.

DreamWorks was also completely split from an independent entertainment group company and eventually became a pure production company.

At that time, the "Transformers" series produced by DreamWorks was released by Paramount Pictures.

Since then, DreamWorks has also completely lost its independence, and later replaced multiple co-publishers. Spielberg seldom even directly directed DreamWorks investment films.

Now it seems that DreamWorks switched to Paramount Pictures and almost became a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. It is also the result of Paramount Pictures taking the initiative several years in advance and pressing harder.

Ronan also didn't want to be confused, and said to Connie: "Let’s check it carefully and find out which company or several companies are behind our headhunting company."

Connie said, "I'll let someone check it."

Seeing that Ronan had nothing else to do, Connie left the office.

Ronan hadn't finished reading an email, and Connie came back and said, "Ms. Shirley Lansing is here, and I have asked her to go to the reception room first."

This was a meeting scheduled a few days ago. Ronan put aside his work and went directly to the reception room.

"Hello, Shirley." Ronan entered the reception room and greeted warmly: "Welcome to entertain you with the theory of relativity."

This is a woman who is about to turn sixty years old and can be called the most powerful woman in Hollywood.

Shirley Lansing responded with a smile, and after shaking her hand, she said: "It's been a long time since I saw you, I want to tell my old friends."

Ronan didn't dare to underestimate this woman, a woman who can use the resources at hand to play Spielberg with her ecstasy, more than a terrible description.

"You make a call and I'll pass." Ronan said with a smile.

Shirley Lansing looked at the movie poster hanging on the wall of the reception room: "I'm very curious about your relativity entertainment. I want to take a look at it. You did a pretty good job last year."

Ronan was appropriately modest: "It's not comparable to Paramount Pictures."

Shirley Lansing looked at Ronan: "The performance of Relativity Entertainment last year was better than that of Paramount Pictures."

"That's the movie business." Ronan said: "When it comes to integrated business, Relativity Entertainment is far worse than Paramount. We are just getting started in some businesses."

Shirley Lansing was very sophisticated and took the opportunity to say: "Paramount Pictures can help Relativity Entertainment in some businesses. This is not a problem."

help? How could Ronan believe this kind of nonsense and helped the last Relativity Entertainment change his surname to Paramount or Viacom?

Ronan smiled without saying a word, some words needn't be too thorough.

"I talked to Mr. Summer Redstone the other day Shirley Lansing said with a smile: "Ronan, Mr. Redstone talked about you. He admires you very much and thinks Viacom and Relativity Entertainment can strengthen their cooperation. "

Ronan smiled and said, "I admire Mr. Lei Shidong very much."

This kind of remark is of course only to say that there is a competitive relationship between Relativity Entertainment and Viacom, in addition to the film business, there is also an offline market.

Although Blockbuster was acquired by Viacom and turned into a grandmother who doesn’t care for her uncle, it is ultimately a subsidiary of the industry giant and Viacom. Now it competes fiercely with Netflix in the rental market and is beaten by Netflix. It was full of bags, and the loss-making stores closed one after another...

If Blockbu does not carry out revolutionary changes and competes with Netflix, it can only disappear in the long river of history.

This video tape rental company is an important cash flow provider for Viacom.

Ronan suddenly thought that Relativity Entertainment was frequently dug into the wall, could it be related to Viacom and Paramount Pictures?