Of course, to keep Google's shareholders motivated, Wayne doesn't plan to fully acquire Google, or even gain absolute control.
Google's growth needs external support, so he only intends to acquire about 25% of Google's shares, becoming its largest shareholder.
This makes it easier for the founders to accept, and it will cost less, probably around 60 million.
He divided the remaining funds into four parts.
The first part is to build a Wayne Group building and a Hemera Pictures filming base in Beverly Hills.
This way, when filming movies in the future, he can rent these bases and buildings at a high price to obtain system funds.
This part is expected to invest about 400 million US dollars, and he wants to build a new landmark building in Beverly Hills.
The second part is to continue to increase the stock of Pixar Animation. If there is no opportunity, sell the stock for cash. If there is an opportunity, directly acquire Pixar Animation. Anyway, it is a big profit.
The investment in this part is expected to be around 200 million.
The remaining 200 million or so funds, in addition to a part used to purchase the high-quality copyrights that he was optimistic about before but did not have enough system funds to buy at one time, the rest will be used to purchase small and medium-sized villas in Beverly Hills.
These villas can usually be used for his women to live in, and at the same time, they can obtain system shooting funds in the form of rent. When the real estate reaches its highest point in 2006, they can be sold and earn several times the profit.
Of course, Serra alone can't handle so much work, so when Serra reminded him last time, he had already chosen two deputies for Serra.
One of them is Marissa Mayer, the head of the product department who has just been poached from Google. She will soon become the vice president of Google in her previous life, and later the president of Yahoo.
She also contributed to Google's success.
Wayne had his eye on Google early on, so he just noticed Marissa Mayer.
After offering an annual salary 25% higher than her current one through a headhunting company, he quickly succeeded in poaching Marissa Mayer from Google.
And with Marissa Mayer, it should be easier for him to acquire Google shares.
As for the other deputy he chose, it was Li Ying, the founder and general manager of Yunfeng Fund, who was valued by Ma Yun in his previous life and known as the female version of Buffett in China.
Today's Li Ying is just a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Although she is excellent, she is limited by workplace discrimination and is not happy.
He only offered an annual salary 10% higher than her current one, and gave her some authority to recruit team members on her own, and he poached her.
Of course, there are no better and more powerful professional managers in the United States, but Wayne has limited knowledge in this area.
Moreover, many people's resumes look good, but in fact they are very good. This kind of situation is everywhere, so instead of using people he has never heard of, he prefers to use those he knows, who have already succeeded in his previous life, and There was no major Waterloo.
The two are indeed elites in this field. After job-hopping, they quickly built a professional asset management team of more than 20 people through their own contacts and the assistance of headhunting companies.
Afterwards, Wayne called Li Ying again, explained these tasks, and then returned to the audition scene.
"Sorry I was a little late just now."
"It's okay, let's get started."
Although Nancy Meyers hadn't heard about Wayne beating up Nicholas Sparks during the audition for "The Notebook" last time, as a woman who has reached her current position, she is very clear about her own position.
Soon, Don Cheadle, the biggest name among all the auditioning actors, walked in with a humble smile on his face.
The role he auditioned for was the welfare home worker 'Bernie', who was upgraded from the supporting actor to the male lead after the male lead was cancelled. In the end, he adopted the protagonist sisters.
It is worth mentioning that it was Don Cheadle who played this role in the original version of "Hotel for Dogs", and at that time his fame and salary were not much higher than now, and a supporting role with about five minutes of role was 2 million Just got it done.
Now Wayne found him 8 years in advance, and offered him a salary of 1.3 million. Obviously, he made a lot of money.
"Okay, Mr. Cheadle, please try this paragraph."
The audition clip Wayne assigned him was the last scene of the film, where he convinced everyone to protect stray dogs through a generous and touching speech.
Don Cheadle, whose acting skills are already very mature, did not drop the chain, and easily met the requirements of Wayne and Nancy Meyers.
The next audition is Lily Collins, who has been upgraded to the female number one after merging a supporting role.
This role is actually not difficult, and there is no emotional outburst. As long as she is not stage fright, she can play it in her true colors.
I don't know if taking acting classes with Jessica some time ago played a role, or because I knew that this role was my own and would not be snatched away, her state was unexpectedly relaxed, which made Wayne and Nancy Meyers both secretly nodded.
Although there is still a big gap between Dakota Fanning and McKenna Grace, who has not yet been born, Lily's performance at this time has surpassed most child actors.
"Okay, you can stop."
"Did I pass then?"
"Well, you passed!"
"Yeah! Great!"
As Wayne announced that she had successfully passed the audition, Lily immediately cheered and rushed over, hugging Wayne's neck and kissing him hard on the cheek.
Now that Wayne is sitting on a chair, she can finally reach him.
Wayne smiled and touched her head, not paying too much attention.
"You still have to continue preparing when you go back, you know? You have to memorize all the other lines."
"Hmm, I see!"
Lily also accepted it as soon as she saw it, let go of her hand, and agreed obediently.
Next up for the audition is Camilla Belle, who was originally the female lead and is now the female lead.
Although Camilla Belle's role as 'Andy' has dropped a bit, her salary is much higher than Lily's, who is acting for the first time.
Lily's salary can only be up to 200,000, while Camilla Belle, who has already starred in many movies, has a salary of 1.5 million.
In addition, Camilla Belle didn't know that she was the female lead in the original script, so she was not only dissatisfied at all, but also very happy and excited.
Of course, excitement is excitement, she didn't dare to be as bold as she was in bed on this occasion, she just thanked politely and left the audition room briskly.
Next, auditioning for the original male lead, now the third female lead, the kind pet shop clerk 'Diana' Martina, and the fourth female lead 'Diana' and also 'Kelly' Ella Fisher also successfully passed the audition.
Among them, although Martina has already played the leading role in a medium-sized production, she also knows that her acting skills are not very good, and she messed up the audition for "Mean Girls" last time, and was even PKed by Megan. , so being able to pass the audition and win the third female lead this time has made her very happy.
As for Ella Fisher, who has always played the role of a vase, it is even more so.
You know, this is the first time she has played such an important supporting role with so many lines and scenes. Although she failed to get the female lead directly like Martina and Scarlett, don't forget that she is already 25 years old.
She has been in Hollywood for many years, and she is very clear about her own conditions, so she is very satisfied and grateful to Wayne for being able to get such an important supporting role, and there is a daughter in "Wedding Crashers" waiting for her. Wayne.
What's more, Wayne also offered her a salary of up to 400,000 US dollars, so what else is she dissatisfied with?
The next audition is for other roles that have not been decided internally.
For example, the police who arrested stray dogs, the adoptive parents of 'Andy' and her younger sister who like rock and roll and hate dogs, and the reporter in charge of broadcasting when 'Bernie' played by Don Cheadle finally gave a speech, etc.
As usual, Wayne handed over the casting rights for these roles to Nancy Meyers, who is both the director and producer, to decide.
"Then I'll leave it to you, Nancy."
"Okay, Wayne."
Wayne didn't waste any more time here, left the company directly, and drove to the filming set of "The Notebook".
That's right, although the official script of "The Notebook" has only been obtained not long ago, with the original version as a reference, the preliminary preparations for this project have been completed, and the official launch was at noon yesterday.
Of course, because he has other things to do, the scenes in the first two days mainly focus on the indoor scenes of the elderly version of 'Noah' and 'Allie' in the hospital, interspersed with some supporting roles The scene will not follow the narrative line of the movie.
If all goes well, even today, we can shoot the emotional outburst scene of the actor and actress at the end of the film, so after thinking about it, Wayne decided to go to the set to watch it.
As in the previous few times, they rented Warner's shooting base this time, and the distance is not far.
About half an hour later, he drove his Kebach battle shield and arrived at the set.
"Wayne? You're here!"
"Well," Wayne put his arms around Mia's waist, ignoring the eyes around him, first kissed her on the face, and then asked, "Is it filming inside?"
"Well, Jesse is watching there too."
"Then I'll go and have a look too."
While speaking, the two had already walked into the studio, and soon, Dustin Hoffman's voice also reached their ears.
"All right!"
"Now, let me see where we read last time."
"Oh yes, it was the night of the carnival, Noah went to the carnival with his friends Finn and Sarah"
Dustin Hoffman said in a relaxed and gentle voice, looking at the proficient and relaxed look, as if he had said the same thing thousands of times.
But there was still a strong love hidden in his voice, and every time he glanced at the old 'Allie' beside him inadvertently, it seemed as if there was light flowing again.
And the old 'Allie' on the sofa beside him, because of Alzheimer's disease, didn't even remember who the man in front of her was.
It is inevitable that she will be a little cramped and embarrassed to have a strange old man about her age read to her.
There were a total of five cameras around, facing the two of them from different angles, while Jessica stood behind the cameraman, quietly watching the seemingly ordinary but back-to-basics performances of the two Oscar winners and actresses.
Look carefully, from the fingers to the waist and abdomen to the shoulders, and then to the lips and eyes, all the details are everywhere.
"Noah?"
"That's where they met, he and her, June 6, 1940."
I have to say that the lines of the actor and actress are really good.
Moreover, acting will make you addicted, and good acting will also infect others and make others addicted.
It was clearly such a simple dialogue, but it instantly made Wayne, who had just arrived here, watch it, and after watching it, he also had the idea of wanting to act in a scene.
"Cut! Very good!"
Richard Curtis' voice came from behind the monitor, and he was obviously satisfied with this scene as well.
It wasn't until then that Jessica noticed that Wayne and Mia had arrived, and hurried over to them.
"They acted so well, even better than my acting teacher!"
"Come on, they are Oscar winners and actresses~"
"It's a pity that we don't have any roles today."
"But the retro street next door has been built. If you two want to act, you can transfer a spare camera there and act out the scene of walking on the street after the first date." Mia suggested at this time.
This scene is very important for the relationship between 'Noah' and 'Allie'.
It is through this scene that 'Allie', who has been filled with daily arrangements by various courses since she was a child, and can see her whole life until the end at a glance, will be attracted by the free breath of 'Noah' and begin to fall in love with 'Noah'. ' and formally establish a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with him.
The scene of dancing in the middle of an empty intersection at midnight is even more romantic and beautiful.
For this reason, Jessica also spent time learning that kind of retro ballroom dancing.
"Honey, what do you think?" Jessica looked at Wayne expectantly.
"In the southern summer, young love doesn't know what hardship is. Despite the warnings and doubts around them, Noah and Allie still paint a touching picture"
Dustin Hoffman's lines unconsciously came to Wayne's mind, and then he smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's just treat it as an on-site rehearsal in advance, but there is no need to adjust the camera~"
(End of this chapter)