Chapter 477 - 476: The 73rd Academy Awards

Chapter 477: Chapter 476: The 73rd Academy Awards

"The one-week vacation is over~"

On this day, Kyle ended his holiday and threw himself back into work.

Recently, Kyle hadn’t been roaming around; he barely left the house for the last few days, living completely like a salted fish.

In the morning, just as Kyle stepped into the headquarters of the Golden Dawn Entertainment Group, Alexander, the Director of the President’s Office and the Chairman’s chief assistant, came running over.

"Boss, you’re finally here," Alexander said excitedly.

"Hey, hey, hey, buddy, I just finished my vacation. You’re not going to hit me with a mountain of things to do already, are you?" Kyle massaged his forehead, feeling helpless.

Alexander smiled and nodded. "That’s why I always say you’re wise and divine, Boss. You hit the nail on the head with your first guess."

As expected... after just a short week-long vacation, a pile of matters requiring Kyle’s urgent attention had cropped up.

"Where’s Victor?"

Kyle clearly intended to dump some of the workload onto CEO Victor.

Alexander whispered, "Boss, Mr. Jones’s burden is already very heavy. As far as I know, in the three months since Christmas, Mr. Jones has only rested for less than two days."

Kyle was momentarily speechless.

It was true; Victor Jones was already exhausted.

In reality, an entertainment company valued at nearly ten billion dollars had no shortage of daily tasks to handle; simply summarizing the affairs of various subsidiaries required a lot of mental effort.

But!

Even so, it shouldn’t reach the point where the CEO, Victor, had no time for a break!

"The company is currently in a critical period of rapid development, so various affairs have become very heavy. Once the company enters a stable growth phase, then whether it’s me, Victor, or any of the company’s senior executives, we’ll all be able to relax a lot more."

"In such an important period, it’s simply unrealistic to want to slack off!"

Kyle sighed.

Actually, there was another important reason!

As the parent company, Golden Dawn Entertainment Group had many vacancies in senior management positions such as vice president, senior vice president, and executive president.

Given the current scale of Golden Dawn Entertainment Group, it should have at least six vice presidents, two senior vice presidents, and one executive president. Even doubling or tripling that staffing would be perfectly fine.

However... the reality was that in the entire Golden Dawn Entertainment Group, there were only a mere two vice presidents.

They were Donna Langley, the president of the Television Group, who concurrently served as the group’s vice president, and Big Sister Martha, the group’s CFO, who also served as a group vice president.

senior vice president: vacant.

Executive president: vacant.

The very top and core management levels of the entire Golden Dawn Entertainment Group were severely lacking!

"Boss, since you acquired a batch of film production companies, TV stations, and radio stations last year, the quantity and quality of middle and lower-level management have indeed been greatly supplemented, but the very top and core management of the entire Golden Dawn Entertainment Group is still severely lacking! This is an indisputable fact," Alexander said.

Kyle nodded heavily.

Thanks to Kyle’s "cheating," the company’s development speed far exceeded the rate at which the management’s level could improve.

The drawbacks were very obvious!

"Alexander, gather information on senior executives from major Hollywood companies recently. At the same time, contact Heidrick & Struggles to poach people; they are the professionals!" Kyle ordered.

"Yes, Boss!"

For an ordinary conglomerate, filling the top management positions would definitely require meeting after meeting, persuasion, and compromise, but Kyle didn’t need that; he could decide everything with a single word.

Before long, Kyle arrived at his office.

"Eh? These are..."

Just as he sat down behind his desk, Kyle saw a pile of newspapers neatly arranged on the tabletop, all of which contained content slandering, belittling, and mocking Kyle and Page Pictures.

["Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with 10 Oscar nominations might return empty-handed and miss out on the big awards.]

This was a report from the Los Angeles News Station.

The article claimed: "As everyone knows, Page Pictures, founded by Kyle Page, is indeed the top film company below The Big Six of Hollywood today. However, we can also see that the films they produce are mostly horror movies, commercial films, and action movies..."

"In one sentence, the films they shoot are popcorn movies!"

"As for films containing artistic value, humanistic value, and thought-provoking themes, Page Pictures simply does not possess them."

"At the same time, the short-lived Page Pictures has not attempted to campaign for Oscar awards and extremely lacks experience in pushing for awards."

"Therefore, it can be boldly predicted that the film ’Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ has a high probability of returning empty-handed at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony."

Rational analysis?

Bullshit!

To put it bluntly, the editor of the Los Angeles News Station who wrote this article simply looked down on Kyle himself and the Page Pictures under his name.

Alexander smiled and said, "Boss, this article from the Los Angeles News Station is actually one of the better ones; its bias isn’t too extreme. But other media outlets aren’t so polite."

Kyle curled his lip.

He didn’t know until he looked... and wow, it really was!

California Vanguard: "It’s impossible for Page Pictures to win an Oscar! At least not within ten years!"

San Francisco Film News: "Everyone at Page Pictures really lacks experience in campaigning for Oscar awards. In 1999, the animated film ’Finding Nemo’ produced by Waterworld Animation Company under the Golden Dawn Entertainment Group was undoubtedly an excellent animated film. Logically, it was very likely to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but what was the result? It didn’t even get a nomination!"

Chicago Review: "According to insiders, Kyle Page himself has frequently stated in private that he simply disdains the Oscar awards and has made many disrespectful remarks about the Academy members who vote."

It was directly attacking Kyle himself!

There were quite a few such slanderous reports on Kyle’s desk.

However... Kyle smiled slightly.

"Is that it?"

"Is this all these tabloids are capable of?"

Kyle sneered. "I thought they would have something substantial to say, but after all that, not one of them hit the mark. It’s all just clickbait."

In Kyle’s eyes, the power of these tabloids was practically worthless.

It was just that Kyle didn’t care about them; otherwise, relying on the media power currently under his command, it wouldn’t take long to make these discordant voices vanish completely.

Media tycoon Kyle was not someone to be trifled with!

Kyle smiled and said, "Alexander, resolve these minor issues before sunset today, okay?"

"No problem, Boss." Alexander was very confident... the 73rd Oscars were drawing closer and closer.

However, at such a critical moment, a piece of bad news arrived from Europe that left Kyle stunned and furious!

Kyle was incredibly angry!

In the original timeline, Niklas Zennstr?m, the future founder of Kazaa File Sharing Network, Skype internet telephony, music, and Starship Technology—who is currently the president of Starship Technology under Kyle—submitted his resignation to Kyle and would be taking a large number of core members from Starship Technology with him.