I’m in Hollywood Chapter 68: Ugly Duckling Pixar
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Eric quickly sorted out the trivial memories of Pixar in previous life's mind. As the leader of the Hollywood 3D animation, Pixar has produced the world-famous Animated Movie series.
But before 1995, Disney's 2D animation movies still dominated the animation movie market, and no one was optimistic about the future of 3D animation.
Jobs did not have any confidence in the 3D animation. Until "Toy Story" was released, Jobs always wanted to sell the baggage of Pixar, and even pinched his nose to contact the old partner Microsoft.
When contacting Microsoft executives, in order to please Microsoft's senior Vice Chairman Nathan Mel Ward, Jobs also placed a laptop running Windows on the desk of Pixar.
Unfortunately, the price offered by Microsoft cannot satisfy Jobs. The Jobs, whose "mud foot is deeply stuck and cannot be pulled out", had to grind his teeth to stand still and finally ushered in the dawn.
After the release of "Toy Story", only North America got the record-breaking Box Office of 192 million USD, global Box Office is closer to 360 million, and the cost of Toy Story is only 30 million USD.
After that, the market value of Pixar worth 50 million USD doubled 20 times. When Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, its market value had reached 7.4 billion USD.
For the time being, Jobs should have started selling Pixar as a "lost money". Eric just had the idea of buying Pixar immediately, and had to shake his head in disappointment.
Although it is impossible for Jobs to fix the price of 50 million USD like previous life, 25 million and Eric will not be available even if it is a half-fold.
He does n’t have much money now. "Home Alone" has been released for so long, and Columbia must have begun to share with the cinema.
However, Eric wants to get its own share, the best case is to wait until after the download of "Home Alone". In order to get their own share, previous life movies Director and Actor are not uncommon with Film Studio, which is in arrears.
Hundreds of millions of USD funds, even if only deposited in the bank, the daily interest is a considerable number. Even if there is a clear agreement, Columbia will certainly find ways to delay the day.
Eric can even think of what Columbia will use to pay off the "loss", for example, a few months later, "Home Alone" Box Office potential has been exhausted, Columbia in order to delay the payment of the share date, just take a hundred pieces of screen Hang there to prevent the movie from going down, and Eric may also just stare.
Because the gambling agreement has been severely pitted, Columbia is unlikely to cooperate with Eric again in the short term. No need to estimate the relationship between the two parties, Columbia Corporation has no psychological pressure to use these detrimental tricks. Especially now sitting in the Columbia Chairman seat is still Blunt · Cohen.
After thinking about it, Eric still thinks that it is the most important to make the movie 《Pretty Woman》 right now. Anyway, even if there is no change in history, there are still six years before the release of "Toy Story". Eric has enough time to win Pixar.
Before the shooting of 《Pretty Woman》, the preparation work has been quite perfect. The film crew does not need the producer of Jeffrey to be present at all times. A few executive producers are enough to arrange everything.
Jeffrey negotiated with Eric for an hour, and left the crew in a hurry, preparing to fly to New York and discussing advertising with NBC.
The advertising bidding for Super Bowl started half a year ago. NBC has successfully sold 80% of the advertising space this year. What Jeffrey wants to fight for is one of the remaining 20%. It will be too good, even if the advertisement in a good period of time is much higher than the average price, it will be robbed long ago.
After three days, Eric just got up and received a call from Jeffrey, saying that he had won a 59-second advertisement. Super Bowl ’s advertisements are calculated in seconds, with a minimum of 15 seconds and a maximum of 90 seconds.
"What, 1.5 million USD, didn't it say that 1.2 million USD can be taken down?" asked Eric, squeezing the cordless phone under his neck and squeezing toothpaste onto the toothbrush.
Jeffrey tone also has helplessness: "If no one bidding, indeed 1.2 million can be negotiated. When bidding, suddenly a New York fashion company came out to compete for this ad, you have explained that I must To win, I had to raise the price to 1.5 million USD. I even suspected that the fashion company was the childcare found by NBC, but this is just my guess, there is no evidence. "
Pingbai has increased the expenditure of 30 万 USD. Irema is not in a good mood to brush his teeth slowly, tinkering a few times, rinse his mouth and return to the living room.
"consider as finished, 1.5 million is 1.5 million," Eric sat on the sofa and poured himself a cup of boiling water: "Sign the contract as soon as possible. By the way, Jeffrey, tomorrow is the Golden Globe Award awards ceremony. Can you come back before? ? "
"Let me see the situation, I probably won't be able to go back." Jeffrey said with regret in his tone: "Anyway, what you want to see is your miracle Director, it doesn't matter if I go or not."
"Haha, rest assured, it does n’t matter if you miss this time, there will be opportunities in the future."
"I believe this," Jeffrey also laughed: "If there is nothing else, I will hang up. You must have just gotten up, and now Los Angeles should be only seven in the morning. But 300,000 USD is overspending , I have to inform you as soon as possible. "
"It's okay, I didn't stay up late last night, and I came back after ten o'clock."
Goodbye, Eric hung up.
Leaning on the knee and gently tapping on the knee, Eric silently gave himself a small account of consider as finished, the 25 million USD check that he got from Fox, Beverly Hills mansion used 1,900,000, paid to Drew mother 1 million, purchased uta expenditure 1 million The rental and decoration of Firefly Inc., as well as the expensive professional equipment of the dubbing room and editing room, cost 3 million, 《Pretty Woman》 production cost 7million USD, Super Bowl advertising 1.5 million, add up to a total of 15400,000 USD.
Although he is not a luxury person, but during this time, he also spent hundreds of thousands of USD.
Since reborn in the United States, Eric will soon face one of two things that no one in this country can escape: paying taxes. Based on the current income status, it is definitely necessary to pay a personal income tax of up to 35%, which is nearly 10 million USD.
Viciously cursed a vicious capitalist system, Eric sadly found that before April 15th, the tax filing deadline, he probably would not have any income.
“You do n’t even need to pay a tax, you still need a loan.” Eric rubbed his forehead with a wry smile. After all, he was not a real United States person, and he did not form a deep-rooted concept of advanced consumption, so he was very resistant to loans.
Leave this incident behind my head for a while. After eating breakfast, Eric drove to the crew.
Maybe it is because Eric announced that the fixed day of the week will be brought forward to tomorrow, and the mood of the crew members is very high. After the day, even five or six more shots were taken.
After 10 days of shoots, 《Pretty Woman》 has completed 60% of the shots. As it goes on, after the Golden Globe Award ceremony, it only takes a week for the movie to be officially killed.
The reason why shoots can be so smooth is mainly due to the excellent performance of Julia's. From the beginning, Eric did not worry about any problems with Al · Pacino. There is no pressure to get so many Oscar-nominated Al performances that do not require much acting, and even require convergence acting.
The Julia as a newcomer is different. At the beginning, Julia shoots personal lens did not have too many problems, at most a few times. But at the beginning when Al · Pacino played the opponent's play, Julia frequently made mistakes, and the number of ng rose linearly. Relative to Al, Julia's acting is indeed in the infant stage.
However, after a few days of running-in and the roar that Eric couldn't bear, Julia gradually narrowed the gap with Al · Pacino. Even in some shots, it is possible to form a certain degree of pressure on Al, even if it is in the case of Al · Pacino convergence, it is also a very difficult thing to do.
"Ok, I'll be here today." After the last shot, Eric announced the end of the work, and the crew members cheered and started to pack things and run things.
Eric stopped Al · Pacino, who was going to remove makeup, and asked, "Al, how did you practice the piano solo?"
In the original movie, the piano solo of Edward in the restaurant was created and played by Richard · Gere. Eric wrote the music score of less than forty seconds with the company ’s soundtrack by virtue of memory. Gave Al · Pacino.
The piano technology of Al is only slightly better than that of Eric, but he insists on playing in person. Eric had to postpone the scene.
"Eric, give me another one ... no, two days, I think I need to practice again."
"This is no problem," Eric still admires the professionalism of Al: "However, Al, we ca n’t drag it too long. The progress of the movie shoots is so fast, dragging too long, as the plot develops Your mood will change a lot. Even if you play it well, it will be difficult to perform the feelings after the scenes of shoots a few days ago. "
Al · Pacino thought for a while, and understood that Eric was telling the truth. After discovering that his little perseverance did not improve the quality of too many films, Al nodded helplessly and compromised: "Well, Eric, then put this scene in The Day After Tomorrow, if it is not possible, use the post-dubbing."