I’m in Hollywood Chapter 437: Finishing eyes
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After Eric rejected the private proposal from Disney shareholders, Disney shareholders authorized the negotiation with Firefly and Viacom to Disney's management. In order to keep his position, Michael Eisner spares no effort to help Viacom in all aspects, and any contact between Disney and Firefly in negotiation, the Viacom team can almost immediately know.
At the beginning, Michael Eisner followed Viacom, and the Firefly team had anticipated this situation and was prepared for it. When the shareholders of Disney completely decided to take Disney, the negotiation process of Disney management with Viacom and Firefly was rapidly accelerated. After several bids, the wholly-owned acquisition price climbed to 5600 million USD in just two weeks.
This price is already higher than Firefly ’s initial quote. The market value of Disney 3.5 billion USD is higher than 2.1 billion, and the premium has reached 60%. Most of the previous malicious acquisitions, when the premium exceeds 50%, malicious acquirers tend to collapse, but Firefly and However, both sides of Viacom did not have any intention of retreating. Whether it was public or private, the confrontation between the two sides brought a growing smell of gunpowder.
In view of this situation, many Wall Street analysts have issued a risk warning for this acquisition. Some companies that originally joined the acquisition saw the fierce competition between the two sides, and silently put the originally prepared acquisition plan into the waste paper box.
On January 14, 1992, after several months of long negotiations, Disney Firefly and Viacom 1 finally reached a preliminary agreement on the terms of the acquisition, and the final bidding will be held on January 20.
After six months of busyness, the exhausted Firefly acquisition team can finally take a short break. Eric is still busy preparing for the Firefly 1992 movie project.
After "Dumb and Dumber". Many Film Studios were in contact with Jim Carrey immediately. I hope to seek cooperation. Although "Dumb and Dumber" is a double protagonist structure, both film critic and ordinary audiences have praised Jim Carrey's performance, and another actor Jeff.Daniel Si has received a satisfactory evaluation, plus "Dumb and Dumber" Box Office broke 100 million, Jim Carrey's remuneration soared to 5 million USD.
As the value of the boat rises, the state of mind is different. In the beginning, as long as the opportunity was available, any condition was willing to pay, but now I feel that I have suffered a great loss. In an interview with a Hollywood newspaper, Jim Carrey publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the five-year option contract that was ‘forced’ to be signed. But hearing this news, no matter whether it is Eric or TG's, I did n’t care. The original option contract was drafted by the Firefly special legal team, and there was no loophole in the law. Jim Carrey wanted to breach the contract, even if the lawsuit was hit. Federal Supreme Court. You have to obey the 100 million USD penalty.
However, in order to prevent Jim Carrey from making a movie, it is tossing once. Eric let TG directly contract 10 million USD two films for Jim Carrey, this condition is definitely not to treat the other side, Eric never thought about the good thing of wanting to run and not feed the horse, but Elizabeth came to negotiate in person In this plan, I did not directly see Jim Carrey himself. In the words of his manager Carl Maxim, Jim Carrey went to Hawaii.
Elizabeth of course understands that Jim Carrey wants a higher price tag, and even thinks that the price offered by Eric is a bit high. The other party is not satisfied yet, and Elizabeth also directly left Jim Carrey aside.
Although I have n’t negotiated with Jim Carrey for a while, Firefly successfully won the copyright of "The Mask" and dug the screenwriter Tom Shadyac of "Ace Ventura" from Warner. Eric directly took the two films to TG to set up the project and make preliminary preparations.
The Playa Vista studio base, Eric is leading several people to visit the special effects studio in the digital field, the original digital field Headquarters Venice Beach, but after the completion of the Playa Vista studio base, the digital field has moved over. It saves a lot of rent. On the other hand, the studio is close to a large studio and works even more.
"This is a special effect software newly developed by the software research and development center, called broken, which is mainly used to make shots such as buildings being smashed."
While introducing Stan Winston, he pulled out a related lens from the computer. Eric and several people around him came up and saw a car movie theater movie screen on the movie screen. The lens slowly shattered under the influence of the hurricane Everyone gave a low admiration.
"This is just one of the already completed sections, and there is another section where the entire villa is torn, but this section has not been completed yet," Stan Winston is introduced, and the screen is transferred to the software operation interface, and then aside .
A thin, middle-aged man in his tens standing next to Eric could n’t help but sit on an office chair and awkwardly manipulate the computer to view various options of the software.
"The function of the software is still being perfected, but this is much better than the original version," Stan Winston said beside him.
Eric looked at a middle-aged man who was clearly unfamiliar with this software but was very impressed. He smiled and said: "Roland, you do n’t want to switch to a special effects engineer. We just signed the contract, I ’m sure I won't let people go. "
When I heard Eric ’s joke, several people laughed, and Roland Emmerich also smiled and stood up: "I think I ’m still honestly Director."
The James Cameron on the right side of Eric said: "I think there is no essential difference between Director and special effects artists. We are all creating pictures, but the process is different."
Although this time and space James Cameron does not have a stake in the digital field, but with its good relationship with Eric and Stan Winston, and its obsession with film technology, Cameron will come to "try new" every time a new special effects processing solution is launched in the digital field , So I just did not get up as curiously as Roland Emmerich.
Just a few jokes, Eric said: "Okay, I read so much. Just next to there is a coffee shop. Let's go and rest for a while."
Several people walked into the cafe in harmony. Because it was working time, there were no employees in the cafe, and Eric and six others sat down around a long table.
In addition to the Roland Emmerich and James Cameron already mentioned, the others are Jon Landau Jerry Bruckheimer and Jan de Bont. These future Hollywood famous Director or Producer are the result of Eric's recent work.
Maybe the names of these people are a bit strange, but mentioning movies such as "Titanic", "2012", "Transformers", and "The Speed", they are all very familiar, and these people are Director or Producer of the above movies.
James Cameron and Jerry Bruckheimer are already successful. After Cameron completed "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", signing with Firefly has become logical. But Jerry Bruckheimer is the Producer of the famous "Top Gun", I do n’t know if it is also Cruise, Cruise, and the success of "Top Gun" makes Jerry Bruckheimer a top Producer, but Cruise last year cost 80 million 《Days of Thunder》 Box Office is far lower As expected, Jerry Bruckheimer as Producer was cancelled by Paramount.
Jerry Bruckheimer's future gold partner Michael Bay is still just a rookie who is in contact with mv's shoots, and Eric's seedlings help promote it to Director. However, Eric signed Jerry Bruckheimer without hesitation, because the other party is very good at being a producer of large-scale movies, and the Firefly lacks the most talents in this area.
The people of Jon Landau Jan de Bont and Roland Emmerich are not yet famous. However, these people have been in the Hollywood for many years, and their personal abilities are beyond doubt. In addition, Eric just had a project suitable for several people, and they signed it together.
After the waiter brought coffee for several people and left, Eric said: "After reading those, I think everyone has no concerns about the script I gave you?"
Except for Stan Winston, who is drinking coffee casually, the others nodded, but James Cameron said: "Eric, although the change you gave me script is good, but I do n’t want to start working so quickly, I want to enjoy life , I ’m not a workaholic like you. Moreover, Arnold has already accepted a film about Nigeria Film Industry and will not be free until next year. "
Eric said: "I know this, I didn't arrange you in this year's production plan."
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Jerry Bruckheimer said: "Eric, I remember the one who served as your film Producer has always been Mr. Jeffrey, would you choose me to be the Producer of" Jurassic Park "?"
"Jeffrey is going to take care of the company, and will no longer personally serve as Producer in the future, at most it is to name it," Eric explained, looking at Roland Emmerich: "Roland," Deep Impact "script, what do you think?"
Roland Emmerich glanced at Eric, script was written by the outline written by Eric. Although the number of people in this group is the highest in Eric, Roland Emmerich thinks this script is very bad. Opening his mouth, Roland Emmerich asked cautiously: "Eric, do you want to listen to the truth?"
"Of course," Eric nodded.
"Well, I think this script is a bit bad. The main story of the story is about the great crisis that mankind is facing. But in the first half hour of the story, Heroine has been entangled in very inconsistent things such as the scandal of high officials. "
James Cameron heard the two talking and interjected: "Eric, is your movie idea about a comet hitting the earth?"
Eric nodded and told the story briefly.
After listening to James Cameron, I shook my head: "I feel the same as Roland. Although people always talk about such things as scandals, it is bad for a disaster blockbuster to use this kind of plot as a foundation."
Jan de Bont, who has been relatively silent, couldn't help but say: "I worked as a photographer for a low-cost science fiction film seven years ago, and I think the setting of that film is good, using family and love, or The life of the little people is a bit of a fortune, which can play a greater contrast effect and make it easier to bring the audience into the plot. "
A few people nodded.
Eric saw no one in original script, and was not angry, and laughed: "I know, but this requires major surgery on script."
"Then all will be overthrown," James Cameron has no scruples, and said: "It's a pity if such a good theme of a disaster movie is destroyed in a bad stock market."
"I think that a little modification will make this story even better," Chubby Jon Landau said at this time.
Attracting everyone ’s attention, Jon Landau went on to say: “Look, the heroine has been following the codename of the official involved in the scandal. This codename originally meant a woman. If we change this codename to that comet What about? "
Eric lighted up, but James Cameron directly shot the table: "This is even better, a little modification of the settings to remove the scandal factor. The White House concealed the news to avoid public panic, and used a woman 'S codename represents this comet. The senior official who was misunderstood as a scandal and forced to resign was actually hoping to disclose the truth to the public. His proposal was not approved, so he resigned in anger. "
Jerry Bruckheimer nodded and echoed: "Eric, I think this is a good change. Although the public always has such opinions of the federal government, they always feel that the government is full of various conspiracies. On the whole, in general, ordinary people still have a good illusion about the top level, and this setting just meets the deep expectations of the public. "
Eric smiled and said: "Then it's changed like this, Jim, Jon, do you want to add your name to the screenwriter column?"
Cameron and Jon Landau shook their heads at the same time. They all knew that Eric was just a joke. Although Hollywood script has a fraction of the proportion of attribution lawsuits, but really want to get the attribution right, they need to participate in script30% The above modification.
Since it has been chatted, after "Deep Impact", Eric will present a few people to take out the script of the movies "True Lies", "Jurassic Park" and "The Speed", which have led respectively. inspiration.
Until the evening, the talented people were separated, and the Cameron and others were sent away. Ire also prepared to get back to Malibu, but was stopped by Stan Winston.
"Eric, there was something they were here just now, I ca n’t tell you," Stan Winston pointed to the office not far away: "Let ’s go back and say it."
Eric looked at the serious look of Stan Winston, nodded, asked the driver a few words, and returned to the office with Stan Winston. (To be continued ...)