I’m in Hollywood Chapter 484: Disappointed and returned

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Thinking of this possibility, and contacting Paramount ’s precarious situation, Martin Davis can no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and blamed the tableware on the table: "Eric, I wasted more than a week in Kauai Island, you ca n’t just like that. Just throw me such a perfunctory answer. "

The Eric was a little surprised at first, then smiled coldly and said, "Martin, are you doing something wrong, I am not your subordinate, please do not speak to me in this tone. And, from From the beginning, I never promised you anything. "

"You ..." Martin Davis stared at what Eric had just said, and suddenly thought of the current situation: "Okay, Eric, what the **** do you want?"

Eric shook his head gently: "Not what I want, but what you want, Martin, you want to hold Paramount, but now the situation is that the other shareholders of Paramount have not stopped because of the company in recent years The sluggish performance, and want to cash out the shares in their hands. So, to dispel the idea of ​​those people selling the company, the most needed Paramount is a good news that makes people confident about the company ’s prospects, not just one or two movies. Cooperation. "

"Good news?"

"Yes, for example, Firefly Pictures shares in Paramount," Eric said without disguising his destination.

This sentence made Martin Davis fall into silence. With the excellent performance of Firefly in the movie, Martin Davis knows that this proposal really helps the current situation of Paramount, but on the other hand, Martin Davis has another territory. Vigilance by outsiders.

After thinking about it for a moment, Martin Davis tentatively said, "Eric, if Firefly and Paramount exchange shares to form a cooperative alliance, I can promise you."

"Sorry, Martin and Firefly have no plans to introduce external shareholders. I am talking about acquiring part of the equity of Paramount by paying cash."

Martin Davis wanted to shake his head almost immediately, but restrained the urge. Ask again: "How many shares are you going to buy?"

"Not many, 20%," Eric gave a number.

Martin Davis almost scolded, not more than 20%?

"Eric. You know that I can't promise you, and, now that you have mastered Firefly Pictures, and then purchase 20% of the shares of Paramount, the FTC will not approve it so easily."

"Martin. Why is it so absolute, everything can be talked about."

The tone of Eric has not changed at all, but Martin Davis has no idea of ​​going on. If it is to exchange shares with Firefly, let alone 20%, even if it is more, Martin Davis is happy to agree to it. Firefly Pictures, which has a series of high-quality assets such as Disney, Pixar, and digital fields, is an investment target that any capital force is greedy.

However, he will not agree with the way of cash acquisition because of the sale of this share. Equal to Paramount A large part of power is delegated Firefly , But did not get any containment Firefly Chips. Although for sale Paramount After 20% of the shares, he is still the largest shareholder, but with Firefly The share gap is similar, Firefly If he is willing, he may even oust him from other shareholders at any time.

"Eric, since you are so sincere, I don't think we need to talk anymore," Martin Davis said, straightening up.

Eric also showed a regretful look: "Then I can only say sorry. Martin, I thought this would be an opportunity for Paramount."

Martin Davis almost couldn't stand the **** of Eric, but he only saw that this is the opportunity of Firefly, this young man is totally not as childish as his young age. Instead, it is like a human being who has gone through all the world's affairs, and he only wanted to take advantage of the fire.

Send Martin Davis, Eric back to the tent, Alan noticed the situation here, and followed.

"I thought you would work with Paramount again," Alan remembered the disappointed expression when Martin Davis left. Said with a smile.

Eric was eating lunch in front of him and said vaguely: "I want to cooperate, but unfortunately he did not agree to the conditions I gave."

Alan can think that Eric must have created an unacceptable condition, he was not too interested in it, but asked: "Eric, Paramount's movie projects are really not as good as you can see. Is it? "

"There is indeed no one at the level of" Twister ". As for the level of" Hot Shots ", there is no need to waste time."

Alan showed a look of surprise. With the trend of Box Office in "Twister", the global Box Office of this movie is at least 600 million. The Eric requirement seems to be too high, but he soon realized that If it is not a film of this level, Firefly does not need to cooperate with the other party at all, and then cooperate to develop a film of this level of "Hot Shots", which will only compete with films of the same grade as Firefly.

Eric did not care about the expression of Alan and continued: "The current situation of Paramount is mainly caused by Martin Davis himself. He clearly does not understand the movie, but he firmly controls the power of Paramount, resulting in professionals becoming puppets. Those The most annoying thing about Director or producers who have quality projects in their hands is working with such laymen. "

"There are not many Bosss willing to give power to professional Manager people with confidence," Alan said with a smile, and looked at Eric with a sense of direction.

"So I still admire Murdoch very much. He can skillfully find a balance between decentralization and control. If he had bound Barry Diller's hands and feet like Martin Davis, then there would be no 20th Century Fox Film Studio and Fox TV Network And when Barry Diller wants to be anti-guest, Murdoch does not hesitate to part ways with each other. So, although the media often compare Murdoch and Redstone, the achievements of Murdoch are destined to surpass Redstone, which is similar to Martin Davis style, "Eric said After finishing this, I looked at the assistant in deep thought and smiled, "Alan, have you been with me for four years?"

"It is still five months before four years. When it was still shoots 《Pretty Woman》, I was originally your Director assistant. Later, Mr. Hansson said that I did n’t find the right person for the time being. Your assistant to the secretary is now unconsciously, "Alan's tone was a bit sighed. When he went to Firefly, a company that had just emerged with" Home Alone ", the application was originally intended to become the goal of Director.

"Did you want to be a department head in the past?"

Alan remembered that recently Eric always talked to him about topics that would not be mentioned in the past, and if there were any temptations, he finally understood the intention of Eric. For the proposal of Eric, Alan is certainly very exciting. Although the salary around Eric is high, it also limits his development: "Of course I thought, Eric, do you have a suitable secretary assistant candidate now?"

"Not yet, but ..." Eric seemed to think of something, and laughed: "But your next term must be a woman, and it must be beautiful, temperament, and outstanding ability."

"It's not easy to find," Alan laughed, and suddenly thought of a figure: "But there is a good current adult selection."

"It ’s still consider as finished," Eric immediately understood who Alan was referring to: "If Liz agrees, it wo n’t last long. Her identity is there. Anyway, I wo n’t let you go down and find it slowly. That ’s it. "

Alan nodded and was about to leave, and asked again: "Yes, Mr. Davis has left, should I continue to pay attention to Paramount?"

"Of course, this is a big deal for Hollywood after all."

......

The empty hand of Martin Davis did not surprise many people. The reason why Barry Diller did not rush to Hawaii was because he had guessed this result. He was very clear about the situation of Paramount, knowing that Martin Davis could not afford Columbia. The price, and Eric will not be so like people.

However, because Redstone has publicly disclosed its intention to acquire Paramount, the stock price of Paramount, which has been stimulated by the possible cooperation with Firefly, has not dropped, but has continued to rise. Although Barry Diller did not clearly disclose the intention of QVC's acquisition, a series of actions he made clearly indicated his purpose.

Eric is silently paying attention to the situation of Hollywood, while shoots of "Jurassic Park" is still proceeding in an orderly manner. Martin Davis, who returned to Los Angeles, has successively passed several calls with Eric, but no agreement has been reached.

With the passage of July, the North America summer file officially came to an end, and the two blockbuster films of the Firefly summer file have entered the final stage, while the Sister Act released by Broadway on Disney has some problems because Eric is bullish For this movie, Disney increased its distribution, but the movie was released on the same scale as "The Mask". In the first week, Box Office was only half of "The Mask". When I heard this news, Eric almost thought it was this The movie deviated from the original track. However, in the second week, not only did Box Office of Sister Act not fall sharply as Firefly executives worried, but instead it rebounded because of word-of-mouth fermentation. Although the amplitude was only a negligible 2%, it was easily cut compared to those next week. This decline has made many people overjoyed. Although it is limited to the theme of black comedy, overseas performance will not be too good, but the trend of Box Office shown by it may even exceed "The Mask" in North America.

At this point, it is just a summer file. Firefly Pictures has won 10% of the estimated total Box Office of North America throughout the year. Many media have begun to predict whether Firefly will exceed Warner this year. (To be continued.)