I’m in Hollywood Chapter 496: Metro Goldwyn Mayer to be auctioned
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Chapter 496
15 million is currently the limit of Hollywood Star's remuneration. There are not too many stars who can get this remuneration figure, and, generally, it is the remuneration price that those rich foreign investors blindly offer. For example, the original Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others were paid by Europe film investors led by German investors, because these action stars have an extraordinary reputation and Box Office appeal in Europe. With the Japan consortium of Columbia and Universal, the price of star pay is becoming more and more bold. The Hollywood local forces are deeply disgusted by this "blind price increase" behavior, but they are unable to stop this trend.
"15 million is too high, he is not worth so much, although the Box Office of" The Mask "is good, but this movie should be an exception. Although the other movies of Jim Carrey still have the appeal of overseas Box Office, they are absolutely It ca n’t reach twice the level of the local Box Office overseas, so let ’s wait until “Ace Ventura” is released, and you ca n’t put all your energy on Jim Carrey alone. ”
Drew nodded and agreed: "Well, I think so too. Anyway, he signed an option contract, and no one will ever redeem him. Besides, we did not treat him badly, if he did not know what to do. If you want, go for a while. "
The option contract signed by Jim Carrey is very interesting. 100 million USD ’s liquidated damages is not difficult for other large Film Studios. The Box Office appeal shown by Jim Carrey is the first two of his cooperation with TG. All movies have earned more than 100 million USD profits for the company.
However, there is a difficult problem to solve here. If other Film Studios are interested in Jim Carrey ’s Box Office appeal and want to redeem him, then after redemption, others have come up with 100 million USD, Jim Carrey has almost no choice, sure To sign an option contract with the gold owner again. And in order to earn back the compensation of 100 million USD, the conditions of the option contract will definitely not be much better than that given by TG, otherwise, even those shareholders of Film Studio will not agree. As long as Jim Carrey is not ill, he will not choose this path.
Drew talked about some things on his own, and began to ask curiously about the situation of Eric in France. After having dinner, he talked late. The two fell asleep.
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The next day, the sky was slightly bright, Eric woke up, gently removed small girl wrapped around him, Eric walked downstairs lightly, left Los Angeles for a few months, and ran around again The biological clock of Eric became a little messy, and I looked at my watch, only at 5:40 in the morning. Get up earlier than before.
After running for half an hour in the morning in the manor, Eric returned to the villa, prepared breakfast slowly, reserved one for small girl, and started eating while watching newspaper.
Many newspaper entertainment pages are still concerned about the latest developments in the competition between Viacom and QVC for Paramount. Martin Davis estimates that they are likely to be unable to retain Paramount, and do not want this company to fall into the hands of their original subordinates So in early September, signed a priority equity transfer agreement with Viacom. However, QVC immediately submitted a document to the Federal Trading Commission, prosecuting the relevant contracts signed by Paramount and Viacom for violating the federal trading laws. Both parties have been bluffing this month.
Turn over a few newspaper. Eric soon saw another interesting thing. About Metro Goldwyn Mayer, one of the seven majors, after the tycoon Kirk Kerkorian sold out the property assets of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, it began to play with Metro Goldwyn Mayer intangible assets as chips. The capital game, two years ago. Kirk Kerkorian sold Metro Goldwyn Mayer to the Italy consortium led by Giancarlo. Paredi, and once again made a large amount of money, but recently Giancarlo was charged with fraudulent means to defraud funds from investors to obtain control of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, from the analysis of the article From a medium point of view, Giancarlo. Parredi is very likely to lose.
Once Giancarlo loses the lawsuit, in order to repay the creditors deceived by Giancarlo, Metro Goldwyn Mayer will be auctioned by the bank.
Eric stared at this report for a moment, but decided to take a look. Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer ’s performance this year is terrible, but the thin and dead camel is bigger than the horse. Taking Metro Goldwyn Mayer can certainly expand Firefly Pictures ’s library at least, but If you want to completely annex this company, you will definitely exhaust all the liquidity in your hands. This is not a cost-effective thing. After all, there are more and more valuable opportunities waiting for yourself.
After having breakfast, Eric did not rush to the company and still read newspaper slowly.
After hearing the doorbell, Eric got up and walked to the living room.
Tina Fey is holding a stack of documents in his hands, wearing a neat black OL suit, with his iconic black-framed eyes, stepping on a small high heel and standing slim outside the door.
"Early, Tina," Eric was a little surprised: "How come here so early?"
Tina Fey saw Eric, I did n’t know what I thought of, and I was slightly cautiously hanging my head, and signaled the information in my hand: "Drew said that I would not go to the company today. Let me bring the materials and watch it here. . "
Eric let the girl come in sideways and said, "It doesn't have to be so early, it's only eight o'clock now."
"I ... I don't have anything to do," Tina Fey Nene replied, seeming a little awkward.
Eric also realized the girl ’s emotions, and did not ask any more, and walked into the restaurant with Tina: "Did you have breakfast, did I make some?"
"Not yet," Tina Fey replied in a low voice, put the file in his hand on the table, watched Eric walking toward the kitchen, staring at the man's back, then remembered something like that, and hurriedly followed : "I will do it myself."
"Well, there are milk and juice in the refrigerator, you pick it yourself," Eric explained and walked to the restaurant.
Tina Fey came over with a breakfast and sat down opposite Eric. Cats generally ate in small bites and chatted with Eric from time to time. After Eric turned over the newspaper in his hand, he accidentally saw the Tina Fey file on the side, and asked: "What are these, can I have a look?"
"Of course, some script, and others," Tina Fey nodded.
Eric opened the folder, and raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, because he saw a familiar name, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
After opening. Eric discovered that this turned out to be a TV series development plan, but there was only a simple outline of five or six pages in the document. Eric hasn't seen much of TV series of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", so I don't know the gap between this story outline and original TV series. However, he was quite surprised. He just mentioned a sentence with Elizabeth. Girls can think of this, and they also got the TG rights to that film's TV series adaptation.
Think again, this thing is not too unexpected. The peripheral development value of a movie, apart from remakes and development of sequels, is probably to develop the TV series version, and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Box Office should not be too good, so the sequel Basically, there is no need, and the remake is of little value, then only the TV series version is left.
original's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" will not be aired until 1997. It is now five years earlier, plus how many originals are basically not available for reference, and Eric does not check whether my TV series can succeed. However, there are also many classic American dramas memorized in my mind anyway. Eric saw few girls wanting to toss "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and did not feel much.
He raised the documents in his hands towards Tina Fey, and Eric asked: "Are you going to do TV series?"
Tina Fey nodded and asked some unexpected rhetorical questions: "Isn't this your opinion?"
"No, I just said something casually, but I did n’t expect Liz to think of coming here. What are you going to do?"
Tina Fey paused for a while and sorted out his thoughts: "We have discussed it, and we plan to adapt this movie into a fantasy adventure film featuring teenagers."
Eric recalled the memories of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in his mind. The version starring Sarah Michelle Gellar really dominates the youth market. Well, the thoughts of several women are not wrong: "This idea is ok, but it is best not to be too anxious. Spend more time on script. The audience eventually hopes to see a good story. I just read this outline, and I do n’t feel anything special. ”
Tina Fey suddenly lowered his head blushing. Because this outline was written by her, when the Eric said so, the girl was inevitably hit by some small blows.
Eric immediately saw the expression of Tina Fey and immediately understood: "You wrote this outline of the story?"
"Well, I just tried to write a copy."
“Oh, it ’s okay. It ’s good to write such a story as your newbie. It ’s good to practice more in the future. In fact, I have a feeling that you will become a good screenwriter.” Eric smiled Encouragement.
"Thank you, Eric," Tina Fey of course knows that Eric is encouraging himself, and whispered gratefully.
I took a brief look at the other materials brought by Tina Fey and made some suggestions. Eric got up and said, "I'm going to work, Drew will get up later, you stay here first. Well, just right, there is a fax machine on the east side of the curtain wall. If there are documents coming over, you can help me receive and sort them out. "
Tina Fey nodded quickly: "No problem."
After seeing Eric walk out of the restaurant, Tina Fey subconsciously put down the cutlery in his hand and followed.
Eric returned to the study room to get some documents, changed clothes, and left the villa. When he saw Tina Fey walking behind him like a little girl at home, he could n’t help but hug the girl and kissed her lips. : "I'm going to work, will you leave today?"
Tina Fey did not object to the kiss of Eric, and when he heard this question from the man, he shook his head shyly: "No, no, no."
"Oh, then stay here tonight."
"Okay ... Okay," replied the girl in a hushed voice.
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October is about to enter October, and the holiday season is less than two months away from the end of the year. The major movies "The Speed", "Ace Ventura" and Disney's animation "Aladdin" at the end of Firefly have basically been completed. Entered the early stage of announcement, and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in cooperation with Columbia is also in the final post-production stage.
Back in the last few days of Los Angeles, after Eric participated in several high-level meetings of Firefly Pictures, they were basically busy for several movies, although the direct Box Office profits of movies accounted for more in the entire film industry chain. The lower, but the movie is still in an important position as a locomotive. If the horsepower of the locomotive is not strong enough, then this huge machine will definitely be in operation. Therefore, any Film Studio still places the movie on the most important position. .
Since the script of "The Speed" was handed over to Jan de Bont, Eric did not intervene too much in this project. The script of "The Speed" was written by him personally, and then handed over to Director in the original time and space. In addition, this project plays a very important role in whether Jan de Bont can transform from a photographer to a Director. Eric believes that the other party will be extremely cautious about this movie.
After participating in the test film of "The Speed", Eric has no more doubts. Compared with the memory, the charm of this movie has not changed much, the story rhythm is also very compact, the actor is still Keanu Reeves, except Heroine Except for changing people, there hasn't been much change. After watching the samples of this movie, Firefly executives also gave a positive evaluation and opened the most gorgeous announcement scale.
In contrast, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" has some minor problems. John Wu is from Hong Kong after all. Although many movies have been produced, the shoots style is very different from Hollywood after all, and there is one more point, John Wu It was started from the shoots comedy film. Therefore, even though many of his classic shootouts are often mixed with too much comedy elements, Eric has to personally participate in the editing of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" while he is busy in the late period of "Jurassic Park" Although there is no shortage of comedy plots in this movie, the theme is still a film in a gun battle film to discuss the relationship between husband and wife.
However, one thing that makes Eric satisfied is that the Hong Kong action guidance team brought by John Wu has designed the action of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" very gorgeously, even exceeding the style of original. However, one thing that makes Eric satisfied is that the Hong Kong action guidance team brought by John Wu has designed the action of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" very gorgeously, even exceeding the style of original. (To be continued.)