I’m in Hollywood Chapter 497: You are not optimistic

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"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" as a large-scale film with an investment of 60 million USD, even exceeded the total cost of John Wu's 20 years of shoots in Hong Kong. Therefore, Eric intervened in the final editing of the film, not only did not make John Wu feel affected Offensive, there is even a feeling of relief. After all, the total investment of 60 million USD is close to 500 million Hong Kong dollars after conversion. When John Wu takes over this movie, every time I think of this number, there will be a feeling of walking on thin ice. Fortunately, Eric After seeing the sample, he affirmed his shoots achievements, and the discomfort of John Wu for a few months finally dissipated. △,

Towards the end of work, Tina Fey parked the car in the parking lot of Firefly Studios, looked at his watch, picked up a satchel full of documents and hurriedly walked to the Studio ’s post-production center, just came to the production center door In addition, she saw Eric and an Asian male whispered and came out from inside.

Eric left Alan in Paris. Although he has his own special assistant office in Firefly Headquarters, he did not choose a temporary first assistant from it, because small girl has no reason to have too much work after completing Ace Ventura by TG Temporarily pushed Tina Fey over, and Eric has no objection. It is always more convenient to put a familiar woman around than others.

Seeing the figure of Tina Fey, Eric nodded at her and chatted with John Wu a few times before walking towards the girl. Looking at the heavy shoulder bag on Tina Fey's shoulders, Eric reached out and tried to pick it up, but was evaded by Tina Fey.

"Eric, I can do it myself." Tina Fey shook his head.

For women, occasionally show some good little details. Eric doesn't mind either. Laughed: "Let's go back now, just off work."

The two came to the parking lot again. Tina Fey was about to drive their own car, but was pulled by Eric: "It ’s good to put it here. Tomorrow it will drive. We can talk about something just in the car."

This time Tina Fey no longer objected, nodded lightly and followed the Eric.

Wait for the driver to launch car. Tina Fey put the shoulder bag on his knees, and took out several folders from it: "Mr. Eric, Hansson ... Oh, is a document sent to you by Mr. Hansson Jr. of New York in the afternoon. He also called the Marvel Entertainment Inc. for information. I will give it to you as soon as possible. "

Eric realized why Tina Fey came over at this time, nodded, and took some thick documents from the woman ’s knee. Compared to Eric and Chris's brief information about surprises in New York, this document is much more detailed, involving Marvel Entertainment Inc.'s operating status, business structure, debt ratio, and comic copyright. There is even a document devoted to the entanglement between Marvel Entertainment Inc. and Ron Perelman investment companies.

Eric only glances at the professional information that is biased towards the economy, but focuses on copyright and other materials of Marvel Comics. In memory. At first glance, Eric found that the actual data was very different from the information in his memory. He originally thought that Marvel Comics sold his popular comic characters to Film Studio in Hollywood in order to solve the financial crisis in the middle and late 1990s. But in fact, since the 1980s, Marvel has been selling the comic character movie copyright.

The data in hand shows that there are currently buyers of amazing hot selling comic characters. copyright of "Fantastic Four" is in the hands of German Constantin Film, copyright of "Spider-Man" is in the hands of Carlock Film Studio, and copyright of "Captain America" is in the 21st century. In the hands of Film Studio, the copyright of "Hulk" is also in the hands of New World Film Studio that Eric has not heard of. That is to say, now the seven major players of Hollywood are not interested in the adaptation rights of the comics. The popular characters adaptation rights are basically in the hands of the second and third line Film Studio , And the right of film adaptation of second-line Superhero such as Iron Man Black Widow, even no one is interested.

Moreover, I was surprised that the copyright transfer agreements signed with these Film Studios are similar to those signed in Eric ’s memory with several major Film Studios. If there is no work released within a few years, copyright will automatically return to Marvel Comics, but these two Although the third-line Film Studio bought copyright, the motivation to change into a movie does not seem to be too strong. Kang Stan Ding has been shelved after getting the copyright of "Fantastic Four", but the Film Studio senior suddenly found himself paying for it one day. When the copyright is about to expire, it took less than a month to find someone to prepare an ultra-low-cost b-level "Fantastic Four" in order to continue the copyright.

Other Film Studio with copyright, just after Warner launched "Batman" with great success, followed their own Marvel Comics film adaptation in the following two years, but they did not arouse any splash.

Tina Fey sat quietly next to Eric, and secretly glanced at the side of the man who read the information carefully. Since Drew said that sentence a few months ago, Tina Fey has been telling himself not to be cranky, but in his heart I couldn't help but think of some at sixes and sevens. When I got along with Eric again after a few months, there was no way to be as calm as before.

When Drew pushed her to the side of Eric, although she told herself to refuse one hundred times, she refused unknowingly, but she unconsciously agreed to it. From the bottom of her heart, although she did not want to admit it, from the bottom of her heart She always hopes to get along with Eric for a while.

"Tina," Eric looked at a document and suddenly turned his head to meet the thief-like little eyes of Tina Fey, watching the girl panicly look away, Eric couldn't help laughing: "Hey , Since I saw you last time, I always think you have become weird. What happened? "

"No, nothing," Tina Fey quickly denied.

Eric thought for a while and tentatively said: "Did Drew tell you something?"

"Ah?" Tina Fey opened his mouth, but did not answer.

Eric shrugged, thought he was right, and said, "Okay, this is no secret. It ’s okay to tell you. Anyway. I ’m going to do Papa in April next year."

Hearing this sentence, Tina Fey's eyes suddenly glared greatly: "When Papa, you ... are you married?"

"Of course not," Eric looked at the expression of Tina Fey: "So you don't know."

Tina Fey felt a strong loss of heart, but still nodded: "Drew, Drew did not tell me this."

Speaking of this sentence, there was a brief silence in the carriage.

After a while. Tina Fey said carefully: "Then, when the child is born, will you get married?"

"no way," Eric shook his head: "But I will work hard to be a good father."

Tina Fey did n’t know how to continue this topic for a while. She was born in a very conservative United States middle-class family. The concept of acceptance from an early age made her unable to agree with Eric ’s approach, but at the same time, she could n’t afford it. Too much resentment, perhaps in the subconscious mind, is always more tolerant of people with wealth and power on the scale of social rules.

"You finished reading?" Tina Fey was silent for a while. Just pointed to the file in the hands of Eric.

"Not yet, just watched some. I will go back and watch it again, Oh, what I just wanted to say is that tomorrow you will take the time to help me collect video tapes of these movies, I plan to watch them." Eric finished, will The information was extracted and handed over to Tina Fey.

Tina Fey took out the memo and quickly wrote down the movie name.

This episode seems to have passed, but then Eric discovered that the atmosphere when the two got along changed from one strange to another.

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Under the personal command of Katzenberg, after a month of rectification, the renamed Disneyland Paris was opened to tourists again because of the media influence brought about by the sudden closure within ten days of opening, and the Disney made no secret to the public A sincere gesture of apology and vigorous reforms, within a week of the reopening of Disney, the number of tourists once again rushed to a peak, reaching 700,000, although the price of tickets and the price of Disney theme hotel occupancy have been lowered. , But after another survey, the satisfaction of tourists has risen to 70%, of which the satisfaction of French tourists has reached 85%, because Disneyland Paris not only made a considerable tendency in content The adjustment of French culture even uses French as the working language of Paris Disneyland staff.

Although after this opening, the average consumption of tourists has not increased because of the price reduction, but the management is quite optimistic about this situation. Just like a movie, if a highly anticipated movie only gets a high Box Office, but it has a very bad reputation, then the sequel production of this movie will definitely be very difficult, otherwise, if the reputation of a movie bursts Even if there is not much profit on Box Office, Film Studio will be very keen on making sequels. After reopening, Disneyland Paris, which has received good reviews from tourists, is like a movie that has won a good reputation. As long as it has gained a good reputation, the possibility of tourists visiting Disneyland again will greatly increase.

"If the current momentum can be maintained, perhaps the situation of Paris Disneyland will not be as bad as we originally expected," Eric said, looking at the results of another questionnaire given to him by Katzenberg who returned to Los Angeles.

"I think so too," I haven't seen it in a month, Katzenberg has not changed much, except for a little leaner: "Fortunately, it was made in time, although the closure for a whole month brought some unnecessary expenses. However, in view of the current situation, this loss is totally worthwhile. At least, Disneyland Paris should be able to maintain the balance of payments this year. Although the previous estimate of this project was too optimistic, but one thing is true, that is Europe The number of potential tourists is definitely more than that of Japan and United States. I think the biggest problem is that it is not like Tokyo Disneyland to adapt to the local culture. As long as it can do this, it should not be too big to achieve profitability. . "

"Okay, don't mention responsibility again, after all, we all know that the responsibility for this matter is not on you and me," Eric said with a smile.

Disneyland Paris is under the personal control of Michael Eisner. Although Katzenberg was also a Disney's executive at the time, it was absolutely impossible for Katzenberg to intervene in this project with the character of Michael Eisner. So now there is such a big flaw, this black pot has no accident to be detained in Michael Eisner On the head, and absolutely not wronged.

Katzenberg didn't bother about this topic, but said: "I will always pay attention to the situation there and make timely adjustments. There is one more thing. Giancarlo's case on Metro Goldwyn Mayer lost the case. I just got the news when Paris. The main source of funds for the Giancarlo fraud is the French consortium. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer shares in Giancarlo will be auctioned by the French bank in mid-December to repay the debts of investors. I think this should be a good opportunity for Firefly to expand the library. "

Eric shook his head and said: "But it will cost a lot of money, Jeffrey, I have also considered this matter, although after getting the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film library, the number of Firefly Pictures movies will more than double, but we do not Without the power to translate these films into actual economic benefits, we have neither sufficient video distribution resources nor our own TV Station, and these are the two most important channels for converting early films into actual benefits. "

Katzenberg knows that Eric is telling the truth, and obviously feels a pity, because if this opportunity is seized, it is enough to swallow the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film library, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer currently has the most valuable things that it has accumulated A huge library of 10,000 movies and TV series.

Thinking of this, Katzenberg asked: "So, Eric, should we consider building our own TV Station in the next cloth?"

Eric put down the information in his hand, got up and poured two cups of coffee for himself and Katzenberg, and came over and sat down again before saying, "At least wait until next year, and if we want to buy public TV Station, we must Dealing with the relationship with Fox TV Network, perhaps, we have to give up the 10% share of Fox TV Network, otherwise we will definitely be in trouble by the Federal Exchange Commission. "

"Sounds like, you seem to have a goal?" Katzenberg asked Eric's expression and asked curiously.

Eric nodded with a smile: "However, after the results of Viacom and QVC competing for Paramount are released."

Katzenberg heard this sentence, almost understood it, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not optimistic about Barry Diller can win Paramount." (To be continued ...)