I’m in Hollywood Chapter 553: Headache thing
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Perhaps because there are too many movies in my mind, Eric ’s dreams are always a little strange, and I wandered into "Resident Evil" when I was awake, and some were not quite sure who I was, but only knew I entered with my companions A messy hall was moving forward cautiously, a drop of hot and unknown liquid fell on his face, and he suddenly looked up. In the dark, he saw that the licking tongue of the licking master was coming towards him, and he was suddenly awakened.
At a glance, I saw the neatly dressed Drew lying beside me smilingly, small girl rarely got up earlier than himself, and Eric was not surprised. He turned a half circle on the earth, and his biological clock was already a little confused. It is estimated that it will take a while to recover.
Thinking of the dream just now, Eric touched his cheek and asked, "Girl, don't you mischief draw something on my face?"
"Of course not," Drew showed a look like you were me when I was a child, and then gave an answer that made Eric a little helpless: "I just licked it a few times."
Okay, anyway, there will be less meat.
Eric thought arrogantly, reaching for the watch on the table. Drew ’s small body was just in front of him, and asked, "What time is it?"
Drew turned around and pressed a button next to the bed. The curtains around the bedroom opened silently. The bright sunlight rushed in, and soon filled the spacious master bedroom.
Eric narrowed his eyes and blocked it with his arm before suddenly sitting up.
Yes, I made an appointment yesterday to hold an Firefly management meeting. It must be late to see the situation.
Wearing clothes in a hurry, Eric asked: "Where is my mobile phone, is anyone calling?"
"Yes. Michael just called to ask if you are still attending the meeting today. I said that your jet lag hasn't arrived yet. It may be a little later. He said that the meeting will be changed at one o'clock in the afternoon." Drew said, pulling out a brand new tie from the cupboard and threw it with interest to help Eric tie it himself.
Eric had to stand on the spot and reached over and took a look at the watch. It was already 9:40. Even now, even if I rushed over, the morning time is not enough: "Wake up next time you encounter this kind of thing. Me. It's not always good to have so many people waiting. "
Drew is also clearly aware of the priority of the matter, saying: "I know, this time is special, you just returned from Tokyo, they can understand."
Go downstairs and walk into the restaurant for breakfast. The Russia twins appeared again and greeted Eric actively. After Eric sat down, he placed breakfast and today ’s newspaper in front of Eric.
The small girl, who had already eaten breakfast, was sitting opposite the Eric with a small chin, and his eyes flashed to show his invitations.
Eric thanked the twins. After the two sisters left the restaurant, they twisted a small piece of bread and threw it at the door of her mind: "Okay. What's so good, it cost so much money, enough to hire One hundred servants. "
Although last night Drew joked that he was more expensive. But in fact, she just bought the contract of two sisters from the manager named Sean King and spent 800,000 USD. In this way, she still took advantage of the loophole in the other party ’s contract and later promised various conditions for the two sisters. It is not something that 800,000 USD can do to help these sisters and other family members emigrate.
"I can also let them both go to the corporate movie to make a guest appearance on Oh, and then they will both be the mascots in the Flower Films movie. It is much more eye-catching than your 'little girl holding a doll' gimmick. "
Eric ignored the teasing in the girl's tone and asked: "You said to help their family emigrate. Now Russia immigration United States is not such an easy thing, what does their family do?"
"Their father was originally a very good fighting coach. But you know, now Russia poor even President ca n’t afford the hotel room when they go abroad for meetings, and the fighting coach is even more useless. However, it is different in the Federation, and there are not many family members. Apart from the two of them, only their parents and a younger brother are not difficult. "
Seeing that small girl has everything in mind, Eric did n’t ask any more, took a sip of milk, and opened a copy of newspaper.
"Eric, you always look at these, what's the use?" small girl came together without any question.
"Looking for inspiration," Eric simply spit out two words, but it was seen from 《Los Angeles Times》 Yesterday afternoon, Metro Goldwyn Mayer CEO Frank Makasso held a press conference, announced the plan to establish DreamWorks Film Studio with Firefly Pictures, and revealed about 《Charlie's Angels》 and "Resident Evil" 》 The production plan, and the news that Eric is about to participate in the latest 007 production.
Drew did n’t mind Eric perfunctory, dragged a chair to come together and read the draft. Eric had already called to tell her about 《Charlie's Angels》 project decision at Europe, Drew had already just knows.
"Eric, the representative of Firefly Pictures is not mentioned in the manuscript. Is this a press conference held unilaterally by Metro Goldwyn Mayer?"
From the press release, not only did the Firefly Pictures representative not attend the press conference, but in the content of the press conference, Frank Makasso also deliberately played down the role of Europe capital in Production Studio.
Eric thought that Metro Goldwyn Mayer ’s recent share price will definitely rise, explaining to Drew: "Metro Goldwyn Mayer now needs some good news too, so I ca n’t wait to do it. This is nothing. Frank Makasso is definitely communicating with Michael. After all, Firefly is not a listed company, and these news will not affect us too much. "
"Oh, Eric, we will not lose 《Charlie's Angels》 to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, this movie is similar to the style of 007, maybe you can make many sequels?"
"copyright is put into DreamWorks, not for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. We own 30% of DreamWorks. We are already the largest shareholder, and most of the shares are also in Europe capital. If we conflict with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, you think Where will Europe Capital stand? "
"Of course we are here, hey. Eric, I just thought of a good idea ..."
"Huh?"
"You said, if we let the 《Charlie's Angels》 series intersect with" 007 ", would it be a good note?"
"The idea is good, but unless 《Charlie's Angels》 achieves similar influence and" Box Office "scores as" 007 ", this is not an easy task. The influence of the 007 series has accumulated over decades. "
Drew also knows that the influence of the 007 series is definitely not comparable to the 《Charlie's Angels》 which does not have a large screen finished product at this stage, and it comes second: "What if it is only some plot eggs?"
"Then at least it needs first part to gain enough influence, but it is not impossible to try it. The most important thing now is to do first part of 《Charlie's Angels》 well."
Although Eric is not too optimistic about Drew ’s sudden imagination at breakfast, but then it became more and more interested. If 《Charlie's Angels》 and 007 series intersect, it is definitely a very powerful gimmick, but I think of previous life 《Charlie's Angels》 Box Office results for the series. Eric can only wait for the new version of the results released by himself to be released before carrying out related work.
Although the meeting was changed in the afternoon, after eating breakfast, Eric arrived at Firefly Headquarters as soon as possible.
Firefly Pictures has accumulated a lot of documents that need to be reviewed by Eric in this period. Eric arrived at the office at 11 o'clock until the afternoon meeting began, and it was only less than one-tenth of the reading, which was still missing the lunch time. Circumstances. Fortunately, Eric was late for breakfast, not too hungry.
The scale of the meeting in the afternoon is not too big, just a small meeting of more than ten executives of Firefly.
Eric walked into the meeting room with Alan holding a thick stack of documents. Seeing that everyone headed by Michael Lynn and Jeffrey Katzenberg brushed their eyes together, they all smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, it seems that everyone misses me."
With a chuckle, Eric took advantage of Alan to distribute copies of the document to the ground, and exchanged a few words with everyone, waiting for Alan to finish the document. Eric just stood up and said: "I know. Firefly has a lot of things to deal with recently, but we will not discuss these today. Today we are talking about the next stage of Firefly Pictures development goals."
At this time, the executives in the conference room have already opened the documents in hand. Whether they have received the rumors in advance or not, it is not too surprising to see the contents of the documents. The contents of the documents are an assessment of the possibility of three Major TV Networks acquisition.
The current situation of Firefly Pictures has surpassed other Six Great Film Studios of Hollywood with absolute advantage. If you want to go further, you must definitely move from a Film Studio to a comprehensive media group.
Although it will take some time to formally propose to TV Network, it may even wait until next year, but the preparation work is definitely the sooner the better.
North America is currently in the three Major TV Networks except Fox. After the mid-1980s merger and acquisition wave, ABC TV Station, which had been in a bad situation in the past few years and has suffered continuous losses, has now become the best comprehensive one.
Because since the 1983 Metropolitan Communications Corporation Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Takeover ABC Since then, the new shareholders have strengthened ABC TV Station Financial supervision, but at the same time give the management sufficient potential ABC The current profitability is still not very conspicuous, but it is already in a period of benign development.
The subsequent NBC TV Station is still in a turbulent stage because of the conflict between the management and the parent company General Group.
The CBS situation can only be described as bad. After the Wall Street investor Laurence Tisch took control of CBS in the mid-1980s, it successively split and sold a large number of CBS business assets, including Japanese. Big Record Company Columbia record. After so many years of capital operation, the benefits have been obtained, and Laurence Tisch does not want to play at this time, and is looking for a receiver.
Therefore, CBS is also the easiest one to acquire.
However, with the current strength of Firefly Pictures, there is no need to pick up leaks. Since you want to buy, of course you have to pick the best ABC, followed by NBC, and CBS is the last choice.
After Eric briefly introduced the plan in his heart, Michael Lynn said: "Eric, since we are going to acquire ABC, must our Fox TV Network shares be sold?"
"I will talk about this matter with Mr. Murdoch personally recently."
Another asked: "What about 《Friends》," X-Files "and" Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "?"
《Friends》 and Fox signed a five-season play contract. This year happened to be the fifth season. Moreover, copyright of 《Friends》 is completely in the hands of Firefly. Of course, Eric will not be polite with Fox, saying: "After completing this year ’s contract, we Certainly will not renew with Fox, as for "X-Files" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", continue to maintain the original plan. "
"X-Files" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" were developed by sharing copyright with Fox. It is very difficult to grab it, and all three "posts" of Fox TV Network are snatched in one go. It is strange that Murdoch does not turn over.
Eric said, looking at Firefly ’s Vice Chairman in charge of TV Department: “In addition, from now on, TV Department can find the full program, even if we buy TV Network, it may take one to two years, so we can hoard some good Project, you come up with a plan as soon as possible, and regularly send the collected project summary to me. "
Katzenberg suddenly said, "Eric, are you planning to take responsibility for the acquisition of TV Network?"
The voice of Katzenberg just dropped, and the atmosphere in the meeting room was a little weird. Many people swept their eyes between Katzenberg and Michael Lynn.
Eric also glanced at Katzenberg and Michael Lynn sitting on both sides of her head with some headaches.
The acquisition of TV Network is such a big thing that it definitely needs an executive above Firefly Pictures Chairman level to follow up and negotiate in person at any time. If it is otherwise, this burden will definitely fall on Michael Lynn. But now the situation is that Eric promised to Katzenberg last year that when Michael Lynn contract expires next year, it will appoint Katzenberg as Firefly CEO.
As Firefly Pictures's current CEO, Michael Lynn is somewhat conservative and does not have the unprecedented spirit of Katzenberg, but it has always been a very qualified manager. Although Eric does not often intervene in the management of the company, Michael Lynn can execute it perfectly every time he inadvertently commands. Eric is still very satisfied with Michael Lynn.
Therefore, even before Katzenberg just opened, Eric has been entangled for a long time on how to arrange Michael Lynn in the future. (To be continued)