I’m in Hollywood Chapter 616: The two of them

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At the end of May, Firefly Group gradually entered the actual distribution stage for the acquisition of 8billion USD bonds issued by ABC. Therefore, as the first summer period after the completion of the ABC TV Network acquisition, this summer is crucial for Firefly. Once the summer film can not continue the excellent Box Office performance of the Firefly movie in the previous years, it will seriously hurt the investment interest of investment institutions in Firefly Group bonds.

Although Firefly ’s acquisition of ABC has been settled, the attention of investors and the media on Firefly Group has not diminished in recent months.

With a lot of attention, the three films released by Firefly this summer also caused one-sided doubts. Neither the war film "Saving Private Ryan" or the 2D animation "The Lion King" was favored by the media and investment institutions. Similarly, because Arnold Schwarzenegger just planted a big lead on "Last Action Hero" last year, this year's "True Lies" in cooperation with Cameron has not yet been released, and it has already caused some boos.

Moreover, the critics have blamed Firefly for abandoning its own advantages in CG Special Effects films and making "unpopular" films to the blindness and arrogance of Eric individuals, claiming that Eric has been completely stunned by previous successes. The mind regards itself as the omnipotent God. At the same time, many shareholders, including Buffett, asked Eric to hand over popular special-effect movie projects such as "Men in Black", "Night at the Museum", and "Resident Evil" to other purposes, although these shareholders all used a harmonious tone of negotiation Eric can still feel the strong distrust from it, and he also understands the subtext that these shareholders ask themselves not to support 'competitors'.

The Boston trip originally planned for one week was dragged from May 9 to May 25. Although many things are still not completed, Firefly Group is an important source of funds for the subsequent series of industrial layouts of Eric, therefore. Feeling that the secret forces inside and outside Hollywood against Firefly Group became increasingly restless, Eric handed over the cooperation negotiation with Microsoft to the management team of Chris and Yahoo and hurriedly returned to Los Angeles to preside over the situation.

As soon as the Firefly business aircraft landed at the Los Angeles Santa Monica airport, Eric rushed to Firefly at Headquarters at Burbank.

"Beverly Hills Cop 3" released today and "The Mummy" released two days later will be important competitors of "Saving Private Ryan" a week later. Paramount has arranged more than 2,900 screens for "Beverly Hills Cop 3", and Universal Pictures has a very good haircut strategy for "The Mummy" Obviously imitating last year's "Jurassic Park". The premiere canvases even reached 3,100. Another film "Star Trek Generations" of Paramount was released next to "True Lies" on June 10, and the schedule is scheduled for June 17. The cost of the film is only 35 million USD, and the quality can not be compared with "True Lies", but Paramount has no Box Office pressure, announcement is very calm, and the "Star Trek" ​​series has accumulated popularity for decades. Cold. It will have a great impact on "True Lies" Box Office. Finally, Warner Film Industry's "JAG" suddenly adjusted the schedule at the beginning of the month, and chose to be released at the same time as "The Lion King" on June 24. ”In the meeting room of Firefly Headquarters, Michael Lynn gave a sad introduction to the recent situation.

Eric finished listening to Michael Lynn and asked, "What about July?"

Michael Lynn knows that Eric asked about the 《Charlie's Angels》 and "Men in Black" two films in July. These two films were released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Columbia, but Firefly still occupies a large part of the rights and interests in them: "《Charlie's Angels》," Men in Black "also Yes ... Fox's "Dumb and Dumber To", there is no competitor of equal strength in the same period. "

The original time and space. The reason why "Dumb and Dumber To" only appeared more than ten years later is mainly because the new line of the producer is after the first part of "Dumb and Dumber", please do not afford Jim Carrey. Now that copyright of "Dumb and Dumber" falls into the hands of the wealthy Fox, this issue is of course no longer a problem, and it is not surprising that a sequel is launched. After listening to Michael Lynn, Eric chuckled and said, "They are quite relaxed."

Michael Lynn said: "I have always kept the PR department concerned about the recent direction of the public relations, and have delivered lawyer letters to six maliciously attacked newspaper and TV Station. The announcement department has prepared a supplementary 10 million USD promotion fee for each film. Plan, I sent it to your email last night, maybe you have n’t had time to read it yet. "

Eric first nodded, expressing its affirmation of the work of Michael Lynn. But then he shook his head again: "There is no need to add additional promotional fees. The average cost of announcement for each of the three films is 40 million USD. The advertising effect has reached saturation. If you continue to add it, it will be more than worth the loss. We have to deal with others in a hurry as soon as someone poses. In fact, you should also be able to see that they are betting that Firefly will encounter Waterloo in this summer. Whether it is the unpopular "Saving Private Ryan", the type of failed "True Lies" "The Lion King", which completely changed the strategy of announcement, gave them a hint that Firefly is likely to fail. They are just waiting for this moment to really come, and then make the failure of Firefly more thorough. "Said here, Eric is confident Zhong smiled slightly ridiculously and said, "But haven't they considered it, perhaps, the situation they imagined will be completely reversed?"

Firefly Group has developed to the present level, and the competition with several other Film Studios, some private means have not played a big role, in the final analysis is the competition of film quality, and this point, the advantage of Eric is definitely their Incomparable, not only that, Eric also decisively handed over the daily management of Firefly Group to more professional Katzenberg, Michael Lynn and others, devoted most of their energy to film production, it can be said that their own "advantages" are brought to the fullest, this situation The original time and space film produced below has proved the potential of Box Office. Even if the Box Office cannot reach the point of the original time and space because of the butterfly effect, there is almost no possibility of complete failure.

The words of Eric are like a peace of mind for everyone here. Prior to this, Michael Lynn and others were affected by external public relations, and similar concerns appeared more or less.

The mind is settled. Everyone began to discuss the next countermeasures.

The reason for the current situation is that apart from the expansion of Firefly Group's power, it has squeezed other Film Studio positions in the industry. There are also the influence of Firefly's other shareholders and Wall Street's capital power. Now is the most critical moment for Firefly Group bond issuance. Once bond issuance of 8 billion USD is blocked, according to the additional terms when Firefly acquired ABC, Firefly will either choose to increase the interest rate; or choose to reduce the share of bond issuance, and the gap will continue to be paid with equity. No matter which of these two results, investors are happy to see.

Therefore, Katzenberg who rushed back specifically from New York said: "Eric, when New York, Tom Murphy asked me more than once about the cooperation between Firefly and Sony, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. We cannot change the established contract. But I think we should change Miss Barrymore's "Mission: Impossible", "Night at the Museum" and other films have the right to issue back. According to the current situation of Columbia, the resistance should not be large. Doing so can also greatly increase the confidence of those shareholders and creditors in the company. The resistance will also be much smaller. "

In the past few years, Columbia has been a mess under the management of Peter Guber. At this time, finding a reason to take back the distribution rights is indeed not very resistance, but many plans of Eric will be interrupted: "Columbia will not only bear these videos 50% of the announcement fee, and only 15% of the Box Office share, even if we can squeeze out the distribution resources from the "Independence Day" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" films, Firefly can not open this kind of condition? "

Katzenberg nodded helplessly. With the current average distribution cost of 40 million USD and above for large-scale production films, Columbia needs Flower Films's North America Box Office for film guarantee 130 million USD to recover the cost from the investment. Of course, this time Columbia got the overseas distribution rights, and can also earn some profits, but the video tapes and film and television peripherals copyright are still owned by Flower Films. Of course, Flower Films will choose Firefly for cooperation. Based on comprehensive calculations, relative to the expected hundreds of millions of USD The huge profits and fat are divided between Flower Films and Firefly. As one of the seven major parties, Columbia has become a soup. And these "soups" will definitely be used by Peter Guber to use bonuses and other forms into their pockets. Katzenberg feels that if he is a major shareholder of Columbia. He will definitely use all means to throw managers like Peter Guber into prison, but the dreamy reality is. Sony is still very at ease with this executive, and everyone in Hollywood knows it well, Columbia's stall is getting worse.

"Eric, since the main issue at present is to ensure the smooth issuance of corporate bonds, I think all we need is some good news that can really stimulate the market." Michael Lynn finished, everyone involved in this meeting Looked at Eric.

Of course Eric knows what this group of people thinks again, and laughs: "It just happened, I wrote a good script recently, intending to invite Julia Roberts as Heroine, maybe I can post this news tomorrow."

"This is not enough," Frank Wells also said at this time: "Eric, you'd better Director yourself like 《Pretty Woman》. Since last year's" Jurassic Park ", everyone is concerned about what you will shoot in the next film. What about. "

Eric spreads hands, helplessly said: "But you know, I have other things to do, the big deal is that I personally serve as Producer."

Katzenberg said: "Eric, I remember you said about the plan for" The Matrix ", if you can announce this project at the same time, the effect will definitely be better."

Eric thought about it, "The Matrix" can also be put on the agenda at this time, saying: "No problem, you can go to prepare a press release later, I will not participate in the press conference. I will not participate in the next few days. You need to check the production progress of all projects in your hand. "

Identified this matter. Katzenberg briefly outlined the progress of the reorganization of ABC TV Network. The heads of various departments reported some trivial matters before this meeting was concluded.

On the way back to Cliff Peak Manor, Eric accidentally fell asleep in the car. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was still leaning on the back seat of the car, but besides the soft body of small girl, the two were covered. A blanket.

I think that every time I return to Los Angeles, Drew can always appear at my side for the first time, and Eric has a warmth in my heart.

It should be in the garage, but it must have been dark outside, and I was inexplicably tired. Eric was too lazy to see what time it is now, and I do n’t mind people in the car. I ’m going to sleep with small girl in my arms, but maybe Feeling his movements, Drew woke up.

"Eric ..." screamed lazily, the girl rubbed on him as usual, and then shouted with dissatisfaction: "It's so dark, Natasha, turn on the light."

Eric in the dark could n’t help but smile, just want to remind that this is in the car, and after a soft sound, the light in the car lights up. Eric was surprised to find that there were two identical figures sitting in the front row, and here is not the Mercedes-Benz he was sitting on when he came back, but another large off-road vehicle. Eric does not have the habit of collecting car, but small girl often buys some luxury cars from home and returns unconsciously. Twenty cars have been parked in the underground garage of the manor. Some are new and new.

Looking at the small girl that smiled and wanted to be coquettish, Eric pinched her little ears and said, "How do I make them sit in front?"

Drew smiled gleefully: "Do you want them to sit in the back row too?"

"Yeah, then you go to the front row to drive." Eric said helplessly, and then pushed the door to get out of the car. small girl and the twins also got out of the car.

Eric looked at another strange off-road vehicle in front of him, kicked the tires and asked, "Is this a Hummer, when did you like this kind of car?"

"I bought it for you," Drew came to hold Eric's arm and said, "Birthday gift."

Eric just remembered that he had just passed his 24th birthday, shrugged indifferently, and walked out, saying: "I'm not digging for coal, why do I want a Hummer."

Drew did n’t understand what the stalk was digging coal, and with Eric dissatisfied, he plucked his mouth and asked for help: "This is military, very strong Oh."

"Then ..."

Drew blinked and seemed to find that ... but it did n’t work. Eric rarely drives by itself at all, let alone drive a military vehicle like this Zhang Yang and walk around: "You do n’t like it For consider as finished, just change a birthday gift. "

Eric pretended to ask curiously: "Oh, there is a backup, talk about it?"

small girl pointed to the twins who followed quietly behind him: "Nà, the two of them." (To be continued.)