I’m in Hollywood Chapter 641: Ma pawns

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"Eric, of ​​course I know that the stars’ pay is a bit too high, but I recently heard that Firefly Pictures has just launched James Cameron ’s new film "Titanic". The production budget for this film is 150 million USD. Since Firefly is at risk for such a Very high disaster movies can make a budget of 150 million USD, why are they reluctant to make some concessions to the sequel of "Men in Black", know that even if we meet the requirements of the creators now, the final production budget will not exceed 150 million USD ? "

Eric glanced at Peter Guber and said: "Peter, let's not mention" Men in Black "first. Do you know why I am willing to let James overshoot again and again?"

Peter Guber shrugged. n∈n∈,

Eric did not expect Peter Guber to answer, and said: "Because I am very sure, every penny spent by James is to make the quality of the film as good as possible, not to spend a lot of USD invitations. Those high-paid stars. "

Peter Guber tried to refute: "But we invite celebrities, isn't it the same to make the film more Box Office appealing?"

"Of course, I do not deny this," Eric said: "But many times, it is not worth it, like the recent" Beverly Detective 3 "and" JAG ", Paramount and Warner will spend a lot of budget Spending on the protagonist's compensation, Eddie Murphy and Kevin Costner not only got a fixed compensation more than 15 million USD, but also enjoyed a high profit sharing agreement, but the result, you must see it. "

Peter Guber said: "Eric, this is just an accident, and the rewards that Miss Kidman got from" The Mummy "are even more terrifying."

"Nicole completely gave up the fixed pay, and then obtained the corresponding profit sharing agreement. If" The Mummy "Box Office failed, Nicole could not get a penny." Eric said: "There is also James, every time he When the film production is overrun, they will voluntarily ask to give up their Director remuneration and reduce the budget burden for Film Studio. But what about the stars. Not only do they have to get tens of millions of USD high remuneration, but also demand more profit sharing, but enjoy With so many benefits, they will not take any risks for Film Studio. Like the two films I just mentioned, they both brought huge losses to Film Studio, but the two starring players have earned more than 10 million. USD's account. Other Film Studio can't control any high-end film rewards to attract those stars, but at Firefly, and Film Studio associated with Firefly. They should never think about such a good thing in the future. "

Peter Guber saw that Eric refused to make concessions on the payroll expense and had to say: "In this case, Eric, regarding the copyright distribution agreement, I think it is necessary for Firefly and Columbia to renegotiate, to know copyright of" Men in Black " At the beginning, it was completely owned by Columbia. If the sequel development is blocked, it will automatically belong to Firefly five years later. This agreement is too unfair to Columbia. "

The original agreement Eric was completely based on the Marvel comic character authorization five-year no sequel to automatically return to the draft. After hearing the entanglement of Peter Guber, I finally stated my purpose for this trip. Eric simply waved his people away, leaning on the worktable and looking at Peter Guber with a smile, said: "Peter, everyone knows it well, it was an unfair agreement from the beginning, Japanese must also know. And, everyone privately The thing done here is even more unfair, but since Japanese is thinking of going into Hollywood, it should be conscious of paying tuition. "

"But, Eric ..."

Eric waved his hand. When I interrupted Peter Guber, I still had a smile on my face and said, "I know you were kicked out of the office by Katzenberg yesterday. You must feel that compared to Jeffrey Katzenberg. I have a good temper, at least I won't treat you like Jeffrey. I rushed out of the office, but my good temper does not mean good talk. There is no room for discussion. As for your reason, the copyright of "Men in Black" includes copyright of "Jumanji" released at the end of the year. Columbia has been bought For many years, there has been no action. Similar movies and TVs copyright have a lot of each Film Studio. If there is no Firefly, maybe these two films can not even wait for the day when the shooting starts. In the final analysis, Firefly has given them enough business. Value. Compared to Sony, everyone should be regarded as their own. Japanese ca n’t understand some things, but we all know how much you have taken from Columbia in the past few years, so, it is enough, I think you should do it in the next period of time , Is to wipe off some traces as far as possible, not to leave Japanese a chance to find fault. "

When Peter Guber heard Eric so straightforward, his old face turned red, but he could n’t think of any rebuttal.

Noting the change in the look of Peter Guber, Eric does n’t want to embarrass the Columbia helm like Katzenberg. After all, the reason why Firefly can successfully sign the 'unequal treaty' with Columbia, Peter Guber still made a great contribution .

Thinking about it, Eric said: "Well, I will let Firefly make some negotiating actions, and will also openly support you there in the media, so that at least until next year, Sony will not risk everyone. The risk of shooting two shots kicks you out, I think you will definitely not stay in Columbia next year, right? "

Peter Guber nodded immediately. In fact, what he wanted was such a guarantee. As for the benefits of Japanese, he really didn't care at all. Now that I got a personal promise from Eric, Peter Guber is no longer entangled with the things just now, saying: "Eric, many people will attend celebration party of" Men in Black "tonight, why not come as you?"

Eric shook his head and said: "I still have very important things at night, this time consider as finished."

Peter Guber left the Firefly studio with satisfaction, but Eric is still thinking about "Men in Black".

In the original time and space, compared with other popular series of Hollywood films, the "Men in Black" series is the most ill-fated. The production interval of the trilogy has reached 15 years. Moreover, both word-of-mouth and Box Office are not as good as one, but the production budget has increased exponentially. And, similar to the "Mission: Impossible" series, most of the profits of the "Men in Black" series have been divided by the main creators such as Will Smith. Relatively speaking, Sony Film Industry only Can be regarded as hard work.

The main reason for this situation is the sluggish Sony Film Industry business. Among the major Film Studios, Sony's performance was at the bottom of most years, which also caused its weak position in front of the first-line superstar. Paramount can also make a fight with Atango after the loss of "Mission: Impossible3" Box Office, but in order to maintain decent operations, Sony Film Industry does not even have this confidence, and can only use high-pay strategies to solicit stars and projects. In the original time and space, Hollywood's first 20 million USD was paid by Sony Columbia for Jim Carrey.

Compared to Sony Columbia, Firefly has no worries in this regard. If the "Men in Black" can't be negotiated, Eric would rather strand this project for a long time. After all, he has a lot of higher-margin projects waiting for development. Like the Sony, it is full of ambitions.

Thinking of this, Eric can't help but look forward to the next Marvel battle, as long as the current Superhero copyright hasn't fallen into the Marvel, even if there is no other, Firefly can also be even longer in the next two decades. Time maintains its strong position in Hollywood.

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"Men in Black" is the last film related to Firefly Group in the summer file in 1994. After the film was released, the summer file has passed most of the time. In the other major Film Studio, several films will be released at the end of the summer file. At the time of the film, Firefly has started to count the harvest of this hot summer file.

July low, Firefly ’s finance department came up with the preliminary financial report for the first half of 1994. Although the first half experienced the short-term confusion caused by the ABC merger and acquisition, the Firefly Group operating income after the merger of ABC still reached the first half of the year 7300 million USD, but due to the restructuring, layoffs and other compensation expenses, the group's net interest rate fell slightly, only 9%, the group achieved a total net profit of 657 million USD in the first six months. This number did not exceed the group's internal expectations, and even higher than most Wall Street analysts' data.

At the same time, after the intensive bidding and negotiations, the famous Condé Nast Publications of North America finally decided to buy the paper media assets stripped from Firefly at the price of 1.52 billion USD.

Under the stimulus of a series of positive news such as the summer file Box Office, the 8billion USD bond issued by Firefly Pictures for the acquisition of ABC was sold out on July 20.

Later, various people inside and outside Firefly who had their own abacus were disturbed.

First of all, Disney Animation Department director Peter Schneider and Roy Disney, who have been waiting for the opportunity to accumulate 215 million USD's outstanding Box Office accumulated in five weeks of "The Lion King", jumped out as the "mao pawn" first, and confidently began to be "pressed for a long time" Of Disney Animation Department employees strive for their own interests.

The layout of Marvel Entertainment is still in the final stage, and Ron Perelman is still hidden in the dark. In order to express its ‘emphasis’ on Disney Animation Department, Eric also cooperated with Peter Schneider and Roy Disney to talk about the conditions.

The Eric deliberately made no mention of the tangled posture of abolishing Disney Hand-Drawn Animation Department but apparently did not want to quickly compromise, and successfully conveyed some wrong signals to some people. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit m.