I’m in Hollywood Chapter 708: Proactively send to your door

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The best time to make Transformers is of course ten years later. However, if you say so at this time, Eric believes that Alan Hassenfeld is expected to leave on the spot.

"Five years," Eric thought for a moment, and said to Alan Hassenfeld, this sentence is not entirely to deal with each other. The production time was advanced to about 2000, and there were no major technical problems. The cost was higher: "I have several high-tech companies in my hand, so I still have a full understanding of this aspect. According to the current technological development Speed, Transformers will be turned on after five years, the cost can reach the risk range that we can bear. "

The words of Eric last night, although they failed to thoroughly crack down on the enthusiasm of Film Studio hoping to get Transformers copyright, the impact was also very obvious.

Before Alan Hassenfeld arrived in the morning, I called the Film Studio executives who had been negotiating during this time one by one, and the other party's tone was obviously no longer as eager as the previous days. Alan Hassenfeld understands that these people are not interested in Transformers copyright anymore, but because of the remarks of Eric, they have developed scruples.

Eric Since publicly suppressing Transformers copyright on party, no matter what the intention is, he does not like the intention of others to fight for Transformers copyright is almost certain. Since Eric is still in the copyright competition stage in Transformers, it is impossible to guarantee that he will not be bad in the film production process.

Therefore, only the best partner for Hasbro at this time is Firefly. Of course, they can also put Transformers copyright in their hands, but this is not in the fundamental interest of Hasbro.

Eric is finished, Alan Hassenfeld is no longer inked, saying: "Eric, Firefly has always been the most expected partner of Hasbro, we have considered it in detail, if you can personally take this film Director, Firefly only Pay the copyright authorization fee for 5 million USD, but Hasbro hopes to be able to invest together, our requirements are not high, only a 30% investment right is required. "

"Alan, I ca n’t guarantee to be the Director of this film. However, I will definitely be the Producer myself. As for Hasbro who wants to participate in the investment, it is not impossible to consider ..."

Eric replied without hesitation, he is not not guaranteed. But I don't want to be Director of Transformers at all. His positioning of the Transformers series of movies is the super popcorn movie, all kinds of special effects and all kinds of explosions, all these are enough. previous life's Transformers is also precisely because of this positioning, the media and film people have basically failed the grade, Eric still cares about their own Director word of mouth, so the Director position of Transformers, continue to be handed over to the film people who do not care so much A fancy mocking explosion is good.

The two of you came and went to bargain, and finally reached an agreement.

Hasbro authorized the film adaptation rights of Transformers to Firefly Group at the price of 3 million USD for a period of ten years. Firefly promised to develop a movie version five years later. Hasbro company can participate in up to 25% of the investment in the film.

What Alan Hassenfeld really cares about is not the authorization fee of millions of USD, so Eric has lowered the authorization price to 3 million USD, and he did not insist too much. Instead, Eric allowed Hasbro to participate in 25% of the investment, which surprised him. During the period of contact with other Film Studios, the main contradiction in the negotiations was the proportion of investment that Hasbro participated in.

In the beginning, Hasbro whimsically wanted to invest half of its investment in the production of live-action films with its partners, but they soon realized that this kind of condition was impossible for Film Studio. Before Alan Hassenfeld came, the bottom line in my heart was actually 20%. Eric readily gave a 25% investment ratio, and even gave him the idea of ​​knowing that he would not have to waste so much time with other companies.

Eric sees the expression of Alan Hassenfeld in his eyes. He laughed inwardly. Even if the thought buried in my heart fails to succeed, Hasbro will taste the Hollywood financial system in the future.

The specific contract terms definitely need to be discussed in detail by both parties. But now that the result has been determined, Eric is also more enthusiastic, and deliberately opened a bottle of champagne as a simple celebration.

Alan Hassenfeld holds champagne in hand. Together with Eric, I looked forward to the Transformers movie prospects, and it seemed to inadvertently caused another topic: "Eric, IMHO, Firefly's development of movie peripheral products in recent years has far fallen short of those hot movies. In the case of the peripheral development of several 3D Animation movies released by Disney, Firefly has produced some peripheral products. However, these products are limited to fixed sales circles such as Disneyland and Disney stores. For Firefly, the types of peripheral products that cannot be produced , Your kind of extensive authorization model who works with whoever applies will actually be a great waste to the brand. "

In fact, Firefly is also aware of this problem. However, in the past few years, whether it was Firefly or Disney, they focused on Film Industry. After annexing Disney, Eric started non-stop to acquire TV Network. Pay more attention to this matter. Katzenberg has begun to seek solutions. Eric has also seen several related documents recently. The brand operation department is discussing a packaged image authorization agreement with fast food giant KFC. It is probably that KFC pays 100 million USD every year to obtain tableware in its fast food restaurant. Authorized permission to print the cartoon image in the Disney film. As long as this cooperation plan takes shape, Firefly can continue to use this as a template to develop a more efficient brand operation strategy.

However, of course, Eric will not say this to Alan Hassenfeld. He also understands the intention of Alan Hassenfeld's remarks. He just nodded in recognition, and some other ideas came up in his heart.

Sure enough, Alan Hassenfeld said again: "Eric, since this is the case, I think, why do n’t we do in-depth cooperation in this respect. Firefly is a media group, I guess you will definitely not choose to expand your Disney store. Not the business focus of Firefly. Then, Hasbro can completely fill the market vacancies outside the Disneyland and Disney stores. Not only do we have a complete product distribution system in North America, but also deepen the market expansion of Europe Asia. "

Eric made a very interested look, but regretted: "Alan, listening to you, I really hope everyone can cooperate. But this kind of thing, I must discuss it with the management before I can Decided, however. I will reply to you as soon as possible regardless of the outcome of the discussion. "

Alan Hassenfeld did not expect any response from Eric on the spot, but the intention of Eric also made him very excited.

In the process of rapid expansion of the Hasbro in the 1980s, in order to enrich its own toy product categories, it is often the very clumsy way of mergers and acquisitions.

Firefly's strong rise in CG special effects blockbuster and 3D Animation movies in recent years. Let Hasbro see another development route. If you can achieve close cooperation with Firefly Group, then CG special effects movies and 3D Animation movies produced by Firefly will bring a continuous source of toy images for Hasbro. Hasbro has been greedy for the toy development of the films "Toy Story", "Jurassic Park", "The Lion King" for a long time, but Firefly has been very conservative in this regard in the past few years and has never had a chance.

Having reached this intention, Alan Hassenfeld was already satisfied, looked at the time, just after eleven o'clock, and some time before lunch. Eric did not mean to leave him for lunch, Alan Hassenfeld took the initiative to say goodbye to leave.

Send Alan Hassenfeld, Eric did not return to the villa terrace to enjoy life, but dialed Katzenberg phone.

The Alan Hassenfeld ’s cooperation proposal also made him aware of another opportunity.

There are many valuables around the movies of Firefly. Look at KFC's willingness to pay the 100 million USD license fee just knows for the Disney cartoon image every year.

Eric originally recommended that Fox buy Hasbro. In addition to Transformers's copyright, the fancy is also Hasbro's perfect toy production and sales system. Fox is not willing to take this risk. Eric has already produced the idea of ​​eating Hasbro. However, because of the large amount of investment required in the high-tech industry in recent years, Eric was temporarily unable to withdraw enough funds to win Hasbro.

At the moment, this cooperation proposal of Alan Hassenfeld is almost equivalent to sending Hasbro to your door.

As long as you can reach a close cooperative relationship with Hasbro. This world-class toy giant will definitely become dependent on the brand image of Firefly.

At the same time, all contracts are time-limited. Eric predicts that Firefly investment will be able to withdraw a large amount of funds at the peak of the Internet bubble around 2000. By then, this side will also have sufficient strength to acquire Hasbro company. Then, Firefly only needs to sign a five-year contract with Hasbro. These five years. The closer the cooperation between Hasbro and Firefly is, the stronger the dependence on Firefly will be. When the contract expires, Firefly will take advantage of the takeover bid, and Hasbro, which has been firmly tied to Firefly Group, naturally knows how to choose, or There is no choice.

Speaking your thoughts to Katzenberg by phone, Katzenberg also quite agrees, and expressed with high emotion that the management of Firefly will be called immediately to discuss this matter.

Eric hung up the phone and looked at the time, half past eleven.

Calling someone to a meeting near the meal ... um, anyway, I ’m sure I ’m not going to fall on myself.

So secretly vomiting about a workaholic, Eric called Elizabeth again, and gave her a brief account of what she had just said. Elizabeth has heard about what happened last night. Although there are some regrets in the tone, things are unexpectedly up to now. This kind of ending is actually the best. After all, Eric does not take action in person, and Fox may not be able to grab Transformers copyright.

After two phone calls, Eric went back to the villa terrace and saw several women approaching him with a strange look, smiled and said, "Everyone, it's noon, ready to eat ... Wow."

Punch-

The sound of water sounded, and before the Eric words were finished, they were quickly picked up by five women and thrown into the swimming pool.

After choking a few sips of water, Eric stabilized his body, listening to the thumping, and the five women jumped into the water with a smile and shouted provocatively to him: "Hey, Mr. Shark, put We have been hanging for so long, this is a penalty for Oh. "

Eric wiped the water stains on her face and stared angrily at the talking Cindy Crawford, and quickly swam towards her, saying: "Since this is the case, then you are ready to accept punishment."

"Wow, ah ..."

"Haha."

"Flee fast, escape fast."

Hugging for a moment, Eric finally caught a warm and jade-like body, using both hands to force the woman out of the water, pressed it against the pool, shook her wet hair, Eric opened What I saw was Linda Evangelista.

Linda Evangelista did not feel conscious of being a "captive", but stretched out two slender beautiful legs, boldly encircling Eric's body, eyes flowing and eyes hot.

Eric is no longer polite. The big hand slides up the soft waist and pulls off the small piece of cloth on the upper body of the woman. However, just after the hands are covered, Eric remembers one thing, staring at Linda Evangelista and asking. Tao: "Linda, I remember, you should have been married long ago?"

Linda Evangelista just divorced her ex-husband the year before, but at this time, she did n’t mean anything at all. She extended her little tongue and licked the corner of her lower lip, looking at Eric provocatively, saying, "What's wrong, don't you dare ? "

Since the women in front of you do n’t mind, of course Eric is no longer hypocritical. In the coquettish voice of a few women or true or false, according to their own preferences, the woman ’s soft body is turned upside down and pressed underneath. .

Once the door to desire is opened, it is often difficult to close it. In the next two days, none of the five women left, all sorts of shameless and shameless.

Until the new Monday morning, because of the Oscar awards ceremony in the evening, it happened that Cindy Crawford forgot to inform her manager of her whereabouts, and manager, who was almost anxious to jump, took a lot of thought to reach him, and also let five A woman realized that they still had to do something that was more important, and left Cliff Peak Manor in a hurry. (To be continued.)