I’m in Hollywood Chapter 845: Are you sure you are normal
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric arrived on time at the Fox studio in Century City.
Just got out of the car and saw Elizabeth walking over on high heels, followed by a little assistant holding a file.
Eric and Elizabeth hugged each other. After letting go, they walked out of the parking lot together and did not forget to ask: "How are you here?"
Elizabeth threw a white eye: "This is my family, why can't I be here."
"I mean ..." Eric wanted to ask her why she came to pick herself up. Elizabeth is currently only responsible for the film production department of 20th Century Fox. Although the project "Dark Angel ******" is quite Fox, Does not belong to her jurisdiction. However, Eric is still spreading hands, well, anyway, the entire set is hers: "consider as finished, I will not say it."
"Huh," Elizabeth snorted softly, but then came together and held the hand of Eric intimately, saying: "Papa let me talk to you about the digital release of the original sound recording ..."
"Stop," Eric did not wait for Elizabeth to continue, interrupted her quickly, and said: "Liz, I have spent too much slobber to persuade others in the past few days, let me rest, I will not talk about music today, OK? OK? "
In order to obtain as much music content as possible, Eric has formulated a strategy for the traditional singer digital music album to delay the release of physical records for three months. This plan will not only be implemented in the Firefly system, but also greatly increase the introduction Possibility of external Record Company content.
However, the Yahoo music store cannot always be old music content. In order to make up for this, the film and television soundtracks within the Firefly system will adopt the strategy of simultaneous release with physical records.
Besides Firefly Group, Metro Goldwyn Mayer agreed almost without hesitation.
But Murdoch is not very satisfied with this plan. However, it is difficult for 20th Century Fox to refuse this plan like other Film Studio.
Know that even if you do n’t mention the private relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the degree of cooperation between Firefly Group and News Corp in these years is strictly even closer than Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The companies directly held by both parties include Blue Sky Studios, FFMTV Station, and the Australian branch in the digital field. In addition, like this "Dark Angel ******", the two companies also cooperate very frequently in the TV business. In addition to Hollywood, the Yahoo portal has also reached an agreement with News Corp and enjoys exclusive online press release rights for multiple media under News Corp.
Elizabeth is also aware of this. News Corp ’s music business is even trivial than Firefly, and she does n’t feel the need to fight for it.
Thus, although she obeyed her own old man ’s instructions, she had never thought of persuading Eric. After looking at the slightly tired face of the man beside her, Elizabeth nodded, but pretended not to be willing to say deliberately: Let ’s talk tomorrow. "
Eric did n’t care about Elizabeth ’s habitually strong personality, smiled, and the two entered the administrative building in the studio together.
Although Eric handed over "Dark Angel ******" to Fox for accessing "X file", everything still followed the formal business process. This science fiction drama is jointly invested by Firefly TV Department and Fox TV Department, and also includes a shell company of Cameron. copyright of TV series is owned by Fox, and Firefly only obtains the corresponding share according to the investment proportion.
Due to the miraculous success of "Titanic", although it is only TV series conceived by Cameron, the competition for characters is still very fierce.
The production team has set very strict conditions for the audition of Heroine Max from the beginning. The age limit is 18 to 22 years old, the height is between 170CM and 175CM, and there are more than three years or three film and television performances. , With dance, gymnastic and other physical skills, can be adapted to high-intensity action shoots. But even if the conditions are so harsh, the number of girls who initially passed the screening and participated in the audition is still more than 300, so it is not difficult to see the strength of the United States film industry.
Other secondary roles have been determined before this. Today is only the last round of auditions for Heroine. There are only ten final candidates left.
Although all the girls are already in the waiting room, the audition will not wait until half past two.
Cameron's current thoughts are mainly on the early stage special effects technology research and development of "Spider-Man" and the theme exhibition of "Titanic". In addition to providing the main plot concept and listing a producer title, he did not participate in this project, nor today. come.
Eric listens to Fox, the producer of "Dark Angel ******" Brian Spicer briefly introduced the audition situation of the next period, and turned over the ten pieces of information in his hands. Elizabeth, who carefully read the candidate Actress information to the side, said: "Liz, have you ever heard a story about the interview, the person in charge randomly pulled a stack from the interviewer's information and thrown it into the trash can, announced that these people were eliminated, The reason is simple, they are not lucky enough. "
Elizabeth raised his head, looked at Eric helplessly, and said: "Why do n’t you want to come over earlier if you want to play this way? Now there are only ten people left. If you pull out a stack, there will be nothing left."
"Then take out one or two copies," Eric said. Sure enough, I picked out two copies from a thin stack of materials. I drew a fork on it with a pencil and handed it to the other side of the dumbfounded cloth. Ryan Spicer and others said, "Let people notify them and they can leave."
With Elizabeth's understanding of Eric, she knows that Eric sometimes has some inexplicable reasons for some inexplicable actions. Although she rarely gets out of Eric's mouth, Elizabeth firmly believes this.
The two Actor materials were snatched from Eric. Elizabeth looked at it, but didn't think it was special, so he handed it to Brian Spicer: "Brian, what's wrong with these two people?"
Brian Spicer took a look at it, hesitated, and said the truth: "Liz, this girl named Mila Jovovich, was introduced by Mr. Palmer. However, I promise , She has no problems with all the conditions, she has dance skills, and she has been making guest roles in film and television dramas since she was 13 years old. "
Elizabeth thought about it and asked, "Brian de Palma?"
Brian Spicer nodded.
Elizabeth did n’t care too much. After working for several years, she gradually realized that Hollywood is a circle of human relations, and she believes that Eric will not care about these, then the problem may be with another girl: "That Another one? "
"This, Ellie Lat," Brian Spicer looked at the name on the other document, frowned slightly, and then looked at the other responsible persons in the audition room.
Everyone shook their heads, and one of them followed the Actor data in front of him and thought about it: "This girl was selected by the John group. Do you need to call him to notify him?"
Brian Spicer looked at Elizabeth and Eric and explained: "John Knowles, we divided the primary selection into five groups, John is the person in charge of casting in the three groups."
What Elizabeth was about to say, Eric took the two documents from Brian Spicer back into the folder and shook his head and said with a smile: "consider as finished, just, I have been a little annoyed recently, I don't want to always be so fixed. Nà , Just when nothing happened just now, let ’s get started. "
Although I do n’t understand what happened, Brian Spicer and others suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Elizabeth paused, leaned over and gently hugged him on Eric, and then extracted the two Actor materials that made everyone inexplicable from him. The tone undoubtedly said to Brian Spicer: " Bryan, tell them to leave. "
Brian Spicer took over the two documents again, felt the firm tone of Elizabeth, nodded, and got up and walked out of the room without hesitation.
Elizabeth still did n’t let go of Eric, ignored other bystanders, and rubbed his face intimately on the cheek of Eric, and said, "Eric, you can do whatever you want without explaining to them."
Eric patted lightly on the waist of Elizabeth and smiled: "Why do I feel like this sentence is said from the mouth of the girl?"
Elizabeth did not get angry this time because Eric mentioned Drew, but he retorted: "I am not like her, she is a lunatic."
"Oh, are you sure you are normal?"
"Not yet you are too jerk."
The onlookers are raising their ears with great interest, eavesdropping on the two bosses is strange ... or it can be called love, but soon, Brian Spicer who just left pushed the door again. Come in and break a certain atmosphere.
Eric and Elizabeth heard footsteps and realized the situation around them, so they sat separately.
There are eight Eric totally unknown girls on the list. The audition started on time at half past two, and continued until seven o'clock in the evening. Due to the tight schedule, the pilot episode should be produced before May. Eric did not hesitate too much. The audition ended, and everyone soon discussed As a result, a 19-year-old girl who came to the state of United States Pennsylvania was lucky enough to get the role of Heroine Max.
After "Dark Angel ******" Heroine is confirmed, Eric will not intervene in the specific production of this TV series.
On the afternoon of April Fool ’s Day, Eric flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco Auckland.
Fireflyer ’s official product launch will be held at 2 pm on April 2 in the Grand Ballroom of the Oakland Marriott International Hotel.
Although after more than a month of intensive publicity, Fireflyer ’s reputation as a brand new fatal player has spread throughout the world, but except for its main purpose, much information related to this player has not been disclosed to the outside world.
Therefore, this press conference almost attracted mainstream media from all over the world. After the date of the press conference was determined, more than 600 media contacted Firefly Electronics in hopes of getting an invitation letter for the press conference. In the Silicon Valley zone where technology companies gather, the peers in the electronics industry will also not miss this opportunity, plus the lucky audience randomly selected by Firefly Electronics through the Yahoo portal, the finalized guest list reached 2100 people.
Eric watched the preview of Firefly Electronics Chairman Bill · Olson ’s press conference last night and was busy until late at night, waking up very early again today.
Because the conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Eric will directly choose to stay in this hotel. Leaving the room and walking into the hotel's internal restaurant, Chris is already sitting at a dining table with two helmsmen of Firefly Electronics and YahooCEOIan Gnier who came from Boston personally to discuss what.
"Eric, early," Ian Gnier, who was sitting at him when he saw Eric coming over, waved at him, and several other people also looked over.
Eric walked over, greeted everyone, and sat down next to Ian Gnir and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Several people glanced at each other, and then Ian Ggnier took the initiative to say, "Eric, about Fireflyer's pricing strategy."
Eric asked the waiter who walked in for a random breakfast before saying, "Aren't you thinking of raising the price?"
Bill Olson said: "Eric, according to our recent survey, 299USD, the same price as SonyWalkman, is indeed a bit low. With the popularity already shown by Fireflyer, I think the price will be increased to 359USD , Even 399USD, is not impossible. "
"However, we have discussed this issue many times," Eric said, "We all know that the technical level contained in Fireflyer is not too high, even if we have applied for the full range of MP3 players. Patent, but as long as competitors want to make efforts in this area, they can still create alternative products, so what we have to do is to make Fireflyer popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard, rather than chasing it from the beginning Profit, not to mention, the total manufacturing cost of Fireflyer is only 150USD. With the increase in output and the development of technology, the overall cost will continue to decline. We already have enough profit space. "
"However, we have discussed this issue many times," Eric said, "We all know that the technical level of Fireflyer is not too high, even if we have applied for the full range of MP3 players. Patent, but as long as competitors want to make efforts in this area, they can still create alternative products, so what we have to do is to make Fireflyer popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard, rather than chasing it from the beginning Profit, not to mention, the total manufacturing cost of Fireflyer is only 150USD. With the increase in production and the development of technology, the overall cost will continue to decline. We already have enough profit space. "(Unfinished.)