I’m in Hollywood Chapter 927: Antitrust issues

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Eric left the apartment of Trish Goff and Chris Tana Loken early in the morning and returned to his residence on Sixth Avenue, preparing to take his two female assistants to fly to United Kingdom, but it was estimated that he agreed to go back last night. Because of the release of two other girl pigeons, Eric discovered that Caroline and Melanie had actually fought a cold war with themselves. Although they did not ignore him deliberately, they spoke to him as a public official.

Melanie is just fine. Caroline is really showing this state for the first time. Looking at the small face intentionally stretched but always with a little bit of conscience, it makes Eric feel a little new. , So she also cooperated with the two girls and brought out the BOSS shelf.

Private jets still take off from MacArthur Airport in the middle of Long Island. The plane enters the clouds and begins a long journey of more than ten hours.

Inadvertently reading documents with Melanie in the middle lounge of the aircraft. After lunch, Caroline finally could n’t help but look at the direction of the front cabin, where the luxury suite on the plane was.

"May, you said, should we not neglect Eric, he, he is our Boss after all."

Melanie shakes a script in his hand, but it is "Iron Man": "Carly, how do I feel, you are simply the chili pepper next to Tony Stark, staying beside Boss and watching him Various mischief, and then clean up the mess for him. "

Caroline also naturally watched script of "Iron Man", and these days she occasionally helps Eric with lines. In fact, she also feels that the guy in Eric is similar to the guy in script. Well, is it that the female assistant he wants should be the little pepper in script, but help him to pass the woman after ONS, this kind of Things are really awkward.

Melanie looked at Caroline ’s blinking eyes and rolled up the thick script in her hand and knocked on her head, saying: "Okay, go to the front cabin to see your Boss, really take You have no choice. "

Caroline saw the disappointment of Melanie and shook her head subconsciously: "Then, I will not go."

"Go, go," Melanie waved again and then stood up: "Go, I will accompany you."

"But," Caroline blinked and hesitated: "What reason do we use to pass?"

"A lot of things have been saved in the past few days, where else needs reason."

So saying, Melanie took Caroline together to the President suite in the front cabin.

Although the space of the President suite in the cabin is not large, the layout is very complete. After searching for it, Melanie and Caroline found in the study that they were fully focused on a octave

What Eric is drawn on the manuscript paper.

Without disturbing him immediately, the two women sat down carefully on the sofa next to them and found that there were already several drawings drawn on the coffee table in front of them. They naturally moved up curiously.

At first glance, this should be a conceptual picture of the movie, but the style is extremely fine, both the space station and the astronauts are very delicate. Even the thin cables on the screen fragile the two astronauts and the space station, making the two women involuntarily worry about the two astronauts in the picture who are obviously in danger.

Taste the painting in front of me carefully. Melanie looked up at Eric. She wanted to lift the top painting to see what the next few were, but she again Worried that the sound of paper turning will make Eric noisy.

Caroline then raised her head, but she just happened to meet the gaze turned by Eric and could not help avoiding it.

"I said, why did you smell the girl's fragrance, it turns out to be the two of you."

Listening to this joke from Eric, Melanie couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said that he had just admired you just a little bit, and his nature was revealed in a blink of an eye.

Caroline dropped her head blushingly, pinching the corner of her clothes to wonder if she should use Melanie perfume. She is actually not very used to perfume.

Looking at the two women not speaking, Eric put down the pencil in her hand and turned to the swivel chair to face this side, saying: "Well, I apologize first, I shouldn't have agreed to go back last night, but I put your pigeons back."

Caroline shook her head subconsciously, saying nothing. Melanie said: "Eric, you really should apologize. Carly specially prepared dinner for you last night."

Melanie did n’t say too much, but Eric could imagine Caroline ’s disappointed look, so she looked at the girl, and Eric said sincerely again: “I ’m sorry, Carly, I promise not to do that again in the future, um, today I ’ll prepare dinner, it ’s a compensation for last night. "

"No, it's okay, Eric." Caroline shook her head again, and a ray of shadow that disappeared unconsciously since last night in the eyebrows.

The face of Melanie next to it has become a little weird. Due to certain preconceived ideas, she feels that the scene in front of her is like an untuned father coaxing her simple silly daughter: Nà, Papa no longer smokes , Papa will not drink anymore, Papa will never go out and fool around.

Melanie didn't think it was his own conjecture at all, because her own father often said similar things to her before, of course, basically did not realize it.

Eric talked to Caroline, noticed the strange appearance on Melanie's face, and asked curiously, "May, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing," Melanie quickly gathered his thoughts, shook his head, and then pointed to the paintings on the coffee table in front of him: "Eric, are these the scenes in" Gravity "?"

Eric nodded, took the one just finished on the desk, and sat down on the sofa opposite the two women, saying, "How are you feeling?"

Melanie looked at the picture that Eric just put down. This is a picture of a woman curled up like a baby in a space capsule. Melanie can even feel the lonely despair of the woman in the picture to the extreme feeling.

"It's great," Melanie said, and no longer scruples. With Caroline, I appreciated the several concept drawings drawn by Eric one by one, and then praised again: "Eric, you draw more Some of them are estimated to be open for exhibitions. "

"Oh, thank you," Eric responded with a smile.

Melanie said again: "However, Eric, do you think these pictures can really be perfectly displayed on the big screen now, not to mention other, just want to perfectly show the weightless scene, it is not so easy. According to the idea in your memo, this film basically happened in space, and it is impossible to rent a NASA weightless simulation aircraft like the "Apollo 13" two years ago. In the case of Wia, I think these scenes in the picture are even more impossible to achieve. Under Wia state, Actor is absolutely impossible to move freely. "

For ordinary audiences, after watching an excellent movie, they basically only judge the movie from the aspects of Actor performance, the lines of the movie, and the storyline, but for Director, they The first thing to think about is, basically, how did such a great movie come out?

As a person who has always wanted to become the film Director, the former Eric is naturally no exception. When I watched "Gravity" and Eric was excited, the first consideration is how the film Director accomplishes those tricky long positions. The lens is how to solve the problem that space movies like weightlessness can never avoid. In the era of the Internet after the explosion of information in later generations, it is naturally simpler to understand these issues.

Hearing the question of Melanie, Eric explained confidently: “First of all, the feeling of weightlessness is roughly a floating feeling that is completely free of power traction. Normally, because the photographer must be down to earth with these shoots lenses. Therefore, if you want to achieve this sense of floating, you can only hang Actor on Waia, or like "Apollo 13", spend a lot of money to create a real weightless environment. "

Melanie and Caroline's faces are still a bit dazed, obviously they don't understand too much, so they have to wait for Eric to continue.

Eric also thought about it and said, "However, people's visual experience is actually very easy to deceive. To achieve the floating weightlessness, you only need to adjust the relative displacement between the lens and Actor to give people a It feels completely unpulled by Gravity, so you can simulate a realistic weightless environment. "

Melanie and Caroline are very clever. Melanie raised her hands and gestured slightly in front of her, and then nodded: "It is indeed the case, but, Eric, you think there is photography Can a teacher carry a camera that weighs more than 30 pounds and make arbitrary lens changes? "

Melanie said, raised his right hand and moved a few random movements around the angle.

Eric smiled and shook his head, said: "Of course not, but I did not say that this time the photographer will be required to control the lens, right, have you seen the car equipment workshop?"

The two women shook their heads together.

Eric had to explain it out of thin air: "You should have seen some sporadic news pictures or pictures. I am talking about the automatic robotic arms used in the assembly of car. As far as I know, some sophisticated robotic arms, After setting the motion trajectory, the final error will not even exceed 0.1 mm, so, to achieve the relative displacement of simulated weightlessness, I only need to find two such precise mechanical arms, and set the relative displacement trajectory , One is to operate the camera, the other is to hold the Actor for performance, and then later pull out these mechanical arms to match the cg scene, which is the perfect space lens. "

Although there is still some way to imagine this kind of shoots, Caroline and Melanie have little doubt. After all, of the three people present, Eric is the most professional one.

However, Caroline asked curiously: "Eric, in this case, this movie is almost full CG, right?"

Eric naturally knows why Caroline asks this, smiled and nodded: "Yeah, but many CG pictures are large panoramas. In CG production, the more distant panoramas, the lower the production cost, because they It does not require too detailed modeling and rendering, so the cost of this movie will not be too high, as long as some of the technical difficulties are solved, the Basic Instinct can be easily controlled around 100 million USD. "

100 million USD, although it was still a high-cost production in 1997, Hollywood still produces a handful of movies with an annual production cost of more than 100 million USD, but for Eric, two top Directors of Box Office 1 billion large-scale movies have been continuously produced. Say, even if he is not Boss of Firefly Group, now he wants to make 200 million production budget, there will still be Film Studio lined up to send the money up.

After being in Hollywood for a long time, Caroline and Melanie can naturally think of many problems that need to be solved in the production of "Gravity", but through the explanation of Eric, they also believe that Eric can take these The problem was solved, so I stopped talking about the film and turned to other topics.

"Eric, I have watched all the materials of North America cinemas with Carly in the past few days. We feel that if it is just to promote 3D movies, Firefly is not suitable for entering the cinema industry too much."

"Well, talk about your views?" Eric nodded and asked with a smile.

Melanie glanced at Caroline's shiny eyes. In fact, many opinions were brought up by Nizi and her first. However, it is estimated that Caroline is difficult to change this shy love-struck fool in front of Eric. , She had to say by herself: "If Firefly enters the cinema industry, the small cinema will certainly not be able to satisfy the company's appetite. North America currently has the top three cinemas, with a total of more than 14,000 screens, and basically all are popular areas. High-end cinemas, so Firefly can only initiate acquisitions from these three. However, once Firefly does this, it will definitely cause a strong rebound of Hollywood and other Film Studio. They will never let Firefly hold thousands of popular screens in their hands. Therefore, no matter whether we initiate an acquisition in any of the previous three companies, under the joint opposition of other Film Studios, the possibility of passing an antitrust investigation is very slim. "

Eric thought about it and nodded: "also??"

Melanie continued: "There is still, it is still about promoting 3D movies. I think that it is not necessary to promote 3D movies. Most of the top three theaters have more than five theaters. Multi-hall cinemas above the block screen, it is impossible for us to change all the screening halls to 3D screens after buying them, so, I think, at least in United States, we can take a cooperative approach and invest one in these cinema lines Pay money, get some shares, and choose a batch of screening halls to transform into 3D theater in the best location. In this way, we can not only realize the promotion of 3DC's plan, but also will not cause antitrust problems. "