I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1002: The beginning of the recession
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Eric's visit to London this time, in addition to meeting with the recently acquired Viking Records management, mainly participated in the celebration party of the Spice Girls' first album "Spice".
After half a year of continuous pre-heating of several popular singles, the first album "Spice" of the Spice Girls group was released at the same time with the second generation of Fireflyer in April, and adopted the strategy of simultaneous release of physical and digital records.
Some senior executives of the company were originally concerned that the simultaneous release of digital records would affect the sales of physical records, but this has not happened. Since its listing, "Spice" has swept the album sales list of Europe and the United States with a destructive trend.
It is now the 11th week of the album's release. However, when "Spice" was released in the ninth week, the sales of global broke through the 20 million sheet that made the entire recording industry a target.
Among them, "Spice" sold 2 million records in United Kingdom for eight weeks. It also broke the record of the fastest record sales of 2 million records made by the Beatles United Kingdom created decades ago.
As United States, the largest music market in global, the record sales of "Spice" also easily broke through 10 million sheets, and reached 13500,000 sheets as of last week. Other countries and regions such as France, Germany, Spain, and even the Far East, RBSouth Korea, Singapore and other countries and regions, even after more than two months have passed, "Spice" sales are still high on its record sales ranking list.
As the behind-the-scenes promoter of the hot girl group, Eric not only produced the first music video for the hot girl group single "WannABCe", but half of the songs in the first girl group's first album were provided by Eric. At this time, the Spice Girls have achieved such dazzling achievements. Both the media and the senior executives of Firefly Records have undoubtedly attributed all the credit to him. This celebration feast was supposed to be held last week. In order to cooperate with the schedule of Eric, I moved to this weekend specially.
Eric went to Virgin Records ’Headquarters in the afternoon. Under the recommendation of Simon · Fuller, who has been promoted to Virgin Records Chairman, he met all the management of the company once. The group's film company does not have a CEO, Barry · Weiss as Firefly Records Chairman, in charge of all records-related businesses under Firefly, Simon · Fuller is the leader of Virgin Records. The group does not intend to abandon the Viking Records brand, but plans to integrate all overseas music business resources into this company. In the future, Virgin Records will be mainly responsible for Firefly Records business beyond North America, including Europe, Far East and even Latin America. Firefly Records Headquarters will be mainly responsible for the North America market.
London is very long in summer. party in the evening is determined to start at eight o’clock. The location is also chosen at the Al Burt Hotel near Kensington Garden Street. This is not to accommodate Eric, but many seniors of London. Hotels are concentrated in this neighborhood.
Because party started late, Eric had dinner with Simon · Fuller in the evening and went back to the mansion on Garden Street.
Until party was approaching, Eric took Meyer to the nearby Al Burt Hotel.
Simon · Fuller made this party very grand. In addition to the executives and artists of the Viking Records series, a large number of celebrities from United Kingdom entertainment circles were invited. The hotel also specially paved a section of red carpet, two The side is packed with media reporters from United Kingdom and even overseas.
A large number of celebrities such as the Spice Girls Group, Rolling Stone Band, Elton · John, Hugh · Grant, Rachel · Weisz, etc. will also shine the starlight of red carpet.
Eric pulled Meyer in a white evening dress and got off at the end of red carpet. The spotlights on both sides immediately flashed wildly.
Although I was asked in advance, when I saw Meyer, the reporters on both sides pressed the shutter quickly, but some people could not help asking aloud.
"Mr. Williams, is this lady your new girlfriend?"
"Mr. Williams, can you introduce this lady?"
"Mr. Williams, have you seen" The Matrix2 "?"
"Mr. Williams, how does Firefly intend to deal with the dispute with AOL management?"
"Mr. Williams, it is said that" Bond19 "is still in the casting stage, can this film still catch up with the summer file next year?"
"..."
Eric ignored the questions on both sides, just waved a smile to the surrounding crowd, and quickly walked into the hotel with Meyer.
Walking into the party hall with the Simon · Fuller who was greeted, and seeing the guests on the party surrounded by iron nails attracted by the magnet, Meyer could not help but feel a little guilty, if he is really a girlfriend of Eric Well, even if it's just tonight.
However, she knew that she was just a decorative vase beside Eric tonight.
This fact is really frustrating. Meyer even wants to run away, and at the same time has a little bit of resentment against Eric. This guy is so enthusiasm for other women, even entangled with his cousin, but completely uninterested in himself, this is really annoying.
Eric had no time to pay attention to the careful thoughts of the female assistant. He took the lead in congratulations with the five girls of the protagonist party tonight, and then greeted the other guests who came over. Down.
At the buffet table, Simon · Fuller and Eric took a glass of champagne and raised a glass to Eric, Simon · Fuller said: "Eric, I carefully considered the singer you mentioned in the afternoon to select Reality TV Show, I think it is feasible The **** is very high. However, if it is only held in United Kingdom, the scale is too small, why do n’t we directly make it in North America? "
"I will definitely bring this Reality Show to North America, but now whether it is ABC's" Survivor "or Fox's" Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ", the ratings are not bad. In the past few years, the two TV Network have also introduced some other Reality TV Show, so there is no shortage of this type of program there, "Eric took a sip of champagne and smiled:" And, I do n’t want to give this Reality Show to NBC or CBS, so I plan to now United Kingdom Do it. You can also get enough time to polish the program format. "
Simon · Fuller nodded and said, "However, seriously, this type of music Reality TV Show, there should be no way to create a very popular singer, because if we want to take into account the viewing effect, it is unlikely To maintain absolute fairness, some excellent players are likely to be eliminated in advance. These people have settled on the title of "loser", and it is not so easy to think about packaging. "
Eric said: "If you work harder, you should still be able to pick out a few good seedlings in the previous sessions. By the way, this time you better focus on the songwriting ability of the players themselves. I forgot to remind you of this. They are good at singing and dancing, but their creative ability is not satisfactory. Fortunately, they can now find enough good Producer to write songs for them. "
Simon · Fuller nodded in recognition.
Whether in the past or in the future, all singers or groups that have made a name for themselves in the music industry basically have good music creation capabilities.
However, with the decline of the entire recording industry in the future, singers with outstanding creative abilities will become more and more prominent, because the decline of the industry will definitely lead to shrinking resources, and Record Company will rarely organize a team to package those only A singer who has a good voice or a good skin, but has no creative ability at all.
Eric chatted with Simon · Fuller and glanced around casually, just to notice that the 007 series female producer Barbara Brockley not far away looked at herself, Barbara Brockley Opposite stood an tall and slender woman wearing a lilac halter evening dress, Eric did not recognize who the other person was, just feeling that Barbara Brockley looked into her eyes with some help, so he and Simon · Fu Le greeted and Eric walked over.
Barbara Brockley is a standard singleton. Eric originally thought she was entangled in a female lily, and when she walked in, she found that the woman standing opposite her was Demi Moore.
Demi Moore noticed the change in Barbara Brockley ’s expression, turned around to see Eric, and immediately showed a surprised expression on her face, reaching out: “Oh, Eric, I just said I ’d like to talk to you Say hello, just to see you chatting with Mr. Fuller. "
Seeing Demi Moore extending her hands to herself, Eric had to smile and hug each other, feeling that the woman ’s entire body was unabashedly posted on her body, and she was heartbroken. Bruce Willis III In a second, the poor old cloth stall had such a daughter-in-law who didn't know that she was green for a few times, but the two should now be playing with each other.
"So, Demi, why are you in London?" Although the two were unfamiliar, they still met a few times on some partys. Although Eric didn't like each other, they didn't behave too rusty, let go of each other Later, Eric asked politely.
“I ’m working on a movie in London shoots, called“ Notting Hill ”,” Demi Moore pointed to Hugh Grant, not far away, and continued: “The actor is Hugh, telling a story that happened in Notting Hill. Love story. "
Eric immediately remembered that Julia had originally acquired Polycom because of Seagram, and the distribution rights of "Notting Hill" belonged to Universal, so he gave up this script, but did not expect it to fall on Demi Moore.
"" Notting Hill ", I happen to know this script, a very good story," Eric praised politely.
With the success of "Four Weddings and a Funeral", Hugh Grant successfully promoted to the Box Office star, plus because of historical changes, he successfully escaped the scandal that should have happened, Hugh Grant can be said in recent years It is a very popular British warm man.
After Julia withdrew, Polaroid Film Industry seemed to contact Hollywood's old sweet sister Meg · Ryan, but Meg · Ryan took over Warner's 《You've Got Mail》. In the end, the popularity was far worse than that of Julia's Demi Moore as Heroine, probably also because of the confidence in Hugh Grant's popularity.
Thinking of 《You've Got Mail》, Eric is inevitable and somewhat helpless. 《You've Got Mail》 is a product of the cooperation between Warner and AOL. Obviously, the two parties have already started to pull. Because of the differences in development routes with Firefly, AOL did not even mention 《You've Got Mail》 with Firefly. This incident has also become one of the media's recent evidences of disputes between AOL and major shareholder Firefly.
"I did n’t expect that this was really surprising," Demi Moore was really surprised when she heard that Eric knew the script of "Notting Hill". This is just an ordinary production cost of less than 30 million USD Love movie only, but she soon thought of who took the opportunity from her, and then she was relieved, but she was envious of the intimate relationship between Julia · Roberts and Eric in her heart, and she looked at Eric. A little bit eager: "Eric, can you please dance?" So saying, Demi Moore also smiled at Meyer who consciously installed a small vase beside Eric, said: "This lady will not mind me Borrow Eric for a while, right? "
Meyer Er nodded politely. Do I mind if I secretly vomit?
Eric just smiled and refused: "Sorry, Demi, I have something to talk to Barbara."
"Oh, it's okay, I can wait for a while," Demi Moore didn't show loss, nor gave up, raised his hand and said: "Then let's talk first."
After Demi Moore walked away, Eric asked Barbara, "What just happened?"
"Nothing," Barbara Brockley shook her head and smiled: "Aren't" Bond19 "recently casting, she also participated."
Eric nodded and roughly understood what he said, "Speaking of this, a reporter asked me just now, and looking at the current situation," Bond19 "may not be able to boot up this year?"
Barbara Brockley has some small complaints on her face, saying: "Yeah, you guys took the previous Box Office so high, and now they do n’t care about it, we are under a lot of pressure."
Eric smiled and retorted: "I don't care, I have carefully read every version of script you handed over."
"Bond19" was originally scheduled to be released next summer, but after the explosion of "Casino Royale" global, in the face of the excellent situation of the special agent movie universe, everyone in Metro Goldwyn Mayer showed great cherishment and prudence, just script of "Bond19", Metro Goldwyn Mayer has been polished for a full year. In addition, because the protagonists of the three series in Bond19 will all be assembled, the relevant Actor contract will also take a lot of effort to finalize.
Judging from the current situation, the release of "Bond19" may take a full year to postpone. However, the production of such a large-scale film of 007 has reached three years, which is nothing. No one will mess up the reputation of the entire agent movie universe just established in order to catch up with the schedule.