I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1030: Chaos
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Under the slightest popularity and topical background with no cooling trend, the audience who enters the theater to watch a wraith crawl out of the TV is still endless.
The fifth weekend, "Ring" North America total Box Office has reached 1.7100 million USD, it is expected that the next four working days and next week, the film North America total Box Office will break through the 200 million USD mark.
In the early morning of Tuesday, Michael · Eisner was sitting in a restaurant in Beverly Hills Manor, and carefully read the last analysis article of 《Variety》 about why "Ring" would become the dark horse of Box Office, put down newspaper, his eyes fell on the table again Take the script named 《Pirates of the Caribbean》.
Another pirate movie.
Michael · Eisner has now been able to very calmly face the big boss he originally planted on "Cutthroat Island" and left Disney. With the Universal comeback, he has also reflected on his previous experience in Disney's over the years. In the last few years, he has indeed started to become too blind and self-conscious. He now regards the experience of a few years ago as a transformation of his career.
This summer, the two films "Zorro's Mask" and "Scorpion King" released by Universal Pictures have achieved very good Box Office results, especially "Scorpion King", a derivative of this "The Mummy" series. The success indicates that Universal Pictures has begun to have its own "film universe", even if it cannot be compared with Metro Goldwyn Mayer's two consecutive global Box Office 1 billion blockbuster film universes, but this is enough to make other big Film Studio envy Endless.
With the prosperity of Universal Pictures, Michael · Eisner's position in Hollywood and Seagram Group is becoming more and more stable. However, the sudden appearance of 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 still caused some ripples in the state of mind that Michael · Eisner had settled down.
Michael · Eisner is getting a little preoccupied. The current CEO of Seagram Group, Edgar · Bronfman, hastily walked over, casually greeted and sat down opposite Michael · Eisner, and could not wait to beckon the waiter.
Michael · Eisner glanced slightly frowned at Edgar · Bronfman's slightly manic move, but said nothing.
Although the situation of Universal Pictures is very good, during this time, the situation of the parent company Seagram Group can only be described as bad.
Last year, the Seagram Group had just acquired the PolyGram Records with a huge investment of 10 billion USD, and had not completed the integration with Universal records. This year, the situation of the entire record industry has turned sharply.
Affected by the rapid proliferation of Internet pirated music resources, the record sales performance of several major record giants in the world has generally plunged by about 30 in the first half of the year, and is in the situation of Universal records and Polaroid records during the business integration period. Even worse, the other Record Company is still only a decline in performance, and it can still maintain profitability, but Universal records have suffered huge losses.
Michael Eisner has to admire Eric Williams's forward-looking again at this time.
He has been closely following the development of Firefly Group. He clearly knows that in the past two years, Firefly Group executives intend to expand the company ’s record business. It is rumored that the first sales target of PolyGold was Firefly Group, but this proposal Was rejected by Eric Williams without hesitation.
Although Firefly Group still acquired Virgin Records last year, at this time Firefly Group ’s record business scale is still far from the volume of several Record Companys.
Perhaps it is this kind of attitude that the ship is small and good. The performance of the major Record Company in the first half of the year has plummeted. Although there is no public financial report, from the public record sales data, Firefly Records's performance is definitely increasing.
Firefly Records's development strategy focused on youth pop music also seems promising. In the entertainment industry, young people's money is undoubtedly the best.
Take a few sips from the soda brought by the waitress, and then Edgar.Bronfman spoke again angrily: "Doug Morrison is a fool, Polygram even discovered the 600 million USD invisibility Debt, the loss in the first half of the year, the record group must make at least 1billion USD asset write-down. "
Michael Eisner heard that Edgar.Bronfman blamed the current bad situation of Universal record on the CEO of Universal record, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything. In fact, the current situation of Universal records, in addition to the impact of Internet pirated music, the biggest reason is that Edgar.Bronfman is too eager for the purchase of Polygram.
However, apart from these, except for making Edgar.Bronfman angry and angry, it will not have any practical effect. Michael Eisner simply kept silent.
Edgar.Bronfman said what he said just now. Seeing that Michael Eisner neither echoes nor refutes, his expression is a bit of a scorn. Since he can become the head of the Seagram group, he cannot naturally be a mediocre incompetent. The root of the Universal record problem Where did he go, he knew it.
Seeing a copy of script in front of Michael Eisner, Edgar.Bronfman took the initiative to change the subject and said: "Michael, is this our company's new movie script?"
Michael Eisner handed over the script of 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 and said: "No, this script was only spread on Hollywood yesterday. It is said that Eric Williams personally fancy it, and Firefly Group has already submitted a quotation."
Edgar.Bronfman took a look at the cover of script and said: "Pirate film, isn't it meant that the pirate film is a restricted area of Hollywood?"
Speaking of which, Edgar.Bronfman also pointedly glanced at Michael Eisner. Some of the emotions he had just dissipated in his heart had also dissipated a lot. Michael Eisner's original follower on "Cutthroat Island" was absolutely terrible.
Michael Eisner did n’t seem to notice the change in Edgar.Bronfman ’s eyes, saying: “That ’s exactly why this script is more likely to be Eric Williams ’s personal fancy, others wo n’t touch this subject easily.”
Edgar.Bronfman can hear the movement in the tone of Michael Eisner, and can not help persuading: "Michael, although it is absolutely safe to give Universal to you, but this theme, we can not touch it or not. "
"I've made the production department budget, this movie, be more cautious, 80 million USD should be able to get it," Michael Eisner did not receive Edgar.Bronfman, self-confident: "And, although the story is a bit old, but very consistent The concept of high-concept movies, coupled with the cursed fantasy plot of pirates, into special effects blockbuster, still has the prospect of Box Office. "
Edgar.Bronfman is a little dissatisfied with Michael Eisner ’s independent decision. I wonder if it was the right decision to help Michael Eisner to drive Michael Ovitz out of Universal. In the past few years, the development of Universal has been getting better, but Edgar.Bronfman But he can obviously feel his weakening control over Universal.
Because of the bad situation of the Universal record, in order to avoid the entire group from being turbulent, he does not dare to have too many thoughts of recovering the power of Universal Pictures from Michael Eisner.
Michael Eisner finished his plan and noticed the slight expression change of Edgar.Bronfman, smiled and said: "However, my thoughts can only be thought about, Universal will follow the quotation, but we do not know after all Eric Williams's thoughts on this script, so it won't offer too outrageous prices, the possibility of getting this script is very low. "
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It's ten o'clock in the morning of New York. CEORichard.Parsons and Steve Case of Warner Bros. Company talked about the merger of the two companies for a few hours, rejected the lunch invitation of Steve Case, and drove to Eath Hampton by car. These days, Chairman Jie, Deputy of Time Warner Group Lalde Levin has been refraining from heat in Eath Hampton. The two agreed on lunch and talked about the progress of the negotiation between Richard.Parsons and Steve Case.
Now, the merger negotiations between AOL and Time Warner are almost completely on the horizon. Firefly investment sold 25% of AOL shares in one fell swoop, which also makes the prospect of this merger case more clear. Otherwise, even if the two parties reach a merger intention , Must still be subject to Firefly Group's intention and the antitrust review issues that ensue.
After leaving AOL Headquarters, just after getting on the bus, the assistant handed over a copy of script.
Although a large part of this time was focused on the merger case, Richard.Parsons did not let go of its management of Warner Bros..
In a company such as Warner, which has serious internal strife, once the power is released, it is even more difficult to withdraw.
"This is the script that came out yesterday?" After turning a few pages, Richard.Parsons asked with some uncertainty.
The assistant nodded: “Firefly Group ’s official quotation for this script yesterday. You know, few people have made pirate films in recent years. This script is also a typical high-budget special effects blockbuster template. In Firefly Group, except Eric Williams himself It is obvious that other senior executives with decision-making power are unlikely to be interested in this type of script. "
"You mean, these are just speculations, not confirmed?"
The assistant nodded and said: "We can only make a guess. It is obviously impossible for Firefly Group to disclose the confirmation message to us."
Richard.Parsons hesitated for a moment. In the past two years, the Film Industry of Warner has been a tepid one, and a roof beam series that can explode is in great demand. Especially now, if Film Industry can be turned over, Warner and AOL During the negotiation process, a lot of initiative can be obtained.
"In this way, you rushed back to Los Angeles in person, I will give you the authority of 3 million USD, and strive to grab this script. If you can confirm that it is Eric Williams, I can take the price of script and raise the price to 5 million USD." /
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As soon as I walked into the office early in the morning, both Terry. Rusio and Ted. Elliot were notified that Ms. Sherry Lansing wanted to talk to them.
Since yesterday afternoon, the two screenwriters of the Paramount animation studio have felt the attention they have never received in this life. Various inquiries, invitations and trial calls have been entangled by the two for one night.
At this time, the two big men have thick dark circles, and there is no sense of excitement in their hearts because they both realize that they may be playing big.
If the script incident was just an oolong, Eric Williams did n’t even know about the pirate film script in their hands, then, it is conceivable that once the matter is pierced, do n’t both of them want to get mixed up in Hollywood.
Come outside Sherry Lansing ’s office, the secretary went in to report, Terry standing in the outside room. Lucio finally recovered, and whispered to Ted. Elliot beside him: "What should I say next ? "
Ted. Eliot is a little sober than Terry. Lucio, and whispered in a hurry: "Reject, refuse first, wait for the response from Firefly."
Terry. Lucio nodded and understood a little bit in his heart. Only when Firefly Group gave a further response did their guesses stand. If Firefly Group will no longer have any action on this script, then this matter obviously has nothing to do with Eric Williams, and the acquisition of script of 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 is just a normal copyright hoarding behavior.
At that time, Firefly does not need to publicly deny it, as long as it shows its attitude, Hollywood and other big Film Studio will realize that they have been cheated. In that case, even if they can now get a huge sum of millions of USD, there will be no hope in this life.
Several millions of USD, get rid of manager, pay the tax, and divide it equally between the two, basically there is not much, and it is impossible for them to support their families for the rest of their lives.
Although the salary for the current job is not too high, it is stable enough. More importantly, they can always write script to find opportunities. Once the label with the scammer was swept out by Hollywood, it is estimated that the second half of his life will be missed from the media industry. Both of them graduated from the literature department. Apart from playing with pens, they are unlikely to find other decent jobs.
The secretary soon came out to inform the two that they could go in.
Walking into Sherry Lansing's office, Paramount, the Hollywood female head, was wearing a pair of exquisite silver-rimmed glasses, looking down at the documents. When the two of them came in, they let go of their folders and politely stood up and The two shake hands.
After a brief introduction to each other, Terry. Lucio and Ted. Elliot and Sherry Lansing sat down on the sofa in the reception area.
After the secretary took a few cups of coffee and left, Sherry Lansing smiled and looked at the two of them: "I specially read your script suggestions for the animation studio's recent animation movies, which is very good. By the way, you are Employees of Paramount, if they have good script, can directly contact the company's script purchasing department. "
Terry. Rucio of course contacted the Paramount script procurement department, but the other party was immediately disinterested when they saw the pirate type script. However, both of them just respectfully responded to the words of Sherry Lansing at this time, without any slight explanation.