I’m in Hollywood Chapter 283: ultimatum

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"Robert, speaking, since we first met, is it almost half a year now?"

Robert Shay put down the coffee cup, looked at Eric and nodded: "Almost."

"Remember the conversation we first met?"

Robert raised his head and said: "At that time we should have said a lot, what do you mean?"

Eric did n’t care about Robert Shay ’s fools, reminded: "I told you that there is not much time left for us."

Robert Shay looked at the seascape outside the window, fell silent, and bowed his head to pick up the coffee cup again.

Eric continued: "I said at the time that the merger trend of the media group and Film Studio has already begun. If we do not seize the opportunities of the last few years, then, when this merger trend passes, we will completely lose development. The opportunity to grow can only become a vassal of several major media groups in the future. "

Robert Shay is still silent.

Eric sighed. There are some things he could n’t tell Robert Shay. In memory, after 20 years, more than 90% of the media channels of North America are controlled by the six media giants. If this happens in 20 Years later, Eric basically has no room for resistance, only compromise.

But it ’s different now. Now that United States media is not highly monopolized, it is in the hands of more than 50 large and small media companies. Therefore, even if all the media resources in the hands of the major Film Studio are gathered together, it is impossible for the control of public opinion channels to exceed one third. Although this storm seems to be menacing, except for the media that dominate the direction of public opinion, most All are just drifting with the waves and seeing the wind rudder.

Therefore, Eric is not completely without fighting back, just. He had been waiting for his enemies to see the poor, showing the last weapon. He can fight back. The four court cases this time, though, will hit his reputation again. But like the scandal in the beginning, he will not cause any fundamental harm to him. After all, although he is a public figure now, he is not a public figure who relies solely on fame to eat, even if it is because of this shortcoming Can't pick up the guide tube in time, but he can still dominate the production of the movie by other means.

So, everything he does now. It is necessary to keep Firefly.

Firefly is like his own city, as long as he has this foundation, he can develop his strength to attack the city, and once he loses Firefly, then he ca n’t show it even if he has nothing in it. A city that can mention someone else to take care of things will never be the master.

The two people were silent for a while at the same time, Robert Shay first said: "Eric, I heard that in order to calm down this time. You may need to spend a lot of money?"

"Okay," Eric nodded and slightly guessed Robert Shay's intentions.

Robert Shay did not keep Eric waiting. Just said: "Last time you paid me 60 million USD, plus the dividend of the new line at the end of the year, although I spent part of my investment, I can still get almost 60 million USD."

This time it was Eric ’s turn to be silent, 60 million, not much, not much.

"Eric, 15% is too little, which makes me feel less secure. I think it should be at least 25%."

Eric lowered its head. He looked at the three palm lines of his palm without saying a word.

Which is the career line?

It must be the longest one.

After thinking for a while, Eric finally looked up. To Robert Shay: "I promise you."

The two discussed specific details, and Robert Shay left with satisfaction.

When Robert Shay left, Eric sighed in disappointment. He originally wanted to incorporate Pixar studio and Flower Films, which owns a lot of previous life hot-selling movie adaptation rights, into Firefly. Be good.

Because of the injury to John.Barrymore, the trial of this case can only be postponed until a week later, and in the other three cases, Eric did not have to appear in court in person, and was completely handed over to his team of attorneys.

However, although he tried to avoid appearing in public view at this time, there was one thing he had to play.

On January 20, the 47th United States TV movie Golden Globe Award was held at Los Angeles Hollywood Hilton Hotel.

Firefly received a total of 11 nominations with 《Pretty Woman》, 《Running Out of Time》, 《Steel Magnolias》 and "The Others" and 《Friends》 as TV series. Among them, Eric himself is involved, there are two best screenwriter awards of 《Running Out of Time》 and "The Others", Golden Globe Award There is no best Director, otherwise Eric can at least get another nomination.

If it were n’t for this storm, Eric, who was under 20 years old and won two nominations at the same ceremony, will undoubtedly become the most beautiful one on red carpet. Although Eric also considered the absence of this Golden Globe Award award ceremony, but doing so is tantamount to showing weakness to the enemies behind him, Eric finally set foot on red carpet.

This time, Eric did not bring any female companions, but was alone.

After passing through the media access area, Eric stopped to cooperate and showed a confident smile, letting the flash light go crazy.

"Eric, Eric, can you say a few words?" a reporter shouted at this time.

Eric smiled recklessly, neither agreeing nor denying. If the other party asks something difficult to answer, Eric makes up his mind to leave.

"Eric, you haven't shown up during this time, so what are you doing in the Malibu manor, are you preparing for the new script?"

Eric was stunned. He didn't expect that the other party would ask such a question. Now in this situation, what mood does he have to think about script. However, since this question is not too sharp, Eric replied: "I just registered a music company, and I might release a single in a while."

"Eric, can you reveal the subject matter of single first?"

"Mr. Williams, what is the name of the music company?"

"Eric, are you going to give up directing movies and switch to music?"

Eric did n’t plan to answer any more questions, but was about to leave and heard the last question. Still rolled his eyes and said: "Just playing tickets, my main energy will always be on the movie."

After finishing this sentence, Eric no longer ignored these reporters. Walk directly towards the end of red carpet.

Compared to last year, this year ’s achievements of Eric are even more eye-catching. But the number of people who came to greet was obviously much less, and most of them were men who were familiar with him. As for the actresses present, except for Julia, Virginia, and Nicole, according to Eric ’s prior instructions, they nodded to him However, other actresses are worried about Eric's current reputation, and none of them dare to step forward and talk to Eric.

The Eric did n’t care either. It ’s everyone ’s Basic Instinct.

Waiting period. There are still stars appearing on red carpet.

About ten minutes later, in the cheers of fans, Eric saw Aniston wearing a white tube top dress coming over, posing for a while in the media area, and came to the rest area.

The eyes of the two met unsurprisingly. The reporters who noticed the situation also raised camera, looking forward to the breaking up of the couple's behavior with news value.

"Jenny ..." Eric did not move and shouted softly. After that day, Eric tried to contact Aniston more than once. But the chick seemed to be determined this time, and he never received any calls from him, and there was no response to the letters sent. The flowers sent were also returned.

Aniston's gaze just heard on Eric's face for less than two seconds, then quickly turned away, and walked casually to the opposite direction of Eric.

Eric sighed, not daring to get up on this occasion, he did n’t care too much about his reputation, but for Aniston.

During this time, because Aniston had ‘cleared off’ the relationship with him on the day of the incident, only Aniston was basically not attacked by several women with close relationships. If at this time he got together. The news that the two suspected to be compound will surely cause trouble for little girl.

"Eric. Are you okay?" Jonathan Demme standing next to him noticed the comfort of expression, who was lowered by Eric.

Eric shook his head: "It's okay."

Tom Hanks on the other side also said at this time: "Eric. I believe everything will pass."

"This is of course." Eric smiled confidently.

......

In the ceremony hall, Eric sat at the table "The Others". Because this table is arranged relatively backward, Eric will feel more comfortable and will not cause too much attention.

Of course, this world will never turn around someone. Therefore, the storm that Eric is encountering has not affected the lively atmosphere of this session of Golden Globe Award. Perhaps it was instructed in advance. The host of this session did not make fun of Eric. During the awarding process, the name of Eric was not even mentioned, and the camera rarely scanned the table where Eric was sitting.

Eric has gradually realized that this is someone who intends to deal with himself coldly. Well, although Firefly-related movie TV series received 11 nominations tonight, it certainly won't get any heavyweight awards.

Sure enough, as expected by Eric, because the 《Scent of a Woman》 release time missed the nomination of Golden Globe Award, therefore, the most important films such as 《Pretty Woman》 music comedy best movie and 《Steel Magnolias》 plot best movie, without exception, will be spent elsewhere. The two best screenwriter nominations related to Eric have all failed. Even the most likely two nominations of previous life Julia that had won the award were not obtained, let alone Virginia won the best Heroine nomination in the plot category with "The Others", and it fell to an Eric without any suspense. "Baker Brothers" Heroine Michelle Pfeiffer without any memory.

At the end of the development, the original Eric had no hope of thinking that all 11 nominations would be defeated. However, when it was TV series ’s best comedy in the musical comedy category Heroine award, Aniston unexpectedly won the best Heroine.

Looking at the little **** the podium with a slight surprise saying that he did n’t mention his award-winning speech at all, Eric showed a sneer in the corner of his mouth. Is this what it is? Is it to warn women who are close to themselves, as long as they break with Eric Williams Can you get an award?

Two hours after the award ceremony, Eric did not intend to participate in the subsequent party. Just about to leave, a strange waiter handed him an envelope.

The car returned to Malibu Manor was placed on Eric before the envelope was opened.

There is only one piece of paper. A series of numbers is written on it, 19900201.

It ’s easy to tell. It means February 1, 1990.

Eric do n’t need to think about it, just knows, this is the ultimatum given to him by the man behind the storm.

I ca n’t hold my breath. Eric thought to myself, previous life Michael Jackson has been attacked by the media for as long as three months. It ’s only a month since I ’m in a state of mind. 'Are you?

Think of Michael Jackson. Eric can't help but find that his current experience has many similarities with previous life Michael Jackson.

The reason why Michael Jackson will be attacked on such a large scale in 1993 is not only because of his black identity, but also because he jumped from the original contracted singer status to the seat of Sony record Boss, not only got it 50% of the shares of Sony Records also have the famous superstar song copyright in the hands of the Beatles and Elvis.

In the 1990s, the recording industry was still prosperous, and the value of these songs copyright alone exceeded 1 billion USD, not to mention the 50% share of Sony records.

And all this. For the giants of the recording industry and the Western world, dominated by white people, it is unbearable.

So, after an overwhelming storm. Michael Jackson began to be silent.

After more than ten years, in 2009, Michael Jackson was 50 years old and planned to hold 50 world tour concerts as a memorial. Many people originally thought that the 50-year-old pop player would certainly not be as beautiful as before, but things were not as many people imagined, with a total of more than 750,000 concert tickets after the reservation was started. In just a few hours, it was swept away by fans around the world, as it turns out. Emperor superstar is still Emperor superstar.

So, a few days before the start of these highly anticipated 50 concerts. A generation of Emperor superstar died inexplicably.

Thinking of this, Eric could not help but shivered, thanking that he had not been born again to a black man. Therefore, although he is now being jointly excluded by several giants, he has not been discriminated from the heart of the public.

After Golden Globe Award, Eric and Robert Shay quickly signed a contract to transfer 10% of the shares of Firefly again. At the same time, the 60 million USD cash paid by Robert Shay was directly charged to the investment company account located in New York.

Although Jeffrey and Chris both objected to this, I hope that Eric will leave a cash for unexpected needs. However, Eric is determined to require Chris to use this 60 million USD plus the 10 million USD that has been previously received, totaling 70 million USD Cash, try to win as many shares of Cisco as possible.

Before this turmoil, Eric has never paid too much attention to money. He feels that as long as he develops steadily, he will definitely step up to the peak step by step in the future.

But after the storm, Eric discovered that in this capital world, money is the most important thing. It is like a talisman. If Eric was before a billionaire with property of 1 billion USD, even if he was younger Now these people dare not attack him like this.

Time goes by day by day, enduring the mad bombing on newspaper media every day, Eric can also hear good news from time to time, because most investment institutions are not very optimistic about the prospects of Cisco, plus Cisco now The market value is only 225 million USD. Therefore, under the price of Chris, some investment institutions that had originally decided to purchase Cisco stock transferred their subscription shares.

The share of stocks from the beginning was increased by 7% from the beginning. At the end of January, 70 million USD was all spent, and a total of 23% of Cisco shares were obtained. Although according to the market value of Cisco 225 million USD, 70 million got 23% 'S share is a big loss, but if the market value of 500billion USD at the peak of Cisco is used, the value of this equity will be an astronomical figure.

Of course, Eric also knows that with the development of Cisco, this share will definitely be gradually diluted, but as long as it can maintain about 10% of the shares in the end, it will still be a huge asset in the future.

While Chris spent all of 70 million USD, February 1st finally came, and the four lawsuits were still entangled at the same time. The United States antitrust investigation agency Federal Trade Investigation Committee Los Angeles branch held a press conference announcing that it will investigate the alleged monopoly of Firefly and the joint elite Brokerage Firm (uta).

As soon as the news came out, public opinion was again in an uproar. Various analyses soon appeared in the newspaper.

In the Malibu manor, Edward Lewis walked hurriedly into the living room. Sit down opposite Eric, at this time several people have been made in the living room, Jeffrey, Robert Shay and uta's CEO Kapoor Sid are here.

"Edward, let's talk about the situation first?" Eric poured Edward Lewis a cup of coffee before saying.

Edward sipped the coffee, then took out a thick stack of documents and placed it on the coffee table, took out one of them and said: "Eric. This is roughly the case. The Federal Trade Investigation Commission has begun to treat Firefly and uta Investigate and collect evidence. Once the conviction is established, you may face huge fines in addition to all the shares you want to sell. "

"What about this fine?" Eric asked the question he was most concerned about. Columbia and Fox joined together and owed a huge share of Firefly. Eric realized that the final killer must be related to money.

Edward Lewis found another document saying: "According to the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law, in general, penalties are imposed on the basis of 20% of the revenue generated by illegal enterprises due to monopolistic behavior. But this number is not fixed. And The flexibility is quite large. If the operation is good, you do n’t even need to pay a penny. You only need to transfer the uta shares in your hand, but if ... "

"Edward, sorry to interrupt you, you know, we all know a little bit about the relevant laws, so you just say how much fine I might have to pay for it."

"Ah, well," Edward Lewis said: "According to the violations of Firefly and uta. You may have to pay a fine of up to 100 million 60 million USD."

Eric took a jump: "How could it be so much, uta's profit today is only a few million?"

Edward explained: "Eric. It ’s not your algorithm. You should calculate uta and Firefly together. Because uta and Firefly are both your personal industries before. And I got some from Ms. Carloyn Elliot before. Information, your total account this year will reach 400 million and more USD. Coupled with the income that may be brought by the five movies still being released, because the violations of uta and Firefly are not serious, so 20% of the basic amount does not exist Increased probability, therefore, the sum of the penalties you will pay may be up to 160 million. "

Eric was stunned for a while, and asked, "How long is the time limit for collecting fines?"

Edward knows what Eric asked and said: "According to the current situation, this lawsuit will not exceed three months, and then you still have three months to pay the fine, yes, Eric, I just told You have emphasized that 160 million USD is only the worst possible. In fact, in general, this fine will be much lower than this number, even without paying. "

"Half a year," Eric murmured to himself. He didn't ask Edward what would happen if he didn't pay the fine. It was obvious that nothing was more than an asset freeze, and then the auction. What is his asset, only Firefly.

Also, although the profits of these movies at the end of the year may far exceed 160 million USD, Eric can be sure that after these movies are downgraded, it is impossible for him to get the money except in lawsuits. After waiting to win the lawsuit, it is estimated that half a year has passed.

Since the situation is irreversible, Eric is no longer suffering, and said to several people around him: "Since we have reached this point, we should fight back."

Jeffrey has been suffocating for a long time because Eric lacks trust in other people. Therefore, only Jeffrey knows what he has left on the videotape he has left until now: "Eric, what we need to do, although Say it? "(To be continued)