I’m in Hollywood Chapter 321: Finalize

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"Eric, what you just said is almost exactly what I thought, but I know that you have always been only a feature film in shoots. Although some special effects were used in" Ghost "this time, but after that, Do you have any specific plans for this company? I do n’t like the situation after joining, but I ’m in a position to do nothing. "

Eric immediately shook his head and said: "Of course not, I can tell you very clearly, Stan, my goal is to surpass Industrial Light & Magic, you should know my" Jurassic Park ", this project will not drag on for too long, There is also "Resident Evil". Recently, I handed over a manuscript to my book manager, which is also a science fiction novel called "The Matrix". These three novels will be made into a series of at least three series of special effects movies in the future. Therefore, there will be no shortage of projects within ten years for special effects companies. Industrial Light & Magic can only grow to its current size with only one 《Star Wars》 series, and Firefly future special effects movies must be much more than Lucas Film Industry, as long as this special effects company I can eat it, I do n’t mind giving it to my special effects company. ”

Stan Winston has never seen that "Resident Evil", nor did he hear anything from the name "The Matrix", but he knows "Jurassic Park", this novel has been concerned by many Film Studio, but Eric has always been The purpose of the movie copyright is not given up, and its purpose can be imagined.

Imagine the picture of a huge dinosaur resurrected on the big screen in the ancient times, Stan Winston already has some blood boiling, but he did not lose his calm, but asked: "So, Eric, about the conditions for me to join, you need to know .Although my current studio size is very small, but I am Boss, and I do not lack projects. "

Eric said: "I will give you 10% of the shares. The special effects company will leave it to you to take care of it. The company will not be listed within ten years. I will always provide sufficient funds for the company, but ensure that the company is listed before I will never dilute the shares held by you personally with the amount of capital invested. "

“Eric, I do n’t have any opinion about the 10% share, but although I know you have enough funds, I still need a specific investment amount. Not the ambiguous promise now. You know, at Hollywood , Many investment promises cannot be fulfilled. "

Eric thought for a while and said, "The first batch of 20 million USD investment, I hope this money will be used for equipment purchase and research and development of computer cg technology, as well as the prerequisite special effects preparation of" Jurassic Park ". Therefore, you can also think of this It is a pre-investment of "Jurassic Park". By the way, Pixar can provide some technical support for special effects companies. At the same time, special effects companies should also set up their own cg technology research and development team. "

Stan Winston nodded in satisfaction, then said: "It seems that you are really very optimistic about the computer CG Special Effects?"

"Yes." Eric smiled and said, "So, I got the name for this special effects company, it's called 'Digital Domain'."

"Digital field," Stan Winston murmured, and James Cameron, who has been listening silently, couldn't help but say: "Eric, so this company is just right for the production of" Terminator 2: Judgement Day ", most of the shots of liquid metal robots They are all made with cg. So, I hope you can think about it. As long as you agree to part of the investment in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", even if only 10 million USD. I can raise all the remaining funds. "

Eric smiled and said: "Jim, I know what you think, because my first few films are more successful, and now many people in Hollywood believe my vision, but I can't take my own credibility to take risks Otherwise, if this movie fails, no one will blame you, and I, the culprit who misled them to spend money, will definitely become the target. "

Cameron's mind was pierced, and he couldn't help but blush.

And Stan Winston couldn't help asking at this time: "Eric, don't you really optimistic about this sequel movie of Jim?"

Hearing this question, Eric was a little hesitant, not optimistic, it was impossible. Originally, I just wanted to hang the appetite of Cameron, but now, it is a bit of a dilemma.

Thinking for a while, Eric said: "I ’m not pessimistic, but the risk of this movie is too great. The investment of 60 million USD, plus the later publicity budget, North America Box Office is estimated to require 150 million USD to recover the cost without considering overseas . "The Terminator" first part global Box Office is less than 80 million, and Jim's last movie "The Abyss", global Box Office is also 80 million, so you should understand my concerns. "

Stan Winston nodded in understanding, James Cameron was somewhat lost.

Eric pondered for a moment, as if he had made a lot of determination, and said, "Well, since this is the case, I ’ll gamble, 50 million USD, Jim, I can take out 50 million USD, so I hope you can Take the cautious attitude of the original shoots "The Terminator" first part, try to use this budget to get this movie shoots out. "

James Cameron was just a little hesitant, and nodded quickly without any discipline. First of all, the movie project was confirmed. 50 million is 50 million. I ca n’t believe you ca n’t let the project go to an end if the filming is not finished. Let this 50 million float. , Eric, I will do my best. "

The two unscrupulous guys who had their own concerns looked at each other as if they had been friends for many years.

"Oh, James, since I took out the money, then the copyright of" The Terminator "must belong to me, there is no room for discussion on this matter."

James Cameron froze for a moment, then nodded: "This ... of course, no problem, but, Eric, now the movie copyright is still in the hands of the original Hmdell production company that produced first part, that company is now bankrupt, so You can buy copyright back for a sum of money, and, in my plan, I will not make a sequel after this one. "

"How much does it cost?" Eric asked quietly, and at the same time there were some surprises in my heart. Another super series is about to come. In memory, "The Terminator" does not know whether it is the third or fourth part, the producer is only Just to get copyright from his predecessor. It took 30 million USD, if you get it, Eric will definitely not let go.

"2 million. I have talked to the original producer before," Cameron arrived.

Eric took out the checkbook. I quickly wrote a cheque for 2 million USD and handed it to James Cameron: "Jim, what I want is all copyright, and in the future there can't be any kind of wrangling disputes."

"That's for sure," James Cameron said, collecting the check.

The three men discussed a lot of things again. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, because the protagonist of "Ghost" decided that the audition originally scheduled for today has been cancelled. Therefore, Eric does not need to return to Firefly.

Looking at the girls around me, Eric only said: "Jenny, I will send you back."

Jennifer Connelly listened quietly to the conversation of the three people during the entire lunch. Her last movie, 《Étoile》, paid only 50,000 USD, and the movie that was disturbed by Eric last night, Tony Brandt gave her. The pay is only 100,000 USD. Therefore, at lunch, the funds of tens of millions of USD among the three populations gave the girl a faint sense of unreality, and she even had some depressed emotions now, so she tried harder. The rewards are not as good as one-tenth of the check that the man next to him checks out. It is sad to think about it.

Did not hear the girl's answer, Eric who just opened the door looked at Jennifer Connelly's face. From the faint lost expression of the other party, Eric quickly understood what the girl was thinking.

It seems that because of the loss of that role last year, some emotions accumulated in a year, after last night and today, will make Jennifer Connelly unclear.

In this case, Eric soon decided to add another fire. The more exciting it is, the easier it is to hold this girl with a little fantasy in his hand.

The dream shines into reality. That scene is really unbearable.

Eric thought so. When Jennifer Connelly got into the co-pilot, he didn't ask the girl's address again. Instead, head straight for Malibu.

It took more than ten minutes for car to open before Jennifer Connelly responded, and said with some anxiety: "You ... you said, you're going to send me back."

Despite this, the tone is not firm at all.

Eric nodded: "Yeah, but it's only three o'clock now. You must have nothing to do when you go back so early. How about sitting where I am?"

The girl squeezed the corner of her skirt and lowered her head without speaking.

Eric smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and drove with a girl to Cliff Peak Manor all the way. Just entered the gate of the manor. Eric did not drive the car directly into the garage as usual. The keys were handed over to the security guard, and the girl's little hand walked towards the villa on foot. At the time, more than 20 million USDs were thrown in. The Cliff Peak Manor was much more luxurious than the Coppola villa last night. While walking, the two quickly entered the villa. .

"How do you feel about this place?" Eric did not take the girl to dangle in the villa, but went directly to the outdoor swimming pool on the southwest side of the villa. It was just windy today, and the waves hit the rocks under the feet and made a loud noise.

"Very good," Connelly laid down by a deck chair on the side of Eric, gathered the wind-blown skirt, and said softly.

Because of the sea breeze, the thin dress on the girl ’s body was blown tightly against her body. The exquisite curve revealed no doubt that Eric admired for a while with a temperament, and suddenly pointed to a hut behind him: “ That's the dressing room. There are spare swimsuits in it. Do you want to swim? "

"But ... there's no water in it?" Jennifer Connelly pointed to the dry swimming pool and found a very lame reason.

"It will be full in five minutes. You can change your clothes," Eric said.

Stopped by her own words, Jennifer Connelly bit her lower lip lightly, still got up and walked to the dressing room. After a few minutes, the girl came out with a big bath towel and saw that the swimming pool was already full water.

"The temperature is just right," Eric stood by the water and reached into the pool to try the temperature.

"What about you?" The girl looked at Eric, still in formal attire.

"I see you wash," Eric smiled and returned to the lounge chair next to it, sitting down without knowing where to find a pack of cigarettes, and then showing a cheerful expression, his eyes looked like he was waiting to see Unscrupulous uncle performing.

Jennifer Connelly stood there for a while and hesitated to take off his bath towel and jumped into the water quickly. A mermaid dressed in pink than Gini swims far away quickly, the pool is not too big. So soon came to an end, leaned against the swimming pool in the southwest corner to look at Eric here, and saw the man still looking at himself happily. The girl shyly shrank into the water and hesitated. Still swimming towards Eric.

Somehow, after just swimming a few meters, Connelly felt a slight pain in the right leg, and then no longer felt. The whole person thumped a few times and quickly sank down. The struggling girl saw the silhouette of the swimming pool flying fast Jumped into the water, and soon came to himself. Then she was picked up by the whole person and got out of the water. The water in the swimming pool just reached the abdomen of Eric, not too deep.

"Don't move, you may have cramps," Eric comforted the girl in her arms and walked down the stairs in the swimming pool to the shore. Eric was about to put the girl down, and the foot suddenly slipped and the whole person fell down go with. The girl also fell with it, just lying on Eric's chest, the two stacked on each other.

"*. Unlucky Frank Gehry, tens of millions of flowers went out and even the swimming pool was not skidproof. I want him to rework me."

The Jennifer Connelly, who was so scared that his heart was thumping, heard a man say this, chuckled, and then slapped his hips: "Do n’t lie down, hurry up, is it comfortable?"

The girl whispered, only to realize that she was lying on the body of Eric, her hands moving on the ground. Soon he fell down: "I ... I can't move my legs."

Eric breathed out a sigh of breath: "Then don't move."

"Well," the girl nodded gently. Then he looked up and met Eric's eyes. After hesitating for a moment, the girl moved slightly upwards, her lips moved, and she leaned over and kissed Eric's mouth.

Eric paused, quickly wrapped around the girl's waist and kissed passionately.

After a few minutes, Jennifer Connelly gasped and broke away from the entanglement of Eric ’s lips and tongue, buried his head in the man ’s neck, and said softly: "Now, you should be satisfied."

The Eric, which had been gently stroking on the girl ’s smooth spine, stopped her movement, but she quickly pressed the girl tightly around her, feeling that two full flesh were softly pressed against her chest. The unquestionable voice said: "Remember, from now on, you are mine."

The girl's body shivered slightly before hesitantly asked: "Are we, are we dating?"

"Not counted."

"You are too domineering," the girl said softly.

"I won't let you escape again this time," Eric moved the girl's face and kissed it gently: "Become my woman in the future."

The girl struggled slightly and asked, "If, what if I don't want to?"

"Then be my pet."

"You ... are really a devil, and don't want to give others hope at all," the girl murmured with a confused look, but her mouth opened slightly, and she kissed Eric again.

After helping the girl massage the cramped calf, after some simple obsession, Eric sent someone to send the girl back, anyway, the meat has been cooked in the pot, do n’t hurry, and let the girl digest this well. In the various messages received in the past two days, if Jennifer Connelly has the courage to escape Hollywood in order not to be a vassal, Eric is also recognized. Of course, he can be 100% sure that the girl is reluctant to this Vanity Fair flashy life.

In the following days, Eric was again engaged in busy work. Because of the dispute with Robert Shay, Eric once again established a Film Studio, and, since the first one was called Firefly, Eric also took advantage of this company's Black Ant In fact, he originally wanted to call it 'Black Widow', but Jeffrey firmly opposed it. The name is too alternative. If it is just a miniature stand-alone Production Studio, it is okay, but although this company will not like the Firefly, it wants to develop in a big way. But it is certainly not going to be a nuisance.

So, after some negotiation, Eric gave this company a name of ‘Black Ant Film Studio’.

Then, the project of "Basic Instinct" was quickly transferred to this company. At the same time, because of the movie content, in order to avoid being rated as NC-17 in the future, Eric chose to cooperate with Universal in the seven major universities. For several other Film Studio giants, Universal has no major movie projects this year, so most of the resources can be used for this movie, and the price offered by the other party is relatively fair. The two parties share copyright and share the investment equally. The movie project is still completely dominated by Eric. He has absolute control over this movie project.

Actually, the original initiative of this project lies with the Seventh Congress. Everyone can see that Eric chose to work with them to avoid anything.

However, since the last storm, it is difficult for the Seventh Congress to unite in one heart, basically no one believes in anyone, therefore, when quoting, it is also different, the reason why Universal can open The best price. It's because, like Sony, the Panasonic consortium of Japan launched the acquisition of the parent company MCA of Universal. Of course, Universal wants to stimulate the stock price through a hot movie like Columbia.

James Cameron, a few days later, quickly took down the copyright of "The Terminator" ​​and gave it to Eric. The original 50 million USD investment is definitely not enough. Although he made up his mind to hang Eric, he was forced to make additional investment when the funds were exhausted in the later period, but Cameron still felt a little ashamed. So the copyright contract has been slightly modified.

This change is actually very simple. One of the contracts originally signed by James Cameron and Production Studio. It is "The Terminator" movie copyright automatically returned to himself after 2018. However, some ashamed Cameron easily removed this one. After all, he has made up his mind. "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" is the end of his personal series. Therefore, copyright is not very useful for him. ,at least. He thought this way, Cameron could not be Eric. Of course I can't imagine that this series of copyright will be more valuable in the future.

Regarding this, Eric is of course delighted. However, he did not put copyright in Firefly, but put in the newly established Black Ant Film Studio, because when discussing the "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" project with Robert Shay, Robert Shay once again conservatively raised objections. His concerns are similar to those of the Seventh Congress. Eric does not have any mental burden to do this. "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" is just like "Basic Instinct" and becomes a second part work after the establishment of Black Ant.

As for whether there will be any problems with the release in the future, Eric has not considered it for the time being. After all, the shoots speed of Cameron is not fast. It is good that this movie can be released in the summer file next year.

At the same time as the two things "Basic Instinct" and "The Terminator" were done, the digital field was quickly established. After Eric readily allocated 20 million USD start-up funds, Stan Winston quickly started recruiting and buying Headquarters in Venice in Los Angeles Of course, this Venice is not the Venice of Italy, but a district of Los Angeles, located near the city of Santa Monica. Eric remembers that it was called 'Silicon Beach' because of the gathering of high-tech enterprises more than ten years later, echoing the Silicon Valley of San Francisco.

Among the complicated affairs, Eric personally persuaded the door, and Julia quickly agreed to the Sleeping with the Enemy led by Robert Shay. After the girl had two hot movies, the 8 million USD film was released, and Robert Shay agreed. Come down, Eric just shrugged to the girl's lion, anyway, Julia is definitely worth the price.

After that, Heroine of "Ghost" was quickly finalized. Eric finally chose Bridget Fonda among a large number of audition actresses. That was the niece who was personally introduced by Jane Fonda. The reason for choosing the other party is not only because of The girl's image is very consistent, and it is also a good gimmick to gather the backs of the two big families of the Hollywood movie world to participate in their own films, which will be publicized in the future.

From the earliest silent film era, Henry Fang reached Peter Fonda, and later Jane Fonda, and finally to the fourth generation of Bridget Fonda, this family has stood in Hollywood for more than half a century, and although Coppola Family has risen a little late, however, the power network It does n’t need to be much different from Fonda Family. Being able to make friends with these two families at the same time will definitely be useful in the future, such as Oscar. Although Eric is still very young now, Oscar is certainly inescapable. No one can hide from Hollywood Off. previous life Xiao Lizi's uninhibited personality was later tortured by Oscar.

After reaching cooperation with Stan Winston, Eric asked the other party about the special effects in "Ghost". Although Stan Winston previously focused on model special effects, the wall-penetrating special effects and the **** of death involved in "Ghost" In terms of digital special effects, Stan Winston also quickly provided a solution, even if Eric requires more sophisticated than previous life, there is no difficulty, nothing more than money.

Finally, the schedules of the four films 《The Silence of the Lambs》 made by TG Film Studio, which were founded by several people including "Basic Instinct", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Ghost" and Elizabeth, were also scheduled.

According to the plan, 《The Silence of the Lambs》 has now started shoots for some time, so it was scheduled to be released in person at the beginning of June, Firefly. Next is "Sleeping with the Enemy". Although the film is late in preparation, it is a very simple drama, without any big scenes, and no special effects are needed, so two months of production is enough, and the schedule is scheduled for June Late. Mid-June is the hottest time of the summer season. It is impossible for Robert Shay to arrange this way without selfishness. However, Eric has no objection.

Followed by "Ghost" in early July, the production rhythm of this film is almost the same as last year's 《Running Out of Time》, and the schedule is also imitated last year's 《Running Out of Time》, Disney and Firefly joint release.

The "Basic Instinct" was arranged in mid-July, not only because the film's production cycle is relatively long, but also because of the theme, it is placed at the end of the summer file, and it is the idea of ​​a long-term screening.

The time has come to mid-April, and everything for the preparation of "Ghost" has been completed. Eric also intends to take out several shoots lenses that need special effects first and hand them over to the digital field for processing. According to the plan, he will soon Go to New York for shoots.

However, the reason why he still couldn't make it on April 13th was because of "Basic Instinct". Both the starring of this movie and Director required him to make a final decision.

At the beginning, Eric considered that the Actress on the United States side is relatively conservative. For famous actresses, such large-scale works will certainly not easily appear, and the Heroine Kathryn of "Basic Instinct" is not a vase. The requirements are more demanding. In memory, although "Basic Instinct" is considered a big production, many of the famous Actress have rejected it, and finally the producer used the less famous Sharon Stone.

Therefore, Eric has focused on Europe Actress. Compared to Hollywood, Europe Actress is much bolder. This is just a matter of concept for both parties. After all, in most Europe movies, even if it seems completely unnecessary, it is necessary Take it off, it seems that Director doesn't feel like making a movie without taking it off. In this environment, Actress will have to actively adapt. Therefore, the standard of "Basic Instinct" is nothing to many Europe Actress.