I’m in Hollywood Chapter 512: Alert
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The production process of United States TV series is very standard and complicated, and competition is extremely fierce. Often, only one of the 100 scripts is selected, and many American dramas that have entered the shoots stage will also pass again after the production of the pilot broadcast. The rigorous screening process will rinse the next part. Eventually, the new Fanmei TV series that can be played on TV Station will only be booked for six episodes. After the first broadcast stage before Thanksgiving is completed, if the ratings are good, the follow-up part will continue to be produced. If the ratings are too bad, It even cuts directly.
Even if Murdoch is an American drama produced by his daughter Production Studio, it is impossible to buy all the first season completely. At most, only after the TV series produced has a good viewing performance, some preferential conditions will be granted.
And now, "Buffy" hasn't even produced the trial episode, so it was booked by Fox for the first season. Except for the name Producer, Eric, which didn't do anything but its name other reasons.
Kapoor saw Eric for a while without saying a word, hesitantly asked: "Eric, are you still there?"
"Well, I was just a little surprised."
"Oh, you are now the most powerful person in Hollywood. So, regarding the incident just now, would you like to take the time to see the girl, don't you also say that she has great potential?"
Eric smiled and ridiculed: "I have some doubts now, whether you owe that Michelle Simmons, whether it is humane or genius debt."
"Hey, Eric, do n’t joke, my son is in middle school."
"Okay, okay, since that's the case," Eric thought about it for a while while touching his chin. "I'll take the time to meet the girl. To be honest, I just thought of a good idea. "
Kapoor asked: "About the movie?"
"Yeah, I just thought of making a series of action movies featuring women. The girl is only 18 years old, which is still good. At least if the movie is good in the future Box Office, you can shoot more sequels. . "
"The movie you made. How could Box Office be bad," Kapoor complimented from the bottom of his heart, and smiled half-truthly: "I will leave a few more Actor places for ICM."
"Of course, no problem," Eric said: "So today, wait for me to take the time. Let Alan contact you."
Hanging the phone, Eric just turned around and saw that small girl, who had originally shoved his head and shook his head behind him, skipped over and grabbed the arm of Eric: "Eric, what girl, what movie?"
"That girl in the afternoon, Kapoor was asked to call," Eric pinched the girl's face: "Speaking of it, you are also 18 years old, and those copyrights in the Flower Films reserve can be taken out for you to hone Just a moment. Just start with the female action movie I just said. "
Drew knew the copyright ‘Little Treasury’ that Eric had originally reserved for itself: “You mean the movie version of 《Charlie's Angels》?”
Eric walked into the restaurant again with Drew. After sitting down, he said: "Yeah, both" Thelma & Louise "and" The Heat "in the previous two years performed very well in both Box Office and word of mouth, as well as last year's" A League of Their Own " , These are enough to prove that women's movies are very potential. "
The small girl, which has always been giggling, was a little upset at this time, and looked at the Elizabeth couples and said: "But, Eric, I do n’t know if I can do it well, and what about TG?"
Eric said: "This is not something that will happen in a short while. Moreover, I think it is no problem to hand over TG to Liz."
After hearing Eric ’s recognition of himself, Elizabeth was a little triumphant, and immediately became dissatisfied: "I do n’t want it. TG was originally founded by three of me and Drew and Julia. Why should I work now overwhelm me? , The two of them took dividends easily. "
"Then I will sell TG shares to you," Drew said without hesitation.
Elizabeth was stunned and did n’t know how to answer, and the Julia, who had been holding Emma for a long time, also felt anxious: "Otherwise. I, I also gave up the shares of TG."
Julia obviously has a guilty conscience. TG has been established for so long, she basically did not help anything, but just invested millions of USD when she founded the company, but in the past two years, she has taken it from TG When the dividend was more than ten times, it was with this money that Julia became lazy, lacking interest in acting in the movie, and even the avenue of stars depicted by Eric for her.
I heard Drew and Julia say this, but Elizabeth is not embarrassed: "I ... I do n’t mean that, I just talk about it, I do n’t want you to sell shares."
Eric lightly knocked on the table and interrupted several women ’s words, saying: "Actually I have an idea, you can listen to it. 20th Century Fox's Film Industry business has not been ideal for these two years, I remember Liz told me After that, Mr. Murdoch wants to buy TG, right? "
After seeing Elizabeth nod, Eric continued: "In this case, you can consider selling TG as a whole to 20th Century Fox. As for whether the three of you want to replace the shares of Fox or cash, it is up to you to decide Next, Drew can get out and come back to run his own Flower Films, Liz you can go to Fox, with the strength you have shown in the past two years, I think at least you can get a Vice Chairman position of 20th Century Fox. "
Eric stopped here, and he didn't say the next few words. As long as all goes well, then Elizabeth can slowly climb up in the Fox system and eventually take over the News Corp of the Murdoch family. Although Murdoch has always tended to his son to take over, if the daughter ’s performance is too eye-catching, far better than his son ’s Strength, even if Murdoch still wants to give power to two sons, Eric believes that the other shareholders of News Corp will not agree. After all, although News Corp is firmly controlled by Murdoch, the Murdoch family does not have absolute control of News Corp. Investors, and investors must be more inclined to give the investment to the more capable person.
After Eric said these words, Drew immediately nodded in favor, and Elizabeth also showed a thoughtful look. Tina Fey seemed like an outsider, eating the dinner in front of it, only Julia opened his mouth. Seems to want to say me?
Eric cleaned the plate of dinner three or two times, then glared at the Julia with a dazzling look: "As for you, let's talk about it later."
Julia narrowed his neck conspicuously and lifted Emma in his arms: "I ... I will sleep with Emma tonight."
The little guy does n’t know why the aunt lifted herself up. But the children obviously liked this, giggling, and the little hand waved excitedly.
Eric took a paper towel from the carton and wiped his hands, got up and walked to the little guy, took Emma from Julia ’s arms: "Come. Emma, let ’s go to watch TV."
"TV, TV," the little guy yelled, unrecognizable, and stretched out his hand to grab Eric's collar.
As Eric walked, he asked again, "Little guy, I'm going to talk to your aunt tonight. Do you want to sleep with Aunt Liz or Aunt Drew? Oh and Aunt Tina OK? "
Although the two-year-old guy can already understand Eric, Xiao Naogua turned for a while before saying, "Aunt."
"Well, that's not okay," Eric smiled and shook his head, picked up the remote control to turn on the TV, and sat down with the little girl: "Choose another one."
Emma sitting on the lap of Eric stared at him for a moment with wide eyes and suddenly said: "Papa."
"Ah ..."
"Oh," heard the crisp ‘Papa’ by the little girl. A few women laughed immediately in the restaurant.
Eric smiled and squeezed the face of the little girl, turned around and asked several people in the restaurant: "What the **** is going on, why did she call me Papa again?"
Elizabeth has considered the suggestion of Eric, and heard him speak. The tone said a bit sourly: "Anyway, you have to be Papa, what happened to multiple daughters, are you still unwilling?"
"No, it just feels weird," Eric shook his head and remembered another thing. Asked: "Hey, speaking of it, I think of it. What was the name you registered for the little one?"
"Emma," Elizabeth replied.
Eric feels that the tone of Elizabeth is a bit different, and asks: "I mean surname."
There was a moment of silence in the restaurant.
Eric has a not-so-good hunch in her heart that these women will not really mess up.
Finally, Drew whispered: "Eric, don't you know?"
"I ... know?"
"Yes, it is said to be your opinion."
Eric felt his temple jump a few times and asked, "What the **** is it?"
"Emma Roberts.Murdoch.Barrymore.Williams!"
Bashing-
Originally unknown, Tina Fey heard this long list of surnames and suddenly laughed out loud. The remote control in Eric's hand also fell on the floor with Pā.
After a while, Eric said to Elizabeth: "I seem to remember that I asked about it. At that time, someone vowed that they would never add my last name to the back of the little guy. What the **** is this? What's going on? "
Facing Eric ’s question, Elizabeth crossed his waist in disappointment: “We added it if we wanted to add it. The Williams surname is not yours and we ca n’t use it yet.”
"Yes," Julia whispered, but quickly slipped into the kitchen to wash dishes.
Drew sat down next to Eric and betrayed Elizabeth without hesitation: "Liz is worried that using the surname Murdoch will cause misunderstandings by others, and I just join in the fun."
Eric habitually knocked on the head of Drew without a word: "This can also be fun!"
......
Eric just talked to several women about the TG disposal plan the next day, and Murdoch, far away from New York, eagerly called the Eric side.
Although TG ’s shares are not directly related to Eric, according to the contract signed when TG was established, Firefly, which owns the distribution rights of all TG films North America and peripheral operation rights, is still the biggest beneficiary of TG.
These two benefits can be divided into more than half of the profits of TG movies. While Fox only has a low-profit overseas distribution right, plus TG shares, Fox only earns 15% of the total profit of TG movies, and Elizabeth, Drew and Julia share the total profit Of 30.
If Fox acquired TG, but could not get back the right to issue in the hands of Firefly, it would be similar to no acquisition. Murdoch would obviously not do such a thing.
The valuation of TG is also a matter that requires long-term negotiations. This is similar to the Miramax situation that is also seeking to sell. Although the history has deviated, the Miramax Film Industry of Weinstein Brothers in the past two years has still fallen into a huge amount due to excessive business expansion. Loss, I have to find a backer, but Weinstein Brothers's price is 500 million USD, and several Film Studio or investment institutions that are interested in acquiring only give a valuation of about Miramax 50 million, and the price difference is ten times. Miramax's most important bargaining chip is the Oscar public relations resource in the hands of Weinstein Brothers. This kind of 'intangible asset' is really difficult to estimate. As for Miramax's film library and distribution channels, to be honest, Hollywood's major Film Studio don't pay much attention. In addition to the support of Eric, the most important chip in TG's hands is undoubtedly the three-year option contract signed with Jim Carrey. With the momentum of Jim Carrey's three consecutive low-cost comedies with Box Office breaking 100 million, the remaining three Even if a film is produced every year during the year, it is conservatively estimated that it will bring about 300 million USD profits to the producers.
Although the parties are getting more and more unhappy because of the conflict of interests, even Jim Carrey contacted a lawyer to try to bring a lawsuit to get rid of the option contract, but relevant people in the industry are well aware that Jim Carrey has no way to get rid of it. A contract with a penalty of up to 100 million USD, otherwise the Box Office potential shown by Jim Carrey, several big Film Studio have already started to dig the wall.
In addition, if the TV series version "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" being developed by TG is as successful as the original time and space, it will be another very important bargaining chip for future negotiations.
TG ’s business plan for 1993 has been determined in advance, and even if acquisition negotiations are to be initiated, Murdoch must call Eric from the second half of the year, and there is nothing more than an accurate answer from Eric. (To be continued.)