I’m in Hollywood Chapter 574: Good opportunity

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Barry Diller's tone is very plain, but Eric realizes that this topic is destined to have no further results.

Although Eric feels a bit regretful, it is more a pity. With the talent of Barry Diller, the TV shopping company with a scale of less than 1billion USD operating QVC is absolutely unable to give full play to his talents, not to mention that Eric is very clear and cannot be used In a few years, with the emergence of e-commerce, TV shopping will soon be abandoned.

Barry Diller gave up this opportunity, and then want to return to Hollywood again, hope is slim.

The goal was not achieved, and Eric did not rush to leave. The two chatted about other things at random. It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the mobile phone carried by Eric rang.

After connecting, Eric listened to the opposite side and quickly hung up.

Eric did not avoid Barry Diller when answering the phone, so after he hung up the phone, Barry Diller said: "Are you calling Jeffrey?"

Eric nodded with a smile. Barry Diller has received a lot of attention during this time. Although the acquisition of Paramount is settled, the attention on Barry Diller did not disappear immediately. In just a few hours of meeting, the news reached many people.

Although both parties know that Jeffrey Katzenberg is calling, it must be to test the intention of Eric to contact Barry Diller, but Eric still explained: "Jeffrey said that a movie of the company has just finished the final cut, and asked me if I want to watch the film?"

"Then you go to Burbank, the rest of the time is just enough to watch a movie." Barry Diller said with a smile, and then added a sentence: "Jeffrey's character is still a little impatient, similar to Michael, this character is very very The peaceful Frank Wells can just complement him. You must know that in the years when Michael took charge of Disney's, Frank has been a buffer between Michael and Disney managers. Whenever those managers were scolded by Michael, Frank Will come to appease the emotions of those people. I do n’t know much about Mr. Hansson. So if you let Jeffrey as CEO, I suggest you better let Frank continue to be the deputy of Jeffrey. "

Eric got up and put on a jacket, reached out and shook hands with Barry Diller: "Thank you for your suggestion, Barry, I will consider this matter carefully."

Barry Diller personally sent Eric away from the hotel. The two just walked out of the hotel door and were surrounded by a group of reporters who heard the news and asked about their intention to meet.

Since Barry Diller did not agree to his invitation. Eric didn't plan to grow outside of the festival, said nothing, and got into his car under the guard of the bodyguard.

Coming to Firefly Headquarters, Eric found that Katzenberg personally took a group of people waiting for themselves in the hall. On the phone, Katzenberg's excuse was to invite Eric to watch the filming of "Interview with the Vampire". At this time, the leading actors of "Interview with the Vampire" Director Neil Jordan, original authors Anne Rice and Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, etc. appeared here, and there is also a cooperative development David Geffen of the movie's David Geffen Production Studio.

Have greeted everyone one by one. Although Katzenberg is well covered up, Eric can still see the doubts and explorations hidden in his expression.

After a brief greeting. A group of people crowded Eric in the middle and walked towards the elevator. Because there were too many people, everyone consciously divided into two dials. An elevator was given to Eric, Katzenberg and David Geffen.

Entering the elevator, Eric chatted with David Geffen for a few words before asking Katzenberg why he did not see Michael Lynn and others.

"They are all in Playa Vista," Katzenberg replied, and said casually: "Eric, why did you suddenly come back today?"

Eric explained: "I and Barry are good friends. He failed to grab Paramount from Redstone, so I came back to comfort him in advance."

Katzenberg nodded, and the whole person seemed relieved. As the old man of Barry Diller, after the failure of Barry Diller to acquire Paramount. Katzenberg also called to greet in the past. But he did not believe that Eric specifically came back from New York just for this matter, relative to himself. The relationship between Eric and Barry Diller is much lighter, and only one phone is enough to express comfort.

Katzenberg can also guess the reason for the meeting between Eric and Barry Diller. Now that Eric said so, instead of acknowledging the purpose of the meeting between the two, it means that the two have not negotiated something, and there is no need The kind he talked about, he felt relieved.

In my heart, Katzenberg does not feel that Michael Eisner is much better than himself. Many successful films of Disney in the late 1980s were completed under his leadership. But if compared with Barry Diller, Katzenberg is willing to be ashamed of it, so it is difficult for Katzenberg to imagine how Barry Diller and Firefly Pictures will coexist together, letting him give up the upcoming Firefly Pictures CEO position, Katzenberg is definitely unwilling, he struggled for so many years Only then is it expected to reach the position of the head of a big Film Studio family, how can it be easily given up. But with Barry Diller as his subordinate, Katzenberg finds this situation even more unimaginable.

Leave the worries over this incident, and Katzenberg will become talkative and talk about some recent events. Standing on the other side of Eric, which is also bald, David Geffen also keenly felt that the atmosphere suddenly became very relaxed, and it also echoed with the sound.

The three of them came to the screening room with a smile and talked. While the projectionist was preparing to play, Eric only whispered to the ear of Katzenberg sitting on his left hand and asked in a low voice: "Jeffrey, David seems too much Enthusiastic, what happened? "

David Geffen is sitting to the right of Eric, and Katzenberg lowers the voice and says: "Geffen Records will leave Time Warner soon."

The screening hall is not the place to talk about things. After finishing this sentence, Katzenberg sat up again. He believed that this sentence was enough for Eric to understand the information he wanted.

Eric certainly understands the intention of the sentence Katzenberg. It is now 1993, according to the historical development of the original time and space. Tomorrow David Geffen, Steven Speilberg and Katzenberg will jointly create DreamWorks Film Studio.

However, there is a big deviation in history. Katzenberg did not leave Disney because of the sharpening of the contradiction with Michael Eisner. Spielberg has no intention of solo because of the great success of "Jurassic Park", only Record Company of David Geffen because of the death of Steve Ross and some contradictions with Time Warner. And out of the Time Warner Group.

Although Geffen Records cannot be compared with world-class record giants such as Columbia and Universal records, when DreamWorks was established in the original space-time, David Geffen with its own music company was the richest of the three.

Since there is no DreamWorks now, David Geffen obviously wants to find a close collaborator for his Record Company again. Among the seven major parties at this time, Firefly Pictures is undoubtedly the best choice in addition to the old owner Time Warner that has just left.

After starting step by step from "Home Alone", Eric also thought about it for a while. Want to develop Firefly into a media giant involving all media and entertainment industries, Record Company is of course also in his plan.

However, after years of experience and precipitation, Eric has gradually calmed down.

Just like Eric said when he talked to Elizabeth about Yahoo, he would not get involved in paper media, Eric found that expanding Firefly ’s territory into the music field was also not a good choice. Like the paper media that declined rapidly after the new millennium, the recording industry has already experienced a recession under the threat of the piracy industry because of the emergence of magnetic tapes that were much cheaper than vinyl records in the 1980s. After the advent of the era, the emergence of online music downloads will completely break the record industry into The Abyss.

Although it is still several years away from the further decline of the record industry. But if Firefly wants to get involved in the music field with great fanfare, then what might happen is under the competition of several traditional record giants. Firefly took advantage of the development of several years, just established its foothold, the winter of the recording industry came soon, and that was not worth the gains.

Eric's mood to watch "Interview with the Vampire" may be similar to that of Westerners watching "Journey to the West". Without the precipitation of cultural foundation, it is difficult to resonate too much with this type of film. Throughout the movie watching process, Eric thought absently about the Record Company mentioned by Katzenberg.

The movie is finished, and Eric applauds mechanically with others in the auditorium, but. But the last thought in his heart was that instead of entering the field of music distribution at this time. It is not as good as the original Apple in time and space, using the network and hardware to build a charging platform. That is how the music industry makes money in the Internet age.

The lights in the auditorium lighted up, and everyone in the auditorium whispered. Eric was thinking about the idea that had just arisen, and a female voice rang in the ear.

"Mr. Williams, what do you think of the movie?"

Eric raised his head and saw Anne Rice, who was wearing a black suit and was similar to the Anna Wintour he had encountered some time ago, when he was about fifty years old.

Eric can see from the expression of Anne Rice that she is very satisfied with the film, but Eric just did not watch the film attentively, and can only agree with the memory: "Great, especially the performance of Kirsten, for me It feels like a twelve-year-old body hides a 35-year-old soul. "

Anne Rice originally saw Eric sitting here in a daze, and was still a little dissatisfied. Hearing the words Eric, the emotion just disappeared immediately, and then a feeling of finding a confidant was revealed, and Kirsten Dunst, who will be sitting not far away He recruited and hugged intimately, and said, "Mr. Williams, it's such a coincidence, I have this feeling too."

Well, it ’s what you said.

Eric secretly underestimated a sentence, but on the surface it said quietly: "So, Ms. Rice, you are also satisfied with this movie, right?"

"Yes, I was originally worried that Mr. Cruise would not be qualified for this role, but his performance was far beyond my expectations."

"Since this is the case, Ms. Rice, why do n’t you write a movie review yourself," Eric said in the tone of this woman: "This is very helpful for the promotion of the movie, and it can also make you more fans able. See this movie. "

The status of Anne Rice in the theme of vampire is almost equivalent to that of romance novels and Aunt Joan Yao. As long as this well-known author personally supports in the media, it plays no less than the effect of millions of USD advertisements.

Anne Rice did not immediately promise, but just said ambiguously: "I will express my true opinion for this film."

After Anne Rice finished this sentence, he took Kirsten Dunst's little hand and walked outside the theater, whispering with Lolita from time to time.

People also quickly transferred to a conference room. Several film creators, Firefly producers, announcement department heads, and several specially invited film critics began to express their opinions on the film. Modify the details.

Although most people are looking forward, Eric has never expressed their views. It is still the same sentence. His soul from the West does not feel too much about vampire movies, and he hastily proposed amendments. , Perhaps it will be counterproductive.

Half an hour after the meeting, David Geffen received a call, and then greeted everyone. Eric and Katzenberg also left the meeting room by the opportunity of sending David Geffen.

The parking lot of the Firefly park is open-air. When the three people walked out of the office building and walked towards the parking lot together, David Geffen seemed to ask casually: "Mr. Williams, Firefly Pictures have any intention to develop into the recording industry?"

"Sorry, David, I have n’t considered this aspect yet, but the main focus of the next phase of Firefly will be on TV Network. Even if you want to enter the recording industry, you will have to wait a few years."

David Geffen Oh did not change his expression much. Although he wanted to get close to the vibrant towering tree Firefly Pictures, David Geffen did n’t have no other way to go. Eric was not eager to perform. Said nothing more.

After David Geffen left, Katzenberg said regretfully: "Eric, in fact, I think this is a good opportunity." (To be continued.)