I’m in Hollywood Chapter 575: copyright Small Vault
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After the acquisition of Disney, Firefly Pictures already has its own music department, but compared to several other Film Studios, the size of the music department obtained from Disney is much smaller. Eric was originally just to release the single "New Divide" The established New Territories Record Company is negligible.
Firefly Pictures is booming now, and the company's revenue and profits are making other big eyesight. Apart from Eric, who can see the future, perhaps all other executives of Firefly will be like Katzenberg, in favor of expanding Firefly Pictures. Music department.
After hearing Katzenberg ’s words just now, Eric did not attack his enthusiasm, saying: "Jeffrey, Geffen Records are not suitable for us, and we should put all our resources and energy on the acquisition of TV Network at the moment Too many things are often choked. "
Of course Katzenberg understands this truth, nods on the surface, but slightly sullied in his heart. Although he does not know much about the investment company of New York, he also knows how scattered his Boss energy is. In the promotion process of "Jurassic Park", this boss is said Went on a whim and bought a mobile phone company in Finland.
To be honest, Katzenberg did n’t even know where the small country of Finland was before hearing about it.
At this time, it ’s past work, David Geffen has been sent away, and Eric has n’t thought of returning to the office, because during the process of watching "Interview with the Vampire", I thought of things like online music platforms. Eric was going to go back and check it out immediately. Related Information.
However, when the two left, there was still a large group of people in the office. Eric raised his finger to the location of the meeting room and asked, "Jeffrey. What's going on with them?"
If only Firefly employees work overtime, Eric does not find it strange, but he remembers that Neil Jordan, Cruise and others did not leave in the conference room.
Katzenberg explained: "The company arranged a small reception for them. It was a celebration of the completion of the movie, and it was in a nearby hotel. David Geffen will definitely show up at night."
The Westerners held the party and Eric memories of university dormitory dinners for the same reasons. The reasons were varied, Eric was not surprised, and did not mean to participate. After saying goodbye to Katzenberg, Eric returned to Malibu.
When Eric is not in Los Angeles, Drew often does n’t live here. In Cliff Peak Manor, there are not many people except some basic maintenance personnel.
I walked into the empty and quiet hall of the villa with my suitcase alone. Eric couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Here is his country, his own country.
Eric is a person who likes to enjoy loneliness very much. He puts his luggage into the bedroom quietly, calls a takeaway, eats dinner, and the sky of Los Angeles is completely dark. Eric gets into the study and turns on the computer. Start to sort out some thoughts in the afternoon.
The content of Yahoo web portal is very rich under the unremitting efforts of Eric. Eric even found an online music sharing website in the website directory. This made him very surprised.
Because of the strict copyright protection system in the West, this website called ‘Internet Underground Music Archive’ has only a little over 100 pieces of music to share, but Eric has found something that interests him. The Internet underground music archives website uses the MP2 audio format. Don't think, this must be the predecessor of MP3.
Organize some of the inquired materials into documents, Eric opens the mailbox, and begins to write to the person in charge of Hotmail Steve.Mitnick.
Through this period of online communication, Eric has a deeper understanding of the heads of the browser company, Yahoo and Hotmail. Eric has decided to conduct online mail service for Yahoo web portal and Hotmail before 1995. Merger, and the person in charge he chose is this Steve.Mitnick that has not met so far.
After sending the email, Eric stood up and stretched out, walked to the shelf and took out a novel at random. I poured myself another pot of coffee and turned off the study's ceiling light. Reading quietly under the table lamp sitting by the window.
The sound insulation in the study is very good, and the sound of the waves cannot be heard. Occasionally looking up, you can see the sea of silver scales under the Malibu shore lights.
I do n’t know how long it passed. A sound came from the computer speaker. Eric got up and came to the desk, turned on the monitor, and saw that Steve.Mitnick had received a reply.
Steve.Mitnick has a lot of professional terms that Eric does not understand.
However, the last two agreed to buy a patent for the MP2 audio format for technical improvement.
At the end, Eric suddenly remembered the instant messaging software that the two chatted with. At the time, Steve.Mitnick said that it would be completed in three months, and it was almost three months at this time.
However, after asking, the other party bounced the ticket as usual, saying that there are still some details that need to be improved. In this case, Eric has been experienced once during the development of Hotmail, and no surprises have been felt. Look at the smooth application of Hotmail. In fact, Eric did not urge, anyway, this matter is not too hasty, just let the other party toss it.
After talking about things, Eric got up and planned to go to bed after reading for a while, and suddenly found that Drew was sitting cross-legged on the sofa behind him, holding a book attentively and reading again.
Seeing Eric stand up, small girl throws away his hand and it is a book that rushes towards Eric.
The soft little body embraced, Eric fell back into the leather chair again.
Eric reached out and hugged the girl's turbulent body, and asked, "When did you come back, it scared me."
Drew sits on the lap of Eric, habitually rubbing, grinning: "Ten minutes ago, I saw you were busy, so I didn't bother you."
"Oh, my girl suddenly became sensible, what am I crazy during Los Angeles?"
"It ’s not crazy, people have been building Flower Films Oh. I rented a three-story office building in Venice Beach, very close to the Firefly base of Playa Vista, how?"
After 20th Century Fox acquired TG. Drew got 42 million USD with 30% of shares, Eric according to their own arrangements. The Flower Films was sold to Drew for a nominal price.
"Yes, you can use the resources of the studio base nearby, which is much better than Firefly Headquarters. The Headquarters of Burbank is too far from Playa Vista."
"Oh, well, guess who I dug to serve as Flower Films CEO?"
"Michael Eisner?" Eric smiled deliberately with a surprised expression, and gently patted on the girl's legs: "Well done, I have long seen him as unpleasant. Since it fell into your hands, it's good Pack him up. "
Drew was dissatisfied with Eric ’s joke, and twisted his waist vigorously: "I spent a lot of energy, no, guess again!"
"There are no hints, how can you make me guess."
Drew said: "It's a woman Oh, you know."
Woman?
Eric thought for a while and was surprised: "Will it not be Paula Wagner?"
Eric can think of the manager who matches the strength of Flower Films as Paula Wagner of Cruise & Wagner Production Studio. He had planned to let Nicole dig the corner of Cruise, but he was unexpectedly taken by small girl first.
However, from the short-lived expression of Drew. Eric realized that it must have been a wrong guess.
Drew also quickly thought of Paula Wagner's identity, and said disdainfully: "No. She is something worth my effort to dig."
Eric thought that although Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise had established their own portals a few years in advance, they did not produce such excellent works as "Mission: Impossible". In the past two years, Production Studio of Cruise can only say stunned. It's worth the girl to dig people: "Okay, don't play dumb mysteries, you tell me who I am."
"It is Amy Pascal Oh."
Eric is really a bit surprised this time, although Amy Pascal is just a Vice Chairman of Columbia. But even because Peter Guber can't get rid of the black smoke caused by Columbia, Amy Pascal has been in Hollywood for many years. It is very easy to switch to any other big Film Studio to continue to hold a Vice Chairman position. I did not expect to be fooled by small girl into Flower Films which has nothing.
However. The two are really destined. In the original time and space, the 《Charlie's Angels》 series can only go smoothly to shoots with the support of Amy Pascal.
"Tell me, how did you trick Amy into your empty shell company with nothing?"
"I promised her to be CEO of Columbia three years later."
"Oh ... Ah, this is too big?"
small girl blinked innocently: "You let me separate Flower Films, don't you want me to annex a big Film Studio?"
"That ’s Columbia, the target I ’m picking is Metro Goldwyn Mayer, right?"
Know that even two years later, Sony realized that Peter Guber had disabled Columbia and wanted to withdraw. With the rapid upward trend of the Hollywood industry, the selling price will definitely not be much lower than when Columbia was acquired from a wholly-owned subsidiary.
In order to avoid monopoly, Eric let small girl leave Firefly with Flower Films, which was originally aimed at Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Compared with the huge Columbia, the broken Metro Goldwyn Mayer Film Industry can be easily won with more than one billion USD.
"Metro Goldwyn Mayer is too bad, I do n’t want it," Drew shook his head in dissatisfaction, and then began to shift the topic: "Eric, I still have more than 40 million in hand, do you think I started with that video How about shoots? "
Eric feels the intention of small girl to change the topic, and it is no longer entangled. Anyway, pulling Amy Pascal over is only good and no harm. As for the promise of the girl, it is estimated that Eric can be considered, Amy Pascal can also be considered, since the other party choose From Columbia to change jobs to help Drew, then she must already have her own ideas.
After so long, Eric even almost forgot how many copyright Drew had collected. So I asked, small girl got up from Eric and ran to a shelf to find a folder and handed him: "Nà, It ’s all here. "
Eric was just about to look over. The girl was squeezed on the Eric. Fortunately, the leather chair was big enough. The girl was also a petite, so it did n’t look crowded when she leaned together.
Eric moved the leather chair legs to the floor and moved towards the desk, took a pencil, turned over the folder, and the two looked at a list of copyright materials together.
At the beginning, Eric wrote a lot, but because of the leak of the news, some people were robbed of it, and some copyright could not be followed. The names on the list are not too many.
In addition to the 《Charlie's Angels》 series that has been transferred to DreamWorks, Eric lists the most commercial potential copyright.
"Mission: Impossible", "The Bourne Identity", "Forrest Gump", "The Lord of the Rings" ...
When I saw "The Lord of the Rings", Eric was surprised to find that small girl took all Tolkien's copyright including "The Silmarillion", which is a good thing.
In my memory, the original copyright of The Lord of the Rings was obtained by Weinstein Brothers of Miramax in the early 1990s, and it fell into the hands of the new line, and finally appeared on the big screen with the efforts of Peter Jackson. The whole process used It took ten years.
However, the copyright people in the "The Lord of the Rings" series were angered by the new line of concealed income and deductions. After shoots finished "The Hobbit", because Weinstein Brothers did not get the copyright of "The Silmarillion" in the end, eventually This series was stranded. Although the copyright owners of "The Silmarillion" gave a series of sounding reasons, in Eric's view, after all, the distribution of benefits has not been discussed.
In addition to these four commercial copyright, Eric also saw the copyright of the "The Shawshank Redemption" original novel. Although this movie is an absolute classic, it is not an Box Office blockbuster, it can only be used to impact Oscar.
In addition to these, there are few other copyrights that have nothing to watch. It was completely thought out by Eric at that time.
The two discussed together for a while. Eric felt that it was definitely not enough to win Columbia based on the potential brought by these copyrights.
Think for a while, think of Sony, Eric soon thought of the original "Spider-Man" of Sony, now "Spider-Man" and some other famous Superhero film adaptation rights of Marvel are still in the hands of small Film Studio If these can be taken down, it will not only increase the Flower Films chips, but also get the Superhero copyright out of hand in advance. In the future acquisition of Marvel, there is no need to take the risk of those small companies sitting on the floor to recover copyright. (To be continued.)