I’m in Hollywood Chapter 589: How to spend it
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Chapter 588
"Waterworld" is similar to "Mad Max" on the water. It is also the wasteland world after the collapse of civilization, except for a nuclear war set up after the exhaustion of resources, and a distant future set on land and submerged by the ocean.
Compared with "Cutthroat Island", which is a huge investment but has become a dumb Box Office, Box Office with more global 200 million in "Waterworld" is not too failed.
However, the production situation of this film is similar to that of "Titanic". It is because a series of overruns in the shoots process make it difficult for investors to ride the tiger. In order to avoid the pre-investment investment, they have to continue to inject funds into the crew. "Waterworld 》 Final production cost 1. 7.5 billion USD, plus the total investment of announcement costs more than 200 million USD, is the highest cost movie before “Titanic”.
It's just that the ending of the two movies is very different. "Titanic" has created an unprecedented Box Office record. Although "Waterworld" has more global Box Office 200 million, it still causes a huge loss to the producers relative to the huge investment. .
Only from a bystander's perspective, Eric still likes the story setting of "Waterworld" very much. If this film can follow the low-cost production route of "Mad Max", Eric will definitely not hesitate to take it 7∠ Under this project. But now as Boss of Firefly Pictures, Eric will never touch this project if he can anticipate the future prospects of this film.
Moreover, when Kevin Costner has intended to appear in the "Mission: Impossible" series before "Waterworld", Eric hopes that "Waterworld" will repeat the same mistakes, so that they can take the initiative in the negotiation of the sequel to the "Mission: Impossible" .
Both Amy and Drew can clearly feel that Eric was a little absent-minded when looking at "Waterworld" script. Drew knows that this situation often occurs when Eric looks at script. But this will not affect his judgment on a script. Amy Pascal thinks that the absent-mindedness of Eric may be because it is not very optimistic about this film.
Sure enough, Eric quickly completed script, and the expression did not show the excitement of seeing good script at all, and said to Amy: "Did you talk about Kevin Costner about this project?"
Amy shook his head: "Not yet. I was negotiating with Kevin Costner over" Mission: Impossible ". I heard that Kevin Costner's personal Production Studio is contacting this project. Brokerage Firm of Kevin Costner intends to package and sell this project to the big Film Studio. . "
Eric frowned slightly after hearing the word ‘packing’, although now Hollywoodaa, ma, and im Brokerage Firm stand on three feet. But because of the article he originally published, the other two companies imitated aa's packaging strategy. "Hook", which caused Spielberg's Director's great damage three years ago, is aa's packaging project.
When I first entered Hollywood a few years ago, Eric just thought that the packaging strategy of Brokerage Firm overextended the power of manager according to memory, and at the same time made the star ’s remuneration and film production costs higher and higher. As I live in Hollywood for longer and longer, Eric I also have a deeper understanding of the packaging strategy of Brokerage Firm. The Brokerage Firm packaging strategy has caused more damage to Film Studio. The chief staff of the packaging project film crew is recommended according to Brokerage Firm, although it can be modified. But the choice is often not large, which leads to a film project is often not suitable for the film. Eventually causing the failure of the movie, Spielberg's "Hook" is the most classic example.
The failure of huge investment is the biggest damage to Film Studio. As the scale of investment in movies becomes larger, the impact of this damage will become more and more serious.
Like the "Waterworld" in hand, if you want shoots this water waste style film, there is no doubt that the most suitable Director is the George Miller that became famous with the "Mad Max" series. "Waterworld" is an imitation of "Mad Max" from clothing to set. The result is that only one shell is imitated.
The Director of this film in Eric memory is Kevin Reynolds, and the film shoots is delayed until the end, Kevin Reynolds is unable to control the situation, plus the hunch that "Waterworld" may be over, directly picking the pick and not going. It is conceivable that if Director is chosen right at the beginning, the ending of "Waterworld" will definitely not be so bleak.
"Since it's a packaging project, let's not participate. Flower Films can't have any failures now," Eric handed script to Amy, and said, "Just concentrate on preparing for" Mission: Impossible "as soon as this happened . "
Amy heard the word ‘failure’, Weiwei raised the eyebrow, and thought Eric did not like this project. However, she soon realized the other meanings in Eric's words and showed a clear smile.
If "Waterworld" fails, it will definitely save a lot of money for the "Mission: Impossible" sequel.
Looking at the time, about 12 o'clock, Kevin Costner will come over soon, and Amy hastily stuffed the script of "Waterworld" into the bag.
Kevin Costner soon came to the restaurant with manager. Although it was known that the original "Dances with Wolves" was operated by Eric in the back, but in the past few years, the matter has also faded. After all, Hollywood is a gamble. If you gamble and lose, if you are grudged about the success or failure, it is impossible to survive in Hollywood.
The two parties used lunch time to finalize the details of "Mission: Impossible". Although there are some doubts about the Brian De Palma horror film Director recommended by Eric, none of the people sitting were stupid enough to doubt the Eric.
Considering the age of Kevin Costner, Eric only intends to produce three films for this time and space "Mission: Impossible". After all, after three films, unless Kevin Costner takes the initiative to reduce the remuneration, otherwise it will increase with the protagonist of the Hollywood series of films and continue Going on Film Studio is equivalent to working for a star.
However, as long as the copyright of the "Mission: Impossible" series is in hand. After the trilogy. Leave it on for ten or eight years. After the influence of Kevin Costner on this series has faded, this project can still be restarted again, and by the way, you can play the love card or something.
Because Kevin Costner is eager to produce "Waterworld", the schedule card is very tight. After finalizing a series of main creations, "Mission: Impossible" quickly entered the production stage. Columbia also decided to put the "Mission: Impossible" series at the end of the year. .
Arrange "Mission: Impossible", Eric is paying attention to ABC acquisition negotiation at the same time. He also put most of his energy on a series of movies that are about to be produced and in the later stages.
Of the three films in the summer, "The Lion King" has been completed, while the other two films Kathryn Bigelow's "Saving Private Ryan" and Cameron's "True Lies" have entered the final editing stage, Eric is very at ease with Cameron, so there is not too much Intervene in "True Lies". Before "Saving Private Ryan" filmed, Eric had seen a large number of shots of Kathryn shoots, and was very satisfied. The most important Normandy landing battle was more shocked than original with the support of top-level special effects technology in the digital field. It's just that Kathryn's Director style is very different from original, so Eric often has to appear in the editing room. Therefore, from time to time, Kathryn has complained, the woman is not because of the intervention of Eric editing. It was more about complaining about Eric's distrust, and occasionally in the tone there were some small grievances that she did not realize.
These are all upcoming Firefly films. Eric also pays attention to the preparation status of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" and "Independence Day". These two films are expected to be launched in the second half of the year because Eric does not intend to continue the Director "Jurassic Park" series. Therefore, the choice of Director took a lot of effort.
In addition to the videos of Firefly, the "Men in Black" in cooperation with Columbia has also entered the final stage. The schedule is also in the summer. Another film "Jumanji" was placed at the end of the year because of the large amount of special effects engineering.
DreamWorks ’s 《Charlie's Angels》 has almost completed the final production. DreamWorks plans to launch three films this year, and only three years and ten films can be completed this year. Therefore, Eric also had to devote enough energy to that side. , Took the time to select two other works, and wrote the outline of the story "Resident Evil", and handed it to screenwriter to complete script. At the same time, he also made suggestions for the upcoming 007 sequel of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Since Sophie has already gone to Ireland with the "Braveheart" crew, Eric has given the idea of "007 of GoldenEye" in the normal order, but Famke Janssen During the period of "GoldenEye" shoots, shoots "Archive" must be requested, and Eric did not give her the role of villain.
Between these trivial chores, time soon came to March. This year ’s Oscar was scheduled for March 21, much earlier than in previous years.
However, at the beginning of March, Hollywood was most concerned about instead of the upcoming Oscar. There was another thing that attracted people ’s attention.
Last night, because of the "Independence Day" thing, I talked with Roland Emmerich very late. In addition to the recent rush, Eric was going to sleep today, but the time was just eight o’clock, Eric was invaded by fire and wind. Elizabeth in the bedroom pushed hard to wake up.
"Eric, get up quickly, you see this issue of" Forbes "magazine, and newspaper ..." Elizabeth's tone is a little quick, with a little excitement.
Eric woke up in a daze, reached out and hugged the girl in front of her, and said, "Don't be noisy, I will sleep again."
"You are now the richest man in the Federation, still asleep!" Elizabeth hit a few times on Eric.
What happened to just knows when Eric heard "Forbes", regarding the latest issue of the Forbes rich list, Eric and Steve Forbes have negotiated on the phone several times before finally determining a number, although this time it is still not Eric 'S true worth, but it is the most favorable to the negotiation of Firefly Pictures's acquisition of ABC TV Network.
"19700 million, I don't think you have so much money, and it is 10billion USD higher than the second-place Warren Buffett." Elizabeth said that Eric was lying on the bed and had to lie beside him.
"Do you believe the numbers above?" Eric said, leaning sideways.
Elizabeth froze for a while, and said, "What do you mean?"
Eric said: "This number is a good negotiation between me and Steve Forbes, so it is not accurate. You have also coaxed and helped me make breakfast."
"Breakfast is ready," Elizabeth said, pushing Eric hard: "Then, how much money do you have?"
Eric Seeing that she ca n’t continue to sleep, she opened her eyes and took the magazine of Forbes in front of Elizabeth, looked at it, and said, "Look, I did n’t say that because of the outbreak of the film and television industry. Among the assets of 700 million USD, 190 USD belongs to Firefly Pictures, only other assets of 700 million USD. If there are really only so many, do you think Chris can still play malicious acquisition of Limited now? "
Elizabeth has heard about the acquisition of Limited by New York Chris. If Firefly investment attracts funds to the public, then Board of Directors must be established, but Firefly investment company has never done so, which means that Firefly investment company Most of the money should be Eric. Right now Chris has already priced out more than 2billion USD in New York in order to acquire Limited. Even if this is a leveraged buyout, and there is not enough funds, Chris will definitely not dare to play like this. When I heard Eric say this, Elizabeth is here to be interested. Asked with interest: "Then talk about how much money do you have?"
Elizabeth has heard about the acquisition of Limited by New York Chris. If Firefly investment attracts funds to the public, then Board of Directors must be established, but Firefly investment company has never done so, which means that Firefly investment company Most of the money should be Eric. Right now Chris has already priced out more than 2billion USD in New York in order to acquire Limited. Even if this is a leveraged buyout and there is not enough funds, Chris will definitely not dare to play like this. When I heard Eric say this, Elizabeth is in interest. Asked with interest: "Then talk about how much money do you have?" (To be continued.)