I’m in Hollywood Chapter 624: A reasonable reason
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After the outbreak of Box Office in the two films "Saving Private Ryan" and "True Lies" in June, the thoughts of Firefly shareholders and creditors who had various small abacus in mind were completely calmed down. The amazing Box Office of 4more than 6 million USD in the first three days of "The Lion King" It is for them to start to revalue their opponents ’stocks and bonds.
The production cost of "The Lion King" is only 45 million USD. Although the cost of announcement has reached the same high level, but North America only expects that Box Office of 300 million USD can already make a lot of money for Firefly. The film ’s future sequel income, overseas Box Office, Video tape sales and peripheral licenses will continue to bring more than 1 billion USD profit to Firefly. Hollywood Some people even think that the golden age of the Hand-Drawn Animation movie is coming again, and the first reaction of the Firefly minority shareholders and creditors to learn of this news is that they hope that Firefly can increase their investment in Hand-Drawn Animation and will produce an average of two years. Increased to one or more than a year.
Therefore, when the news that Eric is about to close the Disney animation film department after "The Lion King" appears on newspaper, no one believes this news is true. Because of this, when CNN played a recording of Eric answering a reporter's question at the premiere of "The Lion King", the whole world felt that Eric Williams must be crazy.
In the next few days, all Firefly high-level offices and private telephones such as Katzenberg, Michael Lynn, etc. were hit by calls from shareholders, creditors, and the media. Of course, Eric is less likely to be let go, but only when some people contact In Eric, the call was directly transferred to his assistant's office, as long as it was an inquiry about the Disney animation studio. The replies received are always affirmative, but no explanation can be obtained.
Emotional minority shareholders even publicly put pressure on Firefly executives on newspaper, and the speed of long-term bond sales of Firefly also began to slow again. The topic of closing Disney Animation Department has attracted worldwide attention in just a few days. Later, even ridiculous remarks about Disney about to go bankrupt.
Firefly Studios. In the studio preparing for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Eric, who was hungry by many people, was intently whispering with a designer to discuss the design of a set of Victoria’s Secret angel costume.
Outside the studio, a 35 brunette wearing a black professional suit came to the entrance and showed his ID before being put in. The woman searched for a moment among a group of designers, costumers, and trial-fit professional model. After locking the target, she walked through the busy working crowd and hurried to Eric.
The name of brunette is Kelly Haynes, originally an assistant in the assistant office of Eric. Although Eric agreed to Carolyn and her roommate Melanie Gleason to work in their assistant's office, the two girls had to complete the Harvard course before they could join the job, and even if they started working, they would not be able to take the role of Eric's first assistant in a short time. Therefore, after returning from Boston, under the recommendation of Alan, Eric chose this woman as her first assistant.
Feeling the hurrying figure beside him, Eric looked up and noticed Kelly Haynes and asked, "Kelly, is there anything?"
Kelly Haynes has been working in the assistant office of Eric for several years. But when I suddenly came to Big Boss, I seemed to be uncomfortable. He calmed down a little bit and said, "Mr. Williams. Just now Mr. Buffett called me personally. He said he arrived at Los Angeles at four o'clock in the afternoon and wanted to invite you to dinner. In addition, Mr. Tom Murphy and Mr. David West will also come from New York. . "
The Chairman David West of Warren Buffett, Tom Murphy and State Street Universal funds happened to be members of Board of Directors where Firefly accidentally represented the 25% minority shareholders.
Eric has called to explain briefly to several people before, but these people obviously do not intend to stop there.
Suspension of the work in hand, Eric said: "Promise them for me, in addition, I have the materials you prepared ready?"
"Yes." Kelly Haynes took out a document from the bag and handed it to Eric.
Eric smiled and shook his head: "Although these documents have not reached the level of confidentiality. But you should n’t take them out of the office at random if I did n’t ask for them. And I do n’t have time to read them now. Give them before dinner . "
Kelly Haynes has a red face. She wanted to let Eric see the results of her work for the first time, but ignored some of the work rules that she had paid attention to in the past, and collected the documents again. Kelly Haynes said seriously: "Sorry, Mr. Williams, this is my mistake. "
"It doesn't matter, is there anything else?"
Kelly Haynes took out a memorandum and said: "Hearst Communications, Condé Nast Publications, News Corp and Knight Ridder Group all put forward their own quotations for the paper media assets stripped from ABC ..." At this point, Kelly Haynes suddenly suspended and then looked at Eric The designer next to him seemed to be bending over to paint. The designer had no other thoughts in his mind. He was just curious about the daily life of the big man Eric. He just did not take the initiative to avoid it, but at this time he felt the eyes of Kelly Haynes keenly, and the designer was a little embarrassed towards Eric. With a sorry look, he picked up the drawing board and walked toward another workbench nearby.
This episode did not have any impact on the communication between the two. Kelly Haynes continued: "At present, Hearst Communications has the highest offer, 1.35 billion USD, followed by News Corp's 1.3 billion USD, Condé Nast's 1.28 billion USD and Knight Ridder's 1billion USD. Morning meeting On the Mr. Lynn, they all feel that this is just the first round of trial of the publishing group, and the final price of this asset should be between 1.5 billion and 1.6 billion USD. "
Eric nodded, indicating that he knew. Kelly Haynes did not expect what Eric would discuss with herself. If Eric had any ideas, she would usually only discuss with Michael Lynn and others. She was only responsible for summarizing this information to Eric.
Turning the memo to one page, Kelly Haynes could n’t help but looked up at the expression of Eric and said: “The Animation Department principal Mr. Peter Schneider and art consultant Mr. Roy Disney want to talk to you in person, they said this invitation represents Disney Hand-Drawn Animation Department 758 employees. I hope you can pay attention. "
"Unexpectedly, Roy Disney couldn't help but jumped out. He really regarded himself as Disney too emperor." Eric smiled slightly ridiculously, whether it is the information in the memory or the impression of the real person after rebirth. Eric doesn't like Roy Disney this guy who likes to play trickery.
In the original time and space, in the mid-1980s. Roy Disney joint shareholders kicked off Walt Disney's son-in-law and completely wiped out the influence of Walt Disney's bloodline branch on Disney company; Katzenberg resignation incident in the mid-1990s, Michael Ovitz resignation incident, there are Roy Disney figures; in the new century, Roy Disney again Initiated a shareholder vote and drove away Michael Eisner. It can be said that after the death of Walt Disney in time and space, Disney's has a figure of Roy Disney in every turmoil. Although some of these events have also brought a positive impact to the Disney Group, but since this time and space Disney has become an asset of Firefly. Of course, Eric will not allow the unstable factor Roy Disney to continue to exist.
Therefore, it did n’t take long for the acquisition of Disney. After the situation stabilized, Eric took off the position of Disney Animation Department as the age of Roy Disney, but only symbolically reserved the title of an art consultant.
Thinking a little bit, Eric said, "Tell them that at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, I will wait for them in the personal office of the Studio."
Kelly Haynes listened to the casual tone of Eric, and even doubted that Big Boss was completely unclear about the current chaotic situation in the outside world. She still quietly wrote down this matter on the memo, and then said: "Mr. Williams, only these things for now. Is there anything you need us to do on your side?"
"No, just arrange a car to pick me up for the dinner at night," Eric shook his head, just about to let Kelly Haynes leave, but then remembered another thing and asked, "I haven't had time to see Last weekend ’s Box Office report, what is Warner ’s “JAG” Box Office? ”
Kelly Haynes Road: "7.5 million USD, this film ranked fifth in the Box Office last weekend, after" The Lion King "," True Lies "," Star Trek Generations "and" Saving Private Ryan ". The film's word of mouth also fell, and the agency expects this The total Box Office of the film is between 25 million and 30 million USD. In total, the cost of announcement and others, Warner will bear the loss of 70 million USD in the short term. The detailed report has been sent to your email. "
Eric did n’t hear anyone mentioning this matter to himself, but already expected the end of "JAG", and some gloating: "Warner will definitely not have any expectations of Western films."
Kelly Haynes said: "Yes, Warner's total Box Office this year is temporarily behind Firefly and Universal. However, Warner's annual film distribution plan is 29, which is one more than Firefly. The subsequent Box Office accumulation is likely to be Ranked second, because all the other major Film Studios are in the state of production reduction. After Firefly, Universal is 16, Paramount is 15, Fox is 13, Columbia, Metro Goldwyn Mayer are all below 10, and the remaining second and third lines Film Studio although there are many films released , But Box Office did not perform very well. "
"It seems that you are very sensitive to numbers," Eric smiled and said, "I like women who are sensitive to numbers."
"Thank you, Mr. Williams," Kelly Haynes found a smile of panic when facing the smile of this young 10-year-old, and quickly said: "If nothing else ..."
Eric finds out that it has gone online without knowing it. If Kelly Haynes is already married, then this kind of slightly ridiculous discourse is too abrupt. Packing his mind, Eric said: "You go back to work, there is a need. I will contact you. "
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"At the premiere of" The Lion King "last Thursday, Firefly Group Board of Directors cooking seat Eric Williams suddenly confirmed a rumor that Hollywood has been circulating for a long time. Firefly Group will close the Disney animation studio. It is reported that this is because Firefly intends to fully digitize animation production. But then, the dramatic change in this incident was beyond everyone's expectations. The first day of "The Lion King", which was not so popular, not only increased the Box Office record of the first day of Disney animation by more than twice, but also Within three days of the first weekend, I got the amazing Box Office of 4 more than 6 million USD. In one fell swoop, I broke the Box Office record of multiple Disney 2D animations. It is expected that the total Box Office will even exceed the two 3D animations "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life" that Disney has issued. Afterwards, our reporter called Firefly Group CEO Michael Lynn and the result was that Firefly will continue to implement the established animation production transformation plan. So, what impact will this matter have on Firefly and Hollywood and other Film Studio? Mr. James Schilt, professional film critic of magazine ... "
In the TV set, a NBC financial program host got up and greeted the guests who walked into the studio, while Dao Fu Universal fund Chairman David West sitting in front of the TV could n’t help but sigh and said to the Tom Murphy beside him : "Young people, they are always so capricious. Tom, do you think we can make the little guy of Eric Williams change his mind?"
Tom Murphy turned his head to look at the clouds outside the porthole of the private jet and shook his head: "If he insists on doing so, no one seems to be able to stop him. I had a phone call with Warren last night, and he seems to have heard from Eric Something seems to be uncertain. "
"This is a Animation Department capable of producing 300 million-level movies. Even if Williams really made such a decision, no one will accuse him of canceling the original plan now. I think there is no need to die at all. Hold on to your wrong plan, this is too unacceptable. "
Tom Murphy suddenly asked: "What would you do if he would go it alone?"
David West froze, shook his head with a wry smile: "What can I do, would it be possible to file a lawsuit in the Federal Court to prohibit him from doing this?"
The amount of shares held by Eric means that he has absolute control of Firefly, and he can adjust his business arbitrarily without breaking the law. Because it is not optimistic about the development prospect of 2D animation, the closure of its Hand-Drawn Animation Department, although it will cause controversy, does not violate the law.
Both were silent, although they knew that they had another option, that is, sell their Firefly stocks and cash out, if they plan to do so, either Eric or Wall Street will be 100% willing to take over them. Firefly Group stock in hand.
But now that Firefly Group has surpassed Time Warner to become the largest media group of North America, only the most short-sighted people will be stupid enough to sell their stocks.
After listening to the arguing between the host and the guests on the airborne TV, Tom Murphy said for a long time: "I hope Eric Williams can give us a reasonable reason." (To be continued.)