I’m in Hollywood Chapter 656: Aspirations should be more ambitious

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In 1994, United States Screen Actors Guild (SAG) members reached more than 120,000, of which more than 99% of the members ’annual income is basically the same as that of the working class, only the top 1% of the pyramid is less than Talents can live a glorious life in Hollywood. While enjoying generous rewards, these people also have a large part of the power of Hollywood.

When the seven major Film Studio public voices will compress the top superstar pay, this part of the top superstar quickly formed an alliance under the Actor association and several Brokerage Firm series, almost on the day the seven major Film Studio forms were declared, including Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger , Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis and other Hollywood film premium tens of millions of superstar immediately cut off all the film projects that are being negotiated with the seven major Film Studio, some of the top superstar spokespersons have not threatened that they will refuse to cooperate with shoots completed Promotion of the film.

After the news came out, the whole Hollywood was again in an uproar.

In recent years, although CG Special Effects movies that rely less on the superstar level have begun to rise, but films that occupy more than half of Hollywood Box Office ’s income are still inseparable from the participation of these levels of superstar, this part of the first-line superstar unified act of picking is almost The impact of a Actor worker was comparable.

First affected by the first-line superstar shutdown, it is undoubtedly the Time Warner that has been taking the superstar route since the Steve Ross era. Warner has just gone through a bleak summer period. CEO Terry Semel has spent the most recent days in a diligent and careful manner. However, as Warner is negotiating with Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others who are negotiating the theft of fire lines, Waterworld, steaming orders, etc. Terry Semel was again attacked by shareholders and competitors.

Some of the major Film Studio projects such as Universal, Paramount, and Fox have also been greatly affected by this incident.

The situation of Film Studio is very different from that of the stars. Even if the first-line superstars do n’t make movies for a year or two, they can still live comfortably with their previous salary income. However, Film Studio cannot be shut down for one or two years for no reason. Without sustained hot-selling movies, Film Studio will soon face serious problems such as a sharp drop in revenue and a broken capital chain.

When some dilemma Film Studio executives turned their attention to the Firefly that caused the incident, the Film Studio under Firefly was basically not affected.

Two films Face/Off and Runaway Bride at the end of Firefly Group have been basically completed. It is needless to say that Runaway Bride starring Julia Roberts, although Face/Off has Nicolas Cage as a frontline superstar, but when the film has been completed, even if Cage completely ignores the old love that was personally praised by Eric and Firefly, it turns over. Nor can it have much impact on the film's release.

Next, the two The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Independence Day movies that will be launched next year are special effects blockbuster, even if it is Will Smith in Independence Day, when the contract was signed, it was just a newcomer who just stepped into Hollywood, and another 3D animation movie Toy Story 2 There is no need for anyone to act. That is to say, it has not been affected.

Moreover, the The Matrix, Titanic and other films that Firefly is in the preparatory stage, the main theme is still CG Special Effects. Although Firefly has also been in contact with some first-line superstar, judging from the Firefly ’s previous video card, even if there is no superstar joining, Firefly seems I wouldn't worry too much about the quality of the movie and Box Office.

After several other Film Studio executives realized this, they envied Firefly's production strategy that was not affected by the superstar bundling, but they also had a thought in their hearts: they would not be pitted by Eric Williams. ?

Otherwise, why did you provoke the incident. Everyone fell into the water, but you are any matter doesn’t have?

Conspiracy theories are always very easy to accept. When some people think more and more that this is a big pit dug by Eric, there is no idea to continue.

The stalemate between the two sides is less than a week. The Terry Semel of Warner made a compromise first because of the pressure of all parties. It publicly stated at a news conference that Warner has maintained good cooperative relations with Hollywood Star and will continue to maintain it in the future. The two sides cooperate closely for mutual benefit.

Although Terry Semel does not directly indicate that Warner will not compress the star's compensation expenses, no one will be stupid enough to understand the meaning of Terry Semel's remarks.

superstar alliances also know the strategy of giving a stick to a sweet jujube. After Warner first served softly, negotiations on items such as stealing FireWire, Waterworld, and steaming secret orders were immediately restarted. The two sides announced the official signing of several major movie projects on the second day of the Terry Semel statement.

With the compromise of Warner, several parties such as Universal, Paramount and even Fox, Columbia have made compromises either explicitly or implicitly, and only Firefly Group has never made any representation.

Cliff Peak Manor. Nicole, who had just taken a shower, just walked into the bedroom in a pale pink silk robe, and walked lightly on the cool floor with two thin white long legs and jumped onto the big bed.

"I really don't understand why you don't like laying carpets in your bedroom, so it's very comfortable to step on it," Nicole said with a close peck on the face of Eric who was leaning on the bed reading the document.

Eric said without looking up: "Carpets cost money."

Nicole rolled his eyes and suddenly laughed again. Dao: "What are you still missing for your conspiracy this time?"

"You think too much, I had no hope, so I can't talk about loss."

Nicole stared at Eric ’s face for a few seconds, and then said firmly: "I still see that there is no loss, I can see it."

Eric smiled and handed a document it read to Nicole: "Nà, look."

Nicole took it curiously and saw the dense data chart above, suddenly lost interest, and threw it to Eric: "You just tell me what it is, I can't understand."

"This is the internal data statistics of the Yahoo portal. With the industry's strong curiosity about the detailed operation status of Yahoo, if you take this document out, even if you open a 10 million USD, some people are eager to get it."

Nicole pretended to cover her mouth in surprise: "Yeah. So powerful."

Eric glanced at the tempting scenery of the pajamas sliding down the shoulders in the Nicole action room and smiled: "You are such a big boy, it is not cute to pretend to be a little girl."

Nicole pouted at Eric and pulled up her pajamas and said strangely: "It's really unsettled. Have you been with the beautiful professional model for a long time recently, and are not interested in me?"

"Wait, I will definitely clean up for you," Eric smiled a little badly: "But since you ran to explore my mind today, I first have to satisfy your curiosity, don't you?"

Nicole's face was red. Actively admitted: "I am not interested in these things, but Hanks they want to know what you think, so please ask me."

"My ideas are basically expressed in the Yahoo information, in the final analysis it is a little bit, let the Hollywood Star's remuneration be rational, that's it."

Nicole tilted his head curiously: "So what kind of salary level do you think is rational?"

Eric thought for a while and said: "The expense of celebrity compensation is only 2o% of the profit of a film. This is quite reasonable. I said that the rationality is not to compress the Actor compensation. I hope that celebrities can compete with Film Studio Take risks together. Just like when I first suggested that you join The Mummy in the form of a piece-rate share, although you can get more than 00 now, it is still reasonable, because Universal will make a profit of 400 million USD on this project You only got 8%. Just like the two action movies of Schwarzenegger and Stallone last summer, they both received 17million USD. Although they are much less than you, the two films are not only not profitable. On the contrary, it has brought tens of millions of USD losses to the producers. This is very unreasonable. "

"Your vision seems difficult to realize. The risk of film investment is so great. Before a movie is released, no one knows whether it will succeed or fail. The first-line stars are willing to take risks as long as the dividends are not many. If a movie fails to make a profit, they will do nothing. "

"So," Eric shrugged: "I didn't expect much from this, I just need to control the budget of Firefly."

Nicole puzzled: "But you offended all the first-line stars of Hollywood this time. Even Hanks and Cage, which are closely related to Firefly, did not say anything. They must have opinions on you. Since You could not have succeeded in just knows, why do you still want to do this? "

Eric raised the information that Yang just handed over to Nicole and said: "Because of this incident, the average daily visits of the Yahoo portal in the last week are close to 10 million. Although it will fall in the later period, I believe that it will be around the end of the year. After the operation of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the average daily visits of Yahoo will remain above 10 million visits next year, do you know what this means? "

Nicole's eyes widened, with a hint of girlishness in the corner of her mouth, and her head shook her head slightly: "I don't know."

"So to speak, we can simply compare the Yahoo portal to a newspaper. Some time ago, Firefly packaged the newspaper and magazine assets acquired from the ABC group and sold 15. 200 million USD, the total sales of these newspaper and magazine plus Together, less than 2million copies. So, you can convert, how much is the Yahoo portal with 10 million people 'subscription' worth? "

The mathematics of Nicole is obviously not so good. His eyes flickered a few times before he said in disbelief: "77.6 billion USD, can't there be so many?"

The original time and space, just a very simple directory website Yahoo, the market value on the day of listing rushed to 500 million USD. The current Yahoo has a series of very popular network products such as Yahoo Browser, Yahoo chat software, Yahoo portal and Yahoo Mail, and the traffic is bursting out of the original time and space Yahoo ten streets, plus the two major exhibitions Yahoo Technology Alliance and Yahoo Advertisement Alliance. It is planned that even if the market value of IPO next year does not reach 7600 million, it will definitely not be much worse.

"Nothing is impossible, you will have just knows next year."

Nicole still opens her mouth slightly: "Wouldn't that mean that you have more assets in 1 billion next year."

Eric said: "When the assets of Rockefeller Family used to be the highest, they reached one-sixtieth of the GDP of United States. I think I should at least pass them in the future."

Nicole subconsciously asked: "What is one-sixtieth?"

Eric recalled it and said, "The current GDP of the Federation is 7 trillion, and one-sixtieth is 120 billion."

"120 billion, 120 billion" Nicole murmured a few words, as if suddenly pulled off, and fell to the bed softly.

Eric threw away the folder in his hand and leaned over, opened a ray of gold on the face of Nicole and smiled: "It seems that it is difficult to breathe, do I need artificial respiration?"

Nicole reached out and pushed Eric's head away, saying: "I was proud of earning million in The Mummy for a long time, and now you are talking about it, I have no mood."

Eric smiled and said: "Some people often say that women conquer the world by conquering men. I think your ambitions should be more ambitious."

Nicole said with a grudge: "I never guess what you are thinking, but I also know that you do n’t mean to get married, and you have two children. I do n’t know what we can achieve. , Sometimes think of it like this, I think I should be far away from you. "

Eric leaned over and kissed the Nicole lips, reached out to remove the string of silver necklace between her necks, opened the heart-shaped ornament, and laid a rose ring quietly in it.

Nicole looked softly at Eric, picked up his left hand, and put the ring on his ring finger, faintly looking forward, saying: "Are you proposing to me?"

Eric shook his head, waiting for Nicole to show a disappointed look, he said: "No, the proposal should be worn on the middle finger, and the ring finger, it means you are already my wife."

Nicole raised his arm, looked at the ruby ​​on the rose gold ring under the lamp, and said: "No marriage proposal, no wedding ceremony, and even more, this ring is not unique, you want it like this Occupy me, hum, don't even think about it. "

Eric said: "If you are not afraid of being affected by Yulun, I can give you a wedding at any time."

Nicole's eyes lit up, but immediately asked again: "What about them?"

"They must have."

Nicole immediately wrinkled her little nose in discontent: "Do you want to remarry?"

"The law of the world is just to restrain the people who can be restrained. In my will, I can have many wives."

Nicole's eyes flashed and said: "I think, maybe you can join Mormonism, so it looks more justified."

Eric held the face of Nicole and kissed him fiercely, saying, "I just said that in my willpower, I can have many wives. I don't need foreign objects, no matter whether it is federal The law is still the God of heaven. Therefore, I will not add anything like Mormonism for this secular affirmation, that is self-deception. "(To be continued.)

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