I’m in Hollywood Chapter 679: Sexuality

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LTD Group was acquired by Firefly Investment Company and Brighton Family through malicious acquisition. Although the two jointly hold 62% of the shares and have absolute control, when Eric threw 20 million USD to produce Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show marketing plan, it was immediately Strong opposition from other shareholders' representatives to LTDBoard of Directors. In order to avoid another turmoil within the LTD group that just completed the malicious acquisition transaction, Eric took the initiative to take this matter. Even considering the possible reaction of Firefly Group minority shareholders, the production cost of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is fully invested by Eric.

From the establishment of this fashion show to the final TV broadcast, the sensational effects produced have all proved the great success of this fashion show, but before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video was released, no one thought that this Neixiu itself has the potential to generate profit, even if the high ratings of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show have attracted a large number of TV Station attempts to buy the right to broadcast, but in order to maximize the influence of the Victoria’s Secret brand, Eric has a very low price for the right to broadcast Some Europe small countries TV Station even used 100,000 USD to take away the TV broadcasting rights of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. In the end, the total revenue of this piece was only more than 10 million, which is still not enough to recover the production funds of 20 million USD.

However, after the release of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show videotape, an unexpected situation appeared.

The beauty of the fashionable fashion Neixiu ’s own collection of videos, six songs that have hit the top position of any music chart, and the hungry marketing effect of repeated sales and out-of-stocks caused by erroneous sales, resulting in Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show The popularity of video tapes has far exceeded everyone's expectations. Just in the United States homeland, the sales volume of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video tapes may reach 20 million boxes, and the broad overseas market sales prospects are even more unpredictable.

With the hot sales of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video tapes, only the sales of United States video tapes can bring 300 million USD to Eric, even if Eric has reached the value of 10 billion USD, but this money is also a surprise for him Beyond the windfall.

When everyone was amazed by the sales of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video tape, the last regret must have been the part of the LTD shareholders who strongly opposed the production of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. It is estimated that those people heard the sales figures of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video tape. Can't help but have an urge to hit the wall. If it was not their strong opposition at the beginning, the income of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show video tapes will now belong to LTD, and this income can almost double the annual profit of LTD.

What ’s more serious is that the huge profits brought by Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show this year must not be divided. However, because the copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was sloppyly sold to Firefly, LTD was also unable to share profits in any future commercial operation of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

So, it is not surprising that Emily just tried to take back the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show copyright trial.

Although the relationship between the two parties is very intimate, Emily is a person of Brighton Family after all, and is talking about business. If copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show can be recovered, Brighton Family can also gain benefits in the future.

In fact, from the beginning, Eric's plan was to make a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show alone to let LTD see the advertising effect, and then return the so-called copyright to LTD to continue its operation. He never thought that Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show could bring such a sum for himself Windfall. But now, just as Emily is in business, since Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show itself has achieved unexpected commercial success, Eric can no longer carry out the original plan.

However, Eric is also very clear that the unexpected success of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in the release of video tapes can only be this time. Because this year's success was the result of Eric's spare no effort to use the entire Firefly Group media resources and Yahoo's network media, and personally carried out the operation for six months.

But Eric cannot continue to spend countless media resources to do this in the future, and even if he is willing, after Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show loses the sense of freshness and mystery, the audience will not continue to buy it. At the same time, the form of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is actually very simple, it Unlike the Super Bowl or Oscar awards ceremony, every year can bring enough suspense to the audience, so this success has no possibility of replication.

So. Although because of the successful operation of the first session, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will definitely bring some profits in the next few years, it is impossible to maintain it for too long. So, let go of copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show now. Almost equivalent to selling a stock at the highest point.

After considering for a moment, Eric said to Emily: "If I am willing to return copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, what price can LTD give?"

"Ah?" Emily suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Eric in disbelief. He seemed to want to determine if he had heard it wrong. Even Chris and Joanna looked at Eric in surprise.

Although there was a proposal to withdraw Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show copyright at the last LTDBoard of Directors. Emily is also quite emotional, otherwise she would not have tried Eric at all, but at this time when she heard Eric saying she was willing to let go of copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Emily still produced an incredible feeling, because she is like many people I didn't expect anything from this matter.

However, it was only a moment of surprise that Emily recovered and asked with certainty: "Eric, what you just said is true?"

Eric shrugged: "Of course, but if the price on the LTD side does not have enough sincerity, I will definitely not agree."

"This, we haven't really considered this situation," Emily smiled awkwardly and said the truth: "I need to go back and discuss with other shareholders, but, Eric, yourself ..." Emily said , Making a random gesture: "How much do you ... need to be satisfied?"

Eric said: "I am not short of money now. If you pay cash, I still have to pay personal income tax, which is not cost-effective, so copyright of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is considered an equity investment."

When I heard that Eric wanted to convert Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show ’s copyright into LTD shares, Emily immediately showed a pitiful expression: "Eric, LTD sold copyright to you at a symbolic price, you Sorry to offer too high a price tag, and you have made so much this time. "

Eric spread their hands and laughed: "If there is no unexpected income from the release of the videotape, I will post it back to 20 million USD this time, and it also consumes so many media resources of the Firefly Group and Yahoo portals, so I took the money Peace of mind. Now that I have turned a yellow bean into a golden bean, you will of course buy it back at the price of gold. Haha. "

After listening to Eric, Emily no longer made those unnecessary gestures and talked about the business seriously: "So, if LTD takes copyright back. Will you personally participate in the production of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show?"

Eric shook his head: "This kind of participation is definitely impossible this year, but I am also a major shareholder of LTD. If I have any good ideas, I will definitely not be stingy. Moreover, this year Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show opened a good Head, so even if I do n’t participate next year, you will definitely be able to pull to a heavyweight creative team, just like the background song of the big show, next year you can work with some top musicians, with the current influence of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, those singers I am definitely very willing to use Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show as the new song's starting platform, so although the revenue of the video will be divided by these singers, the profits obtained by LTD must be equally rich, and do n’t forget that the most fundamental role of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is still to Victoria’s Secret The marketing of the brand, the benefits that this big show can directly bring will gradually decline. But the Victoria's Secret brand will continue to strengthen for many years and maintain a very strong position in its own field. "

Emily nodded headlessly, listening to Eric, and jokingly said: "Eric, I still want to take you to LTD as the director of operations now."

Everyone laughed, and Eric laughed and joked: "Then you must be unable to afford it."

In the following days, the LTD side almost could n’t wait to come up with a plan, and finally the two parties reached a deal with the value of 225 million USD equity. Eric is still very satisfied with this offer. The original Firefly investment and Brighton Family evenly distributed the 62% equity, but after this transaction. The shareholding of Firefly investment increased to 35%, becoming the largest shareholder of LTD, and the shareholding of Brighton Family decreased slightly to 30%.

Although many industry analysts are very keen to point out that Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show ’s commercial success this year cannot be copied, the market response is often very blind. Otherwise, there will not be a stock market bubble, so the completion of this transaction once again stimulated the stock price of LTD, making the market value of LTD break through the high level of 5billion USD. However, these are already happening for a while.

After the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show TV broadcast ended, Eric's energy turned to Hollywood again.

With the advent of the Christmas season. "Face/Off" issued by Firefly and "Jumanji" issued by Columbia are successively up-graded, not because "Jumanji" involves a lot of special effects, but the special effects of original are obviously somewhat crude, and Eric is of course reluctant to repeat the same mistakes, so the budget is very bad Ample. In the end, the new version of "Jumanji" is much more elaborate than original, but at the same time, the budget has gradually increased, and finally reached the high level of 80 million USD, and the marketing cost has reached 40 million USD. In comparison, the final investment budget of "Face/Off" is only 60 million USD, and the marketing budget is much lower than that of "Jumanji".

However, some unexpected changes have occurred after the two films were released. "Face/Off" was released a week earlier than "Jumanji". In the first week, Box Office got an excellent Box Office of 36 million, and its wonderful plot was also won. film critic's unanimous praise, the final Box Office may reach about 120 million USD, although the results are not so eye-catching compared to the original "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", but this film is only able to recover the production costs in the North America market, through the overseas market distribution, it can To achieve profitability, the subsequent peripheral announcement is basically a net profit moistened.

Then, "Jumanji" was released.

This special effects blockbuster that has high hopes from Columbia, the first week of Box Office is also 3more than 6 million USD. That's right, it is almost the same as "Face/Off", and Columbia's original Box Office prediction is that this film should win about 45 million and Box Office in the first week. The gap between reality and ideal is obviously very large.

Moreover, compared with the good reputation of "Face/Off", the reputation of "Jumanji" in film critic is a bit bad. Many film critic said that the film is too "noisy", and Director is too obsessed with the stacking of CG special effects.

Although the market for CG special effects films is not yet saturated, many viewers are obviously not affected by the low reputation of "Jumanji". In the second week, this special effects blockbuster Box Office fell only a weak 26%, and the cumulative 11MM Box Office score of 6more than 2 million USD in two weeks It is already very good, but according to Box Office estimates, the final domestic Box Office of "Jumanji" is likely to stop at about 140 million USD, which is 60 million lower than the 200 million USD local Box Office expected by Columbia.

After the 2.1 billion USD huge asset write-down event just recently, Sony was originally complaining about Hollywood, although "Jumanji" finally Box Office can still make it squeeze into the top ten of the annual Box Office, after various channels of release, this one The film also has a very profitable prospect, but Box Office did not meet expectations, but it is an indisputable fact.

At the same time, because of repeated encounters in the selection of the next leader of Columbia, Barry · Diller, Amy · Pascal, Michael · Lynn and other Hollywood well-known managers have rejected Columbia's solicitation, feeling that the entire Hollywood is 'bullying' themselves The Sony finally couldn't help but play with his temper.

And the first thing Sony did is to toughen up the negotiations with Firefly's "Men in Black" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", and even publicly claimed that if Firefly continues to deliberately delay the development process, Columbia will not hesitate to use Legal means safeguard their own interests.

Eric had no intention of embarrassing Sony in the development of these movie sequels. He also hoped that Sony would remain in Hollywood.

However, Sony obviously does not think so. For the issue of Eric struggling with the main salary of "Men in Black", Sony has always determined that this is the gesture that Firefly wants to monopolize "Men in Black" copyright.

So, in the absence of fruitful negotiations within a short period of time, Sony instructed Columbia to do another thing, requesting to re-negotiate the "Night at the Museum", "Forrest Gump" signed with Flower Films and even the "Mission: Impossible" series that is still on the show The sequel's 'unfair' sharing contract. (To be continued.)