I’m in Hollywood Chapter 681: I am here to say goodbye

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After discussing the release of the two films, the time is approaching noon. The three are planning to go out for lunch together. Just out of the meeting room, Eric has encountered Tina · Philippines, which has not been seen for a long time.

After Flower Films left Firefly, Tina · Philippe changed from Drew's assistant to Flower Films's management, responsible for Flower Films script editing and reviewing affairs, the work was fixed, and Eric rarely saw the figure of Tina · Philip beside small girl . Although the two parties had several dews of joy, Eric did not mean to leave Tina · Philip for a long time, but since they met, Eric also invited Tina · Philippines to eat together.

There is a good restaurant near the Flower Films office building. Several people sat down together and ordered lunch. Eric smiled at the restrained Tina · Philippines: "Tina, are you still writing script recently?"

Tina · Philip did n’t expect to see Eric suddenly today. She had n’t been in contact for a long time. She had a lot of feelings about Eric, but she felt that the man was more and more dazzling and farther away from himself. At this time, when I heard that Eric still talked to me in the casual and familiar tone, Tina Fei's restraint dissipated a little and said, "I have had some ideas, but I have been too busy recently and don't have much time to write Come down. "

Drew suddenly said: "Tina, didn't you tell me last time an idea adapted from your high school life, tell Eric to listen, how do you feel about it?"

Eric smiled and raised her head when he heard the words from the girl, but he thought of the "Mean Girls" of Tina · Philippines screenwriter, but he also knew that "Mean Girls" was Tina · Philippines based on a book called "Queen Bees and Wannabees" The novel is adapted, but at this time, I am a little curious about what kind of high school student script Tina · Philippines will come up with.

Seeing that Eric, Drew, and Amy all looked at themselves with great interest, Tina · Philip smiled embarrassedly and said, "Actually, when I was in high school, I was a very annoying girl. Some of them are crazy, they always wear like a tomboy, but I actually envy those beautiful girls who can dress themselves up. This idea is basically a story of a girl who has transformed ... "

Tina · Philippine ’s script concept has many similarities with Mean Girls in Eric. A somewhat rustic high school girl adapts to the new living environment and makes the favorite boy notice himself. So I worked hard to change myself from an ugly duckling to a swan story, which still can't be separated from the friendship, love, trust and other elements between teenagers. In fact, this coincidence is not difficult to understand. A screenwriter's script style must be closely related to personal personality and life experience. Although the original time and space "Mean Girls" script has been changed from a novel, but as screenwriter. Tina · Philippines must have added a lot of 'private goods' to it.

Since there are so many similarities between the two stories, Eric said: "Tina, take the time to write down this story, I will help you look at it, maybe you can shoot it."

Because there is a complete "Mean Girls" image in the memory, Eric can obtain the original author information from the subtitles. As long as you check the relevant information to make sure that no infringement oolong will be made, Eric can let screenwriter transform Tina · Philippine script The "Mean Girls" script in the original space-time.

When Tina · Philip heard Eric's words, his eyes suddenly lighted up, as Eric's current identity. Since she was asked to write script, the possibility of making script into a movie is almost close to 100%. The Amy · Pascal sitting next to him also moved slightly, and said with a smile: "Eric, Tina are now Flower Films people, can't you dig the wall in front of me and Drew?"

Eric shook his head and said with a smile: "This is also, speaking, the script of Tina is quite suitable for you to operate. After" Mission: Impossible ", Flower Films must have sufficient cash flow. It should be increased. It's time to make scale. "

Amy · Pascal just had a lot of joking elements in that sentence. If Eric fancy a script, any other company may compete with Firefly, but Flower Films will definitely not do so. After all, Eric has given Flower Films enough high-quality copyright. Therefore, when I heard that Eric took the initiative to push Tina · Philippines' script to Flower Films so quickly, Amy · Pascal was a bit unexpected.

Eric watched the changes in the expression of Amy · Pascal and explained: "In fact, this is the case. Firefly is currently planning to gradually streamline the production business. We plan to compress the number of films produced every year to about 15 in the next few years. Therefore, we may not have much energy to estimate the development of this youthful campus comedy. "

The three Amys were a little surprised. After the merger with Disney, the number of Firefly film production and distribution in recent years has been kept at 25 to 30, and suddenly compressed to 15, which is almost half the output. what. If it is Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Columbia, which are not in such good condition, the big Film Studio announces the reduction of production, everyone will not be surprised, but Firefly Group is in the limelight in recent years, and suddenly announced the reduction of production, which is too surprising.

Amy · Pascal froze for a few seconds, and still asked in disbelief: "Eric, are you sure you are kidding?"

"Of course not," Eric nodded and said seriously: "This is the result of careful discussion by the company's management, because we found that the effect of the annual large-scale film release strategy is not so obvious, but it is excessively wasted within the group. Resources. Take last year as an example. Firefly As of the end of last year, Disney Film Studio, Disney animation, Firefly Pictures, new line Film Industry, Touchstone Film Industry, Pixar animation, Black Ant Production Studio and some films introduced through external channels, the total number of films released It is 29, and the accumulated Box Office for the whole year is 1.55 billion USD, accounting for 25.8% of the total Box Office in North America 6 billion USD in 1994 ... "

As he said, the waiter brought the dinner ordered by several people Eric Had to pause the narrative, Amy · Pascal But right Eric A series of figures reported at random are amazed, unconsciously, Firefly of Box Office Market share already occupied North America total Box Office One quarter of it, if it goes on, Firefly Maybe really want to reproduce Hollywood Golden age Metro Goldwyn Mayer That kind single hegemony Situation, which made her even more unclear Firefly Why did it suddenly decide to cut production in this excellent situation.

After the waiter left, Eric continued: "Although this market share is high on the surface, in many films, Firefly has already suffered losses. Firefly This year's North America local total Box Office income is 1.55 billion USD. But only The five Box Office films of "Saving Private Ryan", "True Lies", "The Lion King", "Runaway Bride", and "Face/Off" with 100 million yuan accounted for the share of 750 million USD, which is almost half of the total Box Office. In addition to these five films, several medium productions such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sequel, "Mortal Kombat" ​​and so on have received Box Office ranging from 50 million to 90 million. 70% of the total, and the profits of these ten films accounted for more than 85% of the total profit of Film Industry. Next, the remaining 19 films brought 450 million USD Box Office income for Firefly. The average per film Box Office revenue is only 2 3 million, and the average production and distribution cost of these 19 films is 27 million, although the Overseas distribution and video operations, these 19 films can still bring some profit Firefly, but the overall inputs and outputs it is very worthwhile. "

After listening to Eric, Amy · Pascal nodded, and said to Eric: "According to your analysis, the behavior of the Firefly compression production plan is definitely very wise, but Eric. If Firefly does this, In the future, the Box Office market share may be lost. If it is other Film Studio, I think they will not be willing to give up the title of the market share first. "

Eric smiled and said: "It does n’t make much sense to compete for the first place in Box Office income, and it is easy to be jealous. Firefly pursues the first place in net profit. Firefly is now a comprehensive Media group, our future development focus on Film Industry business is to produce better movies, and at the same time devote more resources and energy to the development of value-added services around the movie, so that each excellent movie can realize the entire industry chain Maximize the benefits. "

Actually, Eric made this decision. It is also a detailed reference to the results of the later Disney development strategy. In the original space and time, the number of productions of Disney each year after the new century is not higher than that of other Film Studios, but because of the high-quality strategy, several Box Office dark horses can be rushed out almost every year. Therefore, although the number of Disney company's film production is only more than ten, with the excellent operation of the entire industry chain, Disney's's profits have always been among the top Film Studio.

After a while, Amy · Pascal asked again: "But, Eric. Do n’t you think the risk is also great? If you reduce the production size to half, Firefly may miss some Box Office dark horses. And Once some key projects fail, Firefly's annual financial data will definitely be very ugly. "

Eric said: "The low cost and high Box Office Box Office dark horse occupies less than one percent of the Hollywood films that land on the cinema every year. This slim chance is not enough to keep Firefly at a high load. Strategy, as for the possible losses on large projects, even if the production is not reduced, this risk still exists. But now, the loss of one or two major production films will not cause too much impact on Firefly, and Firefly is not a listed company. , Without having to rack up our brains to prepare beautiful financial reports for investors, we can run the company calmly and freely according to our own ideas. "

Amy · Pascal nodded a little enviously, but Tina · Philip suddenly said: "Hey, did you find that, the Box Office dark horses of these years seem to have appeared in Firefly."

Tina Fei said this, the three women suddenly found out that this was actually the case. From the beginning of "Home Alone", to the subsequent 《Pretty Woman》, and the peak of "Jurassic Park", last summer's "The Lion King", speaking, since the sudden rise of Eric, all the Hollywood movies that can be called Box Office dark horses seem to have legs. Of the brain gathered under Firefly.

Looking at the suspicious eyes full of curiosity of several women, Eric spread his hands and smiled: "This is my personal talent. If you really want a reason, have you seen" Men in Black "?"

“Oh,” Tina · Philip could n’t help laughing, poke at the small girl, who was also unhappy next to him, and reached out to make a tentacle shape on his head, and asked, “What color is the blood of Drew, Eric? Is it sky blue? "

The girl looked at the napkin with a bad expression and wiped her mouth, and then mysteriously pressed her small voice: "White. I tried it, and it's a bit salty."

"Amount."

"Ah?"

"Poof ... cough cough ......"

Tina Fei was stunned for half a second, and his face was instantly covered with a layer of red, and he reached out and pinched under the rib of the girl.

Amy · Pascal showed a puzzled expression. But quickly covered his mouth and chuckled.

Eric just could n’t hold back a sip of red wine and sprayed it out. Fortunately, he turned his head around the table immediately, but because of his patience, he was choked by coughs. Watching small girl holding a napkin, he leaned over weakly. Eric was completely undisturbed by the girl's expression, and knocked on her head with impunity: "I will never allow this kind of joke in the future."

"Remember, I will never tell others that you are Pandoran."

"Do n’t be stupid, you know I ’m not talking about this."

"Uh um ..."

The waitress came over quickly, and after a busy tidying up, several people were no longer interested in continuing to dine and paid the bill and left the restaurant.

Like the "Twilight" series and the "The Hunger Games" series of Lions Gate, the second and third line Film Studio is a big series of movies. Often can make it rise. Although it is still just Production Studio, a "Mission: Impossible" that expects global Box Office to reach 500 million USD will continue to bring hundreds of millions of USD cash flow to Flower Films. In the early stage of Flower Films, the three films "Mission: Impossible", "Night at the Museum" and "Forrest Gump" still need to rely on cooperation with other Film Studio or external financing, but after "Mission: Impossible", even if the cash back takes some time, Flower Films has no funds in terms of funds Any pressure.

In this case, expansion is almost imperative. In addition to the Tina · Philippe ’s provisional youth campus film concept at lunch, Eric studied with Drew and Amy and others on some script recently collected by Flower Films. Those Superhero copyright that Flower Films assisted in the recovery of Eric were returned to Marvel Entertainment In addition, copyright, such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Bourne Identity", have not yet reached the time of development. So if you want to develop a new project, you can only choose it for the time being.

However, good script is indeed an inevitable encounter. Several people sent a bunch of script around script manager to study for an afternoon. I didn't find anything good enough, nor did I find something familiar in the memory of Eric.

Has been busy off work, because tomorrow morning to Burbank to attend the Firefly high-level meeting, Eric did not return to Malibu, but plans to go to small girl to spend the night in Beverly Hills Manor mansion.

The twins drove the car on the road, and the small girl sitting in the back with Eric lay softly on Eric: "tired to death. Eric, picking script is a lot of trouble, why not write a few to us . "

Eric squeezed on the face of the girl resting on her leg and smiled: "You really treat me as Pandoran."

Drew turned her baby face and looked up at Eric: "You have written so many script before."

Eric explained: "It ’s different now, I do n’t have much time to think about script."

Being together for so long, small girl can of course see that Eric has some insincerity, but she has no intent to get to the bottom. She believes that Eric deceived herself, there must be a reason to deceive herself.

Eric looked at the brilliant small girl in his arms, smiled, and said nothing more, but he thought of Tina Fei ’s unintentional words in the afternoon: Box Office dark horses of these years have all belonged to Firefly. This inadvertent remark made Eric vigilant, because the words of Tina · Philippines are not accurate. To be precise, the Box Office dark horses of these years are all from Eric himself, whether he picked it personally or wrote it himself. from.

The memory of rebirth is Eric ’s greatest wealth and his greatest secret. This is a society of weak meat and strong food. Eric will not have any sense of guilt for taking script out of memory for his own sake, but he does not I don't want this situation to continue, let others really treat him as an alien or something. Moreover, now he also has wealth and power, so that he no longer has to do anything, as long as the outstanding movies in memory reappear according to the historical track, Firefly has enough strength to win these projects, and those copyright owners must also be more inclined to work with Firefly Cooperation with large and powerful companies.

car has unknowingly entered the narrow mountain path of Beverly Hills Manor. The slight bumps have pulled Eric into reality from the thought. Looking at small girl who has narrowed his eyes in his arms, Eric smiled and reached out to touch. The girl's eyelashes and smart eyes opened immediately.

"I haven't eaten dinner yet. Is this sleepy?"

The Drew little head rubbed on the Eric, tired of saying, "I just want to sleep in your arms."

"Oh, by the way, I just remembered. About the sequel of" Mission: Impossible ", did you contact Kevin · Costner?"

"Well, he wants 20 million USD's remuneration, and also requires a 20% North America Box Office share."

Eric simply counts consider as finished, if the sequel can reach the first score. Kevin · Costner probably took about 60 million from this project, which is really a lion's big opening. Although Tom · Cruise remembers to take more than 70 million from a "Mission: Impossible", people are also involved in the production and investment.

"Then what?" Eric asked again.

small girl nudged the corner of Eric and said, "What else then, give him 20%, and the publisher take another 15%, we only have 20% left, the local Box Office is divided into It is the fastest way to return funds to movies, and we are not those big Film Studios that can slowly recover their funds through long-term operations. How is it possible to divide this piece for him, so everyone will break it as soon as they come in contact. He should now shoot it at Hawaii "Waterworld", huh, I just heard Oh, it seems that the film shoots is not very smooth, the scenes they selected are too stormy, the scene of more than 5 million USD, a big wave came over, it was abandoned after a bang, and then I had to re-start Build. Now the budget has exceeded a lot. "

History ’s inertia is really strong enough, and Eric ’s mouth also has a smile. Perhaps, the film with the largest budget before “Titanic” will also be born on schedule.

Patted the girl's excited little face. Eric said: "Let's put this thing down for the time being, if" Waterworld "fails, plus the" JAG "of last summer's summer, Kevin · Costner bears two films that let investors invest heavily It ’s no more than three things, and he will definitely take the initiative to contact you by then. "

small girl leaning against Eric laughed. He grunted again, as if a bad idea was brewing.

The car quickly entered the Beverly Trousdale manor area, walked around for a while, and stopped outside the Drew mansion. small girl just got up. The twins sitting on the front passenger's side turned their heads and pointed out the door of the mansion. They said, "Boss, look."

Eric and small girl looked at it together. At this time, the sun had set. In the dim light, the girl wearing a white trench coat and jeans stood quietly on the open space outside the gate of the mansion with a schoolbag on her back. Petite, obviously not long open. Seeing that the car stopped, the girl stumbled and walked over carefully.

Eric has some doubts, how could Christina · Aguilera appear in the Drew doorman, while looking at the small girl inquiringly while pushing the car door, the girl just shook her head.

Seeing that Drew got off the car, all the hesitations of Christina disappeared, and apparently ran a little excitedly, noting that Eric got off the car from the other side of the car.

Although I saw the pace of Eric, Christina quickly walked towards small girl and said excitedly: "Drew, I thought you would not come back today."

small girl embraced Christina in his arms enthusiastically. Although the girl was not tall, Christina was even more petite. After a while of intimacy like oil, the girl let go of the girl and laughed: "I haven't seen you for a long time." , Why did you come to me suddenly? "

Christina was about to speak, and when he saw Eric approaching, he quickly turned around and said hello, "Mr. Williams, hello."

Eric just smiled and nodded, looking at Drew, Christina also turned his attention to small girl, and said a little sadly, "Drew, me, I came to say goodbye." (To be continued) .)