I’m in Hollywood Chapter 712: New technology wave
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Chapter 712
Finally, the focus of the discussion on the host of "America's Next Top Model" focused on Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Tyra? Banks.
The name supermodel started with Linda Evangelista, and it is undoubtedly the most convincing for her to be the host of this show.
Before Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Cindy Crawford frequently appeared on TV programs. Although after Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the five spokesmen had almost the same reputation in the public mind, but Cindy Crawford had the advantage of hosting TV programs.
Tyra? Banks is full of vitality, obviously it is easier to be in the show with the players, very close to the people. But her bruise is also very obvious. Tyra? Banks was born in 1973, only 22 years old this year. Although she gained a very high reputation with Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, her age is very difficult to convince the crowd, otherwise, as the original time and space The host of "America's Next Top Model", Eric will not think too much at all.
After some discussion, the decision still rests with Eric.
To be honest, despite the ridiculousness of the previous two days, Eric does not know much about these five women, and most of previous life ’s memories come from various media. Now in this circle, if Eric is right again If the media information is convinced, it would be silly.
The plans for the reform of lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station and "America's Next Top Model" have just begun. Eric is not in a hurry. I plan to communicate with them a few times before making a decision.
The time came unconsciously into the night. Eric was listening to Luc? Besson about the idea of a science fiction film. He heard the voice of Kathryn ringing beside him: "Eric. Too late. I think I should go back. "
Luc? Besson See Kathryn approaching. Raised his toast to his eyes and walked away with a smile.
The expression of Kathryn is a bit embarrassed: "I haven't disturbed your speech?"
"Of course not," Eric shook his head.
Looking at the watch, just after 11 o'clock, no one left on party, but for Kathryn, whose lifestyle is very regular, it is obviously too late.
Eric lowered his wrist and looked up at the Kathryn with his hands tightly holding the little gold man in front of him. The expression of the woman was faintly nervous and panicked. Eric smiled and said, "I'll send you back?"
"No, no," Kathryn shook his head subconsciously, and the tension and panic on the beautiful face suddenly overflowed.
"You're drunk, it's not safe to drive by yourself, I can't rest assured," Eric said, reaching for the hall door.
Kathryn moved. Suddenly said: "You, you are drinking too."
Eric said: "I have a driver. Let's go,"
Kathryn followed behind Eric and walked towards the gate, but still whispered: "I can go back by taxi."
"You think you can stop the taxi movie Heroine by waving your hand. It's already late at night. How can there be a taxi?" Eric made a joke and waved towards Katzenberg not far away. A gesture to signal him the next thing.
The two came to the parking lot. Eric pulled the driving door and let Kathryn in. He sat next to her, asked the address of Kathryn, and told the driver to drive.
The streets around Sunset Boulevard are still brightly lit, but there are already a lot of traffic.
The car was walking on Sunset Boulevard. In the car, looking at Kathryn holding a small gold man with a helpless look, Eric inexplicably produced the illusion that a little girl sitting beside him was inexplicably smiling. Laugh, active and active atmosphere: "How did you discuss with Terrence Malick in script of" Red Alert "?"
"Okay, okay, there are some differences in details, but the problem is not big. Next month, we plan to go to Guadalcanal Island for a field visit, Terrence wants to conduct field shoots."
Eric nodded: "Oh, have you ever considered when to boot?"
Although "Red Alert" will be invested by Firefly, it is not a commercial film sequence of Firefly. Therefore, Eric is very loose on the production plan of this film, and it is left to Kathryn and Terrence Malick to decide.
"Next year, I want to prepare more time," Kathryn hesitated and said.
The two of you chatted casually with me, without knowing it, and the car stopped outside a house in Cold Water Canyon.
Eric has always been full of complaints about all the infrastructure facilities of Los Angeles except the road network. The two people got out of the car. The old streetlights were still around, and a dark mossy stain could be seen in the dim light. Telegraph pole, a shaky look.
"So, good night," Eric opened his arms to Kathryn.
Kathryn carefully came together, hugged him, and released: "Good night."
In this way, the woman walked towards the door behind her. Eric remembered something and shouted again: "Kathryn?"
The woman stiffened and looked back: "Why, what?"
Eric pointed to the little gold man in her hand: "In the next few days, you may need to cooperate with you in several interviews, I hope you can prepare for it."
"Oh, I know." The woman finished, staring at him, staring at him for less than two seconds, realizing that the man didn't mean to continue talking, and stepped into the yard with some frustration again.
Eric smiled and sat back in the car. The Carter in the front row? Moen launched car, but he did not forget to tease: "Boss, this is not like your style."
"Drive you, I already feel very guilty and feel bullying the little girl."
Carter? Moen turned the car expertly and said, "Ms. Bigelow must have felt for you, otherwise she would not behave so panic."
"It's always worse," Eric responded vaguely.
The next day, the news of the first female best Director in the history of Oscar quickly occupied the news headlines of major media all over the world, causing a spree of public relations.
At the same time, Firefly also started a new round of release of the "Saving Private Ryan" videotape and obtained the best Oscar Director Dongfeng through Kathryn. In the following week. The sales volume of "Saving Private Ryan" video tape easily broke the 1 million box.
On Europe. Because the release time of this video tape lags behind North America, it is at a time when the market is hungry. With the cooperation of Firefly and publicity of Europe, the weekly sales data easily beat North America, close to the 1.5 million box. In just one week, the video tape sales of "Saving Private Ryan" brought 75 million USD to Firefly. Firefly internally predicted that the final video tape sales of this film will exceed 500 million USD. Even more data than the film's global Box Office.
Because Film Studio usually does not publish the sales data of the videotape, most people outside the world still stay in Kathryn to get the best Director of Oscar. However, Hollywood has been boiling because of the video sales data of "Saving Private Ryan". Several major Film Studio have begun to look for excellent war films script. The most direct result is that Kathryn's next film "Red Alert" caused several major inside and outside Hollywood. Concern even caused a large and small lawsuit.
It turned out that Terrence Malick had contacted many Production Studios before making Eric. Basically including the other six major, these are nothing. The key is. In the process of contacting a company called Phoenix's Solitary Film Studio, Terrence Malick signed an agreement of intent with the other company to allow the other party to invest in the film "Red Alert", but it was already in 1988.
The budget of this film is too high, and the risks are too great. Phoenix did not end up with a dime investment. According to industry practice, in this case, the contract is almost automatically invalid.
This matter seemed to have passed like this, the project was taken over by Firefly, everything seemed logical.
But after getting the best Director of Oscar in Kathryn, and "Saving Private Ryan" has achieved amazing results in the video tape market, maybe it was instructed by some people. The producer of Phoenix Film Studio Robert? Geisler jumped out, said Phoenix According to the original contract, investment has been made for "Red Alert", requiring Firefly to return the production and distribution rights of this film.
The Hollywood **** is happening endlessly. Eric did not pay special attention to this matter, but just handed it to the legal department of Firefly.
He has watched the script of "Red Alert", and there is a lot of information about this film in his memory, knowing that this is not a Box Office big sale film, and he also knows that the Phoenix company may just want to Investment is only a blend, as long as it does not affect the production of the film, Eric does not mind giving up some investment rights. Of course, if the other party is too ignorant, Eric does not mind letting the other party try Firefly's anger.
After Oscar, Eric's main energy was focused on the reform work of its lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station and the preparation of "America's Next Top Model".
lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station was established in the early 1980s, and was formed by the merger of two small TV Stations in the hands of ABC TV Station and Hearst Communications at that time, and they were put together under the aeTV Network. In the first few years of establishment, lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station has been in a state of loss until the end of the 1980s, barely reaching the balance of payments.
According to theoretical data, lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station at this time has 30 million users, which is all the theoretical users included in different cable TV packages of several major cable operators.
But in fact, just like the legal channels, educational channels, or foreign language channels that Eric remembers in China that are also cable TV channels, but few people watch, lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station is the kind of TV channel that has long been ignored by users, even It is a relatively popular program, and the number of viewers does not exceed 2 million, because the ratings data has been very mediocre, and several major cable operators have often reported that they will refuse to carry this TV channel. After all, just like the Internet, cable TV signals Transmission also requires bandwidth.
Before Katzenberg mentioned this TV Station, Eric even almost forgot that Firefly still has such a TV channel.
After the plan was launched, Eric learned more about this TV Station.
In the 1980s, lInternet ExplorertimeTV Station mainly broadcasted two or three rounds of TV shows produced by ABC TV Network, and occasionally bought some very cheap and low-cost female videos. The content of the show was very tedious.
It was not until the early 1990s that we began to try to produce TV movies or miniseries independently. However, the number of shows produced each year has averaged less than two in these years.
Therefore, it is not easy to reform such a nameless TV Station. Fortunately, with the success of ESPN users who have grown from less than 300,000 to entire US's largest sports TV Station, all the top managers of Firefly are confident and quickly made a very detailed plan.
On the other hand, although the cable TV industry of United States was born in the 1980s, it really started to flourish. It still started from the second half of the 1990s. With the rise of the Internet industry, United States is actually in this process. Began to build a large-scale TV Network network.
If you pay attention to American dramas, you will find that many classic American dramas produced by the classic cable TV Station started from the second half of the 1990s. The most famous is undoubtedly the several films of Time Warner's h-wave TV Station, and at this time, United States's cable TV market, in the eyes of Eric, is best described as a boom.
The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but also a large amount of capital is invested in the TV industry. The Firefly owner has a very complete internal capital chain and does not need to be like other Film Studio. It also needs to obtain financing from external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large amount of funds invested in the TV industry also indirectly builds a larger platform for Firefly.
At the same time, United States ’s cable TV industry regulation has become more and more loose, and large-scale integration has actually begun since last year. At the beginning, Barry? Diller and Summer? Redstone competed for Viacom. The reason why the final defeat was because Barry? Diller relied on the parent company's telematics group merged with AT&T.
The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but also a large amount of capital is invested in the TV industry. Firefly owners have a very complete internal capital chain, which does not need to be like other Film Studio. It also needs to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large amount of funds invested in the TV industry also indirectly builds a larger platform for Firefly.
At the same time, like the cable TV Film Studio of United States, it also needs to obtain financing from external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but it is invested in the TV bank (to be continued.)