I’m in Hollywood Chapter 739: Agent film universe

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Chapter 739

During the start of the conference, Eric summoned Amy? Pascal and other Metro Goldwyn Mayer shareholders who participated in this conference to communicate their ideas about additional stock issuance. Amy? Pascal and others naturally have no opinions, although the integration is completed After that, Metro Goldwyn Mayer seemed to be booming, but the capital chain was very tight.

The huge debt of 1.7 billion USD, the principal and interest due each year is not less than 200 million USD. The original reason why Kerkorian repeatedly sold Metro Goldwyn Mayer was also to sell debts and continue to restructure debt. To achieve the purpose of reducing expenditure.

After this transaction, Kerkorian was completely expelled from Hollywood, and of course, the new Metro Goldwyn Mayer cannot play this capital game any more, and these principal and interest expenditures cannot be saved. If 20% more shares can be issued, the company's financial situation will return to normal operating levels, and it will have sufficient funds to repair Metro Goldwyn Mayer's production and distribution system, and start production of "The Lord of the Rings" ​​and other large series.

After discussing this matter, the staff notified the press conference to start, and everyone left the lounge and walked into the conference hall.

In addition to being the main creator of the 《Charlie's Angels》 series under the tension of shoots, the protagonists of several major series such as the new company's "007", "Mission: Impossible", "Night at the Museum", "Resident Evil" are all here today. They are destined not to be the protagonists, but the reporters on the scene focused all their attention on the shareholders and senior management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

As the new company ’s CEO, Amy? Pascal took the stage to take the stage, took more than ten minutes to introduce the new company ’s overview, and at the same time gave a unified answer to a series of media concerns during the recent Metro Goldwyn Mayer acquisition and integration process .

More than one hundred live reporters who were invited to attend were patiently waiting for the questioning session after the Metro Goldwyn Mayer executives finished their speeches. Some people's eyes have fallen more than once on the Eric seated on the guest seat.

However. When Amy finally announced that Metro Goldwyn Mayer would issue additional shares, all the reporters at the scene immediately cheered up.

In the recent media predictions, many people think. Metro Goldwyn Mayer will choose privatization as Firefly, which is also consistent with the consistent style of Eric Williams. What's more, Metro Goldwyn Mayer currently only has 12% of the outstanding shares, and the difficulty of choosing privatization is also very low. Therefore, this news, which is very different from most media people's guesses, caused all the media reporters present to boil. Metro Goldwyn Mayer or more direct, Eric Williams's intention to make this decision.

Unfortunately, after Amy? speech. Frank? Makasso, whose position was changed to Metro Goldwyn Mayer Chairman, took the stage again, introduced the production plan of Metro Goldwyn Mayer in the next few years, and invited live star guests to come on stage for simple interaction.

After half an hour in this way, the free questioning section that the media expected is finally here.

When Eric, Drew, Amy, Frank? Makasso, John? Calley were seated on the chairs on the stage, the host announced that the question-and-answer session began, and all the reporters in the audience raised their hands.

The host casually ordered a reporter. This is a lady with a big wave brown hair with borderless eyes. After receiving the microphone, she did not immediately ask everyone ’s concerns, but pointed the finger at Eric. Tao: "Mr. Williams, I am a reporter of 《The New York Times》. According to public information. Firefly Group has completely withdrawn from Metro Goldwyn Mayer. So, what status and position do you sit here today?"

Eric smiled, he had expected that this question might be asked, and, for a deeper reason, many people knew it.

However, Eric did not mean to avoid it, and smiled and replied: "If you must have a reason. I should be a shareholder representative of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. My personal Firefly investment company is the largest shareholder of Limited Group. , Limited Group is the third largest shareholder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Currently owning 10% of the shares, this is the case. "

The female reporter of 《The New York Times》 questioned: "Mr. Williams. Why did you complicate this matter and directly use Firefly Group's capital to operate this matter, isn't it simpler?"

Although many large enterprise oligarchs of North America have monopolistic behaviors, the executives of any one company will not openly discuss the company ’s monopoly behavior, even the monopoly intentions will not be admitted, because any of these words may become a company in the future Evidence of antitrust investigations.

Eric also clearly understands the rules, so I thought about it for a moment and said, "Firefly Group's internal system is large enough. If it continues to expand, it will look very bloated, which is very unfavorable for the company's healthy development. So , Metro Goldwyn Mayer will be completely independent of the Firefly Group system. The possible future competition between the two parties can also prevent Firefly Group from losing its aggressiveness and generating pride and slackness. "

This half-true and half-false answer made it impossible for the reporter to pick out any problems. The next questioner had to lead the topic to the upcoming stock issuance of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

"Mr. Williams, why did Metro Goldwyn Mayer decide to issue additional shares instead of privatization?"

Eric's current personal wealth has accumulated to an astonishing level. With the outbreak of the Internet wave in the next few years, his personal wealth will be even more dumbfounded. Therefore, he no longer pursues the rapid growth of wealth, but Expand the influence and control of these wealth.

Like Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Eric only indirectly controls 10% of the shares of Metro Goldwyn Mayer through Limited, but it can completely control the company. At the same time, because it only holds a small number of shares, the resistance from the outside world will also be low. many. Wanting to turn Hollywood into his own kingdom, Eric will also use similar methods in the future, and gradually invade other media groups.

Of course, these words must not be said, it will definitely make many people restless.

Therefore, in the face of this problem, Eric just replied: "Every company should have its own development path, so I do n’t think this is a problem. The reason for the additional stock is to make Metro Goldwyn Mayer a few more in the future. The year can be better developed, you have just seen, Metro Goldwyn Mayer will continue shoots "007", "Mission: Impossible" and other series at the same time. Start Tolkien epic masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" series of major movies, these are all A lot of money is required. "

"Mr. Williams," 007 of GoldenEye "is also interspersed with 《Charlie's Angels》 series of eggs. Fans have always been very concerned about whether Metro Goldwyn Mayer will make" 007 "and 《Charlie's Angels》 intersect in the future?"

I heard this question. Eric smiled and handed the microphone to the nearby Amy? Pascal, saying: "Let Amy explain this problem to everyone."

Amy? Pascal and others were left out for a while. Of course they would not be dissatisfied because Eric attracted all the attention, but the loss of their hearts is inevitable.

See that Eric took the initiative to hand over the microphone. Amy knew that he was also hinting at the reporter. He made a grateful glance at Eric, and then picked up the microphone and said: "This issue. Detailed discussions have been conducted within the company, we The plan is to use the next decade or so to create a Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie agent universe, interspersing Metro Goldwyn Mayer's "007" series, 《Charlie's Angels》 series, "Mission: Impossible" series and other agent film series that may be developed in the future. Soon , You can see James? Bond, Charlie's Angels and Ethan Hunt appear on a screen at the same time. "

Agent movie universe? !

Other Secret Agent movie series?

James? Bond, Charlie's Angels and Ethan Hunt appeared on a big screen at the same time.

......

The reporter at the scene appeared a short silence, digesting what Amy? Pascal had just said, and immediately reacted, and the scene suddenly boiled again.

《Charlie's Angels》 and "Mission: Impossible" are undoubtedly the most popular special agent movies in recent years, and the popularity of the 007 series is even more impressive. In the past, there may be some spoof B movie interspersed with some videos. But there is no case of super blockbusters forming cross episodes. You know, this crossover not only involves the movie copyright. And whether the relevant leading actors are willing to star in is a very big question. Just the intersection of the 007 series and the 《Charlie's Angels》 series has already made many fans look forward to it. Metro Goldwyn Mayer is ambitious to create a so-called "special agent movie universe". Just thinking about it will make some reporters who are also movie fans on the scene excited. Endlessly.

After a moment of silence, the flash went on again, and the eager reporters set off the rules and asked questions aloud.

"Ms. Pascal. Please explain in detail the" Agent Movie Universe "plan?"

"Did Ms. Pascal, Metro Goldwyn Mayer discuss this issue with the three Heroines of Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner and 《Charlie's Angels》?"

"Do n’t Metro Goldwyn Mayer worry that this plan will affect the brand of 007 series?"

"..."

The scene was chaotic. It was not until the staff kept order loudly that everyone calmed down again.

Next everyone started to ask Amy about the "Agent Movie Universe". Eric also pushed the problems that fell on him to Amy and others, and was happy to watch everything on the scene.

'Agent Movie Universe' is undoubtedly derived from Eric based on the subsequent series of 'Marvel Cinematic Universe', "d movie universe", "monster movie universe" and the like. previous life's 007, 《Charlie's Angels》, "Mission: Impossible" and other series belong to different Film Studio, it is simply impossible to cross.

But this time and space are different. Eric accidentally realized the other day that these famous special agent films, with the integration of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, will all belong to one Film Studio, except for the three films that have been completed. Even the copyright of the "The Bourne Identity" series is in the hands of Flower Films, so the feasibility of creating an exclusive movie universe that belongs to Metro Goldwyn Mayer is very large.

Although the backgrounds of several series are different, this is not a problem at all.

In addition to the alternative "The Bourne Identity", the core of the plot of several other special agent blockbusters is nothing more than four words: save the world.

As long as you follow this theme, create a complete world background, and put several major series under the background of this story for production, start with a single-player movie, and finally form an intersection to jointly deal with a certain villain, Complete the task of saving the world, the whole story is completed.

At the same time, the intersection of several special agent movies will also bring a wider range of topics and influence to these series. Behind all these, of course, is a greater economic benefit.

Sure enough, when Metro Goldwyn Mayer announced at the press conference that it would combine the 007 series, 《Charlie's Angels》 series and "Mission: Impossible" series to create a separate agent movie universe, the next day, North America and even the world's media began to boil.

"James? Bond, Charlie's Angels and Ethan Hunter, several screen agent heroes appeared on the same screen. I have to say, just to imagine, I have a strong urge to enter the cinema. Hopefully Metro Goldwyn Mayer can really create this series completely. "

"I highly doubt the feasibility of this plan. With the success of Box Office in the three major movie series, the trio of Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner and Charlie's Angels have reached a ten-million-dollar pay. If five people are assembled, Only the payroll expenses will be a very scary number. It is difficult to imagine how terrifying the full film budget will really be if there is a crossover. Perhaps, when the film global Box Office reaches 1billion USD in the future, it will be able to recover the cost. Right. "

"This is undoubtedly a very stupid idea. I really do n’t know whether Eric Williams has been stunned by his own success. The agent movie universe has interspersed three blockbuster movies with unlimited potential. If you do n’t pay attention, you may put three The series of word of mouth were destroyed at the same time. Perhaps this is just a gimmick thrown by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. After all, they are about to implement the stock issuance plan. "

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At the same time that the media are reporting, there is also a lot of discussion on the section specifically opened by the Yahoo online forum. However, relative to the media ’s different perspectives, the fans have very uniform expectations for the movie. Along with this, the Box Office trend of "007 of GoldenEye", which is being released, has risen sharply. In order to find possible crossover eggs between the film and other series, the audience has once again entered the cinema and came to the third week. The original institution It is predicted that Box Office of "007 of GoldenEye" will soon fall below 20 million USD, but with this news, in the new week, GoldenEye's Box Office has got million USD Box Office. (To be continued.)