I’m in Hollywood Chapter 740: Occasionally
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With the stimulation of a series of good news, the stock price of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has risen from 10.5USD before the summer gear to 13.7USD after the media conference. $ F,
Completion of the integration of the three companies, the new Metro Goldwyn Mayer's total share capital reached 3.6500 million shares, when the share price reached 13.7USD, the market value of Metro Goldwyn Mayer successfully exceeded 5billion USD. Therefore, the next 70 million share issuance plan will bring about 1billion USD of cash to Metro Goldwyn Mayer. With this fund, Metro Goldwyn Mayer will also completely get rid of the shadow of debt that has been entangled on the body and embark on a path of healthy development.
The issue of additional stocks will be completed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer executives in the next few months. After the press conference, Eric has allocated a part of its energy and started planning for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent film universe.
Charlie's Angels and Mission: Impossible are both special agent movies that have risen in the last two years. Although they are all adapted from the veteran TV series, they did not receive much opposition from joining the special agent movie universe. Instead, they caused a sound of anticipation among the fans. .
It is Eric to let the 007 series join this plan, which caused some controversy. The focus of most of the controversy is that this plan may dilute the brand effect of the 007 series. The media also specifically interviewed the former 007 actors. The first 007 actor, Shane Connelly, publicly expressed his opposition to this plan, claiming that Metro Goldwyn Mayer is in chaos.
Eric just laughed at these objections.
So far, all the original novels of the 007 series, except for one Casino Royale, have been filmed before 1987.
Moreover, even those series of works before 1987, many of them have nothing to do with Ian Fleming's novels, just to prove their pedigree. The title of almost every episode of the 007 series is used to be associated with Ian Fleming, or Ian Fleming's pet name. Or the name of Ian Fleming's holiday cabin, or a sentence in Ian Fleming's novel.
Ironically. The only one in the 007 series got the canopy of global more than 10USD Box Office. The title of this sequel has nothing to do with Ian Fleming. Instead, the Metro Goldwyn Mayer screenwriter team obtained its own name.
In the view of Eric, this kind of far-fetched attachment is almost completely unnecessary. The biggest advantage of the 007 series is actually its popularity within the range of global for decades. As for the appeal of Box Office, it can be seen from the previous 007 of Licence to Kill North America that only 34million USD. The Box Office appeal of the 007 series is actually not so high. If you can't shoot a story well, even if the reputation is great, the audience will not buy it.
The reason why Eric produced the secret film universe is actually influenced by the original 007 of the Craig version of Daniel in the original space-time.
In the original time and space, the 007 series around the new century, Casino Royale is undoubtedly a very good part of both word of mouth and Box Office.
Although the 007 series likes to advertise their own lineage, most of the time, they are used to creating a new story for each episode, and they often discard the accumulated reputation of some previous characters. This has to be a very regrettable waste.
Daniel Craig's version of 007 has taken another path. From the perspective of Eric, this path has also appeared very accidentally.
After the great success of Casino Royale. Metro Goldwyn Mayer can't wait to start the sequel production, but the bad thing is that in the process of sequel production, it just happened to catch up with the Hollywood screenwriter strike in 2008. There is no way to call the big-name screenwriter to create a brand-new story series as usual Below, the production team can only piece together on the basis of Casino Royale. Created a sequel to Casino Royale, a quantum crisis.
People who have not seen Casino Royale. You may not even understand the plot of this sequel. So it is conceivable that the original Metro Goldwyn Mayer did not have any expectations for this sequel. But what is surprising is that this sequel, which has left many viewers a little puzzled, has created the global Box Office which is close to the 600 million USD.
So, from the beginning of the quantum crisis, Metro Goldwyn Mayer seems to have become enlightened. They no longer completely get rid of the story of the previous episode in each episode, nor do they struggle to find a villain for each episode of Bond, and they no longer force the story to be connected with Ian Fleming for the so-called bloodline. , But to get rid of the various constraints of the past and create a hidden story line that runs through several sequels.
Under this change, the subsequent canopy killing created a peak in the history of 007, and global Box Office reached 1.1 billion USD. Although the ghost party later received a bad review, it also got the Box Office with global close to 900 million USD.
Inspired by the Daniel Craig 007 series, Eric plans to cut off several Pierce Brosnan follow-up deaths, tomorrow's empire and other movies in memory, set aside the world to find villains, and uses the ghost party as an The ultimate Boss will bring Charlie's Angels and Ethan Hunter into this big background story setting, creating a complete agent movie universe.
And the beginning of this story, Eric is set to Ian Fleming's only novel that has not been put on the big screen, Casino Royale. GoldenEye, which is currently being released, will also be the last film that 007 has a connection with his rival Soviet Union.
Of course, while conceiving the main line of the story, Metro Goldwyn Mayer must also solve another problem, that is, a lawsuit that has entangled the 007 series for decades.
30 years ago, the ghost party, a villain organization that appeared in Ian Fleming ’s novels, actually refers to the settings in the novel of another novelist Kevin McGrawley. After a long lawsuit, the ghost The party's copyright was awarded Kevin McGrawley.
If you want to set the ghost party as the ultimate villain of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent movie universe, Metro Goldwyn Mayer must solve this copyright problem.
Of course, maybe in the past, Metro Goldwyn Mayer was reluctant to spend millions of USD copyright fees. But at this time, the issue of money is not a big problem for the current Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Kevin McGrawley is still alive at this time. The copyright fee of 2 million USD issued by the other party is also completely acceptable in the view of Eric, after all. The ghost party has appeared in the six films in the previous 007 series, although after the original verdict. Metro Goldwyn Mayer has not been used in recent years, but the reputation of the ghost party is also totally worth the price.
All of August, Eric ’s colleagues who were busy with the Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent film universe also took the time to go to San Francisco Silicon Valley.
After preparations, Firefly Electronics, which is responsible for the development of 3 players and e-readers, was officially established. At the same time, Firefly Electronics also signed a secret agreement with the hard disk manufacturer Seagate to commission the development of a micro hard disk.
Because the company does not have an official product, Firefly Electronics only established an electronic product R & D center at Silicon Valley at this time. Simultaneously. Yahoo's equity incentive plan is fully implemented. In addition to the few senior executives who have left, such as Jeff Locke, the management of Yahoo remains basically intact. At the same time that p3 and the e-paper book R & D center were established, Yahoo also started a plan to build an online music store and an online e-book store.
It takes at least a year for the development of the micro hard disk. Eric ’s biggest expectation for the R & D center established in Silicon Valley is not that they take out the finished products as soon as possible, but take advantage of the opportunity to register all the complete technology of 3 players in United States and overseas registration. Patent copyright. The technical content of the p3 player is actually not high, but as long as most of the patents are obtained in advance, then no one can produce it in the future. Eric can also rely on this advantage. Master the absolute initiative in the era of online music.
Returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco, Firefly also heard news, Wachowski Brothers completed their production of Director neodymium for Bound.
Eric heard a call from Katzenberg on the plane. So after getting off the plane at the Santa Monica airport, he rushed directly to the Playa Vista Firefly cinema not far away, and got into the screening room with Katzenberg, Wachowski Brothers and others.
Bound tells the story of a **** girl who wants to get rid of her current life, and designs to swindle 2 million USD from the hands of the mafia boss and provoke the infighting of the mafia.
If you strip off the outerwear of **** and female protagonist films, this is actually a typical black list film. Of course, it is also because of the female equivalent, which makes this film a little more charming.
In the screening room, Eric finished watching the film. Nodded with satisfaction, said to the Katzenberg beside him: "According to the quality of this movie. Let go of the operation for the new line, maybe you can recover the production cost of 4500,000 USD only on Box Office. You will no longer doubt their two now. Strength now. "
After doing so many years of filming, Katzenberg certainly did not lack vision, nodded and smiled: "Of course, I have some expectations for them now."
The two exchanged a few words in a whisper, the subtitles on the screen finished, the lights in the projection room lighted up, and Eric got up and said to Wachowski Brothers, who was scrambling together: "You are ready, I hope you can take the crew as soon as possible In Sydney, most of the preparation work has been completed, you just need to start shoots as soon as possible. "
Wachowski Brothers was stunned for a while, and then it came back, Andy Wachowski said: "Eric, so, we passed"
"Yeah," Eric nodded and said: "However, I will pay attention to the production of The Matrix throughout the process, so I hope you will not let me down."
"Of course, absolutely not," Andy Wachowski rubbed his hands excitedly.
Talking about the details for a while, Wachowski Brothers left in a hurry, Katzenberg came to the office with Eric and talked about another thing: "Eric, according to the current scale of the digital field, even if it only supports the production of Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer It ’s already a bit difficult. We still have a lot of other Film Studio orders. Stan also discussed with me yesterday, hoping to continue to expand the number of employees in the digital field. "
After Metro Goldwyn Mayer is on track, there will be no less than 5 CG Special Effects movies produced by the two companies each year. According to the special effects team of 500 people per film, 2,500 people are needed. At the same time, the application of CG Special Effects is becoming more and more extensive. Even if it is not a special effects movie, special effects companies need to deal with many lenses. Therefore, these years can be said to be the golden age of special effects companies. As long as you have enough technology, there will be no shortage of projects at all, and the industry giants like the digital field are more moisturized.
It ’s just that Eric knows that the special effects company ’s good days are only a few years away. When the new century comes, with the further development of computer technology and other software giants joining the ranks of special effects software development, special effects companies will be very good. Soon from the aristocratic industry to the civilian class, this time with high-paid special effects division, it will also be reduced to a skilled migrant worker.
Eric has planned to cash out the digital realm at the peak of special effects movies in the next few years. At this time, considering his future, he cannot continue to expand his investment in the digital field.
Thinking of The Matrix and Eric that will be in shoots in Australia: "If we continue to expand in United States, it is consider as finished. If possible, we would better establish a branch overseas. Special effects companies will not consume a lot of social resources, but can create very The huge tax, I think whether it is Canada, Australia or New Zealand will be very welcome, we can set up branches in these countries and ask them for tax incentives. "
"This is a good way," Katzenberg nodded and said, "Then, in which country do you think it is more appropriate for us to set up a branch"
Eric immediately thought of New Zealand, and Vita Digital, which is the same as previous life and the digital field, came from this country.
However, Vita Studio has been established at this time. It was founded in the previous years of Peter Jackson for his personal movies and several small partners of shoots. Although it is small in scale, it is also complete. Although Eric will safely hand over the The Lord of the Rings series to Peter Jackson, it will not foster a special effects company not related to Firefly.
Consider for a moment, Eric said: "Just choose in Australia and New Zealand. The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings and other movies will be in shoots in these two countries, which can save a lot of energy on the spot. Well, I will work with Fox Communication there believes that, after all, the foundation of News Corp is in Australia, we can use them to get more discounts from the Australian government. "
Looking at it, Eric looked at his watch, and it was more than two hours away from work, so he said to Katzenberg: "In this case, I will go to Fox to see it now. You are busy first." To be continued.