I’m in Hollywood Chapter 805: Buyer

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Someone felt that someone was staring at him, Christina · Aguilera opened his eyes, and just noticed that Eric was sitting on the bed with a smile on his face.

The pictures of last night quickly poured into my mind, feeling the unhindered contact between the body and the big bed inside the thin quilt. Christina's face was reddish and pulled by the corner. He greeted in a low voice: "Good morning, Eric."

"Look at you sleeping so well, I do n’t know if I should wake you up," Eric reached out and gently plucked a strand of hair off the girl ’s cheek, looking at her expression with a little nervousness, asking Tao: "Are you still uncomfortable?"

"Well, it feels like something ..." Christina's eyelashes were drooping, and half of it was a little embarrassing to stop.

"Then you will rest here for a few days. The place you live in is definitely not as good as this. I will order breakfast for you. When you get up and call the customer service, they will deliver it. If you have other needs, I can call my assistant, "Eric said, placing a small card on the bedside table:" This is his number. "

Christina looked at Eric with some disappointment and said, "Are you going to work?"

"Yeah, it's already eight, and hundreds of people are waiting for me."

Christina nodded and said happily: "Well, then, bye."

"Goodbye," Eric leaned over and kissed the **** the cheek. Christina also raised her small head boldly and kissed it back, and licked the tip of her tongue playfully on Eric's face.

Eric does n’t mind either, laughing: "It looks like a kitten."

Christina also grinned and said: "Eric, you seem to like cats."

"No, I don't like cats. I like cat-like women. They are docile, lazy, and mysterious. Of course, they sometimes have wild wild teeth and claws."

Christina's eyes blinked quickly and said, "Well, how about I be your little cat?"

"No problem," Eric smiled, squeezed on the face of Christina, stood up and said: "Then I went to work, um, when I rest this week, I will take you to play again, where I want to go ? "

Excited expression on Christina ’s face, but said: “I ’m not familiar with Venice, I ’ll go wherever you go Eric.”

"This is not enough, Venice Film Festival is almost about to start, we are filming here again, so there are too many journalists in Venice recently, and playing here will definitely be chased by the siege. We have to run further. How about Paris? "

Christina Xiaonaogua did n’t turn around. Of course she wanted to go to Paris, and which girl does n’t yearn for Paris, except that the crew only has one day off every week, can they run that far?

Eric guessed the girl ’s thoughts from Christina ’s somewhat confused expression, and squeezed on her face, without explanation, and laughed: “Then Paris, I ’ll go to work first, you go to sleep, think You can wake up any time. "

He waved his hand at Eric. When the man's figure disappeared, he waited patiently for a while with his small ears, and finally heard the slight closing sound in the living room.

After a while in bed, Christina just got up, but first called his assistant Emilia to explain vaguely that she stayed in the hotel where Eric was last night. I believe that the female assistant knew what she was saying and told her to be free these days. Christina hung up the phone and dialed room service for breakfast. After filling her stomach, the girl fell to the bed and quickly fell asleep.

I woke up again in the evening, and there was almost no light coming through the thick curtains.

There was a faint voice in the living room. Christina dressed lightly and walked to the door to open the door. It was found that only Eric was making a phone call in the living room.

Eric saw Christina walk out of the bedroom, nodded at her, and pointed to the sofa opposite him.

Christina came over and sat down on the sofa. At this time, she was only wearing a small tight T-shirt and jeans, bare feet. Although the floor in the room was very clean, but there was no carpet, the ground felt a little cool, Christina Then he lowered his calf, curled up on the sofa with a pillow, and listened quietly to Eric's call.

"If this is the case, the price of 300 million USD, we can accept," Eric held the phone in one hand, looked at the blue folder on his knee, and discussed with the opposite: "However, we ca n’t pay on the payment term To make a concession, An Berlin wants "The Matrix" copyright, then it must pay the full amount as soon as possible after signing the contract. It is only 300 million USD, Jeffrey, with the strength of Microsoft behind An Berlin, as long as they really want to conclude this transaction, I can definitely get it. "

Christina heard the understatement 300 million USD of Eric and threw out her tongue. She also knows that Firefly is selling the sequel copyright of "The Matrix", but she did not expect this movie copyright to be so valuable, 300 million USD.

Eric just noticed the small movement of Christina's tongue sticking out, thinking that the girl was naughty and waved her hand at her, indicating that it should not be funny.

Christina narrowed his neck and smiled at Eric.

"There is one more thing," Eric and Katzenberg finished talking about "The Matrix", and continued: "I have seen" Titanic "into a film, except for the ending song, there is nothing wrong with it, Jim is already in the morning Fly back to Los Angeles to get the new ending song, the song was written by me personally, you can let the record department cooperate, try to get it done before the opening ceremony of Venice Film Festival, and announcement work can be started now, I do n’t plan Then compress the film, so you let the distribution department discuss the corresponding announcement plan. "

"..."

"" Bad Boys2 "?" Eric hesitated and thought for a while, said: "It is still not the same period as" Titanic ", I know you have little confidence in this film, we have no right to interfere in the plans of other companies, but Firefly can't always attack yourself, or postpone it, and put it in the summer file next year. This sequel should also have the strength to support the summer file ... well, that's it. "

Hang up the phone and see Christina listening with her small ears on her side. Eric smiled and waved at her.

Christina got up with the pillow and leaned over to sit down next to Eric, curling his legs against the Eric and looking at the file on his knee, saying, "Eric, what is this?"

Eric knows that girls are not really interested, but just want to find a topic, saying: "Nothing, some copyright transfer contract information."

Christina glanced at the document a little, but did not look closely at it, and asked, "Is it" The Matrix "?"

"Yeah," Eric nodded, turned the information on the folder back to the first page, intending to read it again, feeling that the small Christina next to him rubbed him twice from time to time, laughing: "Look at you It should look fine just now? "

"Ah," Christina was stunned, and soon begged for mercy: "That, Eric, tonight, still ... not good.

Eric smiled, his eyes still on the document in front of him, but he changed the subject and said, "What do you want to eat at night?"

Christina is still worried about whether Eric will toss herself again at night. In that case, she feels that she may be broken. When I heard Eric turn the subject away, I replied absently: "I don't know yet. In the morning, um, it's good."

"That's breakfast," Eric said: "consider as finished, you call the room service and ask them to send you a menu and choose what you want to eat."

"Well," Christina nodded, thinking for a moment, and gently pulled the short sleeves of the EricT shirt, a small look that kept talking.

Eric turned her head and saw the pitiful expression of Christina, remembering what she had just said, and understood.

I have to say that Christina is arguably the best period in her life. She has a sweet face, a petite body, and a slender figure, plus a pitiful little expression of “Do n’t bully others” at this time, indeed It can provoke men's ravages.

"Do n’t think about it, you have a good rest these days," Eric smiled and reached out and pinched on the girl ’s face, saying: "If you do n’t want to live here, you can go back to the hotel facing the street. "

After hearing these words, I remembered that Eric was a gentle move last night. Christina also let go of her heart and smiled sweetly, "I won't go, um, I'll call to ask for the menu."

The girl said, jumped off the sofa and reached for the mobile phone that Eric had just put down, and started dialing.

Eric smiled and turned his attention to the file in his hand again.

Because of being far away from Hollywood, Eric did not personally feel the various agitation of Hollywood in recent times, especially the sales of copyright in "The Matrix".

Undoubtedly, as Eric had guessed, the most wanted "The Matrix" copyright, or the Microsoft backed by An Berlin Film Industry, of course, several other Film Studio also participated more or less in this time copyright is in competition.

Of course, Firefly will not simply and rudely sell copyright of "The Matrix", and even a large number of senior executives simply do not want to sell "The Matrix", just dragging it down, and finally slowly yellow The Firefly's attitude is also quite firm, and it is not allowed when negotiating with Film Studio who intends to buy "The Matrix" copyright.

In this case, companies with relatively conservative management styles, such as Paramount, have successively withdrawn, and in the end, only Warner, Universal, and Amberlin are still insisting.

However, due to the harsh conditions of Firefly, they are only willing to sell the production and distribution rights of the "The Matrix" sequel, but still retain the development rights of all non-film and television peripherals such as comics, games, toys, etc. of "The Matrix", plus The asking price is too high, Warner and Universal also withdrew one after another, and finally only Anberlin left, and agreed to the requirements of Firefly.

According to the preliminary agreement, Anberlin Film Industry will buy copyright for the subsequent film and television production of "The Matrix" with 300 million USD cash. The agreement does not stipulate that Anberlin can only produce two sequels. Even, in the future, Anberlin Film Industry wants to restart the series, Firefly Will not object. Of course, most fans who follow the "The Matrix" series know this series of trilogy script. Presumably, after this sensation, Amberlin will not be able to modify script under pressure.

However, the agreement also stipulates that Firefly reserves the right to develop the peripheral copyright of the "The Matrix" series of comics, games, toys, etc., including the peripheral development rights of the relevant characters of the "The Matrix" sequel. Firefly will not participate in any theater, DVD, video tape and other distribution revenue share of the "The Matrix" sequel series of film and television products, but at the same time, Amberlin Film Industry also has no right to participate in the peripheral revenue share of the "The Matrix" ​​series.

Albeit Film Industry is ambitious, but it has just been established. After all, the other party ’s most important work is to improve its own distribution network, and it has not yet involved the peripheral development capabilities. Therefore, the other party will agree to this plan, and the peripheral products Development is exactly what Firefly Group is best at.

According to the data of the total number of global Box Office of 600 million in the first song of "The Matrix", Firefly has more than 300 million USD in net income from theater screening and video distribution.

However, even if the "The Matrix" sequel does not go to the old road of previous life, this business Firefly is not losing money, because the overall recovery of the United States economy, the cash of 300 million USD is recovered several years in advance, whether the money is invested in the entertainment industry or high In the technology industry, Eric has enough confidence to double this money in the next few years.

Although to outsiders, the profits of Firefly in recent years have been very scary, but only Eric knows clearly that the Firefly system has been a time of crazy money burning in recent years, and most of the profits every year will soon become The investment is injected into the companies under the Firefly system.

In order to reduce the tax burden as much as possible, Eric has even begun to consider investing directly in the companies under the Firefly investment in the name of Firefly Group, although this will indirectly cause about 27% of the small and medium shareholders of Firefly to enter the Internet industry of the Firefly system. But it can save a lot of tax in the middle link.

When the surplus funds are directly converted into project investments, the pre-tax gross profit of Firefly Group will be greatly reduced, but this can also allow Firefly to reduce the amount of corporate income tax paid. On the scale of Firefly, the pre-tax profit income tax ratio reaches 35%. This is much higher than the proportion of 27% of small and medium shareholders, and the benefits of investment will be distributed to small and medium shareholders, and they will definitely gain a greater favor from these shareholders, increase Eric ’s control of Firefly, and the representatives behind these shareholders. Forces support Firefly. But if it is handed over to the IRS, Firefly will not get any substantial benefits.

Thinking about this, Eric also made up his mind. Next time I will talk to Katzenberg to discuss the matter of the clover holding company that originally belonged to the Disney group. This is an investment company left over from the Disney period, but the scale has always been small. If you do not read Firefly Group ’s balance sheet carefully, most people will not even notice the existence of this investment company.

Although the original Disney developed rapidly, there was not much energy involved in external investment. The largest investment project of Clover Holdings was to help build the Disney concert hall of the Los Angeles music center, with an investment scale of 20 million USD. But that project has not been profitable so far, because the project was originally initiated by Disney Family, and the main purpose was to expand the influence of Disney Family, and the nature of public welfare is very large.

But at this time, this investment company can be used as a window for Firefly Group direct foreign investment. The company law of United States is very loose, and it does not stipulate that a company can only operate certain industries, just like Berkshire · Hathaway controlled by Buffett. It is just a textile factory, but it has now become a comprehensive holding group, operating in various industries including insurance, books, beverages, confectionery, and entertainment. (To be continued.)