I’m in Hollywood Chapter 907: Actually, I just arrived
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"Rainbow Media ’s assets mainly include the wholly-owned Bravo channel, the 70% -owned New York sports channel, the 50% -owned Orlando WRBW channel, the 45% -owned Fuse music channel, and the 30% -owned playboy Channel, through asset evaluation, the total market value of this company is around 1.8 billion USD. Basic cable company insists on selling up to 30% of the shares of Metro Goldwyn Mayer at an offer price of 600 million USD, and at the same time, we will also obtain the right to operate Bravo channel. "
In the office, Amy · Pascal from Century City reported to Eric the final negotiation results with the basic cable company.
Eric looked at the preliminary trading plan in his hand, and there was always a feeling of something strange in his heart. He looked up and smiled and asked Amy: "playboy channel?"
Amy endured the urge to give Eric a blind eye, explaining: "This is a toll cable station created by the Basic Cable Company in 1986 in cooperation with the playboy Group. It mainly provides adult programs such as sex. >
"Oh, okay," Eric nodded, did not continue this topic that would easily embarrass the lady, and said: "That ’s the case, but several other TV Station are also consider as finished. After the transaction, you will convince Rainbow Media as soon as possible. The management sold the equity in the playboy channel. "
Amy hesitated and said: "The profitability of Eric and playboy channels is still very good. Moreover, Rainbow Media only holds shares, and the management rights of TV Station have always been in playboy Group, which will not affect us . "
"You may be wrong, Amy, I did not let you sell the playboy channel equity for reasons such as the company's reputation. Now there are more and more free ****** s on the Internet, solid colors The love industry will definitely decline in the next few years, and if you do not take it off now, this asset will definitely shrink significantly in the future. "
"Well, I will remember this matter," Amy nodded and continued: "There is still a matter of issuing bonds, we have also reached an agreement with Morgan Stanley, they will assist Metro Goldwyn Mayer issuance next month For 500 million USD corporate bonds, many foundations including State Street Universal have already expressed their intention to subscribe. Our financing scale is not large, and it will definitely be very smooth. "
In spite of that, Amy looks at Eric with more complex emotions.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer initially planned bond financing scale is 1billion USD. However, because Eric took away the production rights of the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the global sale of "Casino Royale" brought a lot of cash flow to Metro Goldwyn Mayer. In the end, the company only needed to issue half of the bonds for TV business expansion plans.
Although the outside world is generally optimistic about Metro Goldwyn Mayer's steady expansion strategy, most media appreciate the decision of Metro Goldwyn Mayer to abandon the high-risk "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but Amy vaguely feels that it has lost the production of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy Quan, as well as the film and television copyright of "The Hobbit Adventures" and "The Silmarillion", two other works of Childcare King, are definitely a very heavy loss for Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Amy even confirmed in his heart that Eric did this as a punishment for the rocking attitude of Metro Goldwyn Mayer from the shareholders to the management in the Pierce Brosnan incident.
It was only until the "The Lord of the Rings" series first part was released that she realized how serious this punishment was.
Eric felt some changes in Amy's eyes, but too lazy to think about it, closed the trading plan in hand, and continued: "Since you have won two TV Station at one time, have you considered a detailed business strategy? ? "
"Yes," Amy replied: "E! Entertainment and Bravo originally have some overlap in market positioning. My plan is to first clearly distinguish the content positioning of the two TV Stations. E! Entertainment focuses on entertainment With fashion, the audience is determined to be young men and women around 18 years old, so the content needs to be more avant-garde. In this regard, I think the Reality Show creativity of "Beverly Girl" is very good. In addition, the management has already begun to prepare an E! Entertainment News Channel , Dedicated to broadcasting gossip news in the entertainment and fashion circles, we also intend to continue to advance this plan. As for Bravo, we intend to focus on the housewife audience, in this regard, Bravo has already laid a good foundation, what we have to do is Continue to develop suitable TV programs and consolidate BravoTV Station's market position in this audience. "
"Housewife," Eric repeated a vocabulary in Amy's words just now, and an TV series name, "Desperate Housewives", appeared in his mind almost instantly.
For a housewife-oriented TV Station, "Desperate Housewives" is tailor-made.
The reason why the former ABCTV Station is more and more known as the women's station is mainly due to the influence of the high-viewing drama "Desperate Housewives". Now, Firefly Group has already owned LifetimeTV Station for urban women, and now there is another BravoTV Station for housewives. Then, Eric will definitely not let ABC also develop towards the women's platform.
In this case, it is appropriate to put the "Desperate Housewives" killer in Bravo.
Amy did not understand the vocabulary uttered in Eric ’s mouth and asked doubtfully: "Eric, what did you just say?"
Eric came back, shook his head, and did not intend to say this idea for the time being: "I just thought about it, but it is not mature. I will tell you later, you will focus on taking over the integration Two TV Station aspects. "
He once watched few episodes intermittently in "Desperate Housewives". It is not realistic to copy the whole story. All he can do is rewrite script according to the general idea of this TV series. It will be hard to predict if it will be welcomed by the audience. However, this is actually good. After all, if you put original's "Desperate Housewives" on Bravo, the scale is far less than that of ABCTV Network's cable station, it still feels a pity. Now it is equivalent to re-creating a TV series, it does not matter whether it succeeds or fails.
Amy nodded, almost finished talking, she was about to leave, and remembered another thing, saying: "Yes, Eric, about" Beverly Girl ", Ms. Jenna has already selected four girls, script also Almost done, do you have time to take a look? "
Eric opened her own schedule on the computer monitor, looked at it, and nodded: "If I have time in the last few days, someone will call her."
Amy was sent away. Eric invited Peter · Jackson to eat at the restaurant on Titanic at noon.
Peter · Jackson has been preparing for the "The Lord of the Rings" series for so many years, and finally it will enter the formal production stage. I did not expect to suddenly encounter the change of the producer. Recently, I have been very upset. .
Eric will naturally not allow this to happen, so he deliberately came forward to appease each other.
In addition to the next "Final Destination2", Firefly Group's summer file has no other films that need to be released, and Eric's energy has begun to turn to other company-owned projects.
"Iron Man" is scheduled to start shooting early next year and has recently started casting. Although the preparation of "Spider-Man" is very slow, the casting process has also begun. Although Firefly Group has no less than ten movies in various stages of production at the same time, Eric originally needs to pay attention, but it is only the two Marvel Cinematic Universe masterpieces.
However, since taking over the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Eric had to devote a lot of energy to this project.
The trilogy of "The Lord of the Rings" used to fetch the huge Box Office of global 3 billion USD at less than the production cost of 300 million USD. The rate of return is even higher than that of "Titanic". Eric naturally needs to be treated with caution.
In order to make the whole project run more smoothly, while transferring the production right to Firefly, Eric also simply pried up the production team that Metro Goldwyn Mayer has initially set up, and continued to cooperate with Peter · Jackson for film preparation.
The trilogy of "The Lord of the Rings", the biggest difficulty in the preliminary preparation, is actually still the casting.
Due to the grand story background, the characters in the trilogy are also unusually large, which means that the plan to invite well-known Actor to participate in the performance basically does not work.
Although this project is very optimistic, Eric has no plans to increase its budget. Therefore, most of the characters in the movie will adopt second- and third-line rookies. Although the most indispensable part of Hollywood is Actor, it is not so easy to pick the right person in the vast crowd. In addition to taking over the two roles of Elf Queen and Princess Awen, intending to hand over to Nicole and Diane · Kruger, Eric does not mean too much to intervene in casting, just set a salary budget limit for Peter · Jackson and then these The tedious affairs were safely handed over to the other party.
The casting of the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy is good to say that the benefits of many characters mean that even if one or two of the films fails casting, it will not affect the quality of the entire movie. After spending his 16th birthday, Stewart · Rankel also agreed to sign a six-party contract with Marvel, and only "Iron Man" remained.
After rejecting Tom · Cruise, Marvel EntertainmentCEOAvi · Arad took a fancy to Matthew · McConner. The actor's bohemian temperament does indeed echo the image of Iron Man Tony Stark, but in consecutive appearances in "Seven" and "Macro Contact", Matthew · McConner has been promoted to the Hollywood line, and he is not willing to cooperate Marvel signed a long contract, Eric still inexplicably did not like this actor, so he did not continue to talk to each other.
So, as a big production whose production cost may exceed 100 million USD, it is usually limited to the selection of male actors in a small circle, and eventually becomes a sea election for all Hollywood male Actor.
Although the harsh long-term conditions of Firefly came out, it was inevitably ridiculed by some media, and even evolved into a pessimism about the prospects of the entire project, but as Eric said during the incident in Brosnan, want to get This role can still be ranked from Malibu to Burbank.
Firefly Studios.
The time has come to the last day of July, and today happens to be Friday.
Chris Jenna drove into Firefly Studios, parked the car in the parking lot, but did not rush out of the car, took out the makeup mirror and took care of her makeup carefully before pushing the door. She got the news last Wednesday, Eric will take the time to look at the script in "Beverly Girl", but did not expect to get the news for another week. However, she did not dare to complain at all.
Recently, due to the explosion of Box Office in "Casino Royale", followed by a replacement event of Brosnan, Eric's personal influence has reached an unprecedented level in Hollywood. For this kind of big man, Basic Instinct's Chris · Jenna, who is full of awe of power, feels that even if she waits for a month, it seems no big deal. As long as she can maintain some relationship with the other party, it is enough to make her raise her eyebrows in her small circle. Too.
During this time, her life was indeed very beautiful. For the project of "Beverly Girl", she moved back to Los Angeles with her family. Originally, she thought that some old friends would be alienated because of the years she left. But when she learned that she would personally take charge of the Reality Show project conceived by Eric Williams, all of those people rushed up, much more eager than when she was in Los Angeles.
All the way to the door of Eric's office, politely greeted the secretary of the outside room Eric. The other party asked her to wait for a while, and Chris · Jenna sat down in the reception room of the outside room honestly.
"Do n’t blame me for not reminding you for the last time, Brigitte, get this character, and everyone will see you again in the future, maybe you will call you little pepper," After a while, the Eric office door opened, one male and one The woman walked out of it, the man was naturally Eric, but the girl was Bridget Fangda who once served as Heroine in "Ghost". Chris · Jenna remembered that since "Ghost", the other party seems to have nothing The hand-drawn work came out. However, listening to the tone of Eric faintly, she seemed to be getting some important roles again, and it was enough to change an important role that Actor impressed in the audience.
I can't help but envy. She had fantasized about becoming a Actor, but unfortunately she never had such an opportunity.
Bridget · Fangda also noticed that Chris · Jenna, who was sitting in the reception room, nodded at her, said a few words to Eric, and left politely.
Eric watched the other person leave and then waved to Chris · Jenna: "Sorry, Ms. Jenna, you have been waiting for a long time, please come with me."
"It doesn't matter, in fact, I just arrived," Chris · Jenna hurryed to get up and walked over with her shoulder bag. (To be continued.)