I’m in Hollywood Chapter 970: I forgive you
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Most of the members of the "Iron Man" crew are on the weekend, but Eric has no way to relax.
Firefly's only blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" this summer, although the trailer was released in Super Bowl in January, the film has only been finalized until recently, and is about to be submitted for review and the TV trailer will be released Eric deliberately took the time to watch the film with Katzenberg and others.
In addition, he also checked the production progress of several projects including "Ring", 《Ted》, "Sleepy Hollow" and even the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in shoots in New Zealand.
The shooting of "Ring" has already started, and it is expected that the summer film will be released smoothly. The casting of 《Ted》 is also over, and the motion capture technology that needs to be used extensively is being tested.
"Sleepy Hollow" has just completed the budget plan and is about to enter the stage of casting and scouring.
After the success of "Monsters, Inc." at the end of last year, Disney Animation Department has been preparing new story scripts for the past few months.
Katzenberg and some other Disney ministers hope to continue the tradition of Disney fairy tales. Eric does not want Disney animation studio to become another Pixar. Moreover, Disney has also proved the correctness of this road. Naturally, it will not object to the proposals of Katzenberg and others.
Therefore, among several ideas provided by the studio management, after discussing with Eric and Katzenberg, "Tangled" was selected.
As for the explosive "Frozen", Eric still hopes that the studio will continue to hone through one or two projects before taking it out.
original's "Tangled", due to the revision of script and high-level turbulence, caused the project to run out of control. The production cycle dragged on for six years and burned Disney 260 million USD, making it the most expensive 3D Animation movie in history.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes as much as possible, although Disney Animation Studio has come up with very detailed story scripts, Eric still let them use three months to carry out detailed script polishing, to ensure that the project will not appear once Kind of situation.
As for the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of shoots in New Zealand, Eric can only watch a batch of air samples from the crew for the time being, and held a remote video conference with Peter · Jackson.
Katzenberg has flown to New Zealand twice in the past few months. Vice Chairman of Firefly Pictures is one of the producers of "The Lord of the Rings" personally. He is based in Australia, plus Peter · Jackson himself to "The Lord of the Rings" With the focus of the series, Eric is very comfortable with this project.
After breaking the time into minutes and working for two days, Eric finally regretted starring in "Iron Man" personally. These jobs could have been shared a little bit on the working day, but they were concentrated on these two days, or Weekend breaks.
Besides, this is because Eric is completely used as a shopkeeper for many things.
This year, Eric made the film personally and will be released in the year. There are only three films "The Day After Tomorrow", 《Ted》, and "Ring". The huge film production and distribution system of Firefly Group is naturally impossible.
Excluding two animation studios with long project cycles, Firefly Pictures, Disney Film Industry, and the new line Film Industry are currently the main movie production labels of Firefly Group. This year, more than 20 movies have been released during the year.
Although Eric seldom directly intervened in the production of these projects in the past, most of the projects, even if they are ultra-low-cost movies with two 3 million budgets, regardless of the type, budget, card size, schedule or Box Office prospects, In fact, he can do everything he knows.
But this year, in the first half of "Iron Man" and the second half of "Gravity", the two films will divide most of his energy. If Eric wants to do this again, it is simply impossible. The group except the film For other businesses, the energy that Eric can allocate is also pitiful. As for some movies of Metro Goldwyn Mayer or Fox, Eric is even more inattentive.
Firefly investment side, Eric is now only paying attention to Yahoo side, the rest are all handed over to Chris.
"Eric, this is the first draft of" Harry Potter "second part just passed from United Kingdom. Harper Collins Publishing House hopes that the second volume will be released during the summer vacation," Firefly Burbank Headquarters, the time is already Sunday afternoon, Carolyn knocked The door came in and placed a sample book on his desk.
Eric signed a budget document for Firefly Studios Park. Then he looked up and took the book, and inadvertently glanced at Carolyn. Nizi's eyes suddenly showed confusion and quickly flashed open.
"Have you done something sorry for me recently?" Opening the novel catalog page, Eric did not look up and asked casually.
I do n’t know what happened to Nizi. Every time I saw him in these days, he looked guilty.
I heard Eric suddenly asked, Carolyn subconsciously stepped back and shook his head: "No, no."
"Nà, it doesn't matter, I forgive you. So, don't work like this, work hard, or deduct wages."
Carolyn listened to Eric with a slightly ridiculous and gentle tone. His bright eyes blinked a few times quickly, resisting the urge to nod his head. Seeing that Eric still didn't look up at himself, he didn't run away.
After turning a few pages, Eric closed the book, looked up at Carolyn, and asked, "How much has the first volume of" Harry Potter "sold?"
Carolyn answered accurately without thinking: "global ’s sales statistics last week were 13500,000 volumes."
Eric nodded with satisfaction. Although the "Harry Potter" series has not reached its peak, but driven by Firefly Group, from the release of the first volume in September last year to the present, global sales reached 13500,000, which is definitely a miracle.
"When Harper Collins wants to release the second volume is up to them, as long as they maintain the speed of one volume per year," the novel draft was pushed to Carolyn, and Eric said: "Also, take this Three copies of this novel are sent to Eath Hampton. The little guys like this story very much. "
"Okay," Carolyn nodded, picked up the first draft and held it in his arms, and said: "Also, just sent an email from the new line, they have already negotiated with Chris · Tucker." "Rush Hour3", 20 million USD. Jack · Cheng still hopes to get a share on the basis of the pay. "
Eric waved his hand: "I don't care about this matter. Let them talk about it. If they want to share, the basic salary cannot exceed 10 million. This is the rule of Firefly. If you don't talk properly, don't shoot."
"Well," Carolyn nodded and continued: "In addition, the short story adaptation rights of the" Monster Love ", the copyright Department has already contacted Nancy Collins' manager, and the other party is willing to sell it. Just , We can only get the film and television adaptation rights, the other party has already sold the game adaptation rights to the White Wolf Game Company in advance. The copyright Department sent an email asking if we need to take back the game adaptation rights. The White Wolf Game Company has not started production As long as the price is right, the adaptation game of this novel should be willing to change hands. "
Since 1993, the annual output value of the worldwide video game industry has been comparable to that of the film industry. Film adaptation games are also increasingly valued by several major film giants. Firefly also has an entertainment interactive department that makes video games, but Eric is not optimistic about the prospects of this department.
There are many similarities between the production of video games and movies, they are both a field of creative supremacy.
An excellent video game is definitely inseparable from the creative core creator, just like the movie Director and the producer. Like the entertainment and interaction department, hiring a group of programmers to develop games in accordance with the process of developing software is like letting a group of purely technical personnel such as photographers and lighting engineers make a movie, and can produce high-quality products. The probability is very low.
Therefore, before the advent of the online gaming era, Eric did not intend to involve too much in the gaming field.
Even if online games appear in the next few years, Eric is more inclined to use Yahoo's huge user base for game agency. As for online game production, studio mode is still the best method. Of course, Yahoo can also take the form of capital injection or acquisition to obtain actual control of these studios.
Thinking about it in my heart, Eric shook his head and said: "No, just get the film and television adaptation rights. Is there anything else?"
Melanie has encouraged more than one time to invite Eric to eat together these days, but Carolyn knows how busy Eric is these two days, this is obviously not the right time. What's more, Eric has already made arrangements tonight.
I quickly found a reasonable reason for myself. Carolyn hesitated a little, then shook his head and said, "No more."
Eric raised his hand and looked at his watch, saying: "Then you and Mei will get off work early and go back to rest. Today is a weekend, and you can play more at night. I will be off work soon."
Tomorrow is Oscar. Eric is going to attend Oscar eve party tonight, not for fun, but to take the opportunity to talk about FFMTV Station with Harvey · Weinstein.
Half a month ago, the second season of "Black Road Family" was officially launched. The number of viewers of the first episode of the second season reached 5160,000, which is more than double the average number of viewers in the first season, and even broke the charge The number of viewers on the cable station.
With the viewing trend caused by "Black Road Family" and other original episodes and fine movies successively launched by FFMTV Station, the total number of subscribers of FFMTV Station also successfully broke through the 10 million mark. Compared with before the launch of "Black Road Family" last year, it has achieved a growth of more than 120%.
Because the Firefly system lacks a cable TV operating system like Warner cable, after the early outbreak, the growth rate of the number of FFMTV Station subscribers will definitely start to slow down significantly. FFMTV Station will also need to make appropriate adjustments in its operational strategy.
After Carolyn left, Eric went through a few more documents, and the time came at five o'clock in the afternoon.
After looking at another pile of documents waiting to be processed, Eric can only do nothing.
Although tomorrow will be the day of Oscar, shoots of "Iron Man" will continue, but there is no arrangement for Eric. He can still work for several hours during the day.
Leave Burbank Headquarters and drive along the mountain road to Elizabeth and Julia's Beverly Hills mansion.
Julia went to Paris because of an advertisement for shoots, and will not participate in Oscar tomorrow. Only Elizabeth in the mansion is wearing a dress with the help of two stylists.
Eric walked into the villa and watched the busy three people in the living room, just nodded and leaned comfortably on the sofa.
"Eric, how about this dress?" After a while, Elizabeth walked over with the skirt of the big red one-shoulder dress and turned around a little, asking.
Eric has always liked the one-shoulder dress, always feel that this dress has an inexplicable playful and sexy, and the women around him seem to gradually realize his preferences.
Looking up and down, Eric nodded, just looking at the skirt that was almost dragged to the ground, and said: "It's beautiful, but it's party tonight, and it's not the award ceremony, you're not afraid of tripping Yourself? "
"I haven't worn high-heeled shoes yet, so it wouldn't be the case with high-heeled shoes," Elizabeth lifted the hem up again, exposing two white feet, and then pointed to the two large boxes on the coffee table in the living room. Dao: "Right, I also helped you to order a suit and leather shoes. You should try it quickly. Lisa is here. If it is not suitable, you can change it temporarily."
"Too tired, I do n’t want to change clothes, I plan to wear this suit," Eric leaned on the sofa again, he did n’t want to be tossed again, said: "And, I ’m hungry, I would n’t eat in the past Low blood sugar fainted, you can do it. "
Elizabeth looked at Eric as a ridiculous look, kicked angrily on his leg, bowed his head and dragged his two leather boots down, and thrown away, the tone was arrogant: "Quick change, if it ’s not you, I I'm too lazy to wear it so formal. "
Eric raised his leg: "Will you help me wear it?"
"You want to be beautiful," Elizabeth threw a blind eye at him and walked back to the two stylists who saw this scene but tried to pretend that they didn't exist, and asked them to help organize the dress.
Eric felt the threatening gaze of Elizabeth for a while, but had to stand up, holding the two boxes of clothes and shoes, and walked upstairs to the bedroom.
Change the clothes and go downstairs. The two stylists have already started to make hairstyle for Elizabeth.
It is basically impossible for a woman to dress up for an hour or two, so until 6:30, the two men finally left the Beverly Hills top mansion.
Although Elizabeth did not plan to eat dinner, it did not mean that Eric would be hungry with him. First he went to a restaurant and ate some food with Eric. The two people rushed to the place where party was held on the eve of Oscar . (To be continued.)