I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 558

[Chapter five hundred and fifty third headache]

Perhaps because there are too many movies in his mind, Eric’s dreams are always a bit bizarre, and he entered “Resident Evil” when he was about to wake up. A messy hall, walking forward cautiously, a drop of hot and humid unknown liquid fell on his face, he looked up suddenly, and in the dark, he saw Lord Li’s murderous tongue attacking him, and he was suddenly woken up.

At a glance, he saw Drew, who was fully dressed, lying beside him with a smile on his face, and the little girl rarely got up earlier than him. Eric was not surprised. After turning around the earth for more than half a circle, his biological clock was already a little confused. , it is estimated that it will take a while to recover.

Thinking of the dream just now, Eric touched his cheek and asked, “Girl, you won’t draw something on my face as a prank, will you?”

“Of course not,” Drew asked, “Do you think I’m still a child?” His expression immediately gave Eric an answer that made Eric a little helpless: “I just licked it a few times.”

Well, anyway, there will be no less meat.

Eric thought of giving up on himself, and reached out to pick up the watch on the table. Drew’s small body was just in front of him, and he asked, “What time is it now?”

Drew turned and pressed a button beside the bed. button, the curtains around the bedroom opened silently, and the bright sunlight couldn’t wait to burst in, quickly filling the spacious master bedroom.

Eric squinted his eyes and blocked it with his arm before suddenly sitting up.

Yesterday, I made an appointment to hold a firefly management meeting in the morning, and it must be late depending on the situation.

Putting on clothes in a hurry, Eric asked, “Where is my mobile phone, has anyone called?”

“Yes. Michael just called and asked if you were going to the meeting today, and I said you haven’t had a jet lag yet. Come here, it may be a little later, and he said that the meeting will be rescheduled to one o’clock in the afternoon.” Drew said, pulling out a brand new tie from the cabinet and eagerly rushing over to help Eric tie it himself.

Eric had no choice but to stand on the spot, stretched out his hand and took a look at the watch, it was already 9:40, and even if he rushes past, the morning time is not enough: “Next time you encounter this kind of thing, you must wake me up. It’s

always not good to keep so many people waiting.”

Drew obviously knew the priorities and said, “You know, this time is special. You have just returned from Tokyo, and they can understand it.”

Go downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast.

The figures of the Russian twins reappeared and took the initiative to greet Eric. After Eric sat down, he placed breakfast and today’s newspaper in front of Eric, looking

well-trained.

The little girl who had already eaten breakfast sat opposite Eric with her small chin up, and her eyes flashed suddenly, showing a look of praising me.

Eric thanked the twins, and after the two sisters left the restaurant, he picked up a small piece of bread and threw it at the door of Ya’s head: “Okay. What’s there to be proud of? I spent so much money to hire one. Hundreds of servants.”

Although Drew joked last night that he was more expensive.

But in fact, she just bought the contract of the two sisters from the agent named Sean King and spent 800,000 US dollars. In this way, taking advantage of the loophole in the other party’s contract, she later promised to give the two sisters The various conditions of the sisters, and the cost of helping the sisters and other family members to emigrate alone is not something that can be done by 800,000 US dollars.

“I can also let the two of them make cameo appearances in the company’s film. In the future, the two of them will be the mascots in the Huahua Films film. It will attract more attention than your ‘little girl with a doll’ gimmick.”

Eric ignored the teasing in the girl’s tone and asked, “You said to help their whole family immigrate. Now it’s not so easy for Russia to immigrate to the United States, what did their family do?”

“Their father was originally a very Good fight coach. But you know, now that the poor in Russia can’t even pay for the hotel room when the president goes abroad for a meeting, the fight coach is even more useless. But it’s different in the federation, and they There are not many family members, except for the two of them, only their parents and a younger brother, it is not difficult.”

Seeing that Xiao Nizi knew everything, Eric didn’t ask any more questions, took a sip of milk, and opened a newspaper at the same time.

“Eric, what’s the use of you always looking at this?” Little Nizi came over without saying anything.

“Looking for inspiration,” Eric simply spit out two words, but he read it from the “Los Angeles Times”. Yesterday afternoon, MGM Frank Macasso held a press conference to announce the establishment of a dream in cooperation with Firefly Pictures. The factory film production company’s plan, and revealed the production plans for “Charlie’s Angels” and “Resident Evil”, as well as the news that Eric will be involved in the latest 007 production.

Drew didn’t mind Eric’s perfunctory, dragging a chair over to read the manuscript together. Eric had called to tell her about the “Charlie’s Angels” project when he was in Europe. Just know about it.

“Eric, the press release didn’t mention the representative of Firefly Pictures. Is this a unilateral press conference held by MGM?”

Judging from the press release, not only did the press conference not include representatives of Firefly Pictures, but also at the press conference.

In the content of the press conference, Frank Macasso also deliberately downplayed the role of European capital in the production company.

Eric thought that MGM’s stock price would definitely rise recently, and explained to Drew: “MGM needs some good news too much now, so I can’t wait to do it, and it’s okay, Frank Ma Caso must have communicated with Michael and the others. Firefly is not a listed company, and these news will not have much impact on us.”

“Oh, Eric, we won’t suffer from giving “Charlie’s Angels” to MGM, right? This film is similar in style to 007, so maybe it can make many sequels?”

“The copyright is placed in DreamWorks, not MGM. We own 30% of DreamWorks shares and are already the largest shareholder, and, Most of the shares are also with European capital, if we have a conflict with MGM, which side do you think European capital will be on?”

“Of course it’s on our side, hey. Eric, I just thought of a good one. The idea…”

“Huh?”

“You said, wouldn’t it be a good idea if we had the Charlie’s Angels series intersect with 007?”

“It’s a good idea, though. Unless Charlie’s Angels achieves a similar impact as ‘007’ Power and box office results, but this is not an easy task, the influence of the 007 series has been accumulated for decades.”

Drew also knows that the influence of the 007 series is definitely not a big screen product at this stage. The “Charlie’s Angels” can be compared, and he asked for the next best thing: “What if it’s just some plot easter eggs?”

“Then at least the first film needs to gain enough influence, but it’s not impossible to try. It’s important. It’s better to finish the first part of “Charlie’s Angels”.”

Although Eric was not too optimistic about Drew’s whims at breakfast, he became more and more interested. The intersection with the “007” series is definitely a very powerful gimmick, but I think of the box office results of the previous “Charlie’s Angels” series.

Eric can only wait until the new version of the results he personally launched is released, and then carry out related work.

Although the meeting was rescheduled to the afternoon, Eric arrived at the Firefly headquarters as soon as possible after breakfast.

Firefly Pictures has accumulated a large number of documents that need to be reviewed by Eric himself. Eric arrived at the office at eleven o’clock and read less than one-tenth of the time until the meeting in the afternoon. This is still missing. In the case of lunch time.

Fortunately, Eric had a late breakfast and was not too hungry.

The scale of the afternoon meeting was not large, it was just a small meeting of more than a dozen executives of Firefly.

Eric walked into the conference room with Alan holding a thick stack of documents.

Seeing that everyone headed by Michael Lynn and Jeffrey Katzenberg all gathered together, they smiled and said, “Long time no see, it seems that everyone misses me very much.”

In the light of laughter, Eric exchanged a few words with everyone while Allen distributed the documents one by one, and waited for Allen to finish sending the documents.

Eric just stood up and said, “I know. Firefly has a lot of things to deal with recently, but we won’t discuss them today. Today is about the next stage of Firefly’s development goals.

” The executives of the company have already opened the documents in their hands. No matter whether they got wind of it or not, they are not too surprised to see the content of the document. The content of the document is an evaluation of the acquisition possibility of the three major TV networks.

The current situation of Firefly Pictures has surpassed the other six major Hollywood film companies by an absolute advantage. If you want to go further, you must move from a film company to a comprehensive media group.

Although it will take a while to formally propose an acquisition to the network, possibly even next year, the sooner the better.

Among the three major TV networks in North America, after the mergers and acquisitions in the mid-1980s, the TV station that had been in poor condition in the past few years and suffered continuous losses has now become the one with the best overall situation.

Because since Metropolitan Communications and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway acquired in 1983, the new shareholders have strengthened the financial supervision of the TV station, but at the same time fully gave the management sufficient potential to play, although now The profitability of the company is still not too conspicuous, but it is already in a period of benign development.

Subsequent TV stations were still in a turbulent stage at this time because of conflicts between the management and the parent company General Motors.

The situation of cbs can only be described as bad. After Wall Street investor Lawrence Tish took control of cbs in the mid-1980s, he successively split and sold a large number of business assets of cbs, including the world’s No. 1 company sold to the Japanese. Columbia Records, the second largest record company.

After so many years of capital operation, after getting enough benefits, Lawrence Tish doesn’t want to play anymore and is looking for a successor.

Therefore, cbs is also the easiest to acquire.

However, with the current strength of Firefly Pictures, there is no need to pick up leaks. Since you want to buy it, of course you have to choose the best one, followed by cbs is the last choice.

After Eric briefly introduced the plan in his heart, Michael Lynn said: “Eric, since we are going to buy it, we must sell the shares of the TV network in our hands, right?

” Mr. Ke to talk about it.”

Another asked: “What about Friends, The X-Files, and Who Will Be a Millionaire?

” , this year is just the fifth season, and the copyright of “Friends” is completely in the hands of Firefly, Eric will certainly not be polite to Fox, saying: “After completing this year’s contract, we will definitely not renew it. As for ” “The X-Files” and “Who Will Be a Millionaire” will continue to maintain the original plan.”

“The X-Files” and “Who Will Be a Millionaire” were developed by sharing copyright with Fox, and it is very difficult to grab them. Moreover, he grabbed all the three ‘pillars’ of the Fox Television Network in one breath, and it was strange that Murdoch didn’t turn his face.

Eric said, looking at the vice president in charge of the TV department of Firefly: “In addition, from now on, the TV department can look for all the programs, even if it may take one to two years for us to acquire the TV network, we can hoard it by doing so. For some good projects, you should come up with a plan as soon as possible, and send the collected project summaries to me on a regular basis.”

Katzenberg suddenly said: “Eric, about the acquisition of the TV network, UU Reading www. sonicmtl.com Are you going to take charge yourself?” As soon as Katzenberg’s

voice fell, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became a little weird, and many people swept their eyes between Katzenberg and Michael Lynn. Sweep away.

At this time, Eric also looked at Katzenberg and Michael Lynn who were sitting beside him with a headache.

The acquisition of a TV network is such a big deal that an executive above the president level of Firefly Pictures will definitely need to follow up at any time and conduct relevant negotiations in person. In other cases, this burden will definitely fall on Michael Lynn.

But the current situation is that Eric promised Katzenberg last year that he would appoint Katzenberg as the Firefly when Michael Lynn’s contract expires next year.

As the incumbent of Firefly Pictures, although Michael Lynn is somewhat conservative and does not have the indomitable spirit of Katzenberg, he has always been a very qualified manager.

Although Eric did not often intervene in the management of the company, Michael Lynn was able to execute every order he inadvertently gave, and Eric was very satisfied with Michael Lynn in his heart.

Therefore, even before Katzenberg spoke up, Eric had been struggling for a long time about how to arrange Michael Lynn in the future.

(To be continued)

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