I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 687

[Chapter 681 I’m here to say goodbye]

After discussing the two films, the time was approaching noon, and the three were planning to go out for lunch together. Just after walking out of the conference room, Eric met Tina Fey, whom he had not seen for a long time.

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After Huahua Pictures broke away from Firefly, Tina Fey changed from Drew’s assistant to the management of Huahua Pictures, responsible for the script editing and review of Huahua Pictures. The work was fixed, and Eric rarely worked at Xiaoni. He saw Tina Fey’s figure beside him.

Although the two sides had several dewy love affairs, Eric did not intend to keep Tina Fey by his side for a long time, but since they met, Eric also invited Tina Fey to have a meal together.

There is a good restaurant near the office building of Huahua Pictures. A few people sat down together and ordered lunch. Eric smiled at the somewhat restrained Tina Fei: ” Tina

, are you still writing the script recently?”

Na Fei didn’t expect to see Eric suddenly today. She hasn’t been in contact for a long time. Some of her feelings for Eric have faded a lot, but she feels that this man is getting more and more dazzling, and she is getting farther and farther away. , At this time, hearing that Eric was still talking to him in the casual and familiar tone that he used to be, Tina Fei’s prudence dissipated a little, and said, “I have some ideas, but I’ve been too busy recently, so I don’t Too much time to write it down.”

Drew suddenly said: “Tina, didn’t you tell me about an idea based on your high school life last time, tell Eric what he thinks?”

Eric raised his head with a smile when he heard the girl’s words, but he thought of “Mean Girls” written by Tina Fey, but he also knew that “Mean Girls” was based on a book by Tina Fey called “Mean Girls”. It was adapted from the novel “The Queen Bee and the Followers”, but at this time, I was a little curious about what kind of high school script Tina Fey would come up with.

Seeing Eric, Drew, and Amy all looking at him with interest, Tina Fey smiled embarrassedly and said, “Actually, I was the kind of person who was very annoying in high school. The girls are a little crazy and always dress like a tomboy, but I actually envy those beautiful girls who can dress themselves up. This idea is roughly a story of a girl’s transformation…”

Tina Fey’s script was conceived in Eric’s opinion with many similarities to that “Mean Girls”, a somewhat rustic high school girl trying to adapt to a new life environment, in order to attract the attention of the boy she likes.

So I worked hard to turn myself from an ugly duckling into a swan story, which is still inseparable from the friendship, love, trust and other elements between teenagers.

In fact, this kind of coincidence is not difficult to understand. The script style of a screenwriter must be closely related to factors such as personal character and life experience. Although the original “Mean Girls” script was changed from a novel, it is a screenwriter.

Tina Fey must have added a lot of ‘smugglers’ to it.

Since there are so many things in common between the two stories, Eric said, “Tina, take the time to write this story down, and I’ll help you to see it and maybe shoot it.”

Because there is a complete memory in the memory. “Mean Girls” video,

Eric can get the original author information from the subtitles, as long as you check the relevant information to make sure that there will be no infringement, Eric can ask the screenwriter to transform Tina Fey’s script into the original. “Mean Girls” script in time and space.

Hearing Eric’s words, Tina Fey’s eyes suddenly lit up, in Eric’s current identity.

Since she was asked to write the script, the possibility of this script being made into a movie is almost 100%.

Amy Pascal, who was sitting next to him, also moved slightly and said with a smile: ” Eric

, Tina is now from Flower Pictures. You can’t dig your feet in front of me and Drew, can you?”

Ke shook his head and said with a smile: “That’s true. Speaking of which, Tina’s script is quite suitable for you to operate. After “Mission Impossible”, Huahua Pictures will definitely have sufficient cash flow. Yes. It’s time to increase the scale of production.”

There are actually a lot of jokes in Amy Pascal’s words just now, if Eric likes a script, any other company may compete with Firefly, but Flower Pictures is definitely won’t do it.

`After all, Eric has given Huahua Pictures enough high-quality copyrights.

Therefore, Amy Pascal was a little surprised to hear that Eric took the initiative to push Tina Fey’s script to Flower Pictures so quickly.

Eric watched the change in Amy Pascal’s expression and explained: “Actually, Firefly is currently planning to gradually streamline the production business. We plan to compress the annual production of films to about 15 in the next few years. , so, we may not have much energy to estimate the opening of this kind of youth campus comedy.”

The three of Amy were a little surprised. After the merger with Disney, Firefly’s film production and number of lines in recent years have always been Maintaining the scale of 25 to the department, suddenly compressing it to 15, almost half of the production.

If it was MGM, Columbia, and other big film companies that were not in a good position to announce production cuts, everyone would not be surprised, but Firefly Group, which has been in the limelight in recent years, suddenly announced production cuts, which is too surprising.

Amy Pascal was stunned for a few seconds, and still asked in disbelief: “Eric, are you sure you are not joking?”

“Of course not,” Eric nodded and said seriously: “This is company management. This is the result of careful discussion at the top level, because the effect of our current large-scale film production strategy is not so obvious, but it wastes the internal resources of the group. Take last year as an example. By the end of last year, Firefly, Disney Studios, Disney Animation, Firefly Pictures, New Line Cinema, Touchstone Pictures, Pixar Animation, Black Ant Productions, as well as some films introduced through external channels, the total number of films in the line is 29, and the cumulative box office for the year is 15.5 billion US dollars, accounting for 258% of the total North American box office of 100 million US dollars in 1994…”

Just as he was talking, the waiter brought the dinner ordered by several people, and Eric had to pause the narrative, but Amy Pascal reported to Eric casually. I am amazed by the series of numbers. Unconsciously, Firefly’s box office market share has occupied a quarter of the total North American box office. If it continues, Firefly may really recreate the Hollywood Golden Age MGM’s unique family. It was a big situation, which made her even more confused about why Firefly suddenly decided to cut production under such a good situation.

After the waiter left, Eric continued: “Although this market share is very high on the surface, in many films, Firefly has already made a loss. Firefly’s total domestic box office revenue in North America this year is 15.5 billion US dollars. But just “Saving Private Ryan,” “True Lies,” “The Lion King,” “Running Bride,” and “Changing Faces” accounted for $7.5 billion of that $7.5 billion share. Half of the total box office, if the scope is expanded, in addition to these five films. Several medium-sized productions such as “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “King of Fighters” received box office ranging from 10,000 to 10,000 respectively, and Firefly’s annual box office The cumulative sum of the top ten films reached US$1.1 billion, accounting for % of the total box office share, and the profits brought by these ten films accounted for more than 85% of the total profits of the film business. Next, the remaining 19 films The film only brought in 4.5 billion US dollars in box office revenue for Firefly. The average box office revenue of each film is only 10,000 yuan, while the average production and production cost of these 19 films is 10,000 yuan. Although they are operated through overseas sales and video tapes, these 19 films are still It can bring some profits to the fireflies, but the overall input and output are very uneconomical.”

Amy Pascal nodded after listening to Eric, and said to Eric: “According to you The analysis of Firefly’s compressed production plan is definitely very sensible, but Eric. If Firefly does this, it may lose its No. 1 share of the box office market in the future. If it is other film companies, I think they I definitely won’t be willing to give up the title of No. 1 market share.”

Eric smiled and said, “It doesn’t make much sense to fight for No. 1 in box office revenue, and it’s easy to be hated by others, Firefly. What we pursue is the first place in net profit. Firefly is now a comprehensive media group. In the future, our focus in the film business will be to produce better films, and at the same time, we will focus more resources and energy on value-added services around films. The opening of the film, so that every excellent film can maximize the benefits of the entire industry chain.”

In fact, Eric made this decision.

It is also the result of a detailed reference to the subsequent Disney exhibition strategy.

In the original time and space, after the new century, Disney’s annual number of productions is not high compared to other studios, but because of the high-quality strategy, it can rush out a few box office dark horses almost every year.

Therefore, although the number of films produced by Disney is only more than ten, Disney’s profits have always been among the best among several major studios by virtue of its excellent operation of the whole industry chain.

After a while, Amy Pascal asked again: “But, Eric. Don’t you think there’s a lot of risk in that too, if you cut the production to half the size, Firefly might miss some box office dark horses. And once some key projects fail, the annual financial data of Firefly will definitely be very ugly.”

Eric said: “The dark horse of the low-cost and high-box office accounts for 1% of Hollywood’s 6-screen movies every year. None, this slim chance is not enough for Firefly to maintain a high-load strategy. As for the possible failure of major projects, even if the production is not reduced, this risk still exists. But now, one or two big production films The failure of the company will not have much impact on Firefly. Firefly is not a listed company, so we don’t have to rack our brains to prepare beautiful financial reports for investors. We can run the company according to our own ideas.”

Amy Pascal Er nodded enviously, but Tina Fei suddenly said, “Hey, have you seen it? Fireflies seem to be the dark horses at the box office all these years.” After

Tina Fei said this, the three women suddenly appeared, It turned out to be the case.

From the first “Home Alone” to the subsequent “Pretty Woman”, as well as the peak “Jurassic Park”, last summer’s “The Lion King”, speaking, since Eric’s sudden rise, all Hollywood The film that can be called a dark horse at the box office seems to have long legs and gathers under the banner of Firefly.

Looking at the curious and suspicious eyes of several women, Eric spread his hands and said with a smile: “This is my personal talent. If you really want a reason, have you watched “Men in Black”?”

“Haha,” Tina Fei couldn’t help laughing, poked the little girl who was also overjoyed next to her, and stretched out her hand to make a tentacle shape on her head, and asked, “Drew, Eric’s blood What color is it, is it sky blue?” The

girl picked up the napkin and wiped her mouth with a bad expression, and then mysteriously suppressed a small voice: “White. I have tasted it, and it is a little salty.”

” Uh

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Huh?”

“Pfft…cough cough…”

Tina Fei was stunned for half a second, her face flushed instantly, and she reached out and pinched the girl’s ribs.

Amy Pascal showed a puzzled look.

But he quickly covered his mouth and laughed lightly.

Eric couldn’t hold back a mouthful of red wine, and spit it out. Fortunately, he immediately turned his head and walked around the table, but because he endured the breath, he was choked up and coughed again and again.

Looking at the little girl holding the napkin, she came over weakly.

Eric was not confused by the girl’s expression at all, and knocked on her forehead unceremoniously: “You must never make this kind of joke again in the future.”

“Remember, I will never tell others that you are Pandora .

Star people.”

“Don’t play stupid, you know that’s not what I’m talking about.”

“Mmmmmmm…” The

waiter came over quickly and was busy cleaning up, but none of them were interested in continuing to eat. Paid the bill and left the restaurant.

Just like the “Twilight” series at the peak of the original time and space, and the “Hunger Games” series of Lionsgate, for the second and third-tier film companies, it is a big blockbuster series.

Often it can rise.

Although it is still a pure production company, a “Mission Impossible”, which is expected to reach $500 million at the global box office, can continue to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in cash flow to Huahua Pictures.

In the early stage of the three films of “Mission: Impossible”, “Night at the Museum” and “Forrest Gump”, Huahua Pictures still needed to rely on cooperation with other film companies or external financing, but after “Mission: Impossible”, even if the cash returned It will take some time, but Huahua Pictures has no pressure on funding.

In this case, expansion is almost imperative.

In addition to the idea of the youth campus film that Tina Fey had improvised at lunch, Eric, together with Drew, Amy and others, studied some scripts recently collected by Huahua Films that afternoon, Huahua Films assisted Ai The copyrights of the superheroes that Rick recovered have been returned to Marvel Entertainment, and the other copyrights such as “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Bourne Bourne” have not yet been opened.

So if you want to start a new project, you can only choose yourself for the time being.

However, it is true that good scripts are hard to come by. Several people gathered around the script agent and sent a bunch of scripts to study for an afternoon.

Neither good enough, nor more familiar in Eric’s memory.

I have been busy after get off work, because tomorrow morning I will go to Burbank to attend the high-level meeting of Firefly. Eric did not go back to Malibu, but planned to spend the night at Xiao Nizi’s mansion in Beverly Hills.

The twins drove the car onto the highway, and the little girl who was sitting in the back row with Eric lay softly on Eric: “I’m exhausted. Eric, picking a script is so troublesome, why don’t you just directly Write a few to us.”

Eric pinched the girl’s face on his lap and smiled, “You really think I’m a Pandora star.”

Drew turned his baby face and looked up .

He said to Eric: “You clearly wrote so many scripts before.”

Eric explained: “It’s different now, I don’t have so much time to think about the script.”

After getting along for so long, Xiao Ni Of course, Zi can see that Eric is not sincere, but he has no intention of getting to the bottom of it. She believes that Eric is lying to herself, and there must be a reason for lying to herself.

Eric looked at the little girl with bright eyes in his arms, smiled, and didn’t say anything, but what Tina Fei inadvertently said in the afternoon was what Tina Fei said in his heart: The dark horse at the box office all these years has come from Firefly. flag.

This casual remark made Eric vigilant, because Tina Fey’s words were inaccurate. To be precise, the dark horses at the box office these years came from Eric himself. Yes, I wrote it myself.

The memory of rebirth is Eric’s greatest wealth and his biggest secret. This is a society where the strong eat the weak. Eric will not feel any guilt for taking out the script in his memory for himself, but he Don’t want to let this go on and make people really think of him as an alien or something.

Moreover, now that he also has wealth and power, he no longer has to do everything himself. As long as the excellent films in his memory reappear according to the historical trajectory, Firefly has enough strength to win these projects, and those copyright owners will definitely be more inclined to be like Firefly. Cooperation with powerful large companies.

The car unknowingly drove into the narrow mountain road of Beverly Hills, and the slight bump pulled Eric from his thoughts into reality. Smiling, she reached out and touched the girl’s eyelashes, and her smart eyes opened immediately.

“I haven’t had dinner yet. Are you sleepy?”

Drew rubbed his little head on Eric, and said greasy: “I just want to sleep in your arms.”

“Oh, yes, I just I just remembered. Regarding the sequel to “Mission Impossible,” have you contacted Kevin Costner?”

“Well, he wants a $10,000 salary, and he also asks for % of the North American box office.”

Eric thought to himself

After a simple calculation, if the sequel can achieve the results of the Ministry.

Kevin Costner will probably take about 10,000 yuan from this project. This is really a lion’s mouth. In my memory, although Tom Cruise took more than 10,000 yuan from a “Mission: Impossible”, people are good. Also participated in the production and investment.

“And then what?” Eric asked again.

Little Nizi squeezed Eric’s shirt and tugged lightly, saying: “What else is there? Give him %, and the merchants will take another 15%, and we will only have % left. The local box office is divided into movies. The fastest way to return funds, we are not those big film companies that can slowly recover funds through long-term operations. How could it be possible to give him this share, so everyone broke up as soon as they contacted. He should be shooting that movie in Hawaii now “Future Water World”, huh, I just found out, it seems that the filming of that film was not very smooth, the scenery they chose was too windy and waves, the multi-million dollar set, a big wave came, and it was scrapped with a slam, and then It has to be rebuilt. Now the budget is too large.”

The inertia of history is really strong enough, and Eric’s mouth also hung up with a smile. Perhaps, the biggest budget film before “Titanic” will also be ‘on schedule’ ‘born.

He patted the girl’s excited little face.

Eric said: “Then let’s put it down for the time being. If “Future Water World” fails, plus the “Law Enforcement Warriors” in last summer, Kevin Costner will be on his back. There are two films that have caused huge losses for investors, but there are only three things to do, and he will definitely take the initiative to contact you.” The little girl

who was leaning on Eric laughed.

He hummed a few more times, as if some bad idea was brewing.

The car quickly entered the Trousdale estate in Beverly, and after a while, it stopped outside Drew’s mansion.

Xiao Nizi just sat up, and the twins sitting in the front passenger seat turned their heads and pointed to the door of the mansion, and said, “Boss, look.”

Eric and Xiao Nizi looked over together, at this time the sun was already Down the mountain, in the dim light, a girl wearing a small white trench coat and jeans was standing quietly in the open space outside the gate of the mansion with a schoolbag on her back. The girl was very petite and obviously did not grow long.

Seeing the car stopped, the girl hesitated before walking over carefully.

Eric was a little puzzled, how could Christina Aguilera appear at the doorman of Drew’s house, UU read www.sonicmtl.com opened the car door and looked at the little girl inquiringly, the girl just shook her head.

Seeing Drew get out of the car, all of Christina’s hesitation disappeared, and she ran over obviously a little excitedly, noticing Eric who got off the other side of the car, her face even more joyful.

Although she paused after seeing Eric, Christina quickly walked towards Xiao Nizi and said excitedly, “Dru, I thought you would not be back today.”

Xiao Nizi enthusiastically said He put Christina in his arms and hugged. Although the girl was not tall, Christina seemed even more petite. After a while of intimacy, the girl let go of the girl and said with a smile, “Long time no see, why did you come so suddenly? Looking for me?”

Christina was about to speak, when she saw Eric approaching, she turned around and greeted obediently, “Mr. Williams, hello.”

Eric just smiled and nodded, looking at German Lu, Christina also turned her attention to Xiao Nizi, and said with a little more sadness: “Dru, I, I’m here to say goodbye.” (To be continued.)

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[End of this Chapter]