I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 853

[Chapter 845 Are you sure you are normal?]

At two o’clock in the afternoon, Eric arrived at the Fox studio in Century City on time.

As soon as she got out of the car, she saw Elizabeth walking hurriedly on her high heels, followed by a little assistant holding a document.

Eric and Elizabeth hugged, let go and walked out of the parking lot together, not forgetting to ask, “Why are you here?”

Elizabeth rolled her eyes: “This place belongs to my family, why can’t I be here.”

“I mean…” Eric wanted to ask her why she came to pick him up. Elizabeth is currently only in charge of the film production department of Twentieth Century Fox. Although the project “Doomsday” is quite important to Fox , but not under her jurisdiction.

However, Eric still spread his hands, well, anyway, the entire set is her family: “Forget it, I won’t talk about it.”

“Hmph,” Elizabeth hummed softly, but then came over to hold Eric’s hand affectionately, and said, “Dad asked me to talk to you about the digital release of the original sound record…”

“Stop,” Eric hurriedly interrupted Elizabeth before she could speak, and said, “Liz, I’ve spent too much saliva these days trying to convince others, let me take a break, let’s not talk about music today, okay? it is good?”

In order to obtain as much music content as possible, Eric formulated the strategy of delaying the release of physical records for three months of digital music albums by traditional singers. This plan will not only be implemented within the Firefly system, but also greatly increase the introduction of external Possibility of record label content.

However, Yahoo’s music store can’t always be full of old music content. To make up for this, the film and television soundtracks in the Firefly system will adopt a strategy of releasing simultaneously with physical records.

Outside of the Firefly Group, MGM agreed to the plan almost without hesitation.

But Murdoch is not very satisfied with this plan, but it is difficult for Twentieth Century Fox to directly reject this plan like other film companies.

You know, even without mentioning the private relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the cooperation between Firefly Group and News Corporation in recent years is strictly speaking even closer than that of MGM.

The companies directly jointly held by the two parties include Blue Sky Studio, FFM TV Station, and the Australian branch of Digital Domain.

In addition, just like this “Doomsday******”, the cooperation between the two companies in the TV business is also very frequent.

Outside of Hollywood, Yahoo Portal has also reached an agreement with News Corp. to enjoy the exclusive rights to publish online news from a number of News Corp.’s media.

Elizabeth is also aware of this. News Corporation’s music business is even smaller than Firefly, and she doesn’t think there is any need to fight for it.

Therefore, although she obeyed the instructions of her old man, she never thought of persuading Eric. Looking at the slightly tired profile of the man beside her, Elizabeth nodded, but she pretended to be unwilling and said deliberately: “Okay. , then we will talk tomorrow.”

Eric didn’t care about Elizabeth’s habitual strong temper, smiled, and the two walked into the administrative building on the set together.

Although Eric handed over “The Last World ****” to Fox to take over “The X-Files”, everything still followed a formal business process.

This sci-fi drama is jointly invested by the Firefly TV department and the Fox TV department, and also includes a shell company of Cameron. The copyright of the TV series belongs to Fox, and Firefly only obtains the corresponding share according to the investment ratio.

Due to the miraculous success of “Titanic”, although it is only a TV series conceived by Cameron, the competition for roles is still very fierce.

The production team has set very strict conditions for the actress Max’s audition from the very beginning. The age limit is 18 to 22 years old, and the height is between the three years or more than three film and television drama performance experience, dance, gymnastics. Equipped with other physical skills, it can adapt to the shooting of high-intensity action scenes.

But even if the conditions are so harsh, there are still more than 300 girls who passed the screening and participated in the audition initially. From this, it is not difficult to see the strength of the American film industry.

Other secondary roles have been confirmed before this, and today is just the last round of auditions for the heroine, and only ten final candidates remain.

Although all the girls were already waiting in the lounge, the audition would not start until 2:30.

Cameron’s current focus is mainly on the pre-special effects technology development of “Spider-Man” and the theme exhibition of “Titanic”. Apart from providing the main plot idea and naming a producer title, he did not participate in this project. Today Neither came.

Eric listened to Brian Spicer, the producer in charge of “The Last Days of the Dead” on Fox’s side, briefly introduced the audition situation in the early stage, and turned over the ten documents in his hand with great interest. To Elizabeth, who was reading the candidate actress’ profiles, she said, “Liz, have you ever heard a story about an interview where the person in charge randomly selected a stack of interviewee profiles and threw them into the trash, announcing that these people were eliminated. , for the simple reason that they are not lucky enough.”

Elizabeth raised her head, looked at Eric helplessly, and said, “Why didn’t you come earlier if you wanted to play like this? There are only ten people left. If you take out a stack, there will be nothing left.”

“Then take out one or two copies,” Eric said. Sure enough, he picked out two copies from the thin stack of documents, made a cross on them with a pencil, and handed them to Brian, who was dumbfounded on the other side. Spicer and others, said: “Let someone inform them that they can leave directly.”

From what Elizabeth knew about Eric, she knew that Eric’s sometimes inexplicable actions often had inexplicable reasons.

Although she was rarely able to tell what the factor was from Eric, Elizabeth firmly believed in it.

Snatching the two cast information from Eric, Elizabeth looked at it, but didn’t think it was anything special, so she handed it to Brian Spicer: “Brian, is there any problem with these two?”

Brian Spicer took it over and looked at it, hesitated for a while, but still said the truth: “Liz, this girl named Milla Jovovich was introduced by Mr. Palma. However, I Guarantee, there is no problem with her various conditions, she has dance skills, and she has been playing some small roles in film and television dramas since she was thirteen years old.”

Elizabeth thought for a moment, then asked, “Brian de Palma?”

Brian Spicer nodded.

Elizabeth didn’t care too much. In the past few years, she has gradually understood that Hollywood is a circle of people, and she believes that Eric will not care about this, so the problem may lie with another girl: “The other girl Woolen cloth?”

“This, Ali Larter,” Brian Spicer looked at the name on another document, frowned slightly in confusion, and then looked at the other directors in the audition room.

Everyone shook their heads, and one of them flipped through the cast information in front of him, thought about it, and said, “This girl was selected by John’s group. Do you need to call him to come over?”

Brian Spicer looked at Elizabeth and Eric and explained, “John Knowles, we have five groups of primaries, and John is the casting director for three groups.”

Just as Elizabeth was about to say something, Eric took back the two documents in Brian Spicer’s hand and put them in the folder, shook his head and smiled: “Forget it, it’s just, it’s been a little annoying recently, and I don’t want to be the same all the time. Hey. , as if nothing happened just now, let’s start.”

Although they didn’t understand what happened, Brian Spicer and the others were all relieved.

Elizabeth paused, leaned over and hugged Eric gently, and took out the two actors’ profiles in front of him that made everyone puzzled, and said to Brian Spicer in an unquestionable tone: “Cloth Ryan, tell them to leave.”

Brian Spicer took the two documents again, felt Elizabeth’s firm tone, nodded, and got up and walked out of the room without hesitation.

Elizabeth still didn’t let go of Eric, ignored other bystanders, rubbed her cheeks on Eric’s cheeks, and said, “Eric, do whatever you want without explaining to them.”

Eric patted Elizabeth’s slender waist lightly, and said with a smile, “Why do I feel like this sentence came out of the girl’s mouth?”

Elizabeth was not angry because Eric mentioned Drew this time, but still retorted: “I’m not like her, she’s crazy.”

“Heh, are you sure you’re normal?”

“It’s not that you are too jerk.”

The onlookers pricked up their ears with great interest to eavesdrop on the two bosses’ strange… broke a certain atmosphere.

Eric and Elizabeth heard the footsteps and realized the situation around them, so they sat down separately.

There are eight girls on the list that Eric is a complete stranger to.

The audition started on time at 2:30 and continued until 7:00 in the evening. Due to the tight schedule, the pilot episode will be produced before May. Eric did not hesitate too much. After the audition, everyone will discuss it soon. As a result, a 19-year-old girl who came to Pennsylvania in the United States was lucky to get the role of the heroine Max.

After the heroine of “Apocalypse” is confirmed, Eric will no longer intervene in the specific production of this TV series.

On the afternoon of April Fool’s Day, Eric flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco and Oakland.

The official product launch will be held at 2pm on April 2 in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott International Hotel in Oakland.

Although after more than a month of intensive publicity, the reputation of this fateful new player has spread all over the world, but in addition to the main purpose, a lot of information related to this player has not been disclosed to the outside world.

Therefore, this conference attracted mainstream media from all over the world. After the date of the conference was confirmed, more than 600 media contacted Firefly Electronics, hoping to get the invitation letter for the conference.

In the Silicon Valley area where technology companies gather, peers in the electronics industry will also not miss this opportunity. Coupled with the lucky audience randomly selected by Firefly Electronics through the Yahoo portal, the final list of guests reached 2,100.

Eric watched the preview of Firefly Electronics President Bill Olson’s press conference last night. He was busy until late at night, and woke up very early today.

Since the press conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Eric directly chose to stay at this hotel.

Leaving the room and entering the hotel’s in-house restaurant, Chris was already sitting at a table with the two leaders of Firefly Electronics and Yahoo CEO Ian Grenier, who came from Boston in person.

“Eric, early.” Seeing Eric coming, Ian Grenier, who was sitting in front of him, beckoned to him, and several other people also looked over.

Eric walked over, greeted everyone, sat down beside Ian Grenier, and asked, “What are you talking about?”

Several people glanced at each other, and then Ian Grenier took the initiative to say: “Eric, about the pricing strategy.”

Eric randomly asked for a breakfast from the waiter who came over, and then said, “Aren’t you thinking about raising the price?”

Bill Olson said: “Eric, according to our recent survey, the price of $299, which is the same as Sony’s, is indeed a bit low. With the popularity it has shown, I I don’t think it’s impossible to raise the price to $359, or even $399.”

“However, we have discussed this issue many times,” Eric spread his hands and said, “We all know that the technical level involved is not too high, even if we have applied for a full series of patents for MP3 players, But as long as competitors want to make efforts in this area, they can still create alternative products, so what we need to do is to make it popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard, rather than chasing profits from the beginning, and more What’s more, the total manufacturing cost is only $150, and with the increase in production and the development of technology, the comprehensive cost will continue to decline, and we already have enough profit margins.”

“However, we have discussed this issue many times,” Eric spread his hands and said, “We all know that the technical level involved is not too high, even if we have applied for a full series of patents for MP3 players, But as long as competitors want to make efforts in this area, they can still create alternative products, so what we need to do is to make it popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard, rather than chasing profits from the beginning, and more What’s more, the total manufacturing cost is only $150. With the increase in production and the development of technology, the comprehensive cost will continue to decline, and we already have enough profit margins.” (To be continued.)

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