When planning to acquire a film company with distribution channels last year, Eric also collected information on Orion Films.
The film company was founded around the same time as the Weinstein Brothers' Miramax in the late 1970s.
However, compared to Miramax who has been making small troubles, the establishment of Orion Films can be described as a huge momentum, attracting a large number of famous filmmakers such as Francis Coppola and Sylvester Stallone to cooperate, even "Terminator" "The first volumes were issued by Orion.
After the establishment of Orion, eighteen films were produced in just five years, and ten of them were profitable. This ratio is definitely very high among film companies.
Therefore, Orion Films was once rated by the media as another Hollywood player most threatening to several major film companies, and it also attracted Summer Redstone from Viacom and John Kruger from Metropolis Media. In the end, the wealthy John Kruger won the control of Orion Films with huge sums of money.
However, since the late 1980s, the situation of Orion Films has taken a sharp turn for the worse. For several consecutive years, due to the loss of film production, Orion Films has more and more debts and is facing bankruptcy at any time.
"Okay, don't be sarcastic. I heard that John Kruger has already planned to sell Orion to oil tycoon Marvin Davis. That's a big money maker. Maybe he will make a comeback."
"When did you see the news?" Carta asked.
Eric thought for a while and said, "A week ago, a piece of news on the Hollywood Reporter."
Karta said: "Then you definitely don't know, this business is already dead. Marvin Davis made a big loss when he bought 20th Century Fox. He had to resell it to Mr. Murdoch. How could it be possible to fall into it again?" Once. John Kruger has already planned to stop production of Orion, and I heard that the production department of the company is preparing to take over the TV series copyright of "The Addams Family" from Orion."
Eric just shrugged: "Whatever, let's talk about ours."
"About the second plan..." Karta nodded, and was about to continue, suddenly looked at Eric seriously, and said: "Eric, I suddenly want to understand something, since "Dances with Wolves" The copyright of the film is in your hands. Liz took the film with her own temper, it should be you who ordered it?"
"Yes," Eric didn't deny it.
Karta hesitated for a moment, remembering Eric's usual vision, and asked again: "Then what do you think of the box office prospects of this movie? If you are optimistic, we will put it on Thanksgiving next year. If you are purely If you want this movie to make way for The Silence of the Lambs, then Christmas?"
"This is definitely a movie that has the potential to hit the Oscar for best picture, that's all I can see. As for the box office, I really don't have a clue. But it shouldn't be too bad," Eric said truthfully .
"In this case," Carta saw that Eric had no confidence in the movie's box office prospects, so he said: "Then follow the release strategy of "Rain Man", and put it in December, but because it is Christmas, Film companies with this theme can only produce 1,000 screens at most, but we will definitely do a lot better than Orion in terms of publicity.”
It took a few hours to discuss the specific cooperation details, and when Eric was sent out of the office building, Karta asked: "Eric, although there are some problems with asking this question, but I am still very curious, since You got the rights to the movie, why don't you distribute it yourself?"
Eric said helplessly: "Do you think Liz will be willing to go crazy for no reason and come back with the nickname of Princess Fox? This is the condition we negotiated at the beginning. The copyright belongs to me, and the distribution belongs to Fox. That little girl is like a little hamster, wanting to drag everything into her nest."
Karta laughed: "It's a matter of course, she is the daughter of the Murdoch family after all."
Jennifer Connelly left after finishing the so-called dubbing of "Fighting Condor" in the morning. Because it was not time to get off work, Eric did not return directly to Joanna's villa, but went to Burbank. I had to deal with some official business in the office before leaving after get off work hours.
The next day, without any surprise, the New York Post published a report on his and Jennifer Connelly's affair. The article wisely didn't use the photo of Connery throwing himself into Eric's arms, but chose A picture of a girl walking into Fox's office building with his arm in his arms. In this case, if the two of them are unwilling to admit it, they can insist that they are good friends. It's okay for good friends to hold arms with each other, believe it or not what ever.
Except for the ambiguous title of 'Another Jennifer from Williams', the content of the article is quite restrained. It explained the past between Eric and Jennifer Aniston, and described Jennifer Aniston in detail. Connery's birth history as a child star, as for the relationship between the two, the report uses a completely speculative tone.
After a few brief introductions, the news turned to Jennifer Connelly's recent "Fighting the Condor". In fact, after a little thought, most people would find that this is a promotional article. It is a subject that readers like to hear and see. Even if many people can see at a glance that the credibility of the news is not high, it is still more eye-catching than those hype movie reviews.
Many movies will use this method when promoting, but most of those use the gossip between the male and female protagonists, but this time, "Fighting Condor" uses the heroine and Hollywood's hot young director Ai The scandal between Rick Williams was hyped.
As for Charlie Sheen, the leading actor in "Fighting Condor", although he can barely be regarded as a first-line actor because he participated in "Platoon" a few years ago, his influence is still far from that of Eric.
Although Charlie Sheen is also a well-known playboy in Hollywood, if he uses his scandal with the heroine to make some manipulations, it will definitely attract quite a lot of attention, but considering the relationship between Connery and Eric, even if someone raises it, The publisher will not do so at the risk of offending Eric. After all, Eric is not just a director now, not to mention that Jennifer Connelly will definitely not cooperate.
Eric didn't pay much attention to this report, but after seeing it, several women called to test it out. Since breaking up with Aniston, Eric has not confirmed his official girlfriend. Of course, it is impossible for several women He didn't have any idea, but Eric was perfunctory for this kind of temptation, he didn't have such an idea at all. (To be continued..)