"Sid Simberg has already been kicked out of Universal by Panasonic. If we don't do something, maybe it will be our turn next," Jon Peters said with worry and reluctance in his tone, regarding him and Peter Guber For this kind of second- and third-rate producers in Hollywood, the huge Columbia Film Company is like a piece of fat and oily barbecue. The two haven't enjoyed enough of this delicious food, so of course they are not willing to be kicked out so soon.
Peter Guber thought for a while, then showed a sudden smile: "Actually, we don't have to compete with Firefly at all. How good is cooperation?"
"Any studio in Hollywood is looking forward to working with Firefly, do you think it will be our turn?"
Peter Guber shook his head and said, "No, this is different. We can afford the price that other film companies can't afford."
Jon Peters immediately understood what Peter Cooper meant. Anyway, Colombia now belongs to the Japanese, and the Japanese will lose at any cost. The cooperation with Firefly, which is in the limelight in Hollywood, will undoubtedly increase Japan's People have confidence in the two of them in charge of Colombia, and the two will have enough time to continue to grab personal benefits from Colombia.
"Peter, do you have Eric Williams's personal contact information here, maybe we should make an appointment to chat with him now."
Peter Guber nodded and said, "Of course."
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"... of course no problem, Frank... lol, the digital realm has never said it doesn't accept external film projects, but what about your film? ... the vampire genre, 400 years ago. Wow. It's a good subject. I'm sure you'll be able to make a great film... No problem, I'll give Stan a call and make an appointment... Then, say hello to Sophia and the others for me, goodbye."
Eric hung up the phone, leaned on the back of the leather chair, and breathed a little tiredly. After the trailer of "Tornado" was broadcast, calls kept coming in. Some people expressed their congratulations, some people wanted to cooperate, and more people called to try out. Many of them even just called once or twice, but the tone on the phone was extremely familiar, as if they were old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time. Friends, Eric couldn't help but think of a certain saying in memory.
There was a chuckle from behind, Eric tapped the floor with his toes, and turned the leather chair half a circle, just facing the big bed in the bedroom. Virginia and Joanna had already changed into light pajamas, leaning against the bedside and reading a magazine together.
"Finished?" Seeing Eric turn around. Virginia looked up at him coquettishly, and asked provocatively.
Eric hummed, looked at the girl's pink lips while speaking, and was about to get up a little moved, when the cordless phone in his hand rang again.
Although a little impatient, Eric quickly connected the phone: "I'm Eric Williams."
Virginia looked at Eric's depressed appearance, and leaned into Joanna's ear and said something. The two women giggled together, and Virginia looked at Eric with a smile, provocatively. He quickly pulled down the shoulder straps of the pajamas, revealing the round fragrant shoulders and the white greasy chest.
"... Oh, Mr. Cooper, good evening," Eric was a little surprised when he heard the other party's name, and was just about to test a few words calmly, when he saw the series of provocations from the little woman on the big bed, faintly The heat surged up from the abdomen, and Eric quickly glanced at Virginia, pointed to the microphone in his hand, and signaled the woman to be honest.
Virginia immediately showed a look of grievance, rolled her big eyes slyly, turned her head and hugged Joanna, and before the other party could react, she quickly moved closer and made a deep imprint on Joanna's red lips. He took a bite, then stretched out his ruddy tongue to lick his lips with a little provocation.
"...Sorry, Mr. Cooper, can you wait for a few seconds..." Eric said something into the microphone, stood up and walked towards the big bed.
"Ah, Joan, help," Virginia leaned towards Joanna with a look of 'horrified'.
Joanna had just recovered from the surprise of being kissed, and she gave her a blank look, deliberately dodged to the other side, and said, "I don't care about you."
Eric came to the end of the bed, stretched out his hand into the quilt, and accurately touched a round calf. With a little force, he pulled the little woman who was screaming over, hugged her waist and carried her to the side of the leather chair. Gently threw the woman on the cool floor.
"Damn it," Virginia reproached with disheveled hair and blushing face, and was about to get up, but was held down by Eric, who was sitting on the leather chair again.
Virginia looked up, Eric withdrew his hand, patted his thigh, and ordered in an unquestionable tone: "Come here!"
The gentle magnetic voice made Virginia unable to resist. She turned her head and glanced at Joanna on the bed, but when she heard Eric's dissatisfied humming, she quickly took two steps and sat down on Eric's knees. gram feet.
Eric showed a satisfied look before picking up Peter Guber's phone again. Feeling a warm little hand gradually climbing up his thigh, when it was about to reach the trouser chain, Eric stretched out his hand to block it, and let the goblin do whatever he wanted, he would probably end up in Peter Cooper Make a fool of yourself.
Seeing Eric blocking her movements, Virginia raised her head in doubt, her moist eyes were full of emotion. Eric touched the charming face of the girl lying on his lap with his free left hand, then stretched out his index finger and gently tapped the girl's lips, a warm little tongue resisted pushing twice, and then swallowed obediently. suck up.
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The next day, news about the Washington Redskins winning the Super Bowl again appeared in countless mainstream media in North America. Of course, the news about the two trailers of the two heavyweight villains of "Batman" was also the subject of newspaper media hype. , Tom Cruise desperately playing stunts in "The Prelude" also attracted a lot of attention, but there is no doubt that all these news were squeezed to the secondary page by a "shocking" cracked screen.
The stunning blow of the "Tornado" trailer to the TV screen at the end left a deep impact on the hearts of countless people, and the media also followed the public's curiosity. A detailed analysis of the "Tornado" trailer was made with the space of looking at it.
After the release of this amazing trailer. In a random sample survey of several blockbusters in the summer file by "Hollywood Information". The expectation of "Tornado" is much higher than that of the second place "Batman". Although "The Dark War" has the popularity of Tom Cruise, it is because of Eric and Tom Hanks. The absence of the core hardcore fans generally have low expectations for this movie.
After spending a good night, Eric sat in the conference room in good spirits early the next morning, and started the weekly routine high-level meeting of Firefly.
After a simple work summary. A group of firefly executives in the conference room began to talk about scattered topics.
"The president of Fox TV has just called, hoping to get the exclusive right to broadcast the trailer of "Tornado". They are willing to broadcast it for free without charging any advertising fees. This condition is very favorable. Eric, what do you think?" Jeffrey flipped through the memo in front of him and said.
Eric shook his head: "The principle of this trailer is very simple. The most important thing is to give the audience a surprise. Last night's Super Bowl live broadcast has achieved its due effect. So I won't play it again. Instead, we're going to run the regular version of the teaser. Michael, how's the European release of Tornado going?"
Michael Lynn looked down at the information at hand, and said: "The five major European countries, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the West, have basically negotiated, but the earliest release time is at the end of July. Apart from local protection reasons, The most important thing is that we don't have strong channels and connections, Warner's "Batman" has been released simultaneously in the UK, Germany, and Spain, and other European boxcount countries are also released earlier than us."
Eric was a little disappointed, but he also knew that this kind of thing should not be rushed. The distribution channels of any film company are expanding bit by bit, but he still couldn't help looking at Katzenberg who was sitting on the other side.
Of course, Katzenberg knew what Eric meant, thought for a while, and said: "Bowei International completely broke away from Warner's distribution network two years ago. In the past two years, Disney has also focused on English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The distribution network of these five European box office countries, after all, the box office share of these five countries accounts for more than 70% of the total box office in Europe. In the Netherlands, Belgium and other small box office countries, most of Disney only adopts outright distribution. "
Eric held the pen with his fingertips and tapped the folder in front of him lightly, thinking quickly in his mind that it still seemed to be a matter of time.
Although it is the best choice to integrate Disney's overseas distribution with Firefly's existing channels, Disney is still in the business docking period with Firefly, and it will take at least one or two years for similar integration.
Moreover, from the bottom of his heart, Eric doesn't want Firefly to completely "digest" Disney. Only by maintaining its own brand can Disney create more benefits.
"Let's do this for the time being." After paying attention, Eric remembered what happened last night: "By the way, after the trailer for "Tornado" was played last night, Peter Guber from Columbia called himself and said I hope to cooperate with Firefly in film, I haven't made up my mind yet, can you share your views?"
There was a murmur of discussion in the conference room.
After a while, Michael Lynn spoke first: "Obviously, after Michael Eisner took charge of Universal, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters felt the crisis. The situation in Columbia has been very bad for the past two years. They I am worried that I will end up in the same fate as Sid Schinberg, but I don’t think it is necessary to cooperate, the most important thing right now is to develop our own strength.”
"I agree with Mike," Jeffrey added.
Other executives in the room chimed in, saying that working with Columbia was a waste of time.
After the meeting room became quiet for a while, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who hadn't spoken yet, said, "Eric, I think this is an opportunity, we..." Speaking of this, Katzenberg suddenly felt that he It is not suitable to speak out directly in front of so many people. Katzenberg didn't care about the eyes of everyone, and directly changed his tone: "Eric, for the sake of confidentiality, I think we should talk in private."
In the entire conference room, Katzenberg's status was almost second only to Eric's. Although he said such words, other people were upset, but they did not dare to show it.
"No problem, let's talk in my office later, then, does anyone have any questions?" Eric looked around and saw that no one had anything to say, so he announced the end of the meeting.
Seeing everyone get up one after another, Eric waved to stop those who were about to leave, and said, "Jeffrey, Michael, and Frank, come together."
The secretary served coffee for the five people, closed the office door and left before Eric said, "Jeffrey, let's talk now."
Katzenberg said: "Look, everyone, Peter Guber came to us to cooperate, and he must have made plans to sacrifice the interests of the Japanese. We all know that these two people just want to benefit themselves through Colombia, and they have no Plan to manage Columbia well. Now, because Panasonic of Japan has replaced Universal's management with Michael Eisner, they are worried that Sony will follow suit, so they approach us for cooperation. Well, we can use this opportunity to dig a big one from Columbia. A piece of fat down."
When Katzenberg said this, his eyes revealed fanatical aggression, which made Jeffrey and Frank Wells, who were more conservative in character, frown slightly, but Michael Lynn looked relaxed. Robert Shea has also seen this kind of momentum, but Katzenberg's aggressiveness is obviously stronger.
Although I don't like Katzenberg's aura at this time, the other four people present know that Katzenberg is telling the truth. Hollywood competition has never been tender, since others have sent it to you Come and take a bite. If you keep your mouth shut, you will be no different from a fool.
Katzenberg saw the expressions of approval on other people's faces, and continued: "Just now we talked about overseas distribution, everyone should know that in Hollywood, Columbia's distribution channel network is second only to Warner. It’s shrinking, but its background is definitely not comparable to that of Firefly and Disney. Colombia not only has a well-established film distribution company in major European countries, but also has branches in Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina in South America. If you can grab it... "
Katzenberg made a gesture of waving and grabbing, and then looked at everyone. Eric, Jeffrey, Michael, and Frank all showed excited expressions.
"Jeffrey, I already agreed to Peter Guber's dinner invitation last night, how about you go with me tonight?"
"Of course no problem." (To be continued...)