"Mr. Oga, this matter is not something that can be achieved in a few words," Eric said while standing face to face with Sony President Norio Oga, holding a glass of champagne in his hand.
Norio Ohhe said: "Of course, but Mr. Williams, we are very sincere. I hope you can think carefully about it."
After the signing ceremony, there was a celebratory reception as usual. Eric finally knew the reason why the president of Sony came to Los Angeles to attend this reception. Norio Ohga hoped to persuade Eric to let Firefly join the camp of promoting Sony home video recorder products .
After Sony first developed the home video recorder, Hollywood fought a lawsuit with Sony for a full ten years because of concerns about piracy. Although Sony finally won the lawsuit, the home video recorder market was first occupied by Panasonic, which has superior performance.
Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures is to promote its home video recorders with Columbia's film library. However, although Columbia has obtained sufficient funds from the Japanese in the past two years, it has not achieved the expected results. Firefly suddenly cooperated with Columbia, and Sony came up with the idea of Firefly. In terms of scale, Firefly is not as good as Time Warner, which has already embarked on diversified development, but its development momentum is definitely the first in Hollywood. If Firefly can be pulled into If it is popular in the camp of Sony home video recorder products, even if it cannot beat Panasonic, it will be enough to cause the market share of Panasonic home video recorders to plummet.
However, even though Eric didn't know much about some things, he also knew that in a few years, DVD would rise rapidly. And it will soon replace the status of video tapes. Although Norio Ohga just promised some benefits. But those things will take a long time to be realized. If Eric agrees, I am afraid that before the benefits are realized, the home video tape will be rolled out on the stage of history.
The two chatted for a while, and Norio Oga turned around to leave. Eric greeted people he knew around, came to the corner of the reception hall, and sat down on a sofa. Sipping the champagne in his glass, he planned to rest for a while.
After a while, several executives of Firefly came over and sat down beside Eric. Jeffrey asked curiously: "Eric, what did Norio Ohga talk to you about?"
Eric briefly explained the situation.
"It seems good if we can cooperate. What do you think?" Jeffrey said after listening.
Eric shrugged: "I have no idea, let someone collect some relevant information tomorrow and make a decision, but I heard that DVD disc technology is already under development, if this technology can replace video tapes. We don't seem to need it Then add the muddy waters of videotape."
"I've also read some information on DVD technology," Katzenberg said at this time: "Compared to video tapes, the cost of pirated DVDs is lower. I think once this technology is popularized, it will be nothing to Hollywood. Good thing."
"The emergence of televisions and home video tapes is not a good thing for Hollywood, but technological progress is hard to stop. All we can do is follow the technological progress and change our survival strategies, otherwise we can only be ignored. disuse."
Katzenberg touched his bald head and smiled, and said, "I understand, let's not talk about it, Eric, do you have any ideas about the few films that we collaborated with Columbia?"
"Not yet," Eric shook his head. Many of the more classic blockbusters in his memory are series movies, but Eric doesn't want to use movies with obvious series development value to cooperate with Columbia. After all, even in copyright The relevant terms have been signed on the website, but if the interests involved are too great, it will definitely be involved in the future: "What about you, I just saw what you have been talking about with Peter Guber?"
"He wanted to be able to co-develop one of the four big-budget films that Firefly announced with Columbia," Katzenberg said bluntly.
"Which one?" Eric asked.
Katzenberg said: "Clash of Heaven and Earth."
The four major production films announced by Firefly are "Jurassic Park", "Clash of Heaven and Earth", "True Lies" and "Speed", among which "Jurassic Park" and "Clash of Heaven and Earth" are special effects Blockbuster. Both "True Lies" and "Speed" lean more toward conventional stunts, and one is a remake, the other a road thriller. After seeing the "Tornado" trailer at the Super Bowl, it's no surprise that Columbia would want to co-develop "Clash."
"They finally had some self-knowledge and didn't ask for "Jurassic Park," Eric said. When Firefly released the relevant news, it had already revealed that "Jurassic Park" would be made into a series. It seems that Peter Guber understood very well that Firefly would definitely not take out "Jurassic Park" to cooperate with them, and chose this disaster movie about a comet hitting the earth as the next best thing.
"What do you mean?" Katzenberg also had some expectations in his eyes, and he also hoped that Eric could take out "Clash of Heaven and Earth" for Disney and Columbia to develop together. This movie was written by Eric himself. The story outline, coupled with the gimmick of a comet hitting the earth, the possibility of failure is extremely slim.
Eric thought for a while, but still shook his head. Firefly already has a detailed development plan for these four movies. "Speed" will be released at the end of the year, and the release dates of "Jurassic Park" and "Clash of Heaven and Earth" have been set. It will be in next year's summer file, and "True Lies" directed by Cameron will be produced next year, and it will be released in the summer file of 1994. At that time, there will be another big gimmick. Don't forget, Catherine Bigelow Saving Private Ryan will also be in production next year, opening on June 6, 1994, the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Now that "Clash of Heaven and Earth" is handed over to Disney and Columbia, a lot of preliminary work that Firefly has already done is invalidated. It is conceivable that there are usually only three or four of the main films in China, and once these films are successful, they will even account for about half of the film company's total annual box office. How much resources and effort will studios spend on these movies. And Firefly announced four films. They are all ranked in the main ranks in the next three years, and they must not be easily changed.
"I will start working on "Jurassic Park" after this Oscar. There is still one month left. This time is enough for me to choose a few projects. If you have any good plans in your hands, you can also recommend them to Me," Eric finished, looking at Michael Lynn: "That matter. How did you discuss with Peter Guber?"
Michael Lynn looked around subconsciously, making sure no one was approaching here, and then whispered: "If the time is too short, things will be too obvious. I have already discussed a plan with Peter Guber. From Oscar After that, the plan will continue until the end of the year, so that not too many people will find out."
Eric is not worried about what kind of tricks Peter Guber will play. Now the initiative is completely in the hands of Firefly, if Peter Guber does not fulfill his promise. There are many ways for Firefly to make each other pay, not to mention. Anyway, it's not his own stuff, so Peter Cooper has no reason to backtrack. Eric has heard that Peter Cooper and Jon Peters have already started planning to increase their salary. It is estimated that the contract with Firefly will expire in three years. Even if you can't maintain your status, you can leave Colombia with a full purse.
After talking about the matter, several people began to raise their glasses and chat about light topics with smiles. Some sharp-eyed guests noticed the changes in the emotions of several people, knowing that they had finished their business, so they eagerly approached.
"Let's talk, I'll leave for a while," Eric looked up by chance, saw Nicole in a lavender tube top dress smiling and looking here, and got up and said.
"Eric," seeing Eric walk in, Nicole raised a glass to him, Eric reached out and took the champagne in Nicole's hand and put it aside, grabbed Nicole's slender hand and said: "We Go dance."
"Okay," Nicole let Eric pull and walked to the dance floor.
Amidst the slow music, Eric put his arms around Nicole's slender waist, sniffed the light fragrance of the girl, and said softly as he danced, "Do you know what purple represents?"
"Huh?" Nicole stared at Eric with a questioning expression.
"Purple represents nobility and mystery. Most women don't dare to wear purple dresses rashly, because they often don't have a strong enough aura, and they will look nondescript."
A smile appeared on Nicole's thin pink lips: "Then what do you think of me wearing this dress?"
"Your Highness, I want to get down on one knee and kiss the back of your hand," Eric said half-truthfully.
Nicole glanced at the exit of the reception hall, with a little teasing in her eyes: "I'm looking forward to this kind of scene, why don't we go out and try?"
Taking advantage of the people around him not paying attention, Eric slid his palm around Nicole's slender waist and patted it lightly: "Woman, don't push yourself too hard."
Nicole glared at him slightly angrily, then changed her tone, leaned over slightly, and said softly: "Eric, I watched "Jurassic Park" recently, do you think I'm playing Ellie Sally?" How is Dr. Teller?"
"In the production plan, all the actors in this movie can only get the minimum salary stipulated by the union, are you willing?"
"I would," Nicole replied without hesitation.
Eric smiled and said, "When you answered that I would, you wouldn't be thinking about any messy things, would you?"
Nicole blushed slightly: "No."
Eric made a joke, and then said sternly: "The protagonists of "Jurassic Park" will be those dinosaurs from ancient times. Like "Tornado", this movie does not focus on the actors except for familiar faces in front of the audience. Playing too many roles. In your current position, it would be a waste of time to be in this movie."
"Didn't you say that you would prepare two movies for me to drive a wedge between Tom Cruise and his partners? "Hot Girl" is already available, what about the next one?"
"Eh..." Eric stared at the cunning of the girl's eyes and figure, and realized that the pit was waiting for him here: "It's getting late now, I think it's better for us to go back and talk about such an important matter , like, in bed."
Nicole puffed out her chest without fear: "Okay."
…
Sensing the movements of the people around her, Nicole woke up almost at the same time as Eric, the skin on her back pressed against the man's solid chest, making her shrink back instinctively, and then felt Eric's morning lust pressed against her ass threateningly.
Nicole rubbed lightly twice like a prank, then turned around with a smile, and met Eric's eyes: "Morning."
"Morning," Eric came up and pecked Nicole's thin lips.
The warmth of the light kiss made Nicole's heart warm. She stretched out an arm to hug Eric, squinted her eyes and leaned over to continue sleeping, and then the atmosphere was disturbed by the aggressive little guy on her lower abdomen.
"I really want to cut it off, it's so annoying," Nicole complained, stretching out her hand and pinching it hard.
"That's because you didn't find the right way to use it," Eric smiled and hugged Nicole into his arms, and pushed the girl's legs away with his knees.
Nicole hummed a few times and let out a deep breath.
"Go to sleep, it's still early, you can sleep for another half an hour," Eric's voice sounded.
"Asshole, this... how can you sleep," Nicole hammered Eric on the back with some amusement.
So half an hour of sleep was changed to morning exercise.
Then he got up, stood side by side in front of the sink in the bathroom, brushed his teeth and washed his face in front of the mirror, he shaved, she did skin care, then changed his clothes, went for a morning run in the manor together, and came back with a day's newspaper, Eric Sitting at the long table in the dining room reading the newspaper, Nicole made breakfast in the opposite kitchen.
Putting a plate of buns on the dining table, Nico poured milk for the two of them, noticed Eric's dazed expression, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"I suddenly remembered a story," Eric said, looking at the buns that had just been taken out of the oven in front of him.
"Oh," Nicole raised her eyebrows, handed over the milk, sat down opposite, and said, "What story?"
"Two killers, they met by chance in a chaotic city, fell in love, and got married."
"Hmm..." Nicole took a bite of the bun, nodded her head, the golden bangs on her forehead swayed mischievously, and suddenly raised her head and asked, "Hey, the two killers you mentioned are a man and a woman. Bar?"
"..."
"Hehe, just kidding, you go on."
"But they don't know each other's identities. Although they are both top killers in the industry, they belong to two different killer groups. They live in an unremarkable community, live an ordinary life, and have their own cover Occupation, the neighbors call them: Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” (To be continued..)