"The shooting time of "Jurassic Park" in Kauai is about 10 to 12 weeks. If there is no urgent matter during this period, I will only contact Los Angeles by phone. I hope everyone can do their own things well. Eric casually sorted out the information in front of him and concluded, all the presidents, vice presidents, and department managers in the conference room nodded in agreement.
After announcing the adjournment of the meeting, Eric stopped several executives from Firefly and Disney as usual.
"Eric, is there anything else?" Jeffrey asked after several people followed Eric to his office.
"About Columbia," Eric said, took out the documents from the file cabinet, and handed them to Jeffrey, Michael Lynn, Katzenberg, and Frank Wells.
When it comes to Colombia, Jeffrey and the others have already understood what Eric means. What Eric wants to talk about is definitely not the cooperation with Columbia on film, but the matter of dividing up the distribution channels of Columbia. Operation, Firefly has not only obtained most of Colombia's distribution resources in South America, but through Peter Guber's layoffs and other measures, distribution resources from European countries have also begun to flow into Firefly.
Although it is impossible for Colombia to abolish all 10 branches of Europe, the world's second largest ticket warehouse, it is still a breeze to cut some of them. About half of them, and the other half of those who were actually laid off could only consider themselves unlucky. After receiving a certain salary increase from Firefly, they saw the plight of those employees who were actually laid off. .
There is no impenetrable wall in the world. The Japanese gradually realized something was wrong. And questioned the Colombian management. However, he was blocked by Peter Guber's 'killer'. The 'killer feature' is very simple - resign. Faced with Sony's questioning, Peter Guber personally called Akio Morita, saying that if Sony headquarters did not trust his 'reform measures', he could submit his resignation to the board of directors.
To the surprise of many people, this bad trick actually worked. In Eric's view, it was a bit unbelievable. Often only the management of the company that has made extraordinary achievements has the confidence to play the "resignation threat" card. Peter Cooper has continued to bring huge losses to Columbia for the past two years. If it was Eric, he would have let Peter Cooper go. However, after Sony received Peter Cooper's resignation threat, they compromised and even replaced Sony. An executive in the US division.
"It's almost the same in Europe. I've read the materials in Asia recently." After sending the materials to several people, Eric leaned on the sofa and said, "In order to curb the dumping of Hong Kong movies, several countries in Southeast Asia have recently Every year there are more and more restrictive measures. However, they have eased the entry barriers for Hollywood movies, which is very good news for us.”
Although this matter has nothing to do with Sony. However, Katzenberg carefully read the information in his hand, and then said: "Eric, Sony has already noticed this matter, but they did not take any measures due to pressure from various parties. Almost, in my opinion, Colombia’s distribution channels in Southeast Asia are not much better than ours, those resources are like tasteless, we don’t need to test the bottom line of the Japanese for those.”
"I understand," Eric nodded and smiled, "Look at the last page, I only plan to get Columbia's branch in Asia."
The other four turned the information to the last page: "Mainland China?"
"Well," Eric nodded. He himself did not expect that Columbia has a branch in mainland China, and even Disney has only a dummy office, and Firefly has not even had a movie with there yet. contacts for cooperation.
Michael Lynn asked: "Eric, do you think there is potential for development there?"
Eric smiled and said, "I can't give you an accurate answer to this. All I know is that there are 1.17 billion people there."
The other four couldn't help but looked at each other. As executives of the film company, of course they knew the situation on the other side of the ocean very well. The extremely closed market there has been subconsciously ignored by Hollywood, but when they heard Eric say 1.1 billion With the figure of 70 million, they couldn't help but feel a little moved. If a country with such a large population base can open up the film market, what will happen
"I think we can try," Katzenberg said first, "there has been trying to open up the market. This is the best time to plan ahead, and even if it fails, we won't lose anything."
"Then what should I do?" Jeffrey also asked a little moved.
"First accept Columbia's branch over there, establish contact, and then strive for the introduction of the account sharing model. If it really doesn't work, it's okay to get the qualification for public screening there. "Tornado" is very suitable. This movie has no sensitive plots. , and there is no political inclination, in short, what we have to do is to cultivate the market, which does not require us to expend a lot of energy, but it will definitely bring us unexpected results," Eric said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
After discussing for half an hour, some implementation details were worked out, and several people got off work together.
"Wait a minute are you going to the premiere of The Mask?" Jeffrey asked as they stood together in the elevator.
Eric nodded and said with a smile: "I can't go, Xiao Nizi has tortured me for several days, otherwise I would be in Hawaii now."
"I've seen the swatches of "The Mask," and, what should I say, this movie is a little too noisy, and it's kind of crazy, weird," Jeffrey recalled, commenting.
"This is not a movie for audiences of your age," Eric said with a smile, "and what you are talking about is the style of "Mask in Disguise". I planned to make such a movie from the beginning, and, this The biggest highlight of the movie is Jim Carrey's performance."
"Then how much box office do you think you can get this time?" Jeffrey still asked the most concerned question.
Eric thought about it. Said: "100 million should be no problem. If there is no competition between "Tornado" and "Batman Returns", it should be higher."
Jeffrey opened his mouth, but didn't say what he expected in his heart. He shook his head and smiled, "I really don't know where your confidence comes from. One hundred million dollars is already quite high."
The two were chatting, and Jeffrey rejected Eric's invitation to attend the premiere of "The Masquerade" together, and drove away alone, and Eric also got into his car. Headed to the China Grand Theater where the premiere was held.
…
At five o'clock, the bell for the end of get out of class finally rang. Britney, who was distracted with her chin resting on her back, immediately cheered up, packed her schoolbag in twos and twos, and left the classroom together with the flow of people.
Although they are child stars of the Disney Channel, Britney and several other young actors still have to go to school. Moreover, in order to cope with the Actors Guild and the Protection of Minors Act, Disney is also responsible for arranging regular remedial classes for their young actors. For Britney, who lives to play, all of this is a torment.
Leave the teaching building. Britney was about to get her bike home when Christina came running from the other direction.
When Christina came close, Britney smiled and asked, "What's the matter, Kris?"
Christina smiled and took out two tickets from her school uniform pocket: "Drew gave you the ticket for the premiere of "The Masquerade in Mask". Do you want to go?"
The smile on Britney's face faded a little, and she stared at the ticket in Christina's hand: "Drew gave it to you, why didn't I know?"
The smile on Christina's face remained the same, but seeing Britney's expression, she was still a little proud. If Drew hadn't specifically explained that the tickets were for the two of them, Christina would not have even told Britney about it. Lanny the little fool.
"Then do you want to go? If you don't go, I'll call other friends," Christina didn't mean to explain at all. Although Drew said that the tickets are for the two of them, if Britney herself doesn't want to go, then What can she do
Seeing the triumphant look on Christina's face, Britney wanted to refuse impulsively, but after thinking about it, she said, "Okay, but I have to call home."
"It's really troublesome," Christina pouted, and said, "Then hurry up, and oh, if you meet Drew, maybe we can still attend the party after the premiere, you better Tell your mother, maybe Drew will invite us to her house tonight."
When Britney heard this, she thought of the large room, game room, big bed, and swimming pool in the mansion in Beverly Hills, and compared it with her own small bedroom, and immediately became excited.
After Britney finished calling her family, she was about to walk to her bicycle, but Christina grabbed her and said, "You don't want to ride, do you?"
"What else can I do?" Britney blinked.
"Don't be ashamed, come with me," Christina pulled Britney out of the small door, and pointed to a taxi not far away: "Of course I went by car, this time I'll treat you."
Britney was dissatisfied with Christina's smug look, and said, "You don't need to ask, we aa."
"Whatever you want," Christina stepped forward, greeted the driver waiting there, opened the co-pilot's door and got in.
Britney pouted, but could only reluctantly sit in the back seat.
…
The two girls got out of the car together and saw the long red carpet in front of the China Grand Theater and the star on the red carpet who was being photographed by reporters. Britney looked at the actress's delicate white dress on the red carpet , said with some envy: "It's so beautiful."
"These are just little stars invited by Firefly to the heat, and the big names are behind," Christina said with a little know-it-all look.
Britney didn't want to be underestimated by Christina, so she quickly put away her envious expression, looked around, and couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Hey, tell me, we can see tonight... See William Mister S?"
"Who knows," Christina shook her head, and tiptoed to look towards the end of the red carpet: "However, Mr. Williams is very likely to attend the premiere, he is with Drew and... "
Speaking of this, Christina immediately shut her mouth. She didn't want to share the little secret she had observed with Britney, but Britney didn't follow up on what she just said, and continued: "Look at "Tornado "Is it? It's so good, I want to watch it again, but unfortunately I don't have so much pocket money."
"If I can go to Angle Manor again, I can definitely watch it as many times as I like in the private screening hall there," Christina also said.
"Then let's beg Drew to take us there again, shall we?" Britney said without thinking.
Christina glanced at the silly girl next to her with some contempt, but she didn't answer. However, she was looking forward to it in her heart, but Drew didn't take them, and Christina was smart enough not to ask for it. Here, Drew does not know how many times smarter than the little fool next to her, it is always difficult for her to guess what Drew is thinking, but Britney beside her can even guess what the other person is thinking just by looking at the other person's expression What will the other party do next.
The two girls did not enter the premiere screening hall ahead of time, but stayed near the red carpet like other movie fans, counting the 'stars' with great interest.
"Look, Mr. Williams, and Drew," Britney saw two figures coming out of the limousine at the end of the red carpet when the premiere was approaching.
When Drew took Eric's arm and slowly walked near them, Britney immediately waved her little hand to greet them.
Eric waved to the crowd, and easily saw the figures of the two little girls, and even blinked at the two little girls.
"Ghost in Masquerade" is a pg-13 movie, that is, a parental counseling grade. Although this kind of movie is recommended for parents to watch, it does not have the mandatory restrictions like the R grade, so the two girls appeared at the premiere Not surprising either.
All the way through the red carpet and into the theater, Eric asked: "I saw Boob and Chris, are they invited by you?"
Drew pursed his mouth in dissatisfaction, and hummed twice: "Boob, that's really kind."
Eric just subconsciously used a more familiar address, looked at the girl's dissatisfied expression, raised his hand with a smile, and rubbed Xiao Nizi's head.
"Ah, my hairstyle," Drew quickly opened Eric's hand.
"Little girl, what hairstyle do you want?" (To be continued...)