Maybe it's because there are too many movies in his mind, Eric's dreams are always a little weird, and he entered "Resident Evil" when he was waking up. In a messy hall, he was walking cautiously, a drop of hot and humid liquid fell on his face, he suddenly raised his head, and saw Master Licking's ferocious tongue attacking him in the dark, and he woke up in fright.
At a glance, I saw Drew, who was already fully dressed, lying beside him with a smile on his face. Little girl rarely got up earlier than himself, and Eric was not surprised. After half a circle on the earth, his biological clock was already a little confused , it is estimated that it will take some time to recover.
Thinking of the dream just now, Eric touched his cheek and asked, "Girl, you won't draw something on my face as a prank?"
"Of course not." Drew showed an expression that you thought I was a child, and then gave Eric a helpless answer: "I just licked it a few times."
Well, anyway, there will be no less meat.
Eric thought self-destructively, and reached out to get the watch on the table. Drew's small body was just in front of him, and he asked, "What time is it?"
Drew turned around and pressed a button beside the bed, and the curtains around the bedroom opened silently, and the bright sunlight couldn't wait to break in, soon filling the spacious master bedroom to the brim.
Eric narrowed his eyes and blocked it with his arms before sitting up suddenly.
Yesterday I made an appointment to hold a firefly management meeting in the morning, so I must have been late.
Dressing in a hurry, Eric asked, "Where's my mobile phone, is there anyone calling?"
"Yes, Michael called just now and asked if you are still attending the meeting today. I said you haven't arrived yet due to jet lag and may be later, so he said that the meeting was changed to one o'clock in the afternoon," Drew said Then, he took out a brand new tie from the cabinet and rushed over excitedly to help Eric tie it himself.
Eric had no choice but to stand where he was, and reached for his watch to take a look. It's already 9:40, and even if you rush over now, you don't have enough time in the morning: "Next time you encounter this kind of thing, you must wake me up. It's always not good to keep so many people waiting."
Drew obviously knew the priority of the matter, and said, "I know, this time is special. You just came back from Tokyo, so they can understand."
Going downstairs to the dining room for breakfast, the Russian twins reappeared. He took the initiative to say hello to Eric, and after Eric sat down, he put breakfast and today's newspaper in front of Eric from left to right, which seemed well-trained.
Xiao Nizi, who had already had breakfast, sat opposite Eric with her chin propped up, her eyes flickering, showing a look of asking for credit by complimenting me.
Eric thanked the twins, and after the two sisters left the restaurant, he picked up a small piece of bread and threw it on the girl's head: "Okay, what's there to be proud of. After spending so much money, it's enough to hire a Hundreds of servants."
Although last night Drew joked about being more expensive. But in fact, she only spent 800,000 US dollars to buy the contract of the two sisters from the agent named Sean King. In this way, she took advantage of the loopholes in the other party's contract and later promised to give the two sisters a contract. The various conditions of the sisters, and the cost of helping the sisters and other family members immigrate alone are not something that can be handled by 800,000 US dollars.
"I can also let the two of them make guest appearances in the company's movies. From now on, the two of them will be the mascots in Huahua Pictures' movies. It's much more eye-catching than your 'little girl holding a doll' gimmick."
Eric ignored the teasing in the girl's tone, and asked: "You said to help their family immigrate. It's not so easy for Russia to immigrate to the United States now, right? What does their family do?"
"Their father used to be a very good fighting coach, but you know. Now Russia is so poor that it can't even afford the hotel room when the president goes abroad for meetings, and fighting coaches are even less useful. However, in The Federation is different, and they don't have many families, except for the two of them, there are only their parents and a younger brother, so it's not too difficult."
Seeing that Xiao Nizi knew everything, Eric didn't ask any more questions. He took a sip of milk and opened a newspaper at the same time.
"Eric, what's the use of you looking at these all the time?" Xiao Nizi leaned over with nothing to say.
"Looking for inspiration," Eric simply spit out two words, but he read from the "Los Angeles Times" that yesterday afternoon, MGM CEO Frank Macasso held a press conference to announce the establishment of a partnership with Firefly Pictures DreamWorks film production company's plan, and revealed the production plan of "Charlie's Angels" and "Resident Evil", as well as the news that Eric will participate in the latest 007 production.
Drew didn't mind Eric's perfunctory, dragged a chair and came over to read the draft together. Eric had already called to tell her about the decision on the "Charlie's Angels" project when he was in Europe, and Drew had already Just know about it.
"Eric, the representative of Firefly Pictures was not mentioned in the draft. Is this a press conference unilaterally held by MGM?"
Judging from the press release, not only did no representative of Firefly Pictures participate in the press conference, but also, in the content of the press conference, Frank Macasso also deliberately downplayed the role of European capital in the production company.
Eric thought that the recent stock price of MGM would definitely rise, and explained to Drew: "MGM needs some good news too much now, so they can't wait to do it. It's nothing, Frank Ma Caso must have communicated with Michael and the others, Firefly is not a listed company, and these news will not have too much impact on us.”
"Oh, Eric, we won't lose money by giving "Charlie's Angels" to MGM. This film is similar in style to 007. Maybe there will be many sequels?"
"The copyright is placed in DreamWorks, not to MGM. We own 30% of DreamWorks and are already the largest shareholder. Moreover, most of the shares are in European capital. If we cooperate with MGM Conflict, which side do you think European capital will stand on?"
"Of course it's our side, hey, Eric, I just thought of a great idea..."
"Um?"
"Tell me. If we let the "Charlie's Angels" series intersect with "007", would it be a good idea?"
"The idea is quite good, but unless "Charlie's Angels" achieves similar influence and box office results as "007", this will not be an easy task. The influence of the 007 series has been accumulated over decades. "
Drew also knows that the influence of the 007 series is definitely not comparable to that of "Charlie's Angels", which has not yet had a big-screen finished product at this stage. The next best thing to say: "What if it's just some plot easter eggs?"
"At least the first part needs to gain enough influence, but it's not impossible to try. The most important thing now is to make the first part of "Charlie's Angels" well."
Although Eric was not too optimistic about Drew's sudden whimsy at breakfast, he became more and more interested afterwards. If the "Charlie's Angels" and "007" series can intersect, it will definitely be a very powerful gimmick. But thinking of the box office results of the "Charlie's Angels" series in his previous life, Eric can only wait until the results of the new version he launched himself are released. Then do related work.
Although the meeting was rescheduled for the afternoon, after breakfast, Eric rushed to the Firefly headquarters as soon as possible.
Firefly Pictures has accumulated a large number of documents that need to be reviewed by Eric himself during this period. Eric arrived at the office at eleven o'clock, and until the meeting started in the afternoon, he only read less than one-tenth of it. This is still missing In the case of lunch time, fortunately, Eric ate breakfast very late. Not too hungry.
The meeting in the afternoon was not too big, it was just a small meeting of more than a dozen executives of Firefly.
Eric walked into the meeting room with Alan holding a thick stack of documents. Seeing that everyone, headed by Michael Lynn and Jeffrey Katzenberg, all looked over, they smiled and said, "Long time no see, it seems that everyone misses me very much."
With a chuckle, Eric exchanged a few words with everyone while Alan was handing out the documents one by one, and waited for Alan to finish sending the documents. Eric stood up and said: "I know that Firefly has a lot of things to deal with recently, but we won't discuss these today. Today we are talking about the development goals of Firefly Pictures in the next stage."
At this time, the executives in the conference room had already opened the documents in their hands. Regardless of whether they got wind of it in advance, they were not too surprised to see the content of the document. The content of the document is an assessment of the possibility of acquisition by the three major TV networks.
The current situation of Firefly Pictures has surpassed the other six major Hollywood film companies by an absolute advantage. If they want to go further, they must march from a film company to a comprehensive media group.
Although it will take some time to formally propose the acquisition to the TV network, it may even wait until next year, but the sooner the preparation work, the better.
Among the three major TV networks in North America except for Fox, after the wave of mergers and acquisitions in the mid-1980s, ABC TV, which was in a bad situation in the past few years and continued to lose money, has now become the one with the best overall situation.
Because since Metropolitan Communications and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquired ABC in 1983, the new shareholders have strengthened the financial supervision of ABC TV, but at the same time fully gave the management enough potential, Although abc's current profitability is still not very conspicuous, it is already in a period of healthy development.
The subsequent NBC TV station was still in a turbulent stage at this time because of conflicts between the management and the parent company General Motors.
However, the situation of CBS can only be described as bad. In the mid-1980s, after Wall Street investor Lawrence Tish took control of CBS, he successively split and sold a large number of business assets of CBS, including the world's No. 1 company sold to the Japanese. Columbia Records, the second major record company. After so many years of capital operation, he has reaped enough benefits, and Lawrence Tish doesn't want to play anymore at this time, and is looking for a successor.
Therefore, cbs is also the easiest one to acquire.
However, with the current strength of Firefly Pictures, there is no need to pick up leaks. Since you want to buy, of course you have to pick the best ABC, followed by NBC, and CBS is the last choice.
After Eric briefly introduced the plan in his heart, Michael Lynn said: "Eric, since we want to acquire ABC, we must sell the Fox TV network shares in our hands, right?"
"I will speak to Mr Murdoch personally about this in the near future."
Another asked: "What about 'Friends,' 'The X-Files,' and 'Who'll Be a Millionaire'?"
At the beginning, "Friends" signed a five-season broadcast contract with Fox, and this year happened to be the fifth season. Moreover, the copyright of "Friends" was completely in the hands of Firefly. Of course, Eric would not be polite with Fox, saying: "After completing this year's We will definitely not renew the contract with Fox, and as for "X-Files" and "Who Will Be a Millionaire", we will continue to maintain the original plan."
"The X-Files" and "Who Will Be a Millionaire" were developed by sharing the copyright with Fox, and it is very difficult to snatch them, and it is very difficult to snatch all three "pillars" of the Fox TV network in one go, Murdoch will not It's strange to turn around.
Eric said, looking at Firefly's vice president in charge of the TV department: "In addition, from now on, the TV department can find all the programs, even if it may take one to two years for us to acquire the TV network, it can also be stockpiled. Some good projects, you come up with a plan as soon as possible, and regularly send the collected project summaries to me."
Katzenberg said suddenly: "Eric, are you going to be responsible for the acquisition of the TV network yourself?"
As soon as Katzenberg finished speaking, the atmosphere in the conference room was a little weird. Many people glanced back and forth between Katzenberg and Michael Lynn.
Eric also glanced at Katzenberg and Michael Lynn who were sitting on both sides of him with some headaches.
For a matter as big as the acquisition of the TV network, an executive above the president level of Firefly Films must follow up at any time and conduct relevant negotiations in person. If it is under other circumstances, this burden will definitely fall on Michael Lynn. But the current situation is that Eric promised Katzenberg last year that when Michael Lynn's contract expires next year, he will appoint Katzenberg as the CEO of Firefly.
As the current CEO of Firefly Pictures, although Michael Lynn is somewhat conservative and does not have Katzenberg's indomitable spirit, he has always been a very qualified manager. Although Eric doesn't often intervene in the company's management, Michael Lynn can perfectly execute every order he inadvertently makes. Eric is still very satisfied with Michael Lynn in his heart.
Therefore, even before Katzenberg just opened his mouth, Eric had been struggling for a long time about how to arrange Michael Lynn in the future. (To be continued..)