The next day, Eric rushed to the office building rented by Drew on Venice Beach in the morning. ∑. ∑
The three-storey building where you can see the beach and the sea in the distance has been rented out by Drew, and most of the rooms are in the process of renovation. Eric came here on purpose to talk to Amy Pascal about Huahua Pictures in person.
Last night, I talked with Drew to the end. Under the obsession of the girl, the two quickly shifted positions. Many things have not been discussed. Now that Drew has pulled Amy Pascal, the former chairman of Sony Pictures Come here, then it is obviously more effective to talk about these things with more professional people.
In Eric's opinion, Drew's ability to employ people is much better than her other abilities. For example, Eric has always wondered how Xiao Nizi managed the pair of Russian twins to be so obedient. You know, the strength of the twins is definitely at the actual combat level, but even if Xiao Nizi gets angry with them, The twins also lowered their heads without refuting, like a pair of docile kittens.
In the few days when the twins just appeared beside Drew, seeing the two girls with cold and cool expressions all the time, but without any boxer temperament at all, Eric was curious and met with Drew in the gym of the manor. One of the twins had a fight. In other words, it can't be called a "one game" at all, because Eric raised his hands and surrendered without holding on for a minute, and just like that, he got dark circles under his eyes and was ridiculed by Xiao Nizi for several days.
And now, the girl made Eric accidentally persuade Amy Pascal to join her Huahua Film Industry, which made Eric feel more out of touch than killing a chicken with a knife.
"Amy, why did you think of tossing around with Drew?" In the office, Eric asked this most interesting question just after meeting Amy Pascal.
Amy Pascal wore a big wavy hairstyle and seemed to be in a good mood. Hearing Eric ask this, he smiled and said: "Eric, you should understand that I am here for you, and Drew You know I'm here for you."
"If that's the case. You can come to Firefly. Firefly is in the expansion stage. If you come, I will definitely support it."
"I thought about it when I decided to leave Colombia, but Firefly's management system is already very complete. If I join, it will be difficult to develop my ability. It's different here," Amy Pascal waved lightly: " Here is like a blank sheet of paper, I can express myself to my heart's content, and no one will care that I am a woman. Because the boss of the company is also a woman."
Eric looked at Amy Pascal's smug expression and asked, "Then do you have a complete plan of your own now?"
"Of course," Amy Pascal really took out a document from the filing cabinet next to him and handed it to Eric, saying, "I prepared this these days, and I also gave Drew a copy, but I think You just came back yesterday, she must have not had time to bring it to you."
Eric opened the file and realized why he wanted to seriously discuss the development ideas of Huahua Pictures last night, but Xiao Nizi always seemed a little half-hearted. It turned out that he had already had a complete plan.
Looking at the document draft with more than ten pages. Eric closed the blue plastic folder casually: "Amy, let's talk briefly."
Amy Pascal didn't object either, and said, "I've already researched the copyright of Flower Pictures, and I think there are two copyrights that are more suitable for Flower Pictures to develop at this stage, "Mission Impossible" and "Identity of Bonn" .”
"Mission Impossible" and "Born's Identity" are the TV series version of "Mission: Impossible" and the names of the original novels of "The Bourne". According to Eric's plan, "The Bourne Shadow" will not be suitable for development in a few years, and it is still too early, but he did not interrupt Amy Pascal's narration and let the other party continue.
"... Huahua Pictures takes a few years. If it can successfully produce a few big movies with high profits and has its own series of movies that can make stable profits, then it can expand through listing or issuing bonds. My personal opinion The suggestion is the first step. Try to facilitate the merger of Blossom Pictures and MGM. With the situation of Sony Columbia, I think they will be forced to withdraw from Hollywood within five years at most.”
Amy Pascal said this, and gave Eric a meaningful look, seeing that Eric's expression was completely normal. He just shrugged slightly, and continued: "At that time, we can further annex Columbia Pictures on the basis of MGM. Of course, the urgency of all this is that the films developed by Huahua Pictures can be successful. First of all, in the film production In terms of funding, I believe that with Eric as your endorsement, we can easily get funding from Wall Street or European Film Funds, or Firefly can invest in himself, but I think you don’t want Firefly to get too involved in Flower Film In the industry, at least not for now, right?"
Amy Pascal's plan is obviously more meticulous than Eric's original idea. Although Columbia and MGM have become subsidiaries of Sony in the original time and space, Eric never thought of letting Flower Pictures Annexed two companies one after another from small to big. However, the feasibility of this method is definitely much safer than simply and rudely using large sums of money for acquisitions.
Although Eric originally planned to use Firefly Pictures to annex MGM's film library in a few years, but MGM falling to Drew's side is actually no different from falling into Firefly's hands. Hearing Amy's question , Eric nodded and said: "Until the anti-monopoly law is further relaxed, I really don't want Firefly to get too involved with Huahua Pictures. Although everyone knows what's going on, we law-abiding citizens always It is to take the initiative to give sex c a reason not to trouble us. Another point, I hope that the theater distribution of Huahua Films’ films will also be represented by other film companies, because Firefly’s own projects have already occupied a lot of publicity and distribution resources. Of course, You can rest assured that under any circumstances, Firefly is the most solid backing of Blossom Pictures, I just hope that the situation will never become so bad."
Amy Pascal nodded, and said: "Before I left Columbia, I had a personal conversation with Mr. Cooper." When it came to Peter Cooper, Amy Pascal showed obvious disgust in his eyes, but he still said: "Columbia will be responsible for the distribution of Blossom Pictures' films, and Mr. Cooper has promised to give Blossom Pictures the best sharing conditions."
It took half an hour to finish his plan before Amy Pascal said: "So, Eric, now you can talk about your views. Although you haven't refuted me just now, I can also Feel. You don't agree with some of my views?"
"In terms of company management, I am definitely not as good as you professionals," Eric said with a smile: "I only want to talk about movies. Although big-budget movies have become the main profit trend in Hollywood, I hope Huahuaying The industry is still able to tap into mid- to low-budget independent film productions."
The 1990s were the golden decade of Hollywood independent films, although most of them turned into expensive visual garbage. But every year there are still many excellent movies that stand out, and independent movies with high box office are everywhere.
Amy Pascal obviously understood some of the situation, nodded and said: "Is there any more?"
"I took a look at the list of Huahua Pictures' copyright library last night. "Mission Impossible", "Bourne's Identity", and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series are some of the most valuable copyrights, all of which have It has the potential to be developed into a series of movies, but the latter two are not suitable for development now, what you can do now is "Mission Impossible", and I will personally provide you with a change of thinking."
Amy Pascal was a little disappointed: "Eric, is there only this one?"
actually. Originally there was "Forrest Gump", but if you choose to make "Forrest Gump" now, it will only be released next year. In that case, Fox's "Braveheart" will face "Forrest Gump". "Biography" must be a tragedy, not to mention that Tom Hanks is still filming "Saving Private Ryan" in Ireland, and it is impossible to make other movies in a short time. Therefore, Eric still intends to shoot "Forrest Gump" next year and release it in 1995. As for what kind of Oscar-winning film it will hit by that time, it is no longer within his consideration.
Eric just nodded. After hesitating for a while, he said, "When I was in Berlin last time, I came up with a very good fantasy movie idea called "Night at the Museum". The script has been registered, and this one can be handed over to you as well."
Amy Pascal showed surprise, and then asked again: "Eric, aren't all the scripts you wrote yourself developed by Firefly?"
Eric said: "Firefly's main film for the next three years is almost determined."
Amy Pascalton suddenly remembered the project information that Firefly had revealed.
"Saving Private Ryan", "True Lies", "The Lion King", "Jurassic Park 2", "Independence Day", "Toy Story 2", etc., in addition to cooperation with Columbia and DreamWorks Films It can indeed be said that Firefly's main movies in the next three years have been determined. This made her feel a little envious. It is estimated that several other Hollywood film companies have the same mentality.
Although other film companies have started to produce movies in the past two years, they have not succeeded much, because none of them have the special effects technical support provided by the digital field special effects company under Firefly, nor do they have such a magical existence as Eric. Even Steven Spielberg, who was the most beautiful in the 1980s, is now far behind by Eric.
Seeing that Amy had no problem, Eric said: "Well, that's it, you can start preparing for "Mission Impossible" and "Night at the Museum" now, and you can also choose some well-known directors to work on your own at a small cost. Invest in movies."
Amy asked, "Eric, do you have any advice for the protagonists of these two projects?"
Eric hesitated for a while, and said: "I recommend Tom Cruise as the leading actor in "Mission Impossible", but the condition is that Tom Cruise can only participate in this project as an actor, and he needs to sign at least The contract for three films. As for "Night at the Museum"..." Eric thought about it, and found that Ben Stiller has not become famous yet. Apart from Ben Stiller, all Eric can think of at the moment is Kim Carrey, but although Jim Carrey is very suitable for the position of the leading actor in "Night at the Museum", Eric is not very interested in cooperating with Jim Carrey: "This is from among the more well-known comedians now. Pick and choose, depending on the availability of the actors and the quality of the auditions, this film focuses on those miraculously resurrected creatures in the museum, so the male lead is not the most important."
Amy Pascal nodded, then shook his head suddenly, and said: "Eric, although Cruise's career has declined in the past two years, if you want to sign a contract for three films at once, I'm afraid it's not that simple. Well, I worked with Cruise during the production of Prelude, and he's not that obvious, and I'm afraid he's going to ask his production company to be involved in the project."
"I understand that you can try to get in touch with the other party, and it will not bring us any loss. If he agrees, it will be the best, and we can also make some concessions on the salary, but if he insists on Get overly involved, and it's not like Hollywood can't find a star who can replace him."
"I'll talk to him," Amy Pascal nodded, recording these things in the memorandum.
Eric waited for the other party to finish writing before saying, "Now let's talk about another very important thing."
"Huh?" Amy Pascal immediately raised her head when she saw Eric's very cautious look.
"This is what I suddenly thought of last night. Some time ago, I asked people to investigate the superheroes of Marvel Comics."
"Eric, are you going to develop a superhero movie like Warner did?"
"There is no such plan yet," Eric said, "I mean, some time ago, I asked people to investigate the copyright of some superheroes in Marvel Comics, including "Spider-Man", "Captain America", "Fantastic Four" "The copyrights of these superheroes are in the hands of some second- and third-rate small companies, so I want you to buy them back for me."
Amy Pascal thought about the information of the Marvel superhero before saying: "Eric, it is said that there are many Marvel superheroes, and it is not so easy to get them all back."
"So, at least bring back Spider-Man, the superhero I'm most interested in."
Amy Pascal smiled and said, "Spider-Man is one of Marvel's most popular superheroes. If I were to choose, it would be Spider-Man." (To be continued.)