In the end, discussions about the host of "America's Next Top Model" focused on Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Tyra Banks.
The title of supermodel started from Linda? Evangelista, let her serve as the host of this program is undoubtedly the most convincing.
Cindy Crawford frequently appeared on TV shows before the Victoria's Secret show. Although after the Victoria's Secret show, the popularity of the five spokespersons is almost the same in the public's mind, Cindy Crawford has the host The seniority advantage of the TV show.
Tyra Banks has a dynamic personality, and it is obviously easier to get along with the contestants on the show, and she is very close to the people. But her flaws are also very obvious. Tyra Banks was born in 1973 and is only 22 years old this year. Although she has gained a very high reputation with the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, her age is difficult to convince the public, otherwise , as the host of "America's Next Top Model" in the original time and space, Eric didn't think too much about it at all.
After some discussion, the decision still fell to Eric.
To be honest, despite the absurdity of the previous two days, Eric didn’t know much about these five women, and most of the memories of his previous life came from various media. Now that he is in this circle, if Eric It would be foolish to believe in media information.
The plans for the reform of Lietime TV station and "America's Next Top Model" have just started, Eric is not in a hurry, and plans to communicate with them in detail before making a decision.
Unknowingly, it was late at night, and Eric was listening to Luc Besson's talk about the idea of a science fiction film, when he heard Catherine's voice beside him: "Eric, it's too late. I think I should gone back."
Luc Besson saw Catherine approaching. He raised his glass winkingly, and walked away with a smile.
Catherine's expression was a little embarrassed: "I didn't interrupt your speech, did I?"
"Of course not," Eric shook his head.
Looking at his watch, it was just after eleven o'clock, and no one had left the party yet, but for Catherine, who had very regular living habits, it was obviously too late now.
Eric lowered his wrist and looked up at Catherine who was holding the statuette tightly in front of her body. There was nervousness and panic in the woman's expression, Eric smiled and said, "Shall I take you back?"
"No, no need," Catherine shook her head subconsciously, and the tension and panic overflowed from her beautiful face.
"You're drinking, it's not safe to drive by yourself, I don't worry about it," Eric said, reaching out to the hall door.
Catherine shifted her steps. Suddenly he said, "You, you've been drinking too."
Eric said: "I have a driver. Let's go,"
Catherine followed Eric and walked towards the gate, but still whispered: "I can go back by taxi."
"You think you're the movie heroine who can hail a taxi with a wave of your hand. It's already late at night, so there's no taxi," Eric joked, and then waved to Katzenberg who was not far away. Made a few gestures to signal him to arrange the next thing.
When the two came to the parking lot, Eric opened the door and let Catherine in. He sat next to her, asked Catherine's address, and told the driver to drive.
The streets near Sunset Boulevard are still brightly lit, but there are already a lot of traffic and people.
The car was driving on Sunset Boulevard. In the car, seeing Catherine holding the Statue in her hand and looking helpless, Eric inexplicably had the illusion that there was an unworldly little girl sitting beside him, and smiled. Laughing, he actively enlivened the atmosphere and said, "How did you discuss the script of "Red Alert" with Terrence Malick?"
"It's okay, there are some differences in details, but it's not a big problem. Next month, we plan to go to Guadalcanal Island for a field trip, and Terrence wants to shoot on the spot."
Eric nodded: "Oh, have you considered when to turn it on?"
Although "Red Alert" will be invested by Firefly, it does not belong to Firefly's commercial film series. Therefore, Eric is very loose about the production plan of this film, leaving Catherine and Terrence Malick to make their own decisions.
"Next year, I want to prepare more time," Catherine said after hesitating.
The two chatted casually, and before they knew it, the car stopped outside a residence in Lengshui Canyon.
Eric has always been full of complaints about all the infrastructure in Los Angeles except for the road network. When the two got out of the car, there were still old street lights around them. The telegraph pole looked crumbling.
"Good night, then," Eric said, opening his arms to Catherine.
Catherine leaned over cautiously, hugged him, and let go: "Good night."
Saying that, the woman walked towards the door behind her. Eric remembered something and called again: "Catherine?"
The woman froze and turned her head: "What, what?"
Eric pointed to the statuette in her hand: "In the next few days, you may be required to participate in several interviews. I hope you can prepare."
"Oh, I see." After the woman finished speaking, she looked at him for less than two seconds, and realized that the man had no intention of continuing to speak, and fled into the yard in a hurry again.
Eric smiled and sat back in the car. Carter Moen in the front row started the car, but he did not forget to tease: "Boss, this is not like your style."
"Drive, you, I already feel that I have committed a heinous crime, and I feel like I am bullying a little girl."
Carter Moen skillfully turned the car around and said, "Ms. Bigelow must have feelings for you, otherwise she wouldn't act so flustered."
"It's always a little bit worse," Eric replied vaguely.
The next day, the news of the first female best director in the history of the Oscar quickly occupied the headlines of major media around the world, causing a carnival among the public.
At the same time, Firefly also launched a new round of release of the "Saving Private Ryan" video tape, and won the Oscar for Best Director through Catherine Dongfeng. in the following week. "Saving Private Ryan" easily topped 1 million videotape sales.
in Europe. Because the release time of the videotape of this film was behind that of North America, it was at a time when the market was hungry. With the cooperation of Firefly, the distributors of European countries easily beat North America in weekly sales figures, approaching 1.5 million boxes. In just one week, the videotape sales of "Saving Private Ryan" brought Firefly $75 million in revenue, and Firefly internally predicted that the film's final video sales will exceed $500 million. It even exceeds the global box office of the film in terms of data.
Because film companies usually do not release the sales data of video tapes to the outside world, most people in the outside world are still in the public opinion that Catherine won the Oscar for Best Director. However, Hollywood is boiling because of the sales data of "Saving Private Ryan". Several major film companies have begun to look for excellent war movie scripts. The most direct result is that Catherine's next film "Red Alert" has caused a lot of trouble. Several major concerns inside and outside Hollywood, and even caused a small lawsuit.
It turned out that Terrence Malick contacted many production companies in order to make this film before contacting Eric. Basically including the other six majors, these are nothing. The key is. In the process of contacting an independent film company called Phoenix, Terrence Malick signed a contract of intent with the other company, allowing the other party to raise investment for the film "Red Alert", but that was already 1988 .
The budget of this film was too high, and the risk was too great. Phoenix did not attract a dime of investment in the end. According to industry practice, in this case, the contract was almost automatically invalidated.
This incident seemed to have passed like this, and the project was taken over by Firefly, and everything seemed to be logical.
But after Catherine won the Oscar for best director, and "Saving Private Ryan" achieved amazing results in the video tape market, perhaps under the instigation of some people, Robert Gessler, the producer of Phoenix Films, jumped out and said According to the original contract, Phoenix has already attracted investment for "Red Alert" and asked Firefly to return the production and distribution rights of this film.
There are so many bullshit things happening in Hollywood, Eric didn't pay special attention to this matter, but handed it over to Firefly's legal department.
He has read the script of "Red Alert" and has a lot of information about this film in his memory. He knows that this is not a box office hit. Moreover, he also knows that the company Phoenix may just want to invest in It's just a meddling, as long as it doesn't affect the production of the film, Eric doesn't mind giving up a little part of the investment rights. Of course, if the other party is too ignorant of flattery, Eric doesn't mind letting the other party try the firefly's anger.
After the Oscars, Eric's main energy was put on the reform work of his Lietime TV station and the preparation of "America's Next Top Model".
Lietime TV was established in the early 1980s by merging two small TV stations in the hands of AB TV and Hearst Group at that time, and they were both under the banner of AE TV Network. In the first few years of its establishment, lietime TV station has been in a state of loss, and it was not until the end of the 1980s that it barely reached a balance of payments.
According to theoretical data, Lietime TV at this time has 30 million subscribers, which are all theoretical subscribers included in different cable TV packages of several major cable TV operators.
But in fact, just like those legal channels, education channels or foreign language channels that Eric remembers are also cable TV channels in China, but few people watch them, Lietime TV is the kind of TV channel that has been ignored by users for a long time. It is a relatively popular program, and the number of viewers does not exceed 2 million, because the viewership data has always been very mediocre, and several major cable TV operators often report that they will refuse to carry this TV channel. After all, just like the Internet, cable TV signals The transmission also needs to occupy bandwidth.
Before Katzenberg mentioned this TV station, Eric even almost forgot that there is such a TV channel under Firefly.
After the plan unfolded, Eric learned more about the TV station.
In the 1980s, Lietime TV mainly broadcast the second and third rounds of TV programs produced by the ab TV network, and occasionally bought some very cheap low-cost female films, and the content of the programs was very monotonous.
It was not until the early 1990s that they began to try to produce TV movies or mini-series independently. However, the average number of programs produced each year in these years is also less than two.
Therefore, it is not an easy task to reform such an unknown TV station. Fortunately, with the successful experience of espn growing from less than 300,000 local users to the largest sports TV station in the United States, all the top management of Firefly are full of confidence and quickly made a very detailed plan.
On the other hand, although the cable television industry in the United States was born in the 1980s, it really began to flourish in the second half of the 1990s. With the help of the rising tide of the Internet industry, the United States actually began to develop on a large scale during this process. To build a cable television network.
If you pay attention to American dramas, you will find that many American dramas produced by classic cable TV stations roughly started from the second half of the 1990s. The most famous ones are undoubtedly the several films of Time Warner's H-wave TV station. At this time, the cable TV market in the United States, in Eric's opinion, can only be described as in the ascendant.
The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, a large amount of money has also been invested in the TV industry at the same time. The owner of Firefly has a very complete internal capital chain. It is necessary to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large sum of money invested in the TV industry also indirectly builds a larger platform for Firefly.
At the same time, the regulation of the cable TV industry in the United States has also begun to become more and more loose, and large-scale integration has actually begun since last year. At the beginning, Barry Diller and Summer Redstone jointly competed for Viacom. The reason why they were defeated in the end was because the parent company Telecom Group, which Barry Diller relied on, merged with att.
The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, a large amount of money has also been invested in the TV industry at the same time. The owner of Firefly has a very complete internal capital chain. It is necessary to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large sum of money invested in the TV industry also indirectly builds a larger platform for Firefly.
At the same time, like American cable television film companies, they need to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but invest in the TV industry (to be continued.)