At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric arrived at the Fox studio in Century City on time.
Just as she got out of the car, she saw Elizabeth rushing over in high heels, followed by a little assistant holding documents.
Eric and Elizabeth hugged each other, and after letting go, they walked out of the parking lot together, asking, "Why are you here?"
Elizabeth rolled her eyes: "This place belongs to my family, why can't I be here."
"I mean..." Eric wanted to ask her why she came to pick him up. Elizabeth is currently only in charge of the film production department of 20th Century Fox. But not under her control. However, Eric still spread his hands, well, anyway, the whole studio belongs to her family: "Forget it, I won't talk about it."
"Huh," Elizabeth snorted softly, but she leaned over and held Eric's hand affectionately, and said, "Dad asked me to talk to you about the digital distribution of original soundtrack records..."
"Stop," Eric didn't wait for Elizabeth to continue, and quickly interrupted her, saying: "Liz, I have spent too much saliva to persuade others these days, let me take a break, and we won't talk about music today, okay?" good?"
In order to obtain as much music content as possible, Eric formulated the strategy of delaying the release of physical records for three months for the digital music album of traditional singers. This plan will not only be implemented within the Firefly system, but also greatly increase the introduction of external Possibility of label content.
However, it is impossible for the Yahoo Music Store to be full of old music content. In order to make up for this, the original film and television soundtrack records in the Firefly system will be released at the same time as the physical records.
Outside of the Firefly Group, MGM agreed to the plan almost without hesitation.
But Murdoch was not very satisfied with the plan, but it was also difficult for 20th Century Fox to directly reject the plan like other film companies.
You know, even without mentioning the private relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the degree of cooperation between Firefly Group and News Corporation over the years is even closer than that of MGM, strictly speaking. The companies directly jointly held by the two parties include Blue Sky Studio, FFM TV Station, and the Australian branch of Digital Domain. In addition, just like this "The Last Days", the two companies also cooperate very frequently in the TV business. Outside of Hollywood, Yahoo Portal has also reached an agreement with News Corporation to enjoy the exclusive right to release online news from multiple media under News Corporation.
Elizabeth is also aware of this point. The music business under News Corporation is even more insignificant than Firefly, and she doesn't think there is any need to fight for it.
Therefore, although she obeyed her old man's orders, she never thought of convincing Eric. Looking at the slightly tired side face of the man beside her, Elizabeth nodded, but pretended unwillingly and deliberately said: "Okay , then we will talk tomorrow."
Eric didn't care about Elizabeth's habitual strong temper, smiled, and the two walked into the administrative building on the set together.
Although Eric handed over "The Last Days" to Fox to take over the "X-Files", everything still followed the formal business process. This sci-fi drama is jointly invested by the Firefly TV department and Fox TV department, and also includes a shell company of Cameron. The copyright of the TV series is owned by Fox, and Firefly only gets the corresponding share according to the investment ratio.
Due to the miraculous success of "Titanic", although it was only a TV series conceived by Cameron, the competition for the role was still very fierce.
The production team has set very strict conditions for the audition of the heroine Max from the very beginning. The age limit is 18 to 22 years old, the height is between 170cm and 175cm, and she has three or more years of acting experience in film and television dramas. Physical skills such as dance and gymnastics can adapt to the shooting of high-intensity action scenes. But even if the conditions are so harsh, there are still more than 300 girls who passed the screening and participated in the audition. It is not difficult to see the strength of the American film industry.
The other secondary roles have already been determined before, today is just the last round of auditions for the heroine, and there are only ten final candidates left.
Although all the girls are already waiting in the waiting room, the audition will not start until 2:30.
Cameron's current focus is mainly on the research and development of special effects technology for "Spider-Man" and the theme exhibition of "Titanic". Apart from providing the main plot idea and claiming a title of producer, he did not participate in this project. Today Didn't come either.
Eric listened to Brian Spicer, the producer in charge of "The Last Days" at Fox, briefly introduce the audition situation in the early stage, flipped through the ten documents in his hand, and spoke with great interest. Elizabeth said to Elizabeth, who was carefully reading the information of the candidate actresses: "Liz, have you heard a story about the interview, the person in charge randomly took out a stack of interviewee materials and threw them into the trash can, announcing that these people were eliminated , for the simple reason that they were not lucky enough."
Elizabeth raised her head, looked at Eric helplessly, and said, "Why don't you come over earlier if you want to play like this, there are only ten people left now, if you draw out a stack, there will be nothing left."
"Then take out one or two copies," Eric said, and sure enough, he picked out two copies from the thin stack of materials, drew a cross on them with a pencil, and handed them to the stunned Brian on the other side. Spicer and the others said, "Someone tell them that they can leave directly."
Based on Elizabeth's understanding of Eric, she knew that Eric's sometimes inexplicable actions often had inexplicable reasons. Although she was rarely able to figure out what was the factor from Eric, Elizabeth firmly believed in it.
Snatching the two actor profiles from Eric, Elizabeth looked at them, but didn't think there was anything special, so she handed them to Brian Spicer: "Brian, what's wrong with these two?"
Brian Spicer took it over and looked at it, hesitated for a moment, and said honestly: "Liz, this girl named Milla Jovovich was introduced by Mr. Palmer. However, I Guaranteed, there are no problems with her conditions, she has dancing skills, and she has been playing some small roles in film and television dramas since she was thirteen years old."
Elizabeth thought for a while and asked, "Brian De Palma?"
Brian Spicer nodded.
Elizabeth didn't care too much. After working for several years, she gradually understood that Hollywood is a circle of people. Moreover, she believed that Eric would not care about it. The problem might be another girl: "Then the other girl Woolen cloth?"
"Here, Ellie Larter," Brian Spicer looked at the name on another profile, frowned slightly in doubt, and then looked at the other directors in the audition room.
Everyone shook their heads, and one of them flipped through the actor information in front of him, thought for a while and said, "This girl was selected by John's group, do you need to call him to come over?"
Brian Spicer looked at Elizabeth and Eric, and explained: "John Knowles, we divided the primaries into five groups, and John is the casting director for three groups."
Just as Elizabeth was about to say something, Eric took back the two files from Brian Spicer and stuffed them into the folder, shaking his head and smiling, "Forget it, it's just that I've been annoyed recently, and I don't want to always be like this. , just as if nothing happened just now, let’s start.”
Although they didn't understand what happened, Brian Spicer and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
Elizabeth paused, leaned over and gave Eric a gentle hug, and pulled out the two actor profiles in front of him, which baffled everyone, and said to Brian Spicer in an unquestionable tone: "Bron Ryan, tell them to leave."
Brian Spicer took the two documents again, felt Elizabeth's firm tone, nodded, got up and walked out of the room without hesitation.
Elizabeth still didn't let go of Eric, ignoring other bystanders, rubbing her cheek against Eric's cheek intimately, and said, "Eric, you can do whatever you want, you don't need to explain to them."
Eric patted Elizabeth's slender waist lightly, and said with a smile, "Why do I feel like this sentence came from a girl's mouth?"
Elizabeth was not angry because Eric mentioned Drew this time, but she retorted: "I'm not like her, she's crazy."
"Heh, are you sure you're normal?"
"It's not that you're such an asshole."
The onlookers are pricking up their ears with great interest to eavesdrop on the two BOSS's weird...or love story, but soon, Brian Spicer, who had just left, pushed the door and walked in again, breaking the a certain atmosphere.
Eric and Elizabeth heard the footsteps and realized the situation around them, so they separated and sat down.
That leaves eight complete strangers to Eric. The audition started on time at 2:30 and lasted until 7:00 in the evening. Due to the tight schedule, the pilot episode had to be produced before May. Eric did not hesitate too much. The audition was over, and everyone discussed it soon As a result, a 19-year-old girl who came to Pennsylvania in the United States was lucky enough to get the role of the heroine Max.
After the heroine of "The End of the World" is confirmed, Eric will no longer intervene in the specific production of this TV series.
On the afternoon of April Fool's Day, Eric flew from Los Angeles to Oakland, San Francisco.
The official product launch event of Fireflyer will be held at 2:00 pm on April 2nd in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott International Hotel in Oakland.
Although after more than a month of intensive publicity, the reputation of Fireflyer, a brand new player, has spread all over the world, but apart from the main purpose, a lot of information related to this player has not been disclosed to the outside world.
Therefore, this press conference almost attracted mainstream media from all over the world. After the date of the press conference was confirmed, more than 600 media contacted Firefly Electronics, hoping to get an invitation letter for the press conference. In Silicon Valley, where technology companies gather, colleagues in the electronics industry will not let go of this opportunity. Coupled with the lucky audience randomly selected by Firefly Electronics through the Yahoo portal, the final guest list has reached 2,100 people.
Eric watched the preview of Firefly Electronics President Bill Olson's press conference last night. He was busy until late at night, and woke up early today.
Since the press conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Eric chose to stay at this hotel directly. Leaving the room and walking into the hotel's internal restaurant, Chris was already sitting at a table discussing something with the two helmsmen of Firefly Electronics and Yahoo CEO Ian Grenier who came from Boston himself.
"Good morning, Eric." Seeing Eric coming, Ian Grenier, who was sitting opposite him, waved to him, and several other people also looked over.
Eric walked over, greeted everyone, sat down next to Ian Grenier, and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Several people looked at each other, and then Ian Grenier took the initiative to say: "Eric, about Fireflyer's pricing strategy."
Eric asked the waiter who came over for a casual breakfast, and then said: "Aren't you still thinking about raising the price?"
Bill Olson said: "Eric, according to our recent survey, the price of US$299, which is the same as the Sony Walkman, is indeed a bit low. Given the popularity that Fireflyer has shown, I think the price should be raised to $359, or even $399, is not out of the question."
"However, we have discussed this issue many times," Eric spread his hands and said, "We all know that the technical level of Fireflyer is not too high, even though we have applied for a full range of patents for MP3 players , but as long as competitors want to make efforts in this direction, they can still create alternative products. Therefore, what we have to do is to make Fireflyer popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard instead of chasing profits from the beginning , What's more, the total manufacturing cost of Fireflyer is only 150 US dollars, with the increase in production and the development of technology, the overall cost will continue to decline, and we already have enough profit margins."
"However, we have discussed this issue many times," Eric spread his hands and said, "We all know that the technical level of Fireflyer is not too high, even though we have applied for a full range of patents for MP3 players , but as long as competitors want to make efforts in this direction, they can still create alternative products. Therefore, what we have to do is to make Fireflyer popular as soon as possible and make it an industry standard instead of chasing profits from the beginning , What's more, the total manufacturing cost of Fireflyer is only 150 US dollars, with the increase in production and the development of technology, the overall cost will continue to decline, and we already have enough profit margin." (To be continued.)