Chapter 389： launch

After taking the memo from Allen and the two went to the conference room together, Eric whispered, "How is that going?"

Allen also lowered his voice: "It’s all done. The candidates for director Renee Harlem and the heroine Gina Davis have been revealed to Bruce Evans, but we also succeeded in making him aware. When someone was very fond of the script of "cutting the throat", he was now not eager to shoot, and was stagnant with the staff sent by us. Moreover, there were other people who began to inquire about the "cut throat" script, which should It’s Robert’s.”

Eric nodded with confidence and pushed the meeting room door open. The two walked in together.

The main topic of this meeting today is a summary of the one-year work of fireflies.

From the beginning of the year to the present, the film produced by Firefly Company is only two films, "People are not in love" and "sleeping with the enemy", but the results in the film distribution are very dazzling, "The ghost is not yet", " In the four films of "The Sleeping with the Enemy", "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "The Silent Lamb", the results of the box office exceeded 100 million. In addition, the fireflies also issued several small productions of independent production companies in the off-season of the film. The film also brought a small profit.

Although the holiday stalls at the end of the year have just begun, the total box office in North America in 1990 has exceeded $5 billion, but the total box office of fireflies this year has only been more than 600 million, accounting for 12% of the local box office. Although this figure is much worse than last year's box office scores made by Eric's film production, if you think about it carefully, you will find a huge difference. This year's results were obtained under the independent issue of Firefly. Last year, almost all of Eric's films were issued by seven agents. Even if it is profitable, it is just a pure production company.

After a year of integration with the new line, Fireflies have already had the prototype of a large studio with the same production channels as the Seven. Although there is a gap between the seven major film companies and the old film companies, the box office share has exceeded 10% of Paramount Pictures. As for MGM, it is far behind. Ranked sixth in all Hollywood film companies.

In terms of TV production, the "Friends" independently produced by Firefly is still the leader in the autumn, and the variety show "Who will become a millionaire" is widely acclaimed.

The X-Files, which was launched simultaneously with Friends in September, also received an average of 17 million viewers. Although this score is much worse than Friends, the main audience of "X Files" is concentrated among teenagers aged 16 to 30, rather than the full-age comedy like "Friends", so this result is also very good.

What's more, because the viewing age is very concentrated. "X-Files" is more favored by advertisers, and advertising revenue is more than 20% higher than TV shows of the same ratings.

In addition, the company has made great progress in the videotape and overseas distribution business, and the video tape distribution department has established cooperation with the video tape rental giant PepsiCo. Through the overseas distribution of several films, such as "Ghosts and Ghosts", Firefly has established its own branch offices in several major ticketing countries such as the UK, France and Australia.

The expansion of the business means a lot of capital investment. Therefore, the firefly's net profit in the first three quarters was only more than 160 million, after Carolyn Eliot completed the financial report. Eric immediately announced a dividend plan totaling $20 million for all fireflies employees.

In a low cheer, only Robert Shea frowned slightly. Robert, the dividend program, knew it beforehand. After the proposal was made, Robert Shea expressed his opposition, but Eric adopted the power of his chairman to pass the plan.

At this point, I heard Eric’s announcement again. Robert Shea still felt very uncomfortable. He felt that Eric was too generous.

after all. The $20 million is taken out, which means that his shareholder dividend will be reduced by $5 million. In order to make "Ghost Detective". Robert Shay raised $30 million by collateralizing his assets, and the film has failed. He had to pay back his own dividends at the end of the year, so $5 million was a very big loss for Robert Shea.

In the heart of this matter, Robert suddenly heard Eric continue to say: "Now, we are starting the next topic, about the release of Mr. Robert Shea's fireflies ceo."

For a moment, Robert Shea almost thought that he had got it wrong, but when he saw the strange atmosphere of the meeting room and the strange eyes of all the executives looking at him, Robert Shee first felt the coolness between the backs. Immediately, he was extremely angry. He stood up and pointed at Eric. "Eric Williams, do you know what you are doing?"

Eric did not answer immediately, but looked at the other people in the conference room: "You go out first, I will talk to Robert alone."

When the voice fell, everyone in the conference room, including the subordinates of Robert Shea, all stood quietly and walked outside the office.

Robert Shea waved his arms in excitement and sneered: "I don't need to talk to you alone, there is nothing that everyone can hear, hello, Michael, Hardy, Renas, you stay."

Michael Lynn, who was named by Robert Shea, and other former subordinates briefly stopped and looked at Eric and Robert. Michael Lynn sighed and said: "Robert, you should follow Eric talks."

After that, several people kept walking out of the office.

Robert Shea looked at the reaction of several shackles and realized that Eric had already started deploying it, which caused him to be fooled and frustrated if Eric was not a height. The young and strong young man, Robert Shea has almost rushed to the past.

However, he still growled: "I tell you, you won't succeed, you will pay the price. I am a shareholder of Firefly. I have a quarter of the shares, so you want to drive me away. miss you."

After Robert Shea briefly paused, Eric intervened: "I will take back a lot of firefly stocks at a reasonable price and won't let you suffer. In addition, this year's profit share is divided into me. Will also be paid in full to you." (To be continued)