Chapter 421： I finally started shooting.

Murdoch thought about this, and thus ignored the different meaning of Eric's problem. He said very straightforwardly: "Liz is just a woman, I still hope that Lackland and James can pick up my class."

Eric is not talking about anything. Murdoch is from a conservative family in Australia. The patriarchal thinking does not seem to be much weaker than the Orientals. If Elizabeth can’t achieve overwhelming achievements, she will not be in charge of the News Group in the future. An easy thing.

Feel free to talk about a few things about Oscar, Murdoch also talked about a series of big moves about fireflies recently, the summer file fireflies will have two films "Toy Story" and "Terminator 2" simultaneously released.

Although "Toy Story" played a trailer on the Super Bowl two months ago, this animated film that is completely different from the traditional 2d animation will not be accepted by the audience. It is completely unknown as a giant in the Hollywood animation industry. The monopolist, after the trailer of "Toy Story" was played, Disney felt that its position in the field of animation would be threatened, using various channels in its hands to attack "Toy Story" either explicitly or implicitly.

In order to prevent the film from being stereotyped before the release because of competitors' smearing, Firefly only issued a $20 million promotional budget for Toy Story in North America, equivalent to 50% of the cost of this animated film production. .

The term "Terminator 2" seems to be even less optimistic, because many people think that Cameron will once again indulge in the exploration of film technology to create a movie that is good but not a big one, not to mention a lot. Everyone knows that Terminator 2 has become the first movie in the history of Hollywood that cost more than 100 million yuan, plus Xuanfa. The film wants to recover the cost at the box office, at least for the global box office of about 300 million US dollars, and Cameron's "Abyss" in the global box office is only 80 million, in the eyes of outsiders, fireflies want to recover the investment. There will be tremendous pressure.

In view of the Oscar's previous period of time, the fireflies sold the hot "Dark War" copyright to Colombia, many companies thought that the firefly has been facing tight funding, and the seven major Hollywood studios may encounter this every two years. In this case, although many people know that Eric participated in the fluctuations of the two consecutive crude oil futures markets in the first half of the year, the fireflies did not have much action afterwards. Many people think that Eric has not made much profit from it. So Murdoch's mind has also become active, perhaps this is another opportunity to join the fireflies, although Eric's character is not a bit of oil, but there is always no loss in trying.

After chatting with Eric for a while, Murdoch asked: "Eric. Fireflies are sold in "The Dark War". The funds during this time must be very tight?"

"Alright," Eric immediately heard the old man's meaning. It seems similar to what he heard last year. It was Murdoch personally delivered to the door, but this time, Eric could not make any Concession and the like, he is hard to tell that the fireflies are completely in their hands. It is impossible to introduce any other shareholders without a last resort: "Mr. Murdoch, the fireflies have just returned to my hands. So I will not sell the shares any more, so I think we should not mention this topic. Maybe we can talk about other things."

Murdoch saw Eric directly refused, smiled, he did not report too much expectations, so Eric's rejection was not too much loss. Just saying: "Eric, you should know. Investing in movies is a very risky behavior. If you don't pay attention, you may lose your money. So it is a good deal to share the risk by cooperation. I think Your bet on Terminator 2 is too big. The loss that James Cameron caused to Fox in the Abyss has not been recovered yet. Even now, there are still about $20 million. The gap, but this does not have much impact on Fox, because the film is invested by Fox and several other investors, although there is a big loss, but not much to share with Fox."

"In fact, things can't be said," Eric replied: "The film project of the joint investment is basically not a big value for film companies. I think Warner will definitely not jointly develop the "Batman" series with outsiders. The "Star Wars" series will certainly not introduce outside investors."

When Murdoch saw that he hadn't flicked Eric, he said: "Speaking, you promised to let Fox release "The Little Ghosts". There was no movement last year. I can't drag it anymore this year, that...Stuart. The little guy of Langkel is already ten years old. When he is two years older, it is estimated that he is no longer suitable for the male lead."

"At the moment we are already in contact with caa. The price that the other party opened last year was too outrageous, so the firefly temporarily stranded the project."

"Eric, since you can sell "The Dark War", do you think it is possible to transfer the copyright of "The Little Devil" to Fox."

Eric quickly thought about Murdoch's suggestion. He had already had this idea before. According to the internal evaluation of Firefly, the cost of the third part of the "Little Devil" series will be between 40 million and 50 million US dollars. And the North American box office estimate is only about 100 million US dollars, then, this sequel is likely to be profitable only through overseas distribution and video tapes and other peripherals. Perhaps the most straightforward method of profitability is to sell the development rights of this project directly. Although it may earn less, it has won a lot of time and energy and invested in other projects.

However, Eric does not intend to sell all the copyrights of "Little Devils". The plan to acquire Disney has been secretly carried out. Once this plan is successful, as a "little master" who has a very important position in children's minds, Disney's omni-channel development and Disneyland's "Little Ghosts" theme will bring a lot of profits.

"Mr. Murdoch, the copyright of "The Little Ghost" I will not transfer, but Firefly does not have much time and energy to spend on this project, so if Fox has this intention, Firefly can authorize the development of Disney sequel. right."

Murdoch has figured it out. I agreed.

However, neither of them is eager to negotiate a specific cooperation agreement. The copyright of "Little Ghosts" has already involved too many things. It will not be negotiated for a while, and can only be negotiated with the staff of Firefly and Fox.

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After the Oscar Awards ceremony, the media naturally made a comment on this Oscar. "The Silent Lamb" relies on excellent quality, although the prize is not guilty, but still has a lot of doubts in accordance with the practice, but neither the winner nor the film school has responded to these questions. .

Because it was repeatedly mentioned at the award ceremony. The scene on the stage when Elizabeth got the best film made many people remember. For TV viewers, perhaps Eric is only talking about the topic after their meal, but in Hollywood, this situation also indicates Erik. The influence is getting bigger and bigger.

As Billy Christo finally ridiculed. Executives at the Hollywood studios are hard to find that Eric is no longer mad at making a few movies every year, but it has appeared at the Oscars. Although none of the seven major film companies have operated Oscar films as their main business, the influence and economic benefits of Oscars are still a big cake. In the past few years, most of this cake has belonged to seven. Big, Eric suddenly stepped in and they were once again enemies.

However, this has not affected Eric. The preparatory work for Tornado has been completed, and the film crew of more than 200 people have already traveled to Oklahoma in batches and can be turned on at any time.

Eric stayed in Los Angeles for a few more days. Negotiated negotiations with Fox on the authorization of "The Little Devil". Firefly plans to produce five films this year. Before Oscar, it has already identified "Toy Story", "Terminator 2", "Dumb and Agua" and "Spicy Police Flower", the last few days of Eric's stay in Los Angeles. Finally, I finally confirmed the last film, which is the sequel to the original new line of the signature series "Ghost Street".

Because the box office of the fourth part of the "Ghost Street" series failed. When Robert Shea was still in the firefly, he planned to make another final sequel. Even with some drafts of the script, what Eric has done is to completely finalize the project. Temporarily named "Freidi's Death", unless this sequel can be blasted, otherwise, after this sequel, Eric will temporarily seal the project, waiting for ten or eight years, when Hollywood remake is popular take it out.

In addition to "Ghost Street", Eric will not forget the concern of Disney's "cut-throat island", the film has been turned on in February, Disney has not stopped all kinds of propaganda on this film, Oscar The award ceremony also specifically directed the directors Rennie Haring and Gina Davis to publicize the role of an awarding guest, and even turned over the original Eric's optimistic news.

According to the tiring news in various newspapers and media, "cutting the throat" is being filmed in the Mediterranean island of Malta, and may even be transferred to Thailand for field shooting. The TV station occasionally releases some tidbits. Moreover, it is said that the original investment of this film is set at 70 million US dollars, but because of the rush, there are obviously signs of overspending. Disney and Robert Shea are also bachelors. After learning that Terminator 2 has invested more than 100 million yuan, simply It is also announced that the cost of "cutting the throat" will exceed 100 million US dollars.

Although there are still three months from the release of the two films, there is already a spark between "cutting the throat" and "Terminator 2". The media is also very keen to put the two movies together for comparison. The class news Eric always produces an inexplicable sense of joy, the only comparability of the two films, perhaps all recorded in the history of Hollywood movies.

In New York, while taking care of the firefly investment, Chris has not relaxed the absorption of Disney stocks. In February, he also bought the largest 0.9% stake from a Disney shareholder. Chris expects Before July, you can absorb a total of about 10% of Disney stock through several different channels. At that time, if the goodwill acquisition can't be successful, Eric can start a hostile takeover of Disney's overwhelming advantage with the chips in his hands.

On March 28, Eric took the last group of the Tornado crew to the Oklahoma state in the south-central United States.

Compared to the densely populated east and west coasts, the inland of the United States can be described as a land of people. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, the capital of the state and the largest city in the state, is only five. With a population of 100,000, the surrounding population is even rarer.

"Tornado" was not filmed in Oklahoma City, but was chosen near a small town called Ponca in northeastern Oklahoma. The crew set up a large number of sets around Ponca City, such as the heroine. The town where my aunt's family is located, the hotel where the team was docked before the tornado, etc., because these were destroyed in the later stages of filming, it is impossible to rent real houses for filming.

The biggest film that Eric had directed before was the "Dark War", but the film had only invested more than 30 million, and it was shot in Los Angeles where conditions were very convenient. In comparison, "Tornado" is the first big production movie in the true sense of Eric.

The film not only invested at $70 million, but also added more than 200 staff to the crew. In addition to the team directly controlled by Eric, there are three other directors responsible for three groups. The three deputy directors are clear. The division of labor, one responsible for the day's shooting, one responsible for finishing the previous day's shooting, the last group preparing for the next day's shooting.

In addition to the literary drama, a large number of tornado lenses of the crew need to be shot as much as possible on a cloudy day. Therefore, it is impossible for the shooting plan to specify which scene to shoot on a certain day, and it is necessary to flexibly change the shooting plan according to the local weather, in order to As much as possible to ensure that the crew filmed, Eric even asked the logistics team to customize a huge gauze of several hundred square meters. Once the weather conditions could not be found for a long time, the crew would hire several tower cranes to take the big net. Hold up and create dark weather by artificially creating dark light. (To be continued)