Chapter 498： May be counterproductive

Eric did not deny, saying: "Telecom and Comcast both have their own thoughts. In this case, it would be a strange thing for Barry to successfully acquire Paramount."

After going through this, Barry Diller will not be able to go on with the telecommunications and Comcast, but the cooperation between them will not last too long. Barry Diller’s ability to operate the TV network is beyond doubt. If it can be brought to its possession, Eric believes that it will never repeat the embarrassment of Disney's acquisition of abc.

Kasenberg also realized Eric's thoughts and smiled and said: "Your thoughts are good, but unfortunately the possibility of realization is not great."

“There is no possibility of not trying it,” Eric replied.

As he was chatting, Kasenberg’s assistant knocked on the office door and said: “Mr. Williams, Mr. Kasenberg, Mr. Cooper arrived.”

"Then let's go to the sample of the Smiths," Kasenberg got up.

Two people just left the office, Peter Cooper had walked over with a smile, and gave Eric and Kasenberg a hug. Eric noticed Peter Cooper's deputy. Peters. Did not come back, back to Los Angeles these days, he vaguely heard that there is a contradiction between Peter Cooper and Peter Peters, as if related to Warner's "Superman" copyright.

In the 1980s, Warner continued to launch four "Superman" movies, but one of the box office was not as good as the fourth, "Superman" in 1987. Even only got a poor box office of $15 million. The "Superman" series was thus completely refrigerated, and the dc comics attached to the Warner system were once in a business dilemma and were disheartened. Dc sold the film adaptation rights of the Superman series, and the buyer was the strong Peters who owned his own production company.

The second word-of-mouth and box office of Batman is not as good as the first one, but it is much stronger than the Superman series in the 1980s. It seems to see the potential of the dc superhero movie. Many people are strong. Peters’s "Superman" movie copyright moved his mind.

As for the detailed entanglements, Eric is not very clear, with the memory in his mind. He knows that until the end of the film "Superman: The Body of Iron" more than twenty years later, the producer's column still has the name of Peter. It can be seen that Warner has lost all his life and hatred. From the beginning to the end, he has not been able to take the "Superman" movie copyright completely from the hands of Strong Peters.

At the moment, Eric can almost guess that it is estimated that Peter Cooper has taken a look at the copyright of Superman in the hands of Strong Peters. I want to let Colombia develop, but the two should have no contradiction in the distribution of interests.

After the three men chilled, they walked together to the auditorium. At this time, there were many high-level Disney and Columbia executives in the auditorium, and of course the film's director John Wu. The two stars starring Nicole and Pierce Brosnan have already started the film promotion work and have not come to participate in the screening.

After learning about Eric’s affirmation of the success of John Wu’s filming, Peter Cooper changed his previous dissatisfaction with Eric’s insistence on the opening of John Wu, and he smiled with John Wu.

Eric did not make much changes to the plot of the "Smiths" and the film began with a marriage counseling between the two Smiths who had been married for five or six years.

but. It is because Eric has not changed much about the film's plot, and it is very amazing in the eyes of the audience in the auditorium. Because of the series of high-tech equipment that appeared in the movie. Despite the times, many of the lenses were created by the use of special effects in the digital domain, but it was so cool that it was even more cool than the 007 with high-tech equipment.

John and Jane, who worked together for the two hostile killer groups, fell in love at the first sight of the chaotic Colombian capital. They flicked and married a seemingly ordinary American middle-class family life. Behind this life is a series of assassinations that the two men concealed from each other.

Although John and Jane hide their identity from each other very well. But this incident was learned by the killer group behind the scenes. In order to get rid of their two 'unstable' factors, the two killer groups cooperated in unison and launched an action.

Both John and Jane quickly understood each other's identity. After some twists and turns, the two started a confrontation in the villa where they lived for six years. Then they understood their feelings about each other and started to survive. Counterattack.

In the intense story of the film, there are also occasional warmth and little humor. After Eric's re-editing, the movie story is more compact.

After a hundred and twenty minutes of watching, the film ended in the hot rock music, and the executives in the auditorium patiently waited for the subtitles to finish playing, and the lights lit up before they burst into the palm of their hand.

"Mr. Wu, thank you for bringing us such a wonderful movie," Peter Cooper snarled and sat on the side of John Wu.

John Wu Bing followed the Easterners' habit of being modest, but still able to see the smugness and satisfaction of his face.

The schedule and declaration of the "Smiths" were confirmed before the film was completed. The release period was held during the Christmas season on December 18th. It was only for the last time for all the executives involved in the project. Confirmed to fine-tune the original announcement plan, but after watching the movie, no matter the Disney or Colombian Peter Cooper, there are no reports on the movie’s budget of up to $25 million. opinion.

It’s worth noting that Warner seems to be making a gimmick for each other, and that the “Bodyguard” that Eric served as the executive producer for the contract of Samuel Neil, the actor of Jurassic Park, was also placed on the 12 On the 18th, I played with the "Smiths".

Since the name is executed by the producer, Eric is certainly not likely to ignore the film. Although Warner just wanted to use Eric's reputation to improve the box office of "Bodyguard", it did not really make Eric participate in this project, but a few days ago I specially invited Eric to participate in the film test. Eric thinks that the biggest selling point of the movie is almost Kevin Costner, the last Oscar winner and best actor winner. Of course, there are several songs by Whitney Houston. In addition, Eric did not feel that this story has anything special.

Throughout October, Eric spent almost the same time in this busy schedule. In addition to focusing on the movies to be released at the end of the year, the management of Firefly will start discussing the next year's production and distribution plans.

At the end of October. Roland Emmerich filmed nearly twenty weeks of "The Big Clash" and finally closed the mirror. Emmerich never controlled such a big production movie, so compared to Eric’s film Jurassic The park is smooth, and Emmerich has to be cautious. The shooting process was therefore very slow, but fortunately Roland Emmerich did not overspend, and the film soon began work in the digital arena.

November is coming soon, near the end of the Thanksgiving-Christmas period, the beginning of the month of Halloween, fireflies and several other big movie companies have released their own small production of horror movies, but Eric is not too concerned about these investments. Less than $10 million in small production, but assuredly handed over to the firefly management.

In addition to the film side. Another big event that was crucial to the United States occurred in November. On November 3, the results of the four-year US presidential election were released. Republican presidential candidate William Jefferson Clinton defeated the 37-percent support Democratic candidate George W. Bush with a 42% advantage and was elected the 42nd US president.

Eric finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the historical process has not changed. If Clinton is not elected president, then many things are hard to predict. Perhaps the United States does not have the fastest decade of economic growth in history.

In the sharp corner manor, Eric is chatting with Catherine Bigelow who came to visit: "You believe me now. I have said that even if you don't need to issue "riot" in advance, Clinton is still able to win the election because his economic policy has beaten the Bush team."

Catherine Bigelow just whitened Eric and glanced at the boiled water in his hand. Clinton’s election was almost a victory. Even before the final vote, Bush’s approval rate was higher than Clinton’s. The end result made many people stunned.

In the process of making a documentary about the Los Angeles riots, Catherine Bigelow has gradually become a supporter of Clinton. In fact, many directors and stars in Hollywood are supporters of Clinton, including Spielberg, George Lucas and others. .

Therefore, after making the documentary "The Riot", Catherine proposed to Eric to release the documentary in September to support Clinton, but was rejected by Eric, who was still in France.

After a detailed investigation and analysis, the documentary "The Riot" blamed a large part of the cause of the Los Angeles riots on the high unemployment rate in southern Los Angeles. Although Bush’s Zhengfu won the Gulf War, it has been from World War II. The American nationals who have not won a few wars are excited, but the economic policies that Bush has implemented during his four-year tenure have all failed. The current unemployment rate in the United States is as high as 9%, not only for financial years. The deficit has even owed up to $4 trillion in government bonds, which was $4 trillion in the dollar’s ​​strong state in the early 1990s.

After a while, Catherine said: "It's just a 5% lead. If you don't pay attention, you may fail. You are not saying that you are a supporter of Clinton. Why did you object to the publication of this documentary?"

"Because your purpose is too obvious, it may even be counterproductive."

“How is it possible?” Catherine had some surprises.

Eric remembered the previous Fahrenheit 911. In the process of Bush’s re-election, Michael Moore forced the issuance of this documentary about the 9/11 incident with a pressure to sharply attack the Bush administration. But in the end, this documentary not only did not play a role in suppressing Bush’s support rate, but even because of the too fierce view of Fahrenheit 911, it aroused the rebellious psychology of some voters. In short, the result is that even Bush’s campaign opponents disagreed with the Fahrenheit’s 911 view, standing on the opposite side of Michael Moore, but eventually Bush was re-elected.

Katherine’s documentary about the Los Angeles riots, although not as sharp as Michael Moore, still points the finger at the failed economic policy of the Bush administration. At this sensitive moment, it may be used by the Bush’s campaign team. Reversing the black and white evidence of deliberate smearing as a competitor, know that Bush is still the president of the United States, and the resources he has in his hands far exceed Clinton. It is not too difficult to achieve this.

"People are hard to ponder. Sometimes you feel that you are doing the right thing, but in the eyes of others, it is the opposite situation." Eric thought and replied.

Catherine was not a stupid person. When she heard Eric said this, she quickly understood it and couldn’t help but sigh low.

Eric looked at the woman's face with such expression, and couldn't help but comfort: "Don't worry, Firefly has already planned to release this documentary in mid-December. I promise you that at least I will fight for this movie." Nomination for the best Oscar documentary."

Catherine knew that Eric was kind and nodded. She also knew very well that the theme of "Popularity" was too sensitive. Although it was profound, it was not something that many people wanted to see. Moreover, the time when this documentary occurred from the incident It’s too close, it’s less than a year. Although some people want to reflect on it, most people don’t want to mention it, so it’s also not time to reflect.

In this case, the nomination to get an Oscar for the best documentary is already the limit, and it is not possible to win the prize.

"Next, you can concentrate on making "Save the Ryan"," Eric said, then smiled and looked a little bad: "There is one more thing to tell you, Jim's "true lies" are also Last month was the project plan to join Firefly next year. I plan to put it in the summer of the next year. What do you think?"

It’s been a year since Catherine’s hatred of Cameron’s derailment has been dissipated. At this point, I heard this sentence, but I squinted Eric: “You like to do this kind of thing.” To be continued)