Chapter 509： Hollywood Power List

But because Eric has thrown out the "caa apocalypse" that deeply analyzes the caa operating model, and a series of reforms by brokers who have experienced the threat of caa, Hollywood has now formed three brokerage firms, caa, icm and wma. In the three-legged situation, in order to compete with the awakened opponents, caa and the big film company can not maintain the strong position in the past, and Michael Ovitz's ranking has slipped to the top five.

In the new Hollywood power list, Firefly opened the other film companies with a 27% North American box office share in 1992. Eric has no doubt to be the No. 1 position in the Hollywood Power List. Michael Lynn of Firefly Ceo and Cassenberg, who plays Disney's ceo, occupy the sixth and ninth positions respectively, although the ranking is not too high, but only the top ten, Firefly Pictures The game has occupied three positions, and the industry has been talking about it.

Eric won the first place without any controversy, the firefly's performance is really there, and Eric's personally directed "Tornado" also won the 1992 annual box office with a global close to 700 million US dollars. Box office champion. But a lot of media are hard to accept, "Premiere" magazine will also include Michael Lynn and Kasenberg in the top ten.

In Hollywood, almost any list is controversial, which also makes it easy to provoke topics and increase the visibility of the list. Regarding the outside world's doubts, the "Premiere" magazine will certainly not admit that there is a problem with its list. Instead, it is like a chicken blood, and it has started to fight with the media.

The main topics of the media before the Oscars were often concentrated on the films that were shortlisted in the Oscars in the past. The shortlisted films showed their magical powers and launched a public opinion offensive in the media. But this year is different. "Schindler's List" hangs high on the competitors with its absolute righteousness. Because of the special status of Jews in Hollywood, the canvassing methods of previous years are basically not very useful this year, and the competition is also short-listed. The opponent is even afraid to launch a public opinion offensive against the "Schindler's List". In this case. The topic of "The Premiere" Hollywood Power List was also highly selected.

"... Warner United President Robert Daley said in an interview that it was because the board of directors had no decision on the position of ceo for a long time, which led to Time Warner’s performance being overtaken by fireflies, when asked to be ranked second with him. Wal-Mart co-president Terry Semel, Robert Daley, declined to comment. Robert Daley’s move is clearly putting pressure on Warner’s board.

According to rumors, Robert Daley and Eric Williams have a very personal relationship. This condition is likely to become a major bargaining chip for Robert Daley's fight for Time Warner ceo, because Time Warner's predecessor, Ceo Steve Rose, has an important way to stabilize his position by passing Hollywood movies like Steven Spielberg. People build good personal relationships. ”

"...The former New Line Film Company President Robert Shea publicly claimed that Michael Lynn was only the embarrassment of Eric Williams. Michael Lynn had no decision on the Firefly business. Firefly Films rarely publicly refuted Robert Shea’s remarks indicate that Mr. Michael Lynn has made a significant contribution to the company in his role as a firefly movie ceo."

"..." Variety magazine's well-known film critic Andrew Fletcher publicly criticized the Hollywood power list's selection criteria, saying that this list should not be a Hollywood power list. Instead, it should be renamed the Hollywood influence list."

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In the sharp corner manor, because of the audition of the heroine of "Buffy the Vampire Hunter Buffy", Drew had to get up early, sitting at the table and drinking the porridge, arbitrarily licking the black body of a newspaper in Eric's hand. The word, muttered: "I really don't know what is going on, I was ranked 15th with Liz, we didn't say anything."

Eric turned a page of newspapers in his hand. Laughing: "Is it a mystery that someone who sneered at the Hollywood power list on "Hollywood Online" yesterday?"

"Absolutely, if you are busy all the time, don't stay with me. I will definitely get dementia early," Shantou said with a smile. The baby face quickly came together: "Eric, Today, go to Century City to help us pick the heroine of "Buffy"?"

"Liz was not talking about the audition of the heroine a few days ago, hasn't it been selected yet?"

"No, we have been picking the director and some supporting roles. The audition of the heroine is arranged today."

Eric took into account the original schedule of today, and there is nothing important. And as Xiao Nizi just said, Eric doesn't want to become a 'robot' that only works: "Okay. I'll wait to call the studio and say, today is not over, what to audition. When does it start?"

"Ten o'clock, so we don't have to be too anxious. There are only sixteen final candidates. We will definitely be able to finish the interview today, so we don't have to worry too much," Drew replied.

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When Eric and Drew were still talking about the heroine of Buffy at the Sharp Estate, Michael Eisner had already arrived at Burbank Global Headquarters.

Recently, on the Hollywood power list, Michael Eisner, who has just been in charge of the world for a year, was ranked 10th in the premiere magazine because of the turmoil of Universal Pictures last year.

But whether facing reporters or privately, Michael Eisner is very light on this. As the film critics of Variety magazine said, the Hollywood power list is essentially only the influence list of Hollywood's last year. Single, although ranked in the tenth place, in fact, Michael Eisner, who has completely controlled the hands of Universal in Hollywood, is definitely much higher than this list. Global is the seven major film companies. First, and the foundation is profound.

At the end of last year, the strategy of winning by volume made Global's fourth-quarter earnings higher than the previous three quarters. Michael Eisner also consolidated his position in the hearts of Panasonic's parent company.

However, in the case of Hollywood's reliance on big-production movies to create most of the profit model has gradually emerged, want to get better results. A low-cost movie is definitely not going to work, not to mention that any film company has its own limits. Therefore, Michael Eisner has been selecting suitable large-scale production projects for the world since the end of last year.

So far, Universal has already started a film called "The End of the World" starring Harrison Ford, with a total investment of 50 million US dollars. This is a TV series adaptation, and this project is still grabbed from Warner, because of the optimistic about "Desperate", Global paid more than $3 million to the copyright party, and also improved the director and actor Harrison Ford's pay.

If Eric is here, he will be surprised by Michael Eisner’s vision. "Desperate" is the first part of the original introduction of the mainland in the 1990s. When Drew took the copyright for the flower industry, Eric also played the idea of ​​this movie, but unfortunately Eric’s memory There is no such thing as a very accurate news for this movie, and I can only give up.

in fact. Although Michael Eisner had already opened the production business in the last few years of Disney, focusing on the promotion and marketing of the film, but during the Paramount period, Michael Eisner also served under Barry Diller. The person in charge of the production department mentioned "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Most people may think of Steven Spielberg in their first thought, but few people know that the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can shoot. come out. It was inseparable from the support of Michael Eisner at the time.

A brief meeting with several executives from around the world, Michael Eisner returned to his office to start a day of work.

The assistant placed a stack of documents that had been prepared long on the desk of Michael Eisner and handed the top one to the other. Said: "Mr. Eisner, the document that the legal department just passed, they said that the remake of the "Mummy" was first proposed by James Jakes of alpha-ville. They got the remake authorization in 1991. China was co-developed with Universal, but Sid Singer was only willing to make the film a low-cost horror film with an investment of no more than $10 million. So they temporarily gave up the idea of ​​shooting. If the other party does not Willing to give up the original authorization, at least $2 million in legal fees to recover the authorization. Or, until the authorization expires."

“How long is the original authorization?” Michael Eisner asked without asking.

The assistant hesitated. Said: "Ten years."

"Then you call James Jakes directly, or we pay a liquidated damages, he gives up the authorization, or sees it in court, he finally can't get anything."

The assistant opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he quickly nodded: "Okay, Mr. Eisner, in addition, the first draft of the "Mummy" script has been completed, in the penultimate folder, according to your request The model of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has left a foreshadowing of the development of the sequel. The production department asked if you want to start looking for directors and heroes?"

Michael Eisner found the script of "Mummy" and opened it. He hurriedly read the outline of the front story and looked up: "You passed the script to Mr. Spielberg and asked him not interested. In addition, the heroine contacted Nicole Kidman."

"Mr. Eisner, I think Nicole Kidman is not suitable. After the "Smiths", her pay has risen to $10 million, almost the highest among actresses, and the heroine of "Mummy". It’s a weak librarian, and it’s too much contrast with the image of the female killer in The Smiths.”

Michael Eisner raised his head and said to the assistant: "I think you should haven't seen Nicole Kidman's "Sleepless Night in Seattle" and "Spicy Handball", which is a very malleable and extremely good acting. Actress, the high pay is definitely worth it, and I have some other considerations, so you can do as I told you."

The assistant nodded and saw that Michael Eisner had no other instructions and turned and left the office.

Michael Eisner turned his eyes to the script of the Mummy again. A month ago, Michael Eisner found the remake of the film in some of the project files left by Sid Singer, which made him very An adventure series about mummies was developed in the style of imitating "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Westerners have always had a keen interest in adventures and treasures, and with the success of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, Michael Eisner believes that as long as he can find a good script, with excellent special effects. The success of this series is extremely great.

The idea of ​​being the director of Spielberg and Nicole Kidman as the heroine is that he has long thought about it. Although he also knows that Spielberg's promise is not very likely, he can at least be sure that it is no problem to make Spielberg a famous producer.

As for the heroine candidate, in addition to the current box office appeal of Michael Nicole, Michael Eisner also did not test the meaning of Eric. The script was handed over to Nicole, and Eric could definitely see it. Last fall, because the world took the initiative to mention Joanna Pakula to cover up the matter, Eric still owes a favor to himself. Michael Eisner can be sure that Eric should take this opportunity to 'return the human feelings' '.

Michael Eisner knows that as long as the "Mummy" series is successful, the position of his global ceo will become unbreakable, so Michael Eisner has spared no effort to make so many arrangements.

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Century City 20th Century Fox headquarters, with the expansion of tg, Elizabeth rented a whole layer in the Fox Building as the headquarters of tg.

When Eric and Drew arrived at ten o'clock, a large group of girls and their agents had gathered in the corridor of the tg company.

As he walked through the corridor, Eric could even see the girls' scorpions clearly starting to shine, like a little female wolf who only saw the prey, and he was definitely not an illusion. As a girl in a beige trench coat first put down her shackles, she stepped forward and greeted Eric and asked for a signature. The other girls who responded were also surrounded.

Eric signed a few names for the girls who seemed to be only 17 or 18 years old, and some of them were escorted by the security guards in the building and walked into the tg headquarters.

Throughout the process, Xiao Nizi, who was next to her, looked at it all with a smile.

The two men pushed the door together into Drew's office, and the girl suddenly flew to Eric.

Eric subconsciously held his hands on his chest and smiled: "Hey, what are you doing, wouldn't it be that I am so popular and jealous?"

Shantou gave him a white glance, but a small paw stretched out into the pocket of Eric's coat, and soon he took out a few small pieces of paper filled with contact from the two sides of his pocket. (To be continued)