Chapter 553： Headache

Perhaps because there are too many movies in my mind, Eric's dreams are always a bit grotesque. When I woke up, I entered the "Resident Evil". Some people are not sure who they are, only knowing that they have entered with their companions. A messy hall, moving forward carefully, a drop of damp and hot unidentified liquid fell on his face, suddenly looked up, and saw his grandfather's fierce tongue hit him in the dark, suddenly awakened. ,

At first glance, I saw that Drew, who was already dressed neatly, was squatting beside him. Xiao Nizi was less early than herself. Eric was not surprised. He turned a circle on the earth and his biological clock was a little confused. It is estimated that it will take some time to recover.

Thinking of the dream, Eric touched his cheek and asked: "Shantou, wouldn't you prank to draw something on my face?"

"Of course not," Drew showed a look like when you were a kid, and then gave an answer that made Eric somewhat helpless: "I just stumbled a few times."

Ok, there won't be a piece of meat anyway.

Eric thought about it, and reached out to get the watch on the table. Drew’s body was just in front of him, and he asked, “What time is it?”

Drew turned and pressed a button on the bedside. The curtains around the bedroom opened silently, and the bright sunshine couldn’t wait to get in, and soon the spacious master bedroom was full.

Eric narrowed his eyes and blocked it with his arm before he suddenly sat up.

Yesterday, I had an appointment to hold a firefly management meeting in the morning. It is definitely late for the situation.

Wearing clothes in a hurry, Eric asked: "Is there a mobile phone, is anyone calling?"

"Yes, Michael just called and asked if you still can't attend the meeting today. I said that your time difference has not arrived yet. Maybe it will be later, he said that the meeting was changed to one o'clock in the afternoon," Drew said. Pulling out a brand new tie from the cupboard and rushing over to personally help Eric.

Eric had to stand in the same place and took a look at the watch. It’s already 9:40, and even if I rushed over, the morning time is not enough: “The next time you encounter such a thing, you must wake me up, so it’s not always good to have so many people waiting.”

Drew clearly also prioritized the matter and said: "Know, this time it is special, you just came back from Tokyo, they can understand."

Going downstairs into the restaurant for breakfast, the figures of the Russian twins reappeared. Proactively greet Eric, and when Eric sat down, he placed the breakfast and today's newspaper in front of Eric, and he was well trained.

Xiao Nizi, who had already had breakfast, sat on the small chin and sat opposite Eric, and her eyes flashed to reveal a kind of invitation to praise me.

Eric greeted the twins, and when the two sisters left the restaurant, they picked up a small piece of bread and threw it on the door: "Well, what can be smug. Spend so much money, hire enough Hundreds of servants."

Although Drew joked last night that he was more expensive. But in fact, she only spent $800,000 on the contract of the sister who bought the two sisters from Shaun King’s agent. This is still because of the loophole in the other contract. The various conditions of the sisters, the cost of immigrating to the other sisters alone, is not something that can be done for $800,000.

"I can also let them both go to the company movie to go guest. After that, the two of them are the mascots in the flower film movie. It is more eye-catching than your little girl holding a doll."

Eric ignored the embarrassment in the tone of the taro and asked: "You said to help them immigrate to the whole family. Now it is not so easy for Russian immigrants to the United States. What does their family do?"

"Their father was originally a very good combat coach, but you know. Now the poor hotel in Russia can not afford to pay for the hotel when the president goes abroad. It is even more useless to fight the coach. However, The federation is different, and there are not many family members. Except for the two of them, only their parents and a younger brother are not very difficult."

Seeing Xiao Nizi, everything is in my heart. Eric didn’t ask anything more. He took a sip of milk and opened a newspaper.

"Eric, you always look at this, what's the use?" Xiao Nizi didn't talk to find it.

“Looking for inspiration,” Eric simply spit out two words, but it was seen from the Los Angeles Times yesterday afternoon, MGM ez Frank Makasso held a press conference to announce the establishment of a partnership with Firefly Films. DreamWorks Film Production's program, and revealed the production plan for "Jianjiao" and "Resident Evil", as well as Eric's upcoming participation in the latest 007 production.

Drew didn't mind Eric's perfunctory. He dragged a chair and came over to read the manuscript. Eric had called in Europe to tell her about the decision of the Charlie's project. Drew was also early. I know this.

"Eric, the representative of the Firefly Films is not mentioned in the draft. Is this a unilateral conference held by MGM?"

From the press release, the conference was not attended by representatives of the Firefly Films, and in the content of the conference, Frank Makarso also deliberately played down the role of European capital in the production company.

Eric thought that MGM's recent stock price will definitely show a wave of upswing, explaining to Drew: "MGM now needs some good news too, so I can't wait to do this. It's nothing, Frank. Ma. Caso must have passed through with Michael, and fireflies are not listed companies. These news will not affect us too much."

"Oh, Eric, we will not lose money to "Miao Jiaowa" to MGM. This film is similar to the 007 style. Maybe it can shoot a lot of sequels?"

"Copyright is placed in DreamWorks, not for MGM, we own 30% of DreamWorks, it is already the largest shareholder, and most of the shares are also in European capital, if we start with MGM Conflict, which side do you think European capital will stand on?"

"Of course it's our side, hey, Eric, I just thought of a good idea..."

"Ok?"

"You said. If we let the "Jiaojiaowa" series and "007" meet, will it be a good note?"

"The idea is quite good, but unless "Charlie's Angel" has similar influence and box office results as "007", this is not an easy task. The influence of the 007 series has accumulated over decades. ”

Drew also knows that the influence of the 007 series is definitely not comparable to the "Golden Angel" that has not yet had a large screen finished product. Retreat to the next line: "What if it's just some drama eggs?"

"That needs at least the first part to get enough influence, but it is not impossible to try. Now the most important thing is to do the first part of "Charlie's Baby."

Although Eric is not too optimistic about Drew’s whim at breakfast, he is more and more interested in it. If you can make the collection of “Jiaojiao” and “007” series, it is definitely a very powerful gimmick. But remembering the box office results of the previous "Jiaojiaowa" series, Eric can only wait until the new version of his own results is released. Then carry out related work.

Although the meeting was changed in the afternoon, after breakfast, Eric arrived at the Firefly headquarters for the first time.

During the time, Firefly Films accumulated a large number of documents that Eric had personally reviewed. Eric arrived at the office at eleven o'clock, until the afternoon session began, and only read less than one-tenth, which is still missing. In the case of lunch time, it is good to eat Eric breakfast late. Not too hungry.

The size of the afternoon meeting was not large, just a small meeting of more than a dozen executives of fireflies.

Eric walked into the conference room with a thick stack of documents. Seeing all the people headed by Michael Lynn and Jeffrey Kasenberg, they all gathered together and smiled. "I haven't seen you for a long time. It seems that everyone misses me."

In the chuckle, Eric took Allen's copy of the document to the ground, and sneered a few words with everyone, waiting for Allen to finish the document. Eric got up and said: "I know that Fireflies have a lot of things to deal with recently, but we don't discuss them today. Today is about the development goals of Firefly's next stage."

At this point the executives in the conference room have opened the documents in their hands. It is not too surprising to see the contents of the document, whether it has been heard in advance or not. The content of the document is an evaluation of the possibility of acquisition of the three major television networks.

The current situation of Firefly Pictures has surpassed the other six major Hollywood studios with absolute advantage. If you want to go further, you must definitely move from a film company to a comprehensive media group.

Although the formal acquisition of the TV network will take some time, and may even wait until next year, the preparation work will certainly be the sooner the better.

In the three major TV networks except North America, after the tide of mergers and acquisitions in the mid-1980s, the ab TV station, which had been in a bad situation and suffered losses in the past few years, turned into the best overall situation.

Since the acquisition of ab by Berkshire Hathaway, the cosmopolitan communications company and Warren Buffett in 1983, the new shareholders have strengthened the financial supervision of the ab TV station, but at the same time fully gave the management enough potential. Although ab's current profitability is still not too conspicuous, it is already in a period of benign development.

The subsequent nb TV station was still in a turbulent phase due to the conflict between the management and the parent company General Group.

The situation of bs can only be described as bad. In the mid-eighties, Wall Street investor Lawrence Tish took over the control of bs and then split and sold a large number of business assets, including the world sold to Japanese. The two major record companies Columbia Records. After so many years of capital operation, the benefits have been paid, and Lawrence Tish did not want to play at this time, looking for a receiver.

Therefore, bs is also the easiest to acquire.

However, with the current strength of Firefly's film industry, there is no need to leak. Since you want to buy, of course, you must pick the best ab, followed by nb, bs is the last choice.

When Eric briefly introduced the plan in mind, Michael Lynn said: "Eric, since we want to acquire ab, the shares of our TV network in our hands must be taken off?"

"I will personally talk to Mr. Murdoch about this matter recently."

Another person asked: "What about "Friends", "Archives" and "Who will be a millionaire?"

At the beginning, "Friends" signed a five-season play contract with Fox. This year is the fifth season. Moreover, the copyright of "Friends" is completely in the hands of Firebugs. Eric will certainly not be polite with Fox. "This is the year." Contracts, we will definitely not renew with o. As for "Archives" and "Who will become a millionaire", we will continue to maintain the original plan."

"Archives" and "Who Will Become a Millionaire" are shared with Fox. The copyright is very difficult to grab. It is very difficult to grab all the three pillars of the Fox TV network. Murdoch does not turn over. It’s strange.

Eric said, looking at the vice president of the TV department responsible for fireflies: "In addition, from now on, the TV department can find all the programs, even if we can buy a TV network may take one to two years, so you can hoard For some good projects, you will come up with a plan as soon as possible, and send the collected project summary to me on a regular basis."

Kasenberg suddenly said: "Eric, do you intend to be personally responsible for the acquisition of the TV network?"

The words of Kasenberg were just falling, and the atmosphere in the conference room was a bit weird. Many people took their eyes and swept between Kasenberg and Michael Lynn.

Eric also looked at Kasenberg and Michael Lynn on both sides with some headaches.

The acquisition of such a big thing in the TV network will definitely require a senior executive of the Firefly Films CEO level to follow up and negotiate in person. If it is otherwise, the burden will definitely fall on Michael Lynn. But now the situation is that Eric promised to Kasenberg last year that he will appoint Kasenberg as Firefly eo when the contract for Michael Lynn expires next year.

As the current eo of Firefly Films, Michael Lynn, although somewhat conservative, does not have the same spirit of Kasenberg, but has always been a very qualified manager. Although Eric did not often intervene in the management of the company, but for his inadvertently every order, Michael Lynn was able to perform perfectly, and Eric was very satisfied with Michael Lynn.

Therefore, even before Kasenberg had just opened up, Eric had been entangled for a long time for how to arrange Michael Lynn in the future. (To be continued...)