Chapter 712： New technology wave

Chapter 712

In the end, the discussion on the host of the "National Supermodel Contest" focused on Linda Ivangoline, Cindy Crawford and Tara Banks.

The supermodel's title begins with Linda Ivangolinsta, and it is undoubtedly the most convincing for her to be the host of this show.

Cindy Crawford appeared on TV shows frequently before the Vimy show. Although the five spokespersons were similar in public opinion after the big show, Cindy Crawford had the host. The qualifications of TV programs.

Tara Banks is full of personality and is obviously easier to mingle with the players on the show, very close to the people. However, her hard injury is also very obvious. Tara Banks was born in 1973. It is only 22 years old this year. Although she has gained a very high reputation with the Vimy show, it is difficult to convince people after age. Otherwise, As the host of the "American Supermodel Contest" in the original time and space, Eric will not think too much.

After some discussion, the decision was still on Eric.

To be honest, although I experienced the absurdity of the previous two days, Eric’s understanding of these five women is not too much. Most of the memories of past lives come from various media. Now in this circle, Eric is going to It’s silly to believe in media information.

The plans for the lietime TV reform and the "American Supermodel Contest" have only just begun. Eric is not in a hurry and plans to talk to them in detail before making a decision.

Time unconsciously came to the middle of the night, Eric was listening to Luc Besson about the idea of ​​a science fiction film, and heard Catherine’s voice beside him: “Eric. It’s too late. I think I should gone back."

Luc Besson sees Catherine approaching. Very eye-catching to raise a toast, smile and take the initiative to walk away.

Catherine’s expression was a bit embarrassing: “I didn’t bother you to talk?”

"Of course not," Eric shook his head.

Looked at the watch, just after 11 o'clock, there is no one left at the party, but for Catherine, who has a very regular lifestyle, it is obviously too late.

Eric put down his wrist and looked up at Catherine, who held the little gold man in front of his hands. Eric smiled and smiled in the woman's expression. "I will send you back?"

"No, no," Catherine shook her head subconsciously, and the nervousness and panic on her pretty face suddenly spilled out.

"You are drinking, it is not safe to drive yourself, I don't worry," Eric said, reaching out and pointing to the hall door.

Catherine moved to the next step. Suddenly said: "You, you also drink."

Eric said: "I have a driver. Let's go,"

Catherine followed Eric and walked toward the gate, but still whispered: "I can take a taxi back."

"You think you are the movie heroine who can stop the taxi by wave. It is already late at night, and there is a taxi," Eric made a joke and waved to Kasenberg Made a few gestures to signal him to arrange the next thing.

When they arrived at the parking lot, Eric personally opened the door and let Catherine enter. She sat next to her, asked the address of Catherine, and told the driver to drive.

The streets near Sunset Avenue are still bright, but the traffic has been a lot.

The car walked on the sunset boulevard, inside the train, watching Catherine holding a small gold man with a slap in the face, Eric inexplicably produced the illusion of sitting next to a little girl who was not in the world, laughing Laugh, active and active atmosphere: "How about the "Red Alert" script you discussed with Terrence Malik?"

"Also, okay, there are some differences in details, but the problem is not big. Next month, we are going to visit Guadalcanal for a field trip, and Terrence wants to shoot on the ground."

Eric nodded. "Oh, have you considered when to boot?"

Although the "Red Alert" will be invested by fireflies, it is not a commercial sequence of fireflies. Therefore, Eric is very relaxed about the production of this film, let Catherine and Terrence Malik decide.

"Next year, I want to prepare more time," Catherine hesitated, said.

The two of you talked freely in a word, and unconsciously, the car stopped outside a house in the cold water canyon.

Eric has always been full of all the infrastructure facilities in Los Angeles except the road network. The two got out of the car, surrounded by old street lights, and a dim yellow light can also see a dark moss stain. A pole, a crumbling look.

"So, good night," Eric opened his arms to Catherine.

Catherine carefully came over and hugged him and released: "Good night."

So the net, the woman walked toward the door behind him, what Eric remembered, and shouted: "Catherine?"

The woman’s body is stiff and she goes back: “What, what?”

Eric pointed to the little gold man in her hand: "In the next few days, you may need to cooperate with several interviews, I hope you can prepare."

"Oh, I know." The woman finished, her eyes fixed on him, staring for less than two seconds, realizing that the man did not continue to speak, and the footsteps fled into the yard again.

Eric smiled and sat back in the car. Carter Moen in the front row started the car, but he did not forget to ridicule: "Boss, this is not like your style."

"Come on, you have already felt that you are guilty and feel that you are bullying the little girl."

Carter Moen expertly turned the car around and said: "Ms. Bigelow must have felt it for you, otherwise it will not be so flustered."

"It’s always worse," Eric vaguely said.

The next day, the news of the first female best director in Oscar history quickly captured the headlines of the world's major media, causing a splendid carnival.

At the same time, the fireflies also launched a new round of the release of the "Rescue Ryan Ryan" videotape, through Catherine to get the best director of the Oscar. In the following week. The videotape of "Save the Great Ryan" easily broke through 1 million boxes.

in Europe. Because the film's release time lags behind North America, it is at a time of market hunger. Under the cooperation of fireflies, the issuers of European countries easily beat North America with nearly 1.5 million boxes. In just one week, the videotape sale of "Saving Private Ryan" brought $75 million in revenue for Fireflies. Fireflies internally predicted that the film's final videotape sales would exceed $500 million. Even the data exceeds the global box office of the film.

Because the film companies usually do not publish the sales data of the videotape, most of the outsiders still stay in Catherine's Oscar-winning director. But Hollywood has boiled up because of the videotape sales data of "Saving Private Ryan". Several major movie companies have begun to look for excellent war film scripts. The most direct result is that Catherine's next film "Red Alert" has caused The big concerns inside and outside Hollywood have even caused a big lawsuit.

It turned out that Terrence Malik had contacted many production companies before making contact with Eric. Basically including the other six, these are nothing. The key is. In a contact with a single film company called Phoenix, Terrence Malik signed an intent contract with the other company to allow the other party to invest in the film "Red Alert", but that was already in 1988. .

The film's budget is too high and the risk is too great. Phoenix did not end up with a dime investment. According to industry practice, in this case, the contract is almost automatically invalidated.

It seems that this thing has passed, and the project was taken over by the fireflies, and everything seems to be a matter of course.

But after Catherine won the Oscar for best director, and "Saving Private Ryan" made amazing achievements in the videotape market, perhaps it was instructed by some people, Phoenix film producer Robert Geisler jumped out, saying In accordance with the original contract, Phoenix has already invested in the "Red Alert" and asked Fireflies to return the production and distribution rights of the film.

There is an endless stream of hobbies in Hollywood. Eric has not paid much attention to this matter, but gave it to the legal department of fireflies.

He has read the script of "Red Alert". There are also a lot of information about this film in the memory. I know that this is not a film sales at the box office. Moreover, he also knows that the company of Phoenix may just want to invest. Adding a handful, as long as it does not affect the production of the film, Eric does not mind giving up a part of the investment right. Of course, if the other party is too ignorant, Eric does not mind letting the other party try the fireflies' anger.

After Oscar, Eric’s main focus was on the reform of his lietime TV station and the preparations for the National Supermodel Contest.

Lietime TV was founded in the early 1980s by the merger of two small TV stations in the hands of ab TV and Hearst Group, and together they belonged to ae TV. In the first few years of existence, lietime TV station has been in a state of loss until the end of the 1980s, when it barely managed to break even.

According to theoretical data, the lietime TV station at this time has 30 million users, which is the kind of theoretical users included in the different cable TV packages of several major cable operators.

But in fact, like Eric’s memory of domestic legal channels, educational channels or foreign language channels that are also cable channels but few people watch, lietime TV is the kind of TV channel that has long been ignored by users, even It is a popular program, and the number of viewers is no more than 2 million. Because the viewing data has been very mediocre, several major cable operators often send out messages to refuse to carry this TV channel. After all, like the Internet, cable TV signals The transmission also requires bandwidth.

Before Kasenberg introduced the TV station, Eric even almost forgot that Firefly has such a TV channel.

After the plan was launched, Eric learned more about the TV station.

In the 1980s, lietime TV station mainly broadcasted two or three rounds of TV programs produced by Ab TV Network, and occasionally purchased some very cheap and low-cost women's films. The content of the program was very tedious.

It was not until the early 1990s that it began to experiment with the production of TV movies or mini-drama. However, the number of programs produced each year averaged less than two.

Therefore, it is not an easy task to reform such an unnamed television station. Fortunately, espn has grown from less than 300,000 local users to the nation's largest sports TV station. All the fireflies are confident and quickly made a very detailed plan.

On the other hand, although the cable TV industry in the United States was born in the 1980s, it really began to flourish. It started from the second half of the 1990s. With the rise of the Internet industry, the United States actually began to Building a cable TV network.

If you pay attention to the American TV series, you will find that many of the classic TV dramas produced by the classic cable TV stations began in the second half of the 1990s. The most famous is undoubtedly several films of Time Warner's h-wave TV station. At this time, the US cable TV market, in Eric's view, is more appropriate to describe it with a spur of the future.

The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but also a large amount of money invested in the TV industry, the firefly owner has a very perfect internal capital chain, and does not need to be like other film companies. From time to time, it is necessary to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds, etc., but investing large sums of money in the television industry has indirectly established a larger platform for fireflies.

At the same time, the regulation of the cable TV industry in the United States has begun to become more and more accommodative, and large-scale integration has actually started since last year. When Barry Diller and Summer Randon competed for Viacom, the reason for the failure was that the parent company Telecommunication Group, which Barry Diller relied on, merged with Att.

The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but also a large amount of money invested in the TV industry, the firefly owner has a very perfect internal capital chain, and does not need to be like other film companies. From time to time, it is necessary to obtain financing through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds, etc., but investing large sums of money in the television industry has indirectly established a larger platform for fireflies.

At the same time, American cable TV companies need to obtain financing from outside investment banks, foreign film and television funds, etc. from time to time, but they are investing in TV stations (to be continued).