Chapter 1035： Sky price

This problem is indeed not quite appropriate.

Matt Gilson heard Eric’s questioning, and his expression was awkward.

Everything is still unresolved, and Eric has not talked too much with the three people. He simply opened his own conditions and sent them away.

Looking at the figure of the three people leaving, Brooke Momo said: "Eric, here many people have seen you see them three, and then it may be more lively, you are sure that 1 million dollars they are willing to shoot the script Warner has already offered a price of $3 million."

"If you are an actor who has just debuted no name, are you willing to accept $1 million to join my movie, or will you be willing to spend $3 million on a film directed by an unknown guy?"

Brooke Hemmer smiled: "Of course it is yours, but the writer and the actor are still somewhat different."

"The truth is the same," Eric took a cup of coffee from the back of Fernanda Tavares and continued: "I give them more money, but opportunities, one to become a gold medal. The opportunity to write a screen. Everyone knows that in Hollywood, opportunity is the most important thing."

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On the other hand, leaving the street blocked by the "public enemies" crew, the three silently got on a car and fastened their seat belts on the first officer. Terry Roussio finally said: "One million dollars, some low Alright."

Ted Elliott started the car and said: "If Eric Williams really wants to make this script into a series of movies, $1 million is still very good. After all, a week ago, we even I have never thought of selling this script."

Matt Gilson, sitting in the back seat, thought about how to get the news of the three people meeting with Eric Williams as soon as possible. At this time, he said: "Just Eric Williams did not say it. If we auction this script, the fireflies will also bid."

Ted Elliott said: "But if this is the case, we will not be able to participate in the follow-up development of this project."

Terry Rousseo, thinking about the seat belt in front of him, thought about it: "I think, according to Eric Williams, the fireflies should be determined for this script. As long as this project is successful, we It will still be Hollywood's most famous screenwriter, isn't it? Now Warner's offer has reached $3 million. If the auction, maybe we can get $5 million. Even if the fireflies make the Pirates of the Caribbean a trilogy, we can It shouldn't be much higher than this number. Anyway, the reputation is there, can't participate in the follow-up project development, we just can focus on writing other scripts."

Ted Elliott and Matt Gilson heard that they were silent. After a moment, Matt Gilson said again: "So, let me spread the news and see what else. The reaction of the big movie company."

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The news of the three screenwriters of Eric and Pirates of the Caribbean quickly spread in Hollywood. Of course, Eric has detailed plans for this project and will make major changes to the script. The land chose to hide.

However, just because Eric personally stated that he wanted to make "Pirates of the Caribbean" a series of words, this news caused a much larger response than expected.

Throughout Hollywood, in addition to fireflies, other major studios, including MGM and Fox, hope to develop more big-production movies.

After all, once a big production series is successful, it is basically enough for a big movie company to maintain a high level of profit for several years. Of course, there is no shortage of big screenplays in Hollywood. The lack of recognition of these projects is a keen eye. Because of the extreme uncertainty of the film industry, big-name directors and producers are afraid to package tickets for a certain project. Eric Williams has clearly broken this rule.

So, almost the first time, the major movie companies that received the news contacted Ted Elliot and raised their own offers.

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After the failure of Godzilla last year, Sony’s situation this year has become more and more difficult.

This year's summer file "Patriot" released by Sony Pictures, the North American box office is now barely over 100 million, because it is a relatively small American independent war theme, the film's overseas box office is not even as good as North America, and ultimately the world can recover 200 million US dollars. It’s good, but the film’s production cost has already reached 110 million US dollars. Although Sony will control the cost of the project to 40 million US dollars, but the world’s 200 million, Sony Pictures will still bear a loss of about 60 million US dollars at the box office. Can only expect the subsequent video tape and TV broadcast rights income to make up for the loss.

Under the lessons of Peter Cooper and Peter Peters, Sony’s headquarters’ control of Sony Pictures has been somewhat overkill in recent years.

The movie project that Sony Pictures started with a slightly higher cost almost all needed to be approved by the Sony headquarters to be approved, which inevitably caused the situation of the layman. Therefore, in addition to "Patriot", Sony's other major productions are developing, and the box office prospects are very unclear.

When Sony bought Columbia Pictures, it was the idea of ​​promoting its own video recorder. With the rapid spread of DVDs, the plans of the past have naturally not been mentioned, and some of Sony’s directors have even given birth to the plan to abandon the film business.

Sunday morning, Culver City Sony Pictures Headquarters.

Howard Stringer looked at the script of Pirates of the Caribbean. Bill Michelin, who is opposite him, is introducing the current situation: "When Williams personally contacted the scriptwriter of this script, he confirmed him. Indeed, the news of this script is really valued. In the afternoon, Warner Bros. is said to have raised the price of this script to $4 million. Others have also increased their own overweight. Now there is a clear trend of bidding wars."

Howard Sterlinger did not lift his head and asked, "Where is the "Black Man"?"

"Will Smith is shooting the firefly's "public enemies", and the situation has not changed, as long as he and Tommy Lee Jones do not give up the condition of 20 million US dollars, the fireflies do not intend to make any concession."

Howard Stringer's flipping action paused and frowned slightly. As the CEO of Sony USA, most of his duties are Sony's film and record business.

In the first half of the year, the impact of Internet pirated music, Sony Records' revenue and profits have plummeted. Now, Sony Pictures is also in the middle of the mud, and even the headquarters has heard the sound of wanting to sell the film company, which makes Howard Stringer’s position within Sony become very unstable, if it continues Not to mention the future competition of Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, whether his current position can be saved is still unknown.

Due to the proliferation of Internet pirated music, it is difficult for Sony Records to reverse its business in the short term. Howard Stringer can only hope to boost the film business.

However, Sony Pictures is currently the only "Black Man" series that can make the film company's performance increase in the short term, but the initiative is in the hands of the Firefly Group.

The Firefly Group is thriving, even if many people think that there will be a short-term low-term summer file. On the basis of the "After the Day" box office sale, there is a box office dark horse such as "Midnight Ring", which makes the firefly up to now. The total North American box office once again topped the list.

Eric Williams' new film, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Public Enemy of the Whole, The Broken Head Valley...

Not to mention Pixar Studios and Disney Animation Studios, as well as the new line of film production is even bigger and there is no shortage of mid-low-cost movies at the box office dark horses like "Midnight Rings", just think about the series of real people being produced by the Firefly Group. The blockbuster, Howard Stringer’s envy is also a bit frustrating.

Compared with the Firefly Group, the gap between Sony Pictures is really too big.

Seriously looked at the script in his hand, although he was not interested in the pirate film, Howard Stringer took a moment to decide, and soon made up his mind, compared to Bill Michalnik: "Bill, we have to pay no price at all costs. Take this script down so that you can contact each other immediately, we will pay $5 million."

Bill Michalnick heard Howard Stringer’s instructions and was slightly surprised. Compared with the more distracting Howard Stringer, he has been in Hollywood since he started his job, so he knows the status quo of Hollywood's script market and knows what it means to buy a script for $5 million.

In recent years, as more and more international speculative hot money has flowed into the film industry, the price of scripts for Hollywood gold screenwriters has also risen.

There is no doubt that Eric Williams is the highest in terms of scriptwriters. However, the situation of the other party is quite special. It is completely priceless and has no market. It is impossible for other film companies outside the firefly system to get it. The script of Eric Williams.

Next is the other frontline gold screenwriters. Although Hollywood's average script price has remained at around $100,000, the scripts of these gold screenwriters in recent years have frequently sold for more than a million dollars. Three years ago, "Fatal Weapons" The series of screenwriter Shane Black's "Agent Wildflowers" broke through the $4 million mark and became the most expensive original script in Hollywood history...

Now, Howard Stringer's offer is equal to once again setting a new record for Hollywood script prices.

However, although the price of $5 million has broken records, Bill Michal is still seeking truth from facts: "Howard, really, we don't necessarily get the script for $5 million. Warner's current offer is already Up to 4 million US dollars, but this should not reach their limit, perhaps, the opponent's card should be 5 million US dollars. I think that 5 million US dollars is probably the highest limit, this is only a script after all. Next, everyone should be Other conditions, such as the size of the investment, the director's choice, the actor's card and even the subsequent announcement of factors that can affect the final performance of the film, we have no advantage in this regard."

Bill Michalnik’s analysis is undoubtedly very reasonable. Howard Stringer has been silent for a moment and soon made up his mind again: “That’s $7 million.”

Bill Michanik took a sigh of relief.

7 million US dollars, which is already 70 times the average movie price in Hollywood, enough for those small companies to make a good low-cost independent movie, the Hollywood first-line superstar, the performance of the non-sequel A-level production is about 7 million US dollars.

"Howard, this price is already a bit too much..." Bill Michalnik originally wanted to say something outrageous, but he changed his words to a milder word and continued: "And will the headquarters agree? ”

"When you take the script, please inform the headquarters. I still have this permission."

Howard Stringer’s heart is actually hesitant about this offer, but he quickly made up his mind and did not plan to shake it anymore.

If you can't reverse the decline of Sony Pictures, maybe he can't even sit on his own position. In short, it is necessary to take the risk of continuing to develop large-scale movies and grab a script approved by Eric Williams. The success rate is definitely much higher.

"But," paused, Bill Michalnik said: "This script is Eric Williams's fancy, our bid is too high, and the fireflies may be very dissatisfied."

"Everyone competes fairly, the fireflies themselves are not willing to save money, and they can't complain that we are asking too much." Howard Stringer thinks that the fireflies refused to start the sequel to "Black Man" for the sake of pay, and the mood suddenly became less. Well, put the script in front of him, staring at the expression hesitant, Bill Michal, adding a heavy tone: "Bill, you have to know, if the situation of the film company continues to go on, we both may lose ourselves. work."

Because Sony’s headquarters has strict control over the film company, and Howard Stringer’s current boss is often arrogant, Bill Michal feels that he is definitely the top seven in Hollywood. It’s not that Sony’s salary contract is quite rich, and Bill Michal is not willing to continue to stay in this position.

In all fairness, he really doesn't care about losing his job now. Sony executives can't blame Sony's current bleak business responsibility on him. He doesn't make too many mistakes, Sony wants to unilaterally cancel the contract, but To pay for his huge loss of compensation.

Therefore, I reminded myself that since Howard Stringer’s attitude was firm, Bill Michalk nodded: “Well, I will contact Ted Elliott.”