Chapter 68: Ugly Duckling Pixar
Eric quickly sorted out the trivial memories of Pixar in his previous life. As the leader of Hollywood 3D animation, Pixar produced the world-famous ‘Total Mobilization’ series of animated films.
But before 1995, Disney's 2D animated film still dominated the animated film market, and no one was optimistic about the future of 3D animation.
Jobs himself did not have any confidence in 3D animation, until before the release of "Toy Story", Jobs always wanted to sell the baggage of Pixar, and even contacted the old rival Microsoft with his nose.
In contact with Microsoft executives, in order to please Microsoft's senior vice president Nathan Myhrvold, Jobs also deliberately placed a laptop running Windows on Pixar's desk.
Unfortunately, the price that Microsoft opened could not satisfy Jobs. Steve Jobs, who was so deeply unable to extricate himself, had to bite his teeth and finally ushered in the dawn.
After the release of "Toy Story", only North America received a record-breaking box office of $192 million. The global box office is close to 360 million, while the cost of toy mobilization is only $30 million.
Since then, the market value of Pixar, which is worth $50 million, has directly increased by 20 times. When Disney bought Pixar in 2006, its market value has reached $7.4 billion.
Calculating the time, Jobs should have begun to sell Pixar this ‘losing goods’. Eric had just thought of buying Pixar immediately and had to shake his head in disappointment.
Although Steve Jobs can't make a price of 50 million US dollars like the previous life, even if he hits a 25-fold discount, Eric can't get it.
He has not had much money now, and "Little Ghosts" has been released for so long, and Colombia must have begun to divide accounts with the cinema.
However, Eric wants to get his own share, and the best situation will have to wait until the "Little Ghost" is down. Former movie directors and actors in order to get their own share, it is not uncommon for film companies with arrears to go to court.
With hundreds of millions of dollars in funds, even if they are only deposited in banks, the daily interest rate is a very impressive figure. Even if there is a clear agreement, Colombia will definitely find ways to drag the day into a day.
Eric can even think of what kind of arrears that Colombia will use for arrears. For example, a few months later, the box office potential of "Little Ghosts" is clearly exhausted. In order to delay the payment share date, Colombia will take a hundred screens. Hanging there doesn't let the movie go down, and Eric is probably just blinking.
Because the matter of the gambling agreement has been smashed, Colombia is unlikely to cooperate with Eric again in the short term. There is no need to estimate the relationship between the two parties, and Columbia has no psychological pressure to use these small tricks that harm others. Especially now sitting on the seat of Colombia's president is still Blount Cohen.
When I think about it, Eric still feels that it is most important to make the film "Feng Yue Qiao Jia Ren" well. Anyway, even if there is no change in history, there are still six years since the release of "Toy Story", Eric Have enough time to win Pixar.
Before the filming of "Fengyue Beauty", the preparatory work was quite perfect. The crew did not need the producer of Jeffrey to be present at any time. Several executive producers were enough to arrange everything.
Jeffrey and Eric negotiated for an hour and hurriedly left the crew to fly to New York to discuss advertising with NBC.
The Super Bowl’s advertising bidding began half a year ago. NBC has successfully sold 80% of the advertising space this year. What Jeffrey is trying to win is one of the remaining 20%, and the time period is not It will be too good, even if the good time period advertisements have to exceed the average price, they have already been taken away.
Three days later, Eric just got out of bed and received a call from Jeffrey, saying that he had already won a 59-second ad. The Super Bowl ads were all counted in seconds, with a minimum of 15 seconds and a maximum of 90 seconds.
"What, $1.5 million, wasn't that $1.2 million before I could get it?" In the bathroom, Eric asked the cordless phone under his neck and asked for a toothpaste on his toothbrush.
Jeffrey’s tone is also helpless: “If no one bids, it’s really 1.2 million to talk. When bidding, suddenly a New York fashion company came out to compete for this advertisement. You must have explained that I must I won't have to raise the price to $1.5 million. I even suspect that the fashion company is the childcare NBC has found, but this is only my guess, there is no evidence."
More than 300,000 US dollars of spending, Irene is not in the mood to brush his teeth slowly, slamming a few times, licking his mouth and returning to the living room.
"Forget it, 1.5 million is 1.5 million," Eric sat on the sofa and poured a glass of water for himself: "Sign the contract as soon as possible. Yes, Jeffrey, tomorrow is the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Can you come back before?"
"I see the situation, it is very likely that I can't go back." Jeffrey had a regret in his tone: "All the time you want to see is your miracle director. It doesn't matter if I go."
"Haha, don't worry, even if you miss this time, it doesn't matter. There are opportunities in the future."
"I believe this too," Jeffrey also laughed. "If there is nothing else, I will hang up. You must have just got up, and now Los Angeles should be at seven in the morning. But the $300,000 overspending I have to inform you as soon as possible."
"It doesn't matter, I didn't stay up late last night, I came back at ten o'clock."
Goodbye, Eric hung up.
Leaning against the knee on the sofa, Eric quietly gave himself a small account, the $25 million check he got from Fox, the Beverly Hills mansion used 1.9 million, paid to Drew 1 million mothers, 1 million UTA expenditures, leasing and decoration of fireflies, and expensive professional equipment in the dubbing room and editing room, and spent 3 million. The production cost of "Wind Beauty" is 7 million US dollars, Super Bowl Advertising 150 Ten thousand, add up to a total of 15.4 million US dollars.
Although he is not a luxury person, during this time, the fragmented expenses are also hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Since reborn in the United States, Eric will soon face one of two things that no one in this country can escape: pay taxes. In the current income situation, it is certain to pay the highest personal income tax of 35%, which is nearly 10 million US dollars.
He cursed a system of capitalist derogatory justice, and Eric sadly found that he probably would not have any income before April 15 of the tax filing deadline.
"I don't need to pay a tax for a loan." Eric snorted with a forehead. He was not a real American after all. He didn't form a deep-rooted concept of advanced consumption, so he resisted the loan.
Temporarily put this matter behind, Eric had breakfast and drove to the crew.
Perhaps because Eric announced that he would advance the fixed day of the week to tomorrow, the members of the crew were very upset, and even took five or six shots a day.
After ten days of shooting, "Fengyue Beauty" has completed 60% of the shots. According to this, after the Golden Globe Awards, it takes only one week for the film to officially kill.
The reason why the filming was so smooth was mainly due to the excellent performance of Julia. From the beginning, Eric did not worry that Al Pacino would have any problems. There are so many Oscar-nominated Al shows that don't require too much acting, and even the role of converging acting is completely stress-free.
Julia, as a newcomer, is different. At the beginning, Julia did not have too many problems when she took a personal shot. At most, it was NG several times. But when Al Pacino first appeared in the opponent's play, Julia frequently made mistakes, and the number of NGs rose linearly. Compared to Al, Julia's acting is indeed in the early childhood stage.
However, after a few days of running-in and the roar of Eric's inability to endure, Julia gradually narrowed the gap with Al Pacino. Even in some shots, it is possible to form a certain degree of pressure on Al, even if it is in the case of Al Pacino convergence, it is not easy to do.
"OK, I am here today." After the last shot, Eric announced that he was going to work, and the crew members cheered and began to pack things up and go.
Eric stopped Al Pacino, who was about to remove makeup, and asked, "Al, how did you practice the piano solo?"
In the original film, Edward's piano solo in the restaurant was created and played by Richard Keel. Eric wrote the scores of less than forty seconds with his company's soundtrack. Handed over to Al Pacino.
Al's piano technique was only a little stronger than Eric, but insisted on playing it himself. Eric had to postpone the show.
"Eric, give me another... No, two days, I think I need to practice again."
"This is no problem," Eric admired Al's professionalism: "However, Al, we can't drag on for too long, the filming progress is so fast, dragging for too long, as the plot develops, you The mood changes will be great. Even if you play well, it will be difficult to perform the feelings after shooting those scenes a few days ago."
Al Pacino thought for a moment and understood that Eric was telling the truth. After discovering that his little persistence can't improve the quality of too many movies, Al has no choice but to compromise: "Well, Eric, then put this scene in the day after tomorrow. If it doesn't work, use the late dubbing."