Chapter 268: Financial summary
The heads of the major companies in the conference room almost all climbed up from the bottom of Hollywood, so they were familiar with all kinds of tricks in Hollywood. After a few hours of discussion, a series of fireflies and iResearch Gram's strategy was formulated. After the six ceos even overcame Eyre, the interests that the major companies had to get were divided.
After Thanksgiving, Eric entered the last busy part of the year. In the plan, as long as the last month of this week, Eric can rest for a long time from the end of December. Drew is even thinking about whether or not to go on vacation when two people are on Christmas.
Eric has been participating in the audition of the protagonist of "x-file" in Fox all morning. Since the "x-file" has received more attention than the previous life, it is very cautious to pick up the male and female protagonists of the whole series.
Because of the success of "Friends", Eric's "x-file" male and female protagonist's competition is very fierce. There are several famous actors in Hollywood who have not developed smoothly in the past two years have participated in the audition of male and female protagonists. Although the audition has entered the second round, the candidates for the leading actor have not finished in the morning, and none of them have been able to satisfy Eric.
Moreover, Eric did not consider the two previous generations. Because in the original version, David Duchovny, the actor, no matter what kind of emotions, the smile of the mouth is always lingering, giving people a very playful feeling, so Eric did not intend to hand this role to him from the beginning. Former producers chose David Duchoney as the leading actor, mainly because the other party's pay is very low.
As for the heroine Gillian Anderson, it is even more inconsistent with Eric’s expectations, not to mention the fact that the other party has not yet debuted.
Dana Scully, the heroine of "X-Files", is supposed to be a high-intelligence woman who graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in physics and law and is a faculty member at fbi, but she is a petite Gillian Anderson in the play. There is no point in which a high IQ woman should have a temperament. Instead, it is more like a small secretary of the actor Fox Muller. In Eric's vision, the actress who plays the role of Dana Scarrie should be tall and sturdy. It is best to add a bit of coolness. This character is best able to form a match against the actor in the play, rather than becoming a vassal of the actor.
I have had lunch at Century City. Eric can only hand the afternoon audition to the two producers because he had to return to the Firefly headquarters to participate in the first annual meeting after the merger of the fireflies and the new line.
"I am sorry, Caroline, just happened to have a traffic jam on the road," Eric hurriedly pushed the door of his office and said sorry to the brown-haired woman who was sitting in the office about 40 years old. Called Carolyn Elliott. He opened a small accounting firm in the industry, and Firefly and Eric's personal finances have been outsourced to Carolyn Eliot's firm.
Seeing Eric’s rushing appearance, Carolyn, who had been waiting for a while, could only chuckle, saying: “It’s okay, Eric, I haven’t been there for a long time.”
Eric did not go to his desk, but sat down on the sofa opposite Caroline, saying: "Carolyn, is my personal financial situation compiled?"
Caroline took the prepared information from the bag and put it on her lap. She looked up and said, "Eric. Is it now?"
Eric looked at his watch and there were more than 20 minutes from the meeting at 2:30 in the afternoon. I thought it would be enough to listen to my financial situation. Then nodded.
Caroline opened the information and began to report: "Eric, your main income this year comes from several movies, of which "Little Ghosts" is divided into 120 million US dollars, Fox buys overseas distribution rights accounted for 24 million, in addition There are video tapes and TV broadcast rights in the second half of "Little Ghosts", a total of 32 million, "Little Ghosts" currently has a total income of 176 million US dollars."
Although it has been seen many times, these data are personally organized by Caroline Elliott himself. However, in front of this young man who is less than 20 years old, he read it again. Caroline still produced a feeling of living in her life. After a brief emotion and distraction, Carolyn Elliott quickly turned his attention to the information. Continue to read: "Because the fireflies and the new line will achieve financial consolidation next year, the box office share of all the movies released by the fireflies this year will still be owned by you personally. The global total box office of "Fengyue Beauty" has become 102 million, currently videotape and TV The rights of the broadcasting rights were only accounted for 19 million yuan, totaling 121 million US dollars. In addition, the total number of global box office of "Dark War" became 88 million. There is no video tape sharing yet. The advertisement of "Friends" has become 29 million. The two moneys are not yet available. Upon receipt, according to the contract, Columbia and Fox TV will complete the payment by December 31. In addition to these major box office revenues, the Firefly Advertising Department passed the "Feng Yue Qiao Ren", "The Dark War", "The Little Devil 2" and "Seattle" "The night is not sleeping" advertising of these four films, the total income is 18 million US dollars. In addition, the other two companies you own, Pixar studio's profit is zero, uta's side of the point is 9.3 million US dollars."
Having said that, Carolyn Eliot paused and looked at Eric seriously: "Eric, compared to movies, I think the uta brokerage company can't make much profit for you. So I personally recommend you, or dismiss the shares of this brokerage company as soon as possible, or it may cause trouble for you."
Eric nodded. He has gradually discovered this problem in the past six months. Although he owns 90% of the shares of uta, it does not mean that 90% of the artists of uta are owned by him. A small number of 10% of the artists are selected, and most of them are also affiliated agents of the artists. Therefore, although Kapoor only accounts for 10% of shares in uta, if only the income of the brokerage company, Kapoor who owns several a-class star brokerage contracts such as Al Pacino and Julia Roberts will not make more profit than Ereli. Less, you need to know that the broker can not only be drawn from the pay, the actor from the other sources such as endorsement and other income brokers are to be divided. In addition, in order to avoid suspicion, Eric can no longer intervene in any matter of uta, so this part of the shares is dispensable to him and can be transferred at any time.
"I will consider it, Caroline, let's talk about it."
Carolyn Eliot continued to read: "In summary, you have reached $ 441 million in revenue this year, two of which totaled $117 million. The next step is spending, the movie that Firefly is involved in this year. There are a total of seven, the "black war" spending is zero, the other six covers a variety of personnel dividends, the total cost of 84 million, the purchase of Pixar studio and subsequent investment of 30 million, the acquisition of new line spending 60 million, the acquisition of Fox TV stock expenses 80 million. In addition, the manor construction cost in Malibu totals 27 million, and your personal credit card account covers several large expenditures, totaling 7.14 million, and..."
Carolyn Elliott looked at Eric strangely and said: "And, Miss Barrymore's credit card spending, 21.56 million, totaled a total of $309 million. Eric, paying in Colombia and Fox Before the two payments, your disposable funds are only $15 million. And even if the two money arrive, you can no longer use it at will, because even after some reasonable tax avoidance, the tax you have to pay this year will still be reached. 140 million US dollars."
The reason why Eric deliberately let Caroline help him sort out his financial situation is to prepare for the upcoming investment company. Chris Hansen has already agreed after a few days of consideration. According to information collected by Chris, Cisco may have a stock price of $18 when it goes public, with a total market capitalization of only 224 million. Eric knew that this was the only time to get Cisco's shares at such a low price. After the listing of Cisco, the stock price soared. At that time, even if he wanted to buy, it is estimated that those investment institutions would not be willing to sell their shares. So Eric will certainly get as many shares as possible this time. But now, he found that his remaining funds were not enough to pay taxes.
"Carolyn, can you apply for a deferred tax?" Eric asked, he just knows that there is a way to extend the tax payment for half a year, if it can be delayed until the second half of next year, then these release films at the end of the year The share has definitely been paid, and his financial situation will be very relaxed. ”
Caroline shook his head: "Eric, whether it is a firefly or your personal financial situation is very simple, there is no way to get an extension from the IRS through financial means, if you intend to take an extension at the beginning, it should Notify me at least six months ago, it is already late."
Eric smiled and said: "It seems that I have to borrow again. Right, Caroline, what do you think of fireflies?"
Caroline wondered: "Do you mean that?"
"You should know that after the merger with the new line, we have passed the business that is no longer possible to outsource your finances to you this year."
Carolyn Eliot is a little cold, and Firefly is her biggest customer. If she loses this client, her office income will be reduced by at least half. However, Caroline suddenly realized that Eric had just said something: "Eric, you mean, you want to..."
“Yes,” Eric smiled and nodded. “I want to invite you to Firefly as the chief financial officer. Although you do, you have to turn off your office. But I believe you will be aware of fireflies. It is worth doing." (To be continued)