Chapter 575: Copyright treasury
After the acquisition of Disney, Firefly Pictures already has its own music department, but compared to other major movie companies, the music department obtained from Disney is much smaller. Eric originally only released the single. The establishment of the New Territories Point Record Company is even more negligible.
At present, the firefly film industry is booming, the company's income and profits are making other big eyes, except for Eric, who can see the future passers-by, maybe all other fireflies executives will be like Kasenberg. In favor of expanding the music department of Firefly Pictures.
When he heard what Kasenberg had just said, Eric did not attack his enthusiasm. "Jeffrey, Geffen Records is not suitable for us, and we should put all resources and energy into the acquisition of TV network. On the other hand, if you want to eat too much in one breath, you will often be caught."
Of course, Kasenberger understands this truth. He nods his face, but his heart is slightly sloppy. Although he does not know much about the investment company in New York, he is also very clear about how diversified his boss's energy is. It is said to be promoted in Jurassic Park. In the process, the man rushed to Finland to acquire a mobile phone company.
To be honest, before Carlsberg heard about it, he didn't even know where the small country of Finland was.
At this time, I had already passed the off-duty time and sent away David Geffen. Eric did not return to the office because I thought of things like the online music platform during the "Visit Vampire". Eric I intend to go back and check the relevant information immediately.
However, when I thought of the two people leaving, there was a large group of people left in the office. Eric raised his finger to the location of the conference room and asked: "Jeffrey, what are they going on?"
If only the fireflies employees work overtime, Eric doesn't think it's strange, but he remembers that Neil Jordan and Cruise and others did not leave in the conference room.
Kasenberg explained: "The company arranged a small cocktail party for them to celebrate the film production. In a nearby hotel, David Geffen will definitely show up at night."
Westerners held a party and Eric’s memory in the university dormitory buddies. The reasons were varied. Eric did not feel surprised or participated. After saying goodbye to Kasenberg, Eric returned to Malibu.
Eric was not in Los Angeles. Drew often does not live here, and there are not many people except the basic maintenance staff in the Sharp Corner.
Walking alone into the empty hall of the villa. Eric couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Here is his kingdom, the kingdom of a person.
Eric is very fond of enjoying loneliness. One person quietly puts his luggage into the bedroom, calls a takeaway, eats dinner, and the sky in Los Angeles is completely dark. Eric gets into the study and turns on the computer. I started to sort out some thoughts that I thought of in the afternoon.
Yahoo! Portal has spared no effort in Eric. The content is very rich. Eric even found an online music sharing site in the website directory, which made him very surprised.
Because of the strict copyright protection system in the West, the website called ‘Internet Underground Music Archive’ has only more than one hundred music shares, and Eric has found something of interest to him. The Internet underground music archive website uses the mp2 audio format. Don't worry, this is definitely the predecessor of mp3.
Some of the information that was queried was sorted into a document, and Eric opened the mailbox. At the beginning, the person in charge, Steve Mitnick, wrote an email.
Through this period of network communication, Eric has a deep understanding of the heads of browser companies, Yahoo and the three companies. Eric has decided to serve Yahoo Portal and online e-mail services before 1995. The merger, and the person in charge of his selection is Steve Mitnick, who has not seen him so far.
After sending the mail, Eric stood up and stretched out and walked to the bookshelf to take out a novel. I also rushed myself a pot of coffee, turned off the ceiling light of the study, and sat quietly under the desk lamp by the window.
The soundproofing in the study was very good, the sound of the waves could not be transmitted in, and occasionally looked up, but you can see the silvery scale of the sea surface under the lights on the shore of Malibu.
I don't know how long it took, there was a tone in the computer speakers. Eric got up and went to the desk, turned on the monitor, and saw Steve Mitnick had a reply.
Steve Mitnick has a low rating for the mp2 audio format, and there are a lot of buzzwords that Eric can't understand.
However, the last two were still agreed to buy a patent for the mp2 audio format for technical improvements.
At the end, Eric suddenly remembered the instant messaging software that the two chatted with. At the time, Steve Mitnick said that he would be able to complete it in three months, almost three months.
However, after asking, the other party routinely skipped the ticket and said that there are still some details that need to be improved. In this case, Eric has experienced it once during the development process, and has not felt the accident, seeing the smooth application effect surface. On the top, Eric did not urge, anyway, this matter is not too rush, it is tossed by the other side.
After talking about things, Eric got up and went to sleep after reading a book. He suddenly found Drew sitting cross-legged on the sofa behind him, and he was holding a book and watching it.
Seeing Eric standing up, Xiao Nizi threw away his hand and the book was thrown at Eric.
The soft little body was full of arms, and Eric fell back into the leather chair.
Eric reached out and grabbed the swaying body and asked, "When will I come back, scare me?"
Drew sat on Eric's lap and habitually groaned. He smiled and said: "Before ten minutes, if you are busy, you will not bother you."
"Oh, my family’s gimmick suddenly became sensible. I am not crazy during this time in Los Angeles?"
“It’s not crazy, people have been building a flower studio. I rented a three-story office building in Venice Beach, very close to the firefly base in Prea Vista, how about?”
After the acquisition of tg by the 20th Century Fox, Drew received $42 million with a 30% stake. According to his own arrangement, Eric sold the flower studio to Drew at a symbolic price.
“Not bad, you can use the resources of the studio base nearby, much better than the Firefly headquarters. The headquarters of Burbank is too far away from Prea Vista.”
"Oh, there is, you guess who I dug to serve as a flower studio?"
"Michael Eisner?" Eric laughed and smiled with amazement. I patted it gently on the hoe's leg: "Well done, I have long seen that he is not pleasing to the eye. Since it falls into your hands, it will be good to clean him up."
Drew’s dissatisfaction with Eric’s joke was awkwardly twisted and twisted: “I have spent a lot of effort, no, guess!”
"No hints, how do you guess me?"
Drew said: "It’s a woman, you know."
woman?
Eric thought for a moment and said: "Isn't it Paula Wagner?"
Eric can think of the manager who matches the strength of the flower studio is Paula Wagner of Cruise & Wagner Production Company. He had intended to let Nicole dig the corner of Cruise, but he was not expected to be picked up by Xiao Nizi.
but. From Drew’s brief expression, Eric realized that it was definitely wrong.
Drew also quickly thought of the identity of Paula Wagner, and some disdain said: "It is not, she is worthy of my efforts to dig."
Eric thought that although Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise had stood on their own for several years in advance, they did not produce such excellent works as "Mission Impossible". In the past two years, Cruise's production company can only say that there is no fire, and there is no bright spot in performance. It seems that it is not worthwhile to dig people: "Well, don't play dumb, you tell me who it is."
"It's Amy Pascal."
Eric is really a bit surprised. Amy Pascal is a vice president of Colombia. But even if Peter Cooper can't keep up with the smog in Colombia, it's easy to switch to the position of a vice president in any other big movie company with Amy Pascal's years of experience in Hollywood. I didn't expect to be fooled by Xiao Nizi to the flower studio that didn't have anything.
However, the two are really close to each other. In the original time and space, the series of "The Charlie" was successfully filmed with the support of Amy Pascal.
"Talk. How do you lie to Amy in your empty shell company that has nothing yet?"
"I promised her to be Colombian three years later."
"Oh... ah, is this too big?"
Xiao Nizi blinked innocently: "You asked me to separate the flower studio. Don't you want me to swallow a big movie company?"
"That's Columbia, my goal for you is MGM?"
You know, even if two years later, Sony realized that Peter Cooper had disabled Colombia and wanted to pull out, with the rapid rise of the Hollywood industry, the price would never be lower than when it was originally acquired from Colombia.
In order to avoid the monopoly, Eric let Xiao Nizi leave the firefly with the flower film industry, which was originally aimed at MGM. Compared to the huge Colombia, the broken MGM Studios can easily be won with more than one billion dollars.
"MGM is so bad, I don't want it," Drew shook his head with dissatisfaction, and then began to shift the topic: "Eric, I still have more than 40 million in my hand, you think I am from that The film started to shoot well?"
Eric felt that Xiao Nizi’s intention to transfer the topic was no longer entangled. Anyway, pulling Amy Pascal over, there is no harm in the benefits. As for the promise of Shantou, it is estimated that Eric can consider, Amy. Pascal can also consider that since the other side chooses to change jobs from Colombia to help Drew, she must have had her own ideas.
After so long, Eric even almost forgot how much copyright Drew had collected. So he asked, Xiao Nizi got up from Eric and went to the bookshelf to find a folder and hand it to him. : "Hey, it's all here."
Eric just had to look over, and the **** was squeezed into Eric. Fortunately, the leather chair was big enough, and the **** was also kind of small, and it was not crowded when it was close together.
Eric Carat held the leather chair and supported the floor and moved it toward the desk. He took a pencil and opened the folder. The two looked at a list of copyright materials together.
At the beginning, Eric wrote a lot, but because of the leaked news in the middle, he was snatched up, and some copyrights disappeared. The names on the list are not too many.
In addition to the “Jianjiao” series that has been transferred to DreamWorks, Eric listed several copyrights with the most commercial potential.
"Mission in the Dish", "Bour Shadow", "Forrest Gump", "The Lord of the Rings"...
When I saw The Lord of the Rings, Eric was surprised to find that Xiao Nizi took over the copyrights of all works including Tolkien, including Elf Diamond, which is a good thing.
In memory, the original copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" was acquired by the Weinstein brothers of Miramax in the early 1990s, and it was lost in the hands of the new line. Finally, under the efforts of Peter Jackson, it appeared in the big On the screen, the whole process took a full ten years.
However, because the new line of a series of hidden income, deductions and other acts angered the copyright of the "Lord of the Rings" series, after the filming "Hobbit", because the Weinstein brothers did not get the "Elves" The copyright of the book finally ran aground. Although the copyright owner of "The Elf Diamond" gave a series of high-sounding reasons, in Eric's view, after all, the distribution of benefits has not been discussed.
In addition to these four commercial potentials, Eric also saw the copyright of the original novel of "Shawshank Redemption". Although this movie is an absolute classic, it is not a box office blockbuster, it can only be used to attack Oscar.
In addition to these, there are few other copyrights that are not worth watching. It was completely Eric’s brainstorming at the time.
The two men have been negotiating for a while, and Eric feels that it is certainly not enough to rely on the potential of these copyrights to win Colombia.
After pondering for a while, Lenovo, Eric quickly thought of Sony's turn-around "Spider-Man" in the original space, and now "Spider-Man" and some other famous superheroes of Marvel are still in the film. In the hands of small movie companies, if they can take these down, they will not only increase the chips of the flower industry, but also get the superhero copyrights that are in the middle of the world in advance. In the future, they will not have to take the small companies to sit on the ground. The risk is to recover the copyright. )