Chapter 616: They both
At the end of May, the Firefly Group gradually entered the actual distribution stage for the $8 billion bond issued by M&A. Therefore, this summer is crucial for fireflies as the first summer file after the completion of the ab TV network acquisition. Once the summer file can not continue the excellent box office performance of the firefly movie in previous years, it will seriously hurt the investment interest of investment institutions in the firefly group bonds.
Although the firefly's acquisition of ab has been settled, the attention of investors and the media on the Firefly Group has not diminished in recent months.
Under the attention of a large number of eyes, the three films released by Firefly this summer have also caused a one-sided question. Whether it is the war film "Save the Private Ryan" or the 2d cartoon "The Lion King", it is not optimistic by the media and investment institutions. . Similarly, because Arnold Schwarzenegger just planted a big head on "The Last Action Hero" last year, this year's "Real Lie" with Cameron has not been released, it has already caused some singers. Humming.
Moreover, the critics have repeatedly given fireflies their own advantages in g special effects films, and the practice of making 'unpopular' films has been attributed to Eric’s personal blindness and arrogance, claiming that Eric has been completely rushed by past successes. I lost my mind and regarded myself as an omnipotent God. At the same time, many shareholders, including Buffett, asked Eric to hand over the popular special effects films such as "Black Man", "Museum of the Museum" and "Resident Evil" to other purposes, although these shareholders use one. Erik was able to feel a strong distrust from the harmless negotiation of humans and animals. He also understood that these shareholders demanded that they do not support the subcommittee of 'competitors'.
The planned trip to Boston for a week was dragged from May 9th to May 25th. Although many things are still not processed. However, the Firefly Group is an important source of funding for Eric's subsequent industrial layout. Therefore, feeling the inside and outside of Hollywood's secret forces against the Firefly Group's secret forces, Eric will hand over the negotiations with Microsoft to the Chris and Yahoo management team to rush back to Los Angeles to host the situation.
The Firefly business plane landed at the Santa Monica Airport in Los Angeles, and Eric rushed to the Firefly headquarters in Burbank.
"The Beverly Hills Detective 3" released today and the "Mummy" released two days later will be an important competitor to "Save the Ryan" a week later. Paramount arranged for "Beverly Hills Detective 3" With more than 2,900 screens, Universal's hairstyle strategy for Mummy is obviously imitating last year's Jurassic Park, and the premiere canvas even reached 3,100. Paramount's other film. Star Trek 7 is released next to June 10th, "The Real Lie", which is scheduled for June 17. The cost of this film is only $35 million. The quality must not be compared with "Real Lies", but Paramount also has no box office pressure, and the declaration is very calm. Moreover, the Star Trek series has accumulated popularity for decades. Once the film is upset, it will cause a lot of "real lies" at the box office. In the end, Warner Pictures’ "Law of Law Enforcement" suddenly adjusted its schedule at the beginning of the month, and chose to release it with the "Lion King" on June 24, and the intention was even more obvious." In the conference room of Firefly Headquarters, Michael Lynn I showed you the latest situation.
Eric listened to Michael Lynn. Asked: "What about July?"
Michael Lynn knows that Eric is asking about the two films "Jiao Jiaowa" and "Black Man" in July. The two films were released by MGM and Columbia, but the fireflies still occupy it. A large part of the rights: "" Charlie", "Black Man" and ... Fox's "Dumb and Agua 2", there is no competitor in the same period."
In the original time and space, "Dumb and Agua 2" appeared only after more than ten years, mainly because the producer's new line was in the "Dumb and Agua" first, can't afford gold. Kerry, now "Dumb and The copyright of Agua has fallen into the hands of the wealthy Fox. This problem is of course no longer a problem. It is not surprising to introduce a sequel. Eric listened to Michael Lynn and chuckled, saying: "They are quite easy."
Michael Lynn said: "I have been keeping the public relations department concerned about the recent trend of Lun Lun, and have already sent lawyers' letters to six maliciously attacked newspapers and TV stations. The Xuanfa Department has drawn up an additional $10 million for each film. The plan for publicity expenses, I sent people to your e-mail last night, maybe you have not had time to look at it."
Eric first nodded and said that he affirmed the work of Michael Lynn, but then shook his head: "There is no need to add additional publicity fees. The average cost of each of the three films is $40 million. Saturated, it will not be worth the effort to continue to add. This kind of thing is not the first time. It is not necessary for others to pose. We have to deal with it in a hurry. In fact, you should also be able to see that they are betting that fireflies will be This summer file encounters Waterloo. Whether it is the unpopular "Save the Great Ryan", the "true lies" that have failed in type, or the "Lion King" that has completely changed the tactics, they all give them a firefly that is likely to encounter The suggestion of failure, they are just waiting for this moment to really come, and then let the fireflies fail more thoroughly." Here, Eric confidently smiled with a mockery, said: "But they have not considered it, Perhaps, their imagined situation will be completely reversed?"
The Firefly Group has developed to the current level, and it competes with other major film companies. Some small private methods have not played much role. In the final analysis, it is the competition of film quality. At this point, the advantage that Eric has is definitely They are hard to compare. Not only that, Eric also decisively handed over the daily management of the Firefly Group to more professional Kasenberg, Michael Lynn and others, and devoted most of their energy to film production. The 'advantages' played to the fullest, and the original time and space produced in this case has proved the film of the box office potential. Even because of the butterfly effect. The box office did not reach the point of the original time and space. But there is almost no possibility of complete failure.
Eric’s remarks were like a reassurance for everyone in the room. Before that, Michael Lynn and others were affected by the outside world, and more or less similar concerns appeared.
The mind settled down and everyone began to discuss the next countermeasures.
The reason for this situation is that, apart from the expansion of the Firefly Group's power to squeeze the status of other film companies in the same industry, there are other influences of other shareholders of Firefly and Wall Street capital. Now is the most critical moment for the issuance of firefly group bonds, once the $8 billion bond issue is blocked. According to the additional terms of Firefly's acquisition of ab, Firefly either chooses to raise interest rates; either choose to reduce the bond issuance share, and the gap continues to be paid with equity. No matter which kind of result these two kinds of results are, investors are fond of it.
Therefore, Kasenberg, who came back from New York, said: "Eric, when in New York, Tom Murphy asked me about Fireflies and Sony, MGM in more than one time. We can't change the established contract. But I think we should take back the distribution rights of the film "Mission Impossible" and "Museum of the Museum" in Miss Barrymore. In the current situation in Colombia, the resistance should be small. This can be greatly improved. The confidence of those shareholders and creditors in the company, and the resistance we issue bonds will be much smaller."
A few years have passed. Colombia is already a mess under the management of Peter Cooper, and it is not a big deal to find a reason to get the distribution rights back. However, many of Eric's plans will be interrupted: "Colombia will not only bear 50% of the cost of these films, but also only 15% of the box office, even if we can still from "Don Liri", "Jurassic Park 2" in these films, the release of resources, fireflies are not likely to open this condition?"
Kasenberg has nodded helplessly. With the current average cost of producing more than 40 million US dollars in film production, Colombia wants to recover the cost from the investment, it needs the film studio to guarantee the bottom of the $130 million North American box office, of course, this Once Colombia got the overseas distribution rights, it can also earn some profits, but the copyrights around the videotape and film and television are still owned by the flower film industry. The flower studios will of course choose the fireflies to cooperate, and the comprehensive calculations are compared with the expected hundreds of millions of these movies. The huge profits of the dollar, the fat meat has been divided by the flower film and fireflies, as one of the seven major Colombias has become a soup, and these 'soups' will definitely be used by Peter Cooper in the form of bonus dividends, etc. Planned into your own pocket. Kasenberg feels that if he is a major shareholder of Colombia, he will definitely use all means to throw a manager like Peter Cooper into prison, but the dream reality is that Sony is still very much to the executive. Rest assured, and everyone in Hollywood knows that Colombia’s stalls are getting worse.
"Eric, since the main problem at present is to ensure the smooth issuance of corporate bonds, I think we only need some good news that can really stimulate the market." Michael Lynn said so, all the participants in the meeting Everyone looks at Eric.
Of course, Eric knows what this group of people thinks again, laughing: "Just, I have written a good script recently, and I plan to invite Julia Roberts as the heroine. Maybe I can post this news tomorrow."
"It's not enough," Frank Wells said at the moment: "Eric, you'd better be personally directed like "The Beauty of the Wind", since last year's Jurassic Park, everyone is What are you going to take care of in your next movie?"
Eric spread his hands and said helplessly: "But you know, I have other things to do. I can't be a big producer."
Kasenberg said: "Eric, I remember you said that for the "Matrix" plan, if you can announce this project at the same time, the effect will definitely be better."
Eric thought for a moment, "The Matrix" can also be put on the agenda at this time, said: "No problem, you can go to prepare the press release after the meeting, I will not participate in the conference. I will be in the next few days. Need to check the progress of the production of all the projects in your hand."
Determined this matter, Kasenberg described the progress of the reorganization of the ab network, and the heads of various departments reported some trivial matters, and the meeting was over.
On the way back to the sharp corner manor, Eric accidentally fell asleep in the car. When he opened his eyes, he found himself still leaning on the back seat of the car, but with the gentle body next to Xiao Nizi, the two men Also covered a blanket.
Every time I thought of returning to Los Angeles, Drew was always able to appear on my side for the first time, and Eric’s heart was filled with warmth.
It should be in the garage, but it must have been black outside, and my heart is inexplicably tired. Eric is too lazy to watch what time it is. I don’t mind if people are in the car, and Xiao Nizi is going to sleep, but maybe It was his movements, and Drew woke up.
"Eric..." he snorted lazily, and the **** was smashed on him as usual, and then he groaned dissatisfiedly: "Good black, Natasha, turn on the light."
Eric in the dark couldn't help but smile. He wanted to remind him that it was in the car. After a soft bang, the lights lit up in the car. Eric was surprised to find two identical figures sitting in the front row, and this is not the Mercedes-Benz that he was sitting back to, but another large off-road vehicle. Eric didn't have the habit of collecting cars, but Xiao Nizi often bought some luxury cars back, and unconsciously fell down. There were more than 20 cars in the underground garage of the manor because they rarely opened. For the sake of this, most of them are clustered and new.
Looking at the little Nizi who smiled like a flower, Eric pinched her little ear and said, "How do you let them sit in front?"
Drew smiled slyly: "Do you want them to sit in the back row too?"
"Yeah, then you go to the front row to drive." Eric said helplessly, then pushed the car down and the car, Xiao Nizi and the twins also followed the car.
Eric looked at another strange off-road vehicle in front of him, kicked the tire and asked, "Is this a Hummer? When did you like this car?"
"Buy you," Drew came over and took Eric's arm and said, "Birthday gift."
Eric remembered that he had just passed his 24th birthday and shrugged indifferently. He walked out and said, "I am not digging for coal. What are you doing?"
Drew didn't understand what the stalk was, and Eric screamed with dissatisfaction: "This is military, very strong."
"and then……"
Drew blinked and seemed to find out...but there was no use for it. Eric now rarely drives himself, let alone a military car with a shape like Zhang Yang strolling around: "You don't like it." Even if it is, change a birthday present."
Eric pretended to be curious and asked, "Oh, there is a backup, talk about it?"
Xiao Nizi pointed to the twins who followed quietly behind him: "Hey, they both." (To be continued.)