Chapter 927: Antitrust issue
Eric left the apartment of Qusgaow and Kristana Loken early in the morning and returned to the residence on Sixth Avenue, preparing to bring their two female assistants to the UK together, but it was estimated last night. Promised to go back but put two girls and pigeons, Eric found that Caroline and Melanie had a cold war with themselves. Although he did not deliberately ignore him, he was a business official when he spoke to him. Look like it.
Melanie fell back, Carolyn really showed this state for the first time, watching the little face deliberately stretched but always with a little guilty look, but it made Eric feel some Novelty, so I also cooperated with two girls, and took out the shelf of the wave ss.
The private jets still took off from MacArthur Airport in central Long Island, and the plane entered the clouds and began a long journey of more than a dozen hours.
Carelessly and Melanie flipped through the files in the mid-air lounge, until after lunch, Caroline finally couldn't help but look at the front cabin, where the luxury suite on the plane was.
"Mei, you said, should we not ruin Eric, he, he is our boss after all."
Melanie shook a script in her hand, but it was "Iron Man": "Carly, how do I feel, you are just a little pepper beside Tony Stark, keep guarding the boss and watching him. All kinds of troubles, then clean up the mess for him."
Caroline naturally also saw the script of Iron Man, and she occasionally helped Eric to line up these days. In fact, she also felt that Eric was very similar to the guy in the script. Well, did he hope that the female assistant would look like a small pepper in the script, but help him to send the woman after the ons, This kind of thing is really too embarrassing.
Melanie looked at the look of Caroline's eyes flashing, reluctantly rolled up a thick script in her head and knocked on her head. "Okay, go to the front cabin and see your boss. It’s really taking you. no solution anymore."
Caroline saw Melanie's disappointment, and shook his head subconsciously: "That, then I will not go."
"Go ahead," Melanie waved again, then stood up and said: "Go, I will accompany you."
"But," Caroline hesitated and hesitated: "What reason do we use to pass?"
"There have been a lot of things going on these days, and there is still a reason to be there."
With that said, Melanie took Caroline to the presidential suite in the front cabin.
Although the space in the cabin presidential suite is small, the layout is very complete. Looking for a moment, Melanie and Caroline found in the study that they were concentrating on an eight-open
Eric, what is drawn on the manuscript paper.
Did not immediately disturb him, the two women carefully sat down on the side of the sofa, found that there are already a few drawings on the coffee table in front, they naturally curious to get together.
At first glance, this should be a conceptual map of the movie, but the style is extremely fine, both the space station and the astronauts seem to be in full swing. Even the thin cables on the screen link the two astronauts to the fragile space station, leaving the two women involuntarily worried about the two apparently dangerous astronauts in the picture.
After carefully savoring the painting in front of him, Melanie looked up at Eric and she wanted to open the top of the painting to see what the next few were, but she Also worried that the sound of paper flipping will be noisy to Eric.
Caroline then raised her head, but it happened to meet Eric’s eyes and could not help but dodge.
"I said how to smell the fragrance of the girl. It turned out to be both of you."
Listening to this joke of Eric, Melanie couldn't help but roll her eyes, and said that she had just admired you so little, and the nature was revealed.
Caroline was blushing and squinting her head, pinching her clothes and wondering if she should use Melanie’s perfume. She is actually not used to sprinkling perfume.
Looking at the two women not talking, Eric put down the pencil in his hand and turned the swivel chair to face this side. "Well, I apologize first. I shouldn't promise to go back last night, but let your pigeons go."
Caroline shook her head subconsciously and said nothing. Melanie said: "Eric, you really should apologize, and Carly prepared dinner for you last night."
Melanie didn't say too much, but Eric could imagine Carolyn's disappointing appearance, so she looked at the girl. Eric was sincerely saying again: "Sorry, Carly, I promise not to do this again, um. I am going to prepare for today's dinner, which is the compensation last night."
"No, it doesn't matter, Eric." Caroline shook her head again, and the eyebrows disappeared from last night without knowing it.
The Melanie face next to it has become a bit weird. Because of some preconceived notions, she feels that the scene in front of her eyes is like a father who is not a tune, and her own simple silly daughter: Hey, Dad no longer smokes. Dad never drinks any more, and Dad never goes out to fool around.
Melanie didn't feel that this was her own delusion, because her own father used to say these similar words to her. Of course, she basically did not realize it.
Eric and Caroline spoke and noticed the strangeness on Melanie’s face and curiously asked, “Mei, what happened to you?”
“Nothing,” Melanie quickly put away her thoughts, shook her head, and pointed to several paintings on the coffee table in front of her: “Eric, are these scenes in Gravity?”
Eric nodded and took the one that had just been completed on the desk. He sat down on the sofa opposite the two women and said, "How do you feel?"
Melanie looked at the picture that Eric had just put down. This is a picture of a woman huddled in a space capsule like a baby. Melanie can even feel the lonely feeling of this woman in the picture.
“Great,” Melanie said, no longer scruple, and Carolyn once again enjoyed the concept maps painted by Eric one by one, and then praised: “Eric, you If you draw more, it is estimated that you can open the exhibition."
"Oh, thank you," Eric said with a smile.
Melanie said again: "However, Eric, do you think these pictures can now be perfectly displayed on the big screen? Don't say anything else, just want to perfectly show the weightless scene, it is not so easy. According to the idea in your memo, this film is basically in space, and it is impossible to hire Nasa's weightless simulation aircraft to shoot like the Apollo 13 two years ago. In the words of Weiya, I think that these scenes in the picture are even more impossible to achieve. It is absolutely impossible for actors to move freely under the state of Wia."
For the average audience, after watching a good movie, they basically only judge the film from the performance of the actors, the lines of the film and the story of the story, but for the director, they first consider it. Basically, how did such a powerful movie come out?
As a person who has always wanted to be a film director, Eric is no exception. When I first saw Gravity, Eric was excited, first of all, and how the film director completed those moves. The long lens of the smashing is how to solve the problem that space movies such as weightlessness can never be avoided. In the era of the Internet of the aftermath of the big news explosion, these problems are easy to understand, and naturally it is simple.
When I heard Melanie’s question, Eric confidently explained: “First of all, the feeling of weightlessness is roughly a sense of floating that is completely unpowered. Usually, because photographers must take pictures on the ground. Lens, so if you want to achieve this sense of floating, you can only hang the actor on WIA, or like "Apollo 13", spend a lot of money to create a real weightless environment."
Melanie and Caroline still had some stunned faces, obviously not too understanding, and had to wait for Eric to continue.
Eric also thought about it and said: "But, people's visual feelings are actually very easy to deceive. To achieve that kind of weightless floating feeling, only need to adjust the relative displacement between the lens and the actors, giving a complete Unfettered by gravity, this simulates a realistic weightless environment."
Melanie and Caroline are very clever. Melanie raised her hands and leaned forward a few times in front of her. She nodded. "It is true, but Eric, you. Do you think that a photographer can take more than 30 pounds of camera to make the desired lens change?"
Melanie said, and raised his right hand, and swayed around the angle and arbitrarily moved a few times.
Eric smiled and shook his head. "Of course not. But I didn't say that I want the photographer to personally control the lens. Right, have you seen the car equipment workshop?"
The two women shook their heads together.
Eric had to explain out of nowhere: "There are some sporadic news photos or pictures that you should have seen. I am talking about the robotic arms used in the assembly of cars. As far as I know, there are some sophisticated robotic arms. After the motion trajectory is fixed, the final error will not even exceed 0.1 mm. Therefore, in order to achieve the relative displacement of the simulated weightlessness, I only need to find two such precise robotic arms, and set the relative displacement trajectory. One operating camera, one carrying an actor to perform, and later smashing these robotic arms together with the g scene is the perfect space lens."
Although there are still some unimaginable shooting methods, Caroline and Melanie have no doubts. After all, Eric is the most professional one.
However, Caroline asked curiously: "Eric, in this case, this movie is almost all cg?"
Eric naturally knows why Caroline asks this, smiles and nods: "Yeah, however, many cg pictures are big panoramas. In cg production, the more distant the panorama, the cheaper the production costs, because they are No need for too fine modeling and rendering, so the cost of this movie is not too high, as long as some of the technical difficulties are solved, the production cost can be easily controlled to about $100 million."
One hundred million dollars, although in 1997, although it is still a high-cost production, Hollywood's annual production cost of more than 100 million US dollars is still a handful of films, but for Eric, this has produced two top-ranking directors of 1 billion box-level blockbusters. In other words, even if he is not the boss of the Firefly Group, he now has a budget of 200 million, and there will still be a film company lined up to send the money.
After staying in Hollywood for a long time, Carolyn and Melanie naturally can think of many problems that need to be solved in order to make Gravity. However, through Eric’s explanation, they also believe in Ai Rick can solve these problems, so he no longer mentions the film, but talks about other topics.
"Eric, I have watched all the information about several major theaters in North America with Carly these days. We feel that if it is just to promote 3D movies, fireflies are not suitable for entering the cinema industry too much."
"Well, talk about your opinion?" Eric nodded and asked with a smile.
Melanie looked at Caroline, who was shining in the eyes. In fact, many opinions were that this Nizi first mentioned with her. However, Caroline estimated that it was difficult to get rid of this shy little girl in front of Eric. Appearing, she had to say: "If fireflies enter the cinema industry, small theaters are definitely not enough to satisfy the company's appetite. North America is now the top three cinemas, with a total of more than 14,000 screens, and they are basically popular. High-end theaters in the lot, so the fireflies can only buy from the three. But once the fireflies do this, it will definitely cause a strong rebound from other Hollywood studios. They will never let the fireflies hold the screens of thousands of popular locations. In the hands of the company, so whether we initiate an acquisition in any of the three forwards, the possibility of antitrust investigations is very slim under the joint opposition of other film companies."
Eric thought for a moment and nodded: "Is there?"
Melanie continued: "There is still, or about promoting 3D movies, I think, just promoting 3D movies, we don't have to do this. Most of the theaters under the top three cinemas have more than five. In the multiplex cinema above the screen, we can't buy them and change all the auditoriums into 3d screens. So, I think, at least in the US, we can cooperate and invest in these big theaters. Money, get some shares, choose a number of screening halls in the best location to transform into a 3d theater, so that we can not only achieve the promotion of 3d plans, but also will not cause anti-monopoly problems." (To be continued.)