I’m in Hollywood

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The production process of American TV dramas is very standard and complex, and the competition is extremely fierce. Often, only one of a hundred scripts can be selected, and many American TV dramas that have entered the shooting stage, after the production of the pilot episode, will also pass the rigorous review again. Screening process, rinse the next part. The new American dramas that can finally enter the TV station are only reserved for six episodes as usual. After the first broadcast stage before Thanksgiving is completed, if the ratings perform well, the follow-up parts will continue to be produced. If the ratings are too bad , and even cut in half directly.

Even Murdoch would not be able to buy all the first seasons of an American drama just because it was produced by his daughter's production company.

And now, Buffy has not even produced the pilot episode, and has been booked by Fox for the complete first season. Except for himself, the producer who hangs his name but actually does nothing, Eric can't think of a return. There are other reasons.

Seeing that Eric didn't speak for a while, Kapoor asked tentatively, Eric, are you still there?

Well, I'm just a little surprised.

Hehe, you are the most powerful person in Hollywood now, so, about the incident just now, do you want to take the time to meet that girl, didn't you also say that she has great potential?

Eric smiled and joked: I have some doubts now, whether you owe that Michelle Simmons a favor or a debt.

Hey Eric, stop kidding. My son is in middle school.

Okay, okay. In that case. Eric touched his chin and thought for a while, then said, I'll make time to meet that girl. To be honest, I just came up with a good idea.

Kapoor asked, About the movie?

Yeah, I just thought of making an action series with a female protagonist, and the girl is only 18 years old. It's still good, at least if that movie is a good box office in the future. There could be a few more sequels.

How could the box office be bad for the movie you made, Kapoor complimented from the bottom of his heart, and then smiled half-truth: Just leave a few more actor spots.

Of course there's no problem, Eric said. That's it for today. When I have time, Alan will contact you.

After hanging up the phone, Eric just turned around when he saw the little girl who had been eavesdropping behind him jumping over and holding Eric's arm: Eric. What girl, what movie?

It's the girl in the afternoon. Kapoor was asked to call by someone, Eric squeezed the girl's face: Speaking of which, you are also eighteen years old, and the copyrights reserved by Huahua Pictures can be taken out for you. Once you hone it, let’s start with the female action movie I just mentioned.”

Drew was already aware of the copyright 'little vault' that Eric had reserved for himself: You mean the movie version of Charlie's Angels?

Eric took Drew into the restaurant again, and after he sat down, he said, Yeah, the first two years of The End of the Road and The Hot Hands performed very well both at the box office and word of mouth, and last year's Pink League, these are enough to prove that women's films have great potential.

The little girl, who has always been giggling, was a little uneasy at this time. She looked at Elizabeth and the girls and said, But, Eric, I don't know if I can do it well, and what about TG's side?

Eric said: This is not a matter of a while, and I don't think there is any problem with TG's handing over to Liz.

Hearing Eric's recognition of himself,

Elizabeth was a little proud at first, but then she became dissatisfied: I don't want it, tg was originally established by me, Drew and Julia, why should work overwhelm me now, but the two of them are easy get dividends.

Then I'll sell the shares of tg to you, Drew said without hesitation.

Elizabeth was stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer, and Julia, who had been holding Emma all the time, was also apprehensive: Otherwise, I, I will give up the shares of tg too.

Julia's words are obviously with a guilty conscience. tg has been established for so long, and she has basically done nothing to help. She just invested several million dollars when the company was established, but she has already received it from tg in the past two years. More than ten times the dividend, it is precisely with this money that Julia became lazy, and became less interested in acting in movies, and even Eric no longer felt the Avenue of Stars that Eric had described for her. interest.

Hearing what Drew and Julia said, Elizabeth became embarrassed: I... I didn't mean that, I was just talking, I didn't mean to ask you to sell shares.

Eric tapped on the table lightly and interrupted several women, saying, Actually, I have an idea, you can listen to it. Twentieth Century Fox's film business has not been ideal for the past two years, I remember Liz Told me that Mr Murdoch wants to buy tg, right?

Seeing Elizabeth nodding, Eric continued: In this case, you can consider selling tg as a whole to Twentieth Century Fox. As for whether the three of you want to replace Fox's shares or cash, then it's up to you. The decision is made. Next, Drew can get out and come back to run his own flower film business. Liz, you can go to Fox. With the strength you have shown in the past two years, I think you can at least get a vice president of 20th Century Fox. Location.

Eric stopped here, and he didn't say the next few words. As long as everything goes well, Elizabeth can slowly climb up the Fox system and eventually take over the News Corporation of the Murdoch family. Although Murdoch has always preferred his son to take over, if her daughter's performance is too eye-catching, it will be far More than his son's strength, even if Murdoch still wants to be inclined to hand over power to his two sons, Eric believes that other shareholders of News Corp will not agree, after all, although News Corp is firmly controlled by Murdoch in hand. But in fact, the Murdoch family does not have absolute controlling interest in News Corporation. And investors are definitely more inclined to invest in someone who is more capable.

Eric finished speaking. Drew immediately nodded in agreement, Elizabeth also looked thoughtful, Tina Fey seemed to be an outsider, taking small bites of the dinner in front of her, only Julia opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say what about me? ?

Eric cleaned the dinner on the plate three or two times, and then glared at Julia, who was dazed: As for you, let's talk about it later.

Julia shrugged guiltily. He raised Emma in his arms: I... I'm going to sleep with Emma tonight.

The little guy didn't know why the aunt lifted her up, but the children obviously liked it, giggling and waving their little hands excitedly.

Eric took out a tissue from the carton and wiped his hands, got up and walked to the little guy, and took Emma from Julia's arms: Come, Emma, ​​let's watch TV.

TV, TV, the little guy called. He didn't even recognize him, and he stretched out his little hand to grab Eric's collar.

Eric walked on. He asked again, Little guy, I'm going to talk to your aunt tonight. Are you going to sleep with Aunt Liz or Aunt Drew, oh, and Aunt Tina too?

Although the two-year-old can already understand Eric's words, he turned his head for a while before he said, Auntie.

Well, that won't work, Eric shook his head with a smile, picked up the remote control to turn on the TV, and sat down with the little girl in his arms: Choose another one.

Emma, ​​who was sitting on Eric's lap, stared at him for a moment, then suddenly said, Dad.

Forehead……

Haha, Hearing the little girl's crisp 'Dad', the restaurant immediately burst into laughter from several women.

Eric squeezed the little girl's face with a smile, turned his head and asked a few people in the restaurant, What the hell is going on here, why does she call me dad again?

Elizabeth had already considered Eric's suggestion, and when she heard him speak, she said in a sour tone: Anyway, you're going to be a father, so what's the matter with multiple daughters, you still don't want to?

No, it just feels weird, Eric shook his head, remembered one more thing, and asked, Hey, I remember it, what was the name you registered for the little guy?

Emma, answered Elizabeth.

Eric felt that Elizabeth's tone was a little different, and asked, I mean the last name.

There was a moment of silence in the restaurant.

Eric had a bad feeling in his heart that these women wouldn't really mess around.

Finally, Drew whispered: Eric, don't you know?

I know?

Yes, it is said that it is your opinion.

Eric felt his temples jump a few times and asked, What is it?

Emma Roberts Murdoch Barrymore Williams!

Puchi-

Tina Fei, who had no idea why she heard this long list of surnames, laughed out loud, and the remote control in Eric's hand also fell to the floor with a snap.

After a while, Eric said to Elizabeth: I seem to remember that I asked about this. At that time, someone swore that he would never add my surname after the little guy. What happened? thing?

Facing Eric's question, Elizabeth crossed her waist unconvincingly: We can add it if we want. The surname Williams is not yours, so we can't use it yet.

Yes, Julia whispered, but quickly slipped into the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Drew sat down beside Eric and betrayed Elizabeth without hesitation: Liz was worried that using the surname Murdoch would cause misunderstandings by others, and I was just joining in the fun.

Eric habitually knocked on Drew's forehead with a speechless expression: This can also join in the fun!

...

The day after Eric had just talked with several women about the disposal plan for TG, Murdoch, who was far away in New York, eagerly called Eric.

Although tg's shares are not directly related to Eric, according to the contract signed when tg was established, Firefly, which owns the North American distribution rights of all tg films and the surrounding operation rights, is still the biggest beneficiary of tg.

These two parts of the interests can be divided into more than half of the profits of the movies produced by tg. Fox, on the other hand, only owns a lower-profit overseas distribution right, plus a share for tg. Fox's profit is only 15% of the total profit generated by tg movies. Elizabeth, Drew and Julia Share about 30% of the total profit.

If Fox acquires tg, but can't get back the distribution rights in Firefly's hands, it will be similar to no acquisition, and Murdoch obviously won't do such a thing.

The valuation of tg is also a matter that requires long-term negotiations, which is similar to the situation of Miramax, which is also seeking to sell. Although history has deviates, the Miramax Films of the Weinstein Brothers has remained unchanged in the past two years. Due to the excessive expansion of the business, he fell into huge losses and had to find a backer, but the Weinstein brothers offered $500 million to the outside world, and several studios or investment institutions that were interested in acquiring only gave Miramax about 50 million. The valuation is a tenfold difference in price. Miramax's most important bargaining chip is the Oscar PR resources in the hands of the Weinstein brothers. This 'intangible asset' is really difficult to estimate. As for Miramax's film library and distribution channels, to be honest, several major Hollywood systems Studios don't care much. In addition to Eric's support, the most important bargaining chip in tg's hands is undoubtedly the three-year option contract signed with Jim Carrey. With Jim Carrey's three consecutive low-cost comedies in the past two years, the box office With the momentum of breaking 100 million, even if one movie is produced every year in the remaining three years, it is conservatively estimated that it can bring about 300 million US dollars in profits to the producer.

Although the two sides got along more and more unhappy because of the conflict of interest, and there was even news that Jim Carrey contacted a lawyer to try to file a lawsuit to get rid of the option contract, but relevant people in the industry are very clear that Jim Carrey did not The way to get rid of the contract with a liquidated damages of up to 100 million US dollars, otherwise, with the box office potential shown by Jim Carrey, several major studios have already started to poach the wall.

In addition, if the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer being developed by tg is as successful as the original time and space, it will be another very important bargaining chip for future negotiations.

tg's business plan for 1993 has long been determined in advance. Even if the acquisition negotiation is to be launched, it must start in the second half of the year. When Murdoch called Eric, it was nothing more than an accurate one from Eric. reply. (To be continued...)

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