I’m in Hollywood

The LTD group was acquired by Firefly Investment Company and the Brighton family through a hostile takeover. Although the two jointly hold 62% of the shares and have absolute controlling rights, when Eric threw 20 million US dollars to make the marketing of the Victoria's Secret show The plan was immediately met with strong opposition from other shareholder representatives on the LTD board. ∈↗, in order to avoid another turmoil within the LTD group that had just completed the hostile takeover transaction, Eric took the initiative to take over this matter. Even taking into account the possible reactions of the small shareholders of Firefly Group, the production cost of the Victoria's Secret show was entirely invested by Eric himself.

From the fashion show's inception to the final TV broadcast, the sensational effect produced all testament to the great success of this fashion show, but before the release of the video of the Victoria's Secret show, no one thought that this Nei Yixiu itself has the potential to generate profits, even if the high ratings after the Wei Mi show has attracted a large number of TV stations trying to buy the broadcast rights, but in order to expand the influence of the Wei Mi brand as much as possible, Eric is very interested in the broadcast. The asking price for the rights is very low. Some small European TV stations even took away the TV broadcast rights of the Victoria's Secret show for only 100,000 US dollars. In the end, the total revenue of this piece was only more than 10 million yuan, which was still not enough to recover 20 million yuan. US dollars for production funding.

However, after the release of the videotape of the Victoria's Secret show, an unexpected situation emerged.

The beautiful and fashionable Nei Yixiu's own videotape collection value, six songs that have hit the top of any music chart, and the hungry marketing effect formed by repeated sales out of stock by accident, led to the big show of Victoria's Secret The popularity of video tapes has far exceeded everyone's expectations. Just in the United States, the sales of video tapes in the Victoria's Secret show may reach 20 million boxes, and the sales prospects in the vast overseas market are even more unpredictable.

With the hot sales of Victoria's Secret video tapes, just the sales of video tapes in the United States can bring Eric $300 million in revenue, even if Eric is now worth tens of billions of dollars, but this money It was also an unexpected windfall for him.

When everyone was amazed by the sales of the Victoria's Secret show video, the most regretful must be the LTD shareholders who strongly opposed paying the money to make the Victoria's Secret show. It is estimated that those people heard about the sales of the Victoria's Secret show. number. Can't help but have the urge to hit the wall. If it wasn't for their strong opposition at the beginning, the income from the video tapes of the Victoria's Secret show would now belong to LTD, and this income could almost double the annual profit of LTD.

More seriously, the huge profits LTD brought by this year's Wei Mi show will definitely not be divided. However, because the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show was sloppyly sold to Firefly, LTD is also unable to share the profits in the commercial operation of any future Victoria's Secret show.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Emily just tried to take back the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show.

Although the relationship between the two parties is very close, Emily is a member of the Brighton family after all, and they are in business. If the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show can be recovered, the Brighton family will also be able to benefit in the future.

In fact, from the very beginning,

Eric's plan is to make a Victoria's Secret show by himself to let LTD see the advertising effects, and then return the so-called copyright to LTD to continue operating. He never thought that the Victoria's Secret show could bring him. Such a windfall. But now, just like Emily in business, since the Victoria's Secret show itself has achieved unexpected success in business, Eric can no longer execute the original plan.

However, Eric is also very clear that the unexpected success of the Victoria's Secret show in the video release can only be this one. Because this year's success is the result of Eric's efforts to call the entire Firefly Group's media resources and Yahoo's network media, and to do it himself for half a year.

But Eric can't continue to spend countless media resources to do this in the future, and even if he wants to, the audience will not continue to buy it after the Victoria's Secret show loses its freshness and mystery. The form of the show is actually very simple. It is not like the Super Bowl or the Oscars, which can bring enough suspense to the audience every year, so this kind of success is completely impossible to replicate.

therefore. Although due to the successful operation of the first session, the Wei Mi show will definitely bring some profits in the next few years, but it is unlikely to last for too long. So, let go of the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show now. It's almost like selling a stock at its peak.

After thinking for a moment, Eric said to Emily: If I am willing to return the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show, what price can LTD give?

Ah? Emily suddenly widened her eyes and looked at Eric in disbelief, as if she wanted to make sure that she heard it wrong. Even Chris and Joanna looked at Eric in surprise. gram.

Although someone on the last LTD board of directors proposed to take back the copyright of the Wei Mi show. Emily is also quite moved, otherwise she would not have tested Eric just now, but at this time, when Eric said that she was willing to let go of the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show, Emily still had an unbelievable feeling. It feels like she, like many people, has no expectations for this at all.

However, after only being surprised for a moment, Emily recovered and asked with confirmation, Eric, is what you just said true?

Eric shrugged: Of course, but if the price offered by LTD is not sincere enough, I will definitely not agree.

This, we really haven't considered this situation, Emily smiled awkwardly and said the truth: I need to go back and discuss with other shareholders, but, Eric, yourself... Amy Li said, and made a random gesture: How much... how much does it cost you to be satisfied?

Eric said: I am not short of money now. If you pay cash, I will also pay personal income tax, which is not cost-effective, so the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show is considered an equity investment.

Hearing that Eric wanted to convert the copyright of the Victoria's Secret show into LTD equity, Emily immediately showed a pitiful expression: Eric, LTD sold the copyright at a symbolic price. Here it is, are you too embarrassed to bid too high, and you have already earned so much this time.

Eric spread his hands and said with a smile: If there is no unexpected income from the release of videotapes, I would have to repost $20 million this time, and it also consumed so many media resources of Firefly Group and Yahoo Portal, so I will take this money. I am very at ease. Now I have turned a soybean into a golden bean, of course you have to buy it back at the price of gold. Haha.”

Emily listened to Eric's words, and stopped making those unnecessary gestures, and talked about business seriously: Then, if LTD takes the copyright back. Will you still participate in the production of the Victoria's Secret show?

Eric shook his head: This kind of participation is definitely impossible this year, but I am also a major shareholder of LTD. If I have any good ideas, I will definitely not be stingy. Moreover, this year's Victoria's Secret show opened a very good one. Okay, so next year even if I don't participate. You will definitely be able to pull in a heavyweight creative team, just like the background songs of the big show, and next year you can work with some top musicians to make the Victoria's Secret show now. Influence, those singers must also be very willing to use the Victoria's Secret show as the first platform for new songs, so although the video tape revenue will be divided by these singers, but the revenue obtained by LTD must be equally generous, and don't forget, The most fundamental role of the Victoria's Secret show is the marketing of the Victoria's Secret brand. The revenue that the show itself can directly bring will definitely gradually decline. However, the brand of Victoria's Secret will continue to strengthen for many years. We maintain a very strong position in our own field.”

Emily couldn't stop nodding her head. After listening to Eric, she jokingly said, Eric, I want to bring you to LTD to be the director of operations now.

Everyone laughed, and Eric also laughed and joked: Then you must be unable to afford it.

In the following days, LTD almost couldn't wait to come up with a plan, and the two parties finally reached a deal with equity worth 225 million US dollars. Eric is still very satisfied with this offer. Originally, Firefly Investment and the Brighton family shared the 62% equity equally, but after this transaction. Firefly Investment's shareholding increased to 35%, becoming the largest shareholder of LTD, and the Brighton family's shareholding fell slightly to 30%.

Although many industry analysts are very keen to point out that the commercial success of the Victoria's Secret show this year cannot be replicated, the market's reaction is often very blind. Otherwise, there will be no stock market bubble, so the completion of this transaction once again stimulated the share price of LTD, making the market value of LTD exceeded a high of 5 billion US dollars. However, these have all happened in the following period.

After the TV show of Victoria's Secret ended, Eric's energies turned to Hollywood again.

With the Christmas season approaching. Changing Face released by Firefly and Jumanji released by Colombia have been released one after another. It is not because Jumanji involves a lot of special effects, but the special effects of the original version are obviously a bit shoddy, and Eric certainly does not want to repeat the same mistakes. , so the budget is very generous. The final version of Jumanji was much better made than the original, but at the same time, the budget continued to climb, eventually reaching a high of $80 million, and marketing expenses reached $40 million. In comparison, the final investment budget of Face Change is only 60 million US dollars, and the marketing budget is also much lower than that of Jumanji.

However, some unexpected changes occurred after the release of the two films. Changing Faces was released a week earlier than Brave Games, and the box office received an excellent box office of 36 million in the first week. At the same time, its wonderful plot also won Unanimously praised by film critics, the final box office may reach about 120 million US dollars. Although the results are not as eye-catching as the original Mrs. and Mrs. Smith, this film is only able to recover the production cost in the North American market. Issuance can also achieve profitability, and subsequent peripheral announcements are basically net profits.

Then, Jumanji came out.

This special effects blockbuster, which was highly anticipated by Colombia, also made more than 36 million US dollars at the box office in its first week. That's right, it's almost the same as Face Change, and Colombia's original box office forecast was that the film should earn about 45 million in the first week. The gap between reality and ideal is obviously huge.

Moreover, compared with the good reputation of Face Change, Jumanji has a bad reputation among film critics. Many film critics said that this film is too noisy, and the director is a little too obsessed with the stacking of CG special effects.

Although the CG special effect film market is not yet saturated, many viewers are obviously not affected by the low reputation of Jumanji. The box office of this special special effect blockbuster in the second week only fell by a weak 26%, accumulating more than 62 million US dollars in two weeks. The box office performance of Jumanji is already very good, but according to box office estimates, Jumanji is likely to stop at around $140 million at the domestic box office, which is 60 million lower than Colombia's estimated domestic box office of $200 million.

After a huge write-down of US$2.1 billion in assets not long ago, Sony was already full of resentment towards Hollywood. Although the final box office of Jumanji can still make it squeeze into the top ten of the annual box office, through various channels of distribution, This film also has very considerable profit prospects, but it is an indisputable fact that the box office did not meet expectations.

At the same time, because of the repeated obstacles in choosing Colombia's next leader, well-known Hollywood managers such as Barry Diller, Amy Pascal, Michael Lynn and others have rejected Columbia's solicitation, feeling that the whole Hollywood is 'bullying' In the end, his own Sony couldn't hold back his temper.

The first thing Sony did, was to be tough on the negotiations with Firefly's Men in Black and Mrs. Smith, and even publicly claimed that if Firefly continued to deliberately delay the development process of the continuation episode, Columbia would not hesitate to use it. Legal means to safeguard their own interests.

Eric didn't intend to embarrass Sony in the development of these sequels, and he also hoped that Sony would continue to contribute to Hollywood.

However, Sony obviously doesn't think so. Regarding Eric's entanglement in the salary of the main creator of Men in Black, Sony has always believed that this is a gesture made by Firefly to monopolize the copyright of Men in Black.

So, when the negotiation failed in a short period of time, Sony instructed Colombia to do another thing, requesting to renegotiate the Wonderful Night at the Museum and Forrest Gump signed with Flower Pictures, which are still in theaters. The 'unfair' sharing contract for the sequel to the Mission: Impossible franchise. (To be continued.) SJGSF0916 Baidu search to see the latest and most complete novels!