I’m in Hollywood

Eric quickly sorted out the trivial memories of Pixar in his mind in his previous life. As the leader in 3D animation in Hollywood, Pixar produced the world-famous Total series of animated films.

But before 1995, Disney's 2D animation films still dominated the animation film market, and no one was optimistic about the future of 3D animation.

Jobs himself had no confidence in 3D animation. Until the release of Toy Story, Jobs always wanted to sell the Pixar bag, and even pinched his nose to contact his old rival Microsoft.

When in contact with Microsoft's executives, in order to please Microsoft's senior vice president Nathan Myhrvold, Jobs also deliberately placed a laptop running Windows on Pixar's desk.

It's a pity that the price Microsoft offered could not satisfy Jobs, and Jobs, who was 'deep in the mud and couldn't extricate himself' had to grit his teeth and hold on, and finally ushered in the dawn.

After the release of Toy Story, the North American box office alone received a record-breaking $192 million, and the global box office was close to 360 million, while the cost of Toy Story was only $30 million.

After that, the market value of Pixar, valued at $50 million, has doubled by 20 times, and when Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, its market value had reached $7.4 billion.

Counting the time, Jobs should have started touting Pixar's losing money. Eric just had the idea of ​​buying Pixar immediately, and had to shake his head in disappointment.

Although it is impossible for Jobs to insist on the price of 50 million US dollars as in his previous life, even if he discounts it in half, Eric cannot come up with 25 million.

He doesn't have much money now, and Home Alone has been released for so long, Columbia must have begun to split the account with the theater chain.

However, if Eric wants to get his own share, the best case will have to wait until Home Alone goes down. It is not uncommon for film directors and actors in previous lives to go to court with arrears of film companies in order to get their own share.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of funds, even if they are only deposited in the bank, the daily interest is a very impressive figure. Even with a clear deal in place, Colombia will surely find ways to drag it out day by day.

Eric can even think of what 'bad tricks' Columbia will use in arrears. For example, after a few months, the box office potential of Home Alone has obviously been exhausted. In order to delay the payment of the split date, Columbia just took hundreds of screens. Hanging there to not let the movie go down, Eric is also likely to just stare.

Because the gambling agreement has been smashed, it is very unlikely that Columbia will cooperate with Eric again in the short term. There is no need to estimate the relationship between the two parties. Columbia Company has no psychological pressure to use these small tricks to benefit others. Especially now that it's still Blunt Cohen sitting in the seat of Columbia's president.

After thinking about it, Eric still thinks that the most important thing is to make the movie Pretty Woman. Anyway, even if history does not change, there are still six years before the release of Toy Story, Eric Plenty of time to take down Pixar.

Before the filming of Pretty Woman in the Moon and the Moon, the preparatory work was quite complete. The crew did not need Jeffrey, a producer, to be present at all times. Several executive producers were enough to arrange everything.

Jeffrey discussed with Eric for an hour, then left the set in a hurry, ready to fly to New York to discuss advertising with NBC.

The advertising bidding for the Super Bowl started half a year ago,

NBC has successfully sold 80% of the advertising space this year. What Jeffrey wants to fight for is one of the remaining 20%, and the time period will not be very good. The price is much higher than the average price, and it has been robbed long ago.

Three days later, as soon as Eric got up, he received a call from Jeffrey, saying that he had won a 59-second commercial. Super Bowl commercials are measured in seconds. The shortest is 15 seconds and the longest is 90 seconds.

What, $1.5 million, didn't you say you could get it for $1.2 million? In the bathroom, Eric asked with the cordless phone under his neck and squeezed toothpaste on his toothbrush.

Jeffrey's tone was also helpless: If no one bids, it is true that 1.2 million can be negotiated. When bidding, a New York fashion company suddenly appeared to compete for this advertisement, and you explained that I must To get it, I had to raise the price to $1.5 million. I even suspected that the fashion company was a nursery hired by NBC, but this is just my guess, there is no evidence.”

With an extra $300,000 in expenses, Ai Rui was in no mood to brush his teeth slowly, fiddled around a few times, rinsed his mouth, and returned to the living room.

Forget it, 1.5 million is 1.5 million, Eric sat on the sofa and poured himself a glass of boiling water: Sign the contract as soon as possible. By the way, Jeffrey, tomorrow is the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Can you come back earlier?

Let's see the situation, it's very likely that I won't be able to go back. Jeffrey said with regret: Anyway, what everyone wants to see most is you, the miracle director, it doesn't matter if I go or not.

Haha, don't worry, it doesn't matter if you miss this time, there will be opportunities in the future.

I believe in that too, Jeffrey laughed, too. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up. You must have just woken up, it should be seven in the morning in Los Angeles. But a $300,000 overspend like this I have to inform you as soon as possible.

It doesn't matter, I just didn't stay up late last night, and I came back after ten o'clock.

After saying goodbye, Eric hung up the phone.

Leaning on the sofa and tapping his knee lightly, Eric silently calculated a small account for himself. The $25 million check he got from Fox, the mansion in Beverly Hills used $1.9 million to pay to Drew 1 million for the mother, 1 million for the acquisition of UTA, 3 million for the rental and decoration of Firefly Company, as well as expensive professional equipment in the dubbing room and editing room, the production cost of Pretty Woman is 7 million US dollars, and the Super Bowl commercial is 150 10,000, which adds up to $15.4 million.

Although he is not a luxurious person, during this time, there are also hundreds of thousands of dollars in bits and pieces.

Now that he's reborn in America, Eric is about to face one of two things no one in this country can escape: paying taxes. With the current income situation, it is certain that the maximum personal income tax rate of 35% must be paid, which is nearly 10 million US dollars.

Cursing the diabolical capitalist system, Eric sadly discovered that he probably won't have any more income before the tax filing deadline of April 15th.

I don't even need a loan to pay taxes. Eric rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly. After all, he is not a real American, and he has not formed a deep-rooted concept of excessive consumption, so he is very resistant to such things as loans.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Eric drove to the crew after breakfast.

Maybe it was because Eric announced that he would move the fixed day off one day a week to tomorrow, and the mood of the crew members was very high. After one day, they even shot five or six more scenes.

After ten days of filming, Pretty Woman has completed 60% of the shots. If things go on like this, after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the film will be officially completed in just one week.

The reason why the shooting was so smooth is mainly due to Julia's excellent performance. From the beginning, Eric never worried about anything going wrong with Al Pacino. Al, who can get so many Oscar nominations, has no pressure at all to perform a role that does not require much acting skills, and even needs to restrain his acting skills.

As a newcomer, Julia is different. At the beginning, Julia did not have much problems when shooting personal shots, at most NG a few times. But at the beginning when Al Pacino played the opposite role, Julia made frequent mistakes, and the number of NGs soared. Compared to Al, Julia's acting skills are indeed in the early childhood stage.

However, after a few days of running in and Eric's unbearable roar, Julia gradually narrowed the gap with Al Pacino. Even in some shots, it is possible to form a certain degree of pressure on Al, even if it is in the case of Al Pacino's restraint, it is a very difficult thing to do.

OK, that's it for today. After the last shot, Eric announced the end of work, and the crew cheered and began to pack up and go their separate ways.

Eric stopped Al Pacino, who was about to remove his makeup, and asked, Al, how did you practice that piano solo?

In the original film, Richard Gere wrote and played Edward's piano solo in the restaurant himself. Eric wrote this piece of music in less than 40 seconds with his memory and the company's soundtrack. to Al Pacino.

Al's piano skills were only a little better than Eric's, but he insisted on playing it himself, and Eric had to postpone the scene.

Eric, give me one more... no, two days, I think I need to practice again.

That's okay, Eric still admired Al's professionalism: However, Al, we can't delay it for too long, the filming progress of the movie is so fast, it's too long, as the plot develops, you The mood changes will be very big. Even if you play well, it will be difficult to perform the feeling after shooting those few scenes a few days ago.”

Al Pacino thought for a moment and realized that what Eric said was the truth. After finding that his little insistence could not improve the quality of the movie too much, Al reluctantly nodded and compromised: Okay, Eric, let's put this scene in the day after tomorrow. If it really doesn't work, use post-dubbing.