I’m in Hollywood

Chapter 712

In the end, the discussion on America's Next Top Model centered on Linda Evangelinsta, Cindy Crawford and Tyra Banks.

The supermodel title begins with Linda Evangelinsta, and making her the host of the show is undoubtedly the most persuasive.

Cindy Crawford frequently appeared on TV shows before the Victoria's Secret show. Although after the Victoria's Secret show, the five spokespersons had almost the same popularity in the eyes of the public, but Cindy Crawford had a host. The seniority advantage of TV programs.

Tyra Banks has a vibrant personality and is obviously easier to mingle with the contestants on the show, very close to the people. But her flaws are also very obvious. Tyra Banks was born in 1973 and is only 22 years old this year. Although she has gained a very high reputation with the Victoria's Secret show, her age is difficult to convince the public, otherwise , As the host of America's Next Top Model in the original time and space, Eric would not think too much about it.

After some discussion, the decision still fell to Eric.

To be honest, despite the absurdity of the first two days, Eric didn’t know much about these five women, and most of his past life memories came from various media. It would be foolish to believe in media information.

The plans for the reform of lietime TV and America's Next Top Model have only just begun. Eric is not in a hurry and plans to communicate with them in detail before making a decision.

Time came late at night, and Eric was listening to Luc Besson describe the idea of ​​a sci-fi film when he heard Catherine's voice beside him: Eric. It's too late. I think I should gone back.

Luc Besson saw Catherine approach. He raised his glass winkingly, smiled and took the initiative to walk away.

Catherine's expression was a little embarrassed: I didn't interrupt your speech, did I?

Of course not, Eric shook his head.

Looking at her watch, it was just after eleven o'clock, and no one had left at the party, but for Catherine, who had a very regular lifestyle, it was obviously too late.

Eric put down his wrist and looked up at Catherine who held the little golden man tightly in front of him with both hands. The woman's expression was faintly nervous and flustered, Eric smiled and said, Shall I send you back?

No, no, Catherine shook her head subconsciously, the tension and panic on her pretty face suddenly overflowed.

You're drinking, it's not safe to drive by yourself,

I'm not at ease, Eric said, reaching for the hall door.

Catherine shifted her footsteps. Suddenly he said again: You, you are also drinking.

Eric said: I have a driver. Let's go,

Catherine followed Eric and walked towards the door, but still whispered, I can take a taxi back.

You think you're the heroine of a movie who can stop a taxi by just waving your hand. It's already late at night. How can there be a taxi? Eric made a joke and waved to Katzenberg, who was not far away. Made a few gestures, signaling him to arrange the next thing.

The two came to the parking lot, Eric personally opened the car door and let Catherine in, sat next to her, asked Catherine's address, and told the driver to drive.

The streets near Sunset Boulevard are still brightly lit, but the traffic has become more crowded.

The car was driving on Sunset Boulevard. In the car, looking at Catherine holding the golden statue in a helpless state, Eric inexplicably had the illusion that there was a little girl sitting next to him, and smiled. Laughing, he took the initiative to liven up the atmosphere and said, How did you and Terrence Malick discuss the script of Red Alert?

Alright, alright, there are some differences in the details, but it's not a big problem. Next month, we plan to go to Guadalcanal for a field trip, and Terrence wants to shoot on the spot.

Eric nodded: Oh, have you considered when to start it?

Although Red Alert will be invested by Firefly, it does not belong to Firefly's commercial film sequence. Therefore, Eric is very relaxed about the production plan of this film, letting Katherine and Terrence Malick decide on their own.

Next year, I want to prepare more time, Catherine hesitated and said.

The two of you chatted casually with each other, and before you knew it, the car stopped outside a residence in Coldwater Canyon.

Eric has always been full of complaints about all the infrastructure facilities in Los Angeles except the highway network. The two got out of the car. There were still old street lights around, and a dark moss stained one could be seen in the dim light. The telephone pole looks shaky.

Good night then, Eric stretched his arms towards Catherine.

Catherine cautiously approached, hugged him, and let go, Good night.

After saying that, the woman walked towards the door behind her. Eric remembered something and shouted, Catherine?

The woman's body froze, and she turned her head: What, what?

Eric pointed to the little golden figure in her hand: In the next few days, you may need to participate in several interviews with your cooperation. I hope you can prepare.

Oh, I see. After the woman finished speaking, she looked at him for less than two seconds, realizing that the man did not intend to continue speaking, and fled into the yard in a hurry again.

Eric smiled and sat back in the car. Carter Moen in the front row started the car, but he did not forget to tease: Boss, this is not your style.

Drive you, I already feel that I am extremely sinful. I feel like I'm bullying a little girl.

Carter Moen skillfully turned the car around and said, Ms. Bigelow must have feelings for you, otherwise she wouldn't be so flustered.

It's always a little bit worse, Eric replied vaguely.

The next day, the news of the first female best director in Oscar history quickly occupied the headlines of major media around the world, causing a public carnival.

At the same time, Firefly also launched a new round of distribution of the Saving Private Ryan video, which won the best director Oscar through Catherine. in the following week. Saving Private Ryan videotape sales easily topped 1 million boxes.

in Europe. Because the release time of the videotape of this film is behind North America, it is at a time when the market is hungry. With the cooperation and promotion of Firefly, the distributors of European countries easily beat North America in weekly sales figures, which are close to 1.5 million boxes. In just one week, video sales of Saving Private Ryan brought in $75 million for Firefly, and Firefly internally predicts that the film will eventually surpass $500 million in video sales. It even surpassed the film's global box office in data.

Because film companies usually do not release sales data for videotapes, most people in the outside world are still stuck in the trend of Katherine winning the Oscar for best director. However, Hollywood is boiling over the sales data of the videotape of Saving Private Ryan. Several major film companies have begun to look for excellent war movie scripts. The most direct result is that Katherine's next film Red Alert caused the Several major concerns in and out of Hollywood have even caused a lawsuit.

It turned out that before Terrence Malick contacted Eric, in order to make this film, he contacted many production companies. Basically including the other six, these are nothing. The key is. In the process of contacting an independent film company called Phoenix, Terrence Malick signed a contract of intent with the other company, allowing the other party to pull investment for the film Red Alert, but it was already 1988 .

The film's budget was too high and the risks were too high. Phoenix did not pull in a dime of investment in the end. According to industry practices, in this case, the contract was almost automatically invalidated.

This incident seems to have passed like this, the project was taken over by Firefly, and everything seems to be a matter of course.

But after Katherine won the Oscar for best director and Saving Private Ryan was a phenomenal success in the videotape market, perhaps at the behest of some people, Phoenix Films producer Robert Geisler jumped out and said: According to the original contract, Phoenix has already obtained investment for Red Alert and asked Firefly to return the production and distribution rights of the film.

There is an endless stream of shit like this in Hollywood, but Eric didn't pay special attention to this matter, and just handed it over to Firefly's legal department.

He has read the script of Red Alert, and he has a lot of information about the film in his memory. He knows that this is not a box office blockbuster. Moreover, he also knows that the Phoenix company may just want to invest in investment. It's just a mix. As long as it doesn't affect the production of the film, Eric doesn't mind giving up a little bit of investment rights. Of course, if the other party is too ignorant of praise, Eric doesn't mind letting the other party try Firefly's anger.

After the Oscars, Eric's main focus was on the reform of his lietime TV station and the preparation of America's Next Top Model.

Lietime TV was established in the early 1980s by the merger of two small TV stations in the hands of ab TV and Hearst Group at that time, and they were brought under the ae TV network. In the first few years of its establishment, lietime TV station has been in a state of loss, and it was not until the late 1980s that it barely broke even.

According to theoretical data, at this time, lietime TV station has 30 million users, which is all the theoretical users included in the different cable TV packages of several major cable TV operators.

But in fact, just like the legal channels, education channels or foreign language channels that are also cable TV channels in Eric's memory, lietime TV is the kind of TV channel that has been ignored by users for a long time, even if It is a relatively popular program with no more than 2 million viewers, because the viewership data has always been very mediocre, and several major cable TV operators often spread the news that they would refuse to carry this TV channel. After all, just like the Internet, cable TV signals The transmission also needs to occupy the bandwidth.

Before Katzenberg mentioned the TV station, Eric almost forgot that there was such a TV channel under Firefly.

After the plan unfolded, Eric learned more about the TV station.

In the 1980s, lietime TV mainly broadcasted two or three rounds of TV programs produced by ab TV network, and occasionally bought some very cheap low-cost female films, and the content of the programs was very monotonous.

It was not until the early 1990s that they began to try to produce TV movies or mini-series on their own. However, the average number of programs produced each year in these years was also less than two.

Therefore, it is not an easy task to reform such an obscure TV station. Fortunately, with the successful experience of espn growing from less than 300,000 local users to the largest sports TV station in the United States, all the senior management of Firefly are confident and quickly made a very detailed plan.

On the other hand, although the cable television industry in the United States was born in the 1980s, it really began to flourish in the second half of the 1990s. With the east wind of the rise of the Internet industry, the United States actually began to large-scale in this process. Build a cable TV network.

If you pay attention to American dramas, you will find that many American dramas produced by classic cable TV stations generally start from the second half of the 1990s. The most famous ones are undoubtedly several films of Time Warner's H-wave TV station. At this time, the US cable TV market, in Eric's opinion, is in the ascendant to describe it.

The new wave of technology has just emerged, although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but at the same time, a large amount of money has been invested in the TV industry. Firefly owners have a very complete internal capital chain, and they do not need to be like other film companies. It is necessary to obtain financing from external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large sum of money invested in the TV industry has also indirectly built a larger platform for Firefly.

At the same time, the regulation of the cable television industry in the United States has also become more and more relaxed, and large-scale integration has actually begun last year. When Barry Diller and Summer Redstone competed for Viacom together, the reason for the final defeat was that the parent company Telecommunication Group, which Barry Diller relied on, merged with att.

The new wave of technology has just emerged, although the main focus is still on Internet companies, but at the same time, a large amount of money has been invested in the TV industry. Firefly owners have a very complete internal capital chain, and they do not need to be like other film companies. It is necessary to obtain financing from external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but the large sum of money invested in the TV industry has also indirectly built a larger platform for Firefly.

At the same time, like American cable film companies, they also need to obtain financing from external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments from time to time, but invest in TV companies (to be continued.)

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