Chapter 1027 Is Stretched Thin

Continuing to chat about something, and sending Caroline and Mayer to rest, Eric opened the script in his hand.

Among the most popular Hollywood blockbuster series after the new century, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is definitely a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. Except for the first film at the beginning, almost all the other films in the entire series have created a global box office of 1 billion US dollars.

Eric has been thinking about this since the original Cutthroat Island.

After promoting the collaboration of former "Pirates of the Caribbean" directors Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp in "The Bell", Eric became more concerned about "Pirates of the Caribbean" and was very Quickly found the script in hand based on the name of the screenwriter in memory.

However, the script in front of me is very different from the plot of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" in memory.

The story also revolves around a group of pirates led by Captain Barbossa who hijacked the Governor's daughter in order to lift the mysterious curse, but the male protagonist is Will, the blacksmith. Although Jack Sparrow, the captain of the Black Pearl, also has a large part of the role, he can only A supporting role.

Based on some behind-the-scenes details of the Pirates of the Caribbean series from memory, Eric knew that this was not the butterfly effect of his own appearance.

The original "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," if Depp aside, was probably a cliché love story about a groom saving a princess from a villain and living happily together. It can be said that the success of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series is almost exactly the same as that of the "True Colors of Heroes" series across the ocean. It was a restless supporting role who played himself as the protagonist step by step. At the same time, the film also achieved phenomenal success.

After briefly browsing the script, which was basically just an outline, Eric closed the folder and subconsciously wanted to send an email to Katzenberg, instructing him to take down the script in his hand.

However, although the interior decoration of this Boeing 767 is luxurious, it is not only the network, but there is not even a telephone in the cabin, which makes Eric look forward to the delivery of his Boeing 747 with a private communication system as soon as possible.

The plane is still an hour away from Los Angeles, and there are no other things at hand for the time being, and there is no way to communicate with the outside world. Looking at the "Pirates of the Caribbean" script in his hand, Eric picked up a pencil and planned to recall what super IPs he had missed in the next few years in his memory.

Just finishing it like this, Eric himself was taken aback.

Even if we don’t mention the super gold mine of Marvel, which has recovered most of its copyrights, it is just the three copyrights of the “Harry Potter” series, “The Lord of the Rings” series, and “Transformers” series that have been obtained. Almost every one is enough. A big movie company eats for ten years. The two major 3D animation studios of Pixar and Disney can continue to provide Firefly with animated films with extremely rich box office and peripheral benefits.

What's more, it is impossible for Firefly to focus on these big IP movies. In the future, the company will definitely try one or two big movies every year to get rid of IP constraints. Although Eric advocates a highly industrialized film production mechanism, if a film company relies entirely on big IPs, it will gradually lose the most important creativity.

For large-scale films, the entire Firefly Group, the production and distribution scale of six films per year is already the limit. In this case, based on one 3D animated film, two Marvel Universe films, and two original big productions every year, the production and marketing resources for big IP films such as the "Harry Potter" series are somewhat stretched. .

An excellent commercial film, if it can't do well in distribution and marketing, is also difficult to achieve excellent box office results.

"Special Forces Cobra Rise" once produced by Paramount Pictures is a very classic negative teaching material.

"Special Forces · Cobra Rise" and "Transformers 2 · Comeback" were released at the same time in the summer of 2009. The schedule was only one month apart, just because Paramount devoted almost all its energy to "Transformers 2 · Comeback" 's release,

"Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra", a blockbuster with a production cost of $175 million, has a global box office of only a dismal $300 million.

Eric has a very deep memory of the hot action shots of the two protagonists wearing power mechas running on the streets of Paris in "Special Forces: The Rise of Cobras". If Paramount can invest enough resources in marketing and distribution, this film will definitely It is an excellent popcorn blockbuster with a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars.

It stands to reason that it is more reasonable for each of the major series of "Harry Potter" to be allocated to a large film company, which can ensure that each IP has been carefully developed through all channels. However, what Eric can influence now is only three major film companies.

Among the three companies, Firefly and MGM have very successful commercial film series. In comparison, although Fox has the distribution rights of "Star Wars" and Miramax, which is very successful in literary films, Blue Sky Studio has also made Up, however, there hasn't been much development in the series.

Eric was very dissatisfied with the original Fox-controlled "X-Men" series. The entire X-Men timeline was messed up, and most of the episodes' global box office was only hovering at the barely passable $300 million to $400 million. So I thought about not putting the "X-Men" series on Fox.

But now it seems that Firefly is the main "Avengers" series, and MGM is temporarily focusing on the special agent movie universe. If they want to create another X-Men universe, they have only Fox as a choice for the time being.

However, this time, the control of the X-Men universe must be firmly in its own hands like the agent movie universe, and the Firefly Group itself must still participate in the distribution of related benefits.

This is not that Eric is stingy. After all, the entire News Corporation and Elizabeth's family now only have about 30% of the equity. All the interests of the "X-Men" series are handed over to Fox, and the interests that can eventually fall into the hands of Elizabeth are also Very few. What everyone is pursuing now is more control over Hollywood and the media industry. As long as most shareholders are given a small portion of benefits, these people will no longer point fingers at the management of big film companies. The traditional rules of Hollywood profit distribution are actually Probably so.

Eric is now more and more able to understand that the pursuit of control is the most important thing. Even if a person does not have a penny of personal assets under his name, if he can control a huge industry, the resources of the entire industry can still be available to him.

Making up his mind, at the same time, Eric decided to speed up the expansion of the Firefly system in Hollywood. After all, half of Hollywood is incomplete after all.

Due to the time difference, it was only after four o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast when he arrived in Los Angeles. Eric received a call from the girl as soon as he got off the plane, and after saying goodbye to the two girls, Caroline, he rushed to Beverly Hills.

The girl is not in Trousdale Manor, but shopping on Rodeo Drive.

Eric asked the driver to drive to Rodeo Drive and walked into the Gucci store that the girl said, only Natasha greeted him. There were only a few waiters in the store, and no other customers.

"Master, the boss is changing clothes," Natasha explained, and walked inside with Eric.

When he came to the lounge area for guests to wait, Eric didn't choose a sofa, he just sat down on a round high stool, nodded to the waitress who brought the coffee graciously, and just motioned for the other party to put the coffee on the table. on the side table.

After waiting for a while, the girl came out of the changing room inside, wearing a sky blue cotton skirt with short sleeves, a few embroidery on the neckline, and a short hem, revealing two sections of white thighs like lotus roots. Although the tube skirt is not a waistband style, the cut is very decent, wearing it on a girl gives a sense of youth of a middle school student.

"Eric," the girl ran over when she saw Eric, hugged Eric intimately, and kissed him a few more times before letting go of him and turning around: "Is it beautiful?"

Eric nodded and said, "It's beautiful, but it's too short."

"Hehe, maybe I've grown taller again. By the way, I ordered two pairs of leather shoes for you. I just got them back today. You can try them."

Having said that, the girl asked Natasha to bring a shoe box, opened the box and took out a pair of brand-new black leather shoes, and the little daughter-in-law squatted down in front of Eric, intending to help Eric change the shoes.

Looking at the girl's movements, Eric closed his feet and said with a smile: "Hey, you are so diligent, first confess, did you cause trouble?"

"No, people are very considerate," the girl was very dissatisfied with Eric's questioning, but she didn't insist. She got up and handed the leather shoes in her hand to a waitress next to her. Rick sat down beside him and said, "Eric, Kate's family wants to invite us to dinner tonight, do you want to go?"

Just as Eric was about to speak, he saw the pretty blond waitress squatting down in front of him consciously, so he raised his feet in cooperation, and then asked, "Which Kate?"

"Kate Hudson," the girl said, "Didn't she get the heroine of "Spider-Man", so I want to invite you to dinner to express my gratitude."

Eric nodded, feeling that the waitress who helped him change his shoes made a few hints at his ankle, but just pretended to unknowingly retracted his foot, and said, "Since you agreed, then go."

"Spider-Man" heroine Gwen Stacy's role has only recently been set, Eric actually prefers Carrie Russell with a sweet baby face, but Cameron prefers Kate Ha Desen.

Compared with the slender and petite Kelly Russell, Kate Hudson, who is nearly 1.7 meters tall, is obviously more in line with Cameron's aesthetic. This girl just turned nineteen years old this year, at the age of invincible youth. She has a sweet face inherited from her mother, and she also looks good when she smiles. However, her figure is a little plump, and she obviously has a bit of 'fat and warm'. breath.

Although Eric meant Carrie Russell, his attitude was not so firm. After all, he had nothing to do with this girl. In comparison, Kate Hudson, who is still familiar to each other, is different. Since Cameron likes it, Eric agrees along the way.

After changing the shoes, Eric got up and stepped on it a few times, nodding in satisfaction, but instead of trying another pair, he asked the girl beside him, "Have you picked your clothes yet?"

"Well, that's all I have," the girl said, taking out a credit card from her handbag and handing it to the waitress beside her. She didn't want to change her clothes. After a while, Eric went with the girl. Walking out of the Gucci store, followed by twins carrying a few handbags.

However, as soon as I walked out of the store, the light of the flash appeared not far from the street. Looking over, a paparazzi with a long-tube camera was shooting wildly at this side.

The bodyguard who got out of the car and helped Eric and the girl pull the door asked Eric if he wanted to stop him. Eric just shook his head casually, and the girl held Eric's arm indifferently and posted it to Eric with a smile. Post, looks like enjoying being photographed.

Got in the car and told the driver to go back to Trousdale Manor. The twins drove the girl's Land Rover and followed behind Eric's car.

Glancing at the rearview mirror at random, seeing a motorcycle following, Eric frowned and asked the girl beside him, "Why are there paparazzi around you?"

Because Eric and the girl have rarely come to the front of the stage, most of the time, the public attention is not too high, and coupled with the status of the two in Hollywood, few paparazzi have appeared in the two in recent years. around.

After all, tabloids depend on attractive news to survive. The scandals of popular stars are obviously more attractive than the daily life of Eric and the girl. Moreover, in the absence of actual evidence, tabloids do not dare to take it lightly. Write gossip about the two of them, otherwise they will have a lawsuit every minute. Over time, the two of them will lose their attractiveness to the paparazzi.

Hearing Eric's question, the girl posted it like a kitten and said with a smile, "I am now the richest woman in the world."

"Tsk tsk, listening to this tone is like an exaggerated little rich woman. It's too exaggerated," Eric shook his head with a smile, and he probably understood in his heart. Based on the girl's age and gender, plus the assets in her name The origin, even if it is not made up, is just a topic of its own, and it is enough to attract too many people's attention when it is published in the newspaper.

"Hehe," the girl smiled and arched in Eric's arms. After a while, the girl calmed down and leaned beside Eric and said, "Eric, I also think I have too much money now. Yes, it's annoying."

Eric pinched the girl's face and said, "Just say whatever you like in the newspaper, just ignore it."

"I don't care what the newspapers say, it's just that there seem to be a lot of things around me all of a sudden, and it's annoying. My mother came to me last week to ask for money, but I refused, so she went to the reporter and cried and said How bad her life is, I obviously give her $10,000 a month to live on, how many people in Los Angeles can earn $10,000 a month, not to mention she doesn’t have to work.”

Eric put his arms around the girl's waist and said: "Then give her some more, don't let her make trouble, anyway, we are not short of this money. I remember telling you a long time ago, there are many things in this world. , we can't always escape."