I’m in Hollywood

"Rainbow Media's assets mainly include the wholly-owned bravo channel, 7o% of New York Sports, 21st Road, 5o% of the Orlando rb channel, 45% of the Fu music channel and the % shareholding Through the asset evaluation, the company's total market capitalization is about 1.8 billion US dollars. ΔBasic Cable Company insists on the sale of up to MGM's shares, and the price is 600 million US dollars. At the same time, we will also obtain the operation rights of Bravo Channel. ”

In the office, Amy Pascal, who came from Century City, reported to Eric about the final negotiations with the basic cable company.

Eric looked at the initial trading plan, and there was always a feeling of something strange coming in. He looked up and smiled and asked Amy: "Playboy Channel?"

Amy endured a white-eyed impulse to Eric, explaining: "This is a fee-based cable station created by the Basic Cable Company in cooperation with the Playboy Group in 1986, mainly for adult programs such as color movies."

"Oh, okay," Eric nodded, not continuing the topic that made it easy for women to say, "That's it, but there are several other TV stations. After the transaction is completed, you will convince Rainbow Media Management as soon as possible." The layer sold the stake in Playboy Channel."

Amy hesitated, said: "Eric, the profitability of Playboy Channel is still very good. Moreover, Rainbow Media is only holding shares, the TV station's management rights have been in the Playboy Group, and will not produce us. What impact."

"You may be mistaken, Amy, I let you sell the stakes of Playboy Channel is not for the sake of the company's reputation. Now more and more free on the Internet, the physical color. The industry will definitely move in the next few years. The decline, now not let go, this asset will certainly shrink sharply in the future."

"Well, I will remember this," Amy nodded and continued. "There are also agreements with Morgan Stanley and they will assist MGM in the next month." With $500 million in corporate bonds, many foundations, including State Street Global, have already expressed their intention to subscribe. Our financing is not large enough and will definitely go smoothly."

Even so, Amy looked at Eric's eyes with more complex emotions.

MGM's initial planned bond financing was $100 million. However, because Eric took the right to make the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the global sales of Royal Casino brought a lot of cash flow to MGM. In the end, the company only needed half of the bonds. Expansion plan for the TV business.

Although the outside world is generally optimistic about MGM's steady expansion strategy, most media expressed appreciation for MGM's decision to abandon the high-risk "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but Amy faintly felt that the "Lord of the Rings" was lost. The right to make a part of the song, as well as the film and television copyrights of the other two works of Child Care King, "The Adventures of the Hobbit" and "The Elf Diamond", is definitely a very heavy loss for MGM.

Amy was even affirmed that Eric did this in a penalty for the swinging attitude of MGM in the Pierce Brosnan incident to shareholders.

However, it was not until the first release of the Lord of the Rings series that she understood how serious this punishment was.

Eric feels some changes in Amy's eyes, but he is too lazy to think about it. He closes the trading plan in his hand and continues: "Since you have taken two TV stations at one time, have you considered the detailed business strategy? ?"

“Yes,” Amy replied: “E! Entertainment and Bravo’s original market positioning has some overlaps. My plan is to clearly distinguish the content of the two TV stations. e! Entertainment focuses on entertainment and fashion. The audience is determined to be young men and women around the age of 18, so the content needs to be more avant-garde. In this respect, I think the reality show of Beverly Girl is very good. In addition, the management has already begun to prepare for an e! entertainment. The news station, which specializes in broadcasting gossip news in the entertainment industry and the fashion circle, we also intend to continue to promote this plan. As for bravo, we intend to focus on the housewife audience. In this respect, bravo has already laid a good foundation, we have to do It is to continue to develop appropriate TV programs and to consolidate the market position of Bravo Television in this audience."

"Housewife," Eric repeated a vocabulary from Amy's words, and the name of a TV series, "Desperate Housewives," appeared almost instantly in her mind.

For a TV station for housewives, "Desperate Housewives" is simply tailor-made.

The reason why the ab TV station used to be more and more called the women's station is the influence of the high-definition drama series of "Desperate Housewives". Now, the Firefly Group already has a lietime TV station for urban women, and now there is another bravo TV station for housewives. Then, Eric will definitely not be in the direction of ab.

In this case, it would be more appropriate to put the "Desperate Housewives" as a big killer in Bravo.

Amy didn't hear the words in Eric's mouth and asked in confusion: "Eric, what did you just say?"

Eric returned to his heart and shook his head. For the time being, he did not intend to say this idea: "I just thought of some ideas, not mature enough. I will tell you later, you will focus on taking over the two. Let’s watch TV."

Once the "Desperate Housewives", he just watched a few episodes on and off. It is not realistic to copy the whole story. All he can do is rewrite the script according to the general idea of ​​the TV series. But in this case, is it finally? It will be hard to predict if it will be welcomed by the audience. However, this is actually good. After all, if the original "Desperate Housewives" is placed on a cable station such as Bravo, which is far less than the broadcast of a TV network, it still feels a pity. Now it’s the same as re-creating a TV series. It doesn’t matter if it succeeds.

Amy nodded, and the matter was almost finished. She was about to leave, and she remembered one thing. "Yes, Eric, about Beverly Girl, Ms. Jenna has picked four girls." The script is almost finished. Do you have to take a look?"

Eric turned on his computer's monitor and looked at his schedule. He nodded. "If I have time in recent days, I will call her."

After sending Amy, Eric invited Peter Jackson to eat at the restaurant on the Titanic at noon.

Peter Jackson has been preparing for the "Lord of the Rings" series for so many years, and finally entered the formal production stage. I did not expect to suddenly encounter the change of the production side. Recently, my mood has been very embarrassing, for fear that the project will be inexplicably yellow.

Eric naturally will not allow this to happen, so he also personally came forward to appease each other.

In addition to the next "Death to Come 2", there are no other films to be released in the summer file of the Firefly Group, and Eric's energy has begun to turn to other projects under the company.

"Iron Man" plans to start shooting early next year and has recently started casting. Although the preparations for "Spider-Man" are very slow, the casting work has also begun. Although the Firefly Group has at least 10 films at the same stage of production, Eric originally needed to pay attention to it, but it was only the two masterpieces of the Marvel Film Universe.

However, since the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy was taken over, Eric had to share a large part of his energy on this project.

The previous "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, with a production cost of less than 300 million US dollars, has spurred a huge box office of 100 million US dollars worldwide, and the rate of return is even higher than the Titanic. Eric naturally needs to be treated with caution.

In order to make the whole project run more smoothly, and transfer the production rights to the fireflies, Eric also simply took the production team that MGM has already set up and continued to cooperate with Peter Jackson to prepare for the film.

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the most difficult point in preparation for the early stage, is actually a casting.

Due to the grand background of the story, the characters in the trilogy are also very numerous, which means that the plan to invite famous actors to participate in the show basically does not work.

Although very optimistic about this project, Eric did not take the initiative to increase his budget. Therefore, most of the characters in the film will adopt second- and third-line newcomers. Although the most important thing in Hollywood is the actor, it is not so easy to pick the right person in the crowd. In addition to the two roles of the Elf Queen and the Princess Aachen, I intend to hand over to Nicole and Diane Kruger. Eric did not have too much to intervene in the casting, but set a pay for Peter Jackson. Budget constraints, and then handed over these cumbersome things to the other party.

The selection of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is still good to say that the many benefits of the role means that even if one or two role selections fail, the quality of the whole movie will not be affected. After his 16th birthday, Stewart Langkel also agreed to sign a six-part contract with Marvel, leaving only Iron Man.

After rejecting Tom Cruise, Marvel Entertainment eo Avi Arad also took a fancy to Matthew McConaughey. The arrogant temperament of this actor also echoes the image of Iron Man Tony Stark. However, he has starred in "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Time and Space Contact". Matthew McConaughey has been promoted to Hollywood. Unwilling to sign a long-term contract with Marvel, Eric also did not like the male star inexplicably, and did not continue to talk to each other.

As a result, the big production, which may cost more than 100 million US dollars, is usually selected by a male circle in a small circle, and eventually becomes a sea election for all Hollywood actors.

Although the harsh conditions of the fireflies came out, they were inevitably ridiculed by some media, and even evolved into a decline in the prospects of the entire project, but as Eric said in the Bruce South incident, he wanted to get this. Characters can still be discharged from Malibu to Burbank.

Firefly Studios.

Time has come to the last day of July, and today is exactly Friday.

Chris Jenner drove into Firefly Studios and parked the car in the parking lot, but did not rush to get off the bus. She took out the makeup mirror and took care of her makeup before pushing the door. She got the news last Wednesday, and Eric will take time to look at the script of Beverly Girl. I didn't expect to get news for more than a week. However, she did not dare to give any complaints in her heart.

Recently, due to the box office explosion of "Royal Casino", followed by the replacement of Bruce South, Eric's personal influence has become an unattainable level in Hollywood. For such a big man, Chris Jenna, who is instinctively in awe of power, feels that even if she waits for a month, it seems that it is no big deal. As long as she can maintain some relationship with the other party, it will be enough for her to be in her own small circle. Li Yang was exulted.

During this time, her days were indeed very beautiful. For the "Beverly Girl" project, she moved back to Los Angeles with her family. She thought that some old friends would be alienated because of her years of leaving. But when she learned that she would personally refer to the reality show project that Eric Williams conceived, all of them rushed up, much more eager than when she was in Los Angeles.

All the way to Eric's office door, politely greeted the outside Eric's secretary, the other side let her wait a moment, Chris Jenna will sit honestly in the outside reception room.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you for the last time, Brigid, get this role. After you see you again, you may call your little pepper." After a while, Eric's office door opened, a man and a woman. Out of it, the man is naturally Eric, the girl is Brigitte Fonda who once acted as the heroine in "The Ghosts Are Not Ghosted", and Chris Jenner remembers that since the "Ghosts" After the "unsuccessful", the other party seems to have no good work in recent years, but, faintly listening to Eric’s tone, she seems to have another important role, and it is enough to change an actor in the audience. The important role of the impression in the heart.

I couldn’t help but admire. She once dreamed of becoming an actor. Unfortunately, there was never such an opportunity.

Brigitte Fonda also noticed that Krist Jenna, who was sitting in the reception room, nodded at her and said a few words to Eric, and left politely.

Eric watched the other party leave, then waved to Chris Jenna: "Sorry, Ms. Jenna, I have kept you waiting, please come with me."

"It doesn't matter, I actually just arrived," said Chris Jenner, who quickly got up and picked up her bag and walked over. (To be continued.) 8