After the acquisition of Disney, Firefly Pictures already had its own music department, but compared to other major studios, the scale of the music department obtained from Disney was much smaller, and Eric's New Territories Point Records, which was established only to release the single "Newdivide", is negligible.

At the moment, Firefly Pictures is thriving, and the company's revenue and profits are even more popular with the other big ones, except for Eric, a time-traveler who can see the future, perhaps all the other executives of Firefly will be in favor of expanding Firefly Pictures' music department like Katzenberg.

Hearing what Katzenberg had just said, Eric didn't dampen his enthusiasm and said, "Jeffrey, Geffen Records is not for us, and we should focus all our resources and energy on the acquisition of TV networks right now, and if we want to eat too much in one go, we will often choke." ”

Although he doesn't know much about investment companies in New York, he also knows how scattered his boss's energy is, and it is said that during the promotion of "Jurassic Park", the boss also went to Finland on a whim to buy a mobile phone company.

Truth be told, Katzenberg didn't even know exactly where the small country of Finland was until he heard about it.

At this time, it was past the end of work and David Geffen was sent away, and Eric had no intention of returning to the office, because in the process of watching "Interview with the Vampire", he thought of something like an online music platform, and Eric planned to go back immediately to check the relevant information.

But. Thinking that there was still a large group of people left in the office when the two of them left, Eric raised his hand and pointed to the location of the conference room. "Jeffrey, what's going on with them?"

Eric didn't think it was strange if it was just Firefly's employees working overtime, but he remembered that Neil Jordan and Cruise were also in the conference room.

"The company arranged a small reception for them to celebrate the completion of the film, and it was in a nearby hotel, and David Geffen would definitely be there in the evening," Katzenberg explains. ”

Westerners have the same party as Eric remembers a college dorm buddy dinner. There were a variety of reasons, but Eric was not surprised and had no intention of participating. After saying goodbye to Katzenberg, Eric returned to Malibu.

When Eric wasn't in Los Angeles, Drew didn't usually live here, and there weren't many people in the Sharp Corner Manor other than a few basic maintenance staff.

Carrying a suitcase alone, he walked into the empty and quiet hall of the villa. Eric couldn't help but take a deep breath.

This is his kingdom. A kingdom of one.

Eric is a person who likes to enjoy solitude very much, he quietly puts his luggage into the bedroom alone, orders a takeout on the phone, has dinner, the sky in Los Angeles is completely dark, Eric goes into the study, turns on the computer, and begins to sort out some thoughts that come to mind in the afternoon.

The Yahoo portal is the result of Eric's unsparing investment. Very informative. Eric even found an online music sharing site in the website directory, much to his surprise.

Because of the strict copyright protection system in the West. The site, called the Internet Underground Music Archive, had just over 100 pieces of music to share, but Eric found something he was interested in. The Internet Underground Music Archive site uses the MP2 audio format, which is certainly the precursor to MP3.

After compiling some of the information he had found into a document, Eric opened his mailbox and began writing an email to Steve Mitnick, the head of Hotmail.

Through this period of online communication, Eric has a deep understanding of the heads of the browser company, Yahoo and Hotmail, and Eric has decided to merge the two companies before 1995, Yahoo Portal and Hotmail, and the person he chose is the person in charge of Steve Mitnick, whom he has not met so far.

After sending the email, Eric stood up and stretched, walked to the bookshelf and took out a random novel, made himself another pot of coffee, turned off the ceiling light in the study, and sat under the lamp by the window and read quietly.

The soundproofing in the study is very good, the sound of the waves cannot be heard, and occasionally when you look up, you can see a layer of silver scales on the surface of the sea under the light of the shore of Malibu.

After a while, a beep came from the computer speakers, and Eric got up and went to his desk, turned on the monitor, and saw that Steve Mitnick had already replied.

Steve Mitnick has a very low opinion of the MP2 audio format, and has a lot of jargon that Eric doesn't understand in his email.

However, in the end, the two agreed to buy the patent for the MP2 audio format for technical improvements.

At the end, Eric suddenly remembered the instant messaging app that the two had been talking about, when Steve Mitnick told him that he could finish it in three months, and it was almost three months.

However, after asking, the other party bounced as usual, saying that there are still some details that need to be improved, this kind of words Eric has already experienced once in the development process of Hotmail, and he didn't feel surprised, for the sake of Hotmail's smooth use of the effect face, Eric didn't urge, anyway, this matter is not too urgent, just tossed by the other party.

After talking, Eric got up to read a little more and go to bed, when he suddenly found Drew sitting cross-legged on the couch behind him, intently holding a book and reading it again.

Seeing Eric stand up, Xiao Nizi casually threw away the book in her hand and rushed towards Eric.

With a soft little body in his arms, Eric slumped back into his leather chair.

Eric reached out and put his arm around the girl's moving body and asked, "When did you come back, it scared me." ”

Drew sat on Eric's lap, rubbing his habits around, and grinned, "Ten minutes ago, I saw you were busy." I didn't bother you. ”

"Oh, my girl suddenly became sensible, what have I been crazy about all the time I'm not in Los Angeles?"

"I'm not crazy. People have been building Flower Pictures, and I rented a three-story office building in Venice Beach, close to the Firefly base in Preavista, how about it?"

After Twentieth Century Fox acquired TG, Drew received $42 million for a 30% stake, and Eric sold Flower Pictures to Drew for a symbolic price according to his own arrangement.

"That's good. You can use the resources of the studio base nearby, which is much better than the Firefly headquarters, which is too far from Preavista. ”

"Huh. Also, who do you think I'm poaching to be the CEO of Flower Pictures?"

"Michael Eisner?" Eric smiled and deliberately showed a surprised expression, and patted the girl on the leg gently: "Well done, I've long seen him unpleasant." Now that it has fallen into your hands. Then clean him up. ”

Drew was dissatisfied with Eric's little joke, and twisted his waist vigorously: "I spent a lot of effort, no, guess again!"

"There's no hint at all, how do you let me guess. ”

Drew said, "It's a woman, you know." ”

Woman?

Eric thought for a moment and said, "It can't be Paula Wagner, right?"

Eric could think of a manager who matched the strength of Flower Pictures and was Paula Wagner of Cruise & Wagner Productions. He was going to let Nicole dig into the corner of Cruise, but he didn't expect to be taken by Xiao Nizi.

But. From Drew's momentarily stunned expression, Eric realized. It must have been a mistake.

Drew also quickly thought of Paula Wagner's identity, and said with some disdain: "No, what is it about her that is worth my effort." ”

Eric then thought that although Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise set up their own doors a few years in advance, they did not produce such a good work as "Mission Impossible", and in the past two years, Cruise's production company can only say that it is not angry, and there are no bright spots in the performance, and it seems that it is really not worth poaching people: "Okay, don't play dumb riddles, you just tell me who it is." ”

"It's Amy Pascal. ”

Eric is really a little surprised at this time, although Amy Pascal is only a vice president of Columbia, but even if it is because Peter Cooper will not be able to do the miasma of Columbia, with Amy Pascal's many years of experience in Hollywood, it is very easy to jump to any other big film company to continue to serve as a vice president, I didn't expect to be fooled by Xiao Nizi into the flower film industry that has nothing.

However, the two are really fated, and in the original time and space, the "Breaking Bad" series was successfully filmed with the support of Amy Pascal.

"Tell me, how did you trick Amy into your shell company that doesn't have anything?"

"I promised her three years later that she would be the CEO of Colombia. ”

"Oh...... Ah, that's a bit too much, isn't it?"

Xiao Nizi blinked innocently: "You asked me to make Flower Pictures independent, don't you want me to annex a big film company?"

"That's Columbia, I'm going to target you with MGM, right?"

You know, even if Sony realizes two years later that Peter Cooper has crippled Colombia and wants to get out, with the rapid upward trend of the Hollywood industry, the price will definitely not be much lower than when it was wholly owned by the company.

In order to circumvent the monopoly, Eric asked Xiao Nizi to leave Firefly with Flower Pictures, which was originally aimed at MGM. Compared with the huge Colombia, the dilapidated MGM Pictures can easily be won with more than a billion dollars.

"MGM sucks, I don't want it," Drew shook his head in dissatisfaction, and then began to change the subject: "Eric, I still have more than 40 million in my hand, do you think I should start shooting from that film?"

Eric felt Xiao Nizi's intention to change the topic, and he no longer entangled, anyway, to pull Amy Pascal over, there are only benefits and no harm, as for the girl's promise, it is estimated that Eric can take it into account, and Amy Pascal can also take into account that since the other party chose to jump ship from Colombia to help Drew, then she must have her own ideas.

After so long, Eric almost forgot how many copyrights Drew had collected, so after asking, Little Nizi got up from Eric, ran to the bookshelf, found a folder, and handed it to him: "Now, it's all here." ”

Eric was just about to look through it, and the girl squeezed on Eric again, but fortunately, the leather chair was big enough, and the girl was also petite, and it didn't look crowded when she leaned together.

Ereca leaned into the leather chair and propped up the floor towards the desk, grabbed a pencil, and flipped through the folders, the two of them looking at a list of copyrighted materials together.

Eric wrote a lot at the beginning, but because of the leakage of the news, some were robbed, and some copyrights were lost, and there are not too many names on the list at the moment.

In addition to the "Breaking Bad" series, which has been transferred to DreamWorks, Eric has listed the copyrights of several films with the most commercial potential.

"Mission Impossible", "Spy Shadow", "Forrest Gump", "The Lord of the Rings" ......

When he saw "The Lord of the Rings", Eric was surprised to find that Nizi had taken the copyright of all of Tolkien's works, including "The Elf Diamond", which was a good thing.

In my memory, the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" was originally obtained by the Weinstein brothers of Miramax in the early nineties, and it fell into the hands of the new line after a while, and finally appeared on the big screen with the efforts of Peter Jackson, and the whole process took a full ten years.

However, because of a series of hidden income, withholding and sharing of the new line, the copyright owner of the "Lord of the Rings" series was angered, and after the filming of "The Hobbit", because the Weinstein brothers did not get the copyright of "Elf Diamond", the series was finally stranded. Although the copyright owner of "Elven Diamond" gave a series of high-sounding reasons, in Eric's view, after all, the distribution of benefits was not negotiated.

In addition to these four copyrights with huge commercial potential, Eric also saw the copyright of the original novel of "The Shawshank Redemption", although this movie can be called an absolute classic, but it is not a box office blockbuster, and can only be used to impact the Oscars.

In addition to these, the other copyrights are not interesting, and they were completely brainstormed by Eric at the time.

The two leaned together for a while, and Eric felt that the potential of these rights alone would not be enough to win Colombia.

After pondering for a while, thinking of Sony, Eric quickly thought of Sony's turnaround "Spider-Man" in the original time and space, and now the film and television adaptation rights of "Spider-Man" and some other famous superheroes of Marvel are still in the hands of those small film companies that are not in the stream. (To be continued.) )