Chapter 578

Drew had been quietly listening to the two of them discussing how to get the copyright of superheroes such as "Spider-Man", and when he heard that Eric even had the idea of buying Carlock Films, Xiao Nizi couldn't help laughing out loud, looking overjoyed.

Eric looked at Drew and asked, "Isn't it funny?" ”

"Of course, it's just a copyright of "Spider-Man", and if Carlock wants to co-develop it, it doesn't necessarily have to be this movie, we can use the capital injection rights of "Mission Impossible" or "Wonderful Night at the Museum" to exchange it with them, anyway, they all need financing."

"Spider-Man" in the original plane was so successful that Eric subconsciously felt that if he wanted to get the rights to this superhero, he had to increase his stakes. When I heard Drew's words, I suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

Amy. Pascal said, "Drew, I've considered this possibility. However, film companies usually use debt financing when raising funds for filming films that they are very optimistic about, so that they only need to repay the principal and interest of debts after the film is sold well, and do not need to share copyright and interests with others. We weren't going to distribute the film ourselves, and in that case we had to give up some of the distribution, and if we had brought in companies like Karlock to co-produce it, we would have made less profit. ”

"Okay, then I'll leave it unt." Drew shrugged indifferently, picked up a glass of juice on the table, and drank it himself.

Amy noticed Eric's look of interest and said, "Eric, aren't you really going to do this?" ”

"I think it's a good idea. So be it. Eric looked at Amy. Pascal looked a little reluctant. said: "Amy, I promise you that you will never regret it in the future. ”

Amy. Pascal couldn't have known if he would regret it in the future, but now that Eric had spoken, she had to agree: "Okay, Eric, if they ask for a share of the copyright, should I agree?" ”

"You can increase the investment ratio a little bit. But the copyright must not be shared, "Mission Impossible" and "Night at the Museum" are both series of movies, and we have to ensure that the launch of the sequel and the choice of the protagonist are completely up to us. If it really doesn't work, you can also make some small concessions on the investment in the sequel, "Eric will not make the mistake of Paramount and Cruise cooperating in the development of "Mission Impossible", because Cruise held half of the copyright of "Mission Impossible" in the original time and space, Paramount did not even have the power to change the protagonist after breaking with Cruise, and finally had to pinch his nose and invite Cruise back.

Eric was just about to ask Amy. Pascal was talking to Cruise when he saw Nicole walking towards him not far away.

Eric beckoned to Nicole. stood up and greeted her, but the little girl next to her was the first to float to Nicole's side and hugged her tall figure. also rubbed against Nicole, looking overly enthusiastic: "Hey, Nicole, wow, I can't imagine that your skin is so beautiful now, so envious, I must go to Africa when I have time." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, Drew," Nicole said, but unceremoniously reached out and pulled Drew away from her body and walked over to Eric.

"Hey, Nicole," Eric also stepped forward to hug Nicole, as there were many guests around, and neither of them made any affectionate gestures.

Amy. Pascal said hello to Nicole and walked off to the rest of the city.

Drew didn't leave, the three of them sat down at the small round table, Eric poured a glass of red wine and handed it to Nicole, asking, "How does it feel to film in Morocco?" ”

Nicole showed a palpitating expression: "That place is terrible, and there is still a war, we lived with 500 soldiers sent by the local government during the whole filming process, the only fortunate thing is that there was no attack during the whole filming process, you must know that we stayed in a small town for five days, but just left, and the next day I heard that the town was ransacked by the anyway government army." ”

Eric didn't know much about the situation in North Africa, but he also knew that choosing to shoot in Morocco would save the world at least $10 million in production costs: "I think as long as the first part of The Mummy is successful, the sequel Michael . Eisner won't let you shoot in Morocco. ”

"Of course, I'd rather give up the role of the sequel and never go back to that hellish place," Nicole said, touching her tanned dark skin in distress, with her understanding of Drew, little Niko had just complimented her on her beautiful complexion, which was definitely the other way around. And it can be seen from Eric's reaction that most Westerners advocate a healthy tan of sun, and after Nicole returned to Los Angeles, many friends praised her for making her skin more beautiful, but Eric was indifferent to such an obvious change in her.

As they chatted, it was getting dark, the lights were on in the manor, and there were more and more guests at the party, and Eric had to get up to entertain some important guests.

It wasn't until seven o'clock, when most of the guests arrived, and Eric and the creators of "Jurassic Park" smashed the ice sculpture symbolizing the billion-dollar box office in the villa lobby, and the party officially began.

Although Thanksgiving is approaching, many of Eric's women stay in Los Angeles, except for Nicole and Drew. Jensen and the Cruze sisters both showed up at the party, and Eric thought that Jennifer was at the party. Connery was supposed to be rushing home to eat Thanksgiving with his parents, but the girl did the same.

After returning to Los Angeles, Eric has not been able to find time to see Julia and Emma's little guy, so he specially called and invited Julia to bring Emma over to the party, so Julia took Emma and Elizabeth to New York under the pretext of Elizabeth's invitation that day, which made Eric cry and laugh. Eric was sure that Julia's state was definitely 'hopeless', and Eric himself no longer had any expectations, but Julia was like a little sparrow tied to the legs of a rope but not locked in a cage, looking at the unobstructed sea and sky, and trying to flapp her wings a few times from time to time.

Socialized at the party. Eric looked at his watch. It was close to eight o'clock. Buffett didn't feel it yet, and just about to ask if it was anything else, he saw a lot of female guests gathered at a sofa next to the glass curtain wall of the villa, talking and laughing about something, and what surprised Eric even more was that all his women were there. Maybe this is also the reason why a group of flowery women get together but there are no uninteresting male guests who come forward to talk.

Nicole happened to notice Eric looking at them in surprise, and walked away from the crowd without a trace.

When Nicole walked in, Eric asked curiously, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Gossip, clothes, cosmetics, men." Nicole grinned: "Anyway, if you men are not interested in something, we will talk about something." ”

"Actually, men are very interested, especially the last item you said, can you tell me some secretly?"

Nicole winked mischievously, "Of course not." ”

Eric shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Okay then, I'll take the time to torture me to extract a confession." ”

Nicole's face was slightly red, but she didn't say anything more, and stretched out her little hand to Eric: "Shall we go dancing?" ”

Eric shook his head apologetically, "I'm waiting for an important guest, I'm afraid I can't accompany you." ”

Nicole tapped the corner of her lips and was coquettish, but she was very sensible and did not entangle. Just as he was about to leave, Eric pulled Ranique. Leaned into her ear and whispered, "Help me tell them to stay tonight." ”

Nicole thought that Eric was going to say something quiet, but when she heard this, she immediately gave him a blank look, but said helplessly: "I'm only responsible for telling you, it's none of my business if they don't want to stay." ”

"Of course," Eric was about to tease a few more words when he saw Jeffrey beckoning to him not far away, Eric realized that Buffett might have arrived, nodded at Nicole, and hurried towards Jeffrey.

……

Eric took Jeffrey, Katzenberg and the others to the parking lot, and saw an old man in his sixties with silver hair and tortoiseshell glasses stepping out of a black Mercedes.

"Hello, Mr. Buffett," Eric held out his hand to the other man, and couldn't help but look at the legendary billionaire once more.

On the list of the world's richest people, most of the rich have amassed an astonishing fortune with a company or a product. Gates, or Larry, who became rich with database software. Alison, only Warren. Warren Buffett has repeatedly climbed to the throne of the world's richest man by relying on diversified investment methods.

"Eric, nice to meet you," Warren. Buffett warmly shook Eric's hand: "Formally sorry, I encountered some things, and I came a little late." ”

"It's okay, Mr. Buffett, I'll introduce you to ......" Eric introduced Katzenberg and the others one by one, and then walked towards the villa together surrounded by everyone.

Originally, I saw Eric walking solemnly to the parking lot with a group of fireflies, and I already realized that something important was coming. When the guests discover that this person is Warren. When Buffett was in the house, many people showed surprises and understanding, and some guests couldn't wait to run to the corner and take out their mobile phones to spread the news to the outside world after Eric and Buffett disappeared into the villa.

Obviously, since the majority shareholder of ABC TV is here, the goal of Firefly Pictures to acquire the TV network is self-evident, and tomorrow this news will definitely affect many things, such as NBC and CBS, whose stock prices have been rising for a period of time, the stock upward trend will definitely come to an abrupt end, and there may even be a decline, while ABC's stock will definitely have the opposite result.

Most of the people who attended the party tonight were people in Hollywood, and there were not many people who had crossed paths with Buffett, so Eric took Buffett directly to his study.

"Eric, when Firefly bought Disney, I actually wanted to meet you, but unfortunately I never had the opportunity, you know, I was a shareholder of Disney in the first place."

Eric poured twice the Coca-Cola that had been prepared long ago, handed Buffett a glass, and sat down on the sofa opposite: "Actually, I am too, Mr. Buffett, like many people, I admire your investment methods very much, and I have also considered buying some Berkshire stocks." ”

Warren Buffett fumbled with the glass of Coke in his hand with great interest and said, "If you want to invest, of course I will welcome it." I've seen all the films you've worked on before coming here, and while some of them I don't really like, there's no denying that these are commercial films with a lot of box office potential, and I'm curious, how did you create or pick out these scripts? ”

"On a personal note, we all know that investing in a film is like gambling, and no one can know if a film will be popular with the audience until it's released. Otherwise, it would never have been George who made Star Wars. Lucas too. ”

Eric's explanation is absolutely impossible to satisfy Buffett, however, Buffett does not have the slightest intention of delving, in the small house in Omaha, he has been pondering Eric for a long time, Eric is like a darling kissed by the goddess of luck, since the rapid rise in 1988, this young man has not missed a single step in investment or in movies, although he does not want to admit it, but Buffett feels that Eric should be the same kind of person as him, since the sixties, Warren Buffett has been picking and choosing from different portfolios, and the reason why he has been able to accumulate a wealth of nearly 10 billion US dollars is also due to the fact that he has never made a huge mistake in investment over the years.

Therefore, since Firefly Pictures announced the withdrawal of shares from Fox TV Network, Buffett has closely followed Firefly's every move. On the day that Firefly Pictures announced its bid with Viacom for the Blockbuster chain, Buffett realized from a series of clues that the real purpose of Firefly was definitely not Blockbuster.

"Eric, I'm curious, the video tape industry is growing at a rate no less than the box office every year, and the development of the TV network has been sluggish for a long time, why don't you choose Blockbuster and buy ABC?"

Now that Warren Buffett has come to the door, Eric did not defend himself anymore, saying: "I remember you once said that I am afraid when others are greedy, and I am greedy when others are fearful, is that true?" ”

Buffett smiled and acquiesced.

"Now the development of the video tape industry is at a moment when you say that everyone should covet profits, and TV networks happen to be the kind of existence that discourages many people, so I don't think it's so surprising to choose to buy ABC, right?" (To be continued.) )