Alan knocked on the door and pushed open Eric's office door, and saw Eric leaning back in his office chair, his expression mixed with relaxation and exhaustion.

"What's the matter?" asked Eric as he straightened up as Alan approached.

"When you were discussing things with Mr. Lynn, Mr. Cameron called, and he said that Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted on a $13 million salary, and if we didn't agree, Arnold Schwarzenegger would sign a contract with Carlock Pictures for the next film. ”

Hearing the name Carlock, Eric frowned slightly, Carlock Films was one of the most well-known independent film companies in Hollywood in the early nineties, and in parallel time and space, "Terminator 2" and "Instinct" were all from Carlock.

At the same time, Carlock is also a spoiler of Hollywood rules, because the other party is backed by a huge group of German investors, in order to get a contract from a well-known Hollywood movie star, wantonly increase the salary, directly interested in Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others quoted a sky-high salary of 15 million US dollars, which is almost more than twice that of Hollywood's current first-line stars. △＋

In my memory, Carlock's fate was very miserable, and the pirate film "Cut Throat Island" with an investment of $95 million in 1995 only recovered more than 9 million at the box office, and the huge loss made Carlock Pictures go bankrupt directly.

The reason for this is that the plot of "Cut Throat Island" itself is full of loopholes on the one hand, but the street fight is counted in the Guinness Book of Records. There must be a bad shadow of the seven major film companies behind it. To know. The wave of rising celebrity salaries led by Cullock has caused studios to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more to celebrities every year, and this kind of thing is put on anyone, and it is estimated that the culprit will be crushed.

I don't know if the script of "Cut Throat Island" has appeared now, if such a box office rotten egg who blows up who dies can be held in his hand, it is also a very sharp weapon to throw it out at the right time.

Seeing Eric close his eyes as if thinking about something, Alan stood quietly across from him and waited patiently for his decision.

Thinking about "Cut Throat Island", Eric quickly put his mind on "Terminator 2", no doubt. In the future, the salary of stars will definitely get higher and higher, and even Cameron, who has the grace of knowing Schwarzenegger, can only make Schwarzenegger make a concession of $2 million, and Eric thinks that he does not have enough chips for Schwarzenegger to make greater concessions.

Of course, since the ultimate culprit behind this wave of star price increases is the Germans, Eric also thought about letting the Germans do this wrong, and introduced German investors to participate in the production of "Terminator 2". Anyway, "Terminator 2" will be handed over to Firefly for distribution, and when the time comes, as long as you do some tricks and tricks on the cost of publicity and distribution, and increase the share ratio of Firefly, it will be enough to keep most of the profits of the movie in Firefly, and be more ruthless. The Germans don't even want to get back all the money they invested.

But in this case, it will involve the copyright issue of "Terminator". It's okay if there were other movies, but since Eric has completely gotten the big gold mine of "Terminator", he will definitely not allow any more unexpected changes in the copyright of this series.

Some time ago, I saw the copyright lawsuit of the 007 series in the newspaper, and it is said that the lawsuit has been fought for more than 20 years, and Eric does not want "Terminator" to be involved in such a tangled copyright lawsuit in the future.

"I'll talk to Jim about this myself," Eric said, clearing all his thoughts.

Alan nodded, and was about to go out, when Eric called out to the assistant again: "By the way, help me pay attention to the pirate movie scripts in the circle, be low-key, and don't make a noise." ”

"I understand," Alan smiled, and asked again, "Is there anything else?"

"No, after attending the premiere of "Sleeping with the Enemy" tonight, I will be preparing "Shock Point" with Ms. Catherine Bigelow for the next few days, so I won't come to the company. ”

"Don't you need me to follow?" asked Allen, puzzled, for Eric had always taken him with him in the past.

Eric didn't shake his head: "No need, there are a lot of things in the company during this time, I hope you can take care of it for me here." ”

"Alright then," Alan nodded, turning and leaving the office.

The summer file entered late June, and Firefly's first film released in the summer, "The Silence of the Lambs", was released for two weeks, and the word-of-mouth brought by the meticulous plot and the superb performances of the actors, as well as the topic of several female producers creating zào, got nearly $40 million at the box office in two weeks, if it wasn't for the budget to catch up with the schedule, the cost has now been recovered, and at the same time, many critics predict that this film will become another Oscar-winning horror film after "The Exorcist" in 1973.

In this case, another thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" by Juilliizumab's Firefly has certainly attracted strong attention, and with the publicity of "Instinct" has also begun, this is another crime thriller.

Although some tabloids complained about whether Eric had been assimilated by New Line's production style because of the acquisition of New Line, Hollywood studio executives with a keen sense of smell paid close attention to these three films.

If both "Sleep with the Enemy" and "Instinct" are box office successes, Hollywood will certainly increase the number of horror thriller genre productions in the coming years. Driven by profits, Hollywood will also follow suit, but the West's copyright protection strategy and production cost restrictions make Hollywood's follow-up not as unscrupulous as Hong Kong across the ocean.

In the previous test screenings of "Sleeping with the Enemy", the critics' evaluation was not too high, although it cannot be said to be a bad movie, but it can only give a mediocre evaluation, except for Julia's remarkable performance, there is nothing else outstanding.

Of course, thanks to Robert Shea's unsparing public relations, most of the reviews published in the newspapers before the film's release were praised.

As long as it can be a box office hit, Robert Shay will not care what the critics say, if it weren't for the film reviews in the newspapers that most of the audience's selections in this era, Robert Shea probably wouldn't even bother with the critics for public relations. (To be continued......)