After Eric finished talking about the exchange conditions, Marcel Vareno was immediately unwilling, even if he only counted 75% of MGM's shares in the hands of Crédit Lyonnais, he felt that the price of $1.2 billion was a bit underestimated, Eric gave MGM's overall valuation of only $1.2 billion, and there was no shadow production company in the mouth, but Eric directly gave a sky-high price of $800 million.

"Eric, this condition is too harsh, even if MGM's overall market value is barely 1.2 billion US dollars, but the production company is definitely not worth 800 million. ”

Eric did not refute Marcel Varenaud in the slightest, smiled at the Frenchman a little playfully, and nodded: "Of course, if you don't agree, you can talk." ”

Marcel Novaire was stunned for a moment, noticing the gazes of the others in the reception room, and couldn't help but smile wryly. He realized that at this point, now that Eric had spoken, MGM had no room for bargaining.

Judging from the current situation, MGM is completely in a passive position, with Eric's plan for the production company, several other major Hollywood film companies must be very willing to undertake the distribution work, MGM was able to get this opportunity, mainly because of Eric's personal will, if he doesn't want to pay attention to MGM, he only needs to assist in the production of MGM 007 series to get rid of the dark disk agreement brought about by the GATT, and there is no need to do so much.

Thinking of this, Marcel Vareno nodded helplessly: "Okay, Eric, I will submit this plan to the board of directors as soon as possible." ”

When it comes to this, it's basically finalized. The host, Nicolas Seydoux, was about to ask the crowd to come to the restaurant for dinner. Suddenly another question came to mind: "Eric." What's the name of the production company you're going to make?"

Eric didn't think about it, and blurted out a little lazily: "It's just DreamWorks." ”

"DreamWorks, good name. ”

"yes, Dream Factory, that's a pretty good idea. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but Eric smiled a little wickedly, but the new production company was very similar to the DreamWorks format in the original plane. It's a very apt name, but if Spielberg wants to make a big move again, he'll have to choose a different name for the studio.

After dinner at the Seydoux family's mansion, Eric drove back to the hotel, it was already half past ten in the evening, and it was still working hours in Los Angeles, so Eric called the Los Angeles Firefly headquarters, communicated the day's events with the management of Firefly Pictures, and asked Michael Lynn to send a Firefly executive to participate in the negotiation of the new production company.

A few days later. A vice president of Firefly Pictures rushed to Paris to negotiate Firefly Pictures' interests in DreamWorks Films. Madrid, Spain, the last stop of European publicity, also completed its premiere. At the same time, the box office data of "Jurassic Park" in Paris was also released quickly, "Jurassic Park" earned more than 27 million francs in the first week in France, while the total box office of "Sprout" in the first week of "Jurassic Park" was only more than 6 million francs, although converted into dollars, the production cost of "Sprout" was only "Jurassic Park" But the production cost of more than 160 million francs is still the most expensive film in the history of French cinema, and after the data was released, the French media was of course in an uproar again, asking the French government to pay attention to local films.

However, Eric is very clear that many things have been settled in the dark, and at this time it is already the final stage of the GATT negotiations, and in the face of the insistence of some European countries, the US federal government once again issued a tough ultimatum, before December 15, 1993, if the GATT negotiations are still not reached, then the entire agreement will be nullified. It is clear to all European countries that if the agreement is really nullified, international trade will fall into chaos for a long time, which is something that Europe, which is in the midst of economic recovery, absolutely cannot afford.

When he got the news, Eric had already taken the creators of "Jurassic Park" to Tokyo, Japan, to prepare for the premiere of the film in Tokyo, Japan, on July 29.

At the same time, the negotiations between Chris and Nokia Group have also yielded certain results, and the major shareholders of Nokia Group have agreed to divest several other companies owned by Nokia that are not involved in mobile communications from the group, and continue negotiations with Firefly only for Nokia's mobile communications division.

With this agreement, the size of assets involved in the negotiations will be reduced from $1.1 billion to about $700 million.

At the same time, Eric also learned from Chris that because the launch of the GSM network has been gradually recognized by European countries, more communication companies have begun to turn their attention to the research and development of GSM standard mobile phones. Once other mobile communication companies launch GSM mobile phones in a timely manner, the time and technical advantages accumulated by Nokia Group in the early stage will no longer exist, in this case, Nokia urgently needs a large amount of capital injection for new mobile phones to research and development and marketing and promotion of the company's products, therefore, Firefly's advantages in negotiations will become more and more obvious.

Now that the size of the assets involved has been reduced to $700 million, Eric told Chris that he should no longer be too careful about money, and the most important thing is to get more shares of Nokia, and after learning more about the future of mobile phones, Chris also agrees with Eric's opinion.

Eric and his publicity team settled in Chiyoda-ku, in the center of Tokyo, because the Japanese economy exploded in the 80s, when the Japanese people's self-esteem was at their highest, and after Eric came to Tokyo, he could clearly feel the feeling of wanting to do something from the Japanese people he came into contact with.

Tokyo in July is the hottest time of the year, plus there is no good feeling for this country, Eric did not stay in Japan for too long, after attending the premiere, he left Japan in a hurry, but many of the team chose to stay, planning to travel in Tokyo, except for a few countries across the sea, Japan's international image in the West is very good. As a result, most Westerners are very curious about Japan. In addition, Tokyo is the last stop for the promotion of "Jurassic Park". Now that the work has been done, Eric doesn't force anything.

"Alan, you know, when I was a kid, I had a dream that like a migratory bird, I could move all year round and look for a place where the temperature was always 23 degrees. Getting off the plane with a few people in his entourage at Los Angeles International Airport, Eric took a deep breath. Said to Alan who was walking beside him.

Knowing that Eric had moved from London to Los Angeles with his father when he was eight years old, Alan smiled and asked, "What was your dream before the age of eight?"

Eric was stunned and nodded, "yes, that, you know, the weather in London has been very bad, I hate the clammy and cold environment, very much annoyance." ”

Alan smiled and asked, "What about later?"

"Later," Eric waved his hand as if to embrace the bright sunshine around him, "I just found out." Actually, Los Angeles is such a place, as long as you get here. There is no need to migrate at all. ”

"Looks like you don't like flying around the world," Alan concluded with a laugh.

"Of course," Eric laughed as well.

Eric didn't inform too many people about his trip, and when he walked out of the airport, he was greeted by several official cars sent by Firefly Pictures, and Eric also found Jeffrey standing next to a business car with a smile.

"Jeffrey, why did you come here yourself?" said Erik in surprise and hugged Jeffrey.

"It happened to be fine in the afternoon, and I heard that you were back today, so I came over in person," Jeffrey explained.

Eric allowed several of his bodyguards who had followed him around the globe to move freely, and sent Alan away before getting into a car with Jeffrey.

"Is there something wrong?" asked Jeffrey next to him after the car started.

Jeffrey smiled and shook his head, "Are we already so alienated from each other?"

Eric was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Of course not, I was just a little surprised." ”

"I really didn't have much to do today, so I came here in person," Jeffrey explained again, "but one more thing, I went to New York last week and met the two little ones. ”

"Oh?" said Eric, with a puzzled expression.

"Kevin and Xia Xia are very cute," Jeffrey said, as if he was a little embarrassed to speak, and asked, "Eric, Emily has been in contact with Joan and Vicky a lot, and you have more contact with Chris than my father, I just want you to help me ask, when did the two of them get married?"

It seems that caring about their children's marriage is a common problem of parents all over the world, Eric smiled secretly in his heart, and said, "Didn't they say that they plan to get married at the age of thirty?"

"Thirty years old......" Jeffrey pouted, "Then you say, how old is Chris now?"

Eric was stunned, he remembered the first time he met Chris, he was twenty-six years old, and now three years have passed......

"Twenty-nine?"

Jeffrey nodded in annoyance, "And, I know from Emily's father, Emily is actually a year older than Chris." ”

Eric couldn't help but show a distressed look, and spread his hands and said: "Jeffrey, I can't help you with this matter, I still need you to be a father to nagging in person, you know, usually children are most afraid of their parents nagging, if you say it a few more times, maybe they can't help but get married?"

"Will this work?" asked Jeffrey, inquiringly.

Eric thought to himself that Chris and Emily were the kind of people who were strong-willed, and this method probably didn't work much, but he couldn't think of any suitable way: "That's all I can think of." ”

"Then I'll try ......" Jeffrey sighed and didn't continue to talk about it before asking, "I already know about the cooperation with European film companies." However, don't you think that our 30% stake is a bit low, and with your current value, just being a producer is enough to take 30% of the profits of a film?"

"I don't think it's easy to do that, Jeffrey, think about it, what else is there at MGM now?"

Jeffrey wondered, "007?"

Eric smiled: "Yes, MGM now has 007 as a bargaining chip left, of course, I don't mean this, I mean, MGM doesn't even have a set now, all of them were sold by the old guy Cork Corkerian and even converted into MGM Hotels, although the newly established DreamWorks Pictures will cooperate with MGM, but in terms of production, DreamWorks still has to rely on the resources of Fireflies." ”

Jeffrey nodded a little understandingly, he knew that Eric's budget for the production company's ten films was $800 million, and given the average production cost of each movie in Hollywood right now, it wasn't so easy to spend $800 million on ten films. Firefly Pictures' photography base and special effects company will definitely take over most of the production work, so that Firefly Pictures can make a lot of money in the production process even if it doesn't use any edge wiping operations.

"Speaking of which, Stan Winston has chosen a location for a new studio in the digital space, which is going to be located in Florida, which has been given tax exemption for three years, and the new branch is going to build a studio of about 20,000 square meters in the capital of Florida," Jeffrey was quick to talk about the fireflies.

Although Eric has been paying attention to all aspects of the business of Firefly Pictures, it is impossible to know everything, plus he has given full autonomy to the digital field, so it is the first time to hear this news, however, Eric has no opinion, the three-year tax exemption measure is also a good condition for the digital field, and Eric will also agree to it, although the development trend of special effects companies is to develop overseas, but now, the profit margin of the special effects industry in North America is still very rich, and the special effects company is in the aristocratic era, and a good special effects company is not worried about not receiving projects at allEven if more and more special effects studios are established after the establishment of Firefly Software Company, it will not be able to change this for the time being.

"That's fine, after the establishment of Firefly Software, there will definitely be more and more special effects companies in Los Angeles, and it is also a good choice to set up a branch office in Florida. Eric nodded, smiled again, and said, "Maybe in a few years, we'll have to move the special effects company abroad." ”

"Shouldn't be necessary?" Jeffrey wondered.

"Who knows," Eric said, he couldn't explain much to Jeffrey right now. (To be continued......)