Along the way, Eric racked his brains about how to explain the matter to Barry Diller. At the celebration party, the two have already communicated about Guò's next film, which is almost tantamount to acquiescing that the next film will be released by Fox in the summer.

Now that the sudden change of hexagram is that it is difficult to predict how Fawkes will react. If possible, Eric doesn't want to fight any movie giant, his current strength is not strong enough, and it is difficult to say whether it will hurt his muscles and bones in the face of suppression. What's more, Fox still has the distribution rights to three of his films, which involves hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Because of the entanglement from time to time, Eric accidentally ran a red light, but fortunately nothing happened.

Finally arriving at Fox headquarters, Eric revealed his identity and made his way to Barry Diller's office.

"Mr. Williams, please wait a few minutes, the President is greeting. Barry Diller's secretary ushered Eric into the outer lounge and carefully served him a cup of coffee.

Eric glanced curiously at the door of Barry Diller's office, which was so well soundproofed that no sound could be heard here. The young and beautiful female secretary noticed Eric's curious look, hesitated, and whispered, "Manager of Fox TV." ”

Eric raised an eyebrow, and had to throw a grateful look at the girl who had already pretended to be nothing, as if she hadn't said anything just now. This girl is really a good person, a simple sentence, it can almost be said that nothing has been revealed, but it can be regarded as giving Eric a small favor. Moreover, when the girl leaned over, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the badge just appeared in front of Eric's eyes, and it was impossible to remember the other party's name if she didn't want to.

After waiting patiently for seven or eight minutes, a middle-aged man opened the door and walked out of the office with his head down. Catching a glimpse of Eric sitting on the sofa in the lounge, looking at him through the glass, the middle-aged man quickly put away his frustrated expression, politely bowed to Eric, and then left in a hurry.

"Mr. Williams, you can go in. ”

Eric walked into the office, a faint smell of smoke wafting through the air, and several cigarette butts piled up in the ashtray in front of Barry Diller.

"Eric, I've kept you waiting. After Eric entered the door, Barry Diller had already put away the love he had just had, but Eric still saw the residual anger on the other party's face.

"It's just a few minutes. Eric said, motioning to Barry Diller, and sat down on the couch opposite.

Barry Diller didn't explain anything, but when it came to the identity of the middle-aged man who had just left, Eric still guessed the reason for the other party's anger, which was nothing more than Fox TV's unsatisfactory performance. ABBC and CBS have dominated the North American wireless TV market for so many years, and it is impossible for a latecomer to become big and threaten its own position.

From this point of view, Barry Diller is indeed a media wizard, and in his previous life, under the pressure of the three major television stations, he developed the Fox television network into the fourth largest television station in North America.

After a few small talks, Barry Diller asked Eric what he meant.

Eric didn't come up with any euphemisms along the way, so he could only get straight to the point: "Mr. Diller, I'm afraid my next film can't be released by Fox." ”

Barry Diller was sure he had heard correctly, and his brow furrowed and his eyes narrowed slightly. I had just heard some bad news from the manager of Fox TV, and unexpectedly, before my mood had completely changed, there was another bad news.

"Eric, do you want to break the contract? Have you thought about the consequences of doing so?"

Now that the matter has been laid out, Eric no longer looks ahead, and looks directly into Barry Diller's gaze and says: "Mr. Diller, I don't plan to break the contract, the contract does not prohibit me from cooperating with other film companies, and there is no specific schedule for the three films, so I just need to deliver the three films to Fox before the end of the year." ”

Barry Diller was slightly stunned, and a faint sense of remorse came out.

He was responsible for signing the contract himself. There was no ban on Eric's cooperation with other studios, which was indeed an oversight on the part of Fox. This is because most of the attention of the staff who drafted the contract is focused on the relevant details. Moreover, Eric signed three films, and there are very few directors in Hollywood who can direct three movies a year, and most directors can be considered prolific if they can maintain the speed of one film a year. Who would have thought that this young man would have such vigorous energy.

But there is no time limit for the film, but Barry Diller did it intentionally. When the contract was drafted, Fox was not too optimistic about Eric's request for the other two films to be bundled, so although Eric specifically raised the issue of scheduling, hoping to put all three films on the popular holiday schedule, and had a small dispute with Barry Diller for this, Fox finally refused for various reasons.

Fox also has his own ideas, once Eric's first two movies are not favored, Fox can also calmly put these two movies in the unpopular spring or autumn file, which will not take up too many resources of Fox, and can also fulfill the contract smoothly.

Who would have thought that Eric's next success would be another success, and it would be impossible for everyone to evaluate this teenager with reasons such as luck now. Many fans are also starting to look forward to his next movie.

And now, in the somewhat stagnant atmosphere of the office, when Eric said what he had just said, Barry Diller realized that he had proudly rejected Eric's request for a schedule, but now he had become a cocoon and wrapped himself in it.

"Eric, isn't a 35 percent cut satisfying to you? The cost is only $7 million, and if you subtract Lamborghini's 1 million advertising sponsorship, the actual cost of the film is only 6 million. So far, Fox has paid more than $15 million for publicity, which is 2.5 times the cost of your movie, 2.5 times! We only get 20 percent. What are you not satisfied with such a profit division?"

Barry Diller said to the end, his tone almost roaring, and he exuded a compelling momentum from top to bottom. He had just returned from Europe last night, and he hadn't even slept well after a few days of running around, and early in the morning he heard the news that a new Fox drama was strangled by the three major TV stations, and the ratings were miserable.

Just reprimanded the manager of Fox TV and kicked him out of the office, only to have another piece of bad news. The anger that had just been suppressed erupted again.

Eric was not frightened by Barry Diller's momentum, and calmly retorted: "Mr. Diller, although Fox paid a price of 15 million US dollars, he was able to exchange for a profit of more than 80 million, so I don't owe you anything, to be honest, when I came, I was always very nervous, I don't want to have a fight with Fox, but just want to have a good talk." ”

Seeing that the young man opposite was neither frightened by himself, nor did he yell at him with youthful pride, but refuted his words for a long time, Barry Diller quickly calmed down and found that his ability to control love was not even as good as that of a young man under the age of twenty. After reflecting on himself, Barry Diller sat back in his executive chair and took a few deep breaths. His eyes were still staring at Eric and he said, "Okay, Eric, you ...... Are there any new conditions, can you talk about them first?"

Realizing that Barry Diller didn't fully understand what he meant, Eric explained, "Mr. Diller, I have no intention of changing the contract. What I just said wasn't to get more out of Fox than to get Joe out of it. Someone made an offer that I couldn't refuse, and wanted to take the distribution rights for my next film. ”

Barry Diller, who has been in Hollywood for so many years, calmed down at this moment, quickly thought of a possibility and asked, "Columbia?"

Eric nodded.

Barry Diller looked down and silently pulled out a cigarette and lit it, taking a deep puff. Now that Columbia has said that Eric has been moved, it is impossible for Fox to take out the conditions offered by the other party. Colombia's current behavior is aimed at driving up the stock price and getting more profit from the Japanese. At this time, it is not unusual for the other party to offer any crazy conditions in order to pull Eric's new film over.