After only a few puffs, Barry Diller irritated and extinguished the cigarette in the ashtray: "It seems that you can't change your decision?"

"Mr. Diller, I could even have done it without communicating with Fox at all and taking out a film at random to complete the contract, and if I didn't care about the quality, I would have no problem making a film in ten days. ”

Barry Diller knew that the boy in front of him was determined not to change his decision. Although I also had the idea of giving this little guy who didn't know the height of the sky a little bit of color. However, Barry Diller will soon veto the idea. Once that happens, the two sides will fall apart in the same way that Eric and Colombia did before they did a collaboration.

A few days ago, he also heard the news that Colombian President Bronte Cohen was suddenly dismissed, and he was still a little puzzled that Coca-Cola was going to sell Colombia and what he was doing with so many moves. Now I realize that it was to remove obstacles in order to re-establish cooperation with the teenager in front of me.

If he makes some moves now and fights with the other party, it is estimated that this teenager will also break up with Fox after completing the contract, and it will be a bit of a lose-lose.

When things were irretrievable, Barry Diller quickly thought of trying to make up for the losses by trying to get some extra benefits: "Eric, you should understand that by doing this, you are withdrawing Fox from the summer box office competition. Although you are not violating the contract, it will still hurt the relationship between the two parties. In order to appease Fox's shareholders, perhaps, the original contract should be revised?"

After listening to Barry Diller's words, Eric immediately refused: "Mr. Diller, the contract will definitely not be modified, and I will not make any concessions on the share. As I said earlier, I don't owe anything to Fox. The reason why I'm sitting here to discuss with you is just because I don't want the relationship between the two sides to be stiff. We can only discuss a win-win compensation package, not to the detriment of either party. In this way, our cooperation can be more long-lasting. ”

"Okay, you must have a plan?"

Eric nodded, "Yes, my Firefly company has just recently made plans for three more films, and Fox can pick one of them for release." ”

Barry Diller almost wanted to laugh, what compensation was this, if Fox wanted to release a movie, all he had to say was that the independent studios would cry and shout and pounce. Barry Diller suddenly thought of the Fox manager who had just been kicked out by himself, and another thought came to him: "Eric, are you not interested in TV dramas?"

When Eric heard the word TV series, he directly thought of the little girl who stubbornly stayed in New York to shoot a workplace comedy on the street. In the past ten years, but it has earned a huge profit of four billion dollars for Warner, Eric never planned to let go of this TV series, although he has not watched all ten seasons, but the first two seasons have just happened to be watched, and the golden finger brought by rebirth is clearly engraved in his mind. As long as the first season can successfully become famous, next, are you afraid that you won't find a screenwriter to continue to write the following story?

"Mr. Diller, I actually had some ideas for a TV series for a long time. But maybe I didn't make it clear just now, although I didn't direct the three movies made by fireflies, two of them were scripts written by me myself, and I will also act as the producer and have the final editing rights of the films, which is not much different from what I shot myself. And in another movie, I plan to let Julia play the heroine, and no one will doubt Juilliard's current box office appeal, right?"

After listening to Eric's words, Barry Diller said without hesitation: "No problem, Eric, the other three movies of Firefly are all covered by Fox, and the TV series can also be produced at the same time, you only need to be responsible for writing the script." ”

Although Barry Diller put on a seemingly generous appearance, Eric could see the slight excitement in the other party's tone. Apparently Barry Diller also judged the value of those three films.

Eric didn't plan to release those three films on his own, but they were the ones he picked out that had the potential to be big hits. Instead of using the 'cannon fodder' of expanding the distribution channels themselves.

But again, he has no intention of giving all three films to a single film company for distribution, let alone Fox. He knows very well the truth of Shengmien's fight against Mi. Give too much to a person alone, and gradually the other party will take this kind of thing for granted, and once one day, you don't want to give, hatred will arise directly.

In fact, Barry Diller has just shown such signs. Eric's actions did not violate his contract, but Barry Diller felt that Fox had suffered a big loss.

Shaking his head, Eric held up a finger: "Mr. Diller, a TV series, or a movie, can only compensate for one." I'm confident in the box office potential of those three films, which are no less than the ones I directed myself. So, Fox takes too much, and I'm afraid your distribution capabilities won't be able to keep up. ”

Barry Diller quickly came up with another plan: "Eric, then a TV series and a movie." ”

"A TV series, or a movie. ”

"Eric ......"

“……”

The two argued in the office for a long time, and in the end, out of ambitions for the TV network, Barry Diller still chose the TV series, if it wasn't for the development of the TV network, Barry Diller would not have left Paramount, so this choice Eric was not surprised.

But the other party did not let Eric go lightly, forcing him to agree to personally direct the first two episodes of the TV series.

Eric didn't expect Barry Diller to be able to come up with such a forward-looking idea, more than ten years later, inviting well-known Hollywood directors to direct the first few episodes has become a popular trend in American dramas, and with the strong rise of American dramas, Hollywood directors have also put down their shelves and picked up the TV series director.

In fact, Barry Diller is not as far-sighted as Eric thought, and asking a well-known Hollywood director to make a TV series will be considered a very 'ridiculous' idea by Barry Diller himself. In this day and age, it is a very bad thing for a film director to shoot a TV series. It has always been a TV drama director who slowly changed careers to make movies, and it is rare to see the other way around.

The reason why Eric was asked to direct the first two episodes was entirely because he didn't get the distribution rights of the movie, and out of a kind of trickery, he wanted to make Eric make a fool of himself. Barry Diller originally thought that Eric would definitely be unwilling to die, but he didn't expect the other party to just think about it for a moment and then nodded in agreement. According to the current atmosphere of Hollywood directors being high-minded, the news of Eric's directing TV series will definitely be criticized by some diehards with a sense of superiority for being willing to degenerate or something.

Barry Diller didn't expect that his unintentional and rude request would later cause such a sensation, and even led the trend of the first few episodes of the American drama directed by a big director in advance.

Reaching an understanding with Fox, Eric completely let go of his worries, and the cooperation agreement with Colombia was quickly reached. Since the other party is so generous, Eric directly raised the production budget to 40 million US dollars, if the future publicity and distribution cost is 20 million US dollars, according to Colombia's 25% share, the North American box office must reach 240 million US dollars, and Colombia can only recover the cost, of course, if you count overseas box office revenue, maybe this figure only needs to reach 200 million US dollars.

Eric estimates that Colombia has no intention of recovering its costs at all, as long as the box office is a big hit, giving investors a false impression of a good future, the stock price will go up directly, and for every dollar of stock price rise, Colombia's market value can directly increase by 180 million. Sony, don't you have a lot of money, pay for it!

In this case, Eric still did not leave the copyright to Colombia, but shared it with both fireflies, after all, people have paid so much money, it would be too cruel not to give it at all. Although a male protagonist died at the end of this movie, as long as it can be successful, it is completely possible to change the male protagonist to shoot a sequel like in the previous life, which is another large amount of income.