The 20 million club has not yet been established, 15 million is the current salary limit of Hollywood stars, and there are not too many stars who can get this salary figure. Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others are paid by European film investors led by German investors, because these action stars have extraordinary fame and box office appeal in Europe, in addition, the Japanese consortium that controls Columbia and Universal is becoming more and more bold in its price of star salaries, and the local forces in Hollywood are simply disgusted by this kind of 'blind price increase', but they are powerless to stop this trend.

"Fifteen million is too high, he is not worth so much, although the box office of "Strange Jack in Disguise" is good, but this movie should be an exception. Although Carrey's other films still have overseas box office appeal, it is absolutely impossible to reach twice the overseas box office every time, so let's wait for the release of "Detective Plane Head" to talk about it, you can't put all your energy on Kim. Carrey alone. ”

Drew nodded and agreed: "Well, I think so too, anyway, he signed the option contract, and there will definitely be no one to redeem him, besides, we didn't treat him badly, if he doesn't know what to do, then it's better to go aside." ”

Gold. The option contract signed by Carrey is very interesting, and the $100 million liquidated damages are not difficult for other big studios to come up with. Carrey's box office appeal was shown in his first two films with TG. All have earned more than $100 million in profits for the company.

But. There's a hard problem to solve. If other film companies fancy Kim. Kerry's box office appeal wanted to redeem him, so after the redemption, everyone else took out 100 million dollars. Carey had almost no choice but to sign an option contract with the financier again, and in order to earn back the $100 million in compensation, the terms of the option contract would certainly not be much more generous than what TG had offered. Otherwise, even the shareholders of those film companies will not agree, as long as the gold . Kerry didn't have a sick brain, so he wouldn't have chosen this path.

Drew said something about his side, and began to ask Eric about the situation in France curiously, and after dinner, they talked until late, and the two of them went to sleep.

……

The next day, when it was light, Eric woke up and gently removed the little girl who was wrapped around him. Eric dressed lightly and went downstairs and left Los Angeles for a few months. Running around the world again, Eric's biological clock became a little chaotic, and when he looked at his watch, it was only 5:40 in the morning, a little earlier than usual.

After running in the manor for half an hour in the morning, Eric returned to the villa, made breakfast slowly, left one for Xiao Nizi, and began to eat while reading the newspaper.

The entertainment pages of many newspapers are still paying attention to the latest developments in the competition between Viacom and QVC for Paramount. Davis also estimated that he also felt that he was likely not able to keep Paramount, and did not want the company to fall into the hands of his original subordinates, so in early September, he signed a pre-emptive transfer agreement with Viacom, but QVC immediately filed documents with the Federal Exchange Commission, suing Paramount and Viacom for violating federal transaction laws, and the two sides have been arguing about this matter for this month.

After flipping through a few newspapers, Eric soon saw another thing of interest, about one of the Big Seven MGM, the casino tycoon Cork. After selling off MGM's property assets, Corkrian began to use MGM's intangible assets as bargaining chips to play the capital game. Corkrian sold MGM to Giancarlo. The Italian consortium led by Paretti has once again made a lot of money, but recently Giancarlo was accused of fraudulently obtaining control of MGM by defrauding investors of funds. The chances of Paredi losing the case are very high.

Once GianCarlo loses the lawsuit, MGM will be auctioned off by the bank in order to repay the creditors who have been deceived by Giancarlo.

Eric stared at the report for a moment, but decided to sit on the sidelines, although MGM's performance this year was terrible, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is not so easy to swallow up this old company. Moreover, although the acquisition of MGM can at least double the film library of Firefly Pictures, if you want to completely annex this company, you will definitely use up all the liquidity in your hands, which is not a cost-effective thing, after all, there are more and more valuable opportunities waiting for you.

After breakfast, Eric was not in a hurry to go to the office, still reading the newspaper slowly.

Remembering the doorbell, Eric got up and walked towards the living room.

Tina. Fei held a stack of materials in her hand, dressed in a neat black OL suit, with her trademark black-framed eyes, and stood slimly outside the door with small high heels.

"Morning, Tina," Eric was a little surprised, "why did you come here so early?" ”

Tina. When Fei saw Eric, she didn't know what she thought, she hung her head slightly embarrassedly, and gestured to the information in her hand: "Drew said yesterday that he wouldn't go to the company these days, so let me bring the materials over and look at them here." ”

Eric leaned sideways to let the girl in, and said, "It doesn't have to be so early, it's only eight o'clock." ”

"I ...... I also don't have anything to do," Tina. Finne replied, seemingly awkward.

Eric also realized the girl's emotions, and didn't ask any more questions, and walked into the restaurant with Tina: "Did you eat breakfast, I made some?" ”

"Not yet," Tina said. Fei replied in a low voice, put the document in his hand on the dining table, watched Eric walk to the kitchen, looked at the man's back in a daze, and then remembered something, and hurriedly followed: "I'll do it myself." ”

"Alright then, there's milk and juice in the fridge, you pick your own," Eric explained, walking towards the restaurant.

Tina. Faye walked over with a breakfast and sat down across from Eric, eating it in small bites like a cat, chatting with Eric from time to time. Eric finished flipping through the newspaper in his hand. Inadvertently saw Tina. Fei casually put aside the papers. "What are these?" he asked. Can I take a look? ”

"Of course, some scripts, and others," Tina said. Fei nodded.

Eric flipped through the folder and raised an eyebrow in some surprise as he saw a familiar name, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

After opening it, Eric found out. This turned out to be a development plan for a TV series, but there was only a simple stock market outline five or six pages long in the document, and Eric hadn't seen much of the "Vampire Slayer Buffy" TV series, so he didn't know the gap between this story outline and the original TV series, but he was quite surprised, he just mentioned it to Elizabeth, and the girl could think of this, and he also got the TV series adaptation rights of that movie to TG.

Think again. This incident is not too unexpected, the peripheral development value of a movie. In addition to remakes and developing sequels, it is probably the development of a TV series version, and the box office of "Vampire Slayer Buffy" should not be too good, the sequel is basically unnecessary, and the remake is even less valuable, so only the development of the TV series version remains.

The original version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" didn't start airing until '97, which is now five years earlier, and there are basically not many originals to refer to, and Eric didn't tell me whether the TV series would be successful or not. However, there are a lot of classic American dramas in my mind anyway, and Eric didn't feel much when he saw a few girls wanting to toss "Vampire Slayer Buffy".

Chao Tina. Fiyan looked at the document in his hand, and Eric asked, "Are you going to do a TV series?" ”

Tina. Fei nodded, and asked with some surprise: "Isn't this the opinion you put forward?" ”

"No, I just said it casually, but I didn't expect Liz to think of this, what are you going to do?"

Tina. Fei temporarily stopped eating, sorted out her thoughts, and said, "We have discussed it, and we plan to adapt this movie into a fantasy adventure film focusing on teenagers. ”

Eric recalls memories of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Michelle. The version starring Gayla does focus on the teenage market, so the women's thinking is not wrong: "This idea is fine, but it's better not to be too rushed, spend more time on the script, the audience still wants to see a good story in the end, I just read this outline, and I don't feel anything special." ”

Tina. Faye suddenly blushed and lowered her head, because this outline was written by her, and hearing Eric say this, the girl inevitably suffered some small blows in her heart.

Eric sees Tina. Fei's expression immediately understood: "You wrote this story outline?" ”

"Well, I just tried to write one."

"Hehe, it's okay, as a novice, it's already good to write such a story, just practice more in the future, in fact, I already have a feeling that you will become a good screenwriter." Eric smiled and encouraged.

"Thank you, Eric," Tina said. Faye knew of course that Eric was encouraging herself, and whispered with some gratitude.

A brief look at Tina again. Fei brought a few other materials and made some suggestions of his own, and Eric got up and said: "I'm going to work, Drew will get up later, you stay here first, it just so happens that there is a fax machine on the east side of the curtain wall, if there are documents coming, you can help me receive and sort them out." ”

Tina. Fei hurriedly nodded: "No problem." ＂

Seeing Eric walk out of the restaurant, Tina. Fei subconsciously put down the tableware in his hand and followed.

Eric went back to the study to get some papers, changed his clothes, and when he left the villa, he saw Tina. Fei followed behind her all the way like a little woman at home, couldn't help but hug the girl, and kissed the corner of her lips: "I'm going to work, will you leave today?" ”

Tina. Faye didn't object to Eric's kiss, and when she heard the man ask, she shook her head a little shyly: "No, no, no." ”

"Heh, let's stay tonight."

"Good...... All right," replied the girl, in a voice like a mosquito.

……

is about to enter October, less than two months away from the festival schedule at the end of the year, Firefly's main films at the end of the year "Life and Death", "Detective Plane Head" and Disney's animated film "Aladdin" have basically been completed and entered the early stage of publicity, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in collaboration with Columbia is also in the final post-production stage.

In the last few days back in Los Angeles, Eric has been busy with several films after participating in several high-level meetings of Firefly Films, although the direct box office profits of movies account for less and less of the entire film industry chain, but movies are still in an important position as a locomotive, if the horsepower of the locomotive is not strong enough, then the operation of this huge machine will definitely be in trouble, so any film company still puts movies in the most important position.

From handing over the script of "The Speed of Life and Death" to Jane. After De Bond, Eric didn't interfere too much in this project, the script of "Life and Death" was written by him himself, and then handed over to the director in the original time and space. Whether or not DeBond can play a very important role in the transition from cinematographer to director, Eric believes that the other party will definitely be extremely cautious about the film.

After participating in the trial film of "Speed of Life and Death", Eric has no doubts, compared with his memory, the charm of this movie has not changed much, the story rhythm is quite tight, and the actor is still Keanu. Reeves, except for the change of the heroine, has not changed much, and after watching the sample of this movie, the firefly executives also unanimously gave positive reviews, and opened the most gorgeous publicity scale.

In contrast, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" had some minor problems. After all, Wu is from Hong Kong, and although he has made many films, the shooting style is very different from Hollywood after all. Wu started shooting comedies, so even many of his classic gunfight films are often mixed with too many comedy elements, Eric was busy with the later stages of "Jurassic Park", and had to personally participate in the editing of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and cut out some unnecessary funny scenes.

However, one thing that pleased Eric was that John. The Hong Kong action direction team brought by Wu has designed the action of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" very in the elegant style of oriental kung fu movies, and in Eric's opinion, the action design of this movie even exceeds the original. After all, although the director of the original version is paying tribute to Hong Kong action movies, he is a Westerner after all, and it is impossible to deeply appreciate the inner elements of Hong Kong movies. (To be continued......)