"Jurassic Park was filmed on Kauai for about 10 to 12 weeks, and if there was no urgency during this time, I would only contact Los Angeles by phone and hope that everyone can do their part," Eric concluded as he casually sorted through the materials in front of him, and the presidents, vice presidents, and department managers in the conference room nodded in agreement.

After the meeting was adjourned, Eric stopped Firefly and several of Disney's directors as usual.

"Eric, is there anything else?" asked Jeffrey as the group followed Eric to his office.

"About Columbia," Eric said, pulling the materials out of the filing cabinet and handing them to Jeffrey, Michael Lynn, Katzenberg, and Frank Wells.

When it comes to Colombia, Jeffrey and the others have actually understood what Eric means, what Eric wants to say is definitely not about cooperation with Colombia on films, but about dividing up Colombia's distribution channels, after a few months of operation, Firefly not only got most of Colombia's distribution resources in South America, but also began to flow into Firefly through Peter Cooper's layoffs and some other measures.

Although it is impossible for Colombia to completely eliminate all the branches of the world's second largest box office in Europe, however, it is still easy to lay off some of them, in order to hide the real purpose, Firefly only absorbed about half of the employees of the branch that was laid off, and the other half of the people who were really laid off can only consider themselves unlucky, and accepted a certain salary increase from Firefly and saw the dilemma of those employees who were really laid off, and the part of the staff who were "recruited" by Firefly did not express any dissatisfaction.

There are no impermeable walls in the world. Gradually, the Japanese also noticed that something was wrong. And questions were raised with the Colombian management. However, it was blocked by Peter Cooper with a 'killer move'. This 'killer feature' is very simple - resignation. In the face of Sony's doubts, Peter Cooper personally called Akio Morita and said that if Sony's headquarters did not trust the 'reform measures' he had taken, then he could submit his resignation to the board of directors.

To the surprise of many people, this kind of bad trick actually worked, which is really strange in Eric's opinion, and often only the management of the company that has made extraordinary achievements has the confidence to play the card of 'resignation threat'. Peter Cooper has continued to bring huge losses to Colombia for two years, and if it were Eric, he would have asked Peter Cooper to get out, but after Sony received Peter Cooper's threat of resignation, he actually compromised and even removed an executive of Sony's American division.

"It's almost the same in Europe, and I've recently read the information on Asia," Eric leaned back on the sofa after sending the information to several people, "Several countries in Southeast Asia have introduced more and more stringent restrictions in recent years in order to curb the dumping of Hong Kong films. However, they have relaxed the barriers to entry for Hollywood films, which is very good news for us. ”

Although this matter has nothing to do with Sony. However, Katzenberg still carefully read the information in his hand before saying: "Eric, Sony has noticed this matter, but it is only under pressure from all sides that it has not taken any measures, but I think it is about the same, in my opinion, Colombia's distribution channels in Southeast Asia are not much stronger than ours, those resources are like chicken ribs, we don't need to test the bottom line of the Japanese for those." ”

"I understand," Eric nodded and smiled, "Look at the last page, I'm only going to get the Colombian branch in that part of Asia." ”

The other four all turned to the last page of the information: "China Mainland?"

"Well," Eric nodded, he himself did not expect that Colombia actually had a branch in Chinese mainland, and even Disney only had a fictitious office, and Firefly had not even contacted there in terms of film cooperation.

Michael Lynn asked, "Eric, do you think there's potential there?"

Eric laughed, "I can't give you an exact answer to this, I just know that there are 1.17 billion people there. ”

The other four couldn't help but glance at each other, as executives of the film company, of course, they were very clear about the situation on the other side of the ocean, the extremely closed market there has been subconsciously ignored by Hollywood, but when they heard Eric say the figure of 1.17 billion, they couldn't help but feel a little moved, if a country with such a huge population base can open the film market, what will it be?

"I think we can try," Katzenberg said, "and they've been trying to open up the market, and it's the best time to lay ahead of time, and even if we fail, we won't lose anything." ”

"So what to do?" asked Jeffrey, too, with some emotion.

"First take over Columbia's branch over there, establish contacts, and then strive for the introduction of the account-sharing model, if it really doesn't work, it's okay to get the release qualification there, "Tornado" is very suitable, this movie doesn't have any sensitive plot, and there is no political leaning, in short, what we have to do is to cultivate the market, which doesn't require much energy on our part, but it can definitely bring us unexpected results," Eric said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

After half an hour of discussion, some implementation details were worked out, and several people left work together.

"Wait, are you going to the premiere of 'Stranger in Disguise?'" Jeffrey asked, standing together in the elevator.

Eric nodded and said with a smile: "No, no, Xiao Nizi has been grinding me for several days, otherwise I would be in Hawaii by now." ”

"I've seen the sample of 'Strange Jack in Disguise,' and it's a bit too hilarious, and it's a bit brainless and weird," Jeffrey recalled, commenting.

"This wasn't meant to be a movie for your age group," Eric laughed, "and you're talking about the style of 'Strange Guy in Disguise', I was going to make a movie like this from the beginning, and the biggest highlight of this movie is Jim Carrey's performance." ”

"And how much do you think you can get at the box office this time?" Jeffrey asked a question of his greatest concern.

Eric thought for a moment. said: "100 million should be fine." If there is no competition between Tornado and Batman Returns. It should be a little higher. ”

Jeffrey opened his mouth, but he didn't say what he expected in his heart, shook his head and smiled: "I really don't know where you got your confidence, 100 million dollars, this is already quite high." ”

While the two were talking, Jeffrey refused Eric's invitation to attend the premiere of "Strange Jay in Disguise" and drove away alone, and Eric got into his car. Head to the China Grand Theatre, where the premiere was held.

……

At five o'clock, the bell for the end of class finally rang, and Britney, who was originally distracted by her chin, immediately cheered up, packed her schoolbag in three or two, and left the classroom with the flow of people.

Although she is a child star on Disney Channel, Britney and several other young actors still have to go to school, and Disney is also responsible for arranging regular make-up classes for their young actors in order to cope with the Screen Actors Association and the Minor Protection Act. For Britney, who is playing raw, all of this is an ordeal.

Leave the school building. Britney was about to pick up her bike and go home when Christina ran in the other direction.

When Christina ran closer, Britney smiled and asked, "What's the matter, Chrissy?"

Christina grinned and took out two tickets from her school uniform pocket: "The premiere ticket for "Strange Jack in Disguise", given by Drew, are you going?"

The smile on Britney's face dissipated a little, staring at the ticket in Christina's hand: "Drew gave it to you, how did I not know?"

The smile on Christina's face remained the same, but seeing Britney's expression, she was still a little proud, if it wasn't for Drew who deliberately explained that the tickets were for the two of them, Christina wouldn't even tell Britney, a little fool, about it.

"Then if you don't go, if you don't go, I'll call the other friends," Christina didn't mean to explain at all, although Drew said that the tickets were for the two of them, but if Britney herself didn't want to go, then what could she do?

Britney looked at the smugness on Christina's face, and wanted to refuse impulsively, but after thinking about it, she said, "Okay, but I have to call home." ”

"That's a hassle," Christina pouted, "Hurry up, and oh, if we run into Drew, maybe we'll be able to party after the premiere, and you'd better tell your mom that Drew might invite us to her house tonight." ”

When Britney heard this, she immediately became excited when she remembered the large room, game room, queen bed, swimming pool, and compared to her own small bedroom in the Beverly Hills mansion.

When Britney finished talking to her family, she was about to walk to her bike, but Christina grabbed her: "You don't want to ride a bike, do you?"

"What else can I do?" Britney blinked.

"Don't be ashamed, come with me," Christina pulled Britney out the small door and pointed to a taxi not far away: "Of course I went by car, this time I'm in for a treat." ”

Britney was dissatisfied with Christina's always smug little look, and said, "You don't need to ask, we AA." ”

"Whatever you want," Christina stepped forward, greeted the driver who was waiting there, opened the passenger door and slipped in.

Britney pouted, but reluctantly sat in the back seat.

……

The two girls got out of the car together, and saw the long red carpet in front of the China Grand Theater, as well as the stars on the red carpet who were dressed up and being photographed by reporters, Britney looked at the actress's delicate white dress on the red carpet, and said with some envy: "It's so beautiful." ”

"These are just the little stars invited by the fireflies, and the big names are all behind," Christina said with a pouting of a little jack-of-all-trades.

Britney didn't want to be looked down upon by Christina, so she quickly put away her envious little expression, looked around, and couldn't help but whisper, "Hey, you said, we can see it tonight...... See Mr. Williams?"

"Who knows," Christina shook her head and tiptoed to look at the end of the red carpet, "However, there is a high probability that Mr. Williams will attend the premiere, and he is still ...... with Drew."

Speaking of this, Christina immediately closed her mouth, she didn't want to share the little secrets she observed with Britney, however, Britney didn't ask her what she just said, and continued: "Have you watched "Tornado", it's amazing, I still want to watch it a few more times, but unfortunately I don't have so much pocket money." ”

"If I could go to Sharp Corner Manor, I would be able to watch it as many times as I wanted in the private screening room there," Christina said.

"Shall we beg Drew to take us there again?" Britney said without any scheming.

Christina glanced at the silly girl beside her with some disdain, but did not answer, but she was also very much looking forward to it, but Drew didn't take them there, Christina was also very smart and didn't take the initiative to ask, in her eyes, Drew didn't know how many times smarter than the little fool next to her, she always had a hard time guessing what Drew was thinking, and Britney next to her, as long as she glanced at the other party's expression, she could even guess what the other party would do next.

The two girls did not enter the premiere screening room in advance, but stayed near the red carpet like other fans, counting the 'stars' with great interest.

"Look, Mr. Williams, and Drew," Britney said sharply as she saw two figures coming out of the limousine at the end of the red carpet near the beginning of the premiere.

As Drew took Eric's arm and slowly walked near them, Britney immediately waved her little hand to greet them.

Eric waved to the crowd, and easily saw the figures of the two little girls, and deliberately winked at the two little girls.

"Strange Jack in Disguise" is a PG-13 movie, that is, a parental guidance level, although this kind of film is recommended to be watched by parents, but there are no mandatory restrictions like the R rating, so it is not surprising that the two girls appeared at the premiere.

Walking all the way through the red carpet and into the theater, Eric asked, "I saw Boob and Chrissy, they were invited by you?"

Drew pursed his lips in dissatisfaction and snorted twice: "Bubu, it's really kind." ”

Eric just subconsciously used a more familiar name, looked at the girl's dissatisfied look, smiled and raised his hand, and rubbed it on Xiao Nizi's head.

"Ah, my hairstyle," Drew quickly opened Eric's hand.

"Little girl, what kind of hairstyle do you want? (To be continued......)