After nearly 10 weeks of intense shooting, Eric finally completed the last shot of "Jurassic Land" on September 7, and confidently handed over the finishing touches and special effects to Jerry Bruckheimer and Stan Winston respectively, and Eric boarded the plane to Paris.

After a long 22-hour flight, Eric's Boeing landed at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.

As soon as Eric walked out of the airport hall, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was waiting outside, greeted him with a few people: "Eric, I'm glad you came, I thought you wouldn't be able to make it." ”

"Of course I'm going to try to get here for something as important as I can," Eric hugged Katzenberg.

After a few pleasantries, Katzenberg began to introduce a few people around him to Eric: "Eric, this is Vincent Labry, the representative of the city of Paris, this is Louis Batrow, the head of the French side of the joint venture, Patrick Schneider, haha, he doesn't need to be introduced, you met at the mid-year meeting, I know you remember it very well......"

Eric shook hands with the men one by one, and it took a few minutes before the group got into the car and left.

"Eric, I've got a room for you at the Disney-themed hotel in the park, but you can also choose to stay downtown," the two sat in the back seat of a business van together, and Katzenberg said enthusiastically, perhaps because another overseas Disneyland was about to open, and Katzenberg was in a very good mood.

The current Disneyland is still called European Disneyland, not the Disneyland of Paris in Eric's memory, when "Jurassic Land" was filmed. Eric didn't pay much attention to it. But. During the long journey to Paris, he also gradually dialed out the information about Disneyland Paris from his memory, too specific Eric of course impossible to know, but he clearly remembered that among the major Disney theme parks, the most successful was Tokyo Disneyland, and the most failed was Disneyland Paris.

As a result, he is not in the same good mood as Katzenberg right now.

Tokyo Disneyland was opened in 1983. Since its opening, it has been well received by several people. However, because of the original agreement between Disney and Japan, the two sides signed a 45-year licensing agreement, Disney even gave up the cartoon character royalties of Tokyo Disneyland, and only collected 7% of Tokyo Disneyland's turnover as a management fee every year.

Be stimulated by the success of Tokyo Disneyland. In 1985, Michael Eisner, who first took charge of Disney, began to prepare for the second overseas Disney theme park. Because of the high profit prospects and tens of thousands of jobs, the city of Paris finally snatched the project from dozens of alternative cities through a large number of preferential terms, and even built a railway directly to the city of Paris and Disneyland.

Having learned the lessons of Tokyo Disneyland, Disney negotiated to obtain a 49% stake in the Disneyland joint venture and control of the park's operations at a very small price, and at the same time, Disney had to collect $150 million in royalties from the park every year for the first five years, and the royalties rose to $400 million a year after five years.

Judging from these agreements, Disney will not suffer in any case, but everyone knows that if this new park is not managed well or even loses money, it is estimated that Disney will not be able to collect even the most basic patent fees.

"Jeffrey, these are small things, I just stay in a Disney-themed hotel. In addition, after I arrived at the place, I asked someone to prepare a document for me on the European Disneyland, and the more detailed it is from the very beginning of the preparation to the future operation model, the better. ”

Katzenberg nodded without thinking, noticing Eric's expression, only to realize something unusual, and curious: "Eric, is there any problem?"

"I don't know," Eric shook his head honestly, the information about the cooperation agreement related to Disneyland in Europe was dictated by Alan on the plane, and Alan was also unclear about the details, and it was impossible for Eric to know where the problems of Disneyland Paris would be without seeing more information: "You just think I'm curious, if you can, find me some information about Tokyo Disneyland." ”

"No problem," Katzenberg didn't ask any more, and nodded with a smile: "By the way, after the opening tomorrow, the Paris city government will hold a drinking party in the evening, I think you came directly from Hawaii, and it is estimated that you will forget about the dress, I have already asked people to prepare." ”

"Thank you, Jeffrey," Eric looked at Katzenberg's beaming face, and he had to cheer up. After all, history has changed a lot now, this new park was originally planned to open in April, but because of a series of events such as Firefly's acquisition of Disney, it was delayed until September, and the project has been controlled by Katzenberg for half a year, and maybe there will be some turnaround.

Because he has been in a tense and busy state in Hawaii, coupled with the fact that he has been on a plane for more than 20 hours in a row, he took a car to the ancient town of Marne, a suburb of Paris where Disneyland Europe is located.

After waking up, through the window of the theme hotel, I saw the brightly lit theme park outside, although the official opening will not be announced until tomorrow morning, but at this time a large number of tourists have gathered near the park.

The doorbell rang a few times, and Eric withdrew his gaze and opened the door, revealing Alan standing outside the door.

"Eric, you're awake, I'm finally awake, Mr. Katzenberg just had someone come and ask if you're awake. ”

"Is there anything important?" asked Eric as he let Alan in.

Alan shook his head: "No, Mr. Katzenberg is still in the park to check the details of next year's opening, and it is estimated that he will come back very late, Eric, do you want to come over?"

"Forget it, it's okay to have Jeffrey alone, I was here to join in the fun," Eric shook his head with a smile, the matter of shooting the movie has consumed most of his energy, and at the same time he has to control the overall situation of Firefly, Eric doesn't want to be involved in the specific operation of the company, so even if he is divided into several pieces, he will not be busy: "By the way, has the thing I told Jeffrey in the morning done?"

Alan nodded: "Mr. Katzenberg asked someone to send the materials over in the afternoon, do you need me to bring them over now?"

"Bring it here, and prepare me a dinner by the way, and I'll just watch it in my room." (To be continued......)