In the afternoon, Howard Stringer raised the offer to $7.5 million, and Ted Elliott and Terry Rucio did not hesitate to sell the Pirates of the Caribbean script directly to Sony Pictures. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After offering a $20 million salary to a Hollywood star for the first time, the deep-pocketed Sony Pictures has once again set a record for the highest price ever paid for a Hollywood script.

Moreover, the original $20 million was 'logical', because before that, the salaries of many Hollywood stars were close to this level, and some stars had already received more than $20 million through sharing contracts. But this time, Sony Pictures' $7.5 million offer nearly tripled the record price of Hollywood's original screenplay, and more than tripled the average script offer from Hollywood's first-tier gold screenwriters.

When the news broke, the whole of Hollywood was a sensation, and the North American and even overseas media began to frantically prepare press releases related to this matter.

Jianjiao Manor, the time is already more than eleven o'clock in the evening.

Fernanda Tavares, dressed in tank tops and shorts, walked barefoot from the kitchen with a pot of freshly brewed coffee.

From the conversation between Eric and Ron Howard in the afternoon, she already knew what was going on, and at the same time, she could feel the extreme shock of the people around her.

However, as an outsider, she couldn't understand the deeper meaning of Sony Pictures' $7.5 million purchase of a script, but she was a little worried that Eric, who was in a state of anger, would turn her anger on herself, but fortunately, this did not happen.

Except for a fire at noon when he received the first call, the man had been calm from the afternoon to the present, and when he returned to Jianjiao Manor in the evening, he had only been on the phone non-stop. Although she heard a few words, she was clever enough to restrain her curiosity.

Next to a long table by the glass curtain wall, there were many papers scattered on the table, and the laptop in front of Eric was shining, and he himself was staring at the laptop screen with his chin propped up, thinking about something. It was quiet inside the villa, and the sky and sea outside the curtain wall were dark.

Gently filling the cup next to Eric, Fernanda put the coffee pot next to her and was about to walk away quietly, when she felt a hand reach over her waist, and Fernanda sat on Eric's lap.

The big hand got into the girl's elastic little vest and wandered for a while, listening to the stunner in his arms gradually let out a small light gasp, Eric's tiredness dissipated a lot, leaned over and kissed the girl on the cheek, and said, "I'll be very busy on weekdays, so I'll send you back to New York tomorrow." ”

After two days together, Fernanda keenly noticed that Eric was treating him like a pet, or more accurately, maybe a cat. He likes to see her walking around the villa barefoot, he likes to watch her lazily curled up on the sofa watching TV, he likes to hold her in his arms and caress her like this, it is completely the owner's attitude towards pets, and it seems so natural.

Fernanda, like Giselle, left Brazil at the age of 14 to work hard, in order to better protect herself, she actually has a very pungent side to her personality, if others dare to treat her like this, she will definitely turn her face immediately.

However, experiencing the world too early also made her more deeply appreciate the power represented by power and wealth. Therefore, in front of this man who stands at the pinnacle of power and wealth in the whole world, she did not have much resistance at all, but involuntarily substituted herself into the role that the other party liked.

"Okay," Fernanda nodded, feeling a little lost in the heart of Eric, who had withdrawn his hand from under his clothes, still thoughtfully wrapping his arms around her reclining body. This man is very gentle in most cases, and even makes women have some unrealistic fantasies, but she understands that this kind of gentleness and thoughtfulness is not mixed with many feelings between men and women: "Eric, will you come to see this year's Victoria's Secret show?" ”

"As long as the movie in my hand is finished, it should be able to pass by then," Eric patted the girl's thin waist lightly, and said, "You can go and rest first, I'll have to wait a while." ”

"Actually, I'm also a night owl, I'm not sleepy at all, why don't I go and make you some supper?"

"I don't like to eat at this time, you can do it if you're hungry."

"I don't eat either," Fernanda shook her head and smiled, "I'm going to get fat." ”

Eric touched his toes and turned the leather chair in a half-circle, motioned not far away, and said, "Then let's watch TV for a while." ”

Fernanda got up and walked to the two egg-shaped space chairs on the other side of the curtain wall, picked up the remote control on the coffee table, turned on the wall-mounted TV, and then curled up in the space chairs lazily. Glancing behind him, Eric turned his attention back to his laptop, and with some disappointment, he held a pillow next to him in his arms and casually picked up the TV show.

After unceremoniously slapping Howard Stringer on the phone at noon, Eric had already expected that after his strong statement, Howard Stringer would either give in and give up his outrageous offer for "Pirates of the Caribbean", or be more determined to grab the script.

Howard Stringer chose the latter, and Eric didn't come as a surprise.

However, in this case, Eric also plans to take this opportunity to start some of the things in his plan in advance.

Over the years, although the Firefly Group has not continued to expand as it did at the beginning, the overall strength has continued to increase rapidly.

Although the Hollywood film market has been growing at a rate of nearly 10% per year in recent years, in Hollywood, where almost the seven major companies divide the world, the strength of the Firefly Group is destined to cause several other companies to continue to lose their corresponding market share. On the other hand, Firefly Group's corporate style is more like a growing elephant than an aggressive wolf, and rarely shows an aggressive side to its competitors.

Therefore, Howard Stringer's performance today shows that while everyone can feel the strength of the Firefly Group, no company is really afraid of this company. In this state, once the Firefly Group continues to devour more market share in the media industry, in the absence of awe, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will be hot-headed and resort to some troublesome dirty methods.

In this case, it may be time for the Firefly Group and even the Firefly System to show their claws and fangs to the outside world.

After combing through the plan in his mind again, he typed a few more emails and sent them, and when he checked the time, it was close to one o'clock in the morning, and Eric turned off his computer.

Turning off the lamp, Eric got up and walked to the other side of the curtain wall, where a late-night talk show was playing on the wall-mounted TV, but the girl curled up in the space chair was already asleep.

After all, the space in the space chair is not too big, and the tall girl who is nearly 1.8 meters tall is curled up in it, making her waist slender and long legs more and more attractive. Eric admired the posture of the sleeping beauty in front of him, and reached out and gently pushed down the space chair. Perhaps sensing the shaking beneath him, Fernanda quickly opened his eyes.

Confused for a moment, seeing the man standing in front of him clearly, Fernanda smiled and said, "Eric, are you done?" ”

"yes, I don't want to disturb you, but this is not a place to sleep."

Fernanda stretched out her slender body, swayed her toes slightly, and said, "I think it's very good, and I plan to install one in my apartment in the future." ”

Eric stretched out his hand, pulled the girl up, and the two of them walked towards the stairs together, saying, "Why in the future, you can pretend to be able to go back to New York." ”

Fernanda thought of Giselle's Manhattan penthouse, and said with a bit of self-pity in her tone: "But I don't have my own apartment yet." ”

Eric said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said in a casual tone: "Oh, then, the apartment, or the space chair, you choose one, and I'll send you." ”

Fernanda suddenly felt her heart beat a little faster, and she knew he wasn't joking when she remembered that Eric had signed a million-dollar check for a group of girls to travel around the world last year. Even an apartment in a prime location in Manhattan was nothing to him.

However, Fernanda still suppressed his thoughts and said: "Then the space chair is good, I will probably get some endorsement contracts next year, and then I can buy an apartment of my own in Manhattan." ”

With the foundation laid in the fashion industry in recent years, coupled with the popularity of this year's Victoria's Secret show and participation in "Enemy of the Nation", it is enough for Fernanda to become a first-line supermodel, even if it cannot be compared with Cindy Crawford, the eldest sister who still occupies the top of the pyramid, but she will get a few million-dollar endorsement contracts next year.

"Tell me when you buy a house, and I'll have someone send it to you, and it's a gift for your new home," Eric's tone was still casual, and he didn't explain too much, just as a small surprise for the girl next to him, or, if she couldn't find out, then it would be a little easter egg.

Although Eric didn't pay much attention to the specific cost, in the middle of a pile of expensive furniture worth tens of thousands of dollars, this set of space chairs with conspicuous workmanship and art-level is obviously not cheap.

……

The new week has just begun, and the major media outlets in North America are boiling over Sony Pictures' $7.5 million purchase of the script for "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Some people were amazed by Sony Pictures' big dealings, others felt that the Sony Pictures executives who made the decision must have lost their minds, and some professionals said that it was a sign of a serious bubble in Hollywood as well as in the IT industry.

In recent years, the influx of film speculative capital into Hollywood has become more and more turbulent, and this year's Hollywood annual film production budget is about 13 billion US dollars, of which more than 2.5 billion US dollars are tax avoidance funds from Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries, nearly 20% of the total. In addition, after the second devastation, the Southeast Asian financial crisis entered the real final stage, and a large part of the large amount of international travel capital withdrawn from Southeast Asia was also invested in the booming film industry.

Despite the support of the Sony Group, Sony Pictures still largely adopts the traditional Hollywood financing method for film production, that is, short-term debt financing from major investment funds and even banks. The influx of a large amount of speculative capital is actually the basis for Sony Pictures to dare to offer a sky-high price of $7.5 million.

Of course, the consequence of this is that once the film company's project fails, the company's debt ratio will become higher and higher, and it is because of this that MGM has accumulated a high debt almost equivalent to its market value. However, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group, Sony Pictures' debts will naturally be passed on to Sony's overall financial system.

In Hollywood, the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was caused by Eric after all, and everyone knows that this is another script that Eric Williams likes, although it is not clear whether this is another trap like "Cut Throat Island", but for Firefly's 'miss' this time, even if they are dissatisfied with Sony Pictures' wanton breaking the rules of the industry, more people still have a schadenfreude attitude.

On the other hand, stimulated by "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Midnight Bell", which is still steadily harvesting the box office, almost all the scripts that the script procurement department of the Firefly Group is in contact with have been closely watched, and some screenwriters who are trying to copy the model of "Pirates of the Caribbean" have even released some rumors in the same way, and at the same time greatly increased the offer to the Firefly Group.

At the same time, the favorite script was so brutally cut off by Sony, and some people hoped that the lively people were looking forward to whether the Firefly Group would come up with countermeasures.

Although Howard Stringer deliberately held a press conference after winning the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", he actually had to stay in Los Angeles for three days to confirm that the Firefly Group had no action before flying back to Sony's US headquarters in New York.

On the surface, the Firefly Group is very calm about the loss of Pirates of the Caribbean, but all the executives in the Firefly system can clearly feel the difference in the atmosphere inside the Firefly system in recent days, the most obvious is that Eric's assistant office has been inquiring about information and retrieving documents from various companies in the Firefly system companies in recent days.

As a result, until Wednesday, the Firefly system, including executives from major companies in and out of Hollywood, was notified that everyone needed to attend the Firefly system's executive meeting on Friday morning, and executives who couldn't make it to Los Angeles had to attend via video conference.