After continuing to talk about something, and sending Caroline and Mayer to rest, Eric opened the script in his hand. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Among the hottest Hollywood blockbuster series after the new century, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is definitely a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, except for the first part of the beginning, almost all the other films in the entire series have created a global box office of $1 billion.

Since the original "Cut Throat Island", Eric has been thinking about it.

After facilitating the collaboration between former "Pirates of the Caribbean" directors Gore Wipinski and Johnny Depp in "Midnight Bells", Eric became more interested in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and quickly found the script in his hand according to the name of the screenwriter in his memory.

However, the script in front of me is very different from the plot of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" in my memory.

The story also revolves around a group of pirates led by Captain Barbossa who kidnap the Doge's daughter in order to lift the mysterious curse, but the male protagonist is Will the Blacksmith, and although the captain of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow, also has a large part of the scene, but it can only be regarded as a supporting role.

Based on some behind-the-scenes details of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in his memory, Eric knew that it wasn't the butterfly effect caused by his own presence.

The original "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", if Depp is aside, is probably a cliché love story of a groom saving a princess from a villain and living happily ever after. It can be said that the success of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series is almost exactly the same as the "True Colors of Heroes" series on the other side of the ocean, in which a restless supporting character plays himself as the protagonist step by step, and the movie has also achieved phenomenal success.

After briefly skimming through the script, which was basically just an outline, Eric closed the folder and subconsciously wanted to send an email to Katzenberg, telling him to take responsibility for taking down the script in his hand.

It's just that although the interior decoration of this Boeing 767 can be called luxurious, not only the Internet, but also the cabin does not even have a telephone, which makes Eric look forward to the delivery of the Boeing 747 with a private communication system as soon as possible.

The plane was still an hour away from Los Angeles, and there was nothing else to do at hand, and there was no contact with the outside world. Looking at the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in his hand, Eric picked up a pencil and planned to recall what super IPs he had missed in the next few years in his memory.

It's just that Eric himself was taken aback when he sorted it out.

Even if you don't talk about the super gold mine of Marvel, which has recovered most of the copyrights, just the three major copyrights of the "Harry Potter" series, the "Lord of the Rings" series, and the "Transformers" series, almost each of which is enough for a big movie company to eat for ten years. Pixar and Disney, the two major 3D animation studios, can continue to provide Firefly with animated films with exceptionally lucrative box office and peripheral benefits.

What's more, Firefly can't all focus on these big IP movies, and in the future, the company will definitely try one or two big-budget films every year to get rid of the shackles of IP. Although Eric advocates a highly industrialized filmmaking mechanism, if a film company relies entirely on big IP, it will gradually lose the most important creativity.

For big-budget films, the entire Firefly Group, the production and distribution scale of six films per year is already the limit. In this way, according to one 3D animated movie, two Marvel Universe movies, and two original big productions every year, the production and marketing resources left for big IP movies such as the "Harry Potter" series are a bit stretched.

An excellent commercial film will also struggle to achieve excellent box office results if it is not properly distributed and marketed.

"Special Forces: Cobra Rise", once produced by Paramount Pictures, is a very classic negative textbook.

"Special Forces: Cobra Rise" and "Transformers 2: The Comeback" were released at the same time in the summer of 2009, only a month apart, just because Paramount almost devoted all of its energy to the release of "Transformers 2: The Comeback", a blockbuster with a production cost of up to $175 million, but the global box office was only a dismal little over $300 million.

Eric has a deep memory of the fiery action scenes of the two protagonists in "Special Forces: Cobra Rising" running wild through the streets of Paris in power mechs, and if Paramount had invested enough resources in marketing and distribution, this absolutely excellent popcorn blockbuster would definitely have grossed more than $300 million worldwide.

It stands to reason that it is more reasonable for each of the "Harry Potter" series to be allocated to a large film company, so as to ensure that each IP has been carefully developed through all channels. However, there are only three big film companies that Eric can influence now.

Among the three companies, Firefly and MGM have very successful commercial film series, compared to Fox, although Fox has the distribution rights of "Star Wars" and Miramax, who is very successful in literary films, Blue Sky Studios has also done it, but there is not much development in the series.

Eric was very dissatisfied with the original "X-Men" series controlled by Fox, the entire X-Men timeline was messed up, and the global box office of most episodes was only hovering at a barely passing three or four billion dollars, so he once thought about not putting the "X-Men" series on Fox.

But now it seems that Firefly is the main "Avengers" series, and MGM is temporarily focused on the Agent Cinematic Universe, and wants to create another X-Men universe, and the resources in his hands are only Fox for the time being.

However, this time, the control of the X-Men universe must still be firmly in their own hands like the Agent Cinematic Universe, and the Firefly Group itself will definitely still be involved in the distribution of related interests.

It's not that Eric is stingy, after all, the entire News Corporation, Elizabeth's family now only has about 30% of the equity, and all the benefits of the "X-Men" series are handed over to Fox, and there are very few interests that can finally fall into the hands of Elizabeth. What people are now seeking is more control over Hollywood and the media industry, and as long as they give a small percentage of the benefits to the majority of shareholders, these people will no longer dictate the management of big studios, as is the case with traditional Hollywood profit distribution rules.

Eric is now increasingly able to understand that the pursuit of control is the most important thing, and even if a person does not have a penny of personal assets in his name, if he can control a large industry, the resources of the entire industry can still be used for him.

At the same time, Eric decided to speed up the expansion of the Firefly system in Hollywood, after all, half of Hollywood is incomplete after all.

Due to the time difference, it was only four o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast when he arrived in Los Angeles, and Eric received a call from the girl as soon as he got off the plane, saying goodbye to Caroline and the two daughters before rushing to Beverly Hills.

The girl is not at Strausdale Manor, but shopping on Rodeo Drive.

Eric asked the driver to drive to Rodeo Drive, and when he walked into the Gucci store that the girl had mentioned, only Natasha greeted him. There are only a few waiters in the shop, and there are no other customers.

"Master, the boss is changing," Natasha explained, and walked inside with Eric.

Arriving at the lounge area for the guests to wait, Eric didn't choose the sofa, but sat down on a round barstool, nodded to the waitress who was graciously serving coffee, and just motioned for the other party to put the coffee on the table next to him.

After waiting for a while, the girl came out of the inner changing room, wearing a sky blue cotton tube skirt, short sleeves, with a few embroideries at the neckline, but the hem was a little short, revealing two white thighs like lotus roots. Although the tube skirt is not a corseted style, the cut is very decent, and it gives people a sense of youth for middle school students when worn on the girl.

"Eric," the girl ran over when she saw Eric, hugged Eric affectionately, and kissed him a few more times before letting go of him, and turned around on the spot, "Is it beautiful?"

Eric nodded and said, "It's beautiful, it's just too short." ”

"Hehe, maybe I'm getting taller again. By the way, I ordered two pairs of leather shoes for you, and I just got them back today, you can try them. ”

With that, the girl asked Natasha to bring a shoebox, opened the box and took out a pair of brand-new black leather shoes, and the little daughter-in-law squatted down in front of Eric, intending to help Eric change his shoes.

Looking at the girl's movements, Eric retracted his feet and said with a smile: "Na, so attentive, confess first, is it a trouble?"

"No, people are very considerate," the girl was very dissatisfied with Eric's questioning, but she didn't insist, got up and handed the leather shoes in her hand to a waitress next to her, pulled over a chair and sat down next to Eric, and said, "Eric, Kate's family wants to invite us to dinner tonight, do you want to go?"

Eric was just about to speak, when he saw the good-looking blonde waitress squatting down in front of him very consciously, he raised his foot cooperatively, and then asked, "Which Kate?"

"Kate Hudson," the girl said, "didn't she get the Spider-Man heroine, so I want to invite you to dinner to thank you." ”

Eric nodded, feeling the waitress who was helping him change his shoes suggestively stroke his ankle a few times, but pretended to retract his foot slightly, and said, "Since you agreed, then go." ”

The role of Gwen Stacy, the heroine of "Spider-Man", has only recently been decided, and Eric actually prefers Kelly Russell, who has a sweet baby face, but Cameron prefers Kate Hudson.

Compared with the slender and petite Kelly Russell, Kate Hudson, who is tall and close to 1.7 meters, is obviously more in line with Cameron's aesthetics. This girl has just turned nineteen years old this year, is in the age of youth and invincible, has a sweet face that has inherited her mother, and she smiles very well, but her figure is slightly plump, and she obviously has a bit of a 'fat and warm' atmosphere.

Although Eric is Italian to Kelly Russell, his attitude is not so resolute, and he has little to do with this girl after all. In comparison, Kate Hudson, who everyone is familiar with each other, is different, and since Cameron likes it, Eric agrees with it.

After changing his shoes, Eric got up and stepped on them a few times, nodded his head in satisfaction, but didn't try another pair, but asked the girl next to him, "Have you picked out your clothes?"

"Well, that's it," the girl said, taking out a credit card from her handbag and handing it to the waitress beside her, without any intention of changing her clothes, and after a while, Eric and the girl walked out of the Gucci store, followed by the twins with a few handbags.

It's just that as soon as I walked out of the store, the bright light of a flash appeared not far from the street, and when I looked over, a paparazzi holding a long-barreled camera was shooting wildly in front of me.

The bodyguard who got out of the car to help Eric and the girl pull the car door asked Eric if he wanted to stop him, Eric just shook his head casually, and the girl held Eric's arm indifferently and posted a post on Eric with a smile, looking like she was enjoying being photographed.

After getting into the car, he told the driver to go back to the Trausdale estate, and the twins followed Eric in a girl's Land Rover.

Glancing in the rearview mirror at random, and seeing a motorcycle following, Eric frowned and asked the girl next to him, "Why are there paparazzi around you?"

Because Eric and the girl rarely come to the front of the stage now, most of the time the public attention is not too high, coupled with the status of the two in Hollywood, few paparazzi have appeared next to the two in recent years.

After all, tabloids rely on attractive news to survive, and the scandals of those popular stars are obviously more attractive than the daily life of Eric and the girl, and, in the absence of actual evidence, the tabloids do not dare to easily write the gossip of the two, otherwise they will eat lawsuits every minute, and over time, the two of them will lose their attraction to the paparazzi.

Hearing Eric's question, the girl posted it like a kitten and said with a smile: "I'm the richest woman in the world now." ”

"Tsk, listening to this tone is an exaggerated little rich woman's atmosphere, too exaggerated," Eric shook his head with a smile, and probably understood in his heart, with the girl's age and gender, plus the origin of this asset in her name, even if it is not made up, just the topicality of this itself is enough to attract the attention of too many people in the newspaper.

"Hehe," the girl smiled and arched in Eric's arms, and after a while, the girl quieted down before leaning next to Eric and said, "Eric, I also think I have too much money now, and it's very annoying." ”

Eric pinched the girl's face and said, "You can say whatever you like in the newspaper, you just don't pay attention to it." ”

"I don't care what the newspapers say, it's just that there seem to be a lot of things around me all of a sudden, and I'm annoyed. My mother came to me last week to ask for money, but I refused, so I ran to the reporter and cried and cried about how bad my life was, I obviously gave her $10,000 a month for living expenses, how many people in Los Angeles can earn $10,000 a month, not to mention that she doesn't have to work. ”

Eric put his arms around the girl's small waist and said, "Then give her more, don't let her make trouble, anyway, we don't lack this money." I remember telling you a long time ago that there are many things in this world that we can't hide. ”