Mr. and Mrs. Smith As a big-budget film with an investment of 60 million US dollars, it even exceeds the total cost of all the films shot by John Wu in Hong Kong in 20 years, so Eric's intervention in the final editing of the film not only did not make John Wu feel offended, but even had a sense of relief, after all, the total investment of 60 million US dollars was close to 500 million Hong Kong dollars after conversion, after John Wu took over the film, every time he thought of this number, he would have a feeling of walking on thin ice, but fortunately, Eric affirmed his shooting results after seeing the sample film, and John Wu's worries for several months finally dissipated.

Near the end of the day, Tina Fey parked her car in the parking lot of Firefly Studios, looked at her watch, picked up a satchel full of documents and hurried to the studio's post-production center.

Eric left Alan in Paris, although he had his own dedicated assistant office at the Firefly headquarters, but he did not choose a temporary first assistant among them, because Xiao Nizi temporarily pushed Tina Fey over on the grounds that TG had not had much work after completing "Detective Plane Head", and Eric did not object, it was more convenient to have a familiar woman by his side than others.

Seeing Tina Fey's figure, Eric nodded at her and chatted with John Wu before walking over to the girl. Looking at the satchel that seemed to be a little heavy on Tina Fey's shoulder, Eric reached out to take it, but was dodged by Tina Fey.

"Eric, I'll do it myself. Tina Fey shook her head.

For women occasionally show some good strong small details. Eric didn't mind either. smiled: "Then let's go back, it's just time to get off work." ”

The two came to the parking lot again, and Tina Fey was about to drive her car, but was stopped by Erec: "Put it here, drive it tomorrow, we can still talk about something in the car." ”

This time, Tina Fey didn't object, nodded slightly, and got into Eric's car with him.

Wait for the driver to start the car. Tina Ficai placed her satchel on her lap and pulled out a few folders: "Eric, Mr. Hansen...... Oh, it was Mr. Hansen Jr. of New York who sent you a document in the afternoon, about the information about the Marvel Entertainment Group, and he called and said that he would hand it over to you as soon as possible. ”

Eric then understood why Tina Fey had rushed over at this time, nodded, and took a few thick papers from the woman's knees. Compared to the brief information about Marvel when Eric and Chris talked about in New York, this material is much more detailed, covering all aspects of Marvel Entertainment Group's operating status, business structure, debt ratio, and comic book rights. There's even a document dedicated to Marvel Entertainment's entanglement with Ron Perelman's investment firm.

Eric only glanced at the professional information that was biased towards the economic side, and instead focused on the copyright and other materials of the Marvel Comics. In memory. At first glance, Eric realized that the actual information was very different from the information in his memory, and he originally thought that Marvel Comics had sold his popular comic book characters to several major Hollywood studios in the mid-to-late nineties in order to solve the financial crisis. But in fact, since the 80s, Marvel has been selling movie rights to comic book characters.

According to the information in hand, the current amazing best-selling comic book characters have buyers, the copyright of "Fantastic Four" is in the hands of Constantine Film in Germany, the copyright of "Spider-Man" is in the hands of Carroch Film Company, the copyright of "Captain America" is in the hands of 21st Century Film Company, and "Hulk" The copyright is also in the hands of New World Films, which Eric has never heard of, that is to say, now the seven Hollywood majors are not interested in the adaptation rights of Amazing comics, and the adaptation rights of popular characters are basically in the hands of second- and third-tier film companies, while the film adaptation rights of second-tier superheroes such as Iron Man Black Widow are not even cared for.

Moreover, the copyright transfer agreements signed by Marvel with these film companies are similar to the agreements signed with several major film companies in Eric's memory, that if the work is not released within a few years, the copyright will automatically return to the hands of Marvel Comics, however, although these second- and third-tier film companies have bought the copyright, the motivation to change it into a movie does not seem to be too strong, and Constantine got "Fantastic Four" 's copyright has been shelved since then, but when the senior management of that film company suddenly found that the copyright they bought with money was about to expire, they rushed to find someone to concoct an ultra-low-cost B-grade "Fantastic Four" in less than a month, in order to continue the copyright in their hands.

Other film companies that own the rights only released their own Marvel Comics adaptations in the following two years after the success of Warner's release of "Batman", but none of them made any splashes.

Tina Fey sat quietly next to Eric, from time to time sneaking a glance at the side face of the man who was reading the information carefully, since Drew said that sentence jokingly a few months ago, although Tina Fey kept telling herself not to be cranky, but she couldn't help but have some messy thoughts in her heart, and when she got along with Eric again after a few months, she couldn't be as calm as before.

When Drew pushed her to Eric's side, although he told himself a hundred times that he would refuse, refuse, but unconsciously agreed, from the bottom of his heart, although he didn't want to admit it, but from the bottom of his heart, she always hoped to spend more time with Eric.

"Tina," Eric suddenly turned his head to speak after reading a document, just in line with Tina Fey's thief-like little eyes, watching the girl look away in a panic, Eric couldn't help laughing: "Hey, since I saw you last time, I've always thought you became weird, what happened?"

"No, nothing," Tina Fey quickly denied.

Eric thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Did Drew tell you something?"

"Huh?" Tina Faye opened her mouth, but didn't answer.

Eric shrugged, thinking he had guessed right, and said, "Well, it's not a secret. It's okay to tell you. Anyway. I'm going to be a dad in April next year. ”

Hearing this, Tina Fei's eyes suddenly widened: "Be a father, you ...... Are you married?"

"Of course not," Eric looked at Tina Fey's expression, "so you don't know." ”

Tina Fey felt a strong sense of loss in her heart, but she still nodded: "Drew, Drew didn't tell me this." ”

As he spoke, there was a brief silence in the carriage.

After a while. Tina Fei Cai cautiously said, "Then, when the child is born, will you get married?"

"No," Eric shook his head, "but I'll try to be a good father." ”

Tina Faye didn't know how to continue the topic for a while, she came from a very conservative middle-class American family, and the ideas she accepted from childhood made her unable to agree with Eric's approach, but at the same time, she couldn't feel too much disgust in her heart, maybe people's subconscious, always more tolerant of people with wealth and power in the scale of social rules.

"You're done?" said Tina Fey, who was silent for a moment. Then he pointed to the document in Eric's hand again.

"Not yet, just watched a few. I'm going to go back and watch it, oh, what I was just trying to say is, tomorrow you'll take the time to help me collect the tapes of these movies, and I'm going to watch them. With that, Eric pulled out the information and handed it to Tina Fey.

Tina Fey took out a memo and quickly jotted down the name of the movie.

The episode seemed to pass like that, but then Eric noticed that the atmosphere between the two of them had shifted from one strangeness to another.

……

Under the personal command of Katzenberg, after a month of rectification, the renamed Disneyland Paris opened to visitors again, because of the media influence brought about by the sudden closure of less than ten days after opening, and Disney's sincere gesture of unabashedly apologizing to the public and carrying out vigorous reforms, the reopening of Disney in just one week, the number of visitors once again rushed to a peak, reaching 700,000 people, although the price of tickets and Disney-themed hotel accommodation prices and other prices have been reduced, but after another survey, the satisfaction of tourists has risen to 70%. Among them, the satisfaction rate of French tourists has reached 85%, because Disneyland Paris has not only made a considerable adjustment in the content of French culture, but even made French the working language of Disneyland Paris staff.

Although the average spending of tourists has not increased since the opening of the hotel due to the reduction in prices, the management is quite optimistic about the situation. Just like a movie, if a highly anticipated movie just gets a high box office but ends up with a very bad reputation, then the sequel production of the movie will definitely be very difficult, and conversely, if a movie has a good reputation, even if it doesn't make much profit at the box office, the film company will be very keen to make a sequel. After the reopening, Disneyland Paris, which has received good reviews from tourists, is like a movie that has won a good reputation, and as long as it has gained a good reputation, then the likelihood of tourists visiting Disneyland again will be greatly increased.

"If we can maintain the current momentum, maybe the situation at Disneyland Paris will not be as bad as we expected," Eric said, looking at the results of another survey that Katzenberg had given himself back in Los Angeles.

"I think so too," after not seeing him for a month, Katzenberg hasn't changed much, except that he is a little leaner: "Fortunately, it was made up in time, although the closure for a whole month brought some unnecessary expenses, but in the current situation, the loss is completely worth it." At the very least, Disneyland Paris should be able to break even this year. Although the previous estimates for this project were too optimistic, it is true that the potential visitor base in Europe is definitely larger than that in Japan and the United States, and I think the biggest problem is that it has not adapted to the local culture like Tokyo Disneyland, and as long as it can be done, it should not be too much of a problem to make a profit. ”

"Well, don't talk about the responsibility anymore, after all, we all know that the responsibility for this matter is not on you and me," Eric said with a smile.

Disneyland Paris was personally controlled by Michael Eisner, although Katzenberg was also a Disney executive at that time, but with Michael Eisner's character, it was absolutely impossible for Katzenberg to meddle in this project, so now that there is such a big mistake, this black pot is unsurprisingly on Michael Eisner's head, and it is absolutely not wronged.

Katzenberg didn't dwell on this topic, but said: "I will pay attention to the situation over there at any time in the future and make timely adjustments, and one more thing, Giancarlo's case against MGM was lost, I just got the news when I was in Paris, the main source of funds for Giancarlo's fraud is the French consortium, and Giancarlo's MGM shares will be auctioned by the Bank of France in mid-December to repay the debts of investors, I think this should be a good opportunity for Firefly to expand the film library." ”

Eric shook his head and said: "But it costs a lot of money, Jeffrey, I have also thought about this matter, although after getting the MGM film library, the number of films in Firefly Pictures will more than double, but we do not have the strength to convert these films into real economic benefits, we have neither enough video distribution resources, nor our own television station, and these are the two most important channels to convert early films into actual profits." ”

Katzenberg knew that Eric was telling the truth, and obviously felt a little pity, because this opportunity, if grasped well, was enough to completely swallow MGM's film library, and the most valuable thing left by MGM was its huge library of more than 10,000 movies and TV series.

Thinking of this, Katzenberg asked, "So, Eric, shouldn't we consider building our own TV station next?"

Eric put down the document in his hand, got up and poured two cups of coffee for himself and Katzenberg, brought it and sat down again, and then said, "At least after next year, and if we want to buy public television, we have to deal with the relationship with Fox Network, and maybe we will have to give up the 10% stake in Fox Network, otherwise we will definitely get into trouble with the Federal Exchange Commission." ”

"Sounds like you already have a goal?" asked Katzenberg, noticing Eric's expression, curious.

Eric smiled and nodded, "However, it will be after the results of Viacom's competition with QVC Paramount are in." ”

When Katzenberg heard this, he almost understood, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not optimistic that Barry Diller will be able to take down Paramount." (To be continued......)