Maybe it's because there are too many movies in his head, Eric's dreams are always a little weird, and he wanders into "Resident Evil" when he wakes up, and some don't know who he is, but he only knows that he entered a messy hall with his companions, and is moving forward cautiously, a drop of hot and humid unknown liquid falls on his face, and he suddenly looks up, and in the dim he sees the licker's murderous tongue attacking him, and he is suddenly frightened awake.

At a glance, I saw Drew lying beside him with a smile on his face, Xiao Nizi rarely got up earlier than him, and Eric was not surprised, after most of the circle on the earth, his biological clock was already a little chaotic, and it was estimated that it would take a long time to recover.

Remembering the dream just now, Eric touched his cheek and asked, "Girl, you won't prank me on my face, will you?"

"Of course not," Drew said with a look on his face that he was still a child, and then gave an answer that made Eric a little helpless: "I just licked it a few times." ”

Well, there will be no shortage of meat anyway.

Eric thought to himself, reaching for his watch on the table, and Drew's small body just got in front of him, so he asked, "What time is it?"

Drew turned around and pressed a button next to the bed, and the curtains around the bedroom opened silently, and the bright sunlight couldn't wait to break in, and soon filled the spacious master bedroom.

Eric narrowed his eyes and blocked it with his arm before he sat up abruptly.

Yesterday I made an appointment to hold a firefly management meeting in the morning, and it must have been late depending on the situation.

Hurriedly dressed, Eric asked, "Where's my mobile phone, has anyone called?"

"Yes, Michael just called and asked if you were going to attend the meeting today. I said you hadn't arrived yet, maybe a little later, and he said to move the meeting to one o'clock in the afternoon," Drew said, pulling out a brand new tie from the cabinet and rushing over to tie it himself.

Eric stood still and reached for his watch. It's already 9:40, and even if you rush over now, there is not enough time in the morning: "The next time you encounter this kind of thing, you must wake me up, it's always not good to make so many people wait." ”

Drew obviously knew the priority of the matter, and said, "You know, this time is special, you just came back from Tokyo, and they can understand it." ”

Going downstairs into the dining room for breakfast, the figure of the Russian twin reappeared. Take the initiative to greet Eric, and after Eric sits down, he puts breakfast and today's newspaper in front of Eric one by one, looking well-trained.

Xiao Nizi, who had already eaten breakfast, sat opposite Eric with her small chin propped up, her eyes flashing to show a quick compliment to me.

Eric thanked the twins, and when the two sisters left the dining room, he picked up a small piece of bread and threw it at the door of the girl's head, "Okay, what's there to be proud of." It cost so much money enough to hire a hundred servants. ”

Although last night Drew joked that he was more expensive. But in fact, she just bought the two sisters' contracts from the agent named Sean King and spent $800,000, so she took advantage of the loopholes in the other party's contracts, and later promised the two sisters all kinds of conditions, and the cost of helping the other sisters immigrate alone is not something that $800,000 can do.

"I can also let the two of them make cameos in the company's movies, and the two of them will be the mascots in the Flower Pictures movies in the future. Much more eye-catching than your 'little girl with a doll' gimmick. ”

Eric ignored the teasing in the girl's tone and asked, "You said that you helped their family immigrate, but now it's not so easy for Russia to immigrate to the United States, what does their family do?"

"Their father was a great martial arts coach, but you know it. Now that Russia is poor, they can't even afford to pay for a hotel room when the president goes abroad for a meeting, and a combat coach or something is even more useless. However, it is different in the Federation, and they don't have many families, except for the two of them, only their parents and a younger brother, and it's not very difficult. ”

Seeing that Xiao Nizi knew everything, Eric didn't ask anything more, took a sip of milk, and opened a newspaper at the same time.

"Eric, what's the use of you always looking at this?"

"Looking for inspiration," Eric simply spat out two words, but he saw from the Los Angeles Times that yesterday afternoon, MGM CEO Frank Maccasso held a press conference to announce the plan to establish DreamWorks Film Production in partnership with Firefly Pictures, and revealed the production plans for "Breaking Bad" and "Resident Evil", as well as the news that Eric is about to participate in the production of the latest 007.

Drew didn't mind Eric's perfunctory reperfunctory approach, and dragged a chair over to read the press release, and Eric had already called to tell her about the decision on the Breaking Girl project when he was in Europe, and Drew had already known about it.

"Eric, there is no mention of the representative of Firefly Pictures in the press release, this is a unilateral press conference held by MGM?"

Judging from the press release, not only did the press conference not be attended by representatives of Firefly Pictures, but also, in the content of the press conference, Frank Maccasso deliberately downplayed the role of European capital in the production company.

Eric thought that MGM's stock price would definitely see a wave of upward movement recently, and explained to Drew: "MGM needs some good news too much right now, so I can't wait to do it, and that's fine, Frank Maccasso must have communicated with Michael, Firefly is not a public company, and this news won't affect us too much." ”

"Oh, Eric, we won't lose out on giving "Breaking Bad" to MGM, this film is similar to 007's style, maybe we can make a lot of sequels?"

"The copyright is placed in DreamWorks, not to MGM, we own 30% of the shares of DreamWorks, we are already the largest shareholder, and most of the shares are also in European capital, if we have a conflict with MGM, which side do you think European capital will be on?"

"Of course it's on our side, hey, Eric, I just had a great idea......"

"Huh?"

"You say. Wouldn't it be a good note if we had the "Breaking Bad" series and "007" intersect?"

"It's a good idea, but unless "Breaking Bad" achieves similar influence and box office results as "007", it's not an easy thing to do, and the influence of the 007 series has accumulated over decades. ”

Drew also knows that the influence of the 007 series is definitely not comparable to "Breaking Bad", which has not yet produced a finished product on the big screen at this stage. Instead, he said, "What if it's just some easter eggs in the plot?"

"At least after the first part has gained enough influence, but it's not impossible to try. The most important thing now is to do a good job in the first part of "Breaking Baby". ”

Although Eric is not too optimistic about Drew's whim at breakfast, but then he became more and more interested, if he can make the "Breaking Baby" and "007" series intersect, it is definitely a very powerful gimmick, but thinking of the box office results of the "Breaking Baby" series in his previous life, Eric can only wait until the results of the new version launched by himself are released. and then carry out the relevant work.

Although the meeting was rescheduled for the afternoon, after breakfast, Eric rushed to the Firefly headquarters as soon as possible.

Firefly Pictures had accumulated a large number of documents that needed to be reviewed by Eric himself, and Eric arrived at the office at eleven o'clock until the afternoon meeting began, and he had only read less than a tenth of it, which was still after missing lunchtime, but Eric ate breakfast late. Not too hungry.

The afternoon meeting was not large, just a small meeting of more than a dozen executives of Firefly.

Eric walked into the conference room with Alan holding a thick stack of papers. Seeing that everyone led by Michael Lynn and Jeffrey Katzenberg all gathered their eyes on the ground, and said with a smile: "Long time no see, it seems that everyone misses me very much." ”

In the midst of chuckling, Eric took advantage of the process of Alan distributing the documents one by one, exchanged a few words with everyone, and waited for Alan to finish sending the documents. Eric stood up and said, "I know that Firefly has a lot of things to deal with recently, but we won't discuss these today, today we are talking about the next stage of development goals of Firefly Pictures. ”

At this time, the executives in the conference room had already opened the documents in their hands. Whether or not you have received the news beforehand, you are not too surprised to see the contents of the document, which is an assessment of the possibility of acquisition by the three major television networks.

The current situation of Firefly Pictures has surpassed the other six major Hollywood film companies with an absolute advantage, and if it wants to go further, it must march from a film company to a comprehensive media group.

While it will take some time to formally propose the acquisition to the network, perhaps even until next year, the sooner the preparations, the better.

Among the three major TV networks in North America except for FOX, after a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the mid-80s, ABC TV, which had been in a bad situation in previous years, has become the best overall one.

Because since 1983, when Metropolitan Communications and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquired ABC, the new shareholders have strengthened their financial supervision of ABC TV, but at the same time fully given the management enough potential to give full play.

Subsequently, NBC TV was still in a turbulent phase due to conflicts between its management and its parent company, GM Group.

The situation at CBS can only be described as bad, and in the mid-80s, after Wall Street investor Lawrence Tish took control of CBS, he successively broke up and sold a large number of CBS's business assets, including Columbia Records, the world's second-largest record label, to the Japanese. After so many years of capital operation, Lawrence Tish didn't want to play at this time and was looking for a receiver.

As a result, CBS is also the easiest one to acquire.

However, with the current strength of Firefly Pictures, there is no need to pick up leaks, since you want to buy, of course, you have to choose the best ABC, followed by NBC, and CBS is the last choice.

After Eric briefly introduced his plan, Michael Lynn said: "Eric, since we are going to buy ABC, we must be getting rid of the shares of FOX TV Network in our hands, right?"

"I'll be talking to Mr. Murdoch personally about this in the near future. ”

Another asked, "What about Friends, The X-Files, and Who Becomes a Millionaire?"

Originally, "Friends" signed a five-season broadcast contract with Fox, and this year happens to be the fifth season, and the copyright of "Friends" is completely in the hands of Firefly, Eric, of course, will not be polite to Fox, saying: "After completing this year's contract, we will definitely not renew it with FOX, as for "The X-Files" and "Who Will Be a Millionaire", we will continue to maintain the original plan." ”

"The X-Files" and "Who Will Be a Millionaire" were developed by sharing the copyright with Fox, and it is very difficult to grab them, and it is strange that Murdoch does not turn his face by snatching all the three 'pillars' of the Fox TV network in one go.

Eric said, looking at Firefly's vice president in charge of the TV department: "In addition, from now on, the TV department can look for all programs, even if it may take us one to two years to acquire the TV network, we can also hoard some good projects, you can come up with a plan as soon as possible, and send the collected project summaries to me on a regular basis." ”

Katzenberg suddenly said, "Eric, are you going to take charge of the acquisition of the TV network?"

As soon as Katzenberg's words fell, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became a little strange, and many people swept their eyes between Katzenberg and Michael Lynn.

Eric also looked at Katzenberg and Michael Lynn, who were sitting on either side of him, with some headaches.

The acquisition of a television network is such a big thing, it will definitely require a senior executive above the president level of Firefly Pictures to follow up and negotiate in person, and in other cases, the burden will definitely fall on Michael Lynn. But now the situation is that Eric promised Katzenberg last year that he would appoint Katzenberg as CEO of the Firefly when Michael Lynn's contract expires next year.

As the current CEO of Firefly Pictures, Michael Lynn, although somewhat conservative and not as indomitable as Katzenberg, has always been a very qualified manager. Although Eric does not often intervene in the management of the company, Michael Lynn can perfectly execute every command he inadvertently, and Eric is still very satisfied with Michael Lynn.

So, even before Katzenberg spoke, Eric had been struggling for a long time about how to arrange Michael Lynn in the future. (To be continued......)