The next day, Eric personally rushed to Venice Beach in the morning to the office building that Drew had rented for Flowers Pictures.

The three-storey building with a view of the beach and the sea in the distance has been rented by Drew, and most of the rooms are in the process of being renovated. Eric came to talk to Amy Pascal about Flower Pictures in person.

I talked to Drew to the end last night, and the two quickly shifted positions under the girl's obsession, and many things were not discussed to the end, since Drew pulled Amy Pascal, the owner of Sony Pictures in the original time and space, over to Xi, then talking about these things with more professional people is obviously twice the result with half the effort.

In Eric's opinion, Drew is much better at employing people than she is in other areas. For example, Eric has always been puzzled, how did Xiao Nizi adjust the pair of Russian twins so obediently, you know, the force value of the twins is definitely at the actual combat level, but even if Xiao Nizi is angry with the two, the twins hang their heads and do not refute, like a pair of docile kittens.

In the days when the twins first appeared with Drew, seeing that the two girls had no boxer temperament at all, although they had been wearing cold and cool expressions, Eric was curious and fought with one of the twins in the manor's gym. Or it can't be called 'a game' at all, because Eric didn't hold on for a minute before he raised his hand in surrender, and just like that, he fell into a dark eye, and was ridiculed by Xiao Nizi for several days.

And now, the girl unexpectedly convinces Amy Pascal to join her Flower Pictures, which makes Eric feel more detached than a knife.

"Amy, how did you come up with the idea of tossing with Drew?" As soon as Eric met Amy Pascal, he asked this question of his greatest interest.

Amy Pascal wears her wavy hair. Looks like he's in a good mood. Hearing Eric ask, he smiled and said, "Eric, you should understand, I'm here for you, and Drew knows I'm here for you." ”

"If that's the case, you can come to the fireflies, the fireflies are in the expansion stage, and if you come over, I will definitely raise my hands in favor." ”

"I thought about it when I decided to leave Colombia. But Firefly's management system is already very perfect, and it is difficult for me to use my abilities if I join, and it is different here," Amy Pascal waved his hand lightly: "It's like a blank sheet of paper, I can use myself to my heart's content, and no one will care that I am a woman, because the boss of the company is also a woman." ”

Eric looked at Amy Pascal's complacent expression and asked, "Do you have a complete plan of your own now?"

"Of course," said Amy Pascal, who had taken out a file from the filing cabinet next to him and handed it to Eric, "this is what I prepared these days." I gave Drew a copy too, but I think you only came back yesterday. She certainly hasn't had time to give it to you yet. ”

Eric flipped through the documents and realized why he wanted to seriously discuss the development ideas of Flower Pictures last night, but Xiao Nizi had always seemed a little half-hearted, and it turned out that she already had a complete plan.

Looking at the document manuscript, which was more than ten pages long, Eric casually closed the blue plastic folder: "Amy, let's talk about it briefly." ”

Amy Pascal did not object, saying: "I have studied the copyright of Flower Pictures, and I think there are two copyrights that are more suitable for the development of Flower Pictures at this stage, "Mission Impossible" and "Bonn Identity". ”

"Mission Impossible" and "Bonn's Identity" are the TV series versions of "Mission Impossible" and the original novel names of "Spy Shadows", respectively. It's too early for Eric to plan for "Spy Shadows" to be ready for development in a few years, but he doesn't interrupt Amy Pascal and lets them continue.

“…… In a few years, if Flower Pictures can successfully produce a few lucrative movies and have its own series of movies that can make stable profits, then it can expand by going public or issuing bonds, and my personal advice is to try to promote the merger of Flower Pictures and MGM. And in the case of Sony Colombia, I think they will be forced to withdraw from Hollywood in less than five years at most. ”

Amy Pascal said this, and glanced at Eric quite meaningfully, seeing that Eric's expression was not abnormal at all, only shrugged slightly, and continued: "When the time comes, we can further annex Columbia Pictures on the basis of MGM, and of course, the basis of all this is that the film developed by Flower Pictures can be successful." First of all, in terms of film production funding, I believe that with Eric as your backing, we can easily get funding from Wall Street or European capital, or Firefly itself, but I don't think you want Firefly to get too involved in Flower Pictures, at least not yet, right?"

Amy Pascal's plan is obviously much more elaborate than Eric's original plan, although Columbia and MGM have become subsidiaries of Sony in the original plane, Eric never thought of letting Flower Pictures from small to large land to swallow up the two companies one after another. However, this approach is definitely much more feasible than simply and crudely using large sums of money to make acquisitions.

Although Eric originally planned to use Firefly Pictures to annex MGM's film library in a few years, but MGM fell to Drew's side, and it was actually no different from falling into the hands of Fireflies, hearing Amy's question, Eric nodded and said: "Before the antitrust law is further liberalized, I really don't want Fireflies to be too involved in Flower Pictures' side, although everyone knows what's going on, but we law-abiding citizens always have to take the initiative to give the SEC a reason not to trouble us." Another point is that I hope that the theatrical distribution of Flower Pictures' films will also be represented by other film companies, because Firefly's own projects have occupied a lot of publicity resources. Of course, you can rest assured that Firefly is the most solid backing of Flower Pictures in any case, and I just hope that it never gets so bad. ”

Amy Pascal nodded and said, "I spoke to Mr. Cooper personally before I left Columbia. Peter Cooper was mentioned. Amy Pascal had a palpable look of disgust in her eyes. However, he still said: "Columbia will be responsible for the distribution of Flower Pictures' films, and Mr. Cooper promised to give Flower Pictures the best terms for its share." ”

It took half an hour for Amy Pascal to finish his plan before he said, "So, Eric, now you can tell me what you think, although you haven't contradicted me just now, I can feel it." Some of my points you don't agree with?"

"I'm definitely not as good as you professionals in terms of company management," Eric laughs, "All I'm going to talk about is movies, and although big-budget movies have become the main profit trend in Hollywood, I hope that Flower Pictures can still get involved in low- and medium-budget solo film production." ”

The 90s was the golden decade of Hollywood's solo films, and although most of the solo movies became expensive visual garbage, there were still many excellent films that stood out every year, and high-grossing solo movies abounded.

Amy Pascal obviously knew something about this, and nodded, "Anything else?"

"I looked at the list of Flower Pictures' rights library last night, and "Mission Impossible", "The Identity of Bourne", and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series are some of the most valuable rights among them, all of which have the potential to be developed into a series of films. But the latter two are not suitable for development now, you can do it now. It's "Mission Impossible", and I'll personally provide you with an adaptation idea. ”

Amy Pascal was a little disappointed: "Eric, is this the only one?"

In fact, there was originally "Forrest Gump", but if you choose to produce "Forrest Gump" now, then it can only be released next year, in that case, Fox's "Braveheart" will definitely be tragic in the Oscars in the face of "Forrest Gump", not to mention that Tom Hanks is still filming "Saving Private Ryan" in Ireland, and it is impossible to shoot other movies in the short term. Therefore, Eric still plans to shoot "Forrest Gump" next year and release it in 1995, as for what Olympic film it will impact at that time, it is no longer in his consideration.

Eric was about to nod his head, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "The last time I was in Berlin, I came up with a very good fantasy movie idea called "Wonderful Night at the Museum", the script has been registered, and this can also be handed over to you. ”

Amy Pascal looked surprised, and then asked, "Eric, aren't all the scripts you wrote yourself developed by Firefly himself?"

Eric said: "The main film of Firefly for the next three years has almost been decided. ”

Amy Pascarton remembered the information that Firefly had revealed about the project.

"Saving Private Ryan", "True Lies", "The Lion King", "Jurassic Park 2", "Alone Day", "Toy Story 2", etc., in addition to a series of films with Columbia and DreamWorks Pictures, it can indeed be said that the main movie of Firefly in the next three years has been decided, which makes her a little envious, and it is estimated that several other Hollywood studios are in this mood.

Although other film companies have begun to make large-scale movies in the past two years, they have not been successful, because they do not have the special effects technical support provided by Firefly's digital field special effects company, and they do not have the magical existence of Eric, and even Steven Spielberg, the most glamorous Steven Spielberg in the 80s, is now far behind by Eric.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Amy, Eric said: "Then, in this way, you can start preparing for "Impossible Mission" and "Night at the Museum" now, and you can also choose some low-budget solo films from well-known directors to invest." ”

Amy asked, "Eric, do you have any advice for the protagonists of these two projects?"

Eric hesitated, but said: "I recommend Tom Cruise for the actor in "Mission Impossible", but on the condition that Tom Cruise can only participate in this project as an actor and needs to sign a contract for at least three films. As for "Wonderful Night at the Museum", "Eric thought about it and found that Ben Stiller has not become famous yet, except for Ben Stiller, the only thing Eric can think of for a while is Jim Carrey, but although Jim Carrey is very suitable for the position ......of the actor in "Night at the Museum", Eric is not very interested in cooperating with Jim Carrey:" This one is selected from the more well-known comedians now, the specific situation is determined by the actor's schedule and audition effect, this film focuses on those miraculously resurrected creatures in the museum, so the male lead is not the most important. ”

Amy Pascal nodded, shook her head suddenly, and said: "Eric, although Cruise's career has declined a little in the past two years, if you want to sign a contract for three films at once, I'm afraid it's not that simple, I have dealt with Cruise during the production of "Prequel to the Dark War", he is not so similar to a person, I am afraid he will ask his production company to participate in this project." ”

"I understand that you can try to get in touch with the other person, and it won't bring us anything, and if he agrees, it's naturally better, and we can make some concessions on the salary, but if he insists on being overly involved, then Hollywood can't find a star who can replace him. ”

"I'll talk to him," Amy Pascal nodded, writing the notes on the memo.

Eric waited for the other party to finish writing before he said, "Now let's talk about another very important matter. ”

"Huh?" Amy Pascal looked up at seeing Eric's very cautious look.

"This is something that occurred to me last night, and I had people investigate the Marvel comic superheroes some time ago. ”

"Eric, are you going to develop superhero movies like Warner?"

"I mean, some time ago, I had people investigate the copyright of some of the biggest superheroes in Marvel Comics, including "Spider-Man", "Captain America", and "Fantastic Four", which second- and third-rate small companies have the copyrights of superheroes, so I want you to buy them back for me." ”

Amy Pascal thought about the information about the amazing superheroes before saying, "Eric, there are said to be many amazing superheroes, and it's not so easy to get them all back. ”

"So, at least get Spider-Man back, I'm actually most interested in this superhero. ”

Amy Pascal smiled and said, "'Spider-Man' is one of Marvel's most popular superheroes, and if I had to choose, it would certainly be 'Spider-Man'." (To be continued.) )