After lunch at Julia's house, Julia went upstairs to the study with the nanny to take care of the little ones, and Eric and Elizabeth.

Spreading out the prepared materials in front of the woman, Eric took out a box of video and took it to the video recorder.

Elizabeth opened the information brought by Eric and looked at it, roughly the Hollywood comedy genre and the box office of various types of comedies in recent years, etc., and was picking it up and reading it casually, Elizabeth heard a voice from the TV, and looked up, in the picture, an actor with a rather exaggerated facial expression was dancing and talking to a young girl, but it didn't take long for this shot to cut to another completely different scene, but it was still the same person.

Seeing the actor show a mouthful of somewhat exaggerated teeth from time to time, listening to the funny dialogue on the TV, Elizabeth soon couldn't help but laugh.

Eric turned to the girl and said, "Interesting, isn't it?"

Elizabeth looked at the man in the picture and made an exaggerated hip twisting and falling motion, and said happily: "Well, who is this, why didn't I have an impression before?"

"His name is Jim Carrey, he's done a couple of small films, and last year he played a small role in a TV comedy on Fox TV, and what you see is just the effect of his restrained performance. ”

Eric said, pressing the fast-forward button, and soon, the screen turned to an audition room, Kim Kay~8 Rui was performing a pantomime this time, completely silent, but the facial expressions and body language were more exaggerated, and could even be said to be crazy.

"Anyone in mind?" asked Eric again.

Elizabeth dragged her chin and quickly said, "Chaplin?"

"Yes, Chaplin. I don't think Jim Carrey's comedic talent is anything like Chaplin's. Eric rewinds the tape and replays it. got up and returned to Elizabeth's side, picked up the information just now, and said: "In recent years, Hollywood comedy has mainly been dominated by romantic comedies and family comedies, the most successful ones are like "When Harry Met Sally" and the box office winner "Three Daddy and One Baby" in 1987, "Home Alone" can also be classified as a family comedy, but it is more focused on children's audiences, which can also be said to be children's comedy. Besides. There are few excellent works in other comedy genres, and studios don't dare to boldly try other genres, so this is a good opportunity, and it can be seen from "Toy Condor" at the end of last year, and comedy that works harder is very marketable. ”

Elizabeth asked curiously, "What is a comedy that pushes a little harder?"

"It's comedies that sell spoofs and vulgarity, and the main feature of these comedies is that they are exaggerated, and the plot violates or exceeds people's common sense, just like "Toy Condor". ”

Elizabeth picked up the material in front of her and read it again, and Eric didn't bother, but found a magazine and sat there and read it to herself. He had prepared all the materials he had prepared, and he had read them in detail several times before. A lot of the numbers have already crashed into my head, and I don't need to look at them anymore.

After a while, after reading it, Elizabeth said: "These numbers show that in the past ten years, spoofs and vulgar comedies have accounted for only three percent of the total box office, and this type of comedy is also limited to North America, and now the overseas box office occupies an increasing proportion, and this type of comedy seems to have no future." ”

"That's why I said, it's a big untapped gold mine. It doesn't seem to have a future, just because everyone doesn't pay attention to this market. ”

Elizabeth was so smart that she quickly realized something and said, "You're not going to let my TG be cannon fodder and test the waters for these types of comedies, right?"

Eric nodded: "You can say the same, but with me, I will definitely not let you suffer, Kim Carrey was personally selected for you by me, this guy is still just a nobody." As long as I came forward, I could easily sign his option for at least three years. ”

The so-called option contract is a kind of restrictive contract signed by a film company when it is optimistic about a project when it uses a newcomer. It is stipulated that if a new actor wants to get a role, he must sign a condition, which is usually related to the sequel of the project, and there are also requirements that the actor must appear in the company's film for a certain period of time, or must sign a contract for another film at a low price.

On Drew's Birthday Party, after Eric proposed to let TG be in charge of comedy production, Elizabeth had already done detailed consideration, although on the surface she habitually quarreled with Eric for a few words, but she also felt that what Eric said was very reasonable, instead of picking a project-based Zuò movie like a headless fly, it was better to specialize in a theme, comedy is undoubtedly a very potential film category, plus Eric's help, she believes that TG will be able to make good results in this regard.

"Eric, that ...... What about the release?" asked Elizabeth with a wink, pretending to be relaxed.

"That's what I'm trying to discuss with you," Eric said with a smile, knowing that Elizabeth was definitely the kind of woman who would think about her family in any way. In Eric's opinion, this is a good quality. There is still no change in TG's current shareholding structure, with Elizabeth holding 40% and Drew and Julia each owning 30%. Xiao Nizi is completely equivalent to her own doppelganger, so it is almost equivalent to her own thirty percent, plus the next conditions, Eric can take more than half of TG's profits. Since it is impossible to swallow all the benefits by using other people's daughters as 'coolies', and the market is so big, this is an impossible thing.

"I won't interfere with the investment, as for the distribution, Firefly wants to be distributed locally in North America and videotapes, and overseas distribution can be given to Fox. ”

Elizabeth said: "Actually, we can do the videotape distribution ourselves. ”

Eric shook his head and said, "There's no need, I won't let you suffer anyway, TG just needs to concentrate on the production, with Firefly and Fox as the backing, TG will never have problems with discovery." ”

Elizabeth retorted unwillingly: "I don't want to be a vassal, you have said before that a pure production company has no future." ”

"That's because they don't have enough backing to support them, so it's decided that we won't bargain anymore, and we'll discuss something specific. (To be continued......)