Eric listened quietly to Robert Shea's arguments, trying to hide himself from sneering on the spot.

Robert Shea said that he had no selfish intentions, and he also looked bright and upright on the surface. But Eric is sure that Michael Eisner has definitely been in talks with Robert Shea, and there is no doubt about what benefits he promised.

Otherwise, Robert Shay wouldn't have been so obvious that he wanted to hand over the overseas distribution rights of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Disney.

With the success of a series of films, Eric is no longer the hairy kid he first entered Hollywood a year ago, and his ambitions are growing.

Moreover, Eric has not only said to one person that his goal is all of Hollywood. In this case, it is inevitable to recruit talents for his own use, and he does not mind giving away power to these people who can help him rise quickly.

This is also one of the reasons why Eric is more patient with Robert Shay, and even in the turmoil some time ago, Robert Shay obviously 'took advantage of the fire's robbery' to take 10% of the shares of Firefly again, and Eric endured it. You must know that at that time, Firefly's five movies at the end of the year were all very successful, and Firefly had the rights to five more blockbuster movies, so the 10% stake was far from being able to take a mere $60 million.

But as long as Robert Shay can dedicate himself to taking care of the fireflies, Eric doesn't think it's a big deal.

Because now that the new line and Firefly have been completely merged, the profits generated by the movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" will be distributed at the end of the year, according to the proportion of each person's shares. Eric will take more than 70% of the profits. Robert Shea, the biggest contributor, only gets 25% of the dividends. In this case, Robert Shea is understandably unbalanced.

So Robert Shea had just played some tricks on the movie "Sleeping with the Enemy", and Eric let it go.

But now, hearing that Robert Shea was going to hand over the overseas distribution rights of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Disney, Eric was completely disappointed with Robert Shay.

It wasn't for nothing that he told Robert Shea about his plans for the Firefly.

Although it has been merged with the new line, the distribution ability of Firefly is still relatively weak.

It's like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", because it was affirmed by Eric. Firefly took out 2,000 open screens in one go, but it was also the limit of Firefly, because of the release of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", a small Zuò movie left over from the new line had to be postponed, because Firefly could no longer get any theater resources.

In contrast, any of the seven major studios can raise more than 5,000 screens to support the simultaneous release of two or three major zuò films if necessary, which is not the case with the average studio. Because this will only create vicious competition.

Eric initially planned to use the next few years to expand into domestic and overseas markets with Firefly's advantage over the success of its blockbuster films.

As long as a complete distribution channel can be established. Even if you make less money for a while, it is nothing, because having a complete and strong distribution channel is the foundation for the survival of a large film company.

After all, everyone knows that relying on other studios' distribution channels is not a long-term solution.

And now, just the accidental success of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Robert Shay's mentality is so unbalanced that as Fireflies grow and develop, internal turmoil of Fireflies in the future is almost inevitable. Fireflies are one of the most important cornerstones of Eric's entry into Hollywood, and he will never allow this to happen, so there is only one solution, and that is to get rid of Robert Shay.

Although he has already made up his mind to pay attention, Eric also knows that now is not a good time to do this, the new line and Firefly have just completed the integration, and most of the current heads of various parts are still Robert Shea's descendants, if Robert Shay is immediately kicked out of the company, it is difficult to say whether these people will leave with Robert Shay with the help of other forces.

Once that happens, the distribution channel of the new line that Firefly has integrated will quickly be paralyzed, which Eric doesn't want to see anyway.

"Eric, are you listening to me?" Robert Shay tapped lightly on the table when he saw Eric's distracted appearance, a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

"Oh, by the way, where did we just go?" asked Eric, looking up, quietly.

"I mean, how about handing over the overseas distribution of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Disney, I had people calculate that we could make at least $10 million more in terms of Michael Eisner's share. ”

Eric shook his head, "Robert, I don't agree. ”

"Why," Robert Shea raised his voice.

Eric said, "Robert, have you ever wondered why Michael Eisner offered us such good terms?"

"It's ...... It's a win-win," Robert Shea said after a moment's hesitation.

Eric immediately shook his head: "No, Robert, according to Firefly's current overseas distribution capabilities, maybe if we release it ourselves, the overseas box office may only be sixty percent or even lower than when it was released by the seven major releases, but I talked to you before, although we make less money, we can use this to open up channels and form a distribution network overseas." If we follow Michael Eisner's advice, we may be able to make more money for a while, but we will never be able to form our own distribution network. ”

"Eric, don't you think that this is a bit expensive, to expand the distribution network, I think, you can use a low-cost small system to expand, that will not lose too much money. And a successful blockbuster movie like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is too wasteful to expand channels. ”

Eric put his right hand on the conference table in front of him and pressed down slightly, as if he was suppressing something from the bottom of his heart, but soon, he exhaled lightly and continued: " Robert, if low-budget small-scale movies can't be sold well, they won't make much money overseas, and if they can't make money, those overseas distributors are not charitable, why do they help with distribution, you don't know, now many Hollywood movies with a box office of less than $50 million are basically directly bought out to overseas distributors, and even the seven major film companies themselves are too lazy to do global distribution. ”

"Eric," Robert Shay said seriously as he stared at Eric's eyes, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie I lead, I hope it can maximize its benefits, I think the main task of Firefly now is to make money, as long as there is money, I believe it will be easy to expand channels." (To be continued......)