Chapter 1037 Is Not over Yet

In the afternoon, Howard Stringer raised the offer to $7.5 million, and Ted Elliott and Terry Lucio never hesitated to sell the "Pirates of the Caribbean" script directly to Sony Pictures.

After offering $20 million for a Hollywood star for the first time, the deep-pocketed Sony Pictures has once again set a record for the price of a Hollywood script.

Moreover, the original $20 million was considered "reasonable", because before that, the remuneration of many Hollywood stars had been close to this level, and some stars had already received a record of more than $20 million in remuneration through sharing contracts. But this time, Sony Pictures' $7.5 million offer nearly tripled the record price for a Hollywood original screenplay in one go, and more than tripled the average script bid for top-tier Hollywood screenwriters.

When the news came out, the whole Hollywood was sensational, and the North American and even overseas media began to frantically prepare press releases related to this matter.

It was past eleven o'clock in the middle of the night in the sharp corner manor.

Fernanda Tavares, wearing a cool tank top and shorts, walked lightly and silently from the kitchen with bare feet, holding a pot of freshly brewed coffee in her hand.

From the conversation between Eric and Ron Howard in the afternoon, she already knew what happened, and at the same time, she could feel the extreme shock of the people around her.

However, as an outsider, she couldn't understand the deeper meaning of Sony Pictures' $7.5 million purchase of a script, but she was worried that Eric, who was in a state of anger, would take anger on herself. Fortunately, this kind of The situation did not happen.

Except for a fire when he received the first call at noon, the man has been very calm from the afternoon to the present. When he returned to Jianjiao Manor in the evening, he just kept calling. Although she faintly heard a few words, she wisely restrained her curiosity.

Beside a long table by the glass curtain wall, there are many documents scattered on the table. The laptop in front of Eric is shining brightly, and he is staring at the laptop screen with his chin on his hand, thinking about something. The villa was very quiet, and the sky and sea outside the curtain wall were gloomy.

Quietly filled the cup next to Eric, Fernanda put the coffee pot next to her, and was about to walk away quietly, when she felt a hand reaching out to wrap her waist, and she sat down on Eric. Gram on the leg.

The big hand slipped into the girl's highly elastic little vest and swam for a while, listening to the stunner in her arms gradually let out a small light panting, Eric's fatigue dissipated a lot, leaned over and kissed the girl on the cheek, saying : "I'll be very busy on weekdays. I'll take you back to New York tomorrow."

After getting along for two days, Fernanda keenly noticed that Eric treated himself like a pet, or more accurately, maybe a cat. He likes to watch her walk around the villa with bare feet, like to watch her curled up on the sofa watching TV lazily, like to hold her in his arms and caress her like this, completely treated by the master Pet attitude, but also seems so natural.

Fernanda, like Giselle, left Brazil to work hard at the age of 14. In order to protect herself better, she actually has a very pungent side. If others dare to treat her like this, she will definitely immediately Turn your face.

However, experiencing world events too early has also made her appreciate the power represented by power and wealth. Therefore, in front of this man who is standing at the peak of power and wealth in the whole world, she does not feel much resistance at all, but involuntarily substitutes herself into the role that the other party likes.

"Okay," Fernanda nodded in response, feeling that although Eric withdrew his hand from under his clothes, he still thoughtfully wrapped around her leaning body, feeling a little disappointed in his heart. This man is very gentle in most cases, and even makes women have some unrealistic fantasies, but she understands that this kind of gentleness and consideration is not mixed with many male and female feelings: "Eric, this year's Victoria's Secret University Will you come to the show?"

"As long as the movie in my hand is finished,

It should be able to pass by then," Eric patted the girl's slender waist lightly, and said, "You can go to rest first, I have to wait for a while. "

"Actually, I'm also a night owl, and I'm not sleepy at all. Why don't I go make you a late-night snack?"

"I don't like to eat at this time, you can do it if you're hungry."

"I don't eat either," Fernanda shook her head and smiled, "I will gain weight."

Eric's toes touched the ground and made the leather chair turn for half a circle. He gestured not far away and said, "Let's watch TV for a while."

Fernanda got up and walked to the two egg-shaped space chairs on the other side of the curtain wall, picked up the remote control placed on the coffee table, turned on the wall-mounted TV on the wall, and shrunk lazily in the space chairs. Turning his head and looking behind him, Eric's attention has turned back to the laptop, and he can't help but feel a little disappointed. He holds a pillow next to him in his arms, and casually selects a TV program.

At noon, he rudely beat Howard Stringer on the phone, and Eric had already expected that after his strong statement, Howard Stringer would either give in and give up on "Caribbean". The outrageous offer of "Pirates", or it is more determined to grab the script.

Howard Stringer finally chose the latter, didn't Eric feel too surprised, he even realized that this possibility was more likely in advance.

However, since this is the case, Eric also intends to use this opportunity to start some things in his plan in advance.

Over the years, although the Firefly Group has not successively annexed the Disney Group and the ABC Group for its massive expansion, its overall strength has continued to increase rapidly.

Although the Hollywood film market has been growing at an annual rate of nearly 10% in recent years, the strength of Firefly Group is destined to cause several other companies to continue to lose their corresponding market shares in Hollywood, which is almost divided into seven. On the other hand, Firefly Group's corporate management style is actually more like a growing elephant than an aggressive wolf. Due to Eric's own personality, the company rarely shows aggressiveness to peer competitors. side.

Therefore, it can be seen from Howard Stringer's performance today that although everyone can feel the strength of Firefly Group, no company will really fear this company. In this state, once the Firefly Group continues to devour more market share in the media industry, in the absence of awe, it is inevitable that some people will not resort to some troublesome and dirty methods.

In this case, now may be the time for the Firefly Group and even the Firefly System to show its sharp claws and fangs to the outside world.

After combing through the plan in his heart again, he typed a few more emails and sent them out. Checking the time, it was almost one o'clock in the morning, and Eric turned off the computer.

After turning off the lamp, Eric got up and walked to the other side of the curtain wall. A late-night drama was playing on the wall-mounted TV, the sound was very low, and the girl curled up in the space chair was already asleep.

After all, the space in the oval space chair is not too big. A tall girl with a height of nearly 1.8 meters is curled up in it, and her waist and legs are long and her posture is very attractive. Eric admired the Sleeping Beauty in front of him, reached out and gently pushed the space chair. Perhaps feeling the shaking under her body, Fernanda quickly opened her eyes.

After being confused for a moment, and seeing the man standing in front of him clearly, Fernanda smiled and said, "Eric, are you done?"

"Yes, although I don't want to disturb you, but this is not a place to sleep."

Fernanda stretched out her slender body, shaking her toes gently, and said, "I think it's pretty good, and I plan to install one in my apartment in the future."

Eric stretched out his hand to pull the girl up, and the two walked towards the stairs together, saying, "Why do you want to go back to New York and pretend to be in the future?"

Fernanda thought of Giselle's Manhattan penthouse, with a bit of self-pity in her tone: "But, I don't have my own apartment yet."

With a smile on his lips, Eric said casually: "Oh, then, the apartment, or the space chair, you choose one, and I will send it to you."

Fernanda felt her heart beating a little faster, remembering last year that Eric signed a million-dollar check and let their group of girls travel around the world, she knew that he was not joking. With this man's current terrifying net worth, even the Manhattan penthouse where Giselle lived was absolutely nothing to him.

However, Fernanda restrained her thoughts and said: "Then the space chair is fine, I will probably get some endorsement contracts next year, and then I can buy an apartment of my own in Manhattan. "

With the foundation laid in the fashion industry in recent years, coupled with this year's Victoria's Secret show and the popularity brought by her participation in "Public Enemy", it is enough for Fernanda to rank among the first-line supermodels, even if she cannot compete with Cindy. Crawford, who is still at the top of the pyramid, is more than enough to get a few million-dollar endorsement deals next year.

"Tell me when you buy a house, and I'll send it to you as a gift for your new home," Eric's tone was still casual, he didn't explain too much, he thought it was a small surprise for the girl next to him , or, if she can't find it, it's a little easter egg.

This hanging space chair was created by the girl at the beginning. Although Eric didn't pay much attention to the specific cost, in the middle of a pile of expensive furniture worth tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, the placement of this set is conspicuous and the workmanship is worthy. It's obviously impossible to say that a space chair of art quality can be cheap.

...

The new week has just started, and the major media in North America are boiling over the news that Sony Pictures has bought the script for "Pirates of the Caribbean" for $7.5 million.

Some people are amazed by Sony Pictures' generous spending, while others think that Sony Pictures executives who made this decision must have lost their minds, and some professionals have analyzed that this is a sign of a serious bubble in Hollywood, like the IT industry.

In recent years, the influx of film speculative capital into Hollywood has become more and more turbulent. This year, Hollywood's annual film production budget is about 13 billion US dollars, of which tax avoidance funds from Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries have exceeded 2.5 billion US dollars, which is close to the total 20% of the ratio. In addition, after the second raging, the Southeast Asian financial crisis has entered the real final stage, and a large part of the large amount of funds withdrawn from Southeast Asia by international hot money has also flowed into the booming film industry.

Despite the support of Sony Group, Sony Pictures still largely adopts the traditional Hollywood financing method in film production, that is, short-term debt financing from major investment funds and even banks. The influx of a large amount of speculative capital is actually the basis for Sony Pictures to dare to offer a sky-high price of 7.5 million US dollars.

Of course, the consequence of this is that once the film company's project fails, the company's debt ratio will become higher and higher. The original MGM is because of this step by step accumulation of high debt almost equivalent to the market value. However, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group, Sony Pictures' debt will naturally be passed on to Sony's overall financial system.

Inside Hollywood, the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was caused by Eric after all. Everyone knows that this is another script that Eric Williams liked, although it is not clear whether it is similar to "Cut Throat". "Island", but since Firefly's 'missing', even if they are dissatisfied with Sony Pictures' wanton destruction of industry rules, more people still take a schadenfreude attitude.

On the other hand, stimulated by "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Midnight Bell", which is still reaping the box office steadily, almost all the scripts that the Firefly Group's script purchasing department is in contact with have been closely watched. The screenwriter did the same to release some rumors, and at the same time greatly increased the price of the Firefly Group.

At the same time, the script that they liked was so arrogantly cut off by Sony, and there are people who hope to watch the excitement looking forward to whether the Firefly Group will take countermeasures.

Although Howard Stringer deliberately held a special press conference after winning the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", he actually had some ups and downs in his heart, and he stayed in Los Angeles for three more times. Days later, after confirming that there was no further action from the Firefly Group, he flew back to Sony's US headquarters in New York.

On the surface, the Firefly Group was very calm about the loss of "Pirates of the Caribbean", but all the executives in the Firefly system could clearly feel the difference in the internal atmosphere of the Firefly system in recent days. In recent days, Rick's assistant's office has inquired about data and documents from various companies in the Firefly system at a significantly higher frequency.

In this way, until Wednesday, the Firefly system, including executives from major companies inside and outside Hollywood, was notified that everyone needed to attend the core high-level meeting of the Firefly system on Friday morning, and executives who could not make it to Los Angeles must also participate in the video conference mode. .