Chapter Five Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Copyright Small Vault

After the acquisition of Disney, Firefly Pictures already had its own music department, but compared to other major film companies, the music department obtained from Disney was much smaller. Eric was only to release that single. The establishment of the New Territories Point record company is even more negligible

Firefly Pictures is thriving right now, and the company's revenue and profits have made several other big ones jealous. Except for Eric, a traveler who can see the future, perhaps all other executives of Firefly will be like Katzenberg. In favor of expanding Firefly Pictures' music division.

Hearing Katzenberg's words just now, Eric did not dampen his enthusiasm, saying: "Jeffrey, Geffen Records is not suitable for us, and we should put all our resources and energy into the acquisition of TV networks right now. If you want to eat too much in one breath, you will often choke."

Katzenberg, of course, understood this truth. He nodded on the surface, but he was slightly slandered. Although he didn't know much about investment companies in New York, he also knew how distracted his boss was. It is said that he was promoted in "Jurassic Park". In the process, he also went to Finland on a whim to acquire a mobile phone company.

To be honest, Katzenberg didn’t even know where the tiny country of Finland was until he heard about it.

At this time, it was past get off work hours, and David Geffen was sent away, and Eric had no intention of returning to the office, because he thought of things like online music platforms while watching "Interview with the Vampire". I plan to go back and check the relevant information immediately.

However, thinking that when the two left, there were still a large group of people in the office, Eric raised his finger to the location of the conference room and asked, "Jeffrey, what's going on with them?"

If only Firefly's employees worked overtime, Eric would not think it was strange, but he remembered that Neil Jordan, Cruise and others did not leave in the conference room.

Katzenberg explained: "The company arranged a small reception for them to celebrate the completion of the film. It was in a nearby hotel, and David Geffen would definitely show up in the evening."

The Westerners held a party just like the buddies in the university dormitory in Eric’s memory. There were various reasons. Eric was not surprised and did not intend to participate. After saying goodbye to Katzenberg, Eric returned to Malibu.

When Eric wasn't in LA. Drew often doesn't live here either, and there aren't many people in Pointe Manor except for some basic maintenance staff.

Carrying the suitcase alone, he walked into the empty and quiet hall of the villa. Eric couldn't help taking a deep breath.

This is his kingdom, a man's kingdom.

Eric is a person who likes to enjoy loneliness very much. He quietly puts his luggage into the bedroom, calls to order a takeout, and ate dinner. The sky in Los Angeles is completely dark. Eric gets into the study and turns on the computer. , began to organize some thoughts that came to mind in the afternoon.

Yahoo Portal is under Eric's unremitting efforts. The content is very rich. Eric even found an online music sharing site in the site directory, much to his surprise.

Because of the strict copyright protection system in the West, this website called "Internet Underground Music Archive" has only a few hundred pieces of music to share, but Eric found something he was interested in. The Internet's underground music archive site uses the mp2 audio format, which is definitely the predecessor of the mp3.

Organize some of the queried information into documents, and Eric opens the mailbox. Started writing an email to Steve Mitnick, the person in charge.

Through the network communication during this period, Eric has a relatively deep understanding of the browser company, Yahoo and the heads of the three companies. Eric has decided to have a deep understanding of the Yahoo portal website and online mailbox service companies before 1995. The merger took place, and the man he picked to be in charge was Steve Mitnick, whom he had not met so far.

After sending the email, Eric stood up and stretched, then walked to the bookshelf and took out a novel at random. He made himself another pot of coffee, turned off the ceiling light in the study, and sat quietly under the lamp by the window to read.

The sound insulation in the study is very good, and the sound of the waves cannot come in. Occasionally, when I look up, I can see the sea covered with a layer of silver scales under the lights on the shore of Malibu.

I don't know how long it took, and a beep came from the computer speaker. Eric got up and went to the desk, turned on the monitor, and saw that Steve Mitnick had replied.

Steve Mitnick had a low opinion of the mp2 audio format, and sent a lot of jargon in the email that Eric couldn't understand.

However, the two finally agreed to buy the patent for the mp2 audio format for technical improvements.

At the end, Eric suddenly remembered the instant messaging software that the two of them talked about. When Steve Mitnick said he would be able to complete it in three months, it was almost three months now.

However, after asking the question, the other party bounced the ticket as usual, saying that there are still some details that need to be improved. Eric has already experienced this once in the development process, and he is not surprised. On, Eric did not urge, anyway, this matter is not too urgent, it is left to the other party to toss.

After talking about things, Eric got up and planned to read a book for a while before going to bed, when he suddenly found Drew sitting cross-legged on the sofa behind him, holding a book attentively and reading again.

Seeing Eric standing up, the little girl threw away the book in her hand and rushed towards Eric.

Embracing the soft little body, Eric fell back into the leather chair again.

Eric stretched his arms around the girl's tumultuous body and asked, "When did you come back, you startled me."

Drew sat on Eric's lap, rubbed habitually, and said with a smile: "Ten minutes ago, I didn't bother you because you were busy."

"Oh, my girl has suddenly become sensible. What am I going crazy when I'm not in Los Angeles?"

"I'm not crazy. People have been setting up Flower Pictures. I rented a three-story office building in Venice Beach, which is very close to Firefly Base in Playavista. How about it?"

After 20th Century Fox acquired tg, Drew got $42 million with a 30% stake. According to his own arrangement, Eric sold Flower Pictures to Drew for a nominal price.

"Yes, you can use the resources of the studio base nearby, which is much better than the Firefly headquarters. The headquarters in Burbank is too far from Playa Vista."

"Hehe, what else, guess who I dug up to be the flower film company?"

"Michael Eisner?" Eric held back a smile and deliberately showed a surprised expression. Gently patted on the girl's leg: "Well done, I have long disliked him. Since it falls into your hands, then take care of him."

Drew was dissatisfied with Eric's little joke for a while, and twisted his waist vigorously: "I spent a lot of effort, no, guess!"

"There is no hint whatsoever, how can you let me guess."

Drew said: "It's a woman, you know it."

woman?

Eric thought for a while and said in surprise, "Could it be Paula Wagner?"

Eric can think of the manager who matches the strength of Flower Pictures is Paula Wagner of Cruise & Wagner Productions. He originally planned to let Nicole dig Cruise's corner, but unexpectedly, Xiao Nizi took the lead.

but. From Drew's momentary stunned expression, Eric realized that he must have guessed wrong.

Drew also quickly thought of Paula Wagner's identity, and said with some disdain: "No, she is worth my efforts to dig."

Only then did Eric think that although Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise established their own businesses a few years in advance, they did not produce such excellent works as "Mission Impossible". In the past two years, Cruise's production company can only say that it is not sullen, and there is no bright spot in its performance. It seems that it is really not worth the girl to poach people: "Okay, don't play dumb, just tell me who it is."

"It's Amy Pascal."

Eric was really surprised, although Amy Pascal was only a vice president of Columbia. But even if Peter Cooper can't get rid of Columbia's turmoil, with Amy Pascal's years of experience in Hollywood, it is very easy to jump to any other major studio and continue to serve as a vice president. I thought that I would be fooled by Xiao Nizi into the flower film industry, which had nothing.

However, the two are really destined. In the original time and space, the "Charlie's Angels" series was successfully filmed with the support of Amy Pascal.

"Tell me. How did you trick Amy into your shell company that didn't have anything yet?"

"I promised her that after three years, she would serve as Columbia's."

"Oh... ah, this is too much to say?"

Xiao Nizi blinked innocently: "Don't you want me to annex a big film company by asking me to take out Huahua Pictures?"

"That's Colombia. The target I picked for you is MGM?"

You know, even two years later, Sony realized that Peter Cooper had crippled Columbia and wanted to get out. With the rapid upward trend of the Hollywood industry, the price would definitely not be much lower than when it bought Columbia from a wholly-owned subsidiary.

In order to avoid the monopoly, Eric asked Xiao Nizi to leave Firefly with Huahua Pictures, originally aiming at MGM. Compared with the huge Colombia, the broken MGM Pictures can easily win with more than one billion dollars.

"MGM is too bad, I don't want it," Drew shook his head in dissatisfaction, and then began to change the subject: "Eric, I have more than 40 million in my hand now, do you think I got the Is the filming ready?"

Eric felt the little girl's intention to change the topic, and no longer bothered. Anyway, pulling Amy Pascal over has only advantages and no disadvantages. As for the girl's promise, it is estimated that Eric can take into account, Amy Pascal Er can also consider that since the other party chose to change jobs from Colombia to help Drew, then she must have her own ideas.

After so long, Eric almost forgot how much copyright Drew had collected at the beginning. After asking this question, Xiao Nizi got up from Eric and ran to the bookshelf to find a folder and hand it to him. : "Hey, it's all here."

Just as Eric was about to look, the girl squeezed Eric again. Fortunately, the leather chair was big enough, and the girl was also petite, so it didn't look crowded when they were leaning against each other.

Eric grabbed the legs of the leather chair and moved towards the desk while supporting the floor. He took a pencil and opened the folder. The two of them looked at a list of copyrighted materials together.

At the beginning, Eric wrote a lot, but because of the news leaked in the middle, some of them were taken away, and some copyrights were also lost. There are not too many names on the current list.

In addition to the "Charlie's Angels" series that has been transferred to DreamWorks, Eric listed several copyrights with the most commercial potential.

"Mission Impossible", "Bourne Bourne", "Forrest Gump", "The Lord of the Rings"...

When he saw "The Lord of the Rings", Eric was surprised to find that Xiao Nizi took over the copyright of all Tolkien's works including "The Silmarillion", which is a good thing.

In my memory, the original copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" was obtained by Miramax's Weinstein brothers in the early 1990s. The whole process took ten years.

However, because of the new line's series of hidden income and deduction of income, the copyright owner of the "Lord of the Rings" series was angered. After the filming of "The Hobbit", because the Weinstein brothers did not get "The Silmarillion" ", and eventually the series ran aground. Although the copyright owner of "The Silmarillion" has given a series of high-sounding reasons, in Eric's view, after all, the distribution of benefits has not been negotiated.

In addition to these four copyrights with huge commercial potential, Eric also saw the copyright of the original novel of "The Shawshank Redemption". Although this film is an absolute classic, it is not a box office blockbuster and can only be used to impact the Oscars.

In addition to these, the other copyrights have nothing to watch, and they were all brainstormed by Eric at the time.

The two discussed together for a while, and Eric felt that the potential brought by these copyrights alone would not be enough to win Colombia.

After pondering for a while, thinking of Sony, Eric quickly thought of "Spider-Man", Sony's turn over in the original time and space. Now the film and television adaptation rights of "Spider-Man" and some of Marvel's other famous superheroes are still in the mainstream. In the hands of small film companies, if these can be taken down, it will not only increase the chips of Huahua Film, but also get the copyrights of these superheroes in advance. In the future, if you buy Marvel, you will no longer have to risk those small companies to sit on the ground and raise prices. risk of reclaiming the copyright. )

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