Chapter 712

Finally, the focus of the discussion on the host of the National Supermodel Contest was on Linda Ivan Golinsta, Cindy Crawford and Terra Banks.

The name of supermodel starts with Linda Ivan Golinsta, and it is undoubtedly the most convincing to have her serve as the host of the show.

Before the Victoria's Secret show, Cindy Crawford frequently showed his face on TV shows. Although the five spokespersons were almost the same in the public's minds after the Victoria's Secret show, Cindy Crawford has the advantage of hosting TV shows.

Terra Banks is full of vitality in personality, and it is obviously easier to get along with the contestants in the show, which is very friendly to the people. But her flaws are also very obvious. Terra Banks was born in 1973 and is only 22 years old this year. Although he has gained a very high reputation with the Victoria's Secret show, his age is difficult to convince the public after all. Otherwise, as the host of the "American Supermodel Contest" in the original time and space, Eric would not have thought too much.

After some discussion, the decision still fell on Eric.

To be honest, although Eric didn't know much about these five women after experiencing the ridiculousness of the previous two days, and most of the memories of his previous life came from various media. Now in this circle, if Eric believes in media information, it would be too stupid.

The plan for lietime TV's reform and the "American Supermodel Contest" has just begun. Eric is not in a hurry and plans to communicate with them in detail before making a decision.

Time came late at night without realizing it. Eric was listening to Luc Besson's idea of ​​a science fiction film when he heard Catherine's voice ringing beside him: "Eric. It's too late. I think I should go back."

When Luc Besson saw Catherine approaching, he raised his glass with a wink, and walked away with a smile.

Katherine's expression was a little embarrassed: "I didn't disturb you, did I?"

"Of course not," Eric shook his head.

I looked at my watch and found that it was just after eleven o'clock and no one left at the party, but for Catherine, who had very regular living habits, it was obviously too late now.

Eric put down his wrists and looked up at Catherine who held the little golden man tightly in front of him. The woman's expression was faintly nervous and panic. Eric smiled and said, "I'll send you back?"

"No, no," Catherine shook her head subconsciously, and the tension and panic on her beautiful face suddenly overflowed.

"You've been drinking, it's not safe to drive by yourself, I'm not at ease," Eric said, reaching out to signal to the hall door.

Catherine moved and suddenly said, "You, you have drunk too."

Eric said: "I have a driver. Let's go,"

Catherine followed Eric and walked towards the gate, but still whispered: "I can take a taxi back."

"You think you can stop a taxi by waving your hand. It's late at night now, so there's no taxi," Eric joked, then waved his hand and made a few gestures to Carsonberg not far away, signaling him to arrange what's next.

The two of them arrived at the parking lot. Eric opened the door and let Catherine in. He sat next to her, asked Catherine's address, and ordered the driver to drive.

The streets near Sunset Avenue are still brightly lit, but there are already many traffic.

The car was walking on Sunset Avenue, and in the car, looking at Catherine holding the little golden man in her hand, Eric inexplicably had the illusion of an unfamiliar little girl sitting beside him. He smiled and took the initiative to activate the atmosphere: "How are you discussing with Terrence Malik in the script of "Red Alert"?"

"Okay, okay, there are some differences in details, but there is no big problem. Next month, we plan to go to Guadal Island for a field trip, and Terrence wants to do a field shooting."

Eric nodded: "Oh, have you considered when to turn on the computer?"

Although "Red Alert" will be invested by Fireflies, it does not belong to the Fireflies commercial film sequence. Therefore, Eric is very relaxed in the production plan for this film, allowing Catherine and Terrence Malik to decide at his own discretion.

"Next year, I want to prepare for more time," Catherine hesitated and said.

The two of them chatted casually, and before they knew it, the car stopped outside a house in Lengshui Canyon.

Eric has always been full of complaints about all infrastructure facilities in Los Angeles except the road network. When the two got out of the car, there were still old street lights around. In the dim light, a telephone pole covered with dark moss marks could be seen, looking shaky.

"So good night," Eric opened his arms at Catherine.

Catherine came over carefully, hugged him, and let go, "Good night."

So the woman walked towards the door behind her. Eric remembered something and shouted, "Catherine?"

The woman's body stiffened and turned around: "What, what?"

Eric pointed to the little golden man in her hand: "You may need to cooperate with the interviews in the next few days, I hope you can prepare."

"Oh, I understand." After the woman finished speaking, she looked at him and stared at him for less than two seconds. Realizing that the man had no intention of continuing to speak, she fled into the yard in a hurry again.

Eric smiled and sat back in the car. Carter Moen in the front row started the car, but he didn't forget to joke: "Boss, this is not like your style."

"Driving you, I already feel that I am very guilty and I feel that I am bullying the little girl."

Carter Moen skillfully turned the car and said, "Ms. Bigelow must have feelings for you, otherwise she wouldn't be so panicked."

"It's always a little bit worse," Eric responded vaguely.

The next day, the news that the first female best director in Oscar history quickly occupied the headlines of major media around the world, causing a carnival.

At the same time, Firefly also took advantage of the situation to launch a new round of release of the videotape "Save Private Ryan", winning the Oscar for Best Director Dongfeng through Katherine. In the following week, the videotape sales of "Save Private Ryan" easily exceeded 1 million boxes.

In Europe, because the release time of this video video tape lags behind North America and is at a time when the market is hungry, European countries' distribution companies easily defeated North America with the cooperation of Firefly's publicity, with nearly 1.5 million boxes. In just one week, the video tape sales of "Save Private Ryan" brought Firefly $75 million in revenue. Firefly internally predicted that the final video tape sales of this video will exceed $500 million, and even surpass the global box office of the film in terms of data.

Because film companies usually do not publish video tape sales data to the public, most people from the outside world are still in the direction of Catherine's Oscar for Best Director. But Hollywood was excited by the video tape sales data of "Save Private Ryan". Several major film companies began to look for excellent war film scripts. The most direct result was that Catherine's next film "Red Alert" attracted several major attention both inside and outside Hollywood, and even caused a small lawsuit.

It turned out that before Terrence Malik came into contact with Eric, he had contacted many production companies in order to produce this film. Basically, including the other six majors, and these were nothing. The key is that during the contact with a single film company named Phoenix, Terrence Malik signed an intention contract with the other party, allowing the other party to invest in the film "Red Alert", but that was already 1988.

The budget of this film is too high and the risk is too high. Phoenix did not eventually attract a penny of investment. According to industry practice, in this case, the contract almost automatically expired.

This incident seemed to have passed like this, and the project was taken over by Fireflies, and everything seemed to be natural.

But after Katherine won the Oscar for Best Director and "Save Private Ryan" achieved amazing results in the videotape market, perhaps due to some instructions, the producer of Phoenix Film Company Robert Geisler jumped out and said that Phoenix had already invested in "Red Alert" according to the original contract and asked Fireflies to return the production and distribution rights of the film.

There are endless bullshits like Hollywood, and Eric did not pay special attention to this matter, but just handed it over to Firefly's legal department.

He has read the script of "Red Alert", and there is a lot of information about this film in his memory. He knows that this is not a box office movie. Moreover, he also knows that the Phoenix company may just want to get involved in investment. As long as it does not affect the production of the film, Eric doesn't mind giving up part of the investment rights a little. Of course, if the other party is too ignorant, Eric doesn't mind letting the other party try the firefly's anger.

After the Oscars, Eric's main energy was on the reform of his lietime TV station and the preparation of the "American Supermodel Contest".

Lietime TV was founded in the early 1980s and was formed by the merger of two small TV stations in the hands of AB TV and Hurst Group, and was included in the AE TV network together. In the first few years of its establishment, Lietime TV was in a loss state, and it was not until the late 1980s that it barely reached a balance of income and expenditure.

According to theoretical data, the lietime TV station at this time had 30 million users, which was all theoretical users included in different cable TV packages of several major cable TV operators.

But in fact, just like Eric remembers the legal channels, education channels or foreign language channels in China that are also cable channels, but few people watch, lietime TV is the kind of TV channels that have been ignored by users for a long time. Even for popular programs, the number of viewers does not exceed 2 million, because the ratings data have always been very mediocre. Several major cable TV operators often report that they want to refuse to carry this TV channel. After all, just like the Internet, the transmission of cable TV signals also requires bandwidth.

Before Carsonberg mentioned this TV station, Eric almost forgot that Firefly has such a TV channel now.

After the plan was launched, Eric learned more about the TV station.

In the 1980s, Lietime TV mainly broadcasts two or three rounds of TV programs produced by ATV. Occasionally, they also buy some very cheap low-cost female videos, and the content of the program is very monotonous.

It was not until the early 1990s that we began to try to produce TV movies or mini-shows independently. However, the average number of programs produced in recent years is less than two.

Therefore, it is not easy to reform such an unknown TV station. Fortunately, with the successful experience of ESPN growing from less than 300,000 local users to the largest sports TV station in the United States, all the senior executives of Firefly were full of confidence and quickly made very detailed plans.

On the other hand, although the cable TV industry in the United States was born in the 1980s, it really began to flourish from the second half of the 1990s. With the rise of the Internet industry, the United States actually began to build cable TV networks on a large scale in this process.

If you pay attention to American dramas, you will find that many American dramas produced by classic cable TV stations generally start from the second half of the 1990s. The most famous ones are undoubtedly several films of H-bo TV station under Time Warner. At this time, in Eric's view, the American cable TV market is most appropriate to describe it in a sentence that is in full swing.

The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, it is also invested in large amounts of funds in the TV industry. Firefly owners have a very complete internal capital chain. They do not need to obtain financing from time to time through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments like other film companies. However, the large amount of funds invested in the TV industry have indirectly built a larger platform for Firefly.

At the same time, the regulation of the cable TV industry in the United States has also begun to become more and more relaxed, and large-scale integration has actually begun last year. Barry Diller and Summer Redstone competed for Viacom together, but the reason why they ended up losing was that Barry Diller relied on merged with Att.

The wave of new technology has just emerged. Although the main focus is still on Internet companies, it is also invested in large amounts of funds in the TV industry. Firefly owners have a very complete internal capital chain. They do not need to obtain financing from time to time through external investment banks, foreign film and television funds and other departments like other film companies. However, the large amount of funds invested in the TV industry have indirectly built a larger platform for Firefly.
Chapter completed!