The next morning, Firefly Burbank headquarters.

As a magical film project that Disney Pictures will focus on in the next decade, when Eric was in the UK, he had already sent the first manuscript of "Harry Potter" back to Los Angeles in advance and distributed it to several core senior executives of Fireflies, hoping that they could have some understanding of the content of this novel in advance.

At the same time, Eric also personally communicated with Murdoch several times. Harper Collins Publishing House, a subsidiary of News Corporation, will release the first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the series in early September in the UK, the United States, Australia and other English-speaking countries. After gaining enough influence and continuing to promote it to non-English-speaking countries, Firefly Group will also invest enough media resources to promote this novel.

Although the film project will not be officially launched after the novel "Harry Potter" has been confirmed to gain enough influence, since Carsonberg, Frank Wells and others who have read the novel are very optimistic about the story, everyone unanimously decided to hold a special meeting to discuss and make a detailed film and television and theme park development plan in advance.

"Unlike the traditional fairy tales such as Snow White, Cinderella, Mermaid, etc., one of the great advantages of the "Harry Potter" series is that it is easier to make people feel substituted. The novel's setting takes place in London in real life, which can give readers the illusion that the story will happen around them, which can attract their interest in this story to the greatest extent. But at the same time, it tells an interesting adventure of the magic world, which is different from the bizarre "Alice in Wonderland". This story seems more friendly, because from childhood to adulthood, there are countless rumors about wizard magic around us."

In the conference room of the Cinema Administrative District office building, Eric was briefly explaining why he was optimistic about this story. The door of the conference room suddenly got knocked a few times.

Thoughts were interrupted, Eric looked over with some displeasure and saw his female assistant Kelly Haynes pushing open the door apologetically and making an emergency gesture at him. Peter Rich had already rushed to MTV to take office. Before the new personal assistant was selected, Kelly temporarily took on this position.

Eric nodded and signaled everyone to wait, walked to the door of the conference room and asked, "Kelly, what's wrong?"

Kelly stuffed the phone in her hand and explained: "Amy called."

Eric put his phone in his ear and greeted him, while Amy Pascal on the other side said something anxiously.

After listening to Amy quietly, Eric frowned, but did not hesitate too much, saying, "Since that's the case, just do what I said yesterday. Call Yahoo and ask them to release an announcement... There is nothing to talk about, I will explain to Barbara... Board of Directors? Oh, Amy, this is Hollywood, we have the final say. After you publish the announcement, contact Kapoor and let him start looking for a new Bond candidate. Kevin Costner seems to be from AA. In this case, the script of "Disc 3" needs to be adjusted to increase the role that may replace Ethan Hunter. That's it, I'll die first."

Kelly listened to Eric's conversation with Amy and guessed what happened. She took the phone handed over by Eric, saw him standing there and thinking, and said carefully: "Eric, you really want to replace Brosnan?"

Eric paid attention to his thoughts and nodded, "Yes, you heard it too."

Kelly's tone was obviously worried: "But, isn't this a big impact?"

"There will definitely be an impact, but it is not as serious as you think. The Agent Cinema Universe has been built, and the audience's interest in this series is no less than the protagonists." Eric explained, and seeing that the worry on Kelly's face did not decrease at all, he smiled and said, "Think about it, if I promised Brosnan's pay conditions, if I still want to continue to complete several series interspers, the pay of the other people will also rise. Even the production cost of the next few films is likely to be close to $200 million. In addition,

With a fixed pay, the profit sharing required by several starring actors is estimated to be no less than 30% of each movie. In this way, even if the next six films maintain a global box office of $1 billion, we will not have much profit, not to mention that this expectation is unrealistic. Even if one of them fails in the box office, the entire series will not be able to continue. Now, if Brosnan, who has the least risk, shows MGM's determination, the protagonists of the other two series will not be so confident before the Lions speak up."

In fact, there are deeper reasons for Eric to make this decision. He just suddenly thought that perhaps this matter would become an opportunity. Because within the Firefly system, Hollywood's traditional rules of interest distribution are no longer suitable.

In addition to the Firefly system, several other major film companies are either listed companies or are controlled by consortiums that do not actually have much control over Hollywood. This has also led to several major film companies launching a movie, and the company's senior management and the project's creative team will not consider the interests of shareholders and investors at all.

Take "The Deadly Weapons 4" that Warner is producing for example. The production company of Joe Silvot is responsible for producing. The $140 million high budget mainly comes from speculative hot money that has flocked to Hollywood in recent years.

As a result, this movie with a global box office expected to be only $300 million, Mel Gibson, as the starring actor, took away a sky-high salary of $30 million. Producer Joe Silvo also enjoyed a basic salary of $8 million plus a later box office share. Other main creators such as directors, screenwriters, supporting roles, etc. were also rewarded with generous rewards. In the end, Warner Bros. must not make a penny through the box office of the movie, and can only expect some profits to be recovered in the later DVDs and TV broadcast rights. Moreover, under the special financial system of Hollywood, it is another to say whether external investors can recover $140 million in investment. It is even more unexpected to make money. As far as Eric knows, Wall Street is responsible for guiding European and Asian hot money to invest in Hollywood movies. The average annual return rate is basically below 10%, and there are many losses.

In the end, as far as the whole project is concerned, Mel Gibson makes a lot of money, Joe Silvo also gains a lot, directors, screenwriters and other main creators make money, and the senior executives in charge of this project will definitely get enough salary and bonuses, and the box office of the movie can also make Time Warner's revenue and financial report more beautiful, and everyone is happy. Only Time Warner's shareholders and investors who provide production budgets for the movie will not get any benefits, because they do not belong to Hollywood and cannot get their own "cake" from the Hollywood chain of interests.

Due to the closed financial operation system, Firefly plays the latter two roles of shareholders and investors, which are excluded from the Hollywood interest chain.

In the original time and space, even if more than ten or twenty years later, although a group of suckers continued to spend money in Hollywood, because they could never get enough power to change the rules, most of them returned in a desperate situation after being cheated. Sony Pictures, which barely survived in Hollywood, is basically just a few cash machines such as Will Smith and Adam Sandler, who often log in to the lowest cost-effectiveness rankings.

Now, since he has firmly controlled the two major Hollywood film companies, maintained a strong influence on another film company, Fox, and has enough power to change the rules, Eric naturally cannot let this situation continue.

The first thing to change is naturally the increasingly unreasonable high pay for Hollywood stars. Perhaps the process of changing the rules will cause a situation of self-destruction of 800 yuan. However, if the situation does not change and let the situation continue to develop, Fireflies will not only lose more and more profits that should belong to film companies, but also cannot gain control over Hollywood at all.

As for celebrities, many people may have forgotten one thing. All the top Hollywood brands are created by big studios through film investments. What's more, the Firefly system, which focuses on special effects films and animated movies, is much less dependent on celebrities than other major film companies.

The same morning, the Sunset Tower Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Pierce Brosnan is attending a new product exhibition for Omega watches, and he has recently won the endorsement of the Swiss watch brand.

After completing the fixed process such as product display, and entering the media Q&A session, the topic naturally cannot escape the questions of "Casino Royale" and the next 007.

"About the plot of "Bond 19", I haven't seen the script yet, and even if I see the script, I definitely can't disclose it casually. Haha, let's ask some other questions."

On the simple stage, Brosnan sat in a simple backrest chair with the host, holding a microphone, smiling, graceful but very skillful in dealing with reporters' questions.

Although the contract for the sequel is still in negotiations, he never thought that he would give up this role, and it doesn't matter even if he needed to make some concessions in the end. After all, since he first appeared on the big screen in 1980, he had been in the midst of ten years before he reached the peak of his career today. How could he give up? What's more, he was about to be forty-five. Although the career of Hollywood male stars far exceeded that of actresses, with his current age, there are not many mainstream blockbuster characters suitable for him outside of Bond.

After answering a question, the host next to Brosnan was about to select the next questioner, as if suddenly, at least ten mobile phones in the conference hall rang out suddenly. The ringtones of this era, which were quite monotonous and even harsh, instantly filled the entire event hall.

Brosnan was startled, and the host looked embarrassed and held the microphone and jokingly said, "Okay, maybe the Martians attacked the earth, but before the earth was destroyed, we should finish this press conference first?"

Amidst the laughter of cooperation, the reporters who rang out of the audience turned off their phones on their own initiative. However, other staff members in the venue did not have such concerns and avoided them to answer the phone.

So, as soon as the host picked the next questioner and handed over the microphone, Brosnan's public relations manager named Sarah Lindelt rushed to the stage in a panic, not caring about the astonished gaze of others, and attached it to Brosnan's ear and said a few words quickly. Then, Brosnan also stood up.

Although he immediately realized his loss of composure, Brosnan didn't care about anything else. He just said sorry and hurriedly left the stage.

At this time, the reporters in the audience also realized that the phone call just now must be related to Brosnan, and something must have happened, so they took out their cell phones and called back again.

In the corridor outside the conference hall, Brosnan quickly walked towards the elevator. Paul Darick, the president of Omega North America, who also received a call, followed him and spoke quickly, asking: "Pearce, what's going on? If you don't plan to play Bond again, you shouldn't sign a contract with us. You are simply fraudulent. We have the right to cancel the contract and ask for compensation."

Brosnan walked into the elevator with his PR manager, pressed the button a few crazily, and said to Paul Darick, who was chasing him with embarrassment, "Sorry, Paul, I don't know what happened now. Can you give me some time?"

Paul Darick wanted to ask, but noticed that Brosnan also had a confused expression on his face, so he had to say, "Okay, but you must give me an answer as soon as possible."

Brosnan nodded, reached out and pressed the elevator button a few more times, suddenly remembered something, and before the elevator door was closed, he suddenly pulled his public relations manager out of the elevator and said, "Sarah, call Rick, immediately."

"Okay, OK," Sarah Lindelt quickly took out her cell phone from her shoulder bag and handed over Brosnan's cell phone. In order to avoid disturbing her previous activity, she had just kept her cell phone for Brosnan.

However, I took out the phone and the two phones rang almost at the same time.

Perhaps they thought things were not messy enough. Before the two of them could connect their phones, the group of reporters who were originally at the Omega event had already chased after them wildly.

"Mr. Brosnan, is the announcement just released by the Yahoo Portal true?"

"Pearce, did you really turn off MGM's $100 million packaged pay contract?"

"Pierce, you seem to have just received this message. Is there any hidden information?"

“…”

"Get out of the way, get out of the way."

"Sorry, we have nothing to say about this for the time being."

"Please let me know, okay? We will give the media an answer as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!