Along the way, Eric racked his brains to think about how to explain this to Barry Diller. At the celebration of "Feng Yue", the two had already communicated about the next movie, which almost equals acknowledging that the next movie will be released by Fox in the summer.

Now that he suddenly changed his mind, it is hard to predict what Fox would react. If possible, Eric did not want to get into any movie giant. His current strength is not strong enough, and it is hard to say whether it will hurt his muscles when he encounters suppression. Moreover, Fox is still holding the distribution rights of his three movies in his hand, which involves hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Because he would be in trouble from time to time, Eric accidentally broke the red light, but fortunately nothing happened.

Finally arrived at Fox headquarters. After Eric reported his identity, he came to Barry Diller's office unimpeded.

"Mr. Williams, please wait a few minutes, the president is meeting." Barry Diller's secretary led Eric into the lounge outside and carefully served Eric a cup of coffee.

Eric looked at Barry Diller's office door curiously. The office was soundproofed and there was no sound at all here. The young and beautiful female secretary noticed Eric's curious expression, hesitated for a moment, and whispered: "Manager of Fox TV."

Eric raised his eyebrows and had to throw a look of gratitude to the girl who had already pretended to be nothing but didn't say anything. This girl is really a sensible person. In a simple sentence, she could almost say that she had not disclosed anything, but she gave Eric a favor. Moreover, when the girl leaned over, she didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. The breastplate happened to appear in front of Eric, and she couldn't remember the other person's name.

After waiting patiently for seven or eight minutes, a middle-aged man opened the door and walked out of the office with a dejected look. He glanced at Eric sitting on the sofa in the lounge and looked at him through the glass. The middle-aged man quickly put away his frustrated expression, nodded at Eric politely, and then left hurriedly.

"Mr. Williams, you can go in."

Eric walked into the office, a faint smell of smoke drifted into the air, and several cigarette butts were piled up in the ashtray in front of Barry Diller.

"Eric, I've been waiting for you for a long time." After Eric entered the door, Barry Diller had already put away his emotions just now, but Eric still saw the remaining anger on the other person's face.

"It's only a few minutes." Eric said, and at the gesture of Barry Diller, he walked to the sofa opposite and sat down.

Barry Diller did not explain anything, but when it comes to the identity of the middle-aged man who just left, Eric still guessed that the reason why the other party got angry was nothing more than the performance of Fox TV. The three major TV stations ABC, NBC and CBS have dominated the North American wireless TV market for so many years, and it is impossible for a latecomer to easily threaten his position.

From this point of view, Barry Diller is indeed a media wizard. Under the pressure of the three major TV stations in his previous life, he developed Fox TV and became the fourth largest TV station in North America.

After chatting for a few words, Barry Diller asked Eric what he wanted.

Eric didn't come up with any euphemism along the way, so he could only go straight to the point: "Mr. Diller, I'm afraid my next movie can't be released by Fox."

Barry Diller was sure that he had heard it correctly, and his brows immediately frowned and his eyes narrowed slightly. He had just heard some bad news from the manager of Fox TV. Unexpectedly, his mood had not completely changed, and another bad news came.

"Eric, do you want to breach the contract? Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing so?"

Since the matter has been spread out, Eric no longer looked back and looked at Barry Diller's eyes and said: "Mr. Diller, I do not intend to breach the contract. The contract does not prohibit me from working with other film companies, and there is no specific schedule for the three movies, so I just need to deliver the three movies to Fox before the end of the year."

Barry Diller was slightly stunned, and a faint regret emerged.

He personally signed the contract. It was Fox's negligence that he did not prohibit Eric from cooperating with other film companies. Because most of the staff who drafted the contract focused on the details of "Home Imposses". Moreover, Eric signed three movies in one sign. There were very few directors who could direct three movies a year. If most directors could maintain the speed of one movie a year, they would be considered productive. Who would have thought that this young man had such strong energy?

But Barry Diller intentionally did not specify the schedule of the movie. When drafting the contract, Fox was not very optimistic about Eric's request for the two other movies to be released in a bundled manner. Therefore, although Eric specifically mentioned the issue of schedule and hoped to place all three movies on popular holiday schedules, and had a small dispute with Barry Diller for this, Fox finally refused for various reasons.

Fox also has his own ideas. Once Eric's first two movies are not favored, Fox can also calmly place these two movies in the unpopular spring or autumn seasons, which will not take up too much of Fox's resources and will be able to successfully fulfill the contract.

Who would have thought that Eric's next "Wind and Moon" was once again successful, which made it impossible for anyone to evaluate this teenager for reasons such as luck. Many movie fans also began to look forward to his next movie.

Now, in the office where the atmosphere was a bit stagnant, when Eric said what he had just said, Barry Diller realized that he had previously rejected Eric's schedule request with pride, but now he became a big cocoon and wrapped himself in.

"Eric, can't you satisfy your share of 35%? The cost of "Fengyue" is only $7 million. If you subtract Lamborghini's 1 million advertising sponsorship, the actual cost of the movie is only $6 million. So far, Fox has paid more than $15 million, which is 2.5 times or 2.5 times the cost of your movie! But we only get 20%. With such a profit division, what else can you not satisfy?"

Barry Diller said at the end, with a roar in his tone, and a stimulating aura was emitting. He had just returned from Europe last night. He had been working hard for a few days and had not even had a good sleep. Early in the morning, he heard the news that a new Fox drama was strangled by three major TV stations, and the ratings were terrible.

He just scolded the Fox TV manager and drove him out of the office, but then another bad news came. The anger that had just been suppressed burst out again.

Eric was not scared by Barry Diller's momentum and retorted calmly: "Mr. Diller, although Fox paid $15 million, it can earn more than 80 million in profits, so I don't owe you anything. To be honest, when I came, I was always very nervous. I didn't want to have a quarrel with Fox, but just wanted to have a good talk."

Seeing that the boy opposite was neither scared by him nor shouting at him with a angrily spirit, but instead refuted his words leisurely, Barry Diller quickly calmed down and found that his ability to control his emotions was even worse than a young man under twenty years old. After reflecting on himself, Barry Diller sat back on his chair and took a few deep breaths. His eyes were still staring at Eric and said, "Okay, Eric, you... have any new conditions, can you talk about it first?"

Realizing that Barry Diller did not fully understand what he meant, Eric explained: "Mr. Diller, I have no intention of revising the contract. What I just said is not to want to get more benefits from Fox. Someone offered a condition that I could not refuse, and wanted to take the right to release my next movie."

Barry Diller has been in Hollywood for so many years. After calming down at this moment, he quickly thought of a possibility and asked, "Colombia?"

Eric nodded.
Chapter completed!