After taking a few sips, Barry Diller irritatedly pushed the cigarette out in the ashtray: "It seems that you can't change your decision?"

"Mr. Diller, I could not communicate with Fox at all before, and I could take out a movie at will to complete the contract. If I don't care about the quality, it would be fine to make a movie within ten days."

Barry Diller knew that the boy in front of him was determined and would not change his decision. Although the idea of ​​giving this little guy a little color to the ignorant little guy, Barry Diller would soon reject this idea. Once he did this, the two sides would break up like Eric and Colombia before.

A few days ago, he also heard about Colombia's president Blunt Cohen's sudden removal from his post. He was a little puzzled that Coca-Cola was going to sell Colombia, and what he did in one move. Now he realized that it was to clear the obstacles to re-establish cooperation with the young man in front of him.

If he makes some moves now and has a quarrel with the other party, it is estimated that this young man will break up with Fox after completing the contract, which will be a bit of a loss.

When things were irreversible, Barry Diller quickly thought of trying to get some extra benefits to make up for the losses: "Eric, you should understand that doing so is equivalent to pulling Fox out of the box office competition in the summer season. Although your approach did not violate the contract, it would still hurt the relationship between the two parties. In order to appease Fox's shareholders, perhaps the original contract should be modified?"

After hearing Barry Diller's words, Eric immediately refused: "Mr. Diller, the contract will definitely not be modified, and I will not make any concessions in the share. I just said that I do not owe Fox anything. The reason why I sit here to discuss with you is that I just don't want the relationship between the two parties to be in a stalemate. We can only discuss a win-win compensation plan, rather than harming the interests of either party. In this way, our cooperation can last longer."

"Okay, I guess you must have a plan?"

Eric nodded and said, "Yes, my Firefly Company has just recently made plans for three more movies, and Fox can pick one of them to release."

Barry Diller almost wanted to laugh, what compensation is this? If Fox wants to release a movie, just say hello, those independent film companies will come over crying and shouting. Barry Diller suddenly thought of the Fox TV manager who was just kicked out, and another idea came up with: "Eric, are you interested in TV series?"

When Eric heard the word TV series, the figure of the little girl who stubbornly stayed in New York to shoot a workplace comedy. In the past ten years, "Friends" earned a huge profit of 4 billion US dollars for Warner. Eric had never planned to let go of this TV series. Although he had not watched all ten seasons, he happened to have watched the first two seasons, and the golden fingers brought by the rebirth were clearly imprinted in his mind. As long as the first season can successfully become famous, will he be afraid that the screenwriter will not be able to continue writing the following story?

"Mr. Diller, I actually had some ideas for TV series. But maybe I didn't explain it clearly just now. Although the three movies produced by Firefly were not directed, two of them were scripts written by me personally, and I would also serve as the producer and have the final editing rights of the film, which is not much different from what I filmed myself. For another movie, I plan to let Julia play the heroine. I believe no one will doubt Julia's current box office appeal, right?"

After hearing Eric's words, Barry Diller said without hesitation: "No problem, Eric, Firefly's other three movies, Fox, are included in all, and TV series can also be produced at the same time. You just need to be responsible for writing the script."

Although Barry Diller looked very generous, Eric still saw the slight excitement in the other party's tone. Obviously Barry Diller also judged the value of those three movies.

Eric had no intention of releasing those three movies himself, but he specifically selected movies with great potential, rather than using the "cannon fodder" that expanded his distribution channels.

But in the same way, he did not intend to hand over all three movies to a film company to publish, and it was even more impossible to give them all to Fox. He knew the principle of fighting against Mien. If he gave a person too much, the other party would take this kind of thing for granted. Once one day, you don’t want to give it, hatred will arise directly.

In fact, Barry Diller showed this sign just now. Eric's behavior did not violate the contract, but Barry Diller felt that Fox suffered a great loss.

Shaking his head, Eric raised a finger: "Mr. Diller, a TV series, or a movie, can only compensate for one. I am very confident in the box office potential of those three movies, no less than the movies I directed by myself. So, Fox took too much, and I worry that your distribution ability will not keep up."

Barry Diller quickly figured out another plan: "Eric, then just have a TV series and a movie."

"A TV series, or a movie."

“Eric…”

“…”

The two of them had a long dispute in the office. In the end, they were ambitious about the TV network. Barry Diller chose that TV series. If it weren't for the development of the TV network, Barry Diller would not have left Paramount, so this choice was not surprising.

But the other party did not let Eric go easily and forced him to agree to direct the first two episodes of the TV series himself.

Eric did not expect Barry Diller to have such forward-looking ideas. More than ten years later, inviting famous Hollywood directors to direct the first few episodes has become a popular trend in American dramas. With the strong rise of American dramas, Hollywood directors have also put down their airs and picked up the directors of TV series.

In fact, Barry Diller is not as far-sighted as Eric thought. If a well-known Hollywood director goes to shoot a TV series, Barry Diller himself thinks this is a very "absurd" idea. In this era, it is a very depressing thing for film directors to shoot TV series. TV directors have always changed careers and made movies, and they have rarely seen the other way around.

The reason why Eric asked the first two episodes to be directed was entirely because he did not get the right to release the movie. Out of a teasing mentality, he wanted Eric to be ugly. Barry Diller originally thought Eric would definitely be beaten to death, but he did not expect that the other party nodded in agreement just after thinking for a moment. According to the current trend of Hollywood directors being arrogant, if the news of Eric directing the TV series is spread, it will definitely be criticized by some diehards with superiority and so on.

Barry Diller did not expect that his unintentional and rude request would later cause such a sensational effect, and even brought out the trend of the director directing the first few episodes of the American drama in advance.

After reaching an understanding with Fox, Eric completely let go of his concerns and a cooperation agreement with Colombia was soon reached. Since the other party was so generous, Eric directly raised the production budget to 40 million US dollars. If the future promotion and distribution cost is calculated as 20 million US dollars, according to Colombia's 25% share, the box office in North America must reach 240 million US dollars, and Colombia can only recover the cost. Of course, if the box office revenue outside Shanghai is calculated, perhaps this number only needs to reach 200 million US dollars.

Eric estimated that Colombia had no intention of recovering its costs at all. As long as the box office was sold, it gave investors a illusion of a great prospect, and the stock price would rise directly. For every dollar increase in the stock price, Colombia's market value could directly increase by 180 million. Sony, you are rich, pay for it!
Chapter completed!