Chapter 106 (1/2)
An open-air restaurant on the hillside of Beverly Hills.
In the rising sun, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner are sitting on the terrace overlooking Los Angeles.
After ordering, Michael Eisner said to Barry Diller, ”you haven't seen last week's box office report, have you? 13.88 million US dollars, 53.85 million in three weeks. Goldberg will not be so embarrassed this year. ”
Today is May 1st, Friday.
Michael Eisner didn't mention the name of the movie, but Barry Diller knows that the only movie that can make a box office break of $10 million a week in the current period is fox's ”Butterfly Effect”.
Barry Diller really didn't pay much attention to the film business because he focused on the operation of Fox TV network. He asked, ”what about Lola Run?”
Michael Eisner's expression became more emotional. He shook his head slightly and said: ”7.59 million dollars, 175.6 million in total. Orion may make more than 80 million from the box office. Plus ”field platoon,” Orion's stock price has tripled since February, and its market value is now close to $1 billion. It's said that both Samuel Redstone and John Kruger are planning to take control of Orion
Barry Diller also felt a little incredible. Thinking of a young man who was talking about all over the world during this period, he couldn't help saying, ”it's a miracle little guy. Maybe I should meet him sometime.”
Michael Eisner said with a smile, ”if you want to see him, you can come to Burbank with me later.”
Barry Diller gave a puzzled look.
The waiter brought up their breakfast. The conversation stopped for a moment. When the waiter left, Michael Eisner picked up the tableware and ate breakfast. Then he said, ”that little guy started a production company. Did you hear that?”
Barry Diller nodded with a smile and said, ”of course, Denise pictures has poached a vice president of production from fox.”
Michael Eisner showed a schadenfreude smile, then said: ”Denise pictures is looking for a film distribution cooperation, Disney should be one of their choices. In addition, Simon westero also handed us an animation script and wanted to entrust Disney to produce it. I have an appointment with Amy Pascal to have a formal talk today. I'll have someone call later and ask westero to come with me
Barry Diller nodded, paused, and shook his head slightly.
They were colleagues at ABC, and Michael Eisner knew Barry Diller very well. Noticing his little movements, he realized that the shaking of his head behind him was actually aimed at Ronald Goldberg.
Simon westero has worked with Fox pictures on two films. Death may have yet to be proved, but butterfly effect has been a great success. In this case, fox should have been the best partner of Daniels pictures.
Now, it is clear that Ronald Goldberg has given up another chance.
Michael Eisner doesn't think much of Ronald Goldberg either. However, he also understood the deep friendship between Ronald Goldberg and Barry Diller, so he said: ”it's not really Ronald's fault. The film, the director and the screenwriter are not vistrow himself, and the script is more anti mainstream. Denise pictures is not only willing to give up the film's local cinema distribution rights, but also wants next year's Easter schedule
Barry Diller listened in silence and asked, ”where's your side?”
”Next Easter, we were going to re show Bambi deer, and there was no pressure to release a live action movie. Moreover, you should have seen ”Lola Run”. Although there are many accidental factors in the success of this film, westero's film skills are absolutely impeccable, and I intend to take the opportunity to sign some of his film contracts. ” Michael Eisner said with a smile, ”so, Barry, are you going to meet that little guy?”
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When Barry Diller and Michael Eisner had breakfast together, Simon woke up in his century mansion apartment earlier.
The place is the study.
Sighing that the bachelor's life is really miserable, Simon packed up a pile of financial books by the sofa, got up and went to the writing board embedded in the wall of his study.
On the broad writing board, there are two general trends of the Dow Jones index and the S & P 500 index in the next few months, as well as all kinds of text labels in Chinese, French, Spanish, Hebrew and other languages.
It's not easy to collect these information from more than ten memories in my mind. Sometimes it's just a flash of thought. So it took Simon a week to get it.
Just in case, Simon doesn't use English to mark, and all the other languages are suggestive words that only he can understand. Except for the two index charts, it's probably impossible to understand others even if they are found.