I’m in Hollywood Chapter 551: You are a very interesting person

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Located at the Los Angeles International Airport only about five kilometers away from Firefly Studios, Eric sent people to return luggage to Malibu and came to Firefly Studios with Jeffrey.

August is usually the busiest period of Hollywood Film Studio. Although the summer season has come to an end, most of the small and medium-sized production films for the end of the year and large-scale production films for the second year of the summer season begin to enter during this time. The formal production process, TV series of the autumn file also started shoots work at this time. Eric sat in a commercial car and walked through the park. I saw a busy scene in the cinema. The studios on both sides of the park's main road stopped outside. Full of various vehicles, the wide parking lot is also full of vehicles.

Getting off the bus, Jeffrey and Eric walked out of the parking lot together and said: "From the current situation, the ten studios in the park can no longer meet the needs. We discussed this issue at the regular meeting last week. We I feel that it is enough to extend the park to the west to build at least five more studios. The final plan will be made in the next few days, just when you come back to make an idea. "

“Well, let ’s talk about it later,” Eric nodded. He remembered that Warner Burbank had more than twenty studios. Although the size was different, but in terms of quantity, Firefly ’s studios were indeed a little small. .

However, Eric did not immediately express his position. He would wait for the final expansion plan to be released before saying the best. After all, his personal momentary ideas cannot be better than the plan prepared by the professional strategic development department of Firefly. For Firefly Management, Eric usually only gives a negative opinion when the company's plan and the development trend of the film and television industry in the memory are to the left, and they are not clear about themselves and will not affect the details of the overall situation. Eric usually does not intervene. In the course of any company's development, it is impossible that no mistakes will occur.

Walk through the cement corridor outside the parking lot and come to the studio to the small square bordering the office area in the digital field. Jeffrey said: "Recently" Interview with the Vampire "is here in shoots. Do you want to go to the scene to see?"

Eric glanced at the crowded studio area and shook his head: "I do n’t need it for the time being. I will take the time to check the samples that have been completed by shoots."

According to the plan, Firefly will release three films "Interview with the Vampire", "Ace Ventura2" and "Pulp Fiction" at the end of the year. Unless it is of special interest to previous life's successful commercial films. Otherwise, Eric will generally go to shoots according to the original in the memory. For the film that he did not personally direct, Eric mainly controls script and post-editing, and at the same time looks for the main creator that is similar to the original film style. In the process of shoots . Unless the producer and Director are at the same time to join forces to act arbitrarily, Eric generally will not particularly intervene, and this kind of thing has not been encountered by Eric.

From the Box Office scores of a series of movies such as "The Others" a few years ago to "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in cooperation with Sony, this solution adopted by Eric is very effective. Moreover, in the Hollywood where the industrialization process is very perfect, because the division of labor in each stage is very clear, there is not much resistance to the implementation of this program. Hollywood is strong enough to take all the control of the film. Director is very few. And such as James Cameron has the strength to get control, Eric will also be very confident to hand over the entire project to the other party.

Compared with the noise in the studio area, the digital field seems to be in order. Eric and Jeffrey chatted to the administrative building and greeted passing or unknown employees from time to time, and soon came to the exclusive office of Eric in the studio, because there was no one for a long time, although it was still clean and tidy , But the empty office is obviously less popular.

Eric ’s assistant team office is located at Headquarters of Burbank. Therefore, there is no permanent secretary here, but the general manager Manager who is responsible for the management of the park quickly sent his own secretary to help Eric and Jeffrey do some trivial coffee brewing trivia.

Sit down in the office. The mobile phone that Eric carries with him also starts to ring from time to time, most of them are some phones of Firefly high-level. A small number learned from various sources that Eric returned to Los Angeles to greet, but everyone also knew that Eric had just passed a long flight, so it didn't mean to come to disturb.

Jeffrey watched Eric sit down in a leather chair, skillfully opened the computer on the desk to operate it, finished a cup of coffee from the secretary, and chatted a few casually. Jeffrey got up and said to Eric: "Since there is nothing wrong, I will leave first. You have just come back, don't be too busy, go back to rest early."

"I'll send you," Eric also got up and sent Jeffrey into the elevator before returning to the office.

Although the Internet is developing very quickly, Hotmail ’s online mailbox service is still limited to United States domestically, which has caused Eric to leave United States, and can no longer use mail to communicate with all parties in a timely manner. This is also Eric in Europe and Japan It's a very tangled thing.

Jeffrey was sent away, Eric connected to the Internet, opened IE Browser, Yahoo's homepage quickly jumped out.

After Yahoo web portal came online at the end of last year, Eric proposed many ideas to the technical team of Yahoo based on the memory of previous life. Based on the recommendations of Eric and the support of hardware and software conditions at this stage, the Yahoo team revised the homepage again.

At this time, Eric sees the brand new homepage of Yahoo. The subject box on the left is from top to bottom, followed by the mailbox entrance of Hotmail, the Yahoo information section and the Yahoo forum section, and the right side is the URL navigation including search interface.

In memory, Eric previous life saw the homepage of Yahoo in the computer room of the university in 1995. The most memorable thing about Eric is that the Yahoo homepage logo at that time had four red glowing 'two cakes' on both sides. Like the four mahjong pieces placed on the homepage, plus the overall very exaggerated design, it feels very funny now.

Since you have the opportunity to control everything, Eric's advice to the team is concise, concise, and concise. In order to look more pleasing, Eric also removed the exclamation mark behind it.

Yahoo information and Yahoo forum were launched under the suggestion of Eric, in the Eric vision. The Yahoo information section will become larger and larger, and eventually Yahoo will be transformed into a news and information category web portal.

However, at the current scale of Internet users, Yahoo information is not yet able to compete with paper media and television media, and it is still in the exploratory stage. At this stage, Yahoo mainly focuses on the development of the forum, in order to quickly expand the size of the forum users. Yahoo directly accesses the user group of Hotmail and does not establish a user database separately. Although this has been criticized by the Yahoo team, this measure was implemented quickly under the insistence of Boss, Eric. Wait for Yahoo and Hotmail The two companies have been developing separately for several years. Eric intends to integrate the two companies. After all, with Hotmail and Eric, it is no longer possible for Yahoo to develop the mailbox service alone.

Although Yahoo information has just developed, it is through cooperation with some media. The information section of the Yahoo information section is much more than the number of newspaper that ordinary people see every day. Although a lot of information is a bit lagging, it is just suitable for people such as Eric who have not followed United States's domestic affairs for a long time.

Open the news section, and through the search function, Eric quickly found some information about Hollywood that interests him most.

In addition to a lot of Box Office news from "Jurassic Park", the biggest thing that happened in Hollywood in the past year is, of course, the Viacom and QVC bid for Paramount.

After the two sides increased their prices to no avail at the beginning of the year, there were several small-scale confrontations during the period. But then, in order to accumulate more power, Viacom's Redstone turned halfway to M & A to United States's largest video rental company Blockbuster. Viacom turned the finger, and Paramount also temporarily suspended negotiations with QVC.

From some recent news, Redstone has basically completed negotiations with Blockbuster. It is expected that the merger and acquisition of both parties will be completed by September at the latest, once Viacom wins Blockbuster. With the huge cash flow of the video rental company and the debt financing brought by this asset mortgage, Viacom's chance of winning Paramount will be greatly increased.

And QVC. Although Barry Diller has not relaxed its efforts to acquire Paramount, the remote communications of one of the two shareholders of QVC has already begun M & A negotiations with another United States communications giant at & t. The main body of this merger and acquisition case is at & t. Once at & t completes the merger and acquisition of the telecommunications company, then QVC ’s support for acquiring Paramount is reduced by half. Therefore, at present, most of the media of United States are not optimistic about Barry Diller's acquisition of Paramount.

After reading these news, Eric thought of some other things in my heart. In memory, after Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount with a huge investment of 10 billion USD, it took a few years because of a company named netflix. The rise of online rental chain stores has made Viacom's huge acquisition of Blockbuster companies shrink sharply in terms of business and market value.

When I think of Netflix, the habitual smile of Eric appears on my face again, but this matter is not anxious. To establish Netflix, first of all, I have to realize a convenient online payment channel. I want to realize a convenient online payment. , We must develop e-commerce.

Step by step, everything.

Eric sighed, but turned off the Yahoo information page, and opened the Yahoo forum. Due to network limitations, the Yahoo forum currently only provides topical sections. Users want to create a topic forum that interests them. You can build a forum website yourself, but in any case, the Yahoo forum with Hotmail user group is definitely the largest communication community on the Internet.

Online communication forums are very new to many Internet users. Eric randomly selected several forums to visit and found that users in various sectors are very active. However, he also found some minor problems. Forum In addition to the personal nickname, the users inside have no other logo at all.

In memory, the simplest user logo is, of course, the level of division. Moreover, the introduction of the user level system can also greatly improve the user adhesion of the website. Just like in online games, low-level trumpets are often lost. It is lost, but the higher the level, the less willing players are to give up.

Simply Cisco for a while, Eric opened the mailbox, intending to send this suggestion to the Yahoo and Hotmail team, because the forum uses the Hotmail user group, and the introduction of new features will definitely require consultation between the two parties.

Although Eric is not in United States during this time, there are still dozens of unread emails from various aspects accumulated in the mailbox. Now the number of ordinary users ’mailbox storage is of course limited, but this problem cannot exist on Eric. .

Write out the ideas just sent out before Eric starts to process the mail accumulated in the mailbox.

When he almost finished reading the mail, he suddenly heard a new mail alert tone.

I took a look and it was sent by the person in charge of Hotmail, the person named Steve.Mitnick in the mouth of Chris.

Eric opened with curiosity and found that there was only one sentence in it: What is user stickiness?

Because English is a Pinyin text, if there is no special explanation, I suddenly see a new word. Although most people can read it according to the commonly used grammar, it is impossible to know what it means. This is also a Westerner. Causes of frequent dyslexia.

When Eric just sent an email, it was impossible to create a new word. He just put together the two words of adhesion and degree to form a new phrase. He did not know if it was appropriate.

After seeing each other ’s questions, Eric thought about it for a moment, and then quickly typed an explanatory sentence to reply to the past.

A reply email will soon appear again on the computer, still Steve.Mitnick: very interesting theory, you are also a very interesting person.

Eric replied: If you are praising me, then, thank you.

After dozens of seconds, the reply came again: Of course I am boasting you. For us, you are Jesus.

Eric surprised: Why do you say that?

Steve.Mitnick: Because you have invested more than 50 million USD in three companies without any profit prospects, this is a lot of money. Many ideas in the past we did not have enough funds to realize, but These things can be made, so you are of course like **** to us.

Eric could n’t help laughing: I ’m just investing in the future.

Steve.Mitnick: Can you see the future?

Eric: I ca n’t answer this question for you, but I see a future now.

Steve.Mitnick: Oh, what?

Eric: Instant messaging software. If we can develop an instant messaging software, then we can chat without email. Do you think this idea has any future?

On the other side, there was a moment of silence before replying again: Very good idea, and the technical requirements are not high. Give me 5 million, and I will make the finished product within three months.

Eric resolutely replied: No problem, in addition, you are also a very interesting person, see you soon.

Steve.Mitnick: OK. (To be continued)