I’m in Hollywood Chapter 671: Why do you let God punish me

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Eric opened his eyes vaguely, and found himself lying asleep on a meeting table, propped up, and saw various documents, artwork, and coffee scattered on the large meeting table. Cup and several laptops.

Noticing that Eric looked up, Tina · Brown, who was sitting on the other side and tapping on the keyboard, smiled and said good morning to Eric.

Eric nodded and responded, gradually clearing his mind, and quickly remembered what happened last night.

Because of the unexpected situation on Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last night, Eric temporarily added a 'Cinderella event' to the post-marketing plan of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. After the meeting, everyone started non-stop to contact various media to temporarily change the news of the next day The manuscript unknowingly reached the second half of the night, and Eric vaguely remembered that it was four o'clock in the morning when he couldn't support falling asleep early. Looking at the quiet and busy Tina · Brown beside him and the Limited employees who are still working in the work area outside the glass door, Eric asked Tina · Brown: "You will not have rest all night?"

Tina · Brown just smiled lightly, turned the laptop screen in front of him to Eric, and said: "Eric, this is the topic that Boston rushed out all night, do you see if there is any need to modify?"

Eric saw the eye-catching silver high-heeled picture on the screen page. Although he wanted to take a hot bath and eat something at this time, he still had no intention of rejecting the request of Tina · Brown and pulled the laptop over. Look, there was a slight grunt in the meeting room.

Tina · Brown raised her eyebrows in confusion, but then realized what she said and smiled: "Sorry, Eric, I forgot that you haven't eaten breakfast yet. It's better to wait and see."

Eric did not refuse. Fatigue and hunger are superimposed, he really has no energy to work, and suddenly he began to miss Kelly. If at other times, the gentle and considerate female assistant must have prepared breakfast for him. But the day before yesterday Kelly returned to Los Angeles for some urgent matters.

Standing up and stretching, Eric said to Tina · Brown: "Have you all eaten breakfast?"

Tina · Brown nodded, and pointed to the steaming coffee next to his fingers: "We had eaten it an hour ago, by the way, there is a ... the girl outside is waiting for you."

Eric walked out of the meeting room and sat on the sofa in the outer lounge area quietly reading a copy of one of magazine ’s twins. He noticed that he appeared and stood up.

Eric is used to twins always appearing together and suddenly sees a single one. Suddenly, I was still not used to it. I realized what it was and asked tentatively, "Is there any trouble with the girl, let you be a cannon fodder?"

One of the twins shook his head seriously: "No, Master, Boss came here last night. When I saw you at work, let me stay and take care of you."

Eric thought that small girl was quite considerate and smiled and asked, "Are you a sister or a sister? Where did Drew go?"

"I am a sister, and my sister went to Eath Hampton with Boss."

Eric nodded. Understand that Natasha is in front of me, maybe the twins are separated, Eric subconsciously thought about the name of sister Natasha. As a result, I still did not remember.

consider as finished, it ’s all Natasha, anyway, the two are exactly the same.

Eric and Natasha said this casually, but the Limited employees who were busy or pretending to be busy around heard a word from the twins, but they were all stunned.

Master ... Master ... Master ...

This name is really ... retro.

The cool Natasha has been sitting quietly on the sofa in the lounge area for several hours. All overtime employees silently guessed her identity. Some male employees also boldly stepped forward to talk a few words, although Natasha responded politely. . But there was clearly an inaccessible temperament that everyone felt. This temperament is not pride, but it still rejects thousands of miles away. Because the skin of Russian girls is like snow white. And there is a strange quietness that is indisputable in the world. In just a few hours, the male in the work area silently gave the Natasha a nickname of "Little Snowman".

The moment I heard Natasha calling Eric, there was almost a heartbreak in the work area.

Eric felt the sudden silence in the work area, and looked at it in wonder for a week, everyone immediately moved under the Eric glance, as if any matter doesn’t have had just happened. Eric didn't realize what was wrong for a while, and took a big bag handed over by the twins, opened it and looked at it. In addition to the custom appliances such as toothbrushes, there was even a bath towel, and smiled. Eric said to Natasha again: "I Go find a place to take a bath. You can prepare breakfast for me, whatever you want. "

Natasha nodded and left the work area with Eric.

The two figures disappeared, and there was a sudden regret in the work area with some regrettable and weird screams: "God, punish these evil capitalists!"

It happened so that the door of another office suddenly opened at this time. Emily came out with his mobile phone saying something, suddenly raised his eyebrows, said sorry, and reached out to cover The microphone looked sharply in the work area for a week, and fixed his eyes on a certain unlucky egg, angrily said: "Jason, you just blamed, right?"

In a snicker, the young man named Jason stood up and said: "Sorry, Miss Brighton, I'm sick."

Emily is still very angry and even aggrieved. He raised his voice and said: "I have n’t laid off anybody since the acquisition of Limited. Not only that, but all of you have now got a 10% increase in salary. Do I Is there anything I'm sorry about you. It's just one overtime, I am not working overtime here all night, why do you want God to punish me? "

Jason said with a bitter face: "Miss Brighton, what I just said is not you."

"Oh ..." Emily looked around: "Is there a second capitalist here, do you consider me a fool?"

There is really a second capitalist here, and it is also a super capitalist.

But Jason has offended a small wild cat. How dare you offend the other Tyrannosaurus Rex: "I'm sorry, Miss Brighton, I'm sorry."

What Emily is about to say, the phone seems to be hung up. Then it immediately rang again.

"I don't owe you anything. If you think that the treatment of Limited is not good enough, then hand me the resignation letter." GV blamed, and Emily dropped this sentence. Just connected to the phone while hurried across the work area to the meeting room.

After the figure of Emily disappeared, there was a few seconds of silence in the work area, and it was determined that no big figures would appear again, before bursting out of laughter.

Eric had breakfast again and returned to the meeting room of Limited. The media information about Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show yesterday has been basically summarized.

Most mainstream newspapers have made detailed reports on Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in important editions. Many newspaper front-page headlines are occupied by Victoria’s Secret angels in gorgeous angel costumes. In order to attract attention as much as possible, newspaper editors Think hard to find your focus. Some follow professional model, some discuss fashion, and some focus on music. Of course, various voices also appeared in the media reviews. "The Washington Post" praised this Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show as a "gorgeous visual feast", and the commentators of "Chicago Sun-Times" criticized Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show as a "man." Shameless farce ".

With the powerful media resources in their hands to control Yulun, most of the negative evaluations caused few waves. Through the topic of the Yahoo portal, the largest media site on the Internet, the report of ABC TV Network "Morning News", and the close cooperation of Hearst Communications, News Corp, The Washington Post and other paper media forces with Firefly Group, in the network media, TV media and paper media With all-round efforts in the form of media, although the image of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in the public's mind cannot be considered perfect, it definitely awaits everyone's expectations. Diane · Kruger's Catwalk shoe-dropping accident was quickly rendered into an industry beauty talk similar to the Cinderella fairy tale under clever marketing methods. Many ordinary people who didn't pay attention to Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at all even thought about Diane · Kruger in Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show The shoe-dropping lens produced expectations.

At the same time. The discount ability generated by this grand marketing that lasted for several months is also amazing.

When Chris won the absolute controlling stake in Limited at the sky-high valuation of 2.4 billion USD at the beginning of the year, most analysts in the industry were pessimistic about the business and predicted that the stock price of Limited will definitely fall again after the transaction.

But these people only counted the beginning, but did not guess the ending.

After the reorganization, the Limited Group did experience a share price decline in the first period of time, but after Eric announced Victoria’s Secret Annual Fashion Show, with the continuous half-year marketing offensive, the sales of the Victoria's Secret brand under the brand rose rapidly at an amazing rate.

Victoria’s Secret is the most important brand under Limited. Even after the merger of Limited and Brighton fashion, Victoria’s Secret brand still accounts for more than half of the new group. With Victoria’s Secret Neiyi's sales and brand awareness continue to rise. After the market value of Limited's stock initially fell back to 2.1 billion USD, it began to rise slowly for half a year. On the second day of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Limited shares rose 7.5% again. The stock market value is approaching 3.7 billion USD. It is expected that the total market value of Limited will exceed 4billion USD after the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show TV broadcast in December. The most important point is that this breakthrough is not a capital bubble, because Limited's stock price at this time has a very solid brand value and product sales support.

After the initial acquisition of Firefly investment and Brighton Family, the shareholding of Limited reached 62%. When the market value of Limited exceeded 4billion USD, relative to the initial total assets and cash expenditures of about 1billion USD, Firefly investment and Brighton Family held this The asset added value 1.5 billion USD in just one year, which is equivalent to the net profit of the entire Firefly Group this year.

When Fortune magazine disclosed this series of data, it was originally reputable to calculate how much loss the Eric would abandon the shoots movie and produce a media without any "commercial value". They closed their mouths one after another. After all, even if he had another shoots movie equivalent to "Jurassic Park" ​​Box Office, it would definitely not be possible to bring 1.5 billion USD in a year.

After the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was held, the period that Eric was the most terrible was finally over. After the subsequent media promotion was on the right track, Eric gave the Emily all the trivial work of Limited and began to edit the TV broadcast version of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. At the same time, after November, the holiday season at the end of 1994 is approaching, and some second- and third-line Film Studio movies have gradually been upgraded in the second week of November.

There are only two films released directly by Firefly at the end of the year, the return of the Julia's love film "Runaway Bride" and "Face/Off" starring Nicolas · Cage. In addition to these two films, small girl's Flower Films opening work Kevin · Costner version of "Mission: Impossible", Brian de Palma's skillful suspense technique combined with the unique and restrained masculine temperament of Kevin · Costner, although the new "Mission: Impossible" does not After Tom · Cruise, it has its own unique charm. After the tragedy of "JAG" in the summer period, the results of "Mission: Impossible" ​​can be said to be related to his ability to continue to maintain his own coffee. Kevin · Costner also appeared to be very attentive to the promotion of "Mission: Impossible". Started frequent travels around the country for publicity, and the preview of "Mission: Impossible" also won a good pre-word of mouth. Moreover, another thing that made Eric 'happy to see and see' was that in the salary reduction he provoked, Warner quickly took over Kevin · Costner's long-prepared "Waterworld" under various pressures, and it was like As in the original space-time, Hawaii was selected as the shoots site. In the memory of Eric, it is precisely because of the frequent ebb and flow of Hawaii that repeatedly destroyed the shoots set built by the crew, and the budget was finally pushed to a jaw-dropping sky-high price.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer originally planned to launch "Resident Evil" at the end of the year. Although this zombie film destined for R-rated is extremely disproportionate to the style of the young holiday season, it can often achieve unexpected results against the trend, not to mention "Resident Evil" 》 The production budget only spent more than 30 million in the end, plus the later marketing budget, the cost will not exceed 50 million USD, through Box Office and video tapes and other channels of operation, the pressure to recover costs and profit is not great, as long as first part has gained popularity, as original Making continuous sequels like that can create a stable profitable project for DreamWorks Studios. However, there were some problems with the post-production of this zombie film, and the schedule had to be delayed until Easter.

Sony Group ’s executive Vice Chairman Idei Nobuyuki began to frequently intervene in its own Film Industry business in the second half of the year. By the end of the year, although Peter · Guber still maintains the position of Columbia CEO, it has basically been overhead, and Sony has begun to look for the next Columbia CEO. The candidate, Michael · Lynn, who just left Firefly Pictures in September, even received an invitation. However, Michael · Lynn did not mean the mess of Sony-Columbia, but just notified Eric by phone.

Although Peter · Guber is destined to be kicked out, Sony has not relaxed the release of "Jumanji", which is a collaboration between Columbia and Firefly. As the only g-effect blockbuster at the end of this year, Sony is clearly against "Jumanji" High hopes.

When the entire Hollywood was busy dealing with the upcoming hot schedule, Eric just flew back to Los Angeles to participate in a high-level meeting at the end of Firefly Group, and hurriedly returned to New York to continue to drill into the editing room of the ABC program production department, except for the promise of Julia With the two film premiere platforms produced by small girl, Eric does not intend to incorporate too many questions about film marketing.

A Boss that knows how to let go is a good Boss. This is what Eric recently learned from Buffett. Many companies held by Buffett and Hathaway have this very tacit relationship. In a previous interview, when a Manager person from a subsidiary of Hathaway was asked why this subsidiary operated so well, the answer given by the Manager person was very thought-provoking. The Manager person said that because Buffett had forgotten that he had acquired This company has been forgotten, and he himself has forgotten that this company has been acquired by Buffett.

As the size of assets under the name grows larger, if you ca n’t find a reasonable balance between grasping power and decentralization, Eric will definitely be crushed by heavy work. In many cases, Eric has even been hidden. To this pressure. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit http: //