I’m in Hollywood Chapter 693: Meow
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Under Eric ’s strong insistence, the capital injection negotiations with Qualcomm were finally finalized on the day of the Golden Globe Award awards ceremony on January 21.
The shareholders and management of Qualcomm also understand that the sooner they reach an agreement with the strong Firefly, the more beneficial it is to promote CDMA technology. Therefore, there is no lion ’s mouth because of Firefly ’s pressing attitude, but only to request Qualcomm according to the day before the deal The stock price determines the final capital injection of Firefly.
After the news of Firefly ’s contact with Qualcomm, the stock price of Qualcomm rose 21% in just one week to reach 23.8USD per share. Firefly investment will eventually need to pay 238 million USD for the 10 million shares issued by Qualcomm, which is far He did not exceed the tolerance of Eric, so he personally rushed to CC from Los Angeles early in the morning.
After the signing ceremony was held in the morning, high-level executives such as Eric, Chris and Qualcomm Owen · Jacob got into the conference room to discuss the next plan.
It is already five o'clock in the afternoon after discussing the lobbying strategy for telecom operators and the QualcommCDMA equipment factory construction plan in detail.
Chris and Irving Jacob have already agreed with Verizon ’s CEO to meet tomorrow. After the afternoon meeting, the two of them could not wait to board the plane to New YorkVerizonHeadquarters. Eric sent away Chris and Owen · Jacob, and also took the entourage to Los Angeles.
Winning Qualcomm, Eric once again placed an important piece in the high-tech industry that has begun to rise.
In the original space and time, although Qualcomm is more unknown than the high-tech enterprises such as Cisco and Yahoo that have owned their own days, Qualcomm is actually the most profound one of these enterprises because it is almost completely monopolized After a whole generation of mobile communication technology, even if it is really inadvertently encountered on the day of the decline, it can respond to the old saying that the ship is broken and there are three thousand nails, only relying on the licensing fees of thousands of patents held in hand Can steadily make large profits.
Thinking of this, Eric thoughts could not help but turn to the companies Cisco, Yahoo, Nokia and AOL already owned by Firefly Investment. According to the original historical development process, in addition to Cisco, the remaining three companies will gradually decline in the next few years.
Eric has read later articles about why Nokia is suddenly declining. These high-tech companies are in the process of development. There is neither a shortage of funds nor a lack of technology. The root cause of its decline is still a major mistake in the direction of enterprise development. As long as they can maintain sufficient control of these companies among their opponents and rely on the advantages of rebirth, Eric is confident for at least the next two decades. He can get these companies on the right path.
The black Rolls-Royce gallops on the Pacific Rim Highway between Los Angeles and San Diego. The sunset is crumbling on the distant sea level, dyeing everything in the field of vision into a magnificent orange red.
In the compartment, Eric kept his eyes closed and contemplative along the way, and the Kelly sitting next to it did not disturb, quietly flipping through a document in his hand.
I do n’t know how long it took, noticing that Eric suddenly opened his eyes and straightened his body, Kelly raised his head and asked, "Eric, what's wrong?"
Eric turned around and asked Kelly: "I remember seeing a merger and acquisition plan submitted by Cisco executives a few days ago, do you remember?"
Kelly nodded: "Well. There is a plan to acquire a Seattle-based network switch company. The initial negotiated price is 1.9 billion USD, which will be carried out through a share swap."
"What is our shareholding ratio after this transaction?"
Kelly thought about it for a moment and said: "The current stock market value of Cisco is around 16billion USD, and it will exceed 18billion after the merger and acquisition, and our shareholding ratio will drop from 23% to 20.5%."
Eric shook his head. Although the shareholding ratio dropped to 20.5%, Firefly is still the largest shareholder of Cisco, but its control will become weaker and weaker, although previous life Cisco has always maintained a strong industry position. Eric will not deliberately intervene in business management, but he also realized that he can no longer continue to dilute the Cisco equity of Firefly investment, even if this diluted share will still be a huge wealth in the future.
“Ca n’t go down anymore, no. Not only ca n’t go down again, we have to increase the share of Cisco again, you contact Chris tomorrow, and let Cisco management change the way of this merger and acquisition, switch to cash and share holding method, make sure Our shares cannot be diluted again. In addition, you will discuss a share increase plan. It is best to be able to increase our shareholding ratio to 30%. "
Kelly wondered: "Eric, do n’t you plan to invest in the telecommunications industry, according to the current scale of Verizon and Sprint, any one of them promises to invest in Firefly, the funds required will exceed 1billion USD. If you say according to what you said The Cisco shareholding ratio will be raised to 30%. Considering the premium factor, it is likely to need to invest 2billion USD funds, and there are not necessarily investment institutions that are willing to transfer their shares. "
Eric could n’t help but be generous, 2billion USD, which is more than ten times the amount of Firefly ’s initial investment in Cisco, but only 10% of the shares can be obtained at this time. Gone forever. But considering the future value of Cisco, this additional investment is definitely worth it.
Firefly Group has just experienced a profitable fiscal year. Eric was still feeling too much money in the early days. Now I find that if I want to continue to expand, the funds in my hands are still not enough. In the past, Eric did not have the idea of making some large investments, but he always subconsciously felt that the benefit was not high enough and resisted a bit. However, he also had a sudden and cheerful feeling at this time, always thinking about 'leaking up the leak', absolutely not The right investment thinking is speculation. Just like the war in the cold weapon era, it is okay to occasionally send a few soldiers to fight a few battles with fewer wins and more battles. If you have always been thinking about winning unexpectedly, you will only be defeated in the end.
"The profit of Firefly Group should be able to meet these plans. Even if it is not enough, I will consider financing from other channels. You just have to do it."
Kelly nodded, wrote down Eric ’s instructions in the memo, looked out the window, and immediately entered the Los Angeles urban area, asking: "Eric, Golden Globe Award awards ceremony should have already started, are you going to Hilton Hotel? "
It was already dark night outside the window. Eric looked at his watch at half past seven. In his identity, even if he rushed over at this time, he would not be stopped outside the banquet hall, but there is really no need for this. After looking at the female assistant in a black suit and skirt exuding an intellectual breath, Eric smiled and asked: "I'm not going to join in the fun. Is Nina in boarding school today?"
Kelly blushed and nodded gently.
"Then we will first find a place for dinner and then go to you."
The female assistant pinched the corner. Cheeks fine and moist, mosquitoes: "Also, go directly to me, eating outside is easy to be touched by people ..."
"No problem, listen to you."
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"There is no doubt that it has nothing to do with the film, this is just another male victory." Braveheart "is a self-righteous film filled with fictional historical facts, completely defeating" Saving Private Ryan "which is ten times and one hundred times better than it. Just because the Director of "Saving Private Ryan" is a woman, it once again proves that Hollywood is deeply rooted in sexism. There, as long as you are a woman, even if you do something that men may not be able to do, you still cannot be recognized. . In the end, I just want to ask very weakly, do you really want to continue like this? "
On the second day of the Golden Globe Award awards ceremony, a well-known female commentator on 《Los Angeles Times》 published such an eloquent comment in a personal column, and received a lot of media-side discussions on gender discrimination, including There is no shortage of questions and discussions mixed with various Golden Globe Award shady. The cause of this incident was at the 52nd Golden Globe Award Award Ceremony. The highly anticipated "Saving Private Ryan" all lost to "Braveheart" in the four nominations for best film, best Director, best script and best soundtrack, and only Tom · Hanks won the best actor award.
Although many professional film critics are clear, the two films "Braveheart" and "Saving Private Ryan" are artistically comparable, but Basic Instinct. There are still a lot of "Saving Private Ryan" that film critic tends to have a stronger sense of cultural identity, because without a strong competitor, Tom · Hanks won the best actor almost hardly. Before the awards ceremony, most of the discussion focused on the attribution of the two nominations for Best Film and Best Director.
After nothing came out of "Saving Private Ryan", some people's original sense of identity has turned into disappointment and doubt because of the gender of Director Kathryn. Many feminists also expressed their anger at the Golden Globe Award review committee and even called on the Hollywood actress not to participate in the Golden Globe Award award ceremony.
The Golden Globe Award Judging Committee, like many times in the past, has taken a non-responsive attitude towards the media. This kind of questioning of awards occurs almost every year. If there is no uncontrollable situation, it is best to not respond. The treatment method, in response, will appear guilty, thus making things bigger.
In the next few days, the nomination list for the 67th Oscar Awards was announced, and "Braveheart" once again aroused heated discussion in the media. The focus of this controversy was on the nomination of Mel · Gibson ’s best actor, Golden Globe Award. The nomination of the best actor in "Braveheart" has already made many film critic defamation. I think that Mel · Gibson can only be regarded as a few performances. There is still a large distance from the award nomination. Most of the media thought that Oscar is not It will be nominated for the best actor of Mel · Gibson like Golden Globe Award, but the fact makes many people like eating flies. film critic hadn't thanked Golden Globe Award because of his unfair anger. At this time, he pointed the gun at Oscar without hesitation. It was another discussion of the fairness of Oscar.
The ordinary people certainly do n’t know how much happened during this period, but just relished the debate. As the degree of the topic increased, more and more media began to follow up, attracting viewers or reading in various ways.
Most people did not notice that with the boom of this discussion, "Saving Private Ryan", which has been down for a long time, silently sold 670,000 cassette tapes in the following week, the sales volume is equivalent to the sum of the previous two weeks In one week, it brought 20 million USD video tape sales revenue to Firefly.
At the same time, the "Braveheart" week Box Office, which is still being released, suddenly rose 60% from more than 7 million USD before Golden Globe Award, reaching 11 million, and the cumulative Box Office Box Office easily broke the 73 million USD mark. Weinstein Brothers is naturally a joy, and small movements are more frequent.
In the whole thing, Mel · Gibson is undoubtedly the most difficult, the controversy caused by the nomination of the best actor, and the media's controversy about Hollywood sexism, which has compressed his hopes of getting the best Director. Yu Wu.
"He has already paid 18 million USD, and will take another 10% of the profit share in the future. Fox does not owe him at all. Harvey originally wanted to spread out his tendency to Jewish discrimination, Stopped by me, huh, if it's not that everyone is Australian. I wouldn't care. "
In the hilltop mansion of Beverly Julia and Elizabeth, Elizabeth is wearing a crisp white shirt and jeans, wearing sunglasses leaning diagonally on the beach chair beside the swimming pool, and telling Eric who is looking at script on another lounge chair.
Eric turned script a page in his hand, but nodded. Said he heard it.
Elizabeth rolled his lips in dissatisfaction and said, "Eric, I heard that you have enabled two newcomers, Director, and gave" The Matrix "to one of them. Are you afraid of messing up?"
"Accurate, three," Eric corrected one sentence at will.
"Of course I know, that, Wachowski Brothers, eh. Is there anything special about them?"
Listening to the small voice that Elizabeth became thieves, Eric smiled and said: "Do n’t worry about it, two of them, Oh, three, have signed the option contract of three films with Firefly For at least five years, I will definitely not pick up videos from other companies, of course. Unless I take the initiative to release people. "
Since deciding to enable Wachowski Brothers and Michael · Bei, Eric will certainly not give them the opportunity to quit the job with a movie Box Office in shoots, but signed the Hollywood common option contract with the three people in advance, stipulating that they must at least Only three films directed for Firefly can be transferred to another family.
Of course. In order to maintain a good relationship with the three Directors that have good potential for future appreciation, Eric does not provide low Director compensation in advance like many option contracts. Although Eric advocates suppressing the high pay of Hollywood superstar, it will not exhaust the film creators so that the film creators can only get the rewards they deserve. A win-win situation is the fundamental principle of a virtuous circle in the industry. The option contract given by Eric is not harsh, and Wachowski Brothers and Michael · Bei were signed with ease.
Elizabeth thought that Eric was talking about the traditional option contract and hummed. Tao: "I think you are the kind of" greedy Jew "said by Mel · Gibson."
Eric did not mind the ridicule of this race and shrugged: "Who knows, when you are mixed with Hollywood, you do n’t want to be a Jew."
The two were chatting. Julia came over with a plate of cut fruit, put it on a small round table on the right hand side of Eric, gently pushed Eric sideways, and squeezed it with Eric Together, they lay down comfortably on a large beach chair.
Elizabeth was dissatisfied and said: "Julia, what about my fruit plate?"
Julia arms around Eric waist, twisting his body to find a more comfortable posture, feeling the heartbeat and warm sunshine of Eric, lazily said: "You do it yourself."
"Tsk Tsk, like a cat, is still a spring cat."
Regardless of Julia, Eric smiled and touched the face of Julia attached to his chest: "Kitty, cry!"
"Meow ..."
"Oh, you ’re sick of me, consider as finished," Elizabeth made a gagging gesture, looked impatiently at script in Eric, and said, "When do you finish watching, what do you think?"
"You know, I have nothing to do with things that I am not interested in."
"Is this script very bad? I spent a lot of energy, and I specifically checked the information of many small animals."
script in the hands of Eric was the open-air restaurant that day. After he and Elizabeth saw a little squirrel, Elizabeth brainstormed a creative similar to "The Nut Job" in a short time. During this time, Elizabeth found several screenwriter Make the story together.
"It ’s not bad to say, but it does n’t make people feel like it ’s bright. If you want to watch it, I will let you give you a copy of the story script that Disney animation is preparing, let you see what It ’s called imagination. "
Elizabeth leaned back on the recliner and said, "Since you ca n’t look at this story, let Chris · Wedge from Blue Sky Studios come over and do something. I watched the studio ’s resume, although I have done some big-name movies. The special effects, but has not been involved in the field of animation, he can not compare with the Pixar group. "
Eric closed the script in his hand, twisted a piece of Apple in the fruit tray, and said, "Although your story is so-so, they can be used to practice their hands and make a short film to train the team."
"You might as well give me some people from Pixar directly, just like the Disney animation."
Eric shook his head and said, "Do n’t worry about Pixar, but I do n’t give it to you in this studio. The two of us split equally. I think about it and leave 10% of the shares to the management. , The remaining Firefly and Fox each account for 45%. "
"You have two animation studios!"
Eric laughed: "If it is not some animation ideas do not meet the Disney's style, I do n’t mind if there is one more animation studio under the Firefly."
"Wa~wū, you greedy Jew!" (To be continued.)