I’m in Hollywood Chapter 742: Gu family
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Chapter 742
After dinner, the two did not rush out of the restaurant and ordered two cups of coffee before Eric talked about setting up a branch in the digital field in Australia.
"The current annual turnover of the digital field is close to 1billion USD, right?" Elizabeth asked, enviously.
Eric nodded: "However, because most of the orders are made within Firefly, the profit margin is not high, only 10%."
In order to prevent the outflow of excellent special effects technicians in the digital field, Eric provides these people with very rich wages and bonuses, thus ensuring that the talents in the digital field are still maintained when the entire industry is in short supply. Very low churn rate.
Higher labor costs have significantly reduced the overall profitability of the digital field. However, Eric did not expect this special effects company to bring too much profit to Firefly. The main role of the digital field is to assist in the production of Firefly's films and to keep Firefly in a strong position in the special effects field.
Elizabeth also understands some of the key points, saying: "Fortune magazine United States500, a company that was published last month, the entry-level companies should only accept 2.2 billion USD. With the tightness of the special effects industry, as long as the digital field continues to expand When it is listed alone, it will definitely be easy to join this list. Why do you want to set up a branch in Australia, although you can get some discounts, but away from Hollywood, many things will become very inconvenient. "
"Now there are more and more special effects companies in Hollywood, you can definitely find this, so the biggest factor restricting the development of special effects companies in the future will not be technology, but cost. I am in advance Be prepared. "
Elizabeth nodded incomprehensiblely, stirring the coffee in front with a spoon, and said after a moment: "I have rarely returned to Australia in recent years. Things over there are not familiar at all. You want to be with the Australian government Contact, you should talk to me about Papa. "
"Your home old man ghost spirit ghost spirit. I don't want to deal with him."
Elizabeth raised an eyebrow and said, "You mean, I'm more lied."
"Well," Eric nodded solemnly, jokingly: "However, your understanding ability is still no problem."
Elizabeth raised the spoon in his hand threateningly, and then put it down, said: "Even if I want to. I really can't help," hesitated, she continued: "Papa has started to train Lachlan and James Responsible for the newspaper business. Most of our family ’s industry in Australia is paper media business, and I ’m not easy to intervene there. "
Although News Corp ’s newspaper media is spread all over the world, Australia is the home base of News Corp. News Corp controls more than 70% of Australia ’s media resources, which is much higher than United Kingdom40%.
Although Eric clearly knows the decline trend of paper media in the future, Murdoch obviously does not think so. And he has always regarded the paper media business as the foundation of News Corp.
Eric can be heard from the short words of Elizabeth. From Murdoch to the present, it still prefers to let his son take over the industry. Otherwise, they will not let them both be responsible for the basic business of News Corp, and only let their daughter be responsible for Film Industry.
At this time, with the large number of newspapers in the world, more than 50% of the profits of News Corp come from the paper media business, in addition to some TV Stations in Australia, Far East and United Kingdom, although Fox has The development is very good, but in the entire News Corp system, it is not the most important.
However, if this situation continues. It will be lively in the future.
In my memory, News Corp experienced a split after more than ten years. It was re-divided into News Corp, which mainly focuses on paper media business, and Fox, which mainly focuses on movies and television, and that time. Because of the decline of paper media, the market value of the new News Corp is only more than two billion USD USD, which is only 2% of the market value of Fox Group more than 80 billion.
So, as long as Elizabeth can firmly control Fox, it is actually equivalent to inheriting the entire News Corp.
At that time, Tsk Tsk ...
"What are you thinking, smile so bad?" Elizabeth's voice rang in his ears.
"No, nothing," Eric shook his head immediately, said: "I think that since your home old man is arranged like this, then you can run the business on the Fox with ease. Well, you do n’t need to do anything in the digital branch. Worried, I took the time to talk to him personally. "
Elizabeth narrowed her eyes and looked at Eric for a moment, then pouted her lips and said, "I always feel like you are hitting a bad idea."
"Liz, you must firmly believe that I am always looking towards you."
"Is this temptation singular or plural?"
Eric does not hesitate: "Singular."
Elizabeth smiled, but still said: "It's strange to believe you."
Since I made up my mind to let Elizabeth feel at ease to manage Fox, Eric no longer talks about the branch in the digital field. After drinking coffee, I looked at my watch and said: "It's still too early, take you to a movie."
"Oh ..." Elizabeth dragged a small voice, slightly dissatisfied: "How many times are you asking me to watch a movie?"
"Is this the first time, it seems I have to pick and choose, how about" Independence Day "?"
"Don't watch your movie, go to" Big King "."
"I'm such a good girl who cares about my family. I have to think about my home when I watch a movie," Eric handed the credit card to the waitress for checkout, which I exaggerated.
Elizabeth lifted his chin and was very proud: "Yeah, which looks like you."
In the following days, Eric personally communicated related matters with Murdoch. Murdoch is naturally happy to help, but still put forward the conditions, hoping that News Corp can participate in the Australian branch in the digital field.
Eric did not hesitate, and readily agreed to give 30% of the shares in the branch of News Corp.
Under the matchmaking of Murdoch, Stan? Winston soon rushed to Australia with the management team to negotiate with the local government. Of course, Australia ’s government is aware of the benefits of a large special effects company giant settling in the country, and it is also very eager to perform. It has also been mediated by the Murdoch family of snakes, and soon came up with a tax relief plan for ten years.
At the same time, in order to attract more films to the shoots. The financial subsidy for "The Matrix" 7.5 million USD in Australia shoots is also given, which is equivalent to 10% of the "The Matrix" shoots budget.
Of course, Hollywood also voted for Lee and announced "The Matrix". The special effects of Thor King's "The Lord of the Rings" series will also be all in charge of the Australian digital field branch.
These things happened in August. Another piece of sensational news is happening on the local United States.
On August 24th, Microsoft officially released the Windows 95 window system in Seattle Headquarters. With a more user experience and overwhelming publicity, Windows 95 released 1400,000 sales in the first week of its release. Unlike Yahoo Browser's free, Windows 95 has a list price of 210USD. This price cannot be said to be cheap even after 20 years. The sales results of 1400,000 copies in the first week created nearly 300 million USD sales for Microsoft, and the stock price of Microsoft rose again.
Because the operating system of competitor Apple is getting old, there has n’t been much innovation in these years. In addition, Apple ’s recently released p new film has suffered from sales due to various problems. Therefore, after the release of Windows 95, Immediately showed a unified situation, but Apple was far away. While Windows 95 is selling well, sales of Apple computers have also ushered in a cliff-like Waterloo.
Of course Eric also received an invitation letter from the Windows 95 conference, but he did not go to Seattle to join in the fun.
After all. Although Windows 95 is popular, the mood of Bill students is not very good.
Because in the investigation in the following weeks, the most popular software on the Windows 95 operating system is the latest Yahoo Browser bundled with Yahoo, and after the browser, it is still not its own software on the Microsoft platform, but Yahoo's YCR chat tool, after this is Microsoft's own office software suite.
Windows 95 system greatly reduces the difficulty for ordinary people to use computers. But Bill Gates had a thought in his heart to make wedding clothes for others. There is no doubt that the capital market is also very sensitive to this change. While Microsoft stocks rose sharply, Wall Street's highest valuation of Yahoo has been increased to 5600 million USD. Many investment institutions have begun to contact Yahoo frequently, hoping to participate in the investment.
Because of this stimulation, a week after the release of Windows 95, Microsoft was launched in a hurry and MSN web portal, which is in charge of Jeff? Locke, the layout basically refers to the format of the Yahoo portal, and it is declared to enter the Internet industry.
Jeff? Although Locke was also responsible for part of the R & D work in the early stage of Yahoo, he has been responsible for the operation of the website since then. It can be imagined that MSN can only be regarded as an example. Whether it is content or user experience, it is far from the Yahoo portal ratio.
Eric just browsed the portal interface of MSN a few times, and completely put aside the concerns in the heart. In the form of the MSN portal, even after several years of development, it may not be able to catch up with Microsoft, not to mention, Yahoo is also in Fast progress.
The time goes into September, and the North America summer season is completely over, although several major Film Studio are at the end of the summer season, because Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer have not released new films, and some of them have recovered some market share. However, throughout the 14-week summer period, Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer still occupy more than 50% of the market share.
The most bleak summer performance this year was Sony-Columbia. Because of the loss of the distribution rights of "Forrest Gump" and "Night at the Museum", Sony can only hurriedly buy a few movies to fill the gap, but these movies generally have only one The Box Office of 20 million USD, the highest Box Office is only 31 million USD, the total Box Office of Sony Film Industry is even less than 100 million USD for the entire summer.
Because of the "Batman Forever" support scene, the Box Office share of the Time Warner summer file is not low, but because of the high cost disadvantage, Warner's Film Industry business has to face a large-scale loss than several other companies of Hollywood.
In addition to Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, only Universal and Fox performed better. Paramount originally had a new film of Tom? Cruise, but it took into account the bombing of the summer film, so it was postponed to the New Year file, so the performance Not stunned, the results are only slightly better than Sony.
Firefly Headquarters is still cheering for the still beautiful Box Office results this summer, but Eric has already rushed to New York again.
In September, the summer season ends, but the TV series autumn season has already begun.
The production of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" has come to an end. Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista have even released this project and temporarily invested in the preparation of the new year's Victoria's Secret big show.
Eric came to New York, in addition to focusing on these two Reality Shows, mainly for a short break.
Eath Hampton, the weather in September was already very cool. Eric sat lazily on the manor ’s lawn and looked at script in his hand. Joanna sat quietly beside him and cut this Apple.
After a while, a peeled Apple was handed over, and Eric took a bite, but did not pick it up.
Joanna smiled and asked, "How is this script?"
"There are still some areas for improvement, but overall, I am still very satisfied." Eric said, turning another page.
Joanna said: "Isn't your heart throbbing when you look at this script this time?"
Eric raised his eyebrows and nodded, "Yeah, it's almost time to start my next movie, but the main reason is that I prefer this script."
script in the hands of Eric is the "Casino Royale" that he and Metro Goldwyn Mayer's screenwriter team have been preparing.
original's "Casino Royale", the timeline is set after 2010.
After a while, a peeled Apple handed over, and Eric took a bite, but did n’t pick it up.
Joanna smiled and asked, "How is this script?"
"There are still some areas for improvement, but overall, I am still very satisfied." Eric said, turning another page.
Joanna said: "Isn't your heart throbbing when you look at this script so much during this time?"
Eric raised his eyebrows and nodded, "Yeah, it's almost time to start my next movie, but the main reason is that I like this script."
The script in the hands of Eric is the "Casino Royale" that he and Metro Goldwyn Mayer's screenwriter team have been preparing.
original's "Casino Royale", the timeline is set after 2010.
Eric raised his eyebrows and nodded, "Yeah, it's almost time to start my next movie, but the main reason is that I prefer this script."
script in the hands of Eric is the "Casino Royale" that he and Metro Goldwyn Mayer's screenwriter team have been preparing.
original's "Casino Royale", the timeline is set after 2010. (To be continued.)