I’m in Hollywood Chapter 827: Breaking news
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As a world-class financial center, Wall Street is like a giant capital distribution port. Retirement, insurance, investment funds from United States inland states, and capital from overseas countries are influenced by investment banks and major exchanges. Control the economy of United States and even the whole world.
Wall Street controls the United States economy. This statement is not an exaggeration. Most of the top 500 United States companies are controlled by Wall Street capital through the listing situation. It is the Basic Instinct of almost all Wall Street capital forces to penetrate the United States local and even overseas economies to achieve control purposes.
Therefore, Firefly Group, which has risen rapidly in recent years but completely out of control, is particularly prominent in Hollywood, which has basically been controlled by Wall Street.
For a company ’s shareholders, unless they are speculative, no company will easily choose to go public for financing, giving up their control to Wall Street step by step.
Eric admits that he has a very strong speculative mentality in the first few years, but with the rapid expansion of the Firefly system and the continuous expansion of personal horizons, the seemingly impetuous thoughts have long since disappeared. Although he still will not easily let go of the Asian financial crisis and the Internet bubble, the opportunity to quickly grab profits, but for his most important foundation Firefly Group, even long ago, Eric did not think about letting it go public for financing. Firefly Group is getting stronger and stronger, and this kind of thought will never happen again.
But obviously Wall Street will not easily let go of the penetration of Firefly Group and promote the listing in the digital field, it should be a trial of Wall Street.
Since it is impossible to promote the overall listing of Firefly Group, it will be split up step by step to gradually realize the docking with the capital market. This may be the thinking of some capital forces of Wall Street.
Katzenberg has focused on the operation of Firefly Group in recent years. Therefore, he may not have noticed the special intention of David · West to promote the listing in the digital field. Eric's focus on the capital market has far exceeded that of Katzenberg.
After thinking about it for a moment, Eric said, "Jeffrey, have you thought about it? If we agree to make the digital market available this time, then, next, maybe Pixar animation, and then, the new line Film Industry, Firefly Pictures, Disney Group ... … In the end, maybe one day when you wake up, Firefly Group has once again become a piece in the hands of Wall Street. At that time, it will be difficult for us to run this company with our own will. Hollywood seven, why only Firefly The company has cultivated the digital field because we can invest hundreds of millions of USD for the development of CG special effect technology for several consecutive years without considering the temporary gains and losses in the financial report. But other companies, in order to satisfy Wall Street, in order to let ourselves The financial reports are even more beautiful every year and even every quarter. They dare not even do this, otherwise, even if they are making long-term plans for the company, it is still difficult to get capital approval. "
"Okay, I get it," Katzenberg grinned. Eric did not directly reject the proposal to list the digital field, but analyzed the advantages and disadvantages to him in detail. Katzenberg certainly knew that Eric was scrupulous about him. Personal feelings. Actually, he thinks that Eric does n’t need to be like this. After all, in most cases, if he thinks that some of his subordinate ’s suggestions are very bad, he will simply throw out a sentence of “****” in the past. I rarely explained anything to the other party. After reading Eric's "financial alchemy", Katzenberg said half-jokingly: "Perhaps, I should also take time to read some of these books."
"If you are interested," Eric smiled and handed over the book at hand, saying: "This is for you, I bought several."
Katzenberg took it over and thanked him, and asked: "I have often seen you reading this book recently, what is this about?"
"Suo Ross's investment diary," Eric simply explained: "If you do not have three years and five years of foreign exchange investment experience, most people basically do not understand, so I suggest you can skip the previous Theory, read the case section directly behind, you do n’t have to deliberately understand those obscure foreign exchange operation skills, just appreciate the way of thinking of Ross, this is a real guy with a big pattern in his chest, and it even reminds me of the Far East A famous saying. "
Katzenberg secretly wrote down Eric. He is not well-educated. He entered the society and started working before graduating from high school, but this does not mean that he is a person who is not enterprising, otherwise he will not be able to sit in his current position. on. Just about to put the books away, and hearing the last sentence of Eric, Katzenberg asked curiously again: "Oriental, what famous saying?"
"This interpretation is meaningless, just like if sonnets are translated into other languages, it will be difficult to have a charm. In short, I just commented on Ross, yes, I wrote it on the title page Now. "
Katzenberg turned the pages of the book with great interest, and saw strange fonts written in two lines on the title page.
The world is a furnace, and the chemical industry is a work.
Yin and yang are carbon, and everything is copper.
Long Feifeng Wu's running script font, although Katzenberg can't read it, can still feel a wonderful beauty.
Through the 1980s, Suo Ross used the global financial market as his laboratory based on the theory of reflexivity he created, and has practiced through major financial operations that have had a profound impact on many countries in the world. Own theory. Therefore, this book is called "financial alchemy".
If you do n’t start from the point of view of good and evil, consider Ross's devastating destruction of the economic systems of many countries. Such a financial tycoon that can influence the world economy in a cloud-like manner is entirely worthy of "Peng Bird Fu" "Evaluation of the eighteen characters in the book.
Skip this simple episode, Eric said: "So, do n’t mention the plan to be listed in the digital field. However, since this matter is mentioned, let ’s talk about our next development plan for the digital field. Right. "
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On January 19th, the 54th United States Film and Television Golden Globe Award Award Ceremony was held. Miramax's "Shakespeare in Love" and Firefly Pictures's "Red Alert" led this year's Golden Globe Award, and won the best films in musical comedy and plot.
Weinstein Brothers originally went to Oscar, but because of the strong lifting of "Titanic", Harvey · Weinstein clearly realized that "Shakespeare in Love" would be difficult to make a difference on Oscar, so he gave up decisively, but the focus of public relations was In terms of Golden Globe Award, he won five awards in the best film of musical comedy category, best Director, best Heroine, best supporting actress, best screenwriter. In comparison, "Red Alert" is inferior. Although the best film in the plot category, it has lost to "Shakespeare in Love" in the best Director and the best screenwriter. However, although Firefly has no hype, the media and fans are still It is impossible to notice that this is the second duel between Cameron and Kathryn. Correspondingly, the attention gained by "Red Alert" is higher than that of "Shakespeare in Love", which is speculated by Weinstein Brothers.
After Golden Globe Award, both "Shakespeare in Love" and "Red Alert" have significantly increased the size of the film, and Box Office has also begun to climb.
Three days after the Golden Globe Award award ceremony, on January 22, the 69th Oscar nominations were announced, and "Titanic" became the most watched film of this year's Oscar with 14 nominations. All the nominations of "Titanic" can be truly deserved. Therefore, 14 nominations are released, and the media will inevitably turn around, mocking the Golden Globe Award just past.
Inspired by the continuous topic of the Golden Globe Award award ceremony and the announcement of Oscar nominations within one week, the fifth week of "Titanic" Box Office once again achieved a miraculous retrograde decline. In a single week, Box Office reached 42.62 million USD and accumulated Box Office2.5200 million USD.
A week ago, in the face of the miracle of the second week of "Titanic" and the subsequent weak decline, North America media only predicted that the film may reach such heights as 《Star Wars》 and "Jurassic Park", but when the fifth week Box Office The data came out, and once again the downturn made all media carefully.
Wait patiently for a week. In the sixth week, "Titanic" has a weekly Box Office328.30 million, and once again achieved a weak 22% Box Office decline in a single week.
So, the media in a watchful state finally began to say that "Titanic" may become the highest Box Office film in North America film history, but at the same time, no one has predicted the final Box Office of "Titanic".
In six weeks, North America Box Office2.8500 million USD, overseas Box Office1.4700 million USD, "Titanic" global Box Office therefore reached 4.3.2 billion USD, Firefly so it has been able to get the score of 200 million USD, recovering the total cost of 2.6500 million USD is only a matter of time .
At the same time, many media have also found that the five major Box Office countries of Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and West, only released United Kingdom and Spain at this time. The potential of Box Office does not belong to United Kingdom in Germany, France and Italy. On the other hand, Japan, the largest Box Office market in Asia, has also not been released. Coupled with the Latin American and Southeast Asia markets that are also in the release stage, the overseas Box Office of "Titanic" may reach a horror number far exceeding North America.
The shock of the Box Office of "Titanic" has not yet fallen, and Firefly Group has once again spread an explosive news.
After completing the existing film and television special effects orders, Firefly ’s digital special effects companies, including Los Angeles, Florida and Sydney, will no longer accept Firefly Group and its partners Metro Goldwyn Mayer Film Industry and 20th Century Fox. The film and television special effects order, but the main focus is on Firefly Group and the production of film projects within the cooperative ally system. However, Firefly software company, which is mainly responsible for the development of basic tool software for the digital field and Pixar animation, will continue to sell Maya, 3Dmax and other special effects software and special effects solutions. Special effects studios using Firefly software company's tool software will also receive priority. Firefly Group's redundant special effects outsourcing orders.
As an unlisted company, Firefly Group simply made an announcement on Yahoo web portal.
The sensation caused by this news in the industry has far exceeded the Box Office miracle of "Titanic".
Before the release of "Titanic", because of the unprecedented 215 million USD production cost of the super blockbuster film featuring CG special effects, the media and the industry have reflected on the big production trend that has emerged in recent years. Many people predict that the CG special effect technology has just emerged , It is likely to enter the "glacial period" for several years. But after the outbreak of "Titanic" Box Office, all the original arguments disappeared. Even from the beginning of the "Titanic" Box Office fall in the second week, Film Studio has started to look for special effects blockbuster project script. Film Studio to discuss cooperation is endless.
Before "Titanic", the attitude of accepting external orders in the digital field has always been quite positive. Other Film Studio also realized that the digital field is only due to the need of technical accumulation to implement this open cooperation strategy. Therefore, No one expected that after "Titanic", the attitude of Firefly Group will suddenly change by 180 degrees.
How powerful is the technical advantage in the digital field, and it does n’t even need to be compared, because in recent years, Hollywood's large-scale production films that involve CG special effects basically have close cooperation with the digital field, and the digital field is responsible for Often, these are the most difficult special effects in these films.
Therefore, when the digital field suddenly closes the cooperation gate to the outside world, it is almost conceivable that the technical support in the digital field is lost. In the next few years, Hollywood and other major Film Studio, even if they are willing to invest in the capital Time to catch up with the technological gap with the digital field.
Without top-notch special-effects technical support, Hollywood and other major Film Studios are also destined to usher in years of special-effect movie windows. Hollywood certainly does not lack other special-effect companies, such as Industrial Light & Magic, but if you make Compared with the Firefly Group film on the level of special effects, there is almost a gap that can be seen by the naked eye. In this case, the audience is not stupid. How can it be bought.
One day after the news was announced, almost all of the core ringtones of Firefly Group's core executives have not stopped, and the media is like a shark who smells bloody, madly digging into the deep meaning of the decision Firefly Group. (To be continued.)