I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1114: Inside and outside
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New week.
The topics of North America's major media naturally started from the Oscar just past, but just like the Oscar awards ceremony that created a new low ratings this year, the controversy about "The Horse Whisperer" winning multiple Oscar awards is not as intense as expected .
Most of the newspaper, magazine and TV media still keep their eyes on the increasingly surging NASDAQ technology stock market.
Last week, the Nasdaq index rose along the way, as a result of "Forbes" magazine's announcement that Eric personal assets broke through the 300billion USD mark due to the outbreak of technology stocks. The Nasdaq index has risen all the way, resulting in a large number of short-selling hedge funds.
I do n’t know if I was licking the wound while taking advantage of the two days of the weekend. Just started on Monday, an obvious bearish index and argument came back. It seems that I want to make a bang and will just break the Nasda that just broke 3000 points last week. The big market crashed completely.
The biggest one of these bearish forces is the Tiger Fund that attacked the city in the Southeast Asia economic crisis with the Quantum Fund under the name Ross two years ago.
Julian Robertson, the founder of Tiger Fund, even appeared publicly in an interview with NBC's "Today Show" show in the morning. He bluntly criticized the serious bubble component of Nasdaq technology stocks and even named Yahoo. , Cisco and several Firefly system listed technology companies.
Speaking of that, Eric had a relationship with Julian Robertson at a New York meeting last year. Although he did n’t expect that because of the few meetings, the two parties would have a friendship, but he did not expect Julian. · Robertson will suddenly point his head to the Firefly system.
It wasn't until Chris called from New York that Eric realized that a wave of surge in the Nasdaq last week directly caused 500 million USD to be lost by the Tiger Fund that established a large number of short positions.
Two years ago, the total size of the Tiger Fund, which had just been harvested during the Southeast Asia economic crisis, exceeded 22billion USD. However, since the loss of Russia with Ross last year, the Tiger Fund ’s days have not been too good.
Because of two successive large-scale investments in Russia and United States Airlines, the Tiger Fund ’s current scale has rapidly shrunk to 16billion USD.
Now, Nasdaq technology stocks are all the rage, and the Ross ’s quantum fund remains intact, but Julian Robertson does not know which one is wrong, and is firmly on the side of bearish technology stocks.
In just one week of gains, the Tiger Fund lost 500 million USD. You can imagine the strength of Julian Robertson ’s betting on shorts, and it ’s no wonder that the other party will rush out and go out shirtless.
However, although this sudden outburst did indeed start the Nasdaq out of a downward volatility just in the new week, as a large number of speculative funds continued to flow into the technology stock market, this volatility did not affect the Nasdaq. The overall trend of the broader market.
Then the Nasdaq rebounded back to the level it had just opened on Monday, just one day on Wednesday. Moreover, throughout the process, the Nasdaq index did not even fall below 3000 points.
The Nasdaq index broke through 3000 points several months earlier than I remembered, but Eric did not change its original plan, and did not even have a slow mind because of this sudden outburst of bearishness and theory. From Monday, Eric did not hesitate to order the clover fund traders to start selling the stocks they held.
On the other hand, in the same week, the Yahoo portal also quickly published an article titled "The merger of AOL and Time Warner will seriously affect the normal competition of the Internet industry", and it publicly stood in opposition to the merger of AOL and Time Warner. The other media of the Firefly system immediately followed up, calling on the Federal Ministry of Justice to immediately reject the AOL and Time Warner merger application.
In order to avoid wearing help, Eric simply acted as a complete set and completely cut off private support for the merger of AOL and Time Warner, and did not notify the management of AOL and Time Warner in advance.
Steve · Kes did not expect that the Firefly system that clearly expressed support for the merger of AOL and Time Warner at the last consultation meeting of the Ministry of Justice would suddenly turn over, and was a little angry, and soon published an open letter on AOL ’s web portal, accusing Firefly The system is the culprit of 'affecting the normal competition of the Internet industry', and again quotes the article in the "Washington Post" not long ago, proving the Firefly system's ambition to monopolize the Internet industry.
This kind of tossing, whether it is the media or the political world, has really emerged a large number of voices speaking for AOL and Time Warner. Of course, the Firefly system, which is already an industry oligarch but has to prevent others from growing up, has inevitably committed public anger and was quickly criticized.
However, despite the apparent opposition, Firefly privately did not take any specific measures to hinder the merger of AOL and Time Warner.
In the following days, it may have been the same reaction. Both Steve · Kies and Terry · Semel, who will leave after the dust of the merger is settled, did not call anyone in the Firefly system for questioning. Both parties Formed a tacit understanding.
The operation of these big capitals has not actually taken up too much time of Eric. His main energy is still on Hollywood.
After the third week of screening of "The Blair Witch Project", although the drop was unexpectedly 53%, the film still harvested 28.9 million USD Box Office again, and the cumulative Box Office reached 100 million11.68 million USD in three weeks, continuously refreshing the return on investment Box Office Miracle.
Moreover, although the decline of Box Office deepened in the third week, a large number of students were on holiday because of the upcoming Easter period. Therefore, even if there are many new films to be released in the next few weeks, according to the forecast of the new line Film Industry release department, the North America total Box Office of "The Blair Witch Project" can still easily break 150 million USD or even higher.
Due to the Box Office myth created by "The Blair Witch Project", a large number of Hollywood Film Studio began to pay attention to the newly emerging shoots method of DV photography during this time, and some Film Studio have even quickly established a batch of DV movie projects.
However, it is clear that most people have only seen the return on investment myth of "The Blair Witch Project", but have not noticed that the success of this film has little to do with DV photography. In the final analysis, it is still a brand new Internet The victory of the marketing model.
Moreover, even though some people are aware of this, the Internet as a marketing platform has just been "over-consumed" by "The Blair Witch Project". In the next few years, projects that attempt to replicate the miracle of "The Blair Witch Project" are destined to be Reduced to cannon fodder.
"Gravity" is undergoing a relatively boring and repetitive CG production stage, and does not require Eric to stare at all times, so he can free up time and focus on other projects of the Firefly system.
On the Firefly Group side, "Harry Potter" first part was officially established, and a press conference was held this week. The novelist JK Rowling also flew to Los Angeles.
Although the other party did not propose it as before, Eric still actively promised that the film will use United Kingdom Actor as much as possible and shoots in United Kingdom locality. In fact, this can also restore the novel scene more realistically. After all, just the unique cool atmosphere of United Kingdom is not easy to find in other countries and regions.
In terms of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, after more than a year of long preparations, "Bond19" is finally determined to be turned on in April, and the preliminary schedule for the summer vacation next year.
In addition, the "The Fast and the Furious" released at the beginning of the year, after three months of screening, has been completely downgraded at this time, North America Box Office finally reached 200 million 18 600,000 USD, relative to Metro Goldwyn Mayer's total 70 million USD production and distribution costs , Is definitely a big success.
Affected by the success of North America Box Office, "The Fast and the Furious" has been introduced to the popular summer season in most overseas ticket warehouse countries. Just from the popularity of some overseas ticket warehouses that have been released, the film overseas Box Office There is no problem beyond North America, global total Box Office is likely to reach 500 million USD level.
The success of the "The Fast and the Furious" special agent movie universe derivative series also changed the attitude of the actor "Kevin" Costner in the wait-and-see state "Mission: Impossible" series, and finally signed the next two agent movie universes with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Piece about.
At the same time, the "The Fast and the Furious" series was successful, and the "The Bourne Identity" series being brewed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer naturally gained greater attention in the industry.
Century City, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters.
As soon as it ’s off work, in a conference room, the well-known producers of Hollywood, Frank · Marshall and Kathryn · Kennedy, took the initiative to get up, and shook hands with several Metro Goldwyn Mayer executives, including Eric, Amy · Pascal, Frank · Makasso, etc.
On the Vanity Fair party of last weekend, after Eric made a suggestion, Amy quickly contacted with Frank · Marshall.
The couple Frank · Marshall have now stopped working at Film Industry in Anberlin, and are already looking for their next home. The conditions for opening Metro Goldwyn Mayer are very good, and as long as the two sides reach a cooperation, the couple can immediately take over the popular project of Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent film universe.
As the actual controller of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, such an important cooperation, Eric is naturally impossible not to come out at all. Today is the last round of contract negotiations with the couple.
Since both parties have a strong intention to cooperate, after a week of contract negotiations, the two parties basically reached an agreement.
The formal signing ceremony will take place next week.
After the two couples left, the people did not disperse and sat down again.
Talking about the details of the negotiation just now, Amy took the initiative to raise the question of the protagonist of the "The Bourne Identity" series.