I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1151: Settled
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After the Tom Freston meeting with Eric, the Viacom side did not give any response for several days.
Since Redstone is still lucky, Eric will naturally not be polite.
So, the rumors that Paramount Pictures may face the problem of broken capital chains quickly spread and continued to hit Viacom's declining share price.
On the other hand, the fact that Wall Street giant crocodile Carr · Icahn was secretly buying Viacom group stock was also quickly exposed. For a time, the major shareholders and management of the Viacom group were under pressure.
Actually, during the last lunch, Carr Icahn knew that Eric did not intend to support him in seizing control of Viacom Group.
However, Carr · Icahn still formed a tacit agreement with Eric, and actively disclosed that he is absorbing the Viacom group stock, intending to force Redstone to follow. As long as the Viacom Group reconciles with the Firefly system, the stock price of Viacom will definitely pick up quickly, and Carr · Icahn will be able to make a huge profit from this wave of low buying and high selling.
Compared with the decline of the Viacom Group's stock price, the crazy rally of the entire NASDAQ market has no intention of stopping.
The last day of May happens to be Monday.
After breaking through the 4,000-point mark last week, the Nasdaq index reached a new high, reaching 4135 points, just opening today.
Due to the great success of "Iron Man" and the Eric's own asset numbers that have skyrocketed almost every moment during this period, a large number of newspaper media have begun to pay more attention to his personal net worth. , And even a special real-time statistics website appeared on the Internet.
As of last Friday ’s close, the personal assets under the name Eric have reached the dazzling figure of 475billion USD.
However, at this time, Eric himself does not care much about this temporarily bubble asset number. Compared with it, he is now more concerned about the cash flow of the technology stocks held by Clover Fund.
Firefly Studios.
From the end of March to the present, exactly ten weeks ago, Carolyn compiled the latest financial data of Clover Fund early in the morning.
“Last week, various trading studios again cashed out the total value of technology stocks as 2.3 billion 22 million USD, and the accumulated cash reserve of Clover Fund has reached 2 1.6 billion 7 1 million USD. According to the current stock price, the total number of remaining technology stocks of Clover Fund The value is 1 2.8 billion 5 5 million USD. If the Nasdaq index maintains the current upward trend, the remaining stocks are expected to gain about 50% of value, which means that the Clover Fund can cash out a total of about 40 billion USD . "
In the office, while listening to the report of Carolyn, Eric looked at the more detailed data report in his hand.
The cash of 40billion USD is the real capital compared to the inflated book net worth. Even after the tax payment is completed, the remaining funds are sufficient to support the next expansion of the Firefly system. Once the next phase of the layout is completed, the assets under the name of Eric will definitely not have such a serious bubble.
In my heart consider as finished for a while, Eric said to Carolyn again: "We only have about six weeks left, and we must speed up the sales process. You will draw up a plan for me today."
Carolyn nodded and began to turn to other topics.
The production of "Gravity" has entered the final stage, and Eric will devote most of its energy to this matter in the next few weeks.
After a brief work briefing, Eric was about to leave the office to go to the post-production center in the studio, and his personal mobile phone rang.
Looking at the caller ID, Eric sat back again, leaned on a leather chair to connect the phone, and said: "Good morning, Summer."
The opposite side was silent for a moment before the voice of Redstone came through: "1.5 billion USD, Eric, this is the bottom line I can accept. If you disagree, Viacom can fight Firefly to the end."
1.5 billion USD, obviously Redstone's offer for showtimeTV Station.
This price is 25% higher than Firefly ’s valuation of ShowtimeTV Station 1.2 billion USD, but relative to the development prospects of toll cable stations, the 1.5 billion USD offer far exceeds the Eric ’s upper limit.
"Yes," a little pause, Eric nodded, and immediately said: "There are Sherry · Lansing."
"Viacom will announce the news of the departure of Sherry in the afternoon, and at the same time, Firefly must immediately cancel all measures against the Viacom Group."
Eric nodded very simply again: "No problem."
As soon as the voice fell, the phone hung up opposite.
Eric doesn't mind, continue to call Katzenberg and others, and give some explanations before getting up and leaving the office.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Viacom issued an announcement through the official website. Sherry · Lansing, one of the two female heads of Hollywood, will resign from the position of Paramount PicturesCEO for personal reasons. This work is temporarily held by Viacom in conjunction with Chairman Tom · Freston. Until Paramount finds a new and suitable candidate.
Under normal circumstances, the departure of the head of Hollywood ’s seven major Film Studios will definitely cause some heated discussion in the media.
However, when I heard this news suddenly, although I was shocked, most of the North America media showed a very cautious attitude.
After so many days, the media industry has basically understood the reason for the dispute between the Firefly system and the Viacom Group. Even ordinary people can easily understand the facts from many media articles or explicit or implicit prompts.
Behind the scenes of Viacom instructed the gossip website to expose the information of Eric Williams children. After the incident, it was retaliated against by the entire Firefly system. As long as the collision between these corporate giants does not affect the lives of ordinary people, most people will only hold A gesture of eating melons and watching drama.
It's just that the final development is beyond the imagination of many people.
In just two weeks, the market value of the Viacom Group has evaporated by nearly 20billion USD. Even if the situation is immediately reversed at this time, it is difficult for the stock price of Viacom to return to its original high in a short time.
When the general public sees the event subsides, it will only gradually turn its attention to others. But inside the media industry, they deeply felt the horror strength of the Firefly system since the last network gossip incident was exposed.
Although the Firefly system soon announced a settlement with the Blockbuster chain after the announcement of Viacom, some heads of the Wall Street film fund also took the initiative to clarify that there is no problem with the cooperation with Paramount Pictures. After the stock price of Viacom stopped its decline, with the Nasdaq The overall trend of the index began to rebound quickly.
However, the price paid by the Viacom Group for their secret small actions is also very heavy.
In addition to not knowing when the stock price will recover, the forced resignation of Paramount PicturesCEOSherry · Lansing will not only make the entire Viacom lose its face, but also the Viacom Film Industry business, which has been barely maintained in recent years, will definitely be worse.
Do n’t be afraid of the influence of the Firefly system. It is definitely not an easy task for Paramount to find another qualified helm.
Subsequently, Viacom Group announced the transfer of its ShowtimeTV Station to Firefly Group with 1.5 billion USD, which was a serious blow to Viacom ’s cable TV business.
Calculate carefully. From the exposure of Eric Williams's children gossip news to the present, the entire Firefly system has no room to fight back. This has made many media that advertise the freedom of the self-proclaimed untitled king once again deeply aware of the terrible capital. It has become cautious about any news related to Eric Williams, for fear of inadvertently incurring the fierce capital monster of the Firefly system.
When many media regretted seeing a wonderful giant collision but unable to report as much as possible, another thing happened and quickly turned everyone's attention away.
On June 7, after three months of review, the United States Ministry of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission and other major departments finally announced the news and formally approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner.
In three months, the market value of the two old and new media giants AOL and Time Warner has soared to 277billion USD at this time. The merger of the two companies surpassed Firefly Group and Yahoo in one fell swoop and became the largest comprehensive media group in North America.
Enjoying the pinnacle of the Internet frenzy, Steve · Keys is more stunned, even aside from a series of frictions between AOL and Firefly Group since last year, he actively called Eric, hoping that he can participate in the New York Plaza Hotel for AOL and Celebration party held by Time Warner Group successfully merged.
Although busy with the final work of "Gravity", Headquarters of ShowtimeTV Station is also in New York. Firefly Group and Viacom have signed a transaction contract. Although there were still many follow-up handovers that were not completed, Eric decided to go to New York to talk with the person in charge of ShowtimeTV Station in person, so he flew over in his busy schedule.
The Plaza Hotel near Central Park is still bright, and countless elite celebrities of Manhattan have begun to gather here.
It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when Eric arrived at Manhattan. After taking a short break at the residence of Cindy, she came with a girl in full attire.
After getting off the car, Cindy walked Eric through the media area intimately, and after signing and taking photos at the photo wall, the two went to the hotel's grand banquet hall.
Just walked into the banquet hall, Steve · Cath greeted him personally.
Eric took the initiative to reach out to Steve · Keys, and said: "Steve, congratulations."
"Thank you, Eric, I'm so glad you came over tonight," Steve · Kease's expression was equally impeccable, and he shook hands with Cindy, and said a few words before the other party left to welcome other guests.
Eric greeted some other familiar guests and took Cindy to a table to sit down.
Take two glasses of red wine from the waiter tray and wait for the other person to leave before Cindy whispered to Eric: "I had an examination last week. The doctor said it might be a boy."
Eric took a sip of red wine and smiled: "It's only been two months, how can I tell?"
"I hope to be a boy," Cindy said with expectation in his eyes. "It is estimated that I saw my mind, and the doctor said that, anyway, I also like to listen."
"Oh, then it ’s a girl, what do you do?"
"Then regenerate one," Cindy immediately replied, and looked at the man beside him worriedly: "Eric, can I regenerate one?"
"Of course, you can regenerate both without problems."
The Eric ’s refreshment makes Cindy a bit surprised, subconsciously: "I mean your child."
Eric reached out and pinched on the girl ’s delicate chin: "If you dare to have someone else's child, I will throw you into the Hudson River."
Cindy realized that he had said something wrong, shrunk his neck embarrassedly, and then touched his lower abdomen without fear. >
Eric smiled and said, "Is there any arrangement for" America's Next Top Model "?"
"Scheduled, Fanny takes over my job."
"I think she is not suitable."
"Yeah," Cindy nodded and glared at Eric: "But you secretly gave someone a" testing ", what can I do?"
"You can pretend not to know."
"I do n’t want to be such an **** to you, and her personality is actually very suitable for this show. Anyway, it is not really a supermodel. It is the most important thing to attract the attention of the audience."
"Oh, what kind of character did I not feel?"
"Who knows how you feel."
"Uh, you are not good like this, be careful of your child hearing."
Cindy looked at the appearance of Eric, and laughed, then said: "I asked Joan what happened when she was pregnant with Xiaxia. I also learned what she was like during this time, but I have n’t read a book until now After that, I plan to find several rattan school graduates as life assistants. During this time, I will study for me. "
Although I do n’t think it would be of any use, Eric did not object, saying: "You can call Kelly and let her pick it for you."
"I can just pick it myself, but the bill will be sent to you."
"Must be female."
"Well, try to be ugly."
"No, it is said that what a mother sees when she is pregnant will affect the appearance of the child."
"Don't listen to your nonsense, how could my child not be beautiful."
"If it is a boy, it must not be too beautiful, it is better than my Papa."
"Hehe."
I do n’t know if I just mentioned Stephanie · Seymour. I was chatting. The couple Stephanie · Seymour came over together.
Eric and Cindy had to stand up and greet each other.
Maybe I finally returned to Taiwan with my wish and got the position of the host of "America's Next Top Model". Stephanie · Seymour looks more and more radiant, but I always look at Eric with a bit of obvious hint, It makes people want to press this beautiful young woman again to pack up a hard meal.
So, when he went to the restroom of the restroom during the reception, and found a slim figure trailing behind him, Eric pulled the woman directly into the restroom without hesitation.
Stephanie · Seymour didn't expect Eric to be so direct. Fortunately, there was no one in this bathroom, otherwise she really didn't know what to do. Pushed into the compartment by Eric, he stumbled down on the toilet before the woman reacted, but there was a little obvious excitement in the trembling: "Eric Williams, you, you bastard, you can't do this."
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The woman ’s body suddenly softened and fell on the toilet lid, accusing half-truly crying: "Woo, you hit me again, I was almost found last time."
"Shut up and lie down."
"I don't," the woman propped herself up and tried to get up, and got an unkind note again, and suddenly no longer had the strength to resist, and could only beg in a low voice: "Eric, no, you can't put on the dress Dirty, it will be seen. "