I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1022: Indefinite bombs
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"Although Hollywood has become more and more powerful over the years, in my opinion, Hollywood is also losing its creativity, whether it is a high-budget blockbuster movie or a low-cost horror movie and comedy movie, It ’s like a commodity on the pipeline. Of course, no one can deny that this pipeline model is very successful commercially. But at the same time, this highly industrialized Hollywood also makes alternative, rough, anti-traditional movie living spaces It is getting smaller and smaller, but this type of film actually has a great market demand. My Lion Gate Film Studio focuses on the production and distribution of these films. "
In the banquet hall of Susnet Tower Hotel, after a brief greeting, Frank Gusta began to talk about his development plan for the Lion Gate Film Studio.
After a brief surprise, Eric also resumed as usual, but listened to Frank · Gusta's opinions with great interest, and occasionally discussed a few sentences with the other party.
Talked for a while, and felt that the young man in front of him did not seem to show too strong interest in his Film Studio. Frank · Gusta disguised his disappointment and politely left.
Wait for Frank · Gusta to go away, the girl asked: "Eric, what do you think?"
Eric nodded and acknowledged: "A very thoughtful person, if he develops according to his ideas, the company in his hand is likely to have a place in Hollywood."
"I think so too. I just took him to talk with Amy and John. Everyone thinks his thinking is very good. So, Eric, how about we buy this Film Studio, so Metro Goldwyn Mayer owns one and A new line, a subsidiary like Miramax. You are not saying that we need to expand the production department of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. "
Eric recalled the history of the development of Lion Gate, and shook his head without thinking: "No."
In the history of the past, Lion Gate Film Industry has grown into a rising star of Hollywood step by step in accordance with the idea of ‘alternative, rough, anti-traditional’ just mentioned by Frank · Gusta.
However, the rise of Lions Gate is full of controversy.
From the early anti-religious "Angry Sky", to the "irrevocable" that was later banned by most countries in global, to the "Fahrenheit 9/11" that caused a fierce opposition to the Bush administration, the so-called anti-tradition of Lions Gate It is based entirely on offending most mainstream values.
If Lions Gate is a small company that always maintains its own state of independence, it can also face the pressure of releasing all these controversial films with a very unassuming attitude.
However, if Metro Goldwyn Mayer included it, the pressure would be amplified to the parent company Metro Goldwyn Mayer tenfold and hundredfold. It can be said that such a lion gate, for the big Film Studio, is completely a 'time bomb'.
Of course, after the compilation, under the control of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Lion Gate may also be able to abandon these movie production and distribution ideas that are too swordy. But in this case, the Lion Gate will lose its own qualities, it is difficult to develop too much.
The girl never objected to any decision of Eric. Hearing that he did not hesitate to deny his thoughts or ask the reason, he just said: "So, then consider as finished."
Eric looked at the girl beside her holding a glass of orange juice and slurped like a kitten, smiled and helped her to sort out some of the slippery dress straps, saying: "Small companies like Lion Gate may be alienated, but Metro Goldwyn Mayer can't do this, and can't let its subsidiaries do it. However, cooperation is possible, we can give those small companies that have good commercial potential but not suitable for our own release to such small companies. "
In my memory, "Fahrenheit 9/11" was transferred from Weinstein Brothers to Lion Gate Film Industry for distribution under the opposition of Disney senior officials.
This film created the documentary Box Office of global 200 million USD, but most of the profits are still owned by Disney. At the same time, Disney does not bear the political risks caused by this film.
Meeting Lion Gate Film Industry Boss Frank · Gusta is just an obscure episode. Eric later learned from the girl that the other party was her last time for E! When the entertainment sub-channel went to Washington, introduced by Clinton, Frank · Gusta was one of the Clinton campaign funders.
Celebrating the day after party, Eric ’s change of mind was once again transferred to the transformation of the astronaut helmet "Gravity".
Eric originally only intended to remove the glass cover, and later added it through CG special effects.
However, during the transformation process, Eric once again found that the glass cover was embedded in the helmet. If only the glass cover was removed, it would still be cumbersome to later insert the CG glass cover into the helmet. In reality, you can also disassemble the parts around the glass cover and put the glass cover in, but it is impossible to 'disassemble' the helmet in the picture during the later special effects process, and directly put the CG model in, the edge of the picture is very close Defects are prone to occur.
In order to solve this problem, Eric and Robert · Byron also removed several sealing parts around the glass cover, and carried out CG modeling on the components around the glass cover to form a complete CG module with the CG glass cover .
These tasks sound troublesome, but in fact, disassembling the helmet, installing sensors, and conducting CG modeling tests, these tasks are basically done in just two days with strong technical support in the digital field.
Entering the working day, shoots of "Gravity" restarted without delay. After a short period of time, Jodie · Foster and George · Clooney quickly adapted to the new equipment.
Eric is almost blind to the window for shoots "Gravity". However, for the North America media and the general public, there has been more news related to the Firefly system during this time.
The new week has just begun. Firefly Investment and AOL Board of Directors held a press conference to announce that the major shareholders of AOL will jointly buy Firefly investment 16500,000 shares at the price of 4billion USD, accounting for 10% of the total share capital of AOL.
At the same time, John · Mark also announced at this press conference that Morgan Stanley will underwrite another 24750,000 shares in Firefly investment.
After the completion of the two plans, the proportion of Firefly investment ’s shareholding in AOL will be reduced to 7.6%. With the increase in the holdings of the original AOL shareholders such as Pioneer Group and Goldman Sachs, Firefly investment will withdraw from AOL major shareholders The ranks of the top five.
Chris also publicly stated at the press conference that after reducing its 25% stake in AOL, Firefly investment will not have any plans to reduce AOL shares within the next year.
Although many Wall Street analysts have reservations about Morgan Stanley's stock underwriting plan, they believe that AOL's stock price is high and the investment risk is very high. However, no one will doubt whether the powerful Morgan Stanley can digest this 6billion USD stock sales contract.
Therefore, the stimulus to the stock price of AOL will be immediate.
With the holding of the press conference, the shadow of Firefly investment reduction covering most of the AOL has finally disappeared. The stock price of AOL rebounded strongly again by 5.6% on Monday. The single-day trading volume of the stock exceeded 1billion USD. The market value of AOL also broke through the 46billion USD mark. The entire Nasdaq index rose significantly under the strong rebound of AOL stock price.
On the other hand, many people have also noticed that once the reduction of the share of AOL25% of the shares is successfully completed, this transaction will bring 10billion USD of cash to Firefly investment.
As a pure equity investment company, even considering the reduction of holding costs and the capital gains tax of up to 20% later, the cash reserves that Firefly investment will hold in the future will reach an amazing level.
Know that even among the world ’s top 500 corporate giants, there are few companies with nearly 10 billion USD discretionary cash reserves.
Take the Walmart, which has many people ’s impression of rich cash flow, the cash flow in the retail industry is naturally very large, but the annual turnover of Walmart at this time has just exceeded 100billion USD, due to its huge purchase cost and millions The staff's human resource costs and expenditures need to consume a lot of cash, and the cash reserves maintained by Walmart are actually not even 5billion USD.
Compared to this, the cash reserves held by Firefly investments are more gold-rich than other corporate giants with cash reserves of the same size, because the debt ratio of Firefly investments is 0, there are no liabilities, and the operating conditions of all its subsidiaries They are also very good, no need to reserve emergency funds, which means that Firefly investment can completely control this huge amount of funds at will.
When the media from Wall Street professional economy magazine to gossip tabloid newspaper are actively helping Firefly to invest "outside ideas" how to spend this money, on Wednesday, Los Angeles Century City, Metro Goldwyn Mayer also announced the 《Charlie's Angels》 series of three The group and the company signed news of two other sequels of the special agent movie universe.
Many people still have a fresh memory of the pay dispute between the 007 series actor Pierce Brosnan and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. No one thought that the 《Charlie's Angels》 series, which might have once again caused a wave of pay, was so quiet. The dust settled, and did not cause the waves that many people imagined.
Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer did not publish detailed contract terms, the professional media of Hollywood can also predict that, according to the character of Eric Williams, Metro Goldwyn Mayer cannot agree in any case if the pay conditions offered by the trio are too high.
Therefore, most people speculate that in this pay negotiation, the 《Charlie's Angels》 trio must have actively made a concession.
Some well-informed media people even inquired about some of the details that occurred on celebration party of "Charlie's Angels3". However, when it comes to Eric Williams, these gossip messages must not be published in the newspapers and magazines.
However, in any case, the 《Charlie's Angels》 series successfully passed the Hollywood trilogy, which is already an indisputable fact.
After breaking 200 million USD in two weeks, under the pressure of "Scorpion King", the decline of Box Office in the third day of the third week of "Charlie's Angels3" finally locked at 46%, and then closed at 28.11 million USD. The cumulative Box Office reached 2.3.2 billion USD.
After the "Scorpion King", except for the movie version of "X File" at the end of July, there is no longer any heavyweight production release. Therefore, according to the word of mouth and Box Office trends shown in "Charlie's Angels3" It will be very easy for this film North America Box Office to break through the 300 million USD mark.
North America Box Office points directly to 300 million USD, global is expected to impact the 1billion USD mark, three Heroines have completed the contract renewal, and the film has successfully passed the trilogy of magic ... This series of good news, such as the same needle cardiotonic agent, strongly stimulates the stock price of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
In the third week of the entire "Charlie's Angels3" release, the stock price of Metro Goldwyn Mayer rose rapidly along with the Box Office of the film. In just a few days, the highest market value of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has reached 25300 million USD. The majority of shareholders of Metro Goldwyn Mayer are naturally ecstatic. Compared with the market value of less than 5billion USD when the acquisition and integration was just completed, they have been Metro Goldwyn Mayer stocks have received more than 400% return.
In this attention, many media also suddenly found that according to the market value of Metro Goldwyn Mayer exceeding 25billion USD, Drew · Barrymore, which holds a Metro Goldwyn Mayer33.56% share of the stock, this girl under 25 years old, the personal worth is unknown Unconsciously, it has already reached 8500 million USD.
8500 million USD, even if you ca n’t log in the top ten list of the global rich list, this wealth can definitely make this young girl the richest woman in the world.
In addition to envy and wonder, questioning is naturally inevitable.
Even though Firefly Group has a decisive position in the North America media industry, there are still various comment articles that question the legitimacy of the wealth of the girl ’s wealth in many media of North America. Whether it is the pursuit of equality, everyone knows that this whole world is still just a patriarchal society. If a man creates such a miracle, perhaps all he gets is just praise, but a woman who is too good is almost inevitably subject to various guesses and doubts.
Firefly Studios, time has come to Friday without realizing it.
The time has come at night, most of the employees of the studio have been off work. In the restaurant on the big ship, Elizabeth and Eric are sitting opposite each other, and the menu is turned casually in his hand, but Elizabeth is not spared. "8500 million USD, our family has been around for so many years, you give her so much, are you not afraid that one day this nizi suddenly turned your face with you, and find a little white face to marry you?"
Eric smiled and ordered a few dishes and sent away the waitress with a smile, saying: "Actually, I can give you as much as you want."