I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1060: Conditions for reconciliation
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The time is already at the end of October, less than ten days before the release of the first part movie at the end of the Firefly system.
A total of three movies will be released at the end of Firefly Group, 《Ted》 with Thanksgiving on November 13, "Elizabeth" on December 4, and "The Waterboy" on December 11.
《Ted》 is a project that Eric personally pays attention to, needless to say.
"Elizabeth" is a Elizabeth I biographical film that Firefly collaborated with United KingdomWorking-TitleFilm Studio last year, starring Kate Blanchett, whose main goal is to impact this year's Oscar.
Although Working-Title, which was held by PolyGold, has become a Film Studio under the Seagram Group's close cooperation with Universal Pictures due to the acquisition of PolyGram by Seagram, Julia originally pushed the Working-Title's "Notting Hill" ".
However, the production and distribution rights of "Elizabeth" were finalized before Seagram acquired Polygon, and cooperation in all aspects was not affected.
The final "The Waterboy" is another comedy after Adam **** following "The Wedding Singer" which is a good Box Office for Easter this year. Speaking of it, December 11 is a period when the movie market is relatively quiet between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is not a good time, but fortunately, the production cost of "The Waterboy" is only 23 million USD, and there is not much pressure to pay back.
In addition to the three movies of Firefly Group, Metro Goldwyn Mayer "Mission: Impossible3" on November 20 and "The Fast and the Furious" on January 1 next year; Fox "The Horse Whisperer" on November 6 and "Star Wars Episode 1" on December 18 ; Columbia "The Faculty" on November 13 and "Stepmom" on December 25 are just the nine films of the Firefly system, which have already packed the entire year-end schedule.
The other three majors, Universal will release two films "The True Love" and "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death", Paramount is also two, "Star Trek9: Uprising" and 2DHand-Drawn Animation movie "Mulan", the final Warner is only A medium-produced romance film, 《You've Got Mail》, looks rather dismal.
As for other films released by the second and third line Film Studio, they are basically not in the scope of the seven major concerns.
With the initial completion of the media group integration tide, a batch of second- and third-line Film Studios that stood out in the 1980s, such as the new line, Miramax, Orion, Carlock, etc., were either included by the big Film Studio, or were no longer on the verge of bankruptcy. The new batch of independent force Film Studio that can attract the attention of the seven major groups, such as the former Lion Gate, the summit, etc., are still in the embryonic stage, and pose no threat to the big Film Studio.
At the same time, the integration of traditional media giants and the rise of new media on the Internet is arguably the most powerful period of Hollywood media power in recent years. Moreover, there is no doubt that the Firefly system, which controls most of Hollywood, has become the undisputed super-overlord of the North America media industry.
As the absolute controller of the Firefly system, after engulfing Columbia Film Studio again, Eric has been in the close attention of the media of all circles in recent times.
Eric naturally has no energy to care about these. Back in Los Angeles, he got into the post-studio of Firefly Studios and began to focus on preliminary finishing of the lens material of "Gravity".
However, although there is no direct access to Eric, these media quickly found another explosive news point, that is, Carolyn with a foot injury.
The shy little guide at that time, now Eric Williams's "little pepper", with high academic qualifications of Cambridge and Harvard, with a noble aristocratic lineage, plus the perfect exquisite appearance ... This is simply the queen of Firefly Empire The best candidate.
The topic was picked up. Naturally, it was another ‘inventory’ of the women around Eric, and the secret and secret hearsay of the light and the shadows caught the wind. For a while, it was very lively. Some tabloid newspaper even dragged the topic to two little guys.
Over the years, Eric has never deliberately concealed the news that it has two children. Ordinary people can obtain relevant news with a little attention. However, for the safety of the two little guys, Eric's bottom line for all media is that they must not disclose sensitive information such as the two children's photos, names and addresses.
Although Eric is a public figure, he is also a super rich with powerful social influence. In a society such as United States, the consequences of offending capital are much greater than offending power. This has caused many scandals from many political figures and even President, but there are few rich people on the Forbes list that have been hit by the media. Entanglement can be seen.
Therefore, so far, all parties have tacitly followed the red line drawn by Eric. This discussion of the two little guys on the sidelines eventually ended up on the personal wealth inheritance of Eric. Although it is still half a year before the release of the Forbes rich list next year, the United States media statistics on the wealthy net worth of all walks of life are actually happening all the time.
Many media speculate that once Yahoo is successfully listed, combined with the growth of Eric's worth over the past year, his personal wealth is likely to reach a new high, exceeding the unprecedented 200billion USD.
Such a horrible wealth, even if it will not increase in the future, according to the current federal law, if it is to be passed on in the future, it will also need to pay hundreds of billions of USD inheritance taxes. Although it is destined to have nothing to do with it, this topic has made many people talk about it. After all, a one-time tax payment of more than 100billion USD just thinks about it, and it makes many even irrelevant people feel distressed.
In the end, some media and politicians who advocated the reduction or exemption of inheritance tax took the opportunity to jump out and join the discussion on this topic.
Firefly Studios.
The listing date of Yahoo is approaching. Eric is temporarily unable to go away. Several senior executives of Yahoo and Chris came here today to discuss some details of the listing of Yahoo.
In the office LOFT of the digital field, sitting in the lounge area near the glass curtain wall on the second floor, before entering the conversation before the topic, everyone will inevitably chat about the recent topics surrounding Eric.
Eric holds a cup of coffee in his hand and leans on the back of the chair. He said to Chris, Ian · Gnier and others: "Actually, I think that if I can spend all my money before I die, it is. At best, I do n’t need to pay a penny to the IRS. As for children, I still hope they can support themselves. "
"This is a difficult task," Chris said with a smile: "Even if it does not count the profit generated every year, it is calculated according to 200billion USD fixed assets. If you can live to be a hundred years old, you need to spend every day from now Drop 8 million USD. "
"8 million USD," Eric looked at the only woman among several people and said, "Tina, your women will spend more money. Think about it for me. How can I spend 8 million USD every day?"
After Jeff · Rock left, the Tina · Brown personally selected by Eric has gradually been promoted to one of the Yahoo's new three giants in recent years, and its position in Yahoo company is gradually tied with Ian · Gnier and Steve · Mitnick.
After hearing the Eric question, Tina · Brown thought, and after a while, he smiled and said: "This, you have to let me try it first."
Eric immediately showed an exaggerated vigilant expression: "Then I should ask others."
Everyone laughed.
Slightly chat a few words, a few talents talk into the topic.
One of the more difficult issues facing Yahoo is the lawsuit against the five major Record Company digital music copyright.
In the first half of the year, the impact of Internet pirated digital music on the physical record industry suddenly broke out, coupled with the rise of Fireflyer players, the five major Record Company launched a large-scale lawsuit against Internet pirated music, and incidentally also regarded Yahoo as a company Litigation target.
Perhaps it ’s because of the weakness of Yahoo that is about to face an IPO. The five major Record Companys are very tough on reaching out of court settlements with Yahoo.
"The five major Record Companys still adhere to the three main conditions," Ian · Gnell introduced: "The first is to strengthen the web portal and search engines to filter or even block pirated music resources, the second is to let us open the five major Record Company alone Established the digital music store permission for Fireflyer player. The last one is compensation. Although the compensation amount was lowered, the other party still requested cash compensation from 20 million USD. "
Eric wondered: "If they reached an agreement on the first two, they should have achieved their purpose, why should they insist on 20 million USD compensation? This may be a huge sum of money for individuals, but for the five major Record Company , Just a small amount of money, is n’t it? "
Chris said: "This should be the insistence of the other party to entrust a lawyer."
Eric immediately understood.
The reason why United States's lawyer class is so high is mainly because they are too profitable. The economic foundation determines the superstructure, this sentence is right. Such as infringement lawsuits involving these large companies, without mentioning millions of USD fixed litigation fees, once huge compensation is received, lawyers can directly draw a 30% or higher share from it.
Moving the smooth surface of the coffee cup in his hand, Eric asked: "So, what do you mean now?"
"We discussed it in detail," said Ian Ggnir: "We have valued the potential impact of this lawsuit on YahooIPO before. But if we agree to the conditions of the five major Record Company, it will not only greatly hurt Our potential interest in digital music sales, at the same time, this compromise is completely contrary to the core spirit of the Internet platform to open and share. Therefore, we do not intend to reconcile, but as close to the market as possible Yahoo this period of time, publicity The concept of openness and sharing on the Internet guides the media and the public. As long as the IPO can succeed, the five major Record Companys no longer want to gain any initiative in front of Yahoo. "
Ian Gnell ’s remarks seemed very awe-inspiring.
However, if you think about it, if you can really turn around and talk about the trend, then Yahoo can immediately transform from a shameful copyright invader to fight against the stubborn and conservative music copyright merchant to seek an open and shared justice messenger This is actually a bit shameless, but it can definitely cater to mainstream Internet values.
The key to this matter still requires public media cooperation.
Although the Firefly system is relatively weak in terms of traditional paper media, the TV media with greater influence has a powerful energy unmatched by any other media power. As for the emerging Internet media, it occupies North America70 The Yahoo portal of% web portal traffic share is the reserved place of the Firefly system.
Since it was proposed at this time, Ian · Gnier and others apparently already have a detailed momentum plan, and the group ’s cooperation here naturally has no obstacles. Everyone discussed the plan in detail for a while, and Eric also personally I called Murdoch and hoped that several mainstream newspaper mastered by News Corp would cooperate in this matter.
Speaking of the above, only a small piece of 20th Century Fox Film Studio that has been handed over to Elizabeth by Murdoch in News Corp can be counted as part of the Firefly system, and FOXTV Network only has a relatively close alliance relationship with the Firefly system. Other larger parts, such as the huge paper media networks of United Kingdom, Australia and North America, as well as United Kingdom and the TV Network network of the Far East, are still under the firm control of Murdoch himself. After working for a lifetime, Murdoch is naturally impossible to let go of these powers, and Eric has never thought about such a good thing.
However, in the current Firefly system, the size of assets under control is more than ten times that of the entire News Corp. Murdoch also knows the benefits of maintaining a cooperative relationship with the Firefly system. Hearing the request of Eric on the phone, he naturally agreed. Down.
This matter was finalized, and everyone discussed the details of the last equity incentive plan before YahooIPO. Ian · Gernier, Steve · Mitnick and Tina · Brown left in a hurry, and one flew to New York and ABC , FOX senior executives discussed the specifics and details of the momentum, one rushed to San Francisco to investigate the Silicon Valley branch of Yahoo, and finally Tina · Brown flew back to Boston headquarters to sit down. It's been less than a month since the IPO, and all three are too busy.
After talking about all things, it was already evening, and the three Ian Genil were sent away in the parking lot. Chris did not rush to leave, and spread on the cement road of the Studio Park together with Eric.
"In fact, regarding the inheritance of wealth, Eric, your asset scale is too large, you should do consider as finished now, you would not really want to obediently hand over half of your net worth to the federal government one day, or even, By that time, Xiaxia and Kevin will never get half of them. "
In all fairness, Eric naturally does not want to do this, and he has no sense of belonging to the country he lives in, so he naturally has no strong sense of social responsibility.
If possible, in fact, the joke that he just had with Chris about spending all his money before he died is his own heart. He has always maintained a very pessimistic attitude towards such things as inheritance of wealth. After all, the memory has been infused with too many concepts that are rich but not three generations, and it is difficult to determine whether a prodigal son will appear in his grandchildren.
There is nothing to hide about Chris and Eric, and he said his concerns carefully.
"This is not a problem," Chris smiled and said: "Look at the current Morgan family and Rockefeller Family. It has been a hundred years. Although they have moved behind the scenes, they are still beautiful. This is not the family. How great are your children, do you know why? "
"Yes?"
"Because all these families are passed on through funds or trusts. Even though the founders of these families have passed away for many years, through the strict family trust fund rules established from the beginning, the wealth of these families Inheritance still follows the will of the old guys, and no offspring can change. Moreover, as long as there are enough talents in the descendants of the family, these families can regain their prosperity on the basis of the original deep heritage. In this regard, you can let Carolyn They help you collect some information. "