I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1083: Someone rejoices and some worry
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Before Eric had time to say anything, Aniston reached out and grabbed the girl ’s laptop, deleted the audition video three or two times, and warned Eric while shutting down: "You are not allowed to have any thoughts about this woman."
Eric looked at the girl with a nervous look, smiled and hugged her waist, and reassured: "I promise, seriously, she is not as beautiful as my Jenny."
Aniston felt the warm hands of Eric touched on the skin of his waist, just about to relax, noticed the teasing eyes on the other side, and immediately said: "You must not take her to Eric, or else I ’m not finished with you. "
The girl could n’t care less about the threat of the chick, she said with a grin: "This is not necessarily Oh, maybe I can still hold her red than you."
Although the actual control of Metro Goldwyn Mayer is entirely in the hands of Eric, in the end it is still the company ’s nominal largest shareholder. It ’s really easy for the girl to want to get one or two Actors.
Thinking of this possibility, Aniston was instantly lifted again. His body was still in Eric arms, but his two small hands had scratched towards Drew, and the girl naturally began to fight back.
Eric had to helplessly separate the two kittens to fight, looking at the Aniston pair in his arms who did not intend to give up and fight desperately with the girl. The fabric was ripped off, and he took it in his arms.
The girl who was about to pull on her girl ’s swimsuit was suddenly wide-eyed, and with a little wink, she lay softly beside the swimming pool, her small mouth was still not forgiving: "Eric, you, uh, you What a jerk. "
On St. Simon Spend the weekend, Eric Take two nizi back Los Angeles , The next weekend of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of Ghosts" Box Office Also officially released.
Compared with the first weekend, the film ’s Box Office fell by only 31% in the three days of the next weekend, and then received 56.9 million USD. The accumulated Box Office reached 100 million9308 million USD in ten days. It is foreseeable that after the next working day, The blockbuster biweekly break 200 million USD has almost no suspense.
Stimulated by "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of Spectre", the North America movie market's total weekly Box Office number exceeded 270 million USD last week. Although this week will drop slightly, it can easily remain above 200 million USD.
Therefore, although "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of the Ghost" took a large part of Box Office, but because the overall number of viewers driven by the Star Wars series has increased significantly, other films on the market have been very Good Box Office performance.
The new line Film Industry's "The Waterboy" finally harvested 53.26 million USD Box Office in the first week. Although the impact of Star Wars was the next week, Box Office fell 53% to only 25.03 million USD, but in two weeks Box Office still reached 78.29 million USD. In the third week, as the momentum of Star Wars began to slow down, the decline of "The Waterboy" also narrowed to 37%, and closed another 11.02 million USD. The total Box Office reached 89.31 million USD, which is just around the corner.
The 2D Animation movie "Mulan" released in the same period of Paramount Pictures and "The Waterboy" also suffered a large drop last week under the impact of the Star Wars prequel. The drop of Box Office this weekend also began to narrow.
However, the three-day weekend of "Mulan" Box Office has also fallen into the 10 million USD area of 82.9 million USD. The total Box Office in the two weeks and a half of the film is only 63.56 million USD, which is far below the expectations of Paramount. The future is expected. In a few weeks, the total Box Office of North America can only be between 80 million USD and 90 million USD.
Although relying on overseas distribution and future peripheral operations, Paramount can still achieve profitability, compared with 3D Animation movies that can usually get out of the large Box Office curve, 2D Animation movies that mainly face child audiences and rely on long-term screenings to gradually accumulate Box Office have obviously no longer adapted The market form in recent years.
In addition, two other new films released this week, Columbia Film Studio's Parenthood comedy "Stepmom" and Universal Pictures's fantasy love film "Sixth Sense of Life and Death", also received more than 19.14 million USD and 1501 for the first three days of the weekend. The opening score of Wan USD is still far away from "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of Spectre", and it cannot be compared with the same period of "The Waterboy" two weeks ago. But based on the types of the two films, this Box Office start is not bad.
Firefly Studios.
In a small screening room, Eric and Katzenberg, Frank · Wells, "Iron Man" Director, Joss Whedon and others looked at the big screen in front of them.
The title of Firefly Pictures flashed through, and the scene of Tony Stark played by Eric as a helmet in the cave appeared, accompanied by the page turning sound of Marvel Studios ’s iconic comics, and then the shot cut into Tony · Si Tucker ’s tech-savvy studio and Colonel Roddy ’s voiceover: Tony, what the **** are you making?
The voice of Colonel Rody fell, and in the dynamic rock soundtrack, the rhythm of the screen switching began to speed up, until Tony Stark wore a silver Mark2 armor, and the 30-second short film came to an abrupt end. Such a strong sense of unfinished feeling.
"Iron Man" has been officially scheduled for May 7 next year.
Although there are still some finishing details to be dealt with, the warm-up promotion work has already started. In the next period of time, the most important nature is entire US's annual Super Bowl. Since Eric used Super Bowl to promote "Twister" and achieved amazing results, Super Bowl advertising has become a must-have for the seven major Film Studio in these years.
At this time, everyone is watching the Super Bowl commercial of "Iron Man".
After the new line Film Industry relies on a series of low-cost productions this year to achieve an amazing Box Office score, next year it will enter the Firefly Group blockbuster year again.
From the beginning of Easter next year until the end of the year, the five heavyweight blockbuster films of Firefly Group's "Enemy of the State", "Iron Man", "Cars", "Gravity", "The Lord of the Rings1: The Lord of the Rings Appearance" will be lined up.
However, after all considerations, only two of "Iron Man" and "The Lord of the Rings1" will be registered for Super Bowl this year, the trailer for "Iron Man" is 30 seconds, and the trailer for "The Lord of the Rings1: The Lord of the Rings Appearance" is 15 second.
The main work of several executives such as Eric and Katzenberg today is to review the trailers of the two movies.
Everyone has discussed the trailer of "The Lord of the Rings1: The Lord of the Rings Appears" in the morning. Since there is still about a year before the release, the Super Bowl preview of "The Lord of the Rings1: The Lord of the Rings Appears" is more inclined to a concept preview, mainly the film A large panoramic shot of Zhong Jinghong, accompanied by a small amount of dialogue. The entire trailer revealed very little information, full of suspense, and the duration was limited to 15 seconds.
Relatively speaking, the announcement of "Iron Man" is very informative.
This is mainly because this year's Super Bowl is held on January 31, and there are only three months left before the release of "Iron Man" on May 7. After Super Bowl, "Iron Man" will immediately enter the final large-scale publicity stage, so there is no need to be half-covered like "The Lord of the Rings", but to maximize the advertising effect as much as possible.
The trailer with the highest degree of recognition was repeatedly played several times. The people also took out several other edited versions for a detailed comparison and discussion. The final plan was finalized at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Everyone got off work one after another, but Eric and Katzenberg came to the next meeting room together.
"Eric, the total value of the stock of the Shamrock Fund has exceeded 27billion USD. I heard from my friend at Wall Street that many investment institutions have confirmed that all the technology stocks are cleared before 3,000. Is this our side? Um, at least cash out the funds that were originally invested? "
Eric took a sip of Meyer ’s handful of coffee and felt the slightest unease in the tone of Katzenberg. He smiled and said, "Are you afraid too?"
Katzenberg touched his bald head slightly awkwardly, but nodded honestly.
In fact, he is not just afraid, but more worried.
According to the original promise of Eric, if all the shares held by the Clover Fund can be cashed out at this time, his personal profit dividend will exceed 400 million USD.
400 million USD.
Even at the current salary level of Katzenberg, it is difficult for him to be indifferent to 400 million USD, which almost fell from the sky. Moreover, the current shaky state of the Nasdaq index also makes him worry about the ups and downs every day, for fear of waking up one morning and hearing the news of the collapse of the Nasdaq index.
Be aware that the North America stock market has no limit on the range of fluctuations. Once the Nasdaq crashes, this 400 million USD will likely evaporate in just a few days.
Eric leaned on a leather chair with a coffee cup and said, "Jeffrey, do you remember what I said when I invested in technology stocks?"
Katzenberg laughed: "We seem to have a lot of conversations about this?"
"Okay," Eric said: "Yes, I remember I said that most of the stocks bought by the Clover Fund have long-term holding value, such as Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Verizon, and so on. Even if the Nasdaq crashes, because these companies have formed a very solid market position, their stocks will definitely rise again in the future. If we hold it for a long time, we can still get a very rich dividend income every year. Before the crash, we only lost some book gains in the short term, or some stocks with serious bubbles did bring us some losses, but in the long run, we can still maintain a very substantial profit. "
Although I understand what Eric said is very reasonable, Katzenberg still said: "However, Eric, if this is the case, the company has invested 7billion USD funds from the beginning, it will be locked in these stocks, 7billion USD, but it can be done Many things. "
"Firefly is not short of money right now, is it? And, what I just said is just the worst assumption. In fact, I am still very confident in my personal judgment. Wall Street may think that the Nasdaq 3000 point is The end point, but I think that the Nasdaq 3000 point is just the beginning. "Eric said, seeing Katzenberg is still a very unrecognized look, laughing:" Well, Jeffrey, I know you are worried about your part of the income But, you are not short of money now, are you? You calculate, if you sell now, you can only get 400 million USD. But if the Nasdaq exceeds 3000 points, or even 4000 points, 5000 points, maybe one day, you Suddenly found that he became a 1billion rich man. "
Katzenberg looked forward to the scene depicted by Eric a little and shook his head subconsciously: "Eric, this is crazy."
Eric slightly shook hands, jokingly said: "Since the Nasdaq 2000 points, there have been few normal people in Wall Street. Since everyone has become a lunatic, what is impossible to be more crazy?"
The trading team of Clover Fund is solely responsible for Eric individuals. Although he can see some data of Clover Fund, he has no power to dispose of this asset. Seeing that the persuasion is invalid, Katzenberg can only give up and continue to another topic.
"Eric, there is just another thing. Didn't you plan to acquire Hasbro?"
Eric nodded and said, "Yeah, but it shouldn't be a good time now. I must wait for this wave of stock market bubbles to pass."
The madness of the Nasdaq technology stock market has also driven the entire North America stock market. Although it is completely unrelated to technology companies, the stock price of Hasbro has almost doubled in recent years.
Eric remembers the data that was accidentally scanned the other day. The market value of Hasbro has exceeded 5 billion USD. Three years ago, when Firefly won the "Transformers" copyright, the market value of Hasbro was only more than two billion USD. In three years, the annual profit level of Hasbro still fluctuates around 200 million USD, and the skyrocketing market value is naturally impossible to be the result of increased performance.
Katzenberg said: "It is indeed the case, but Hasbro is now in trouble, and it is definitely a big trouble."
Eric was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly thought flashed, said: "You mean, Star Wars?"
Katzenberg did n’t expect that Eric ’s response would be so rapid and precise, with a surprised expression flashing on his face, explaining: “Yes, the company ’s team happened to be negotiating with the other party ’s peripheral product licensing next year in Rhode Island Hasbro Headquarters. Question. A message they sent back last Friday, the first week of Star Wars, Hasbro ’s authorized toy sales revenue was only 23 million USD, and even half of the expected did not reach. Hasbro was just buying the Star Wars prequel series toy authorization They paid 100 million USD, they originally hoped that within three months of the release of the Star Wars prequel, they would bring the company 300 million USD toy sales revenue, and 500 million USD sales revenue for the whole year. But from the current situation, the first week should have been It's the most popular moment for toys, but only sold 23 million USD, three months, not to mention 300 million, even 200 million USD is unlikely. Because of the optimistic about the surroundings of Star Wars, the early stage of Hasbro is very strong, once the toy appears Slow sales, these products can only be recovered and destroyed in the future, plus the huge licensing fees paid in advance, Hasbro will definitely suffer a huge loss this year.
Firefly Group also has a large-scale peripheral product department with the same operator. After so many years, Eric certainly understands what Hasbro will face.
And, more seriously, if Hasbro's huge loss catches up with this year's stock market bubble burst, then the situation, Tsk Tsk, makes people feel sour when they think about it.