I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1102: Women ’s reaction
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Whether to fully enter the digital music sales field is related to the fundamental business strategy of several major Record Companys.
Eric did n’t expect any agreement between the two parties at the first meeting, and continued to test each other with Edgar · Bronfman and Doug Morrison, stipulating the time for the next meeting and leaving for convenience.
Personally sent Edgar · Bronfman and Doug Morrison out of the administrative building, Eric returned to the office, then picked up the phone and discussed the results of the contact with Edgar · Bronfman just now with Firefly Electronics CEO Victor McNally .
In fact, while Eric was in contact with Universal, Firefly electronic Chairman Bill · Olsen had already personally flew the prototype of the mini music store to Europe, lobbying the two major Record Company of EMI and BMG.
Similar to the previous two years, the release time of the new generation Fireflyer player is also scheduled for the Easter period in April this year, which is only about a month away from now.
In the face of the pressure from electronic manufacturers who have announced their entry into the digital music player field, considering the success of the mini music store plan to maintain the leading position of the Fireflyer player market, the next month The main focus of Firefly Electronics and Yahoo is to reach a close cooperative relationship with at least one of the five major Record Company to obtain the other party's music copyright resources and make up for the shortcomings of the mini music store in terms of content.
Because of its own music player products among the top five Record Companys, the Sony record owned by Sony is undoubtedly the most difficult bite to eat. Eric basically does not report any expectations, and it means no contact with the other party. Warner records belong to Time Warner, AOL and Time Warner have just announced the merger news, at this time the internal dispute management system within Time Warner will be more complicated, under the control of all parties, want to reach cooperation with Warner records within a month, The odds are also close to zero.
Next, there are only Universal records, EMI records and BMG records.
Of the three, Universal, which just acquired PolyGram last year to further consolidate its position as the largest record group in global, is undoubtedly the best choice. Although Eric did not show any cards at all in its just statement, but As long as this cooperation can be promoted, he will never mind paying a certain price.
Of course, Eric did not put all the targets on the Universal record family, so Bill Olsen would fly to Europe.
On the phone, I discussed with Victor McNeilly for more than half an hour. Eric hung up the phone, looked at the watch, and had some time left after work. Then I opened a document on my desk and picked it up. Next to the pencil.
The movement of holding the pen in the right hand inevitably affected the bite marks on the outside of the arm that had begun to scab, so he could n’t help lifting his sleeves and looked at the gauze wrapped on his arm.
After the incident that afternoon, because the children were frightened, coupled with the shocking bite marks on the arm of Eric, Virginia ran out of Eric indiscriminately, even Joanna showed little emotion. .
Back to Los Angeles, the scene was even more lively, and women came to watch Eric's bitter bite.
The girl said she was envious and wanted to take another bite on the Eric arm, leaving her mark.
The girl ’s attention was on how Eric provokes the girl named Carmen Case.
Elizabeth directly throws out two words and deserves it.
Julia looks very distressed, but the little eyes seem to want Eric to come to her too.
Nicole carefully examined Eric ’s wounds, which was very sympathetic, but ‘accidentally’ pulled off a freshly scabbed blood scab, and then innocently claimed that he had OCD.
Famke feels that the bite marks are a bit off, and it may look better if they can bite in the middle of the outside of the arm.
Okay.
It's all unconscionable.
Only Carolyn showed a very distressed look after seeing the bite marks on the Eric arm, and also called Olivia, then naturally there was some concern from United Kingdom.
Unconsciously, I remembered the girl with petite face and determined eyes. Paris Fashion Week opened today. She should have started Catwalk now.
Thinking about it, I reviewed a few more documents and was close to work. The secretary knocked on the door and said Kenneth Horn was outside.
Let the other party come in with some doubt. Kenneth · Horn walked into the office and looked very excited, saying: "Eric, I just received calls from several theater lines Manager. Guess" The Blair Witch Project " How is your attendance? "
"It must be great," Eric put down the pencil, changed the pen, and signed his name at the end of a document, before laughing: "Otherwise you ca n’t run in such a hurry."
"Not very good, it is very good," Kenneth Horne took a chair and sat down opposite Eric, said: "Manager of the REGR theater line told me that they arranged 50 screening halls throughout the day Almost all are full, and tomorrow ’s movie tickets have been sold out. The same is true of several other theaters. The other party suggested that we increase the scale of the film immediately. "
Eric nodded and said: "Then increase, you can arrange these things yourself."
Firefly is naturally different from the previous artisans, plus this is the low season of the film. If necessary, if you want to increase the scale of the show, it only takes a week to get everything done.
"Hey, Eric, you do n’t seem to be excited at all," Kenneth Horne intentionally showed a dissatisfied expression, saying: "You know, a movie invested by 32000USD, even if it includes the cost of later repairs It ’s only 60000USD. If all 200 screening halls are full in the next week, we can definitely create a Box Office miracle. ”
"We have created enough miracles," Eric smiled and put down the pen, raised his head, and said: "Well, since you are so excited, give you a chance, please come to dinner tonight, please, You can also call them Jeffrey. Of course, if you have not made an appointment with your family to go back to dinner. "
Kenneth · Horn nodded somewhat ‘depressedly’, and said gossip: “Today is Friday, do n’t you have any plans?”
"No."
Eric moved his wrist slightly. After watching the women for a while, he was in a state of deliberately neglecting him recently.
The two were talking, Eric ’s private phone rang, looked at the call, and directly connected the phone in front of Kenneth Horn: "Hey, Warren, I have n’t seen you in a long time ... Of course, how about you ... … I am still in Firefly Studios and I am planning to invite everyone to dinner together. Are you coming ... Oh, you tell me where you are, I will let someone pick you up. ”
After a few words, Eric hung up.
Kenneth · Horn saw that Eric did not avoid himself, so he actively asked: "Warren, Warren Buffett?"
Eric nodded and said, "It should be for the Clover Fund."
Although Kenneth Horn cannot yet directly see the financial data of the Clover Fund, this matter is not a secret for the executives of his performance, so he asked curiously: "Speaking, Clover Fund ’s stock value should now be 30billion USD, right? "
"Last week it broke 30billion USD."
"I do n’t know much about stocks," Kenneth Horn exclaimed a little, "However, Eric, I heard that the Nasdaq index is already shaky, everyone is selling technology stocks now, you should also be more Be cautious. "
Although Eric will not easily change his decision, he will naturally accept the advice of others in good faith and nod: "I understand, Nà, call Jeffrey, since Warren is here, everyone will be together Entertain. "
"I think you just want us to be present so that Buffett can't tell you to sell the stock," Kenneth · Horn smiled and pierced the intention of Eric, but still took out his mobile phone and started calling.
Although Berkshire · Hathaway holds only 5% of Firefly Group's shares, if the value of 3 million USD stocks can be cashed out, Berkshire · Hathaway can still get at least 1billion USD even if all fees and taxes are eliminated.
1billion USD is a cash that cannot be ignored for any company.
However, once the Nasdaq crashes, the stock of the Clover Fund is likely to be locked in for a long time. Unless the meat is left, it is impossible to cash out any cash in the short term.
As a very conservative and cautious person, Warren Buffett obviously does not want to see this happen, so he rushed from Omaha to Los Angeles.
It's just that in the evening meal, no matter how old man persuaded, Eric didn't mean to sell Clover Fund stock in advance.
So far, Eric is actually completely betting.
As long as the Nasdaq index can successfully cross the 3000 point threshold without crashing, according to the previous Nasdaq upward curve, the cash size of the Clover Fund in the future may reach 40billion or even 50billion USD.
At that time, even after paying all kinds of taxes, Firefly Group can still keep cash from 30billion to 35billion USD.
This huge amount of money, coupled with the cash reserves invested by Firefly, is enough for Eric to further expand the economic empire of the Firefly system while the North America economy is in a downturn after the Nasdaq crash. Dilution of the shareholding ratio of own enterprises.
Lobbying is invalid. Buffett deserves to leave Los Angeles the next day.
At the same time, although the weekend has not passed yet, news about The Blair Witch Project may have created a miracle of Box Office in various places in North America. A large number of media have published photos showing the long queue of fans of the cinema "The Blair Witch Project".
Moreover, some professional film critic also joined in and started to discuss the phenomenon of "The Blair Witch Project" enthusiastically.
Although most film critics still mercilessly criticized the "The Blair Witch Project" batch, and also politely through various professional analysis, revealed that "The Blair Witch Project" is definitely a man-made shoots film rather than an adventure documentary. Facts, but things have developed to the present level, the public no longer cares about the truth of the The Blair Witch Project incident.
Everyone is just curious about what this film looks like all over the world.
So, when the first three days of the first weekend passed, the new week of Box Office data was released, and the stunning Box Office data of "The Blair Witch Project" once again added a popular discussion focus to this film.
11.2 million USD.
Here is the Box Office data for the first three days of "The Blair Witch Project" on the first weekend.
The Box Office is just over ten million. For many blockbuster films, if you achieve such a result within three days of painting, it is definitely a Box Office defeat.
But at this time, after a series of data disclosures, everyone can only describe it as a miracle.
Because the cost of shoots in "The Blair Witch Project" is only 32000USD.
Even if you include Firefly Group's image restoration to make a copy, the total cost is only 60000USD.
The production budget of 60000USD is second only.
What's even more rare is that the scale of this film's screening is only 200 screens, which is equivalent to three days in the first weekend, and the single hall Box Office of each screening room has reached 56000USD.
Without comparison, there is naturally no harm.
Let's take a look at the Mel · Gibson crime action blockbuster "Dangerous Man" released at the same time.
The second week of the film's release, the Box Office was 14.37 million USD the next weekend, which was higher than "The Blair Witch Project" 3 million USD, and the cumulative Box Office in ten days was 41.33 million USD.
However, the screen size of "Dangerous Persons" is indeed more than 2,700. In the same period, the single hall Box Office was only 5000USD, which was less than one-tenth of "The Blair Witch Project". Moreover, the production cost of "Dangerous Man" is 90 million USD, which is equivalent to 1500 times the total production budget of "The Blair Witch Project".
With such a disparity in production costs and the scale of the show, "Dangerous Man" Box Office only exceeds the "The Blair Witch Project" area 3 million USD. In any case, it can only be described by the word failure.
Of course, there is another problem.
Why is a big production film such as Mel · Gibson investing in 90 million USD being thrown into the March period like a cemetery?
The reason is simple.
Because this film is completely Mel · Gibson's personal Production Studio icon entertainment financing shoots, there is no big Film Studio involved in the production.
Although the film is distributed by Paramount, Paramount will naturally only leave the best quality schedules and announcement resources to the films produced by itself. As for other independent Film Studio films, even if there are big stars and big productions and big investments, they do not participate in themselves , Paramount will naturally not put all their effort into it, and even will be the mainstay to suppress.
Speaking of that, after the release of Columbia, Adam **** worked alone with a independent filmmaker, "Dad Rushing Forward". Although Warner Bros. was finally determined as the publisher, the schedule was still determined to be in the summer. At the end of August.
Although Hollywood movies are becoming more and more prosperous, as the integration of the media group is completed, Duli Film Studio wants to take a slice of the soup from the good ones, and it will become more and more difficult.