I’m in Hollywood Chapter 506: Round to zero

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Eric got off the plane, and just about to leave the airport with a few entourages, Elizabeth, wearing a khaki trench coat, pulled a simple suitcase and waved at him, then walked over quickly.

After the business center of News Corp was transferred to United States, the Murdoch family settled in New York. During the festival, Elizabeth returned to New York to spend the holiday with his family. Eric did not expect to happen to meet Elizabeth at the airport and return to Los Angeles.

Eric asked the bodyguard to pick up the luggage for Elizabeth before asking: "I came back so quickly, why do n’t I stay in New York for a while?"

"It ’s not interesting to stay in New York. I was taken to party all day and bored to death. I might as well come back to work," said Elizabeth, looking at Eric: "Speaking, I ’m listening to party these days. To many things about Firefly investment, what are you doing? "

"I plan to hide my family's belongings and hide them, so that others can't guess how much money I have too easily," Eric said frankly, even if he doesn't admit it, sure people can surely guess.

Firefly Pictures has no way to hide for the time being. Fortunately, the value of the entertainment industry is very large, not to mention that Firefly Pictures is not listed, and it is not so easy to find the family background of Firefly Pictures. However, some of the assets held by Firefly investment are obviously exposed, such as Cisco. With a little care, the public can easily find that Cisco ’s largest shareholder is Firefly Investment Company.

At present, the market value of Cisco is only more than 2 billion, which is not too conspicuous, but the development of Cisco has not deviated from the historical track. The current CiscoCEO has confirmed that John Chambers is his next successor, and John Chambers is the original time and space. The biggest hero of Cisco. Then, if the market value of Cisco still expands to the scale of hundreds of billions of USD in the future, the wealth held by Firefly investment will be too dazzling. What's more, Eric is not the only investment in Cisco. After the Forbes rankings, Eric had to make plans for the future.

After discussion with Chris. Firefly Investment Company began to deal with the Cisco shares first.

The Firefly investment company injects funds into selected non-listed funds, and then reversely acquires some Cisco shares in the hands of Firefly investment. In this way, Firefly investment quickly turns the Cisco shares into zero. Scattered into the hands of these funds. but. After signing a perfect agreement, after the share transfer, the control of Firefly Investment over Cisco has not changed, but there is only one more node in the middle. The most intuitive performance is that the original directors of Cisco Board of Directors who originally represented Firefly investment have not changed, and they are still those people.

This type of indirect shareholding is very common in North America. Even for behemoths such as General Electric, ExxonMobil or Bell Telephone and Telegraph, their shareholder lists are basically a series of well-known and unknown investment companies such as foundations, trust investments, capital management, etc. As for these companies The true owners behind the shares held are often unknown.

Not only the three companies Cisco, IE, Yahoo and Hotmail, Firefly Investment will not directly invest in it in the future, but will indirectly develop funds through foundations and other means.

Elizabeth heard Eric's answer and couldn't help laughing: "Compared to Firefly Pictures, that ... Cisco shares should be nothing, why don't you want to hide Firefly Pictures?"

Eric spreads hands: "This goal is too big, you can only spend time slowly."

"I do n’t know what you are doing. You seem to be afraid that others will steal your things."

In this way, the two came together for a few games. Elizabeth waved his driver and let the other person leave. He followed Eric into his car.

Eric got on the car from the other side, and then just said the topic: “I ’m not afraid of others grabbing, but taking care of others’ fragile minds is not it? I do n’t want anyone to see my money being stimulated too much and then appear Three long and two short. "

Elizabeth apparently took Eric ’s words as nonsense, raised a small fist and hammered it on Eric ’s shoulder, and laughed: “You are arrogant.”

Eric does not have a small fist that dodges the girl's pain. Tao: "I want to return to Cliff Peak Manor now, do you want to go to me too?"

Elizabeth blinked a few times, just as if I just remembered it: "Yeah, I forgot about this. Hey, Carter, turn around, send me back to Beverly Hills Zhuang first."

Carter Moon looked at Eric through the rearview mirror. As a bodyguard who followed Eric for a long time, he certainly knew the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth.

"Keep driving. Go back to Malibu," Eric waved to Carter, and said to Elizabeth: "I remember Julia also took the little guy back to her parents, your house has not been cleaned for a long time, tonight Stay with me. "

As Eric said it was so straightforward, Elizabeth's pretty face was slightly reddish, so she pretended to yell easily, turned her head, and used one hand to pretend to look at the scenery outside the window.

......

With a thick bathrobe walking out of the bathroom, Elizabeth remembered that his suitcase was still thrown at the door of the villa, and his cheek warmly pushed all the eagerness of a few hours ago to a guy.

The plane that got off at four o'clock in the afternoon, after doing some things, took a nap. At this time, it was more than nine o'clock in the evening. When hunger struck, Elizabeth went downstairs with some hesitation.

The light in the small living room was on. When I walked in, the sound of the TV was very low. Eric leaned casually on the sofa. A black laptop was placed on the delicate aluminum alloy stand in front of me. The provocation of the ten fingers made a slight click from time to time.

After seeing Elizabeth walk in, Eric pointed to the food on the glass table: "I made people make supper, just went upstairs and called you to see that you are already taking a bath."

"What are you doing?" Elizabeth did not rush to eat, walked behind Eric on the back of the sofa, and looked at the laptop screen.

"script of" Interview with the Vampire ", Box Office and reputation of" Four Hundred Years of Love "some time ago are very good, the production department also negotiated a cooperation agreement with David Geffen, film will be released at the end of the year, your" Buffy the Vampire Slayer " "How is it going?"

"If it is not the case, I will be back at the beginning of the month," Elizabeth replied: "I also had an Heroine audition at New York, according to your original suggestion. We plan to select girls with dance skills , This can shorten the training time, the action drama shoots can also be relatively easy, and can rush to produce the pilot episode before May. "

"Are you selected?" Eric typed a line of comments on the script document. Asked casually.

"Well, a few girls were selected, and they will come to Los Angeles for the final audition with the candidates here in a few days," Elizabeth stared at the laptop for a while, then bored and sat opposite Eric under. I put the tray with food on my lap and ate it.

Eric yelled softly and continued to pound on the document.

"Hey, are you going to come at the last audition, they are all pretty girls Oh," Elizabeth said again after a while.

Eric smiled and said: "This step is free. You know my taste. After choosing it, you can just send it to my bed."

Elizabeth took a soft sip and grabbed a piece of breadcrumb and threw it towards Eric.

"Hello, I almost forgot. How can you appear at the airport today?"

"I thought you were full of bad things, and ignored this problem," Eric quipped, quickly reached out to catch a piece of flying bread, and took a bite before answering: "I went to San Francisco, Pixar 'S new animation has been preliminarily completed, I went to see the sample, and by the way, they discussed the Super Bowl trailer with John. "

"What is this time, the sequel to" Toy Story "?" Elizabeth asked curiously, Firefly used to disclose the latest 3D Animation news about Pixar to the outside world. I always use ‘Untitled Pixar New Animation’ as a substitute. Elizabeth has n’t paid much attention. At this time, I heard that Pixar ’s new 3D Animation is about to be completed and I am interested.

"No. The new animation was initially named" Bug Story ", a story about the slavery of ant families living in oasis against locusts," Eric said concisely.

Elizabeth looked at Eric and waited patiently for a few seconds before asking: "That's all, isn't it?"

"It's boring to tell you the whole story now. You can go to the cinema when it's released."

"I don't want to go, what children look at," Elizabeth pouted.

After eating supper, Elizabeth came to the kitchen to clean up the dishes and returned to the small living room again. After sleeping for one afternoon, although it was already ten o'clock in the evening, the girl had no pajamas, picked up the TV remote control placed on the glass table, sat down beside Eric, pulled a pillow and hugged it in her arms Selected a midnight talk show.

After a while, the host Tong Chan Lianhua commented on the current affairs, and Elizabeth said to the man next to him: "Eric, Firefly next step is to develop your own TV Network network?"

"Guessed by your home old man?" Eric asked, turning his head.

Elizabeth nodded.

"Now the integration of media groups has become an inevitable trend. The industry chain of Firefly in the movie sector has expanded to the limit. The next step is definitely to develop towards a comprehensive media group. Not only TV Network, but also music, publishing, etc. Every aspect of the business will be expanded. "Speaking of which, Eric smiled and said:" But you can rest assured that Firefly will not be involved in paper media, so it will not compete with News Corp at this point. "

With the rise of the Internet, the decline of paper media has become an inevitable trend. Eric remembers that after entering the new century, even the most famous newspaper of United States has frequently encountered bankruptcy crisis, he does not intend to waste time on This is a useless layout in an industry that is about to decline.

"Do n’t think I do n’t know what you are thinking about. I heard that the website you established at the end of last year called Yahoo was recently in contact with several paper media groups. The editor-in-chief of" New York Post "also contacted me last time Papa talks about this, you must be planning to build an online news website. "

Eric temporarily stopped tapping the finger on the keyboard, turned his head to look at Elizabeth, and asked curiously: "What do you think about this matter in Papa?"

Elizabeth hummed a few smugly, without answering, and I did n’t tell you that I did n’t want to attack you.

Eric shrugs, and understands that Murdoch must have underestimated the prospects of this idea. After doing most of its life in media, Murdoch can certainly see that the current Internet environment does not have the foundation for large-scale development of online news. At this stage, the Internet user group has not yet reached the level of ordinary people, most of them are concentrated on college students and professional technicians. However, he obviously cannot predict how terrifying the explosive growth of Internet users will be in the next few years.

"Hey, Liz, you said that if I fight with your old man one day, who will you help?"

Elizabeth's eyes show strong contempt: "Of course help me Papa, you are so embarrassed to do it with a old man in his sixties? It is so shameless."

"Ah, wrong, I mean in terms of the company?"

"Then what you love tossing like this is tossing," Eliza lay down on the sofa with a hug in his arms, and said lazily, the current scale of Firefly and News Corp development, a certain period of time is certain , But unless there is a huge industry change, it will be very difficult to resurrect your life-and-death struggle, not to mention the future. Even now, 20th Century Fox and Firefly already have a competitive relationship in the Film Industry business, but the two companies are safe. There are even some cooperative relations. The same is true of Hollywood's other big Film Studios.

Eric smiled, did n’t say anything, and spent almost an hour watching the script of "Interview with the Vampire", closed the notebook, and patted the girl ’s smooth calf on her knee: "Are you sleepy?"

No response. Eric turned his head to look over. The girl squinted and fell asleep.

......

The new year ’s awards season does n’t seem to have much to do with Firefly Pictures. Last year ’s Firefly films were basically commercials. Even on the highly operational Golden Globe Award, you can only brush the nomination. Films with award-winning capabilities are basically absent. In addition, the company created a 27% share miracle on Box Office last year. Firefly's inaction in the awards will inevitably become the target of some media taunts with sour grape psychology.

Eric saw several related reports on newspaper in the new day early in the morning, but he did not care too much. He always felt that the role of the film awards was to add icing on the cake, but Elizabeth seized this and ridiculed Eric. Some. (To be continued.)