I’m in Hollywood Chapter 731: Notch
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"It is really difficult to be a person like Buffett. In fact, if most people can have the status and wealth of his level, it is absolutely difficult for them to continue to concentrate on something for decades." Eric looked at the pretty face of Carolyn and said, "However, I found that you have some potentials similar to Buffett."
Ordinary people always have too many thoughts and desires, which actually become the biggest obstacle to prevent a person from moving forward. Eric failed to see these things from Carolyn. From the first time I met two years ago to now, the simple and pure temperament of this Nizi has not changed much, plus her smart and abnormal brain Eric believes that if Carolyn is dedicated to the development of investors like Buffett, it will definitely achieve extraordinary results in the future.
Carolyn was a little embarrassed by Eric. She was not familiar with Buffett like Eric, so she did n’t know that she had similar potential to Buffett. The small hand under the desk pinched the corner of the professional suit. , She still had no interest in asking, saying: "Eric, if there is nothing else, I have to go back to work."
Eric smiled at the corner of his mouth, could not help but ridicule: "Don't want to chat with me?"
Knowing that Eric is joking with himself again, Carolyn still ca n’t help shaking his head seriously: “But, it ’s working time now.”
Eric looks very much at Carolyn, which is a little old-fashioned, and continues to say: "You are my assistant, any of my needs can be your job content, chatting is also counted."
"Obviously not the case," Carolyn blinked and retorted.
However, with that said, the shadow of Kelly suddenly appeared in Carolyn's mind, remembering the mature and capable female boss who occasionally showed intimacy with Eric. And the relationship between the two is not too secretive, Carolyn involuntarily generated a very absurd idea: Is this also regarded as the work of a female assistant, if it is calculated, then if he asks himself ...
As the thought deepens. Carolyn's small face had turned into red unconsciously, and the bright eyes glanced at Eric, then quickly avoided.
Eric sees Carolyn somehow turned into a ruddy face, and asks with some amusement: "What bad thing do you want?"
"No, no." Carolyn narrowed his neck and stood up again: "I went back to work."
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Eric to answer, Carolyn has already turned around and escaped from the Eric office, as if to be held down by the big devil for a second slow.
Alas, I dare to neglect Boss so much, it seems that I will be deducted from my salary.
Eric thought unscrupulously, pressed the call button on the next landline, and invited the outside secretary to let the other party send her the memo that Carolyn landed on her desk.
July. Most companies have started to count revenue performance for the first half of the year, and Firefly is no exception. With the rapid recovery of the United States economy, Firefly's movies, TVs, theme parks, peripheral shops and other businesses have maintained a very strong growth momentum compared with the same period last year. Although the relevant data is still being calculated, the overall revenue of Firefly Group in the first half of the year There is no suspense in breaking through 10billion USD.
At the same time, "Fortune" magazine released the world's top 500 companies for the first time in July. Prior to this, "Fortune" magazine only counted United States local 500 companies.
Although the bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan still occupied six places in the top ten of the world ’s top 500, and General Motors, which ranks first in United States, can only rank fifth in the entire list . The top four are all Japan consortiums. The annual revenue of Firefly Group around 20billion USD is very unremarkable in front of the turnover of 175800 million USD, the first place on the list.
Although Eric laments the huge gap with the oligarchs of these world-class companies, it will not be presumptuous. As long as all enterprises in the entire Firefly system are fully grown, it will definitely be a Big Mac that everyone needs to look up to, and, with the rapid development of high-tech, this day will not be too far away.
Cliff Peak Manor and Eric are sitting on the sofa by the curtain wall and looking at magazine. Natasha walked in with Amy? Pascal, helped the two to make coffee, the twins walked upstairs quietly, today is July 9, tomorrow Yahoo annual meeting will officially start, Eric will soon fly to Boston, Drew And the twins are helping themselves to pack upstairs.
Amy sat down on the opposite sofa, took a sip of coffee, glanced at magazine in the hands of Eric, and laughed: "Eric, I decided you should prefer" Forbes "more."
Eric knows that Amy refers to the Forbes rich list, saying: "Always stare at those who are prone to lose their initiative, but still have to face the reality to motivate themselves."
Amy shook his head and sighed: "You have let everyone out of reach, it is really hard to imagine where you will go in the future."
"In short, I do n’t have a good habit of stopping to wait for others," Eric smiled and asked: "Drew said that you talked to Kevin Costner about the sequel of" Mission: Impossible "yesterday, what happened?"
Cost 1. 7.5 billion USD's "Waterworld" was officially released the day before yesterday. On the first day, Box Office was only more than 6 million USD. Although this number is almost the same as the original "Forrest Gump", the heavyweight of the two films is also very different, not to mention " After the release of Waterworld, there was also a bad review. It is impossible for Box Office to go out of the long-term. Coupled with the squeezed survival space of many large movies that are still being released and about to be drawn, the prospect is extremely bleak.
After the release of Box Office on the first day, the last hope of Kevin Costner was shattered, and I began to contact Flower Films, hoping to start the sequel of "Mission: Impossible" to maintain my popularity.
“It ’s just a preliminary contact,” Amy replied: “I hope to be able to sign two sequels at a time. Kevin Costner is only willing to sign one, and they are not willing to make too many concessions in terms of pay. . "
Although two blockbuster movies "JAG" and "Waterworld" were continuously hit, "Mission: Impossible" was just a big success last year, and the popularity is still at its peak. It is not surprising that Kevin Costner is not willing to make too many concessions.
"But the initiative is always on our side, let's talk slowly." Eric finished listening and said.
Amy nodded and said again: "I met Joe? Silver yesterday. He asked me to ask you whether that agreement was not counted last year."
Amy's tone is somewhat doubtful. Obviously Joe? Silver didn't make things clear to her.
At the celebration party of "True Lies" last year, Eric and Joe? Silver met. It happened that the other party was "produced" by the producer of "The Matrix", and Eric started to draw the other party to take charge of this project. In the future, Eric will roughly talk to Amy and say, "" Fair Game "has failed. But it is undeniable that Joe? Silver is a Producer who is very good at making action films. I think he is very suitable for the" The Matrix "series."
After listening to Amy, he shook his head and said: "Eric, I don't think this is a good idea."
"Why?" Eric wondered.
"Do you remember Peter? Guber and Qiang? Peters?"
Eric nodded. After leaving Columbia, the two faded out of Hollywood. After all, few people would be willing to invite these two prostitutes as producers, but With a glorious resume with more than two billion USD assets of Columbia, Hollywood few people will forget them.
Amy continued: "In the beginning, Sony used Time Warner to Peter? Guber and Qiang? Warner's Film Studio, but because of the contract, the subsequent compensation for Time Warner 800 million USD, this matter will not work. Joe? Silver and Warner are more closely connected than the two of them, his production company is also affiliated with Warner, He also signed a long contract with Warner, he has not even participated in the production of any film other than Warner in these years. Time Warner is in a very bad situation. In this case, if Firefly actively digs people, they will not even Easy to let go, the price paid by Firefly will not be much lower than the original Sony. "
Eric finished listening to Amy. He can only shake his head in regret, if Joe? Silver can transfer Firefly, he would not mind paying a proper penalty to Time Warner, but Eric will definitely not do the wrong thing like Sony.
Speaking of that, although the summer file is not over yet, Warner wants to replace quantity with quality in this summer file in order to improve the performance of the release strategy in Eric's view is destined to end in failure.
Three of the five films planned have been released. But in addition to "Batman Forever" Box Office is still passable, "fair game" at the end of May and the newly released "Waterworld" ended in failure, although there are Arnold Schwarzenegger "Eraser" and Al? Pacino, Robert? De Niro in the next two weeks. Led by 《Heat》, but in the memory of Eric, neither of these two films has too high Box Office.
The Box Office score of "Eraser" is likely to be similar to Die Hard3 of Fox in May, and they are all kind of old-fashioned action films that are barely breaking through 100 million overseas. 《Heat》 is a classic, but this film is close to The three-hour period will also limit its Box Office scale to a large extent.
Because the five films do not have a big special effects film that may explode overseas, and at this time Batman ’s overseas Box Office appeal is not even as good as that of North America, in this way, the total global Box Office that the five films can get in the future, It is only about 1billion USD. This number is even more than Firefly's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" global Box Office.
With excellent reputation and the popularity accumulated in the first part, although "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" global Box Office can not reach the global 1 billion in the first part, it is almost the same. What's more, the total production cost of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" and announcement are only about 150 million USD. Only Box Office has made Firefly a big profit, but the average production cost of the five Warner films is close to 100 million USD. The total production and distribution expenditure Even reaching the giant of 700 million USD, global Box Office of 1billion USD, is far from allowing Time Warner to recover such a huge cost. Compared with the weak loss of 90 million USD last year, dragged by Film Industry business, Time Warner's loss will be further expanded this year.
Perhaps, it ’s time to test whether Time Warner Board of Directors has the possibility to split the business. With the advantages of entire US's second-largest cable operator, several relatively well-known toll cable stations in the future basically have a more or less shareholding relationship with Time Warner. And this piece happens to be the short board of Firefly Group.
"Eric, what are you thinking?" Amy's voice suddenly came from the ear.
Eric withdrew his thoughts and smiled apologetically, said: "Nothing, let's talk about Metro Goldwyn Mayer."
Just chatted a few words just now, but the main purpose of Amy coming today is still the acquisition of Metro Goldwyn Mayer by Flower Films. Taking advantage of the period before Eric left Los Angeles, Amy specially came to communicate with Eric in this regard.
Amy nodded and did not ask why Eric was distracted just now, saying: "Vivendi, Kerkorian and our three forces that want to acquire Metro Goldwyn Mayer are all tentatively quoted at around 1.5 billion USD, and production at Flower Films and DreamWorks may be related to Metro Goldwyn Mayer. After the news of the severance of cooperation broke out, the other two did not give another quotation. The senior executives of Vivendi and Kerkorian have contacted me, and hope to meet you. They know that Flower Films has not enough funds for the acquisition, so Everyone hopes to cooperate on this acquisition. On the Crédit Lyonnais side, the offer they gave is 1.8 billion USD, and everyone is temporarily deadlocked. "
Eric listened to Amy quietly while holding a coffee cup, and was quick in thinking.
Even if the final purchase price stays around 1.5 billion USD, it is not easy for Flower Films to spend the money.
In the Eric plan, Firefly Group will buy 100 million 300 million USD in cash, and buy out the overseas distribution rights of "Forrest Gump" and video tapes, television broadcasts and other distribution rights. The income of "Mission: Impossible" released by Flower Films at the end of last year will be used to repay the financing of the production of several previous films. The next "Night at the Museum" was originally used as a bargaining chip to recover Marvel Superhero copyright. The income brought to Flower Films is also limited, not to mention "Night at the Museum" The income settlement of the company is probably waiting until the end of the year.
Calculated, the funds available in the hands of Flower Films are only the domestic Box Office income brought by "Forrest Gump" and the buyout funds of Firefly, which are roughly around 400 million USD, and there is still a big gap from 1.5 billion USD.
Ps. Children ’s shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins? 515 The red envelope list has counted down. I ’ll pull a ticket to ask for an overweight and appreciation ticket, and finally rush! (To be continued.)