I’m in Hollywood Chapter 923: I am Monica
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Eric left Long Island on September 14th, first went to Baiyuan City on the north side of Manhattan, discussed the production of "Shrek" with the Blue Sky Studios team, returned to Manhattan, and participated in ABC Group meetings for a few days in succession, listening to the group ’s TV Department senior report for the first half TV business operations in various areas.
Last year signed an 8-year 9billion USD sky-high broadcast contract with the United States Rugby Union. Group executives were originally concerned that ESPN would suffer losses due to huge broadcast rights fees.
But in fact, due to the monopoly of United States ’s most popular rugby tournament broadcasting rights, ESPN has seen a significant increase in both cable share and advertising revenue this year. Only in the first two quarters, net profit has exceeded 200 million USD. The annual net profit may even reach 500 million USD, which is equivalent to one-sixth of the expected profit of the entire Firefly Group1997 year.
In addition, the performance of AE Cable TV Network, led by LifetimeTV Station, also showed a significant increase. Ace programs such as "Sex and the City", "Project Runway", "America's Next Top Model" not only continued to increase the popularity of LifetimeTV Station, but also brought continuous improvement to the company. Profit. Other wired TV Station, such as Disney Channel, are also very stable.
The only disappointment is that the performance of ABCTV Network is much lower than that of its major cable TV Department. Due to the rise of cable TV Station, ABC's overall ratings have also declined significantly.
The shift from wireless to cable TV viewers is the overall trend of the United States TV industry in the future. Although Eric can provide enough excellent programs for ABC, it is impossible to reverse the development direction of the entire industry by itself. However, in the four major public TV Network, ABC's performance in all aspects still firmly occupy the top position. In order to sell itself at a good price, CBSTV Network managed to make its financial report more attractive in the second quarter of this year, but neither the turnover nor the net profit income can be compared with ABCTV Network.
Recalling that the acquisition tug-of-war between Viacom and CBS Group has talked about 33billion, the final transaction amount is likely to exceed 35billion USD, and Eric can't help but gloating. The operating conditions of CBSTV Network itself are unsatisfactory. Although CBS Group also has some cable TV assets, none of them can compare with ESPN, which now brings huge profits to Firefly Group, and even worse than the several TV Station affiliated with AETV Network. On the contrary, the cable TV assets such as MTVTV Network and ShowtimeTV Network that Viacom now owns are the most valuable to Eric.
Once this acquisition is completed, Viacom will definitely not have a better life in the next few years.
Privately, Eric and Chris discussed in detail the profit of the first stage of the Firefly investment in the Southeast Asia economic crisis. According to statistics, the 700 million USD principal raised by everyone has been increased to 1.3 billion USD, of which except 300 million USD will be used for the next In addition to the Won Jiankang, other 1billion USD will be recovered one after another.
Since Firefly Investment ’s Yahoo, AOL, Amazon, Firefly Electronics, Qualcomm and other companies are still in a crazy money-burning stage, coupled with the subsequent acquisition of Apple, this 1billion USD has hardly discussed much, so it is easy to determine the place of return . Although Chris and Emily also decided to buy an aircraft together with Eric, but the expenses in this respect are not in a hurry to pay.
On the other hand, "Harry Potter and the Magic Stone" has also been on sale for more than half a month. Following the final 16,000 copies of global sales in the first week, the second week, with the popularity of the novel With further improvement, the weekly sales volume has once again hit the 150,000 volume. Harper Collins Publishing House expects the overall sales volume of the novel in several major English-speaking countries to reach 3 million volume in the remaining four months of this year.
Before this, many popular novels of Hollywood were adapted into movies, and the sales of the original novel global could reach 3 million volume. Therefore, after the first week of sales, Katzenberg can't wait to call Eric and ask if they can immediately start the preparation of "Harry Potter and the Magic Stone".
However, Eric knows that the popularity of the "Harry Potter" series has not yet exploded, and naturally rejected the proposal of Katzenberg, planning to wait for the release of the series second part before initiating the movie project.
After finishing these things, New York Fashion Week has come to an end.
On the side of United Kingdom, under the remote command of Eric, Simon · Fuller has selected several girls of the hot girl group.
However, Eric failed to rush to United Kingdom immediately, and then there are several interviews with Victoria’s Secret angels, which requires him to participate in person.
Of course, the main work has been completed, but you can relax in the next few days.
In an apartment in the Upper East Side, the time was only in the afternoon, but the bedroom curtains were pulled up, and a faint light emerged from the gap.
In the big bed, Cindy · Crawford buried his face in the pillow, gasped for a while, earned his body, and failed to get out from under the man. He had to ridicule with a bit of ridicule: "Eric, Gisele The two small girl and Alessandra can't satisfy you, so toss me like this? "
Eric caressed Cindy's skin with pleasure, and said: "They have already gone to France, which is as leisurely as you are."
Paris Fashion Week was held at the end of the month. Gisele and Alessandra hurriedly went to Paris after finishing Catwalk of New York. Miranda was also rushed back to Los Angeles by Eric. Because of Fashion Week, Gisele and Alessandra, which have become famous in the fashion circle, are even busier than Eric. He still failed to find an opportunity to eat these two little sheep, and after a few days of craving, he naturally burned Cindy.
"I just finished this season" America's Next Top Model ", and participated in a few games of Catwalk, then I have to prepare Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, where is leisure," Cindy twisted his body again, and finally came down from the Eric like a mermaid He came out, grabbed a piece of clothing, and looked at it. It was a Eric shirt, which he wore on his body, ran on tiptoe to the bedroom window desk, opened a laptop on the desktop, and said, "Since you come Now, help me look at my stock. The ups and downs during this time are really unreliable. "
Eric looked sideways at the woman and fiddled for a while, holding a laptop and dragging a network cable and walking back, thinking that next time he would urge Firefly electronics to speed up the development of WIFI equipment, he said with a smile: "You were The stocks I bought must have risen a lot, are n’t you afraid that I will get rich? "
Cindy put the laptop on the head of the bed and slanted a charming look at him next to Eric: "You should worry about it, Mr. Biggest, aren't you afraid that I will get rich?"
Eric pulled the quilt to cover the two together, pulled the laptop in front of them, and operated skillfully, saying, "Is n’t it Jealous-Daddy, how could it become Mr-Biggest again?"
"Mr-Biggest was first called by Candace. For several years, Jealous-Daddy was recently helped by Linda. Speaking of it, Linda is also in Manhattan recently. Why do n’t you bother with her?"
There is a Mr-Big in "Sex and the City", and the Candace that I want to come to Cindy should be the beautiful author Candace · Bushnell of "Sex and the City".
After listening to Cindy, Eric replied: "Did she find her boyfriend? I am still very ethical and will not destroy the relationship between men and women."
"That French businessman, long ago broke up, and the silly guy like Linda would think people would marry her."
Eric just smiled and said nothing more.
In addition to the women who are deeply involved with him, Eric is now fully treated with a mentality of traversing the flowers, so that it is good for both parties. Eric can enjoy a whole forest, they can also After going to one's own life, no one will have any burden. Therefore, when I heard that Linda · Evangelista had made a boyfriend, Eric took the initiative to let go. For other women, his attitude is probably the same.
Cindy also noticed the thoughts of Eric and said with a smile: "If Joanna or Virginia finds a boyfriend, will you let go?"
"They are my children's Mama, naturally different."
Cindy's eyes flickered and said, "Do you seem to trust them?"
"Of course."
Eric nodded with a smile. He has treated the two women as his wives for years, and the three have already formed a tacit understanding.
Although Eric only stays in Hampton for two or three months a year, the two women live together and the three children do not seem indifferent. Eric went back a few days ago and was teased by Virginia that the two of them no longer need themselves.
Talking casually, casually browsing the Yahoo homepage for a while, Eric opens the stock operation software on the desktop, Cindy reaches out, presses a string of passwords without concealment, and enters her account.
At the end of April, Cindy also said that the value of his stock is close to 50 million USD. At this point, although there are still only four stocks, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL and Intel, the total value of these stocks has reached 76.9 million USD, combined, has risen by more than 50% in five months.
Eric opens each stock with great interest to view detailed stock charts.
Among the four stocks, Microsoft had the highest increase. The market value of this company has increased from 120 billion at the beginning of the year to the current 177 300 million USD. The second is Cisco, the market value of which has risen from 33 billion at the beginning of the year to 46 900 million and Eric consider as finished, which also means that Firefly investment has added value to 3.6 billion USD for half a year for 26% of Cisco holdings.
AOL immediately after, the market value has just reached 19300 million, compared with the market value of 15billion at the beginning of the year, the increase is less than 30%. The last Intel, with a market value between 1996 and 1997, soared from 48.3 billion USD to 113.1 billion USD, more than doubled, but since March this year, the stock price of Intel has basically stopped growing, and has appeared in the last two months. Fell.
Cindy watched Eric pause for a while on the Intel stock data page, and also said: "I am worried about Intel. I have specifically checked the information. It seems that the chip sales they issued this year did not meet expectations. In addition, AMD and Both IBM and Motorola have new chips released, squeezing the market of Intel. Eric, do I want to sell all Intel stock? "
Later, many people only knew about Intel and AMD, but in fact, in the 1990s, there were still many manufacturers producing CPU chips. The chips currently used by Apple Inc. are the powerful chips produced by Motorola. It was only later that the Wintel alliance became stronger and stronger, squeezing out the chips of most other brands from the market, leaving only one AMD hanging half alive.
Shake his head, Eric said: "Actually, in my opinion, the stock of Intel is the most valuable of these stocks. I remember that the profit of Intel in the first half of this year has reached 2.5 billion USD, which is comparable The sum of the profits of the other three is even greater. "
"Then do you mean, keep it?"
"Of course," Eric nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't sell it in the next ten or twenty years. With these stocks, you can get at least hundreds of thousands of USD dividends every year in the future."
Cindy thought for a while and said, "I do n’t lack money now. According to what you mean, can I keep all these stocks?"
"If all of them, you still have to sell them together according to the time I taught you, and wait for the Yahoo to be listed, so that all the dividends of decades can be recovered at once."
After listening to Eric, Cindy speculates that there must be something in these stocks that is not worth holding for a long time. However, since Eric didn't say too much, she was no longer interested.
I fiddled with my laptop for a while, and time was unconsciously in the evening.
The light in the bedroom was dimmed. Cindy picked up the phone on the bedside table and looked at the time, saying: "It's six o'clock right now, the evening fashion week organizer held a fashion week curtain call at the Gramercy Hotel party Go? "
Eric had no plans at night, nodded and said: "Go, um, let's go to dinner first, and then go over. After you have been tossing you all afternoon, I was hungry."
"Obviously you are tossing me."
Cindy gave Eric a blank look, turned on the light, and still wore the Eric shirt, walking towards the cloakroom in a variety of ways.
Women have never been able to dress up and dress up, and found a restaurant for dinner. When Eric and Cindy came to the Gramercy Hotel, the time had passed eight o'clock. party had already begun. More seriously, Cindy also forgot the invitation letter at home.
In the elevator, Eric watched Cindy still reluctantly flipping over his handbag and smiled: "You said we can get in after we brush our face?"
"Maybe the doorman is blind, you have to let them believe that you are Eric Williams."
Cindy smiled back to Eric, took out his mobile phone from the bag, and when the elevator door opened, he quickly dialed a number of numbers to go out, briefly said a few words, the two walked to the door of the banquet hall, party contractor ’s An executive has greeted him enthusiastically and brought Eric and Cindy into the party scene together.
The spacious banquet hall looks like one or two hundred people. The atmosphere of party is also very relaxed.
Eric is no stranger to this fashion circle, or that although he is neither a fashion media executive like Anna · Wintour nor a big coffee designer, he controls the world ’s largest media group However, Eric has more influence in this circle than anyone in the banquet hall.
Of course, Eric is not boring to come and grab the limelight. After chatting with the guests who are interested in it, Eric intends to take Cindy in the dance floor and dance.
It's just that, just by the dance floor, Eric saw a familiar Latin girl walking towards her with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Penélope will appear today. Eric is a little surprised. She smiled and extended her hands to the girl: "Hi, Penny, I'm so happy to see you here."
The expression on the girl ’s face stiffened, and she stepped forward and hugged Eric before explaining with a look of grief: “Eric, I ’m not Penny, I ’m Monica.” (To be continued.)