I’m in Hollywood Chapter 958: Soaring topics
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Because it was TV Station, which was jointly held by several cable TV operators such as Warner cable, Comcast, and telecommunications, E! The user base of entertainment is close to 50 million, which is higher than the original LifetimeTV Station.
However, several major shareholders only rely on channel advantages to add E! Entertainment to their cable TV packages in a bundled form. Therefore, the management controlled by the original shareholders has never attached importance to the development of TV programs, E! The original entertainment program is very scarce, and it is barely possible to get it. There is only one "Real Hollywood" documentary series, which tells the history of the fame of Hollywood legendary stars and various gossip. In addition, the original E! Entertainment even had a pitiful budget for buying TV programs from outside for broadcasting.
In this state, E! One can imagine the presence of entertainment in the audience. Before being acquired by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, E! The share of subscribers obtained by entertainment from operators is only a pitiful 7 cents, which is far lower than the average share of 15 cents obtained from each user by the industry's basic cable stations.
Long-term accumulated disadvantages cannot be changed at once, Metro Goldwyn Mayer takes over E! After the entertainment, neither the Eric nor the Metro Goldwyn Mayer management, without the thought of promoting the seedlings, intends to adopt a steady development strategy.
Therefore, the budget investment of "Beverly Girl" is only 5 million USD, which is far from being compared with the original "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway". Publicity and marketing mainly rely on the newly developed Internet media.
On February 17, after experiencing two months of uninterrupted small-scale publicity from the end of last year to the present, "Beverly Girl" officially landed at E at the prime time of 8 o'clock in the evening! Entertainment TV Station.
In the end, the average audience of the first episode of "Beverly Girl" Season 1 was 1.12 million, the highest audience was 1.37 million, and the audience rating was 0.7.
This result is in line with everyone ’s expectations. As long as the average number of viewers in the first season can remain around 1 million, this Reality Show can continue to be produced.
However, the topic and word of mouth of "Beverly Girl" quickly fermented.
Similar to the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "Survivor" and other programs that created the Reality Show trend of sports a few years ago, "Beverly Girl", a life class Reality Show that completely shows the privacy of the lives of several protagonists to the audience, is also a pioneering activity.
After the program was aired, although many media commented critically on the Reality Show, which was obviously somewhat interesting, some media criticized the program for having too many traces of performance, but in the newly emerging Internet media With the cooperation of the platform, the fashionable and avant-garde "Beverly Girl" has quickly become a topic that young people are keen to discuss.
In the discussion community opened exclusively for "Beverly Girl" by the Yahoo forum, some people like Deborah Hall ’s bold charm, some like Chris Teng Heyman ’s coolness, and some think Samir Caron is too fake Seriously, some people think that the scene of Carly Wittlock standing at the top of Beverly Hills and shouting 'Good morning, Los Angeles' against the Los Angeles in the morning sun is very inspirational.
Ponytail in **** comes from the Czech Republic movie "Promising Man". The original nameless Eastern European actress Vika Klix is just using this lens to become the surname goddess of the Internet. Now, in the United States, where entertainment culture is extremely developed, the effect of this previously imitated lens is far more than original.
In just a few days, Deborah Hall ’s animated GIF picture of ponytail wearing **** in Chris Teng Heyman Bar has become the most popular picture on the Internet recently. This picture has even become a quotation for many people talking about the topic of "Beverly Girl": Have you seen the picture of the underwear with ponytail in "Beverly Girl"?
Under the influence of these factors, although only one episode was broadcast, every detail in the 45-minute content has become a topic that many netizens are talking about.
Because the content of E! Entertainment TV Station is really scarce, Metro Goldwyn Mayer cannot introduce suitable E in a short time! Since the entertaining TV show "Beverly Girl" became popular, the following week, E! Entertainment continuously arranged three replays of the first episode of "Beverly Girl" during the day and late night, and the total number of viewers for the three replays exceeded 2.7 million.
Later, when the second episode aired, the average number of viewers of "Beverly Girl" jumped directly to 2.63 million, and the highest number of viewers also reached 2950,000, with an audience rating of 2.1. Compared with the first episode, all data has increased by more than two times.
The second episode of "Beverly Girl" aired on February 24, followed by February 26, "Desperate Housewives" was also launched on the Brvao channel of Rainbow Media.
Although "Desperate Housewives" is placed on a basic cable station such as Brvao, which is far from the public TV Network, Eric does not feel sorry, but I still have great expectations for this TV series.
After all, even the pay-per-view cable programs can make it to the top of the ratings list, and the potential audience is a more substantial base cable station, and there can be no room for development. In the history of the past, "The Walking Dead" is a basic cable station that is not much stronger than BrvaoTV Station, such as AMC. It has achieved a step-by-step viewing counterattack, and even once reached the top ratings champion.
Therefore, under the intervention of Eric, both the production budget and the promotion budget of Desperate Housewives are much higher than that of "Beverly Girl". Although only 13 episodes were produced in the first season, the budgets of all aspects added up. Has also reached 26 million USD.
Two months before the broadcast of TV series, Metro Goldwyn Mayer began to frequently print advertisements on major women newspaper magazine, and the upcoming program was broadcast, and several housewife actors also successively landed several popular titles such as "David Late Night Show" The talk show preheated the TV series. It can be said that "Desperate Housewives" had a good reputation before the broadcast.
At the same time, "Desperate Housewives" also adopted a two-episode simulcast mode when the new drama was released.
Under the ideas provided by Eric and original screenwriter, the opening suspense of the huge suspense created by Mary · Alice · Yang's suicide and the distinctive character creation of a group of housewives in the wisteria community have firmly captured the audience's attention.
After the episode was aired, it almost aroused one-sided praise in the critics' circles. Many media said that it is a waste of Metro Goldwyn Mayer to put such a good TV series on a basic cable station such as Brvao. This TV series can be completely logged in. Any of four Major TV Networks. This argument also stimulated people's curiosity about Desperate Housewives.
Different from the satisfactory start of "Beverly Girl", through exhaustive pre-promotion, "Desperate Housewives" received an average of 4160,000 viewers, the highest number of viewers was 4730,000, and the ratings reached 3.4. This kind of data is already higher than the ratings of many public cable TV stations that are not too successful.
Although it is destined to be unable to create the universal influence and rich profits of the four Major TV Networks broadcast, but according to the current ratings situation, "Desperate Housewives" can recover all costs and achieve rich profits. Moreover, continue to persevere, with the expanding reputation and influence of "Desperate Housewives", Eric is still very confident that this TV series can create a miracle of cable TV viewing.
At the same time, under the promotion of "Desperate Housewives", Brvao channel will also be successfully modeled as a dedicated female station. This is the most important point of Eric. It is also Eric that puts "Desperate Housewives" on Brvao channel. The ultimate goal is to create a basic cable station specifically for housewives.
Through the Clinton Home Office Information Superhighway Program, in recent years has been a critical time for the widespread popularization of United States cable television.
However, most cable TV Station operators have not yet realized that a brand-new era is coming. Brvao channel takes the first chance to gain audience recognition and corresponding market share. In the future, its status in the field of basic cable stations will be unbreakable.
It has been nearly half a year since Metro Goldwyn Mayer won the two TV Stations. During this period, Amy · Pascal and other Metro Goldwyn Mayer management has been adjusting and rectifying all aspects of the two TV Station. "Beverly Girl" and The continuous successful launch of "Desperate Housewives" is also inseparable from the efforts of the management.
Now, with the success of "Beverly Girl" and "Desperate Housewives", the situation of the two TV Station has officially opened, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer has also successfully crossed the first step towards the development of the TV industry, and related celebrations are naturally essential Less.
Celebrate that party was arranged at Drew ’s home in Trousdale Manor. Although it ’s Saturday, “Iron Man” is about to start shooting. Eric has a lot of work to do. It was n’t until Twilight that he came from Preva Vista Firefly After work, it was already 7:40 when Beverly Hills Manor arrived, and party had already begun.
In recent days, thanks to Firefly Group ’s intentional and unintentional release of wind, the news that Eric has starred in "Iron Man" actor Tony Stark has gradually spread.
"Iron Man" will be officially turned on next Monday. At the start-up conference held on Friday in advance, Eric did not appear, and Firefly Group did not announce the exact candidate for the actor. As a media group, Firefly Group internal media channels Naturally know the exact news, but they obviously will not take the initiative to reveal the inside story.
Moreover, Larry · Ellison, who likes to stand out, also jumped out deliberately, claiming that he will play an important role in "Iron Man", the tone is very ambiguous, as if this guy is the actor, Larry · Ellison is his own The Oracle Group made some advertisements.
So, these ambiguous messages have intensified the media's speculation, and with the recent discussion about Eric's net worth, the topic of "Iron Man" has also become hot.
As the latest issue of "Forbes" magazine in March is about to launch the new year's Forbes rich list, the topic about Eric's net worth has also become more and more, and major financial media have launched their own rich in advance The list data is like a lot of sentinel awards before Oscar.
Although the data released by different media are not the same, they have an obvious common point. Eric Williams will become the first super rich of United States and even global with a net worth of over 100 billion USD.
What is the gap between the billionaire and the 10 billion rich, no one knows, after all, Eric is only the first and only one.
However, this does not prevent many media from automatically finding a similar reference, that is, the two most influential families in the early 20th century United States, Morgan and Rockefeller.
In its heyday, the Morgan family and Rockefeller Family controlled almost the entire United States, which is not an exaggeration.
As far as Hollywood is concerned, in the early days of 20th century, the major Film Studios of Hollywood were basically subsidiaries of the Morgan Consortium and the Rockefeller consortium.
At the same time, the current United States general system, whether it is General Electric or General Motors, or other companies prefixed with GM, are basically companies under the original Morgan Consortium. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are still financial giants of Wall Street.
Compared with the Morgan family, Rockefeller Family originally controlled most of the energy and ore industries of United States, which can be said to control the economic lifeline of United States.
ExxonMobil, founded by Rockefeller Family, is still the largest oil company in global, and there is no competitor in United States that can match it. global Many countries with relatively high energy industry openness can see Exxon Mobil behind their oil industry.
Go back to now.
Almost no one denies that with the advent of the information age, global is undergoing technological industry changes.
In this transformation, the rise of the information industry is undoubtedly the most dazzling. Compared with high-end industries such as genetic technology and nuclear technology, the information industry is also a basic industry with the most popularization of civilians.
Although Eric Williams has emerged from Hollywood, he has unconsciously invested a lot of companies in the field of information technology.
Moreover, Firefly Investment, whether it is Internet companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, AOL, or companies in the communications field such as Qualcomm, Sprint, has a pivotal position in the entire industry.
Although these industries have not yet developed to the point of becoming a country ’s economic lifeline, there is no doubt that according to the current development rate, once humanity truly enters the information age, these companies under the name of Eric Williams will be sufficient for United States. Even the development of the world's information industry has a decisive influence.
Even, Eric Williams will become the 'John · Rockefeller' of the information age. What's more scary is that this time, there is no 'J · P · Morgan' enough to compete with it, even if it depends on Microsoft to become the second richest person in global The Bill · Gates is only a control of an operating system platform, and the influence of Microsoft is far from comparable to the Firefly investment involving the entire information industry.
At the end of the discussion, some media even called on the federal to intervene to limit the further expansion of Firefly investment and prevent the emergence of monopoly giants, but this obviously does not harm the development of the Firefly system.
Trousdale manor, Drew mansion.
As soon as the Eric ’s car entered the courtyard, a group of people greeted it.
Eric hugged the girl, and then they shook hands with the Amy · Pascal couple and others. Among them, there were a few strangers who were also introduced by the girl.
After the greeting, Drew, who held the arm of Eric intimately, walked around the courtyard surrounded by the crowd, and coquettishly said: "Eric, I thought you were not coming."
Listening to the laughter that everyone agrees with, Eric also smiled and said: "You do n’t know, I am busy recently."
Chris · Jenna who eagerly gathered around Eric asked: "Eric, we all heard some rumors. Are you really going to play Tony · Stark yourself?"
"This, for the time being confidential, you can boldly guess," Eric smiled and shook his head. If he publicly admits in front of so many people, the news will definitely not be overwhelming.
"I think it's not possible, Eric is not going to direct his new movie in the second half of the year," Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Chairman John · Calley also said: "However, why should Eric, Firefly treat the hero of" Iron Man " Keep silent, it will not really be Mr. Larry · Ellison of Oracle who is going to act? "
Eric didn't speak, and some others immediately smiled and retorted: "That's even more unreliable."
Everyone chatted casually, and soon came to the party site on the backyard lawn. The girl held party and always liked the big fanfare. There have been a hundred or two people gathered here. Seeing the emergence of Eric, there is a lot of noise. (To be continued.)