I’m in Hollywood

Eric hadn't had time to say anything else. Aniston reached out and grabbed the laptop from Shantou. He deleted the audition video three or two times and warned Eric when he shut down: "Do you have any connection with this woman?" ""

Eric looked at the girl's nervous look, smiled and grabbed her waist, and said, "I promise, really, she is not as beautiful as my Jane."

Aniston felt Eric's warm hand on the skin around his waist, just to relax, noticed the other side of the girl's eyes, and immediately said: "You are not allowed to bring her to Eric Or else I will not finish with you."

Shantou naturally can't care about the threat of the chick, smiled and said: "This is not necessarily oh, maybe I can still hold her redder than you."

Although MGM's actual control is entirely in the hands of Eric, it is still the company's nominally largest shareholder. Shantou wants to hold one or two actors, which is a breeze.

Aniston thought of this possibility, and was once again smashed up, and couldn't help it anymore. The body was still in Eric's arms, but the two small hands had already scratched the Dru, and the **** naturally began to counterattack.

Eric had to face another two kittens and fight again. Looking at Aniston in his arms, he did not intend to make a good effort to fight with the hoe. He had to make a big move and reached out to make the chick a few thin. The thin cloth was ripped off, and I took some of it into my arms.

The little girl who was about to pull the hooded swimsuit was suddenly smashing her throat and making a slight sigh of relief. She softly squatted by the pool. The little mouth was still unforgiving: "Eric, you are a jerk."

After spending the weekend in San Simeon, Eric returned to Los Angeles with two Nizi, and the second weekend box office of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of Ghosts" was officially released.

Compared with the first weekend, the film’s third-day box office fell by 31%, and received another $56.9 million. The 10-day cumulative box office reached $193.08 million. It is foreseeable. After the next working day, this star war movie There are almost no suspense in breaking two hundred million dollars in two weeks.

Stimulated by "Star Wars Episode 1: Ghost Threat", the North American film market last week's total weekly box office figures exceeded $270 million. Although it will fall slightly this week, it can easily stay above $250 million.

Therefore, although "Star Wars Episode 1: Ghost Threat" took a large part of the box office, but the overall number of people watching the Star Wars series has increased significantly, the other two films in the market in the last two weeks have a very good box office which performed.

After the first week of the new line film "Tea Boy" finally harvested 53.26 million US dollars at the box office, the next week, despite the impact of the Star Wars, the box office fell 53%, only received 25.03 million US dollars, but the two-week box office still reached 78.29 million US dollars. . In the third week, as the momentum of the Star Wars began to slow down, the decline in the third week of Tea Boys also narrowed to 37%, and then received 11.02 million US dollars, the cumulative box office reached 89.31 million US dollars, breaking the billion just around the corner.

Paramount Pictures and the 2D animated film Mulan, which was released at the same time as "Tea Boy", also suffered a big decline last week after the impact of the Star Wars. The box office decline this weekend also began to narrow.

However, Mulan’s three-day box office on the weekend has slipped to a range of $8.99 million in the $10 million range. The film’s cumulative box office in the two-and-a-half-week period was only $63.56 million, far less than Paramount’s expectations, and is expected in the coming weeks. The total box office in North America can only be between $80 million and $90 million.

Although relying on overseas distribution and future peripheral operations, Paramount can still achieve profitability, but compared with 3D animated films that are usually able to get out of the curve, the 2D animated film that mainly faces the children's audience and gradually accumulates at the box office by long-term screening has already Obviously no longer adapt to the market form.

In addition, two other new films released this week, Columbia Film Company's warm family comedy "Kissing Mom" ​​and Universal Pictures' fantasy love film "Sixth Feeling Dead", also won 1914 in the first three days of the weekend. The results of more than 10,000 US dollars and 15.1 million US dollars of open paintings, although still far from the "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Threat of Ghosts", can not be compared with the "Tea Boy" two weeks ago. But in terms of the types of the two films, this kind of box office is not bad.

Firefly Studios.

In a small screening room, Eric and Kasenberg, Frank Wells, and Iron Man director Jos Weeden looked at the big screen.

The title of Firefly's film flashed past, and there was a picture of Tony Stark playing in the cave with Eric Stark playing in the picture, accompanied by the iconic comic page flip of Marvel Pictures. Cut into Tony Stark's tech-savvy studio and Colonel Roddy's voiceover: Tony, what are you making?

Colonel Roddy’s voice fell, and the dynamic rock music soundtrack began to speed up until Tony Stark was wearing a silver Mark2 armor, and the 30-second short film came to an abrupt end, giving a strong The feeling is still unfinished.

"Iron Man" has been officially scheduled for May 7 next year.

Although there are still some finishing details to be dealt with, the pre-heating publicity work has already started. The most important thing for the rest of the time is the annual Super Bowl in the United States. Since Eric used the Super Bowl to promote the "Tornado" and achieved amazing results, Super Bowl advertising has become a must for the seven major film companies over the years.

At this time, everyone watching is the Super Bowl commercial of Iron Man.

After relying on a series of low-cost productions to achieve amazing box office results this year, the new line will re-enter the Firefly Group's blockbuster year next year.

From the beginning of Easter next year until the end of the year, the Firefly Group's "public enemies", "Iron Man", "Cars", "gravity", "The Lord of the Rings 1: The Lord of the Rings" five heavyweights The blockbuster will be lined up.

However, after considering all aspects, the only ones that will be registered in the Super Bowl this year are Iron Man and The Lord of the Rings. The trailer for Iron Man is 30 seconds. The Lord of the Rings 1: The Lord of the Rings appears. The notice for this is 15 seconds.

The main job of several executives, such as Eric and Kasenberg, is to review the trailers for the two films.

In the morning, everyone has discussed the trailer of "The Lord of the Rings 1: The Lord of the Rings". Because there is still a year to go before the release, the Super Bowl preview of "The Lord of the Rings 1: The Lord of the Rings" is more inclined to a concept notice. It is mainly a large panoramic shot of the movie, accompanied by a small amount of dialogue. The entire notice revealed very little information, full of suspense, and the duration was limited to 15 seconds.

Relatively speaking, the notice of "Iron Man" reveals that the information is very rich.

This is mainly because this year's Super Bowl is held on January 31, and there are only three months left before the release of Iron Man on May 7. After the Super Bowl, "Iron Man" will immediately enter the final stage of large-scale publicity, so it is not necessary to be half-masked like "The Lord of the Rings", but to maximize the advertising effect as much as possible.

Repeatedly broadcasted the most recognized trailer for several times. The crowd also took out several other edited versions for a detailed comparison and finalized the final plan, which was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Everyone got off work, and Eric and Kasenberg went to the conference room next door.

"Eric, the value of the stock in the Clover Fund has exceeded $27 billion. I heard my friend on Wall Street said that many investment institutions have confirmed that all the technology stocks will be cleared before 3000. We are not here. Well, at least the funds that were originally invested are cashed out?"

Eric took a sip of the coffee that Meyer handed over and felt the faintness that rarely appeared in Kasenberg's tone. He smiled and said, "Are you afraid?"

Kasenberger touched his bald head slightly, but he nodded honestly.

In fact, he is not only afraid, but more worried.

According to Eric’s original promise, if he could cash out all the stocks held by the Clover Fund at this time, his personal profit will be more than 400 million US dollars.

400 million dollars.

Even with Kasenberg's current salary level, it is difficult for him to be indifferent to this almost $400 million that fell from the sky. Moreover, the current state of the Nasdaq index is faltering, and it makes him feel worried about his daily losses. He is afraid that he will wake up one morning and hear the news of the Nasdaq index crash.

You know, the North American stock market is not limited by the price limit. Once the Nasdaq collapses, the $400 million is likely to evaporate in just a few days.

Eric holds the coffee cup and leans against the leather chair. "Jeffrey, do you remember what I said when I invested in technology stocks?"

Kasenberger smiled and said: "We seem to have a lot of conversations about this matter?"

“Well,” Eric said. “Yes, I remember I said that most of the stocks bought by the Shamrock Fund are long-term, such as Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Verizon, etc. Even The Nasdaq crashed, but because these companies have formed a very stable market position, their stocks will definitely rise again in the future. If we hold them for a long time, we can get very rich dividend income every year. So, if the Nasdaq is in the clearance of the clover fund In the crash, we only lost some book income in the short term, or some stocks with serious bubbles will indeed bring us some losses, but in the long run, we can still maintain very substantial profits."

Although I understand what Eric said is very reasonable, Kasenberg still said: "However, Eric, if this is the case, the company will continue to invest $7 billion in funds from the beginning, and will be stuck in these stocks. , $7 billion, but can do a lot of things."

"Fireflies are not short of money now, aren't they? And, what I just said is just a worst assumption. In fact, I am very confident in my personal judgment. Wall Street may think that the SMA is the end point, but I think that the Nasdaq is only a beginning." Eric said, seeing that Kasenberg still looks like a disapproval, laughing: "Well, Jeffery, I know you are worried about yourself. That part of the gain. However, you are not short of money now, aren't you? If you calculate it, if you sell it now, you can only get about 400 million dollars. But if the Nasdaq exceeds 3000 points, even 4000 points, 5000 points. Maybe one day, you suddenly discover that you have become a billionaire."

Kasenberger squinted at the scene depicted by Eric, and shook his head subconsciously: "Eric, this is crazy."

Eric slightly spread his hand and joked: "From the beginning of the Nasdaq 2000, there are no more normal people on Wall Street."

The clover fund's trading team is solely responsible for Eric. Although he can see some data from the Clover Fund, he has no power to dispose of this asset. Seeing that the persuasion is invalid, Kasenberg can only give up and move on to another topic.

"Eric, there is another thing. Didn't you plan to buy Hasbro?"

Eric nodded and said, "Yeah, but now it should not be a good time. It must be waiting for this wave of bubbles to pass."

The madness of the Nasdaq technology stock market has also driven the entire North American stock market. Although it has nothing to do with technology companies, the share price of Hasbro has almost doubled in the last two years.

Eric remembers the data that was accidentally swept a few days ago. The market value of Hasbro has exceeded $5 billion. Three years ago, when the fireflies won the "Transformers" copyright, the market value of Hasbro was only over 20 Only a hundred million dollars. In the past three years, Hasbro's annual profit level has continued to fluctuate around 200 million US dollars. The skyrocketing market value is naturally not the result of increased performance.

Kasenberg said: "It is true, but Hasbro is now in trouble, and it is definitely a big problem."

Eric doubted for a moment, suddenly thought of a flash, said: "You mean, Star Wars?"

Kasenberg didn't expect Eric's reaction to be so quick and accurate. His face flashed with a surprised expression and explained: "Yes, the company's team just negotiated with each other at the Hasbro headquarters in Rhode Island. Next year's licensing of peripheral products. A message they sent back on Friday, the first week of the Star Wars release, Hasbro's authorized toy sales revenue was only 23 million US dollars, even half of the expected has not been reached. Hasbro originally Just to buy the Star Wars prequel series of toy licenses to pay $ 100 million, they originally hoped that the Star Wars prequel release within three months, bringing the company $300 million in toy sales revenue, bringing 500 million US dollars throughout the year The above sales revenue. But from the current situation, the first week should be the most popular moment of toys, but only sold for 23 million US dollars, three months, not to mention 300 million, not even 200 million US dollars. Possibly. Because of the optimism around the Star Wars, Hasbro's pre-sales are very strong. Once the toys are slow-moving, these products can only be recovered and destroyed in the future, plus the huge licensing fees paid in the early period, Hasbro this year. It will definitely be a huge loss."

The Firefly Group is also a large-scale peripheral product division of the same operator. Over the years, Eric has certainly understood what kind of situation Hasbro will face.

What is more serious is that if Hasbro's huge losses catch up with this year's stock market bubble burst, then the situation will definitely be more sour.