I’m in Hollywood

Whether to fully enter the field of digital music sales is related to the fundamental business strategy of several major record companies. .

Eric did not expect any agreement between the two sides to meet for the first time. He continued to test each other with Edgar Bronfman and Doug Morrison, and agreed on the timing of the next meeting. .

Personally sent Edgar Bronfman and Doug Morrison to the administrative building, Eric returned to the office and picked up the phone and discussed with Firefly Electronic eo Victor McNealy just with Edgar Bronfman. The result of the contact.

In fact, Eric's contact with the global side, Firefly Electronics President Bill Olsen has personally flew to Europe with a prototype of the mini music store, lobbying for the two major record companies EMI and bmg.

Similar to the previous two years, the release time of the new generation of irelyer players is also scheduled for Easter during the April of this year, which is only about one month away.

In the face of the pressure from electronics manufacturers who have announced their entry into the field of digital music players, considering the success of the mini music store plan to maintain the leading edge of the irelyer player market, the next month, Firefly Electronics The main focus of work with Yahoo is to establish a close working relationship with at least one of the top five record companies to obtain the music copyright resources of the other party and make up for the shortcomings of the mini music store.

Among the top five record companies, Sony's Sony record is undoubtedly the most difficult piece of bone because of its own music player product. Eric basically does not report any expectations, and there is no contact with the other party. Warner Music is part of Time Warner, AOL and Time Warner have just announced the merger. At this time, Time Warner’s internal management system will be more complicated, and the parties will be forced to work with Warner in a month. When the record reaches a cooperation, the odds are also close to zero.

Next, there will be only Universal, EMI and bmg.

Among the three, Universal Music, which just merged with PolyGold last year to further consolidate its position as the world's largest record group, is undoubtedly the best choice, although Eric has not shown any cards at all, but as long as Can not contribute to this cooperation, he definitely does not mind paying a price.

Of course, Eric did not put all his goals on the Universal Music family, so Bill Olsen would fly to Europe.

On the phone and discussed with Victor McNealy for more than half an hour, Eric hangs up the phone, looks at the watch, and after some time off work, he flips a document on his desk and picks up the next side. pencil.

The action of holding the pen in the right hand inevitably touches the bite marks on the outside of the arm that have begun to scar, so I can't help but open the sleeves and look at the gauze wrapped around the arm.

After that afternoon's event, because the children were frightened, and with the shocking bite marks on Eric's arm, Virginia was indiscriminately counting Eric's meal, even Joanna was rare. Shows a small emotion.

Back in Los Angeles, the scene was even more lively, and women came to watch the horrible situation that Eric was bitten.

Shantou said that he was very envious and wanted to take another bite on Eric’s arm and leave his mark.

The chick’s attention was on how Eric had provoked the girl named Carmen Kass.

Elizabeth directly throws two words and deserves it.

Julia had a very distressed look, but the little eyes seemed to want Eric to come to her too.

Nicole carefully helped Eric check the wounds. It was very sympathetic. It just ‘carelessly pulled off a **** knot that had just been set up, and then claimed that he had revealed obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Famick felt that the bite was a bit off, and it would look better if he could bite in the center of the outside of the arm.

Ok.

They are all unconscionable.

Only Carolyn showed a very distressed look after seeing the bite marks on Eric's arm. He also called Olivia and then naturally came from the UK.

Unconsciously, I remembered the girl with a petite face and a decisive girl. Paris Fashion Week opened today. She should have started the catwalk now.

Thinking about it, I reviewed a few documents and got off work. The secretary knocked on the door and said that Kenneth Horn was outside.

Some doubts let the other party come in, Kenneth Horn walked into the office, his expression looked very excited, said: "Eric, I just got a call from several theater managers, you guess "Witch Blair" How is the attendance rate?"

"It must be great," Eric put down his pencil and changed his pen to sign his name at the end of a document before he smiled. "Otherwise, you can't run so eagerly."

“Not very good, it’s very good,” Kenneth Horne pulled a chair and sat down opposite Eric. “The manager of the Regr Cinema told me that they arranged 50 screening rooms throughout the day. It’s all full, and tomorrow’s movie tickets have already been sold out. The same is true for the other cinemas. The other side suggested that we increase the size of the film immediately.”

Eric nodded: "Then increase, you can arrange these things yourself."

Fireflies are naturally different from the artisans of the past, plus this is the off-season of the movie. If necessary, if you want to increase the scale of the show, it will take only a week to get everything done.

"Hey, Eric, you don't seem to be excited at all," Kenneth Hoorn deliberately showed a dissatisfied expression. "You know, a movie with a $32,000 investment, even with late repair costs, It’s only $60,000. If the 200 auditoriums are all full in the coming week, we can definitely create a box office miracle.”

"We have created enough miracles," Eric smiled and put down the pen, looked up and said, "Well, since you are so excited, give you a chance, please come tonight for dinner, too. You can call them Jeffrey. Of course, if you have not made an appointment with your family to go back to dinner."

Kenneth Horne nodded in some 'depressed' places, and wentssip: "Today is Friday, don't you have any arrangements?"

"No."

Eric gave a slight movement to the wrist. After a while, the women were in the state of deliberately neglecting him.

The two were talking, Eric’s private cell phone rang, and when he glanced at the call, he immediately connected the phone in front of Kenneth Horn: “Hey, Warren, I haven’t seen it for a long time... Of course, you... ...I am still in Firefly Studios, I am planning to have dinner with everyone, are you coming... Oh, you tell me your place, I am going to pick you up."

After talking a few words, Eric hangs up.

When Kenneth Hoon saw Eric not avoiding himself, he volunteered: "Warren, Warren Buffett?"

Eric nodded and said: "It should be for the clover fund."

Although Kenneth Horne could not directly see the financial data of the Clover Fund, it was not a secret to his executives, so he curiously asked: "Speaking, the Clover Fund The stock value should now have $30 billion?"

"There was a breakthrough of $30 billion last week."

"I don't know much about stocks," Kenneth Horne said with amazement. "But, Eric, I heard that the Nasdaq index is already faltering. Everyone is now selling tech stocks. You should be more cautious. some."

Although Eric will not easily change his decision, he naturally will not accept the kind advice from others and nod his head. "I understand, hey, call Jeffrey, since Warren is here, everyone. Just entertain yourself."

"I think you just want us to be there, so that Buffett can't open the door to persuade you to sell the stock," Kenneth Hoon grinned and broke Eric's intentions, but still took out his cell phone and started calling.

Although Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholding in the Firefly Group is only 5%, but if the stock worth $3 million can be fully cashed, even if all kinds of fees and taxes are removed, Berkshire Hathaway can still take it. At least $1 billion.

One billion dollars, for any business, is a cash that cannot be ignored.

However, once the Nasdaq crashes, the stock of the clover fund is likely to be stuck for a long time. Unless the meat is gone, it is impossible to cash out any cash in the short term.

As a person who is conservative and cautious in his bones, Warren Buffett obviously does not want to see this happen, so he will rush to Omaha from Omaha.

However, in the evening dinner, no matter how the old man persuaded, Eric did not sell the clover fund stock in advance.

When things have grown to the present, Eric is actually gambling.

As long as the Nasdaq index can successfully cross the threshold of 3,000 points without a collapse, according to the previous Nasdaq upward curve, the cash scale of the future Clover Fund will likely reach 40 billion or even more than 50 billion US dollars.

By then, even if all taxes are paid, the Firefly Group can still hold between $30 billion and $35 billion in cash.

Such a huge sum of money, coupled with the cash reserves of firefly investment, is enough for Eric to further expand the economic empire of the firefly system while the North American economy is in a downturn after the Nasdaq crash, while still being as small as possible. Diluted the shareholding ratio of its own company.

The lobbying is invalid, Buffett is worthy to leave Los Angeles the next day.

At the same time, although the weekend has not passed, the news that "Witch Blair" may create a box office miracle in North America has been one after another. A large number of media have published photos of the long queues of fans outside the theater.

Moreover, some professional film critics also joined in and began to discuss the phenomenon of "Witch Blair" enthusiastically.

Although most of the film critics still relentlessly put the "Witch Blair" in a ruthless manner, and unceremoniously through various professional analysis, revealing that "Witch Blair" is definitely just a human-made film rather than an adventure documentary. The facts, but the extent to which things have developed to the present, the public has no longer been concerned about the true and false of the witch Blair incident.

Everyone is just curious, this is like a movie that is being discussed all over the world.

So, when the first three days of the first weekend, the new week's box office data released, "Witch Blair" that amazing box office data, once again added a discussion of the public's hot discussion.

$11.2 million.

This is the first three days of box office data for "Witch Blair".

It’s just a box office in the early 10 million. For many big movies, if you achieve such a result in three days, it can definitely be said that the box office is fiasco.

But at this time, after a series of data disclosure, everyone can only use miracles to describe.

Because the cost of shooting "Witch Blair" is only $32,000.

Even with the quality restorations that the Firefly Group made to make copies, all costs were only $60,000.

The production budget of $60,000 is only second.

What is even more rare is that the film size of this film is only 200 screens, which is equivalent to three days in the first weekend, and the single box office of each screening hall has reached 56,000 US dollars.

Without comparison, there is no harm naturally.

Then look at the Mel Gibson crime action blockbuster "Dangerous People" released in the same period.

The second week of the film release, the weekend box office was 14.37 million US dollars, higher than "Witch Blair" 3 million US dollars, the 10-day cumulative box office was 41.33 million US dollars.

However, the screen size of "Dangerous People" is indeed more than 2,700. In the same period, the box office of the single hall is only $5,000, which is less than one tenth of "Witch Blair". Moreover, the production cost of "Dangerous People" is more than 90 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 1500 times of the total production budget of "Witch Blair".

Compared with the scale of production and the scale of the release, the "Dangerous People" box office only exceeded the "Witch Blair" area of ​​3 million US dollars, in any case, can only be described by the word failure.

Of course, there is another problem in this.

Why is Mel Gibson, a big-production movie with a $90 million investment, thrown into a March-like schedule like a cemetery?

the reason is simple.

Because this film is completely filmed by Mel Gibson's personal production company, there is no big studio to participate in the production.

Although the film is distributed by Paramount, Paramount will naturally only leave the best quality schedules and promotional resources to their own films. As for other independent film companies, even if there is a big star big investment, but Without self-participation, Paramount naturally does not invest hard, and even has a tacit understanding of the main suppression.

Speaking of it, after the abandonment of the release of Colombia, Adam **** worked alone with a single filmmaker, "Daddy Forward", although the Warner Bros. was finally identified as the issuer, but the schedule was still determined at the end of the summer file 8 month.

Although Hollywood movies have become more and more prosperous, with the integration of the media group, it is becoming more and more difficult for the independent film company to take a share of the good.