I’m in Hollywood

Eric talked to Matthew Perry about "Teddy Bear" at the party that evening. He didn't have any scruples about this completely unruly childhood movie, but showed great interest. The two sides hit it off, so after a symbolic audition, the actor of "Teddy Bear" was so sure.

The hero of "Teddy Bear" was finalized, and Eric’s personally responsible projects such as The Lord of the Rings, Iron Man, Speed ​​and Passion, and Desperate Housewives were basically ready. When I rushed to New York to accompany women and children for Christmas, the only thing left in the project was the "Midnight Ring" heroine still undecided.

When most Western countries are immersed in the joy of Christmas, Southeast Asia is still suffering from the financial turmoil.

After half a month of hard work, South Korea finally gave up the guardian of the won. In just two weeks, the exchange rate of the won against the US dollar plummeted and fell to a ratio of 1756:1, compared with a month ago. The highest drop was 73% of the terror.

Long Island, East Hampton.

Because the two little guys are almost at school age, Joanna and Virginia are no longer moving between East Hampton and Southampton. At the moment, East Hampton is building a brand new elementary school, waiting for next year. Wen and Hawaii are five years old, and this private school, built entirely at no cost, is almost on the right track, just waiting for two little guys to enter school. Prior to this, Joanna and Virginia had unanimously decided to let Kevin and Hawaii receive preschool education at home.

It was already December 20th, and Eric flew from Los Angeles yesterday.

The Chris family also made a special trip to East Hampton this year for Christmas. After breakfast, Chris came from their home in East Hampton's estate and talked to Eric about Southeast Asia.

These days, the East Coast has just had a heavy snow. Although it has already ushered in a sunny day, there is no temperature in the sun.

Eric and Chris did not hide in the study, but sat at the round table at the backyard pool, feeling the soft and weak sunshine in winter, and could see a big girl with three little guys building a snowman not far away. That is Eva Pakula and Kevin, Hawaii and Emma.

"Mike Tepler of the Apollo Fund did not know whether he was crying in private. He chose to go short in the Thai baht, the Indonesian rupiah and other currencies. This time he bet that the won will not plunge. It is said that the loss is 12 Billions of dollars, more than half of the previous earnings are basically filled in. Many funds that do not dare to determine the Korean won are also regrettable, but they are lucky, at least not wrong. Plunge 73%, almost everyone has no I think that the Korean won will fall so badly in a short period of time. Many people will start delivery when the Korean won is 1500:1. If it is not for you, then I actually intend to do so. However, fortunately, I have not done so. Now we The funds on the account are close to 800 million. After the final settlement, the various expenses will be removed, and the profit will be at least 450 million US dollars."

Chris said with excitement, Eric was actually a little surprised. He thought that the memory of rebirth would not help much in this financial crisis, but the fact is more than himself. Expectations.

Take the Korean won, if Chris chooses to deliver when the won is against the US dollar at 1500:1, then the depreciation of the won is about 50%. The $1.1 billion short position established by Firefly Investment, according to the exchange rate of the Korean won at the time of delivery, can recover about 550 million US dollars, excluding the 300 million US dollars of principal, and the profit is only 250 million US dollars.

However, under Eric's insistence, Chris patiently waited until the Korean won fell below 1700 to begin delivery. At this time, the original short-selling position of $1.1 billion has fallen to $300 million. After the delivery of the short contract, the book income of the firefly investment is close to 800 million US dollars, and the profit after the removal of the principal is doubled when the Korean dollar declines by 50%.

Throughout the Southeast Asian financial turmoil, fireflies invested $700 million in principal, which increased to $1.8 billion during the entire process, which is far more than Eric’s original expectations. However, a large part of this is also due to the fact that the investment in firefly investment is very small, and the ship is a good one. If it is a large fund that is enough to change the financial turmoil, it is certainly impossible to get such a high return.

I was chatting, the twins came over with a pot of hot coffee, and the two temporarily stopped talking. Eric subconsciously glanced at the neck of the twins and noticed the 'E' on the silver necklace. This should be sister Yi. Fu.

When Eve left, Chris took up the coffee she had just poured on the two, saying: "Eric, don't you think there are more women around you?"

"This is my dream of two generations," Eric also smiled and took the coffee, and pointed to Eva Pakula, not far away: "That can be counted."

Chris looked at the back of Eve’s departure and said, “So, the rest are all counted.”

"Yeah," Eric did not hide his nod. Whether it was a man's possessiveness or inferiority, although he had never eaten the twins, Eric did not plan to make people.

Chris just asked half a sly, and he didn't continue the topic. "Say, there is a fund manager meeting in Manhattan next weekend. Do you want to go over together?"

"You can do it yourself, I don't have a common language with them," Eric shook his head. He really didn't have any interest in this group.

"But Soros will also go," Chris said with a sigh: "I met him last time. He also said that he liked your comments on him. I hope I have a chance to talk to you. ""

Eric wondered: "What comment, can I remember that I met him?"

"It seems that a few ancient Chinese, he just mentioned it at random, and I did not ask."

Eric remembered this. It was estimated that after he read Soros’s "Financial Alchemy", he wrote on the title page of the book, "The heavens and the earth are furnaces, and the work is made for work; the yin and yang are carbon, and everything is copper." ', he felt that using the two sentences in "Peng Bird Fu" to describe Soros's turmoil in the international financial market is very appropriate.

Eric remembers to give the words "Financial Alchemy" to Kasenberg, and he thought that this should be passed from Kasenberg to Soros. Kasenberg is a New Yorker and will come back often. Soros is said to have also traveled extensively. The chances of their two encounters are still great.

"I almost remembered it," Eric nodded. He was actually very curious about Soros, so he said: "If you have a chance next weekend, look at it."

The two were chatting, Eric's cell phone rang, looked down and showed it, couldn't help but smile, just remembered Kasenberg, he called.

Lifting the phone and pointing to Chris, Eric did not escape, and pressed the button on the back of the chair.

After two words, Eric asked: "Jeffrey, there should be more than six in the morning in Los Angeles. Is there any urgent matter?"

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On the other side of the phone, Kasenberg said something. Eric shook his head and said: "I have seen some newspaper reviews in the morning. The word "Crystal Moment 2" doesn't seem to be as good as the "Star River", but it still Didn't see the box office information, should you come out there?"

Yesterday was December 19th, and it was also the beginning of the Christmas season. The Firefly Group's new line of film "Current Time 2" and Sony Pictures' "Star River Team" were released on a large scale yesterday.

The time zone in Los Angeles is three hours behind New York. New York is now more than nine o'clock in the morning. It is only six o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, far from working. Eric did not pay special attention to box office information as it was when the Titanic was released last year. In this case, the firefly distribution department in Los Angeles will probably send yesterday's single-day box office information to Eric's electronics after work. In the mailbox.

Eric has already seen some reviews of "Rush Hour 2" and "Star River Team" when he has breakfast. In general, "Rush Hour 2" can only be regarded as a reluctant pass in the film critic. "Star River Team" is good. Much more, the comprehensive evaluation exceeded 7 points.

Listening to Kasenberg and calling him to mention "Rush Hour 2", Eric thought that the film box may also lose, he has already prepared psychologically in advance, just as Kasenberg said A few words, Eric immediately straightened up: "The first day of 23.1 million US dollars, you will not make a mistake?"

"..."

"What is the first day box office of the "Star River"?"

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Eric patiently listened to Kasenberg to report some numbers, nodded from time to time, and talked a few more words, then hang up the phone, but the look is a bit complicated.

Chris sat down and heard an approximation, but still curiously asked: "What is $23.1 million?"

""Rush Hour 2", should you read the first one?"

"Well, very interesting movie," Chris nodded. However, after a long time, Chris was very familiar with Hollywood. Just finished saying, he was surprised: "You mean, the first day of the movie is box office 2310. Ten thousand U.S. dollars?"

In Chris's impression, "Rush Hour" can only be regarded as a low-cost action comedy. The first box office seems to be good, but the sequel to the first day of the box office reached 23.1 million is unexpected. You know, according to the first-day box office data, "Rush Hour 2" has a $60 million box office at the end of the first three days of the weekend, and the first week's box office is likely to exceed 80 million.

In Hollywood, the first week of the box office can be more than 80 million US dollars, basically the super-big production in the hands of the seven major film companies, because these films have more publicity and marketing resources. The heavy film of Firefly Christmas season should be "Jurassic Park 3", although "Rush Hour 2" is also very optimistic, but it is definitely not up to the degree of attention of Jurassic Park 3, if expected The box office at "Rush Hour 2" will be so good that Firefly will definitely not put this film in "Jurassic Park 3" because it will definitely create internal competition.

Eric looked at Chris’s surprised expression and nodded. “Everyone did not expect that the new box’s best box office estimate for the first weekend of “Rush Hour 2” is $30 million, that is, one-day box office. It should be around $10 million. But the actual number is more than twice as expected. However, Sony Pictures’ "Star River Team" is somewhat in line with our expectations for "Rush Hour 2". I originally thought that this film would suppress "spikes". Time 2", but in fact, its first day box office is only $8.3 million, less than half of "Rush Hour 2"."

Chris said: "It seems that next week's "Jurassic Park 3" should be affected?"

"There will definitely be an impact," Eric said with a smile. "Really, I was not sure if the first week of the Jurassic Park 3 can reach $80 million. This is the third part. The situation may be even worse. Originally, the first week of "Rush Hour 2" is expected to be around $50 million, so that the box office in the second week will slip to less than $30 million, and it will not be against Jurassic Park. 3, what impact? But now, "Rush Hour 2" in the first week if it exceeds 80 million US dollars, the next week's box office decline is calculated according to 40%, still has 50 million US dollars, which is almost a quarter of the total single-week box office in North America. One."

Chris listened to Eric and said, "This is always a good thing anyway."

"Yeah, anyway, as a boss, I definitely hope that the higher the box office of the firefly's movie, the better."

Eric can only say this, but only once again, he has made up his mind to expand the new movie schedule, at least to avoid the mutual influence of the films in the firefly system.

However, this kind of thing is simple to say. If it is implemented, the things that need to be weighed will be more complicated. It's not easy to decide which videos should be placed in a slightly more unpopular period and which videos should be transferred to the best schedule to maximize the box office potential.

After all, Eric most of the time, can only know the approximate box office prospects of some films, and as Hollywood's development track is increasingly deviating from the original track, some of the power provided by Eric's previous memories will gradually be weakened. .

Chris can also feel the depression in Eric's expression.

In fact, he also knows that if you want the fireflies to choose one of the "Rush Hour 2" and "Jurassic Park 3", the fireflies will definitely be more inclined to "Jurassic Park 3", because as a special effect, "Jurassic Park" 3) The prospect of overseas box office far exceeds that of North America. Even though the box office performance in North America is slightly weaker, the global box office volume can still easily crush most of Hollywood's heavy blockbusters.

"Rush Hour 2" is different. The box office of this series is limited to North America. The performance of overseas box office is only normal compared to North America. Moreover, the "Rush Hour" series has benefits in peripheral derivatives. It is even more incomparable to the Jurassic Park series.