I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 576
[Chapter five hundred and seventy first you have to help me]
Chapter 571
Eric originally thought that the news that “Jurassic Park” broke the global box office record would appear on the entertainment page. To his surprise, the “New York Times” published the news in the current affairs page. The headline on the front page is still the photo of the Tyrannosaurus rex that many newspapers used to mention “Jurassic Park”.
From the beginning of June to the present, after 16 weeks of screening, “Jurassic Park” broke the 1982 “et Alien” with a total global box office of 4.3 billion in North America, 4.7 billion overseas, and a total of 900 million US dollars. ” set a global box office record of $8.9 billion.
Although many professional box office analysts tend to mention the difference in ticket prices between 1982 and 1993, for ordinary people, the most intuitive numbers are often more eye-catching than those professionally in-depth analysis, so the New York Times did not The impact of inflationary factors is not exaggerated.
Although there is still a gap of $100 million from the global box office of $4.6 billion that Eric originally shouted, but according to the current trend, although it is somewhat difficult for the North American box office to surpass the domestic record of “Star Wars” of $4.6 billion, it will be in the next few months. Inside, there is no problem in harvesting about 20 million box office piecemeal, and the box office potential of overseas box office countries is far from being tapped. Eric roughly browsed the box office data of the main box office countries published in the newspaper. At this time, the Japanese box office of “Jurassic Park” was equivalent to more than 80 million US dollars, and the Japanese box office definitely exceeded 100 million US dollars in memory, so according to the current trend, it is only a matter of time before the global one billion.
Aside from some advertising collaborations, Firefly has little ties to the Salzberg family, which owns The New York Times.
After reading the entire page of news, Eric understood why the New York Times had made the news of the record-breaking Jurassic Park in the headlines of the newspaper’s current affairs section with such fanfare.
The New York Times has several very high-quality front-page analysis articles, combining the global box office of “Jurassic Park”, the overseas box office growth rate of Hollywood’s seven major studios in recent years, and the upcoming signing of the new “Jurassic Park” box office. The analysis of the impact of factors such as the GATT has fully rendered a very important message about the global rise of Hollywood.
Joanna noticed Eric’s concentration on reading the newspaper in his hand and frowning slightly from time to time.
He also curiously leaned over and looked at the newspaper in Eric’s hand. Eric rested his chin on the woman’s head and sniffed the faint fragrance of hair.
Asked, “Did you see something?”
Joanna pressed her cheek gently against Eric’s, feeling his strong heartbeat.
Some reluctance to say: “You are going back to Los Angeles?”
“No,” Eric put his arms around Joanna’s soft body and said, “The New York Times will not trumpet the rise of Hollywood for no reason, which should Someone is pushing behind.”
“You call and ask Jeffrey and the others, and it will be clear.”
Eric took his watch and glanced at it.
It was not yet six o’clock, and it was three in the morning in Los Angeles. , At this time, you will definitely be nailed to the villain if you make a phone call.
“I don’t think it’s a PR article from the company. The box office potential of “Jurassic Park” in North America has almost been exhausted. Although it will be able to reap some box office in the next few months, according to the ladder sharing agreement, the company and the The split ratio of the theater chain is 1:9, so there is absolutely no need for marketing.”
Joanna reached out and stroked Eric’s frown due to thought, as if to smooth out the fine lines that were squeezed out there. Said: “I don’t understand these things. You don’t want to think about so many things every day. You will be tired. Why don’t you sleep a little longer?”
“Forget it. It’s time to get up.”
Eric put the newspaper aside, Stop thinking about it, actually.
This kind of thing is not too complicated, and the people who can benefit from today’s news, Bacheng is the manipulator behind it.
Because of the news that “Jurassic Park” broke box office records, in the following days, related phone calls kept coming to the manor in East Hampton, and Eric quickly figured out the reason for the “New York Times” to publish the news. .
On the day that The New York Times passed the record-breaking global box office of “Jurassic Park”, after the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, stocks in the film and television media sector rose collectively, and there were even many potential film companies whose stock prices soared by 30%. .
Reached the daily increase cap on the NYSE.
Of course, most companies only get some of the benefits of the book value of the stock.
Because of the extreme volatility of profits in the film industry, these are benefits from stock appreciation.
It is very likely that it will evaporate suddenly one day in the future.
But Paramount Communications, which Hollywood is being bid for by Viacom and QV, has more immediate benefits.
Shares in Paramount’s parent company, Paramount Communications, rose 17% in the days that followed, nearly a year after news broke last year that Viacom and QV would be bidding for Paramount Communications. At the same time, Paramount Communications’ stock price has doubled, and Paramount Communications’ market value has reached nearly $9.5 billion at this time.
Eric remembers that in the original time and space, Redstone spent $10 billion to acquire Paramount Communications, but according to the current situation, whether it is Barry Diller or Redstone, they want to win Paramount for $10 billion. , is no longer so easy.
In the process of talking with Eric, Michael Lynn and others mentioned this matter with regret. If Firefly Pictures chooses to go public, then in this wave of collective rise of media stocks, Firefly Pictures will be biggest beneficiary.
But Eric doesn’t think so. In his opinion, the par value of a stock and the actual value of a company are two concepts. Although the stock price often reflects the actual value of a company to a certain extent, most of the time, the stock price The price is not equal to the value of the company.
For example, this time, if Firefly chooses to go public, with the box office explosion of films such as “Jurassic Park” in the summer program, Firefly’s stock price will hit a new height, but this height is not necessarily equal to Firefly’s. In actual value, unless shareholders sell their shares at this time, they won’t get much benefit from the rise in stock prices.
Moreover, Eric also talked with Chris about the market value of Firefly Pictures, if Firefly Pictures chooses to go public at this time.
The market capitalization will certainly be able to break through $20 billion very safely.
But in Eric’s mind, because of the reborn Goldfinger, Firefly Pictures is worth more than $20 billion.
While these things happen.
At the end of September, Fox TV officially aired “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
With the lead of the fourth season of “The Archives”, which is at a peak of 20 million viewers, the first episode of “Buffy” has gained more than 15 million viewers.
Although this rating was not too bright in 1993, and even the top ten ratings of annual drama dramas may not be able to reach it, it is a very good TV network for Fox, which has just experienced the withdrawal of Firefly Pictures. The good news, which means that the Fox network really has a hit TV show with complete copyright, plus the media dividend news brought by “Jurassic Park” breaking the global box office record, News Corp. The volatile stock price has finally stabilized.
After “Buffy” aired.
Perhaps because of Murdoch’s cue, or with some other thoughts, Elizabeth, who was far away in Los Angeles, came to East Hampton to visit Eric in person.
After greeting Joanna and the two little guys, Elizabeth came to Eric’s study and said, “The scenery here is good. I will go back and look
for a nearby manor.”
In his place, Eric walked to the small bar and pointed at the coffee, and said, “I also bought a few other places. If you are interested, the key is at Joan’s.”
Elizabeth flipped over Eric and put it on the desk pile of documents on the .
He raised his head and gave him a roll of eyes: “If you gave it to me personally, I would be able to accept it, but you actually asked me to ask your woman for something. It’s so insincere.”
“That’s fine, millions of dollars. I still feel bad for giving you something like this.”
“Bah, you bastard,” Elizabeth spat lightly, waving the folder in her hand, her eyes flashing with undisguised little cunning: “These are It’s a TV drama plan, which one do you fancy, I’ll help you see it.”
Eric calmly poured two cups of coffee.
He walked to the desk and handed the girl a cup, and said, “We are competitors now. Seduction doesn’t work for me.”
In fact, Eric hadn’t had time to watch it.
“The devil wants to seduce you.” Elizabeth threw a white eyeball at Eric again: “Also, your vision is not very good. The ratings of “Buffy” are only 15 million, which is worse than I thought. A
lot.”
Eric grabbed a chair and sat down opposite the desk, holding a coffee cup and smiling: “Is it overjoyed that there are two or three million more viewers?”
Elizabeth seemed to be choked, but did not refute, ” The TV series Buffy naturally has two limitations. First, as a youth campus drama, the audience is directly limited to teenagers. Second, the theme of the TV series is supernatural power, which once again limits those who are not interested in supernatural phenomena. The crowd, the two combined, the 15 million viewership really exceeded the Fox Network’s expectations.
Seeing that Elizabeth’s habitual bickering with Eric was at a disadvantage again, Elizabeth had to turn her attention, looked at the big head monitor on the desktop, looked down, found the computer host, and pressed the power button.
Seeing the login interface appearing on the monitor, Elizabeth rubbed her hands on the keyboard and asked, “Hey, what’s the password?”
Eric took a sip of coffee and said casually, “(Hawaii).”
Elizabeth He put his lips up and entered the password, not forgetting the habit of teasing: “When your daughter grows up, she will be overjoyed with the name her father gave her.”
“I think Emma will find herself a long list of surnames when she grows up. It’s sure to be even more surprising.”
“Hmph, Emma keeps calling you dad, it’s irresponsible that you’ve been in New York for so long, but you don’t go to see the little guy.”
“I’ve always been curious, Ai When Ma called me, did she even know what the word ‘Dad’ meant.”
Elizabeth laughed twice and said, “I’m also curious, Emma only calls you a dad, and doesn’t have such a reaction to other men, women, cats, dogs, and dogs. It seems that you can be classified as a special species alone. , a creature called ‘Dad’, tsk tsk…”
Eric didn’t forget to tap on the keyboard while watching the girl talking, and quickly reminded: “Don’t mess up the files I saved. ”
I’ve been studying for a year,” Elizabeth raised her chin, and then exclaimed: “Wow, why is your computer different from other people’s… It’s so big, 1000m hard drive, how do you get it?” come out?”
Although the computer performance has begun to soar according to Moore’s Law at this time, the ordinary personal computer still has only two or three hundred megabytes of storage space. This kind of thing is very common in later generations, and this kind of computer has a very copycat name, assembly machine.
However, it is not so easy to assemble a personal computer at this time. If you want to exceed the general performance limit, you can only customize it from the motherboard.
“This is a customized version, if you’re interested, I can give you a call,” Eric explained, and then added: “Okay, don’t mess around, you suddenly ran over, what exactly is it for, say Can’t I
?”
“Can’t I just come to see you?”
“I see now, do you want me to see the guest in person?”
“Okay, really, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com” Elizabeth typed hard on the keyboard After a few moments, he said, “Didn’t I serve as the vice president of Twentieth Century Fox?”
“Huh?”
“Then, last week, I took down Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” project, 18 million Dollars, plus a 10% profit share,” Elizabeth said, seeing Eric’s dignified face, she immediately became tearful: “Is the price too high, anyway, you have to help me, this If the project loses, my vice president will definitely pack up and leave.”
Eric asked helplessly: “What is the production budget you have prepared?”
Elizabeth said: “Including Mel Gibson’s remuneration, a total of 70 million.”
Eric sighed: “You should follow me in advance .
To say hello, the profit prospects of this project are actually not too high. I am interested in its Oscar prospects. I think it should be able to win several important Oscar awards before preparing to win it.”
“Then now What should I do?” (To be continued.)
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