I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 689

[Chapter 683 I am a capitalist]

Had a morning meeting, dined with Katzenberg at noon, and discussed some trivial matters. It was not until the afternoon that Eric made time to learn about the opportunities in the a network yesterday, but the telecommunications market in South Korea is too small, and there is no It will have too much impact on the global overall communication technology standards.

And, just a week before the auction of spectrum licenses, AT&T announced that it would build out its g network nationwide.

As the largest telecommunications operator in the federation, the communication technology standards determined by at&t will surely drive a group of followers.

The technical maturity of g is much higher than that of cd, and once most operators switch to g, Qualcomm may even face bankruptcy,” said Kelly after a pause, saying: “The Qualcomm stock absorbed by Firefly Investment will immediately It will be more than a million shares, if it continues, Eric, once Qualcomm goes bankrupt.

These stocks become worthless.

”

Qualcomm issued a total of 6 million outstanding shares for the first time in 1992, accounting for 30% of the total share capital. Due to the rise of g, Qualcomm’s development has lagged behind in recent years. There is no further financing behavior.

At present, Qualcomm’s share price is only 7 US dollars. Wandering around, the total market value is only 3.4 billion.

To tell the truth, if he can eat all of Qualcomm, Eric will not have any hesitation at all. After all, it is only the video tape income of the Victoria’s Secret show. It can bring him The entire Firefly Group has no large-scale expansion plans for the time being. With its leading profitability in Hollywood, a very happy trouble the Firefly Group is facing now is that it has too much money.

“00 10,000 shares are only 7 million,” Eric said to Kelly: “I plan to absorb at least 3 million shares, so it only needs to spend 50 million US dollars, this investment is equivalent to a medium production investment film. , it doesn’t matter if you lose all of them.

”

Yeah, it really doesn’t seem to matter to you,” Kelly also realized that if she cares, it’s messy. $50 million is really nothing for Eric’s current net worth.

The two are discussing , Eric’s mobile phone on the desk rang.

After connecting, Elizabeth’s voice came from the other side.

Eric simply said a few words and hung up the phone.

Kelly also heard some information from the conversation between the two, and asked: “Miss Murdoch”

“Well, about the Golden Globes and the Oscars, saving Private Ryan and Braveheart collided, Lily I would like to talk to you about the PR of the two film awards.”

Eric said and stood up, Kelly took his jacket thoughtfully, Eric stretched out his hand and put it on, looking down with his eyes lowered. Going to the female assistant who was gently tying his buttons in front of him, Eric inexplicably had the illusion that his wife was sending her husband on a date with another woman

. Why do you feel a little guilty all of a sudden?”

Kelly smiled sweetly, her hands didn’t stop, she said with a little woman’s emotion, “I just want to make you feel guilty.”

“Uh, you can use this trick yourself, Qian Qian. Don’t make rumors.”

“Will it be troublesome for you to spread it out?”

Eric nodded vigorously: “Very troublesome.”

After the popular New Year’s period, the most important thing for Hollywood is undoubtedly to deal with the current awards season .

Compared with last year’s Oscar year, this year’s awards season Hollywood also has no so-called movie works, but there is a confrontation between Saving Private Ryan and Braveheart.

Although the Oscar nominations have not yet been released, in the more important film and television Golden Globe nominations, the two films won the best drama film, the best director, the best actor, the best screenwriter and the best soundtrack at the same time. Five nominations.

Mel Gibson’s performance can only be considered average. Eric remembers that he did not get any Best Actor nominations in the original time and space. Now that such a nomination at the Golden Globes should be regarded as Weinstein’s public relations achievement.

As early as more than a year ago, Eric and Elizabeth had discussed the award-winning strategy of these two films. However, the plans were always unable to keep up with the changes, and many things still needed to be changed according to the current situation.

Under the reasonable operation of Miramax, Braveheart is undoubtedly more successful at the box office than the version that won the award but lost the box office in the original time and space.

Braveheart has been released on a small scale since the beginning of February last year, and continued to accumulate word-of-mouth and box office. During Christmas, Miramax increased the release scale to 2,000 in one fell swoop. With the advertising effect brought by the Golden Globe Award nomination and the long-term operation. With the accumulation of word-of-mouth, the film received more than 26 million US dollars at the box office in the same week. Now that it has just entered the first week after the new year, the total box office of Braveheart has approached 60 million. With the continuous hot topic of the awards season, many end-of-year schedules The box office of the films has fallen sharply, but the box office of Braveheart has maintained a slight decline of around 20%. If this situation continues to the Oscars, the total box office of Braveheart is conservatively estimated to be around 200 million US dollars, which is close to the Oscars. In its own right, Braveheart is likely to recoup its full cost at the box office through its overseas release.

Eric left the Firefly headquarters and followed the address given by Elizabeth to an open-air restaurant in Beverly Hills frequented by Hollywood celebrities. Although it was work time in the afternoon, the restaurant was still full of guests who were casually drinking coffee and chatting. There is no shortage of familiar faces.

Seeing the waiter leading Eric in, many guests stood up to say hello to Eric.

Passing through the crowd with greetings, UU reads www.sonicmtl.

com Eric met Elizabeth and Harvey Weinstein on the restaurant patio.

Sit down at the table and ordered a random cup of coffee. Eric looked at the gentle slope with bushes outside the railing, the Beverly mansion scattered in the field of vision like chess pieces, and the city of Los Angeles in the distance. He nodded and said: “The scenery here is really good, no wonder there are so many guests.”

Harvey Weinstein said with a smile: “Eric, if you like, you can come here often in the future, the owner of this restaurant is my friend, I let He gave you a free bill.”

Eric gestured to the eyes that still glanced at them frequently, and joked: “Free bill is definitely not enough, if I come here often, your friend may have to advertise for me. fee or something.”

Elizabeth and Harvey both laughed. If Eric really frequented this place, the number of guests who tried to approach him in the restaurant with all kinds of thoughts must have multiplied. It would be better than a billboard.

The three chatted casually for a while before the topic gradually turned to awards season.

To be continued.

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[End of this Chapter]