I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 699

[Chapter 693 Meow]

Under the strong insistence of Eric, the capital injection negotiations with Qualcomm were finally finalized on the day of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on January 21.

↗Fiction,

Qualcomm’s shareholders and management also understand that the sooner an agreement is reached with the powerful Firefly, the better it will be for the promotion of CD technology. Therefore, they did not open their mouths because of Firefly’s urgent attitude. The stock price determines the final capital injection amount of Firefly.

After the news of Firefly’s contact with Qualcomm came out, Qualcomm’s stock price rose by 21 in just one week, reaching $23.8 per share. Firefly Investment will eventually need to pay $238 million for Qualcomm’s private placement of 10 million shares, which is far from the price. Exceeding Eric’s tolerance, he rushed from Los Angeles to San Diego in person early in the morning.

After the signing ceremony was held in the morning, high-level executives such as Eric, Chris and Qualcomm’s Owen Jacobs got into the conference room to discuss the next step.

It is already five o’clock in the afternoon after the detailed discussion of the lobbying strategy for telecom operators and the construction plan of Qualcomm’s cd equipment factory.

Chris and Owen Jacobs had already made an appointment with Verizon’s CEO for tomorrow’s meeting. After the afternoon meeting, the two couldn’t wait to board the plane to Verizon’s headquarters in New York.

Eric sent Chris and Owen Jacobs away, and also drove back to Los Angeles with his entourage.

By winning Qualcomm, Eric once again placed an important pawn in the high-tech industry that has begun to rise.

original time and space.

Although Qualcomm is much more obscure than high-tech companies such as Cisco and Yahoo, which once had their own booming moments, in fact.

Qualcomm is the most profound of these companies, because it has almost a complete monopoly on an entire generation of mobile communication technology. Even if it really encounters a decline, it can answer the old saying that there are still three thousand nails in a broken ship. , relying solely on the licensing fees of thousands of patents held in its hands, it can steadily make large profits every year.

Think of these.

Eric’s thoughts turned to Cisco, Yahoo, Nokia and AOL already owned by Firefly Investments.

If according to the original historical development process, in addition to Cisco, the remaining three companies will gradually decline in the next few years.

Eric read later articles about why Nokia suddenly declined. In the process of development, these high-tech enterprises are neither short of capital nor lack of technology. The fundamental reason for their decline is the major mistakes in the direction of enterprise development.

As long as he can maintain enough control over these companies in his opponents, with the advantages of the reborn, Eric is confident at least for the next two decades.

He was able to keep these companies on the right track.

The black Rolls Royce was galloping along the Pacific Rim Highway between Los Angeles and San Diego, as the sunset teetered on the distant sea level, dyeing everything in sight a magnificent orange.

In the carriage,

Eric kept his eyes closed and contemplative all the way.

Kelly, who was sitting next to him, was not disturbed and quietly flipped through a document in her hand.

I don’t know how long it took to notice that Eric suddenly opened his eyes and straightened his body. Kelly raised her head and asked, “Eric, what’s the matter?”

Eric turned his head and asked Kelly, “I remember watching a few days ago. Do you remember when Cisco executives submitted an M&A proposal?”

Kelly nodded: “Well, there is a plan to acquire a network switch company in Seattle. The initial negotiated price was US$1.9 billion, using a stock-for-stock merger. ”

What is our shareholding ratio after this transaction?”

Kelly pondered for a moment and said, “Cisco’s current stock market value is about $16 billion, and after the merger, it will exceed $18 billion, and our shareholding ratio will drop from 23. To 20.5.”

Eric shook his head, although the shareholding ratio dropped to 20.5, Firefly is still Cisco’s largest shareholder, but its control will become weaker and weaker. Although Cisco has maintained a strong position in the industry in the previous life, Eric Ke will not deliberately intervene in corporate management, but he also realizes that he can no longer let the Cisco equity in Firefly’s investment hands be diluted, even if this diluted share will still be a huge wealth in the future.

“It can’t be lowered any more, no, not only can it not be lowered any more, we will also increase our holdings of Cisco shares again, you will contact Chris tomorrow and ask Cisco’s management to change the method of this merger and convert it into a cash plus shareholding method to ensure that our The shares cannot be diluted again. In addition, you will discuss a plan to increase our shareholding. It is best to increase our shareholding ratio to 30.”

Kelly asked in confusion: “Eric, don’t you plan to invest in the telecommunications industry? According to With the current size of Verizon and Sprint, any of them will require more than $1 billion to agree to the investment of Firefly. If you increase Cisco’s shareholding ratio to 30 as you said, considering the premium factor, it is likely It needs to invest 2 billion US dollars, and there is not necessarily an investment institution willing to transfer the shares in their hands.”

Eric couldn’t help but say generously, 2 billion US dollars is more than ten times the initial investment of Firefly in Cisco, but at this time only If you can get less than 10 shares, it seems that the good days of picking up leaks in the future will be gone forever.

But given Cisco’s future value, the additional investment at this point is definitely worth it.

Firefly Group has just experienced a lucrative fiscal year, and Eric was still feeling that there was too much money some time ago. Now he finds that if he wants to continue to expand, the funds in his hand are still far from enough.

It’s not that Eric didn’t have the idea of making some big investments in the past, but he always subconsciously felt that the benefits were not high enough and he resisted. However, at this time, he also felt a sense of enlightenment. He kept thinking about picking up leaks, which was definitely not correct. investment thinking, but speculation.

Just like the war in the age of cold weapons, it is okay to occasionally send out a few surprise soldiers to fight a few battles with less wins.

“The profit of Firefly Group should be able to cope with these plans. Even if it is not enough, I will consider financing from other channels. You just do it.”

Kelly nodded and wrote Eric’s instructions in the memo.

Looking out the window, he was about to enter downtown Los Angeles and asked, “Eric, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony should have started. Are you going to the Hilton Hotel?”

It was already dark outside the window, Eric looked at his watch.

seven thirty.

In his capacity, even if he rushes over at this time, he will not be stopped outside the banquet hall, but there is really no need for this. Looking at the female assistant who is wearing a black suit and skirt, Eric asked with a smile. Said: “I’m not going to join in the fun, is Nina in boarding school today?”

Kelly blushed and nodded lightly.

“Then let’s find a place to have dinner first, and then go to your place.” The

female assistant pinched the corner of her clothes.

Cheeks are pink, and the voice is like a mosquito: “Still, go directly to me, it’s easy to be touched when you eat outside.”

“No problem. Listen to you.”

“No doubt, it has nothing to do with the movie, this is just another time. The victory of men. Braveheart, a self-righteous film full of fictional historical facts, completely defeated the ten times and hundred times better than it was to save Private Ryan, just because the director of Saving Private Ryan was a woman, and again It proves that Hollywood’s deep-rooted sexism is there. As long as you are a woman, even if you do things that men may not be able to do, you still won’t be recognized. Finally, I just want to ask very weakly, is it true? Is it going to go on like this?”

The day after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, a well-known female commentator in the Los Angeles Times made such a rhetorical comment in her personal column, and received a lot of one-sided comments from the media. The discussion of sexism is also mixed with all kinds of shady questions and discussions of the Golden Globe Awards.

The reason for this is that at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, the much-anticipated Saving Private Ryan lost all four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Score. Braveheart, only Tom Hanks successfully won the Best Actor Award.

Although many professional film critics are well aware that the two films, Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan, can be said to be on the same level in terms of art, but instinctively, there are still many film critics who prefer Saving Private Ryan with a stronger sense of cultural identity. , because there is no strong contender, Tom Hanks is almost a certainty for the best actor.

Ahead of the awards ceremony, much of the discussion focused on where the nominations for best picture and best director belong.

After saving Private Ryan for nothing, some people’s original sense of identity turned into disappointment and doubt. Because of the gender of director Catherine, many feminists also protested angrily to the Golden Globe Awards jury committee, and even called on Hollywood actresses Stop attending the Golden Globes.

Regarding the media’s doubts, the Golden Globe Awards jury, like many times in the past, completely adopts an attitude of not responding. This kind of questioning about the awards happens almost every year. If you respond in the same way, you will appear guilty and make things worse.

In the following days, the nomination list for the 67th Academy Awards was announced, and Braveheart once again caused a heated discussion in the media. The focus of this controversy was on Mel Gibson’s nomination for Best Actor and Brave at the Golden Globes. The nomination for Best Actor in the Heart of the Heart has already made many film critics slandered, thinking that Mel Gibson’s performances are only a few, and there is still a large distance from winning the award nomination. Most of the media originally thought that the Oscars are not Mel Gibson would be nominated for Best Actor like the Golden Globes, but the fact that many people ate flies.

The film critics have not finished expressing their anger because of the unfair anger of the Golden Globe Awards. At this time, they did not hesitate to point their guns at Oscar, which is another discussion on the fairness of Oscar.

Of course, ordinary people don’t know how much happened during this period, and they just follow the debate with relish.

With the increase of topicality, more and more media have begun to follow up, changing tricks to attract audiences or read.

Most people didn’t notice that with this discussion boom, Rescue Private Ryan, who had been down for a long time, silently sold 670,000 boxes of videotapes in the following week, which was equivalent to the total of the previous two weeks. In just one week, Firefly brought in $20 million in video sales.

at the same time.

Braveheart, which is still in theaters, also jumped 60 percent to 11 million at the box office from more than $7 million before the Golden Globes.

The cumulative box office hit the $73 million mark with ease.

The Weinstein brothers are naturally happy, and small movements are more frequent.

In the whole thing, Mel Gibson is undoubtedly the most bitter. The controversy caused by the best actor nomination, and the media controversy about Hollywood sexism, has infinitely compressed his hopes of winning the best director to almost nothing.

“He’s been paid $18 million. He’ll take another 10 in the future. Fox doesn’t owe him anything. Harvey wanted to spread the word about his Jewish racism. I stopped him, hum, I wouldn’t care if it wasn’t for the fact that everyone was Australian.”

In the hilltop mansion of Beverly Julia and Elizabeth, Elizabeth was wearing a crisp white shirt, jeans and sunglasses. Leaning on the beach chair by the pool, he said to Eric, who was reading the script on the other lounge chair.

Eric turned a page of the script in his hand and just nodded.

Said he heard it.

Elizabeth curled her lips in dissatisfaction and said, “Eric, I heard that you have hired two new directors and handed over the Matrix to one of them. Aren’t you afraid of screwing up?”

“To be precise, it’s three. ,” Eric corrected casually.

“Of course I know, that, the Wachowskis, eh, are they anything special?”

heard Elizabeth’s thief voice.

Eric smiled and said: “Don’t worry about it, the two of them, oh, three, have signed a three-film option contract with Firefly, at least five years, they will definitely not accept other companies. Of course, unless I take the initiative to let them go.”

Since he decided to use the Wachowskis and Michael Bay, Eric certainly wouldn’t give them a chance to shoot a film that was a big hit at the box office and leave. The trio signed the usual Hollywood option deal, stipulating that they would have to direct at least three Firefly films before moving elsewhere.

Of course, in order to maintain a good relationship with three directors who have good potential for appreciation in the future, Eric did not stipulate a low director salary in advance like many option contracts.

Although Eric advocates suppressing the super-high remuneration of Hollywood superstars, he will not exhaust the water and let the main film creators only work without getting their due remuneration. Win-win is the fundamental principle for a virtuous circle of an industry.

The option contract given by Eric was not harsh, and the Wachowskis and Michael Bay signed it happily.

Elizabeth thought that Eric was talking about the traditional option contract, snorted twice, and said, “I think you are the greedy Jew that Mel Gibson said.”

Eric ridiculed this kind of race She didn’t mind at all, she shrugged and said, “Who knows, everyone who goes to Hollywood wants to be a Jew.” While the

two were chatting, Julia walked over lightly with a plate of cut fruit platters. On the small round table on Eric’s right hand, he gently pushed Eric to the side, squeezed with Eric, and lay down comfortably on the wide beach chair.

Elizabeth said dissatisfiedly: “Julia, where is my fruit plate?”

Julia put her arms around Eric’s waist, twisted her body to find a more comfortable position, and felt Eric’s heartbeat and warm sunshine. Lazily said, “Do it yourself.”

“Tsk tsk, it’s like a cat, it’s still a spring cat.”

Julia ignored it, Eric smiled and touched Julia’s chest. Face: “Little cat, meow.”

“Meow”

“Ouch, you are sick to death, I’ll forget it,” Elizabeth made a retching motion, looked impatiently at the script in Eric’s hand, and said: “You When did you finish it, and what did you think?”

“You know, I’ve never been able to lift up my spirits about things that I’m not interested in.”

“Is this script bad? I spent a lot of effort. , and also specifically checked a lot of information on small animals.”

The script in Eric’s hand was exactly an idea similar to robbing a nut shop that Elizabeth brainstormed in a short time after he and Elizabeth saw a small squirrel in the open-air restaurant that day. During this time, Elizabeth found a few The writers worked out the story together.

“It’s not bad, but it doesn’t make people feel at all. If you want to watch it, I will let you have a copy of the story script that Disney Animation is preparing, and let you see what is called imagination. Elizabeth leaned hard

on

the reclining chair and said, “Since you don’t like this story, why would you ask Chris Wedge from Blue Sky Studio to do something? I watched that work. Although he has done special effects for some big-name movies, he has not yet set foot in the animation field, and he can’t compare to the people at Pixar.”

Eric closed the script in his hand and picked up the fruit bowl. He ate a piece of apple and said, “Although your story is general, you can let them use it to practice their hands and make a short video to train the team.”

“You might as well give me some people from Pixar, just It’s like Disney animation.”

Eric shook his head and said, “Pixar, don’t worry about it, but I didn’t give you this studio either. The two of us are divided equally. I’ve thought about it and left it to the management. Tier 10 shares, the remaining Firefly and Fox each have 45.”

“You already have two animation studios,”

Eric laughed: “If it’s not that some animation ideas don’t fit Disney’s style, I don’t mind Firefly. One more animation studio.”

“Wow, you greedy Jew” to be continued.

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