I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 862

[Chapter 854 Do you want to know what’s different?]

? Cindy sighed a little: “Tens of billions of dollars, I think for these tens of billions of dollars, they will definitely fight the lawsuit. The VCR has been in a ten-year lawsuit with Disney and Universal.”

Eric laughed: “You must have seen that kind of newspaper that likes to alarmist and attract attention, and they just didn’t mention the most important point, the Sony VCR case. The result of the case law is very favorable for irelyer. What’s more, if irelyer is popularized, it will provide a lot of taxes and jobs for the federal government every year, you think the federal court may suppress the potential big taxpayer for the Japanese. ?”

Local protectionism exists in any country.

If the core patents of traditional portable music players are in the hands of local American companies, involving tens of billions of dollars in huge entanglements of interests, Firefly Electronics may still encounter some troubles, but these patents are precisely in the hands of the Japanese, even the United States. Local traditional player manufacturers have to pay large amounts of patent licensing fees to Japanese companies every year.

In this case, the San Francisco federal court would be considered a ghost if it was willing to stand up for the Japanese.

Chris has mentioned in several recent calls from San Francisco that the San Francisco federal court is likely to directly dismiss the lawsuit by Sony and the other two major record companies, and will not file a case at all.

Cindy tilted her head slightly and listened quietly, and at the end she asked with interest: “What is the case law?”

“You won’t be interested,” Eric shook his head and looked at Cindy with a smile on his lips: “I I’m curious, what are you asking about all of a sudden?”

“Actually, it’s like this,” Cindy didn’t show the embarrassment of being pierced by Eric, and said with a serious expression: “You didn’t suggest me to invest last year. Technology stocks? That’s why I pay more attention to this information.”

Eric probably understood and smiled: “You really bought it?”

Cindy stretched out two fair and slender fingers and shook it: “$20 million , bought all the four stocks you mentioned to me last year.”

Eric really couldn’t remember, and asked, “Which four stocks?”

“It’s aol, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel,” Cindy said, her eyes suddenly widened: “Oh my god, you forgot, that’s most of my savings.”

Eric hurriedly made a downward gesture : “Don’t make such a fuss, and you must have made a profit, right?”

Cindy also realized that she was a little overreacted. Due to the identity of the two, there were already customers who frequently looked here. It’s looking straight ahead.

Covering up and taking a sip of the red wine, Cindy lowered her voice a little excitedly and said, “Yeah, it’s crazy, these stocks have more than doubled in a year, and now the value of the stocks in my hand is close to It’s $50 million. I never thought I would have that much money before.”

Eric actually felt the same way. The Clover Fund has been continuously investing in the Nasdaq market. Even more amazing than the small plate in Cindy’s hand.

“Then what?” Eric asked with a smile, she knew that Cindy would not mention this for no reason.

Cindy stopped going around in circles and slowly cut the cod on the plate, saying, “Recently, my broker suggested that I liquidate all stocks as soon as possible, but I’m a little unsure, so I want to ask your opinion first.

” Rick wondered: “Did the other party have any reason to explain? I mean, why did you suddenly suggest that you clear your position?”

“Well,” Cindy nodded, and said, “He said that the economic crisis that may occur in Southeast Asia will spread to North America, causing the The collapse of the Starq.” The

Nasdaq is now near 1,500, nearly double what it was three years ago.

Therefore, there has long been a bearish voice on Nasdaq in the investment market, and perhaps only Eric is the only person in the world who dares to be 100% sure that the Nasdaq index is far from reaching its limit.

However, if Cindy’s stockbroker persuaded her to sell stocks on the grounds that the Nasdaq was inflated, Eric would not be surprised. The stockbroker encouraged customers to buy and sell stocks frequently to earn more commissions. Very common behavior, but the other party just used the reason that the economic crisis in Southeast Asia might hit North America.

After thinking about it, Eric said, “Cindy, I don’t know how good your stockbroker skills are. However, if it were me, I would definitely do the same now.”

Cindy blinked and asked He asked the same question as Eric just now: “Then what?”

Eric took a sip of red wine and said, “Now no one can be sure whether the Southeast Asian economy will really encounter a crisis, so once this prediction becomes Really, in your eyes, I must have become that kind of stockbroker with a unique vision, and you will trust me more in the future. In this case, if the North American stock market is not affected and continues to advance, I will only give a Reasonable reasons, you will definitely continue to follow my advice and re-buy, this time, two commissions will be paid.”

Cindy obviously couldn’t keep up with Eric’s thoughts, and his thoughts changed. In a big circle, when Eric finished cleaning the last bit of food on his plate, she figured out something and said, “You mean, that guy deliberately lied to me?”

Eric shrugged: “It’s just that there are This possibility, I don’t know your stockbroker, maybe he is really thinking about the client, who knows.”

“But,” Cindy scratched the tableware in the thin china plate twice. , said: “You just seemed to be saying, um, the economic crisis in Southeast Asia will happen, but it will not have an impact on the North American stock market, right? This seems unreasonable. Although I don’t know much about these things, I also feel that it should be It will have an impact.”

Eric said: “Of course there will be an impact, but the impact is exactly the opposite of what your stockbroker described. Let’s put it this way, you know that the two world wars had the greatest impact on the global economic landscape. What is the impact?”

Cindy shook her head: “I don’t know, I’m not interested in things like wars.”

Eric said helplessly: “Didn’t you go to college?”

Cindy raised her pretty face: “Of course, the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University, although I only read it for a year, I still remember the molecular formula of water. h… um, ho2, right?”

“Okay, the water you drink is really special,” Eric wondered if the goblin was trying to be cute, and decided to stop discussing how ‘heavy’ hydrogen dioxide is. He continued: “The biggest impact of the two world wars on the global economy is that the collapse of Europe led to the rise of the Commonwealth. Similarly, once the Southeast Asian monetary system is attacked and triggered an economic crisis, the impact is no different from one A large-scale war. The emerging economies of Southeast Asian countries have been destroyed, and the original capital will definitely choose to flee. Due to the generally high welfare and low efficiency social system in Europe, coupled with the fact that European countries are almost never able to achieve integration, it has been difficult to fight against Capital is too attractive. In this case, North America will once again become the best destination for capital to flee. With a large influx of capital, the most intuitive manifestation must be the arrival of a bull market in the stock market. So, now everything is just the beginning .”

Cindy understood this time, nodded and said: “It seems that I need to change a stockbroker. However, Eric, can I continue to buy now, and when do you think I will sell? Are these stocks better?”

“Of course, it’s time to sell,” Eric thought for a while, and said, “The listing of Yahoo will definitely bring Nasdaq to a high point, and then you can start selling, Don’t enter the market after the liquidation.”

In memory, the Nasdaq stock market crashed in March 2000, but when he created a group of ‘big butterflies’ himself, Eric determined that Nasdaq The index can no longer follow its original historical trajectory.

Yahoo will probably choose the period from the end of 1998 to the beginning of 1999 to go public. As the most watched Internet technology company, Yahoo’s listing will definitely drive the entire market up. It is indeed a good time to sell at that time. The stock must have appreciated several times by then, so there is no need to be too greedy.

As for the stocks held by the Clover Fund, Eric has a more detailed plan, but these must not be disclosed to Cindy casually.

Cindy also saw Eric’s reserved attitude. Although she really wanted to know when Yahoo would go public, she also understood the reasoning that enough is enough, and wisely did not continue to ask.

The two of them ate almost the same food, and it was still early. Cindy did not intend to leave, ordered coffee, and continued to chat with Eric.

Although she can’t keep up with Eric’s thoughts many times, Cindy also understands that the information that she can get at will when getting along with Eric is a hundred times more than those who only talk about it, and others may be obsessed with her. The beauty of her, but this trick is almost useless for Eric. It will only become more and more difficult to ask this man out in the future, but she cherishes this opportunity very much.

After adding a cube of sugar to the hot coffee and stirring gently, Cindy remembered something and asked, “Speaking of which, Eric, will you be in New York early next month?”

Today is April 25th, On Friday, Eric planned to return to East Hampton for the weekend and fly directly back to Los Angeles from there next week, so he shook his head and said, “No, I’ll leave in two days, what’s wrong?”

Cindy said with some regret: “Next The met-ball ball on the 5th of the month, I wanted to invite you as a male partner.”

Eric also remembered – the

ball ball, the full name of which is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball, which is in charge of Anna Wintour. A charity party created to counter the West Coast Vanity Fair party, only the most popular celebrities of the year are invited to participate.

When he attended a reception hosted by the Hearst family last weekend, Anna Wintour, who happened to be there, asked him if he was interested.

Smiling, Eric said, “Even if I have time, I definitely can’t be your male companion. Drew will definitely come to join in the fun.”

Everyone knows that Eric and Drew are very close. relationship, Cindy has been in contact with Drew several times, and she never dared to argue with Drew, because she always felt that there was a crazy factor behind that baby face that might turn people’s faces in an instant.

If she had a conflict with Drew, Cindy was sure that Eric couldn’t possibly help her.

Thinking of this, Cindy couldn’t help but be a little curious: “Eric, what kind of relationship do you have with Drew, um?”

Eric did not shy away from this question, and replied with a smile: “It’s the kind of relationship you imagined, a tree and a vine, entangled and entangled, and no one can leave the other.” For some reason

, Xin Di felt that the picture outlined by Eric with a few simple words made him feel a strong sense of jealousy.

“Then, doesn’t she mind you… dating us?”

“Of course she does, but the girl’s outlook on life is not the same as others,” Eric thought for a while, then looked at Cindy with a smile: ” Do you want to know what’s different?”

Cindy shook her head almost instinctively: “No.”

“Oh,” Eric smiled and was about to say something when he felt the phone vibrate in his pocket and took it out to signal to Cindy After a while, he got up and walked into the corridor not far away, and picked up the phone.

Katzenberg personally called from Los Angeles. The two talked for about ten minutes. UU reading www.sonicmtl.com Eric returned to his seat, looked at his watch, and said to Cindy, “We may have to leave early. It

‘s gone.”

Cindy automatically forgot the topic that made her regret a little while ago, and asked with concern, “What happened?”

Eric called the waiter and handed over the credit card, and then said to Cindy. : “It’s not a big deal, isn’t it Friday? The global box office data for the 18th week of “Titanic” came out, and the detailed data assistant has been sent over. I want to go back and have a look.”

“Wow, it’s already the 18th week. It’s been a week,” Cindy said, immediately interested, “I remember it was like, um, $1.775 billion last week, which is a miracle, how much is it now?”

“1.852 million.”

Arie Ke reported a number, and his mood was also not so calm, because this number means that “Titanic” has successfully broken the previous record of 1.84 billion US dollars in the first round of screenings, and continues to sprint to the new record of 2 billion US dollars on.

Katzenberg just said on the phone that according to the current box office curve of “Titanic”, there is no suspense in the global box office sprint of 2 billion US dollars. The only thing that cannot be determined is the final potential.

A month ago, when the global box office of “Titanic” exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars, the company’s executives proposed to hold a grand celebration dinner, but Eric rejected it. He hopes that the total box office will exceed 1.8 billion. Celebrate after the goal is achieved.

In the phone call just now, Eric and Katzenberg have agreed to hold a grand celebration party in the Titanic model initially built in Firefly Studios next Wednesday, and will also officially announce the Titanic-themed exhibition project. .

(To be continued.)

[End of this Chapter]