Chapter 506： Turn into zero

Eric got off the plane, just about to leave the airport with a few followers, and saw Elizabeth wearing a khaki trench coat pulling a simple suitcase and waving at him, then quickly walked over.

After News Corp’s business center moved to the United States, the Murdoch family settled in New York, and Elizabeth returned to New York to spend the holidays with her family during the holiday season. Eric did not expect to meet Elizabeth at the airport so far back to Los Angeles.

Eric asked the bodyguard to help Elizabeth get the baggage before asking: "So come back so soon, why not spend more time in New York?"

"It’s not interesting to stay in New York. I’m going to go to the party all day, boring to die, it’s better to come back to work,” Elizabeth said, looking at Eric: “Speaking, I’m at the party these days. A lot of things about firefly investment, what are you doing?"

"I intend to hide my family's home and hide it. I don't let others too easily guess how much I have," Eric said calmly. Even if he doesn't admit it, someone who is sure to be able to guess it.

Firefly film industry can't hide it for the time being. Fortunately, the value of the entertainment industry is very large, not to mention the firefly film industry is not listed, it is not so easy to find the home of the firefly film industry. However, some of the assets in the hands of firefly investors are obviously exposed to the bright side. For example, Cisco, the public can easily find out that Cisco's largest shareholder is Firefly Investment Company.

Now Cisco's market capitalization is only more than two billion, not too conspicuous, but Cisco's development has not deviated from the historical track, and now Cisco ceo has confirmed John Chambers as his next successor. And John Chambers is the biggest contributor to Cisco in the original time and space. Then, if the market value of Cisco continues to expand to hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, then the wealth of firefly investment is too dazzling. What's more, Eric's hands are not limited to Cisco's investment, after the Forbes list. Eric had to make a layout for the future ahead of time.

After discussing with Chris, Firefly Investment Company began to deal with Cisco's shares first.

By investing in selected non-listed funds and then reverse-purchasing some of Cisco's shares in Firefly's investment, Firefly Investment quickly disaggregated Cisco's shares in the hands of these companies. In the hands of the fund. However, because of the signing of a sound agreement. After the share transfer, the firefly investment control of Cisco has not changed, only a node in the middle. The most intuitive performance is that the board of directors on the Cisco board that originally represented Firefly Investment has not changed, and it is still the few people.

This indirect shareholding is very common in North America, even if it is a giant like General Electric, Exxon Mobil or Bell Telephone and Telegraph. Their shareholder list is basically a series of well-known and unknown foundations, trust investments, capital management and so on. The real owners behind the shares held by these companies are often unknown.

Not only Cisco, IE, Yahoo and Hotmail, Firefly Investment will not invest directly in the future, but indirectly through development such as funds through foundations.

When Elizabeth heard Eric’s answer, she couldn’t help but smile: “Compared to Firefly’s film industry, that... Cisco’s shares should be nothing, how can you not hide the Firefly movie?”

Eric's spreader: "This goal is too big. Take time to take it."

"I don't know what you are tossing, it seems like you are afraid that others will grab your things."

With that said, the two came together a few times. Elizabeth rushed to pick up her own driver, let the other party leave, and followed Eric into his car.

Eric got on the other side of the car, and then just said: "I am not afraid of others to grab, but the total care of other people's fragile heart is not? I don't want someone to see that my money is too much stimulated, then there will be another Three long and two short."

Elizabeth clearly used Eric’s words as nonsense. Raised a small fist and hammered it on Eric's shoulder. He smiled and said: "You are arrogant."

Eric also didn't have a small fist that didn't hurt the girl. Road: "I am going back to the Sharp Corner Manor, are you going to me too?"

Elizabeth’s eyes blinked a few times. It just seems to have just thought of it: "Yes, I forgot about it, feed, Carter, turn around, send me back to Beverly Hills."

Carter Moen looked at Eric through the rearview mirror and as a bodyguard who followed Eric for a long time, he certainly knew the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth.

"Go ahead, go back to Malibu," Eric waved at Carter and said to Elizabeth: "I remember Julia also took the little guy back to her parents. Your house has not been cleaned for a long time. Stay with me tonight."

See Eric said so straightforward, Elizabeth's pretty face was slightly reddish, so it was easy to sigh, twisted his head, one hand on the window pretending to look at the scenery outside the window.

......

With a thick bathrobe coming out of the bathroom, Elizabeth remembered that her suitcase was still thrown at the door of the villa, and the cheeks pushed all the urgency a few hours ago to someone.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the plane took a nap after doing some things. It was already at 9 o'clock in the evening. Hunger was coming, and Elizabeth was hesitant to go downstairs.

The light in the small living room was lit, and the sound of the TV set was very low. Eric leaned on the sofa casually, and a black laptop was placed on the exquisite aluminum bracket in front of him. The incitement, from time to time, a slight snoring.

Seeing Elizabeth coming in, Eric pointed to the food on the glass: "I made a nightingale, just went upstairs and called you, seeing you are already taking a shower."

"What are you doing?" Elizabeth was not in a hurry to eat, went to Eric and kneeled on the back of the sofa, looking out at the laptop screen.

"The script of "Vietname Vampire", the box office and word of mouth of "Stunning Four Hundred Years" were very good. The production department also negotiated a cooperation agreement with David Geffen. The film is about to be released at the end of the year. How is the "Vampire Hunter Buffy" ready?"

"If it wasn't for this, I came back at the beginning of the month," Elizabeth replied. "I also had a heroine audition on the New York side. According to your original suggestion, we are going to choose a girl with a dance foundation. Training time can be shortened, action shooting can be relatively easy, and the pilot set can be produced before May."

“Is the pick selected?” Eric tapped a line of comments on the script document and asked casually.

"Well. Selected a few girls, they will come to Los Angeles and the candidates here for a final audition in a few days," Elizabeth stared at the laptop for a moment, then boringly turned to Eric to sit down. Put the tray with food on your lap and eat it.

Eric sighed softly. Continue to tap on the document.

"Hey, you have to come over when you finally audition, they are very beautiful girls," Elizabeth said after a moment.

Eric smiled and said: "This step is free. You know my taste. Just choose it and send it to my bed."

Elizabeth took a sip and took a piece of bread crumbs and threw it at Eric.

"Hey. I almost forgot, how come you will be at the airport today?"

"I thought you were full of bad things and ignored this problem." Eric snorted and quickly reached for a piece of bread that had flown over. He took a bite and replied: "I went to San Francisco, Pixar." The new animation has been initially completed. I went to see the sample, and by the way, they discussed the Super Bowl Trailer with John."

"What is this. The sequel to "Toy Story"?" Elizabeth asked curiously, when Fireflies used to reveal the latest 3D animation news about Pixar. Always using the ‘Unnamed Pixar New Animation’ as a proxy, Elizabeth did not pay much attention to it. At this point, I heard that Pixar's new 3D animation is almost finished, and I am interested.

"No, the new animation was initially named "Bug mobilization," a story about the ants' family's enslavement against locusts living in an oasis," Eric said concisely.

Elizabeth looked at Eric and patiently waited for a few seconds before asking: "Just these, no?"

"It’s boring to tell you all about the story now. You can go to the cinema when you release it."

"I won't go, children see things," Elizabeth snorted.

After eating the nightingale, Elizabeth came to the kitchen to pack the cutlery and returned to the small living room again. After sleeping for an afternoon, although it was already 10 o'clock in the evening, the girl didn't have any pajamas. She picked up the TV remote on the glass and sat down next to Eric. She pulled a pillow and hugged it in her arms. Feel free to choose a mid-range talk show.

After watching the commentary of the host's tongue, the recent current events, Elizabeth just said to the man next to him: "Eric, the next step for fireflies is to develop their own TV network?"

"What did your old man guess?" Eric asked, turning his head.

Elizabeth nodded.

"Now the integration of the media group has become an inevitable trend. The industrial chain of fireflies in the film sector has expanded to the limit. Next, it must be developed towards a comprehensive media group, not only in the television network, but also in music and publishing. Business will expand." Eric smiled and said: "But you can rest assured that Firefly will not get involved in paper media, so there will be no competition with News Corp. at this point."

With the rise of the Internet, the decline of paper media has become an inevitable trend. Eric remembers that after entering the new century, even the most famous newspapers in the United States have frequently suffered bankruptcy. He does not intend to waste time on a kind of Useless layouts in the industry that is about to decline.

"Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking about. I heard that the website named Yahoo, which was established at the end of last year, has recently been in contact with several paper media groups. The editor of The New York Post last time with my father. Talking about this, you are definitely planning to build an online news site."

Eric temporarily stopped his finger on the keyboard and turned to look at Elizabeth, curiously asking, "What do your father think about this?"

Elizabeth snorted a few smugly, didn't answer, and I didn't tell you that I didn't want to blow you.

Eric shrugged and understood that Murdoch is definitely not evaluating the prospects of this idea. He has done most of his life media. Murdoch can certainly see that there is no large-scale development of online news in the current Internet environment. On the basis of this, the current Internet user base has not yet reached the level of ordinary people, and most of them are concentrated on college students and professional and technical personnel. However, he obviously cannot predict how terrible the explosive growth of Internet users will be in the next few years.

"Hey, Liz, you said that if one day I fight with your old man, who would you help?"

There was a strong contempt in Elizabeth’s eyes: "Of course help my father, do you want to be a good old man with a 60-year-old? It’s shameless."

"Amount, wrong, I mean in the company?"

"Then how do you love tossing, so toss," Eliza squatted on the sofa with her pillow, lazy and said, the current scale of the development of fireflies and News Corporation, the difference in a certain period of time is affirmative But unless there is a huge industry change, it’s hard to come to life again, and not to mention the future, even if the 20th Century Fox and Firefly have a competitive relationship in the film business, both companies are comfortable. Nothing, there are even some partnerships. This is also the case with several other big movie companies in Hollywood.

Eric smiled and didn't say anything. It took him nearly an hour to read the script of "Vampires at Night", closed the notebook, and patted the girl's smooth legs on his knees: "Is it sleepy?"

No response, Eric turned to look over, the girl squinted and fell asleep.

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The new year awards season does not seem to have much to do with Firefly Pictures. Last year, the fireflies released movies were basically commercial films, even if they were in the highly operational Golden Globe Awards, they could only brush the nominations. There are basically no movies with award-winning strengths. In addition, the company created a 27% share of the miracle at the box office last year. The inaction of the fireflies in the awards will inevitably become the target of some media scorns with the psychology of sour grapes.

Eric saw several related reports in a new day's newspaper early in the morning, but he didn't take it too seriously. He always felt that the role of the film awards was a icing on the cake, but Elizabeth seized this point and ridiculed Eric. Some time. (To be continued)