Chapter 571： You have to help me

Chapter 571

Eric originally thought that the news that Jurassic Park broke the global box office history would appear on the entertainment version. What surprised him was that the New York Times published the news on the front page of the current version. The map is still a lot of photos of the Tyrannosaurus rex used in the newspapers of Jurassic Park.

From the beginning of June to the present, after a 16-week screening, Jurassic Park broke the 1982 "Ete aliens" with a global box office of 430 million North America, 470 million overseas, and a total of $900 million. "Created a $890 million global box office record. Although many professional box office analysts often refer to the fare gap between 1982 and 1993, for the average person, the most intuitive figures are often more eye-catching than the professionally-founded analysis, so the New York Times Did not render the impact of inflation.

Although there is still a gap of 100 million US dollars from the global billion-dollar box office that Eric shouted at the beginning, according to the current trend, the North American box office has some difficulties in surpassing the local record of "Star Wars" of 460 million US dollars, but in the coming months Inside, there is no problem in harvesting 20 million boxes at the box office. The box office potential of the overseas ticket warehouse countries is far from being exhausted. Eric has browsed the data of the main box office in the newspaper. At this time, the Jurassic Park's Japanese box office was worth more than 80 million US dollars, and the Japanese box office in memory has definitely exceeded 100 million US dollars, so according to the current trend, the global billion is completely only a matter of time.

In addition to some advertising cooperation, Firefly Pictures does not have much contact with the New York Times's Sorzberg family. After reading the entire page of the news, Eric understands why the New York Times has made a big fan of the record-breaking news of the Jurassic Park box office in the newspaper headlines.

The New York Times has published a number of very high-quality analytical articles on the front page, combining the global box office of Jurassic Park, the overseas box office growth rate of the seven major Hollywood studios in recent years, and the new signing of the upcoming To. The analysis of the impact of the GATT and other factors has fully rendered a very important message for the global rise of Hollywood.

Joanna noticed that Eric was engrossed in reading the newspapers in his hands and looked at them from time to time. Also curiously scraped together to look at the newspaper in Eric's hands, Eric put his chin on the woman's head, sniffing a touch of fragrance. Asked: "Do you see what is going on?"

Joanna gently put her cheek in front of Eric and felt his strong heartbeat. Some reluctantly said: "You want to go back to Los Angeles?"

"No," Eric grabbed Joanna's soft body and said: "The New York Times will not tout the rise of Hollywood for no reason. This should be driven by someone behind it."

"You call Jeffrey and they don't know."

Eric took the watch and took a look. It’s less than six o'clock, and Los Angeles is at three o'clock in the morning. At this time, calling in the past will definitely be nailed to the villain.

"I don't think it's a public relations article on the company side. The Jurassic Park's box office potential in North America is almost exhausted. Although it will be able to reap some box office in the next few months, it will be divided into agreements according to the ladder. The division ratio of the cinema line is 1:9, and there is absolutely no need for marketing."

Joanna reached out and stroked the eyebrows that Eric wrinkled because she thought about it. It seemed to smooth out the fine lines that had been squeezed out there. "I don't understand these things. You don't want to think so much every day." If you are tired, why not sleep again?"

"Forget it. It's time to get up."

Eric put the newspaper aside and stopped thinking about it. This kind of thing is not too complicated. Those who can benefit from these news today, the eight achievements are the manipulators behind them.

Because "Jurassic Park" broke the box office record, in the following days, the relevant calls kept hitting the East Hampton's manor, and Eric quickly figured out why the New York Times published the news. .

The New York Times passed the day of the global record-breaking box office of Jurassic Park. After the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, the stocks of the film and television media sector collectively rose, and even a lot of film companies with good potentials soared by 30%. . Reach the daily limit of the New York Stock Exchange.

Of course, most companies can only get the benefits of some book value of the stock. Because of the extreme instability of the film industry's profits, these benefits are gained because of stock appreciation. It is very likely that it will suddenly evaporate in one day in the future.

But Hollywood is being promoted by Viacom and QV, but it has a more direct benefit. In the following days, the share price of Paramount Pictures, the parent company of Paramount Pictures, rose by 17%, and nearly a year after the news that Viacom and QV were bidding for Paramount Communications last year. At the time, the share price of Paramount Communications has doubled, and the market value of Paramount Communications is now close to $9.5 billion.

Eric remembers the original time and space, Lei Shidong spent $10 billion on the acquisition of Paramount Communications, but according to the current situation, whether it is Barry Diller or Lei Shidong, want to win the Paralla for 10 billion US dollars. Meng, it is no longer so easy.

In the process of talking with Eric, Michael Lynn and others have not regretted mentioning this matter. If the firefly movie industry chooses to go public, then this time the media stocks will rise in a collective trend, the firefly movie industry will Is the biggest beneficiary.

However, Eric does not think so. In his view, the stock price and the company's actual value are two concepts. Although the stock price tends to reflect the actual value of a company to a certain extent, most of the time, the stock The price is not equal to the value of the company.

For example, this time, if the fireflies choose to go public, with the box office of the summer file "Jurassic Park", the stock price of Firefly Pictures will hit a new height, but this height is not necessarily equal to the firefly film industry. Actual value, unless shareholders sell their stocks at this time, otherwise they can't get too much benefit as the stock price rises.

Moreover, Eric also talked with Chris about the market value of Firefly Pictures, if Firefly Pictures chooses to go public. The market value will certainly be able to break through $20 billion very safely. But in Eric's mind, the value of Firefly's film industry is more than 20 billion dollars because of the reincarnation of the golden finger.

These things happen at the same time. At the end of September, Fox TV officially broadcasted "Buffy the Vampire Hunter." With the ranking of the fourth season of the "Archives" with a peak of 20 million ratings, the first episode of "Buffy" has more than 15 million ratings. Although this rating was not too eye-catching in 1993, even the top ten TV drama ratings of the year may not be achieved, but for Fox TV, which has just experienced the withdrawal of Firefly Pictures, it is a very good one. Good news, this means that Fox Network really has a full-fledged hit TV show, and together with the good news of media dividends caused by Jurassic Park breaking the global box office record, News Corp. has been The volatile stock price has finally stabilized.

After the release of "Buffy". Perhaps it was the indication of Murdoch, or with some other thoughts, Elizabeth, who was far away in Los Angeles, personally came to East Hampton to visit Eric.

After greeting Joanna and the two little guys, Elizabeth came to Eric’s study and said, “The scenery here is good. I went back and found a manor nearby.”

Looking at the girl unknowingly occupying her position, Eric walked to the small bar and rushed to the coffee and said, "I have bought a few other places. If you are interested, the key is in Joan."

Elizabeth flipped over a pile of documents that Eric put on the desk. Looking up gave him a blank eye: "If you personally give it to me, I can still make it difficult for you to accept it. You actually let me go to your woman to ask for something. It is too insincere."

"That's it, millions of things, just give it to you, I am still very distressed."

"Hey, you bastard," Elizabeth snorted softly, waving her hand in her hand, and her eyes flashed with unconcealed scorn: "These TV dramas, you see which one, I help." Look at it."

Eric poured two cups of coffee without hesitation. Going to the desk and handing the girl a cup, said: "We are now a competitor. The trick of color lure doesn't work for me."

In fact, Eric has not had time to look at it.

"Ghosts want to seduce you." Elizabeth gave Eric a white eyeball: "And, your eyes are not so good, "Buffy" has a rating of 15 million, which is worse than I expected. many."

Eric Cara took a chair and sat down across the desk, holding a coffee cup and laughing: "Is there more than two or three million viewers, and I am overjoyed?"

Elizabeth seems to have been stunned, but there is no rebuttal. The "Buffy" TV series naturally has two limitations. First, as a youth campus drama, the audience is directly restricted to teenagers. Second, the theme of the TV series is supernatural power. This once again limits the number of people who are not interested in supernatural phenomena. The two together add up to 15 million ratings that are beyond the expectations of Fox TV.

Elizabeth saw Eric's habitual bickering again and fell into disarray. She had to turn her attention and look at the big head monitor on the table. She looked down and found the computer host and pressed the power button.

Looking at the login screen on the display, Elizabeth rubbed her hand and placed it on the keyboard and asked, "Hey, what is the password?"

Eric took a sip of coffee and said freely: "haaii (Hawaii)."

Elizabeth turned her lips and entered the password, not forgetting the habit of saying: "After your daughter grows up, he will be overjoyed by the name his father gave her."

"I think that when Emma grew up, she found that she had a long list of surnames and would definitely be more pleasantly surprised."

"Hey, Emma has always called your father. You have been in New York for so long, but you don't want to see the little guy. It's really irresponsible."

"I have always been very curious. When Emma called me, I didn't know what the word 'Dad' meant."

Elizabeth snorted two times and said: "I am also very curious. Emma only calls you a father. There is no such reaction to other men, women, cats, dogs and cats. It seems that you can be classified as a special species. , a creature called 'Dad', oh..."

Eric watched the girl talking and did not forget to slam on the keyboard, and quickly reminded: "Don't mess up my saved files."

"I have been studying for a year," Elizabeth lifted her chin and immediately exclaimed: "Wow, how is your computer different from others... so big, 1000m hard drive, how come out ?"

Although the performance of the computer has started to soar according to Moore's Law, the average personal computer still has only two or three hundred megabytes of storage space. Eric can't stand it, so that people can customize it. In fact, this kind of thing is in the afterlife. Very common, and this computer has a very cottage name, assembly machine.

However, it is not so easy to assemble a personal computer at this time. To exceed the general performance limit, private ordering can only be started from the motherboard.

"This is a customized version. If you are interested, I can give you a call," Eric explained. He said, "Okay, don't mess around, you suddenly ran over, for what, for what, What?"

"I can't just visit you?"

"Now I saw it, would you like to send me in person?"

"Okay, that's true," Elizabeth said, slamming on the keyboard a few times before she said, "Is not the vice president of the 20th Century Fox?"

"Ok?"

"Then, last week, I took Mel Gibson's "Brave Heart" project, $18 million in pay, plus a 10% profit share," Elizabeth said as she saw Eric became The dignified face immediately became tearful: "Is the price too high? Anyway, you have to help me. If this project is a loss, my vice president will definitely have to pack things and leave."

Eric asked with some helplessness: "What is the production budget for you?"

Elizabeth said: "Accounting for Mel Gibson's pay, a total of 70 million."

Eric sighed: "You should say hello to me in advance. The profit prospects of this project are not too high. I am looking at its Oscar prospects. I think it should be able to get a few important Oscars. The award is ready to win it."

"What do you do now?" (To be continued.)