Chapter 731： gap

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“It’s really hard to be a person like Buffett. In fact, if most people can have his level of status and wealth, it’s hard to keep going for a few decades without aside,” Eric Looking at Caroline's pretty little face, said: "However, I found that you have some potential similar to Buffett."

Ordinary people always have too many distractions and desires in their hearts, which actually becomes the biggest obstacle to prevent one from advancing. Eric did not see these things from Caroline. From the first time I met two years ago, the simple and pure temperament of this Nizi has not changed much, plus she is smart. Abnormal cerebellum, Eric believes that if Caroline concentrates on the development of investors like Buffett, it will definitely achieve extraordinary achievements in the future.

Caroline was a little embarrassed by Eric. She was not as familiar with Buffett as Eric, so she didn't know what similar potential she had with Buffett. The small hand under the desk pinched the professional suit. She’s still not very embarrassed to ask, “Eric, if there is nothing else, I have to go back to work.”

Eric’s mouth was smiling and he couldn’t help but ridiculed: “Don’t want to chat with me?”

Knowing that Eric was joking with himself, Caroline couldn’t help but shook his head seriously: "But now it’s working time."

Eric is very fond of Caroline's somewhat old-fashioned appearance. He continues: "You are my assistant. Any of my needs can be your job, and chat is counted."

"It's not like this," Caroline blinked and retorted.

However, as such, Carolyn’s mind suddenly popped up with Kelly’s shadow, remembering the mature and capable female boss’s occasional relatives with Eric. And the relationship between the two is not too secret, Caroline's little brain can not help but create a very absurd thought: This is also the work content of the female assistant, if it is, then if he asks himself... ...

With the deepening of the thoughts. Caroline’s little face has become red and unconscious, and the bright scorpion secretly stunned Eric and quickly evaded.

Eric saw Caroline inexplicably become a ruddy face, and some laughed and asked: "What bad things do you think?"

"No, no." Caroline narrowed her neck and immediately stood up: "I am going back to work."

After that, without waiting for Eric to answer, Caroline had already turned and escaped from the Eric office, as if it was going to be a second, it would be held down by the Great Demon.

Oh, I dare to scorn the boss so much, it seems that I have to deduct wages and punish.

Eric unwittingly thought, pressing the call button on the side of the landline, recruiting the secretary outside, letting the other party send Caroline's memo on her desk to her.

July. Most companies are starting to count revenues in the first half of the year, and fireflies are no exception. With the rapid recovery of the US economy, Firefly's films, TVs, theme parks, and surrounding stores have maintained a very strong growth momentum compared to the same period last year. Although the relevant data are still being counted, the Firefly Group's overall camp in the first half of the year It’s no suspense to break through $10 billion.

At the same time, Fortune magazine released the world's top 500 companies for the first time in July. Before that, Fortune magazine only counted the top 500 US companies.

Although it experienced the bursting of the bubble in the early 1990s, Japan still occupies six places in the top ten of the world's top 500, and the number one GM in the United States can only rank fifth in the entire list. The top four are all Japanese consortia. The firefly group's annual revenue of about 20 billion US dollars, in front of the list of the first Mitsubishi Corporation's turnover of 175.8 billion US dollars, is very inconspicuous.

Although Eric sighs with the huge gap between these world-class corporate oligarchs, it will not be arrogant. As long as all the companies in the entire firefly system grow up completely, they will definitely be the giants that everyone needs to look up to. Moreover, with the rapid development of high-tech, this day will not be too far away.

Sharp Point Manor, Eric is sitting on the sofa next to the curtain wall and looking at Fortune magazine. Natasha walked in with Amy Pascal and helped the two to make coffee. The twins walked quietly upstairs. Today is July 9, and the Yahoo Annual Meeting will officially begin tomorrow. Eric will immediately To fly to Boston, Drew and the twins are helping up and packing their bags upstairs.

Amy sat down on the opposite sofa, took a sip of the coffee, squinted at the magazine in Eric's hand, and smiled: "Eric, I decided you should prefer Forbes."

Eric knew that Amy was referring to the Forbes rich list and said: "Always stare at those who are easily lost, or face the reality and motivate themselves."

Amy shook her head and sighed: "You have already made everyone unprepared. It is hard to imagine what step you will take in the future."

"In short, I don't have to stop to wait for other people's good habits," Eric smiled and asked: "Drew said that you talked to Kevin Costner yesterday about the sequel to "Mission Impossible". how about it?"

The $175 million "Future Water World" was officially released the day before yesterday. The first day of the box office was only more than 6 million US dollars. Although this number is almost the same as the original "Forrest Gump", the weight of the two films is also different. What's more, after the release of "Future Water World", it is also a bad review. The box office is unlikely to go out of the long line. Coupled with the large number of large-scale extrusion living spaces that are still being released and about to be opened, the prospects are extremely bleak.

After the first day of the box office, Kevin Costner's last hope was shattered, and he began to contact the flower film industry, hoping to launch the sequel to the Mission Impossible to maintain his popularity.

"It’s just a preliminary touch," Amy replied. "I hope I can sign two sequels in one go. Kevin Costner is only willing to sign one, and they are not willing to make a pay. Too big concessions."

Although he rushed to the two major films of Law Enforcement and Future Water World, "Mission Impossible" was just a big success last year, and the popularity is still at its peak. Kevin Costner is not willing to make too much. The concession is not surprising.

"But the initiative is always on our side, let's talk slowly." Eric said after listening.

Amy nodded and said: "I met Joe Silvo yesterday. He asked me to ask if the agreement last year was not counted."

Amy’s tone is somewhat doubtful. Obviously Joe Silvo did not tell her clearly.

Last year at the "Real Lie" celebration feast, Eric met Joe Silvo, just as the other 'was once' was the producer of "The Matrix", and Eric got up and pulled the other side to take charge of the project. intend. Eric will talk to Amy in the future, saying: "Fair Game has failed. But it is undeniable that Joe Silvo is a producer who is very good at making action films. I think he is very suitable for him. "The Matrix" series."

After listening to Amy, she shook her head: "Eric, I don't think this is a good idea."

“Why?” Eric wondered.

"Do you remember Peter? Cooper and Strong? Peters?"

Eric nodded. After leaving Colombia, the two faded out of Hollywood. After all, few people would like to invite the two losers to be producers. There are fascinating resumes of more than $2 billion in assets in Colombia, and few in Hollywood will forget them.

Amy continued: "At the time, Sony had dug Peter Cooper and Peter? from Time Warner to Columbia as CEO and president, but at the time they still had a contract with Warner, and Sony spent $200 million to buy it. They were affiliated with Warner's studio, but because of the contract, the subsequent compensation for Time Warner's 800 million US dollars was only a matter of time. Joe Silvo and Warner are more closely connected than the two. His production company is also affiliated with Warner, and he has signed a long-term contract with Warner. He has not even participated in any film production outside of Warner for many years. Time Warner is in a very bad situation. If the fireflies actively dig, they will not let go, and the price of the fireflies will not be lower than the original Sony."

Eric listened to Amy. I can only shake my head with regret. If Joe Silvo can transfer fireflies, he does not mind paying Time Warner a proper liquidated damages, but Eric will never be as big as Sony.

Speaking of it, although the summer file is not over yet, Warner wants to replace the quality in this summer file to improve the performance of the distribution strategy in Eric seems to be doomed to failure.

The five films in the plan have been released in three. But in addition to the "Forever Batman" box office is still a good thing, the "Fair Game" at the end of May and the "Future Water World" just released ended in failure, although there will be Arnold Schwarzenegger in the next two weeks. Evaporation and "The Pirates of Fire" led by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, but in Eric’s memory, neither of these films has a box office.

The box office results of "Evaporation Secret Order" are likely to be similar to Fox's "Die Hard 3" in May. They belong to the old-fashioned action movie that is barely better than the overseas one. The "Stealing Fire Line" is a classic. But the film's nearly three-hour duration will also greatly limit its box office size.

Because the five films don't have a special effects blockbuster that may be exploding overseas, Batman's overseas box office appeal is not even as good as that of North America. In this way, the total number of box office tickets that the five films can get in the future is only About $1 billion, this figure is even more than the Firefly's Jurassic Park 2 global box office.

With its excellent word of mouth and the popularity of the first accumulation, the Jurassic Park 2 global box office does not reach the global billion of the first, but it is also very similar. What's more, the cost of all production and declaration of Jurassic Park 2 is only about $150 million. Just the box office has made the fireflies profit, but the average production cost of Warner's five films is close to 100 million. The dollar, the total production and distribution of total expenditure even reached 700 million US dollars, the $ 1 billion global box office, far from allowing Time Warner to recover such a huge cost, compared to last year's weak loss of 90 million US dollars, by the film business As a result of the drag, Time Warner’s loss this year will be further expanded.

Perhaps it's time to test the possibility of Time Warner's board of directors splitting the business. With the advantage of the second largest cable TV operator in the United States, several well-known fee-based cable stations in the future have basically more or less shareholding relationships with Time Warner. And this one happens to be the shortcoming of the Firefly Group.

"Eric, what are you thinking?" Amy’s voice suddenly came from the ear.

Eric retracted his thoughts and smiled apologetically. "Nothing, let's talk about MGM."

I just talked a few times, but the main purpose of Amy’s coming today is the acquisition of MGM by Flower Pictures. Taking advantage of the gap before Eric left Los Angeles, Amy specially came to talk to Eric about this.

Amy nodded and didn't ask why Eric had just gone so far. He said: "Wei Di Di, Ke Ke'an and our three hopes of acquiring MGM's forces are temporarily quoted at around $1.5 billion in flowers. After the news that the film industry and DreamWorks producers might break the cooperation with MGM, the other two did not give the offer again. The prestige of the prestige and Keke'an contacted me and hoped to You see one side, they know that there is not enough acquisition funds in the flower film industry, so they all hope to cooperate on this acquisition. On the credit side of Lyon, they quoted a price of 1.8 billion US dollars, and everyone is temporarily deadlocked. ""

Eric held a coffee cup and listened quietly to Amy, and his heart was quickly calculating.

Even if the final purchase price is maintained at around $1.5 billion, it is not easy for Flower Pictures to make the money.

In the Eric project, the Firefly Group will buy $300 million in cash and buy out the rights to distribute the "Forrest Gump" overseas and videotapes and TV broadcasts. In the "Mission Impossible" released by Flower Film at the end of last year, the proceeds will be used to repay the production financing of several previous films. The next "Museum of the Museum" was originally used as a chip to recover the rights of Marvel Superheroes to Flower Pictures. The income brought by it is also limited, not to mention the income settlement of the Museum Wonderful Night is probably until the end of the year.

Calculated, the funds available in the hands of Flower Pictures are only the domestic box office income and the firefly's buyout funds brought by "Forrest Gump", which is roughly 400 million US dollars, and there is still a big gap from 1.5 billion US dollars. .

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, free appreciation of the ticket and the starting point of the coin there is no ah ~ 515 red envelope list countdown, I came to pull a ticket, seeking overweight and appreciation tickets, and finally rushed! (To be continued.)