Chapter 943： Ambition

The car left the headquarters of the Firefly Group, and Bill Michalk had not recovered from the shock that had just been brought to him by Kasenberg.

Over the years, the Firefly Group has not only continuously annexed New Line Pictures, Disney Group and ABC Group, but also became the largest media giant in Hollywood. At the same time, it also secretly controlled MGM Studios and has a relationship with Twentieth Century Fox.

Bill Michalk felt that even MGM, which was a hit in the golden age of Hollywood, probably did.

If the fireflies just want to get back to Columbia Pictures and drive the Japanese out of Hollywood, Bill Michalnik wouldn't be too surprised.

In his view, with the current operating conditions of Sony Pictures, if there is no fundamental change in the next few years, it is almost inevitable that Sony will withdraw from the film and television industry. At that time, with the strength of the Firefly Group, if this company is shot, there are very few opponents that can compete with Hollywood inside and outside.

However, from the words of Kasenberger that Firefly intends to suppress Hollywood's first-line superstars, Bill Michanik understands another thing: the Firefly Group wants to be the maker of the Hollywood rules.

However, if you want to make rules, even if you master half of Hollywood's big movie companies, it is still not enough. This can only be like having a half-fishing net in a river, and the fish in the river can easily swim from the other side.

To make the rules, the fireflies must hold the entire Hollywood in their hands.

To achieve this goal, after the Sony, the fireflies will certainly be shot to three other Hollywood.

In the view of Bill Michal, it is only realistic to get back to the Columbia Film Company. The other three major film companies, whether Universal, Paramount or Warner, have become part of the large media group. These media groups, which have undergone difficult and dangerous obstacles, will eventually not sell their movie business.

In other words, the only way for Fireflies to win the last three film companies is to swallow their parent company.

Bill Michalnik knows Kasenberg very well. He doesn't think that Kasenberg will have such unrealistic ambitions. After all, even if he can achieve this goal, it is estimated that it will be twenty or thirty years later. The thing is gone.

For thirty years, Hollywood, who can have the ambition to last for thirty years?

Even if it is the old and strong media tycoon, such as Redstone or Murdoch, Viacom and News Corporation have reached a limit to the extent that they can live for another 30 years, and We firmly hold Viacom and News Corp. in their hands, but they don't have enough energy to continue to grow their industries.

However, when I think of it, Bill Michal’s mind quickly emerged from the young man behind the Firefly Group.

As a result, in a lot of miscellaneous memories, suddenly a little more suddenly.

Eric Williams is only 27 years old this year, and the Firefly Group has grown to its current size.

So, to continue, as long as you stick to this ambition, the fireflies control the whole of Hollywood, perhaps not a completely impossible thing.

The car has come to the Columbia Film Company headquarters in Culver City without knowing it.

Upon hearing the assistant's soft reminder, Bill Michalk finally recovered from his contemplation.

Recalling Howard Stringer, who was still waiting for the outcome of his negotiations with Kasenberg, Bill Michnik considered it for a while, but decided not to tell Howard Ster that the other party’s words were met with Kasenberg. Ringer.

Howard Stringer is thinking about becoming the first non-Japanese CEO of the Sony Group, but he still has to stay in Hollywood for a long time. Bill Michalnik even thought, perhaps, should be more in touch with colleagues in the Disney period, then, even when the Firefly Group returned to the Columbia Film Company, he still has a good chance to continue to serve as CEO of Columbia Pictures. Continue to refer to this company.

This year's Christmas is Thursday, except for the impact of Christmas Eve on Wednesday, "Rush Hour 2" single-day box office fell to 6.59 million US dollars, the other three working days of "Rush Hour 2" single-day box office is 9 million Above the dollar, the single-day box office of "Rush Hour 2" on Christmas Day even rebounded to $10.75 million.

In the end, the first week of "Rush Hour 2" reached $10.52 million at the box office, becoming the only dark horse in the first week of 1997 with a box office of over 100 million.

Following the "Star Wars" after "Rush Hour 2", the first week of the box office only stopped at $29.15 million, and the one-day box office on the last working day of the first week slipped to the million level.

"Rush Hour 2" broke through 100 million in the first week, and the total box office in North America exceeded 200 million. It is almost a matter of course. The next "Jurassic Park 3" is also affected by "Rush Hour 2".

Since it can't be avoided, Eric also concentrates on enjoying the warmth of Christmas. As for the two male protagonists in Los Angeles, I hope to add a part of the box office share to the third sequel to the contract. Eric also Not in my heart.

After Christmas, Jurassic Park 3 landed on the major theaters in North America on December 26th.

Since Christmas, Eric has gradually turned his mind to work.

On Saturday morning, because several high-level conferences of Yahoo held a not-so-formal video conference to discuss Yahoo’s development plan for next year, Eric sat down in the study room early, waiting for the Los Angeles side to send the Jurassic. Park 3's first day box office report.

Throughout the year, due to the complete outbreak of the Internet technology wave, a large number of emerging Internet companies have increased the intensity of online advertising promotion regardless of cost.

As a result, Yahoo’s performance this year has increased dramatically as a portal giant that accounts for more than 70% of North American markets.

Compared with last year's $194 million in revenue, although the last quarter's performance data is still in statistics, but in the first three quarters, Yahoo's annual revenue has reached 435 million US dollars, the annual revenue is likely Nearly $600 million.

However, correspondingly, in the case of continued explosive growth of Internet users in North America and overseas, Yahoo's operating costs have also risen. Throughout the year of 1995, fireflies invested $500 million in funds before and after investment.

According to preliminary statistics, Yahoo’s loss this year will rise to more than $300 million.

Because it is not a formal meeting, on the other side of the video, several Yahoo executives are gathered in the living room of Yahoo CEO Ian Gurney.

"According to the statistics in November, the number of Internet users worldwide has exceeded 100 million, of which 70% of Internet users in North America have reached 70 million. Next year, the number of Internet users in North America alone will exceed 100 million. Maintaining Yahoo’s rapid expansion in North America and overseas, the company needs at least $1 billion in funding next year. Eric, I have been on the phone more than once to test whether Yahoo will raise funds for the outside world, this time, $1 billion, Are you still planning to inject it entirely from Firefly Investment?"

At the time of the agreement, Yahoo had already made a share distribution.

However, through last year's $500 million injection, the share of Firefly's investment in Yahoo has risen again to 85%. According to Yahoo's current valuation of about 15 billion US dollars, if the $1 billion of funds will be injected by firefly investment next year, the shareholding ratio of firefly investment to Yahoo will rise to over 90%.

"I said before, before the listing of Yahoo, we will not introduce external investment, so this is of course," Eric nodded and said: "For the money, you and Chris discuss it. This year, Nokia, Cisco, LTD and other subsidiaries will bring good profit dividends to the firefly investment. Supporting Yahoo's expansion is still no problem. Let's discuss Yahoo's next development plan."

Eric is about to continue talking, but the door to the study is pushed away.

Eric didn't see anyone at first glance, straighten his body, only to notice that his daughter had ran in.

"Dad, Dad, this is the biscuit that my mother just baked, you try it," the little guy ran to Eric, and he handed half of the biscuit in his face innocently.

Eric looked at the baby girl deliberately pretending that I was a child, I didn’t understand anything, smiled, and kissed her daughter and put it on her lap.

The purpose of Hawaii was reached, and the half biscuit was stuffed into the mouth of his father. A pair of beautiful big eyes turned curiously to the computer screen. Seeing a few faces on the screen, I was disappointed.

Eric took the half of the cookie in his mouth and put it next to him. He felt that his daughter would run away and hugged it gently. "In summer and summer, be polite, remember everyone, say hello." ""

On the other side, Ian Gurnier, Steve Mitnick and Tina Brown all looked at the situation with great interest. They had seen Hawaii at Chris's wedding, although not too much. It was no stranger to contact, but it was only later that Jeff Bezos heard that Eric’s little girl was very smart.

Through the screen, the little girl in front of her eyes showed an inexplicable spirituality. Steve Mitnick couldn’t help but said, “Hey, summer and summer, I heard that you are very smart, oh, give Are you having a math problem?"

Hawaii looked at a few people huddled in the computer screen and slammed his head and said, "I am right, can you walk away from the screen?"

Everyone laughed, Steve Mitnick asked: "We are gone, what are you going to do?"

Hawaii Road: "I want to use Yahoo search to find things."

"Summer, you will use Yahoo search, but you know why Yahoo search can find something you are interested in. This kind of search engine is my own responsibility to create, if you answered my question, I will tell you. ”

The little girl's beautiful nephew suddenly lit up and nodded lightly.

Eric saw Joanna coming in at the door, trying to take her daughter away, shaking her head and saying no, and then to Steve Mitnick: "Steve, I think you'd better make a comparison. Difficult problem."

"Really," Steve Mitnick looked at Eric. He was a genius. When he saw Eric confirmed the nod, he said, "Well, let me take the time I did when I was young." Let's try the math problem, summer and summer, it is like this, from 1 to 100, you can see if you can calculate the result."

Steve Mitnick’s words have just been exported, and Tina Brown, who is sitting next to him, protests: “Steve, you’re just deliberately killed in summer and summer, she’s less than five years old.”

Steve Mitnick stood up and said: "But I made this question when I was five years old."

That being said, Steve Mitnick is planning to give Hawaii a hint that the little girl's beautiful nephew has sneaked a few times, but she has blurted out and said: "5050."

Everyone was a glimpse. Steve Mitnick first looked at Eric and said, "You won't teach her this question?"

Eric shrugged, and although he felt incredible, he smiled and said: "No, I don't think her mother will teach her such boring math problems."

"Oh, this is not boring at all," Steve Mitnick couldn't help but refute, turning to look at Hawaii, feeling a bit more in the mood of a lollipop uncle: "Summer, you are How did you figure it out?"

The little girl stretched out her thin index finger and stroked it in the air. "That is, from 1 to 100, you should tell me how Yahoo search works."

Several people do not feel that there is a need for lying in front of a small person, so the heart is even more shocked.

They all know the summation formula for the arithmetic progression from 1 to 100. However, if the small dots in front of you can not use these tricks at all, just add them to 100 from 1 in a few seconds, and get accurate results, which can be solved not only by simple mental arithmetic. It also requires strong memory and a more powerful mental arithmetic speed.

Steve Mitnick had calculated this math problem when he was almost as big as Hawaii, but he also wrote and painted on paper for a day before he discovered some rules, which made it easy to forget the result. come out. Although he always has a bit of cynicism in his character, he is very proud of his heart. But now, the little girl in front of me may be more genius than him.

How much is not reconciled, Steve Mitnick took the paper and pen on the desktop and quickly wrote and painted on the notebook a few times, made a simple nine-square grid in front of the camera, said: "Hey, summer and summer We will do another math problem, this time is even more difficult. You see, there are 1 to 9 nine numbers here. Can you try to fill these nine numbers into these grids and connect any three straight lines in the grid? The numbers add up to the same."

This time, Tina Brown and Ian Garnier didn't say anything. They just looked at it curiously. Eric thought about it and didn't give her any hints.

Hawaii was obviously spurred of interest, but there was no entanglement. Steve Mitnick spoke not talking. The big eyes stared at the numbers on the opposite side of the screen and looked curiously. The little brain was clearly turning.