I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1007: Block cut off
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Looking at the darkened monitor screen, Eric's mood was not relaxed at all.
In the original information industry alliance plan, Eric hoped that Cisco, AOL, and Yahoo would play the roles of Internet equipment provider, Internet service provider, and Internet content provider, respectively, forming a Wintel alliance similar to PC industry Intel-Microsoft. Strong joint camp.
Now that AOL is lost, the information industry alliance plan originally formulated is equivalent to being cut off.
This is Eric's biggest setback in recent years. Even if the cash of 20 billion USD can be cashed out using AOL stocks, it will not be able to make up for the loss of the destruction of the information industry alliance plan.
Be aware that if one of the three major operators of North America can be successfully merged to consolidate its market position in communications and network services, even if the Internet bubble bursts, with the destiny of mobile communications and the Internet era, AOL The future market value can still easily reach the scale of one hundred to two hundred billion USD.
But now, although AOL is temporarily the largest Internet service provider of North America, the rise of AOL is taking advantage of several traditional operators to ignore this part of the business opportunity.
At the beginning, major telecom operators of North America were not optimistic that users would spend dozens of USD each month to purchase high-speed broadband access services, which made AOL the first opportunity.
But the shortcomings of AOL are also very obvious. Not to mention that there is no future for development. It is just an Internet media business with a bubble technology concept. The basic telecommunications business it involves is very single, with only a high-speed broadband access service. , In addition to other fixed telephone, mobile communication, cable TV and other services, AOL has not had time to get involved. At the same time, the layout of AOL in infrastructure construction is also very weak, and some access equipment and line networks are still leased to traditional AT-T. Operator's.
As you can imagine, once the powerful traditional telecom operators such as AT-T, Verizon and even Sprint react, with their own strong user base accumulation and infrastructure network far beyond AOL, they only need to adopt some disguised bundling Such measures can easily grab network users from AOL.
In this process, the only opportunity for AOL is to take advantage of the high stock price to counter-guests and mainly use equity mergers and acquisitions to annex one of the established telecom operators, so that they can maintain themselves in the context of the bursting of the Internet bubble in the next few years. Industry status.
However, now all these plans are destined to be a bubble.
AOL chose to follow the development path of Internet media companies. In the next two years, once the Internet bubble bursts, this company is destined to fall into The Abyss.
Although AOL and Yahoo will continue to cooperate in the next two years, such a deep gap has been formed, and the two sides are destined to be in harmony.
Yahoo is difficult to find a partner who can cooperate in the basic service field in a short time.
However, some things must still be done.
Because the traditional telecom operators of North America have a history of tens of hundreds of years, large companies are very sick. The promotion speed of new technology and service fields is so slow that it is outrageous, otherwise AOL will not have the chance to reach the current market status.
The only way to keep these traditional operators up to date with new technology companies like Yahoo is to keep them in their hands.
Take up the folder on the desktop. In addition to the files used for the video conference, there are also several copies of AT-T, Verizon and Sprint, the three major North America telecom operators.
After looking silently for a while, Eric's attention finally fell on Sprint.
AT-T and Verizon are actually both companies split from the Bell system.
With the current capital accumulation of Eric, AT-T does n’t even think about it.
The current market value of this veteran telecommunications giant has exceeded 100billion USD. Compared with the Internet companies blown up by the new technology bubble, it does not seem too high, but in the next few years, with the development of mobile communications and Internet business With the rise, the market value of AT-T will rapidly increase exponentially. Even if the Internet bubble bursts, but this market has formed, the market value of AT-T will not fall too much.
Moreover, because it has occupied nearly 70% of the telecommunications market share of North America for a long time, AT-T will encounter an antitrust investigation almost every period of time and initiate acquisitions from it. .
More importantly, AT-T ’s diversification is very serious, and its business covers everything from mobile phones to communication base stations from fixed phones to cable TV. Such companies do not meet the needs of Eric.
Although Verizon's strength lags behind AT-T, its current stock price and profitability are very bright. Under the condition of a company's excellent operating conditions, the company's Board of Directors and management are willing to accept The probability of a merger or acquisition is very low. Moreover, Verizon also has the disadvantages of excessive diversification similar to AT-T.
Compared to the three traditional telecom operators, Sprint is the most likely to win.
First of all, Firefly Investment already owns 10% of Sprint's shares. In the future acquisition process, as a shareholder, Firefly can directly influence SprintBoard of Directors.
Secondly, due to the initial bet on mobile communications, Sprint spent a lot of money to capture more than half of North America ’s mobile communications spectrum from United States Federal Communications Commission. The company ’s future business development focus also meets the expectations of Eric. For business development in the two major areas of mobile communications and broadband services, even if it is unable to catch up with AT-T, it is not too difficult to surpass Verizon.
Finally, because of the bet on the mobile communication business, Sprint invested too much in the early stage. The operating conditions in recent years have been unsatisfactory, and the company's stock price has often fluctuated.
In the case of stocks of new technology companies rising sharply, Sprint's current market value has just reached 30200 million USD.
Moreover, it will take a few years for the mobile communication business to rise completely, which also gives Eric enough preparation time, and Eric also needs to wait another one to two years before it can be released. After all, in recent years, new technology Under the influence of the tide, the share prices of all companies involved in the new technology field are ridiculously high.
Before the new technology bubble burst, Eric did not plan to acquire any company.
After the Internet bubble burst, it would be easier to acquire Sprint. After winning Sprint, not only can the information industry alliance plan be rebuilt, but also the layout of Eric for the mobile communications industry can be taken into consideration.
Whether it is Nokia or Qualcomm, it has already begun to test the third generation mobile communication network, which is later 3G. According to the progress of all aspects, it is expected that around 2000, 3G networks in Europe and the United States will enter the actual application stage, even The planned smartphone will take several years to be promoted, but Firefly Electronics can fully use Sprint's network to try to launch a 3G version of the tablet.
Eric sat in the study room thinking about these things. In the living room downstairs in the villa, Carolyn sat on the sofa casually reading a magazine, and occasionally looked up at the stairs.
Meyer came out of a living room next to him, holding a folder in his hand, and came to the living room, just to see Carolyn turned his head and looked towards the stairs.
Sitting next to Carolyn, Meyer also glanced at Carolyn and said, "It will be nine o'clock now, has Eric not come down yet?"
Carolyn nodded and saw the blue folder in Meyer ’s hand, and asked, “Last week ’s North America Box Office data?”
"Yeah," Meyer handed over the folder and said, "Otherwise, go up and give it to Eric."
Carolyn took over and opened it. The folder contains several pages of bound data files.
After 836 50,000 USD for the first three days of the first weekend and midnight, it enters the working day. "The Matrix 2" will receive 30.11 million USD Box Office in four days, and finally Box Office will reach 100 million 13 160,000 USD in the first week.
Although it barely exceeds the 100 million11174 million USD Box Office in the first week of "The Day After Tomorrow" two weeks ago, the working day Box Office of "The Matrix2" is nearly 7million USD lower than "The Day After Tomorrow", which is probably the disadvantage of the strong fans attribute of "The Matrix2. With the support of a large number of fans, the midnight scene of "The Matrix2" and the three days of the first weekend Box Office are very strong, but entering the working day, the Box Office boom quickly cooled down.
Considering the polarized word of mouth of "The Matrix2", the fall of the film will definitely exceed that of "The Day After Tomorrow" in the coming weeks. Since there is no obvious gap in the first week, the total North America Box Office of "The Matrix2" wants to exceed "The Day After Tomorrow", but it is not so easy.
After reading the documents in his hand, after thinking about it, Carolyn said: "Today, I still do n’t want to show this to Eric, he is in a bad mood."
Meyer also acknowledged that although Eric has not lost temper with anyone in recent days, everyone can feel the strong anger and disappointment of Eric.
Meyer privately even admired Eric a little bit more privately. A person who is in a high position and should also be young and full of spirits can always keep restraint and not anger anyone. This is definitely not what ordinary people can do. Did it.
Of course, I always think of the night of London in my mind, and then I ca n’t help but feel bitter.
Damn guy.
I once again murmured in my heart, Meyer looked at Carolyn again, although the frustrating result that night was ultimately caused by the girl in front of her, but Meyer did n’t have any anger to Carolyn, she did n’t have Eric That kind of restraint is just that such a girl who treats people sincerely and extremely, probably no one will have the heart to blame her for any mistakes.
The two women sat in the living room and chatted about the sky. After a while, footsteps finally came from the stairs. Eric came down and they stood up together.
Eric did n’t say anything to the two girls and said directly: “Let ’s go, Peter should be waiting for us.”
It ’s Saturday, but New Zealand is far from the harsh labor protection laws like California. The shoots on weekends did n’t stop. Of course, the weekend did not show the crew, but in the shoots base in Queenstown. Scattered interior scenes of some main characters of shoots.
A few days ago, the crew has been on location. Due to AOL, Eric could not find time to visit shoots with the crew at the location. Just waiting for Peter · Jackson to return to Queenstown at night, Eric and the other party discussed The shoots of the trilogy is progressing, and a small party was held with the Actor part of "The Lord of the Rings" in New Zealand.
The "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy has nearly forty locations in all of New Zealand's north and south islands.
At the moment, the North Island scene has been basically completed. The crew moved from Wellington to Queenstown last month.
Although it happens to be New Zealand ’s winter at this time, the low temperature of the South Island has not affected shoots due to the temperate maritime climate facing the sea. There are not many signs of winter in the whole South Island. Except for the nearby snow-covered mountains all year round, the plains of Queenstown are still green.
The crew built several not too large studios in Queenstown as shoots bases, mainly to cope with some scenes on the South Island. The film's main shoots base is also in Wellington, North Island, including the digital New Zealand branch established by Firefly in Wellington.
The special effects of "The Lord of the Rings" are mainly in charge of the Australian branch of the digital field and the New Zealand branch. The Australian branch mainly produces the CG special effects part, and the New Zealand branch is mainly responsible for the production of a large number of props and models of the film. As for the former Vita Digital, it will naturally not appear again, but the Australian branch and New Zealand branch in the digital field basically enjoy the treatment that Vita Digital once could enjoy.
The reason why the original Vital Digital can be side by side with Industrial Light & Magic, digital field, etc., is not how good the special effects technology of this company is. high.
Eric took Carolyn and Meyer to leave the resort ’s residence together, and arrived at the crew ’s studio in Queenstown in less than ten minutes by car.
Entering a busy studio, Peter · Jackson is directing a fight between the shoots Guardian Squad and the Orcs. The studio is surrounded by a set of green screens and props.
The "The Lord of the Rings" series is actually very focused on real shooting. The crew is less than a last resort and basically does not use CG special effects. This can be easily distinguished from the content of the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Eric ca n’t understand why many people like to laugh at it later. Peter · Jackson crazy heap CG.
Not to mention, as long as it can be good enough, CG can even give people a stunning visual sense.
Not disturbing the busy Peter · Jackson, Eric chatted casually with United Kingdom Actor Ian · McLean who played Gandalf, and several other resting Actor also gradually came around, just Nicole and Diane · Kruger It has long been completed, and is now not in New Zealand, most of the crew is male.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Peter · Jackson ended a section of shoots, and after a short break, came to Eric.
Hello, Peter · Jackson asked with concern: "Eric, how is the situation over there?"
"It's a temporary solution," Eric didn't want to talk more, but simply responded.
Eric people are in New Zealand, and what happened to AOL is well known. Eric is in New Zealand. Peter · Jackson is focused on the shoots of "The Lord of the Rings", but it is impossible to fail to notice this.