I’m in Hollywood Chapter 991: Good start
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The last major production at the end of May was "The World of Chumen" starring Kim Carey, produced and released by Paramount Pictures. The next one will be "The Day After Tomorrow" of Firefly Pictures, therefore, Eric is quite concerned about this film by Kim Ruikai.
Despite the failure of "Cable Repairman", in recent years, Kim Carey has been sitting steadily in the front line position at Hollywood, even for the literary "Chumen World", Kim Carey is still Get the first-line pay of 12 million USD. Because of this high pay base, "The World of Chumen" has also been piled into a large-scale production of 60 million USD cost.
On Monday, on the plane to New York.
Eric sat relaxedly by the porthole and looked at his Box Office report last weekend.
Three-day Box Office31.19 million USD in the first weekend of "The World of Chumen" is comparable to the performance of "Lethal Weapon4" and "Patriot" in the previous two weeks. It is expected that Box Office will be around 50 million USD in the first week.
As long as you can maintain a good Box Office curve, Paramount can still make a small profit. As for the other "Lethal Weapon4" and "Patriot", due to the average weekly decline of 40%, it has no threat to the "The Day After Tomorrow" that will be released this Friday.
The new version of "The Day After Tomorrow" is directed by Michael · Bei. Eric has long been seen as a film. Because it is script written by himself, compared with the Roland · Emmerich version, the new version is no longer as protracted as original in plot, and , The explosion shell that pays attention to visual experience will make the whole North America encounter frozen picture more shocking. In addition, this is the only bombshell of Firefly Group's summer file this year, which concentrates most of the company's marketing resources. No one doubts that this special effects blockbuster will become the explosion of the entire summer file.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Boeing 767 of the Eric landed at MacArthur Airport in the middle of Long Island. As usual, Carolyn and Meyer were sent to Manhattan, and Eric rushed to Eath Hampton. He plans to spend two weeks in New York, one week to deal with official business, and one week to accompany women and children.
However, although I wanted to take a break first, the next day, Chris hurriedly came from Manhattan.
In the morning, on the lawn of the manor, today the weather is pretty good.
Chris led down to the backyard lawn under Joanna and saw that Eric was taking three children to make insect specimens, Kevin and Emma played with enthusiasm, Hawaii was obviously absent-minded. Seeing her mother coming with Chris, Hawaii immediately got up and said hello sweetly: "Good morning, Uncle Chris, do you want to talk to Papa?"
The little girl blinked her eyes, and she almost said, "Uncle Chris, please take me Papa."
With a smile on his face, Chris shook his head seriously: "No, I came to accompany you to make insect specimens."
After hearing this answer, Hawaii frowned, very distressed. How can these grown-ups be bored to such a degree, and even more abominable, they must pull themselves.
Eric put down the tools in his hand, got up and embraced Chris, and said to Joanna: "Joan, you can play with them."
Joanna nodded, watched Eric and Chris leave, and then sat down in the position of Eric just now, petting the restless daughter spoiledly, saying: "Xiaxia, you promised Mama, you must be good with Papa Get along, do n’t always be so impatient. "
"But, Mama, these things are really boring, can I go back to read now?"
Joanna shook his head and said, "No, I said hello to Manny. She won't come over to help you with class this week. I also put away your books, Oh, and Steve for you. Small keyboard. You have scared your Papa, so, at least this week, be good. "
"Well."
Fine-year-old exquisite little girl with big beautiful eyes grunted annoyedly, lying lazily on a table full of handmade props, and felt life was boring.
On the other side, Chris followed Eric and returned to the living room of the villa. He sat down on the sofa and asked with a smile: "Are you surprised again this time?"
"If you mean seeing a five-year-old girl holding a book reading" Differential Topology ", Eric shrugged and nodded with a wry smile:" It is true, if not the Xiaxia tutor Explain to me what differential topology is. I do n’t even know what my daughter is reading. Although, well, even if she explains it, I still do n’t know what it is. ”
"Haha," Chris couldn't help laughing, and said after a while: "I really look forward to seeing how Xiaxia grows up. Well, maybe I should let Daniel get along with Xiaxia now, good in the future Marry home as daughter-in-law. "
Eric still smiled helplessly. Of course he expected his child to be very smart, but now it seems a bit too much.
Talking and laughing, the two quickly turned to the topic.
"Including our original shareholdings, the first half of the Firefly investment and the purchase of the Clover Fund, we now hold a total of 35.7% of the shares of AOL. At present, AOL shares have been basically swept by major investment funds It ’s clean, and our shareholding ratio ca n’t be increased anymore. During this time, I have been in contact with other shareholders of AOL, but the results are not too good. The achievements made by Steve · Kes are obvious to all, most of the shareholders Are more inclined to the development strategy of existing management. "
Since its inception, AOL has been financing various investment companies until Firefly's investment was entered, and the equity structure of AOL was basically stable. The current situation is that the management of AOL, including Steve · Kes, holds less than 10% of the total shares of AOL. Except for the major shareholder Firefly, other equity is concentrated in the hands of major investment funds.
According to yesterday ’s closing price, the current market value of AOL has reached 39600 million USD, which has increased by 1.77 times compared with the beginning of the year. That is to say, every one percent of the shares of AOL is now close to 400 million USD. Even if the major investment funds are willing to continue to transfer AOL's shares, Firefly cannot afford to buy enough funds.
Finger tapped lightly on the sofa armrest, Eric thought for a while, and asked: "If we show now, what is the possibility of taking control of AOL?"
Chris thought for a while and said, "50%, now there are reports of the AOL merger with Time Warner. If the news is confirmed, our side is more likely to lose, and many people are very happy to see AOL merges with Time Warner. "
Although it is the largest shareholder of AOL and holds 35.7% of the shares, Firefly wants to initiate a shareholder vote to oust the current management under the AOL situation, and the possibility of failure is indeed Great. Because most of the shareholders of AOL are institutional investors, and the number is not too large, it is also very easy to twist a rope to resist the large shareholder of Firefly investment.
Of course, Firefly is not without its own killer, that is, threatening other shareholders to stand on its side by selling shares. The AOL stock held by the Firefly system, once sold, is enough to crash the AOL share price.
However, Eric will never use this method until it is a last resort. It will do no good to anyone. It may even cause a chain reaction and cause shocks in the entire NASDAQ market.
The Nasdaq index is now close to 2000 points, which seems to be far from the previous high of 5000 points, but in fact, this stock index is already full of foam components.
Taking the most representative Nasdaq market, Microsoft, in 1995, when the Nasdaq index remained at around 1,000 points, the market value of Microsoft was only more than 40 billion USD, but now, the Nasdaq index has risen. By 2000, the recent market value of Microsoft has exceeded 250billion, which has increased more than six times compared with three years ago.
If Firefly invests in order to make AOL shareholders succumb, it will really hit AOL stock. As the leading star stock of the Nasdaq market, Eric is very worried that the decline in AOL stock price will become the trigger for the early collapse of the entire Nasdaq market. Once this is the case, then Firefly may face hostility from the entire Wall Street.
As for why insisting that AOL take the development route of Network Service Provider, Eric has been discussed in detail with Chris.
The number of users of AOL has grown very rapidly in recent years. It is estimated that by 2000, the broadband installation users of AOL will reach 20 million. This data far exceeds several traditional network service operators such as AT-T and Verizon.
So, basic Internet services are the foundation of AOL. As long as you can have 20 million users, according to the average monthly tariff standard of 30USD, these users will bring 7200 million USD stable revenue for AOL every year.
In this excellent situation, if we can go one step further and annex a traditional telecommunications operator, further consolidate our industry position and expand other basic service businesses, even if the Internet bubble bursts in the future, AOL can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.
However, according to the development idea of Steve · Keith, AOL is transformed into United States's largest Internet media giant.
The past history also proves this. When the Internet bubble burst, the Internet media empire that AOL piled up quickly disappeared. The various personnel and financial crises brought about by the bubble burst, internal disregard for basic network services and the joint stranglehold of several traditional giants, more than 20 million network users of AOL also quickly flowed to several others. In the end, when Time Warner sold AOL again, the Internet giant with the highest market value of 180billion USD only had a pitiful price of more than 4 billion USD.
Actually, Eric feels that in the previous transaction, the shareholders of AOL were still very lucky. At the highest point of this company ’s stock price, they converted their stocks into 'AOL-Time Warner' stocks. Therefore, when AOL disappeared, they actually still own Time Warner shares, so they are not empty-handed. As for the original shareholders of Time Warner, hehe.
Speaking of this, if the transaction of Time Warner acquisition by AOL can still be reached this time, even according to the proportion of 50-50, then, the holding of Firefly investment in Time Warner will be close to 18%, which is definitely the new 'AOL- Time Warner's largest shareholder is also in line with Eric's ambition to expand to the entire Hollywood.
However, abandoning the opportunity to become the largest Internet service provider of United States in exchange for an 18% stake in Time Warner Group is definitely a big loss business. Eric does not want to see this expansion anyway.
"50% is 50%," finally, Eric said: "The Time Warner side has been in contact with the AOL high-level very frequently, so we must come up with a decision as soon as possible, and we cannot delay it like this."
Chris nodded and said again: "So, Eric, success is good, but if it fails, what are you going to do?"
Eric did not hesitate much this time, saying: "If it fails, then we will gradually withdraw from now on, and sell as many stocks as we can."
Chris naturally knows the meaning of Eric. Sooner or later, the NASDAQ market will crash. Once the stock market crashes, AOL, the NASDAQ market star stocks, will definitely bear the brunt. Firefly can only sell as much cash as possible before this date.
As for the future shareholder of AOL-Time Warner, Eric is not interested at all.
Once the NASDAQ market crashed, Time Warner became a complete quagmire. Even if the market value of Time Warner is calculated according to 50billion USD, and get 18% of the shares, the value is only 9billion USD. Even now, the value of the Firefly system's 35.7% stake in AOL has far exceeded this figure. What's more, the 18% stake is not enough to seize control of Time Warner.
The two unknowingly chatted for a morning. After lunch, Chris left in a hurry and began to prepare for the showdown planned at the end of this month. At that time, Eric may still come to New York again.
Eric stayed in Eath Hampton to prevent her daughter from turning into a cloud, and the workday of the week passed quickly.
On Friday, June 5, this year's summer first part special effects blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" was officially launched on North America3370 screens at the same time.
The first day of the film received 23500,000 USD, Eric's carefully modified script plus Michael · Bei special visual effects, so that the film's word of mouth also became popular, most of the media gave about 8 points, far exceeding the previous Roland · Emmerich version.
Following the opening of 23500,000 USD on the first day, the film won 73750,000 USD Box Office in the first three days of the first weekend and became the explosive movie that caused the summer movie first part to watch the movie. According to the Box Office data for the first three days of the first weekend, Michael · Bei will also get his own first part first week Box Office 100 million film without suspense.