Chapter 571 You Have to Help Me

Chapter 571

Eric originally thought that the news that "Jurassic Park" broke the global box office record would appear on the entertainment page. To his surprise, the "New York Times" published the news on the front page of the current affairs page. , the accompanying picture is still the photo of the Tyrannosaurus rex that many newspapers used to mention "Jurassic Park".

From the beginning of June to the present, after 16 weeks of screening, "Jurassic Park" broke the 1982 "et Alien" with a total global box office of 4.3 billion in North America, 4.7 billion overseas, and a total of 900 million US dollars. " set a global box office record of $8.9 billion. Although many professional box office analysts tend to mention the difference in ticket prices between 1982 and 1993, for ordinary people, the most intuitive numbers are often more eye-catching than those professionally in-depth analysis, so the New York Times did not The impact of inflationary factors is not exaggerated.

Although there is still a gap of $100 million from the global box office of $4.6 billion that Eric originally shouted, but according to the current trend, although it is somewhat difficult for the North American box office to surpass the domestic record of "Star Wars" of $4.6 billion, it will be in the next few months. Inside, there is no problem in harvesting about 20 million box office piecemeal, and the box office potential of overseas box office countries is far from being tapped. Eric roughly browsed the box office data of the main box office countries published in the newspaper. At this time, the Japanese box office of "Jurassic Park" was equivalent to more than 80 million US dollars, and the Japanese box office definitely exceeded 100 million US dollars in memory, so according to the current trend, it is only a matter of time before the global one billion.

Aside from some advertising collaborations, Firefly has little ties to the Salzberg family, which owns The New York Times. After reading the entire page of news, Eric understood why the New York Times had made the news of the record-breaking Jurassic Park in the headlines of the newspaper's current affairs section with such fanfare.

The New York Times has several very high-quality front-page analysis articles, combining the global box office of "Jurassic Park", the overseas box office growth rate of Hollywood's seven major studios in recent years, and the upcoming signing of the new "Jurassic Park" box office. The analysis of the impact of factors such as the GATT has fully rendered a very important message about the global rise of Hollywood.

Joanna noticed Eric's concentration on reading the newspaper in his hand and frowning slightly from time to time. He also curiously leaned over and looked at the newspaper in Eric's hand. Eric rested his chin on the woman's head and sniffed the faint fragrance of hair. Asked, "Did you see anything?"

Joanna pressed her cheek gently against Eric's, feeling his powerful heartbeat. Somewhat reluctantly said: "Are you going back to Los Angeles?"

"No," Eric put his arms around Joanna's soft body and said, "The New York Times will not trumpet the rise of Hollywood for no reason. Someone should be behind it."

"You call and ask Jeffrey and the others, or it will be clear."

Eric took the watch and glanced at it,

It's not yet six o'clock, and it's three in the morning in Los Angeles. Calling at this time will definitely be nailed.

"I don't think it's a PR article from the company. The box office potential of "Jurassic Park" in North America has almost been exhausted. Although it will be able to reap some box office in the next few months, according to the ladder sharing agreement, the company and the The share ratio of the cinema side is 1:9, so there is no need for marketing at all.”

Joanna reached out and stroked Eric's frown from thinking, as if to smooth out the fine lines that were squeezed out there, and said, "I don't understand these things, don't think about so many things every day. , you will be tired, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"Forget it. Time to get up, too."

Eric put the newspaper aside and stopped thinking about it, in fact. This kind of thing is not too complicated, and the people who can benefit from today's news, Bacheng is the manipulator behind it.

Because of the news that "Jurassic Park" broke box office records, in the following days, related phone calls kept coming to the manor in East Hampton, and Eric quickly figured out the reason for the "New York Times" to publish the news. .

On the day that The New York Times passed the record-breaking global box office of "Jurassic Park", after the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, stocks in the film and television media sector rose collectively, and there were even many potential film companies whose stock prices soared by 30%. . Reached the daily increase cap on the NYSE.

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

But Paramount Communications, which Hollywood is being bid for by Viacom and QV, has more immediate benefits. Shares in Paramount Pictures parent company Paramount Communications rose 17% in the days that followed, nearly a year after news broke last year that Viacom and QV would be bidding for Paramount Communications. At the same time, Paramount Communications' stock price has doubled, and Paramount Communications' market value has reached nearly $9.5 billion at this time.

Eric remembers that in the original time and space, Redstone spent $10 billion to acquire Paramount Communications, but according to the current situation, whether it is Barry Diller or Redstone, they want to win Paramount for $10 billion. , is no longer so easy.

In the process of talking with Eric, Michael Lynn and others mentioned this matter with regret. If Firefly Pictures chooses to go public, then in this wave of collective rise of media stocks, Firefly Pictures will be biggest beneficiary.

But Eric doesn’t think so. In his opinion, the par value of a stock and the actual value of a company are two concepts. Although the stock price often reflects the actual value of a company to a certain extent, most of the time, the stock price The price is not equal to the value of the company.

For example, this time, if Firefly chooses to go public, with the box office explosion of films such as "Jurassic Park" in the summer program, Firefly's stock price will hit a new height, but this height is not necessarily equal to Firefly's. In actual value, unless shareholders sell their shares at this time, they won't get much benefit from the rise in stock prices.

Moreover, Eric also talked with Chris about the market value of Firefly Pictures, if Firefly Pictures chooses to go public at this time. The market capitalization will certainly be able to break through $20 billion very safely. But in Eric's mind, because of the reborn Goldfinger, Firefly Pictures is worth more than $20 billion.

While these things happen. At the end of September, Fox TV officially aired "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". With the lead of the fourth season of "The Archives", which is at a peak of 20 million viewers, the first episode of "Buffy" has gained more than 15 million viewers. Although this rating was not too bright in 1993, and even the top ten ratings of annual drama dramas may not be able to reach it, it is a very good TV network for Fox, which has just experienced the withdrawal of Firefly Pictures. The good news, which means that the Fox network really has a hit TV show with complete copyright, plus the media dividend news brought by "Jurassic Park" breaking the global box office record, News Corp. The volatile stock price has finally stabilized.

After "Buffy" aired. Perhaps because of Murdoch's cue, or with some other thoughts, Elizabeth, who was far away in Los Angeles, came to East Hampton to visit Eric in person.

After greeting Joanna and the two little guys, Elizabeth came to Eric's study and said, "The scenery here is good. I will go back and look for a manor nearby."

Seeing that the girl took his place unceremoniously, Eric walked to the small bar and pointed at the coffee, and said, "I also bought a few other places. If you are interested, the key is at Joan's."

Elizabeth flipped through a pile of documents that Eric put on the desk. He raised his head and gave him a roll of eyes: "If you gave it to me in person, I can still accept it with reluctance. You actually asked me to ask your woman for something. It's so insincere."

"Forget it, I still feel very distressed that millions of things are given to you like this."

"Bah, you bastard," Elizabeth spat lightly, waving the folder in her hand, her eyes flickering with undisguised slyness: "These are the TV drama plans, which one do you fancy, I'll help Look."

Eric calmly poured two cups of coffee. He walked to the desk and handed the girl a cup, and said, "We are competitors now. Seduction doesn't work for me."

In fact, Eric hadn't had time to watch it at all.

"The devil wants to seduce you." Elizabeth threw a white eyeball at Eric again: "Also, your vision is not very good. The ratings of "Buffy" are only 15 million, which is worse than I thought. many."

Eric grabbed a chair and sat down opposite the desk, holding a coffee cup and smiling: "Is it overjoyed that there are two or three million viewers?"

Elizabeth seemed to be choked, but did not refute. The TV series "Buffy" naturally has two restrictions. First, as a youth campus drama, the audience is directly limited to teenagers. Second, the theme of the TV series is supernatural power. This once again limits the crowd who are not interested in the paranormal, and the two combined, the 15 million viewership really exceeded the expectations of the Fox network.

Seeing that Elizabeth's habitual bickering with Eric was at a disadvantage again, Elizabeth had to turn her attention, looked at the big head monitor on the desktop, looked down, found the computer host, and pressed the power button.

Watching the login interface appear on the monitor, Elizabeth rubbed her hands on the keyboard and asked, "Hey, what's the password?"

Eric took a sip of coffee and said casually, "(Hawaii)."

Elizabeth put her lips up and entered the password, not forgetting her habit of teasing: "When your daughter grows up, she will be overjoyed with the name her father gave her."

"I think Emma will be more pleasantly surprised when she grows up and finds herself with a long list of surnames."

"Hmph, Emma keeps calling you dad. You've been in New York for so long, but it's irresponsible that you don't go to see the little guy."

"I've always wondered if Emma knew what the word 'Dad' meant when she called me."

Elizabeth laughed twice and said, "I'm also curious, Emma only calls you a dad, and doesn't have such a reaction to other men, women, cats, dogs, and dogs. It seems that you can be classified as a special species alone. , a creature named 'Dad', tsk tsk..."

When Eric watched the girl speak, he did not forget to tap on the keyboard for a while, and quickly reminded: "Don't mess up the files I saved."

"I've been studying for a year," Elizabeth raised her chin, and then exclaimed: "Wow, why is your computer different from other people's... It's so big, 1000m hard drive, how did you get it out? ?"

Although the computer performance has begun to soar according to Moore's Law, ordinary personal computers still only have two or three hundred megabytes of storage space. Eric just couldn't stand this, so he made a custom one. In fact, this kind of thing will be in later generations. Very common, and this kind of computer has a very copycat name, assembly machine.

However, it is not so easy to assemble a personal computer at this time. If you want to exceed the general performance limit, you can only customize it from the motherboard.

"This is a customized version, if you're interested, I can give you a call," Eric explained, and then added: "Okay, don't mess around, you suddenly ran over, what exactly is it for, say Bar?"

"Can't I just come to see you?"

"I see now, do you want me to see the guest in person?"

"Okay, really," Elizabeth said after typing hard on the keyboard, "I'm not the vice president of Twentieth Century Fox?"

"Um?"

"Then, last week, I took down Mel Gibson's Braveheart project for $18 million plus a 10% profit share," Elizabeth said, seeing Eric become solemn His face immediately became tearful: "Is the price too high? Anyway, you have to help me. If this project loses, my vice president will definitely pack up and leave."

Eric asked helplessly: "What is the production budget you have prepared?"

Elizabeth said: "Including Mel Gibson's salary, a total of 70 million."

Eric sighed: "You should have said hello to me in advance. In fact, the profit prospects of this project are not too high. I am interested in its Oscar prospects. I think it should be able to win several important Oscars. The award is ready to win it.”

"What about now?" (To be continued.)

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