I’m in Hollywood

Due to the success of the Easter Movie Package of the Firefly system last year, this year's Easter schedule has naturally become a must for major studios.

Beginning a week before Easter on March 26, Warner's buyout Lola Run, Universal's Ed's Private Channel and Paramount's teenage crime comedy Sweeping Three will officially log in North American Cinema.

Speaking of which, if there is no Blair Witch turned out, due to the topic of Eric's attendance at the film, Lola Run will definitely become the most watched film at this year's Sundance Film Festival. .

Even so, Warners clearly has high hopes for the stylized stand-alone film, arranging 1,700 theaters in its first week.

The situation is a little more complicated for Universal Pictures' Ed's Private Channel. This is a new film directed by Hollywood director Ron Howard and starring Matthew McConaughey. At a cost of $80 million, the budget cost is second only to next week's Firefly Movie. The upcoming Public Enemy of the People.

However, unlike Eric's intention to cultivate the Easter market with blockbusters, Ed's Private Channel was apparently abandoned by Universal.

You must know that the number of high-budget 'blockbuster' films produced by Universal Pictures every year is definitely not comparable to the Firefly Group. If it is not very optimistic about this film, Michael Eisner will definitely not lose Ed's Private Channel. During the Easter period.

The last Paramount Sweeping Trio, the film was adapted from a TV series in the 1960s, and its popularity and attention are far less than the previous two.

As for the 'Easter Movie Package' of the Firefly System this year, they are Firefly Films' Public Enemy, MGM's American Pie and Fox's A Kiss. The three films still adopt the method of linkage promotion. , will be released in the next two weeks.

Since the plan was set in the first half of last year, Columbia Pictures did not participate in the plan this year.

After spending the weekend in Los Angeles with Carmen Keys, Eric flew her back to New York on Monday.

Eric originally wanted to arrange a house for Carmen Keith in Manhattan like Giselle and the others did, but the girl refused without hesitation. Back in Manhattan, she no longer pestered Eric, but immediately started her own work, and even arranged a catwalk schedule to fly to Tokyo next week.

A few days before Easter, Eric did not rush back to East Hampton immediately. Firefly Investment, abc Group and Clover Fund all have many things that he needs to stay in Manhattan to handle personally.

It seems that she wants to prepare for escaping Eric in advance. When she came to New York this time, Mayer no longer lived in Eric's penthouse on Sixth Avenue. Although Caroline wanted to live with Eric, Mayer did this, and the thin-skinned Caroline was embarrassed to live alone, so she chose another place to live.

Early in the morning, Caroline and Mayer rushed to Eric's makeshift office at ABC headquarters to start their day's work.

Eric, this is the stock trading statement of the Clover Fund last week. A total of $1.6255 billion was recovered in five trading days, and all of them have been settled into the Clover Fund account.

After taking the report from Caroline, Eric leaned back on the leather chair and turned it over and said to the two women, Tonight at the Hearst family's party, do you two want to come with me?

Caroline shook her head and said, My brother asked me to eat at his place at night.

Eric raised his eyebrows, raised his head subconsciously and asked, Brother?

Caroline wrinkled her nose,

Glancing at Eric lightly.

Okay, it looks like it's my brother, Eric smiled awkwardly and looked at Mayer again.

Mayer also shook his head: I made an appointment with someone to go to an art exhibition in Greenwich Village tonight.

Eric didn't dare to ask Mayer who he had an appointment with in front of Caroline, but noticed the narrow smile at the corner of Mayer's mouth, and while Caroline wasn't paying attention, he lost a threatening look.

After Eric focused on the report in her hand, Caroline took out a few pages of information from the document and handed it over: Eric, this is a memo submitted by a trader under the Clover Fund. He thinks our selling plan is too hasty and eager, and if we can be more thoughtful in our operations, we will definitely get more benefits.

Eric browsed the stock transaction report in front of him and picked up the pages of memos.

Over the years, Eric has also accumulated enough knowledge in finance. He also understands that stock trading is definitely a demanding technical job, not just a simple buying and selling operation.

For a stock, traders must analyze the possible reactions of other potential traders and the possible impact of their own buying and selling actions on the stock price while conducting various trading operations themselves.

To put it simply, a good trader can very accurately capture and even actively create the best trading opportunities to maximize profits.

At other times, Eric naturally doesn't mind this kind of slow and meticulous operation.

However, now he has no time at all.

The total value of technology stocks held by the Clover Fund has exceeded 30 billion US dollars, and it is still rising.

But according to previous memory, it took only four months for the Nasdaq index to rush from 3,000 to 5,000 in the original time and space, followed by the big crash that attracted worldwide attention.

Now, the date for the Nasdaq to break through 3,000 points has been moved forward by more than half a year. According to the analysis of various aspects, although Eric thinks that this time the Nasdaq will take a longer time to collapse, but he does not dare to Take it lightly, and still lock the complete liquidation time of the Clover Fund within four months.

After four months of cashing out tens of billions of dollars in huge funds, there is still time to conduct detailed trading analysis. All the traders need to do is to sell, sell, and sell again.

At other times, the Shamrock Fund cashed out more than $1.6 billion in a week, and the Nasdaq must have reacted sharply.

However, the current situation is that the entire Nasdaq technology stock market has completely fallen into madness, and funds from North America and overseas are rushing in frantically to join this speculative feast,

The total market value of Nasdaq stocks has even exceeded the $3 trillion mark, which is equivalent to one-third of the U.S. GDP, and the daily stock trading volume has reached tens of billions of dollars. Moreover, the financial derivatives markets such as stock index futures around Nasdaq technology stocks are also crazy and active.

It is precisely under the cover of this crazy atmosphere that Clover Fund's blunt and generous continuous reduction of holdings did not cause the market to be alert.

Even so, Eric is still very cautious. After all, if the outside world learns that he is frantically cashing out and fleeing, it will definitely form a trend of follow-up selling, and may even cause an early collapse of the Nasdaq.

Speaking of which, the reason why I received this suggested memo from the trader is also because of the strict confidentiality of this reduction.

In order to avoid as much as possible the reduction of Clover Fund’s holdings from being discovered by those who are interested, Eric has hired a total of twelve trading teams, half of which are not located in North America. Although these trading teams understand that they are serving a super-large client, even if the transaction is finally completed, they will only be like a blind man feeling the elephant, and it is impossible to figure out the total size of the cashed-out capital of the Clover Fund.

After reading a few pages of the memo with great interest, Eric threw it aside and asked Caroline, How is the promotion schedule for Iron Man?

You need to be there in person, the Tokyo premiere is April 22, the London premiere is April 29, the Los Angeles premiere is May 5, and on April 29, you still need to come back New York taps The Late Show with David, and the show airs on May 2.

Eric calculated in his heart, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, this seems to be another long round-the-world flight.

Caroline blinked and saw Eric's thoughts, and said, Eric, according to the news from Boeing two days ago, the two Boeing 747s can already be delivered. However, you explained Yes, so the relevant documents go directly to Miss Barrymore.

Eric has never been an impatient person, but after waiting for so long, he finally heard the news that two Boeing 747s could be delivered, he was also a little happy, nodded and said, Just right, we can take a new plane next time. .

Caroline bent her mouth and said, Also, we received, um, an email from the French LVMH Group, which was written by Miss Delphine Arnault herself, and she said she hoped To be able to visit you and talk about the collaboration on the new Dior fragrance campaign.

Eric opened the copy of the email that Caroline handed over and asked in confusion, Delphine Arnault?

She is Bernard Arnault's daughter, one of the heirs of the Arnault family behind LVMH.

Eric nodded, read the email again, and probably understood that the other party should have seen the Dior Real Goddess poster that he drew, probably hoping that he could personally write the Dior Real me advertisement.

I don't know if I should say that the other party is whimsical, Eric just smiled and said, You can ask her to return a rejection email.

Taking out the idea of ​​Dior's real golden goddess, Eric just continued to hold Carmen Keith, but the follow-up work can only be done by Dior himself, and Eric is naturally impossible to shoot commercials now. After all, a TV advertisement often looks like a few seconds, but if you want to do it well, it will definitely not take a month from advertising planning to final completion.

It's impossible for Eric to spare a month now. Moreover, he is neither short of money nor reputation, and he doesn't need to do that kind of thing that just shows up a few times in the process of shooting commercials and hangs a name. matter.

Caroline nodded and took down Eric's instructions.

After discussing these matters, Eric looked at Mayer again and said, How is the negotiation between Firefly Electronics and several major record companies?

Mayer shook his head: I haven't gotten the latest news for the past two days. Do I need to call and ask?

let it go.

Eric sighed.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of digital music stores in terms of content, Firefly Electronics targeted the three most likely to be negotiated: Universal Records, EMI Records and BMG Records.

Out of their instinctive dislike for digital music players and their desire to gain more benefits, the three companies offered very harsh cooperation conditions. Obviously, it is not so easy to carry out a large-scale mini music store promotion after the release of the next generation of fireflyer players.

The hardware facilities of the mini music store are no longer a problem, but there is not enough content support, and the result is estimated to be similar to the situation where there is always no money in the bank ATM machine.

After a busy day's work, night fell, and a black car slowly stopped outside a mansion on the Upper East Side.

The driver opened the car door, and Eric got out of the car first, then stretched out his hand into the car.

Cindy Crawford was held by Eric and got out of the car, but the two did not enter the villa immediately. Another tall girl got out of the car again, but it was Linda Evangelinsta.

The current helm of the Hearst family, William Hearst III, who came out to greet him in person, looked at the beautiful figure standing beside Eric on the left and right, and couldn't help showing a bit of envy. Only this young man dared to do so at the same time. Bringing two supermodels to the party, perhaps, these two top supermodels with rising status in the fashion circle will only be willing to cuddle around people like Eric Williams.

Hi, William, good evening, Eric and William Hurst III shook hands, and then introduced the two girls beside them: This is Cindy, Linda.

Hello, Mr. Hurst.

Cindy and Linda also greeted William Hirst and Mrs. Hirst before the group entered the villa.

There have been many guests in the villa, basically some celebrities from the Upper East Side.

William Hurst III personally introduced some people to Eric, everyone chatted for a while, and the couple had other guests to greet before turning around and leaving.

After the Hurst couple walked away, Linda fished out the cherry from the cocktail in her hand, sucked it in her mouth somewhat provocatively, and then swept around, with a dissatisfied tone at the person beside her. Eric said: I found that they all have only one female companion?

I found it too, Eric took a sip of the red wine in his hand and said with a smile, So, you two have taken advantage of me.

Bah, Linda spat lightly, looking very dissatisfied, and after looking for it in the crowd, she pulled Cindy on the other side and said, I saw Erin Lauder, we went to fight Hello, speaking of which, her dress tonight is really good, maybe you can ask which designer made it, and I will make one too.

Speaking, without waiting for Eric to say anything, Linda dragged Cindy and walked not far away.

Eric didn't follow, watching the two women walk away, and was about to chat with some familiar people for a while, when he heard a soft girl's voice next to him: You are Eric Williams. ?

Eric turned his head, the first thing that caught his eye was a baby face, cat-like eyes, thin lips, short corners of the mouth, wearing a black corset dress, with a slightly weird atmosphere, like a little witch.

Seeing Eric looking over, the girl did not hide the inquiry and curiosity in her eyes, continued to look at him, and took the initiative to introduce herself: My name is Lydia, Lydia Hearst.