Chapter 213 208 Women's Views on Marriage, Golden Globe Awards Are Coming

Chapter 209 208. Women's views on marriage, Golden Globe Awards are coming

Beverly Hills, Cooper's house.

Under the bright moonlight, Eric stood on the balcony while looking at the swimming pool in the yard and answering the phone.

"Eric, congratulations on MGM's re-listing, and congratulations on becoming the world's first young billionaire."

Han Sanping said auspicious words loudly on the overseas phone.

But Eric's ears are almost calloused after hearing these words, because he has received too many congratulatory calls that day.

Not to mention the ears, even the eyes and fingers are sore, because they have to read and reply to text messages.

The people who can contact their private phone are all acquaintances. It's not good to ignore anyone, and it's not good not to reply.

After leaving the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, my father flew back to Los Angeles first, and Eric went to meet Sergei Hassenfeld.

This old guy is now in high spirits, not only in terms of love, but also in career.

Emotionally, he and Kate Winslet were very passionate, and his withered heart seemed to come alive again. He stopped boxing and found a new excitement point.

He even had the idea of ​​divorcing his wife, but Eric advised him to think carefully, because marriage is not a trivial matter, especially for a rich and successful person like him.

The distribution of property is a big problem, and there are children. In addition, his uncle Alan Hassenfeld would not agree.

Influenced by the movie, Transformers toys were completely sold out, and Hasbro's stock price also soared. The increase was almost catching up with MGM, and the market value exceeded 10 billion US dollars.

Now is the peak period, and Alan Hassenfeld will not allow any bad news to affect the stock price, including Sergey's marriage problem.

Who made Sergey the apparent controller of Hasbro?

His relationship with his uncle Alan is exactly the opposite of that between Eric and Charlie Cooper.

At MGM, Eric is the prime minister, and Charlie Cooper is the king.

At Hasbro, Alan is the prime minister, and Sergey is the king.

After listening to Eric's advice, Sergei, who was in a hot head, gradually calmed down and knew that he was thinking too simply.

He hated Allen Hassenfeld more and more, and cursed loudly that he would never be able to turn over in his life with this old man around.

Eric asked him about the sales of his toys again. Sergei said that he didn't know the statistics yet, but he had a rough estimate.

In just over two months, the sales of Transformers toys have exceeded the sales of the whole year of last year, almost catching up with twice.

According to this trend, there is really hope to reach four times the sales in a while.

Once this number is reached, it means that the highest terms of the gambling agreement signed by the two parties will be fulfilled.

Hasbro will face two choices at that time, either pay MGM 55% of the net profit of toys, which may reach 500 million US dollars or even more.

Or it must pay MGM 4% of the equity.

Once the equity is in the hands of MGM, there will be more means of operation, and it can be sold directly to Eric personally. Anyway, MGM has the final say, but it is just a transfer from left hand to right hand.

If he gets this 4% stake, Eric will have 20% of Hasbro's shares.

He will instantly surpass Allen Hassenfeld's 17% and become Hasbro's largest shareholder.

Now the key to the matter lies in Sergey. Eric has helped him so much, and this guy is very dissatisfied with Allen. It is not difficult to deal with him.

Thinking back, Eric said: "I can accept the first sentence of congratulations, but forget the second sentence, what is the world's first young richest man."

"That kind of thing is just a random arrangement to attract attention. Only some public assets are counted. The invisible assets of many large families and large groups are the big ones, which cannot be counted at all."

Old Han laughed: "Others have invisible assets, don't you? I don't believe you if you say you don't have them!"

"In short, you are the richest person I know. On this Forbes list, there is only one Chinese shortlisted, Ding Lei, who is engaged in the Internet."

"The gap is still relatively large. If you have time, come over to guide the work. Those domestic rich people will definitely be happy to come to listen to the class."

The two chatted for a few minutes, and Eric found an excuse to hang up the phone.

Han Sanping is right. Others have invisible assets, and he has no shortage of them.

45% of the shares of Double Star Entertainment. After more than half a year of operation, the company's products are becoming more and more popular.

When "Peppa Pig" and "Rick and Morty" are produced, the products are highly compatible with Double Star Entertainment. At that time, although the peripherals will not be as good as Transformers, they will definitely be the sales of big IPs.

He spent $300 million to buy these shares from Solnit. The current valuation has doubled, and it will increase many times if the company goes public in the future.

16% of Hasbro shares are also valuable. According to the current stock price, it exceeds $1.5 billion and is still growing.

Not to mention the value of Facebook, YouTube and Lionheart.com. Now he is indeed not as good as those super second generations.

But in time, maybe only ten years, the name of the world's richest man must be Eric Cooper, and he will hold it for a long time.

After finishing the call and returning to the dining table, my mother complained somewhat unhappily: "These people are really terrible. Why don't they pay attention to the time? Can't they wait half an hour for you to eat something?"

The babysitter Lisa reheated the cold food: "Eat quickly, Eric. There will definitely be another call soon."

"It's okay, it will be fine after today. Hmm. Why is the stew so fragrant today? It doesn't taste like chicken or pork. What is it?"

"It's ostrich meat. It tastes very good. It's processed with special methods." Mom said with a smile.

Eric nodded and took another big bite: "It's delicious. Why did you suddenly want to eat ostrich meat today?"

"Someone gave it to me. I just processed it according to the method."

"Who gave it to me?"

"Nicole Kidman."

"Uh"

Eric choked and quickly drank a mouthful of soup.

"Nicole Kidman? Why did she give you ostrich meat? No, how did you know each other? Don't you dislike her?"

Eric clearly remembered that after the Oscars last year, rumors about him and Nicole were flying everywhere.

Mom was quite dissatisfied after hearing about it. She had more or less heard about the mess between Nicole and Tom Cruise, so she didn't have a good impression of each other.

"Eric, God teaches us to look at a person with time and heart, not with eyes. I must admit that I was wrong."

"Based on past media reports, I made a wrong judgment and thought Nicole was a problematic woman."

"But we met in church some time ago. It turned out that she was also a devout Catholic and had a deep understanding of the Bible."

"We became friends, and she gradually opened her heart and told me a lot of things in the past, including that bad marriage."

"But I have to keep it a secret for her and can't tell you the details, but it's really not Nicole's fault. She is also a victim."

"Those gossip tabloids are so annoying. They always make random reports based on hearsay. A good woman has been twisted into a crazy woman by them."

Seeing that his mother was actually fighting for Nicole, Eric couldn't help but widen his eyes.

He suddenly remembered that when the two of them were together some time ago, Nicole asked him if he would go to church or something like that.

At that time, they chatted for a few words, and Eric didn't take it seriously at all. After all, they chatted too much in normal times, who would care about this.

I didn't feel anything at that time, but now I think that this girl was probably trying to trick him.

Then she secretly contacted my mother without telling me, and successfully reversed her image. The two of them actually became good friends, which was really surprising.

When the two of them became best friends, Eric would do it with her again, which was equivalent to directly performing "Deadly Women".

Thinking about it, among these women, Nicole was undoubtedly the most active, and she often talked about marriage intentionally or unintentionally.

Eric certainly knew what she was thinking, and usually laughed it off.

After so many times of fooling around, I guess she had some resentment in her heart, so she occasionally gave me a surprise attack.

She didn't have any bad intentions, but more because she was much older than Eric, she lacked a sense of security deep in her heart, so she was more anxious.

She also talked about the topic of children, fearing that it might not be easy for her to get pregnant in a few years, and now she was about to enter the threshold of advanced maternal age.

So deep in her heart, she was worried that Eric would give her a surprise attack at any time, but this time it might be more ruthless, maybe it would be a breakup.

In order to catch a man, she can only work harder to find ways and means.

Kissing at the Emmy Awards was obviously a bad idea, and Eric taught her a lesson afterwards.

But this time, Nicole seemed to have found the right way, and breaking through her mother was finally a good idea.

Relatively speaking, the other women were not so active, at least they had never expressed their attitudes towards marriage.

Gadot was only 19 years old, and the Olsen sisters had just turned 18. They were young and had no idea about it.

Although Theron was 28 years old, the pain brought by her original family made her very hostile to marriage, and she had some signs of non-marriage.

At least before Eric traveled through time, Theron had not married.

Now their careers are in full swing. After the awards season is over, they will be assigned work, and they will not think so much when they are busy.

On January 22, just one week after MGM was relisted, the stock price, which had been close to flat, suddenly rose sharply, with an increase of more than 8%.

Because another event that was enough to detonate Hollywood occurred.

Charlie Cooper officially announced his retirement, and Eric Cooper completely took over the company.

Facts have proved Eric's ability, so the market is generally optimistic about it, and the stock price naturally rose.

"Transformers" also ushered in the end of the film after two months of large-scale screening. At present, only remote areas in North America and some overseas countries are still continuing, but the impact is not great.

The current global box office is 943 million US dollars, and it can continue to stay in the championship seat for a while, but "Lord of the Rings 3" is also catching up.

The North American box office of "Blue Is the Warmest Color" has exceeded 100 million, reaching an exaggerated 145 million US dollars.

The overseas box office also won 32 million US dollars, and it topped the global box office with a global box office of 177 million US dollars.

It defeated the global box office record of 108 million US dollars for homosexual films set by "The Hours".

And "The Hours" is the film that made Neeko the queen last year.

Eric suddenly discovered that all of his women, except Gadot, had starred in homosexual movies.

It does make sense to think about it. When we sleep together in the future, I definitely won't be able to take care of so many people at the same time, so it's not bad to let them please each other.

Sharknado 2 also made over $100 million at the North American box office, earning $132 million, more than $10 million more than the previous film, but its potential has been almost exhausted.

This kind of movie makes quick money, and is released specifically for die-hard fans. The upper limit is locked, but the advantage is low cost, and it makes money no matter how it is filmed.

"Monster" is in a bad situation, with only more than $17 million at the North American box office in three weeks. We can only hope that the upcoming Golden Globe Awards will help the movie turn around.

On January 25, a grand movie party was held at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

The Golden Globe Awards, which will be broadcast live by NBC and watched by more than 28 million American viewers and nearly 400 million people around the world at the same time, are coming soon.

As the two most important film awards in the United States, the Golden Globe Awards are known as the outpost of the Oscars.

Generally, movies and actors that are favored by the Golden Globe will also win the Oscars at the same time, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards have the same attributes.

However, looking at the world, the influence of the Golden Globe Awards far exceeds that of the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

If you don't believe me, you can ask. Not to mention Asia, even in Europe, few people pay attention to the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

There are many films nominated this year, and "The Lord of the Rings 3" is undoubtedly the best, not only with the most nominations, but also with the highest probability of winning.

It won five nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Original Song, and Best Original Score.

The outside world predicts that the probability of "The Lord of the Rings 3" winning the actor nomination was very low, and Russell Crowe was likely to win the nomination with "The Far Side of the World".

But "The Far Side of the World" was suppressed by "Transformers" so badly that the global box office finally reached 89 million US dollars.

Compared with the investment of 150 million US dollars, Miramax almost lost money and its influence was greatly reduced.

So the nomination was given to Elijah Wood, who played Frodo. This is also the only actor nomination award that the three Lord of the Rings movies have received so far.

As the daughter of the great director Francis Coppola, Sofia Coppola won three nominations with "Lost in Translation", but some media criticized her for relying on her father's influence.

Clint Eastwood brought "Mystic River" to the competition. MGM invested in it, and "Million Dollar Baby", which he directed, has already started filming.

Since the Golden Globe Awards is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association, most of the judges are not professionals, so there are no technical awards such as Best Special Effects and Best Makeup.

Therefore, "Transformers" was very miserable and only received one nomination for Best Film Score.

However, it lost in one corner but gained in another. "Blue Is the Warmest Color" won four major awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay, all of which are heavyweight awards.

"Monster" won two heavyweight nominations for Best Actress and Best Screenplay in Drama with its darker and more cruel plot.

"Get Out" also won two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actor in Drama.

MGM received a total of 9 nominations with four movies, ranking first!