Chapter 683 I Am a Capitalist

Had a morning meeting, dined with Katzenberg at noon, and discussed some trivial matters. It was not until the afternoon that Eric made time to learn about the opportunities in the a network yesterday, but the telecommunications market in South Korea is too small, and there is no It will have too much impact on the global overall communication technology standards. And, just a week before the auction of spectrum licenses, AT&T announced that it would build out its g network across the country. As the largest telecommunications operator in the federal government, the communication technology standards determined by at&t will surely drive a group of followers. The technical maturity of g is much higher than that of cd, and once most operators switch to g, Qualcomm may even face bankruptcy," said Kelly after a pause, saying: "The Qualcomm stock absorbed by Firefly Investment will immediately It will be more than a million shares, if it continues, Eric, once Qualcomm goes bankrupt. These stocks become worthless. "

In 1992, Qualcomm issued a total of 6 million outstanding shares for the first time, accounting for 30% of the total share capital. Due to the rise of g, Qualcomm's development has lagged behind in recent years. There will be no further financing.

At present, Qualcomm's share price is only hovering around $7, and the total market value is only 3.4 billion.

To tell the truth, if he can eat all of Qualcomm, Eric will not have any hesitation at all. After all, it is only the video tape income of the Victoria's Secret show. It can bring him more than 300 million US dollars of income, and the entire Firefly Group, because there is no large-scale expansion plan for the time being, with the leading profitability in Hollywood, a very happy trouble the Firefly Group is now facing is that money Too much.

"A million shares is only 7 million," Eric said to Kelly: "I plan to take at least 3 million shares, so it only needs to spend 50 million US dollars, and this investment is equivalent to a medium production investment. It's just a movie, even if it's all lost, it doesn't matter."

"Yeah, it really doesn't seem to matter to you," Kelly also realized that if she cares, she is messed up. $50 million is really nothing for Eric's current net worth.

The two were discussing when Eric's mobile phone on his desk rang.

After connecting, Elizabeth's voice came from the other side.

Eric simply said a few words and hung up the phone.

Kelly also heard some information from the conversation between the two and asked: "Miss Murdoch"

"Well, about the Golden Globes and the Oscars, and saving Private Ryan and Braveheart collided, Liz asked me to talk about the PR for the two film awards."

Eric stood up as he spoke, Kelly took his coat thoughtfully, Eric stretched out his hand to put it on, and looked at the female assistant who was gently buttoning him in front of his eyes, Eric. Inexplicably, there is an illusion that the wife sends her husband to go on a date with another woman,

He stretched his arms around Kelly's waist and said with a smile, "It's strange, why do I suddenly feel a little guilty?"

Kelly smiled sweetly, and the movements on her hands did not stop. She said with a little woman's emotion: "I just want to make you feel guilty."

"Uh, you can use this trick yourself, don't spread it out."

"Will it be troublesome for you to spread it out?"

Eric nodded vigorously: "It's very troublesome."

After the popular New Year's schedule, the most important thing for Hollywood is undoubtedly the current awards season.

Compared with last year's Oscar year, this year's awards season Hollywood also has no so-called movie works, but there is a confrontation between Saving Private Ryan and Braveheart.

Although the Oscar nominations have not yet been released, in the more important film and television Golden Globe nominations, the two films won the best drama film, the best director, the best actor, the best screenwriter and the best soundtrack at the same time. Five nominations. Mel Gibson's performance can only be considered average. Eric remembers that he did not get any Best Actor nominations in the original time and space. Now that such a nomination at the Golden Globes should be regarded as Weinstein's public relations achievement.

As early as more than a year ago, Eric and Elizabeth had discussed the award-winning strategy of these two films. However, the plans were always unable to keep up with the changes, and many things still needed to be changed according to the current situation.

Under the reasonable operation of Miramax, Braveheart is undoubtedly more successful at the box office than the version that won the award but lost the box office in the original time and space.

Braveheart has been released on a small scale since the beginning of February last year, and continued to accumulate word-of-mouth and box office. During Christmas, Miramax increased the release scale to 2,000 in one fell swoop. With the advertising effect brought by the Golden Globe Award nomination and the long-term operation. With the accumulation of word-of-mouth, the film received more than 26 million US dollars at the box office in the same week. Now it has just entered the first week after the new year, and the total box office of Braveheart has approached 60 million. With the continuous hot topic of the awards season, many end-of-year schedules The box office of the films has fallen sharply, but the box office of Braveheart has maintained a slight decline of around 20%. If this situation continues to the Oscars, the total box office of Braveheart is conservatively estimated to be around 200 million US dollars, which is close to the Oscars. In its own right, Braveheart is likely to recover its full cost at the box office through its overseas release.

Eric left the Firefly headquarters and followed the address given by Elizabeth to an open-air restaurant in Beverly Hills frequented by Hollywood celebrities. Although it was work time in the afternoon, the restaurant was still full of guests who were casually drinking coffee and chatting. There is no shortage of familiar faces. Seeing the waiter leading Eric in, many guests stood up to say hello to Eric.

Cheering through the crowd, Eric met Elizabeth and Harvey Weinstein on the restaurant patio.

Sit down at the table and ordered a random cup of coffee. Eric looked at the gentle slope with bushes outside the railing, the Beverly mansion scattered in the field of vision like chess pieces, and the city of Los Angeles in the distance. He nodded and said: "The scenery here is really good, no wonder there are so many guests."

Harvey Weinstein said with a smile on his face: "Eric, if you like, you can come here often in the future. The owner of this restaurant is my friend, and I asked him to give you a free order."

Eric gestured to the eyes that still glanced at them frequently, and joked: "It's definitely not enough to waive the bill. If I come here often, your friend may have to pay me advertising fees or something."

Elizabeth and Harvey both laughed. If Eric really frequented this place, the number of guests who tried to approach him in the restaurant with all kinds of thoughts must have multiplied. It would be better than a billboard.

The three chatted casually for a while before the topic gradually turned to awards season. To be continued.

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