Chapter 777 Night...
Chapter 777
Although Thales is an ordinary housewife with no opinion, she is not stupid. From the brief eye contact between Eric and his daughter, he can roughly see something.
However, since Eric agreed in person, she felt that such a big man, well, although he was too young, he wouldn't lie to them.
Now that Eric agreed that Miranda could sign with the Disney Channel, Thales asked about another thing he cared about the most.
"So, what about Miranda staying in America?"
Eric said: "Ms. Keer, if you are worried, you can stay in the United States to take care of Miranda."
Thales shook his head and said: "This is not good, I have my own job in Brisbane, and my husband and son can't live without me. What I mean with John is, I hope Miranda can go to a full-time boarding school, You can stay at school as long as you're not filming."
"Mom, I don't want to go to boarding school," Eric was about to nod, but Miranda had already called out. The parents didn't discuss this with her in advance. And, just kidding, what's the difference between going to boarding school and going to jail.
Thales was not angry because of her daughter's resistance, and said in a gentle tone: "Baby, you are still underage. If you don't go to boarding school, your father and I are not worried about leaving you alone in the United States."
"Can't I find a temporary guardian so that I can go to ordinary middle school," Miranda said, but looked at Eric.
Noticing Miranda's gaze, Thales immediately shook his head.
"No," Thales raised his voice a little, but felt that the reaction was a little rude, as if she didn't trust Eric, although it was true.
After a pause, Thales added: "It's an honor for you to get this job as an actor. We can't trouble Eric any more."
Eric also shook his head at this time and smiled: "According to federal regulations, I probably do not meet the conditions of being your temporary guardian. I am a bachelor now."
Hearing Eric's voluntary rejection, Thales was relieved and said to his daughter, "Hey, you heard me."
"But I don't want to go to boarding school. If I have to do this, I'd rather... I'd rather..." After stammering twice, Miranda Kerr didn't say what she would rather go back to Australia, and turned her head to look at Eric , said: "Eric, even if you can't be my temporary guardian,
But you can always help me find a suitable host family? "
Eric shrugged slightly and said, "That's fine, but you have to ask your parents to agree."
Miranda Kerr immediately got up from Eric's side, got tired of going towards Thales, and said coquettishly, "Mom..."
Eric looked at Thales' helpless expression, got up and said, "I'll go see if dinner is ready, you can discuss it."
I don't know how the mother and daughter communicated. At dinner, although Thales still said that he still had to ask her husband's consent, her attitude had completely softened.
Miranda Kerr also looked very excited because of this, like a little magpie with a wish fulfilled, chatting at the dining table and chatting with Eric on a lot of things, from a few years ago on the grandmother's farm. There are many interesting things about shooting the cover of "dolly" magazine not long ago. Although she is young, her ability to observe words and expressions still surpasses her mother's. She feels that Eric is not at all disgusted by her showing off her detached character.
Eric has seen many cases of strong generation and weak generation, and the Murdoch family has personally experienced it. At this time, it was the first time I saw a counter-example of a weak generation and a strong generation. It was interesting to see Miranda Kerr's full-fledged opinion and abnormal precociousness, but her mother Thales was very soft-hearted.
After dinner, because Eric inadvertently overheard Eric talking about the private screening room in the villa, the girl pestered Eric to go in and have a look. After Eric agreed, Miranda Kerr left her mother alone Watching TV in the small living room, dragged Eric out of the room.
After watching a movie, I realized that it was already past ten o'clock.
The hotel where the mother and daughter live is in Burbank, near the headquarters of the Firefly Group, and the straight-line distance from Jianjiao Manor is more than 40 kilometers.
Eric opened the door to stay. Although Thales felt it was very inappropriate, he agreed immediately when he saw his daughter, so he did not insist.
After arranging a guest room for the two, Eric went back to his bedroom, took a shower, and leaned on the bedside to read the latest project plan about the paid cable station that he brought back from the studio today.
Several cooperative fee-based cable stations are temporarily named ffm, which is the initials of the three companies firely-fo-mgm. If there is no more suitable name in the future, the change will not be made.
At this time, the number of subscribers of H-wave is close to 10 million. Although it has not reached the peak moment when the number of users exceeded 30 million in Eric's memory, according to the current monthly subscription fee of 9.99 US dollars, the annual turnover of H-wave has exceeded 1 billion US dollars. It is precisely because of this kind of revenue confidence, in the original time and space, that H-Bo dares to invest heavily in the production of a large number of excellent self-made dramas in the next few years, and form a virtuous circle, step by step to consolidate its unshakable industry position.
In this case, there is not much time left for ffm TV to catch up. Eric's original plan was to imitate the money-burning strategy of emerging Internet companies, and spend huge sums of money to produce sensational and highly topical homemade dramas, while sparing no effort To carry out marketing promotion, in the early stage of TV station development, by completely sacrificing profits as a means to quickly accumulate more users, in order to achieve the purpose of competing with the h wave.
But in the process of repeated discussions among the heads of several companies, the shortcomings of Eric's plan were quickly revealed.
The paid cable station under the telecommunications company that the three major companies plan to take over has only 1.5 million users, which is only about one-seventh of the H wave. It is impossible to cause too much social effect.
After all, premium cable stations are different from basic cable stations, just like lietime TV. Although the original ratings were equally appalling, most of the programs had only one million or even 100,000 viewers, but it had a total user base of 30 to 40 million. "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" came out, and the ratings skyrocketed immediately.
There are usually only a few million subscribers to paid cable stations. Even the H wave has not exceeded 10 million. Because of high subscription fees and hardware constraints, it is impossible for audiences to grow as long as they grow. Usually, It requires a long-term accumulation process of users and word-of-mouth. The current H-wave users, which are less than 10 million, are also the result of more than 20 years of operation.
Since the first goal of ffm is to expand the number of users as much as possible, the experienced Murdoch quickly put forward a simple and rude but very practical suggestion, mergers and acquisitions!
The fo television network that has covered the United States is the result of many crazy mergers and acquisitions by News Corporation in the 1980s.
In addition to H-wave, throughout North America, there are many small paid cable stations that broadcast similar content. These small paid cable stations are basically subsidiaries of cable TV operators. With the convenient channel resources of the parent company, these small paid cable stations can also get a small share of the pay TV market with their relatively low subscription prices. .
Although the charging price is lower, these TV stations have high-quality paying users after all. Acquiring several companies at one time and merging them will definitely result in a much faster user accumulation rate than the method proposed by Eric at the beginning.
After reading the information in his hand, Eric picked up the remote control and turned on the wall-mounted TV opposite the big bed. He wanted to see what the TV station named 'Independent Movie Channel' under the operator cablevi private mentioned in the document looked like. cablevi private on has already intended to sell this paid cable station with 900,000 users, but the price is as high as 315 million US dollars.
Finding the Independent Movie Channel, Eric casually glanced at the plot of a movie that was playing, and then shook his head indifferently. In the picture, two not-so-beautiful blond girls were caught by a murderer with their upper bodies on their backs. The performance of Lu's running wild is also a little too exaggerated, which is obviously an ultra-low-budget thriller. Eric can probably guess that the plot is going in the "Scream" mode just by looking at it.
The proportion of bad movies in Hollywood is still very high, because the huge market is here, and independent production companies put together tens of millions of dollars to follow the trend to make some movies. Independent film channels and these TV stations sell broadcasting rights, and overseas copyright sales can also recover a little bit.
Losing interest, Eric was about to change the channel when he heard a sound.
dong dong dong
Eric was stunned for a while, and it was not until the voice sounded again that he was sure that it was not his hallucination.
I looked at my watch, and before I knew it, it was half past eleven.
He found a pair of beach pants and put them on from the cabinet next to him. Eric went to open the door and quietly looked at Miranda Kerr who was pretending to be shy and fiddling with her fingers in the corridor.
Looking at Eric, who was only wearing beach pants, the girl's face was flushed, but she didn't flinch, she summoned up her courage and said, "Eric, I can't sleep, can I chat with you?"
Eric smiled and said, "If your mother knew that you secretly came to 'chat' with me in the middle of the night, she would definitely be mad."
"My mom usually sleeps so deeply that she doesn't know," Miranda said, squeezing forward, Eric had to step aside, and the girl walked in unceremoniously.
Just before Eric could change the channel, Miranda walked into the bedroom and heard screams from the TV. At the TV screen, the girl turned her head and said with a little sly: "Eric, so you like to watch Such a movie."
Eric was too lazy to explain to her, so he closed the door, walked to the bed, and threw the material he had just read into the locked drawer. Although he liked to get along with different women, Eric was not stupid enough to treat women completely. Undefended.
Locking the drawer, Eric picked up a Stephen King horror novel on the bedside table, leaned against the head of the bed, and looked at the girl who was wandering curiously in the bedroom.
From then on, Miranda was barefoot, not even wearing socks, her feet were as light as a cat, but she was still wearing the original thin sweater and jeans.
Lying at the north window and looking at the lights in downtown Malibu late at night for a while, Miranda whispered a few words, turned and walked towards Eric, sitting down on the edge of the bed very naturally, and weighed her body. After trying the feeling, he said, "Eric, why is this bed so big?"
Eric raised his head and glanced at her, "threatening" and said, "This way you can sleep a lot of women."
Miranda smiled, climbed onto the bed more boldly, lay beside Eric, raised her face, and said, "Are you trying to drive me away?"
Eric simply didn't bother to look up this time, flipped a page of the book casually, and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"Oh, you know it yourself."
Eric said: "If I wanted to, you have been thrown out now."
Miranda Kerr laughed again, and after a while, she said, "Eric, I want to take a shower."
Eric wanted to know what kind of moth this little goblin could make, nodded and said, "Well, let's go, so it's over there."
"But I didn't do it at will."
"You can wear mine."
"You're obviously not wearing pajamas," Miranda said, and she reached out and tapped Eric's chest, her fingertips cold.
Eric picked up the white shirt he wore during the day: "Hey, wear this later."
Miranda Kerr took it, shook it twice in her hand, looked up at Eric, saw that he looked indifferent, his little nose wrinkled slightly, and got out of bed and walked towards Yushi.
Hearing the sound of Yumuro being shut, Eric looked up and shrugged.
He has experienced too many women over the years and has various attitudes towards him. Miranda's actions didn't surprise him too much. A certain goblin back then was so tirelessly entangled in him.
Thinking of Drew, Eric thought of the experience of these years.
Step by step, Eric has forgotten how many women have appeared around him, and his mentality has also changed step by step, from the initial reckless behavior to the current game life.
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Miranda Kerr took it, shook it twice in her hand, looked up at Eric, saw that he looked indifferent, his little nose wrinkled slightly, and got out of bed and walked towards Yushi.
Hearing the sound of Yumuro being shut, Eric looked up and shrugged.
He has experienced too many women over the years and has various attitudes towards him. Miranda's actions didn't surprise him too much. A certain goblin back then was so tirelessly entangled in him.
Thinking of Drew, Eric thought of the experience of these years.
Step by step, Eric has forgotten how many women have appeared around him, and his mentality has also changed step by step, from the initial reckless behavior to the current game life. (To be continued.)