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.
Starting from the week before Easter on March 26, Warner's buyout "Run Lola Run", Universal Pictures' "Ed's Private Channel" and Paramount's teenage crime comedy "The Threesomes" will officially log in. North American theaters.
Speaking of which, if there is no "Blair Witch" turned out, "Run Lola Run" will definitely become the most watched film at this year's Sundance Film Festival due to the topic of Eric's attendance at the movie.
Even so, Warner obviously has high hopes for this unique independent film, and 1,700 theaters were arranged in the first week.
The situation of Universal Pictures' "Ed's Private Channel" is a bit complicated. This is the new film directed by the great Hollywood director Ron Howard, starring Matthew McConaughey. The upcoming "Public Enemy."
However, unlike Eric's intention of cultivating the Easter market with blockbuster films, "Ed's Private Channel" was obviously abandoned by Universal.
After all, the number of blockbusters produced by Universal Pictures every year is definitely not comparable to that of Firefly Group. If it is not very optimistic about this movie, Michael Eisner will definitely not set "Ed's Private Channel" in the Easter schedule.
Finally, Paramount's "Sweeping Trio", the film is adapted from a TV series in the 1960s, but the popularity is far less than the first two.
As for the "Easter Movie Package" of the Firefly system this year, they are "Public Enemy" by Firefly Films, "American Pie" by MGM and "One Kiss" by Fox. The three films still adopt the method of joint promotion , which will be released in the next two weeks.
Since the plan was finalized in the first half of last year, Columbia Pictures did not participate in this plan for the time being this year.
Spending the weekend in Los Angeles with Carmen Keith, Eric flew her back to New York on Monday.
Eric originally wanted to arrange a house for Carmen Keith in Manhattan like Giselle did, but was directly rejected.
Back in Manhattan, the girl didn't hang around Eric, but immediately started her work, and even arranged a flight to Tokyo next week. Depending on the situation, it is obvious that there is no way to catch up with Eric's schedule for the Tokyo premiere of "Iron Man" at the end of April.
There are still a few days before Easter, and Eric did not rush to East Hampton immediately. Many things about Firefly Investment, ABC Group and Clover Fund required him to stay in Manhattan to handle himself.
"Eric, this is the stock transaction report of the Clover Fund last week. A total of 1.6255 billion US dollars has been withdrawn, and all of them have been settled into the Clover Fund account."
When they came to New York this time, neither of the two girls lived in Eric’s mansion anymore, but each chose other residences. This matter was first brought up by Mayer. Although Caroline wanted to be with Eric very much. Caroline, who was very thin-skinned, was too embarrassed to live alone, but Mayer said so.
Early in the morning, Caroline and Mayer rushed to Eric's temporary office at ABC headquarters to start preparing for the day's work.
After receiving the report from Caroline, Eric opened it and said to the two women, "Do you two want to come with me to the party at Hearst's house tonight?"
Caroline shook her head and said, "Brother asked me to eat at his place tonight."
Eric raised his eyebrows and subconsciously asked, "Brother?"
Caroline wrinkled her small nose and gave Eric a slight look.
"Well, it seems to be my brother," Eric smiled awkwardly, looking at Mayer.
Mayer also shook her head: "I have an appointment with someone, and I will go to Greenwich Village to see an art exhibition tonight."
Eric didn't dare to ask Mayer who he had an appointment with in front of Caroline. He just noticed the narrow smile on the corner of Mayer's mouth, and made a threatening look while Caroline wasn't paying attention.
After Eric focused on the report in his hand, Caroline took out a few pages of information from the document and handed it to Eric: "This is a memo submitted by a trader under the Clover Fund. He thinks , Our selling plan seems too eager, if we can be more thoughtful in operation, we will definitely be able to obtain greater profits."
Eric browsed through the stock transaction report in front of him, and picked up those few pages of memos.
Over the years, Eric has also accumulated sufficient knowledge in finance. He also understands that stock trading is completely a technical job, and it is definitely not just a simple buying and selling operation. For a stock, while performing various trading operations on its own, a trader must also analyze the possible reactions of other potential traders and the possible impact of his own buying and selling actions on the stock price. To put it simply, an excellent trader can accurately capture and even actively create the best trading opportunities to maximize profits.
If it's other times, Eric naturally doesn't mind this kind of "slow work and meticulous work" operation method.
However, now he has no time at all.
The total value of technology stocks held by Clover Fund has exceeded 30 billion US dollars, and it is still rising.
But according to previous memories, it only took four months for the Nasdaq index to rush from 3,000 to 5,000 in the original time and space, and then there was the big crash that attracted worldwide attention.
Now, the date for the Nasdaq index to break through 3,000 points has been advanced by more than half a year. According to the analysis of various situations, although Eric feels that this time the Nasdaq index should be farther away from the collapse, he does not dare Take it lightly, and still set the time for the complete liquidation of the Clover Fund to be within four months.
It took four months to cash out a huge amount of tens of billions of dollars. There was no time for detailed trading analysis. All a trader needed to do was sell, sell, and sell again.
If it was any other time, the clover fund cashed out more than 1.6 billion US dollars in a week, and the Nasdaq market must have reacted keenly.
However, the current situation is that the entire Nasdaq technology stock market has completely fallen into madness, and funds from both North America and overseas are frantically pouring in. Joining this speculative feast, the total number of stocks in the Nasdaq market As a result, the market value has even broken through the $3 trillion mark, and the daily stock trading volume has reached tens of billions of dollars. Moreover, financial derivatives markets such as stock index futures surrounding Nasdaq technology stocks are equally crazy and active.
Therefore, the clover fund's blunt and large-scale continuous reduction of holdings did not arouse the vigilance of the market.
Of course, Eric will not take it lightly.
Speaking of which, the reason why I received this suggestive memo from the trader is also because of the strict confidentiality of this shareholding reduction operation.
In order to avoid the clover fund's shareholding reduction operation from being discovered by interested people as much as possible, Eric hired a total of twelve trading teams, half of which are not 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 not be able to figure out the total size of the funds cashed out by the Clover Fund.
After reading the few pages of the memo in his hand with great interest, Eric threw it aside and asked Caroline, "How is the promotional schedule for "Iron Man"?"
"You need to attend in person. The Tokyo premiere is on April 22, the London premiere is on April 29, and the Los Angeles premiere is on May 5. In addition, you need to come again on April 29. New York taping "The Late Show With David," which airs on May 2."
Eric calculated in his mind, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, this seems to be another long round-the-world flight.
Caroline blinked, saw Eric's thoughts, and said: "Eric, the news from Boeing two days ago said that the two Boeing 747s are ready to be delivered. However, you have explained Yes, so the relevant documents are going directly to Miss Barrymore."
Eric has never been a person who lacks patience. However, 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: "It's just right, next time we can take a new plane .”
Caroline bent her lips and said: "Also, we have received, um, an e-mail from the French LVMH Group, written by Ms. Delphine Arnault herself. She said that she hopes I can come to visit you and talk about the cooperation of Dior's new perfume advertisement."
Eric flipped through the copy of the e-mail that Caroline handed over, wondering: "Delphine Arnault, who is it?"
"Eldest daughter of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault."
Eric nodded, read the email again, and probably understood that the other party must have seen the Dior real me golden goddess poster that he drew, and he probably hoped that he could personally edit the Dior real me commercial.
I don't know if I should say that the other party is whimsical, but Eric just smiled and said: "You can ask someone to send her a rejection email."
With the idea of Dior's real golden goddess, Eric just continued to support Carmen Kess, but it is naturally impossible for him to shoot commercials now. After all, a TV advertisement often looks like a few seconds, but if you want to do it well, from the advertisement planning to the final completion, it must not take a month.
It is impossible for Eric to spare a month's time slot now, and he is neither short of money nor famous, so it is naturally impossible for him to do the kind of thing that just shows up in the process of filming commercials things.
Caroline nodded.
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 her head: "I haven't gotten the latest news for the past two days, do I need to call and ask?"
"forget about it."
Eric sighed.
In order to make up for the shortcomings of digital music stores in terms of content, Firefly Electronics aimed at the three most likely to be negotiated, Universal Music, EMI Records and BMG Records.
Out of an instinctive aversion to digital music players and a desire to gain more benefits, the terms of cooperation offered by these three companies are very harsh. Obviously, it is not so easy to carry out a large-scale mini music store promotion immediately after the release of the next-generation Fireflyer player.
The hardware facilities of the mini music store are naturally fine, but there is not enough content support, and the result is probably similar to the situation where there is always no money in the ATM machine of the bank.
After a busy day at work, as night fell, a black car slowly stopped outside a mansion in the Upper East Side.
After the driver got out of the car, he opened the door. Eric got out of the car first, and then stretched out his hand into the car.
Cindy Crawford was dragged out of the car by Erica, but the two did not enter the villa immediately. Another tall girl got out of the car again, but it was Linda Evangelista.
William Hearst III, the current helm of the Hearst family who came out to greet him in person, looked at the beautiful figures standing next to Eric, and inevitably showed some envious expressions, and only this young man dared to take the Seeing that these two top supermodels attended the party, perhaps, these two top supermodels whose status in the fashion circle is getting higher and higher will only lie on the side of people like Eric Williams.
"Hi, William, good evening," Eric shook hands with William Hearst III, and introduced the two girls beside him: "This is Cindy, Linda."
"Hello, Mr. Hurst."
Cindy and Linda also greeted William Hearst and Mrs. Hearst before they entered the villa.
Many guests have already come to the villa, basically some celebrities from the Upper East Side.
William Hearst III personally introduced some people to Eric, and everyone greeted for a while, and the couple had other guests to greet, and then they turned and left.
After the Hursts walked away, Linda took out the cherry from the cocktail in her hand, sucked and sucked it in her mouth provocatively, and then looked around, with a bit of dissatisfaction in her tone. Eric said: "I found out that they all have only one female companion?"
"I found out 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, she searched in the crowd, then pulled Cindy on the other side, and said, "I saw Irene Lauder, let's call Say hello, speaking of which, her dress tonight is really good, maybe I can ask which designer made it and ask him to make one for me."
Saying that, before Eric could say anything, Linda dragged Cindy away not far away.
Eric didn't follow, watched the two women walk away, and was about to chat with some familiar people for a while, when he heard a hoarse girl's voice next to him: "Are you Eric Williams? "
Eric turned his head, and the first thing he saw was a baby face, with charming eyes, thin corners of the mouth, and even a strange aura.
Seeing Eric looking over, the girl took the initiative to introduce: "My name is Lydia, Lydia Hearst."