While Eric took the children on vacation, the release of "Gravity" also entered its third week.
Compared with the second week, the box office of "Gravity" finally saw a relatively large drop in the third week, but the overall drop was only 33%.
As of December 9, the film had collected another US$92.87 million, and the cumulative box office in North America quickly reached US$377.56 million.
Although the Firefly Group did not release detailed breakdown data, the media with great powers quickly discovered that among the US$92.87 million box office in the third week of "Gravity", the box office from imax theaters was still as high as US$23.96 million, which means that The 100 imax theaters in North America have been nearly full for three consecutive weeks.
The box office produced by just 100 imax theaters exceeds that of most movies with more than 2,000 screens. This terrifying ability to absorb money has also made all North American theaters jealous, and they have begun to plan to set foot in the field of giant screen movies. .
The largest theater chain in North America, reg (regal-entertainment-group), also directly sent an invitation to Firefly Group to acquire the imax theater from Firefly Group at a high price, which was naturally rejected without hesitation.
The lack of its own theater chain resources has always been the shortcoming of Firefly Group. Now that it finally has a high-end theater chain, the company naturally cannot let it go easily.
However, in order to prevent other giant screen formats from competing with imax in the market, Firefly Group did not refuse requests from major theaters to purchase imax projection systems.
The current number of imax screens in the world is still a long way from market saturation, and Firefly Group is not afraid of competition with itself if other theaters have imax screens.
Moreover, the number of imax screens has increased. In addition to the income from the projection system, imax can also obtain continuous revenue from the later conversion of film sources, camera rental and even maintenance of system consumables.
After playing outside with the three little ones for more than a week, on the afternoon of December 11th, after receiving a call from Joanna from Martha's Vineyard, Eric hurriedly set off to fly back to New York from Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.
In the evening, Eric rushed to the manor on Martha's Vineyard. Cindy had successfully given birth to a baby boy and was being surrounded by women on the bed weakly.
Seeing Eric appearing, Cindy, who looked a little tired, immediately raised his arm slightly, and showed Eric the little one wrapped in his arms. Eric walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, took Cindy's hand and shook it, looked at a certain little guy carefully, and then asked softly, "Are you okay?"
Cindy nodded: "Yes."
Kevin and Hawaii, who came in with Eric, walked up to their mother, and looked at the little guy curiously, but Emma didn't recognize her life at all, she leaned on the bed and said softly: "Aunt Cindy , Aunt Cindy, can I see the little baby?"
Cindy smiled and whispered, "Of course."
Eric stretched out his hand to help Emma climb onto the bed, and the little girl moved closer to Cindy, looking curiously at the little boy in the woman's arms. After a while, she couldn't help but stretched out her hand, but she sensiblely didn't touch it. He just blinked his big eyes and said, "Aunt Cindy, he is really good]"
"Oh, thank you."
"Does he have a name?" Emma said immediately, "I've thought of a lot of names for the baby these days. But my father said that the baby's name is best given by the mother."
Cindy glanced at Eric and said with a smile, "Not yet."
After talking like this for a while, Joanna knew that both Eric and Cindy wanted some alone time, so she came over and called Emma to get off the bed, and whispered in the man's ear: "Eric, it's all right here, Vicky and I are going back to Long Island first."
Eric nodded. As soon as he entered the door, he found that there were only Joanna and Virginia in the room except the nanny and nurse. The girl had long since disappeared, and Linda was not there. When Tiantong called, she knew that she had recently accepted an endorsement job and needed to go to Paris.
Although it is not said on the surface, the women still have some concerns about Cindy giving birth to a child.
He got up and sent the women and children to the door, and asked the twins who came with them to fly a helicopter to send them back to East Hampton. Eric returned to Cindy. Cindy's female assistant, Catherine Neumann, had also left the room with the nurses and nannies.
There was no one else in the room, so Cindy handed the little guy over, Eric hurriedly caught it carefully, looked at the little guy with his eyes closed in his arms, and asked the woman, "Have you decided on a name?"
Cindy opened her mouth, hesitated to speak, but asked back, "What about you?"
Eric smiled and said, "You know I don't have much talent in naming. Xia Xia doesn't know how to blame me when she grows up."
"Xia Xia's name is very nice," Cindy said, paused for a moment, and then said in a low voice with a little bit of confidence: "Do you think it's okay to be like you? Eric, little Eric Williams."
"I always feel that a little guy with the same name as his father will be very useless when he grows up." Eric smiled, looking at the woman honestly, and said: "Besides, you don't want them to be a villain every night in the future." Me?"
In fact, Cindy didn't expect too much in her heart, and said softly after hearing the words: "That's fine, I don't want them to be villains and stab me."
So the atmosphere was silent for a moment.
Eric actually understands that because there is no marriage, what women worry about is the identity of the little guys.
It was only in the first half of the year that Kevin and Hawaii were exposed because of Paramount's small actions. Although on the surface they despised Paramount's actions, Eric knew that Virginia and Joanna were actually very concerned about this matter. I'm a little happy.
Thinking of this, Eric quickly made a decision, looked at Cindy, who was obviously disappointed, and said, "Well, let's contact a magazine recently, and we will shoot a cover together."
Cindy's disappointing eyes suddenly lit up. In fact, she didn't want her child to be known to the public after many years like Kevin and Hawaii. If you can get Eric's public recognition, the name and the like really don't matter.
However, after hesitating for a while, Cindy still said, "Will this be troublesome?"
"The first batch of bodyguards trained by Robert will be ready for use next year. Then I will assign you a few more. Of course, they must be female," Eric said, seeing Cindy roll his eyes lightly, before he smiled. He continued: "As long as you and the little guy are safe and sound, nothing else matters. Well, by the way, have you notified the family about this?"
"Mom and Dad will come over tomorrow, as well as Chris and Dani," Cindy said, squinting at Eric again, and said, "Mom is looking forward to seeing her grandson, but if Dad beats you, I don't care."
Eric smiled and said, "I promise not to fight back."
Cindy stretched out her hand, took the little guy back, and said, "Then I'll call it Peter, but I want to add my surname, Peter Crawford Williams."
"Okay," Eric nodded, remembering something, and said again: "I thought you would give a more personalized name."
Cindy asked curiously, "Why do you say that?"
"It's nothing," Eric shook his head and said nonchalantly, "It's just a feeling."
Cindy didn't think much about it, and turned her eyes to the son in her arms again, and said, "Our little guy will definitely be great when he grows up, so it's good to have a common name."
Eric has always wondered why Westerners who value individuality have no creativity in naming names, and he just nodded in agreement.
Cindy stroked Little Peter's light blond hair, looked up again, and said, "Eric, actually, there's no need to contact the magazine, we can announce the news now, use my Facebook."
Unlike the Google search engine, which has been keeping a low-key expansion, since September of the second half of the year, Yahoo began to vigorously promote its social networking tool Facebook, which was remodeled from the Yahoo blog, and occupied all the two major Internet brands in advance.
Over the past few months, thanks to the promotion of Yahoo!, the brand-new Facebook has more than 80 million registered users worldwide, which is definitely a very remarkable figure in the current network environment.
With the Nasdaq index continuing its downward trend, Yahoo’s share price in the fourth quarter has even been stably maintained at around US$100 billion due to the positive stimulus from the rapid growth in the number of Facebook users.
Cindy has been a star user of Yahoo since the blog era, and was invited to participate in Yahoo's IPO bell ringing ceremony last year. Although the version was revised at this time, Cindy is still one of the most watched supermodels on Facebook, and the number of fans is no less than that of many more popular pop singers.
Feeling Cindy's hopeful gaze, Eric nodded and said, "If you don't think this is not formal enough, of course it's fine."
After a few discussions like this, seeing that Cindy was determined, Eric got up to find a laptop and a digital camera, and called Catherine Neumann to help, and quickly took a few groups of photos.
However, before the message was sent, Eric still called several people in charge of Yahoo and gave them careful instructions. Although it will not be discussed in the unexpected world, but the little guy has just been born, and Eric still will not allow such disappointing situations as cyber violence.
After hanging up the phone, Cindy, with the assistance of Catherine Neumann, also picked out a photo, showed it to the man, and said, "Eric, how about this one?"
The photos just taken were all three of them appearing together. Eric and Cindy surrounded the little guy together. The difference is actually not that big. Eric looked at it and thought it was good, so he nodded.
So Cindy asked Catherine Neumann to pass the notebook to Eric, and said, "My account has been logged in all the time, so you can send it."
Eric took the notebook, found the browser and opened Cindy's Facebook homepage, loaded the photos skillfully, typed a line on it, then turned the screen to the woman, and said, "Is it okay?"
Cindy glanced at her and said with a smile, "Emma might be sad if you write that. It should be the fourth one, not the third one."
Eric thought about it, and felt that it was true. Although he was not his own, he had always treated Emma as his daughter. So I changed it, and after confirming that it was correct, I pressed send.
While there is still some time before closing time on the West Coast, twilight is already falling on the East Coast.
Many people who were busy with the last work of the day, or who were preparing dinner, all heard some explosive news that spread like lightning in the following short hour.
"Fourth Williams child born."
Speaking of it, the news of Cindy's pregnancy is not a secret in the circle, and it is even considered a semi-public matter.
It’s just that because of Eric’s own power, the media basically doesn’t take the initiative to report, and occasionally some bold ones just mention a word in a roundabout way.
Now, Eric and Cindy suddenly took the initiative to announce the news, and even attached photos without any concealment, so the discussion quickly boiled over.
After all, if it’s just the children of some celebrities, there may be gimmicks, but after all, it’s just the children of celebrities. Fans should care and bless them. If the magazine takes the opportunity to get the cover to increase sales, things will gradually fade away.
But Eric Williams' children mean too much.
You should know that although the collapse of Nasdaq caused Eric's wealth to shrink sharply from the peak of more than 600 billion US dollars, due to the continuous strong expansion of the entire Firefly system in the second half of the year, and the reversal of various companies in the Firefly system With the outstanding business performance in line with the trend, Eric's personal wealth at this time still reached a number that everyone could only hope for.
How much is it? Before the news of Peter’s birth was announced, the popularity of related topics was actually not high.
But after the news of the little guy's birth was announced, relevant statistics soon appeared on some websites.
Although it was briefly surpassed by several other companies in the Firefly system for a period of time in the middle of the year, the Firefly Group has always been the core asset under Eric's name over the years. Without the continuous cash support provided by Firefly Group, the entire Firefly system would not have been able to develop to its current scale.
Through the stock repurchase operation in the second half of the year, Eric finally got back 5.6% of the shares of Firefly Group, which made his own shareholding ratio of Firefly Group rise to 79.3% again.
Moreover, with the recent success of the 3D and imax film promotion led by Firefly Group, coupled with expansion actions such as the acquisition of Hasbro, the industry's valuation of Firefly Group has also reached new highs, reaching 160 billion US dollars at this time .
This alone brought Eric a personal wealth of more than $120 billion.
Although the collapse of the NASDAQ index has caused a large number of technology stocks owned by Eric to shrink sharply, the market value of Yahoo, which Eric holds more than 78% of the shares, has remained stable at around US$100 billion in the past six months. Bring nearly 80 billion US dollars of wealth to Eric.
Firefly Investment owns 51% of Nokia, which has an absolute holding, and its current market value is 117.1 billion US dollars. Although Cisco, which holds 26% of its shares, has fallen from the peak of 600 billion U.S. dollars, the lean camel is bigger than the horse, and its market value at this time still reaches 159.3 billion U.S. dollars.
Therefore, only the assets of the four companies Firefly Group, Yahoo, Nokia, and Cisco make Eric's personal wealth figure reach 300 billion US dollars.
In addition, with the continuous hot sales of fireflyer players, the general valuation of Firefly Electronics has exceeded 50 billion US dollars. Coupled with a series of assets such as Qualcomm, ltd, sprint, Amazon, and Apple, which Firefly invested heavily in, it once again increased Eric's personal wealth by about 70 billion US dollars.
According to comprehensive statistics, Eric's net worth is still more than 370 billion US dollars at this time.
Although it has shrunk by nearly half compared to the peak of more than 600 billion US dollars in the middle of the year, compared with Eric's net worth of 315.5 billion US dollars announced by the "Forbes" rich list at the beginning of this year, Eric's personal wealth has remained the same this year. An increase of more than 50 billion US dollars, just this is equivalent to the entire net worth of several richest people in the top ten of the "Forbes" list.
Therefore, a certain little guy who was just born, in addition to a series of halos from his parents, instantly became the heir to hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth, which can no longer be described by simple words such as being born with a golden spoon in his mouth .