After introduction, in addition to relatives and friends, the invited guests also included some acquainted neighbors of the women during their residence in Long Island.
The birthday party for the little ones was scheduled to start at five o'clock in the afternoon. No special party company was invited, but a buffet. After a brief greeting, Joanna took the women to prepare dinner.
As one of the most well-known wealthy areas in New York, East Hampton and Southampton have gathered a large number of rich people, politicians and celebrities from all walks of life. Although there are many middle-class residents among the residents, they can purchase the same scale near the manor that Eric fancy The real estate owners will not be ordinary people. After the women leave, Eric and a group of big men exchange business cards with each other. Seeing titles such as the president of a certain company or the director of a certain foundation on the business cards, they don't feel that Accident.
After all, many people just met for the first time. After simply congratulating Eric on completing the acquisition of abc, everyone did not take the initiative to bring up this matter. Instead, they shifted the topic to the topic of economic governance that Westerners are more interested in. Unscrupulously ridiculing the president, criticizing a certain tax policy, or talking about the prospect of a certain industry.
In fact, most of the time, the so-called network is formed in this way. We drink and chat together, get to know each other well, and when we encounter problems in the future, we can use a contact method to find each other. This is a kind of resource. Although everyone here is older than himself, with his experience in two lifetimes, Eric is able to handle things with ease among this group of people. In many cases, he can also bring up the initiative of some topics. Gradually, the people present They also ignored the fact that Eric was under twenty-five years old at this time.
As everyone's attention focused on Eric, the topic also unknowingly shifted to the movie.
Hearing that the senior manager from Merrill Lynch Securities named Pierre Clark was worried about the increasing scale of film investment in recent years, Eric said: "From "Gone with the Wind" in the golden age of Hollywood to five With "Ben-Hur" and "Cleopatra" that appeared successively in the 1960s, and "Heaven's Gate" in the early 1980s, Hollywood has never stopped producing so-called "blockbuster" movies. Troubled big-budget films like Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate, if it was before the nineties. Studios' increasing inclination towards blockbuster productions is indeed a worrying thing, But today's entertainment industry is very different from ten years ago. Globalization will become an inevitable trend, and the proportion of overseas income of Hollywood movies is getting higher and higher. This means that film companies want to take part in this change. In order to continue to maintain its own dominant position, it is necessary to produce films that are less restricted by regional culture, and CG special effects films and large-scale action films are the most guaranteed types of them. I am sure that they will be produced and distributed within the next ten years Blockbuster films with a total cost of about US$100 million will become the mainstream of several major Hollywood film companies. The vast overseas market and more and more derivative interest channels can also ensure that these films can achieve sufficient profits.”
When everyone was lost in thought, another short and thin middle-aged man asked again: "Eric, why not comedies and horror movies? These movies also don't have too many cultural restrictions. Did you I have watched "Home Alone", "Pretty Woman" and "Small Island", all of which are of excellent quality and low cost, and the return on investment is often more than ten times."
Eric remembered that the name of this middle-aged man was Kenneth Norton, and on his business card was written the president of an unknown type of company. He smiled and shook his head and said, "Mr. Norton. You only see the success of films like "Home Alone", But what you can't see is that every year in Hollywood, there are at least dozens of comedy or horror films that are lucky enough to be on the theater channel, and they end up dismal, and they can't even recover the cost, let alone sell them to the global market. Pound bomb movies are different. At least before the demand for this type of movie in the global market is saturated, these movies rely on big stars and big scenes, even if they fail in China, they are still very popular with audiences overseas. Take last year's "Bear Mountain" For example, because of the impact of "Jurassic Park". The production cost of this film was so high that the bubble began to rise and the NASDAQ index exploded. Eric was able to use the next few years to gradually cash out. After 2 years The Internet bubble burst. It is also possible to buy back the shares of Digital Domain and Firefly Software at a low price.
Speaking out his plan in front of these people is also a kind of warm-up in the early stage. Although the number of people sitting is not too many, Eric believes it. In a matter of days, the news would spread throughout Wall Street.
Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley belong to one of the well-known investment banks on Wall Street, and they also participated in the bidding for Firefly’s bond issuance last month, but in the end Morgan Stanley won the underwriting rights based on its good cooperative relationship with Firefly.
Pierre Clark realized that if he could be a bridge between them, the company could obtain the right to issue shares of even one of the two companies. Then he can at least get the position of vice president of Midland Securities. However, he just wanted to continue to say something. After looking at the people around him, he realized that this occasion is not suitable, but thinking that Eric will definitely I continued to stay in New York, so I decided that it would be best to live in East Hampton with my family during this time, so that I could get in touch with Eric more, and maybe I could negotiate this matter in advance, after all. What Morgan Stanley can offer, Midland Securities must also offer.
Everyone chatted casually, time passed by, and a group of guests came one after another. As the party time approached, the manor gradually smelled of barbecue, and some children brought by the guests were running around in the manor go.
The little figure took a bunch of grilled chicken wings from Elizabeth's hand, Elizabeth squatted down and whispered a few words, and the little guy staggered towards Eric.
"Dad, Dad..."
Emma's immature and crisp yells stunned a group of big men. Then they looked at the little guy in unison. They all knew that Eric already had two children, but they didn't know what was going on with this little girl.
Before Eric had time to explain, Emma had already rushed to Eric's side. Grabbing the armrest of the sofa, he raised the chicken wing in the other hand towards Eric: "Dad, here you are, chicken wings."
Eric touched Emma's little head and said with a smile: "Emma is so good, but Dad can't eat now, you can eat by yourself."
"Emma, you're not hungry, you eat," Emma tried her best to hand over the chicken wings to Eric again. Eric saw the little guy's appearance of not giving up until he reached his goal, and just about to take it, the little guy Unable to hold it steady, the string of greasy chicken wings fell directly on Eric's trousers.
"Ah, it fell," Emma didn't realize the consequences of Eric's trousers being stained with oil, and grabbed the armrest of the sofa and tried to grab it.
Eric was worried that the chicken wings would fall to the sofa and get stained with oil, so he quickly picked up the chicken wings, got up and apologized to everyone, and took the little guy's hand to get up and leave.
Leaving Emma in the care of Joanna, Eric walked towards the villa, intending to change a pair of pants. Elizabeth saw Eric's movements and followed him in tiptoe.
Eric walked into the bedroom, found a new pair of pants from the closet, turned to Elizabeth who was leaning against the door, and said, "You didn't come here specially to celebrate the little guy's birthday, did you?"
Elizabeth watched Eric take off his trousers and changed his clothes in front of her. She blushed and said, "I just happened to be in New York recently, so I just came here. I didn't expect to meet Drew Nannie, huh, If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have come.”
"Then you just don't talk to her," Eric said with a smile on his lips.
Elizabeth has been educated as a lady in a private school since she was a child, and she doesn't even speak bad words. When she bickered with Drew, she felt like a rookie who just walked out of the novice village. The big costume is right, this is simply looking for abuse, the most important thing is, when you are abused and cry, you often have to vent your anger on yourself, which is too unreasonable.
Elizabeth felt the ridicule in Eric's tone, but just gave him a blank look.
Eric threw the changed swollen pants into the bathroom, then walked out, and said, "Okay, just talk about anything, if you don't talk, I'm going out?"
"I wanted to ask you about this matter at the Oscars last time." Elizabeth was slightly twitchy, but she still said, "Didn't you say before that you don't know how to manage print media?"
"Oh, this matter," Eric suddenly understood, and asked with a smile: "How many newspapers is your old man interested in in my hand?"
Elizabeth shrugged and said, "Yeah, anyway, I'm just asking. If you don't intend to make a move, just pretend I didn't mention it."
Eric sat down on the chair next to the dressing table in the bedroom, pointed to the big bed next to him, and said, "Actually, at the reception after the press conference at noon, I asked Warren Buffett's Berkshire I have no interest in taking over those newspapers."
Elizabeth went to the bed and sat down, and asked, "So, do you really want to sell those newspapers?"
"Overall, I'm still a person who keeps my word," Eric said with a smile.
Elizabeth didn't think of the example of Eric's refusal for a while, so she didn't retort subconsciously, and said, "Then have you talked with Buffett?"
"No," Eric shook his head, and said, "However, if you want to be honest, I don't recommend that News Corporation take over these newspapers."
"Why, is it still your opinion that online media will replace traditional media?"
"Almost, maybe you don't know yet, the cumulative number of visitors to the Yahoo portal has reached 20,000, and the average number of visitors per day is now more than 50,000. After finishing the work here, I plan to increase my attention to Yahoo! Investment in the information section." Eric said, and joked: "How about you help me recommend a suitable editor-in-chief from News Corporation?"
Elizabeth was a little surprised by the data given by Eric. News Corporation Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America all have less than five million newspaper users. If Yahoo really has as many as 50,000 visitors per day, maybe it will really appear. The situation that Eric said: "How can there be so many?" (To be continued.)