After talking for more than an hour without knowing it, there was a light knock on the door of the study, and Eva Pakula came in with her head in.
"Eric, Vicki asked me to ask you, do you want to have guests for dinner at noon?"
When Eric heard Virginia's name, he knew that she had instructed Eva to chase away people. He looked at his watch, and it was approaching eleven o'clock. Since Virginia didn't want the two girls to stay for dinner, he didn't either. So strong to stay, he said to Eva: "No, the matter has been discussed, and Cindy and Linda can just go back to New York."
"Oh, that's what I told Vicky," Eva blinked narrowly, retracted her head, and the door was gently closed.
"In this case, then you go back first, I will treat you to dinner when I find time," Eric stood up and said after Eva left.
Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista certainly understood what happened, they changed places, and they thought they would do the same, so they were not too surprised, of course they were upset.
After saying goodbye to Eric, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista got into their own cars and left Linhai Manor.
After walking through the quiet alley for a few minutes, Linda Evangelista saw Cindy Crawford park her car in front of a restaurant, and then pulled over to the center of East Hampton. car.
The two women walked into the restaurant carrying their respective bags. When it was approaching lunch time, the living room was already full of guests. Their temperament and appearance were very conspicuous, and immediately attracted a lot of attention. Most of the guests just took a few more reserved glances. Someone also said hello, and two girls in casual clothes came over boldly, and one of them said, "Linda, Cindy, can you sign for us?"
"Of course." The feeling of being noticed made Cindy Crawford feel better. She nodded happily, took the pen and paper from the girl's hand and quickly signed, and handed it to Linda Evangelista next to her.
After signing the name, the two girls chatted non-stop, and chirped: "I didn't expect you to live here. Jill also said that you might not meet any famous people here. Oh, we are here for tourism, East Hampton The white sandy beach here is really beautiful, but unfortunately it's a bit cold now, so it's not suitable for swimming in the water."
Linda Evangelista paused holding the pen when she heard the girl's first words, quickly finished the last few strokes, and returned the pen and paper to the two girls. But he didn't have much interest in continuing to communicate with the two little fans in front of him.
After a few simple words, the two women found a place to sit down under the guidance of the waiter. Cindy Crawford took the menu from the waiter, looked at the menu that was more expensive than the top restaurants in Manhattan, curled her lips, but ordered a few of the most expensive dishes in succession as if venting her anger.
After the waiter left, Cindy Crawford complained: "What do you mean we can just go back to New York? Doesn't he know that it takes two hours to drive from East Hampton to Manhattan? We all have to hurry back Going to starve to death."
Hearing Cindy Crawford's discontented tone mixed with envy and unwillingness, Linda Evangeline Star was not so depressed. He took out the document that Eric handed over to them from the satchel beside him, opened it leisurely, and replied casually: "Why didn't you dare to point it out to him just now, then he must be embarrassed to drive us away."
"I'm too lazy to care about it," Cindy Crawford snorted softly, and added without thinking: "It's just because I gave birth to a child. I really think I am the hostess."
Without raising her head, Linda Evangelinsta turned over a page of the document and said to herself, "Half a month to come up with a plan, preparations in May, and three months left for production. I have to make time for the autumn fashion week, followed by the Victoria's Secret show, I am really worried that I will be crazy busy."
Cindy Crawford saw that the lunch would take a while to be served, so she also took out the documents in her bag and said, "No one is forcing you, if you say that you don't want to do it, those little bitches will definitely cry Shouting and rushing forward, as long as you don’t regret it in the future, look at Naomi Campbell’s actions during this time, and you will know how much she regrets rejecting the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last year.”
Linda Evangelista thought of Naomi Campbell trying to squeeze out Tyra Banks' endorsement for Victoria's Secret in circles during this period, shook her head, and said with some disdain: "I I think she is completely in the wrong direction, Victoria's Secret Angel is a brand created by Williams, and he is the major shareholder of ltd, without his permission, no one will change the Victoria's Secret spokesperson without authorization."
"Do you think she doesn't understand? It's just that she has no chance to get in touch with Williams. What's more, it may not be useful to get in touch. And she is too greedy. There are six themes in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but only five A spokesperson, if it were me, would try to get the chance to start with a theme, so that I can maintain my position in the circle.”
Linda Evangelista was very envious of Cindy Crawford's smarter mind than her own, and said, "You think so clearly, why don't you remind her?"
"If you remind her, what can I get, friendship? Ha," Cindy Crawford laughed disdainfully, glanced in the direction of the back kitchen, and turned her attention to the documents in her hand.
Linda Evangelista flipped through a few pages of documents, then suddenly raised her head and said, "Cindy, I have a good idea, how about you listen to it?"
"Oh, tell me, if it's good, I won't hesitate to use it," Cindy Crawford lowered her head and thought about the guests she could invite in the future, and replied casually, she thinks, Linda . Evangelista's IQ is unlikely to come up with good ideas.
Linda Evangelista didn't care about Cindy Crawford's indifference, and said happily: "Look, our show must be broadcast at the same time. I need models in my show, and your show must also Can't do without the designer, why don't we do a crossover episode, it must be full of gimmicks."
"Wow, that's a good idea," Cindy Crawford praised, but then shook her head: "I don't want to cross with you, what if your show's ratings are not good and it drags me down."
Linda Evangeline Star dissatisfied: "Hey, I'm talking about very serious things, and why can't you drag me down?"
Cindy Crawford raised her chin and said, "Because it's impossible."
"You're so self-righteous."
"You're wrong. It's confidence."
"Forget it, I won't quarrel with you," Linda Evangelista turned off the ignition, thought for a while, and couldn't help asking: "What do you think, 10% share? How much money can we get? "
"The production cost of last year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was just 20 million U.S. dollars. I don't expect too much, as long as the profit of this show is not less than one-tenth of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show."
Linda Evangelista recalled the profit data of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and said: "Then you will only have 3 million US dollars left in your hands. It's really little after five busy months."
Cindy Crawford smiled, but didn't explain anything to Linda Evangelista.
The media is always happy to brag about how much money these top supermodels earn every year, but in fact, the difference between the media data and the real data is simply huge.
Just like herself. Some media have hyped her income last year to 25 million US dollars, but in fact, this account is not calculated in this way.
It is true that she earned approximately US$25 million last year, but this data is like the operating income of a company. Revenue and profit are completely different things. Among the 25 million US dollars, 10 million US dollars is the endorsement fee of Victoria's Secret, and the other 15 million US dollars is mainly due to the influence brought by the Victoria's Secret show. Received several new advertising endorsement contracts, these advertising endorsements at most only require her to attend some activities on time. Most of them can get the money by shooting a few sets of advertisements. Therefore, the asking price is far lower than that of Victoria's Secret, but the average contract period is about three years. With these contracts in hand, it is impossible for her to accept them in the next few years. More endorsements.
Count it down. Victoria's Secret's contract is five years, with an average of 2 million US dollars per year, and the remaining contracts are counted as three years on average, with an average of 5 million US dollars per year, added together. She earns $7 million a year.
But this is not over yet. With her income level, she needs to pay 35% of personal income tax, and the brokerage company also needs to take 10% of the share. In the end, only 3.85 million US dollars are left in her hands. This is her real annual income. Annual income.
Moreover, the updating speed of the modeling industry is very fast. Even a supermodel like her, with the increase of age and the rise of latecomers, her income will definitely decline gradually. Therefore, Cindy Crawford cared more about this job than Linda Evangelista, who was not very sensitive to money. She still clearly remembered that Eric once said that as long as the ratings of this reality show are good, it can continue to be produced for dozens of seasons.
Dozens of seasons, Cindy Crawford still dare not expect extravagantly, but as long as she can continue to produce for ten or eight years, she can also save a rich family before the age of forty and retire decently up.
Thinking about the future, Cindy Crawford's mind inexplicably popped up again the luxurious manor with dozens of acres by the seaside in East Hampton, as well as the few small figures that she secretly saw in the morning. Thinking of the guy’s net worth of 46.5 billion US dollars released by Forbes magazine some time ago, even if she maintains the current annual income level of more than 3 million US dollars and works for 100 years, it still does not reach one percent of his personal assets. While slightly speechless, Cindy Crawford involuntarily felt powerless looking at the stars, and murmured in a low voice: "Oh, it's better to have a baby."
Linda Evangelista who was sitting opposite her suddenly raised her head when she heard the voice, "Cindy, what did you say?"
Cindy Crawford showed a puzzled expression: "Did I say it?"
Linda Evangelista nodded firmly: "You said it, and this is the second time."
A momentary panic flashed in Cindy Crawford's eyes, and she quickly regained her composure. She lowered her head and continued flipping through the documents in her hand, and asked lazily, "What did I say?"
"You know it yourself."
"Oh, I forgot."
Linda Evangelista threatened: "Be careful I tell him what you think."
Cindy Crawford said indifferently: "Go, who knows if it's your idea or mine."
Linda Evangelinsta's eyes widened, her face was full of astonishment, and she raised her voice subconsciously: "My... idea is so shameless, how can you bite back!"
Cindy Crawford pouted around and said, "Shut up, do you want these people to see our jokes?"
Linda Evangelista noticed that some guests had already looked towards them, lowered her voice, and said, "Anyway, I just heard it."
"Well, whatever you want," Cindy Crawford shrugged indifferently, she really didn't worry much in her heart, this kind of thought was like a contagious devil, and she was sure that Linda Evangelista It must have been 'infected', otherwise she wouldn't have been entangled in that little detail just now, as if she wanted to prove something.
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It is almost everyone's consensus that women's spending power far exceeds that of men. Therefore, Lifetime TV Station also has this potential consumption base, because the TV station's advertising customers will definitely prefer female audiences.
The cable TV market in the United States has been brewing for more than ten years and is on the verge of explosion. This stage of drastic changes in the industry is often the best time for the emergence of monopolistic oligopoly enterprises.
Although there was no dominant female TV station in the original time and space, no one would doubt that the cable TV market has this potential. As long as they can seize the opportunity to enter the market first, it is not impossible to create a female TV station with a scale no less than ESPN.
The most fundamental factor for the success of a TV station is excellent TV programs. Although "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" have been produced, it is impossible for a TV station to rely on reality shows to support its ratings. TV series are indispensable. In this regard, Eric undoubtedly has a very big advantage. When he was considering two reality shows, he had already thought of a TV series that was very suitable for Lifetime TV.
However, the annual budget of Lifetime TV station is only 100 million US dollars for the time being. Although Eric has high expectations for Lifetime TV station, it is impossible to encourage the growth of seedlings. Too much initial investment will cause losses, which will not only hurt morale, but may also affect the next development plan .
Of the $100 million budget, the two reality shows already account for 40 million. In addition, the TV station not only needs to order a batch of TV programs to fill other broadcast time slots, but also needs to reserve enough marketing funds. Therefore, the remaining $60 million is simply It is impossible to squeeze out the budget to make another TV series.
Of course, as long as the ratings of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" in the fall meet Eric's expectations, Lifetime TV's budget will definitely increase significantly.
After Easter, Eric temporarily reduced his attention to the Firefly Group, and devoted most of his energy to the negotiation of Firefly's investment in sprint.
On the other hand, Firefly and Hasbro's cooperation negotiations on toy peripherals went very smoothly. Both parties have a very strong willingness to cooperate. At the end of April, they have come up with a detailed plan. On behalf of Firefly Group and Hasbro, Katzenberg After signing the cooperation agreement, he did not leave New York in a hurry, but relied on Lifetime TV's next-stage development plan to lobby several major cable TV operators, hoping to win more subscribers for Lifetime TV before the fall.
(To be continued.)