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"Speaking of which, George has already decided on the cast of Queen Amidala, and it just so happens that you still know him."
The next morning, Eric drove to Firefly Studios, from the top of Beverly Hills to Playa Vista, passing through Century City, and Elizabeth took Eric's car to work.
"Star Wars Prequel" has been delayed until now due to the establishment of Amberlin Pictures, and it is finally confirmed that it will start in April. As the distributor, Elizabeth is now fully responsible for this project. She has been busy with this matter recently, although the movie In terms of production, Fox can't get involved, but most of the in-studio shooting is determined to be shot on Fox's studio. On the way to Century City, the two inevitably chatted about this topic.
Eric is really not interested in the Star Wars series, and he is not very interested in whether the heroine is still Natalie Portman. However, listening to Elizabeth's enthusiastic tone, he still followed her and asked curiously: "Who ah?"
Elizabeth leaned closer to Eric, bent her mouth, and said, "Guess, I'll give you a hint. It's a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. You personally discovered her to enter Hollywood."
Eric heard what she said, and it was roughly determined that the track of history still coincided with the past.
But this is not surprising. Starting from "This Killer Is Not So Cold", Natalie Portman has been the best child star in recent years. Except for the wonderful performance in "This Killer Is Not So Cold", Natalie Tully has also acted in critically acclaimed films such as "Heart" and "Everybody Says I Love You," not to mention that she is Jewish, which makes her even more powerful. As one of the important symbols of American film culture, Queen Amidala in the "Star Wars" series, whether it is intentional or unintentional, in Hollywood where Jews gather, this group of people will definitely be more inclined to push a Jewish girl to play this role .
Although thinking so, Eric deliberately guessed: "Let me think about it, eh, Kirsten Dunst?"
Elizabeth blinked her eyes, raised her eyebrows suddenly, and said sourly, "Who is Kirsten Dunst, why don't I know?"
"Uh," Eric rubbed his nose subconsciously, and said, "That little girl in "Interview with the Vampire", please don't look at me like that, I've only seen her a few times, Now I don't know what she looks like."
Only then did Elizabeth think of "Interview with the Vampire", snorted softly, and said, "Okay, I won't let you guess, maybe some woman will come out to anger me, it's Natalie Portman, you That girl I met on Long Island a few years ago, everyone was happy with it."
"Well, a very clever little guy," Eric also nodded.
Chatting casually, the car entered Century City and soon drove into the Fox studio. Elizabeth subconsciously adjusted the Hermès scarf around her neck, turned to Eric, and raised her chin slightly: "Hey, can you see the trace?"
Eric stretched out his hand to help her tidy up, covering the exposed red marks, and said with a smile: "Even if you don't cover it, who dares to say anything."
Elizabeth threw him a blank stare: "Okay, I took off the silk scarf, and you go to the meeting with me."
Eric felt that he didn't have such a thick skin, so he immediately changed his words: "Forget it, I think it's better to cover it up."
"You bastard," Elizabeth cursed angrily.
The car stopped, the driver got out of the car and opened the door, Elizabeth leaned over and kissed Eric, picked up her satchel, and said, "You don't need to get out of the car, I'll just go there by myself."
Eric nodded and watched Elizabeth walk into the office building all the time before ordering the driver to drive.
In "Casino Royale", except for the scene where the plane dives at the airport, which uses full CG, there are not many shots that require special effects processing, so the progress of post-production is relatively fast.
After returning from San Francisco, during the rest of February, the special effects scene of "Casino Royale" was completed, and the film entered the final editing stage, which can be said to be a crucial step in determining the quality of a film. Throughout late February, Ai Rick stopped paying attention to other things and devoted himself to the "Casino Royale" edit.
At the same time, after Firefly Electronics determined the final plan, it started the promotional campaign of MP3 player Fireflyer. Although it can be predicted that Fireflyer will have a very broad market prospect all over the world, Bill Olson and others The management still decided to develop the North American market first.
With the support of a large number of media resources in the Firefly system, Fireflyer’s exquisite and compact figure quickly appeared on major advertising platforms such as TV, Internet, and print media in North America. Firefly Electronics also cooperated with the Yahoo Portal with great fanfare. The Yahoo Portal holds a promotional activity. Users who activate their Yahoo Music Box account can get a lucky draw every day, so as to win the opportunity to try Fireflyer for free. Yahoo music store to buy songs.
Although the event of giving away 10,000 Fireflyers and a large number of gift certificates directly brought huge marketing expenses of 3 million US dollars to Firefly Electronics and Yahoo Portal, the effect is also very obvious, because it only needs to bind the user's personal credit card information on the YahooPay tool and Realizing activation does not require substantial consumption behavior. In just one week, the number of new users of YahooPay exceeded 700,000, and the total number of users was close to the 5 million mark. Prior to this, YahooPay’s promotion channels were mainly Cooperate with online payment sites such as Amazon, which is mainly supported by Firefly Investment Company. Because e-commerce is just in its infancy, users are also concerned about the safety of online payment tools. Since its release more than a year ago, the number of users of YahooPay is only more than 4 million. Compared with the number of Internet users in North America that has exceeded 50 million, this ratio is far from satisfying Yahoo.
With the further promotion, Fireflyer quickly attracted the attention of a large number of users. At the end of February, Firefly Electronics, according to a survey by Yahoo Portal, showed that the monthly shipment of Fireflyer in North America in April is likely to reach 100,000 pieces, and , which is a relatively conservative estimate.
On the other hand, at the end of February, Yahoo also released its first decent annual financial report since its establishment five years ago.
In 1996, the number of Internet users worldwide broke through the 80 million mark. As the largest Internet market in the world, the number of Internet users in North America also doubled compared to 1995, reaching 50 million.
With the explosive development of the Internet industry in North America, Yahoo Networks, which occupies more than 70% of the market share of Internet online services, relies on its main businesses such as portal websites, online mailboxes, search engines, and personal homepages with a large number of users. Achieved operating income of 194 million US dollars, thanks to the great success of the Yahoo Advertising Alliance, 90% of which came from Internet advertising business.
Although, in order to achieve rapid expansion in North America and overseas countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, and even Brazil in Latin America, Yahoo spent as much as 335 million US dollars in operating expenses in various aspects in 1996, and the annual performance report still shows as Loss of $140 million. However, compared with the revenue figure of less than US$25 million in 1995, the performance growth rate of up to 776% within one year still surprised many people.
At the same time, although it is predicted that Yahoo's performance growth rate in the coming year will slow down significantly compared to last year, the company still gives a conservative growth forecast of 200%. As long as this figure can be achieved, Yahoo is likely to realize profit and loss from next year. Balance, and even a small profit, which is undoubtedly very beneficial to Yahoo's listing.
In order to pave the way for Yahoo's listing in the next two years, after the release of the annual financial report data, Yahoo announced this information on the homepage of the portal website without hesitation, which also caused a huge sensation in the industry. Anyone knows that more than 700 What does the annual growth rate of % mean? The Nasdaq market is particularly sensitive to this data. Internet technology stocks that have been listed have been stimulated by Yahoo's annual financial report, and their stock prices have risen one after another. Wall Street was also very excited. After Yahoo announced its annual financial report, it raised Yahoo's valuation to $9 billion.
Eric, who was in Los Angeles, was also very surprised when he saw this financial report. He thought that Yahoo's revenue explosion would be delayed by at least a year or even longer. It seems that because of Yahoo's early appearance, it has changed too much. many things.
While reading Yahoo's overseas expansion materials, Eric inevitably thought of his hometown. Seeing that Yahoo didn't have any development plans for it, he couldn't help being puzzled, so he made a special inquiry.
As a result, according to some scattered data, the number of Internet users in China was only 200,000 by the end of 1996, and the annual sales of personal computers in China were only in the early 700,000s. Correspondingly, worldwide, the number of Internet users in 1996 has exceeded 80 million, and the global PC shipments in 1996 also reached 70.9 million units, and the sales of PCs in the United States alone exceeded 26 million.
Well, after reading a simple page of information, Eric put it aside for the time being, and it was hard for him to think about the year.
After Yahoo announced its annual financial report, two IT companies, Cisco and America Online, which are heavily owned by Firefly Investment, also announced their annual financial statements one after another. , even the slightly weaker America Online has an annual turnover of 1.8 billion US dollars.
Looking back to Hollywood, on February 27, the tenth week of "Titanic"'s release, the single-week box office still reached 25.3 million US dollars. At the same time, the cumulative box office officially exceeded the 400 million US dollar mark, reaching 417 million US dollars. Because the single-week box office of "Titanic" is still stable at more than 20 million U.S. dollars, the agency predicts that "Titanic" will break the 460 million U.S. dollars created by "Star Wars" in the twelfth week of its release. North American box office records, even, go further, during the Oscars at the end of March, the total box office of "Titanic" will exceed 500 million US dollars, and become the first film in North America to reach 500 million box office.
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Although, in order to achieve rapid expansion in North America and overseas countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, and even Brazil in Latin America, Yahoo spent as much as 335 million US dollars in operating expenses in various aspects in 1996, and the annual performance report still shows as Loss of $140 million. However, compared with the revenue figure of less than US$25 million in 1995, the performance growth rate of up to 776% within one year still surprised many people.
At the same time, although it is predicted that Yahoo's performance growth rate in the coming year will slow down significantly compared to last year, the company still gives a conservative growth forecast of 200%. As long as this figure can be achieved, Yahoo is likely to realize profit and loss from next year. Balance, and even a small profit, which is undoubtedly very beneficial to Yahoo's listing.
In order to pave the way for Yahoo's listing in the next two years, after the release of the annual financial report data, Yahoo announced this information on the homepage of the portal website without hesitation, which also caused a huge sensation in the industry. Anyone knows that more than 700 What does the annual growth rate of % mean? The Nasdaq market is particularly sensitive to this data. Internet technology stocks that have been listed have been stimulated by Yahoo's annual financial report, and their stock prices have risen one after another. Wall Street was also very excited. After Yahoo announced its annual financial report, it raised Yahoo's valuation to $9 billion.
Eric, who was in Los Angeles, was also very surprised when he saw this financial report. He thought that Yahoo's revenue explosion would be delayed by at least a year or even longer. It seems that because of Yahoo's early appearance, it has changed too much. many things.
While reading Yahoo's overseas expansion materials, Eric inevitably thought of his hometown. Seeing that Yahoo didn't have any development plans for it, he couldn't help being puzzled, so he made a special inquiry.
As a result, according to some scattered data, the number of Internet users in China was only 200,000 by the end of 1996, and the annual sales of personal computers in China were only in the early 700,000s. Correspondingly, worldwide, the number of Internet users in 1996 has exceeded 80 million, and the global PC shipments in 1996 also reached 70.9 million units, and the sales of PCs in the United States alone exceeded 26 million.
Well, after reading a simple page of information, Eric put it aside for the time being, and it was hard for him to think about the year.
After Yahoo announced its annual financial report, two IT companies, Cisco and America Online, which are heavily owned by Firefly Investment, also announced their annual financial statements one after another. , even the slightly weaker America Online has an annual turnover of 1.8 billion US dollars.
Looking back to Hollywood, on February 27, the tenth week of "Titanic"'s release, the single-week box office still reached 25.3 million US dollars. At the same time, the cumulative box office officially exceeded the 400 million US dollar mark, reaching 417 million US dollars. Because the single-week box office of "Titanic" is still stable at more than 20 million U.S. dollars, the agency predicts that "Titanic" will break the 460 million U.S. dollars created by "Star Wars" in the twelfth week of its release. North American box office records, even, go further, during the Oscars at the end of March, the total box office of "Titanic" will exceed 500 million US dollars, and become the first film in North America to reach 500 million box office. (To be continued.)