Chapter 534: feelings
Eric raised his eyebrows slightly and did not answer. Instead, he asked: "What do you think is the purpose of a company's listing?"
“Acquiring funds to enable companies to achieve better development.”
"Then, fireflies are not lacking in funds now, and the development is even more obvious. So, do you think that fireflies are necessary for listing?"
The reporter was not discouraged and immediately asked: "Mr. Williams, are you satisfied with the status quo and are not planning to continue to expand the map of Firefly Pictures?"
"Of course not, but want to expand the map of Firefly Pictures, there are many ways to obtain funds, and it is not necessary to go public. I have a complete plan for the development of fireflies, and some development ideas may even cause a lot of controversy, I can I don’t want to make a decision every decision after I go public. I have to waste my tongue to explain the reasons to the old people on Wall Street. Everyone is doing news. It should be very clear how difficult it is for those people. Well, this question ends here. Let's go back to the theme of today's press conference."
Listening to Eric's slightly ridiculous tone, the reporters at the scene laughed.
They all know what Eric is saying. Although Hollywood has a very close relationship with Wall Street, in fact, the game between the two sides is more than cooperation. Wall Street pursues a high growth of various business indicators. The rate and high rate of return, most investors often do not value long-term development, just want to see beautiful financial reports, speculation is very large. The operators of the company tend to pay more attention to long-term development. In many cases, they sacrifice short-term benefits for this purpose, which is different from the concept of Wall Street.
If a company is not listed. Wall Street is of course a dog bite and nowhere to go. I don't want your money. You also don't want to intervene in my site. If you choose to go public, even if the control is still in the hands of the business operators, once the company's development footprint is out of the track of Wall Street's vision, it will still be the fingertips of Wall Street investors all the time. Today, the investment bank published a short article. Tomorrow, the Wall Street tycoon came to a fierce criticism, and in the face of the stock price volatility, a company would not compromise. Just don't want to stop again.
The most extreme example is of course the amazing entertainment group that Eric has been paying attention to. The performance of the comic book in the 1980s has been very good, and even almost swallowed the manga in Warner's hands. But since the comic company fell into the hands of Wall Street investor Ron Pereman in the late 1980s, it has ushered in its own troubled life. Ron Pereman is only keen on capital operation and has no intention at all. Operating, until now, Ron Pereman has taken hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from Amazing Entertainment, but the business of Amazing Entertainment has been falling, almost to the brink of bankruptcy.
There are so many speculators on Wall Street like Ron Pereman. In some memories of Eric’s past lives, MGM Studios finally got rid of the casino tycoon Kirk Kokorian after 2005. But not long after, it became another 'toy' in the hands of Wall Street speculative tycoon Carl Icahn. In the following years, MGM repeatedly faced the bankruptcy crisis, and the business situation did not improve at all, but Carl Icahn earned a pot. Full of money.
All of this information has made Eric deeply jealous of Wall Street. Firefly is the foundation of Eric's career and his most passionate business, so Eric has never been to market Firefly. intend.
And some of the high-tech companies that Chris has helped him run are Eric’s capital for expanding his territory in Hollywood. No one knows more about the development prospects of companies such as Cisco, AOL, and Yahoo than Eric. In the future, if Firefly Pictures needs a lot of money to expand, Eric can get a lot of development funds by selling shares of companies such as Cisco or listing companies such as Yahoo, and even if they lose control of these companies in the future, Eric is not too concerned about the Internet. As a sunrise industry, the bubble is very large. It is the most sensible choice to cash out in time, and the investment opportunities of the Internet in the next 20 years are still numerous.
After Eric said these words, he handed the microphone directly to Ed Carmoor on the other side. After Eric’s reminder, the following reporters did not continue to ask Jurassic Park and Firefly Pictures. The thing is to focus on the Firefly Software Company.
The conference soon made a huge response in the media inside and outside Hollywood. Many people know that this is the first counterattack in the digital field for the recent slashing behavior, in order to prevent Autodesk from entering special effects software. Market and industry leadership in the digital arena.
After the conference, Autodesk’s chairman and e-Carol Bartz said in an interview that Autodesk will not give up the pace of entering the special effects software. However, in the next few days, there will be news that Autodesk The board of directors has already had a divergence in the strategy of entering the film and television special effects software market. Because the firefly's use of this kind of killing is really too big, although Autodesk wants to launch mature special effects software only takes half a year, but this half-year estimate that firefly software has occupied 90% of the market.
And Firefly software also has the advantage that Autodesk does not have, that is, the special effects industry giant in the digital field. The cost and technical advantages generated by the close cooperation between the two companies is definitely the only tool that Autodesk can produce. 'But there is no company that can't compare with its own 'test field'. Although Autodesk has reached some cooperation intentions with Industrial Light and Magic, the two sides are ultimately two companies. It is impossible to cooperate in the same way as firefly software and digital field. .
Subsequently, the practice of Industrial Light and Magic also confirmed the concerns of Autodesk. Just one week after the launch of the Firefly Software Conference, Industrial Light and Magic announced the decision to adopt Firefly Software's products. The news was accompanied by George on the same day. Lucas and the firefly software eo Ed Carmoor's intimate handshake.
Of course, George Lucas’s approach is also helpless. Although Industrial Light and Magic had a set of software tools developed by itself before, the performance was completely incomparable with the industrial light and magic. If this time give up cooperation with Firefly software. Then the level of production of industrial light magic g-effects is likely to be even worse than those of third-rate special effects studios that use tools such as maya. In that case, the industrial light magic industry light magic will certainly decline rapidly.
After the news of the cooperation between Industrial Light and Firefly software, Autodesk's board of directors directly rejected the management's proposal to establish a special software department for film and television.
At the same time as the Firefly software was formed, the management of Eric and Firefly began to work hard to retain employees in the digital field. A series of measures to increase compensation and benefits were adopted. For the employees who insisted on leaving, the digital field did not stop. Encourage these employees to set up their own special effects studios that are attached to the digital domain in a way that they are anchored. And promised that these studios can not only get special effects software at a preferential price, but also receive a certain number of outsourcing projects from the digital field. This measure can disguise these people in the digital field camp in disguise. Impair the competitiveness of the opponent.
This measure is very attractive to many people. Going to other companies to continue to be employees, how to be yourself as a boss, even a small boss in a studio. After the implementation of this measure, some companies that had nothing to do with the digital field, micro-small special effects companies also expressed their desire to join the digital camp, in anticipation of obtaining corresponding preferential treatment, and the digital field also selectively accepted a batch.
Because these small and small special effects companies that are affiliated with the digital field have too many areas of technology and projects to rely on the digital field headquarters, Eric does not worry that there will be another monster that poses a threat to the digital field. This approach, on the other hand, has accelerated the expansion of Firefly's special effects software tools.
More than a week later, the departure of the digital field has finally subsided. Stimulated by this incident, in order to ensure that the company will not have similar incidents in the future, Eric will start an equity incentive plan among all members of the Firefly Film Company to deepen the staff of the Firefly Films by covering the entire company's equity incentive plan. A sense of belonging and cohesion to fireflies.
In the process, Pixar's second 3D animation "Bug Crisis" was officially released on more than 2,500 screens in North America. This insect-themed cartoon is attracted by interesting characters and plots for young and old. A large number of audiences of all ages received a $33 million box office in the first three days of the first weekend. It is expected that the first week's box office will reach about 50 million US dollars, although it is not comparable to the first week of the Jurassic Park box office, but The results of the Bugs Crisis have been able to rank among the best sellers.
The cost of this 3D animation is only about 70 million US dollars. According to the trend of the North American box office, relying on the release of the North American market, the cost can be recovered basically. As an animation, the profit of the "Bug Crisis" is profitable. The biggest head, the movie was released in just three days, and the surrounding products that were put on the shelves in hundreds of Disney stores in the United States generated nearly $12 million in turnover.
Incidentally, the surrounding products of Jurassic Park also began to be distributed through the Disney store channel at the same time as the film was released. In the past month, the surrounding turnover has also successfully exceeded 100 million US dollars. Eric’s original I also specifically imitated a few clear features of the original products that gave the Jurassic Park in the movie, and the history seems to be strikingly similar, because Dr. Harder’s granddaughter Lex’s series of pigs in the movie The teammate's plot, the girl's hand-made doll image became the most popular product among the surrounding "Jurassic Park". Eric forgot to remind him of this incident, which led Disney's toy foundry to produce a number of Lex character dolls in advance. As a result, the dolls of other characters were out of stock several times, and the character dolls of Lex were even the first batch. Half of it has not been sold.
Staying in Los Angeles means being busy, and often the things in your hands have not been processed, and other things are coming.
Of course, most of the things are in the movie. Although the direct profit generated by Firefly in the film business is getting lower and lower in the company's total profit, no one can despise this piece. The film business is like the engine of a movie company. Only the engine's horsepower is strong enough to guide other businesses to develop together.
After deciding to abandon the acquisition of Miramax, Firefly Pictures re-launched its black ant label and set up a special art film investment department. After a period of screening, some scripts were sent to Eric here.
After Quentin Tarantino made a name for himself in the "Water Dog", he played a lot of soy sauce in many b-level films for a long time. He finally remembered that he still had something to do, after Eric urged and dialed, Kun Tingcai took out the script of "Pulp Fiction", and Eric also gave some suggestions according to the original memory, such as the candidate of the male and female protagonists, and the twist dance that is called the classic.
Perhaps after reading "Pulp Fiction", many people don't understand where the twisting dance of John Travolta and Uma Thurman is in the end, but it was released in North America at the beginning of the movie. When you see this picture, many North American audiences will have a feeling of tears.
Things to start from 1978, that year, Paramount Pictures released a very anti-traditional song and dance film "The Prodigal Son", the film's actor is the "Trogue" in the John Traverse The tower, and once the film was released, it immediately caused a sensation among the young people in North America. At that time, only half of the fare in the 1990s earned a $170 million box office in North America, and it was no suspense to take it away. Box office champion. Moreover, the film also led the smashing disco trend, and created a sales record that the original soundtrack of the film could not be broken for many years.
There are just a lot of scenes in the "The Prodigal Son" by John Travolta, who plays the role of the actor in the disco, and many years later, "Pulp Fiction" by John Travolta and Uma. The way in which Thurman participated in the twist dance competition in the ballroom reproduces the classic scene in "The Prodigal Son" more than ten years ago. The effect is as if the hair brother was wearing the windbreaker and holding the toothpick again after many years of "Heroes". The image appears on the screen as much as it is. If you use a later vocabulary to describe it, this feeling is called ‘sentiment.’ (To be continued...)