Chapter 624: a reasonable reason
After the box office explosion of the two films "Save the Ryan Ryan" and "The Real Lie" in June, the firefly shareholders and creditors who had all kinds of small calculations in their hearts completely calmed down. "Lion King" first weekend three The amazing box office of more than 46 million US dollars is to let them start to reassess the value of stocks and bonds in their opponents. ◎,
The production cost of "Lion King" is only $45 million. Although the cost of the declaration has reached the same high level, only the US$300 million box office in North America has already made the firefly a big profit. The future sequel to the movie, overseas box office. Video tape sales and peripheral licenses will continue to generate more than $1 billion in profits for fireflies. Some people in Hollywood even think that the golden age of hand-drawn animated films is coming again, and the first reaction of the firefly minority shareholders and creditors to this news is that the fireflies can increase their investment in hand-drawn animation, which will be an average of two years. The production speed has increased to one year or even more than one year.
Therefore, when Eric was about to close the Disney Animation Films Department after "The Lion King" in the newspaper, no one believed that the news was true. It is precisely because of this, when Cn played Eric's answer to a reporter's question at the premiere of "The Lion King", the whole world felt that Eric Williams must be crazy.
In the following days, all the firefly high-level offices and private telephones, such as Kasenberger and Michael Lynn, were smashed by calls from shareholders, creditors and the media. Of course, Eric was even more likely to be let go. However, when some people contacted Eric, the phone was directly transferred to his assistant's office. As long as the inquiry about Disney Animation Studio, the response was affirmative, but there was no explanation.
Emotional minority shareholders even publicly pressured the fireflies at the top of the fire, and the firefly's long-term bond sales rate began to slow again. The topic of closing the Disney animation department has caused worldwide attention in just a few days, and it has since passed. There are even absurd remarks about Disney's upcoming bankruptcy.
In the studio of Firefly Studios, in the studio for the preparation of the Vimy show, Eric, who was shackled by many people, was concentrating on a design proposal of a Victorian angel costume with a designer.
Outside the studio, a brown-haired woman in a black professional suit, about 35 years old, came to the entrance. After showing his own documents, he was put in. The woman looked for a moment in a group of designers, costumers and fitting models, locked in the target and walked through the busy working crowd, and hurriedly came to Eric.
The brown-haired woman was named Kelly Haynes, who was originally an assistant to the Eric Assistant Office. Although Eric promised Caroline and her roommate Melanie Gleason to work in their assistant office, the two girls will not be able to join the course after completing the Harvard course, and even if they start working, short time It is also impossible to be the first assistant of Eric, so after returning from Boston, under the recommendation of Allen, Eric chose this woman as his first assistant.
Feeling close to the figure, Eric looked up and noticed Kelly Haynes and asked, "Kelly, is there anything?"
Kelly Haynes has been working in Eric's assistant office for several years. But suddenly came to the big boss, it seems that some are not suitable. Slightly calmed down the mood and said: "Mr. Williams, just Mr. Buffett personally called, he said he went to Los Angeles at four o'clock in the afternoon, would like to invite you to dinner, in addition, Mr. Tom Murphy and David Mr. West will also come from New York."
David West, president of Warren Buffett, Tom Murphy and State Street Global Fund, happened to be a member of the board of directors of the 25% minority shareholder.
Eric had already called a few people to explain it briefly, but these people obviously did not intend to stop.
Suspending the work in the next hand, Eric said: "Promise them for me. Also, do I have the information you prepared ready?"
"Yes," Kelly Haynes took out a document from her bag and handed it over to Eric.
Eric smiled and shook his head. "These documents don't reach the level of confidentiality. But I don't have to take it out of the office if I don't ask for it. And I don't have time to look at it now. Give it to me before dinner." ”
Kelly Haynes’s face was reddish. She wanted to let Eric see the results of her work for the first time, but she ignored some of the codes of work that I had paid attention to in the past, and collected the documents again. Kelly Sea Ens said seriously: "Sorry. Mr. Williams, this is my mistake."
"It doesn't matter, is there anything else?"
Kelly Haynes pulled out a memo saying: "Hurst Group, Condé Nast Group, News Corporation and Netleigh Group have all offered their own quotations for the abc stripped paper assets..." Kelly Hines suddenly paused and looked at the designer next to Eric who seemed to be very focused on drawing. The designer didn’t have any other thoughts in his heart. He was only curious about Eric’s big man’s daily routine. He just didn’t take the initiative to avoid it, but at this time he was keenly aware of Kelly Haynes’s gaze. The designer made a sorrowful look at Eric, and took the drawing board and took the initiative to go to another workbench nearby.
This episode did not have any impact on the communication between the two, Kelly Haynes continued: "At present, the Hearst Group offers the highest offer, 1.35 billion US dollars, followed by News Corporation's 1.3 billion US dollars, Condé Nast $1.28 billion and Netleigh's $1 billion. At the morning meeting, Mr. Lynn felt that this was only the first round of testing by the publishing group, and the final price of the asset should be between $1.5 billion and $1.6 billion. between."
Eric nodded and said he knew it. Kelly Haynes did not expect Eric to discuss with her. If Eric had any idea, it would normally only be discussed with Michael Lynn and others. She was only responsible for summarizing this information to Ai. Rick.
Turning the memo up one page, Kelly Haynes couldn't help but look up at Eric's expression and said: "The head of the animation department, Mr. Peter Schneider, and the art consultant Roy Disney want to face you. Talk, they said that this invitation represents 758 employees in the Disney hand-painted animation department, I hope you can pay attention."
"I don't think Roy Disney can't help but jump out. He really thinks of himself as a Disney emperor." Eric smiled mockingly, whether it was the material in memory or the impression of a real person after rebirth. Eric doesn't like Roy Disney, the guy who likes to play tricks.
Original time and space. In the mid-eighties, Roy Disney co-shareholders kicked Walt Disney's son-in-law, completely erasing the influence of Walt Disney's blood branch on Disney; Kasenberg's departure in the mid-1990s At the departure of Michael Ovitz, there was Roy Disney's figure; at the beginning of the new century. Roy Disney once again mobilized a shareholder vote to drive away Michael Eisner. It can be said that after the death of Walt Disney in the original space, every turmoil in Disney has Roy Disney. Although some of these incidents have also had a positive impact on the Disney Group, since this time and space Disney has become an asset of the Firefly. Eric certainly will not allow Roy Disney to remain a destabilizing factor.
Therefore, after the acquisition of Disney did not take long, after the situation stabilized, Eric took the position of the head of his Disney animation department on the grounds that Roy Disney was too old, but only retained the title of an art consultant for him. .
With a little thought, Eric said: "Tell them, I will wait for them at the personal office of the studio at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning."
Kelly Haynes listened to Eric's casual tone, and even some doubted that the big boss couldn't figure out the chaos of the outside world, and the words stopped for a while. She still quietly remembered this matter in the memo, and then said: "Mr. Williams, for the time being only these things, what do you need to do here?"
"No, I can arrange a car at night to pick me up for dinner." Eric shook his head and just wanted Kelly Haynes to leave, but he remembered another thing and asked: "I Haven't had time to watch the box office report for the weekend, what is Warner's "law enforcement" box office?"
Kelly Haynes said: "$7.5 million. This film ranked fifth in the box office last weekend, in "The Lion King", "True Lies", "Star Trek 7" and "Save the Great Ryan" After that, the film's word of mouth is also lower, and the agency expects the total box office of the film to be between 25 million and 30 million US dollars. In total, the cost of Warner will cost 70 million US dollars in short-term, and a detailed report has been sent to you. In the email box."
Eric did not hear anyone mentioning this matter with him. He had already expected the end of the "Law Enforcement". Some of the gloating games said: "This Warner will definitely not expect anything from the Western movie."
Kelly Haynes said: "Yeah, Warner’s total box office this year is temporarily behind Fireflies and Universal. However, Warner’s annual film distribution plan is 29, one more than fireflies, and the follow-up box office. Accumulation is likely to rank second, because the rest of the major movie companies are all in production. After the fireflies, there are 16 in the world, 15 in Paramount, 13 in Fox, and 10 in Colombia and MGM. Below, although the remaining second- and third-line film companies have released a lot of films, they have not performed very well at the box office."
“It seems that you are very sensitive to numbers,” Eric smiled. “I like women who are sensitive to numbers.”
"Thank you, Mr. Williams," Kelly Haynes found that she had a flustered feeling in the face of this young ten-year-old youth. She quickly said, "If there is nothing else..."
Eric found himself unknowingly crossing the line. If Kelly Haynes was married, then this slightly ridiculous discourse would be too abrupt, and the mind would be cleaned up. Eric said: "You Go back to work, I will contact you if necessary."
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"On Thursday at the "Lion King" premiere, Firefly Group's board of directors Eric Williams suddenly confirmed a long-rumored rumor in Hollywood, Firefly Group will close Disney Animation Studio, it is reported that this is because of fireflies I plan to fully digitize the animation. But then, the dramatic change of this event is beyond everyone's expectations. It was not the first day of the "Lion King" that was so popular. It not only recorded the first day of the Disney animation. It has more than doubled, and it has won more than 46 million US dollars in the box office within three days of the first weekend. It broke the box office record of many Disney 2D animations. It is expected that the total box office will even exceed the two issued by Disney. 3d animation "Toy Story" and "Bug Crisis". Later, the reporter called the firefly group ceo Michael Lynn, the result is that the firefly will continue to implement the established animation transformation program, then this thing will be What impact does Firefly and other Hollywood studios have? Let us have a special offer from Variety Magazine. Film commentator James Hilter..."
In the TV set, a financial show host of nbc got up and greeted the guests who walked into the studio, and David West, the president of State Street Global Fund, sitting in front of the TV, couldn’t help but sigh, next to him. Tom Murphy said: "Young people, always so arrogant. Tom, do you think we can make Eric Williams the little guy back?"
Tom Murphy turned to look at the clouds outside the porthole of the private jet and shook his head. "If he insists on doing this, no one can stop him. I had a call with Warren last night. He seems to be from Eric. I heard something there, and it seems that I’m starting to play.”
"This is an animation department that can produce 300 million movies. Even if Williams really made this decision, no one will blame him for canceling the original plan. I don't think it is necessary at all. It’s too hard to accept that you insist on sticking to your own mistakes."
Tom Murphy suddenly asked: "If he wants to go it alone, what are you going to do?"
David West squatted and smiled and shook his head. "What can I do? Is it difficult to file a lawsuit in the federal court to prohibit him from doing this?"
The shareholding in Eric's hands also means that he has absolute control over the fireflies, and he can arbitrarily adjust his business without breaking the law. Because the development of 2d animation is not optimistic and close its hand-painted animation department, although it will cause controversy, it does not violate the law.
Both people are silent, although they know that they have another option, that is, the sale of the firefly stocks in their hands is cashed out. If they plan to do so, Eric and Wall Street will be 100% willing to take over their hands. Firefly group stock.
But now that the Firefly Group has surpassed Time Warner to become the largest media group in North America, only the most short-sighted people will be stupid enough to sell their stocks.
Listening to the high-profile talks between the host and the guests on the air-borne TV, Tom Murphy said for a long time: "I hope Eric Williams can give us a reasonable reason." (To be continued.)