Chapter 1125: Estonian is also cold enough.

Chapter 1125: Estonian is also cold enough.

Although the Firefly Group is not a listed company, in recent years, it has invested a total of 7 billion US dollars in the Shamrock Fund to buy technology stocks. Eric must explain to other shareholders.

Therefore, the fact that the clover fund holds a large number of technology stocks is not a secret to many people.

This also seems to explain why Eric's private communication system has been frequently attacked in recent times.

Since the beginning of the Gulf War in the process of earning large sums of money through oil futures, the miracle of wealth created by Eric has been the goal of many people.

However, after the Gulf War, Eric seems to have no big-handed operations in the financial market, even if it was the Southeast Asian economic crisis of the previous year, compared to the international pool of hundreds of billions of dollars in total, Eric and Chris. The combined investment of hundreds of millions of dollars can only be regarded as a small fight.

In recent years, the rapid expansion of Eric's personal wealth has basically come from the accumulation of long-term investment in new technology companies. This kind of long-term operation, even if it is concerned, speculative capital that pays more attention to short-term gains will often not follow up.

But it has changed recently.

The total value of the Shamrock Fund holding more than $30 billion in technology stocks is many times higher than the total profit that Eric received from the oil futures market during the Gulf War.

Although Eric has not shown any amazing big moves in the stock speculative market for many years, now, just that the clover fund started buying technology stocks a few years earlier, it is enough to prove that he has no vision in the stock market. A former oil futures operation.

As a result, many people naturally feel that if they can find out how Eric operates the Shamrock Fund technology stocks, follow the operation or formulate a targeted stock investment strategy, it is easy to get huge profits.

With the reminder of Steve Mitnick, Eric completely cleared all emails about the operation of the Shamrock Fund in his personal email address, and informed the clover fund's various studios to do the same. .

Eric was even more pleased that he chose email contact during this time because it is difficult for him to judge whether his mobile phone and phone are being monitored.

However, after doing this, things are clearly not over.

In memory, Hollywood has experienced various eavesdropping incidents more than once. Eric was once a lively outsider, but at this time, Eric was in it, although he had not personally encountered it, but he could also understand how much damage would be done to the firefly system in the event of a similar incident.

Therefore, Eric completely listened to Steve Mitnick's suggestion, convening the fireflies system executives directly on the plane to discuss the reconstruction of the firefly system communication system.

As for the cost required, this is obviously the least important issue for the current firefly system.

I learned that the firefly system's e-mail system suffered 37 attacks in just one week, and this is just an attack that broke through the Yahoo network's external firewall and was personally recorded by a master like Steve Mitnick. careful.

In the eight-hour trip from Los Angeles to Tokyo, Eric is basically with Carlsenberg, John Chambers, Ian Garnier and even Nokia CEO Olli Karassu in Finland. Europe and others discussed this matter.

It was not until the Boeing 747 entered Sakamoto’s airspace that the meeting was over.

Temporarily turned on Shantou’s phone and asked her to look for an information security company to defend her homes in Firefly Studios, Burbank Firefly Headquarters, Sharp Point Estate, Railsdale Manor and even New York. Eavesdropping check.

Hanging up the phone and looking out the porthole, the plane has hovered over Tokyo.

The voice of the flight attendant rang again. Eric put on his seat belt and looked at Caroline and Mayer, who were sitting opposite each other. He said: "You also contact an information security company in London. After we arrived in the UK, we went. I tested the plane, oh, and also the planes of Leeds and Drew, just forgot to remind her, you should remember."

The two women nodded together.

When the plane began to fall, Eric was silent for a moment and said: "Which hotel is scheduled?"

Caroline Road: "Dakura Hotel."

"Other people are still the same, I will not live, change to a hotel," Eric remembered the hotel in "Lost in Tokyo" and said casually: "It’s good to Park Hyatt, and remember to be anonymous."

The two women naturally know why Eric suddenly did this. Eric rarely stayed at the hotel for the past few years. This is a good opportunity. It is hard to imagine that some people will not take the opportunity to install a bug in the room. This is almost certain.

Meyer said: "So, Eric, Park Hyatt, do you need to find someone else to check on this side?"

Eric hesitated and felt that there was no need to be too reassured by himself. He nodded: "Low-key, try to find a federal company. We are going to make movie propaganda."

Meyer thought for a moment and said: "There should be professional anti-eavesdrop detection equipment on the embassy side."

"Do you think it will work?"

"It is their duty to protect their citizens," Meyer bent his lips and said: "And, let's prepare a few "Iron Man" premiere invitations there."

Eric couldn’t help but smile: "Isn’t it sincere? If you pay, it’s what we rent."

Meyer shook his head. "No, Eric, I will do it."

Tokyo time is eight hours earlier than Los Angeles.

So, after eight hours of flight, the time here is still around ten o'clock in the morning.

Sending a flight from José Weeden to Haneda Airport in advance and rushing to the scheduled Okura Hotel, Eric stayed on the plane for a while, waiting for Caroline and Meyer to contact Bo Wei International’s branch office. On the side, arrange everything before leaving the airport.

Park Hyatt Hotel, the embassy was really seduce by Meyer's several premiere invitations to make a complete set of security tests for the room that Eric had just booked. Before leaving, several staff members were very excited and Irene Ke took a picture.

Sure enough, it is very perfunctory.

However, Meyer is a natural appearance, but also talks about a trivial matter of Kevin Costner that she just knows.

A few years ago, Kevin Costner came to Tokyo to publicize his "Future Water World", which was later hit by the box office. He was temporarily refused to park his private jet at the airport, and he turned to the US military base in Japan for help. The military readily accepted the borrowing of the military airport to Costner, only to show a "Future Water World" in advance in the military base.

Park Hyatt hotel room.

After the staff of the embassy left, Eric invited Coyle Crow, the general manager of Bo Wei International’s branch office, to sit down at the floor window of the living room and listen to the introduction of the release of Iron Man. .

Coyle Crow is a white middle-aged man in his early forties. He may have been in Sakamoto for a long time, and the whole person has a meticulous atmosphere.

After introducing the issue of Iron Man, Coyle Crow pulled out a stack of invitations from his briefcase, saying: "Mr. Williams, this is the company of Sakamoto. The invitation you sent, in addition, an interview with Fuji TV."

"Help me push it," Eric took the invitation and flipped it over and shook his head. "I only stayed in Tokyo for two days and left the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, Mr. Williams," Coyle Crow did not persuade, nodded and said: "So, if there is nothing else, I will go to work first."

Eric looked at his watch and smiled and said: "At noon, have a meal together, but I am not familiar with it."

Coyle Crow quickly stood up and said, "So, I will take you to the restaurant," said Coyle Crow, who looked at Eric’s replacement of the new sofa cover and sheets. Female, said: "Do these two ladies want to be together?"

Eric shook his head: "Don't worry about them."

After eating out of the room with Coyle Crow, I came to the Park Hyatt's restaurant and ordered a simple lunch. I chatted with the other person about the work on this side of the book.

As the largest ticket warehouse in Asia and even the largest ticket warehouse outside North America, several major Hollywood film companies attach great importance to this market, and basically set up subsidiaries in Sakamoto.

"A few days ago, Sakaguchi’s blog contacted me. He still didn’t give up the production of Final Fantasy animated film. However, after we refused, several other Hollywood film companies would not take over the project again,” Coyle Crow is obviously also a very talkative person, gradually getting familiar with the big boss, and his tone is easy: "Now, it is said that Square has already purchased a number of graphics workstations, they are planning to completely let go of Hollywood themselves. However, the budget of this cartoon needs at least 100 million US dollars. If it fails, Square will be bankrupt. It is hard to say that Final Fantasy is the national game of Sakamoto, at least in Sakamoto. It must be very easy to succeed."

Eric smiled and listened, but he knew that in the past history, "Final Fantasy and Deep Soul", whether in North America or Sakamoto, the box office can only be described as tragic. Square was directly bankrupt and liquidated and merged with another game company.

Now, completely out of Hollywood's funding and distribution channels, if this animated film is still of the quality, there is no doubt that it will definitely lead to even more tragic results.

When I mentioned the animation, Eric suddenly remembered another thing: "Right, I remember the year before, we also reached a cooperation agreement with another animation company here?"

"Ghibli Studio," Coyle Crow nodded. "Miyazaki is making his new animation. The budget is only $17 million. We are responsible for 30% of the investment and own all the overseas copyrights of the film." ""

Because Eric had aggressively abolished Disney's hand-painted animation department, Coyle Crow instinctively felt that the big boss didn't like 2D hand-drawn animations. After that, he added cautiously: "Miyazaki's works are completely different. In Hollywood's 2D animation and RB's anime, his animation is full of imagination and reminiscent of philosophical thinking. The last time we were responsible for the release of "Princess Mononoke", the proceeds are still very good, this time this thousand With Chihiro, I have seen scripts and creative ideas, so I will apply to the headquarters for the production side. Moreover, we only invested 5 million US dollars, and through the omni-channel operation overseas, the cost recovery is certainly no problem. ”

Eric is on the surface, but he is thinking about the global box office of "Spirited Away".

Naturally, there is no memory.

However, the $5 million, all overseas distribution rights, this business is definitely worth it.

Eric actually knows why Coyle Crow's tone is so cautious.

It’s not just because he personally abolished the 2D hand-drawn animation department. In fact, before the “Spirited Away”, Miyazaki’s animation works can be well received, but basically they’re all good. A lot of animation can only rely on peripheral products to regain the cost. Sakamoto's animation surrounding industry is also very large.

In the past, "Spirited Away" was the work of thoroughly confirming Hayao Miyazaki's deity. After that, the animation works directed by Hayao Miyazaki began to frequently enter the list of the historical movie box office.

To put it bluntly, the $5 million investment did not reach the level of approval of Eric himself. The work of Ghost Studio, which was released by Bo Wei International, was not too good. Eric only vaguely remembered that he had seen a cooperation agreement with Ghibli at the Bowei International Shunben branch two years ago, and later did not pay much attention to these matters.

Therefore, until now, Eric discovered that, unconsciously, the firefly film industry has become the maker of "Spirited Away".

At least two days in Tokyo, Eric did not want to pay any attention to the official business because of the cyber attacks on the plane.

After Coyle Crow finished, Eric thought for a moment and said, "Can you arrange it, I want to go to work at Ghibli?"

Coyle Crow stunned and thought he had got it wrong, but in a blink of an eye he reacted and nodded. "Of course, Mr. Williams, I can call this."

"That's right this afternoon, yes, today is still a working day. You don't need to arrange anything special there. I can look at it privately."

Coyle Crow naturally agreed again and again.

After lunch, Coyle Crow left temporarily and Eric returned to the hotel room.

When I saw Eric coming back, Carolyn, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room sofa of the Eric Suite, looked up at Eric and smiled. "Eric, Kelly just sent again." An email came over and she asked if we couldn't use e-mail next time, how do I contact the clover fund's trading studio?"

I don't know where Meyer went, Eric sat down beside Caroline, and curiously glanced at her laptop screen, saying: "Let's use the phone directly, let Kelly prepare an encryption line."

Feeling Erik's breath on his side, Caroline's face turned red and said: "But even this may be eavesdropped."

"Then it is not easy for the eavesdropper to understand," Eric remembered the Wenzhou dialect and pondered for a moment. "We don't speak English, we change the language of a less popular language."

"what?"

Eric thought about it and smiled: "Estonian, is it cold enough?"

Carolyn subconsciously squinted at Eric's arm and slightly wrinkled the small nose, but did not speak against it.