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Eric got off the plane and was about to leave the airport with a few entourage when he saw Elizabeth in a khaki windbreaker pulling a simple suitcase and beckoning to him, then walked over quickly.

After News Corporation's business center was transferred to the United States, the Murdoch family settled in New York, and Elizabeth returned to New York to spend the festival with her family during the festival. Eric didn't expect to meet Elizabeth at the airport so coincidentally back to Los Angeles.

Eric asked the bodyguard to help Elizabeth pick up the luggage, and then asked, I'm back so soon, why don't you stay in New York for a while?

It's no fun to stay in New York. It's boring to go to parties all day long, so it's better to come back to work, Elizabeth said, looking at Eric: Speaking of which, I've heard at parties these days. A lot of things about Firefly Investments, what are you doing?

I plan to hide my family in pieces, so that no one can easily guess how much money I have, Eric said frankly. Even if he didn't admit it, someone with a heart would definitely be able to guess it.

Firefly Pictures has no way to hide for the time being. Fortunately, there is a lot of room for value manipulation in the entertainment industry, not to mention that Firefly Pictures has not been listed. It is not so easy to find out the family of Firefly Pictures. However, some of the assets in the hands of Firefly Investments are clearly exposed. For example, Cisco, as long as the public pays a little attention, they can easily read which one is stronger? The mobile reading network found that Cisco's largest shareholder is Firefly investment company.

Now Cisco's market value is only more than 2 billion, which is not too conspicuous, but Cisco's development has not deviated from the historical track. Now Cisco has confirmed John Chambers as its next successor. And John Chambers is the biggest contributor to Cisco in the original time and space. So. If Cisco's market value still expands to hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, the wealth held by Firefly Investments will be too dazzling. What's more, Eric has more than Cisco's investment. After the Forbes list, Eric had to make plans for the future in advance.

After discussing with Chris, Firefly Investments began to deal with Cisco's shares first.

Firefly Investments used this method by injecting funds into selected unlisted funds and then reversely acquiring some of Firefly's shares in Cisco. Firefly Investments quickly dispersed its Cisco shares into these funds. However, because of the signing of a complete agreement, after the transfer of shares, Firefly Investment's control over Cisco has not changed, but there is only one more node in the middle. The most intuitive performance is that the directors who originally represented Firefly Investments on Cisco's board of directors have not changed, and they are still those people.

This indirect way of holding shares is very common in North America. Even behemoths such as General Electric, Exxon Mobil or Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, their shareholder lists are basically a series of well-known and unknown foundations, trust investments , capital management and other various investment companies, as for the real owners behind the shares held by these companies, often no one knows.

Not only Cisco, ie, Yahoo and three companies. Firefly Investment will no longer invest directly in it in the future, but indirectly through foundations and other means such as development funds.

Elizabeth heard Eric's answer. He couldn't help laughing and said, Compared to Firefly Pictures, that... Cisco's shares should be nothing, right? Why don't you want to hide Firefly Pictures?

Eric spreads his hands: This goal is too big, we can only take time to take it slow.

I don't know why you are so tossing, as if you are afraid that others will rob you of your things.

Saying so,

The two came to a few places together, and Elizabeth waved to the driver who came to pick her up, let the other party leave, and got into his car with Eric.

Eric got into the car from the other side, and continued the topic just now: I'm not afraid of being robbed, but I always take care of other people's fragile minds, right? I don't want people to see that I have too much money and be stimulated, and then there will be a problem. Three long and two short.

Elizabeth obviously regarded Eric's words as nonsense, raised her small fist and hammered Eric's shoulder, and said with a smile, You arrogant arrogant.

Eric didn't dodge the girl's painless little fist, and said, I'm going back to Jianjiao Manor now, are you going to my place too?

Elizabeth blinked a few times, as if she had just remembered: Yeah, I forgot about this, hey, Carter, turn around and take me back to Beverly Hills first.

Carter Moen looked at Eric inquiringly through the rearview mirror. As a bodyguard who had been with Eric for a long time, he certainly knew the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth.

Go on, go back to Malibu, Eric waved to Carter, and then said to Elizabeth, I remember that Julia also took the little guy back to her parents. Your house hasn't been cleaned for a long time. Stay with me tonight.

Seeing Eric's words being so straightforward, Elizabeth's pretty face flushed slightly.

...

Wearing a thick bathrobe and walking out of the bathroom, Elizabeth remembered that her suitcase was still left at the door of the villa, and her cheeks pushed all the eagerness a few hours ago on someone.

After getting off the plane at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after doing some things, I took a nap for a while. At this time, it was past 9 o'clock in the evening, and the hunger hit, and Elizabeth walked downstairs with some hesitation.

The light in the small living room was on. When he walked in, the sound of the TV was turned on very low. Eric casually leaned on the sofa, with a black laptop on the delicate aluminum alloy stand in front of him. The stirring, occasionally making a slight rattling sound.

Seeing Elizabeth walk in, Eric pointed to the food on the glass table: I asked someone to make a late-night snack. I just went upstairs to call you and see that you are already taking a shower.

What are you doing? Elizabeth didn't rush to eat, she walked behind Eric and lay on the back of the sofa, looking at the laptop screen.

The script of Interview with the Vampire. Some time ago, Four Hundred Years had a good box office and good reputation. The production department also negotiated a cooperation agreement with David Geffen. The film will be released at the end of the year, your side How are you preparing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

If it wasn't for this, I would have come back at the beginning of the month, Elizabeth replied: I also had a female lead audition in New York. According to your original suggestion, we plan to choose girls with dancing background, so that The training time can be shortened, the action scenes can be filmed relatively easily. And the pilot episode can be produced in time for May.”

Have you been selected? Eric asked casually after typing a line of comments on the script document.

Well, a few girls have been selected, and they will come to Los Angeles in a few days for the final audition with the candidates here, Elizabeth stared at the laptop for a while, then turned to sit opposite Eric boredly , put the tray of food on his lap and ate.

Eric hummed softly and continued to type on the document.

Hey, are you coming over for the final audition, they are all very beautiful girls. After a while, Elizabeth said again.

Eric smiled and said: This step is omitted. You know my taste, just send it to my bed after choosing.

Elizabeth spat lightly, grabbed a crumb, and threw it at Eric.

Hey, I almost forgot, why did you show up at the airport today?

I thought you were full of bad things and ignored this question, Eric teased, and quickly reached out to catch a piece of flying bun, took a bite, and replied, I'm going to San Francisco, Pixar's The new animation has been preliminarily completed, I will go to the demo, and by the way, I will discuss with John and the others about the Super Bowl trailer.

What is it this time, the sequel to Toy Story? Elizabeth asked curiously. When Firefly disclosed the latest news about Pixar's 3D animation to the outside world, she always used 'Untitled Pixar New Animation' as a code name. I didn't pay much attention to it. At this time, I became interested when I heard that Pixar's new 3D animation was almost completed.

No, the new animation is initially named The Bugs, and it is a story about a family of ants living in an oasis fighting against the enslavement of locusts, Eric said succinctly.

Elizabeth looked at Eric and waited patiently for a few seconds before asking, That's all, no more?

It's boring to tell you all the plot now. You can go to the cinema to watch it when it is released.

I'm not going, what children see, Elizabeth pouted.

After supper, Elizabeth came to the kitchen to clean up the dishes and returned to the small living room again. Because she slept all afternoon, although it was ten o'clock at night, the girl didn't have any pajamas. She picked up the TV remote control placed on the glass table, sat down beside Eric, pulled a pillow and hugged her in her arms. , randomly selected a midnight talk show.

After watching the host's comments on recent current affairs for a while, Elizabeth said to the man next to her: Eric, is the next step for Firefly to develop its own TV network?

Your old man guessed it? Eric turned his head and asked.

Elizabeth nodded.

Now the integration of media groups has become an inevitable trend. Firefly's industrial chain in the film sector has expanded to its limit, and the next step is to develop into a comprehensive media group, not only in TV networks, but also in music, publishing, etc. The business will expand. Having said that, Eric smiled and said, But you can rest assured that Firefly will not be involved in print media, so it will not compete with News Corporation on this point.

With the rise of the Internet, the decline of print media has become an inevitable trend. Eric remembers that after entering the new century, even some of the most famous newspapers in the United States have frequently encountered bankruptcy crises. He does not intend to waste time on a kind of Useless layouts on industries that are about to decline.

Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, I heard that the website you founded at the end of last year called Yahoo has been in contact with several print media groups recently. When it comes to this, you're definitely planning to build an online news site.

Eric temporarily stopped tapping his fingers on the keyboard, turned his head to look at Elizabeth, and asked curiously, What does your father think about this?

Elizabeth snorted a few times with a little smugness, but didn't answer, as if I didn't want to hit you by not telling you.

Eric shrugged, and also understood that Murdoch must have a low opinion of the prospect of this idea. Having worked in the media for most of his life, Murdoch can of course see that there is no large-scale development of online news in the current Internet environment. At this stage, the Internet user group has not yet reached the level of ordinary people, and most of them are concentrated on college students and professional and technical personnel. However, he obviously could not have predicted how terrifying the explosive growth of Internet users in the next few years would be.

Hey, Liz, you said that if one day I had a fight with your old man, who would you help?

There was strong contempt in Elizabeth's eyes: Of course help my father, you are too embarrassed to fight with an old man in his sixties? It's so shameless.

Uh, wrong, I mean on the company side?

Then just toss as much as you like, Eliza said lazily, laying down on the sofa with her arms around her pillow. The current scale of Firefly and News Corporation's development is certain to change in a certain period of time. , but unless there is a huge industry change, it will be difficult to have a life-and-death struggle, not to mention the future, even now, 20th Century Fox and Firefly already have a competitive relationship in the film business, but the two companies are in peace. Nothing, there are even some partnerships. The same is true for several other major Hollywood studios.

Eric smiled and said nothing. He spent nearly an hour reading the script of Interview with the Vampire, closed the notebook, and patted the girl's clean calf on his lap: Are you sleepy?

There was no response, Eric turned his head to look over, the girl squinted and fell asleep.

...

The new year awards season does not seem to have much to do with Firefly Pictures. The films released by Firefly last year were basically commercial films. Even in the highly operational Golden Globe Awards, you can only brush the nominations. , There are basically no movies with award-winning strength. Coupled with the miracle of the company's 27% share at the box office last year, Firefly's inaction in awards has inevitably become the target of some media ridicule with a sour grape mentality.

Eric saw several related reports in New Day's newspaper early in the morning, but he didn't take it too seriously. He always felt that the role of movie awards was the icing on the cake, but Elizabeth seized this point and made fun of Eric. for a while. (To be continued...)

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