In September, MM has released two good movies, "District 9" and "The Time Traveler's Wife", which are box office hits, and the beer is good, so that MM has always maintained the best popularity, this is an excellent film company, no matter what time it is, there are excellent works to launch.

This also strengthens Mark, who controls MM and Time Warner.

If "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" isn't "fantastical" enough, perhaps Rachel McAdams and Eric Barna starring in the romantic sci-fi film "The Time Traveler's Wife" will satisfy that.

Claire spent her whole life waiting for Henry to appear. When she was 6 years old, she met him at the age of 36, when she got married, she was 23 years old and he was 31 years old, and when they met again after parting, she was 82 years old and he was only 43 years old...... Unable to control himself from falling into the past or the future, Henry reunites with Claire again and again in different planes.

They know each other, love each other but are destined to be separated, but they are still the love of each other's lives! Can Henry, who travels through time, stay for Claire, or disappear into time and space that she can't touch? This is a story of love and affection, life and death, determinism and free will, simple and beautiful, sad and sweet, and finally ending with a tearful ending, many people are deeply moved.

And the road to the big screen of this best-selling book is not smooth, several big directors have negotiated with the film company to direct, including: Stephen Spielberg, David Fincher, Giz Van Sant, but in the end it was Robert Swenk of "Crisis in the Air" who took over the director, almost laying the tone that "The Time Traveler's Wife" will be a mediocre work.

"The Time Traveler's Wife" has only a 36% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic media score of 47. "Variety" said that although the plot is not convincing, it is a set of irresistible nonsense.

The Chicago Sun-Times believes that while the plot setting is ridiculous, the warmth of the two actors is heartwarming, and don't try to consider paradoxes, contradictions, and logical fallacies.

The Boston Globe commented that "The Time Traveler's Wife" does emphasize the preciousness of life, and it is often beyond our control, but it is not as stupid as the movie.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that the director makes everything develop very quickly, so the jump in time and space can disguise the jump in plot logic.

Empire magazine criticized the film for being too deliberately crammed with length and losing its sense of elegance.

Although the media reviews are skewed negatively, considering that "The Time Traveler's Wife" has a large readership as a bestseller, and the theme itself is more appealing to female audiences (though Eric Bana is not romantic enough?), "The Time Traveler's Wife" In three days over the weekend, it swept away $18.62 million in 2,988 theaters, ranking third, which is a good premiere result, with the now red and purple MM sister Rachel McAdams, there are many people who want to see her sweet and intoxicating smile, if there is no accident, it can reach a box office of 60 million US dollars, and its production cost is about 40 million, and the foundation can be profitable.

But as a fan of this book, I am still very disappointed with the movie, in fact, it can be made into a better set of works. "Remakes" and "remakes" are very popular in Hollywood now, and I hope that in a decade or so, there will be better directors who will be interested in this book.

Mark has been talking to representatives of publishing groups such as Bloomberg and Bertalmans about the partnership, and if nothing else, Time Warner will sell them a portion of the property they divested.

The so-called strike of Times Publishing Group was also canceled due to the hard-line attitude of the parent company, and their compensation was based on the legal standard compensation, and then linked to the company's stock price, and the stock plummeted, which means that their income is reduced.

The management, led by Mark, is determined to divest this part of the industry, and protest will not make the greedy capitalists change their minds, and they can only retreat to the next best thing, hoping that the compensation will be more generous.

At this time, there are actually people who have joined the ranks of negotiations, in fact, it is not surprising, there are many people who want to embrace the Times Publishing Group into their arms, and the strange thing is that his buyer, who is it?

It's David Ferro of Yahoo.

Mark and Barry looked at each other.

They prepared a professional team, made more than a dozen sets of plans, as soon as the money arrived, immediately forced Yahoo to spit out the shares of Yaribaba, their money did not arrive, one of the owners came to the door instead, Mark and David were very surprised, Mark asked: "How many bodyguards did he bring." Mark has a ghost in his heart, and he is afraid that the other party will knock on the door.

Louise said: "Mr. Oguchi Ferro is visiting by appointment. ”

Mark said, "What is his intention?"

"He didn't reveal it himself, but when I called his office to confirm, his assistant revealed that they were interested in the property we have," Louis said.

Outside, there were dark clouds, and there was no sunshine, and the storm was coming, and now suddenly the dark clouds dispersed, and the sun came out, and it was a good day on a sunny day.

Mark said, "Louise, well done! Pick a sports car you like, no matter how expensive it is." Mark ignored the smiling Louise and said to Barry, "This time I'm going to have to tear a piece of fat off Yahoo." ”

Barry also nodded yes, and was thinking about the prey, and the other party jumped into the well, this person has a good character, there is nothing to say.

David Ferro is the other Yahoo founder besides Yang Zhiyuan, and the two of them are the only ones who now hold the honorific title of Yahoo Chief. Ferro has excellent technical expertise, and his fast, easy-to-use, and well-scalable global online information guide for Yahoo is one of the best and most popular online guides available today.

In 1990, Yang Zhiyuan entered Stanford University, which is not far from his home, with excellent grades. The school's electrical engineering department is part of the myth of Silicon Valley, and he took the elective electrical engineering, and it took only four years to complete his bachelor's and master's degrees.

When he graduated, he felt that he was still immature and not enough, so he stayed in school to engage in research. It just so happened that David Ferro also stayed on to do research. The encounter and friendship between the two was undoubtedly a key factor in Yahoo's success.

The two founders, Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo, are old acquaintances, Fei Luo graduated from Tulane University in 1988, and once served as a teaching assistant to tutor Yang Zhiyuan, Yang Zhiyuan, who has always taken all "A", only got "B" under Fei Luo's judge, Yang Zhiyuan still complains about this. Later, the two attended classes in the same class and collaborated on homework. With this as a starting point, the two became the best partners.

Ferrone is beautiful and contemplative, while Yang Zhiyuan is active and is the leader of the community, Ferro is good at sorting out information on the screen, and has a feeling of "as long as he is in front of the terminal, he can rule the world". Ferro's lab was like a storm-torn place. Yang Zhiyuan's residence is relatively clean, but in terms of computer operation, it is not as planned as Fei Luo. The two have laboratories next to each other. Soon, the two signed up to go to Japan. There both became foreigners, and their friendship grew day by day.

At the time of the start-up of the floor, there were many competitors on the Internet, such as ebCraler, Lycos, orm, Infoseek, etc., these websites rely on software to automatically search, although the scope is wide, but not accurate, while Yahoo is purely handmade, the search is accurate, more practical. In fact, by the end of 1994, Yahoo had become the leader in search engines, and by this time Netscape had released a beta version of the Voyager browser, launching the first ad-supported website, and Internet business opportunities appeared.

In the first half of 1995, their network was the most visited web site in the world. The two were in contact with several venture capital firms. Finally, there is Sequoia Asset's American Cedar Insight Hero. The company has invested in Apple, Google, Intel, Cisco, and others, and now they have added Yahoo to their impressive track record.

To this day, Michael Moritz of the American Cedars recalls his visit to the office in January 1995 and relates: "It was a real mess. Pizza boxes were thrown all over the floor, golf clubs were casually resting in corners, telephones were thrown on the floor, and the whole room was dark without a single chair. I think Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo probably can't even tell the difference between day and night. ”

However, Moritz was not intimidated, and the American Fir Company invested nearly $2 million in Yahoo, which was Yahoo's first venture capital investor and the only venture capital investor, and later brought them a hundredfold return on this investment, which was one of several wonderful investments by Sequoia Capital.

And Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro have become the top rich, but David Ferro likes to command behind the scenes, far less famous than Yang Zhiyuan, but in terms of influence, he is not low at all. Yahoo's market capitalization was once nearly 500 billion yuan, what is this concept? The four major media in North America also have this market value, of course, the current Yahoo is less than one-tenth of its peak, but David Ferro is still a significant wealthy.

The two sides met in the reception room, and Barry, the president of Time Warner, was the first to accompany him, and now Richard is planning to retire as CEO first, and Barry will take over, and he himself will become chairman, and will resign within a year, eventually retaining his position as director.

The two sides admired each other for a long time, said some polite words, Mark also opened an 82-year-old Lafite, Mark said: "I like Lafite red wine, 82 years of abundant rain in the south of France, the red wine is particularly mellow, it is the best in the wine, 10,000 dollars a piece is hard to find." ”

Ferro was in awe, he didn't know much about red wine, and he nodded again and again when he heard Mark's words.

Barry laughed secretly, Mark, this guy, he knows what kind of red wine there, he can't tell the difference between Lafite and his own winery, and now he just searches for some information on the Internet to blow it, and scares this guy who doesn't know how to do it.