Due to the success of last year's Firefly system's 'Easter Movie Package', this year's Easter schedule has naturally become a must for major studios. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Starting a week before Easter on March 26, Warner's "Lola Run," Universal Pictures' "Ed's Private Channel," and Paramount's teen crime comedy "Sweeping Threesome" have officially entered North American theaters.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for the birth of "Blair the Witch", due to the topicality brought by Eric's own attendance, "Lola Run" would definitely become the most watched film at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Even so, Warner clearly had high hopes for this one-man film with a unique style, with 1,700 theaters scheduled in its first week.

Complicated things are the case with Universal's "Ed Private Channel," a new film directed by Hollywood director Ron Howard, starring Matthew McConaughey, and costing $80 million, second only to Firefly Pictures' upcoming "Public Enemy" next week.

However, unlike Eric's intention to cultivate the Easter market with blockbusters, "Ed Private Channel" was clearly abandoned by the Universal.

After all, the number of blockbusters produced by Universal Pictures every year is definitely not as good as that of Firefly Group, and if it weren't for the fact that he was very unoptimistic about this movie, Michael Eisner would definitely not set "Ed's Private Channel" on the Easter schedule.

Finally, Paramount's "Sweeping Trio", which is based on a TV series in the sixties, is far less popular than the first two.

As for the Firefly system's 'Easter movie package' this year, they are Firefly Pictures' "Public Enemy of the People", MGM's "American Pie" and Fox's "A Kiss Determines the Country", and the three films still adopt the method of linkage promotion, and will be released in the next two weeks.

Since the plan was set in the first half of last year, Columbia Pictures has not participated in this plan for the time being this year.

Spending the weekend in Los Angeles with Carmen Keys, Eric flew back to New York with her on Monday.

Eric originally wanted to arrange a house for Carmen Kath in Manhattan, as Giselle did, but was refused.

Back in Manhattan, the girl didn't pester Eric and immediately got to work on her own, even arranging a flight to Tokyo next week. Looking at the situation, it is clear that there is no way to catch up with Eric's Tokyo premiere schedule of "Iron Man" at the end of April.

With Easter days to go, Eric didn't rush to East Hampton right away, and many of the things about Firefly Investments, ABC Group, and Clover needed to stay in Manhattan to handle personally.

"Eric, this is last week's Clover Fund's stock trading statement, which recovered a total of $1,625.5 million in funds, which has all been settled into the Clover Fund's account."

This time in New York, the two daughters did not live in Eric's mansion anymore, but each chose other places to live, this matter was brought up by Mayer first, although Caroline wanted to live with Eric, but Mayer said so, Caroline, who was very thin-skinned, was embarrassed to live alone.

Early in the morning, Caroline and Mayer rushed to Eric's temporary office at ABC's headquarters to start preparing for the day's work.

Taking the report handed over by Caroline, Eric opened it and said to the two girls, "Do you two want to come with me to the Hearst family party tonight?" ”

Caroline shook her head and said, "My brother asked me to go to his place for dinner in the evening." ”

Eric raised his eyebrows and subconsciously asked, "Brother?" ”

Caroline wrinkled her little nose and glared at Eric slightly.

"Well, it looks like my own brother," Eric smiled awkwardly and looked at Mayer.

Mayer also shook his head: "I made an appointment with someone to go to Greenwich Village tonight to see an art exhibition." ”

Eric didn't dare to ask Mayer who he had made an appointment with in front of Caroline, but he noticed the narrow smile on Mayer's lips, and made a threatening look while Caroline wasn't paying attention.

After Eric paid attention to the report in his hand, Caroline took out a few more pages of information from the document, handed it to Eric and said: "This is a memorandum submitted by a trader under Clover Fund, he feels that our selling plan is too eager, if we can be more thoughtful in operation, we will definitely be able to obtain greater returns." ”

Eric skimmed through the stock trading statements in front of him and picked up the memo in his hand.

Over the years, Eric has also accumulated sufficient knowledge in finance. He also understands that stock trading is completely a technical job, and it is definitely not just a simple buying and selling operation. For a stock, the trader must analyze the possible reactions of other potential traders and the impact that their buying and selling actions may have on the stock price, while carrying out various trading operations on their own. To put it simply, a good trader can very accurately capture and even actively create the best trading opportunities to maximize profits.

If it were any other time, Eric wouldn't mind this 'slow work' approach.

It's just that now he doesn't have time at all.

The total value of Clover's holdings of technology stocks has exceeded $30 billion and is still rising.

But according to the memory of the past, it took only four months for the Nasdaq index to rush from 3,000 points to 5,000 points in the original time and space, followed by the world-famous crash.

Now, the date when the Nasdaq index broke through 3,000 points has been advanced by more than half a year, and according to the analysis of the situation in all aspects, although Eric feels that the Nasdaq should be longer from the collapse this time, he does not dare to take it lightly, and still sets the complete liquidation time of the Clover Fund within four months.

With tens of billions of dollars in cashing out in four months, where is there time to conduct a detailed trading analysis, all the trader needs to do is sell, sell, and sell again.

If it had been any other time, the Clover Fund had cashed out more than $1.6 billion in a week, and the Nasdaq market would have reacted sensitively.

However, the current situation is that the entire Nasdaq technology stock market has fallen into a complete frenzy, whether it is North America or overseas funds are frantically pouring in, joining this speculative feast, the total market value of Nasdaq market stocks has even exceeded the $3 trillion mark, and the daily stock trading volume has reached tens of billions of dollars. Moreover, the financial derivatives market such as stock index futures that surrounds Nasdaq technology stocks is also crazy and active.

Therefore, the clover fund's blunt and large-scale continuous reduction of holdings did not arouse the market's alarm.

Of course, Eric doesn't take it lightly.

Speaking of which, the reason for receiving this advisory memorandum from the trader is also due to the strict confidentiality of this reduction operation.

In order to prevent the Clover Fund's shareholding reduction operation from being discovered by someone with a heart, Eric hired a total of 12 trading teams, half of which are not in North America. Although these trading teams understand that they are serving a super large client, they will not be able to figure out the total size of Clover's cash-out funds even after the transaction is completed.

Reading a few pages of the memo in his hand with great interest, Eric casually tossed it aside and asked Caroline, "How's the promotional schedule for Iron Man?" ”

"You need to be there in person, the Tokyo premiere is April 22, the London premiere is April 29, the Los Angeles premiere is May 5, and on April 29, you need to come to New York to record "The Late Show of David," which aired on May 2.

Eric calculated in his mind, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, this seems to be another long round-the-world flight.

Caroline blinked, saw Eric's thoughts, and said, "Eric, the news from Boeing two days ago that the two Boeing 747s can be delivered." However, you have already explained it, so the relevant documents are transferred directly to Miss Barrymore. ”

Eric has never been an impatient person, but after waiting for so long, he finally heard the news that two Boeing 747s could be delivered, and he was a little happy, and nodded: "Just right, next time we can take a new plane." ”

Caroline curled the corners of her mouth and said, "Also, we received, well, an email from LVMH in France, written by Miss Delphine Arnault herself, saying that she would like to visit you and talk about the advertising collaboration for Dior's new fragrance." ”

Eric flipped through the copy of the email Caroline handed him and wondered, "Who is Delphine Arnault?" ”

"The eldest daughter of Bernard Arnault, owner of LVMH."

Eric nodded, read the email, and probably understood that the other party must have seen the poster of the golden goddess of Dior's real self that he had drawn, and probably hoped that he could personally handle the commercial for Dior's real me.

I don't know if I should say that the other party is whimsical, Eric just smiled and said, "You can ask someone to reply to her with a rejection email." ”

With the idea of Dior's real golden goddess, Eric only continued to praise Carmen Keys, but he naturally couldn't shoot commercials now. After all, a TV commercial often looks like a few seconds, but if you want to do it well, from the advertising planning to the final completion, it is definitely not possible to do it in a month.

Eric couldn't spare a month's slot right now, and he was neither short of money nor fame, and naturally he couldn't do the kind of thing that just showed a few faces in the process of shooting commercials.

Caroline nodded.

After discussing these things, Eric looked at Mayer again and said, "How are the negotiations between Firefly Electronics and several major record companies?" ”

Mayer shook his head: "I haven't gotten the latest news in the last two days, do I need to call and ask?" ”

"Then forget it."

Eric sighed.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of the digital music store in terms of content, Firefly Electronics aimed at the three most likely to negotiate: Universal Records, EMI Records and BMG Records.

Out of an instinctive aversion to digital music players and a desire to make more profits, the three companies offered very harsh terms of cooperation. Obviously, it is not so easy to follow the release of the next generation of Fireflyer players and carry out a large-scale mini music store promotion.

The hardware facilities of the mini music store are naturally fine, but there is not enough content to support it, and the result is estimated to be similar to the situation where there is always no money in the bank ATM.

As night fell, after a busy day's work, a black sedan slowly stopped outside a mansion on the Upper East Side.

The driver pulls the door when he gets out of the car, and Eric gets out of the car first, then reaches out his hand into the car.

Cindy Crawford was dragged out of the car by Erecla, but the two did not immediately enter the villa, and another tall girl got out of the car again, but it was Linda Ivangolinsta.

William Hearst III, the current helmsman of the Hearst family, who came out to greet him in person, looked at the beautiful figure standing next to Eric on the left and right, and inevitably showed some envious expressions, and only this young man dared to attend the party with these two top models at the same time.

"Hi William, good evening," Eric shook hands with William Hearst III, and introduced the two girls beside him, "This is Cindy, Linda." ”

"Hello, Mr. Hearst."

Cindy and Linda also greeted William Hearst and Mrs. Hearst before the group entered the villa.

There are already quite a few guests in the villa, basically some celebrities from the Upper East Side.

King William Hearst III personally introduced some people to Eric, and after a few pleasantries, the couple had other guests to greet before turning away.

After the Hearsts walked away, Linda fished out the cherry from the cocktail in her hand, sucked it in her mouth rather provocatively, and then swept around, and said to Eric beside her with some dissatisfaction in her tone: "I found out that they all have only one female companion?" ”

"I found out, too," Eric said, taking a sip of the red wine in his hand, and laughing, "So, you two have taken advantage of me." ”

"Phew," Linda took a sip lightly, looking very dissatisfied, looking in the crowd, then pulled Cindy on the other side, and said, "I saw Erin Lauder, let's go over and say hello, speaking of which, her dress tonight is really good, maybe I can ask which designer made it, and ask him to make a set for me." ”

With that, without waiting for Eric to say anything, Linda dragged Cindy away not far away.

Eric didn't follow, watching the two women walk away, and was about to talk to some familiar people for a while, when he heard a hoarse girl's voice next to him: "Are you Eric Williams?" ”

Eric turned his head, and the first thing that caught his eye was a baby face, with very charming eyes, thin corners of the mouth, and even some weird aura.

Seeing Eric looking over, the girl took the initiative to introduce, "My name is Lydia, Lydia Hearst. ”