Strictly speaking, Forbes magazine's valuation of Eric's net worth of $98.7 billion this year is relatively accurate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Eric's current assets mainly include Firefly Group and Firefly Investment.

Firefly Group, which controls more than 20 subsidiaries in the fields of film, television, amusement parks, comics, music and special effects, has reached $50 billion in fixed assets alone. In 1996, Firefly's annual actual revenue data was $31.3 billion, almost 1.5 times the combined revenue of Time Warner and Viacom, and the market capitalization of Time Warner and Viacom was $24.3 billion and $28.8 billion respectively, so Forbes' valuation of Firefly Group of $85 billion is not an exaggeration in any way.

Eric has a 73.7 percent stake in Firefly Group, which is worth $62.7 billion.

On the other hand, Firefly invests in companies such as Cisco, Nokia, and AOL, because most of them are listed, and the value of assets is easier to estimate, according to various public data, the value of this part of Eric's assets is about $36 billion.

The sum of the two happens to be the $98.7 billion given by Forbes magazine.

Westerners generally worship miracles and individual heroism. But when certain miracles are far beyond their knowledge, they are often questioned.

Eric's personal net worth of $98.7 billion is $62.3 billion higher than that of second-place Bill Gates' $36.4 billion.

In order to defuse the risk of antitrust investigations that may be brought about by Forbes magazine's portrayal of the Firefly Group as a 'media oligarchy', Eric used this suspicion to subtly turn the media topic of the following days to himself.

After the latest Forbes magazine was published, financial reporters and critics who could only publish articles in low-circulation professional journals or second- and third-tier newspapers criticizing Eric's personal net worth have received requests for articles from major North American daily newspapers and magazines, hoping that they can discuss their views on the latest issue of Forbes magazine's rich list.

Of course, this group of media people could not know that it was Eric himself who was behind the scenes, and publishing articles on influential media platforms such as the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo Finance was also the best way to expand their personal influence.

Some of them are aware of the close relationship between the media platforms that ask them for their manuscripts and the Firefly Group or Eric himself, but as media people who want to pursue freedom of speech at least on the surface, they certainly don't change their opinions easily for the sake of a chance. When many people submitted opinion pieces that they thought might be in line with the hopes of these media platforms, and even made up their minds to argue with the other party to show their strength, they did not expect these articles to be published without hindrance.

For a time, most of the media in North America appeared in articles questioning the accuracy of Forbes magazine's data and criticizing Eric Williams' personal net worth for being seriously overestimated.

"$98.7 billion, a grandstanding numbers game. ”

"Seriously overrated Yahoo Network. ”

"Profit margins in the IT industry are generally low, and there is a serious bubble in the $36 billion valuation of Firefly Investments. ”

With a net profit of $1.76 billion, Firefly Group's net profit margin shrank severely. ”

“……”

In order to maintain its own credibility, Forbes Group naturally fought back, and for a while, the two sides quarreled in print media, TV and even online platforms, and most of the news topics focused on how much money Eric had.

Because the opposition to Forbes' data was too loud, in the end, most of the general public unwittingly accepted the opposition's arguments and dismissed the Forbes data as a grandstanding joke. Under the repeated bombardment of information, in the general perception of most people, Eric's actual personal net worth is also locked at the scale of six or seven billion US dollars, although it is still much higher than the second place on the list, but it is still relatively acceptable compared to the figure close to 100 billion US dollars.

That's exactly what Eric wants to see.

After a week of noisy noise, the topic naturally began to cool down, but few media paid attention to the 'media oligarchy' argument thrown out by Forbes magazine.

Even if some sensitive people in the media are aware of the traces of manipulation, they are destined to find little direct evidence.

After all, Eric's method of manipulating Yulun this time is very clever, just to make people who already hold certain opinions have more voices in the media, and then cause the entire media circle to follow the hype. There are always too many people in this world who don't know what they can achieve by expressing their opinions.

In the blink of an eye, the new week weekend has arrived.

A new explosive news swept the last shred of media interest in Forbes magazine's rich list into a corner and quickly focused on the matter.

This is the new weekly box office data of "Titanic".

"Titanic" has been released to this day, with a series of miraculous box office data refreshing many people's perception of traditional movie box office data, the news about this film has gone beyond the scope of film and television entertainment and has become a social topic.

After another week of reflection, because the Oscars are about to be held next Monday, North American "Titanic" fans are looking forward to the moment when the film's local box office exceeds $500 million, so compared with the previous week, the box office of "Titanic" in the 13th week of its North American release fell again, reaching $23 million, and the cumulative box office reached $492 million, which is only one step away from 500 million.

But what has attracted all the media's attention is not the North American box office data, which has been surprised and numbed, but the overseas box office data.

Last week, after several months of strong publicity, the number of overseas countries and regions for the release of "Titanic" increased by 17 in one fell swoop, and the total number of overseas box offices reached 46, including France, Germany and Japan, the three most important overseas box office countries.

Obviously, in the case that "Titanic" has created a series of miracles in North America, both at the box office and in award nominations, the expectations of audiences in these newly released overseas countries have reached the highest.

As a result, after a new week, the box office figures of "Titanic" in 46 overseas countries and regions reached a jaw-dropping $179 million in one fell swoop.

You must know that before this, "Titanic" has been released overseas countries and regions, although the release date is uncertain, but in the 12 weeks from the same period of release in North America, the cumulative box office has only reached 400 million US dollars. In just one week, with the help of the 17 newly opened box office countries, in just one week, the overseas single-week box office of "Titanic" was close to half of the cumulative box office in the previous 12 weeks, which is definitely a miracle.

Among these new countries, it is not surprising that France, Germany and Japan are particularly strong at the box office.

France's first-week box office reached $28 million, Germany's first-week box office was $26 million, and Japan's was an astonishing $49 million. Although the remaining 43 countries and regions only provided an average of more than $1.7 million per box office, the overall box office of $76 million still far exceeded the average data of the previous 12 weeks.

Considering that France, Germany, and Japan, which are important overseas box office cities, may come out of a similar box office curve to North America, and that there will still be 22 countries and regions in the next period of time, many box office agencies boldly predict that in the next week, with the help of the Oscars and the new opening of the box office, the overseas single-week box office is likely to exceed a miraculous $200 million.

In this era, 99% of Hollywood's films may not be able to reach 200 million overseas box office figures, but "Titanic" may achieve this feat in a week.

At this time, stimulated by the overseas box office explosion of 179 million US dollars, the global box office of "Titanic" has exceeded 1.071 billion US dollars. If the overseas box office of "Titanic" can be maintained at around $200 million in a single week in the next few weeks, the total global box office of "Titanic" will reach $2 billion, which is no longer an unattainable number.

The global box office is $2 billion, just the box office data will bring a net profit of $500 million to the Firefly Group, and the seven major film businesses in Hollywood, not to mention a movie, most of the time, the total net profit of the films released throughout the year may not necessarily reach $500 million.

And box office revenue is just the beginning. Because the box office data is too unheavenly, although the peripheral income such as videotapes and soundtracks in the later period must not be calculated according to the traditional revenue ratio, it is conceivable that this part of the income will still be a terrifying astronomical figure. In the entire profit cycle of "Titanic", after the operation of the whole industry chain, it is not impossible for Firefly Group to recover even a profit of 2 billion US dollars equivalent to the box office figure.

Originally, most people expected the global box office of "Titanic" to be just over $1 billion, but at this time, it suddenly jumped to the level of $2 billion, and Hollywood studios became more eager for big-budget projects stimulated by this terrifying profit.

This weekend, Eric finally got a little rest.

However, it is impossible to completely relax, after all, next Monday is the Oscars, and this time, because he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song with "My Heart Is Eternal", Eric will definitely still attend.

It's also interesting to say, from 1988 to the present, Eric has made many films, but so far, he has not won the Best Director award, but has been nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Original Song, and the former has already arrived, this time it is not surprising that he will definitely get another Golden Man.

In a living room in the Sharp Corner Manor Villa, Eric stretched out his arms and let the twins who looked exactly the same next to him help him put on his dress, and asked the girl standing side by side with an account manager of a Givenchy store with great interest: "Baby, you see, I have already won the Best Original Screenplay Award, and it shouldn't be too much of a problem to get a Best Original Song Golden Man this time." So in the future, will I keep winning these peripheral awards, best special effects, best editing, best soundtrack, etc., and take all the awards one by one, oh, what do you say, Grand Slam?"

The girl smiled and said, "You definitely won't be able to get the Grand Slam, because you are a man." ”

"Well, I mean," Eric remembered, and he couldn't get the best actress or something in his life, and continued, "The ones I can get." ”

"You can't win Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor," the girl curled the corners of her mouth, of course she knew what Eric was thinking, and continued to 'hit'.

Everyone laughed softly.

Sister Natasha buttoned up Eric's black dress and stood quietly beside her.

Eric has no natural interest in trying on clothes, and he is more used to buying a stack of the same clothes and wearing them all the time. However, this time the girl wants to walk the red carpet with Eric, so she has to let him try out a suit that matches his dress.

Eric couldn't figure out what it was necessary to try on these similar-looking black suits again and again.

Drew obviously saw Eric's impatience, walked over and looked up and down, whispered a few words to Givenchy's well-built female account manager, and said, "Okay, that's it, Natasha, take off your clothes, the sleeves need to be changed a little more." ”

After tidying up the dress, Drew personally sent Givenchy's customer service staff away, Eric left the living room with ease, walked to the couch by the glass curtain wall and lay down, stretched his body comfortably, and picked up a magazine next to him to look at it.

Drew soon came back and saw Eric lying on the couch, grinned, leaned over to him, and said, "Alright, Eric, I've tried." ”

"Uh-huh," Eric threw away the magazine in his hand, casually wrapped his arms around the girl's soft little waist, and squinted his eyes lazily.

The girl whispered a few hot breaths in Eric's ear, and then said, "However, there are still shoes, they will send them right away." ”

Smack-

There was a crunch in the air.

"Hehe, it hurts," Drew twisted his body before laughing, "This time it's custom-made, you just have to see if it fits." ”

Eric hummed in satisfaction. (To be continued.) )