Eric originally thought that the news of "Jurassic Park" breaking the global box office history would appear on the entertainment page, but to his surprise, the New York Times actually published the news on the front page of the current affairs section, with the picture still showing many photos of the Tyrannosaurus rex used to newspapers mentioning "Jurassic Park".

From the beginning of June to the present, after 16 weeks of screening, "Jurassic Park" broke the global box office record of $890 million set by "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" in 1982 with a total global box office of 430 million in North America and 470 million overseas, totaling 900 million US dollars. While many professional box office analysts tend to mention the difference in ticket prices between 1982 and 1993, the most straightforward numbers tend to be more eye-catching to the average person than the expert analysis, so the New York Times doesn't play up the impact of inflation.

Although there is still a gap of 100 million US dollars from the global box office of one billion that Eric shouted at the beginning, however, according to the current trend, although it is somewhat difficult for the North American box office to surpass the local record of 460 million US dollars of "Star Wars", it is not a problem to harvest about 20 million box office piecemeal in the next few months, and the box office potential of overseas box office countries is far from being exhausted. The Japanese box office is only equivalent to more than 80 million US dollars, and the Japanese box office in memory has definitely exceeded 100 million US dollars, so according to the current trend, it is only a matter of time before the global billion is already a matter of time.

Aside from some advertising partnerships, Firefly Pictures doesn't have much to do with the Salzberg family, the owners of The New York Times. As a result, he felt that there was no reason for The New York Times to make a big deal about Jurassic Park's record-breaking box office headlines in the most important political headlines. After reading the entire page of the news, Eric understood why the New York Times had published the record-breaking news of "Jurassic Park" on the newspaper's current affairs page with all the fanfare.

The New York Times used several high-quality front-page articles to analyze the impact of Jurassic Park's global box office, the overseas box office growth rates of Hollywood's seven major studios in recent years, and the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to be signed for the establishment of the WTO. A very important message has been rendered in full swing - the global rise of Hollywood.

Joanna noticed that Eric was engrossed in reading the newspaper in his hand and frowning slightly from time to time, and curiously leaned over to look at the newspaper in Eric's hand, Eric propped his chin on the woman's head, sniffed the faint fragrance, and asked, "Do you see anything?"

Joanna gently pressed her cheek in front of Eric, felt his powerful heartbeat, and said with some reluctance, "You're going back to Los Angeles?"

"It's not. Eric put his arm around Joanna's soft body and said, "The New York Times doesn't tout the rise of Hollywood for no reason, someone should be behind it." ”

"You call Jeffrey and ask them. No, it's clear. ”

Eric took his watch and looked at it, it was not yet six o'clock, and it was three o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, and he would definitely be nailed if he called at this time.

"I don't think it's a PR article from the company's side. "Jurassic Park" has almost exhausted its box office potential in North America. Although it will be able to harvest some more box office in the next few months, according to the ladder sharing agreement, the sharing ratio between the company and the theater chain during this period is 1:9, and there is no need for marketing at all. ”

Joanna reached out and stroked between Eric's frowning brows, as if to smooth out the fine lines squeezed out there, and said, "I don't understand these things, you don't always think about so many things every day, you will get tired." Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"Forget it, it's time to get up. ”

Eric set the newspaper aside. I don't continue to think about this matter, in fact, this kind of thing is not too complicated, and the people who can benefit from today's news are the manipulators behind it.

Because of the news that "Jurassic Park" broke the box office record, the relevant calls continued to the East Hampton estate in the following days, and Eric quickly figured out why the New York Times published the news.

On the day when the New York Times passed the global record-breaking box office of "Jurassic Park", after the New York Stock Exchange opened, the stocks of the film and television media sector rose collectively, and even the stock prices of many film companies with good potential soared by 30%, reaching the upper limit of the daily increase of the New York Stock Exchange.

Of course, most companies will only get some benefit from the book value of their shares, because of the extreme instability of profits in the film industry, and these benefits from the appreciation of shares are likely to suddenly evaporate one day in the future.

But Paramount Communications, which Hollywood is bidding for by Viacom and QVC, can reap more immediate benefits. In the days that followed, the share price of Paramount Communications, the parent company of Paramount Pictures, rose 17 percent, and in nearly a year since news broke that Viacom and QVC were bidding for Paramount Communications, Paramount Communications' stock price has doubled in nearly a year, and Paramount Communications' market value is now close to $9.5 billion.

Eric remembers that in the original time and space, Lei Shidong spent $10 billion to acquire Paramount Communications, but according to the current situation, whether it is Barry Diller or Lei Shidong, it is no longer so easy to take Paramount for $10 billion.

Michael Lynn and others mentioned this matter with regret during the phone call with Eric, if Firefly Pictures chooses to go public, then Firefly Pictures will be the biggest beneficiary in this wave of collective rise in media stocks.

But Eric doesn't think so, in his view, the par price of a stock and the actual value of a company are two different concepts, although the stock price often reflects the actual value of a company to a certain extent, but most of the time, the stock price and the value of the company are not equal.

For example, this time, if Firefly chooses to go public, it will hit the box office with films such as "Jurassic Park" in the summer. Firefly Pictures' share price will hit a whole new level, but this height does not necessarily equal the actual value of Firefly Pictures, unless shareholders sell their shares at this time. Otherwise, they won't be able to benefit much from the rise in stock prices.

Moreover, Eric also talked to Chris about the market value of Firefly Pictures, and if Firefly Pictures chooses to go public, the market value will definitely be able to exceed $20 billion very safely. But in Eric's heart, because of the reborn Goldfinger, Firefly Pictures is worth more than $20 billion.

These things happened at the same time as the end of September. Fox TV officially aired "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and with the lead to the fourth season of "The X-Files", which is at the peak of 20 million ratings, the premiere episode of "Buffy" achieved more than 15 million ratings. Although this rating was not too impressive in 1993. Even the top 10 ratings of the annual drama TV series may not be able to reach, but for Fox TV Network, which has just experienced the withdrawal of Firefly Pictures, it is very good news, which means that Fox TV Network really has a hit TV series program with complete copyright. In addition, at the same time, because "Jurassic Park" broke the global box office record, the good news of media dividends. News Corp.'s stock price, which has been volatile lately, has finally stabilized.

After "Buffy" aired, perhaps at Murdoch's suggestion, or with some other thoughts, Elizabeth, who was far away in Los Angeles, came to East Hampton to visit Eric in person.

After greeting Joanna and the two little ones, Elizabeth went to Eric's study and said, "The scenery here is good, and I'll go back and look for a manor nearby." ”

Seeing that the girl unceremoniously took her place, Eric walked over to the small bar and brewed coffee. "I've bought a few others, if you're interested," he said. The key is with Joan. ”

Elizabeth casually flipped through a pile of papers that Eric had placed on the desk, looked up and gave him a roll of the eyes: "If you gave it to me personally, I could still reluctantly accept it, you actually asked me to ask your woman for something, it's so insincere." ”

"Then forget it, millions of things, I'm still quite distressed to give them to you like this. ”

"Phew, you bastard," Elizabeth took a sip and waved the folder in her hand, her eyes flashing with an undisguised little cunning: "These are TV series plans, which one do you like, I'll help you take a look." ”

Eric poured two cups of coffee unhurriedly, walked over to the desk and handed the girl one, and said, "We're competitors now, and this trick won't work for me." ”

When he was about to buy the TV network, Eric asked the Firefly TV department to start looking for some projects, and Elizabeth had not had time to read the documents that had recently been delivered.

"The devil wants to seduce you," Elizabeth threw Eric a white eyeball again: "Moreover, your vision is actually not very good now, the ratings of "Buffy" are only 15 million, which is much worse than I imagined." ”

Erekla sat down in a chair across from his desk, holding his coffee cup and smiling, "Isn't it two or three million more viewers, overjoyed?"

Elizabeth seemed to be choked up, but did not refute, the TV series "Buffy" naturally has two limitations, firstly, as a youth campus drama, the audience is directly limited to teenagers, and secondly, the theme of the TV series is supernatural forces, which once again limits the people who are not interested in the paranormal, and the two combined, the ratings of 15 million did exceed the expectations of the Fox TV network.

Elizabeth saw that her habitual bickering with Eric had fallen into disadvantage again, so she had to divert her attention, looked at the big head monitor on the desktop, looked down, found the computer host, and pressed the boot button.

Looking at the login screen on the monitor, Elizabeth rubbed her little hands, put them on the keyboard, and asked, "Hey, what's the password?"

Eric took a sip of his coffee and casually said, "Hawaii." ”

Elizabeth crossed her lips to type in the password, not forgetting to habitually tease: "Your daughter will be overjoyed with the name her father gave her when she grows up." ”

"I think Emma will be more surprised when she grows up and discovers a long list of surnames. ”

"Hmph, Emma keeps calling you daddy, it's irresponsible that you stay in New York for so long and don't go back to see the little one. ”

"I've always wondered if Emma knew what the word 'daddy' meant when she called me. ”

Elizabeth laughed twice and said, "I'm also quite curious, Emma only calls you a dad, and she doesn't have this reaction to other men, women, cats, cats and dogs, it seems that you can be classified as a special species alone, a creature called 'dad', tsk......"

Eric watched the girl crack on the keyboard as she spoke, and quickly reminded, "Don't mess up the files I have saved." ”

"I've been studying for a year," Elizabeth said, lifting her chin, and exclaimed, "Wow, how does your computer work with someone else's...... It's not the same, it's so big, 1000M hard disk, how did you get it?"

Although the performance of the computer has begun to soar according to Moore's law at this time, but the average personal computer still only has two or three hundred trillion storage space, Eric can't stand this, so he made a custom one, in fact, this kind of thing is very common in later generations, and this kind of computer has a very copycat name, assembly machine.

However, at this time, it is not so easy to build a personal computer, and if you want to exceed the general performance limits, you can only start with the motherboard and customize it privately.

"It's custom-made, and if you're interested, I can give you a call," Eric explained, and then added, "Okay, don't mess around, what the hell are you running here for?"

"I can't just come to visit you, can I?"

"Now that you see it, do you want me to send it off personally?"

"Well, really," Elizabeth said with a few hard taps on the keyboard before "I'm not the vice president of Twentieth Century Fox?"

"Huh?"

"Then, last week, I took Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" project, $18 million, plus a 10% profit share," Elizabeth said, seeing Eric's solemn face, immediately became tearful: "Is the price too high, anyway, you have to help me, if this project loses, I, the vice president, will definitely pack up my things and leave." ”

Eric asked helplessly, "What's the budget for the production you're preparing?"

Elizabeth said: "Counting Mel Gibson's salary, a total of 70 million." ”

Eric sighed: "You should have said hello to me in advance, this project is actually not too profitable, I fancy its Oscar potential, I think it should be able to win several important Oscar awards, before it is ready to win it." ”

"So what now?" (To be continued.) )