"It is true that even though the speed of development of the information industry in recent years has amazed everyone, we cannot deny that the development of this industry is still in a very fragile embryonic period, with huge investment and very small output, so many people are extremely optimistic about the prospects of the new technology industry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"However, going back a hundred years, we will find that when the generator and the internal combustion engine first appeared, not many people could have predicted that electricity would become one of the most important sources of energy in modern life, and no one could have predicted that in a hundred years, the number of cars in the world would reach 500 million, which is almost equivalent to one car for every ten people in the world. Therefore, in this era when the speed of development and popularization of science and technology far exceeds that of a hundred years ago, we have reason to believe that in the near future, all fields related to the information industry will become an indispensable part of ordinary people's lives. Therefore, the development of the firefly system may have reached an extreme in the eyes of outsiders, but in my opinion, this is just the beginning. ”

In the large conference room of the Firefly Burbank headquarters, under the gaze of everyone, Eric looked around, with a confident smile on his face, and continued: "Perhaps, some people will have doubts in their hearts, Eric, don't you worry that your future plan for the Firefly system will be copied by others so unreservedly and discerningly?"

In the midst of everyone's chuckles, Eric quickly shook his head and said, "Seriously, I'm not worried at all, because Yahoo, Cisco, Nokia, these Firefly system companies have laid a very solid foundation for our future, and many of our competitors are even in a state of confusion." Moreover, in this world, business planning is actually a very cheap thing, and I think all of you can easily make a more reasonable and detailed enterprise development idea than I just described. ”

"However, it takes too much investment to turn a business plan into reality, and in this process, a company is often constrained by technology, interference by capital, and lack of team execution, each of which can lead to the death of an innovative company. But Firefly, as long as we share the same philosophy and goal, then you can use your talents to the fullest, and I will do my best to help everyone solve all their worries. Over the years, I believe I have proven this to all of you. ”

"Finally," Eric said with a more solemn expression, taking a step back, looking at everyone, and said, "Although there is no wine, we can't raise a glass, but I still hope that we will go on together." ”

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whether it was in the conference room or in the speaker of the remote display, the warm applause rang out in unison in an instant.

After Eric's speech, the executives of the Firefly System began to summarize the development of their responsible companies for the past year, and then discussed the future development of various Firefly Systems.

The meeting began at 10 a.m. Western LA time and lasted until 8 p.m. due to being so focused that no one mentioned lunch or a break.

It wasn't until night fell and the last topic discussion on mobile communication networks was over, that Eric summed up in a state of unfinished everyone: "Although it is a bit hasty and short, I have to announce that today's meeting is over, I believe that everyone has already gained their own insights and gains, and I will also let people sort out today's detailed meeting minutes as soon as possible and send them to you." So, finally, there is one more small thing, I hope you can cooperate. ”

……

Firefly did not hide the news of the gathering from the top of the system, but when the media did not have time to dig out the details of the gathering, a series of sensational news inside and outside Hollywood came out one after another from various companies in the Firefly system.

First of all, on the second day of the party, Qualcomm management held a press conference, announcing that it would soon divest from the CDMA mobile phone manufacturing plant, a joint venture between the company and Sony Group, and the two sides would no longer cooperate in the future.

Although the reason given by Qualcomm is that the company intends to abandon the end product and focus on technology development and chip manufacturing, however, considering the "Pirates of the Caribbean" script incident that has just occurred, everyone is sensitive to a hint of obvious targeting.

As we all know, as one of the giants of the world's electronic product industry, Sony has never given up its plan to enter the field of mobile phones since the beginning of the digital age. Even, later, when Sony's mobile phone business failed after many attempts, it was still one of the world's most important suppliers of high-end mobile phone components by virtue of its technological advantages.

Qualcomm and Sony collaborated on mobile phone manufacturing even before Firefly became Qualcomm's largest shareholder.

Since then, Qualcomm's relationship with Nokia has gradually deepened due to the same firefly system, and the partnership with Sony has been continuously diluted.

At this time, at the critical moment when all electronics manufacturers in the world are sparing no effort to expand their mobile phone business, Qualcomm, which almost monopolizes CDMA technology patents, completely kicked Sony away, which is undoubtedly a very serious blow to Sony's plan to enter the field of mobile phone manufacturing.

If Qualcomm's suspension of cooperation with Sony in the mobile phone business is just a disadvantage, the subsequent series of news that quickly spread in Hollywood is even more earth-shattering.

In the next few days, several pieces of news came out from within the Firefly Group.

According to rumors, the senior management of the Firefly Group personally stated that following the date of Sony Pictures' acquisition of the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", all media platforms of the Firefly system, including public television networks, cable television, radio, online portals and other channels, will no longer accept any advertising orders from any film produced by Sony Pictures.

The severity of the impact of this news on Sony Pictures can be seen from the composition of Hollywood's film marketing budget, in Hollywood, only 20% of a movie's advertising and marketing budget is spent on non-media channels such as outdoor billboards and cinema roll ads, and the remaining 80% is spent on media channels such as public television networks, cable television, newspapers, and radio.

It can be said that once the news is true, even if it is not to the point of being banned by the media, but in the future, Sony Pictures will definitely become struggling in terms of film distribution.

Moreover, this is not over, not long after this news came out, the major Hollywood agencies have been notified one after another, still following the date of Sony Pictures' acquisition of the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", all directors, actors, producers and other main creators involved in Sony Pictures films, and the major film companies under the Firefly system will no longer cooperate with each other in any form within five years.

This news is undoubtedly more direct and strong for the whole of Hollywood.

In recent years, the strength of the Firefly system in the film business also means that the Firefly system has the best quality opportunities for Hollywood filmmakers.

If because of the cooperation with Sony Pictures, there will be no direct or participating opportunities for any Firefly System Films in the next five years, coupled with the Firefly System's ban on Sony Pictures in media marketing, it is conceivable that many promising filmmakers will be silenced because of this.

Therefore, as soon as these two pieces of news came out, the whole of Hollywood was boiling.

For a time, in order to verify the authenticity of these two pieces of news, all the executives of the Firefly Group, MGM Group, and Fox Group became the targets of the media's frenzied pursuit and interception. The media in North America, Europe and even the Far East are closely following the developments.

Although no one expected that the Firefly Group would have such a violent reaction because a script was robbed, not many people dared to take the risk to verify the authenticity of these two pieces of news in person.

In just a few days, all of Sony Pictures' film projects that were in the early stages of preparation came to a standstill, and the directors and actors they were looking for announced their withdrawals.

The state of the film in the production stage is even worse, most of the crew, whether it is the director or the actors, from top to bottom, almost have no intention of focusing on the film anymore, and the protagonists of many projects have begun to discuss whether they can still terminate the contract with Sony Pictures, and those irrelevant supporting roles have no scruples, they have no scruples, they have found various reasons to quit the crew, and do not hesitate to offer compensation, but also hope to remove the scenes they have already filmed from the film.

In the face of such a bad situation, after a short period of blindfolding, Sony also became a chicken and a dog for a while.

Howard Stringer, who could hardly believe the facts in front of him, jumped out at the first moment, angrily accusing the Firefly Group of unfair and vicious competition, and claiming that Sony Pictures would do whatever it took to sue the Firefly Group for this monopolistic behavior.

However, this level of threat naturally has no effect.

Although the Firefly Group's blocking methods are fierce, it is definitely not an easy thing to file a lawsuit because of this. The most obvious loophole is that the Firefly Group has never confirmed the authenticity of these two pieces of information through official channels.

What's more, if a lawsuit is really filed, such a lawsuit will last for three and a half years, and it will be blocked by the Firefly Group, and it may become unknown whether Sony Pictures will still exist at that time.

In the case that Sony's top management in the United States frantically wanted to provoke a war of words but did not get any response, in just one week, Sony's RB headquarters finally could no longer sit still.

Because, after Qualcomm announced the cessation of cooperation with Sony in the production of mobile phones, Firefly Group also stopped negotiating with Sony on the purchase contract of 4000 sets of 3D projectors, which is another very strong blow to Sony.

The 3D dual-camera projection system developed by Firefly's RealD company, the main two projector equipment, was originally intended to be purchased from Sony.

Sony's projector equipment, like other electronic products, follows the high-end route, and the high price naturally means that Sony's projector has a very low market share.

If you can get the order of Firefly Group, according to the total number of movie screens in North America, which is only 2,000 sets of 4,000 projectors in North America, you can directly increase the market share of Sony projectors by more than 10 percentage points.

Moreover, once the Firefly Group's '4200' plan is successful and 3D projection becomes popular, Sony's market share as a major equipment supplier for the RealD system will undoubtedly increase.

Now, just because Sony Pictures snatched a script from the Firefly Group, not only caused a huge setback for Sony's layout in the mobile phone industry, but also missed the opportunity for Sony's projector equipment to turn over, not to mention the mess that Sony Pictures in North America has fallen into, and the top management of Sony's headquarters can no longer be calm anyway.

Preavista.

In the restaurant on the big ship of Firefly Studios.

Kapoor Sid ordered a lunch from the waiter, then looked at Eric across from him, and said, "Is it really necessary to make such a big fuss just for the sake of a script?"

Eric handed the menu to the beautiful blonde waiter beside him, waited for the other party to leave, and said with a smile: "Did you also receive someone's commission to be a lobbyist?"

Kapoor shook his head and said, "Of course not, I know that you must have been annoyed a lot lately, I just pay attention to my own jobs for the actors in my hands, so I really can't cooperate with Sony Pictures in the future?"

"Don't do it just yet," Eric still laughed, "You can't let me get off the stage in public, it will almost be solved after a while." ”

"After a while?"

Eric shrugged and said, "It's not good for me to play Sony Pictures to death, you know, Firefly Investment just got a lot of cash, and if you can spend some quickly, you can pay a lot less tax." ”

Although he had already guessed seven or eight times out of ten, Kapoor was still surprised: "You are going to buy Sony Pictures?"

"It's not Sony Pictures, it's Columbia Pictures. ”

"Tsk, in this case, you will be able to control four of the Seven," Kapoor shook his head with emotion, and said, "So, all these recent things are all bluffing?"

"Of course not, it's true that Qualcomm stopped cooperating with Sony," Eric said: "If you don't knock Sony with a stick first, how can you make me honestly give in, if they still have a hard top, I will knock a few more sticks, speaking of which, Sony and the company in my hands really have a lot of cooperation projects." ”

Kapoor realized that he didn't know what to comment on for a while, so he had to say: "Then you better be careful, it's better not to lose more than you lose in the end." ”

"This will definitely not be," Eric shook his head confidently, taking Qualcomm as an example, both Eric himself and Qualcomm's management team originally hoped that Qualcomm would be able to take the road of technology licensing and chip development in the future. At this time, the cooperation with Sony in terminal mobile phone equipment was thrown off, although it was somewhat advanced, but it was also in line with Qualcomm's established development plan. In comparison, this incident is tantamount to a slap in the face for Sony, which is bent on entering the mobile phone industry.