In terms of word-of-mouth, because the anarchist views expressed in the film are very unpleasant, the critics did not praise the film's exciting visual scenes of surfing and skydiving. Therefore, the film is also destined to have nothing to win during the awards season.

No matter what the outside media said, after Christmas, Firefly began the merger and reorganization work in an orderly manner according to the plan.

After detailed planning, Eric will successively merge Pixar Studios, Digital Domain, and Black Ant Films into Firefly Pictures, because these assets are all non-listed companies under Eric's absolute control, so the merger process is very smooth.

After the merger and reorganization, Firefly will follow the model of a large studio, in addition to film and television production, including specialized publicity, legal affairs, market research, strategic planning and other departments, and also has relatively independent Pixar Studios, Black Ant Film Company, New Line Film Company, Flower Pictures, Digital Field and other subsidiaries, in addition, Firefly also holds 10% of the shares of Fox TV Network.

After more than four months of planning with the Preavista community, Firefly officially broke ground on its studio base in Preavista, just after the New Year.

Although it is a non-listed company, outsiders cannot get the detailed information of fireflies, but a series of actions of fireflies have not been hidden from too many people.

↑ Entertainment-oriented media attention is still focused on Eric's personal wealth, while professional Hollywood magazines such as Variety have a much more professional analysis of Fireflies. In the face of the integration and expansion of fireflies. Most of the professional media is bearish.

After all. Eric just experienced a 'failure' at the end of the year on "Ghost Detective" and "Shock Point", and the total box office of the two movies released by Firefly at the end of the year is likely to be just over $100 million.

Moreover, the evidence cited by the media that maintains a bearish attitude is not only the year-end box office, while the results of "Shocking Point" did not meet the expectations of media people, because they did not know that the Cameron couple had divorced. Cameron, who is the 'husband' of Catherine Bigelow, is working on Zuò's "Terminator 2", which has also fallen into the attention of media people.

The media soon found out that the film, which took more than three months to shoot and was just completed a year ago, has cost more than 70 million so far, and as a special effects film, the post-production of the film will still cost a lot of money, so the cost of this film is likely to reach an unprecedented height, and it may become the first film in history to cost more than 100 million US dollars.

If that's all there is to it, there may be some hope of recovering costs. After all, the quality of Cameron's films is still very guaranteed, and the public is investigating. Fans' expectations for the sequel to Terminator are also very high.

But many people think that the schedule of this movie is a fatal flaw.

In November last year, the 34-nation coalition army assembled in the Middle East issued an ultimatum to Saddam's government, and judging from the current situation, this war is certainly inevitable, and the time is likely to be at the end of January. And, until now, not too many people thought that this war would end in the short term.

So since the second half of last year, in the face of the impact that the war may have on the film and television industry, the seven major film studios have begun to formulate production reduction plans, in addition to "Terminator 2", there are no other big movies scheduled in the summer file, even Warner's "Batman", which achieved a box office of more than 200 million US dollars last year, has postponed the sequel to the summer of 1992 in order to avoid the edge of the war. At the time of its release, if the war was still going on, the box office of this blockbuster would definitely have been hit strongly.

Once such a blockbuster fails, it will be a very big blow to the ambitious Firefly.

Because of this concern, even Cameron himself hinted to Eric in a meeting that it would be best to postpone the schedule of "Terminator 2", even until the end of the year.

Eric appeased and did not agree with Cameron's words, for the course of the Gulf War, the whole world knows better than Eric, so putting "Terminator 2" in this summer file is the best choice, even if because the war ended early, the seven rushed to release some big-scale films in advance, but this summer file is impossible to compete with "Terminator 2", which is well prepared and has guaranteed quality.

Not only "Terminator 2", Eric also plans to release the "Toy Story" that Pixar Studio has completed in the summer, I believe that the box office results of this 3D animation will definitely surprise many people, for this reason, Eric not only invited Tom Hanks to dub Cowboy Woody according to the original version, but also released a trailer for "Toy Story" again at this year's Super Bowl.

The first two weeks of the new year passed imperceptibly, and on January 15, the date of the ultimatum of the joint **, the Iraqi army did not have the slightest intention of withdrawing from Kuwait, but carried out another massive troop build-up on the border with Saudi Arabia.

Eric put down his work and came to New York again. After two months of deployment, Chris has used his $2 billion to build a large number of short positions in crude oil futures according to the originally agreed plan, and both men are nervously waiting for the war to come.

Although Eric felt that his little butterfly might affect the course of the war, but he obviously overestimated his influence, at two o'clock in the morning on January 17, the United ** launched an attack on the Iraqi army as in the previous life, and the high-intensity carpet bombing lasted for dozens of hours.

At the end of January, the United ** wiped out all the Iraqi garrisons in Kuwait, Iraq lost 100,000 troops, and the United ** only had a few hundred casualties. In anticipation of the protracted war, many oil trading companies bought large quantities of crude oil futures contracts before the war. It is said that because of this big loss, many companies have not opened the futures trading department for 20 years, which shows how much damage this large-scale long has caused to these companies. (To be continued......)