In 1994, the members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) had reached more than 120,000, of which more than 99% of the members had an annual income basically the same as that of the working class.

When the seven major film companies publicly announced that they would compress the salaries of top superstars, these top superstars quickly formed an alliance under the series of the Screen Actors Association and several major agencies, almost on the day of the statement of the seven major film companies, including Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Bruce Brown. Willis and other top Hollywood superstars with a salary of more than 10 million immediately cut off all film projects that are being negotiated with the seven major studios, and the spokespersons of some top superstars have also threatened to refuse to cooperate with the promotion of films that have already been filmed.

After the news broke, the whole of Hollywood was in an uproar again.

In recent years, CG special effects films that rely less on superstars have begun to rise, but the films that account for more than half of Hollywood's box office revenue are still inseparable from the participation of these superstars.

The first to be affected by the shutdown of A-list superstars is undoubtedly Time Warner, which has been taking the superstar route since the time of Steve Rose. Warner has just had a bleak summer season, and CEO Terry Semel has been almost trembling and cautious for a while, but with Warner being stranded with Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other projects such as "The Line of Fire", "Future Waterworld", "Evaporation Order" and other projects, Terry Semel is once again under attack from shareholders and rivals.

Some projects of several major film companies such as Universal, Paramount, and Fox have also been greatly affected by this incident.

The situation of film companies and stars is very different, even if A-list superstars don't make movies for a year or two, they rely on their past salary income. I can still live comfortably. However, it is impossible for film companies to shut down for a year or two for no reason, and without continuous hot films, film companies will soon face serious problems such as sharp decline in revenue and broken capital chains.

When some of the film company executives in a dilemma turned their attention to the fireflies who provoked the incident, they found that the film companies owned by the fireflies were basically unaffected.

Firefly Group's two films at the end of the year, "Changing Face" and "Runaway Bride", have been basically completed, and "Runaway Bride" starring Julia Roberts Needless to say, "Changing Face" has Nicolas Cage, a first-line superstar. But in the case that the movie has already been made, even if Cage completely ignores the old love and fireflies who were personally praised by Eric, it is unlikely to have much impact on the release of the film.

Immediately afterwards, next year's focus on the launch of "Jurassic Park 2" and "Solo Day" are both special effects blockbusters, even Will Smith in "Solo Day", when he signed the contract, he was just a newcomer who had just stepped into Hollywood, and the other 3D animated movie "Toy Story 2" did not need anyone to play at all, and it was not affected.

Moreover, Firefly is in the preparation stage of "The Matrix", "Titanic" and other films. The main focus is still CG special effects, although Firefly has also been in contact with some first-line superstars, but judging from the cast of Firefly's previous films, even if there are no superstars to join, Firefly doesn't seem to worry too much about the quality of the film and the box office.

After the executives of several other major film companies found this, they envied Firefly's production strategy that was not tied up by superstars, and at the same time, a thought couldn't help but pop up in their hearts: They can't be cheated by Eric Williams, right?

Otherwise, why did you provoke the incident? Everyone is in dire straits, but you don't have anything to do with yourself?

Conspiracy theories are always very acceptable. The more people think about it, the more they think it's a big hole dug by Eric, and they don't have the idea of continuing to persevere.

Less than a week after the stalemate between the two sides, Warner's Terry Semel first made a compromise due to pressure from all sides, publicly stating at a press conference that Warner has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with Hollywood stars and will continue to maintain mutually beneficial close cooperation between the two sides in the future.

Although Terry Semel did not directly say that Warner will not reduce the star's salary spending, no one will be stupid enough to figure out the meaning of Terry Semel's words.

The superstar league also knows the strategy of hitting a stick to give a sweet date. After Warners first relented, negotiations for projects such as "The Line of Fire", "Future Water World", and "Evaporation Order" were immediately restarted, and the two sides announced the official signing of several major film projects almost the day after Terry Semel's statement.

With Warner's compromise, Universal, Paramount, and even Fox, Columbia, and several others have also made compromises either explicitly or implicitly. Only the Firefly Group has never made any indications.

Sharp Corner Manor, Nicole, who had just taken a shower, just walked into the bedroom wrapped in a pale pink silk nightgown, and stepped barefoot over the slightly cool floor and jumped onto the big bed with two thin white long legs.

"I don't understand why you don't like to have a carpet in your bedroom, it's so comfortable to step on," Nicole said with a few affectionate pecks on Eric's face, who was leaning against the bedside reading papers.

Eric said without looking up, "Carpets cost money. ”

Nicole rolled her eyes, then suddenly laughed again, and said, "Are you still disappointed that you failed to succeed in this plot?"

"You think too much, I don't have much hope, so I can't talk about loss. ”

Nicole stared at Eric's face for a few seconds, and then said firmly, "I can see that I didn't lose it." ”

Eric smiled and handed Nicole one of the documents he had read, "Ah, take a look." ”

Nicole took it curiously, and when she saw the dense data charts on it, she immediately lost interest and threw it to Eric: "Just tell me what it is, I can't understand it." ”

"This is an internal statistic for Yahoo Portal. With the industry's strong curiosity about Yahoo's detailed operating conditions, if you take this document out, even if it is $100,000, there will be people rushing to ask for it. ”

Nicole pretended to be surprised and covered her mouth: "Ah, that's amazing." ”

Eric glanced at the alluring scenery of Nicole's pajamas sliding down her shoulders during her movements, and smiled, "You're so big." Pretending to be a little girl is not cute at all. ”

Nicole pouted at Eric, pulled up her pajamas and said angrily, "It's really incomprehensible, is it that I've been with those beautiful models for a long time recently, and I'm not interested in me?"

"I'll be sure I'll take care of you later," Eric smiled a little wickedly, "But since you've come over today to find out what I'm thinking, I'm going to satisfy your curiosity first, aren't I?"

Nicole's face was slightly red, and she took the initiative to admit, "I'm not interested in these things, but." Hanks: They want to know what the hell you think, so please let me ask. ”

"My thoughts are basically published on Yahoo Information, and at the end of the day, it's just about getting Hollywood stars back to rationality, and that's it. ”

Nicole tilted her head curiously: "Then what kind of salary level do you think is rational?"

Eric thought for a while and said, "The expenditure on celebrity remuneration does not exceed 20% of the profit of a film, which is more reasonable." When I say return to rationality, I don't mean blindly compressing actors' salaries. I would prefer that the stars share the risk with the studio. Just like at the beginning, I suggested that you join "The Mummy" by paying for shares. Although you can now get paid more than 30 million, it is still more reasonable, because Universal will make a profit of $400 million on this project, and you will only take 8%. Like the two action movies of Schwarzenegger and Stallone last summer, both of them were paid $17 million, although much less than you. But instead of making a profit, those two films brought tens of millions of dollars in losses to the producers, which is very unreasonable. ”

"It seems difficult to realize your idea, film investment is so risky, before a film is released. No one knows if it will succeed or fail, and A-list stars are willing to take risks as long as they don't pay much in dividends, and if the movie doesn't make a profit, they're doing it for nothing. ”

"So," Eric shrugged, "I didn't expect much from this, I just had to keep the Firefly's budget under control." ”

Nicole was puzzled: "But you offended all the A-list stars in Hollywood this time, even if Hanks and Cage, who are close to Firefly, didn't say anything, they must have an opinion about you in their hearts." Why do you do this when you know you can't succeed?"

Eric Jan picked up the information that Yang had just handed to Nicole, and said: "Because of this incident, the average daily visit of Yahoo Portal in the last week is close to 10 million, although it will drop in the future, but I believe that after the operation around the Victoria's Secret show at the end of the year, Yahoo's average daily visit will remain above 10 million next year, do you know what this means?"

Nicole's eyes widened, the corners of her mouth were a little girlish, and she shook her head in a slightly cute tone: "I don't know." ”

Let's put it this way, we can simply compare the Yahoo portal to a newspaper. Some time ago, Firefly sold the newspaper and magazine assets acquired from the ABC Group for 15 percent. $200 million, and the combined sales of these newspapers and magazines are less than 2 million copies. So, you can calculate how much the Yahoo portal with 10 million 'subscriptions' is worth?"

Nicole's math is obviously not so good, her eyes flickered a few times, and then she said in disbelief: "Seven...... Seventy-six billion dollars, it can't be so much, right?"

In the original time and space, Yahoo, which was just a very simple directory website, had a market value of $500 million on the first day of listing. Now Yahoo has a series of very popular network products such as Yahoo Browser, Yahoo Chat Software, Yahoo Portal and Yahoo Mail, and the traffic is even more out of the original time and space Yahoo Ten Streets, coupled with the Yahoo Technology Alliance and Yahoo Advertising Alliance, two development plans with very broad development prospects, even if the market value of next year's IPO does not reach 7.6 billion, it will definitely not be too bad.

"Nothing is impossible, you'll know next year. ”

Nicole still opened her mouth slightly: "Doesn't that mean that you will have billions of assets next year." ”

Eric said: "At its peak, the Rockefeller family was at one-sixtieth of the gross domestic product of the United States, and I think I should at least surpass them in the future." ”

Nicole subconsciously asked, "What is one in sixty?"

Eric recalled, "The current GDP of the Federation is 7.3 trillion yuan, and one-sixtieth of it is 120 billion. ”

"120 billion, 120 billion......" Nicole muttered a few words, as if suddenly losing her strength, and fell limply onto the bed.

Eric threw away the folder in his hand and leaned over, brushed the blonde hair from Nicole's face, and smiled, "It seems that I am having trouble breathing, do you need me to do artificial respiration?"

Nicole reached out and pushed Eric's head away, and said, "I was proud of making 30 million in "The Mummy" for a long time, but now I am in no mood when you say it." ”

Eric laughed, "Isn't it often said that women conquer the world by conquering men, I think you should be more ambitious." ”

Nicole complained, "I never guessed what you were thinking, but I also knew that you didn't mean to get married, and besides, you have two children." I don't know what we're going to do, and sometimes when I think about it, I feel like I should stay away from you. ”

Eric leaned over and kissed Nicole on the lips, reached down and removed the silver necklace from her neck, and opened the heart-shaped charm, in which lay a rosy ring quietly.

Nicole looked softly at Eric and picked up her left hand, put the ring on her ring finger, and said with a faint expectation, "Are you proposing to me?"

Eric shook his head, and without waiting for Nicole to show a disappointed look, he said, "No, the proposal should be worn on the middle finger, on the ring finger, which means that you are already my wife." ”

Nicole raised her arm, looked at the ruby on the rose gold ring under the lamp, and said, "There is no marriage proposal, there is no wedding, and what is more excessive, this ring is not the only one, you want to possess me like this, hmph, don't even think about it." ”

Eric said, "If you're not afraid of being influenced by you, I can give you a wedding at any time." ”

Nicole's eyes lit up, but immediately she asked again, "What...... What about them?"

"Surely they have too. ”

Nicole immediately wrinkled her little nose in dissatisfaction: "Do you want bigamy?"

"The laws of the world are only for those who can be restrained, and in my will I can have many wives. ”

Nicole's eyes flashed, and she said, "I think maybe you can join the Mormen Sect, which seems more justified." ”

Eric held Nicole's cheek, kissed her fiercely, and said, "I just said that in my willpower, I can have many wives." I don't need the affirmation of external things, whether it's the laws of the Federation, or the God of heaven. That's why I'm not going to join the Momenism or anything like that for this kind of worldly affirmation, that's self-deception. (To be continued.) )