Eric said: "According to what I have recently paid attention to, after the second round of harvesting in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, major hedge funds have shifted their targets to the ruble. Once the ruble is lost, outside Southeast Asia, Russia's last emerging economy in recent years will also be destroyed. The European economy is in a stagnant pool, the US dollar has started a cycle of interest rate hikes, and the Nasdaq market is booming. There seems to be no suspense where the trillions of capital withdrawn from Southeast Asian countries will flow. In my opinion, the Nasdaq 2,000 points are just the beginning."

As the president of Morgan Stanley, John Mark naturally has very profound insights into the world economic situation. He also understood why Eric mentioned the ruble.

Although he is also very optimistic about the future of technology stocks, at this time, John Mark retorted: "Eric, this is just your point of view. Many people think that the Russian economy is recovering and is a very good investment goal. As far as I know, Mr. Soros has invested a large part of Southeast Asian earnings into the Russian stock and bond markets. The Nasdaq market's technology stocks' P/E ratio has generally reached an unbearable level. This situation is crazy than any previous bull market. We are buying American Online stocks now, but we have to take a lot of risks."

Eric knew about his massive investment in Russia when he met Soros last year, and he also discussed this matter with Soros.

However, Eric did not intend to convince John? Mark, just said: "John, this is my attitude. I don't plan to make any concessions on the transfer price of AOL stock. You only have one month. In one month, Firefly Investment will start the public share reduction process. I believe that the stock price of AOL will rise to a higher level in the next month, and perhaps the market value will break through $50 billion. Although AOL's price-to-earnings ratio is indeed a bit high, its revenue and growth rate are very good. For many investors, this company is still a valuable investment target. I am not worried that no one will buy the stocks sold by Firefly."

"But, Eric, it's not good for everyone to do this. Firefly Investment's shareholding is too large. Even if you reduce your holdings by 1% per month, it will take three years. Only we have enough strength to take over the stocks you have."

The Internet bubble will last for less than two years at most. Eric never thought of reducing his holdings of American Online stocks, nor did he intend to sell it to the secondary market bit by bit.

What he is comparing with other shareholders of AOL now is who can't help but give in first.

If the stock price of AOL begins to fall, it is naturally impossible for other shareholders to agree to Eric's request easily, but the current situation is that the stock price has risen all the way. The higher the stock price rises, in order to protect the profits already obtained

The more likely other shareholders are to be unable to control themselves first.

John Mark discussed with Eric for more than half an hour. Seeing Eric's firm attitude, he had to leave in disappointment.

After seeing off John Mark, Eric greeted the twins and went upstairs alone, planning to take a shower first.

He was a home-loving person at heart. In a familiar environment, Eric naturally relaxed a lot. He lay in the large bathtub of the bathroom in the Shell Villa. He unknowingly soaked for a long time, and even felt drowsy.

The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open, and the girl wearing a light blue T-shirt and white casual pants broke in with a smile. She didn't take off her clothes and threw herself into the big bathtub. She hugged Eric and kissed her in a whine.

Eric let the girl be stubborn for a while. He felt that the girl had kissed her and then chewed her gently like a little beast on his neck. Then he reached out and took off the girl's thin clothes and threw them beside her.

After a while, he hugged a warm and slender body in his arms and his skin was touched. Eric turned his neck and smiled and said softly: "Okay, don't chew it anymore. There is a circle of marks on his neck to let me see people."

The girl seemed to suddenly realize, and her thin white neck leaned against Eric's mouth: "Eric, please help me bite it."

Eric avoided and said, "If you don't bite, if you turn into a vampire, my identity will be exposed and I will be burned to death."

"Haha," the girl laughed for a while, feeling Eric reacting, and didn't care that she was in the bathtub. She sat up regardless of it, but her body was softer on Eric, and she hummed like a kitten: "Eric, I miss you very much."

Eric hugged the girl's little waist and said, "I miss you too."

After leaving New York half a month ago, Eric had never had a woman again. He hugged the same girl, and the two of them had been struggling happily for a long time. After changing their clothes and going downstairs, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the twins had already prepared dinner.

Without dining in the restaurant, the two of them set up a small table by the terrace swimming pool and sat opposite each other, accompanied by the cool breeze of summer night in Los Angeles, eating while chatting about what happened in recent times.

"I went to Washington last week. Seeing the President swearing in court that nothing had happened to me and the intern, it was so funny. Several people around me almost laughed out loud."

During this period, the most lively and current affairs that attracted the attention of the whole people were undoubtedly the zipper door. In order to win a seat for the midterm elections of the US Senate and the House of Political Science, Clinton's political enemies seized this matter and chased it hard, and for a while it was very lively.

However, when hearing the girl's little gloating look, Eric put down the red wine in his hand, picked up the knife and fork, and couldn't help but smile: "You are so bored that you go to Washington to watch the presidential joke."

"I'm not that leisurely. It's because of the TV station license. We plan to add a sub-channel to E! Entertainment."

Eric smiled unabated and said, "Then you shouldn't have watched the presidential joke. Be careful that he puts us small shoes."

"No, Amy said that applying for photos is the best time now. The president needs support at this time, so how dare he offend us?"

With the integration of American media groups, Hollywood's power is becoming stronger and stronger. If we can establish a good relationship with Hollywood, no politician will do the opposite.

Eric just smiled and nodded, and stopped mentioning this matter, instead asking, "How is the midnight pre-sale of "Charlie's Angels 3"?"

The girl knew why Eric asked about this and said, "It is estimated that it can exceed 10 million US dollars. It is definitely no problem to surpass "The Matrix 2". The decline of "The Matrix 2" this weekend was 53%, which is not a threat to "The Charlie's Angels 3" this week."

Eric just came back in the afternoon and didn't know the box office data for last weekend. However, after hearing what the girl said, I felt completely relieved.

This week, Disney's low-cost comedy "Born a Couple" was released. It can be said that it will not cause any impact on "The Matrix 2", but the decline of this film is still more than 50%. It can be imagined that the decline of "The Charlie's Angels" will only be even more ugly in the future.

After all, it was a series originating from the Firefly Group, and Eric was not too gloating. Even Carsonberg asked Eric privately whether to do some tricks and restrict the promotion of "The Matrix 2", but Eric refused.

The next day was Wednesday. Perhaps because John Mark was rejected by Eric, some shareholders of American Online couldn't help but choose to sell early and cash out in advance considering the impact of Firefly investment's large-scale public share reduction.

However, the management and supporters led by Steve Case also chose to enter the market to maintain the stock price. After a significant drop in the morning, the stock price was quickly pulled up again.

After a whole day of fluctuations, as of the close, the stock price of the United States Online has successfully maintained a high of US$261.33 and its market value has also remained above US$43 billion.

By Thursday, although the stock price of the US Online continued to fluctuate during the whole day of trading, the stock price rose 1.6% again at the close of the day.

During the whole process, although all media are still concerned about the reaction of Firefly Investment, the largest shareholder, since Chris and the other three announced their resignation as director of AOL at the press conference last week, the top leaders of the Firefly system have not made any public opinion on AOL.

Even the media under the Firefly System published information about American Online is basically well-known news releases.

However, there is no airtight wall in the world. Although most of the people who participated in that video conference last week wanted to conceal the news that Firefly Investment attempted to reduce its holdings of 10% of the shares of the United States Online at one time, the relevant information was inevitably leaked, but it was not officially confirmed that the formal media chose to be cautious and did not report it publicly.

As for the Internet platform that disseminates information the most freely, the first two of the three Internet portals happen to be the "party". Whether it is Yahoo or American Online, it is impossible for similar news to be spread randomly, so there is no storm.

After the failed contact between John Mark and Eric, all parties also fell into a temporary stalemate and wait-and-see state.

Eric gradually put aside the impact of the American Online incident and returned to Los Angeles. After checking Joss Weldon's rough cut effect on "Iron Man", Eric began to officially prepare for the start of filming of "Gravity".

Although it takes a full year to be released from now until the end of next year, "Georgement" will involve a large number of new shooting and special effects technologies, and will also take into account the promotion of 3D and IMAX screenings. If you count carefully, it will not be loose in one and a half years.

However, before that, Eric will attend the first premiere of "Charlie's Angels 3" in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Last year's "Casino Royale" officially started the assembly of the MGM Agent Cinema Universe and was a great success. As the first Agent Cinema Universe movie after "Casino Royale", "Charlie's Angels 3" brings together the strong expectations of countless fans in the three major Agent series.

Although the female action film with the shallowest foundation among the three major series and naturally has disadvantages, after several years of comprehensive and meticulous operation, the popularity of the "Charlie's Angels" series is no less than that of the other two.

Even because Eric designed a very complete story background for "Charlie's Angels" from the beginning, through peripheral comics and other forms, the three protagonists' related story branches brought a series of foreshadowing that movie fans could talk about, unconsciously gathering the attention of movie fans, making the core fan group of "Charlie's Angels" series far exceeds the other two.

Kevin Costner, the leading actor of the Mission: Impossible series, will also appear in the film.

After "Dancing with Wolves" that year, most of Kevin Costner's works outside the Mission: Impossible" series ended in failure. The box office defeat of "Future Water World" almost destroyed his acting career. The recent "Patriot" starring Mel Gibson was not too hot, which made Kevin Costner realize the importance of "Mission: Impossible" to him.

Last year, Eric showed strong posture during Pierce Brosnan's pay negotiations, which also made Kevin Costner's attitude in pay negotiations and participating in the Agents' movie universe crossover episode.

In this "Charlie's Angels 3", Kevin Costner received only $5 million in his film.

Although the other party insisted that his role in this film could not exceed five minutes, this was enough to completely connect the three major series.

At the same time, the production budget of "Charlie Angel 3" not only reached the highest of US$160 million in the three major series so far, but the scale of the film's promotion is even stronger. However, General Motors has invested a US$100 million advertising budget for the joint promotion of its Buick brand and "Charlie Angel 3". MGM's own advertising budget also reached US$50 million. Total, the total scale of the production and promotion of the film is close to US$300 million, even exceeding the "Titanic" three years ago.

Buick is undoubtedly the most successful advertising cooperation brand in "Charlie's Angels 3".

Although he invested a $100 million joint advertising budget this time and paid MGM a record-breaking $30 million in advertising costs in the early stage, as a Volkswagen brand with annual sales of more than 2 million units worldwide, Buick's revenue far exceeds the price it paid.

However, the same Buick sports car "Charlie's Angels" launched last year, which costs around US$30,000 to US$50,000 for young people, exceeded 160,000 units throughout the year, and this alone added more than US$6 billion to GM's turnover.

An article published by Business Weekly magazine shows that in recent years, the direct economic benefits of the "Charlie's Angels" series to Buick are equivalent to 12 times the profit the film brings to MGM. The potential brand value-added effect is unlimited.

In recent years, several major automakers in Europe and Asia have tried to compete for the opportunity to implant this brand, and the price offered is no less than Buick. However, out of careful consideration in all aspects, MGM chose to refuse.

The Los Angeles premiere of "Charlie's Angels 3" began at 5 p.m., but since the day before, a large number of fans have gathered near the Chinese Grand Theater.
Chapter completed!