MTL - I’m in Hollywood

When Gates left, Eric and Chris and others talked about the thing just by phone, and then pushed the door into Carmen Kathy's bedroom.

The girl was squatting on the bed and looking through a document. She felt that Eric came in and turned her head and smiled at the man. "It's noisy."

"It's such a person," Eric walked over and lay down beside Carmen Kass. He reached out and pulled out the girl's blond hair and put a pair of headphones into his ear. "What are you looking at?"

The headphone cable was a little short, and Carmen moved to Eric to move his body and said: "Versace's endorsement contract."

With the success of the Dior Golden Goddess advertisement, Carmen has become the fastest supermodel in the past six months, and even got the cover of the most important September issue of the recent US version of VOGUE, and various types of endorsements are naturally coming.

Eric heard Versace's name and asked casually: "Women's clothing or other product line?"

"Women's clothing," Carmen handed the contract to Eric, with a question in his eyes, saying: "Paul said that I can actually wait, maybe I can get the six women's endorsements. However, Versace's conditions Also very good."

The so-called six big, refers to the six luxury brands Dior, Prada, Chanel, LV, Gucci, CK, also known as the six blue blood. The styles of brands such as Versace, Givenchy and Hermes are slightly inferior.

Eric took over the contract and flipped two pages. He said: "Actually, this depends on what your pursuit is. If you want to style, you will definitely make less money. If you want to make money, you can only let go of it. The more It is the embarrassment of high-end brands in the cost of endorsement."

"Then I will pick it up."

She said so easily, she carefully looked at the man next to her. I hope that I can make more money, but I don’t want to be treated as a woman who only knows how to make money.

Unconsciously, she found that she was more and more concerned about his views on himself.

Eric looked at the girl's expression, and with a little smile on his lips, he said: "In fact, Versace's style is still very suitable for you. The average girl can't afford the design style with strong design exaggeration. You can pick a few more pieces and show them to me."

Realizing that Eric had seen through her own thoughts, she was embarrassed to avoid the man's eyes, and it was a sigh.

After a little experience of your eye-catching game, Eric finally reached for Carmen’s face and turned to himself. He looked at the girl’s expression of a small complaint that you didn’t follow the rules. “So, you must have already I know, I am going to buy IMG and Elite soon."

With the girl’s stubbornness, Eric knew that if she didn’t take the initiative, she wouldn’t ask about it anyway.

Hearing Eric said, her voice flashed, but she didn't speak, just waiting for the man to continue.

Eric was suddenly attracted by the girl's beautiful sapphire-like scorpion, reaching out and carefully slid across the edge of her long lashes, feeling a row of soft little brushes sweeping quickly at his fingertips.

She dissatisfied with the short lips, or still smothered the sudden relatives of men. When Eric retracted her hand, her body explored and explored, finally kissing on the man's lips.

September is the time of the four major fashion weeks, New York Fashion Week has ended, Carmen hurriedly flew to London the next day, and the two did not talk about IMG and Elite.

In fact, the size of WM is small, even if Eric also won IMG and Elite, it will not limit the development of WM.

In comparison, model agencies such as Ford and DNA in the same industry are under pressure for Eric to acquire both IMG and Elite. These are the first-line model agency companies that have been firmly suppressed by IMG and Elite. With the huge media resources of the Firefly system, they are even more difficult to have a good day.

However, although Eric had inevitably questioned the two major brokerage companies in the media, it was not until the end that Eric signed an equity transfer contract with IMG and Elite shareholders for various considerations or taboos. No one jumped out to openly oppose this.

Of course, in order to avoid unnecessary disputes that may arise in the future, after buying two major brokerage companies, Eric quickly dealt with some agency contracts involving Hollywood.

Many models often have actor brokerage companies in Hollywood, just like Diane Kruger. In the past two years, her achievements in actors have faintly surpassed the model career. For the two-line developer of this model and actor, the two major brokerage companies have also begun to draft relevant contracts in order to straighten out the proxy clauses in which conflicts may occur.

Moreover, Eric is not too worried about the dispute in this regard.

After all, unless someone deliberately asks for trouble, he doesn't believe that any model will jump out of trouble in his career. Whether in the fashion world or Hollywood, with the current strength of the firefly system, even if it is a supermodel, Eric wants to let the other party completely disappear from the industry, it is absolutely easy.

After winning two major brokerage companies, Eric’s business in New York was basically over, and he flew back to Hollywood in mid-September.

At the same time, after re-discussing with Eric, Microsoft quickly launched a counterattack against the Firefly system. The mini-music store device was suspected of infringing Microsoft patents on the operating system, requiring Yahoo to stop the promotion of mini-music store equipment.

However, compared with a series of core patents held by the Firefly system, Microsoft's evidence of litigation is only marginal patents involving software design.

The difference between the two is equivalent to the foundation load and porcelain decoration of a house. A house, without foundations and load-bearing, must not be built smoothly, but the decoration of exterior tiles does not seem to matter. Even if it is out of date, you can change it at any time.

Therefore, Microsoft's lawsuit is not much offensive to the Firefly system.

On the contrary, without the core patent license of the Firefly system, At-Home can only shut down its own search engine tools and advertising distribution system, and Microsoft's Zune player is also destined to be unsuccessfully sold.

Moreover, in the face of Microsoft lawsuits, Firefly also responded for the first time.

Firefly Investment announced that it will spend US$500 million to raise the amount of shares held by Apple to around 30%.

In the last two years, although Apple’s business has improved with the return of Jobs, overall it is still not satisfactory, and the market value has never exceeded $3 billion. With the Nasdaq crash of some time ago, Apple’s market value once again touched the bottom of the $2 billion.

Therefore, when the firefly investment publicly announced the news, it has easily absorbed another 7% of the stock from the open market, making the firefly investment to Apple's holdings rise to 19%. Moreover, about 7% of the stocks have only spent $150 million on fireflies.

Although the news of the company's share price rose after the news was announced, Jobs was on the verge of enemies, directly calling Eric to inquire about the firefly's intention, and habitually threatened to resign, requiring the firefly investment not to intervene in Apple's management.

Eric did not have any idea of ​​interfering with Apple when it was not necessary.

However, Eric did not conceal his intentions from Jobs, frankly that the Firefly system requires Apple's patent support in the operating system. Although very dissatisfied, Jobs agreed to license a series of patents granted to Windows systems to Firefly Electronics.

In fact, Eric did not think about continuing to support Apple in accordance with its original trajectory. However, after careful consideration, Eric gave up the idea. The root cause is still on Jobs.

Jobs is a very talented person, this is beyond doubt, but at the same time, Steve Jobs's stubbornness will largely affect the smooth development of Apple.

In the original historical development track of Apple, Jobs can be said to be two times 'left' Apple, once expelled from the board of directors, once because of death. The obvious fact is that although Jobs has laid a solid foundation for Apple twice, Apple’s profits broke out after Jobs’ left.

Take the previous iPod series player, Apple sold the product in 2001, but because Jobs’s stubborn strategy of blocking, only allows the iPod to run on the Apple operating system, it wasted for nearly four years. .

Until 2005, Jobs finally did not agree with the board of directors and management, announced that the iPod is open to the Windows system, the sales of this product finally began to break out. But at that time, with the popularity of portable electronic devices such as music phones, the iPod had already missed the best opportunity for expansion, and even began to decline.

As for the later iPhone, it is not difficult to imagine that if Steve Jobs does not die, with his stubborn character, in the case of the trend of large-screen smartphones becoming more and more obvious, Apple will definitely not make such flexible changes, the iPhone is likely Continue to adhere to the 3.5-inch small screen strategy.

Then, in the era of rapid development of smart phones, the industry obviously will not give Apple four years to change the concept like the iPod. Once Apple's mobile phone continues to adhere to the small-screen strategy, the Android system will come to the fore. The end result is that the iPhone will once again become a high-end niche electronic product like other Apple products.

After all, Jobs’s character is doomed to be successful, but he is also destined to fail.

As Eric returned to Los Angeles, the fall of the 1999 TV series was also unveiled.

The fall of ABC TV Network is naturally the "American Idol" that has been carefully prepared for a year.

Speaking of it, although the British version of "Popular Idol" has been successful, but at the beginning, ABC Group executives are not so confident about whether American Idol can adapt to the North American market environment. Some executives also proposed to broadcast the first season of "American Idol" in the summer season in June, so that even if the program ratings fail, it will not cause too serious losses.

Eric also knows that the traditional four major public television stations have become more and more conservative. This is mainly because the TV network executives are worried about the failure of viewing. After all, the failure of a major promotion program often means the next step. In the two quarters of the TV network, the viewing period was sluggish.

Of course, Eric will naturally not accept the conservative strategy of the TV network's top management, but insist on putting "American Idol" in the fall. Since the big boss personally made a decision, the voice of opposition was much less.

In any case, even if it fails, Eric is responsible for it. Even if he wants to pull out a senior executive, if you want to cook the BOSS, you are not too few people willing to do so.

However, the performance of this singer's selection of reality shows has finally exceeded many people's expectations, even better than Eric's imagination.

The series was first broadcast on September 16th. Due to the full publicity in advance, the number of viewers of the series broke through 19 million. Moreover, the subsequent first episode of the ratings did not show a traditional downward trend, but went all the way.

In the end, the average number of viewers in the first episode of "American Idol" reached 22.3 million, and the ratings at the end of the first episode were as high as 26 million.

Although it failed to create the viewership miracle of the two real-life show "Who will become a millionaire" and "survivor", but in the recent few years, the cable network continues to expand and continue to erode the market share of the public TV network, a first broadcast The number of viewers who can watch more than 20 million reality shows is absolutely very successful.

At the same time, the success of "American Idol" also successfully compensated for the loss of popularity caused by the completion of "Friends" on ABC TV.

Although the ratings of the two popular series "The Survivor" and "The Story of the Emergency Room" have begun to decline in recent years, the rise of "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "American Idol" is enough to ABC. The viewing data is supported by the top four TV networks.

With the release of "American Idol", the fall episodes of the entire Firefly System TV platform have also begun to return to the top.

Lifetime TV's three major titles, "National Supermodel Contest", "Wuwang City" and "Tianqiao Pride" all maintain a very eye-catching rating. MGM's "Desperate Housewives", "Beverly Wife" and "Beverly Girls" are also outstanding in several TV stations. FFM TV's "The Shu Road Family" has once again created a new high rating after the return of the new season.

In addition, Showtime TV's new drama "Shameless", which is expected by the firefly system, was finally launched on September 21.

The number of viewers of "Shameless" was finally 1.7 million. As a TV series of toll-free cable stations, such viewing performance has reached a satisfactory level.

Moreover, "Shameless" has also quickly become the focus of discussion in the critics.

It should be known that before the "Shameless", the mainstream dramas of North American TV stations were basically responding to the life of the mainstream middle class in the United States, and the number of episodes directly depicting the state of the bottom of the American society with very low proportions was very small.

At the same time, the "Shameless" kind of red-faced little character to the bottom of the small person in order to survive almost no traditional concept of right and wrong, for many people also have a very strong impact.

Perhaps this performance is too intense, although the critics' evaluation of the series itself is positive, but most of the film critics have an undisguised critical attitude towards the values ​​displayed by the Shameless.