Chapter 730 House of Cards?

To be honest, after coming to New York from Los Angeles, Barron missed the warm climate of Australia.

And when he was in the United States, he would try his best to avoid taking helicopters, so he took cars all the way from his estate on Long Island to Manhattan.

"Honey, I miss you so much."

Knowing that Barron would come to the United States soon, Beatrice did not leave New York during the previous vacation, but waited here for Barron to come.

From the previous phone call, she knew that Barron had already gone to Los Angeles on the West Coast, but she didn't expect that he would come to New York so soon.

"So I came over right after I was done, honey."

After hearing Barron's love words, Beatrice was not stingy and immediately kissed him.

"How's it going? Are you getting used to living here?"

After sitting in the car, Barron asked casually.

"It's not bad, except that I don't get to see you very often."

Well, it can talk.

Needless to say, after the two met, Barron could sense the girl's thirst for knowledge and learning.

After all, this was the first time he met Barron after Beatrice came to New York for her master's program, so naturally he missed her a lot.

After accompanying Barron to live in the manor on Long Island, Barron tried his best to study with her...

Beatrice was very satisfied.

"This year Marvel Studios will release the second part of "Iron Man" and the first movie of "Captain America," and is expected to start filming the "Avengers" movie next year that will open up the group portrait..."

After forming Marvel-MGM Pictures, the company's headquarters was established in Los Angeles, but the Marvel Entertainment headquarters is still retained in New York.

The success of the two Marvel movies "Iron Man" and "Thor" has made Marvel Entertainment more and more confident in its superhero movies. Therefore, last year, they successively invested in the second part of "Iron Man" and "Captain America", both of which will be released this year.

Judging from current surveys by relevant agencies, audiences are still full of expectations for both movies.

What Barron is more concerned about is "Avengers", which will start filming next year. Starting from this movie, the Marvel Universe movies have officially become a money printing machine.

Although Marvel Entertainment was somewhat affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, for example, some of their debts encountered calls during this crisis.

But now Marvel-MGM Pictures is backed by Blue Valley Capital, and behind this company is Barron.

During the subprime mortgage crisis, two companies, Blue Valley Capital and IC Capital, invested in the Black Swan Fund and ultimately made a fortune.

Blue Valley Capital has received a large amount of funds, and as the most important and core company owned by this company, Marvel-MGM Pictures will naturally not lack financial support from them.

"In addition to Marvel, Netflix's development is also pretty good."

Annika Dawson told Barron:

"Although Netflix's stock price is far from recovering to what it was before the crisis, with the support of our funds and resources, Netflix's situation is much better than last year."

Initially, Barron held more than 14% of Netflix shares in the name of DS Investment Company.

Then after Bluecloth Capital acquired Marvel Entertainment and MGM Pictures and other companies to form Marvel-MGM Pictures, as one of the most well-known content creators in Hollywood, including the 21st century After the emergence of the Hulu video platform, which is owned by companies such as Fox, Disney, and NBCUniversal, Hastings keenly discovered the hidden worries of Netflix behind it.

That is, in their competition, they may face the danger of Hollywood film and television companies cutting off content supply.

So Netflix took the initiative to agree to Marvel-MGM Pictures' request to invest in shares. Finally, now, if we add in the shares of Netflix held by DS Group and Blue Valley Capital, then their investment in Netflix The proportion of shares held by the company has exceeded 30%.

Of course, Barron knows that Netflix founder Hastings will do well in the future, and he has no idea of ​​​​interfering in the specific operations of Netflix.

But as Netflix is ​​a very influential video platform in the world in the future, Barron will inevitably have a certain influence on it.

“Now, in addition to our Marvel-MGM Studios being able to provide Netflix with some broadcast content, Mr. Hastings also has plans to start filming Netflix’s own content. Of course, because he is just about to try out content-related Netflix also hopes to cooperate with Marvel-MGM in production. Their first project is to film a series called "House of Cards."

Barron was slightly surprised when he heard Annika Dawson's words.

He knew about "House of Cards". In his previous life, this drama made Netflix's self-produced drama an instant hit. It can be said to be a phenomenal American drama. If he remembers correctly, "House of Cards" was a drama in his previous life. When it started airing in 2013, Barron didn't expect that Netflix already had a filming plan for this American drama.

But this is not too strange. After all, the American TV series "House of Cards" is adapted from the British TV series of the same name. The British version of "House of Cards" was launched on the BBC as early as 1990. Therefore, if this idea has been in place for a long time, then after Blue Valley Capital provides them with the urgently needed funds, it is not impossible for this project to start ahead of time.

"House of Cards? Is it going to be a political satire like the BBC version?"

"The details are not clear at the moment, but as a test work of Netflix, I think it is worth a try."

It is certainly worth a try. After all, except for Barron, no one can think that this test work of Netflix will become a hit, thus bringing Netflix huge profits.

When Barron was still in the United States, he was also paying attention to the news about the Greek sovereign debt crisis.

At present, although the Greek debt crisis has caused great concern in the financial market, leading to a sharp drop in the euro exchange rate and a sharp rise in Greek government bond interest rates...

But at the decision-making level, whether it is the European Union, the European Central Bank or the member states, people do not feel the urgency of rescuing Greece - especially the current President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, who has always been opposed to helping Greece.

In the relevant meetings held before, Trichet once said frankly that according to his judgment, the Greek debt problem and even the eurozone debt problem are not serious enough to require rescue.

At the press conference held on January 14 this year, Trichet made it clear that the financial situation of the eurozone is much better than that of the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries.

For example, outside the eurozone, Britain's fiscal deficit this year is expected to account for 12.6% of its GDP, which is equivalent to Greece's current level.

But Standard \u0026 Poor's still maintains the highest AAA rating for the sovereign credit of the United States and Britain, Japan is also AA, and Greece is only BBB+.

Therefore, Trichet believes that the current predicament of Greece and even the eurozone is more of a market confidence issue than a real debt issue.

In Trichet's view, not providing aid can enhance market confidence better than providing aid, and it is also more helpful for Greece to build its own ability to cope with crises through its own adjustments.