At this time, hearing Eric take the initiative to mention their bet on the Oscars last time, Judy couldn't help but said: "However, why do I suddenly feel like I owe you a promise instead."
"Since you think so," Eric hit the snake with the stick: "Why don't you treat me to dinner later."
"Okay," Judy nodded cheerfully, and said, "Let's go to the movies together after dinner."
Eric was more straightforward: "No problem."
Judy continued: "You can take me home after watching the movie."
Eric was flattered: "Okay."
Judy's pair of western-style red phoenix eyes, which were quite heroic, gouged out Eric, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "You think beautifully."
Eric looked very hurt, and said, "Uh, Judy, it's not good for you."
Judy didn't show the slightest sign of remorse, she still smiled and said, "Who made you always want to pick on me, little boy."
"Do you know, Judy," Eric said with a serious expression, "From a psychological point of view, the name "little boy" means that you are subconsciously worried that you will not be able to stop the attraction of a certain opposite sex, so you deliberately use a name that you own. It is a defensive title that is thought to distance itself from the opponent. But in reality, it may only have the opposite effect.”
Judy leaned against the table and propped her chin up with one hand, listening with a smile on her face, and said, "Although I think you're talking nonsense, it seems to make sense."
Eric persuaded: "You should be more confident and dare to admit your mental state."
"Okay, I don't want to listen to your nonsense." Judy smiled and took out a stack of manuscripts from her satchel, and handed it over: "This is the first draft of the novel version of "Gravity" I wrote. I still want you to take a look."
Eric stopped joking when he heard Judy talking about the business, took the stack of manuscripts, and said, "Then I'll finish it at the weekend and reply to you on Monday."
"Don't be in such a hurry, you can finish it anytime." Judy waved her hand, got up and said, "Then, I'll go first."
Eric also got up to send Judy away, then returned to the workbench and continued to complete today's work log.
On Saturday morning, it was still sunny in California.
Although there is also a work schedule today, there is no need to rush like a working day.
In Angle Manor, Eric got up on time at seven o'clock, sat in the dining room to read today's newspaper after a routine exercise, and there was an open laptop on the dining table. The slender figures of the twins were quietly busy in the kitchen. The girl was crazy outside last night and didn't come back until late at night.
Today is the third Saturday of the release of "Charlie's Angels 3", and the laptop shows the detailed box office data of the film for the most recent period.
After the record-breaking box office of US$95.9 million in the first weekend, the box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" finally reached US$130.43 million in the first week, continuing to break the box office records of Hollywood movies in all aspects.
Subsequently, the box office of the second week of the film did not disappoint either. The decline in the next week remained at a very good 43%, and another US$74.34 million was collected. A feat of two hundred million.
Judging from the box office of yesterday's third week Friday, "Charlie's Angels 3" dropped by 49% compared to last Friday, and the single-day box office received another 8.46 million US dollars.
Considering that another A-level big production "The Scorpion King" was released this week, this nearly 50% drop is not disappointing.
In Eric's memory, the former "Scorpion King" can only be regarded as a mid-to-high cost, and the box office does not seem to be considered outstanding. But this time, under Universal's ambition to build a mummy mythical universe, the production cost of this brand new "Mummy" spin-off movie has reached 90 million US dollars.
After its large-scale release yesterday, "The Scorpion King" has received good reviews both in terms of story and special effects. The film's midnight show plus the first day, the total box office has reached 21.86 million US dollars, according to the word-of-mouth and opening box office of "The Scorpion King", the box office in the first week is expected to exceed 80 million US dollars.
Naturally, this data cannot be compared with "Charlie's Angels 3", but as the first part of the spin-off series, this result is already very good. It is only the North American box office, and Universal may recover all the production costs.
Under such circumstances, it is almost inevitable that "Charlie's Angels 3" will be hit, and the decline has not exceeded 50%, which has proved the popularity of this spy movie universe blockbuster. Moreover, in the case of breaking 200 million in two weeks, "Charlie's Angels 3" has very safely locked in the first North American box office in 1998 that is expected to exceed 300 million US dollars.
Considering the second half of the summer and the year-end film list, apart from "Mission: Impossible 3", which also belongs to the MGM Agents movie universe, and without other super dark horses, "Charlie's Angels 3" is definitely the annual box office champion in North America in 1998. most powerful contender.
Overseas, among the major box office countries that have achieved simultaneous releases, the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" also broke through 260 million US dollars in two weeks. Among them, several important overseas ticket warehouses such as Japan and Italy have not yet been released.
Based on all aspects of information, it is conservatively estimated that the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" will be twice that of the North American box office. The second billion-dollar movie in the Agent May universe.
Last year's "007: Casino Royale" hit the box office, making the market value of MGM, which has been silent in Hollywood for many years, break through the tens of billions of dollars in one fell swoop.
Against the background of the overall rise in the North American stock market, along with the further success of the MGM Agents movie universe and the rapid development of MGM’s TV business, according to yesterday’s closing price, MGM’s share price has reached a high of $51.37. to $22.3 billion.
A few years ago, MGM, which was on the verge of bankruptcy and could be thrown out of the ranks of major Hollywood producers at any time, now has far surpassed Sony Pictures, which used to be 'neck' at the bottom, in terms of film and television media business. This year's The expected profit can even be ranked in the top three ranks of major studios.
While sitting at the dining table casually flipping through today's newspaper, Eric has already begun to consider the further expansion of MGM.
In terms of film and television, MGM's biggest shortcoming should be the limitation of film production and distribution scale.
Although there are two super blockbuster films "Charlie's Angels 3" and "Mission: Impossible 3" this year, MGM has only nine production and distribution plans for the entire 1998 year. "Charlie's Angels 3" and "Mission: Impossible 3" have booked more than 80% of the annual box office share of MGM's film business.
Although the agent movie universe project has entered the most prosperous stage, there are actually many crises in the dark. The most obvious is that the three major series have begun to encounter the test of the Hollywood trilogy curse.
Although Eric used strong means to get the 007 series to pass this threshold last year, but now, with the increasing importance of the agent movie universe to MGM, it is impossible for him to easily use last year's method that was close to breaking the boat.
In order for MGM to reduce its dependence on the agent movie universe, it is necessary to strengthen MGM's overall film production and distribution capabilities, so that even if the agent movie universe changes, MGM will not suddenly fall from the peak to the bottom.
Just like this year's Firefly, although the entire Firefly Group has only one heavyweight special effects blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" this year, due to the very considerable film production and distribution scale of Firefly Pictures, Disney Pictures and New Line Pictures, as well as the previous few In 2018, Firefly’s series of box office blockbuster follow-up videotapes and TV broadcasting rights and other peripheral revenues, the revenue of Firefly Group’s film and television business this year can still sit firmly in the top spot in Hollywood.
The twins brought breakfast, and Eric stopped thinking about these things for a while. After eating breakfast, the twins sat down opposite him and asked, "Where did you go to play yesterday, so crazy?"
Natasha looked up and said, "Miss Paltrow hosted a party to celebrate the completion of "Fast and Furious"."
Eric nodded and didn't say anything else, just told: "You two don't drink at these parties, take care of her."
Natasha responded softly, "Master, we never drink."
"Well, this is a good habit," Eric said, "What do you usually like to do?"
Natasha was startled, and said, "We will do whatever the boss asks us to do."
Eric thought about it carefully, and it seems that he really didn't find any special hobbies that the twins usually have. The twins look like the shadow of a girl: "Well, don't you think about what you will do in the future, for example, marry or something?"
Natasha's blue and clear eyes looked over, and suddenly asked: "Master, do you want us to marry?"
Eric froze for a moment, then smiled suddenly, shook his head and said, "No, this is wrong, you don't usually talk much."
Natasha did not respond to Eric's words, but asked again: "Master, do you want us to marry?"
Hearing Natasha's completely uncharacteristic words, Eric was surprised, and at the same time, he broke the can and said, "Of course I don't want to. Both of you are mine, and neither of you is allowed to run away."
"Well," Natasha replied, as if the conversation just now hadn't happened, she resumed her usual cold and indifferent expression, bowed her head slightly, and began to eat in silence.
Eric stared at the two women on the opposite side for a few seconds, and suddenly felt like he had just experienced a supernatural event, and couldn't help asking: "Nata, do you remember what you said just now?"
Natasha raised her face again, nodded slightly, looked at Eric and said, "Master, if you want, you can take us out for the night, but we can't be together, only one at a time."
There can only be one at a time, so how can you give full play to the advantages of twins
Eric thought to himself, and glanced at Eve on the other side. Eve felt Eric's gaze, and a little blush appeared on her delicate face, which was exactly the same as Natasha's, but she just lowered her head slightly.
Eric withdrew his gaze, turned to Natasha, and said, "Well, what if I must be together?"
Natasha's expression didn't change much, she said, "Master, you can't beat us."
"..."
Well, it seems that the truth will always be in the hands of people with big fists.
Eric suddenly found that there were two more abnormal human beings who were deeply hidden around him, and he felt some strange emotions in his heart.
"I remember calling Drew up at ten o'clock, and I can't sleep for too long. In addition, I went directly from the studio for the "Charlie's Angels 3" celebration banquet in the evening, so you don't have to wait for me," after breakfast, before going to work , Eric gave instructions to the twins as usual, and when the twins nodded quietly, looking at the two identical faces in front of them, Eric half-jokingly said: "I'm going to work, do you want to kiss?"
Natasha nodded, but Eve blushed shyly. Two identical girls, completely different reactions, once again gave Eric a strange feeling.
However, after Eric finished speaking, the two sides stood in place for a while, and neither of them moved, did not move, did not move.
After being deadlocked for more than ten seconds, Eric shrugged slightly and said, "Well, I must have said something strange just now. This whole morning has been very strange. Now, goodbye."
Putting aside some abnormal experiences in the morning, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios and soon got into work
I worked with Robert Byron, the visual effects supervisor of "Gravity", to study the transformation of the astronaut's helmet with the glass cover removed all morning, but at noon, it was a meal meeting with Amy Pascal, planning to discuss "Thunderbolt" The next open plan of the "Girls" series, of course, is mainly the issue of the salary of the Charlize trio.
Generally speaking, the global box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" is expected to hit the global box office of one billion US dollars. The leading actors in this series are enough to qualify for a salary of 20 million US dollars or even higher.
However, Charlize and the others are three of them. If each of them pays 20 million US dollars for a single film, but only the three of them, MGM will pay 60 million US dollars for each sequel. If the series wants to invite one or two more powerful supporting roles, then, just the salary expenditure is enough for Hollywood to make an A-level movie.
Under the traditional Hollywood rules, poor cost control has always been the main reason for the losses of major Hollywood studios. This is of course not that Hollywood lacks excellent producers who are good at cost control, but that producers usually follow this rule the most direct beneficiaries.
The big and small creators who participate in the film production can make a fortune, and the interests of shareholders and investors are often sacrificed. If Eric is just a director, he naturally hopes to see this form of profit distribution continue to exist for a long time.
But now, Eric's most important identity is more inclined to shareholders and investors, he just can't let this situation continue to happen in the Firefly system.
Regarding the next development of "Charlie's Angels", although Eric will not be as tough as last year in terms of remuneration, it is absolutely impossible to follow Hollywood's traditional profit distribution rules.