Since tonight's party is not only the celebration party for "Midnight Ring" breaking through 250 million US dollars at the box office, but also the celebration party for Firefly's summer film to have another big harvest, and the Firefly system has just completed the acquisition of Sony's film business, so no matter the scale Still the momentum has attracted the attention of the whole Hollywood.
Starting at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Titanic ship model in the northeast corner of the studio began to clear the scene to prepare for the evening party.
Because the rumors have already spread, it is expected that a large number of Hollywood celebrities and company executives will attend the party tonight. Many young actors who want to find opportunities are trying to get invitations to this party or become those who have invitations. Companion to celebrities and superstars.
Some low-level men and women who were destined not to get invitations even chose to hide in various corners of the big ship in advance.
The staff on the big boat caught more than a dozen men and women trying to fish in troubled waters during the clearing stage, which made the park manager in charge of the evening party preparations very nervous and annoyed, and regretted not stopping the opening of the big boat attractions from today , and at the same time ordered a second clearance, and sure enough, many people were caught.
Eric was busy all day in the studio of "Gravity", and came to the top restaurant on the big ship for dinner at six o'clock in the evening.
Since Eric used to eat on the big ship during the filming of "Gravity", after being interrupted several times, Eric simply set aside an internal restaurant on the big ship, which is not big, with only eight dining tables. However, both the location and the food of the restaurant are very exquisite, which is regarded as a benefit for the executives of Firefly. Senior executives above the group manager level can come here to eat when they are working in the studio.
Katzenberg was also in the studio today, Eric just sat down in the restaurant, and Katzenberg also rushed over.
"According to the current box office trend, before the release, the North American box office of "Midnight Ring" should reach about 290 million US dollars, which is completely comparable to that of "The Exorcist". Moreover, the overseas box office of the film is even better. The box office in Japan alone may exceed 100 million U.S. dollars, overseas as a whole may exceed 400 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is 700 million U.S. dollars. The return on investment exceeds 2300%. This is definitely the most popular horror movie in the world. Everyone is crazy now Looking for a Japanese-style horror movie script."
The staff on the big ship are still making the final arrangements for tonight's party, and the topic of Eric and Katzenberg is naturally inseparable from "Midnight Ring".
Seeing Katzenberg's excited face, Eric took a bottle of mineral water from the waiter with a smile, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, saying: "In this case, horror movies will definitely It's going to be very flooding, and the sequel to "The Ring" and "The Grudge" will be put on hold until this wave passes."
Katzenberg nodded approvingly: "I took the time to chat with Kenneth. Also, have you read the script of Michael Bay's disaster movie about a comet hitting the earth?"
"I just scanned it roughly. The script is not bad, but the budget of 140 million US dollars is a bit high." Eric said: "You talk to Jerry, it is best to keep the budget below 120 million US dollars, he It cannot go on like this.”
Katzenberg said: "Actually, Michael talked to me privately, and he wanted to serve as a producer himself."
Eric thought of Michael Bay's good reputation in controlling production costs, and was very moved. However, after hesitating for a while, he still said: "Forget it this time, you can let him and Jerry be named producers together, but The dominance is still on Jerry's side, if we can cooperate next time, we can let him try it himself."
Most Hollywood film projects are based on a producer-centered system. While producers have the most power in the film-making process, it also means that their work is not much easier than that of directors.
So far, Michael Bay has only completed three films, and Eric doesn't think he can take care of the producer's work while acting as a director so soon.
However, remembering that Michael Bay's private production company had also produced a series of low-budget horror films, and all of them achieved good box office results, Eric said: "In addition, if he is interested, you can let him and Talk to Kenneth, try to be a producer of one or two low-budget films first, it’s kind of exercise.”
Eric and Katzenberg chatted while having dinner, and before they knew it, the sky gradually darkened, the gorgeous lights on the big ship gradually lit up, and there were more and more noises outside.
Putting down the tableware, Eric raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was already a quarter past seven. He stood up with Katzenberg and walked to the terrace inside the restaurant, looking down.
The two are on the top floor of the big ship model. This small deck terrace is connected to the internal restaurant that Eric drew out. It faces the north and has a very good view. You can see the theme exhibition of "Titanic" below. The park and the flat and open city scene in the distance, the hills in the east and the Marina del Rey in the west can also be seen.
Standing on the terrace and feeling the surrounding atmosphere, Eric and Katzenberg continued to chat about the topic just now. There was a burst of high-heeled footsteps behind them. Turning their heads, the girl had already jumped over with a smile. As usual, he followed the quiet figure of the twins.
After hugging Eric intimately and politely greeting Katzenberg, the girl took Eric's arm and said, "Eric, guess what I just saw?"
"alien?"
"Hehe, no, I saw the little fat girl wandering around below, you didn't bring your mobile phone, did you?"
Eric was stunned for a moment, then remembered that the girl said that the chubby girl was Aniston, and knocked on the door of the girl's head pretending to be angry. Eric took out the mobile phone in his pocket and looked at it, and found that he didn't know anything. Time to run out of electricity. He beckoned the twins to come over and handed the mobile phone to one of them, saying, "Call the phone for me. Also, go and call Jenny to come over, and just say I'm here."
Katzenberg realized that Eric was very lively waiting for the next time, so he didn't stay any longer, smiled at him teasingly, and left.
After a while, Natasha came up with Aniston.
Aniston wore a simple light-colored knee-length dress today, still looking sweet and pleasant.
However, after approaching, before Eric had time to say anything, the chick rushed towards the girl angrily: "It must be you, someone lied to me that Eric is in the movie theater, you little bitch, you are afraid I ran that far."
The girl immediately circled around Eric, not forgetting to slap her back confidently: "I will never do such a boring thing, little fat girl, you are slander."
Aniston was even more angry, and her little paws grabbed it unceremoniously: "I'll let you say I'm fat!"
Eric stood helplessly between the two girls, thinking that Elizabeth and Julia might come over later, as well as Nicole and Famke.
Thinking of this, Eric suddenly felt that he should run away in advance, or run away, or run away.
After fighting for a while, the two girls were tied, but Eric's shirt was torn into a mess.
He hugged one of his arms and kissed one, and comforted the two restless little wild cats, Eric pointed to a button on the collar of his shirt that had been torn off: "Look, the clothes are all ripped by you." It's broken, stop making trouble."
The girl immediately pointed to Aniston: "What I saw, she did it."
"I..." Aniston immediately stared at it as if his fur had exploded, rolled his eyes, and said, "I'll sew!"
So, when Nicole walked into the restaurant with a petite blonde girl, she saw Eric sitting on a chair, and Aniston sat awkwardly on the man's lap with a needle and thread in his hand. Fiddling with a button, the girl sat aside and made sarcastic remarks with a sour tone.
Seeing Aniston, Nicole looked a little hesitant, but she still walked over and said hello, "Jenny, long time no see."
Aniston naturally also noticed that Nicole was coming, looked at the girl next to her who was waiting to see a good show, hummed softly, casually inserted a sewing needle in Eric's shirt, got up and gave Nicole a sideways glance : "Come and help this bastard sew."
Nicole was relieved to see Eric, who was obviously gasping for breath after being stabbed, and Aniston didn't leave, but just sat beside him with a small face. Naturally, she wouldn't straddle Eric like Aniston did. She just came over and bent down, carefully helping Eric sew the button, while not forgetting to introduce the companion beside her, saying: "Ai Rick, this is Naomi Watts, I told you last time, my good... friend."
"Hello, Miss Watts," Eric recognized Naomi just now, but he absolutely didn't dare to show any strangeness at this time, and just greeted her casually.
"Hello, Mr. Williams." Naomi held her handbag in front of her body cautiously, and greeted Eric politely. She really wanted to leave this weird occasion, but she didn't know How to say goodbye is appropriate.
Nicole obviously has more life skills than the clumsy chick, so she helped Eric sew the buttons, and put the needle and thread in a small storage box on the table before softly saying: "Then, Eric, I'm going down first."
Eric grabbed Nicole: "Why don't you eat something, there is no chance to eat tonight."
Nicole looked at Drew and Aniston, blinked her bright eyes, smiled at the corner of her mouth, and nodded, "Okay."
Eric called the manager of the restaurant to take away the sewing box, and motioned Nicole to order whatever he liked.
The manager obviously also saw the situation of the boss at this time, and he was both envious and a little gloating in his heart. After the three daughters of Nicole had dinner at one o'clock, the manager looked at Nao who was sitting next to Nicole and wanted to pretend that she didn't exist. M: "This lady?"
Naomi Watts realized that the manager had obviously misunderstood her relationship with Eric Williams. God knows, it was the first time she had met this legendary lover of her best friend.
However, in the current situation, although this guy really put his heart into it, he seems to be really good to his women....
Power and wealth always make it easy for people to accept some things that ordinary people cannot accept. Naomi Watts has not found this mentality in herself.
After seeing the manager's question, several other people looked at her. Naomi was a little embarrassed and inexplicably guilty, and said quickly: "No, I'm not, I'm just..."
The manager didn't know why, Nicole smiled and saw that she was embarrassed by being a best friend, and finally said to the manager: "Nami's can be the same as mine."
The restaurant manager naturally didn't know what was going on, but since Nicole asked, he quickly responded and left in a hurry to prepare in person.
Although peeping into the lace privacy of your big boss is very satisfying, but it still seems very dangerous, that is, the big boss will not have any thoughts of silence, let yourself wear small shoes or something, it will be enough for yourself to eat a pot up.
After the manager left, the atmosphere in the empty small restaurant suddenly became weird.
The few women didn't speak, and each of them held a menu in their hands and looked through it with great interest.
When Naomi realized that she had unknowingly made the same action as the other three girls, she quickly put down the menu in her hand, but after doing so, she suddenly found that she didn't even know where to look. put.
Immediately noticing that Eric was looking at her, Naomi's expression became even more at a loss, and she regretted why she didn't leave immediately just now, even if she was rude, it would be better than now.
"So, Nicole said that you have been in Japan for the past few years?" In the end, it was Eric who spoke first.
Naomi nodded quickly: "Yes."
Eric asked again: "Then what are you doing in Japan, model?"
Naomi clearly felt that when Eric just said that sentence, both Drew Barrymore and Aniston looked at her with vigilance.
However, she cheered up and said: "No, um, it's okay, when I just passed, I wanted to be a model, but then I found a job in a fashion magazine, and they needed an English translator. "
Eric suddenly felt that Naomi was his savior here, and continued: "Then why did you think of coming to Hollywood?"
"I, I want to change my life." Maybe because she felt that her reason seemed too high-sounding, Naomi hesitated for a while, and then said: "Actually, I have always wanted to be an actor, so I can live a better life." better."
The two were talking, and the girl who hadn't spoken just now suddenly said: "Naomi Watts, well, maybe you can come to MGM, I have many roles suitable for you."
Hearing the girl's words, although she didn't understand why, Nicole and Aniston showed vigilant expressions at the same time. Eric also gave the girl a warning look, signaling her not to mess around.
The girl curled her lips, lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head in a meek manner, holding a napkin in her hand and folded it indiscriminately.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Naomi didn't know whether to answer the girl's words for a while. It wasn't until Eric said to ignore her that she relaxed, and a feeling suddenly appeared in her heart. Of the few people present, perhaps only Eric Williams had no defense against her.