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The meal made Eric feel like he was sitting on pins and needles. Fortunately, because of the next party, the women ate very little. Ke hugged him and left the restaurant voluntarily.
Seeing that the girl was so considerate, Aniston might have some weird rivalry thoughts, so she also got up and left.
Only Nicole and Naomi were left in the restaurant. Eric relaxed and took a big sip from the mineral water bottle on the table.
Seeing Eric's appearance at this time, Nicole couldn't help laughing: "Are you a little glad that Liz, Julia, and Famke didn't come here?"
Eric nodded with a solemn expression: "Yeah."
Nicole smiled and propped her chin up on the dining table with one hand, and said, "Seriously, if we fight, who will you help?"
Eric pointed to the button he just sewed: "Didn't you see it, just hit me."
"Hehe," Nicole smiled softly, noticing the awkward appearance of her best friend beside her, and said, "Then Nami and I are going down too, and I'll take her to meet some directors."
Eric pretended to be shy and said, "Actually, I'm also a director."
"I haven't seen it before," Nicole leaned over, kissed Eric, picked up her satchel and got up, "Let's go first."
Eric got up and sent the two girls out, saying, "If you need help, tell me."
"Of course, I won't be polite to you," Nicole took Naomi to the door of the restaurant, hugged Eric again, and then left.
Eric returned to his seat, thought for a while, and then picked up the mobile phone that had just been charged and dialed Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Julia must have invitations to tonight's party, but they didn't call until last night. During the phone call, Elizabeth didn't say whether she would come over today.
The phone was connected quickly, and Elizabeth's lazy voice came: "Eric."
Eric was a little puzzled: "Why did you go to bed so early today?"
"It's almost eleven o'clock here," Elizabeth replied, adding, "Julia and I are in New York now, and we flew over in the afternoon."
Eric secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly became curious: "Yesterday, you didn't say you would go to New York today?"
There was a pause over there, and there was a soft rustling sound, and after a while, Julia's soft and silly laughter sounded: "Eric, Liz said yesterday, to make you restless , Has the party started over there?"
Eric said helplessly: "Yeah, I was ripped off a button just now, but luckily I didn't lose my appearance."
"hehe."
The two women on the opposite side laughed gloatingly together, and then they sarcastically ridiculed Eric before hanging up the phone.
Listening to the beeping sound over there, Eric smiled, thought for a while and dialed Famke Jansen's number.
Among the women who were still with him and had the set of rings, Famke was the most detached one. This is not to say that the relationship between the two is alienated or indifferent. If this is the case, Eric will definitely let go. He is now more and more particular about man and woman, and he doesn't like to forcibly regard a certain woman as his confinement. This is of no benefit to either party. It’s just that Famke’s sense of independence is the strongest, and he doesn’t actually have much attachment to him. Apart from coming to the Pointe Manor to live for a period of time from time to time, Famke has a very complete life of his own, and even rarely stays in the Los Angeles.
During this period of time, Famke stayed in Los Angeles because of the movie version of the "X-Files" in the summer, and lived in Pointe Manor for a few days.
After the call was connected this time, Eric immediately heard the faint noisy voice on the other side, and immediately understood that Famke should be at today's party.
The two chatted briefly, and Eric left the restaurant and walked to the deck below.
It was almost eight o'clock in Los Angeles time, and all the public areas on the brightly lit ship were already crowded with guests who came to the party, and even the exhibition hall area under the ship was full of people.
As soon as he appeared outside a banquet hall near the internal restaurant, Eric was immediately surrounded by various people.
"Hey Eric, long time no see, how are you doing..."
"Eric, Finch recently came up with a new script, but the budget may be higher, I have transferred it to your assistant office..."
"Mr. Williams, hello, I have a script here..."
"Eric, I watched the sample of "Lord of the Rings" this afternoon, and I have to admire your vision of choosing a director even more. That Peter Jackson is simply a genius..."
"Mr. Williams, this is my number, my name is Anne, Anne Hathaway, call me..."
"Eric, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Miyamoto, President of RB Toyota Motor North America. He hopes that Toyota can get some advertising placement opportunities in "Spiderman"..."
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After socializing for nearly an hour, Eric came from the top of the big ship to the small area of the exhibition hall under the big ship, where some other important props used in the filming of "Titanic" were placed here.
Near a buffet table, Eric finally found Famke Jansen, who was chatting with a group of men and women holding a glass of red wine.
"Hey, Famik," Eric put his arms around Famke's waist, kissed her, and then looked at the crowd who started to get a little nervous as he appeared.
Eric found that among the eight people in this small circle, he actually knew most of them.
Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, Katie Holmes.
This combination is really amazing.
It seems that Hollywood is really very small.
Needless to say Jon Favreau.
Vince Vaughn, the more well-known character in the original time and space is Pete's best friend in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", but he has actually played leading and supporting roles in many Hollywood movies, and he can be regarded as a standard second-tier male star.
Sam Rockwell, who almost played Iron Man Tony Stark in the history, failed to play the villain in the second part. Seeing him standing with Jon Favreau at this time, all this will not happen incomprehensible.
Kelly Lynch, a relatively veteran action actress in Hollywood, played the villain in the original "Charlie's Angels".
Heather Graham, the heroine of the new version of "Alien", is one of the rare beauties in Hollywood.
As for the last Katie Holmes, this style of appearance made him feel even more strange than Eric just met Anne Hathaway. Except for the identity of Tom Cruise's third wife, Katie・Holmes' presence is really weak. Calculating her age, Katie Holmes should be a few years older than Anne Hathaway just now. How could she appear in this small circle.
After scanning around like this, Eric's eyes finally fell on the only middle-aged man with disheveled hair and a little unkempt. He also had some guesses in his heart, and said to Famke, "So, why don't you introduce everyone to me?"
Famke introduced Eric one by one, and when it was the turn of the middle-aged man with disheveled hair, the name Famke said just confirmed Eric's guess: "Eric, this is Doug Riley Man, a very talented new director, his first feature film "Full Time Prodigal Son" with 200,000 US dollars two years ago won many awards. I invested 100,000 US dollars at that time, and another 100,000 The $10,000 was from Jeffrey’s new director support fund. Harvey sold that movie for more than $4.5 million at the box office in North America alone. We all made a lot of money. Well, Vince and Heather is that movie The heroine and heroine of the movie, we are discussing Doug's new movie, Miramax has already approved a project, this is the heroine he recently picked, the name is Katie, Katie Holmes, what do you think? ?”
As Famke said, he hugged Katie Holmes affectionately, obviously knowing that this girl didn't fit Eric's aesthetics, and she looked very relieved.
Eric just greeted Katie Holmes casually, and once again focused his attention on Doug Liman, asking about the other party's new movie.
Speaking of which, although Eric has asked ICM to find a leading actor for the "Bourne Shadow" series, there is no detailed plan for the specific start time of the film, so Eric did not pay much attention to the film's original director Doug. Liman's condition.
However, since it happens to happen today, Eric is naturally willing to connect this line casually.
""Dogs and Men" is inspired by the story structure of Mr. Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", telling various interesting stories about three groups of completely unrelated characters in Los Angeles around a drug trafficking incident. The heroine Lorna is in urgent need of money to pay the rent, so she decides to pretend to be a friend of hers as a temporary cameo as a drug dealer and decides to make a fortune... "
Doug Liman clearly introduced to Eric the outline of the story he was preparing for the project, and finally said: "Although the story is somewhat imitated from "Pulp Fiction", I hope to try a more complex multi-line narrative structure , so that the three stories are independent of each other while maintaining a very interesting and wonderful interlude, and at the same time, the story will still be combined at one point in the end to form a perfect closed loop."
Eric has no impression of Doug Liman's film called "Dog Man and Woman", and he doesn't know whether the new film produced by the Butterfly Effect or the original space-time film was not successful. However, listening to the other party's slightly excited narration, Eric remembered another complex multi-line narrative movie, British director Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels".
However, according to the previous timeline, this film should have been released in the UK and caused a sensation, but Eric has not heard the news. Perhaps, someone can investigate it. If such an interesting film disappears , that would be a pity.
The idea of "Two Smoking Barrels" was just a random flash, and Eric still focused most of his attention on Doug Liman. According to his opinion, Eric quickly took the initiative of the topic in the arena, and unknowingly led the topic to MGM's Agent movie universe series.
Although many people think that the first part of Doug Liman's "Bourne" is not as classic as the second and third parts, in fact, if there is no opening foreshadowing in the first part, the "Bourne" series will not be as classic. It is absolutely impossible for the two films to be completed in one go. Doug Liman has actually been playing an important role as a producer in the "Bourne Shadow" series, and he has contributed a lot to this series.
Of course, Eric was not in a hurry to offer an olive branch to this new director who had only made a low-cost independent film with a production cost of only 200,000 US dollars at this time. I hinted that I am more inclined to use a more thoughtful new director for the "Bourne" series.
As long as Doug Liman has enough confidence and ambition, Eric believes that after his hint, the other party will definitely take the initiative to fight for this opportunity.
Doug Liman did not disappoint Eric. After chatting for a while around the topic of "The Bourne", the other party's eyes were obviously a little more eager to try.
Eric didn't stay in this small circle for too long. After more than ten minutes, he whispered to Famke: "Let's go, accompany me to socialize with other guests."
Famke did not shy away from the people in front of him. He kissed Eric who came close to him, but shook his head and smiled, "I won't accompany you tonight, I will be killed by someone's eyes, you Find whoever you want."
Eric was helpless, Famke obviously knew that the girls were here tonight, so he had to whisper: "Then we will go back to Malibu together at the end."
"However, I have promised Kelly to live with her tonight."
Eric glanced at Kelly Lynch who came over curiously: "What is there to live with between you women, she looks like a homosexual at first glance, and she probably has bad intentions for you."
"Oh, stop talking nonsense," Famke raised his hand and slapped Eric lightly, and said, "Anyway, not tonight."
"Then I'll call you," Eric had no choice but to make a phone call gesture, greeted everyone, and returned to the boat again.
Guided by a waiter to the gathering place of the main creators of "Midnight Ring", the director Gore Verbinski, the heroine Vera Farmiga and a group of main creators are basically here, the actor Depp Currently filming "Sleepy Hollow" in the UK, so did not attend the party.
Due to the phenomenal success of "Midnight Ring", although it is only a horror film, Gore Verbinski's momentum in Hollywood at this time is stronger than that of Michael Bay, who rose to prominence with "Bad Boys". , the whole person looked high-spirited.
Firefly and Gore Verbinski signed the same three-film contract as Michael Bay at the beginning, and now the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is completely in their hands.
However, Eric did not have the idea of starting the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series immediately, not to mention that Depp's schedule will have to wait at least a year, but Gore Verbinski is in a somewhat swollen state at this time, so he will not It is suitable to immediately take charge of a large-scale production with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, because it is obviously difficult for him to implement the production ideas given by Eric 100% at this time.