Waking up in the morning, the gloomy sky outside the window makes it difficult to tell the time, but the warm bedroom with the fragrance of women's boudoir makes up for the unhappiness caused by the weather.
This is Elizabeth's villa on the Thames.
After the residence was occupied by a group of crazy goblins last night, although it was late at night, many acquaintances and friends in London called to invite Eric to come and stay, but they were all politely rejected by Eric. It is very common for Westerners, especially rich people, to borrow houses from each other, but Eric is the kind of person who is not used to living in other people's homes.
In the end, Elizabeth, who was familiar with Eric's character, got the news from somewhere, and asked someone to find Eric directly on Kensington Street and bring him here.
Of course, the residence of one's own woman is not considered a loan.
Apart from making an appointment with Olivia to have lunch at her place today, I have no other arrangements.
Feeling the sky outside the window, Eric took a look at the watch on the bedside table, and was about to stay in bed for another hour when the phone rang.
Picking it up and looking at it, it was an unfamiliar number. Eric pressed the answer button casually, and a woman's polite voice came out. After chatting for a few words, Eric hung up the phone, got up to dress and wash, and went downstairs, and the doorbell rang in due course.
Eric walked over to open the door, and outside stood a curly red-haired young woman in her thirties, wearing a decent camel trench coat, holding a convenience bag containing breakfast in one hand, and a bag in the other. stack of newspapers.
"Hi, Mr. Williams, this is Rebecca, Rebecca Wade, we just spoke on the phone."
"Hello," Eric reached out to take the convenience bag from the other party's hand, and said with a smile, "I'll come in, please come in."
"Thank you," Rebecca Wade handed the convenience bag to Eric, walked into the living room with him, put the stack of newspapers on the coffee table, and said, "I happen to live near the house, Liz called Say you might need these."
"Excuse me," Eric nodded, and asked Rebecca Wade to sit down, looked around, pointed to the direction of the kitchen, and said with a smile, "If you want something to drink, I'll get it."
Rebecca Wade shook her head and smiled: "No, Mr. Williams, when Liz is away, I will take care of it for her. There should be nothing in the kitchen."
"Oh, forget it then," Eric smiled, and was no longer polite, sat down on the sofa and asked, "Are you Liz's friend?"
"I work for The Sun," Rebecca Wade said, took out a business card and handed it over, and said, "Mr. Williams, if you need anything in London, you can call me .”
Eric glanced at the business card in his hand and was a little surprised. He didn't expect the woman in her early thirties to be the deputy editor of The Sun. Although the "Sun" is a gossip tabloid focusing on social news, it is also the newspaper with the largest circulation in the UK. Being able to become an associate editor at a young age, Rebecca Wade's ability is absolutely outstanding.
While thinking about it, Eric suddenly thought of another name, and looked up at the woman who was putting the breakfast in the convenience bag on the coffee table. Although she was much younger, her iconic red curly hair was completely different from the image in her memory. match.
Rebecca Brooks, one of the important executives of News Corporation who was implicated in the wiretapping scandal, was dubbed the 'Queen of Tabloids' by the British media. Murdoch, who is quite dependent on her, even praised her in public as "like his own daughter". As for the change of surname, presumably it should be because of the husband's surname after marriage.
Rebecca Wade didn't notice the strange expression on Eric's expression. After setting up breakfast, he went to the kitchen to help him get the tableware, poured the milk, and finally put away the convenience bag wrapping paper and other sundries carefully before looking at Eric, said: "Mr. Williams, will you still live here tomorrow, can I continue to bring you breakfast?"
Eric shook his head and said, "I'll leave at noon, so don't bother. Besides, just call me Eric."
"Okay," Rebecca Wade nodded with a smile, "Then, if there is nothing else, I will take my leave first."
Getting up to send Rebecca Wade away, Eric returned to the sofa, picked up the glass of milk to test the temperature, took a sip with satisfaction, and picked up a newspaper in the stack, which happened to be "The Sun" ", and glanced at the breakfast on the coffee table, Eric could not help but smile.
The first time we met, he didn't try to get close to him. Instead, he found out his living and eating habits silently, and took care of everything in an orderly manner. Although I don't know Rebecca Wade's ability to work, but this emotional intelligence in dealing with people is not comparable to many people.
At least, Eric felt at this time that if he needed it next time, he would definitely think of the other party easily.
Putting aside these thoughts for the time being, Eric remembered what happened last night, and opened the "Sun" in his hand again.
'The Victoria's Secret Legion occupied the garden street mansion, and Eric Williams lived on the street. '
The eye-catching title lace is full of meaning and can attract readers' attention very much.
However, read on, and there is an implicit clarification of the influx of Victoria's Secret angels into his villa on Garden Avenue last night: there is no special party, just that he lent his villa on Garden Avenue to the Victoria's Secret Angels They partyed all night, with explanatory photos on the board.
The biggest local gossip newspapers set the tone, and other tabloids obviously couldn't make any more disturbances about what happened last night.
Eric felt relieved and began to read other newspaper news while eating breakfast.
It has to be said that the British media has a sense of integrity in their bones.
A few years ago, the Victoria's Secret fashion show was just emerging, and many British media criticized the Victoria's Secret brand. Some even accused this underwear brand of "relying on coquettishness to gain attention" as a blasphemy against the Victorian era in Britain.
But at this time, almost all the newspapers praised the London show last night. It seemed that Victoria’s Secret was originally a British brand. Various newspapers not only listed various British elements in previous Victoria’s Secret shows. The unprecedented scale of the show has also become the pride of the British in the mouth of the media.
The LTD team will hold an event at the Victoria's Secret flagship store in London at noon. Emily personally rushed to Kensington Garden Avenue in the morning, and captured all the goblins who had been crazy all night to prepare for the noon event. Take the time to go back.
There was no unrecognizable tragedy in the villa, but Mayer, who had been guarding all night, seemed quite aggrieved, wondering if he was taken advantage of by a group of lily-like fairies.
Using some tricks to get rid of the media, Eric rushed to Olivia's for lunch at noon and stayed in her gallery until evening.
Early the next morning we boarded a plane back to Los Angeles.
While newspapers of all sizes in the UK are still frantically chasing news related to Victoria's Secret, the media in North America is even more lively.
Because, on November 13, "Teddy Bear" was released.
At the end of the 1990s, although the bad boy gang had begun to emerge, the most popular vulgar comedy in Hollywood was still Jim Carrey's exaggerated, nonsensical and funny style.
Therefore, when the audience and the media saw a series of completely vulgar and funny in "Teddy Bear", everyone was shocked. And when all this happened to a plush toy that many people remembered in their childhood, the shock index immediately soared and turned into jaw-dropping.
Only on the first day of its release, the topic of "Teddy Bear" in the media became noisy. Most of the media felt that this kind of spoof without integrity and no limit was a bit too much. Some emotional media people even asked for "Teddy Bear". "Bear" was banned.
However, to the surprise of many people, including Eric himself, the film critics' attitude towards this film is not as harsh as it is. At least, after comprehensive scoring statistics, "Teddy Bear" has more reputation among film critics than With a score of 7, most film critics think this movie is quite innovative.
At the same time, although the plot is vulgar, the movie itself is still a warm topic to discuss how adults should choose between friendship and love.
As for other Hollywood studios, they were once again surprised by the level of special effects in the digital field.
Except for a few shots using toy models, most of the shots of the teddy bear in the film are done through motion capture, which makes the teddy bear in the film completely fake and real, and even many mouth shapes match There is no doubt that the real person pronounces it.
You know, this is not ten years later, the most familiar image of Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet appeared.
The original version of "Teddy Bear", because the screenwriter and director Mike Sethfarlan was a TV screenwriter, so it has a lot of elements of North American TV series. These very localized elements largely limit the overseas business of the film. Potential, even very unfriendly to some young audience groups in North America who don't like watching TV.
Although Eric was able to basically copy the original script from his memory, since he saw the flaws in the original version, of course he didn't do that again. Now that I am in the film industry, the objects of ridicule and spoofs have naturally become movies that are more widely accepted by the public. Many of them are still movies that Eric has made over the years, such as "Home Alone" and "Pretty Woman". kind.
Early in the morning on the 14th, UK time, when Eric boarded the plane at Heathrow Airport, the news about "Teddy Bear" causing a 'sensation' in the media from North America had already spread.
However, it was still late at night on the 13th in Los Angeles at that time, and the film's box office information on the first day had not yet been released.
Affected by the trend of the media, Katzenberg and other company executives expressed their concerns, thinking that the movie might be a smash. Eric also felt that this time it might be a bit too much, and overestimated the North American audience's perception of vulgar comedies. acceptance limit.
However, when the Boeing 767 landed at Ventura Airport, before Eric got out of the cabin, he received an excited call from Kenneth Horn. In order to avoid the impact of "Teddy Bear" on the Firefly brand, although this The film's final cost came to $50 million, but Erik put New Line in charge of its distribution.
The opening scale of more than 2,700 theaters in North America, in the end, the box office of "Teddy Bear" reached 17.87 million US dollars on the first day, which exceeded everyone's expectations.
Because the first day was 17.87 million US dollars, which means that the box office of the film may exceed 50 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the box office in the first week may exceed 80 million.
80 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to the first-week box office of a blockbuster movie.
Although the investment of "Teddy Bear" reached 50 million U.S. dollars, in recent years, it can only be regarded as a medium-cost production. Moreover, the scale of the film's publicity and distribution cannot be compared with the blockbuster films that major studios have invested over 100 million. compared to.
Coupled with the strong controversy in the media, the first day was 17.87 million US dollars, which can definitely be regarded as a big explosion.
Even, strictly speaking, even if it was forced to drop after the first week, the box office of 80 million US dollars is a very good result for this movie. But in the North American market, it is basically impossible for a movie, especially a successful commercial movie, to be forced to downgrade because of media criticism.
In other words, the $80 million in the first week is definitely just the beginning for "Teddy Bear".
Hearing the news, Eric did not go back to Angle Manor, but took a helicopter from Ventura Airport to the Burbank headquarters of Firefly Group.
When Eric walked into the meeting room, Katzenberg, Frank Wells, Kenneth Horn and other senior executives of the group were discussing something around some documents. Seeing Eric walk in, They all raised their heads.
Signaling everyone to continue to sit down, Eric also found a seat at the large conference table, and asked with a smile: "So, how is the situation now?"
"We just had someone conduct a questionnaire survey in several theaters in Los Angeles," Katzenberg handed over a piece of information, and said: "The audience of "Teddy Bear" is basically concentrated in the group of young people under the age of 28. In addition, unlike the critical attitude of most media, many viewers feel that this is a very fun movie."
Eric flipped through the information Katzenberg handed over, and Frank Wells next to him also said: "However, Eric, I think we should add some reminders immediately, because our customer service department was only yesterday In one day, we received more than 3,000 phone calls and complaints. Although it was marked with an R rating and our trailer gave enough hints, some viewers who did not pay much attention to this information still misunderstood that this is a family carnival. movie, and then take the children to watch it together, the result can be imagined."
Eric nodded and said: "In this case, let the distribution department make a plan immediately, and we still have to continue to do what we need to do."
After discussing with the group's senior management for several hours, and urgently drawing up a follow-up promotion plan, Eric left the Burbank headquarters.
In the next few days, the influence of "Teddy Bear" continued to expand. After the box office of 17.87 million US dollars on the first day, on Saturday, the single-day box office of the film directly broke through the 20 million mark, reaching 20.58 million US dollars. Although the box office began to fall on the third day, it also earned 16.95 million US dollars.
In just three days of the first weekend, the box office of "Teddy Bear" broke through the cost line, reaching 55.41 million US dollars.
The media's fierce criticism of the film not only did not affect the box office of the film, but instead caused a carnival of bad taste among young audiences. Many people even feel that "Teddy Bear" has already posed a threat to "Mission: Impossible 3", which will be released next week.