"Iron Man is absolutely the perfect superhero movie. At the same time, Eric Williams once again showed that he can do anything to the extreme of the 'Pandora star' strength, the super tycoon personally shaped The image of Tony Stark exudes an eye-catching personality charm. Whether he is a genius, a jerk, a playboy, a billionaire, or a superhero, the audience just find it difficult to pay attention. take the force off him." - The Times
"The dazzling CG special effects of "Iron Man" made "Batman and Robin" two years ago look like a clumsy B-grade movie. Perhaps, powerful special effects will become more and more fundamental for major Hollywood film companies. A manifestation of strength. Compared with the stunning special effects shown in the digital field, there is obviously a big gap between Warner, Universal and Paramount in the light and shadow era that needs to be caught up." - "New York Times"
"In the first 15 minutes, I was blown away by Eric Williams' superb performance. The real-life mega-rich makes the superhero of a self-indulgent jerk-turned-savior utterly believable. "—"Variety Show"
"While Eric Williams' performance in 'Iron Man' has been overwhelmingly acclaimed, the real-life figures of the young super-rich continue to reshape public perception."
"As the Nasdaq index approached 3,500 points, Eric Williams' personal net worth also continued to skyrocket, and it was close to the $400 billion mark at this time."
"Perhaps, Eric Williams will become the first trillionaire (Trillionaire) in federal history. If the federal currency does not experience serious inflation in a short period of time, Eric Williams And will be the only super rich who could possibly have the word 'Trillionaire'. Before that, we only had Billionaires and Millionaires. Have to say, it's kind of chilling Miracle.” —BusinessWeek
In the villa restaurant on Kensington Garden Avenue, it was already noon the next day.
Eric flipped through the various media film reviews that Mayer gradually sorted out in the morning, read this article in "Business Weekly", looked up and asked the female assistant sitting across from him: "Mary, do you think I will be the first 'Trillionaire'?" '?"
Mayer raised his head from the folder on his lap, looked at Eric a few times, and said, "If you change to other currencies, you are already in it now."
"Who would do such a boring thing."
"yes."
Mayer responded, then lowered her head again.
I have to say that the female assistant is definitely the one with the most emotional changes among the women around Eric.
I don't know what stimulated me these two days.
After silently looking at the girl opposite for a moment, Eric got up and walked over. Mayer felt Eric's approach, and immediately put the folder up vigilantly in front of him: "Eric, it's noon now."
"If you switch to Australian time, it's night now."
Eric imitated Mayer's slightly mocking tone just now, sat on the sofa and stretched out his hands to hug the light body of the female assistant and put it on his lap, and kissed the girl's most sensitive neck directly.
After a while, Mayer's body was completely limp, but Eric suddenly stopped all movements.
Mayer, who subconsciously poked her face and asked for a kiss, froze for a moment, looked up and noticed Eric's playful gaze, and opened her mouthful of small white teeth to bite down on Eric's body regardless.
Eric quickly blocked it, hugged the female assistant with a smile, and said, "I just think we should change places."
"You'll have to meet the CEO of Bertelsmann, Leonard Riggio later."
"There are still twenty minutes." Eric looked at his watch while walking upstairs with the girl in his arms, and said, "We will finish it in nineteen minutes, and it should be no problem to walk from the villa to the restaurant of the Garden Hotel in one minute. "
So, in the end, I was a little late.
After being happy, Mayer refused to leave the bedroom anyway, and Eric could only go to the banquet alone.
Bertelsmann Group is the parent company of BMG Records. Compared with EMI Group, BMG’s business only accounts for about one-third of Bertelsmann Group’s business. The pictures of Eric and Bertelsmann Group CEO Leonard Rigio are naturally Still discuss the cooperation of Yahoo Music Store.
However, the current situation has changed. When Eric threw out the news that Fireflyer would accept shares, although several major record companies still did not agree, their attitudes were obviously much more enthusiastic than at first. Make contact with Firefly Electronics.
Although the four major record companies other than Sony have expressed their intention to cooperate, Eric plans to only transfer shares to the two major record companies at most.
Therefore, the initiative of this cooperation has begun to be held by Firefly Electronics.
Having dined with Leonard Reggio, Eric thoughtfully brought a lunch and returned to the villa. Mayer was already fully dressed and sitting on the sofa in the living room, holding his laptop and typing something.
"Now, lunch."
Mayer took it and put it on the coffee table, then handed over a document she had sorted out beside her, and said, "This is the latest box office data report for Easter movies from Los Angeles."
"Well, let me see, you should eat first."
Mayer nodded, but picked up the lunch and walked to the restaurant.
Eric smiled helplessly before opening the folder in front of him.
Today is April 27th. Counting from March 26th, the entire Easter schedule has exactly passed four full weeks, and an extra weekend.
This Easter, although the three films "Public Enemy", "American Pie" and "One Kiss" released by the Firefly system performed very well at the box office, the most eye-catching one is still "The Blair Witch", which was released before Easter. .
As of the last week, although "The Blair Witch", which was released for eight weeks, has completely entered the final stage, the single-week box office has dropped to a level of just over one million US dollars, and it may drop in the next two or three weeks. But it has also reached 162.17 million US dollars.
This figure is second only to "The Fast and the Furious" released at the beginning of the year, and it temporarily ranks second in the North American box office rankings in 1999.
Moreover, compared to the production cost of 60,000 US dollars, the miracle of box office return created by "The Blair Witch" will be difficult to break for many years to come.
In addition to "The Blair Witch", "Public Enemy", which was released for three weeks, has a cumulative box office of 82.36 million US dollars, and the final North American box office is as expected, around 100 million US dollars.
In comparison, among the three Easter movie packages of the Firefly system this year, the best box office performers are still vulgar comedies like "American Pie".
From April 9th to the present, within two weeks of its release, the box office of "American Pie" has reached 63.75 million US dollars. In the end, the North American box office may even be higher than that of "Public Enemy", but the production cost of this film is only 1100 US dollars. million dollars, which is only one-eighth of "Public Enemy". Even if it can't be compared with "The Blair Witch", MGM is still making a lot of money.
Moreover, compared with "The Blair Witch", which could not produce a sequel in the short term, "American Pie" is very easy to develop into a series.
After creating a super box office dark horse with "Ace Powers 2" last year, Fox's "One Kiss" this year can only be regarded as mediocre.
This romantic comedy with a production cost of 25 million US dollars was released on the same week as "American Pie", but the box office in the two weeks was only 24.99 million US dollars. Although the reputation is good, the final box office may only be around 50 million US dollars, barely allowing Fox to recover cost.
Although the Easter film will continue for a few weeks, due to the large-scale publicity of "Iron Man", the atmosphere of the summer film has begun to become more and more intense.
On the 29th, Eric will also record an episode of "David's Late Show".
Therefore, after staying in London for another day, Eric set off to fly back to New York on the 28th.
However, not long after the plane took off from London Heathrow Airport on the morning of the 28th, Eric heard a very bad news.
Obviously deliberately picking the moment when "Iron Man" starring Eric himself is about to be released, the matter of the two little guys suddenly exploded on a large scale in the media.
"About six o'clock in the morning on the east coast, the duty personnel of the Yahoo Portal first discovered that this website called 'Hollywood Gossip' suddenly posted several news stories about the three children in succession. They immediately reported it to Brown. Ma'am, however, an hour has not passed yet, these articles have been reprinted by many more famous news media, and even AOL and MSN portals have posted relevant news on the homepage."
In the study room in the front cabin of the plane, Eric listened to Mayer's introduction of the current situation with a gloomy face, while flipping through a stack of copies of the news about the three children.
"Eric Williams' illegitimate son revealed"
"The ridiculous private life of the super rich, a pair of children born on the same day"
Emma Roberts Murdoch Barrymore Williams, The Real Firefly 'Little Princess'
"Eric Williams spends a lot of money to conceal information, and his illegitimate children live in luxury"
"..."
"..."
Randomly flipping through the press release in his hand, Eric picked up the phone and was about to call East Hampton.
Mayer reminded in a low voice: "Eric, Ms. Pakula and Ms. Madsen have boarded Miss Barrymore's plane with the children."
Eric paused, and quickly connected to the video call on the girl's plane.
After a while, Emma's figure appeared on the screen, and the little guy scratched in front of the camera with his hands, and said softly, "Dad, can you see Emma?"
"Of course," Eric saw Emma's immature face, his tense emotions relaxed, a smile appeared on his face, he pulled the chair and sat down and said in a gentle voice: "Has Emma been naughty recently?"
"No, Emma has always been very good, but she's so sleepy. Aunt Joan said she would take everyone on vacation, and Emma hasn't woken up yet."
"You can sleep on the plane, your Aunt Drew's plane is very comfortable."
"Well," the little guy nodded: "Dad, when will you come to see us?"
"quickly."
"Don't forget to bring a gift for Emma."
"Of course, Dad never forgot."
After talking like this for a few words, Virginia next to her hugged the reluctant Emma away. Before leaving, she still gave Eric a blank look at the camera, and Joanna sat down in front of the camera.
"I'm so sorry, Joan," Eric said apologetically, looking at the woman who was as quiet as ever, "how are the children?"
"Kevin is still sleeping, it's rare for Vicky to let him sleep late, and Xia Xia is accompanied by a tutor, reading a book," Joanna smiled, turned her head to look, and whispered: "Eric, Viktor Ji is actually very happy."
Eric smiled and understood.
Although she has been reassured more than once that Kevin and Hawaii are her children and the heirs of the Williams family, Virginia has always been worried that Eric will suddenly not recognize Kevin's identity over the years.
Now that the matter is exposed, Eric will not be able to 'deny' it in the future.
Eric certainly never thought of it that way.
Over the years, he has concealed the news of the two children as much as possible, just to allow them to have a peaceful and safe environment for growth. Eric rarely deliberately avoided the matter of the two children from those around him.
However, seeing the reactions of Virginia and Joanna at this time, Eric was also relieved.
The impact of this incident on women and children is obviously not as serious as I thought.
In fact, it is easy to understand. If it is an ordinary person, even an ordinary rich man, if he encounters such a thing, he must have been blocked by the swarming media at this time, so that he has no way to go to the sky, and even collapsed because of this. But the two women can easily avoid all this trouble by boarding a private jet with their children, and the children will not be harmed.
"So, where are you going now?"
"First go to Ventura to refuel, and then fly to Australia. Everyone is going to spend the summer vacation there together. Liz and Julia have already taken off from Ventura," Joanna's soft tone still contained some complaints , Said: "I will leave the matter here to you, we don't care."
Australia is the headquarters of Elizabeth's family, and the media over there is basically monopolized by the Murdoch family. It is obviously suitable for a few women to go there now.
Eric felt relieved and said, "Of course, I'll take care of it. Have fun."
"Well," Joanna nodded, and said again: "Drew is also on the plane. Fortunately, she is in New York recently. Do you want to call her over?"
"No, I have to deal with these things. It's good to see that you are all right."
"That's it for now," Joanna said, looking at the camera for a moment, and said, "Eric, don't be too tired recently."
"I know, then, goodbye."
"Um."
After hanging up the video, Eric's expression became indifferent again, he got up and left the study room in the front cabin, went to the largest meeting room on the plane, and at the same time ordered Caroline and Mayer beside him to connect to Chris and Ian respectively. A video call between Grenier and Jeffrey Katzenberg, among others.
When this happened suddenly, everyone obviously got the news, and several core executives of the Firefly system soon appeared on the big screens on both sides of the conference room.