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The door of the conference room was pushed open, and Mrs. Lankel standing at the door cast her eyes on Charleson Lankel who came out behind Eric. After receiving a slight nod from Lankel in response, Mrs. Lankel showed up. Delighted smile.
"Mr. Williams, you are a very good person, I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future." Now that the matter has settled, Brian Kurtzman no longer regards Eric as a negotiating opponent, with a calm face Zhong held out his hand to Eric with a little respect.
"I think so," Eric smiled and shook hands with the other party. The manager's self-cultivation skills are indeed admirable. If someone else was caught by Charleson Rankel like this, he would probably be angry Had to slam the door and leave.
But Brian Kurtzman didn't linger too long. After talking with the Runkel couple indifferently, he found a reason to leave.
Eric felt that although Stu could bring this manager a lot of income, Brian Kurtzman would definitely give up his position as Stu's manager and work with a very incompetent who hardly cooperated with him. Customer cooperation≧↗, it is estimated that any outstanding broker will be unbearable.
I looked at my watch. After more than half an hour of negotiation, it was just after twelve o'clock.
"Charlie, let's go to lunch together?" Eric thought for a while, and said to the Lankers who were standing beside them and whispering.
Charlieson Lankel looked up and saw Eric still put on a friendly expression. It vaguely has the breath of the high school boy next door. But it was impossible for Charleson Langkel to look at Eric as the boy back then. He estimated that he would not be able to forget Eric's aggressive demeanor in the small conference room just now for a long time.
"No, Eric, we still have things to do." Charlieson refused.
"No, I'm going." Hearing his father's refusal, the little guy immediately yelled dissatisfiedly, and wanted to rush to Eric, but was held tightly by Mrs. Lankel. He gave the little guy a warning look.
Eric knew that the estrangement between the two parties due to interests had become irreparable, so he stopped inviting, comforted the little guy, and left with Elizabeth and others.
In a restaurant near Century City, Alan and the driver consciously sat at another table, leaving only Eric and Elizabeth sitting opposite each other. After ordering, Elizabeth couldn't wait to ask: "Eric , can we talk about it so soon?"
"How long do you think it will take?" Eric asked back.
Elizabeth thought for a while and said, "I remember that Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman's "Rain Man" was talked about for more than half a year last year, and it almost died in the end. There is also "Dark War". You have been in a stalemate with CAA for a long time, right?"
Eric smiled: "The situation is different this time. If I talked with CAA's agent, it might take a while, but I talked directly with Charleson Rankel."
The girl nodded half-understood, and then asked: "How much is that little guy's salary this time?"
"8 million plus 3% North American box office share."
"It's so high, it's too cheap for that little satyr." Elizabeth said bitterly.
Eric thought it must be when he was negotiating with Lanker and the others, the girl was bullied by the little guy again: "It's not high, and Stu is worth the price, if it's talking with CAA who has the full initiative, In the end, the price will definitely be higher. It is a pity that the couple is neither smart nor trusting others, and in the end it is their own loss."
"You are really impersonal. I remember they were your neighbors, right?" The girl changed her position immediately after hearing that.
Although Eric liked the smart little guy Stu, he no longer had any affection for the Lankel couple, but he didn't bother to take credit for it. The waiter brought the lunch, and he ate in silence with his head bowed.
"Are you so busy every day?" When Elizabeth asked this question, it was already after six o'clock in the afternoon. After a day of running around, Eric returned to his office. He also needs to approve some papers regarding the merger of New Line and Firefly. At this time, there were not many people in Firefly's office building. Instead of leaving get off work like the others, Elizabeth stayed in Eric's office boredly, looking around.
"No, it's just that there are so many things during this time," Eric replied without raising his head.
"Oh," Elizabeth replied, opened the window of the file cabinet, took out a file at random, and looked through it.
It wasn't until seven o'clock that Eric sorted out the documents in front of him, only to find that Elizabeth was still curled up on the sofa in the office.
"Everyone else is off work, why don't you leave?"
Seeing that Eric seemed to have finished dealing with the matter, the girl quickly stood up and put a book in her hand back on the shelf: "There is nothing to do when I go back. Besides, you have to start and finish when you do things."
Eric wanted to tease a few words, but seeing that the girl had followed him all day and was still obedient, he swallowed the words that came to his lips. But the girl obviously didn't appreciate it: "You must be trying to ridicule me, right?"
"No," Eric denied, "let's go." After speaking, Eric walked out first.
The girl caught up with the first two steps, and said relentlessly: "You must have wanted to ridicule me just now, you are nothing more than some kind of young lady who has nothing to do, right?"
"Well, I do have this idea," Eric replied helplessly, greeted the company security a few times, and walked towards the stairs.
The girl showed such an expression as expected: "I worked all day, and I didn't even ask you for overtime pay. You think of me so much, please apologize."
"Sorry." Eric didn't bother to argue with the girl.
The girl curled her lips: "It's really insincere, why don't you treat me to dinner or something, I've been with you until this late?"
Eric just wanted to find a place to settle dinner, so he nodded: "Okay."
Elizabeth suddenly became suspicious: "You agreed so easily, you don't have any plans for me, do you?"
"You are such a typical woman." Eric was completely helpless.
Although I know what to ask. Eric will definitely not come up with any good comments. But Elizabeth still couldn't hold back her words: "What do you mean by that?"
"If you are far away, you will complain, and if you are close, you will not be inferior." Eric said a sentence in Chinese that he hadn't spoken for a long time.
Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized that she forgot about the topic just now, and said with a little pride in her tone: "This is Chinese, don't think I can't understand it. There are many Chinese students in our school." The girl finished speaking , and then said very lamely: "Tian Wang should be low-key. He's really drunk. How do I say, is it better than your standard?"
Eric rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that it is really standard, and it is not easy to say all the words in the first voice. He thought about it several times before he realized what the girl said.
"Do you know what this means?" Eric asked casually when he walked out of the office building.
"They said it was a code word, similar to Open Sesame, and I can still write it. Surely you can't write it, right?"
"Yes, yes, you are better than me." Eric said perfunctorily. When he came to the parking lot, Eric looked around. "Where's your car?" he asked.
"I didn't drive today," the girl spread her hands.
Eric had no choice but to open his car door: "Then get in the car."
After dinner, it was more than eight o'clock when we came out of the restaurant. Eric looked at the girl who was still following him and asked, "How do you go back, why don't you call your driver to pick you up?"
The girl looked at Eric and said in an unbelievable tone: "How can you be so unmannered? In this case, shouldn't you send me back yourself?"
"Please, Your Royal Highness, your home is in Malibu, and it takes two hours to go back and forth, so don't bring such troublesome people."
"Forget it, I'll take a taxi back," the girl said indifferently, with her two small hands in her jeans pockets, and walked a few steps on the curb, watching the traffic coming and going on the street at night, her tone He said quietly: "However, there have been several taxi robberies in Los Angeles recently. I heard that the victims are all young women. But don't worry, if something happens to me, my father will definitely not blame you."
"Get in the car!" Eric gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words.
The girl smiled, like a nimble cat, she pulled down the car door in twos and twos, got into the co-pilot, saw Eric who was sitting in with a depressed face, and the girl who was wearing the seat belt laughed twice: "Okay Oh, I lied to you, I'm staying at Julia's place these days, although it's not on the way, it won't waste your time."
Eric snorted and stepped on the accelerator.
Not long after the car drove out, the girl suddenly pointed her finger and said, "There is a movie theater in front, let's go back after watching a movie, it's still so early, I haven't seen a movie for a long time."
Eric parked the car on the side of the road. He neither pulled out the key nor intended to get out of the car. He put his hands on the steering wheel and turned his head sideways and asked, "Liz, what exactly do you want?"
Seeing Eric's impatient expression, the girl moved her lips, waved her hand and said, "Forget it, I just made a random suggestion on a whim. People like you are always so complicated. If you don't read it, don't read it." Lah, take me back."
Eric patted the steering wheel: "Look, isn't it just a movie."
Not only to watch a movie, but also to see what this chick can do tonight.
"This is a gentleman," the girl quickly unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car.
Eric drove the car into the parking lot, got out of the car and walked into the nearby cinema with Elizabeth.
"I'm treating you, what are you looking for?" In the ticket office, the girl generously took out her small wallet.
Eric glanced at the posters posted by the surrounding movie theaters for publicity, and pointed to one of them: "This one."
""When Harry Met Sally"?" The girl leaned over to look at the slogan on the poster: "It looks interesting, that's it." Take it! Follow up~click/official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter dd), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately follow dd WeChat official account!) (to be continued...)