In Julia's villa in Beverly Hills, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Three women were sitting around on the floor next to a long table in the side hall. There were several stacks of scripts scattered around. Both Elizabeth and Drew While carefully flipping through the pages, only Julia seemed a little uninterested, flipping through the script of a romantic comedy in front of her boredly, after a while, Julia finally lost interest at all, raised her head and asked, "Hey, Can we pick out good scripts by picking this way, these should be the things that agents do.”
Elizabeth and Drew gave Julia a blank look. Drew lowered his head and continued to look at the script in front of him, but Elizabeth explained: "Get rid of it, Julie, we are now producers, not actors, okay? It was recommended by agents from several brokerage companies, if you don’t want to watch it, go watch it on TV.”
Julia wanted to stand up a little excitedly, looked at the two women, and finally sat on the mat: "Forget it, I'll watch it with you, by the way, Liz, didn't you say that the guy a few days ago Picked a comedy for that woman named Jennifer Connelly, maybe we can find the screenwriter of that script and write another one."
Drew looked up at Julia with contempt, and Elizabeth said helplessly again: "The screenwriter of that script is also the director of that movie. He should be 3 now, and he is already making a movie. It is impossible for him to have time for us. What kind of script to write. What's more, even if the other party has time to write it, it may not be a big hit, not everyone is as perverted as... that guy."
"Okay, okay, just pretend I didn't say anything."
As he was talking, the phone next to him suddenly rang.
"I'll pick it up." Julia stood up and walked to the phone in two or three steps to pick up the receiver: "Hello. This is Roberts' house... ah..."
Julia heard the other person's voice. Immediately covering the microphone, she silently mouthed to Elizabeth and Drew who were looking over: "Eric..."
Drew, who was reading the script seriously, immediately jumped up, rushed over to snatch the microphone from Julia's hand, and shouted, "It must be looking for me."
Julia let Drew snatch the microphone away, shrugged and returned to her seat, exchanged glances with Elizabeth, pouted her lips at Drew and said with a low laugh, "Like a puppy who hears the master's call."
Elizabeth also smiled and said, "There is no cure."
Unexpectedly, after talking a few words to Eric tiredly, Drew turned his head and shouted with displeasure, "Julia. I'm looking for you."
"Ah..." Julia pointed to herself suspiciously, and when Drew nodded, she reluctantly stood up again and walked over.
"Hey, Eric, what can I do for you... Yes, Kapoor said that this role doesn't have many roles, it's easy to shoot, and the salary from Samsung is also very generous, not to mention the relationship with Steven S. Pielberg collaboration... so?"
Not knowing what to hear, Julia hesitated for a while. He also looked at Elizabeth as if asking for help, and then said: "But what about Kapoor. He really hopes that I will take this role... myself... I... I... Otherwise, I will..."
Seeing Julia stuttering as if hearing something embarrassing, Elizabeth immediately stood up and leaned over to take the microphone from Julia's hand: "Hey, Eric, are you talking again?" If you want to force Julia to do something, I warned you!"
"..."
"No, why do you want Julia to give up this role, don't even think about it!" Elizabeth finished, and hung up the phone with a snap.
"Liz, isn't this inappropriate?" Julia anxiously pointed to the hung up phone.
Elizabeth waved her hand and said confidently: "Don't pay attention to that guy, Julie, you will sign the contract tomorrow, hehe, you really think we are easy to bully."
After Elizabeth finished speaking, she took Julia to sit back again, and the three of them continued to flip through a lot of scripts, but the atmosphere that followed always seemed a little unnatural.
Drew was fine. Although she had been next to Julia just now, she also heard what Eric said. She remembered that woman Nicole Kidman called to ask Eric's whereabouts a few days ago. Lu quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter.
It must be that Julia and Nicole fell in love with the same role. Eric wanted Julia to give up the role to Nicole. Although he was a little bit jealous, it had nothing to do with her after all.
However, the two daughters, Julia and Elizabeth, who rejected Eric neatly, could not settle down to continue reading the script, and they always looked at the phone on the table next to the sofa from time to time, as if expecting the machine to come back again. ring up.
Unfortunately, after nearly an hour, Eric didn't call again.
"Hey, Drew, you stayed in New York with Eric last month, right?" Elizabeth finally couldn't breathe, and asked first.
Without raising his head, Drew nodded, and marked a small star on the script in front of him with a pen and put it aside, while flipping through the other one.
Seeing Drew's indifferent look, Elizabeth thought it was a joke, and quickly asked, "Then you should know how much money he made?"
It was only then that Drew raised his head, and there was a half-smile expression on the beautiful doll's face. After looking at Elizabeth a little guilty, the girl jumped out a few words: "I don't know."
"..." Elizabeth curled her lips speechlessly: "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it."
Drew smiled, took out a piece of gum from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and continued to look down at the script.
"I read the newspaper in the morning, and it said that the price of crude oil futures has risen to 30 US dollars. It was only 14 US dollars a few months ago. I heard that many futures speculators have made a fortune. Hundreds of millions of dollars, it is estimated that the income will be at least doubled now," Julia added vaguely.
"You don't understand, futures can be magnified by leverage, ten times, twenty times the leverage. You can magnify the principal to ten times or twenty times." Elizabeth explained with a half-comprehension.
immediately. The two girls who reacted closed their mouths, stared at each other for a while in surprise, and then looked at Drew again.
"Look at me, I don't know anything," Drew repeated again.
Elizabeth put her arms around Drew's small shoulders: "Hey, tell me a little bit, Drew, how much does Eric earn? Julia and I promise not to tell."
Drew shook off Elizabeth's shoulders. It's still the same sentence: "If you ask a hundred times again, I don't know, and even if I know, I won't tell you."
"Then what have you been doing with Eric all month?" Elizabeth asked unwillingly.
Drew said honestly: "Play, that's New York, a paradise for the rich, there are so many fun places to go."
"..."
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In Pointe Manor, Eric put down the phone and said to Nicole who was sitting next to him, "I was robbed of the phone by Liz, so I just hung up. I'll talk to Julia sometime, anyway, I'm not in a hurry now."
Nicole nodded. She knew that since Eric had promised, he would definitely do his best.
The next day, Eric didn't go to Julia immediately, but went to Firefly as usual.
I learned about the company's operations during this period, and paid attention to the release of the next few movies. It is now mid-August, and "Human Ghosts" and "Instinct" released in July are still at the top of the box office list. with.
This summer season has also come to an end. Except for "Human and Ghost", which has a strong momentum and may break the box office of 200 million US dollars, there is no other box office dark horse in the entire summer season.
Even "Die Hard 2", which was evenly matched with "Ghosts", fell by more than 40% in the second week, only earning more than 20 million US dollars. It seems that there is no hope for blockbuster films to return to their original capital in North America. Fox can only pin its hopes on overseas markets.
As for "Basic Instinct", this hot R-rated film released by Universal in late July has already earned nearly 70 million US dollars in box office in four weeks, and there is no doubt that it will break 100 million next time.
At the same time, the negotiations between MCA, Universal's parent company, and the Japanese Matsushita consortium have also been settled. Panasonic has fully acquired Universal's parent company, MCA, with a huge sum of US$6.1 billion. Another Hollywood film giant has fallen into the hands of the Japanese consortium.
However, Eric knew that Panasonic did not survive as well as Sony. After several years of dissatisfaction and huge losses, Panasonic soon transferred Universal to the next family again.
After staying in the company for a long time, Eric did not see Robert Shea. After asking, Eric found out that Robert Shea had found another project during this period and was negotiating with the copyright owner. As for the script The specific content, but Robert didn't reveal it to his subordinates. It was obvious that he was guarding against him, which made Eric feel a little funny.
After reporting some firefly affairs, Allen then handed over a stack of paper bags full of script outlines to Eric: "Eric, this is the movie about pirates that you asked me to look for some time ago, because you The explanation should be kept as secret as possible, I only found 37, here is just a brief outline of the story, if you need a detailed script after reading it, I will contact you."
"I see, you go to work first."
Allen nodded, turned and left the office.
Eric opened a file bag in front of him, because he had a specific goal, so Eric's reading speed was very fast, he just briefly read the outline of the story, and if it wasn't the goal he was looking for, he just threw it aside.
Soon, Eric focused his attention on a thin outline of the script. The name of Bruce A. Evans was written in the screenwriter column. This name just matched the screenwriter of "Cutthroat Island" in his memory. I quickly read the outline of the script. The plot and the names of the male and female protagonists are all right, but the name of the script is not "Cutthroat Island".
"Looks like this is it." After finding this big hole, Eric began to figure out how to operate the script. Of course, this stinky egg is used to deceive people, but he wants to ensure that this big hole can have the greatest effect , the best situation is to gather the lineup from the previous life.
In my memory, the male and female protagonists of this movie are Geena Davis and Matthew Modine, and the director Lenny Harling is Geena Davis's husband. Lenny Haring is ambitious He wanted to promote his wife as an action actress, but in the end it almost ruined Geena Davis' acting career. Although he doesn't know the follow-up story development, according to Hollywood practice, Eric thinks that the last two people are likely to divorce .
Eric remembered that last year, he personally gave Geena Davis the Best Supporting Actress statuette. Later, she also collaborated with another actress, Susan Sarandon, in the famous feminist film Crazy Flowers is also a popular Oscar movie. If the history does not change, this actress will become depressed after the box office failure of "Cut Throat Island", just like another sad male star Kevin Costner .
Thoughts were flying around, thinking of Kevin Costner, Eric couldn't help but think of several excellent films starring Kevin Costner, such as "The Bodyguard", "A Million Arms" and "Walking with Wolves". Dance" and the like, if it weren't for the later "Future Water World", Kevin Costner's status in Hollywood would not be much lower than Harrison Ford, Schwarzenegger and others.
Moreover, Eric quickly remembered that the film "Dances with Wolves" was the first work directed by Kevin Costner himself, and he won the Best Director and Best Director for his directorial debut. Film and other awards.
In the chaotic memory, as the name of Kevin Costner led to a lot of information, Eric quickly put the matter of "Cutthroat Island" behind him for the time being, because he discovered another thing .
"Dances with Wolves" seems to be released this year, and because the film is absolutely politically correct and conforms to the characteristics of the American theme, it won this year's Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture.
This is obviously not good news for "The Silence of the Lambs", which was a year ahead of schedule. Although "The Silence of the Lambs" has been recognized as this year's Oscar hit, the filmmakers are very interested in Anthony Hopkins and Judy. Foster's performance is full of praise, and the praise for this movie has also been broken in the past few months. It can be said that if there is no "Dances with Wolves", this movie will definitely become the big winner of this year's Oscar.
But when encountering an American theme movie like "Dances with Wolves", the disadvantages of "The Silence of the Lambs" as a horror film will be wirelessly magnified and then magnified. It's almost impossible.
Thinking of this, Eric quickly called Allen over again, and told him to put down his work immediately to inquire about the movie. (To be continued..)