Eric thought that the scandal between himself and Connery would dissipate after a while if neither he nor Connery responded positively, but he far underestimated his influence and the media and public's response The degree of curiosity about the matter, after the "New York Post" released the intimate photos of him and Connery at the Fox headquarters, in just a few days, both he and Connery became the focus of a large number of paparazzi, and various tabloids also All kinds of gossip appeared one after another.
Of course, Fox was stealing the fun secretly. Although they didn't dare to write too much so as not to get in trouble with Eric, they couldn't stop other media from reporting on this incident. In the last two weeks before the release, Fox , and also focused the promotion of "Fighting Condor" completely on Jennifer Connelly. Because of the collateral effect brought about by this scandal, the publicity effect of "Fighting Condor" was not only much better than expected, it was even better than expected. Save a lot of publicity budget.
Facing the trail of a large number of paparazzi, while strengthening his own security, Eric also began to look forward to the era of media monopoly.
In this era, American media channels are quite scattered. There are more than 50 media companies with various platforms in the country, so information dissemination is quite free. But ten years later, the media industry in the United States has undergone a large number of mergers and acquisitions, and more than 90% of the information dissemination channels are in the hands of the six major media groups. At that time, as long as he had enough power to speak in Hollywood, this kind of trivial matter of being harassed by the paparazzi would be resolved without him even asking.
Originally, he planned to live with the woman to accompany Joanna until she returned to Poland to visit relatives, but it was affected by this incident, and there were more important things to do at the end of the year. Eric, who didn't want to regenerate, had to be complained by the woman. Moved to his own mansion in Beverly Hills.
Enter November. Eric began to make final preparations for the expulsion of Robert Shea. In the first few weeks of November, he held several parties in a row in the Beverly mansion, inviting all levels of management and employees of Firefly to connect with each other . At the same time, Eric also had secret talks with Michael Lynn, Robert Shea's deputy, several times.
After supervising the production of "Basic Instinct" in the first half of the year, Jeffrey is still planning to rest on the farm in Maryland for half a year, and will start working again when Eric's "Tornado" project starts next year. But after learning of Eric's plan, Jeffrey hurried back to Los Angeles. It is intended to assist Eric in stabilizing the situation of Firefly after he launches it.
Jeffrey does not have any relatives in Los Angeles. The plane from Maryland on the east coast to Los Angeles arrived at 7:30pm on November 13th. Eric went to the airport to greet him in person. In the pick-up hall, Jeffrey pulled a The small suitcase appeared in front of Eric, warmly hugged Eric, handed the suitcase to the bodyguard who came with Eric, and the two walked out side by side.
"It's sad to see you so alone, Geoffrey. Maybe you should find another company."
"I don't have such thoughts, and Chris is not very good at accepting it." Jeffrey shook his head, and quickly said with a smile: "You are quite lively in the newspapers these days, another Jennifer, haha."
"It was Fox's plan to promote "Fighting Condor". I didn't think it was a big deal, so I acquiesced. I didn't expect it to have such a big impact."
Jeffrey said again: "But I think this girl is not as aura as Aniston, she is too delicate."
Although Aniston liked to make a little temper in front of him at the beginning, it was also due to the character of a girl facing her lover, but the little girl was much more pleasing to others than Drew, even though she only got along with it a few times However, Aniston was deeply loved by Jeffrey.
Eric couldn't help sighing, Aniston's brokerage contract is still with Kapoor, so Eric can get the latest situation of the chick at any time.
Since breaking up at the beginning of the year, Aniston seems to have become a career-oriented woman, and she has devoted herself to acting. The second season of "Friends" has now aired more than half, and the average number of viewers is still over 20 million.
In addition, Aniston also took two films, a cameo with only five minutes of playing time, which was released in the summer, and the results were not bad. The other one is a romantic comedy. It was released on Christmas Day. Eric accidentally saw a trailer on TV. It was produced by Warner and cooperated with Matt Dillon. It is a film that has no impression at all in memory. It should be The result of the butterfly effect.
Due to the influence of "Pretty Woman", which appeared ahead of schedule and achieved great success last year, there are a lot of romantic comedies in Hollywood this year. It is estimated that after "Ghost Love", the proportion of this type of films will definitely increase in the next two years.
But unfortunately, although Eric has been paying attention to Aniston silently, he believes that the little girl is also paying attention to him, otherwise it is impossible for him to receive that anonymous gift on his birthday this year, but two The individual has not seen each other for almost a year.
Jeffrey only subconsciously compared Aniston and Connery, and noticed Eric's depression, so he didn't continue talking.
The paparazzi who followed all the way to the airport had already raised their cameras, but when they saw that it was Jeffrey who came out with Eric, they just pressed the shutter a few times hastily, and some of them were even unwilling to waste the film. Put down the camera directly. Facing the four or five bodyguards guarding around Eric and Jeffrey, these paparazzi did not come forward without knowing it.
Escorting Eric and Jeffrey into the car, except for the driver, the remaining four bodyguards all rushed to the black Chevrolet behind.
"Is this too cautious?" Jeffrey couldn't help but said after the car started.
"It's mainly to prevent the paparazzi in the back. If I'm surrounded by them alone, I won't be able to escape," Eric pointed to the back of the car, and said, "But in September, one of Warner's directors was on vacation in Greece. I was kidnapped when I was kidnapped, not only was I extorted a million dollars, I almost didn't come back alive, it's always right to be careful, I'm a high-risk kidnapping target now, what's more serious is that I don't have any relatives, if They were kidnapped and there was no one to pay the ransom.”
Jeffrey couldn't help laughing: "How is it possible, we won't ignore it."
Eric joked: "The key is that the kidnappers don't necessarily know this. Maybe after they kidnapped me, they suddenly found that there were no relatives to contact, so they just tore up the ticket."
"In this case, I think you should get married earlier."
"No such plan," Eric shook his head.
Jeffrey understood Eric's temperament, and the two people's life concepts were very different. He knew that it was useless to say anything, and the two chatted casually until they came to Jeffrey's apartment and got off the car. After that, Eric walked in with Jeffrey: "I asked someone to clean up for you in the morning, but I didn't buy food. You can go to the supermarket by yourself tomorrow, and it's better to hire another servant."
"I don't need any servants. I'm not yet sixty years old, so it's not like I can't move anymore."
As Jeffrey said, he beckoned Eric to sit down on the sofa, and boiled water to make coffee. After a while, Jeffrey handed a cup of coffee to Eric, and he sat on the other side of the sofa. sit down.
Just now because there were outsiders in the car, Jeffrey couldn't speak, so he asked solemnly: "Eric, is it too hasty to do this?"
Eric knew that Jeffrey was referring to the expulsion of Robert Shea, and shook his head: "If Robert has the ability to make Firefly develop quickly, even if he wants enough power, I can delegate it to him. But He has limited ability, but he has no restraint in chasing the company's power, and he is still thinking about his own calculations in his heart. This kind of person is destined to be of no benefit to the development of Firefly."
Jeffrey added: "But he holds 25% of the shares?"
"This is what worries me the most. I have enough confidence in the development prospects of Firefly. With the development of Firefly, if nothing is done, after a few years, the conflict between me and Robert will come to the fore. Coupled with Robert's identity as a shareholder, the conflict between the two of us will have a greater impact on the company, so it is better to kick him out earlier."
"It seems that you have thought about it carefully. After Robert leaves, who do you plan to let take the helm?"
"Michael Lynn, Robert's current deputy, I have talked to him several times and promised some benefits. But I will not give him too much power. If a company wants to develop rapidly, only one voice is necessary , just like Disney, and Time Warner is a negative example. Don’t look at the merger of Warner and Time to become the largest Hollywood giant, but Time Warner’s current personnel disputes have become more complicated, and even affect Warner’s operations, even though it owns Hollywood The largest scale, but it will definitely be surpassed in the future.”
Three days after Jeffrey returned to Los Angeles, Friday, November 16, with MGM's "Rocky 5," Fox's "Condor" and Robert Shea's parody "Ghostbusters" "The horror comedy "Ghost Detective" was released at the same time, announcing the official arrival of the Thanksgiving schedule.
In addition to these films, the Thanksgiving-Christmas file will have Coppola's "The Godfather 3", Schwarzenegger's "Kindergarten Special Police", and the 1987 annual box office champion "Three Dads and One Baby" The sequel and many other films have been released, and Catherine Bigelow's "Point of Horror" is also scheduled for December 21.
It is worth mentioning that this holiday schedule in the original time and space should have been dominated by "Home Alone", arbitrarily dominating the top box office charts for ten weeks, squeezing other films to nothing, but because of "Home Alone" "Home Alone" has appeared two years ahead of schedule, which means that the box office of more than 200 million yuan that originally belonged to "Home Alone" will be distributed to other films. (To be continued..)