After six o'clock in the afternoon, the crew members of "Home Alone" came to Eric's house one after another.
It was completely dark, and Eric, who had discussed things with chef Vanessa in the kitchen for a while, returned to the living room, looked around, and was surprised to find that besides the crew members of "Home Alone", there were more than a dozen people dressed Beautiful girls in various dresses.
"Jeffrey, what's going on with these girls?" Eric asked curiously after finding Jeffrey Hansen.
Jeffrey smiled and said, "It's Nickel and the others. After filming "Home Alone", they took over the filming of a school comedy film. These girls met at that time. I don't know how I heard about "Home Alone". The director of "Home Alone" wanted to hold a party at home, so they came with Nicole and the others, as for the reason, I don't think I need to explain further."
Eric smiled, these girls were obviously coming for him. But he didn't mind, the crew of "Home Alone" only had two or three women, and the rest were all men. It would be really boring if the party was full of old men.
He walked to the center of the living room and clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention: `` "Be quiet, everyone, and listen to me."
Everyone in the living room stopped talking quickly and turned their eyes to Eric.
"First of all, I hope everyone has a good night. Today's party is to celebrate the success of "Home Alone". The filming of "Home Alone" will be completed within the time limit, here, I would like to say thank you again to everyone."
Eric said, bowing slightly to everyone, and everyone in the living room applauded.
Eric pressed his hands slightly, signaling for everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Of course, just words of thanks are definitely not enough. "Home Alone" has achieved such an amazing box office result, and there are contributions from each of you." Work hard, so I specially prepared a dividend for everyone, and hope that we will have the opportunity to cooperate again."
After Eric finished speaking, he took out the prepared stack of envelopes containing the checks, and together with Jeffrey Hansen, distributed them to everyone. Eric has written his name on the envelope in advance, so there is no possibility of sending it wrong.
Depending on the positions of the people and other factors, the amount of the checks ranges from $200,000 to $500,000. Although it is insignificant compared to the box office of "Home Alone", it is already equivalent to the salaries of these crew members for several years. After all, they used to just hang out in the small-budget independent film circle, and the maximum annual income was only Tens of thousands of dollars.
Of course, Eric didn't forget about the other actors who participated in the filming of "Home Alone", but those people's dividends must be more generous, so Eric plans to pay after getting the share of "Home Alone" from Columbia.
Some people may think, since the shooting of the film is completed and the two sides have settled, why should a large amount of money be distributed to others after the box office hits the box office. But every circle has its own rules, and those who break the rules will struggle in the circle. After the box office sells well, it is one of the rules of the film and television industry to distribute dividends to the participants.
In his previous life, James Cameron, who had made it clear that he would give up all due benefits due to the continuous overspending of "Titanic", received a huge dividend from Fox after "Titanic" achieved a box office miracle. Both sides have been so bad that they forced each other to jump off a building.
After distributing the checks, Eric announced the official start of the party, and then took Jeffrey Hansen upstairs.
"Jeffrey, this is yours. It's enough for you to buy fireflies back." The two came to the balcony of Eric's bedroom on the second floor. Eric took out an envelope and handed it to Jeffrey. The amount on the check It was three million dollars, and Eric didn't feel bad at all. Without the help of Jeffrey Hansen, an experienced producer, "Home Alone" could not have been completed so smoothly.
Jeffrey Hansen took the envelope and rubbed it a few times, before handing the check to Eric without hesitation.
"Huh?" Eric was a little puzzled by Jeffrey Hansen's actions.
"Eric, I've thought about it these days. Even if I buy Firefly back, without Solina, it's still impossible for me to grow Firefly, so... so I have a request."
Eric smiled and said, "Jeffrey, do we still need to use the word request between the two of us? Please say it."
"Eric, you said you would start a film company, can I go to your film company to help you, you know, although I am not good at being a director, I still have some experience as a producer."
Eric raised his eyebrows in surprise. He once had this idea, and even thought about taking over the filming team left by Jeffrey Hansen's wife.
However, he also felt Jeffrey Hansen's obsession with the Firefly Film Company he founded with his wife. Coupled with the success of "Home Alone", Eric is confident that creating a new team is no longer a task. It was difficult, so I didn't have the idea of poaching the wall again.
Now, Jeffrey offered to propose, how could Eric not agree.
"Jeffrey, to be honest, I once thought of asking you to come to my film company to help me, but I thought you would be reluctant to part with Firefly Film Company, so I didn't bring it up abruptly."
Jeffrey didn't relax after hearing Eric's words, but said a little nervously: "Eric, actually, this is not my main request, I hope... I hope your new film company can also be named Firefly, after all, the former Firefly no longer exists. I know this request may be too much, but... I can... I will help you as a producer in the future. I hope you can think about it…”
It was only then that Eric discovered that Jeffrey's affection for the Firefly Film Company he founded with his wife hadn't faded. Instead, he wanted to continue something through himself.
While being slightly moved by this relationship, Eric quickly made a decision in his heart. Anyway, he didn't care too much about the name of the film company. Originally, he just wanted to use the name Williams Films just like Disney, Warner, and Fox.
Now, a name that sounds nice and has an emotional connotation in it is also good.
"Jeffrey, no problem. Let's call the new company Firefly Films. Actually, I like this name very much."
Jeffrey raised his right hand slightly, as if he was still thinking about how to persuade Eric, and he was slightly taken aback when he heard Eric's words: "Eric, you just said... Did I hear correctly?"
"Of course, I agree."
"Thank you so much, Eric, I will definitely work hard for you, I..." Jeffrey didn't know how to express his gratitude, so he could only spread his arms and hugged Ai tightly. Rick.
After Jeffrey let go of himself, Eric handed over the envelope containing the check again: "Okay, Jeffrey, it's just a name. If you mentioned it early, I would have agreed. Now, take This, this is what you deserve."
Jeffrey still wanted to decline, and Eric stuffed the envelope into Jeffrey's suit pocket: "Jeffrey, although there is a big age difference, we are still good friends, aren't we? So, the question about the name of the film company just now The matter is just a request between friends. And these are the fruits of your labor that you deserve, forget the silly things you just said about not sharing, and I hope you can wholeheartedly help me create the next miracle."
Jeffrey finally accepted the check under Eric's persuasion. The two discussed a few more things about the establishment of a film company and the preparations for Eric's next film, and then returned to the party downstairs. After announcing the news of the establishment of a new Firefly Film Company, the crew members who had different thoughts heard The news all cheered up.
After quietly seeing the amount of the check given by Eric, the team built by Jeffrey's wife felt restless. They also knew that Jeffrey wanted to redeem Firefly, so most of them continued to follow. Jeffrey is vacillating between the two ideas of being in the independent film circle, or going to Eric.
Now that Eric and Jeffrey have made this best-of-both-worlds decision, everyone is relieved, and the atmosphere of the party is even more heated.
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After chatting and laughing with the photographer Nicole Frank, Eric just turned around with a goblet in hand, when a girl in a red high-fork dress seemed to trip over something and was about to hit Eric head-on.
"Stop—" Eric quickly yelled with a wry smile, raised his left hand in front of him and made a gesture to stop the girl in front of him.
With a beautiful golden watermelon hair combed in front of her, the sharp-faced girl subconsciously stopped her movements, and stood less than one meter in front of Eric, a little at a loss, waving her little hand holding the red wine unconsciously, Some wine was splashed, and at the same time, there was an embarrassing expression on his face.
"Miss, if you want to strike up a conversation, just say hello to me. You can't bump into me again. I've changed two sets of clothes just now. If I bump into you again, I can only appear in front of everyone shirtless. I think you must Wouldn't like to see this scene."
The girl who was very embarrassed at first heard Eric's slightly teasing words, and burst out laughing: "Mr. Eric, your words are really interesting."
"Of course, in order to attract the attention of beautiful girls, I have specially practiced." Eric joked: "Then, this..."
"You can call me Lucy, Mr. Eric."
"Lucinny, that's a nice name, let's go over there and talk." Eric pointed to an open space not far away, in order to get rid of these enthusiastic or purposeful girls at the party who were harassing them one after another, Eric wisely chooses a temporary female companion.
At the same time, I sighed slightly in my heart. If this little girl like Aniston was here, she wouldn’t have these troubles. I don’t know what this stubborn girl is doing in New York at this moment. Calculated according to the time difference between the east and west of North America, New York should be gone by now. It's early morning.