The car slowly drove into the parking lot of Sharp Point Manor. The driver turned his head and took a look. He found that Eric was resting with his eyes closed, so he turned off the engine and sat quietly in the driver's seat without disturbing Eric. But Eric, who felt the surroundings were completely quiet, quickly opened his eyes, looked out the car window, and said, "I'm so sorry, Carl, did I sleep for a long time?"
The driver turned his head and said, "Not long, Mr. Williams, we've only been home for two minutes."
Eric got out of the car and took a deep breath. The cool and humid air on the coast of Malibu hit his lungs, and he felt much more refreshed.
The driver named Carl came out and said, "Mr. Williams, the guard just said that Miss Kidman came over in the evening."
"I see, you go and rest," Eric finished, took out his windbreaker and briefcase from the car, and walked towards the villa.
In the hall of the villa, the lights on the walls were dimly lit. Eric walked to the corner of the hall and saw Nicole lying on her side on the double sofa, sleeping soundly with a pillow on her head.
The girl was wearing a thin pale pink sweater, her chest undulating slightly as she breathed, her legs wrapped in dark jeans were slender and attractive, Eric took a few glances, although he was a little moved, he didn't bother Nicole, It's already 10:7 at night, more, Nicole must have been waiting for him for a long time.
After taking a thin blanket next to the girl and covering it for the girl, Eric went to the bar in the corner and poured himself a glass of wine, sat at the small coffee table on the other side, took out a stack of documents from the briefcase he brought back, and continued to read up.
Because after the Oscar, Eric will go to Oklahoma to shoot "Tornado", and the shooting cycle will last as long as three months. If everything goes well, the movie will not be closed until the end of June. So Eric had to take advantage of himself in Los Angeles. Assault handling various affairs of fireflies.
If you are content with the status quo. Eric can completely decentralize power more vigorously. Anyway, with his current wealth, even if he doesn't do anything, it is enough to live comfortably for a lifetime. But this body is only twenty years old now, and it is the time when it is full of energy. Eric doesn't want to live in such a dream. As a "passer-by" in this time and space, Eric is now completely in the mentality of a player, and he wants to see himself as a player before the "curtain call". How many levels can be upgraded, and whether it can dominate the entire copy of the plane, this is actually quite interesting.
Time passed by every minute and every second, and the area illuminated by the light could only hear the sound of paper pages turning from time to time.
Maybe she had slept enough, or maybe she felt the coldness of the night, Nicole, who had been lying on the sofa, moved, opened her eyes, pulled the thin blanket beside her and stared blankly for a while, and heard something not far away. Only then did he prop up his body and look in that direction.
Lay down on the back of the couch. Posing his head, he looked at Eric, who was sitting on the single sofa with his legs crossed, concentrating on flipping through the documents in his hand, for a while. The girl asked, "Eric, what time is it?"
"It's almost twelve o'clock," Eric turned his head and glanced at Nicole. Because she just woke up, the girl had a touch of blush on her cheeks, and a few strands of messy hair scattered on her forehead. She was very charming, no wonder Many literary works always describe a woman's coquettish attitude when she just wakes up. At this time, Nicole really looks charming.
Feeling Eric's gaze resting on her face, Nicole smiled, reached out and brushed a strand of hair that fell on her cheek, sat up, put on her high heels and walked to Eric's side.
Eric moved aside, and the girl was not polite, and squeezed directly on a single sofa with Eric. Both of them are relatively thin people, so it doesn't look like they are sitting next to each other on the same sofa. Crowded, but the limbs are connected through thin fabrics, coupled with the faint body fragrance of the woman, Eric felt a little distracted, couldn't help hugging Nicole, lifted the knitted sweater on the girl and stretched out his hand to drill He went in and rubbed lightly on the slender waist.
Nicole smiled and twisted her waist, but she didn't stop her. She leaned sideways in front of Eric and looked at the document in his hand: "What is this?"
Eric said: "The script for the second 3D animation handed over by Pixar."
With that said, Eric picked up another folder and handed it to Nicole: "This is the first draft of their character design. Take a look, what do you think?"
Nicole opened the blue folder and saw a lot of insect shapes drawn on the paper. After reading it quickly, the girl said: "It's very cute, I don't know the rest."
"It's fine if you think it's cute. When I gave the idea of this story to John and the others, they said that insects in reality are not very cute."
Nicole gently hugged Eric's arm, and said with a smile: "I think as long as the story you come up with, it must be very good."
"If you have so much confidence in me, maybe it won't be long before someone will have bad luck because of this blindness."
"That must be because they didn't do a good job."
"Hmm..." Erica made a long voice, and suddenly asked jokingly, "Small mouth is so sweet today, but this style is different from yours in the past. Is there anything else you need my help with?"
Nicole didn't feel guilty at all, and said with a smile: "Is your mouth very sweet, do you want to taste it?"
As she spoke, the girl brought her rosy lips closer together.
Eric smiled and kissed Nicole's lips, licked his lips pretendingly, and then judged: "It's really a bit sweet, there's really nothing wrong, let me talk about it while I'm happy now?"
"I really have nothing to do, but someone wants me to help you set up a thread. I think you will definitely not agree, so if you don't ask, I won't talk about it."
Eric quickly changed his mind, Nicole is currently filming "Captain Hawk", if it was Spielberg, he would definitely not let Nicole bring flowers to him, the relationship between the two is not bad, Spielberg Greg would definitely call himself. Then besides Spielberg, it could only be another person. Don't forget, Nicole's current manager is Pai Kingsley, and Pai Kingsley is also Tom Cruise's manager.
"It won't be Cruise?" Eric asked tentatively.
Nicole showed a slightly surprised look, nodded and said: "Yes, but I didn't see him. Ms. Paula Wagner invited me to dinner yesterday. I'm talking about this."
Eric knew what the girl said. He wanted to show that he had no private contact with Cruise. He smiled and asked, "Is it related to the copyright of "Dark War", or does Cruise want to win the copyright of the other half of "Dark War"?"
Now Nicole was even more surprised: "How do you know?"
"It's easy to guess, but I can't think of anything else," Eric said.
and. In fact, this kind of speculation also has a "lesson from the past". In his memory, Cruise owns half of the copyright of the "Mission: Impossible" movie series. Filming a "Mission: Impossible", Cruise received more than Paramount.
If Cruise didn't own half of the copyright of "Mission: Impossible", Paramount would have kicked off this noisy guy long ago. Ramon in order to restart the "Mission: Impossible" series. He had to pinch his nose and reconcile with Cruise.
Now the film copyright of "Mission: Impossible" has been taken down by Eric instructing Drew in advance, after Cruise went it alone. If you want to create your own series of movies, it makes sense to put your idea on the "Dark War" series with a good foundation.
Hearing Eric say this, Nicole said: "It's no wonder, if I can't guess it, you must have heard something."
Eric didn't bother with this question anymore, but said: "Let's talk, I'm quite interested, how does Cruise want to get half of the copyright of "Dark War", although he is now worth hundreds of millions US dollars, but I think 100 million US dollars in cash will not be squeezed out even if he is squeezed out?"
"Cruise's production company should have attracted investment. Paula said yesterday that if you agree, you can discuss it face to face. They plan to pay part of the cash and do some exchange of benefits. For example, Cruise helped Firefly film a few movies. some type of."
If there is no change in the historical trajectory, Cruise's salary, or the salary of the entire Hollywood star, will not start to explode until after 1995. At that time, the 20 million salary club was established, and first-line stars gradually became popular. pay model. In comparison, Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others' $15 million salary is not an exaggeration at all. Eric occasionally thinks about whether he can stop the crazy salary increase trend of stars, because Hong Kong stars on the other side of the ocean have already suffered the bitter fruit of crazy salary increases. The sky-high salary makes most of the production cost spent on hiring stars, resulting in a large number of bad movies. In addition, Southeast Asian countries are still starting Hong Kong movies, and Hong Kong movies are now on the verge of collapse.
If there is no restraint, the unlimited growth of Hollywood stars' remuneration is likely to lead to such a result. In the case of the ever-expanding international market, perhaps the producers can still grit their teeth and pay such a high remuneration. Once the market is finalized, Even began to shrink, then Hollywood movies will undoubtedly embark on the "old road" of Hong Kong movies.
Before Eric was reborn, the North American film market had stagnated, and the European market had been developed. There was only one Asian film market that was still expanding. However, once the capacity of the Asian market reached its peak, then The development of Hollywood will also enter a bottleneck.
Nicole watched Eric suddenly stop talking, waited quietly for a while, and then couldn't help asking: "What are you thinking, so suddenly lost in thought?"
"No matter how much you think about exploiting you little actors, the life of capitalists will be hard."
Ni Ke joked again for Eric, laughed a few times, and then said: "Then shall I tell Paula directly tomorrow that you disagree with this matter?"
"Well, if they just come out with cash, I can't think about it. The cooperation is fine. You should be able to find that other big-name stars rarely appear in Cruise's movies, because everyone doesn't like to cooperate with Cruise. , Cruise himself seems to be reluctant to cooperate with big names, this time in "Dark Wars", he plans to do it alone."
"Then I'll tell him that," Nicole said, lowering her eyes slightly, stretched out a finger to stroke Eric's arm for a while, and then said: "Eric, I heard that you won't miss the Oscar this time." Without a girlfriend?"
"I'm going to go alone," Eric had to repeat what he had already said to several women: "Sorry, Nicole, they have all asked about it. However, it seems that you did not participate in the nomination last year work?"
Nicole let out a sigh of regret, and replied: "Pate helped me run an award presenter for the best photography, so I will also go this time."
Eric didn't want to continue this topic, and quickly asked: "How is the filming of "Captain Hawk" going?"
"It's okay," Nicole said in frustration, but she soon realized that her tone might make Eric misunderstand that she was having a temper because of the red carpet, and explained: "I feel, Si Mr. Pielberg seems to be very... anxious, these days, he often even announces that the filming is stopped for no reason. Maybe, just maybe...”
Nicole wanted to say that maybe it was a mistake for her to fight for this role, but after thinking about it, she still didn't say it out. She cried and begged for this role from Eric once, and now she can't express her disgust. I can only swallow this bitter fruit silently. Judging from the current situation, "Captain Hawk" does not seem to be of much help to my acting career.
Thinking that half of the copyright of Eric's "Dark War" could be sold for 100 million U.S. dollars, Nicole had a temporary thought: "Eric, tell me, how about I also study film production?"
"Why did you suddenly think of doing this?" Eric asked.
Nicole blushed a little, she couldn't say that this was more profitable, although she really thought so, but deep down, Nicole also envied Julia, Drew and Elizabeth for establishing TG Films. You know, after the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" is released through various channels, it can bring more than 100 million US dollars in profit to the three women. And even if her current salary is maintained at the level of 5 million US dollars, she still needs to make 20 films to earn that much money.
Besides, although being a first-line actress is beautiful, in Hollywood, the real power is still the powerful film producer. If she doesn't have any contacts, Nicole can only be her own actor honestly, but with a backer like Eric, and the success of Elizabeth and others, she has moved on.
"I just suddenly wanted to try it. If they can do it, I should be able to do it too."
Eric thought for a moment, and suddenly showed a smirk: "It's not impossible, if you can completely pull the two people to your side, I will support you to set up a film company." (To be continued...)