The two women walked through the hall of the villa, and soon found Eric's figure. The last rays of the setting sun obliquely passed through the glass curtain wall and hit him. With a quiet and calm charming temperament. Elizabeth and Julia slowed down at the same time, not wanting to break the scene, but the empty hall amplified the knocking of the two women's high heels several times.
Eric heard the sound of high heels tapping the floor, raised his head, saw the figures of the two women, smiled and said: "I was just thinking about how to make dinner later, and you came here."
"Oh, what do you think of us, is it your dinner?" Elizabeth pulled Julia up, and together they shrank into the space chair opposite Eric. The two women are both very slender, and they don't look crowded in the somewhat spacious egg-shaped space chair.
Eric looked at the two women who were shaking slightly in the opposite space chair, with a smile still on his lips, and said: "I mean, someone has come to cook for me, but I don't mind if you have to cook my dinner yourself. It's delicious."
This sentence sounded like flirting. Julia's face turned red slightly, but Elizabeth snorted softly and said, "Do you know that you just sat in the corner by yourself? It's like the big villain behind the scenes hiding behind the scenes in the movie, plotting against the protagonist."
"Yeah, this kind of big villain usually has a few beauties with enchanting figures by his side. Once the two of you come over, the picture will be complete."
Julia couldn't help laughing out loud. When Elizabeth and Eric get along, they are always like a cat in a state of blowing hair, as if instinctively wanted to quarrel with Eric. But there is always no bargain.
"Hi. Where are you from?" Elizabeth heard Julia's laughter, and couldn't help reaching out and pinching her waist.
Julia smiled and pushed Elizabeth's little hand away: "Whatever my business, I can't laugh anymore."
Eric watched the two girls scratching each other quickly, looked down with a smile on his lips, and took out a few from the thick stack of documents in front of him and handed them over: "Here, here you are."
In fact, Elizabeth noticed what Eric was reading when she first arrived. Although she just glanced casually, she was sure that this was a copy of the contract between Firefly and Columbia. Seeing that Eric handed it over, he quickly stopped fighting with Julia, and took it with a smile, but stared dissatisfied at the folder on Eric's lap, where there were still dozens of pages.
Eric stretched out his hand and pressed on the rest of the materials, shook his head and said, "You can't read these."
"You're so stingy," Elizabeth curled her lips and complained, but obediently backed away.
After Elizabeth sat down beside her, Julia curiously moved over to read a few lines, but soon lost interest in the densely packed letters. He raised his head and noticed that Eric was just looking at him. Julia dodged her gaze a few times in a panic, and finally greeted her timidly, unconsciously carrying some unknown expectations in her heart.
"You have been so self-willed and lazy for a year, Kapoor must be mad?" Eric asked softly, turning the pencil in his hand.
"I'm not self-willed, I've been taking care of Emma. And Kapoor has so many big names in his hands now, and he doesn't care about me," Julia said, but her tone didn't have any confidence at all. From the establishment of tg to the present, Although there are not many films produced, they are all extremely successful. With 30% of tg equity in her hand, Julia also received a dividend that was several times higher than her film salary. In comparison, Julia's enthusiasm for acting has also suddenly weakened a lot.
Eric didn't seem to hear Julia's distinction. He tapped the blue plastic hard cover of the folder lightly with a pencil in his hand, and said, "It's been so long since "Pretty Woman", you can pick up the romantic comedy again. For this subject matter, I will take the time to ask someone to choose a script for you."
Julia hummed obediently, and Elizabeth, who had already quickly read the thin pages in front of her, heard Eric's words, and couldn't help saying: "How can you be so domineering without asking Julia if she wants to?" willing."
Eric glanced at her lightly, with an obvious expression that said, did you know me on the first day
Elizabeth turned her head to look at Julia, hoping that she could resist Eric's "violence" with her, but seeing Julia's low-browed and compliant little daughter-in-law, she immediately vented her anger. There is no objection to those who are upbeat, so what else should I worry about.
"Hey, this, what's going on?" Elizabeth raised the few pages of contract fragments in Yang's hand, and turned the topic to the purpose of her trip.
Eric said: "It's what you see, cooperating to develop movies, everyone wins, everyone is happy."
"I don't believe your nonsense," Elizabeth said: "Although this contract is a bit harsh for Columbia, if it is released, with the reputation accumulated by Firefly, even if it is a stricter condition, someone will join in. Hmph, there must be something inside here."
As Elizabeth said, her small eyes glanced at the documents on Eric's knees, there must be the answers she wanted. Although she was asked by her father to inquire about the situation, at this time, Elizabeth herself felt a strong curiosity. Although in some of the terms she saw, the cooperation is very unfavorable to Columbia, but if the films produced by the two parties can maintain the consistent box office level of Firefly, then Columbia will definitely not suffer. At the same time, Columbia's parent company Sony Pictures can also use this Open up the situation in Hollywood.
From this point of view, fireflies are simply giving pillows to people who are drowsy.
"You've said it's an inside story, so of course you can't talk about it everywhere."
Hearing Eric admit that there was an inside story, Elizabeth's curiosity increased again, she stared at the remaining documents in Eric's hand, thinking in her heart that if she suddenly went up to snatch them, Eric would fry her to maturity …
Eric looked at Elizabeth's small appearance eager to try with great interest, and deliberately pushed the document in her direction, taking the initiative to 'create' conditions for Elizabeth to come like a piebald snake from the Garden of Eden.
Elizabeth's eyes flashed quickly, and she inadvertently saw Eric's eyes. Immediately discouraged.
Eric laughed and got up and walked over. Take the part of the contract in Elizabeth's hand and put it in the folder. Patted the girl's face, as if comforting a kitten that was not full: "Okay, there are ingredients in the kitchen, let's make dinner, if you don't want to do it, you can order takeaway, I'll go to the study and make a few calls."
Elizabeth shook her head vigorously a few times, trying to shake off Eric's nasty palm, Eric's eyes flashed. But it slid all the way down the girl's face. Elizabeth quickly pressed her chest and exclaimed, "Ah, pervert, what are you doing? Julia...Julia is here."
Julia stared wide-eyed at Eric's hand reaching into Elizabeth's collar, which seemed to be still rubbing.
But soon, the big hand was pulled out, holding a piece of soft cushion, Elizabeth's face suddenly turned red like blood, and Julia was stunned. He burst out laughing.
"What did I say, it's too big, it's really disappointing." Eric sighed, and the old god said on the ground.
"You bastard," Elizabeth snatched the things frantically, cursed bitterly, but saw Eric walking towards the study on his own.
Watching Eric's figure disappear, Julia turned her head to look at Elizabeth, with a smile still on the corner of her mouth: "Hey, shall we... want to make dinner?"
"No," Elizabeth said bitterly, but quickly said, "Order takeaway."
"whee… "
"Don't laugh," Elizabeth said frantically.
Julia's laughter grew louder, she clutched her stomach and said, "Yes... haha... I'm sorry, I can't help it."
"What's there to be proud of? Yours is no better than mine."
Julia didn't change her smile, and proudly held her plump breasts: "It's bigger than you anyway."
"You little girl," Elizabeth rushed over, "I'll make it smaller for you."
"Ah... Let go, it hurts, it hurts, you are really here, I don't laugh anymore, I don't laugh anymore, aha, help me."
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The sudden cooperation between Firefly and Columbia has caused quite a stir in Hollywood. In the next week, the North American media will focus on this matter. The 64th Academy Awards held.
The list of nominations for the 64th Oscar was announced on February 19th. Not surprisingly, "Dances with Wolves", which was cut off by Eric for a year, became the big winner, including Best Picture and Best Director 12 other nominations. Not only that, since last December, "Dances with Wolves" has been released for more than 10 weeks, but the weekly box office figure has remained at a height of around 7 million, and the total box office has also exceeded 100 million US dollars. The word-of-mouth of "Dance" will definitely usher in another box office rebound before and after the Oscars. Then, there is almost no suspense for the total box office of this movie to exceed 150 million, and it is not impossible to even reach 200 million US dollars.
Even Eric himself didn't expect the amazing results of "Dances with Wolves". What will this movie do at the box office, but according to normal management, it is expected that after the movie wins the Oscar, it will make some gains in the video tape market. Therefore, Eric did not care about this movie last year. The distribution rights of the film were handed over to Fox, and they only retained the film copyright and peripheral distribution rights.
According to the current situation, Fox must be making crazy money, while Eric is a little depressed, and even more depressed, it must be the producer and Orion Pictures that sold the film for 30 million US dollars last year.
Orion Pictures has gone through bankruptcy and reorganization, and has started the production business again. Noticing the amazing performance of "Dances with Wolves", a person in charge of Orion publicly denounced Firefly in a magazine for extremely despicable The copyright of the film was snatched by means, and Kevin Costner, the director and actor who also invested in "Dances with Wolves", although he did not show much slack in participating in the film's public relations, he also knew that he He gave up a large amount of profits. According to the profits of "Dances with Wolves", Kevin Costner, who accounted for 15% of the total investment, only received 4.5 million US dollars from last year's sale price. Although he earned 1.5 million, but If he participates in the share, he will get more than 10 million US dollars in benefits. This loss of profit is enough to make him want to hit the wall with regret.
However, Hollywood is like this, realistic and cruel, but full of opportunities, no one knows what will happen in the next moment. Just like Warner's first "Batman", because it didn't have too many expectations for this movie beforehand, in order to save money, Warner smartly signed a contract with Jack Nicholson, who played the supporting role of the clown, to share the share of the salary As a result, "Batman" became a hit at the box office, and because of that sharing agreement, Warner successively paid Jack Nicholson a share of up to 50 million US dollars, which was more than the sum of the remuneration received by the film's male and female protagonists and the director. many.
The cooperation agreement between Firefly and Columbia is not particularly confidential. In less than a week, the executives of other Hollywood film companies knew the general content of the agreement. This cooperation agreement basically put Columbia in the position of an external investor. But even so, it is enough to make other film companies envious. After all, ordinary external investors investing in movies must have lost money and made money, and they often lose money more often, and the number of times they make money is very few. The movies produced in the past few years have almost never failed. Hollywood also doesn't believe that Firefly will intentionally produce bad movies in order to cheat Columbia, so Columbia's profits must be guaranteed.
Although it can be guessed that there must be other ulterior transactions behind this agreement, several other film companies have all tried to contact Firefly, and they expressed their willingness even for similar cooperation agreements.
As for Sony, after the preliminary cooperation negotiations between the two parties were reached, Sony headquarters also expressed great concern for this cooperation, and even announced the news on local Japanese media complacently.
"Hello, Mr. Dahe," Eric shook hands with the Asian man in his early 60s, and at the same time looked at him nonchalantly. He didn't expect that Sony paid more attention to the cooperation between the two parties than he imagined. Norio Ohga, the current president of Sony, actually rushed to New York to attend the signing ceremony.
Norio Ohga was also looking at Eric who was opposite. Although he had already read Eric's information, he was still a little surprised at how young the firefly owner was when he saw Eric himself. (To be continued..)