The environment in Los Angeles makes it difficult for people to feel the climate change. When Eric arrived in New York, the city had already had the second snowfall of the year, and the town of East Hampton on Long Island was covered with a thick layer of snow. Covered with white snow, coupled with the sparsely populated reasons, it looks extremely deserted.
However, apart from being colder, this environment is also just suitable for two women to live in. After all, neither Virginia nor Joanna want to suddenly wake up one day and see news that they are pregnant in the newspaper.
The two girls were obviously bored, and they were very happy to see that Eric could come to spend Thanksgiving with them. Although it is winter now, if you want to go out, you just need to wrap yourself tightly. This kind of dress will not look too abrupt in cold weather. However, in order to avoid the possibility of being discovered as much as possible, the number of times the two women go out is still very small. Fortunately, the temporary rented mansion is not small, allowing people to have enough space for activities.
There are still four days to Thanksgiving, and after lunch at noon, Virginia covered herself tightly, and took her assistant to go out to purchase for the festival. Eric originally planned to go with him, but the woman stayed behind on the grounds that the goal was too big. Eric had no choice but to instruct the woman carefully before letting the woman go out.
Although it was noon, the weather was still cold, gray, and the clouds were low above the head, and there seemed to be signs of snow again. After Eric sent Virginia away, he and Joanna took a walk in the yard to breathe After a while of fresh air, he quickly got into the well-heated room.
"Want to go to the study with me?" Eric asked as he helped Joanna hang up the windbreaker.
Although he left Los Angeles, Eric would receive some messages from Los Angeles at this time every afternoon. Because of the time difference. It was still past nine o'clock in Los Angeles. Just in time for work.
Joanna nodded, with a quiet smile: "Okay."
Eric led Joanna into the study room, pulled a chair for Joanna to sit down at the desk, poured a glass of boiling water for the woman and put it in front of her, then turned to his seat, and took out the fax from the fax machine. Information received automatically.
Joanna watched Eric flip through the documents quietly, listening to the slight rustling of the paper, with a slight sense of satisfaction in her expression. Occasionally seeing Eric look up, he raised the corners of his lips and showed a nice smile. When she was not working, Joanna often spent her time doing housework and liked to clean all the rooms. However, since she became pregnant, even Virginia often 'blamed' her for being lazy, but only she knew how much she expected and valued this child, and she didn't want anything to go wrong with it. During this time, the only exercise she did was walking, and other than that, it was in sunny weather. Let people set up a chair and sit under the eaves, holding a book in their hands and reading quietly all day long.
After Eric arrives. Her pastime was to sit next to him, quietly all day long, and this kind of deep dependence made Virginia feel a little jealous.
Today happens to be Monday, and the box office of the two films "Speed" and Disney's animation "Aladdin" released during Thanksgiving by Firefly Pictures have already been released.
The three-day box office of "Speed" was 19 million US dollars in the first weekend, and it is expected to get around 25 million to 28 million in the first week. Ke was not too disappointed.
The investment of "Life and Death" is only more than 30 million U.S. dollars, which is 10 million less than "Four Hundred Years of Panic", not to mention compared with "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with an investment of more than 60 million U.S. dollars. Judging from the word-of-mouth received by "Speed", the film's box office drop in the next few weeks will not be too high. Before another wave of blockbuster films are released on Christmas, it will definitely not be a problem to get a box office of more than 80 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office will definitely be able to Breaking through 100 million, although Firefly has repeatedly created miracles at the box office, Hollywood has not yet entered the era of movies with a box office of 100 million yuan. In 1992, the box office can exceed 100 million US dollars, which is still a sign of very successful movies.
Looking at the data of "Aladdin" that followed, Eric frowned slightly. The box office of "Aladdin" in the first weekend was only 9 million, but Eric quickly relaxed. "I didn't have too high expectations. Moreover, Disney's hand-drawn animation films have always been either silent or released for a long time, accumulating a jaw-dropping total box office. Last year's "Beauty and the Beast" was like this. "Beauty and the Beast" has been released for nearly half a year, and has accumulated a box office of nearly 150 million US dollars. The quality of "Aladdin" is not a problem. Eric believes that this movie Still able to get out of such a box office curve.
However, although the total box office has accumulated to a fairly high level, the share Disney gets is often not too much, because the longer the release time, the lower the share Disney gets from the theaters. In many cases, the total share is only More than 30%, far lower than the 55% share level that big film companies get from theaters on average. This is also the reason why many of Disney's hand-drawn animations choose not to go through theatrical channels, but to release video tapes directly. Although "The King" has a global box office of 900 million US dollars, in order to save distribution costs, the sequel of "The Lion King" is still released directly on video tapes and has not entered the theaters.
Looking at the various data of "Aladdin" in his hand, Eric once again thought of Pixar's 3D animation. The box office curve of "Toy Story" is no different from that of Hollywood blockbusters. According to the development trend of Hollywood film distribution rules, saturated distribution It will become more and more mainstream, and the living space of movies that hope to accumulate box office through word of mouth will become smaller and smaller. Although it is impossible not to, Eric will not pin his hopes on these extremely unlikely things. Under such circumstances, it is almost inevitable to cancel Disney's hand-drawn animation production and fully produce 3D animation.
For now, though, Disney's hand-drawn animation division is still working on The Lion King. If next year "The Lion King" is a box office hit like the original time and space. The resistance to Eric canceling Disney's hand-drawn animation will be greatly increased. Of course, because Disney is under its umbrella, this kind of resistance will definitely not come from the outside world, and it is more likely to come from Disney's management.
Although Eric got along very well with Katzenberg, he definitely didn't think that Katzenberg would be obedient to him, if it was just hard work without strong independent judgment. Katzenberg couldn't have gotten to where he is today.
What a headache!
Eric couldn't help but rubbed his forehead. Joanna, who was sitting opposite, suddenly pointed out the window and said, "Look, Eric, it's snowing again."
"Yeah," Eric turned his head to look out the window, and said, "Do you want to go outside and have a look? Once the snow falls, the weather won't be too cold."
"Okay," Joanna nodded. stood up.
Putting on thick clothes, the two came outside the villa. A thin layer had once again accumulated on the pavement that had been cleaned in the yard, and snowflakes like catkins fluttered unscrupulously in the air.
Joanna stretched out her hands in pink plush gloves, reached out to the eaves to catch a few snowflakes, and then gently blew on the small ice crystals to float away.
Eric looked at the sky, thinking about when Virginia would come back, Joanna said softly, "Eric, can you make a snowman?"
"No," Eric shook his head honestly. He lived in the south in his previous life. He had never seen snow a lot since he was a child. How could he build a snowman? However, seeing the faint expectation in Joanna's slender eyes, Eric Rick immediately said again: "But I can try."
Joanna hummed and watched Eric walk to the hut where the tools were stored not far away.
After a while, Eric took out a shovel, picked a piece of land on the east lawn in front of the villa, and shoveled up the snow that had not been cleared here jerky.
Joanna asked the servant to move out the chair she often sat on, took another blanket and draped it over her body, and sat under the eaves with a smile, quietly watching Eric busy.
More than half an hour later, an ugly snowman barely stood up. Eric brought carrots and two small blue oranges from the kitchen, and inlaid eyes and noses on the snowman.
"There are still hands, hands," Joanna pointed and said softly.
Eric looked around, broke off two dead branches from a bush not far away, put them in for the snowman, and clapped his hands: "Is this okay?"
Joanna tilted her head to look, and gestured like a little girl: "Hat, no hat yet."
"Oh, wait a minute," Eric said, and walked into the house, and came out after a while with a pink straw hat, which he put on the snowman's head.
"Hehe, this hat belongs to Vicky," Joanna looked at it carefully for a moment before saying.
Eric put down his tools, patted the snowflakes on his body and walked over, knelt down beside Joanna, took a few sips of steaming water from the woman, and said with a smile: "Whatever, a hat That's all, is the snowman pretty?"
"Well," Joanna nodded, and said again: "When I was a child, my father often made me a snowman in winter, and it hasn't happened for many years."
Eric heard some nostalgia in Joanna's tone, and took her hand and patted it: "When the child is born, you can go back to Poland to live for a while, or you can take them over."
"Mom and Dad won't come over, they don't speak English," Joanna shook her head.
The two were chatting in a low voice, the Chevrolet business car that Virginia drove into the yard when she was going out, the little woman who was still in a tight state got out of the car, ordered the driver and assistant to move things out, and rushed Eric and Joanna waved: "Why are you sitting outside, isn't it cold?"
"Eric just built a snowman," Joanna pointed to the lawn.
Virginia looked at Joanna's fingers, and immediately looked like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "Ah, my hat, my limited edition Chanel, Eric, you bastard."
The little girl yelled and rushed towards the ugly snowman.
Seeing the sudden excitement of the boss, Virginia's female assistant subconsciously followed Virginia, with her arms outstretched and ready to help. Eric stood up helplessly, fearing that the woman would fall, and hurriedly stepped on her. Walked over the thick snow on the lawn.
"My hat, Chanel limited edition," Virginia still yelled, took the pink straw hat off the snowman's head, and kicked the snowman with her little leather boots, In a blink of an eye, the body has been lifted into the air.
Eric held the woman in his arms, and walked carefully to the eaves before putting it down. Seeing Virginia holding the hat in her arms and glaring at him, Eric stretched out his hand and smacked the fleshy part of the woman. One note: "Is the hat more important than the child?"
"Hats..." Virginia blurted out, paused for half a second before taking it up: "...as important as children."
Eric looked helpless, turned around and ordered Virginia's assistant to move the purchased things into the house, dragged the woman into the villa first, and Joanna smiled softly and followed behind the two.
After driving Virginia away to change into thick clothes, Eric freed up to help the servant organize the pile of things the woman bought.
It was not until evening that Virginia's pettiness was over.
I spent a warm Thanksgiving with the two women, but Eric did not leave. Although the Thanksgiving holiday passed quickly, Eric, as the boss, absolutely had the right to arrange his own holiday away from himself.
Of course, there are other things besides spending more time with two women.
After Thanksgiving, the IE browser, which has been developed for more than half a year, was finally officially released, because the main carrier of software distribution in this era still relies on floppy disks. Of course, it is impossible to pay for free floppy disks. Therefore, the IE browser is still sold in the form of floppy disks in the form of paid software, but the price is very low. Although the IE company will not post money for nothing, it has no plan to obtain any profit from the sale of the IE software.
At the same time, the interface of Yahoo's portal website was also developed. Because there was sufficient time for technology research and development, when the Yahoo website was launched, it directly included a very convenient search function. In order to facilitate the promotion of the website, Eric set the homepage of all IE browsers as the main website of Yahoo. However, in order not to give people an excuse of monopoly, Eric did not bind IE to the Yahoo homepage. Anyway, in this era, there are very few people who can modify the homepage. (To be continued..)