"You mentioned me, what did you say, didn't you say something bad about me secretly?" Rachel walked into the apartment, sat on the shoe rack at the entrance, and changed the boots on her legs, and asked casually.
Caroline wore flat casual shoes on her feet, and did not change them like Rachel did. She went straight to the sofa in the living room and sat down. When she heard Rachel's words, her face blushed again, thinking that she had accidentally revealed her good friend The tattoo in that place is not a bad word, so I said: "Of course not, I just told him that you are great at acting in plays and won an award at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. He thought you were very interesting and said that he could introduce you to Get to know him."
Rachel took a pair of slippers and put them on her feet before she came over and asked with a smile: "Then when are you going to introduce us? He is a Hollywood tycoon. If I can get to know him, I don't want to go around all day long." Went running to audition for small roles."
"Ah, but, I think, I think Mr. Williams is just being polite. If you really bring you in front of her, it would be too abrupt," Caroline looked at Rachel carefully, and said stutteringly. .
Rachel looked at the girl's timid face, leaned over and smacked Caroline's face without hesitation: "Okay, just kidding, I'm not that naive, Hollywood is not us small people 1, the world, actually I don’t like that Eric Williams very much. Some time ago, an agent of icm came to England to choose a role for a movie of Firefly. My agent finally handed over my information In the past, they just said that I was not of the right age and didn’t even give me an interview opportunity, so they dismissed me. It’s disgusting to think about it. It’s rumored that Eric Williams set the selection criteria for actors.”
Caroline listened to Rachel's angry tone. Can't help but said: "This... this should have nothing to do with Mr. Williams, he is a very personable person."
"You're just too simple," Rachel couldn't help shaking her head.
Caroline pouted and said, "No, I can tell what's real and what's fake."
"Okay, I believe you." Rachel watched the girl's eyes widen, as if if you don't believe me, I will argue with you, and quickly surrendered.
Caroline looked at Rachel's carefree and insincere appearance, but she didn't continue talking. Obviously, this situation has happened between the two of them more than once: "So, Rachel, how is your audition today?" ?”
"I won it on the spot," Rachel said excitedly, "it's a character in "Inspector Moss", about two episodes. After the performance, my rent for the next two months will be found." .”
Caroline was a little excited for her friend, and then remembered how she lived and ate at Rachel's place, and said embarrassedly: "Rachel, I will help you share part of the rent."
"Don't mention it, you should save it for living expenses in the future, I don't have to worry about these things, and you can't live with me for a few days, you can go to Cambridge as soon as school starts. You have to hold on, Don't give in to your father." Rachel waved her hand, said a few words and stood up again: "I'm going to make a pot of coffee, and we'll go out to eat together when it's dark, to celebrate that I got another role."
Caroline hummed, and watched Rachel get into the kitchen. Some little admirers said authentically: "I really envy you. You have always been so independent. If my father hadn't forced me to give up my studies this time and marry that rude and contrived guy from Edward's family, I might not have the courage to run away from home."
Rachel in the kitchen listened to Caroline's words and said with a smile: "There's nothing to envy. At least when you get married, your father will definitely pay for the wedding expenses, but it's not necessarily the case in my family, so I just You can save money and come by yourself."
"I'm not sure. I don't even know what I will do in the future if I violate my father this time. I heard from Aunt Lisa that my aunt broke with the family because she refused to obey Grandpa's arrangement."
Rachel came out of the kitchen with a pot of coffee, and said, "You have an aunt, I haven't heard you talk about it yet."
"I'm not talking!" Caroline immediately retorted dissatisfiedly, realizing that this kind of rebuttal must be fruitless, so she said: "I do have an aunt, but I have never met her. All I know is Aunt Lisa told me secretly. It seems that the year before I was born, my aunt fell in love with a very talented playwright while watching a stage play in the West End of London, but that playwright was born as a commoner. She was also very poor, grandpa firmly disagreed, and soon arranged another blind date for her, and my aunt made a big fuss at home, and then moved to Greece alone, and has not been back for twenty years."
Rachel couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "Caroline, are you sure it's true, isn't your Aunt Lisa fabricating it after watching too many stage plays about wits and beautiful ladies?"
"Aunt Lisa is just a servant in our family, how could she have the leisure to go to a stage play?"
"It must have been made up by too many daytime soaps," Rachel laughed again.
Caroline was obviously shaken by this fairy tale-like story, but on the surface she refused to admit defeat, twisting her head: "I'm ignoring you."
Rachel laughed again, and reached out and rubbed the girl's head.
The two were playing around when the phone rang in the living room. Rachel put down her coffee and walked over to answer the phone. After a few words, she covered the phone in surprise and said to the girl sitting on the sofa: "Caroline , your call, your father called."
Caroline shrank her neck: "How would he know I'm here?"
Rachel couldn't help shaking her head and lamenting the innocence of this good friend. Although Caroline's family is not prominent in England, it is definitely not comparable to those declining nobles. Caroline ran away from home, how could her parents not Don't ask, on the day the girl stayed here, Caroline's mother called and asked her to take care of her daughter.
Seeing Caroline's worried look, Rachel said, "How about I tell your dad that you're not here?"
Caroline hesitated for a while, knowing that since her father knew that she was here, she would definitely be unable to escape, so she reluctantly came over and took the microphone from Rachel.
"Hi. Dad, it's me..."
Rachel handed the microphone to Caroline, and in order not to embarrass her friend too much, she consciously walked towards the bedroom. However, although Caroline always spoke softly, Rachel still vaguely heard the girl's voice.
Five minutes passed. Rachel came out of the bedroom when she heard that there was no movement outside. Seeing Caroline lying on the sofa sullenly, she asked, "Your father asked you to go back?"
"No," said Caroline, sitting up again, "my father said he wouldn't push me out of school any more, but he, he asked me to invite Mr. Williams to dinner at his house. That's really, really rude, How can I say it, if I am rejected, I will be embarrassed to death."
Rachel looked at the tangled appearance of the girl kicking her calves, and could easily figure out the ins and outs of the matter. On the second day after Caroline appeared in Eric Williams, the British media with great powers investigated the details of this girl. The jewel in the palm of the Wilson family personally acted as a tour guide for others. If it is under other circumstances, even if it cannot be regarded as a family scandal. It must also be stopped by the Wilson family as a very disgraceful act.
But after so many days, the Wilson family did not take any action, and did not respond to the media's remarks that Caroline and Eric Williams were very good matches. Obviously, they were happy to see the results. If Eric was just a slightly famous Hollywood director, the Wilson family might still hold on to their identity, but he is a young rich man with billions of dollars in assets. But it was enough to make the Wilson family let go of their restraint.
Seeing his friend hanging his head in confusion, Rachel asked, "Then what are you going to do?"
"I... I don't know," Caroline shook her head.
Rachel is very familiar with this good friend. Looking at Caroline's appearance, it is clear that the girl also seems to very much hope to invite Eric Williams to her home as a guest. So he encouraged: "Then you can tell him directly tomorrow. Anyway, this is an invitation from your father. If he refuses, it has nothing to do with you. You don't have to feel embarrassed."
"Really?" Caroline looked up at Rachel expectantly.
Rachel nodded firmly without any hesitation: "Of course."
"Then I'll just say that my dad invited him tomorrow." Caroline blushed: "Rachel, help me think about it, what should I say tomorrow so that it won't look too abrupt..."
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Because it is located in a high latitude area, the daytime in June in London is very long. It was already 7 o'clock in the afternoon when Eric returned to the hotel, but the sky did not have the slightest tendency to darken.
After eating an early dinner, Eric went back to his room and began to deal with the accumulated emails of the day.
The box office of the second weekend of "Jurassic Park" has been released, because the box office of the first week exploded. More than 40%, even inside Firefly, there are people who hold similar views, and some people suggest that Eric prepares to reduce the number of screens of "Jurassic Park".
However, after the real data came out, many people's predictions were once again disappointed.
Compared with the first week, the weekend box office of the second week of "Jurassic Park" only dropped by 37%, earning more than 42 million U.S. dollars, a drop far below the average 50% drop expected by most box office forecasting agencies . During the large-scale release of many Hollywood movies, because the box office will explode in the first week, the box office will often experience a relatively large drop in the second week, and then the box office drop will stabilize at a data that meets the quality and reputation of the movie. .
Now that "Jurassic Park" escaped its second-week box-office slump, it's unlikely that the film's box-office drop will be too steep in the following weeks. Firefly's internal statistics department has estimated the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" at US$500 million, which is US$40 million higher than the first "Star Wars" that year.
Eric made the bold statement of one billion dollars in the world at the beginning, but in fact, he expected the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" to be around 400 million U.S. dollars, although the North American box office performance of "Jurassic Park" now exceeds his own. Forecast, but he is not sure that the film can touch the threshold of 500 million US dollars in North America.
Because when Eric was planning the North American publicity strategy of "Jurassic Park", he adopted the high-intensity publicity and large-scale release strategy that became popular in Hollywood a few years later in the original time and space. It is an evolutionary version of the saturated hairstyle that is currently popular in Hollywood. It is more radical than the traditional saturated hairstyle, but it also has great disadvantages. The most important point is that it shortens the release cycle of the movie. A traditional commercial blockbuster is often released within four weeks. Within the box office, more than 80% of the box office was harvested. According to the current box office trend of "Jurassic Park", Eric is confident that "Jurassic Park" will win the North American box office of 300 million US dollars within four weeks, but the box office trend of "Jurassic Park" will appear in a month. Eric has no idea what the situation is.
After reading the emails related to "Jurassic Park", Eric began to check other emails, and soon knew the information he wanted, which was Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Last Action Hero" .
As Eric expected, due to the poor quality of itself and the box office squeeze of "Jurassic Park", this action movie costing 80 million US dollars from Carlock Films only received more than 1,600 yuan in the first three days of the weekend. $10,000 at the box office, not even as much as "Jurassic Park"'s first-day box office. In the original time and space, Stallone and Schwarzenegger were planted on these two consecutive blockbusters at the same time. These two famous Hollywood action movie stars are also related by fate. They were also born in the 1940s, and they were late bloomers in their thirties. However, less than ten years after they became famous, they fell on two films that were released in the same summer. . Although Arnold Schwarzenegger received more than 20 million US dollars for several sequels of the "Terminator" series after "The Last Action Hero", his other films have never been paid again. High prices. Stallone's two popular series "Rambo" and "Rocky" both came to an end due to the gradual decline in the box office, and there is no trump card to maintain his worth. In the next ten years of the original time and space, Stallone can barely be regarded as a good work. Only "The Expendables" was produced after many years of ups and downs. (To be continued..)