In addition to "Pulp Fiction", "Killer Leon" introduced by Paris Disneyland CEO Patrick Schneider has also officially approved the project. France's Gaumont Film Company originally planned to invest in Luc Besson's new film alone, but it can cooperate with Hollywood's flourishing Firefly Of course, the other party couldn't wait for it. For this reason, Nicholas Seydoux, the chairman of the Gaumont Film Company, even flew to Los Angeles in person.
Disneyland Paris opened last year. During the time when Eric went to Paris, he also attended a party held by the Seydoux family. The two parties had met once, and the other party was so serious. Eric also took the time to show his importance. The other party was invited. Gaumont Film Company has a history of nearly a hundred years in France and is one of the few film companies in France that specializes in producing commercial films. Maintaining a cooperative relationship with such a French local snake can play a very important role in further opening up the French film market.
Because he checked the post-production process of several films of the company at Firefly Studios in the morning, Eric chose Venice Beach as the venue for the banquet for Nicholas Seydoux. After the two had dinner, they chose a coffee shop to chat with each other. It took several hours before Nicholas Seydoux left. After sending the other party away, Eric continued to sit by the window and drink coffee.
Today is July 1st, 1℉. It has been nearly half a month since I returned to Los Angeles. The turmoil caused by the resignation in the digital field has passed, because I have prepared in advance. Although Pixar’s 3D animation "A Bug's Life" box office performance It still performed very well, but Pixar did not appear in the digital field.
Several other Hollywood film companies are of course jealous of the huge profits brought by the box office of "A Bug's Life" and its peripherals, but Pixar's first "Toy Story" only cost 40 million US dollars. But the cost of the second "A Bug's Life" has skyrocketed to 70 million. Totally blockbuster level. Although the other six major film companies can afford this production fee, they often have a two-year production cycle and lack of production experience. In addition, the other six major film companies do not have Disney's rich peripheral operation experience and comprehensive Disney retail network. Some companies are in the stage of hesitating whether to develop their own 3D animation films.
However, Eric is the one who understands the prospects of 3D animation movies the most. He knows that even without an online peripheral operation system, the commercial prospects of 3D movies are very broad. In the original time and space, in the next ten years, there will be 3D animations in the top ten Hollywood box office charts every year. Therefore, Eric is already considering expanding the scale of Firefly's 3D animation department, at least to reach the speed of launching a 3D animation every year.
Thinking about these things in his heart, Eric saw Allen walking in from the door of the coffee shop.
For a while, Eric thought about getting a new assistant for himself, preferably a beautiful woman with exquisite looks, seductive eyes, and ability. Unfortunately, this matter ended without a problem. Eric thought about letting Jennifer, who received a degree from Stanford last year, Connery tried it, and Connery was also very enthusiastic at the beginning. But the girl had been an intern in his assistant's office for less than a month, and she quit because of the extremely complicated work. The girl is a Persian cat. The little brain is not very smart, and it is more suitable for a leisurely and comfortable life. The life I live now is to occasionally pick up a movie or two to show my sense of existence, and the rest is to enjoy life, flying around in fashion capitals around the world, participating in All kinds of fashion activities, and he followed suit with great interest to create a clothing brand under his own name. He spent a lot of money, but there was no result. Eric didn't care. The last thing he lacks now is money. Well, as long as the girl is obediently being her own kitten, then she can do whatever she wants.
Allen walked up to him and said, "Mr. Lynn just called. According to the current box office trend, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" will exceed 300 million U.S. dollars next week. Don't want to prepare a celebration banquet?"
From June 4 to the present, "Jurassic Park" has been released for four weeks, and the total box office has reached 280 million US dollars. Although the current weekly box office has dropped to about 30 million US dollars, next week "Clash of Heaven and Earth" "The release of "Jurassic Park" may also bring a big drop in the box office for this dinosaur blockbuster, but there is no problem with the total box office of "Jurassic Park" breaking through 300 million US dollars next week.
Eric glanced at his watch, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon, "Clash of Heaven and Earth" will be released in North America tomorrow, and he will attend the Los Angeles premiere of this movie in the evening, and will fly to Europe again tomorrow to participate in "Juveniles" The Berlin premiere of "Jurassic Park" may go to Asia in late July. As the largest film market in Asia, Eric also needs to show his face at the Japanese premiere of "Jurassic Park". He said that throughout July, he still had to live the life of a trapeze artist.
"Let's postpone this matter for a while. Most of the film's main creators are currently promoting the film in Europe. Without their presence, there is no point in holding a celebration banquet. We will wait until the film's global box office exceeds one billion."
"According to the global release schedule, the total box office may not exceed one billion until after October, or even November at the latest."
"Then after October, don't care about these few months," Eric said: "The celebration banquet with a global box office of more than one billion dollars is more meaningful to Firefly. That's it, is there anything else? "
Allen shook his head: "No, the premiere of "Clash of Heaven and Earth" starts at seven o'clock, and you can sit here until half past five."
Eric smiled, finished the coffee in front of him, got up and said: "The three heroines of "Charlie's Angels" have been training in Santa Monica, I haven't seen the other two. An hour, go and have a look."
"I'll arrange a car," Allen nodded and walked out.
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The three angel performers have been training for more than two months. Even Kate Beckinsale, who couldn't even do basic skills like splits at the beginning, can now perform a complete set of punches decently.
The martial arts instructor invited by Firefly is a member of the famous Yuan family class on the other side of the ocean. The head of the Yuan family class would definitely not come to teach the three girls in person. The one who came was Yuan Xiangren, the youngest of the Yuan family. That wretched old man who peddled Tathagata Palm in "Kung Fu". For Firefly, he required three months of training for the three girls. Yuan Xiangren actually didn't quite understand it. According to his point of view, basically nothing can be practiced in three months. If you want to be a hit girl, you must start practicing from an early age. It is better to use more doubles when shooting.
However, the salary offered by Firefly is very generous, and now that Hong Kong films have declined, there are only a few people left who can live well. At this time, they received invitations from Hollywood film giants. Of course Yuan Jiaban would not refuse.
The training has entered the final period, and the actual combat session has already begun.
In the large training room, the three girls were fighting with several martial artists from Yuan's class, making hahaha sounds from time to time. Of course, those martial artists couldn't really attack these girls, they just fed their moves carefully, Yuan Xiangren stood aside with his arms folded, opening his mouth to give instructions from time to time.
The door of the training room was suddenly pushed open, and a young man of Chinese descent came over and whispered something in Yuan Xiangren's ear, Yuan Xiangren immediately waved his hand to make the players stop: "Okay, stop here, rest for a bit."
Finish this matter. Yuan Xiangren followed the Chinese youth out of the training room.
In a lounge next to the training room, Yuan Xiangren pushed open the door and saw Eric who just got up from the sofa. He hurriedly greeted him, shook hands with Eric, and said in somewhat jerky English: "You All right, Mr. Williams."
"Hello, Mr. Yuan," Eric shook hands with the other party, and the two sat down together before Eric said again: "I just have a little time, I'll come over to see how Kate's training is going."
Yuan Xiangren could still understand these simple English, and the Chinese youth next to them was also the interpreter for him by Firefly, so there was no problem in the communication between the two.
"Mr. Williams, except for that Miss Beckinsale, the other two girls have very good backgrounds. The three of them are making very fast progress. Even if the movie starts immediately, there will be no problem."
Eric nodded with satisfaction: "Then, after "Charlie's Angels" is launched in the future, Mr. Yuan will still be troublesome to continue to act as the action director."
Yuan Xiangren quickly replied: "Of course there is no problem, I will definitely try my best."
"By the way, Mr. Yuan, Mr. Wu is also filming another movie in Los Angeles now. Have you two met?"
"Yes, I have had a few meals with him," Yuan Xiangren replied, with some envy in his tone.
After the success of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Baige Wu was immediately promoted to the first-line Hollywood director. At this time, he was filming another film "Broken Arrow" entrusted to him by Eric. The script that Cooper came up with after chatting with him. The original time and space "Broken Arrow" was not as good as "Face Changing", but because it was developed in cooperation with Columbia, Eric of course wanted to keep the good ones for himself, etc. Baige Wu finished filming "Broken Arrow", and it was not too late for Firefly to invest in "Face Changing" alone.
The two chatted in the lounge for a while before Eric got up and planned to go to the training room next to him to see the three girls.
Yuan Xiangren also heard about Eric's deeds, and today's training is almost over, so he said: "Mr. Williams, today's training is almost over, I won't accompany you there, you You can take the three of them and leave directly."
Eric froze for a moment, then quickly smiled and said, "Okay then, you can go back and rest too."
After the two said goodbye, Yuan Xiangren called several of his apprentices and left the training center together.
Eric sent Yuan Xiangren and others away before walking towards the training room.
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Penelope took the drinks from the three female assistants assigned to them by the company, took a few sips, and said with emotion: "The last two weeks, the last two weeks, two more weeks, and I will be relieved. "
Charlize wiped the sweat off her body with a towel, and said, "It's early, maybe I'll be even more tired during filming."
"That will definitely not be as boring as it is now," Penelope returned the drink to the female assistant, and then took the towel.
On the other side, Kate found her clothes from the hanger, took out a pack of cigarettes, and walked towards the terrace on the south side of the training room.
Because of the relatively hot weather, the training room was even more stuffy. Seeing Kate Beckinsale's actions, the other two girls also walked to the terrace to blow some air together.
There were no chairs in the training room, so the three girls pulled out a sponge cushion and sat down directly.
"Do you want it?" Kate lit a cigarette and took a good puff in her mouth, asking the two girls beside her.
Charlize looked back at the training room, only their little assistant wearing glasses was packing up, and the others were gone, so she took a cigarette from Kate and lit it. I picked it up, ordered one without placing an order.
When Eric came in from the outside, he saw only a black-haired girl wearing glasses in the empty training room. Seeing her appear, the small face of the black-haired girl immediately became a little nervous, which made Eric feel very strange.
Although a little inexplicable, Eric still asked: "Where are the three of them?"
The girl hesitated for a moment, but she reached out and pointed to the balcony exit, hoping that the cigarettes in the mouths of the three girls had better be exhausted, otherwise, if caught by this young man on the spot, she would not know what would happen.
Eric touched his cheek, feeling a little strange about the girl's reaction, but he still walked towards the terrace and came to the entrance. Eric saw at a glance that on the not too wide terrace, three girls were either cross-legged or leaning forward Sitting comfortably on a green sponge cushion, the three held a cigarette in each hand and puffed comfortably.
Shrugging his shoulders dumbfoundedly, Eric understood the reason for the girl's reaction just now. Eric himself absolutely doesn't like seeing girls smoking, but he can't say he hates it. However, watching the three beauties who are slender in tight-fitting exercise suits swallowing clouds and mist together, there is a strange feeling.
Thinking of this, Eric took two steps forward, squatted down next to Kate on the far left, picked up the cigarette case from her lap and took out one, and waved at the stunned three girls who found him: " Can you get me one too?"
It wasn't until Eric picked up the lighter and lit the cigarette again that the three women who had been sluggish jumped up like a frightened cat, threw out the cigarette butts in their hands, and said with embarrassment: "Mr. Williams, you … Hello."
Eric nodded, looked at the three girls who looked like elementary school students waiting for criticism, and said with a smile: "It's just that I'm free, so I'll come to see how your training is going, I didn't expect to see this scene, early Knowing that I came here with a camera, after you become famous, if you have such a photo, selling it to the gossip tabloids is enough for me to make a fortune." (To be continued...)