"Hi, Penny, how are you doing?" After chatting with Jeffrey and James for a while, Eric began to socialize among the other guests.
Penny Marshall gestured to the two guests beside her, who turned and left winkingly: "It's still the same, I have received a lot of script invitations, but I am not very satisfied, so I decided to take a break. I don't like You, shooting a second movie so quickly without stopping."
Eric laughed and said, "I have no choice but to. So many people are waiting to see my jokes, so of course I have to give them something to think about. The box office of "Return to Seventeen" has already reached 70 million U.S. dollars? It seems to have exceeded 100 million It must be a matter of time, as a female director, it is very difficult for anyone to break your record in a short period of time if you produce two movies with a box office of over 100 million within a year."
Penny Marshall's compliment to Eric was very useful, but she still said: "That can't compare with you, "Home Alone" has won more than 24 million box office in the last week."
"Okay, stop complimenting each other, I feel a little sick to my stomach." James Brooks cut in suddenly: "Eric, do I have something to discuss with Penny? Just a moment..."
"Of course no problem," Eric nodded, turned and walked towards the others.
When the reception was about to end, Eric stopped Kapoor who was about to leave: "Kapoor, can you come with me, I have something to discuss with you."
Kapoor nodded, and followed Eric to the study on the second floor. The study looked a little messy. The clippings on the writing board that occupied one wall had been cleaned up. At this time, Eric's hand-painted "Pretty Woman" storyboards were densely pasted. Near the window, the piano that had been returned was brought back by Eric.
Kapoor was obviously a little surprised by the different messy style of this room. The other aspects of the villa are clean and tidy, and anyone who comes here suddenly will have a feeling of being out of place.
Eric stuffed a few folders on the desk into the bookshelf, and explained: "This is where I create, and cleaners are not allowed in, so it's a bit messy."
"Drew doesn't live here?"
Eric pulled out a chair and handed it to Kapoor: "The girl doesn't have this self-consciousness, so I just tidy it up myself occasionally."
"You can't spoil her too much." Kapoor suggested with a smile.
Eric shrugged without answering, put a tape into the recorder, and pressed the play button: "Kapoor, let's listen to this first."
Kapoor knew that Eric would not be aimless, and listened with Eric.
The fast-paced accompaniment sounded, and soon a very infectious singing voice came out.
*it.,
*but.it's.
*lay.a.,
*i., there's.air.of.silence
*…
A few minutes later, the song was played quickly before Eric asked, "Kapoor, what do you think?"
Kapoor said truthfully: "I don't know much about this. This song is very infectious, and the female singer's voice is also very explosive. Eric, why are we listening to this?"
"I plan to use this song as an episode of "Pretty Woman". But this is not the main thing, Kapoor, have you thought about the future of uta?"
Kapoor nodded: "Of course I thought about it, we have signed Al Pacino, if your "Pretty Woman" can be successful, plus Julia Roberts, as long as there are two superstars to support market, our brokerage company will be able to gain a firm foothold in the industry, UTA is still very small after all, so we can’t be too hasty.”
Eric said: "Don't you think about developing in other ways?"
"You mean..." Kapoor glanced at the tape recorder: "Singer?"
Eric nodded: "The actors in the film and TV circles have basically been divided up by those large and small brokerage companies. If we want to grow in this area, we can only slowly poach and cultivate them. But The music industry is still a virgin land, and even giants like CAA don't pay much attention to this business, so this is a good opportunity for us to find another way."
The 1990s was still the golden age of the recording industry. When Eric was preparing for the episode of "Pretty Woman", he found the famous song "it." in the movie after a lot of hard work. Not out of Sweden yet.
The Roxet combination in the previous life has been active for more than ten years. After debuting in North America, the first single released by this combination swept the championship in 24 countries' music single charts. How could Eric let go of such a potential stock.
"Kapoor, the song we just heard, by the up-and-coming Roxet in Sweden, isn't a song that's good enough to top the Billboard charts, so it's our an opportunity, you understand?"
Kapoor said: "It seems that I have to go to Sweden myself."
"Of course, the sooner the better, since I can find this song, other record companies will soon notice, after all, their vision in this area is more professional than mine, and we don't have much time left."
"Eric, are you going to start a record company?"
Eric shook his head: "It's too early to set up a record company. My current focus is still on movies. After winning Roxet's brokerage contract, you still need to explore the specific operation mode by yourself."
Kapoor nodded to express his understanding, and the two discussed some details before the other party got up to leave.
After sending Kapoor away, Michael Klaus quickly came up: "Eric, it's been so long, "Resident Evil" hasn't been finished yet, haven't you always been a quick shooter?"
The last word just happened to be heard by a waitress who was invited. The girl subconsciously glanced at Eric's bottom, wanted to smile but didn't dare to smile, her small face was slightly twisted, and hurriedly walked towards the kitchen with a tray.
Eric looked depressed: "Michael, you can't pay attention to what you say. If the girl just revealed what you said inadvertently, I don't know how those gossip tabloids will arrange me."
Michael Klaus grinned insincerely and apologized, and continued to ask "Resident Evil" persistently.
"Okay, let's take it." Eric found the manuscript and handed it to Michael: "The contract is still the same as before, just send it to me for signing after you finish it."
Just as he was talking, Drew popped up suddenly, saw the manuscript that Michael was flipping through, and rushed over yelling: "Hey, Eric, I haven't finished reading it yet."
Michael stretched out his arm a few Tai Chi pushing hands to cut watermelon, blocked the girl's little claws, stuffed the manuscript into the bag, ignored Drew's protest, and said, "Eric, then I'll go first ,goodbye."
After speaking, Michael picked up his bag and walked away, as if there was a little magic star chasing after him.
"Okay, don't mess around." Eric knocked on Drew's forehead: "I haven't settled with you about your truancy, and even secretly deleted the phone message the principal gave me."
In an instant, Drew lost the aura of baring her teeth and claws, and turned into a well-behaved little girl again, with her hands behind her back, but the sly look in her eyes remained: "I'm sorry, Eric, I won't dare again."
Eric's eyes were solemn: "Drew, have you touched those things again?"
Drew shook his head quickly: "No, really not, I just took a few classmates to the Rose Bowl to watch the game, Eric, I swore that I would never touch those things again."
With a sigh of relief, Eric hugged the girl in his arms, remembering what Drew said just now, he suddenly couldn't help but slapped the girl's buttocks with a smile: "No wonder your principal was a little nervous when he called me." Frustrated, you didn't learn well, and you taught those good girls in your school badly."
Drew snorted, arched in Eric's arms, raised his small face and said, "Eric, those female classmates of mine are very beautiful, if I introduce you to them, they are still virgins丨Girl, I checked it specially."
"Forehead… "
Some pictures appeared in Eric's mind, and the wind was messed up in an instant: "It's too nonsense, go to bed quickly, and you are not allowed to go out before school starts."
"Huh, you're so overbearing, be careful, I'll sue you for banning girls."