Although Thales is an ordinary housewife with no opinions, she is not stupid. From Eric's brief eye contact with his daughter, he can roughly see some of it.
However, since Eric agreed in person, she felt that such a big man, um, although he was too young, would not lie to them.
Now that Eric agreed that Miranda could sign with the Disney Channel, Thales asked about another thing he was most concerned about.
"So, about Miranda staying in the United States?"
Eric said: "Ms. Ke'er, if you are worried, you can stay in the United States to take care of Miranda."
Thales shook his head and said, "That's not okay. I have my own job in Brisbane, and my husband and son can't do without me. What John and I mean is that we hope Miranda can go to a full-time boarding school, You can stay in school as long as you don’t film.”
"Mom, I don't want to go to boarding school," Eric was about to nod, but Miranda cried out. Her parents didn't discuss this with her in advance. And, what a joke, going to boarding school is the difference between going to jail.
Thales was not angry because of her daughter's resistance, and said in a gentle tone: "Honey, you are still underage, and if you don't go to boarding school, your father and I are worried about leaving you alone in the United States."
"Isn't it possible to find a temporary guardian, so that I can go to ordinary middle school," Miranda said, but looked at Eric.
Noticing Miranda's gaze, Thales shook his head immediately.
"No," Thales raised her voice a little, but felt that this reaction was a little rude, as if she didn't trust Eric, although it was true.
After a pause, Thales added: "It's an honor for you to get the job of an actor. We can't trouble Eric any more."
Eric also shook his head at this time, and said with a smile: "According to federal regulations, I probably don't meet the conditions to be your temporary guardian. I'm a bachelor now."
Hearing Eric's voluntary refusal, Thales felt relieved and said to his daughter, "Hey, you heard that."
"But I don't want to go to boarding school. If it has to be like this, I'd rather... I would rather..." Miranda Kerr stuttered twice, but after all, she didn't say that she would rather go back to Australia, and turned her head to look at Eric, saying : "Eric, even if you can't be my temporary guardian, you can always help me find a suitable host family, right?"
Eric shrugged slightly, and said, "That's no problem, but you must agree with your parents."
Miranda Kerr immediately got up from Eric's side, walked towards Thales, and said coquettishly, "Mom..."
Eric looked at Thales' helpless expression, got up and said, "I'll go see if dinner is ready, you can discuss it."
I don't know how the mother and daughter communicated. During dinner, although Thales still stated that he still needed her husband's consent, his attitude had completely softened.
Miranda Kerr also seemed very excited because of this, like a little magpie whose wish came true, chatting non-stop with Eric at the dining table and chatting about many things, she fell off from riding a horse on her grandma’s farm a few years ago There are so many interesting things about shooting the cover of "dolly" magazine not long ago. Although she is not very old, her ability to perceive words and emotions is still better than that of her own mother. She felt that Eric did not dislike her showing her eccentric character, but was interested in her appearance, so she did not restrain herself deliberately.
Eric has seen many cases where one generation is strong and the other is weak, and the Murdoch family has personally experienced it. At this time, it was the first time I saw a counterexample where one generation was weak and another was strong. It was quite interesting to see Miranda Kerr full of opinions and precocious, but her mother Thales had soft ears.
After dinner, because Eric accidentally heard Eric talking about the private screening room in the villa, the girl pestered Eric hoping to go in and take a look. After Eric agreed, Miranda Kerr left her mother alone. Watching TV in the small living room, pulled Eric out of the room.
After watching a movie, I realized that it was past ten o'clock.
The hotel where the mother and daughter live is in Burbank, near the headquarters of the Firefly Group, and the straight-line distance from the Angle Manor is more than 40 kilometers. Although there will be no traffic jams when going back, it will take more than an hour.
Eric asked to keep a guest. Although Thales felt that it was very inappropriate, he agreed immediately when he saw his daughter, so he didn't insist.
After arranging the guest room for the two, Eric went back to his bedroom, took a shower, and leaned against the bedside to read the latest project plan about the paid cable station that he brought back from the studio today.
Several cooperative paid cable stations are temporarily named ffm, which is the initials of the three companies firely-fo-mgm. If there is no more suitable name in the future, it will not be changed.
The number of H-wave subscribers at this time is close to 10 million. Although it has not reached the peak moment of Eric’s memory of more than 30 million users, according to the current monthly subscription fee of 9.99 US dollars, H-wave’s annual turnover has exceeded 1 billion US dollars. It is precisely because of this kind of revenue confidence that H-Bo dares to invest huge sums of money in the next few years to produce a large number of excellent self-produced dramas, and form a virtuous circle, gradually consolidating its unshakable industry position.
Under such circumstances, there is not much time left for ffm TV to catch up. Eric's original plan was to imitate the money-burning strategy of emerging Internet companies, spend huge sums of money to produce self-produced dramas with sensational effects and strong topics, and spare no effort Carry out marketing and promotion, and use the method of completely sacrificing profits in the early stage of the development of the TV station to quickly accumulate more users, so as to achieve the goal of competing with H-wave.
However, during the repeated discussions of the heads of several companies, the shortcomings of Eric's plan were quickly revealed.
The paid cable station under the long-distance communication that the three major companies plan to take over has only 1.5 million users, which is only about one-seventh of H-wave. It is impossible to cause too much social effect.
After all, paid cable stations are different from basic cable stations, just like Lietime TV. Although the ratings at the beginning were also terrible, most of the programs had only one million or even one hundred thousand viewers, but it had a total user base of 30 to 40 million. "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" were born, and the ratings immediately skyrocketed.
There are usually only a few million subscribers to paid cable stations. Even the H-wave has not exceeded 10 million. Because of the high subscription fees and hardware constraints, it is impossible for the audience to grow just because of the growth. Normally, It needs a long-term accumulation process of users and word-of-mouth. H-wave currently has less than 10 million users, which is also the result of more than 20 years of operation.
Since the first goal of ffm is to expand the number of users as much as possible, the experienced Murdoch quickly put forward a simple and rude but very practical suggestion, mergers and acquisitions!
The fo television network, which has covered the entire United States, is the result of many crazy mergers and acquisitions by News Corporation in the 1980s.
In addition to H-wave, there are many small pay cable stations that broadcast similar content throughout North America. These small paid cable stations are basically subsidiaries of cable TV operators. With the convenient channel resources of the parent company, these small paid cable stations can also take a small share of the pay TV market with relatively low subscription prices. .
Although the charging price is relatively low, what these TV stations have in their hands is high-quality paying users after all. Acquiring several companies at one time and merging, the accumulative speed of users is definitely much faster than Eric's original method.
Reading the information in his hand, Eric picked up the remote control and turned on the wall-mounted TV opposite the big bed, wanting to see what the TV station named 'Independent Movie Channel' under the operator Cablevion mentioned in the document looks like, CableVision already intends to sell this paid cable station with 900,000 subscribers, but the offer price is as high as 315 million US dollars, and it will definitely be a tug-of-war during negotiations.
After finding the independent movie channel, Eric casually glanced at the plot of a movie that was being played, then shook his head dully. In the picture, two not-so-beautiful blond girls with their upper bodies were chasing after a murderer. The performance when the road is running wild is also too exaggerated. This is obviously an ultra-low-budget thriller movie. Eric can probably guess that the plot is in the "Scream" mode just by looking at it a few times.
The proportion of bad movies in Hollywood is still very high, because there is a huge market here, and independent production companies collect tens of millions of dollars to follow suit and shoot some movies. Independent film channels and these TV stations sell broadcasting rights, and overseas copyright sales can also recover a little bit, and the profits are still very good.
Losing interest, Eric was about to change the channel when he heard something.
boom boom boom
Eric froze for a moment, until the voice sounded again, he was sure it was not his hallucination.
I looked at my watch, and before I knew it, it was half past eleven.
He found a pair of beach shorts from the closet next to him and put them on. Eric went to open the door and quietly looked at Miranda Kerr in the corridor who was fiddling with her fingers shyly.
Looking at Eric who was only wearing beach shorts, the girl's face turned rosy, but she didn't back down. She mustered up her courage and said, "Eric, I can't sleep, can I chat with you?"
Eric laughed and said, "If your mother knew that you sneaked up to 'chat' with me in the middle of the night, she would definitely go crazy."
"My mom is usually a heavy sleeper, so she doesn't know," Miranda said, pushing forward, and Eric had to step aside, and the girl walked in unceremoniously.
Before Eric had time to change the channel just now, Miranda walked into the bedroom and heard screams from the TV. Looking at the TV screen, the girl turned her head and said with a little cunning: "Eric, so you like to watch This kind of movie."
Eric didn't bother to explain to her, so he closed the door, walked to the bed, and threw the materials he just read into the locked drawer. Although he likes to get along with different women, Eric will not be so stupid as to treat women completely. undefended.
After locking the drawer, Eric picked up a Stephen King horror novel on the bedside table for pastime before going to bed, leaned against the bed, and looked at the girl who was wandering curiously in the bedroom.
From then on, Miranda was barefoot, without even socks, and her steps were as light as a cat's, but she was still wearing the original thin sweater and jeans. The thin material wrapped her well-developed body exquisitely.
Lying by the north window and looking at the lights of downtown Malibu at night for a while, Miranda murmured a few words, then turned and walked towards Eric. After testing the feeling, he said, "Eric, why is this bed so big?"
Eric glanced up at her, 'threatening' said: "This way you can sleep with many women."
Miranda smiled, climbed onto the bed more boldly, lay beside Eric, raised her face, and said, "Are you trying to drive me away?"
Eric didn't bother to look up this time, flipped a page of the book casually, and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"Hehe, you know it yourself."
Eric said: "If I think about it, you have been thrown out now."
Miranda Kerr laughed again, and after a while, she said, "Eric, I want to take a shower."
Eric wanted to know what kind of moth this little elf could come up with, so he nodded and said, "Well, let's go, so it's over there."
"But I didn't do it casually."
"You can wear mine."
"You're obviously not wearing pajamas," Miranda said, and reached out and tapped Eric's chest lightly, her fingertips feeling cool.
Eric picked up the white shirt he was wearing during the day: "Hey, wear this later."
Miranda Kerr took it, shook it in her hand a few times, looked up at Eric, saw that he was indifferent, with his little nose wrinkled slightly, and got out of bed and walked towards the room.
Eric heard the sound of the rooms being closed, looked up and shrugged.
He has experienced too many women in these years, and they have various attitudes towards him. Miranda's actions did not surprise him too much. That's how a certain goblin back then tirelessly entangled him.
Thinking of Drew, Eric thought of the experiences of these years.
Step by step, Eric has forgotten how many women have appeared around him, and his mentality has also changed step by step, from the reckless behavior at the beginning to the current game life.
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Miranda Kerr took it, shook it in her hand a few times, looked up at Eric, saw that he was indifferent, with his little nose wrinkled slightly, and got out of bed and walked towards the room.
Eric heard the sound of the rooms being closed, looked up and shrugged.
He has experienced too many women in these years, and they have various attitudes towards him. Miranda's actions did not surprise him too much. That's how a certain goblin back then tirelessly entangled him.
Thinking of Drew, Eric thought of the experiences of these years.
Step by step, Eric has forgotten how many women have appeared around him, and his mentality has also changed step by step, from the reckless behavior at the beginning to the current game life. (To be continued.)