Eric and Katzenberg kept chatting until the end of get off work time. Tomorrow and the next two days are weekends. Katzenberg promised to take his family out for dinner tonight, and said goodbye early.
Eric continued to sit in the coffee shop, waiting for the assistant office to send the latest work progress report from Firefly Electronics.
It has been a year since the two hardware projects of mp3 player and e-book reader started.
Because it involves many technical difficulties such as the development of the operating system and the design of the processor chip, the development progress of the e-book reader is very slow.
However, the development process of the mp3 player has been much smoother. At the end of last year, Eric had obtained the mp3 player prototype developed by Firefly Electronics using Toshiba's 1.8-inch small hard drive. 50 songs.
The prototype is somewhat unsatisfactory in terms of shape and storage capacity. The only thing that makes Eric satisfied is that Firefly Electronics has registered a full set of patented technologies for mp3 players. There will definitely be no ambiguity in the ownership of mp3 player patents in this life. unclear situation. Even if the mp3 player is completely eliminated in the future, as long as the subsequent mobile phones and other electronic devices use mp3-related music playback technology, they still need to pay patent fees to Firefly Electronics.
After waiting patiently for more than half an hour, flipping through a newly released evening newspaper, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open, and three women came in talking and laughing.
Eric looked up, but it was Caroline, Melanie Gleason, and Rachel Weisz. The three women were all wearing ordinary casual jeans, each carrying a bag, and they looked like they were planning to go shopping. dress up.
Rachel just finished filming "Titanic" recently, but she needs to stay in Los Angeles to assist in some dubbing and other work in the later stage. Naturally, she got together with Caroline and Melanie. Eric is very concerned about this kind of scene It doesn't feel strange either.
Caroline first saw Eric looking at them and smiled shyly. The three girls greeted each other and walked towards Eric.
Eric ordered the waiter to bring over a pot of coffee, pour it for the girls, and asked Caroline, who was sitting opposite him, "Are you going shopping?"
Caroline took out a folder from her bag, and nodded when she heard Eric's question: "Yeah, we don't have to get up early for work tomorrow, we plan to go to the movies together tonight."
Eric said: "Oh, I happen to have no plans for the evening, why don't you take me with you?"
Before Caroline could answer, Melanie and Rachel, who were sitting on both sides of her, said in unison: "No."
Caroline blinked her big innocent eyes, looked left and right, and didn't know what to say for a while. She is very clear about the thoughts of the two girlfriends. They don't want to let themselves have too much contact with Eric, a playful guy. However, these two guys, Eric is obviously just joking, why are you reacting so much? .
Eric just shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Okay, but why do I feel like I suddenly have two more rivals in love?"
Hearing Eric say the word 'rival in love', Caroline's face turned red.
Rachel's personality is bolder, and she doesn't have much contact with Eric, so she doesn't have much awe of him. Hearing this, she hugged Caroline and kissed the girl's cheek, protesting: "Eric Rick, Caroline has long been mine, you can't just destroy other people's feelings."
"Rachel, let me go, that's not the case," Caroline knew that everyone was joking, but still shyly pushed Rachel away, and did not forget to explain.
Eric took the folder Caroline handed over, waved his hand and said, "Just deliver the materials, you can go, and I won't disturb your girlfriends party."
Caroline pulled Rachel who was about to get up, opened her bag and took out a small box the size of a palm, and said, "Eric, there are other things, this was just sent over from San Francisco this morning. "
Eric took the box, glanced at the 'Seagate' logo printed on the box, and probably guessed what was inside, opened it in two or three times, and there was a micro-hard drive the size of a postage stamp lying in the box.
Watching Eric caressing the micro hard drive, Caroline explained beside him: "This is a sample with a capacity of 256m that Seagate has just developed, and the data attached to Seagate shows that they will be able to come up with a new product of 512m by the end of the year. The electronics company has already started to design the control chip based on the sample provided by Seagate, and it is expected that the finished product will be available in the second half of the year. Yahoo’s music store has also started the internal testing phase. Mr. Victor McNairy, who is in charge of the electronics company, sent a According to the meeting memo, the company can already consider the next stage of product launch and promotion.”
Eric played with it for a while, put the micro hard drive back into the box, and said, "Don't worry too much about this matter, wait for them to come up with a stable product with a capacity of 512m, and then consider the next stage of things, um, I read these over the weekend information, I will call Victor personally to talk about it.”
The capacity of the player reaches 512m, which is probably enough to hold ten albums, so it can be regarded as completely widening the gap with traditional players. If the capacity is smaller, it will not be attractive enough to consumers.
After Eric finished speaking, Caroline nodded and looked at him with big eyes shining brightly, as if waiting for his order, and said, "Is there anything else?"
"No more," Caroline shook her head subconsciously.
Eric felt that Caroline's little head would be two-dimensional with a single hair on her head, and he smiled unconsciously: "Then you can go, or, do you really want me to go to the movies with you at night?"
After Eric's words fell, Rachel and Melanie stood up with a smile on their faces, pulled up Caroline, who had a flushed face, said goodbye, and left the coffee shop.
"Mission: Impossible 2" is also confirmed to be filmed in Australia. Drew recently visited Australia with Amy Pascal. After the Oscars, Julia returned to England to continue filming "Shakespeare in Love", and Elizabeth also followed. Nicole and Famke Janssen are also out of Los Angeles. After the three of Caroline left, Eric talked and found himself going to spend the weekend alone again.
The preliminary preparations for "Casino Royale" have basically been completed. According to the schedule, Eric will also need to leave Los Angeles next month. Before the movie starts, he will personally visit the main shooting locations that have been confirmed. The shooting of 007 has always needed to be done in various places around the world. Running around, this time is no exception, the planned shooting countries include the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic and the Bahamas. Eric's previous films, even "Jurassic Park", were shot in very concentrated locations. Therefore, this Movies are also a challenge for Eric.
Once I get busy in April and get free again, I may have to wait until the end of the year for "Casino Royale" to finish.
Eric was thinking about how to spend his last remaining weekend when the phone on the table buzzed.
A few minutes later, Eric's car stopped on the side of the road outside the studio, and the door opened from the inside. Eric waved to the two tall girls standing on the side of the street: "Get in the car."
Gisele Bundchen and Alessandra Ambrosio got into the car one after another. Alessandra closed the door a little depressed and looked at Gisele who was leaning over to embrace Eric.
Patting on Giselle's slender waist, Eric let go of her, smiled at Alexander on the other side, and asked, "Why did you come to Los Angeles?"
In fact, Eric was more curious about how the two girls could let Kapoor contact him on his behalf. He is not the kind of person who easily gives his contact information to others. Neither Giselle nor Alexander has his mobile phone number.
But think about it, this matter should be promoted by the brokerage company behind the two girls. Most of the well-known models have a separate actor contract with a Hollywood agency, and the relationship between the model agency and the actor agency is still very close, and Kapoor probably just sells others for favors.
"The company arranged for us a two-week short-term actor training, just in Santa Monica, and we have been here for five days." Giselle still suppressed her hoarse voice, and whispered, with a hint of seeing her again in her expression Eric's excitement and little resentment.
When they came to Los Angeles, they thought they could easily see Eric, but found that he was so far away from them. They can see his name in countless newspapers and magazines, they can hear people talking about him everywhere, they can feel his ubiquitous influence in this city, but they really want to see him, but they have no way at all. set about. A few days ago, the two girls even sneaked to Malibu to see the pointed manor that countless people yearn for. At that time, I wanted to take the initiative to visit, but when I walked outside the gate of the manor, I couldn't muster the courage in the end. I was worried that doing so would be too abrupt and disgusted Eric.
In the end, it was the senior executives of the two brokerage companies who took the initiative to ask about this matter, and then helped to arrange it.
Eric felt the slight emotion in Giselle's tone, smiled, and said nothing. Although several girl characters in "Casino Royale" are only fleeting, he will not object to others taking this matter seriously.
Looking at his watch, Eric told the driver to go to Venice Beach, and said to the two girls: "It happens to be dinner time, please eat, um, maybe you can call Miranda, and you will meet."
Eric didn't mention Miranda Kerr's affairs, and it's impossible for Giselle's agency to notice such a trivial arrangement.
Seeing the puzzled looks of the two girls, Eric explained: "Her name is Miranda Kerr, and she will appear on camera with you."
Alexander couldn't help feeling a little disappointed: "Where are the three of you?"
They are not worried that a small shot will be distracted by other people. After all, this shot is more symbolic to them. Adding one more person means that they will have one more competitor in the future.
According to the news from their agency, the five spokespersons of Victoria's Secret Angels, after the completion of the five-year contract, the two first-generation supermodels, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, will not Renewing the contract with Victoria's Secret, apart from the age factor, the most important thing is that the two will focus on being in charge of the reality show in their hands. At that time, Giselle and the two of them will be able to fight for a vacancy by themselves. A girl named Miranda Kerr appeared, and both girls felt a sense of crisis.
However, Eric's next words made the two girls feel even more uneasy.
"Not three, but four."
"ah… "
This time even Giselle was a little unsteady, and let out a soft breath in surprise.
Eric felt that it was quite interesting to tease these two beautiful beauties, so he did not explain in detail.
When the car arrived at Venice Beach, Eric chose a restaurant with good privacy and ordered the driver to pick up Miranda Kerr.
Miranda Kerr was arranged to stay at the home of a middle-level manager of Firefly. The family lived in Santa Monica, and the girl had already been transferred to Santa Monica Middle School. After a few rounds of auditions and a recurring role on a Disney Channel family sitcom, he kind of settled down in Los Angeles.
Half an hour later, Eric was chatting casually with Giselle and Alexander, and Miranda came over under the leadership of the waiter.
Seeing Eric and the two other strange girls sitting beside him, Miranda was almost instinctively wary, but quickly rushed towards Eric like a baby.
"Don't make trouble, someone is here," Eric quickly got up, caught the girl's soft body, and sat her down next to her.
Although I chose a booth on purpose, it is not a box after all, and if there is too much noise, it will inevitably be surrounded by people.
Miranda sat down obediently, glanced at the two girls across the way who were also looking at her, and quickly turned to Eric, also with a little resentment, said: "You have ignored me for almost a month, I thought You forgot about me."
"You know I'm busy," Eric explained, asking for the menu and gesturing for the girls to start ordering.
When the waiter with envious eyes walked away completely, the atmosphere in the booth became a little weird.
"Hey, this is Gisele Bündchen and Alessandra Ambrosio from Brazil. This is Miranda Kerr from Australia," Eric thought, offering to introduce the three girls to each other. Several supermodels from the beginning of the century are almost assembled.
"Hello," Miranda sat next to Eric, just reached out and waved to the other two women.
Giselle, who originally wanted to get up to shake hands with Miranda, sat back down and waved at her politely.
After a short chat, Miranda keenly felt Giselle's cautiousness in front of Eric, and realized that their relationship with Eric was definitely not as close as she was with him, so she couldn't help feeling a little superior. "So, are the three of us going to be in that scene together?"
"No, it's four," Alexander, who was sitting opposite, saw that Miranda didn't know about it, and offered to add.
Miranda looked at Eric suspiciously.
Eric smiled and said, "Guess, it's easy to guess who the last one is." (To be continued.)