During the conversation, Gloria Stewart, the eighty-seven-year-old old Rose who played the role of Rose, slowly walked backstage with the support of the crowd.
"So, Maggie, we'll see you at the Vanity Fair party," Eric greeted Madonna and headed towards Gloria Stewart, now that it was definitely not time to talk about the Yahoo Music Store.
The old man has been helped by everyone to sit on the sofa. Although the awards ceremony has been going on for more than two hours, Gloria Stewart is still in a very good state of mind. Spacey helped her hold the statuette in her hands, and smiled and muttered: "It's incredible, it's incredible."
As one of the actresses of the golden age, Gloria Stewart has faded out of the circle as early as the mid-forties. Therefore, this is the first time she has been nominated for an Oscar and won an award.
Eric came over and held the old man's hand to congratulate. Everyone chatted lively for a while. The old man didn't agree with his daughter's suggestion to go back to rest in advance. He hoped to witness the last moment. Eric personally helped the old man Return to the auditorium.
As soon as he returned to his seat, Robert Zemeckis, the previous best director winner, had already stepped onto the stage and began to introduce the best director nominees.
Close-up shots of the five best director candidates appeared on the big screen one by one.
Robert Zemeckis opened the envelope and announced a name that was no longer in suspense: "The Oscar will go to, James Cameron, "Titanic."
Amid the applause and cheers, everyone around the crew of "Titanic" stood up excitedly, and Eric followed suit, clapping and looking at Cameron who was hugging the crowd in the back row.
Because of sitting in the middle, seeing Cameron coming, Eric just stretched out his hand, wanting to give Cameron a high-five to celebrate, Cameron held Eric's hand, but did not leave, instead wading over the seat William Stewart and Drew, who were on the periphery of Eric, forced their way over.
Amidst the laughter of the people around, both William Stewart and Drew hurriedly smiled and moved into the aisle.
Eric endured Cameron's bear hug, patted him hard on the back twice, and said with a smile: "Dude, I know you are very excited, go up, everyone is waiting for you."
"Thank you, Eric, whatever," Cameron said again, letting go of Eric and shaking hands with him again before continuing on to the stage.
Eric turned around, the girl had already taken his place, pointed to his original seat with a smile, and said: "You should sit here, I don't want to be stepped on by Jim on the dress later, it's very expensive .”
Eric had no choice but to sit down next to him, listening to Cameron's fast acceptance speech, and asked William Stewart beside him, "William, you will definitely be on stage later, how do you feel?"
Oscar's best picture can declare up to three places, and the original space-time "Titanic" only nominated two people, Cameron and Jon Landau.
But this time, as one of the important producers, Firefly also reported the name of William Stewart. Although there were many unhappiness during the filming process, Cameron did not object to the arrangement of Firefly.
"Very excited," William Stuart said, shaking his head again, and said with a smile: "However, this kind of experience once is enough, and it is too difficult to cooperate with Jim." After a pause, William Stuart tentatively said: " Eric, I would like to help you as a producer."
On the stage, Cameron thanked Eric again, the camera swept over, Eric nodded with a smile, waited for the camera to leave, and said: "This is a good notice, I also hope that someone who is familiar with CG special effects will come Help me, you must have accumulated a lot of experience this time."
Jeffrey was the producer of Eric's films in the early days. After Jeffrey retired, Jerry Bruckheimer took over this position again, and the cooperation between the two parties on "Jurassic Park" was also very pleasant. However, in the past few years, Jerry Bruckheimer has been focusing more and more on his film and television companies. Although these companies are affiliated with Firefly, it is certainly impossible for him to serve as Eric's director wholeheartedly. Producer. After finishing "Casino Royale" with the Broccoli brothers and sisters, Eric needs to find a new producer to help him take care of the production affairs.
William Stewart was obviously also aware of this opportunity. Hearing what Eric said, he immediately said, "Then it's settled."
Eric could understand William Stewart's urgency, and agreed with a smile: "Of course, that's it."
On the stage, Cameron once again yelled the iconic "I am the king of the world" and left the stage amidst the applause of everyone.
Subsequently, Al Pacino went on stage to win the best picture award, and the result was naturally no surprise.
Cameron, who hurried back to his seat, got up again and walked to the stage with Jon Landau and William Stewart.
So far, the 69th Academy Awards Ceremony has ended perfectly, and "Titanic" finally won 13 statuettes, creating an unprecedented award-winning record in the history of Oscars.
It is already early morning on the east coast of the United States, but in Los Angeles on the west coast, it is only nine o'clock in the evening, which is the beginning of nightlife.
After the show, most of the guests rushed to various parties scattered all over Los Angeles, regardless of whether they won the award or not.
After several years of development, Condé Nast Group has paid more and more attention to the brand effect brought by the "Vanity Fair" party, and has devoted more and more contacts and resources to attract core Oscar guests to participate. As a win-win cooperation, there are also more and more superstars and celebrities tending to the "Vanity Fair" party after the Oscars.
Firefly and Condé Nast have reached a cooperation agreement before the Oscars. They will cancel the separate celebration party and direct all their crews to the "Vanity Fair" party. In exchange, Condé Nast's media needs to provide more space for the follow-up promotion of Firefly's award-winning film resource.
Therefore, after the award ceremony, the main creators of the two crews of "Titanic" and "Red Alert" rushed to the venue of the "Vanity Fair" party, Beverly Hills Art Center.
Eric took Drew off the car in the parking lot, and Peter Rich led the bodyguard team to separate the crowd of crazy reporters waiting outside, and escorted the two of them into the art center.
As soon as he stepped into the hall, Eric saw a middle-aged man with a bald forehead warmly greet him.
"Who is this?" the girl leaned on Eric in doubt and asked.
Peter Rich had already followed him at this time, and whispered in Eric's ear: "Louis Horwitz, the director of this awards ceremony."
The middle-aged man came to the front at this time, as if he didn't notice Peter Rich's whisper to Eric, and reached out enthusiastically: "Eric, congratulations, 13 awards, this is simply a miracle."
"Thank you, Mr. Horwitz." Eric reached out and shook his hand, and said, "This awards ceremony is also very good."
"Haha, I'm glad you like it," Louise Horwitz greeted Eric with a flushed face, until the two parties entered the party hall, Louise Horwitz said goodbye and left.
The girl looked at the figure of the other party leaving, and said: "What an interesting guy, so excited, as if he also won an award."
"He must have won the award," Eric said with a smile, then turned his head and asked Peter Rich, who was following behind him: "Should the ratings of this awards ceremony be calculated?"
"Yes, Mr. Williams," said Peter Rich, "according to preliminary statistics from ABC, the average viewership is 51 million, which is 12 million more than last year. The highest viewership data appeared in the last ten minutes. 55.5 million. According to this data, the price of a 30-second advertisement for this year's Oscars should be around US$950,000, which is 30% higher than in previous years. As the director, Mr. Louis Horvitz should be able to get a certain commission."
After hearing this, Eric smiled and said, "Look, he did win the award."
The girl smiled and said, "Hehe, that must not be as valuable as the awards we got."
Having said that, Eric remembered one more thing, and asked Peter Rich: "Madonna should come over, right?"
Peter Rich said: "Miss Ciccone should be on the invitation list, do you need me to ask?"
Eric nodded, and said again: "If you are sure that she will come, you can call someone to send over a few Fireflyer samples, and I will use them later."
"Okay," Peter Rich said, seeing that Eric had no other orders, he hurriedly turned and left.
The girl turned her head and glanced at Peter Rich's leaving figure, and said with a smile: "A very capable guy, Eric, since this is the case, why do you still plan to let him work in FFM?"
Eric took two glasses of wine from the waiter, handed one to the girl, and explained: "Just like Alan, these people should be regarded as our direct descendants."
Eric had arranged his first assistant, Alan Fissman, to ABC as a department manager. After several years of training, he has been promoted to the vice president of ABC Group.
It was Allen's success that inspired Eric to a certain extent, and made him decide to continuously select elites from his assistant's office, bring them with him to get familiar with them for a period of time, and then arrange them to the major elites in the Firefly system according to their personal abilities. The company serves as a way to build a direct management team.
Of course, Eric will not give special care to these people at the mercy of others, unless they can prove their strength, otherwise they will still face the fate of being eliminated.
The girl just nodded half-understanding, and the guests in the party hall greeted her one after another, so she put aside this idea and enthusiastically socialized with Eric in the crowd.
As more and more people rushed to the party scene, the hall became more and more lively.
The "Titanic" crew, which gathered almost all the glory tonight, is undoubtedly the most dazzling group of people. After the party started for a long time, everyone spent a long time in a series of congratulations and compliments.
After about an hour of this, Eric got away alone. Madonna had just arrived at the party and came over to say hello.
Eric took a Fireflyer player from Peter Rich who was waiting on the sidelines, and walked towards Madonna who was chatting with people in a booth.
Sitting opposite Madonna was a Hollywood actor that Eric was not familiar with. He looked about twenty-five or sixteen years old and seemed to have appeared in popular teenage horror movies in recent years.
Eric couldn't call out the other party's name for a while, but said: "Hey, can I have a chat with Maggie alone?"
Although the young man was a little flustered by the queen, he immediately came to his senses when he saw Eric, and he obviously misunderstood something, and said with a little panic in humility: "Of course, Mr. Williams, I, oh, I'm leaving now."
Madonna watched the little fresh meat that was about to arrive disappear in a flash, curled her lips, and saw Eric sitting down in front of her, she immediately became interested again, and began to flirt: "Eric, I'm planning to How about starting a brand new romance, now that you messed up, how do you plan to make it up to me?"
Eric didn't intend to accept the offer, he had no interest in this unscrupulous singer, he just took out the Fireflyer in his pocket and handed it over, saying: "Hey, I'll pay you this .”
Madonna picked up the sky-blue Fireflyer and looked it up a few times, then suddenly laughed, and said, "I've seen it, and my manager told me that such a small thing may seriously damage the sales of physical records. "
Speaking, Madonna also glanced at Eric with great interest, with a little understanding and ridicule in her eyes, as if she wanted to see how Eric would answer.
"In the 1970s, when Sony just launched the video recorder, Hollywood also had a view similar to yours now. Universal Pictures and Disney Group have been in a lawsuit with Sony for ten years," Eric also didn't mind Madonna The rejection implied in the words, said eloquently: "But today, 20 years later, the annual video sales of Hollywood movies have exceeded 13 billion US dollars, which is more than twice the domestic box office data of Hollywood. It is the rise of the video industry , which led to the prosperity of Hollywood today."
Having said that, Eric took out another white Fireflyer from his pocket again, and said, "And what we see now is the future of the record industry."
"It's very interesting." Madonna played with the player in her hand, and said again: "Eric, I'm not so easy to be persuaded."
"I didn't intend to convince you tonight, I was just creating an opportunity for everyone."
"Oh, what chance?"
"Of course it is an opportunity for cooperation." (To be continued.)