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With the passage of time, the sky has dimmed, and the giant Titanic model located in the northeast corner of Firefly Studios has also turned on all the lights. Against the backdrop of the surrounding twilight, it really looks like a giant ship floating on the sea.
As the most watched party in Los Angeles after the "Vanity Fair" dinner in March, the "Titanic" global box office broke through 1.8 billion US dollars. Most of the most powerful people in Hollywood, many of them spared no effort to get an invitation to this party. Eric saw the girl receive a call asking for an invitation letter last night.
At seven o'clock, the party officially begins.
Since everyone is not the kind of person who likes to procrastinate, there is no lengthy speech. Katzenberg and Cameron delivered a few simple speeches respectively, and officially announced the theme exhibition of "Titanic" to the invited media news, the carnival officially began.
Although most areas of the Titanic model have not yet been opened, due to its inherent large size, more than 700 guests and a large number of service personnel are scattered in areas such as the banquet hall, restaurant, bow and top deck. crowded.
Eric took Drew to chat with a group of more important guests, and then came to the restaurant to eat something. In order to prepare for this party, Eric was also busy all afternoon, and he was already hungry at this time.
After taking two portions of food from the buffet table, Eric and the girl just found a vacant table when Elizabeth and Julia walked in through the door.
The two women didn't shy away from the strange gazes of other people in the restaurant. After taking the food, they walked straight over.
"Good evening, Eric," Elizabeth sat down on the seat to Eric's left under Julia's slightly resentful eyes, nodded to him, and then looked at the girl: "You are too, little Bitchi."
Seeing that the girl picked up the fork and was about to play darts, Eric quickly pressed it down: "Okay, don't make trouble. Liz, apologize to Drew quickly, and don't talk like that in the future."
Elizabeth was very reluctant, curled her lips and said, "I'm sorry, little... Drew."
"Hmph," the girl shook the tableware unwillingly, and said, "If there weren't too many people here, I would definitely let Natasha beat you up."
Elizabeth was not afraid at all, and raised her small chin: "You can do it yourself if you have the ability."
"I'm afraid I'll disfigure you. Heh, you're not very pretty. What if, tsk tsk, it would be too miserable."
Eric was very helpless to the two women's habitual bickering, so he had to threaten: "If you two continue to quarrel, Julia and I will go somewhere else."
Before Elizabeth and Drew had time to respond, Julia immediately looked at Eric expectantly, her eyes were full of light, and she nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yeah."
Elizabeth was very dissatisfied with Julia's reaction: "Well, what, um, I really have no position."
"Liz, if you dare to attack me again, I will stop making films for Fox in the future."
The girl immediately hit the nail on the head: "Yes, Julia, come to MGM, I will pay you 20 million yuan."
Elizabeth teased: "20 million, if you have the ability, you can bring the contract now, and I will sign it for Julia."
Eric interrupted the two kittens' scratching each other in time, picked a more serious topic, and said, "Speaking of which, how much did you pay Julia for this movie?"
Due to the half-truths of the two women's entanglement, Julia has largely been filming for Fox in recent years.
After last year's "Shakespeare in Love", Julia soon collaborated with Fox on a romance film. Eric also intervened a little bit, so he easily chose the one that Julia had a good reputation for. "My Best Friend's Wedding", just after Claudia Schiffer was brought into the crew, Eric didn't bother with it anymore. He just saw "My Best Friend" on the summer movie release list. "The Wedding" is scheduled to be released in mid-July, and together with "Ice Age", it is the main film of Fox's summer file.
"Julia is 15 million, and Claudia is 5 million," Elizabeth said without concealing, "The total cost is only 40 million US dollars, and the two of them accounted for half of it. Now actors' salaries are getting higher and higher. I feel In the future, it will be difficult to invite A-level stars for medium and low-cost commercial films, especially after "Titanic", everyone must focus on a few blockbuster films every year, and the first-line actors will definitely be inclined to these films, or, also Only these movies can afford A-list stars."
"Oh, in the past few years, I heard that Germany has begun to discuss the topic of amending tax laws to prevent capital outflow."
Since Jim Carrey first received his first $20 million salary from Sony Pictures, most of the A-list superstars have raised their net worth in recent years. However, Eric also knows that this phenomenon is mainly caused by a large amount of tax avoidance funds from all over the world flowing into Hollywood, especially Germany. In recent years, the funds flowing into Hollywood have exceeded 3 billion US dollars per year, accounting for almost all Hollywood movies. A quarter of the production budget.
However, the good days of Hollywood superstars are actually only the last few years.
In the next few years, when the new technology wave bubble bursts, some important film capital-exporting countries have tightened their investment, and the remuneration of Hollywood superstars will return to rationality. Even if the worth of 20 million is still marked, they can actually get 20 million Not many.
Eric was chatting casually with the three women. Cameron hurried over from the door of the restaurant, nodded to the three women, and said to Eric: "Eric, come with me, take you to Meet someone."
Eric got up and asked curiously, "Who is it?"
Cameron smiled and said mysteriously, "Peter Parker."
Eric immediately understood that Cameron had recently begun to look for a leading actor for "Spider-Man". Eric didn't have any feelings for the successive Spider-Man actors in his previous life, so he didn't intervene in this matter. Let Cameron torment himself.
Just gesturing to the three women, Eric left with Cameron in peace. In fact, without him, Elizabeth and Drew can be more harmonious. Both women are very smart, and they will not really have any conflicts in public to make people laugh.
Cameron was mysterious along the way, and Eric didn't bother to get to the bottom of it immediately. The two came to the top deck together. Following Cameron's guidance, Eric immediately saw a family of four standing together. mouth.
A couple, a boy of sixteen or seventeen, and a little girl of five or six.
With just a glance, Eric recognized them. He stepped forward and patted the shoulder of the young man with a slightly green face, and then he casually embraced them and hugged them. Hey Stu, long time no see."
The family in front of him turned out to be Eric's neighbors when he lived in North Hollywood, the Lankel family.
The young man Eric hugged was naturally the actor of "Home Alone", Stuart Lankel.
After filming "Home Alone 3", due to his age, Stuart Lankel was no longer suitable to continue his career as a child star, and he has been quiet for years. Eric only vaguely heard that their family had moved to New York, but he never saw him again.
In fact, Eric is more fortunate that Stuart Lankel did not follow the old path of Macaulay Culkin in the original time and space.
"Eric, I'm so glad to see you again." Stuart Lankel was obviously a little excited. After hugging, the teenager immediately turned around, pulled the five or six-year-old girl over, and introduced: "Eric, this It's my sister, Linda."
"Hello, little one," Eric said, holding out his hand.
The little girl was obviously taught carefully, and she obediently reached out to shake hands with Eric, and said in a childish tone: "Hello, Mr. Williams, I like your movie very much."
Eric laughed and joked: "Did you see your brother in the movie?"
The little girl nodded: "I see, my brother was so powerful at that time, I also want to be like him."
"Oh, then your parents are going to have a headache," Eric joked before greeting the Runkels.
Although there was some unpleasantness in the later cooperation, it was already a long time ago at this time, and of course Eric would not care about these anymore.
The Lankel couple's attitude is much more humble and sophisticated than that of the other couple. They carefully said compliments, and they did not forget to mention some old things in the past.
After chatting briefly for a few minutes, Eric was not in a hurry to ask Cameron what was going on, after all, everything was already understood.
In the original plan, Eric hoped that the new version of "Spider-Man" would start when Peter Parker was in high school. Although the high school students in most Hollywood youth movies are basically played by actors over the age of 20, this is also a helpless move to maintain the level of actors. After all, the acting skills of young actors who are really in the high school age group are definitely not so good.
If there is an actor whose age fully agrees with the acting skills and meets the requirements, the film company will definitely not refuse.
At this time, in the face of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie, Stuart Runkel, who had gained fame with "Home Alone" and was already a sixteen-year-old boy at this time, was just the most suitable.
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Eric immediately understood that Cameron had recently begun to look for a leading actor for "Spider-Man". Eric didn't have any feelings for the successive Spider-Man actors in his previous life, so he didn't intervene in this matter. Let Cameron torment himself.
Just gesturing to the three women, Eric left with Cameron in peace. In fact, without him, Elizabeth and Drew can be more harmonious. Both women are very smart, and they will not really have any conflicts in public to make people laugh.
Cameron was mysterious along the way, and Eric didn't bother to get to the bottom of it immediately. The two came to the top deck together. Following Cameron's guidance, Eric immediately saw a family of four standing together. mouth.
A couple, a boy of sixteen or seventeen, and a little girl of five or six.
With just a glance, Eric recognized them. He stepped forward and patted the shoulder of the young man with a slightly green face, and then he casually embraced them and hugged them. Hey Stu, long time no see."
The family in front of him turned out to be Eric's neighbors when he lived in North Hollywood, the Lankel family.
The young man Eric hugged was naturally the actor of "Home Alone", Stuart Lankel.
After filming "Home Alone 3", due to his age, Stuart Lankel was no longer suitable to continue his career as a child star, and he has been quiet for years. Eric only vaguely heard that their family had moved to New York, but he never saw him again.
In fact, Eric is more fortunate that Stuart Lankel did not follow the old path of Macaulay Culkin in the original time and space.
"Eric, I'm so glad to see you again." Stuart Lankel was obviously a little excited. After hugging, the teenager immediately turned around, pulled the five or six-year-old girl over, and introduced: "Eric, this It's my sister, Linda."
"Hello, little one," Eric said, holding out his hand.
The little girl was obviously taught carefully, and she obediently reached out to shake hands with Eric, and said in a childish tone: "Hello, Mr. Williams, I like your movie very much."
Eric laughed and joked: "Did you see your brother in the movie?"
The little girl nodded: "I see, my brother was so powerful at that time, I also want to be like him."
"Oh, then your parents are going to have a headache," Eric joked before greeting the Runkels.
Although there was some unpleasantness in the later cooperation, it was already a long time ago at this time, and of course Eric would not care about these anymore.
The Lankel couple's attitude is much more humble and sophisticated than that of the other couple. They carefully said compliments, and they did not forget to mention some old things in the past.
After chatting briefly for a few minutes, Eric was not in a hurry to ask Cameron what was going on, after all, everything was already understood.
In the original plan, Eric hoped that the new version of "Spider-Man" would start when Peter Parker was in high school. Although the high school students in most Hollywood youth movies are basically played by actors over the age of 20, this is also a helpless move to maintain the level of actors. After all, the acting skills of young actors who are really in the high school age group are definitely not so good.
If there is an actor whose age fully agrees with the acting skills and meets the requirements, the film company will definitely not refuse.
At this time, in the face of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie, Stuart Runkel, who had gained fame with "Home Alone" and was already a sixteen-year-old boy at this time, was just the most suitable. (To be continued.)