In the northern hemisphere in December, snow has begun to fall in most areas, but Los Angeles is still warm as ever.
It was already past nine o'clock in the morning at Sharp Point Manor.
In the ring-shaped master bedroom of the Shell Villa, all the curtains around were drawn, and the brilliant morning sun seemed to pour in from all directions.
Elizabeth Perkins lay lazily on the big bed, not minding that the quilt on her body was completely pulled away by the man next to her, obediently feeling a slightly rough hand walking on her smooth back. Recalling last night and all the situations just now, although I was a little shy, I couldn't help feeling proud that my mature body could attract the young people around me.
Eric lay on the side with his cheeks resting on his back, caressing the woman's body, with a dazed expression on his face, wondering if he really had some kind of plot.
The sudden ringing of the mobile phone disturbed the tranquility in the bedroom.
Elizabeth Perkins, who was looking sideways for the shadows of birds in the blue sky outside the window, turned her head curiously, but saw Eric with a strange expression on his face after picking up the phone, as if he had seen a ghost. She was about to ask a question when Eric reached out and covered her mouth.
"Jenny... I'm upstairs. I just finished exercising and I'm changing... Can you help me prepare breakfast first, um, kiss."
After hanging up the phone, Eric's expression still did not relax.
It's been a few years, the chick's innate skills have no tendency to fail at all, and she has started to use big moves again in just a few days.
I was a little fortunate that the villa was big enough, but Eric didn't hesitate, picked up his clothes and started putting them on.
Elizabeth Perkins looked at Eric in a hurry, and suddenly chuckled. He also heard Eric say the word 'Jenny' just now, and there was a bit of indolence in his lazy and hoarse voice. Gloating: "Your girlfriend?"
Eric glanced at the woman lying motionless on the big bed, nodded, put on a T-shirt, picked up Elizabeth Perkins' clothes and shoes next to her, and threw them on the bed, then rolled up the sheets He wrapped the woman in, picked him up and walked towards the bathroom.
Elizabeth Perkins did not resist Eric's movements, but grabbed her high heels and carried them outside, still giggling, and asked, "Eric, if she finds out, will I be strangled to death?"
"You won't, I will," Eric joked bitterly, pushed open the bathroom door, put the woman in the big bathtub, and said, "Sorry, Liz, you have to hide here, When I leave with Jenny, I will call."
Elizabeth Perkins changed her posture and leaned comfortably in the big bathtub, looked at Eric who was about to leave, and said, "I don't care, but don't you know that women have very good noses ?"
Eric was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that he had been entangled with Elizabeth Perkins last night, and he hadn't taken a shower after the morning's passion. It would be strange if Aniston couldn't smell other women on him .
Thinking of this, Eric searched on the sink in the bathroom, but couldn't find men's perfume. He didn't have the habit of spraying men's perfume, but he remembered that the girl bought him a bottle before, and he didn't know where he lost it. Not finding the perfume, Eric had to take off his clothes again and again, stand under the shower and start to take a shower.
Because it was Saturday, Eric had a relaxing time, and unexpectedly, he was almost caught by the chick again.
After taking a shower and checking other traces in the bedroom, Eric went to the study to pick up a notebook before heading downstairs.
When he came to the kitchen, he kissed Aniston who was preparing breakfast. After making sure that the chick didn't smell anything from him, Eric felt relieved and put the laptop on the dining table, intending to check today's schedule. work mail.
The IBM notebook in front of me has finally achieved WIFI connection. This is the effect of the wireless router sample just sent by the R&D department of Firefly Electronics last week. However, there is no WIFI connection module in the current notebook computer, so it can only be connected to the outside world. Set up a signal receiver.
Today is December 13th, a week before the Christmas schedule, so there are no heavyweight new movies released, and Firefly's "Monsters, Inc" and MGM's "Night at the Museum 2" are still leading the way.
The cumulative box office of "Monsters, Inc.", which was released for three weeks, has reached 168 million US dollars, and the results are gratifying. The box office of "Night at the Museum 2" fell by 58% in the second week, and the cumulative total just exceeded 100 million, reaching 112 million US dollars.
Seeing the results of "Night at the Museum 2", Eric couldn't help but worry a little about "Rush Hour 2", which will be released next week. This action comedy movie starring Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker, the first production The cost was $33 million, and it grossed nearly $250 million worldwide.
Although Eric ordered New Line to sign a trilogy contract with the two male protagonists from the beginning, but because of the success of the first film, the remuneration of the two protagonists in the sequel has risen to 15 million US dollars. Therefore, just for the film salary, the two protagonists took away 30 million US dollars this time, and the production costs in other aspects have also risen, causing the total production cost of "Rush Hour 2" to reach 70 million. It is a record, but with a production cost of 70 million US dollars, it is still considered a big-budget movie.
Eric has watched the original "Rush Hour" trilogy, but he didn't pay attention to the production cost and box office of the three films, and he didn't know how much profit this $70 million production cost could bring to Firefly.
Moreover, the schedule of this film is not too optimistic.
In addition to "Jurassic Park 3", which is confirmed to be released a week after "Rush Hour 2", there is also the sci-fi blockbuster "Starship Troopers" produced by Sony Pictures that will compete with "Rush Hour 2". Science fiction has been accused of being overly politically charged.
However, special effects movies have been very popular in recent years, and ordinary audiences obviously don’t pay too much attention to political issues. After the fiasco of the summer file "Godzilla", Sony Pictures still paid close to the production cost for this movie. With a US$110 million film invested in a US$40 million publicity budget, "Starship Troopers" will undoubtedly become the biggest threat to "Rush Hour 2".
The summer files of "Prison in the Sky", "Finding Nemo", "Casino Royale", "Bad Boys 2"...
"Monsters Inc", "Night at the Museum 2", "Rush Hour 2", "Jurassic Park 3" in the year-end schedule...
Even if he counts the films of the Firefly system, Eric also found that the schedule in North America has become more and more crowded.
In my memory, in May, June, July, August and even September in the future, there will be large-scale production films released one after another. month time. In addition, Easter and the beginning of November at the end of the year also gradually have blockbuster movies released.
Perhaps, now is the time to lengthen the front line of popular schedules or develop new ones, otherwise, North American film schedules will only cause more and more serious internal friction.
Eric was thinking about these things in his mind, and unconsciously clicked on another email in his mailbox.
Although Aniston had already eaten breakfast, she still made two servings and planned to eat them with Eric.
After bringing the breakfast and putting it on the dining table, the chick came up behind Eric, glanced at the laptop screen curiously, then let out a soft 'wow', and put her arms around Eric's neck and moved closer some.
"What's the matter?" Eric pecked the chick's cheek, asked with a smile, and looked at the laptop screen.
This email turned out to be the global box office statistics of "Casino Royale". It is already the end of the year, and the global release of "Casino Royale" has basically ended. It will have too much impact again, and the future increase will only be a few million dollars at most.
Aniston pointed to the eye-catching box office figure on the screen: "1.135 billion US dollars, is this the global box office of "Casino Royale?"
Eric scanned the email quickly, and the North American box office of "Casino Royale" was finally fixed at 372 million US dollars, while the overseas box office reached 763 million US dollars.
According to the average share ratio of 55% in North America and 35% overseas, MGM's share of the box office of "Casino Royale" is as high as 471 million U.S. dollars, and the total investment in the production and distribution of "Casino Royale" is 160 million U.S. dollars. In other words, MGM will have a net gain of $310 million just from the box office proceeds. Compared with blockbuster films such as "Godzilla" and "Batman and Robin" in the summer, the performance of "Casino Royale" is even more impressive.
"1.135 billion U.S. dollars, I didn't expect it either." Eric nodded with a smile, and said, "However, it still can't be compared with Jim's "Titanic."
Aniston kissed Eric on the cheek, and said, "The combined box office of all your films must be higher than his."
Eric heard Xiao Niu say this, and couldn't help but think of this question. He wondered how much the cumulative box office of the films he participated in since his debut in 1988. However, just counting the three recent "Tornado", "Jurassic Park" and "Casino Royale", it is probably about the same as Cameron's cumulative box office. Coupled with the previous films such as "Home Alone" and "Pretty Woman", there is no problem in surpassing Cameron.
After reading this email, Eric temporarily closed the browser, picked up the tableware, looked at Aniston who was sitting next to him, and said, "Christmas is next week, do you want to go to New York with me?"
Although he never brought it up, Aniston still had an inexplicable curiosity about Eric's two children. After thinking about it, he asked, "Well, will Drew go?"
Eric nodded: "She used to go there, and it's only fun when we spend Christmas together. I called the day before yesterday, and Vicki said that it might snow in New York in a few days, so it will make the atmosphere of Christmas even more."
The chick was obviously moved, but after hesitating for a while, she shook her head and said, "I still won't go, you just need to spend Thanksgiving with me in the future."
"Okay then," Eric didn't force it, and changed the subject in a timely manner, "Where are you going to go after breakfast?"
"I have no plans during the day, but I have an appointment with Matthew and the others to have a party at night, so you can go with me."
The Matthew Aniston said should still be Matthew Perry. Although he didn't participate in "Friends" at the beginning, in the past few years, Matthew Perry has been doing well in the film industry, but there is no "Home Alone" period So hot.
"Okay, then let's go buy some clothes during the day." Eric naturally would not refuse Aniston's small request, took a few mouthfuls of breakfast, and suddenly thought about something, said: "Speaking of Matthew, I happen to be looking for a leading actor for another comedy here, maybe I can let him try, um, of course, the scale of this comedy may be a bit big, I don’t know if he will be willing."
Eric's main work during this period is several new films around the Firefly system, and "Teddy Bear" is one of them. The original Mark Wahlberg has just debuted now, so it is naturally inappropriate. During this period of time, the roles provided to him by the casting department were also unsatisfactory. Thinking about it now, Matthew Perry, who looks a little bad and full of comedian temperament, is perfect. In this regard, Mark Wahlberg is even worse.
Aniston raised her head happily. She has always regarded Matthew Perry as a "good buddy". In recent years, Matthew Perry's career has not been so satisfactory. Eric helped him and said, "Eric, really?"
"Of course, as I said just now, the scale of this movie is a bit big."
"Are you going to show off?"
Eric shook his head and said, "No, it's just, um, there are a lot of swear words, the kind of shit that has no bottom line. Well, I happen to have a script here, you can read it first."
As Eric said, he found the script file of "Teddy Bear" from his laptop, opened it and pushed it in front of Aniston.
Aniston was drinking oatmeal, but she didn't have any preparations, and read the script while eating with a spoon. However, within a few minutes, the chick almost spit out the porridge. Fortunately, she turned around in time and took another porridge. A paper towel covered his mouth, so he didn't get embarrassed.
After wiping the corners of her mouth, the little girl laughed wantonly: "Ha, haha, this is so, so vulgar, it's on the floor... The guy who wrote this script must be an asshole."
Eric was speechless for a moment, touched his nose and wondered if he should take the initiative to admit it.
Aniston is naturally not stupid. When he noticed Eric's expression, he immediately understood, but he smiled even more happily: "Haha, so you are that bastard. I don't know how many guys who like teddy bear toys will see it in the future." I will scold you later." (To be continued.)