I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 459
[Chapter 456 So disappointed]
The two women walked through the hall of the villa and quickly found Eric’s figure. The last rays of the sunset slanted through the glass curtain wall and hit him. Surrounded by light and shadow, Eric lowered his head and read it carefully. With a quiet and calm charming temperament.
Elizabeth and Julia slowed down in unison, not wanting to break the picture, but the empty hall amplifies the knocking sound of the two women’s high heels.
Eric heard the sound of the high heels tapping the floor, raised his head, saw the figures of the two women, and smiled: “I was just thinking about how to make do with dinner, so come here.”
“Oh, you put What are we doing, your dinner?” Elizabeth pulled Julia up, and together they retreated into the space chair opposite Eric.
The two women are very slender, and they don’t look crowded at all when leaning against the somewhat large egg-shaped space chair.
Eric looked at the two women who were shaking gently in the space chair opposite, still smiling, and said, “I mean someone has come to cook for me, but you have to cook my dinner yourself, I don’t mind, It’s
delicious.”
This sentence sounded almost flirtatious, Julia’s face turned slightly red, but Elizabeth snorted softly and said, “Did you know that you were sitting alone in the corner just now. It looks like the villain who hides behind the scenes in a movie and plots against the protagonist.”
“Yeah, this kind of villain is usually surrounded by a few enchanting beauties. When the two of you come over, the picture will change. It’s complete.”
Julia couldn’t help laughing softly, Elizabeth and Eric were always like a cat in a state of frizz when they got along with Eric, as if they instinctively wanted to fight Eric a few words .
But never get any bargain.
“Hey. Where are you?” Elizabeth heard Julia’s laughter, and couldn’t help pinching her hand around her waist.
Julia smiled and pushed away Elizabeth’s little hand: “What’s the matter with me, I can’t laugh anymore.”
Eric looked at the two women quickly scratching each other, and looked down with a smile on his lips. He took out a few from the thick stack of documents in front of him and handed them over: “Hey, here it is.”
Elizabeth actually noticed what Eric was reading when she arrived. Although she just glanced at it casually, she was sure that this was a copy of the contract between Firefly and Columbia.
Seeing that Eric took the initiative to hand it over, he quickly stopped fighting with Julia and took it with a smile, but his eyes were not satisfied with the folder on Eric’s knee, where there were still dozens of pages.
Eric stretched out his hand to press on the remaining information, shook his head and said, “You can’t read these.”
“It’s stingy,
” Elizabeth pouted and complained, but she obediently backed away.
When Elizabeth sat down beside her, Julia curiously leaned over to read a few lines, but quickly lost interest in the dense letters.
Raising his head, he noticed that Eric, who was opposite him, was just looking at him.
Julia dodged her eyes a few times in a panic, and finally she timidly greeted her, with some unknown expectations in her heart.
“You’ve been lazy for a year, Kapoor must be mad?” Eric asked softly, turning the pencil in his hand.
“How can I be self-willed, I have been taking care of Emma. And Kapoor has so many big names in his hand now, and he doesn’t care about me,” Julia distinguished, but there was no confidence in her tone. From the establishment of tg to the present, Although there are not many films made, they are all extremely successful. Julia also received dividends several times higher than her salary with 30% of the tg equity in her hand. In comparison, Julia’s enthusiasm for acting has also been a lot weaker.
Eric didn’t seem to hear Julia’s distinction. With a pencil in his hand, he tapped the blue plastic crust of the folder lightly, and said, “It’s been so long since ‘Pretty Woman’, you can pick up the romantic comedy again. For this subject, I’ll take the time to let someone choose a script for you.”
Julia hummed obediently, and Elizabeth, who had quickly read the thin pages in front of her, heard Eric’s words and couldn’t help saying: “You How can you be so domineering and don’t ask Julia if she wants to.”
Eric glanced at her lightly, and his expression was obviously saying, did you know me on the first day?
Elizabeth turned her head to look at Julia, hoping that she could resist Eric’s ‘atrocities’ with herself, but seeing Julia’s look of a little daughter-in-law with low brows and pleasing eyes, her heart suddenly vented. I don’t care if I’m angry, what else do I have to worry about?
“Hey, this, what the hell is going on?” Elizabeth raised the few pages of contract fragments in her hand and turned the topic to the purpose of her trip.
Eric said: “As you can see, cooperating to develop a film, everyone wins and everyone is happy.”
“I don’t believe your nonsense,” Elizabeth said: “Although this contract is a bit harsh for Colombia, if it is released , With the fame accumulated by Firefly, even if the conditions are a bit more stringent, some people will come forward. Hmph, there must be an inside story.”
Elizabeth said, and her small eyes glanced at Eric’s knees. Those files must have the answers they want.
Although she was asked by her father to come to check the situation, but at this time, Elizabeth herself also had a strong curiosity.
Although some of the terms she has seen are very unfavorable to Colombia, if the films produced by the two parties can maintain the consistent box office level of Firefly, then Colombia will definitely not suffer. At the same time, Colombia’s parent company Sony Pictures can also rely on this. Open up in Hollywood.
From this point of view, fireflies are simply giving people a pillow to sleep.
“You said it was an insider, and of course you can’t talk nonsense anywhere.”
Hearing Eric admitting that there was an insider, Elizabeth’s curiosity increased, staring at the remaining documents in Eric’s hand, thinking about herself If he suddenly goes up to snatch her, Eric will fry her until she is ripe…
Eric watched Elizabeth eagerly with great interest, and deliberately pushed the document in her direction, taking the initiative to ‘create’ Elizabeth Condition, come like some piebald snake from the Garden of Eden.
Elizabeth’s eyes flashed quickly, and she inadvertently saw Eric’s gaze.
Immediately vented.
Eric laughed and got up and walked over.
Take the part of the contract in Elizabeth’s hand and put it in the folder.
He patted the girl’s face, as if he was comforting an under-fed kitten: “Okay, there are ingredients in the kitchen, let’s make dinner. If you don’t want to do it, you can call for takeout. I’ll go to the study and make a few calls.”
Elizabeth shook her head a few times, trying to shake Eric’s abominable palm away, and Eric’s eyes flashed.
But sliding down the girl’s face, Elizabeth quickly pressed her chest and exclaimed: “Ah, pervert, what are you doing? Julia… Julia is here.”
Julia stared at Eric’s hand reached into Elizabeth’s collar and seemed to be still rubbing.
But soon, the big hand was pulled out, holding a soft cushion in his hand, Elizabeth’s face suddenly became red as blood, and Julia was stunned.
Puchi burst out laughing.
“What did I say is a little bigger, it’s really disappointing.” Eric sighed, the old god said in the ground.
“You bastard,” Elizabeth snatched the thing frantically and cursed bitterly, only to see Eric walking towards the study on his own.
Watching Eric’s figure disappear, Julia turned her head to look at Elizabeth, her mouth still smiling: “Hey, we… are we going to make dinner?”
“No,” Elizabeth said bitterly, but He quickly said, “Order takeout.”
“Hee hee…”
“Don’t laugh,” Elizabeth said frantically.
Julia laughed even louder, clutching her stomach and said, “Yes…haha…I’m sorry, I can’t help it.”
“There’s nothing to be proud of, you don’t beat me much.”
Julie Ya didn’t change her smile, and proudly supported her plump breasts: “Anyway, she’s bigger than you.”
“You bastard,” Elizabeth rushed over: “I’ll make it smaller for you.”
“Ah… let go, it hurts, you really come, I don’t laugh anymore, I don’t laugh anymore, aha, help.”
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The sudden cooperation between Firefly and Columbia caused a lot of waves in Hollywood , In the next week, the media in North America focused on this matter, and the attention of the cooperation between the two parties even surpassed the 64th Oscars to be held at the end of March.
The list of nominations for the 64th Academy Awards was announced on February 19. No surprise, “Dancing With Wolves”, which was cut by Eric for a year, became a big winner, winning awards including Best Picture and Best Director. 12 nominations.
Not only that, since December last year, “Dancing With Wolves” has been released for more than 10 weeks, but the weekly box office figures have remained at a height of about 7 million, and the total box office has also exceeded 100 million US dollars. The word of mouth of “Dance” will definitely usher in another box office rebound before and after the Oscars. Then, it is almost no suspense that the total box office of this film exceeds 150 million, and it is not impossible to even reach 200 million US dollars.
Even Eric himself did not expect the amazing results of “Dancing With Wolves”. He only remembered that the film would be a big winner at the Oscars, but compared to the terrifying four-hour set, Eric didn’t feel that at first. What will this film do at the box office, but according to normal management, it is expected that after this film wins the Oscar, it will gain some gains in the video tape market. Therefore, Eric did not care about this film until last year. The distribution rights were handed over to Fox, and only the film copyright and peripheral distribution rights were retained.
In the current situation, Fox must be making crazy money, Eric is a little depressed, and even more depressed, it must be the producer and Orion Films who sold the film for $30 million last year.
Orion Pictures has gone through bankruptcy and reorganization, and has started the production business again. Noticing the amazing results of “Dancing With Wolves”, a person in charge of Orion publicly denounced Firefly in a magazine for being extremely despicable. Kevin Costner, the director and actor who also invested in Dancing with Wolves, although he did not show much slack in participating in the film’s public relations, he also knew that he Giving up a large amount of profit, according to the profit of “Dancing With Wolves”, Kevin Costner, who accounted for 15% of the total investment, only received 4.5 million US dollars from the selling price last year. If he participates in the split, he will receive more than $10 million in benefits.
This loss of profit was enough to make him want to hit a wall with regret.
However, Hollywood is like this, realistic and cruel, but full of opportunities, and no one knows what will happen next.
Just like Warner’s first “Batman”, because there were not too many expectations for this movie beforehand, in order to save money, Warner wisely signed a share of the salary with Jack Nicholson, who played the supporting role of the Joker. As a result, “Batman” was a huge box office hit, and because of the sharing agreement, Warners successively paid Jack Nicholson a share of up to 50 million US dollars, which was more than the remuneration of the film’s leading actress and director combined. many.
The cooperation agreement between Firefly and Colombia is not particularly confidential. In less than a week, the executives of other Hollywood film companies knew the general content of the agreement. This cooperation agreement basically puts Colombia in the status of an external investor. But even so, it is enough to make other film companies jealous. After all, ordinary external investors invest in movies, they must lose money and make money. And it is often more when they lose money, and the number of times they make money. There are very few, and the movies produced by Firefly in the past few years have hardly failed.
Hollywood also doesn’t believe that Firefly will deliberately make bad films in order to cheat Colombia, so Colombia’s profits must be guaranteed.
Although it can be guessed that there must be other ulterior transactions behind this agreement, several other film companies have invariably tried to contact Firefly, even if they have a similar cooperation agreement, they also expressed their willingness.
As for Sony, after the preliminary cooperation negotiation between the two parties was reached, the Sony headquarters also expressed great concern for this cooperation, and even complacently announced the news on the local Japanese media.
“Hello, Mr. Dahe,” Eric shook hands with the Asian man in his early 60s, and at the same time looked at each other without a trace. He didn’t expect that Sony paid more attention to the cooperation between the two parties than he thought. So much that Sony’s current president, Dianxiong Ohga, went to New York in person to attend the signing ceremony.
Dianxiong Ohga was also looking at Eric on the opposite side. Although he had already read Eric’s information, he was still a little surprised by the youngness of the firefly owner when he saw Eric himself.
(To be continued..)
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