I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 63
[Chapter 62 Roxette]
“Hi, Penny, how are you doing?” After chatting with Jeffrey and James for a while, Eric began to socialize with the other guests again.
Penny Marshall gestured to the two guests next to her, and the other party turned and left with wink: “It’s still the same, I received a lot of script invitations, but I’m not very satisfied, so I decided to take a break. I don’t like You, filming the second movie so soon.”
Eric laughed: “I have no choice but to, so many people are waiting to see my jokes, of course I have to give them some thoughts. “Return to Seventeen” “Year-Old” has already made $70 million at the box office, right? It seems that breaking 100 million will definitely happen sooner or later. You make two films with a box office exceeding 100 million within a year. As a female director, your record is hard to break in a short period of time.”
Penny Marshall’s compliment to Eric was very useful, but she still said: “That can’t compare with you. “Home Alone” has received more than 24 million box office in the last week.”
“Okay, you should stop each other .
A compliment, I’m sick to my stomach.” James Brooks suddenly interjected: “Eric, I have something to discuss with Penny…”
“Of course no problem,” Eric nodded, Turn around and walk towards the others.
When the reception was about to end, Eric stopped Kapoor who wanted to leave: “Kapoor, come with me, please, I have something to discuss with you.”
Kapoor nodded and followed Eric. Get up to the second floor study.
The study room looked a bit scattered, occupying a writing board on one wall. The original newspaper clippings had been cleaned up. At this time, Eric’s hand-painted “Pretty Woman” was densely covered with sub-shots.
By the window, the piano that had been returned was brought back by Eric.
Kapoor is obviously a little surprised by the different scattered styles of this room. The other aspects of the villa are neat and tidy. People who come here suddenly will have a feeling of being out of place.
Eric put a few folders on the desk into the bookshelf and explained: “This is the place where I create, and the cleaners are not allowed to come in, so it’s a bit messy.”
“Didn’t Drew live here?”
Eric pulled out a chair and handed it to Kapoor: “Girls don’t have the self-consciousness, so I’ll tidy up occasionally.”
“You can’t spoil her too much.” Kapoor suggested with a smile.
Eric shrugged and didn’t answer, put a cassette into the tape recorder, and pressed the play button: “Kapoor, let’s listen to this first.”
Kapoor knew that Eric would not aimlessly, and listened with Eric up.
The fast-paced accompaniment sounded, and a very infectious singing voice soon came out.
*It.must.have.been.love,
*but.it’s.over.now.
*Lay.a.whisper.on.my.pillow,
*leave.the.winter.on.the.ground.
*I.wake .up.lonely, there’s.air.of.silence
*…
After a few minutes, the song ended quickly, and Eric asked, “Kapoor, what do you think?”
Kapoor said honestly: “This I don’t know too much about it, this song is very infectious, and the
female singer’s voice is also very explosive. Eric, why are we listening to this?”
“I plan to use this song as the song “Pretty Woman” Interlude. But this is not the main one, Kapoor, have you thought about the future of UTA?”
Kapoor nodded: “Of course, we have signed Al Pacino, if your “Pretty Woman” If we can achieve success, coupled with Julia Roberts, as long as there are two superstars, our agency will be able to gain a firm foothold in the industry, UTA is still small after all, and we can’t be too hasty.
” Rick said: “Don’t you think about developing in other areas?”
“You mean…” Kapoor glanced at the tape recorder: “Singer?”
Eric nodded: “The actors in the film and TV circles have basically been divided up by those large and small brokerage companies. If we want to grow in this area, we can only poach and cultivate them slowly. However, The music industry is still a virgin land, and even the giants like CAA don’t pay much attention to this business, this is a good opportunity for us to find another way.”
In the 1990s, it was still the golden age of the record industry. When preparing for the episode “Pretty Woman”, after a lot of hard work, I found the famous song “It.must.have.been.love” in the movie, and found that the singer Roxette group has not yet left Sweden.
The previous Roxette group has been active for more than ten years. After their debut in North America, the first single released by this group won the championship of 24 national music singles charts with a sweeping attitude.
How could Eric let go of such a potential stock.
“Kapoor, the song we just heard was performed by the very strong Roxettes in Sweden, and a song that could hit the top of the Billboard charts hasn’t been heard by many people yet, so this is our A chance, you understand?”
Kapoor said: “It seems that I have to go to Sweden myself.”
“Of course, the sooner the better, since I can find this song, other record companies are also very popular. You will soon notice that, after all, they are more professional than me in this area, so we don’t have much time left.”
“Eric, do you want to set up a record company?”
Eric shook his head: “Now set up a record company.
It’s still too early for the company, my current focus is still on movies, and after winning Roxette’s brokerage contract, you still need to explore the specific mode of operation.”
Kapoor nodded to understand, and the two discussed some details. , the other party got up and said goodbye.
After sending Kapoor away, Michael Krause quickly came up: “Eric, it’s been so long, haven’t you finished writing “Resident Evil”, haven’t you always been a fast shooter?” The
last one The word was just heard by a waitress who was invited. The girl subconsciously glanced under Eric. She wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to laugh.
Eric looked depressed: “Michael, you can’t pay attention to what you say. If the girl accidentally revealed what you said just now, I don’t know how those gossip tabloids will arrange me.”
Michael Krause is very insincere He grinned apologetically, and continued to persevere in asking “Resident Evil”.
” Okay
, take it.” Eric found the manuscript and handed it to Michael: “The contract is the same as before, just send it to me when you’re done.” When he came out, he saw the manuscript that Michael was
flipping
through. He shouted and rushed over: “Hey, Eric, I haven’t finished reading it yet.”
Little Paws, stuffed the manuscript into the bag, ignoring Drew’s protest, UU reading www.
sonicmtl.com said: “Eric, then I’ll go first, goodbye.”
After that, Michael picked up his bag and left, as if a little magic star was chasing him.
“Okay, don’t mess around.” Eric knocked on Drew’s forehead: “I haven’t settled with you about your skipping class, and I even secretly deleted the phone message from the principal to me.”
Drew instantly Without the momentum of showing her teeth and claws, she turned into a well-behaved little girl with her hands behind her back, but the cunning in her eyes remained: “I’m sorry, Eric, I don’t dare any more.”
Eric’s eyes were solemn .
: “Drew, did you touch those things again?”
Drew quickly shook his head: “No, really not, I just took a few classmates to the Rose Bowl to watch the game, Eric, I swear, Never touch those things again.”
With a sigh of relief, Eric put the girl in his arms and hugged, remembering what Drew had just said, he suddenly couldn’t help laughing and slapped the girl’s butt: “No wonder When your principal called me, you were a little furious, you didn’t learn well yourself, and you taught the good girls in your school bad.”
Drew snorted, arched in Eric’s arms, raised his face and said, “Eric, my female classmates are all very beautiful, if you want me to introduce them to you, it’s still good. As for the girl, I checked it out specially.”
“Uh…”
Eric’s mind flashed some pictures, and the wind was messy in an instant: “It’s too ridiculous, hurry up to sleep, and don’t go out before school starts.”
“Hmph, really overbearing .
, be careful I sue you for banning girls.”
[End of this Chapter]
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