I’m in Hollywood

When I wake up in the morning, the gloomy sky outside the window makes it difficult to tell the time, but the warm bedroom with the fragrance of the female boudoir makes up for the unpleasantness caused by the weather.

This is Elizabeth's villa by the Thames.

After the residence was occupied by a group of crazy goblins last night, although it was late at night, many acquaintances and friends in London still called and invited Eric to stay there, but Eric politely refused. It is very common for Westerners, especially the wealthy, to borrow accommodation from each other, but Eric is the kind of person who is not used to living in other people's homes.

In the end, Elizabeth, who was still familiar with Eric's character, got the news from somewhere, and let people find Eric directly on Kensington Street and bring him here.

Of course, the residence of one's own woman is not a loan.

Today, apart from making an appointment with Olivia to go to her place for lunch, there is no other arrangement.

Feeling the sky outside the window, Eric touched the watch on the bedside table and glanced at it. He was about to stay in bed for another hour when the phone rang.

Picking it up and looking at it, it was an unfamiliar number. Eric casually pressed the answer button, and a woman's polite voice came from inside. After chatting a few words, Eric hung up the phone, dressed and washed up, and came downstairs, and the doorbell rang in time.

Eric walked over to open the door, and outside stood a young woman in her thirties with curly red hair, wearing a decent camel trench coat, holding a convenience bag with breakfast in her hand, and a bag in the other hand. Stack of newspapers.

Hello, Mr. Williams, my name is Rebecca, Rebecca Wade, and we just spoke on the phone.

Hello, Eric reached out and took the convenience bag from the other party's hand and smiled, I'll come, please come in.

Thank you, Rebecca Wade handed the convenience bag to Eric, followed him into the living room and put the stack of newspapers on the coffee table, I happen to be near the house, Liz called Say you might need these.

Excuse me, Eric nodded, asked Rebecca Wade to sit down, looked left and right, pointed to the direction of the kitchen, and smiled: If you want something to drink, I'll get it.

Rebecca Wade shook her head and smiled: No, Mr. Williams, when Liz was away, I took care of her here. There should be nothing in the kitchen.

Oh, then forget it, Eric smiled, no longer polite, sat down on the sofa, and asked, Are you a friend of Liz?

I work for The Sun, Rebecca Wade said, pulling out a business card and handing it over, Mr Williams, if you need anything in London, you can call me .

Eric glanced at the business card in his hand and was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the woman in her early thirties was the deputy editor of The Sun. Although the Sun is a gossip tabloid focusing on social news, it is also the largest circulation newspaper in the UK. Rebecca Wade's ability to be an associate editor at a young age is absolutely outstanding.

While thinking about it, Eric suddenly thought of another name. He raised his head and glanced at the woman who was putting the breakfast in the convenience bag on the coffee table. Although she was much younger, her iconic red curly hair was completely the same as the image in her memory. match.

Rebecca Brooks, one of the important executives of News Corporation who was implicated in the wiretapping scandal in the original time and space, was called the Queen of Tabloids by the British media. Murdoch, who relied heavily on her, even praised her in public as 'like his own daughter'. As for the surname change, I think it should be because of the husband's surname after marriage.

Rebecca Wade didn't notice the strangeness in Eric's expression. After setting up breakfast, she went to the kitchen to help him get utensils, poured the milk, and finally carefully put away the convenience bag wrapping paper and other sundries before looking at him. Eric, said: Mr. Williams, will you still live here tomorrow, can I continue to bring you breakfast?

Eric shook his head and said, I'll leave at noon, don't bother, and just call me Eric.

Okay, Rebecca Wade nodded with a smile, Then, if there is nothing else, I'll take my leave.

He got up to send Rebecca Wade away, Eric went back to the sofa, took the glass of milk to test the temperature, took a sip with satisfaction, and picked up a copy of the stack of newspapers, which happened to be The Sun , glanced at the breakfast on the coffee table again, and Eric couldn't help but smile.

The first time they met, they didn't set up a relationship at all. Instead, they silently figured out his living and eating habits and kept everything in good order. Although it is not clear about Rebecca Wade's work ability, but this emotional intelligence of dealing with people is not comparable to many people.

At least, Eric felt at this moment that if there is a need next time, it will definitely be easy to think of the other party.

Putting aside these thoughts for a while, Eric remembered what happened last night, and opened the Sun in his hand.

'The Victoria's Secret Army occupies the Garden Street mansion, and Eric Williams lives on the street. ’

The eye-catching headline is full of lace and is very capable of attracting the attention of readers.

However, read on, and the content contains a clarification of the influx of Victoria's Secret Angels into his villa on Garden Street last night: there was no special party, just that he lent his villa on Garden Street to the Victoria's Secret Angel They partyed all night, with explanatory accompanying photos on the page.

The country's largest gossip newspapers have set the tone, and other tabloids obviously can't make any waves about last night's events.

Eric was relieved and started to read other newspaper news while eating breakfast.

It has to be said that the British media have an air of disgust with integrity in their bones.

A few years ago, the Victoria's Secret show just started, and many British media criticized the Victoria's Secret brand. Some of them even accused the underwear brand of relying on coquettishness to gain attention.

But at this time, almost all the newspapers praised the London show last night. In their words, it seemed that Victoria's Secret was originally a British brand. The unprecedented scale of the show has also become the pride of the British in the mouth of the media.

The ltd team also held an event at the Victoria's Secret flagship store in London at noon. Emily went to Kensington Garden Street in the morning and captured all the goblins who had been crazy all night to prepare for the noon event. Took time to go back.

There was no unrecognizable tragic situation in the villa, but Mayer, who stayed overnight, seemed rather aggrieved. I wonder if he was taken advantage of by a group of fairies with a tendency to lily.

Using some tricks to get rid of the media, Eric went to Olivia's for lunch at noon and stayed in her gallery until evening.

Board the plane early the next morning and head back to Los Angeles.

While British newspapers of various sizes are still chasing news related to Victoria's Secret, the media on the North American side is even more lively.

Because, on November 13, Teddy Bear was released.

In the late 1990s, although the Bad Boys gang had begun to emerge, the most popular sleazy comedy in Hollywood was still Jim Carrey's exaggerated and nonsensical style.

So audiences and the media were all shocked when they saw Teddy Bear's series of cheesy comedies with absolutely no bottom line. And when all this happened to a stuffed toy that many people remembered in childhood, the shock index immediately soared and turned into jaw-dropping.

On the first day of its release, the topic of Teddy Bear in the media became a quarrel. The Bear is banned.

However, to the surprise of many people, including Eric himself, the attitude of the film critics towards this film is not as harsh. At least, after comprehensive score statistics, the reputation of Teddy Bear among film critics has exceeded With a score of 7, most critics thought the film was quite innovative.

At the same time, although the plot is vulgar, the film itself is still a warm topic to discuss how adults should choose between friendship and love.

As for other Hollywood studios, they were once again surprised by the level of special effects in the digital realm.

Except for the use of toy models in a small number of shots, most of the teddy bear shots in the film are done through motion capture, which makes the teddy bear in the film completely fake, and even many mouth shapes are similar to the real one. The real pronunciation is no doubt.

You know, this is not ten years later, and the most well-known image of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings has not yet appeared.

The original version of Teddy Bear, because the screenwriter and director Mike Sethfaan was a TV screenwriter, has a lot of North American TV drama elements. These very localized elements largely limit the film's overseas business. Potential, and even very unfriendly to some young viewers in North America who don't like watching TV very much.

Although Eric was able to basically copy the original script from memory, but since he saw the flaws of the original, of course he didn't do it again. Since he is in the film industry now, the target of ridicule has naturally become a movie that is more widely accepted by the public. Many of them are still Eric's own movies over the years, such as Home Alone and Pretty Moon. kind.

Early in the morning on the 14th, British time, when Eric was boarding the plane at Heathrow Airport, the news that Teddy Bear caused a sensation in the media in North America had already passed.

However, it was still late at night on the 13th in Los Angeles at that time, and the box office information on the first day of the film was not released.

Affected by the trend of the media, Katzenberg and other company executives expressed their concerns, thinking that the film is likely to be smashed. Eric himself felt that this time may be a bit too much, and overestimated the North American audience's perception of vulgar comedy. acceptance limit.

However, when the Boeing 767 landed at Ventura Airport, before Eric got out of the cabin, he received an excited call from Kenneth Horn, in order to avoid the impact of Teddy Bear on the Firefly brand, although this film The final cost of the film reached $50 million, and Eric let New Line handle its distribution.

With the opening scale of more than 2,700 theaters in North America, in the end, the box office of Teddy Bear reached 17.87 million US dollars on the first day, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Because, on the first day, it was 17.87 million US dollars, which means that the box office of the film may exceed 50 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the box office in the first week may exceed 80 million.

At $80 million, that's the equivalent of a blockbuster movie's first-week box office.

Although the investment of Teddy Bear has reached 50 million US dollars, in recent years, it can only be regarded as a medium-cost production, and the scale of the film's publicity is not comparable to a blockbuster film that has invested more than 100 million yuan in major studios. compared to.

Coupled with the strong controversy in the media, the first day of 17.87 million US dollars, this can definitely be regarded as a big outbreak.

Even, strictly speaking, even if it was forced down after the first week, the $80 million box office was a very good result for this movie. But in the North American market, it is basically impossible for a movie, especially a successful commercial movie, to be forced down because of the media's criticism.

In other words, $80 million in the first week is definitely just the beginning for Teddy Bear.

Hearing this news, Eric did not return to the Sharphorn Manor, but arrived at the Burbank headquarters of the Firefly Group by helicopter at Ventura Airport.

When Eric walked into the conference room, Katzenberg, Frank Wells, Kenneth Horn and other group executives were discussing something around some information. They all raised their heads.

Signaling everyone to continue to sit down, Eric also found a seat at the large conference table and asked with a smile, So, how is the situation now?

We just asked people to do a questionnaire survey in a few theaters in Los Angeles, Katzenberg handed over a document and said: The audience of 'Teddy Bear' is basically concentrated among young people under the age of 28. And, unlike most of the media's critical attitude, many viewers thought it was a very entertaining movie.

Eric looked at the information that Katzenberg handed over, and Frank Wells next to him also said: However, Eric, I think we should add some reminders immediately, because our customer service department was only yesterday. In one day, we received more than 3,000 phone complaints. Although it was marked with an R rating, and our trailer also gave enough hints, some viewers who did not pay much attention to this information still misunderstood that this was a family fun. Movies, and then take the kids to see them together, and the results are predictable.”

Eric nodded and said: In this case, let the distribution department make a plan immediately, and we have to continue to do what we need to do.

After discussing with the senior management of the group for several hours, and urgently formulating a follow-up promotion plan, Eric left the Burbank headquarters.

In the following days, the influence of Teddy Bear continued to expand. After the first day's box office of 17.87 million US dollars, on Saturday, the single-day box office of the film directly broke through the 20 million mark, reaching 20.58 million US dollars. Although the box office began to fall on the third day, it also received $16.95 million.

In just three days on the first weekend, the box office of Teddy Bear broke through the cost line, reaching 55.41 million US dollars.

The fierce criticism of the film by the media not only did not affect the film's box office, but instead caused a nasty carnival among the young audience. Many people even feel that Teddy Bear has posed a threat to Mission Impossible 3, which will be released next week.