I’m in Hollywood

One of the interesting things is that at-t, Exxon Mobil and other big groups have more than half of the market share in their industry, they are all safe and sound, and now some people hope that the Department of Justice will come to us for trouble.

In the banquet hall of the big ship, Eric said with a half-smile in the face of Bill Michanick's concerns about the recent media controversy.

At-t, Exxon Mobil, the two corporate giants, are different from us, Bill Michanick said in a meaningful tone, Eric, I think you should make some preparations in advance.

Bill Michanick didn't break something, but Eric understood and nodded seriously: I understand.

Although at-t and ExxonMobil have more than half of the market share in their respective industries, they are both public-owned companies. Coupled with the market value of each other's hundreds of billions of dollars, the interests of the two companies are almost equivalent to the entire In the interests of the United States, the federal elite holds the control of the two companies, and the civilians share the profits created by these large groups through insurance funds and retirement funds. In the case of everyone's interests, as long as these large groups do not behave too much , and naturally no one will jump out to find trouble.

In contrast, the Firefly system is firmly in the hands of Eric himself, whether it is control or controlling.

Although many companies in the system are also listed companies, compared with other federally-owned corporate giants, the companies in the Firefly system are too concentrated in terms of power and interests.

In this case, it is basically impossible to make others not jealous. Except for the Hollywood media industry, most of the assets of the Firefly system are distributed in the field of new technology. Since new technology companies are basically emerging industries, they will not touch the interests of too many original social classes. However, with the scale of the Firefly system As it gets bigger and bigger, some people will naturally feel that these industries should have a share of their own. Once more and more people have these thoughts, the troubles of the Firefly system will follow.

Eric has never ignored this problem, but, to be honest, he has no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, and maybe there is no one in this world who has experience in dealing with this kind of thing, so he can only be careful. Explore slowly.

Watching Bill Michanic walk away, Eric's inner recognition of him increased a bit. After all, being able to raise this more sensitive concern in his own face, Bill Michanick must have begun to integrate himself into the Firefly system.

Taking a sip of the champagne in his hand, Eric looked around.

Since The Fast and the Furious has achieved success, a celebration banquet is naturally a must.

Just after the New Year, several companies joined forces to organize this party into a big party for the Hollywood Firefly system. The top executives of Firefly, MGM, Fox and Columbia, as well as the producers, directors and stars who are close to the four companies, all gathered together.

After looking around for a week, Eric found Caroline and Mayer who were chatting softly together at the buffet table not far away, so he waved to the two women.

Today is January 16, and Caroline returned to Los Angeles last week.

Noticing Eric's gesture, Caroline and Mayer walked over together. The two women also held a small dinner plate in each hand. When they approached, Caroline asked, Eric, what's the matter? thing?

Eric held the wine glass in one hand and put the other in the pocket of his trousers. After hesitating for a while, he shook his head with a smile on his face, and said, It's nothing, remind you two not to eat too much and be careful about gaining weight.

Gaining weight is the natural enemy of almost all girls. Caroline immediately shrank her neck and defended embarrassedly, I didn't eat a lot.

Eric raised the wine glass in his hand and said, Hey, since that's the case, let's play, by the way, don't seduce boys,

Can't even speak.

Caroline naturally took this sentence as Eric's 'warning' to her alone, and glanced at Mayer beside her with a red face, and whispered: Eric, you are really domineering. .

After saying that, the girl ignored Eric and dragged Mayer to other places.

Although it was obvious that Eric was about to stop talking, the boss didn't say anything, and Mayer didn't ask any more questions. He just turned his head and looked at Eric again when Caroline pulled him away.

After dismissing the two female assistants, Eric entertained the guests who came to greet him from time to time, and went all the way to the main deck on the lower deck of the big ship, where he found the figure of the girl and others.

The girl felt a hand around her waist, and didn't care about the other guests around her, she turned her head and kissed Eric, and asked, Eric, what does Bill have for you?

It's nothing, Eric shook his head, then smiled and greeted Amy Pascal, Tina Fey, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Hudson: Hi, Amy, Greg Win, Kate, oh, and Tina, long time no see.

Tina Fey raised a glass to Eric restrainedly: Long time no see, Eric.

After working as a personal assistant for a girl for a while, with the integration of MGM, Tina Fey was assigned to the script editing department of MGM as the supervisor.

Thinking about it carefully, the current MGM has a lot of meaning to the Hollywood women's gang.

After a round of greetings, Eric found that there was another unfamiliar face among the several women. Although he thought he had seen it somewhere, he couldn't call out his name for a while.

The girl who looked even tall in the black suspender dress noticed that Eric was looking at herself, and said hello: Hello, Mr. Williams, my name is Mira Sorvino.

Hello, Eric remembered and smiled, You played Woody's Non-Strong Aphrodisiac, right?

In fact, the first thing Eric thought of was the Kiss of the Dragon that Mira Sorvino and Jet Li collaborated with. It seems that the other party has also cooperated with Fage, but these movies don't seem to be available yet. Appear.

Mira Sorvino smiled and nodded.

The girl took Eric's arm and suddenly said with great interest, Mira is a top student in the Department of East Asian Languages ​​and Literature at Harvard. By the way, she can speak Chinese too.

Really, Eric was also a little surprised. Thinking about it carefully, maybe this is one of the reasons why the other party can cooperate with the two Chinese superstars. With a smile on his face, Eric looked at Mira and said, Hey, I'll test you. Let's listen to a Chinese idiom that is more in line with the current situation.

Mira Sorvino's eyes flashed, and there was a little slyness in her expression. She spit out four words in Mandarin: Play the piano to the cow.

Eric didn't expect the other party's Mandarin to be so standard, and was surprised again for a while, then smiled and gave a thumbs up, also in Chinese: Incisive!

However, after saying these two words, Eric realized that after many years, his Chinese accent had obviously become very blunt, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Opposite, Mira Sorvino said the idiom just now, and felt a little regretful in her heart.

She worked as an exchange student in Beijing on the other side of the ocean for a year, so she can speak very standard Mandarin. It's just that the idiom of playing the qin to the ox is definitely not a good word. What Drew just said, obviously Eric Williams should also know some Chinese. If the other party can understand the meaning of the word and think he is laughing at him, it will be bad.

Looking at the reaction of the other party, Eric Williams really understood Chinese, but she was not angry, and she was relieved. Mira was a little surprised when Eric praised herself in Chinese as well. However, thinking about the accent of the other party, she also felt that maybe the other party didn't understand the meaning of the idiom she just said, but she seemed to understand it but didn't. Pretend to understand.

Well, definitely so.

Thinking of this, Mira couldn't help but feel a little sense of superiority in her heart.

The two people in the conversation had different thoughts, but the others all had curious expressions on their faces, and the girl asked directly: Eric, what do you mean?

Uh, this, play the piano to the cow, Eric smiled, looking at the serious expression of Mira Sorvino on the other side, and said, Mira, why don't you explain it to everyone.

Mira Sorvino didn't expect a follow-up, and suddenly swept around in a guilty conscience.

Play the piano to the cow.

Although she is also from the second generation of Hollywood, her family is far less prominent than the Gwyneth Paltrow family or the Kate Hudson family.

The few people around, even Tina Fei, didn't dare to play.

This, Mila gestured unconsciously with her right hand holding the champagne. After hesitating for a while, she said, Playing the piano to the ox means that everyone is standing together and chatting with each other. It's very pleasant. Well, that's it.

The few women around were smart people. Seeing Mira's stumbling look, they all realized that she was talking nonsense, and looked at Eric together.

Eric ignored the eyes of several women, looked at Mila with a guilty face, changed to Chinese again, and said with a smile, Are you pretending to be smart and restraining yourself?

Ah, Mila's eyes widened, and some of the little sense of superiority just now disappeared. She didn't think that since Eric could say the idiom of 'cocooning oneself', he would not understand what it means to play the piano to a cow.

After Eric finished speaking, looking at Mila, who looked stunned, he took the initiative to help change the topic and said, Okay, let's not mention this, what were you talking about just now?

At this time, everyone obviously realized that Mira Sorvino's idiom just now was not a good thing, but since Eric didn't pursue it and took the initiative to change the topic, everyone naturally wouldn't chase it anymore.

Amy Pascal said: Nothing, we are discussing whether to go to New York for fashion week next month.

Oh, in that case, let's change the subject.

Everyone laughed lightly again.

Gwyneth said: Eric, I heard that Iron Man is about to release a Super Bowl preview?

Eric nodded and said, Yeah, remember to watch it then, maybe you will think it's good or not.

After a few chats, Kenneth Horn, CEO of New Line Pictures, and Bill Michanick, who had just left, walked over together again.

Knowing that the two might have something to do with them this time, Eric nodded to the women and left with them, asking, What's the matter?

Kenneth Horn didn't speak immediately. The three came all the way to the internal restaurant. Eric asked Amy Adams, who was on duty tonight, to change a pot of coffee for everyone. The three took their seats in the quiet restaurant. Handed a portfolio to Eric and said, Eric, this is Adam Sandler's new project script.

Eric took the portfolio, took out the script and roughly flipped through it.

This is a script called Dad Rush Forward, which still continues Adam Sandler's personal style, but there is a little more father-son affection in the content.

At this time, Adam Sandler's Tea Boy, which was scheduled at the end of the year, has also exceeded 100 million at the North American box office. Counting Wedding Singer in last year's Easter schedule, Adam Sandler has already owned two North American box office breakthroughs. 100 million films, although the overseas box office of both films is very mediocre due to the popularity restrictions of the style and TV industry background, this does not prevent Adam Sandler from successfully entering the ranks of Hollywood's first-tier superstars. After all, compared to the average of 2,000 At a cost of $10,000, his ROI is even higher than most blockbuster films that cost over $70 million.

Putting down the script in his hand, Eric said, So, what's the situation now?

Kenneth Horn explained, Adam put the script in front of me in the second week of Tea Boy. But, you know, New Line only signed him for two films, Tea Boy. , plus Wedding Singer, he has already completed the contract.

Well, then what?

Kenneth Horn said: I offered him $15 million for the film, Adam refused, and he didn't have any contact with me for a few weeks.

Eric thought for a while, then smiled and looked at Bill Michanick who was sitting next to him, and said, So, he went to Columbia?

Bill Michanick shook his head, nodded again, and said, Yes or no, Adam did not contact us directly, but an independent production company called 'Sudden Entertainment', and they got Adam's new film. production rights, and then hopefully Colombia will distribute it.”

Hearing Bill Michanick's words, Eric suddenly remembered many years ago, like a reincarnation.

At the beginning, after completing Home Alone alone, the publisher that Eric found was also Columbia, and the person who made the connection at that time was Amy Pascal.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, Adam Sandler also found Columbia again, but the situation is very different now.

In other words, the situation in Colombia is actually the same as before. There are no outstanding films, and it is necessary to find high-quality film sources from outside as much as possible for distribution. At that time, the owner of Colombia at this time has been replaced by the one who had boldly negotiated with them. A young man with a gambling contract.

With a little emotion in his heart, Eric asked with an inexplicable smile on his face, Then, what conditions do they want, I mean, what are the conditions for sharing?