I’m in Hollywood

First, the Los Angeles Metropolis Daily, as Eric expected, once again exposed the photos of Julia leaving Eric's house, and specifically mentioned the carnival party that Eric held at home, but put Home Alone The events of the crew members' participation were briefly mentioned, but the language was ambiguous and focused on describing that group of young and beautiful beauties.

Then some newspapers followed suit, and I don’t know where to find some specious revelations, which criticized Eric’s personal conduct. Eric gradually abandoned his girlfriend and had sex with underage girls after he became famous from an inspirational young man. Relationship, hang around the party life extravagant playboy.

...Perhaps Eric Williams is indeed a talented young man, but after gaining huge wealth too easily, this young man obviously began to degenerate at an incomprehensible speed...

... After just dumping his girlfriend at the end of the period and spending a spring night with Drew Barrymore, Eric Williams immediately changed to a new woman. According to the investigation, the big-mouthed beauty in the photo is The heroine of Modern Cinderella released...

...It's hard to imagine that Eric Williams would attack Drew who was only 13 years old. I personally think that there must be some hidden secrets in it. In any case, Eric Williams' behavior Both touch California law. I see a second Roman Polanski, equally talented director, committing the same unforgivable crime, in order to prevent Eric Williams from being like Roman Polanski To abscond like that to avoid legal responsibility, I think LAPD should take action against Eric Williams in time...

Even some bottomless entertainment gossip newspapers began to fabricate out of thin air after they could not find more information. For a time, the good public image that Eric had built was crumbling.

Soon, Fox reacted immediately after the storm showed signs of expanding. Back to Seventeen produced by the other party is still in hot release, and has just bought out the overseas distribution rights of Home Alone. If Eric's image as the actor and director is allowed to be damaged, he will suffer direct economic losses. Obviously myself.

As for Colombia, in addition to continuing to perform the contract in accordance with the gambling agreement, it is almost a completely indifferent attitude. Some employees in Columbia's negative publicity department also mentioned doing public relations for Eric to their bosses, but none of the proposals were approved. Blunt Cohen was disgraced by Eric last time, and the top of the propaganda department even suspected that there would be Blunt Cohen's inspiration behind these disturbances, so they were unwilling to take risks.

News Corp. started out as a print media company. It has played a lot of tricks to increase sales by smearing public figures, and it is easy to deal with it when its own side is smeared.

Soon, under the negotiation between Fox and Eric himself, the counterattack was launched quickly. While changing Eric's image through various media, Fox carefully selected a few recently released movies. The foundation is not very clean. The actors and directors followed the hype. For a while, the North American newspapers seemed to be a little smoky and smoky, and the focus on Eric was quickly distracted.

The people also gradually sensed something unusual from this information. Although the media is good at manipulating people’s hearts, if they really blindly make fun of the people as fools, they will be fooled in the end.

Soon, a not-so-famous Hollywood Information published a special commentary on the front page headline, completely exposing the undercurrents buried under the storm.

Christmas Farce: It's All About the Box Office

As the annual movie Christmas season approaches,

In previous years, the film company that used all its strengths to promote its own works, this year, is using a series of despicable smear tactics to suppress its competitors. The beginning of everything all originated from a magical young man named Eric Williams. rise.

After the release of the box office in the new week, the combined box office of two Eric Williams-related films has exceeded 100 million US dollars, especially the low-cost comedy Home Alone, after rising against the trend in the second week, the third Weekly, there was still only a slight drop of 20% at the box office, with a box office of 23.15 million US dollars, and a total box office of nearly 80 million US dollars in three weeks.

As we all know, the total box office and the number of moviegoers in the Christmas period are limited, and major film companies will gradually withdraw from a series of annual blockbusters. Therefore, in order to compete for box office share, Eric Williams himself has recently suffered from various All sorts of criticism scandals seem logical.

Let's not talk about Eric Williams's own conduct, nor talk about what a series of his film and television stars who have been attacked by public opinion have done in the end. We are just here to call on major film companies to remain calm, Return to the normal track of competition. By suppressing opponents through abnormal means, you will only suffer the consequences in the end.”

The Hollywood Information article that took a different approach seems to be a signal. While major well-known newspapers have reprinted them one after another, the bigwigs who manipulated this public opinion storm and wanted to knock Eric out of the dust had to restrain themselves. Because they found that Eric was no longer alone, News Corp.'s quick and furious counterattack made it clear that Eric Williams had formed a stable alliance of interests with Fox.

Although some tabloids that are unwilling to give up the topic are entangled, most of the more influential newspapers have tacitly stopped attacking their competitors.

This turmoil seems to have passed.

A few days later, Eric, who was chased by the paparazzi and intercepted a little crazy, finally moved into the Beverly Hills mansion and closed the door tightly, so that Eric no longer had to look up through the window as he did in his North Hollywood apartment. I saw a paparazzi parked outside for a long time.

Jeffrey Hansen looked at the high wall outside the mansion, and rang the doorbell with some envy. After a few minutes, Eric opened the door and welcomed Jeffrey Hansen in.

Parking the car in front of the villa, Jeffrey Hansen asked, Eric, what have you been doing at home recently, haven't you gone out for several days?

When it comes to this, Eric is very depressed, because he will be chased by the paparazzi when he goes out. Eric can only stay at home during this time. Compared with the happy life of the otakus in the previous life, this era without the Internet is really annoying. Crazy.

Writing novels, writing scripts, watching TV... Anyway, it's boring. Now I don't even dare to go out the door. Last time I just stopped by a convenience store to buy a bottle of drinks. The next day, the tabloids reported me to that It's reported that the cashier girl in the supermarket stretched out her claws.

Geoffrey couldn't help laughing with schadenfreude.

Eric led Jeffrey Hansen into the study on the second floor of the villa. Just as he entered, Jeffrey saw an oversized wooden writing board hanging on one wall of the study. Dense newspaper clippings and manuscripts were stapled to the clipboard.

What are these for? Geoffrey asked curiously.

It's useless, Eric stepped forward, tore off a newspaper clipping, and said with a smile, I was bored at home, so I tried to analyze from the information in these gossip newspapers who was tossing me behind my back.

Jeffrey joked: You think you are Sherlock Holmes. If you can see this, those old fritters will be in vain.

Eric shrugged. Speaking of which, he was indeed relatively lucky, because of the temporary interest alliance of Fox, he was pulled back from the brink of this turmoil. Compared with Michael Jackson, who touched the interests of too many people in his previous life, but was tossed to death alone, Eric did not dare to ask for anything more.

Putting aside these thoughts, Eric asked, By the way, Jeffrey, how are things going?

Hearing this sentence, Jeffrey took out the document from the briefcase with some resentment and said, You are such a leisurely boss that you leave everything to me to do. I have already renovated the company's office building, probably It will take half a month. Also, this is the information of some brokerage companies that you asked me to find, Eric, have you really decided to acquire the previous brokerage companies?

Eric took the information and said, Of course, you have also seen about Stuart Runkel. CAA is now holding the other party tightly in his hands and waiting to knock me out. I can't always cultivate stars for others. Bar.

However, federal monopoly law says that a studio cannot also own an agency.

Eric flipped through the information in his hand and replied, Of course I know this, and I didn't plan to merge the two companies. In my vision, the film company and the brokerage company are completely independent, and there is no legal question.

Forget it, you can figure it out for yourself. By the way, have you written the script for the new movie you said?

Eric found a stack of manuscripts on the desk full of newspapers and handed it to Jeffrey: It's written, do you want to read it first?