I’m in Hollywood

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The environment in Los Angeles is difficult to make people feel climate change. When Eric arrived in New York, the city had already experienced the second snow of the year. The town of East Hampton on Long Island was covered by a thick layer. It was covered with snow, and because of the sparse population, it seemed unusually deserted.

However, in addition to being colder, this environment is just right for two women to live in. After all, neither Virginia nor Joanna wants to suddenly wake up one day and see the news of their pregnancy in the newspaper.

The two girls were obviously bored, and they were very happy to see Eric coming to spend Thanksgiving with them. Although it is winter now, if you want to go out, you only need to wrap yourself tightly, and this kind of dress will not look too abrupt in the cold weather. However, in order to avoid the possibility of being discovered as much as possible, the number of times the two women go out is still very small. Few, but fortunately, the mansion that is temporarily rented is not small, allowing people to have enough space for activities.

There are still four days before Thanksgiving. After lunch at noon, Virginia covered herself up and took her assistant to go out shopping for the festival. Eric planned to accompany him, but the woman stayed behind because the goal was too big. Eric was helpless and could only let the woman go out after careful warning.

Although it was noon, the weather was still gloomy and cold. The gray clouds were low on the top of the head, and there seemed to be signs of snow falling again. After Eric sent Virginia away, he walked with Joanna in the house for a while. @Child Fresh Air, I quickly got into the heated room.

Want to go to the study with me? Eric asked Joanna to hang up her trench coat.

Although he has left Los Angeles, Eric receives some messages from Los Angeles every afternoon at this time. Because of the time difference. It's still past nine o'clock in Los Angeles. Just in time for work.

Joanna nodded, with a quiet smile: Okay.

Eric took Joanna into the study, pulled a chair and asked Joanna to sit at the desk, poured a glass of boiling water for the woman and placed it in front of her, then turned to his seat and took it out from the fax machine. data received automatically.

Joanna quietly watched Eric flip through the documents, listening to the slight rustling of the paper flipping, with a touch of satisfaction in her expression. Occasionally seeing Eric looking up, he raised his lips to reveal a good-looking smile. When not working, Joanna often spends her time doing housework and likes to keep all the rooms clean. However, since the pregnancy, even Virginia has often 'condemned' her for being a lot lazy, but only she knows how much she expects and values ​​this child, and doesn't want it to go wrong. During this time, the only exercise she did was walking, otherwise, in sunny weather. Let someone sit in a chair under the eaves, with a book in hand, to quietly read all day.

After Eric arrives. Her pastime was sitting next to him, quietly all day long, and Virginia felt a little jealous of this heavy dependence.

It's Monday, and Firefly's two Thanksgiving films, Speed ​​of Life and Disney's Aladdin, both had their first weekend box office releases.

The box office of Life and Death was $19 million in the first weekend and three days, and it is expected to get about 25 million to 28 million in the first week. Although this result is not as good as the 38 million of Four Hundred Years released the previous week, but Ai Rui Gram wasn't too disappointed either.

The investment of Speed ​​of Life and Death is only more than 30 million US dollars, which is 10 million less than that of Four Hundred Years, not to mention that compared with Mrs. Judging from the word of mouth obtained by Speed, the box office decline of the film in the following weeks will not be too high.

Before another wave of blockbusters is released on Christmas, it is definitely not a problem to get a box office of more than 80 million US dollars, and the total box office will definitely exceed 100 million. Although Firefly has repeatedly created box office miracles with its small and broad, Hollywood has not yet entered the box office of 100 million yuan movies. In the era of walking all over the street, in 1992, the box office exceeded 100 million US dollars, which is still a symbol of a very successful movie.

Opening the next Aladdin data, Eric frowned slightly. Aladdin only had 9 million people at the box office in the first weekend, but Eric quickly relaxed. I don't have high expectations, and Disney's hand-drawn animated films have always been either silent or have been released for a long time, accumulating a jaw-dropping total box office. Last year's Beauty and the Beast was like this. Beauty and the Beast has been released for nearly half a year and has accumulated nearly 150 million US dollars at the box office. There is no problem with the quality of Aladdin. Eric believes this film Still able to get out of such a box office curve.

However, although the total box office has accumulated to a very high level, Disney often does not get too much share, because the longer the release time, the lower the share Disney gets from the theater, and even in many cases the total share is only More than 30%, far lower than the 55% that big film companies get on average from theaters. This is also the reason why many Disney hand-drawn animations choose not to go through the cinema channel and directly release videotapes. A few years ago, Disney's hand-drawn animation's turn over of The Little Mermaid sequel went directly to the videotape channel, while the original time and space, Lion Although the worldwide box office of The King is as high as 900 million US dollars, in order to save distribution costs, the sequel to The Lion King is still directly released on video tapes and has not entered the theater.

Looking at the various data of Aladdin in his hand, Eric thought of Pixar's 3D animation again. The box office curve of Toy Story is no different from that of Hollywood blockbusters. According to the development trend of Hollywood film distribution rules, saturated release It will become more and more mainstream, and those movies that hope to accumulate box office by virtue of word of mouth will have less and less living space. Although it is impossible, Eric will not pin his hopes on these extremely small things. Under this circumstance, it is almost inevitable to cancel Disney's hand-drawn animation production and fully produce 3D animation.

Right now, though, Disney's hand-drawn animation division is still working on The Lion King. If next year The Lion King is as big as the original time and space at the box office. Resistance to Eric's cancellation of Disney's hand-drawn animations will increase significantly. Of course, because Disney is under its umbrella, this resistance will certainly not come from the outside world, and it is more likely to come from the Disney management.

Although Eric gets along very well with Katzenberg, he definitely doesn't think Katzenberg will obey him, if it's just diligence and no strong independent judgment. Katzenberg couldn't have gotten where he is today.

What a headache!

Eric couldn't help rubbing his forehead. Joanna, who was sitting opposite, suddenly pointed out the window and said, Eric, look, it's snowing again.

Yeah, Eric turned to look out the window and said, Do you want to take a look outside? As soon as the snow falls, the weather won't be too cold.

Okay, Joanna nodded. stand up.

Putting on thick clothes, the two came outside the villa. A thin layer has once again accumulated on the swept road in the yard, and snowflakes like catkins flutter unscrupulously in the air.

Joanna stretched out her hand with pink plush gloves, stuck out the eaves to pick up a few snowflakes, and blew lightly to let those little ice crystals float out.

Eric looked at the sky and wondered when Virginia would come back. Joanna said softly, Eric, can you build a snowman?

No, Eric shook his head honestly. He lived in the south in his previous life. He had never seen a lot of snow since he was a child. Rick immediately added: But I can try.

Joanna hummed and watched Eric walk to the hut where tools were stored not far away.

After a while, Eric took out a shovel, picked a piece of land on the lawn on the east side of the villa, and shoveled up the snow that had not been cleaned up here.

Joanna asked the servant to take out the chair she used to sit on, and put a blanket over her body. She smiled and sat under the eaves, quietly watching Eric busy.

After more than half an hour, an ugly snowman barely stood up, and Eric brought carrots and two small cyan oranges from the kitchen to inlaid the eyes and nose for the snowman.

And hands, hands, Joanna pointed and whispered.

Eric looked around, broke off two dead branches from a bush not far away, inserted them for the snowman, and clapped his hands, Is that all right?

Joanna tilted her head to look at it, and gestured like a little girl: Hat, no hat.

Oh, wait a minute, Eric finished, walked into the room, and came out after a while with a pink straw hat and buckled it on the snowman's head.

Hehe, this hat belongs to Vicky, Joanna said after sizing up for a moment.

Eric put down his tools, patted the snowflakes on his body and walked over, squatted beside Joanna, took a cup of steaming water from the woman, took a few sips, and said with a smile, What's the matter, a hat That's it, does the snowman look good?

Well, Joanna nodded and added, Dad used to build me a snowman in winter when I was young, and it hasn't happened for many years.

Eric listened to Joanna's tone of nostalgia, and took her hand and clapped: When the children are born, you can go back to Poland for a while longer, or take them over.

Mom and Dad won't come, they don't speak English, Joanna shook her head.

The two were chatting in a low voice. The Chevrolet commercial car that Virginia was out with drove into the yard, and the little woman who was still passing by got out of the car, instructing the driver and assistant to move things out, and rushed. Eric and Joanna waved, Why are you sitting outside, isn't it cold?

Eric just made a snowman, Joanna pointed to the lawn.

Virginia followed Joanna's fingers and looked like a cat whose tail was stepped on: Ah, my hat, my Chanel limited edition, Eric, you bastard.

The little woman shouted and rushed towards the ugly snowman.

Virginia's female assistant saw that the boss was suddenly so excited, and subconsciously followed Virginia's side, with her arms outstretched and ready to help, Eric also stood up helplessly, afraid that the woman would fall, and hurriedly stepped on it. He walked past the thick snow on the lawn.

My hat, a Chanel limited edition, Virginia still shouted, taking the pink straw hat off the snowman's head, and kicking the snowman with her little leather boots. In the blink of an eye, the body was already in the air.

Eric hugged the woman in his arms and carefully walked under the eaves before putting it down. Watching Virginia was holding the hat in her arms and glaring at him, Eric reached out and smoked where the woman had a lot of flesh. A note: Is the hat more important or the child?

Hat... Virginia blurted out, took half a second before taking it: ...as important as a child.

Eric looked helpless, turned around and instructed Virginia's assistant to move the purchased things into the house, dragged the woman into the villa, and Joanna followed behind the two with a slight smile.

After rushing Virginia to change the thick clothes, Eric made room and helped the servants to sort out the pile of things that the woman bought.

It wasn't until night that Virginia's petty temperament was over.

After a warm Thanksgiving with two women, Eric did not leave. Although the Thanksgiving holiday passed quickly, Eric, as the boss, has the absolute right to arrange his own holiday away from him.

Of course, in addition to spending more time with two women, there are other things.

After Thanksgiving, the IE browser, which had been developed for more than half a year, was finally officially released, because the main carrier of software distribution in this era still relies on floppy disks. Although the free strategy of IE was determined at the beginning, the company has spent so much money for software development. Of course, it is impossible to give away floppy disks for free. Therefore, IE browser is still sold in the form of floppy disk according to the mode of charging software, but the price is very low. Although IE company will not pay money for nothing, it does not intend to make any profit from the sale of IE software.

At the same time, the interface of Yahoo's portal website has also been developed. Because there is sufficient time for technical research and development, when the Yahoo website is launched, it directly comes with a very convenient search function. In order to facilitate the promotion of the website, Eric set the homepage of all IE browsers as Yahoo's main site. However, in order not to give the pretense of monopoly, Eric did not bind IE to the Yahoo homepage. Anyway, in this era, very few people would modify the homepage. (To be continued...)

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