I’m in Hollywood

After cooperating with Columbia Mrs. Smith, according to the original contract, there are other cooperative development plans for four films. After getting the fatty meat of Columbia's overseas distribution resources, Eric no longer had much enthusiasm, but Peter Cooper was tightly entangled after Eric completed the later stage of Jurassic Park, Not only a few phone calls a day, but also a trip to the Firefly headquarters or Jiaojiao Manor every three days, Eric had to start selecting the remaining cooperation projects. If the movie has dealt with it, it is tantamount to pitting itself, and it makes people a headache to think about it.

The salary negotiation between Nicole and Universal on the Mummy project was also successfully completed. Nicole gave up the salary of 10 million US dollars and enjoyed 8% of the omni-channel profit share of The Mummy. Eric heard that this contract was within Universal. It also caused a lot of controversy. Michael Eisner advocated paying Nicole a cash salary, but the Universal Board of Directors insisted on agreeing to the sharing contract proposed by Nicole in order to reduce the investment risk, and even moved out the top management of Panasonic. , Michael. Eisner had to agree under the pressure given by Panasonic executives.

After reading the outline of the Mummy series drawn up by Universal, Eric confirmed that there will be an army of undead in the second sequel, so he let the digital field take the initiative to contact Universal, and wanted to win the special effects production project of the Mummy series.

Because of Eric's investment in technology research and development regardless of cost, Industrial Light and Magic at this time has fallen far behind the digital field in terms of cG special effects, although Michael Eisner is under Spielberg's matchmaking, Some long-term cooperation agreements have been reached with Industrial Light \u0026 Magic. However, it cannot refuse the cooperation request in the digital field. After all, he couldn't refuse to make Universal's films even better in terms of special effects. However, Michael Eisner did not hand over all the special effects of The Mummy to the digital domain. On the grounds that the film production cycle was tight, he subcontracted the special effects to Industrial Light and Magic and the digital domain for co-production. Eric originally I was only interested in the special effects scenes of the undead army, but I didn't raise any objections.

The sale of tG Films to Fox is just to confirm the intention. The specific transaction will at least need to be completed after tG completes this year's project. Drew and Elizabeth are still focusing on the production of Buffy and Jim Carrey's new film. , Charlize Theron's episode did not affect the process of Buffy to determine the heroine. If all goes well, the TV series will start production at the end of March.

After a period of research, Jim Carrey's new film was determined to be the sequel to Detective Plane at the end of last year. The sequel of the original time and space is indeed much better than the first one, and Eric also stepped in to make some suggestions for the script.

Because tG is not in a hurry to sell, and Drew can't get away in a short time, there is no need to worry about the production of Charlie's Angels.

Eric originally planned to hand the writing of the Charlie's Angels script to Firefly's screenwriting team, but after thinking about it in the end, he still planned to do it himself, anyway, because of the birth of two little guys. He'll definitely have some free time in New York, just in time to slowly come up with the Charlie's Angels script.

Since the idea of ​​imitating the 007 series, the movie series of Charlie's Angels certainly needs a complete world view and story background, and in this regard, Eric, who has countless movie storylines in his mind, is definitely better than others. Therefore, during this time, Eric carried a small notepad with him, and recorded the occasional inspiration for Charlie's Angels anytime, anywhere.

Between these scattered trivialities, there is Forbes magazine to add to the confusion. In early March, Forbes magazine officially announced the annual North American 400 richest list, although Eric did not appear in the richest man's seat. However, his worth of 7.5 billion US dollars still caused a lot of entanglement in the media. After all, although Eric is not the most wealthy on the list, his age is very dazzling. After his birthday in May this year, Eric Gram is only 23 years old, which is incomparable even to Bill Gates, who also has a net worth of more than five billion US dollars. Although Bill was once known as the 'youngest billionaire', he will Just turned forty.

Of course, if it's just age, it's not a big problem, you can say whatever the outside world says. However, for Eric's source of wealth, although Forbes magazine has given a clear analysis, many media are still thinking about it. All kinds of malicious speculation, and some people even vehemently called on the federal government to conduct relevant investigations and give taxpayers an explanation.

Of course there is no explanation, but its controversy is certain.

In this turbulent environment, Eric was busy until late March, and after finishing everything, he hurriedly left everything and rushed to New York.

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In East Hampton, Long Island, because the two women have to live for a long time, the original leased house has been returned. In January, Eric asked Chris in New York to help him buy another house not far from the sea. A small five-acre manor came to New York again, where Virginia and Joanna had both moved in.

The weather in New York at the end of March was still cold. Although there was no more snow, the maximum temperature still did not exceed fifteen degrees, and it occasionally dropped below zero.

Suddenly coming to this small manor like a paradise from the busyness of his feet on the ground, Eric did not suddenly feel at a loss like many workaholics, but he enjoyed the sudden tranquility very much.

For the two women now, it is definitely not advisable to go out in the morning and evening. Only when the weather is warm near noon will they go out for a walk.

New York ushered in a rare sunny day, there is no wind, and staying under the sun gives people a warm feeling. Eric was standing on the green lawn just now, with a picture clip in front of him and a charcoal pen in his hand. Anna drew it on the white paper, and the woman said that she would keep it as a souvenir and show the little guy what it looked like when her mother was pregnant with it in the future.

Because of the nutritional supplements during pregnancy, Joanna's cheeks did not feel as thin as before, and they looked plump and pretty. With slender eyes. look more beautiful. As for Virginia. She absolutely does not allow Eric to make any comments on her round face. The little woman also noticed that Eric is also looking forward to the little guy in her belly, so she is even more confident.

The sound of the car came, but Eric didn't look back. Before he got to New York, Chris said he would bring his girlfriend to visit, and he called again last night to talk about it.

Not far away came the voices of Virginia and Chris talking, and they said something. He walked towards Eric.

Eric saw Joanna raised her chin slightly and smiled behind him, and turned her head to see that the three had come behind him.

Eric, the painting is really beautiful, Emily Brighton said with some envy. She used to be very interested in painting, but unfortunately, in order to take the family business class, she had to apply for business school.

Chris followed up and joked: Yeah, if you don't plan to be a director in the future, you can make a living by this skill.

Virginia looked at the almost-completed portrait, feeling a little bit of a snack. However, she was resolutely unwilling to leave any images, because she felt that it was the ugliest period when she looked so old. Think of these. Virginia glared at Eric subconsciously, venting her little resentment on Eric.

It's all the guy's fault, for sure.

Both Emily and Chris, who were standing on the other side, noticed Virginia's expression and snickered at the corners of their mouths, but said nothing.

Eric drew the lines carefully, listened to Chris's teasing, and said with a smile: It's not that you can't take your opinion into consideration, anyway, I've been fine recently, and I just can go to Times Square to make some money and give two A little guy buys a few packs of milk powder.

These are of course jokes. After saying a few words, Virginia took Emily to prepare lunch. Eric was away during this time, and Emily often came to visit the two girls. The three had become very good friends at this time. friend.

Chris didn't leave, he put his hands in his coat pockets, watched Eric paint, and asked, How long are you going to stay in New York this time?

If there is nothing else, I'll try to stay until the summer vacation, Eric thought for a while, and said somewhat uncertainly.

Chris smiled: Listening to the tone of your words, I bet you won't stay that long.

Eric also shook his head gently: This is impossible. Speaking of which, I envy many other colleagues. They can take several months of vacation every year. I heard that John Malone, the boss of telecommunications, has I only work for six months and spend the rest of the year taking my family on vacation around the world.”

Telecom is a major shareholder of the company in charge of Barry Diller. Eric has been paying attention to the matter of bidding for Paramount with Viacom, so he also heard this anecdote by accident.

They're all old men. They're already famous. Of course, they can live a little more comfortably. And these people can't be like you. They climbed to the top ten of the Forbes rich list at the age of 23, didn't they?

Eric sighed slightly: Yes, there are gains and losses. I hope the two little guys will not be too unfamiliar with me in the future.

Chris didn't know how to answer this topic, so he thought about it and said: Speaking of the rich list, I have registered several companies in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and other places during this period, and I can use these offshore companies to deal with us in the future. Invest in several companies that we hold, and gradually dilute Firefly's investment in these companies. I have recently started to communicate with Steve Case about AOL's shares, and the 30% stake we now own can also be spread over several In this way, Firefly Investments can become an 'empty shell' that will not appear on the list of shareholders of listed companies in the future.

This is the best way. I was in Los Angeles the other day, but I was blocked by those paparazzi, and some guys even fanned the flames. It's really annoying.

Chris laughed: Even if we hide Firefly's investment, if Firefly Pictures continues to develop at the current rate, you will be pushed to the top one day sooner or later, and now many people have questioned Forbes Magazines underestimated Firefly's market value, and Wall Street scoffed at Forbes' valuation.

Let's talk about it later, the big deal is that I will also split the shares of Firefly Pictures, Eric said, suddenly thinking of one thing and asking: How is my online mailbox, I have a recent file on it. Didn't see any news?

The server is already being built, Chris' expression was also somewhat helpless: The core code of the online mailbox is almost completed, and that guy Steve Mitnick is dissatisfied with the encryption method of the mailbox password, so he brought his own The team at . It’s a tech company with similar technology, so it doesn’t matter if we wait a little longer, even if there are competitors, with Ie and Yahoo Portal in our hands, it will be promoted much faster than them.”

Eric nodded, becoming more and more interested in the guy Chris also called Steve, and said, If you have time, be sure to meet, I am most interested in perfectionists and paranoiacs, especially those who can People who stick to their perfectionist tendencies.

Chris curled his lips rarely and said, After you see it, you may have the urge to beat someone.

After finishing a painting, it was almost lunchtime. Eric took off the drawing board and walked to Joanna who was sitting on the bench. He discussed a few words with the woman in a low voice, and the two then greeted Chris. , got up and walked towards the villa. Chris looked at the backs of the two of them, and then at the lonely easel on the lawn. He shrugged helplessly, and laughed and scolded Eric that he had the opposite sex and inhumanity. Pulling down his sleeves, he reached out and disassembled the easel, carried it up and followed.

During lunch, the restaurant was completely home to three women. Women are very talkative creatures. In addition, Emily has become very familiar with the two women, and she is very talkative, chatting during meals. After chatting with the two girls from the birth of the little guys until 18 years later, I still have no idea what to do after lunch. I got rid of Eric and Chris, and gathered in a small living room of the villa to discuss holding a small prenatal party. matter.

Eric and Chris were not too interested in these topics, so they had to hide in the study and chat about company affairs. (To be continued...)