I’m in Hollywood

Eric had originally planned to find a manager, but this was not an easy task. Although he has not received any movie share, no one can deny that he is now worth more than 100 million US dollars.

And only Eric himself knows that the copyright of Jurassic Park in his hand, the Pixar studio, and his plans to continue to win the 'gold mines' in future generations, these things will make his assets easier in the future exceeded the tens of billions of dollars.

In this case, it is impossible for him to hand over the assets in his hand to an outsider. This kind of professional ethics, only if there is not enough temptation, will someone stick to it.

It is not uncommon for Hollywood stars to be deceived by their financial managers. The bankruptcy incident of Nicholas Cage in the previous life is inseparable from Cage's personal profligate character, but it is said that there is no contribution from his financial manager. This kind of thing doesn't happen easily.

The more chaotic an employer's financial situation is, the easier it is to fish in troubled waters. However, the accounts are clearly organized, and the value of assets is also owned by the employer. Instead, financial managers can only receive their own share of remuneration.

Picking up Edward's ride back to Los Angeles, Eric went to the Hilton Hotel parking lot to retrieve his car and drove directly to the Firefly headquarters.

When Eric left Los Angeles, Jeffrey had already taken over the adaptation rights of Scent of a Woman, and Eric had not had time to write the script of Scent of a Woman. Jeffrey also raised another question about Firefly's finances.

The filming of Fengyue has exhausted the funds that Eric invested in the company, and to get the movie share, as usual, it still has to wait until the movie is down. Although he has a good relationship with Fox, Eric can be sure that if he goes to talk to Barry Diller because of this matter, the other party will definitely talk to him about business.

And Eric used the Home Alone contract as collateral for a $50 million loan, spent 20 million to buy Pixar, and left another 10 million as the initial capital for Toy Story, and now there are only two remaining. Millions of dollars.

That's not enough money to even invest in his next movie, let alone Eric's plans for several other movies.

Eric signed a check of $20 million to the company's financial manager, and then said to Jeffrey: In this way, let's prepare Scent of a Woman first, I will drive the script out these days.

Then what about your movie?

Eric shrugged: The only option is to continue the loan.

Anyway, I have already borrowed it once. Even if I resist at first, I will get used to it. Anyway, he will not let other film companies intervene in his film projects for the time being.

By the way, Jeffrey, this is a script I... stumbled across. The director is Herbert Ross, and it's still in the casting phase. I heard that the budget for this movie is not very generous, you contact Check him out to see if he can win the project, Firefly is willing to co-invest, and at the same time convince Julia Roberts to join the film.

Jeffrey looked at the split script that Eric handed over, read a few paragraphs, but didn't see anything special. But he didn't raise any objections. Now, he no longer doubts Eric's vision in the movie. As Eric said, he is more suitable for the role of a producer, and the content of the movie is still left to Eric to make full decisions.

No problem, I'll contact Herbert Ross as soon as possible.

After dealing with the things that he needed to personally ask in the morning, Eric was planning to go home.

Jeffrey knocked on the door and walked into his office: Eric, remember Amy Pascal?

Of course, if it wasn't for her, Home Alone wouldn't have been released so smoothly. Speaking of which, I haven't been able to thank Amy in person.

She called, Jeffrey said, pulling Eric up: I haven't hung up yet, I'm looking for you.

Eric got up quickly and followed Jeffrey to his office.

Amy?... Long time no see, I've been wanting to say thank you, but unfortunately you resigned suddenly last time... Of course, no problem... Then, see you later.

Hanging up the phone, Eric and Jeffrey looked at each other.

Jeffrey took the lead in saying what he knew: Amy has returned to Colombia and is temporarily serving as vice president. Blunt Cohen has left. I heard that he retired early and went to France.

Did she just tell you?

Jeffrey nodded: I had a chat with her before, what is Amy looking for from you?

Say you're inviting me to dinner,

The two chatted for a while, but couldn't come up with any clues, Eric looked at his watch and said, Then I'll go to the appointment first, Jeffrey, everything about Scent of a Woman and Steel Magnolia I'll leave it to you, in the next few days I'll be at home chasing the script, so I won't come to the company, call me if you have anything.

No problem, Jeffrey replied, and the two walked out of the office side by side.

...

Coming to the agreed restaurant, Eric found that Amy Pascal was already waiting there. The girl was wearing a black professional suit, and her shoulder-length blond hair was permed into waves. It was said that the strong woman's hairstyle would show her mood, and Eric didn't see what the hairstyle represented.

The two hugged gently, and Eric said, Sorry, Amy, the traffic jam on the road made you wait for me here.

It doesn't matter, Amy Pascal smiled. You are not late, but I came too early.

The two sat down at the table together, and Amy Pascal handed the menu to Eric: What would you like to eat?

Eric took it and smiled suddenly: It feels so strange, the order of the two of us is completely reversed, the sentence just now should be correct for me.

Forget it, big boy, I'll treat you to this meal. Don't be masculine.

Eric shrugged and didn't refute, Amy Pascal didn't have much contact with him, and the other party didn't know the mature side of his character, so he was accustomed to speaking to him in a tone of young people his age. Nothing wrong with that.

After ordering a random lunch, Eric handed the menu to Amy. The girl did not look at the menu, she skillfully stated her requirements, and then handed the menu to the waiter.

Do you often come here to eat?

Yeah, the food here tastes good.

Amy was not in a hurry to explain her intention to invite Eric, and Eric was not in a hurry, until the two of them had lunch together, chatting casually about topics such as the weather and current affairs, until after lunch, it was replaced with coffee, Only then did Amy express her purpose.