After entering the DreamWorks headquarters through the back door, Alice and Maiya walked straight to the elevator hall and quickly reached the chairman's office on the top floor of the company. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI didn't see anyone in the process.,After all, I bypassed the front desk.。

As soon as Alice reached the door, she heard David Fincher's laughter from inside: "Oh yes!? I'm looking forward to it, Mr. Lawrence, I'm going to have to ...... when the time comes."

"What do you say, it's so lively. ”

Alice pushed the door directly in, only to see Lawrence and David Fincher sitting face-to-face on the reception sofa, obviously chatting about something, and David looked even more excited.

"Oh, Alice, Maiya, you're here. ”

Lawrence looked up at the comer, first delighted, and then smiled mysteriously: "It seems that you have seen the appearance at the door?

Alice smiled bitterly, "Hehe...... It's spectacular, it's completely different from a normal press conference. ”

Maiya shook her head even more, sat down on the couch and asked, "You sent Sebastian to appease those reporters?

"No matter what we say, what we do, how we do it, journalists write as they want, so just fool around. ”

Lawrence made a big move and poured Alice and Maiya a cup of tea each: "It's you, Alice, this is the second film that didn't attend the premiere, and among the screenwriters in the entire industry, your maverick appearance is rare." ”

Alice smiled dryly and took the tea: "This time is really busy, attending the premiere will be delayed for at least half a day, which is enough for me to write another script~"

Someone's work efficiency is really well known, and in such a long time, how can Lawrence not know how long it took her daughter's friend to write a Windows system program?

"In addition, the box office results are indeed expected by you. ”

Lawrence got up and took a document from his desk, which Alice reached out to take it: "Because during the promotion process, it was emphasized that this was your script, so the box office on the first day was so much higher than that of the same movie." However, since it is essentially a literary film after all, in the next few days, you see, the data will go down immediately. ”

Alice looked at the box office results of "Brain Cell Invasion" in the first week very flatly: "According to this result, when the schedule is over, our box office should reach about 40 million." Considering the plot of catching the murderer in it, it has average results as a commercial film, but for a literary film, it is already a super hit. ”

Lawrence nodded: "The director is a newcomer, and the actors are all second- and third-tier, so the shooting cost is also very low." But Alice ...... Aren't you a little ...... Too calm?"

"Calm?"

Alice shook off the document, raised her eyebrows and said: "It's 40 million, and this is the total box office, plus the publicity expenses, the final net profit is estimated to be 5 million." It's not a big number, how can it ...... Okay, okay, I know I can't compare it to "Ghost Record......"

Looking at Lawrence's speechless face, Alice said that she really didn't mean it, after all, the hit movies in the 21st century are often hundreds of millions of box office. A 40 million film, and it is not a masterpiece of a well-known movie star, it really can't arouse Alice's excitement at all.

However, compared to the results of the same period in the entire 80s, this estimated box office of 40 million is really not low...... As a literary film.

After that, there was a casual chatter, and by the way, about the investment of funds. Lawrence certainly welcomes this, after all, when he first founded DreamWorks the year before last, the entire start-up capital was barely 10 million. After this period of development, although the scale has expanded a lot, it is still far from the dividends after Microsoft's listing.

Since Alice and Maiya had already had "lunch" before leaving for the forest hut, they couldn't help but be hungry when they saw that the time was approaching four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Then so be it, Uncle Roger, the first funds will probably arrive on the fifth day of listing, and I personally estimate that the amount of the first batch of dividends will not be less than five million, which will definitely at least double the size of the company. ”

With that, Alice got up and said, "Let's go Maiya, let's go find a Burger King nearby, Mom, I'm really starving." ”

"Wait a minute. ”

Lawrence suddenly raised his hand again: "Chatting and chatting, there is a very important thing that I almost forgot to tell you." ”

Stopping the two, Lawrence quickly got up and took out another letter from his desk drawer.

"Before you entered the room, you just talked to David that on February 24th, there will be a Hollywood industry gathering, which will be hosted by Johnny Swan, chairman of Universal Pictures, and the bosses and executives of several major film companies, as well as many star actors, directors, and screenwriters. Alice, this is an invitation for you. ”

"My ...... Invitation!?"

To Alice's surprise, she took the envelope, which did indeed read "Received by Miss Alice-Wang" and was stamped with a clay with the Universal Films logo.

"And it's so exquisite!?"

Lawrence laughs: "Although Mr. Swan has been a British immigrant for four generations, his family has always adhered to the traditional British way of life. You'll know when you see him, I can't even learn that Oxford dialect. ”

Maimi suddenly burst into amusement.

Lawrence was surprised, "What's so funny?"

Maiya smiled again: "Mr. Lawrence, the others are just that, the French learn to speak the Oxford dialect, which feels really strange to me." ”

"Uh-ahem!"

Lawrence coughed vigorously, but he didn't need any London or Oxford accents, and his accent was all messed up now. The New York accent, which is changing towards a southern accent and has a distinctly French flavor, is something that most people really can't learn if they want to.

So, after visiting DreamWorks and dealing with related matters, Alice and Maiya first ate Burger King near the company, and then parted ways on the spot. Someone is going to Santa Monica in a Humvee and Alice is going straight home.

As the sun set, when the taxi slowly stopped in front of Room 15 on Vinton Street, it was time for dinner.

"Hmm~ the taste of creamy mushroom soup. ”

As soon as she got out of the car, Alice asked about a familiar smell: "That's right, it's the taste of mother~"

"Hey, old lady!"

At this moment, a more familiar voice suddenly came up not far away: "Help me~"

"Woo~!"

Alice immediately turned around, stunned.

I saw that in the depths of Vinton Street, Oscar ...... Well, he apparently led Caesar for a walk, but when he saw Alice get home, Caesar ran towards Room Seven with a roar like a wild horse on the loose. Poor Oscar, a big boy, couldn't bear the strength of a one-and-a-half-year-old orangutan, and was dragged and ran!

"Wow, well done, Caesar!"

Alice immediately gloated and laughed: "That's it! Hurry up and drag Oscar down~!"

"Alice, I didn't play with you!"

After only a dozen seconds, Caesar ran happily to Alice, standing on her legs, and she grabbed Alice's arm with both hands excitedly, and whined.

"Mom...... I'm exhausted......"

Behind him, Oscar looked like he had just been salvaged out of the sea, sweating his thin sweater.

"Let's go take a shower, silly boy. ”

Alice patted her brother on the shoulder fondly: "It's rare to see that you are interested in taking Caesar for a walk, you two have become good buddies?"

Oscar was panting from exhaustion, but he didn't have time to answer the question. However, Caesar seemed to understand, or maybe he was doing the same, and reached out to put his hand on Oscar's shoulder.

Then, he actually grinned~!

"Huhu~"

"Wow, what are you doing?"

At this time, the door opened, and Hannah, who was wearing a thick fur dress, walked out of the house: "Why is Oscar so tired?"

Alice smiled and walked to her sister: "It's nothing, your brother just did some sports with Caesar that can communicate feelings~"

As she spoke, she opened her small leather bag and swiped it, but took out the invitation: "Dangdang~ Hannah, guess this is a god horse?"

Hannah shrugged and smiled playfully, "Someone wrote you a love letter?"

Alice didn't answer immediately, but opened the envelope first, and after reading the contents of the letter, she said, "Well, maybe it was really written by a girl......

"To Alice:"

Apertuating with the title of the song, the article reads: "We are honored to inform you that the Hollywood Industry Gathering on Universal Pictures' Main Board will be held on February 24 at 8 p.m. on the 12th floor of the Imperial Hotel. This gathering will be attended by many celebrities in the industry, and it will be a great opportunity for you to meet people in the industry......"

The general content is like this, it is worth noting that the font of the letter article is very beautiful, and it is still a rare flowery font, and at a glance you know that it is written by everyone's ladies.

And Alice can see clearly, this letter may not be a complete standard invitation from time to time, because the wonderful application of the grammar of the other party is completely mastered by the top students of English literature at prestigious universities.

"Fourth-generation immigrants, but always living in the traditional British way?"

The answer seemed to be very obvious, looking at Hannah's curious look, Alice smiled very satisfied: "It seems that I have to go to this party~" (To be continued.) )