First, as Eric expected, the photos of Julia leaving Eric's house were exposed again, and the carnival party held by Eric at home was specifically mentioned, but the participation of the crew members was brushed aside, and the ambiguity focused on describing the 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 character, and Eric gradually changed from an inspirational young man to a playboy who abandoned his girlfriend after becoming famous, had relationships with underage girls, and lived a luxurious life.

“…… Perhaps Eric Williams was indeed a young man with some talent, but after acquiring a great fortune too lightly, it was clear that this young man began to degenerate at an incomprehensible rate......"

“…… After abandoning his girlfriend in the last days and spending time with Drew Barrymore*, Eric Williams immediately changed to a new woman, and according to the investigation, the big-mouthed beauty in the photo is the heroine in the theater......"

“…… It's hard to imagine that Eric Williams would attack Drew at the age of 13, and I personally think there must be a hidden secret in this, and in any case, Eric Williams' actions have touched California law. I saw a second Roman Polanski, the same talented director, who committed the same unforgivable crimes, and in order to prevent Eric Williams from absconding to evade legal responsibility like Roman Polanski, I think the Los Angeles police should take timely measures against Eric Williams......"

Even some bottomless entertainment gossip newspapers, after not finding more revelations, began to fabricate them out of thin air without any basis, and for a while Eric's original good public image was shaky.

Fox reacted immediately after discovering that the turmoil showed signs of expansion. The other party's production zuò is still in hot theaters, and the overseas distribution rights that have just been bought out, if the image of Eric as the actor and director is allowed to be damaged, it is obviously them who suffer direct economic losses.

As for Colombia, apart from continuing to fulfill the contract in accordance with the VAM agreement, it is almost completely a passive attitude. Some employees in Colombia's negative publicity department also mentioned to their bosses about doing public relations for Eric, but none of them approved. Bront Cohen was disgraced by Eric last time, and the top management of the Propaganda Department even doubted that Bront Cohen would be behind these turmoil, so they were reluctant to take the risk of standing up for Eric.

News Corp started as a paper media, and has played a lot of tricks to smear public figures to increase sales, and it is also easy to deal with it when it is smeared.

Soon, under the negotiation between Fox and Eric himself, the counterattack was quickly launched, and while various media outlets reversed Eric's image, Fox easily selected a few actors and directors in the recently released movies who were not very clean and hyped up, and for a while the North American newspapers seemed to be a little smoky and magical, and the attention concentrated on Eric was quickly dispersed.

Although the media is good at manipulating people's hearts, if they really blindly treat the people as fools, they can only be fools in the end.

Soon, a not-so-well-known headline published a special commentary article on the front page, completely exposing the undercurrent buried under this turmoil.

"On the occasion of the annual movie Christmas file, the film companies that used to do everything in their power to promote their works in previous years are using a series of despicable smear tactics to suppress their competitors, all of which started with the magical rise of a teenager named Eric Williams."

"After the box office of the new week was released, the total box office of the two films related to Eric Williams has exceeded 100 million US dollars, especially low-cost comedies, after the box office rose against the trend in the second week, there was still only a slight box office decline of 20% in the third week, getting a box office of 23.15 million US dollars, and the total box office in three weeks was close to 80 million US dollars, directly squeezing into the sixth place in the annual box office list, and the miracle has been unstoppable."

"As we all know, the total box office and moviegoers during the Christmas schedule are limited, and major film companies will withdraw from a series of annual blockbusters. Therefore, it is only natural that Eric Williams himself has recently been subjected to various scandals in order to compete for box office share. ”

Regardless of Eric Williams' own character, I will not talk about the outrageous things that his film and television stars have done that have been attacked by public opinion recently. We're just here to call on the major studios to stay calm and get back to the normal competitive track. Suppressing opponents through abnormal means will only end up reaping the consequences. ”

This off-the-beaten-path article seemed to be a signal, and while the major well-known newspapers were reprinting it, the bigwigs behind the manipulation of this public opinion storm to knock Eric into the dust had to be reined in, because they found that Eric was no longer alone, and News Corp.'s quick and fierce counterattack clearly showed that Eric Williams had formed a stable alliance of interests with Fox.

While some tabloids are pestering the tabloids that are reluctant to give up the topic, most of the more influential newspapers have tacitly stopped attacking their competitors.

This turmoil seems to have passed.

A few days later, Eric finally moved into the Beverly Hilltop mansion and closed the door tightly, so that Eric no longer had to look up and see a long paparazzi car parked outside through the window, as he did in the North Hollywood apartment.

Jeffrey Hansen looked at the high fence outside the mansion and rang the doorbell with some envy, and after a few minutes, Eric opened the door and welcomed Jeffrey Hansen inside.

Parking the car in front of the villa, Jeffrey Hansen asked, "Eric, what have you been doing at home lately, you haven't been out in a few days, haven't you?" ”

Eric is super depressed when he mentions this, after the formalities of Firefly Film Company are completed, there are not many things that require him to come forward in person, plus he will be chased and intercepted by the paparazzi when he goes out, Eric is basically staying at home these days. Compared with the happy life of otaku in the previous life, this era of no network and no smartphone really makes Eric, a traverser, boring to the point of madness.

"Writing novels, writing scripts, watching TV...... It's boring anyway. Now I don't even dare to go out of the door, last time I just passed by a convenience store and bought a drink, and the next day there was a report in the tabloid newspaper that I was reaching out to the cashier of the supermarket. ”

Jeffrey couldn't help but gloat when he heard this.

Eric led Jeffrey Hansen into the study on the second floor of the villa, and as soon as he entered, Jeffrey saw an oversized wooden clipboard hanging on one of the walls of the study. Dense newspaper clippings and graffiti-covered manuscript paper are nailed to the clipboard by I-nails.

"What are these for?" Jeffrey asked curiously, looking in.

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

Jeffrey teased, "You think you're Sherlock Holmes, if you can see that, those old fritters will be in vain." ”

Eric shrugged, speaking of which he was actually relatively lucky, because of the temporary alliance of interests of Fox, he was pulled back on 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 didn't dare to ask for anything more.

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

Hearing this, Jeffrey took out a large stack of papers from his briefcase with some resentment and said, "You boss is really laid-back, throw everything to me to do." I am already renovating the company's office building, which will take about half a month. Also, here's some brokerage information you asked me to find, Eric, did you really decide to buy a brokerage company? ”

Eric took the information and said, "Of course, you have also seen the matter of Stuart Runkel, CAA is now holding the other party tightly in his hand and waiting to knock me, I can't always train stars for others." ”

"However, the federal monopoly law states that a film company cannot also own a brokerage company."

Eric flipped through the information in his hand and replied: "Of course I know this, and I don't plan to merge the two companies together, I imagine that the film company and the agency company are completely independent, and there is no legal problem." ”

"Forget it, you can do it yourself, by the way, has the script of the new movie you said been written?"

Eric found a stack of manuscripts on the desk full of newspapers and handed it to Jeffrey, "It's done, can you read it first?" ”