"Tales of the Night" is a project finalized by Eric himself, and although the budget is only $20 million, it is a low-budget production so far, but he has been following up on it himself. In addition to providing a lot www.biquge.info of classic shot designs of "Tales of the Night" from memory, in order to ensure the film's gunplay and action style, Eric also brought the white pigeon Wu as the producer.

The film started filming in September last year, and now it is mostly completed, and Eric just watched the sample last week, although the heroine has been replaced by Natasha Hensquch, and the director is no longer Len Wiseman, but under the double control of Eric and White Dove Wu, the new version of "Tales of the Night" is definitely better than the original version.

In all fairness, according to the release plan of the new line, it was obviously safer to put the film in the summer slot, but after only a few seconds of hesitation, Eric made a decision.

If you want to promote 3D and IMAX movies, you definitely can't do it without taking some risks.

"Although it's all night scenes, as long as you pay attention to the brightness in the transformation process, this film is really suitable for making a 3D movie," Eric said as he thought, "I'll talk to Kenneth later, I'll take care of this myself, in addition, I remember that there is also a "Return to the Cretaceous" on the IMAX side, which can also be used to fill the source gap, I'll see if there are other suitable films, and pick another one, so it will definitely be enough." ”

After talking about these things, and having almost eaten breakfast, Katzenberg left the restaurant first, and Eric waited for Julia to finish her food slowly before saying, "Didn't you make an appointment with the crew of "Never Compromise" to read the script, and I asked someone to send you there?"

Julia also knew that it was impossible to pester men all day, so she posted it and hugged Eric affectionately, and took the initiative to leave.

Putting Julia in the car himself, Eric returned to the headquarters building.

In the morning, the company was going to hold an annual film business summary to recall, and Eric came to the large conference room of the headquarters, and the senior management of the group had basically arrived.

Eric sat down at the conference table, and the conference room secretary began to hand out materials.

As the meeting materials were distributed one by one, whispers involuntarily sounded in the conference room.

Eric flipped through the folder in front of him and looked at the brilliant box office list in his hand, although everyone must have obtained relevant statistics before this, he still understood everyone's mood at this time.

Films such as "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace" are still in theaters at the end of the year, so the box office charts on the data are only counted as of December 31 last year.

Glancing at the box office ranking data in his hand again, Eric himself couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

The top 10 films in the 1998 North American box office charts are roughly as follows:

1. "Breaking Bads 3", $322 million, MGM.

2. "Midnight Bells", $286 million, NL.

3. "Mission Impossible 3", $266 million, MGM.

4. "The Day After Tomorrow", $253 million, BV.

5. "The Matrix 2", $238 million, AB.

6. "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Phantom Menace", $218 million, FOX.

7. "Teddy Bear", $212 million, NL.

8. "Scorpion King", $193 million, Uni.

9, "Ace Cheap Spy 2", $186 million, FOX.

10. "Truman's World," $125 million, Par.

It is not difficult to see from this list that although among the top ten films in the box office list, only "The Day After Tomorrow" by Bowei Distribution Company (BV) and "Midnight Bell" and "Teddy Bear" by New Line Pictures (NL) are directly from Firefly Group, but it is obvious that seven of the ten films are from several major distribution labels such as Bowei (BV), New Line (NL), MGM (MGM), and Fox (FOX) from the Firefly system, even "The Matrix 2" by Amberlin Pictures (AB) , which is also inextricably linked to the firefly system, and "Scorpion King" and "Truman's World", which were barely squeezed into the list, can only be ranked at the bottom of the list.

Eric understands that the mood of everyone in the conference room at this time must be a little complicated, after all, most of these films, as long as Eric is willing, should be directly from the Firefly Group at this time, in this way, the Firefly Group can even create a miracle that MGM failed to create in the Golden Age.

However, standing in Eric's personal position, he is very satisfied with this list.

After all, if all the films such as "Thunderbolt 3" and "The Matrix 2" are left in Firefly, in the case of the limited distribution capacity of Firefly Group, not to mention whether these films can continue to play their original box office potential, even if they really achieve a box office similar to what they are looking for, then Firefly Group will become very dazzling on this list.

Now, this series of films is scattered under different labels, and although the discerning person can know at a glance which of these films have how to relate to fireflies, it also gives a fig leaf for many people who are not willing to face reality.

Recently, there has been a wave of signs of a firefly system in Hollywood, and it is conceivable that without this fig leaf, the situation will definitely be more tense.

However, thinking about this year's release plan, Eric can't help but have a little headache.

Compared with last year's relative silence, there are five blockbusters that will be directly released by Firefly Group Bowei Company this year, namely "Public Enemy of the People" in the Easter schedule, "Iron Man" and "Cars" in the summer schedule, and "Gravity" and "The Lord of the Rings First Part" in the year-end schedule.

Moreover, starting next year, the average blockbuster distribution scale of the Firefly Group next year will definitely be only a lot more, counting MGM, Fox, and Columbia, the entire Firefly system is likely to occupy all the top ten in the box office list, which will also bring more pressure to the entire Firefly system.

However, Eric can't stop expanding because of this.

The meeting began quickly, but Eric was a little absent-minded the whole thing because of these things on his mind.

The meeting was held all morning, and at noon I had lunch with everyone, and I arrived at Firefly Studios in Preavista at about two o'clock in the afternoon.

The post-production of "Gravity" has been a long and intense process, and as long as he is in Los Angeles, Eric spends a large part of his week on the film.

Today, there happened to be a scene of the heroine that needed to be re-dubbed, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios, and Judy and her little assistant were already waiting in the post-production studio.

After the film was completed, although they had met a few times, Judy's attitude towards Eric was obviously a little struggling, she was a very lonely woman, and she didn't want to be one of Eric's many lovers, but the charm exuded by this little man also made Judy a little irresistible. Therefore, Judy's attitude towards Eric seems a little detached.

Because it was only a few shots, the dubbing time didn't take long, and after half an hour, Judy finished her work.

Seeing that the woman was packing up her things and was about to leave, Eric said, "Why don't you go to my office and sit down, you must have nothing to do in the afternoon, right?"

Judy hesitated, but nodded.

The two left the later center of gravity together and came to the administrative building where Eric's office was located, and when they walked into the office, Eric found that Judy looked nervous, and deliberately pulled his little assistant in, and couldn't help but be a little funny.

Taking out his wallet from his pocket and rummaging through it, Eric looked at Judy and said, "Give me your wallet." ”

Judy subconsciously took a small step back, and when she heard that Eric just wanted her wallet, she couldn't help but glance at him: "You actually want my wallet, you are Eric Williams." ”

Still, Judy pulled a wallet out of her purse and handed it to Eric.

Eric opened Judy's wallet, took out a one-dollar bill, and handed it to the little assistant behind Judy who was trying to pretend that he wasn't a light bulb: "Now, go out and buy candy to eat, you don't need to stay here with us anymore." ”

Seeing her little assistant's head being sent out by Eric, Judy finally reacted, couldn't help but roll her eyes at Eric fiercely, snatched her wallet, and said, "You guy, I thought you were going to do something." ”

Eric walked over to the coffee machine and poured coffee for the two of them, and said with a smile, "yes, I definitely think I'm going to do something, that's why you asked your assistant to follow up, right?"

Judy didn't answer Eric's words, but couldn't help blushing, seeing Eric busy with his back to him, he relaxed a little, tried to keep himself calm and walked to the sofa in the office reception area and sat down, lazily looking downstairs through the glass window behind the sofa, the view here is very good, you can see the studio area in front and the smart commercial LOFT in the digital field, think about it carefully, the view of his residence seems to be very good, especially the shell villa in the sharp corner manor, so suddenly I have some thoughts to go and see。

However, as soon as her thoughts drifted a little, Judy heard a faint voice beside her: "How good it is now, the two of us can finally be alone together." ”

Judy inexplicably felt that this sentence was very strange from tone to content, and even couldn't help but snort a little, turned around and saw Eric standing next to the coffee table with a wicked smile on his face, only to realize that he had been tricked, and finally couldn't help it, raised his foot and gently kicked Eric on his calf.

Eric smiled and put the coffee on the coffee table, grabbed the woman's ankle nimblely, sat down on the sofa, put the woman's two legs on his knees, took off a black high heel from her foot, and said with a smile: "You actually wore high heels today, did you wear them for me?"

The two calves were hugged by Eric, Judy leaned slightly on the sofa, feeling a little soft up and down, and when she heard the man's words, she rolled her eyes slightly: "Eric, I suddenly found out that you are such an arrogant guy." ”

"No, there is a problem with your description, a man's self-confidence far exceeds his personal ability, that is called arrogance. I think I've always been a pretty humble person. ”

Eric said, casually taking off Judy's other high heels, although the woman was wearing high heels, it was still a pair of men's jeans, the trouser leg was a little wide, but it was just enough for Eric to reach through the gap.

Feeling that her calf was directly caught by the man, Judy's body was a little softer, and she had no strength to break away at all, perhaps she didn't have the idea of breaking away in her heart, she groped and grabbed a pillow and hugged it to her chest, and let the man do it a little 'self-defeating', and whispered pretending to be dissatisfied: "Eric, you bastard." ”

"Don't, praise me later, I don't feel it now. ”

"Phew!"

I opened my eyes in a daze, and found that the light in the room was a little dim, and remembering the events of the afternoon, Judy secretly regretted it, it was so ridiculous, and she let the little man succeed so easily.

Moreover, next door to the office turned out to be the bedroom, hum, this bad guy, he must have done a lot of bad things on weekdays.

Thinking that there might have been other women lying on the bed under her, although there was no cleanliness fetish, Judy still felt very uncomfortable.

So he shrank in the quilt and turned around, and stretched out his little hand to grope for a while, and found that there was no one on the other side of the big bed, and even the sheets did not have any residual warmth, which means that the guy must have left a long time ago, and he left it here alone, and involuntarily had some small resentments.

What the hell is the situation now, perhaps, he should stay away from that guy in the future, at least, at least, he must not let him always succeed so easily.

Thinking so chaotically, the bedroom door was pushed open, Judy's body stiffened, but she didn't pretend to be asleep, the light in the bedroom was turned on, Judy turned around, leaned on the pillow with bright eyes and looked sideways at the man who walked in, a simple white shirt, straight trousers, and that angular face.

Sensing that her feelings for the man in front of her were becoming more and more obvious, Judy suddenly felt a little panicked.

What's wrong with you?

Eric came to the bedside, noticed the woman's twinkling eyes, helped her pull back the long hair blocking her cheeks, and smiled, "What's wrong?"

"No," Judy shook her head, "Now, what time is it?"

"It was six o'clock and I booked a place in a restaurant on Venice Beach and went to dinner together. ”

Judy hesitated: "Next door, isn't there a restaurant on the ship, if you eat outside, will anyone find out?"

"You can't eat on the boat all the time," Eric laughed, "and besides, it's okay to be discovered, everyone must think I'm your buddy...... Ah, tap, it hurts, it hurts. ”

Begging for mercy to avoid the woman's small hand on his waist, Eric reached over and rubbed it, and said, "Okay, do you want me to help you get dressed?"

Judy immediately shook her head: "You go out first!"

Eric was not reluctant, got up and walked outside, and said, "You can take another bath, I'll wait for you outside." ”

Judy watched as the bedroom door was closed, and froze for a moment before she got up and began to dress.