"Eric, why do this kind of self-cutting thing, if the digital field continues to maintain an open cooperation strategy, with the influence brought by "Titanic", it is not a problem to double the annual turnover in the future. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAnd, you know, at the current pace of technological development, it won't take a few years for other special effects companies to catch up with the digital space," said Michael Eisner after a moment's thought.

Eric raised his head with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Michael, what I want is just a few years, not to mention, others want to catch up, but the digital field will never stop waiting for them." ”

"But I don't think you need to do it at all," Michael Eisner added: "You see, counting the box office of Titanic, Firefly's total box office this year will reach $2 billion, more than 30% of the market share, which should definitely be the pinnacle of big Hollywood studios." ”

"No, Michael, you're just used to the coexistence of the Big Hollywood and you think it's just the pinnacle of a big Hollywood studio. But if we break out of that mindset and think about it, why can't it be 50%, 60%, 70% or even more, and in other industries, it's not uncommon, so why can't Hollywood?"

Michael Eisner had a slightly shocked expression on his face when he heard Eric's words, he didn't expect Eric's ambition to be so big.

Michael Eisner would have laughed almost immediately if someone else had said such things, but it was the young man who had been the most popular in Hollywood in recent years. And he has accomplished so many things that seem completely impossible to many.

However, after a brief period of consternation, Michael Eisner shook his head: "Eric, Hollywood is different from other industries, as a creative industry, the human factor is very important in this industry, although many people say that Hollywood is the world's film factory, but you can never gather all the wonderful filmmakers under one house and work exclusively in your own 'factory'." Even if the Fireflies squeeze out all of Hollywood's Big Six, as long as you can't meet the demands of all the filmmakers, that's exactly what is inevitable, and then they are destined to create new studios to compete with the Fireflies, just like Chaplin's Lianmei, Howard Hughes's Thunder and Lightning, and now Spielberg's Amberlin. ”

Eric smiled: "Michael, what will happen to Amberlin in the future, I don't know, but the first two film companies you mentioned happen to no longer exist now." In my opinion, with the prevalence of big capital operation in the film industry, it will be more and more difficult for latecomers to enter this industry, so I just need to eat the original several old film companies one by one while maintaining the advantage of Fireflies. ”

Michael Eisner's eyebrows twitched, and he asked hesitantly, "You mean, eat it?"

"Yes, just eat it," Eric tasted the crab cake in front of him and nodded, "The food here is really good, maybe I can come more often in the future." ”

"Oh, then you're not going to have a moment without a seat," Michael Eisner smiled reluctantly, still thinking about Eric's words.

It would certainly be unrealistic for Firefly to wipe out all the other Hollywood studios, but if they were to merge one after another, as Eric said, then this possibility really does not exist at all.

But Michael Eisner is also not so pessimistic, he is now fifty-five years old, perhaps, Firefly can do all this in ten or even twenty years, but by that time, he must have retired, and then everything will have nothing to do with him, now, he just needs to run Universal Pictures well, this slightly depressed idea makes Michael Eisner inexplicably a little unhappy, both of them no longer mention the movie, but casually comment on the food in the restaurant and other irrelevant topics.

Eric and Michael Eisner have no personal grudges after all, not to mention, it was Firefly who used the opportunity to buy Disney to drive Michael Eisner out of the Disney Group, if it is a grievance, Michael Eisner must be more resentful towards Eric, since the other party has not shown this, of course Eric will not be like this.

Skipping the topic of the digital realm, the subsequent meal between the two was relatively relaxed and pleasant, chatting until ten o'clock, and then the two sides separated.

Watching Michael Eisner's car leave, Eric got into his car.

It was already late at night, so Eric didn't rush back to Sharp Corner Manor, but ordered the driver to drive towards the top of Beverly Mountain.

Arriving at Elizabeth and Julia's mansion, Eric sent the driver away, rang the doorbell, and an inquiry sounded on the intercom, and Eric answered, and the door was quickly opened.

Julia, with her brown hair scattered and wearing only a very long pale yellow close-fitting sweater, with two long legs, appeared in front of Eric with a lazy attitude, and called softly in her eyes: "Eric, you are here." ”

"yes," Eric smiled and stretched out his hand, "Isn't it cold to dress like this?"

In Los Angeles in February, the night is still a little chilly.

Julia leaned over, put her arms around Eric's waist, kissed him affectionately on the cheek, and said, "It's not cold, it's not outside." ”

Eric hugged Julia and was about to let go, but the girl had already knocked her chin on his shoulder, a pair of slender **** coiled up, and the whole person hung on him.

"Heh, how can you look like Drew," Eric laughed, slamming the door behind him, holding Julia's lithe body, and jokingly, "It seems to have gained a lot of weight." ”

Julia bit at Eric's neck like a mouse, and whispered with some emotion, "It's better to get fatter, Eric, you can try it now." ”

"Well, I'm afraid of the cold, let's go to the house," Eric almost couldn't resist, patted Julia on the body, and saw that the girl had no intention of coming down, so he had to carry her towards the villa.

Although it was already past ten o'clock, the lights in the villa were still on, and Eric knew that Elizabeth was actually a night owl, and most workplace strongmen were probably like that.

There was a TV on in the living room, the sound was very low, Elizabeth was curled up on the sofa with a thick folder, wearing a close-fitting sweater similar to Julia, and when she saw Eric coming in with Julia in her arms, she pouted: "You guy, can you be so impatient?"

Eric didn't explain, threw Julia on the couch, sat down next to Elizabeth with a smile, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Some film project introductions," said Elizabeth, not politely, and handed them over in a stack: "Now, you can help me take a look and pick one or two." ”

Eric took it and flipped it open, and asked with a smile, "Can I take it if I pick it?"

Elizabeth said succinctly, "No. ”

Julia, who had been left on the single sofa by Eric, also came over at this time and sat down next to Eric.

Seeing Elizabeth's careful reading of the information, Eric didn't make a joke, but just casually scooped up Julia's slender legs and put them on his knees to play with them, and by the way, he also opened a few documents in his hand.

Just glanced at the name of the first document, Eric raised his eyebrows slightly, patiently read the project synopsis and script synopsis, and said: "The English Patient, this project is good, it is very suitable for Miramax to make an award film." ”

Elizabeth turned her head to look, and saw that Eric's hand was on Julia's thigh and rubbed it gently, took a sip, rolled her eyes and said: "This is a project that Harvey looked at last year, in order to avoid competing with "Shakespeare in Love" for the Oscar, it was pushed to this year, of course, it is very suitable for Miramax." ”

Eric nodded, "It's a good thing it wasn't placed this year, otherwise it would be a pity." ”

In Eric's view, "The English Patient" is definitely better than "Shakespeare's Love History", and the artistic connotation is also more profound.

Elizabeth, of course, also knew what Eric meant, remembering the recent "Titanic" that was in the limelight all over the world, she suddenly recalled some details of last year, turned around, stared at Eric, and said, "You must have done it on purpose that time." ”

It was so clueless, and Eric looked puzzled.

"That's the time you said you asked Fox to invest $50 million in Titanic. ”

Eric suddenly remembered, of course he did it on purpose, just to tweak the old man of Elizabeth's family, and the original investment invitation was rejected by Murdoch himself.

Now, although the strong box office trend of "Titanic" has not stopped at all, after this week, Firefly will probably be able to recover the original production cost of $215 million, and it is expected that by the end of February, all production and distribution costs will be recovered, and then "Titanic" will bring pure profits to Firefly.

Now no box office forecasting agency can predict how far the global box office of "Titanic" will go, but they know one thing that the profit brought by "Titanic" to Firefly will definitely far exceed the original total investment of 265 million US dollars. Even, some media predict that if "Titanic" can become the highest-grossing film in North America and even the world, with the strong influence brought by the champion effect, "Titanic" will be able to bring no less than $1 billion in profits to Firefly in the box office, videotapes, DVDs and even the distribution of various peripheral products, which is almost more than the total profit of most studios in a year.

However, seeing Elizabeth staring at him like a cat at this time, Eric would not admit it anyway.

But Elizabeth realized this from Eric's momentary hesitation, and suddenly pounced like an angry kitten, kicked Julia away, straddled Eric, grabbed him by the collar, and said, "You bastard, you did it on purpose." ”

With an unconcealable smile on the corner of his mouth, Eric raised his hands to make a surrender gesture, made up his mind to kill without admitting it, and said: "Liz, calm down, I'm not a god, how can I know what will happen to the box office of "Titanic", don't you see that I almost had an anxiety attack some time ago?"

Hearing Eric's words, Julia, who was embarrassed and squeezed aside, looked at Elizabeth's angry appearance as if she was about to tear Eric in half, and was inexplicably a little excited, but couldn't help but help: "Yes, yes." ”

"Shut up," Elizabeth glared at Julia and then at Eric, "you did it on purpose, now it's okay, you're not very proud." ”

"I swear to God......"

"Phew, you're not religious at all," Elizabeth said, her little hands unbuttoning the collar of Eric's shirt.

Eric was about to continue to quibble, when he saw Elizabeth leaning down, he was immediately alert, and hurriedly said, "Don't bite...... Yes. ”

Before he could reach out to stop him, a sharp pain in his shoulder had already come.

Julia curled up softly beside her, watching Elizabeth bite her little white teeth on Eric's shoulder, she was very envious, her whole little heart trembled, she couldn't help but reach over and touch it, withdrew her hand, and saw a trace of blood on her fingertips, she immediately felt distressed, and pushed Elizabeth: "Liz, stop, it's bleeding." ”

Elizabeth, who was angry, heard Julia's words, left and let go of Eric, seeing that blood was oozing from the tooth marks on his shoulder, she reached out and pressed it in a panic, and said, "Eric, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." ”

Eric gasped, turned his head to look, there were two rows of obvious tooth marks on his shoulder, only a few places were broken, not serious, seeing Elizabeth's expression of apology and even crying, he couldn't feel any anger in his heart, and nodded solemnly: "Well, I know you didn't mean it." ”

Thinking of the topic that the two were arguing about just now, Elizabeth heard Eric's words, pulled the corners of her mouth, but didn't say anything, took the tissue handed over by Julia to help Eric stain the blood, and said, "Do you need to wipe it with a potion?"

Eric laughs, "Saliva is said to have a disinfecting effect. ”

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, stepped aside, and said to Julia, "Here you come." ”

Julia immediately posted it, and Eric hurriedly stopped: "Okay, okay, I'm just joking, sit down, don't mess around." The tongue is also put away, it is really ugly. ”

Julia chuckled, seeing that she had occupied Elizabeth's position just now and straddled Eric, she refused to leave, leaned over and kissed Eric on the face a few times affectionately, propped herself up, reached out and took off the long close-fitting sweater on her body, except for a pure white bottom, there was no cover underneath.

Elizabeth was very dissatisfied when she saw Julia's movements: "Hey, I just changed the sofa cover yesterday, can you go to the bedroom?"

Elizabeth responded with a large hand that grabbed her strongly, and Eric's voice rang out: "Take off your sweater too, I'll see." ”

The lights in the living room also seemed to be dimmed, and in the soft sound of squirming, there was a woman's half-truth: "You are messy, bastard, ah." (To be continued.) )