Eric and Katzenberg talked until it was time to get off work, and the next two days were weekends, and Katzenberg said that he had promised to take the family out for dinner tonight, and left early.

Eric continued to sit in the café, waiting for the assistant's office to deliver a report on the recent progress of Firefly Electronics.

It has been a year since the launch of two hardware projects, an MP3 player and an e-book reader.

Because of the development of operating systems and the design of processor chips, the development progress of e-book readers is very slow.

But the development process of MP3 player is much smoother, at the end of last year, Eric has already obtained the prototype of the MP3 player developed by Firefly Electronics using Toshiba's 1.8-inch small hard disk, which is larger than a cigarette box, 270M memory, and can store about 50 songs.

Both the shape and storage capacity of the prototype are somewhat unsatisfactory, the only thing that satisfies Eric is that Firefly Electronics has registered a full set of patented technologies for MP3 players, and there will definitely be no ambiguity in the patent ownership of MP3 players in this life. Even if MP3 players are completely eliminated in the future, follow-up mobile phones and other electronic devices, as long as MP3-related music playback technology are used, still need to pay patent fees to Firefly Electronics.

After waiting patiently for more than half an hour while flipping through a freshly baked evening newspaper, the door of the café was pushed open, and three women walked in with a smile.

Eric looked up to see Caroline, Melanie Gleason and Rachel Weisz, all dressed in plain casual jeans, each carrying a bag, dressed as a casual outfit for shopping.

Rachel had just finished filming "Titanic" recently, but needed to stay in Los Angeles to assist with some dubbing and other work in the post-production, so naturally he was with Caroline and Melanie, and Eric was not surprised by this kind of scene.

Caroline first saw Eric looking at them, smiling shyly, and the three girls greeted them together and walked towards Eric.

Eric instructed the waiter to come over with a pot of coffee, pour it for the girls, and asked Caroline, who was sitting across from him, "Are you going shopping?" ”

Caroline pulled a folder out of her bag, heard Eric's question, and nodded, "yes, I don't have to get up early to work tomorrow, we plan to go to the movies together in the evening." ”

Eric said, "Oh, I don't have any arrangements for the evening, why don't you bring me one?" ”

Before Caroline could reply, Melanie and Rachel, who were sitting on either side of her, said in unison, "No." ”

Caroline blinked her big innocent eyes, looking left and right, not knowing what to say for a while. She knows very well the thoughts of the two best friends, and they don't want to let themselves have too much contact with Eric, a guy with a heart, but these two guys, Eric is obviously just joking, why are you reacting so much.

Eric just shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Okay, but how can I have the feeling that I suddenly have two more love rivals?" ”

Hearing Eric say the words 'rival in love', Caroline's little face suddenly turned red.

Rachel has a bold personality, and he doesn't have much contact with Eric, so he doesn't have much awe for him, and when he heard this, he hugged Caroline and kissed the girl on the cheek, demonstrating: "Eric, Caroline has long been mine, you can't just destroy other people's feelings." ”

"Rachel, let me go, that's not the case," Caroline knew that several people were joking, but still shyly pushed Rachel away, and did not forget to explain.

Eric took the folder handed over by Caroline, waved his hand, and said, "Just send the information, you can go, and I won't disturb your best friends' party." ”

Caroline pulled Rachel, who was about to get up, opened her bag and took out a small box the size of a palm, and said, "Eric, besides, this is something that was just sent by someone from San Francisco in the morning." ”

Eric took the box, looked at the 'Seagate' logo printed on the box, and probably guessed what was inside, opened it in three or two, and sure enough, there was a micro-hard drive the size of a postage stamp.

Looking at Eric's microhard drive, Caroline explained beside her: "This is a sample with a capacity of 256M that Seagate has just developed, and Seagate has attached information that they can come up with a new 512M product by the end of the year." Electronics companies have already begun designing control chips based on samples provided by Seagate, which are expected to be available in the second half of the year, and Yahoo's music store has begun internal testing phases. Mr. Victor McNelli, who is in charge of the electronics company, said in a meeting memorandum sent to him that the company was ready to consider the next phase of product launch and promotion. ”

Eric played with it for a while, put the microhard drive back in the box, and said: "Don't be too anxious about this matter, wait for them to come up with a stable product with a capacity of 512M, and then think about the next stage, well, after reading these materials over the weekend, I will personally call Victor to talk." ”

The player capacity reaches 512M, which is about enough to accommodate ten albums, which can be regarded as completely widening the gap with traditional players, and the capacity is smaller, it will not be attractive enough to consumers.

After Eric finished speaking, he saw Caroline nodding, looking at him with big eyes, as if waiting for him to tell something, and said, "Is there anything else?" ”

"No," Caroline shook her head subconsciously.

Eric felt that adding a silly hair to Caroline's little head would be directly two-dimensional, and smiled unconsciously: "Then you can go, or, do you really want me to go to the movies with you at night?" ”

As Eric finished speaking, Rachel and Melanie got up grinning, pulled Caroline up with a blushing face, said goodbye, and left the café.

"Mission Impossible 2" is also confirmed to be filmed in Australia, and Drew recently went on a trip to Australia with Amy Pascal. After the Oscars, Julia returned to England to continue filming Shakespeare's Love History, and Elizabeth followed her. Nicole and Famick Jensen are also not in Los Angeles. After Caroline and the three leave, Eric wrestles and finds himself alone for the weekend.

The preliminary preparations for "Casino Royale" have been basically completed, according to the schedule, Eric also needs to leave Los Angeles next month, before the film starts, he will personally walk through the main filming locations that have been determined, 007 filming has always needed to run around the world, this time is no exception, the proposed filming countries include the United Kingdom, Italy, the Czech Republic and the Bahamas, Eric's previous films, even "Jurassic Park", the filming locations are also very concentrated, therefore, this movie for Eric, It's also a challenge.

As soon as April is busy and free again, it may be until the end of the year when Casino Royale is finished.

Eric was thinking about what he was going to do for the rest of his free weekend when his phone buzzed on his desk.

A few minutes later, Eric's car pulled up on the side of the road outside the studio, the door opened from the inside, and Eric beckoned to the two tall girls standing on the side of the street: "Get in the car." ”

Gisele Bundchen and Alexandre Ambrosio got into the car one after another, and Alexandre pulled the door a little depressed and looked at Giselle, who was leaning over and hugging Eric.

Patting Giselle on her thin waist, Eric let go of her, smiled at Alexander on the other side, and asked, "Why did you come to Los Angeles?" ”

In fact, Eric was more curious about how the two girls could get Kapoor to contact him on his behalf, he was not the kind of person who easily gave his contact information to others, neither Giselle nor Alexander had his cell phone number.

But come to think of it, this incident should be the agency behind the two girls to promote. Most of the well-known models have separate actor contracts with Hollywood agencies, and the relationship between model agencies and actor agencies is still very close, and Kapoor is estimated to only sell other people's favors.

"The company gave us a two-week short-term actor training, and we've been here for five days in Santa Monica." Giselle whispered, still in a somewhat hoarse voice, with a slight excitement and a little resentment in his expression to see Eric again.

When they arrive in Los Angeles, they think they will be able to meet Eric easily, but they find that he is so far away from them. They can see his name in countless newspapers and magazines, they can hear people talk about him everywhere, they can feel his ubiquitous influence in the city, but they really want to see him, but they can't do anything about it. A few days ago, the two girls even sneaked to Malibu to take a look at the sharp manor that countless people yearn for. At that time, he wanted to take the initiative to visit, but when he walked outside the gate of the manor, he failed to muster up the courage, fearing that it would be too abrupt and disgusting to Eric.

In the end, it was the senior management of the two brokerage companies who took the initiative to ask about the matter, and only then did they help arrange it.

Eric felt the faint emotion in Giselle's tone, smiled, and didn't say anything more. Although several girl characters in "Casino Royale" are only fleeting, he will not object to others taking this matter seriously.

Looking at his watch, Eric instructed the driver to go to Venice Beach and said to the two girls, "It's dinner time, please eat, well, maybe call Miranda, you can meet." ”

Eric hadn't talked about Miranda Kerr, and Giselle's agency couldn't have noticed such a trivial arrangement.

Seeing the two girls' puzzled looks, Eric explained, "Her name is Miranda Kerr, and she will appear with you when the time comes." ”

Alexander couldn't help but feel a little lost: "What about the three people? ”

It's not that they're worried that a small shot will be distracted by someone else, after all, it's more symbolic for them. Adding one more person means they have one more competitor in the future.

According to the news obtained by their agency, the five spokespersons of Victoria's Secret Angels, after the completion of the five-year contract, Cindy Crawford and Linda Ivan Golinsta, the two original supermodels, will not renew their contracts with Victoria's Secret, in addition to the age factor, the most important thing is that the two will focus on being in charge of the reality show in their hands, and when the time comes, Giselle and the two of them can just fight for a vacancy by one person, and at this time, a girl named Miranda Kerr suddenly appeared, and both women couldn't help but have a sense of crisis.

However, Eric's next words made the two girls even more worried.

"It's not three, it's four."

"Ah......h

This time, even Giselle was a little unsettled, and exhaled softly in surprise.

Eric felt that it was quite interesting to tease these two beautiful stunners, so he didn't explain in detail.

When the car arrives on Venice Beach, Eric chooses a restaurant with good privacy and tells the driver to pick up Miranda Kerr.

Miranda Kerr was placed in a boarding house with one of Firefly's middle managers, the family lived in Santa Monica, and the girl had been enrolled in Santa Monica Middle School. After several rounds of auditions, he got a resident role in a family sitcom on the Disney Channel, and he settled down in Los Angeles.

Half an hour later, while Eric was chatting casually with Giselle and Alexander, Miranda walked over with the waitress leading.

Seeing Eric, and the other two strange girls sitting next to him, Miranda was almost instinctively wary, but quickly pounced on Eric like a coquettish.

"Don't make a fuss, there's someone here," Eric quickly got up, caught the girl's limp body, and sat down beside her.

Although a booth was deliberately chosen, it was not a box after all, and it was inevitable that people would watch it if there was too much movement.

Miranda sat down obediently, glanced at the two girls opposite who were also examining herself, and quickly turned to Eric, also with a little resentment, and said, "You haven't paid attention to me for almost a month, I thought you forgot about me." ”

"You know I'm busy," Eric explained, asking for a menu and motioning for the girls to start ordering.

When the waiter with envy in his eyes walked away completely, the atmosphere in the booth became a little weird.

"Now, this is Gisele Bundchen and Alexandre Ambrosio, they're from Brazil. This is Miranda Kerr, from Australia," Eric took the initiative to introduce the three girls to each other, thinking that the top supermodels at the beginning of the century were almost all collected.

"Hello," Miranda said, sitting beside Eric, just reaching out and waving to the other two women.

Giselle, who wanted to get up and shake Miranda's hand, sat back down and waved at her politely.

After a short chat, Miranda keenly felt the caution of the two of Giselle in front of Eric, and realized that their relationship with Eric was definitely not as close as her relationship with him, and couldn't help but have a faint sense of superiority, and said, "So, are the three of us going to participate in that scene together?" ”

"No, it's four," Alexander, who was sitting across from him, saw that Miranda didn't know anything about it, and volunteered to add.

Miranda looked at Eric suspiciously.

Eric smiled and said, "Guess who the last one is, it's easy to guess." (To be continued.) )