"Iron Man is definitely a perfect superhero movie. At the same time www.biquge.info Eric Williams once again showed his ability to do anything to the extreme, and the supertycoon's personal portrayal of Tony Stark exudes a remarkable personality, whether he is a genius, a jerk, a playboy, a billionaire, or a superhero, it is just hard to take the audience's attention off him. -- The Times

"Iron Man's dazzling CG special effects made "Batman and Robin" look like a botched B-movie two years ago, and perhaps the strong special effects will increasingly become the embodiment of the fundamental strength of major Hollywood studios. Compared with the amazing level of special effects in the digital field, the light and shadow era of Warner, Universal and Paramount obviously has too much to catch up. —The New York Times

"In the first fifteen minutes, I was impressed by Eric Williams' superb performance. The real-life super-rich man makes the image of a superhero who is gradually transformed into a savior completely honest and credible. - "Variety"

"While Eric Williams' performance in 'Iron Man' received overwhelming acclaim, the young super-rich man's real-life net worth numbers continue to refresh the public's perception."

"With the Nasdaq approaching 3,500 points, Eric Williams' personal net worth has also continued to skyrocket, approaching the $400 billion mark at this time."

Perhaps, Eric Williams will become the first Trillionaire in the history of the Federation. If there is no significant inflation in the federal currency anytime soon, Eric Williams will be the only super-rich person who is likely to use the term 'Trillionaire' for many years to come. Before that, we only had Billionaire and Millionaire. I have to say, it's a thrilling miracle. -- BusinessWeek

In the villa restaurant on Kensington Garden Street, it was already noon the next day.

Eric flipped through Mayer's film reviews that Mayer had gradually sorted out in the morning, read this article in BusinessWeek, and looked up and asked the female assistant sitting opposite: "Mary, do you think I'll be the first 'Trillionaire'?" ”

Mayer looked up from the folder on his lap, glanced at Eric, and said, "If you change it to another currency, you are already there by now." ”

"Who would do such a boring thing."

"yes."

Mayer answered, and hung his head again.

I have to say that the female assistant is definitely the most emotionally variable one among the women around Eric.

I don't know what stimuli I've been exposed to in the past two days.

Silently looking at the girl opposite for a moment, Eric got up and walked over, Mayer sensed Eric's approach, and immediately put up the folder in front of him vigilantly: "Eric, it's noon." ”

"If it were Australian time, it would be night."

Eric learned Mayer's slightly mocking tone just now, sat down on the sofa, reached out and picked up the lithe female assistant's body and put it on his knees, and kissed the girl's most sensitive neck.

After a few moments, Mayer's body went completely limp, but Eric suddenly stopped all his movements.

Mayer, who subconsciously poked his face and took the initiative to ask for a kiss, was stunned, looked up and noticed Eric's playful gaze, opened a mouthful of small white teeth and was about to bite down on Eric's body casually.

Eric hurriedly blocked it, hugged the female assistant with a smile, and said, "I just think we'd better change places." ”

"You're going to see Leonard Riggio, CEO of the Bertelsmann Group, later."

"Twenty minutes left," Eric said, glancing at his watch as he walked upstairs with the girl in his arms, "We'll get it in nineteen minutes, and the remaining one minute should be fine from the villa to the Garden Hotel restaurant." ”

So, in the end, I was a little late.

Mayer, who was happy, refused to leave the bedroom anyway, and Eric had to go to the banquet alone.

The Bertelsmann Group is the parent company of BMG Records, and BMG's business accounts for only about one-third of the Bertelsmann Group compared to the EMI Group.

However, the situation has now changed, and when Eric threw out the news that Fireflyer would accept shares, although several major record companies still did not agree, their attitude was obviously much more enthusiastic than at the beginning, and even Universal Music began to contact Firefly Electronics again.

While the four major record groups other than Sony have all expressed interest in working together, Eric plans to transfer shares to only two major record companies at most.

Therefore, the initiative of this cooperation has begun to be in the hands of Firefly Electronics.

After dining with Leonard Riggio, Eric thoughtfully brought a lunch back to the villa, and Mayer was already sitting neatly dressed on the living room couch, tapping on his laptop.

"Now, lunch."

Mayer took it and put it on the coffee table, handed over a sorted document next to him, and said, "This is the latest box office data report of Easter films sent from Los Angeles." ”

"Well, I'll see, you can eat first."

Mayer nodded, but picked up his lunch and walked towards the restaurant.

Eric smiled helplessly before flipping through the folder in front of him.

It's April 27th, and from March 26th, the entire Easter schedule will take exactly four full weeks, plus an extra weekend.

This Easter, although the three films "Public Enemy of the People", "American Pie" and "A Kiss" launched by the Firefly system performed very well at the box office, the most eye-catching is still "Blair the Witch" released before Easter.

As of the last week, although "Blair the Witch", which has been released for eight weeks, has completely entered the final period, and the box office has fallen to the level of only more than one million US dollars in a single week, and it may be down in the next two or three weeks, the cumulative North American box office of the film has reached 162.17 million US dollars.

This figure is second only to "Fast and Furious", which was released at the beginning of the year, and temporarily ranked second in the North American box office list in 1999.

And, relative to the $60,000 production cost, the box office return miracle created by "Blair the Witch" will be difficult to break for many years to come.

In addition to "Blair the Witch", "Enemy of the Whole People", which was released for three weeks, reached a cumulative box office of $82.36 million, and the final North American box office was around $100 million as expected.

In comparison, the best box office performance of the three Easter movie packages of this year's Firefly system is still a vulgar comedy like "American Pie".

From April 9th to now, two weeks after its release, the box office of "American Pie" has reached $63.75 million, and the final North American box office may even be higher than "Enemy of the Nation", but the production cost of this film is only $11 million, which is only one-eighth of "Enemy of the Nation", even if it cannot be compared with "Blair the Witch", MGM is still making a lot of money.

Moreover, compared to "Blair the Witch", which could not make a sequel at all in the short term, "American Pie" was easily developed into a series.

After creating a super box office dark horse with "Ace Cheap Spy 2" last year, this year's Fox's "One Kiss Determines the Country" can only be regarded as mediocre.

This romantic comedy, which cost $25 million to make, was released in the same week as "American Pie", but the box office was only $24.99 million in two weeks, and although the reputation is good, the final box office may only be about $50 million, barely allowing Fox to recoup its costs.

Although the Easter schedule of films will continue for a few weeks, due to the large-scale promotion of "Iron Man", the atmosphere of the summer schedule has begun to become more and more intense.

Eric 29 will also record an episode of "David's Late Late Show".

So, after a day in London, Eric 28 set off for New York.

However, not long after the plane took off from London Heathrow on the morning of the 28th, Eric heard very bad news.

Obviously, it was deliberately selected at the moment when "Iron Man", which Eric himself starred in, was about to be released, and the matter of the two little guys suddenly exploded on a large scale in the media.

"It was about six o'clock in the morning on the East Coast side, and the staff on duty at Yahoo Portal first noticed that this website called 'Hollywood Gossip' suddenly published several news stories about the three children in a row. They immediately reported it to Ms. Brown, but by now, within an hour of time, the articles had already been picked up by many of the more well-known news outlets, and even the AOL and MSN portals had posted the news on the front page. ”

In the study in the front cabin of the plane, Eric listened to Mayer's presentation of the current situation with a somber face, while flipping through a stack of copies of news about the three children.

Eric Williams' Bastard Child Exposed

"The Absurd Private Lives of the Super-Rich, a Pair of Children Were Born on the Same Day"

Emma Roberts Murdoch Barrymore Williams, the real firefly 'little princess'

"Eric Williams spends a lot of money to hide the news, and the illegitimate children live in luxury"

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Flipping through the press release in his hand, Eric picked up the phone and was about to call East Hampton.

Mayer reminded in a low voice, "Eric, Ms. Pakula, and Ms. Madsen have boarded Miss Barrymore's plane with the children. ”

Eric paused, and quickly connected to the video call on the girl's plane.

A moment later, Emma's figure appeared on the screen, and the little guy grabbed it in front of the camera with his hand, and said in a tender voice: "Dad, can you see Emma?" ”

"Of course," Eric saw Emma's immature little face, his tense emotions relaxed, a smile appeared on his face, and he pulled over the chair and sat down and said softly, "Has Emma been naughty lately?" ”

"No, Emma has always been very well-behaved, but I'm so sleepy, Aunt Joan said that she was going to take everyone on vacation, and Emma hasn't woken up yet."

"You can sleep on the plane, your Aunt Drew's plane is very comfortable."

"Well," the little guy nodded, "Daddy, when are you coming to see us?" ”

"Soon."

"Don't forget to bring a gift for Emma."

"Of course, Dad never forgot it."

After chatting like this, Virginia next to her hugged the reluctant Emma away, and before leaving, she didn't forget to give Eric a white look at the camera, and Joanna sat down in front of the camera.

"I'm sorry, Joan," Eric said apologetically, looking at the woman with the same quiet temperament as ever, "How are the children?" ”

"Kevin is still sleeping, Vicky rarely lets him sleep once, Xia Xia is accompanied by a governess, reading a book," Joanna smiled, turned her head to look, and whispered, "Eric, Vicky is actually very happy." ”

Eric smiled, and understood.

Although she has been comforting the woman more than once that Kevin and Hawaii are her own children and heirs to the Williams family, Virginia has been worried that Eric will suddenly disapprove of Kevin's identity over the years.

Now that the matter has been exposed, Eric will not be able to 'deny' it in the future.

Eric certainly never thought of it that way.

Over the years, he has tried his best to hide the news of his two children, just so that they can have a calm and safe environment to grow up, and Eric has rarely deliberately avoided the two children to those around him.

However, looking at Virginia and Joanna's reaction at this time, Eric was also relieved.

The impact of this incident on women and children is obviously not as serious as I imagined.

In fact, it is also very understandable that if it is a slightly ordinary person, even if it is an ordinary rich person, when this kind of thing happens, it must have been blocked by the swarming media at this time, and there is no way to enter the sky, and even collapse because of it. But the two women only need to take the children on the private jet, and they can easily avoid all this distraction, and the children will not be harmed.

"So, where are you going now?"

"Go to Ventura for a refueling and then fly to Australia. Everyone is going to spend the summer vacation over there together, and Liz and Julia have already taken off from Ventura," Joanna said in a soft tone with some complaint, "I'll leave this matter to you, we don't care." ”

Australia is the home base of Elizabeth's family, and the media there is basically monopolized by the Murdoch family.

Eric relieved himself and said, "Of course, I'll take care of it, you guys have some fun." ”

"Well," Joanna nodded, and added, "Drew is also on the plane, but fortunately she's in New York recently, so I'm going to call her over?" ”

"No need, I still have to deal with these things, just see that you're okay."

"That's it for now," Joanna said, looking at the camera for a moment, "Eric, you don't have to be too tired lately. ”

"I know, then, goodbye."

"Hmm."

After hanging up the video, Eric's expression became indifferent again, and he got up and left the front cabin study and went to the largest conference room on the plane, and at the same time instructed Caroline and Mayer to connect to the video call of Chris, Ian Gnier and Jeffrey Katzenberg respectively.

Suddenly this kind of thing happened, everyone had obviously gotten the news, and several core executives of the Firefly system soon appeared on the big screens on both sides of the conference room.