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Jianjiao Manor, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning.

In the ring-shaped master bedroom of the Shell Villa, all the curtains on all sides have been opened, and the bright morning sun pours in from all directions.

Elizabeth Perkins lay lazily on the big bed, not minding that the quilt was completely pulled away by the man next to her, meekly feeling a large, slightly rough hand roaming her smooth back. Thinking back to last night and the various situations just now, although I was a little ashamed, I couldn't help but feel a little proud in my heart that my mature body could attract the young people next to me.

Eric leaned on his cheeks, caressing the woman's body, his expression distracted, and he wondered if he really had some kind of plot.

The sudden ringing of a mobile phone disturbs the silence in the bedroom.

Elizabeth Perkins, who was looking for the shadow of a bird in the blue sky outside the window, turned her head curiously, only to see a strange expression on Eric's face after answering the phone. She was about to ask a question when Eric reached over and put it over her mouth.

"Janie...... I'm upstairs, I've just finished exercising, and I'm changing my clothes...... Can you prepare breakfast for me first, well, dear? ”

After hanging up the phone, Eric's expression still did not relax.

It's been a few years, and the chick's natural skills have no tendency to invalidate at all, and it's only been a few days before they start to amplify their moves again.

Somewhat glad that the villa was big enough, Eric didn't hesitate, scooped up his clothes and began to put them on his body.

Elizabeth Perkins chuckled as he watched Eric scramble as he heard Eric just say the word 'Jenny', and his lazy and hoarse voice was tinged with a hint of schadenfreude: "Your girlfriend?"

Eric glanced at the woman who was still lazily lying on the big bed as if she was sunbathing, nodded, put on a T-shirt, picked up all Elizabeth Perkins' clothes and shoes next to her and threw them on the bed, then rolled up the sheets and wrapped the woman in, picked it up and walked towards the bathroom.

Elizabeth Perkins didn't resist Eric's movements, but just grabbed his high heels and carried them outside, still eating and laughing, and asked, "Eric, will I be strangled to death if she finds out?"

"You won't, I will," Eric joked bitterly, pushing open the bathroom door and placing the woman in the large bathtub, "I'm sorry, Liz, you'll have to hide here for a while, I'll call when I leave with Janie." ”

Elizabeth Perkins leaned comfortably in the large bathtub in a different position, looked at Eric who was about to leave, and said, "I don't care, but don't you know that women's noses are very smart?"

Eric was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that after a night of entanglement with Elizabeth Perkins last night, and had not yet taken a shower after the passion of the morning, it would be strange if Aniston could not smell the other women in him.

Thinking of this, Eric searched the bathroom sink, but couldn't find men's perfume, he didn't have the habit of spraying men's perfume in the first place, but he remembered that the girl had bought him a bottle before, and he didn't know where he lost it. Unable to find the perfume, Eric had to take off his clothes again and again, and stood under the shower to start showering.

Because it was Saturday, Eric relaxed and greedy for joy once, but he didn't expect to be caught by the chick again.

After taking a shower and checking for other traces in the bedroom, Eric went to the study to pick up a laptop before heading downstairs.

After going to the kitchen and kissing Aniston as she was preparing breakfast, and making sure that the chick didn't smell anything from him, Eric put his laptop on the dining room table and planned to check today's work email.

The IBM notebook in front of me has finally realized the wireless wifi network, which is the function of the wireless router sample just sent by the R&D department of Firefly Electronics last week, but there is no wifi network module in the laptop now, and only an external signal receiver can be installed.

It's December 13th, a week before the Christmas schedule, so there aren't any heavyweight new films on the line, with Firefly's "Monster Power" and MGM's "Night at the Museum 2" still in the lead.

In the three weeks of its release, "Monster Electric Company" has already reached a cumulative box office of $168 million, which is a gratifying result. However, the box office of "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2" fell by 58% in the second week, and the cumulative amount just exceeded 100 million, reaching $112 million.

Seeing the results of "Night at the Museum 2", Eric can't help but be a little worried about the upcoming release of "Rush Hour 2" next week, the first action comedy film starring Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker, the first part of which cost $33 million to produce and grossed nearly $250 million worldwide.

Although Eric instructed New Line to sign a trilogy contract with the two male protagonists from the beginning, because of the success of the first part, the salaries of the two protagonists in the sequel rose to $15 million. Therefore, just the salary, the two protagonists took 30 million US dollars this time, and the production costs in other aspects have also risen, resulting in the total production cost of "Rush Hour 2" reaching 70 million, although the film production cost in the past two years has frequently set records, but the production cost of 70 million US dollars is still a big-budget movie.

Eric has seen the original "Rush Hour" trilogy, but he didn't pay attention to the production cost and box office of the three films, and he doesn't know how much revenue the $70 million production cost can bring to Firefly.

Moreover, the schedule of this film is not too optimistic.

In addition to "Jurassic Park 3", which is confirmed to be released a week after "Rush Hour 2", and "Rush Hour 2" at the same time as "Rush Hour 2", there is also the sci-fi blockbuster "Starship Troopers" produced by Sony Pictures, which Eric remembers was once accused of mixing too many political metaphors.

However, special effects films have been very popular in recent years, and ordinary audiences obviously don't pay much attention to political things, Sony Pictures still invested $40 million in the publicity budget for this film with a production cost of nearly $110 million after the fiasco of "Godzilla" in the summer, and "Star Troopers" will undoubtedly become the biggest threat to "Rush Hour 2".

The summer file has continued "Prison in the Sky", "Looking for Nemo", "Casino Royale", and "Jedi Men 2......

"Monster Electric Company", "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2", "Rush Hour 2", and "Jurassic Park 3" at the end of the year......

Even if only the films of the firefly system are counted, Eric has found that the schedule in North America has become more and more crowded.

In my memory, in the future summer files in May, June, July, August and even September, there will be big-budget films released one after another, which can be said to have extended the summer file from the previous more concentrated release schedule in June and July to five months. In addition, Easter and the end of the year and the beginning of November are also gradually released.

Perhaps, it is time to lengthen the battle line of popular schedules or develop new schedules, otherwise, the North American film schedule will only cause more and more serious internal friction.

With these things in mind, Eric clicked on another email in his mailbox.

Aniston had already eaten breakfast, but she made two servings, intending to eat them with Eric.

Bringing breakfast over and placing it on the table, the chick came up behind Eric, glanced curiously at the laptop screen, and let out a soft 'wow' sound, hugging Eric's neck and getting closer in disbelief.

"What's wrong?" Eric asked with a smile as he pecked at the chick's face, and looked at the laptop screen.

This email turned out to be the global box office statistics of "Casino Royale", which is already the end of the year, and the global release of "Casino Royale" has basically ended, although there are still some sporadic small box office countries that have not opened the picture, but it will not have much impact on the total box office data, and the future increase will only be a few million dollars at most.

Aniston pointed to the striking box office numbers on the screen: "$1,135 million, is this the global box office of Casino Royale?"

Eric skimmed through the email and found that Casino Royale had a $372 million North American box office, but $763 million overseas, for a total of $1.135 billion worldwide.

According to the average share ratio of 55% in North America and 35% overseas, MGM received a whopping $471 million from the box office of "Casino Royale", and the total investment in the production and distribution of "Casino Royale" was $160 million, which means that MGM will receive a net income of $310 million just from box office revenue. Compared with the summer files "Godzilla", "Batman and Robin" and other street-hitting films, the performance of "Casino Royale" is even more eye-catching.

"$1,135 million, I didn't expect it. Eric nodded with a smile and said, "However, it still can't be compared to Jim's "Titanic". ”

Aniston kissed Eric on the cheek and said, "The box office of all your films combined must be higher than his." ”

Eric couldn't help but think of this question when he heard the chick say this.

I don't know how much the cumulative box office of the films he has participated in since his debut in 1988 has reached. However, counting only the three "Tornado", "Jurassic Park" and "Casino Royale" directed recently, it is probably about the same as Cameron's cumulative box office. Coupled with the films he directed before, such as "Home Alone" and "Pretty Woman", there is naturally no problem surpassing Cameron.

After reading this email, Eric temporarily closed the browser, picked up the tableware and looked at Aniston, who was sitting next to him, and said, "It's Christmas next week, do you want to come with me to New York?"

Although she never took the initiative to mention it, Aniston still had an inexplicable curiosity about Eric's two children, thought for a while and asked, "Well, will Drew go?"

Eric nodded: "She's been there before, and it's only fun for everyone to spend Christmas together." I called the day before yesterday and Vicky said that it might snow in New York in a few days, so it would be more Christmas. ”

The little girl was obviously a little moved, but after hesitating for a while, she still shook her head and said, "I still won't go, you just need to accompany me for Thanksgiving in the future." ”

"Alright then," Eric said without reluctance, changing the subject at the right time, "Where are you going to go after breakfast?"

"I don't have any plans during the day, but I made an appointment with Matthew and them to meet together in the evening, and you can go with me. ”

Aniston said that Matthew should still be Matthew Perry, although he did not participate in "Friends" at the beginning, but in recent years, Matthew Perry has been mixed well in the film industry, but it is not as popular as during the "Home Alone" period.

"Okay, then let's go buy a few clothes during the day," Eric naturally wouldn't refuse Aniston's little request, ate a few bites of breakfast, and suddenly thought about something, and said: "Speaking of Matthew, I happen to have a comedy here that I've been looking for a male lead, maybe I can let him try, well, of course, the scale of this comedy may be a bit large, he doesn't know if he will be willing." ”

Eric's main work during this period is several new films around the firefly system, and "Teddy Bear" is one of them.

The original Mark Wahlberg has just debuted now, so it's naturally not suitable. During this time, the roles offered to him by the casting department were also difficult to be satisfactory. Now that I think about it, Matthew Perry, who looks a little decrepit and is full of comedian temperament, is very suitable, and in this regard, Mark Wahlberg is even much worse.

Aniston raised her head happily, she has always regarded Matthew Perry as a 'good buddy', Matthew Perry's career has not been so satisfactory in recent years, she originally thought about whether she could let Eric help him again, and said, "Eric, really?"

"Of course, but as I said earlier, the scale of this movie is a bit big. ”

"Do you want to be revealed?"

Eric shook his head and said, "No, it's just, well, there's a lot of swearing, it's the kind of and pee fart that has no bottom line, well, I happen to have a script here, you can take a look at it first." ”

Eric said, finding the script file for Teddy Bear from his laptop, opening it, and pushing it in front of Aniston.

Aniston was drinking cereal porridge, but she didn't have any preparations, and read the script while eating with a spoon, but, within a few minutes, the chick almost squirted out of a mouthful of porridge, but fortunately she turned around in time and pulled a tissue to cover her mouth, so that there was no embarrassment.

wiping the corners of her mouth, the chick laughed insolently: "Ha, haha, this is really, so vulgar, it is on the floor...... The guy who wrote this script must have been a bastard. ”

Eric was speechless for a moment, touched his nose and didn't know if he should take the initiative to admit it.

Aniston is naturally not stupid, and when she noticed Eric's expression, she immediately understood, but she laughed even more happily: "Haha, it turns out that you are that bastard, I don't know how many guys who like teddy bear toys will scold you after watching the movie in the future." (To be continued.) )