Eric thought that the scandal between himself and Connery would disappear after a while if neither he nor Connery responded positively, but he far underestimated his influence and the media and the public's curiosity about the matter.

Of course, Fox was secretly having fun, although they didn't dare to write it too much to avoid falling out with Eric, but it didn't stop other media from reporting on this matter, and Fox also focused on Jennifer in the last two weeks before the release. Connery, because of the cascading effect brought about by this scandal, the publicity effect of "Toy Condor" was not only much better than expected, but even saved a lot of publicity budget.

Faced with a large number of paparazzi following, Eric not only strengthened his own security, but also began to look forward to the arrival of the era of media monopoly.

In this era, the media channels in the United States were quite scattered, and there were almost more than 50 media companies on various platforms in the country, so the dissemination of information was quite free. But ten years later, after a large number of mergers and acquisitions, the media industry in the United States has undergone a large number of mergers and acquisitions, and more than ninety percent of the information dissemination channels are in the hands of the six major media groups. At that time, as long as he had enough say in Hollywood, this kind of trivial matter of being harassed by the paparazzi didn't even have to open his mouth, someone would solve it.

Originally, I had planned to stay with Joanna until she returned to Poland to visit her family, but due to this incident, there were more important things to do at the end of the year. Eric, who is reluctant to renew the branches, also has to be under the woman's small complaints. Moved to Beverly Hills to his own mansion.

It's November. Eric begins to fight for the expulsion of Robert. Shay made the final preparations, and in the first few weeks of November, he held several party dues at the Beverly Mansion to invite the management and staff of the Firefly to network with each other. At the same time, Eric also worked with Robert. Shay's deputy, Michael. Lynn talked to her a few times.

After overseeing "Instinct" in the first half of the year, Jeffrey is ready to take a half-year break from his farm in Maryland and wait for Eric's "Tornado" project to start next year before starting work again. However, after learning of Eric's plan, Jeffrey hurried back to Los Angeles. Intend to help Eric stabilize the situation of the Fireflies after he launches.

Jeffrey doesn't have any relatives in Los Angeles, the plane flying from Maryland on the East Coast to Los Angeles arrived at half past seven in the evening on November 13, Eric personally went to the airport to greet him, in the reception hall, Jeffrey pulled a small suitcase in front of Eric, warmly hugged Eric, handed the suitcase to the bodyguard who came with Eric, and the two walked out side by side.

"It's sad to see you so alone, Jeffrey. Maybe you should find another partner. ”

"I don't have that in mind, and Chris doesn't quite accept it." Jeffrey shook his head, and soon smiled again: "It's that you're quite lively in the newspapers these days, another Jennifer, hehe." ”

"It was Fox's plan to promote "Fighting Condor", I didn't think it was a big deal, so I acquiesced, I didn't expect it to have such a big impact."

Jeffrey added: "But I don't think this girl has as much aura as Aniston, it's too delicate." ”

Although Aniston liked to make some petty sex in front of him, it was also the girl's personality in the face of her lover, but the little girl was much more likable than Drew's little girl, although she only got along a few times, Aniston was deeply loved by Jeffrey.

Eric couldn't help but sigh, Aniston's brokerage contract was still with Kapoor, so Eric could get the latest news of the little girl at any time.

Since the breakup at the beginning of the year, Aniston seems to have become a career-oriented woman, focusing on acting, and the second season of "Friends" has now aired more than half of it, and the average viewership of more than 20 million is still impressive.

In addition, Aniston also received two movies, a cameo with only five minutes of appearance, which was released in the summer file, and the results were not bad. The other is a romantic comedy, which was released at Christmas, and Eric happened to see a trailer on TV, produced by Warner, and Matt. Dillon's collaboration is a film that has no impression in memory at all, and it should be the result of the butterfly effect.

Because of the influence of "Pretty Woman", which appeared in advance last year and was a great success, Hollywood has had a lot of romantic comedies this year, and it is estimated that after "Ghost Love", the proportion of films of this type will definitely increase in the next two years.

But unfortunately, although Eric has been silently following Aniston, he believes that Xiao 丨 Niu is also paying attention to him, otherwise it is impossible to receive the anonymous gift on his birthday this year, but the two have not seen each other for almost a year.

Jeffrey just subconsciously compared Aniston to Connery, noticing Eric's depression, and didn't continue.

The paparazzi who followed all the way to the airport had already raised their cameras, but when they saw that it was Jeffrey who came out with Eric, they just hastily pressed the shutter a few times, and even a few of them didn't even want to waste the film, so they put down the cameras directly. In the face of the four or five bodyguards guarding Eric and Jeffrey, these paparazzi did not come up without knowing each other.

Escorting Eric and Jeffrey into the car, except for the driver, the few remaining four bodyguards all ran to the black Chevrolet in the back.

"Isn't that too cautious?" After the car started, Jeffrey couldn't help but say.

"The main thing is to prevent those paparazzi in the back, I don't want to get out when I am surrounded by them alone," Eric pointed to the back of the car, and said: "But in September, one of Warner's directors was kidnapped while on vacation in Greece, not only was he extorted a million dollars, but I almost didn't come back alive, it's always right to be careful, I'm a high-risk kidnapper now, and what's even stricter is that I don't have any relatives, and if I am kidnapped, I can't even find a ransom payer." ”

Jeffrey couldn't help but laugh and said, "How is it possible, we won't leave it alone." ”

Eric joked: "The key is that the kidnappers don't necessarily know this, maybe after they kidnapped me, they suddenly found that there were no relatives to contact, and they directly tore up the ticket." ”

"In that case, I think you should have gotten married sooner."

"No," Eric shook his head.

Jeffrey understands Eric's temperament, the two people's concepts of life are very different, he knows that it is useless for him to say anything, the two chatted casually, until they came to Jeffrey's apartment, after getting out of the car, Eric and Jeffrey walked in together: "I asked someone to help you clean up in the morning, but there is no food, you can go to the supermarket by yourself tomorrow, it is better to hire another servant." ”

"I don't need any servants, I'm not even sixty years old, and it's not like I can't move."

Jeffrey said, beckoning Eric to sit down on the couch and boiling water to make coffee, and after a while, Jeffrey handed Eric a cup of coffee and sat down on the other side of the couch.

Just now because there were outsiders in the car, Jeffrey couldn't speak, so he asked solemnly, "Eric, is this too urgent?" ”

Eric knew that Jeffrey was referring to the epulsion of Robert. Shay, shook his head: "If Robert has the ability to make Firefly develop quickly, even if he wants enough power, I can give him power." But his ability is limited, his pursuit of corporate power is unrestrained, and he has always made his own small calculations in his heart, this kind of person is destined to have no benefit to the development of fireflies. ”

Jeffrey added: "But what about the 25% stake in his hands? ”

"This is what I am most worried about, I have enough confidence in the development prospects of Firefly, with the development of Firefly, if I don't do anything, after a few years, the conflict between me and Robert is on the table, coupled with Robert's identity as a shareholder, the conflict between the two of us will have a greater impact on the company, so it is better to kick him out as soon as possible."

"Looks like you've thought it through, who are you going to put at the helm after Robert leaves?"

"Michael. Lynn, Robert's current deputy, I've talked to him a few times, and promised some benefits. But I won't give him too much power, if a company wants to develop rapidly, only one voice is necessary, just like Disney, and Time Warner is a negative example, don't look at Warner and Times merged to become the biggest Hollywood giant, but Time Warner's current personnel disputes have become more complicated, and even affect Warner's operations, even if it has the largest scale in Hollywood, it will definitely be surpassed in the future. ”

Three days after Jeffrey's return to Los Angeles, on Friday, November 16th, with MGM's Rocky 5, Fox's Toy Condor, and Robert Murphy. Shay's thriller comedy "Ghost Detective," a parody of "Ghostbusters," was released at the same time, announcing the official arrival of the Thanksgiving schedule.

In addition to these films, Thanksgiving-Christmas will also have Coppola's "Godfather 3", Schwarzenegger's "Kindergarten SWAT", the 1987 annual box office champion "Three Daddy and One Baby" sequel and many other films will be released. Bigelow's "Shock Point" is also scheduled for December 21.

It is worth mentioning that this holiday schedule in the original time and space should have been dominated by "Home Alone", brutally occupying the top of the box office list for ten weeks, squeezing other films into the water, but because "Home Alone" has appeared two years in advance, it means that the more than 200 million box office that originally belonged to "Home Alone" will be distributed to other films. (To be continued......)