It's hard to feel the climate change in Los Angeles, and by the time Eric arrived in New York, the city had already fallen for the second time of the year, and the town of East Hampton, on Long Island, was covered in a thick layer of snow and looked unusually deserted because of the sparse population.

However, in addition to being colder, this environment is also just right for two women to live in, after all, neither Virginia nor Joanna wants to suddenly get up one day and see the news of their pregnancy appear in the newspaper.

The two girls were visibly depressed, and they were both very happy to see Eric come to spend Thanksgiving with them. Although it is winter, if you want to go out, you just need to wrap yourself tightly, and this kind of dress will not look too abrupt in cold weather, however, in order to avoid the possibility of being discovered, the two women still go out very few times, but fortunately, the temporary rental of this mansion is not small, so that people have enough space for activities.

There were still four days to go before Thanksgiving, and after lunch at noon, Virginia put herself tightly under wrap and planned to go out with her assistant to buy for the holiday. Eric was going to go with him, but was left behind by the woman on the grounds that the target was too big. Eric had no choice but to give some careful advice before letting the woman go out.

Although it was noon, the weather was still cold, and the gray clouds were low overhead, and there seemed to be signs of snow again, and after sending Virginia away, Eric and Joanna walked in the courtyard for a while to breathe in the fresh air, and then quickly got into the heated room.

"Do you want to come with me to the study?" Eric asked as he helped Joanna hang up her trench coat.

Although he left Los Angeles, Eric received some messages from Los Angeles every afternoon at this time. Because of the time difference. Los Angeles was still past nine o'clock at this time. It just happened to be working hours.

Joanna nodded, with a quiet smile: "Okay." ”

Eric led Joanna into the study, pulled a chair for Joanna to sit down at the desk, poured a glass of boiling water for the woman and placed it in front of her, before turning to his seat and taking out the automatically received materials from the fax machine.

Joanna watched quietly as Eric flipped through the papers, listening to the slight rustle of the paper flipping, with a faint sense of satisfaction in her expression. Occasionally, when Eric looked up, he curled the corners of his lips into a beautiful smile. When she wasn't working, Joanna spent her time doing chores and liked to clean all her rooms. However, since she became pregnant, even Virginia has often 'condemned' her for being lazy, but only she knows how much she expects and values this child, and does not want it to go wrong. During this time, the only exercise she did was walking, and other than that, in the windy and sunny weather. Ask someone to set up a chair and sit under the eaves, holding a book in their hand, and read quietly all day.

After Eric's arrival. Her pastime was to sit next to him all day, in silence all day, and this strong dependence made Virginia feel a little jealous.

Today happens to be Monday, and the opening weekend box office of Firefly Pictures' two films released during Thanksgiving, "Life and Death" and Disney's animated "Aladdin", has been released.

The box office of "Life and Death" in the first three days of the weekend was $19 million, and it is expected to get about 25 million to 28 million in the first week, although this result is not as good as the 38 million of "400 Years of Shock" released the week before, but Eric was not too disappointed.

The investment in "Life and Death" is only more than 30 million US dollars, which is 10 million less than "400 Years of Shock", not to mention compared with "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which invested more than 60 million US dollars, judging from the word-of-mouth obtained by "Life and Death" in the data, the box office decline of this film in the next few weeks will not be too high, before another wave of blockbusters is released on Christmas, it is definitely not a problem to get a box office of more than 80 million US dollars, and the total box office will definitely be able to break 100 million, although Firefly has repeatedly created box office miracles with small and big, But Hollywood has not yet entered the era of 100 million yuan box office movies on the streets, and in 1992, the box office can exceed 100 million US dollars, which is still the mark of a very successful movie.

Flipping through the next "Aladdin" data, Eric frowned slightly, the box office of "Aladdin" in the first weekend was only 9 million, but Eric quickly relaxed, he didn't have too high expectations for "Aladdin", and Disney's hand-drawn animated films have always been either silent or released for a long time, accumulating a jaw-dropping total box office. This is the case with last year's "Beauty and the Beast", "Beauty and the Beast" has been released for nearly half a year and has accumulated nearly $150 million at the box office.

However, although the total box office has accumulated to a fairly high level, Disney's share is often not too much, because the longer the release time, the lower Disney's share from the theater chain tends to be, and even in many cases the total share is only more than 30%, far lower than the average 55% share of big movie companies from the theater chain. This is also the reason why many of Disney's hand-drawn animations choose not to go through the theater channel and directly release the videotape, a few years ago, Disney's hand-drawn animation's turnaround "The Little Mermaid" sequel went directly to the videotape channel, and in the original time and space, although the global box office of "The Lion King" was as high as 900 million US dollars, but in order to save distribution costs, the sequel to "The Lion King" was still directly released on videotape and did not enter the theaters.

Looking at the various data of "Aladdin" in his hand, Eric thought of Pixar's 3D animation again, the box office curve of "Toy Story" is no different from Hollywood blockbusters, according to the development trend of Hollywood film distribution rules, saturated distribution will become more and more mainstream, and those who hope to accumulate box office by word of mouth will have less and less room for movies to accumulate box office, although it is impossible not to have it, but Eric will not pin his hopes on these things with a very small chance, in this case, It is almost inevitable that Disney's hand-drawn animation production will be canceled and 3D animation will be produced in full force.

However, at the moment, Disney's hand-drawn animation division is still working on The Lion King. If next year's "The Lion King" is a box office hit like the original time and space. Eric's resistance to canceling Disney's hand-drawn animation will increase considerably. Of course, because Disney is under its umbrella, this resistance will certainly not come from the outside world, and it is more likely to come from Disney's management.

Although Eric and Katzenberg get along very well, he definitely does not think that Katzenberg will be obedient to him, if he is only diligent and does not have a strong sense of independent judgment. Katzenberg couldn't have gotten to where he is today.

What a headache!

Eric couldn't help but rub the corners of his forehead, and Joanna, who was sitting opposite, suddenly pointed out the window and said, "Eric, look, it's snowing again." ”

"yes," Eric said, turning his head to look out the window, "Do you want to go outside, it won't be too cold when the snow falls." ”

"Okay," Joanna nodded. Stood up.

Dressed in thick clothes, the two came outside the villa. The swept pavement in the yard had once again accumulated a thin layer, and snowflakes like catkins fluttered in the air unscrupulously.

Joanna stretched out her hand with pink plush gloves, leaned out of the eaves to catch a few snowflakes, and gently blew to let those Xiaoice crystals float out.

Eric, however, looked at the sky and wondered when Virginia would return, Joanna whispered, "Eric, will you build a snowman?" ”

"No," Eric shook his head honestly, he lived in the south in his previous life, and he hadn't seen a few snows since he was a child, how could he build a snowman, but looking at the faint anticipation in Joanna's slender eyes, Eric immediately said again: "But I can try." ”

Joanna hummed and watched Eric walk towards the hut where the tools were stored not far away.

After a while, Eric came out with a shovel and picked a field on the lawn east in front of the villa, jerkily shoveling up the uncleared snow here.

Joanna asked the maid to take out the chair she used to sit in, took another blanket and draped it over her body, and sat under the eaves with a smile, quietly watching Eric busy.

After more than half an hour, an ugly snowman barely stood up, and Eric brought a carrot and two small blue oranges from the kitchen to set the snowman's eyes and nose.

"And hands, hands," Joanna pointed and said softly.

Eric looked around, broke off two dead branches from a bush not far away, plugged them for the snowman, and clapped his hands, "Is that okay?" ”

Joanna tilted her head to look at it, and gestured like a little girl, "Hat, no hat." ”

"Oh, wait a minute," Eric said, entering the house, and after a while came out with a pink straw hat and fastened it to the snowman's head.

"Hehe, this hat belongs to Vicky," Joanna said after a moment's scrutiny.

Eric put down his tools, patted the snowflakes on his body and walked over, squatted down beside Joanna, took a cup of steaming water from the woman's hand and took a few sips, and said with a smile: "Whatever, it's just a hat, is the snowman good-looking?" ”

"Well," Joanna nodded, and added, "When I was a kid, my dad used to build me a snowman in the winter, and I haven't seen it in years. ”

Eric listened to Joanna's tone with some nostalgia, took her hand and patted it: "When the children are born, you can go back to Poland to live for a while, or take them over." ”

"Mom and Dad won't be coming, they don't speak English," Joanna shook her head.

The two were chatting in a low voice, and the Chevrolet van when Virginia went out drove into the yard, and the little woman who was still strict got out of the car, instructed the driver and assistant to move things out, and waved to Eric and Joanna: "Why are you sitting outside, isn't it cold?" ”

"Eric just built a snowman," Joanna gestured towards the lawn.

Virginia looked at Joanna's finger like a cat with her tail stepped on: "Ah, my hat, my Chanel limited edition, Eric, you bastard." ”

The little woman shouted, and threw herself at the ugly snowman.

Virginia's female assistant saw that the boss was suddenly so excited, and subconsciously followed Virginia's side, stretching out her arms and ready to support at any time, Eric also stood up helplessly, afraid that the woman would fall, and hurriedly stepped on the thick snow on the lawn and walked over.

"My hat, Chanel Limited Edition," Virginia still shouted, removing the pink straw hat from the snowman's head, and kicking the snowman with her little leather boots, and in an instant her body was already in the air.

Eric held the woman in his arms, carefully walked under the eaves before putting it down, and watched Virginia still hold the hat in her arms and glared at herself, Eric reached out and slapped the woman's meaty place: "Is the hat more important or the child more important?" ”

"Hat......" Virginia blurted out, pausing for half a second before taking it: "...... Just as important as children. ”

With a helpless look, Eric turned around and instructed Virginia's assistant to move the things into the house, and dragged the woman into the villa first, Joanna smiled softly and followed behind the two.

Sending Virginia to change into thick clothes, Eric was free to help the maid sort out the pile of things the woman had bought.

It wasn't until the evening that Virginia's pettiness was over.

After a warm Thanksgiving with two women, Eric did not leave, although the Thanksgiving holiday passed quickly, however, Eric, as the boss, absolutely had the right to arrange his own vacation from him.

Of course, there are other things besides spending two more women with them.

After Thanksgiving, the IE browser that has been developed for more than half a year was finally officially released, because the main carrier of software distribution in this era still relies on floppy disks, although the free strategy of IE was determined at the beginning, however, the company has spent so much money for the development of software, of course, it is impossible to give away floppy disks for free. Therefore, IE browser is still in accordance with the model of paid software, sold in the form of floppy disks, but the price is very low, although IE will not pay for nothing, but it does not intend to make any profit from the sale of IE software.

At the same time, Yahoo's portal interface was also developed, and because there was sufficient time for technical research and development, Yahoo's website was launched with a very convenient search function. In order to facilitate the promotion of the website, Eric has set the homepage of all Internet Explorers as the main Yahoo website. However, in order not to give people the pretext of monopoly, Eric did not bind IE to the Yahoo homepage, anyway, in this era, there are very few people who can modify the homepage. (To be continued......)