"Pulp Fiction", through Paris Disneyland CEO Patrick Brown. Schneider's "Killer Leon" was also officially established, and France's Gaumont Film Company originally planned to invest in Luc Besson's new film alone, but to be able to cooperate with Hollywood's booming Firefly, of course, the other party couldn't ask for it. Seydoux also flew to Los Angeles himself.

Last year, Disneyland Paris opened, and during the time Eric went to Paris, he also attended a party held by the Seydoux family. With a history of nearly 100 years in France, Gaumont Film Company is one of the few film companies in France that specializes in producing commercial films, and maintaining a cooperative relationship with such a French landlord can play a very important role in further opening up the French film market.

In the morning, when he was at Firefly Studios to check the post-production progress of several of the company's films, Eric would have a banquet for Nicholas. Seydoux chose the location of Venice Beach, and the two had dinner and then couldn't get enough of picking a café and chatting for hours. Seydoux took his leave. After seeing the other man off, Eric continued to sit at the window and drink coffee.

Today is July 1st, nearly half a month after returning to Los Angeles, the turmoil caused by the resignation in the digital field has also passed, because of the preparation in advance, although Pixar's 3D animation "Bug Crisis" box office performance is still very bright, but Pixar has not appeared in the digital field.

Several other Hollywood studios are of course eyeing the lucrative box office and surrounding areas of "Bug Crisis," but Pixar's first "Toy Story" cost only $40 million. But the cost of the second "Bug Crisis" has skyrocketed to 70 million. It's totally blockbuster level. Although the other six film companies can afford this production fee, the two-year production cycle, the lack of production experience, and the fact that the other six do not have Disney's rich peripheral operation experience and complete Disney retail network, most companies are hesitant to develop their own 3D animated films.

However, Eric is the one who is most aware of the prospects of 3D animated films, and he knows that even if there is no online peripheral operation system, the commercial prospects of 3D movies are very broad. In the original time and space, 3D animation will be in the top ten of the Hollywood box office list almost every year in the next ten years. As a result, Eric is already considering expanding the Firefly 3D animation department to at least one 3D animation per year.

With these things in mind, Eric saw Alan walk in through the door of the café.

For a while, Eric also thought about getting a new assistant for himself, preferably a delicate, eye-catching and capable beauty, but unfortunately this matter ended in nothing. Connery tried, and Connery was excited at first. However, the girl interned in his assistant's office for less than a month, and she quit because of the complicated work. The girl is a Persian cat. The little brain melon is not very smart, more suitable for a comfortable and leisurely life, and now the life is to occasionally pick up one or two movies to show a sense of existence, the rest is to enjoy life, fly around the fashion capitals around the world, participate in all kinds of fashion activities, and follow the trend with great interest to create a clothing brand under his own name, the money has been spent a lot, but there is no result, Eric does not care, he is now the most important thing is money, as long as the girl obediently does her own kitten, then just toss it.

Allen walked up to him and said, "Mr. Lynn just called, according to the current box office trend, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" will exceed 300 million US dollars next week, he asked me to ask if the company wants to prepare a celebration banquet?" ”

From June 4 to now, the release of "Jurassic Park" has been four weeks, and the total box office has reached 280 million US dollars, although the current weekly box office has dropped to about 30 million US dollars, and the release of "Heaven and Earth" next week may also bring a lot of box office declines to this dinosaur blockbuster, but the total box office of "Jurassic Park" next week will exceed 300 million US dollars.

Eric glanced at his watch, it was already half past three in the afternoon, "Heaven and Earth Collision" will be released in North America tomorrow, he will attend the Los Angeles premiere of the film in the evening, and he will fly to Europe again tomorrow to attend the Berlin premiere of "Jurassic Park", and he may have to go to Asia in late July, as the largest film market in Asia, the Japanese premiere of "Jurassic Park" Eric also needs to show his face in person, it can be said that throughout July, he still has to live the life of a trapeze.

"Let's postpone this matter for a moment, most of the main creators of the film are promoting the film in Europe at the moment, and without them, there is no point in holding a celebration banquet, and we will talk about it when the global box office of the movie exceeds one billion."

"According to the global release schedule, the total box office may not exceed one billion until after October, and even until November at the latest."

"After October, I don't care about the months," Eric said, "The celebration of the billion-dollar global box office is more meaningful to the Fireflies, and that's it, is there anything else?" ”

Alan shook his head: "No, the premiere of "Heaven and Earth Collide" starts at seven o'clock, and you can sit here until half past five." ”

Eric smiled, finished the coffee in front of him, got up and said, "The three heroines of "Breaking Bad" have been training in Santa Monica, I haven't seen the other two yet, while there are still two hours, go over and have a look." ”

"I'll arrange the car," Alan nodded, and walked outside.

……

The three angel actors have been training for more than two months, and even Kate, who can't even do basic skills such as splitting at the beginning. Beckinsale is now able to play a complete set of punches decently.

The martial arts instructor invited by Firefly is a member of the famous Yuan family class on the other side of the ocean, and the head of the Yuan family class will definitely not come to teach the three girls in person, and it is Yuan Shenren, the third elder of the Yuan family, who came over. The obscene old man who peddled the magic palm in "Kung Fu". For Fireflies, he was asked to train the three daughters for up to three months. Yuan Shenren didn't really understand too much in his heart. According to his concept, he basically can't practice anything in three months, and if he wants to be a beating girl, he must start practicing from an early age, so it's better to use more stand-ins when he is filming when he leaves home halfway.

However, the salary offered by Firefly is very generous, and now that Hong Kong films have declined, there are only a few people left who can live, and at this time, they received invitations from Hollywood film giants. Of course, Yuan Jiaban will not push back.

The training has entered the final period, and the actual combat link has begun.

In the wide training room, the three girls were fighting with several martial artists in Yuan's class, and their mouths made hehehaha sounds from time to time, of course, those martial artists couldn't really shoot at these girls, just carefully fed the tricks, Yuan Shenren stood aside with his arms crossed, and said a few words of guidance from time to time.

The door of the training room was suddenly pushed open, and a young Chinese man came over and whispered a few words in Yuan Shenren's ear, and Yuan Shenren immediately waved his hand to stop the few people fighting in the field: "Okay." That's it for a break. ”

Explain the matter. Yuan Shenren walked out of the training room with the Chinese young man.

In a lounge next to the training room, Yuan Shenren pushed open the door and saw Eric who had just gotten up from the sofa, and hurriedly greeted him, shook hands with Eric and said, "Hello, Mr. Williams." ”

"Hello, Mr. Yuan," Eric shook hands with the other party, and the two sat down together, before Eric said, "Just a little time, I'll come over to see how Kate's training is going." ”

Yuan Shenren can still understand these simple English, and the Chinese young man next to them is also a translator for him by Firefly, so there is no problem with the communication between the two.

"Mr. Williams, except for that Miss Beckinsale, the other two girls have a very good foundation, and all three of them are making very fast progress, even if the movie starts immediately."

Eric nodded with satisfaction: "Then, in the future, after the start of "Breaking Baby", there will be trouble for Mr. Yuan to continue to serve as the action director." ”

Yuan Shenren hurriedly replied: "Of course there is no problem, I will definitely do my best." ”

"By the way, Mr. Yuan, Mr. Wu is also filming another movie in Los Angeles now, have you two seen it?"

"Yes, I've had a few meals with him," Yuan replied, with some envy in his tone.

After the success of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", White Dove Wu was immediately promoted to Hollywood's first-line director, and at this time he was filming another film "Broken Arrow" given to him by Eric. The script that Cooper came up with after chatting, the results of "Broken Arrow" in the original time and space were not as good as "Changing Face", but because it was developed in cooperation with Columbia, Eric of course wanted to keep the good for himself, and when White Pigeon Wu finished filming "Broken Arrow", it was not too late for Firefly to invest in "Changing Face" alone.

The two chatted in the break room for a while before Eric got up, intending to go to the next training room to see the three girls.

Yuan Shenren had also heard of some of Eric's deeds, and besides, today's training was almost over, so he said: "Mr. Williams, today's training is almost over, I won't accompany you over, you can take the three of them and leave directly." ”

Eric was stunned for a moment, and quickly smiled, "Okay then, you can go back and rest too." ”

After the two said goodbye, Yuan Shenren called several of his apprentices and left the training center together.

Eric sent Yuan Shenren and the others away before walking towards the training room.

……

Penelope took the drink from the female assistant who was assigned to the three of them by the company, took a few sips, and sighed: "The last two weeks, the last two weeks, and if you hold on for another two weeks, you will be relieved." ”

Charlize took a towel to wipe the sweat beads on his body and said, "It's early, maybe I'll be more tired when the movie is filmed." ”

"It won't be as boring as it is now," Penelope said, handing the drink back to the female assistant and taking the towel.

On the other side, Kate retrieved her clothes from the hanger, pulled out a box of cigarettes, and walked towards the terrace south of the training room.

Because of the hot weather, the training room was even more stuffy. Beckinsale's actions also followed him to the terrace to blow the wind together.

There were no chairs in the training room, so the third girl pulled out a sponge cushion and sat down directly.

"Do you want it?" Kate lit a cigarette and took a beautiful puff in her mouth, asking the two girls beside her.

Charlize glanced back at the training room, only their bespectacled little assistant was cleaning up, and the others were gone, so he took a cigarette from Kate's hand and lit it, Penelope saw that both girls smoked, and lit one without leaving a single order.

When Eric came in from outside, he saw only a black-haired girl with glasses in the empty training room, and when he saw her appear, the black-haired girl's little face immediately became a little nervous, which made Eric feel very strange.

Although a little inexplicable, Eric asked, "What about the three of them?" ”

The girl hesitated for a moment, but still stretched out her hand and pointed to the exit of the terrace, hoping that the cigarette in the third girl's mouth had better be finished, otherwise, if she was caught red-handed by this young man, she didn't know what would happen.

Eric touched his cheek, a little strange girl's reaction, but still walked towards the terrace, and when he came to the entrance, Eric saw at a glance that on the terrace, which was not too wide, three girls were sitting cross-legged or leaning forward on a green sponge mat, each holding a cigarette in their hands and spitting out the clouds and mist.

Shrugged a little crying and laughing, Eric kind of understood the reason for the girl's reaction just now, Eric himself definitely didn't like to see girls smoke, but it wasn't disgusting. However, looking at the three eye-catching beauties in front of me wearing tight-fitting practice uniforms swallowing clouds and spitting fog together, there was a strange feeling.

Thinking of this, Eric had already taken two steps forward, crouched down next to Kate on the far left, picked up the cigarette case from her lap and pulled out one, and waved it at the three girls who were stunned when they found him: "Can you bring me one too?" ”

It wasn't until Eric picked up the lighter again and lit the cigarette that the three girls, who were originally sluggish, jumped up like frightened cats, threw out the cigarette butts in their hands, and said with an embarrassed face: "Mr. Williams, you ...... Hello. ”

Eric nodded, looked at the three girls who looked like schoolchildren waiting for criticism, and said with a smile: "I just happened to be free, I came to see how your training was, I didn't expect to see this scene, I knew I would have come with a camera, and when you become famous, if there is such a photo, it will be enough for me to make a lot of money by selling it to gossip tabloids." (To be continued......)