When it comes to the question of producers, Catherine Bigelow can't help but say, "Why find another producer, I can do it myself." ”

Eric smiled in surprise: "You are really bold to mention yì, for this kind of project with an investment of more than 50 million US dollars, few directors in Hollywood dare to ask so confidently to be the producer, that will often only lose their own directorial work." ”

Catherine also seems to feel that her request is a bit excessive, in Hollywood, it is a very important rule that the director is constrained by the producer, and the final editing power of most films is often in the hands of the producer, which can prevent the director from unscrupulously shooting according to his own ideas and affect the quality of the film, and also avoid the investor's funds being squandered by the director.

Of course, this rule also has great drawbacks, many originally very good films, because the producer meddled in the editing was ruined beyond recognition, and in the end, the director was criticized by the audience, often many years later, the film company released the director's cut, and the film was corrected, the most famous case is the famous Italian director Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America".

After watching the woman propose this proposal, she stretched out her slender fingers and rubbed the storyboard in front of her with some embarrassment, Eric smiled slightly and said: 5↗ "Of course, the biggest advantage of Hollywood is that it is more flexible than other industries. If you really want to be the producer of "Saving Private Ryan" yourself, I can promise you. ”

Catherine looked up and asked tentatively, "What about ...... What about the final editing rights?"

Eric raised an eyebrow, "Hey, woman." Don't get too far into it. ”

"Woman......," Catherine repeated Eric's words in a slightly long voice, "You're discriminating." Does it mean that I am a man? You can get the final editing rights?"

Eric stared at Catherine's pretty face, which had no signs of age at all: "If you're a man, you can't even get a position as a producer." ”

Catherine couldn't help but dodge Eric's undisguised fiery gaze: "I warn you, little one, don't do it again, or I won't take it." ”

"You're starting to lose confidence?" asked Eric.

"What?"

Eric took a cool pose, looked at Catherine and repeated, "I mean, you're starting to lose confidence, you're afraid you won't be able to stand me...... Seduction?"

Catherine's mouth opened slightly and she glared at Eric's somewhat 'hateful' expression in surprise. After a few seconds of confusion, he stood up abruptly, picked up the bag of text in front of him containing the script and storyboard sketches, and slapped Eric on the head a few times without mercy: "Little bastard, narcissist. ”

Eric took a few painless blows, leaned back in his chair to avoid the woman's attack, and laughed at the woman's rare gaffe.

The two of them were already sitting in a prominent seat in the center of the restaurant, when Catherine suddenly got up and 'attacked' Eric, immediately attracting the attention of all the guests in the restaurant. Feeling the gaze of these strange eyes, Catherine's face holding the bag was instantly dyed with a layer of delicate wine red, and she mechanically withdrew her outstretched arms little by little. Putting down the bag in his hand crampedly, he turned around and walked quickly towards the outside of the restaurant in a bit of a panic.

Eric watched the woman's back fleeing. The smile on the corner of his mouth became thicker. Ignoring the other people's pointing and pointing, Eric picked up the bag on the other side, got up and followed.

Catherine returned to her room, went into the bathroom and washed her face with cold water, the heat on her cheeks slowly subsided, looking at herself with a few strands of wet hair on her forehead in the mirror, the woman patted her cheeks lightly, accelerated the flush on her cheeks, and muttered, "Damn guy, damn ...... Bub. ”

She was muttering to herself in the mirror, but there was a sudden knock on the door, and she took a towel and wiped her face, and she walked outside. Thinking that it might be Eric outside the door, she stood behind the door and hesitated for a few seconds before she felt that she couldn't show his timidity because of his few flirtatious words, which would make him more proud. Well, you can't make that little guy even more proud, and ...... Seductive, really arrogant, arrogant.

Cheering herself up, Catherine pulled the door open, but blocked the door and didn't let Eric in, her eyes became cold, and her chin raised slightly: "What are you doing?"

Eric looked at the proud posture of the woman's strong support, and jokingly handed over the bag of Wen Jiàn: "Your Majesty, your things have been left in the restaurant." ”

Catherine looked at the thing in front of her, but she didn't mean to take it: "You give it to someone else, I ......"

Eric stuffed the script into Catherine's arms, watched the woman take it in a panic, and wanted to push it back, Eric took a step back and said: "Okay, it's just a joke, study the script well, since you want to be a producer, then try your best to make a detailed production plan, I'll leave first if there's nothing else." ”

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Because this time it was much better prepared than in August, Eric did not need to stay in New York for too long, and on February 5, after spending more than half a month in New York, Eric returned to Los Angeles again. Of course, because many people are prepared this time, although they have invested $2 billion in principal, but because of the reduction in leverage and the fact that there are so many players in the futures market, the profit ratio is not as high as last time, and according to the statistics made by Chris, the profit this time is only about $4 billion at most. However, combined with the profits in August, Eric already has a huge amount of money close to $8 billion in his hands, which is more than enough money to buy Disney wholly in the future, and maybe do something else along the way.

Here in Los Angeles, since the end of last year, the annual awards season has come to an end, because of the war, Hollywood's awards season this year is not as lively as in previous years, in the consideration of public image, even the Golden Globe Awards are held quite low-key. However, now that the outcome of the war has been decided, it is conceivable that the Oscars scheduled for March 24 will still be as beautiful as 10,000 years.

Although Eric did not participate in the Film and Television Golden Globe Awards on January 19, he has been following the trends here, at the Golden Globe Awards. The two most important works related to fireflies are "Ghost Love" and "Friends". Whoopi Goldberg is not only the same as he was in his previous life. won Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Comedy without any suspense. To Eric's surprise, Nicolas Cage, who replaced Patrick Swayze as Sam, also won the Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, but in Eric's opinion, although Cage's acting skills are undoubted, the public relations component of this award is larger, in addition to the public relations of Firefly, the connections of the Coppola family must also play a big role.

The subsequent "Friends" not only won the best musical comedy series in the TV series, but Aniston also won a best actress in a musical comedy. Unfortunately, Eric didn't attend. Otherwise, you will definitely be able to meet the little stubborn girl you haven't seen for a long time.

Although Elizabeth's "The Silence of the Lambs" is recognized as an Oscar favorite, and even faintly overwhelms Francis Coppola's "Godfather 3", it does not seem to be too popular with the judges at the Golden Globe Awards.

This result made Elizabeth nervous for a while, and she called New York to discuss it with Eric, but the focus of public relations for "The Silence of the Lambs" has always been on the Oscars, and the Golden Globes are not too important. And, while the Golden Globes are known as the outposts of the Oscars. But it is not the Golden Globe that can really reflect the Oscar tendencies. On the contrary, it is like the directors' union, the actors' union, or the screenwriters' union. At these awards, "The Silence of the Lambs" has received a lot of recognition, so Eric is sure that there will not be too many twists and turns in this Oscars.

As usual, "The Godfather 3" should be a big threat, because Eric accidentally inserted, Sophia Coppola, who received a lot of bad reviews in her previous life, voluntarily withdrew from the crew of "The Godfather 3", and Francis Coppola invited the young actress Winona Ryder, who has a well-received acting ability, but this change is not destined to save "The Godfather 3", which seems to be a bit of a dog-tailed continuation of the work.

After all, many people know that Coppola did not have any plans to shoot "The Godfather 3" in the first place, but because the film company run by Coppola's family suffered losses in the first two years, Coppola had to agree to Paramount Pictures to produce this sequel.

It is said that Coppola originally planned to release this film on Easter next year, because of Paramount Pictures' urging, the film was advanced by more than three months, and correspondingly, the sequel is not as good as the first two, so far, "The Godfather 3" has only received $60 million at the box office, according to the current attendance, it will definitely not survive the box office rebound of winning the Oscar after the Oscars. For this reason, Paramount is not so eager for the public relations "Godfather 3" award, although Coppola did not publicly state, but privately he was quite dissatisfied with Paramount's forced acceleration of the production schedule and affected the quality of the film, so he was not in much mood for public relations.

Therefore, although the first two films of the "Godfather" series won the best picture, the quality of "The Godfather 3" cannot be compared with the first two films, and the possibility of winning the best picture is even more slim, and because Eric cut off "Dances with Wolves", there is no film that can compete with "The Silence of the Lambs" at this Oscar.

After returning to Los Angeles, Eric only asked about this matter for a while, and devoted most of his energy to the Firefly reorganization and the preparation of "Tornado".

After all, even if "The Silence of the Lambs" wins the award, it doesn't seem to have much to do with Eric on the surface.

As for "The Ghost Is Not Over", although it was nominated for Best Picture, Eric had no intention of public relations at all, and Firefly only put some effort into Whoopi Goldberg's Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Although Brigitte Fonda and Cage were both nominated for the Golden Globes, none of them were nominated for the Oscars.

After more than half a year, the development of Maya, the special effects software presided over by Ed Carmor, has entered the final testing stage, of course, this is only the kind of version 1.0 according to the traditional definition, the main function is to meet the relevant special effects production work of "Tornado", and will continue to invest energy and money in the production process of "Tornado" to improve.

The fluid simulation software that was handed over to a research team at Stanford University has been developed and integrated with Maya and rendering software Renderman, a tool specifically designed to design fluid effects such as hurricanes and waves, which can make these scenes look more realistic.

The problem of special effects was initially solved, and "Tornado" began the main pre-casting work. Of course, the heroine Eric has already made up her mind for Joanna Pakula, and this can't be changed. However, the male protagonist and the female number two, as well as many supporting roles in the movie that have a lot of room to play, have also become the objects of competition among major brokerage companies.

Although many people in Hollywood circles know that CAA has a bit of a holiday with Eric, the third part of "Home Alone" is still stranded because CAA insists on a huge salary. But CAA took the initiative to contact Eric this time, trying to win the roles of the male lead and the second female lead in "Tornado". Many people can see that this is CAA taking the initiative to show goodwill, because the Hollywood agency CAA, WMA and ICM are now in a three-legged situation, CAA is not as glamorous as in previous lives, and Michael Ovitz also fell outside the top five in the Hollywood power list at the end of last year.

If it was the first two years, Eric would still be worried about the festival with CAA, but now he doesn't pay much attention to it, his eyes have been on the whole Hollywood, and CAA is no longer the giant that made all Hollywood film companies jealous in his previous life, and there have been no rumors in the past two years that the so-called CAA agent went straight to the high-level office of a big film company, so in the face of CAA's active contact, Eric also generously asked the assistant director in charge of casting to accept the resume handed over by the other party.

Eric's movies have been recognized as 'star makers', and almost every one of his previous films has brought out a Hollywood first-line superstar, with Eric's production reduction, the fierce competition for roles related to "Tornado" has also reached a very high Cheng dù, after the casting of "Tornado" was revealed, not only CAA, but also the other two did not pull at all, and even some second- and third-tier brokerage companies also participated, trying to get some supporting roles. Therefore, as long as there is a little bit of a network that can be connected to Eric's twists and turns, they are trying to contact Eric himself, after all, Eric has the final decision on the role. (To be continued......)