Mayer's eyes flashed, and he took a step forward in obedience, trying to sit down next to Eric, but he reached out in front of him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Eric raised his hand to block Mayer, but the hand did not retract, gently caressing the girl's calf wrapped in a light silk dress, and slowly began to swim upwards.

Mayer only felt a few restless little villains gently but unscrupulously walking up her calves, bringing a tingling and shivering feeling in the place, making her breathing gradually become rapid.

Carefully took a deep breath to calm his mind, Mayer suddenly felt that even if he wanted to, he shouldn't let his boss do anything wrong with him, feeling that the strange hand had swam to his waist, and seemed to have the intention of changing the route to cross the mountains, Mayer raised his hand and pressed it gently, as if muttering: "Eric, it's already, it's late, and Carly will come over tomorrow morning." ”

As soon as the words came out, Mayer suddenly realized that he had definitely said something very stupid.

Why mention Caroline at this time?

Sure enough, hearing Mayer say this, Eric paused, thinking of Caroline's resentful little eyes, and most of Eric's rising desire dissipated. The other women are okay, Mayer basically wants to get along with Caroline day and night, if she knows that she has slept with Mayer, Caroline must be very sad even if she doesn't say it.

Thinking of this, Eric withdrew his hand, got up and politely kissed Mayer on the cheek, and said, "Well, go to bed early, good night." ”

"Well, good night," Mayer nodded, and when Eric disappeared at the top of the stairs, Mayer suddenly threw himself on the sofa, picked up a pillow and scratched it like a cat, and hit his head on the pillow a few times: "Marisa Mayer, you're such a big idiot, big idiot, big idiot, big stupid. ”

It's always a rare day to have good weather in London, and early Sunday morning, although it no longer rains as much as yesterday, the weather is still gloomy.

At Wilson Manor, Eric's bodyguards arrived early in the morning to pick up Caroline.

"Don't worry, Mom, I'll take care of myself, Eric will be nice to me," hugged her parents again, and Caroline got into the car at Mrs. Wilson's concerned advice, pressed the window and waved her hand to her parents reluctantly, before telling the driver to leave.

Looking at the car driving out of the manor along the road, Earl Wilson, who had just been holding the posture of being a father, suddenly said to his wife: "This child must have something to hide from us." ”

Mrs. Wilson glanced at her husband and said, "It should be Jane's business, Carly and Jane have a very close relationship." ”

"No, I don't think so," Count Wilson frowned when he heard his wife mention his sister's name, sighed again, and muttered in a very dissatisfied whisper, "Since she is back, she doesn't say that she will do something in peace, or open any gallery, does she think she is Picasso?"

Mrs. Wilson took her husband's arm and walked to the castle behind her, saying, "She can do whatever she likes, she always ...... back then."

Halfway through the sentence, she noticed that her husband's face had become more unpleasant, and Mrs. Wilson said no more.

In the car heading for the London city, Caroline also breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought that her parents knew about Eric, but they didn't. Her aunt specially told her not to tell her parents about Eric, and she didn't take the initiative to mention it, but she was always a little cautious in the past two days in the face of her parents. To be honest, she still really wants her parents to know that Eric is her cousin.

Instead of taking Caroline to Kensington, the car rushed to the vicinity of Regent's Park, where Caroline met Eric and Mayer at a café in the northern part of Regent's Park.

London's tabloid paparazzi are notoriously difficult, and even though a few of News Corp's gossip newspapers won't chase Eric, the paparazzi of other tabloids have no qualms. If it was any other time, it wouldn't be anything, but today to visit Olivia, Eric had to avoid the media's view.

Therefore, it took a lot of thought in the morning for Eric to completely shake off the paparazzi's entanglement.

Olivia's gallery was near Regent's Park, and although it wasn't far away, the trio drove there in a car out of an abundance of caution.

A few minutes later, the car stopped outside a four-story white European-style villa, Eric took Caroline and Mayer out of the car, and glanced around, it was a somewhat secluded street, there were no shops around, even the rather luxurious four-story villa in front of him looked more like a private residence than a gallery, not only did it not have any signs, but there were fences and steps outside the door, exuding an air of alienation that deliberately kept passers-by out.

Eric was still a little puzzled if he was in the wrong place, the door of the villa was pushed open, and Olivia walked out of it, still dressed in a black shirt and white slacks, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

When Caroline saw Olivia, she threw herself affectionately and hugged her aunt, then turned around and stood next to Olivia.

Eric stepped forward as well, hugged Olivia gently, and introduced Mayer, who led the three of them into the villa.

From the outside, the villa looks like an ordinary residence, but inside it is a standard gallery layout, with empty halls, white walls, and soft lighting. On the walls are watercolours in a realistic style, mainly in the form of landscapes, such as a farmhouse in the early morning, a castle in the mountains, and a town by the sea, but they are clearly the work of one person. Eric didn't know much about painting, but he also knew that all artists who have achieved something have a very strong personal style.

Olivia quietly stayed with Eric, and when he walked through the hall, several people walked down the spiral staircase to the second floor, where there were still various paintings, but Olivia led Eric to the lounge area by the window on the second floor, where several single sofas surrounded a large coffee table and a small bar next to it.

It wasn't the first time Caroline had come over, and took the initiative to make coffee for a few people, and Olivia and Eric sat down on the sofa together, perhaps sensing Eric's doubts, explaining: "I don't like strangers to disturb me, and it's usually a familiar friend or agent who brings a guest over." ”

Eric remembered Caroline's anecdote about Olivia's small shop on the Greek island of Minox, and he roughly understood her attitude towards this gallery, and she didn't need to live on it, so he smiled and said, "That's not bad." ”

Olivia smiled and said, "What about you, are you busy this time?"

Eric took the coffee handed over by Caroline, held it in his hand, and nodded: "I've been flying around, I came from New York last week, and then I'm going to Australia, and then I'm flying back to Los Angeles, just around the world." ”

Olivia also held the coffee cup, reached out to help Caroline next to her cut the blonde hair in her ear, and then looked at Eric and said, "You've done a good job, there's no need to make yourself so tired." ”

Eric just nodded, and Olivia also knew that even if Eric wanted to let go of some things now, it was not so easy, so he didn't mention it again, just asked Caroline and Mayer to take good care of Eric's life.

Very casual chatting, before I knew it was noon.

This villa was originally the property of the Wilson family, the lower two floors were converted into galleries by Olivia, and the third and fourth floors were Olivia's residences.

The women prepared lunch together, and after eating, Eric suggested going to the Pinewood Studios in the afternoon.

The setting of the sleepy hollow town of "Guillotine Valley" is set in a farm near the Pinewood Studios, and Tim Burton himself is also in London, as a large project with an investment of more than 100 million, Eric must still pay attention to it.

Caroline and Mayer naturally didn't object, and Olivia nodded in agreement, and everyone set off quickly.

A little more than an hour later, they met up with Tim Burton at Pinewood Studios, and the group rushed to a nearby farmstead, which is a fully live-action town of Sleepy Hollow, which covers dozens of acres.

Standing at the entrance of the town, looking at the town's houses, churches, wooden bridges, watchtowers and other buildings immersed in a special and eerie atmosphere, Olivia, who was standing next to Eric, suddenly couldn't help but say: "It's so beautiful here." ”

Eric couldn't help but agree with Olivia's point of view, although the atmosphere is a little weird, but the architectural layout of the town has obviously been carefully designed, which is very in line with the beauty of the film composition, and the photos taken here can be used directly as movie posters, and even, Eric can feel that as long as the cinematographer of the film is good enough, the film will be shot, and every frame in the future, according to memory, will be completely at the level of computer wallpaper.

Filming is scheduled to begin in September, with several other sets and various props in the works. However, the choice of photographer has already been decided, and it happens to be Emmanuel Lubesky. Although many people later came to know Lubesky through the long shots in Gravity or Birdman, in fact, Lubesky was better at using natural light lenses, which happened to be the style of photography required for "Guillotine Valley".

Tim Burton is a quirky, withdrawn genius who likes to immerse himself in his own little world, and Eric doesn't have much to talk about when he gets along with each other other other than movies, and while visiting the town of Sleepy Hollow, Eric listens to Tim Burton explain his shooting ideas.

Tim Burton originally hoped that the film could be dark to the end, but this did not fit the tone of a commercial film, let alone a big production with an investment of more than 100 million, so the script finally had a rather warm ending. The two sides agreed on the script, and Eric didn't interfere too much with Tim Burton's play.

After spending the weekend in London, Eric set off again the next day for Queenstown, New Zealand.

This trip far exceeded the previous flights, from the United Kingdom, which is close to the Arctic Circle, to New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere, a straight-line distance of nearly 20,000 kilometers.

At present, there is no passenger aircraft that can reach 20,000 kilometers, and the Boeing 767-200ER that Eric takes is the longest range in the 767 series, but it only has a range of 12,000 kilometers, so the whole journey time is expected to exceed 24 hours when it departs from London and arrives at XN first to refuel in Singapore.

XN was 11 hours ahead of London, with Eric departing London Heathrow on Monday afternoon and arriving at XN in Australia, which was already five o'clock in the morning on Wednesday according to XN local time.

New Zealand is far from the Middle-earth tourist destination that later became popular with the Lord of the Rings series, and the entire country does not even have a decent airport, whether it is Wellington Airport in the North Island or Queenstown Airport in the South Island, which is not enough for medium-sized Boeing 767 aircraft to take off and land smoothly.

Leaving the Boeing 767 at XN International Airport, Eric borrowed a small Gulfstream III. jet through Elizabeth's family connections before taking off from XN again to Queenstown on New Zealand's South Island.

When Eric was a trapeze, in North America, the box office of the first three days of the opening weekend of "The Matrix 2" had also been released, and after creating a record-breaking $9.95 million midnight box office data, counting the following three weekends, the final opening weekend box office of "The Matrix 2" reached $83.66 million.

Although it did not break the box office record of $91.05 million in the first weekend set by "007: Casino Royale" last year, it easily exceeded the box office data of $73.75 million in the same period of "The Day After Tomorrow" two weeks ago.

Entering the third week, affected by "The Matrix 2", the decline in the weekend and three days of "The Day After Tomorrow" expanded to 55% in the same period, and the box office of the third week and three days of the weekend fell to $18.91 million, with a cumulative box office of 194 million, although the box office this week can steadily exceed 200 million, but according to the current box office trend, the total box office of "The Day After Tomorrow" in North America is difficult to exceed $250 million.

Judging from the current situation, the box office start of the first week of "The Matrix 2" will not be much worse than last year's "007: Casino Royale", or rather, the first weekend box office of "The Day After Tomorrow" is not much worse than last year's "007: Casino Royale", the box office of the three films can exceed $100 million in the first week, and the key to affecting the total box office of the film in North America is the next box office decline.

Due to the explosive word-of-mouth, the box office decline of "007: Casino Royale" last year remained in the more than 30% for several consecutive weeks. Assuming the same first-week box office of 100 million US dollars, according to the cumulative decline figures of 30%, 40%, and 50%, the total box office is completely different from 400 million, 300 million, and 200 million.

However, although the future box office trend of "The Matrix 2" is still unclear due to the polarization of word-of-mouth, the box office of more than $80 million in the opening weekend is enough for many media to sneer at Firefly's behavior of abandoning the production of the sequel to the "Matrix" series.