At two o'clock in the afternoon, Eric arrived on time for the Fox set in Century City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as I got out of the car, I saw Elizabeth walking over in high heels, followed by a little assistant holding a document.

Eric and Elizabeth hugged each other, let go and walked out of the parking lot together, not forgetting to ask, "Why are you here?"

Elizabeth rolled her eyes: "This is all my family, why can't I be here." ”

"I mean......" Eric wanted to ask why she came to pick him up, Elizabeth was currently only in charge of the film production department of Twentieth Century Fox, and the project "Black Angel of the Last Days" was valued by Fox, but not under her jurisdiction. However, Eric still spreads his hands, well, the whole set is her family anyway: "Forget it, I won't talk about it." ”

"Hmph," Elizabeth snorted, but leaned over and took Eric's hand affectionately, "Daddy asked me to talk to you about the digital release of the soundtrack......

"Stop," Eric didn't wait for Elizabeth to continue, and quickly interrupted her, "Liz, I've spent too much saliva trying to convince others these days, let me take a break, don't talk about music today, okay?"

In order to get as much music content as possible, Eric developed a strategy to delay the release of physical records for three months for traditional artists' digital music albums, which would not only be implemented within the Firefly system, but also greatly increased the possibility of bringing in content from external record labels.

However, the Yahoo Music Store can't always be full of old music content, and to compensate for this, the soundtracks within the Firefly system will be released at the same time as the physical records.

Outside of the Firefly Group, MGM agreed to the plan almost without hesitation.

But Murdoch was not very happy with the plan, but it was difficult for Twentieth Century Fox to reject it outright like other studios.

You know, even if you don't mention the private relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, the cooperation between Firefly Group and News Corp. over the years is even closer than MGM. The companies directly held by the two parties include Blue Sky Studio, FFM TV, and the Australian branch of the digital field. In addition, just like this "Black Angel of the Last Days", the two companies also cooperate very frequently in the TV business. Outside of Hollywood, Yahoo Portal has also struck a deal with News Corp. to enjoy exclusive online news distribution rights for a number of News Corp. outlets.

Elizabeth also knew this, and News Corp.'s music business was even more insignificant than Firefly, and she didn't feel the need to fight for it.

Therefore, although she obeyed the orders of her old man, she didn't think about convincing Eric, looking at the slightly tired side face of the man next to her, Elizabeth nodded, but pretended to be unwilling and said deliberately: "Okay, then we will talk tomorrow." ”

Eric didn't care about Elizabeth's habitual strong temperament, smiled, and the two walked into the administrative building on the set together.

Although Eric originally handed over "Black Angel of the Last Days" to Fox to take over "The X-Files", everything still followed the formal business process. The sci-fi drama is jointly invested by Firefly Television and Fox Television, and also includes a shell company of Cameron, and the copyright of the TV series is owned by Fox, and Firefly only receives a corresponding share according to the proportion of investment.

Due to the miraculous success of "Titanic", although it is only a TV series conceived by Cameron, the competition for roles is still very fierce.

The production team has set very strict conditions for the audition of the heroine Max from the beginning, with an age limit of 18 to 22 years old, a height between 170cm and 175cm, three or more years of acting experience in film and television dramas, and physical skills such as dance and gymnastics, which can adapt to the filming of high-intensity action scenes. But even with such harsh conditions, more than 300 girls initially passed the screening and audition, which is not difficult to see the strength of the American film industry.

The other minor roles have already been confirmed before this, and today is only about the final round of auditions for the heroine, and there are only ten candidates left in the final round.

Although all the girls had arrived and waited in the lounge, the audition would not begin until half past two.

Cameron's current focus is mainly on the research and development of special effects technology in the early stage of "Spider-Man" and the theme exhibition of "Titanic", except for providing the main plot idea and naming a producer title, he did not participate in this project, and he did not come over today.

Eric listened to Brian Spicer, the producer in charge of "Black Angel of the End of the World" on Fox's side, briefly introduce the preliminary auditions, flipped through the ten documents in his hand, and said with great interest to Elizabeth, who was carefully reading the candidate actress information next to him: "Liz, have you ever heard a story about an interview, where the person in charge randomly pulled out a stack of interviewee profiles and threw them into the trash, announcing that these people were eliminated, for the simple reason that they were not lucky enough. ”

Elizabeth raised her head, looked at Eric helplessly, and said, "Why don't you come over earlier if you want to play like this, there are only ten people left now, you take out a stack, and there will be no left." ”

"Then take out one or two," Eric said, picking out two copies from the thin stack of materials, drawing a cross on them with a pencil, and handing them to Brian Spicer and the others on the other side, who were a little stunned, and said, "Let them go and inform them, and they can just leave." ”

With Elizabeth's knowledge of Eric, she knew that Eric's sometimes inexplicable actions often had inexplicable reasons. Although she was rarely able to extract what was going on from Eric's mouth, Elizabeth was convinced of it.

Snatching the two actor materials from Eric's hand, Elizabeth looked at them, but didn't think they were anything special, so she handed them to Brian Spaser: "Brian, is there anything wrong with these two people?"

Brian Spicer took it and looked at it, hesitated for a moment, but said honestly: "Liz, this girl named Milla Jovovich was introduced by Mr. Parma. However, I guarantee that there is nothing wrong with her conditions, she has dancing skills, and she has been playing some small roles in film and television dramas since she was thirteen years old. ”

Elizabeth thought for a moment and asked, "Brian de Palma?"

Brian Spicer nodded.

Elizabeth didn't care too much, in the past few years of work, she gradually understood that Hollywood is a love circle, and she believes that Eric will not care about this, so the problem may be with another girl: "What about the other one?"

"Well, Ellie Rattle," Brian Spicer looked at the name on the other document, frowning slightly in confusion, before looking at the other heads of the audition room.

Everyone shook their heads, and one of them flipped through the actor information in front of him, thought for a while and said, "This girl was selected by John's group, do you need to call him to come over?"

Brian Spicer looked at Elizabeth and Eric and explained, "John Knowles, we split the primaries into five groups, and John is the casting lead for three groups. ”

Elizabeth was about to say something, but Eric took the two documents back from Brian Spicer's hand and stuffed them into the folder, shook his head and smiled: "Forget it, it's just that I've been a little annoyed lately, and I don't want to be so constant all the time." Now, let's just start as if nothing had happened. ”

Although they didn't understand what was going on, Brian Spicer and the others were immediately relieved.

Elizabeth paused, leaned over and gently hugged Eric, and then pulled out the two actor materials that made everyone baffle from him, and said to Brian Spicer in an unquestioning tone: "Brian, inform them to leave." ”

Brian Spicer took the two documents again, felt Elizabeth's firm tone, nodded, and without hesitation, got up and walked out of the room.

Elizabeth still didn't let go of Eric, ignoring the other bystanders, rubbing her face on Eric's cheek affectionately, and said, "Eric, you can do whatever you want, you don't have to explain it to them." ”

Eric patted Elizabeth on the waist and smiled, "Why do I feel like this sentence came out of the girl's mouth?"

Elizabeth wasn't angry at Eric for mentioning Drew this time, but she retorted, "I'm not like her, she's crazy." ”

"Heh, are you sure you're normal?"

"It's not like you're too bastard. ”

The crowd of onlookers is pricking up their ears with great interest to eavesdrop on the two bosses, which can be called a weird ...... Or it could be called a love story, but soon, Brian Spicer, who had just left, pushed the door open again and walked in, breaking some kind of atmosphere.

Eric and Elizabeth heard the footsteps and realized the occasion around them, and sat separately.

There are eight girls left on the list who are complete strangers to Eric. The audition started on time at half past two and lasted until seven o'clock in the evening, due to the tight schedule, the pilot episode would be produced before May, Eric did not hesitate too much, the audition ended, and everyone quickly discussed the results, a 19-year-old girl who came to work in Pennsylvania, USA, was lucky to get the role of the heroine Max.

After the heroine of "Black Angel of the Last Days" is confirmed, Eric will no longer interfere in the specific production of this TV series.

On April Fool's Day, Eric flew from Los Angeles to Oakland, San Francisco.

The official launch of the Fireflyer will take place on April 2 at 2 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott International Hotel in Oakland.

Although after more than a month of intensive publicity, the reputation of Fireflyer's new player has spread all over the world, but in addition to the main purpose, a lot of information about this player has not been released to the outside world.

As a result, the conference attracted almost all the mainstream media from all over the world, and after the date of the conference was confirmed, more than 600 media contacted Firefly Electronics in the hope of obtaining invitations to the conference. In Silicon Valley, where technology companies are concentrated, peers in the electronics industry will not miss this opportunity, and together with Firefly Electronics' lucky audience randomly selected through the Yahoo portal, the final guest list reached 2,100 people.

Eric watched the rehearsal of the press conference by Bill Olsen, president of Firefly Electronics, last night, and woke up early today.

Since the launch event will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Eric chose to stay at this hotel. Leaving the room and walking into the hotel's in-house dining room, Chris was already sitting at a table discussing something with the two helmsmen of Firefly Electronics and Yahoo CEO Ian Gnier, who had come from Boston in person.

"Eric, morning," Ian Gnier, who was sitting across from him, beckoned to him, and several others looked at him.

Eric walked over, greeted everyone, sat down next to Ian Gnier, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Several people looked at each other, and then Ian Gurnier took the initiative to speak, "Eric, about the pricing strategy of Fireflyer. ”

Eric asked the waiter for a random breakfast before he said, "You're not going to think about raising the price, are you?"

Bill Olson said: "Eric, according to our recent survey, $299, which is the same price as the Sony Walkman, is indeed a bit low. With the popularity that Fireflyer has already shown, I don't think it's impossible to raise the pricing to $359, or even $399. ”

"But we've talked about it many times," said Eric, spreading his hands. We all know that the technical level of Fireflyer is not too high, even if we have applied for a full range of patents for MP3 players, but as long as competitors want to work in this direction, they can still create alternative products, so what we have to do is to make Fireflyer popular as soon as possible, let it become an industry standard, instead of chasing profits at the beginning, not to mention, the total manufacturing cost of Fireflyer is only $150, with the increase in production and the development of technology, the comprehensive cost will continue to decline, we already have enough profit margins。 ”

"Eric, your idea is not wrong, but, I think you still underestimate the degree of leadership we now have in terms of technology and patent barriers, I'm sure that even an electronics industry giant like Sony wants to completely bypass the patent barriers that we have built so far, it still takes at least three years, three years, enough for us to complete the layout of the mp3 player. (To be continued.) )