The two women walked through the hall of the villa, and soon found Eric's figure, the last rays of the setting sun slanted through the glass curtain wall and hit him, surrounded by light and shadow, Eric looked down and read carefully, and Eric's whole person exuded a quiet and calm charming temperament. Elizabeth and Julia slowed down, not wanting to break the image, but the empty hall amplified the tapping of the two women's high heels by several points.

Eric heard the sound of high heels tapping on the floor, looked up, saw the figures of the two women, and smiled, "I was just thinking about how to make dinner later, so you guys came over." ”

"Heh, what do you think of us, your dinner?" Elizabeth pulled Julia up and shrunk into the space chair across from Eric. Both women were very slim, and they didn't look cramped at all when they leaned into some wide egg-shaped space chairs.

Eric looked at the two women in the space chair opposite who were swaying slightly, and the corners of his mouth were still smiling, and said, "I mean someone came to cook for me, but you have to cook my dinner yourself, and I don't mind, it's beautiful." ”

This sentence sounded almost flirtatious, Julia's face was slightly red, but Elizabeth snorted softly, and said, "Do you know that the way you just sat alone in the corner is very similar to the villain behind the scenes who is hiding behind the scenes of the protagonist in the movie." ”

"Yes, this kind of villain is usually surrounded by a few bewitching beauties, and as soon as the two of you come over, the picture will be complete. ”

Julia couldn't help but laugh softly, Elizabeth and Eric were always like a fried-up cat when they got along with each other, as if instinctively trying to fight with Eric. But I can't get any bargains.

"Hey. Where are you? Elizabeth heard Julia's laughter and couldn't help but reach out and squeeze her waist.

Julia smiled and pulled Elizabeth's little hand away, "What's the matter, I can't laugh yet." ”

Eric looked at the appearance of the two girls quickly scratching together, looked down with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and took out a few sheets from the thick stack of materials in front of him and handed them over: "Now, here you go." ”

Elizabeth had actually noticed what Eric was reading when she arrived, and although she only glanced at it casually, she was sure that it was a copy of the contract between Firefly and Columbia. Seeing that Eric took the initiative to hand it over, he quickly stopped fighting with Julia and took it with a smile, but his eyes were unsatisfied with the text clip on Eric's knee, where there were still dozens of pages.

Eric reached out and pressed the rest of the information, shook his head, and said, "You can't read this." ”

"It's stingy," Elizabeth grumbled, pouting, but obediently retreated.

When Elizabeth sat down beside her, Julia curiously leaned over to read a few lines, but soon lost interest in the dense letters. Looking up, he noticed that Eric on the other side was just looking at him. Julia dodged her gaze a few times in a panic, and finally met it timidly, unconsciously with some unknown expectation in her heart.

"Kapoor must be mad after you've been so willful for a year, right?" asked Eric, turning the pencil in his hand.

"I'm not willful, I've been taking care of Emma. And Capper now has so many big names in his hands, and he doesn't care about me," Julia distinguished, but there was no confidence in her tone, TG has not produced many films from its establishment to the present, but they have all been extremely successful, and Julia has also received dividends several times higher than her salary with 30% of the TG equity in her hand, in contrast, Julia's enthusiasm for acting has also weakened a lot.

Eric didn't seem to hear Julia's discernment, and the pencil in his hand lightly tapped the blue plastic crust of the text clip, and said: "It's been so long since "Pretty Woman", you can pick up the theme of romantic comedy again, and I'll take the time to let someone choose a script for you." ”

Julia hummed obediently, and Elizabeth, who had already read the thin pages in front of her quickly, couldn't help but say when she heard Eric's words: "How can you be so domineering, and you don't ask Julia if she is willing." ”

Eric glanced at her lightly, his expression clearly saying that the first day you knew me?

Elizabeth turned her head to look at Julia, hoping that she could join her in resisting Eric's 'atrocities', but when she saw Julia's low-brow and obedient little daughter-in-law, she suddenly vented her anger in her heart.

"Hey, what's going on?" Elizabeth raised the few pages of the contract in her hand, turning the conversation to the purpose of her trip.

Eric said: "It's what you see, co-developing a movie, and everyone is win-win, and everyone is happy. ”

"I don't believe your nonsense," Elizabeth said, "Although this contract is a bit harsh for Colombia, if it is released, with the fame accumulated by the fireflies, even if it is a little more stringent, someone will make up for it." Hmph, there's definitely an inside story here. ”

Elizabeth said, her little eyes glancing at the Wen Jiàn pressed against Eric's knees, where there must be the answer she wanted. Although she was asked by her father to come and inquire about the situation, at this time, Elizabeth herself also had a strong curiosity in her heart. Although some of the terms she saw were very unfavorable to Colombia, if the films produced by the two sides could maintain the consistent box office level of Firefly, then Colombia would definitely not suffer, and Columbia's parent company, Sony Pictures, could also use this to open up the situation in Hollywood.

From this point of view, the fireflies are literally giving pillows to people who are sleepy.

"You said it was the inside story, of course you can't talk nonsense everywhere. ”

Hearing Eric admit that there was an inside story, Elizabeth's curiosity went up to another level, staring at the rest of the text in Eric's hand, thinking that if she suddenly went up to snatch it, Eric would fry her into a few mature ......

Eric looked at Elizabeth's eager little appearance with great interest, and deliberately pushed Wen Jiàn in her direction, taking the initiative to give Elizabeth the condition of 'creating zào', like a certain spotted snake from the Garden of Eden.

Elizabeth's eyes flickered quickly, casually catching Eric's gaze. Immediately deflated.

Eric laughed and got up and walked over. Take the part of the contract in Elizabeth's hand and put it in the text jiàn folder. patted the girl's face, as if to comfort a kitten who had not eaten enough: "Okay, there are ingredients in the kitchen, let's go make dinner, if you don't want to do it, it's okay to call for takeout, I'll go to the study and make a few calls." ”

Elizabeth shook her head a few times to shake Eric's hateful palm away, and Eric's eyes flashed. But it slid all the way down the girl's face, and Elizabeth hurriedly pressed her chest, exclaiming, "Ah, pervert, what are you doing?" Julia...... Julia is here. ”

Julia's eyes widened as Eric's hand reached into Elizabeth's collar, seemingly still rubbing.

But soon, the big hand was withdrawn, and a soft cushion was held in it, and Elizabeth's face suddenly turned red like blood, and Julia was stunned. Fluttering out laughing.

"It's disappointing that I said something a little too big. Eric sighed, and the old god said on the ground.

"You bastard," Elizabeth scolded in a frenzy as she snatched the thing over, only to see Eric walking towards the study on his own.

Seeing Eric's figure disappear, Julia turned her head to look at Elizabeth, the corners of her mouth still smiling: "Hey, we ...... Are you going to make dinner?"

"No," Elizabeth said in a hateful tone, but quickly added, "Order takeout." ”

"Hee-hee-hee......"

"Don't laugh," said Elizabeth, looking mad.

Julia's laughter was even louder, and she clutched her little stomach and said, "Yes...... Ha ha...... I'm sorry, I can't help it. ”

"What is there to be proud of, yours is not much more than mine. ”

Julia's smile did not change, and she proudly held up her full breasts: "Bigger than you anyway." ”

"You damn girl," Elizabeth pounced, "I'll help you pinch a little bit." ”

"Ah...... Let go, it hurts, it hurts, you really come, I don't laugh, I don't laugh, aha, help. ”

……

The sudden partnership between Firefly and Columbia caused quite a stir in Hollywood, and the media in North America focused on it for the next week, and the cooperation between the two sides attracted even more attention than the 64th Oscars, which will be held at the end of March.

The list of nominees for the 64th Oscars was announced on February 19, and it was no surprise that "Dances with Wolves", which had been cut off by Eric for a year, became a big winner, winning 12 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Not only that, since December last year, "Dances with Wolves" has been released for more than 10 weeks, but the weekly box office figures have remained at a height of about 7 million, and the total box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Dances with Wolves Even Eric himself did not expect the amazing results, he only remembered that this movie would become a big winner of the Oscars, but compared to the terrifying four-hour set, Eric did not think that the film would do anything at the box office at first, but according to normal management, it is expected that after the film wins the Oscar award, it will win in the videotape market, so Eric handed over the distribution rights of this film to Fox last year, and he only retained the copyright of the film and the distribution rights of the peripherals.

Now it seems that Fox must be making crazy money, Eric is a little depressed, and even more depressed must be the producer and Orion Pictures, who sold the film for $30 million last year.

Orion Pictures has gone through bankruptcy and restructuring and has started the production business again, and noticing the amazing results of "Dances with Wolves", a person in charge of Orion openly denounced Firefly in a magazine for stealing the copyright of the film by extremely despicable means, and Kevin Costner, the director and actor who also invested in "Dances with Wolves", although he did not show too much slack in participating in the public relations of the film, he also knew that he gave up a large amount of profits and followed "Dances with Wolves" Kevin Costner, who accounts for 15% of the total investment, only received $4.5 million from last year's sellout price, and although he made $1.5 million, he would have received more than $10 million if he participated in the share. This loss of profit was enough to make him regret wanting to hit the wall.

However, Hollywood is like this, realistic and cruel, but full of opportunities, and no one knows what will happen in the next moment. Just like Warner's first "Batman", because he didn't expect much from this movie in advance, in order to save expenses, Warner cleverly signed a salary sharing agreement with Jack Nicholson, who played a supporting role as a clown, and as a result, "Batman" was a box office hit, and because of that sharing agreement, Warner paid Jack Nicholson up to $50 million in shares, which is much more than the film's male and female protagonists and directors combined.

The cooperation agreement between Firefly and Colombia is not particularly confidential, in less than a week, the executives of other Hollywood film companies know the general content of the agreement, this cooperation agreement, basically put Colombia in the position of an external investor, but even so, it is enough to make other film companies hot, after all, ordinary external investors invest in films, that must be a loss and a profit, and often lose money more, the number of times to make money is rare, and the movies produced by Firefly in recent years have hardly failed。 Hollywood also doesn't believe that Fireflies will deliberately make bad movies in order to trap Colombia, so Colombia's profits must be guaranteed.

While it can be guessed that there must be other ulterior deals behind this deal, several other studios have tried to reach out to Firefly, and even similar cooperation agreements, they have expressed their willingness to do so.

As for Sony, after the initial cooperation negotiations between the two sides, Sony's headquarters also expressed great concern for this cooperation, and even complacently announced the news in the local Japanese media.

"Hello, Mr. Oga," Eric shook hands with the Asian man in his early sixties across from him, looking at each other without a trace, he did not expect that Sony paid more attention to the cooperation between the two sides than he thought, and that Sony's current president, Norio Ohga, had rushed to New York in person to attend the signing ceremony.

Norio Ohga was also looking at Eric on the other side, although he had already read Eric's information, but when he saw Eric himself, he was still a little surprised by the young Cheng Dù of the firefly owner. (To be continued......)