Thinking of Rachel's words to herself to be more proactive, Caroline took a deep breath and patted the stack of newspapers in her hand before opening the door to Eric's suite with the spare key card that Alenser had just given her.

It was already half past eight in the morning, and Caroline had attended a drinking party with Eric last night, as his interpreter, and of course she had not drunk anything, but Eric could not resist the enthusiasm of his host, and drank a little too much, so he did not get up until now.

Caroline had breakfast and was returning from a walk in a nearby park, just in time to meet Alan preparing today's newspaper and going to wake up Eric. Alan had a very good impression of the girl who greeted him politely, and he knew that Caroline liked Eric, so he offered the girl a chance.

Pushing open the door of the luxury suite, Caroline poked her little head into the room to take a look, and found that there was no one in the living room, so she walked in. Placing the newspaper in her hand on the coffee table, Caroline walked to the bedroom door, reached out and tapped lightly.

"Wait a minute."

Immediately, a voice came from the bedroom, startling the girl, and before she could react, the bedroom door was suddenly opened, and then a man and a woman stayed there.

Eric had just woken up, thinking it was Alan outside the door, but he just remembered that he had forgotten to do something yesterday, and he was going to ask his assistant to make a call to Los Angeles, so he opened the door without thinking.

Caroline had never woken up a man, and she would have thought that Eric would come running to open the door for her wearing only a boxer. The girl was already a little petite, and after opening the door, her eyes first fell on the muscle lines of Eric's bodybuilder's upper body, then slid down, and then turned around with a scream, and her hands couldn't help but cover her hot face.

Eric, who was also a little stunned, was awakened by the girl's coquettish voice, and saw Caroline's cute appearance of turning around and covering her face. couldn't help but smile, turned around and picked up the clothes and put them on his body, and teased: "Came early in the morning to take advantage of me, alas, I will suffer a big loss now, but I don't know if I can earn it back." ”

Caroline stomped her foot slightly. Knowing that Eric was joking, he couldn't help but defend: "I didn't, I just ...... I'm just here to deliver you a newspaper. ”

Eric listened to the trills in Caroline's voice, knowing that the girl's face was tender, he didn't dare to continue to tease, put on his clothes in three or two, and said, "Okay, you can turn around." ”

Caroline had wanted to escape, but she knew she must have a red cloth over her face now. If you go out like this, you will definitely be laughed to death, so she resisted the urge to escape, but when she heard Eric's words, the girl was reluctant to turn around, and still carried Eric and said, "Eric, you go wash up first, I'll help you call for breakfast." ”

"Okay. Thank you," Eric didn't refuse. Walk towards the bathroom.

More than ten minutes later, Eric walked out of the bedroom again, Caroline's figure had disappeared without a trace, Eric shook his head with a smile, and felt a little emotional, it is absolutely impossible to see such a simple and shy girl in Hollywood.

Coming to Europe again. Eric made a phone call to London as promised, but Caroline arrived the same day. Of course, Eric understood the girl's thoughts about herself, but the more she realized Caroline's innocent character, the more Eric felt it. Maybe the girl should continue to return to her original life track, Hollywood, the vanity fair, is definitely not suitable for such a scheming girl, bringing her in will only hurt her.

Thinking about these things, Eric thought that Caroline didn't call for breakfast for him, and was about to pick up the phone and ask the restaurant to bring some breakfast, when the waiter of the hotel rang the doorbell.

The German premiere of "Jurassic Park" had already taken place a few days earlier, but the premiere in Paris was not until July 14, and Eric was still touring the corners of Berlin during the day and avoiding various invitations at night.

Germany is the most developed country in Europe, and its economic strength was once equal to that of Japan after the war, and if it were not for the impact of the Cold War, Germany's economic strength would definitely not be much worse than Japan, the world's second largest economy. However, even so, Germany in this era was still the strongest in Europe, and its GDP was even equal to that of Britain and France, which ranked second and third in Europe combined.

Economic development meant that they had a lot of money in their hands, and although the Germans did not have the same insecurity as the Japanese, they were very keen to invest abroad. Because of the special tax policy stimulus and the rapid development of Hollywood, investing in Hollywood movies is one of the most popular investment methods in Germany.

In order to stimulate the development of films, the German government stipulates that Germans do not need to pay taxes on the funds invested in films, and Germany's personal income tax is as high as 51%, that is, if you earn 1 million a year, if you don't invest, you need to pay 510,000 personal income tax, but if you invest this money in film production, the 1 million does not need to pay personal income tax, which is equivalent to investors investing with 510,000 taxes. And if the 1 million has doubled the profit on the movie and becomes 2 million US dollars, then after paying the personal income tax, the remaining money is basically equivalent to the exemption of the original personal income tax, and even if the funds have not doubled, but only earned a large part, to a certain extent, it is equivalent to exempting a part of the tax.

With this in mind, although film investment is very risky, there are still many German investors who have thrown large sums of money into Hollywood. And most of the production funds for the two films "Desperate Bear Peak" and "The Last Action Hero" that Carlock Films pounced on this summer came from the German Film Fund.

Strictly speaking, Firefly's "Jurassic Park" has exacerbated the loss of these two big productions to a certain extent, and Schwarzenegger's "Recent Action Hero" was basically crushed by "Jurassic Park", but when Eric arrived in Berlin, he was still eagerly sought after by many German film companies and film funds. Finding the right investment target is the safest, and now that "Jurassic Park" is crazy to break box office records around the world, Firefly Pictures is definitely the most suitable investment target.

During Eric's days in Berlin, most of the invitations he received came from lobbyists for the German Film Foundation. At the same time, he also began to think about this problem, and the average budget cost of each movie of major Hollywood studios is still around $30 million. The publicity budget is not too high, with the average annual output of 20 films of large film companies, the required production funds Firefly's internal cash flow can be easily digested, and Firefly Pictures rarely introduces external film production funds at present.

But with the advent of the era of big-budget movies, the average total publicity budget for each movie in the future is likely to easily exceed the $100 million mark, although Eric is still confident that the Fireflies at that time can also withstand such a huge amount of capital needs, but it is not cost-effective. With Eric's knowledge of Hollywood over the years, he understands. Hollywood's biggest advantage is to use other people's money to make movies and make their own profits. Because film investment is very risky, in general, Hollywood's external investors do not make as much money as imagined, and the money invested in Hollywood can generate 10% to 15% of the profit every year, which can be regarded as a very rich rate of return.

Of course, because other studios don't have Eric's golden finger. Film investment always has a loss and a profit, so you can keep most of the profits to yourself thanks to Hollywood's clever internal sharing rules. and pass on more losses to outside investors. But this rule is not so trial for fireflies. Others are gambling when they make movies, but Eric, who can see through the dice counts, is not. Take the recent "Jurassic Park" as an example, if a movie with a global box office of $1 billion, you bring in outside investment, and at the end of the settlement, tell the investor that the business is not profitable, then the investor does not make a fuss.

Ultimately. Most of Hollywood's films now introduce a project operation mechanism co-produced by many investors, just to reduce investment risks. However, for the firefly, this risk is much smaller in front of Eric, and it is completely within the scope of the firefly's alone. At this time, if you operate according to the rules of Hollywood, it is not about sharing risks, but about sharing profits.

Until the end of breakfast, Eric did not think of any feasible operation plan, and a simple breakfast was eaten at nine o'clock unconsciously.

Today happens to be Monday, and the weekend box office of "Jurassic Park" in the new week did not surprise the prediction of the Firefly statistics department, and the three-day performance of "Heaven and Earth Collision" in the first weekend was much better than Eric imagined, getting more than $47 million at the North American box office, and it is expected that the box office in the first week is likely to exceed 70 million, directly reaching the cost line, and Pixar's 3D animated film "Bug Crisis" The total box office in North America is also about to break 100 million.

As he was about to finish flipping through the newspaper in his hand, the doorbell rang again, and Eric opened the door, this time it was Alan.

"You just came, a few days ago I asked Disney to collect some information about potential computer animation studios, you took the time to help me ask today, see how they are prepared, and if so, send me a copy of the materials."

"I know, is there anything else?" Alan nodded and wrote it down.

Eric shook his head, and suddenly said, "Also, don't let Caroline do this kind of thing, her personality is too easily shy, and she was a little embarrassed just now." ”

Alan seemed to know something, smiled a little teasingly, and said, "I'm sorry, Eric, I didn't think that much. ”

"By the way, are you here for something?"

"Miss Wilson asked me to ask you if you can't go out today," Allen's face teased a little more.

Eric looked at his watch, nodded, and said, "Okay, I'll go over here." ”

"She's waiting for you downstairs," Alan said one last word, and turned to leave.

Eric had already set his itinerary for today, he decided to visit Berlin's Museum Island, went back to the bedroom to change his shoes, and after a brief tidying up, Eric walked out of the room.

Caroline, who was sitting in the lobby downstairs of the hotel looking through a magazine, looked like she was already looking as usual, but when she saw Eric appear, the girl's face couldn't help but turn red, which made Eric feel the urge to pinch it, and to be honest, this thought had been circling in his mind more than once.

"Let's go," Eric didn't show it, and after greeting the girl politely, he led her out.

Berlin was not very prosperous at this time, because the Cold War was divided into East and West Berlin, most of Berlin was controlled by the Soviet Union, and the capital of Germany was moved to Bonn in the west. However, after the merger of East and West Germany in 1990, everyone unanimously decided to move the capital back to Berlin again, and with the strong economic strength accumulated by West Germany, Berlin's infrastructure construction was very rapid.

Berlin's public transport system is very developed, or the public transport system in Germany as a whole is very developed, two people did not drive, walking side by side towards the subway station, Eric also simply brought two bodyguards to follow, and soon took the subway to Berlin's famous Museum Island.

The name Museum Island sounds strange, in fact, this is a museum complex composed of several museums such as the Berlin Museum and the National Gallery, Eric is not very interested in German culture, to be honest, because of the long-term turmoil in Europe, Germany has not formed a culture that can be handled, in fact, many people can find out, whether it is the United Kingdom, or France, even Italy, Greece and other countries, when it comes to it, Most people can talk about a series of cultures, tourist attractions, and so on, but Germany is an exception, and when you mention Germany to people around you, maybe the other person's first reaction is: Hitler. This is not glorious history.

Although Caroline's personality is unusually shy, but the girl's knowledge reserve can indeed be described as knowledgeable, many museum docents do not necessarily know the posture, girls can often say it lightly, Eric also asked about it curiously, the answer given by the girl did not surprise him, Eric can only be a little emotional and envious, although he inherited all the memories of his previous life, but after being reborn, Eric does not have the ability to forget, and with the loss of time, some memories of the past life were originally very clear, Some of them are gradually starting to dissipate. (To be continued......)