"Mr. Oga, this is not something that can be agreed upon in a few words," Eric said, standing face to face with Sony President Norio Ohga with a glass of champagne in his hand.

"Of course, but, Mr. Williams, we are very sincere, and I hope you will consider it carefully. ”

After the signing ceremony, it was a celebratory reception, and Eric finally knew why Sony's president would come to Los Angeles to attend the reception, and Norio Oga hoped to persuade Eric to join the camp to promote Sony's home video camera products.

After Sony first developed the home video recorder, Hollywood fought a lawsuit with Sony for ten years because of concerns about piracy, although Sony finally won the lawsuit, but the home video recorder market was occupied by Panasonic, which had better performance.

Sony bought Columbia Pictures to promote its home video recorders with its library, but in the past two years, Columbia has received ample money from the Japanese, but it has not achieved the expected results. Firefly suddenly cooperated with Colombia, Sony started the idea of Firefly, Firefly is not as large as Warner has embarked on the era of diversified development, but the development momentum is definitely Hollywood first, if Firefly can be pulled into the camp of promoting Sony home video recorder products, then even if it can't beat Panasonic, it is enough to make Panasonic's home video recorder market share plummet.

Still, even though Eric doesn't know much about some things, he knows that in a few years, DVDs will rise rapidly. And soon took the place of videotape. Although Norio Oga has just promised some benefits. But those are things that take a long time to fulfill, and if Eric agrees, I'm afraid that before the benefits can be realized, the home videotape will be released on the stage of history.

The two talked for a while, and then Norio Ohga turned to leave, and Eric greeted the people he knew well, and went to the corner of the reception hall and found a sofa to sit down. Sipping the champagne in his glass, he was going to take a break.

A moment later, several of Firefly's executives also came over and sat down beside Eric. Jeffrey asked curiously, "Eric, what did Norio Oga talk about with you?"

Eric briefly explained the situation.

"If we can really cooperate, it seems like a good thing, what do you think?" said Jeffrey.

Eric shrugged: "No idea, let's have some relevant information collected tomorrow and see if it's decided, but I heard that DVD disc technology is already being developed, if this technology can replace videotapes." It doesn't seem necessary for us to add to the tape muddy waters. ”

"I've also seen some DVD stuff," Katzenberg said at the time, "compared to videotape." DVD piracy is cheaper, and I think that once this technology is promoted, it will not be a good thing for Hollywood. ”

"The advent of television and the advent of home videotapes are not a good thing for Hollywood, but the progress of technology is hard to stop, and all we can do is follow the progress of technology and change our survival strategy, otherwise we will only be eliminated. ”

Katzenberg touched his bald head and smiled, "I understand this, don't talk about this, Eric, do you have an idea about a few films with Columbia?"

"Not yet," Eric shook his head, many of the more classic blockbusters in his memory were series movies, but Eric didn't want to take out films with obvious series development value to cooperate with Colombia, after all, even if the relevant terms have been signed on the copyright, if the interests involved are too great, it will definitely be unclear in the future: "What about you, I just saw what you have been talking to Peter Cooper?"

"He's hoping to take one of the four big-budget zuò movies released by Firefly and develop it with Columbia," Katzenberg said bluntly.

"Which one?" asked Eric.

Katzenberg said: "Heaven and Earth Collide. ”

The four large-scale movies announced by Firefly are "Jurassic Park", "Heaven and Earth Collision", "True Lies" and "Life and Death Speed", among which "Jurassic Park" and "Heaven and Earth Collision" are special effects blockbusters. "True Lies" and "Life and Death" are two films that lean more towards traditional stunts, and one is a remake and the other is a road thriller. After watching the trailer for "Tornado" at the Super Bowl, it's no surprise that Colombia would want to collaborate on "Heaven and Earth."

"They finally had some self-knowledge and didn't say anything about Jurassic Park," Eric said, and when Firefly released the news, it was revealed that Jurassic Park would be made into a series. It seems that Peter Cooper knew very well that Firefly would definitely not take out "Jurassic Park" to cooperate with them, and chose this disaster film of a comet hitting the earth instead.

"What do you mean?" Katzenberg also had some anticipation in his eyes, and he also hoped that Eric would be able to take out "Heaven and Earth" for Disney and Columbia to develop together, this movie is a story outline written by Eric himself, plus the gimmick of a comet hitting the earth, the possibility of failure is very small.

Eric thought about it, but still shook his head, Firefly already has a detailed development plan for these four films, "Life and Death" will be released at the end of the year, "Jurassic Park" and "Heaven and Earth Collision" The release date has been set for next year's summer file, and Cameron's "True Lies" will be produced next year, and it will be released in the summer of 1994, and then there will be another big gimmick, don't forget, Kathryn Bigelow's "Saving Private Ryan" It will also be released next year, June 6, 1994, the day of the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

Now that "Heaven and Earth Collide" is handed over to Disney and Columbia, a lot of preliminary work that Firefly has done is nullified, and for a big film company, under normal circumstances, although the number of films released each year is as high as 20, there are often only three or four main films per year, and these films, once successful, will even account for about half of the total annual box office of this film company, so it is conceivable. How much resources and effort studios will spend on these films. And the four films released by Firefly. are all in the main ranks of the next three years, and they must not be changed lightly.

"I'm going to start working on Jurassic Park after this Oscar, and now there's a month left, that's enough time for me to pick a few projects, and you can recommend any good plans you have to me," Eric said, looking at Michael Lynn, "That's it." How's your discussion with Peter Cooper going?"

Michael Lynn subconsciously looked around to make sure that no one was approaching here, and then whispered: "If the time is too rushed, it will be too obvious, I have negotiated a plan with Peter Cooper, starting after Oscar, and the plan will continue until the end of the year, so that not too many people will find out." ”

Eric wasn't worried about what Peter Cooper would do, and now the initiative was entirely in the hands of Fireflies, if Peter Cooper didn't keep his promise. Fireflies have many ways to make each other pay, not to mention. Anyway, it's not his own, Peter Cooper has no reason to backtrack, Eric heard that Peter Cooper and Jon Peters have begun to think about increasing their salary, and it is estimated that the contract with Firefly will expire in three years, and the two will be able to leave Colombia with their pockets even if they can't maintain their status.

After the matter was finished, several people began to raise their glasses and talk about the light topic with a smile, and some sharp-eyed guests noticed the change in the relationship between the few people, and knew that they were done with business, so they eagerly came up.

"Let's talk, I'll get out of here," Eric said when he looked up by chance and saw Nicole in a lilac bandeau gown smiling and looking at her.

"Eric," Nicole raised her glass to him as Eric walked in, and Eric reached out and took the champagne from Nicole's hand and put it aside, grabbed Nicole's slender hand and said, "Let's go dance." ”

"Alright," Nicole let Erekla walk to the dance floor.

In the sound of soft music, Eric put his arm around Nicole's waist, sniffed the light fragrance on the girl's body, and whispered as he danced, "Do you know what purple represents?"

"Huh?" Nicole looked into Eric's gaze with an inquiring look.

"Purple represents nobility and mystery, and ordinary women dare not dare to wear purple dresses, because they often do not have a strong enough aura to look nondescript when they wear them. ”

Nicole's thin pink lips pursed a smile: "Then what do you think of me wearing this dress?"

"Your Highness, I want to get down on one knee and kiss the back of your hand," Eric said half-truthfully.

Nicole glanced at the exit of the reception hall with a slight teasing look in her eyes, "I'm looking forward to this kind of scene, why don't we go out and try it?"

Taking advantage of the inattention of the people around him, Eric slid his palm around Nicole's slender waist and patted it gently: "Woman, don't get an inch." ”

Nicole glared at him lightly and angrily, changed her tone, leaned over slightly, and said softly: "Eric, I watched "Jurassic Park" recently, what do you think of me playing Dr. Ellie Satler?"

"In the production plan, all the actors in this film can only get the minimum salary stipulated by the union, are you willing?"

"I do," Nicole replied without hesitation.

Eric laughed, "When you answer that I do, you don't have any mess in mind, do you?"

Nicole's face turned slightly red: "No." ”

Eric teased, and then said: "The protagonists of "Jurassic Park" will be those dinosaurs from ancient times, just like "Tornado", this movie does not play much role except for making the actors familiar in front of the audience. With your current position, starring in this movie is a bit of a waste of time. ”

"Didn't you say you were going to prepare two movies for me, to separate Tom Cruise and his partner, "Spicy Police" is here, but what about the next one?"

"Forehead......" Eric stared at the girl's eyes and figure flashed with cunning, and then realized that the pit was waiting for him here: "It's not early now, I think it's better for us to go back and talk about such a serious matter, for example, in bed." ”

Nicole straightened her chest without fear: "Okay." ”

……

Feeling the movements of the people around her, Nicole woke up almost at the same time as Eric, the skin on her back pressed against the man's solid chest, so she couldn't help but shrink her body, and instinctively leaned back, and then felt Eric's morning desire violently against her hips.

Nicole rubbed it mischievously twice before she turned over with a smile and met Eric's eyes: "Morning." ”

"Morning," Eric leaned in and pecked at Nicole's thin lips.

The warmth of the light kiss made Nicole's heart warm, stretched out an arm to put her arms around Eric, squinted her eyes and leaned over to continue sleeping, and then was disturbed by the menacing little guy on her lower abdomen.

"I really want to cut it off, it's so annoying," Nicole grumbled, reaching out and squeezing it hard.

"That's because you didn't find the right way to use it," Eric laughed as he took Nicole into his arms and pushed the girl's legs open with his knees.

Nicole hummed softly a few times and exhaled deeply.

"Sleep, it's still early, you can sleep for another half hour," Eric's voice rang out.

"Bastard, this ...... How do you sleep," Nicole hammered Eric on the back with some amusement.

So the half-hour sleep time was changed to morning sleep.

Then he got up and stood side by side in front of the bathroom sink, brushing his teeth and washing his face in the mirror, he shaved his beard, she did her skincare, then changed her clothes, and together we went for a morning run in the manor, and came back from picking up the day's newspaper, Eric sat at the long table in the dining room reading the newspaper, and Nicole made breakfast in the kitchen opposite.

Placing a tray of bread on the table, Nicole poured milk for the two of them, noticing Eric's distracted expression and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"A story suddenly comes to mind," Eric said, looking at the bun in front of him that he had just taken out of the oven.

"Oh," Nicole raised an eyebrow, handed the milk over, sat down across from her, and said, "What's the story?"

"Two killers, they met by chance in a chaotic city, then fell in love, and then got married. ”

"Hmm......" Nicole took a bite of the bread, nodded her head, the golden bangs on her forehead shook mischievously, and suddenly raised her head and asked, "Hey, the two killers you are talking about are a man and a woman, right?"

“……”

"Hehe, just kidding, you go on. ”

But they don't know each other's identities, and although they are both top killers in the industry, they belong to two different groups of killers, they live in a humble community, they live ordinary lives, they have their own cover occupations, and their neighbors call them: Mr. and Mrs. Smith. (To be continued......)