The little girl, who was later named Natalie Hirschler, was surprised to look at the young man who was once again squatting on the side of the road after her mother had left with Eric's driver. In her impression, the big directors who occasionally appear on the TV screen are either serious, funny or maverick, and she thinks that most of those people are pretending.

At this time, this guy named Eric Williams, who has a series of box office miracles on his head, gives her a feeling that she can't see through it completely, because according to normal thinking logic, only those little boys of the same level in the school will pretend to be in front of her.

Moreover, his outfit at this time also looked a little nondescript, a black jacket was open, revealing a T-shirt with an unknown pattern printed, a pair of trousers looked a little crumpled, if you perm a colorful broom head and wear bright earrings, it is not much different from the legendary biker.

Well, it's barely a handsome biker, much more handsome than the skinheads.

Seeing Eric's distraction, the little girl followed Eric's gaze to the road, and the cars were shuttling by as fast or slow, perhaps he was thinking that it would be more cost-effective to rob the car.

Feeling that her thoughts were inexplicably funny, the girl grinned, stepped on her white claptop shoes and leaned over to Eric's left-hand side, and then crouched down to look at the cars that were getting more and more as the time went off work.

Chrysler, Toyota, Chevrolet, Ford, BMW, ......

It is estimated that the white convertible BMW is the most expensive, and I heard that the German cars are of good quality.

And so it went for a few minutes. Natalie realized the identity of the guy next to her again, he is a big Hollywood director, and he is also the owner of a film company. So she touched the man next to her with her elbow: "Mr. Williams?"

"Huh?"

"You...... Does your film company still need young actors?"

Eric snuffed out the burning cigarette butt in his hand and threw it into the drainage ditch next to him, and at the same time put away the little sighs in his heart, looked at the girl squatting beside him, and said with interest: "Yes." ”

"And what do you think of me?"

Eric looked Natalie up and down at this time, a small white T-shirt wrapped around her thin little body, and a slender calf was exposed under the khaki cropped pants. The shoes seemed to be a little big, and he shook his head and said, "It's too thin." ”

"Aren't all celebrities very thin," the girl immediately argued, "When I was 10 years old, Revlon invited me to be their child model." And I've been in a drama camp for two years, and I've also served as a substitute for the heroine of the stage play "Cruel", well...... I didn't make it to the court, but it was enough to prove my performance ability. ”

Eric smiled and asked, "Do you want to be a star or an actor?"

"Hey, hey. Celebrities, of course. I don't want to be like my mom and grow up to be a housewife with a static life, that kind of life is just too boring. ”

"Okay, then I'll give you a chance to be a star," Eric pointed to the car parked next to him, "Help me get the mobile phone in the car, in the front seat." ”

Natalie was still thinking about how to convince Eric to give her a chance to participate in the movie, but when she heard Eric's words, she almost sat on the ground in surprise. However, the girl's psychological quality is still good, and she jumped up neatly with her little hands on the ground. Pulling open the door of the Toyota sedan and getting into the front seat, he quickly handed the Motorola mobile phone to Eric, staring at Eric without blinking, taking out a business card from his pocket and dialing it.

"Hey, Luc, it's me, Eric......" After Luc Besson's phone was connected, Eric didn't say much and went straight to the point: "I'm still on the road, but the car broke down...... No, no, of course not, I can figure it out myself, I mean, I just met a little girl and I think she's a good fit for the role of Matilda, maybe you can give that role to her...... I'm serious, nay, you two talk. ”

With that, Eric slipped the phone to Natalie, didn't say anything, took out a cigarette again, lit it, and raised his chin at the girl.

Natalie held the mobile phone for two seconds, and quickly brought the microphone to her ear: "Hey...... Hello, my name is Natalie Hirschler. ”

Eric vaguely heard Luc Besson's voice introducing herself, and then the girl looked a little dazed, but Natalie calmed down after a short panic, and took the initiative to say: "Hello Director Besson, although I don't know what the situation of the character named Matilda is, but I think I can try, if you can give me an audition...... Oh, Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen District, Tenth Avenue Vane Hotel...... Yes, I remember, tomorrow morning at nine o'clock...... I'll be on time, thank you, goodbye. ”

Hanging up the phone, the girl still seemed to have some unbelievable delusions, but when she realized that it was all real, Natalie almost jumped up with excitement.

Carefully handing the phone back to Eric, Natalie looked eager, "Mr. Williams, can you tell me some specific information about Matilda's character first, maybe I can prepare a little bit tonight." ”

"A precocious, rebellious little girl, about the same as you. ”

Natalie wanted to retort that she wasn't rebellious at all, and that she could only be mischievous at best, but she swallowed it anyway and asked, "Can you be more specific?"

"That's enough," Eric said with a mysterious smile, "Yours is yours." ”

Natalie was a little reluctant to continue to ask, and Mrs. Herschler, who had just left, drove back to this place, and as soon as the car stopped, the girl ran excitedly towards her mother, dancing and telling her the good news just now.

Carter was carrying a toolbox from a white Chevrolet, and when he heard the girl's words, he glanced at Eric with interest and walked towards the Toyota parked on the side of the road.

"Mr. Williams, though it is a bit presumptuous to say so. But are you kidding Nat?"

Eric handed the business card of Luc Besson to Mrs. Herschler and said, "This is the director's business card, and it may be of some help to you." ”

Mrs. Herchler took the card and looked at it. Since Eric said this, she no longer doubted the truth of what Eric just said to her daughter, but frowned slightly: "However, Nat has just started school, and filming will delay her studies, right?"

"Mom, no, it's probably just a small role. It won't be delayed for a few days. ”

Mrs. Herchler felt that her daughter might be right, and as soon as her expression relaxed a little, Eric said, "Not a small role. It's the heroine, and if you really want to shoot it, it may take two to three months. ”

"Wow," a somewhat surprised voice rang out.

Mrs. Hershler frowned at once: "If that's the case......"

"If Nat can get the role. The company will arrange a special private tutor for her to make up lessons on a regular basis. Of course. It's up to you to decide. ”

"Then I need to talk to my husband about it. ”

"Of course, however, the reason why there is such an opportunity is because this afternoon the original heroine had to quit the crew because of sudden appendicitis. Because the crew has been turned on, it costs a lot of money every day, so it is impossible to drag on for too long for a role, and it is estimated that it will be determined in two or three days at most. ”

"Mom. Mom," Natalie heard. Immediately showing a pitiful expression, he pulled his mother's sleeve.

Everything that should have been done was done, and Eric didn't say anything more, since he was able to meet Natalie on Long Island within a radius of thousands of kilometers, Eric thought to himself that Matilda still belonged to that Natalie Portman after all.

Sure enough, as Eric expected, the next day, Luc Besson called East Hampton and said that he was very satisfied with Natalie's performance, although the girl's parents did not agree to the girl's role after reading the script, but they couldn't bear the girl's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and finally agreed.

A trip to Manhattan was like an episode in Eric's life at Daddy in East Hampton, and the days that followed calmed down again.

In the media, Jackson's case is still boiling, and it is estimated that it will be a few months away. If this kind of thing falls to Eric, he will definitely win this lawsuit at all costs, because only this is the best outcome, and the United States, as a money society, has a great advantage for Jackson, a billionaire, and the Simpson wife murder case in Eric's memory is the most favorable proof of playing with the law under the money offensive.

It's a pity that although Jackson is talented, he is only a child at heart, and he is surrounded by too many people who are bent on taking advantage of him, which is doomed to the tragedy of this genius.

After a three-week break, Eric had to get back to work as Firefly Pictures divested from the Fox network was completed.

After a series of reasonable tax avoidance tactics and paying capital gains tax, Firefly finally received $650 million in funding from News Corp.

Because Disney owns hundreds of Disney stores and Disneyland, Firefly Pictures has far more cash flow than other major Hollywood studios. Combined with the huge profits made from a series of blockbuster films, Firefly Pictures has a staggering $4 billion in cash reserves in two years, more than three times the market value of MGM Pictures, and the number will be close to the $5 billion mark after the box office settlement of several films such as "Jurassic Park" in the summer.

In September, after a fierce 'scramble', Firefly Pictures naturally lost to Viacom in the acquisition of the Blockbuster video cassette chain, although he got the Blockbuster chain, but Lei Shidong was still in a very bad mood, because Blockbuster, which could have been won by $8 billion, finally increased the acquisition price by $600 million because of the intervention of Firefly Pictures. After signing the acquisition agreement, Lei Shidong also realized that Firefly Pictures did not really plan to bid for Blockbuster, and the angry old man, who had spent an extra $600 million in unjust money, once again publicly made a sneer at Firefly.

Getting rid of the equity of the Fox television network, under the auspices of Katzenberg, Firefly began to slowly eat into the shares of ABC TV in the circulation market, and at this time, the actual purpose of Firefly Pictures could no longer be disguised, and the company's top management began to contact ABC, NBC and CBS at the same time with great fanfare.

After the news was made public, the stock prices of the three major TV stations began to rise at the same time, and the speed of equity circulation in the market became more frequent. During this period, Katzenberg submitted a plan to Eric, intending to use several scattered shell companies to absorb about 10% of ABC's outstanding shares, and then join ABC's board of directors, perhaps with a say, and at the same time formally launch a takeover offer.

In late September, after months in Northern Europe, Chris finally returned to New York, accompanied by Nokia CEO Joma Ollilah.

After signing some documents with Eric herself, Joma Ollira met with Eric for a few hours before leaving East Hampton and returning to Finland.

Standing side by side with Chris on the road outside East Hampton Manor, watching Yoma Ollila's car disappear. Eric asked, "Isn't he in a good mood?"

"Of course, that's obvious," Chris said with a sly smile as he walked side by side with Eric into the manor, " I have to say, we really took advantage of this acquisition, you may not know, just five days after we signed the equity transfer agreement, a number of EU member states publicly announced the use of GSM digital communication network instead of the original analog communication method, I was also worried that GSM network will be replaced by other large companies to develop the digital network standard, the EU news was issued, basically determined that the GSM network at least in Europe is unshakable, Nokia's stock price rose 27% in the last week You can imagine how the guys who sold their shares are feeling right now, and Yoma Ollilah didn't want the shareholders of the Bank of Finland to hand over their controlling stakes, so he's so depressed now. ”

Eric smiled and said, "Then you won't question my decision now, will you?"

"Of course," Chris said, "I've found that your genius intuition is a hundred times sharper than all the smart people I've met in the last thirty years, and I'm really curious about what information you used to judge these things, like the Gulf War, like Nokia, and the hugely successful series of Firefly Pictures?"

"If I say it's talented, do you believe it?"

Chris shook his head and smiled: "I don't believe it, but seeing is believing, I don't seem to have a second choice but to believe." (To be continued.) )