"Hey, Penny, how are you doing?" chatted with Jeffrey and James for a while, and Eric began to socialize with the other guests again.

Penny Marshall gestured to the two guests beside her, and the other turned away with a very good look: "It's still the same, I received a lot of script invitations, but I was not very satisfied, so I decided to take a break for a while." I'm not like you, who is making a second movie so quickly. ”

Eric laughed: "I also have to do this, so many people are waiting to see my jokes, of course I have to give them some thoughts." The box office is already 70 million US dollars, right? It seems that it must be a matter of time before it breaks 100 million, and two movies with a box office of 100 million will be produced within a year, and as a female director, it is difficult for anyone to break your record in a short period of time. ”

Penny Marshall was very helpful to Eric's compliment, but still said: "That can't compare to you, it has won more than 24 million box office in the past week." ”

"Okay, you guys don't compliment each other anymore, I'm sick to my stomach. James Brooks suddenly interjected: "Eric, I have something to discuss with Penny......"

"Of course," Eric nodded, turning to walk towards the others.

As the party was about to end, Eric stopped Kapoor, who wanted to leave: "Kapoor, can you come with me, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Capper nodded, and followed Eric to the study on the second floor. The study was a little disorganized, and on the clipboard that occupied one wall, the original newspaper clippings had been cleared, and this time densely plastered with Eric's hand-drawn storyboards. By the window, the piano that had been returned was brought back by Eric.

Kapoor was obviously a little surprised by the different scattered style of the room, and the other aspects of the villa were so neat that anyone who suddenly came here would feel out of place.

Eric stuffed a few pieces of paper on his desk into the bookshelf and explained, "This is where I create, and the cleaners are not allowed to come in, so it's a bit messy. ”

"Doesn't Drew live here?"

Eric pulled out a chair and handed it to Capper, "The girl doesn't have the consciousness to do this, so I'll tidy it up once in a while." ”

"You can't spoil her too much. Kapoor smiled.

Eric shrugged his shoulders and didn't answer, shoved a cassette tape into the tape recorder, and pressed play, "Kapoor, let's listen to this first." ”

Capper knew that Eric wouldn't be unfocused, and listened with Eric.

The rhythmic accompaniment sounded, and soon the infectious singing voice was heard.

love，

*but.it‘w

my.pillow,.

the.ground.

ly,there‘

*……

After a few minutes, the song finished playing quickly, and Eric asked, "Kapoor, what do you think?"

Kapoor said honestly: "I don't know much about this, this song is very infectious, and the female singer's voice is also very explosive. Eric, what are we listening to this for?"

"I'm going to use this song as an interlude. But that's not the main thing, Kapoor, have you thought about the future of UTA?"

Kapoor nodded: "Of course I thought, we have signed Al Pacino, if you can succeed, plus Julia Roberts, as long as there are two superstars to support the field, our agency can gain a firm foothold in the industry, UTA is still small after all, we can't rush too fast." ”

Eric said, "Haven't you thought about developing in other areas?"

"You mean......" Kapoor glanced at the tape recorder, "Singer?"

Eric nodded: "The actors in the two circles of film and television have basically been carved up by those large and small brokerage companies. If we want to grow in this area, we can only slowly poach and cultivate. However, the music industry is still a virgin territory, and even the giants like CAA are not paying much attention to this part of the business now, which is a good opportunity for us to find a different way. ”

The nineties were still the golden age of the recording industry, and when Eric was preparing for the interlude, he struggled to find the famous one in the movie, and found that the singers of the Roxette group had not yet left Sweden.

In the previous life, the Rockset group was active for more than ten years, and after their debut in North America, the first single released by this group won the top of the music singles charts in 24 countries with a sweeping attitude. How could this potential stock Eric let go.

"Kapoor, the song we just heard was sung by the Swedish band Roxette, and not many people have heard a song that was good enough to get to the top of the Billboard charts right now, so this is our chance, you know?"

Kapoor said: "It seems that I am going to make a trip to Sweden myself." ”

"Of course, the sooner the better, and since I can find this song, other record companies will soon notice it, after all, they have a better eye for this than I do, and we don't have much time left. ”

"Eric, are you going to start a record label?"

Eric shook his head: "It's too early to set up a record company, my current focus is still on movies, after winning the brokerage contract of Roxette, you still need to figure out the specific operation mode yourself." ”

Kapoor nodded in understanding, and the two discussed some more details before the other got up to leave.

Seeing Capper away, Michael Krauss quickly came up: "Eric, it's been so long, haven't you finished writing yet, haven't you always been a fast gunner?"

The last word happened to be heard by one of the invited waitresses, and the girl subconsciously glanced at Eric's underneath, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, her little face was slightly distorted, and she hurriedly walked towards the kitchen with a tray.

Eric looked depressed: "Michael, you can't pay attention to what you say, if that girl inadvertently revealed what you said just now, I don't know how those gossip tabloids will arrange me." ”

Michael Krauss grinned insincerely, apologized, and continued to ask.

"Alright, take it. Eric took out the manuscript and handed it to Michael: "The contract is still the same as before, you can get it and send it to me to sign it." ”

As he spoke, Drew suddenly popped up, saw the manuscript Michael was reading, and shouted, "Hey, Eric, I haven't finished reading it yet." ”

Michael stretched out his arm a few times to push his hand to cut the watermelon, blocked the girl's outstretched little paws, stuffed the manuscript into his bag, ignored Drew's objections, and said, "Eric, then I'll go first, goodbye." ”

After saying that, Michael picked up his bag and walked away, as if there was a little magic star chasing after him.

"Alright, don't mess around. Eric knocked on Drew's head: "I haven't settled accounts with you about your skipping class, and I even secretly deleted the principal's phone message to me." ”

Drew instantly lost his teeth and claws, and turned into a well-behaved little girl again, with her hands behind her back, but the cunning in her eyes was still the same: "I'm sorry, Eric, I don't dare anymore." ”

Eric had a solemn look in his eyes, "Drew, are you touching those things again?"

Drew hurriedly shook his head: "No, really not, I just took a few classmates to the Rose Bowl to watch the game, Eric, I swore that I would never touch those things again." ”

Relieved, Eric hugged the girl in his arms, remembered what Drew had just said, and suddenly couldn't help but smile and slapped the girl's buttocks: "No wonder your principal was a little angry when he called me, you didn't study well yourself, and you taught those good girls in your school badly." ”

Drew sighed, arched in Eric's arms, raised his little face and said: "Eric, my female classmates are very beautiful, do you want me to introduce you to you, they are all virgins, I have specially checked." ”

"Forehead ......"

Some images came to Eric's mind, and the wind was messy for a moment: "It's too nonsense, go to bed quickly, and don't go out until school starts." ”

"Hmph, it's so domineering, be careful that I sue you for captive girls. ”