In Julia's villa in Beverly Hills, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and the three women were sitting on the floor next to a long table in the side hall, with several stacks of scripts scattered around, Elizabeth and Drew were reading carefully, only Julia seemed a little lacking in interest, boredly looking at the script of a romantic comedy in front of her, after a while, Julia finally lost interest completely, raised her head and asked: "Hey, can we pick out good scripts so picky, these should be the things that the agent does." ”

Elizabeth and Drew gave Julia a blank look, Drew lowered his head and continued to look at the script in front of him, but Elizabeth explained: "Get rid of it, Julie, our current identity is a producer, not an actor." And these are all recommended by agents from several brokerage companies, so if you don't want to watch it, go watch TV. ”

Julia wanted to stand up with some emotion, looked at the two girls, and finally sat down on the mat: "Forget it, I'll watch it with you, by the way, Liz, didn't you say that the guy was a few days ago for that guy named Jennifer. Did Connery's woman pick a comedy, maybe we could find the screenwriter of that script to write another one. ”

Drew looked up at Julia with a disdainful expression, and Elizabeth said helplessly again: "The screenwriter of that script is also the director of that movie, he should be already making a movie now, and it is impossible for him to have time to write any script for us." What's more, even if the other party has time to write it, it may not be a big seller, not everyone is like ...... That guy is perverted like that. ”

"Okay, okay, you just don't say anything."

As he was talking, the phone next to him suddenly rang.

"I'll pick it up." Julia stood up and walked to the phone in three or two steps to pick up the microphone: "Hey." This is the Roberts house...... Ah......h

Julia heard the other person's voice. Immediately covered the microphone and silently lip-synced Elizabeth and Drew who were looking at him: "Eric......"

Drew, who had been reading the script seriously, immediately jumped up, rushed over and snatched the microphone from Julia's hand with a happy face, and shouted, "It must be looking for me." ”

Julia let Drew snatch the microphone away, shrugged her shoulders and returned to her seat, glanced at Elizabeth, and whispered to Drunu, "Like a puppy that only hears the call of its master." ”

Elizabeth also smiled and said, "There is no cure." ”

After Drew said a few words to Eric, he turned his head in displeasure and shouted, "Julia." Find yours. ”

"Ah......h

"Hey, Eric, what's the matter with me...... Yes, Kapoor said that there are not many scenes in this role, and it is very easy to film, and the salary given by Samsung is also very good, not to mention that it is still with Steven. Spielberg Collaboration...... So? ”

Not knowing what to hear, Julia hesitated for a moment. He looked at Elizabeth as if asking for help before he continued, "But what about Kapoor's side." He really wanted me to take on the role...... Myself...... I...... I...... Otherwise, I'll ...... again."

Seeing that Julia was stammering and seemed to hear something embarrassing, remembering the guy's vicious personality, Elizabeth immediately stood up and leaned in and took the microphone from Julia's hand: "Hey, Eric, what are you trying to force Julia to do, I warned you!" ”

“……”

"No, why should Julia give up this role, don't you think!" After Elizabeth finished speaking, she hung up the phone with a snap.

"Liz, isn't that inappropriate?" Julia apprehensively pointed to the hung up phone.

Elizabeth waved her hand and said confidently, "Don't pay attention to that guy, Julie, you're going to sign the contract tomorrow, hmph, we're so bullied." ”

After Elizabeth finished speaking, she pulled Julia back to sit back again, and the three of them continued to look through a lot of scripts, but the atmosphere that followed always seemed a little unnatural.

Drew was nothing, although she had been around Julia just now, and she had heard what Eric was saying, and remembered that Nicole had been talking a few days ago. The Kidman woman called to inquire about Eric's whereabouts, and Drew quickly understood what was going on.

It must be that Julia and Nicole have fallen in love with the same role, and Eric wants Julia to give up the role to Nicole, although it is inevitable that there will be some vinegar in his heart, but this matter has little to do with her after all.

But Julia and Elizabeth, who had simply rejected Eric, could no longer settle down to continue reading the script, and always looked at the phone on the table next to the sofa from time to time, as if expecting the machine to ring again.

Unfortunately, for nearly an hour, Eric didn't call again.

"Hey, Drew, you've been in New York with Eric for the last month, haven't you?" Elizabeth finally lost her breath and asked first.

Drew nodded without raising his head, marked a small star on the script in front of him with a pen and put it aside, and flipped through the other book.

Seeing that Drew looked indifferent, Elizabeth thought there was a play, and quickly asked, "Then you should know how much money he makes, right?" ”

Only then did Drew raise his head, with a smile on her beautiful doll face, and after seeing Elizabeth a little weak, the girl popped out a few words: "I don't know." ”

"......" Elizabeth pouted speechlessly: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it." ”

Drew smiled, took a piece of gum out of his pocket, chewed it, and continued to look down at the script.

"I read the newspaper in the morning, and it said that the price of crude oil futures has risen to $30 now, and it was only $14 a few months ago, and I heard that many people who speculate in futures have made a lot of money, and Eric should be able to make hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is estimated that he will make at least double the profit now," Julia added without limit.

"You don't understand, futures can be amplified by leverage, ten, twenty times leverage. The principal can be magnified up to ten times twenty times. Elizabeth explained as if she didn't understand.

Forthwith. Both girls who reacted closed their mouths, stared at each other in surprise for a moment, and then looked at Drew again.

"Look at what I'm doing, I don't know anything," Drew repeated again.

Elizabeth put her arm around Drew's little shoulder: "Hey, reveal a little, Drew, how much does Eric earn?" Julia and I promised not to say it. ”

Drew shook Elizabeth's shoulders away. It's still the same sentence: "If you ask a hundred more times, I don't know, and even if I do, I won't tell you." ”

"And what have you been doing with Eric all month?" Elizabeth asked unwillingly.

Drew said honestly: "Play, that's New York, a paradise for the rich, and there are more fun places to go." ”

“……”

……

Sharp Corner Manor, Eric put down the phone and said to Nicole, who was sitting next to him: "Liz snatched the phone and hung up directly." I'll find time to talk to Julia, and I'm not in a hurry right now. ”

Nicole nodded. She knew that since Eric had already promised, he would definitely do his best.

The next day, Eric did not immediately go to Julia, but went to Firefly as usual.

After learning about the company's operations during this period and paying attention to the release of the next few movies, it is now mid-August, and "Ghost Love" and "Instinct", which were released in July, are still in the top few of the box office list.

This summer file has also come to an end, except for "The Love of People and Ghosts", which has a strong momentum and may break the box office of 200 million US dollars, there are no other box office dark horses in the entire summer file.

Even "Die Hard 2", which was evenly matched with "Ghost Love" at the beginning, fell by more than 40% in the second week, only earning more than $20 million, and this blockbuster with a total box office of 200 million to recover its costs seems to have no hope of recovering its cost in North America, and Fox can only pin its hopes on overseas markets.

As for "Instinct", this R-rated film with a hot theme released by Universal in late July has won nearly $70 million at the box office in four weeks, and there will definitely be no suspense about breaking 100 million next.

At the same time, the negotiations between Universal's parent company MCA and Japan's Panasonic consortium have also settled, and Panasonic has wholly acquired Universal's parent company MCA with a huge sum of $6.1 billion, and another Hollywood movie giant has fallen into the hands of the Japanese consortium.

However, Eric knew that Panasonic was not as good as Sony, and after several years of adaptation and huge losses, Panasonic soon handed over Universal to the next family again.

For most of the day, Eric didn't see Robert. Shay, after asking, Eric learned that Robert. Shay has found another project during this time and is negotiating with the copyright owner, but as for the specific content of the script, Robert did not reveal the wind to his subordinates, which is obviously to guard against him, which makes Eric feel a little funny.

After reporting on some firefly affairs, Alan then handed over a stack of text bags filled with a brief outline of the script to Eric: "Eric, this is the movie about the pirate genre that you asked me to look for some time ago, because you told me to keep it as secret as possible, I only found 37 films, here is just a brief outline of the story, if you need a detailed script after reading it, I will contact you." ”

"I see, you go and do things first."

Alan nodded, turned and left the office.

Eric opened a bag of text in front of him, because he had a specific goal, so Eric read very quickly, just briefly read the synopsis of the story, if it wasn't the target he was looking for, he casually threw it aside.

Soon, Eric's eyes focused on a thin script outline, and the screenwriter's column was written with the name of Bruce A. Evans, which was just in line with the screenwriter of "Cut Throat Island" in his memory, and quickly read the script outline, the plot, the names of the male and female protagonists were completely correct, but the name of the script was not called "Cut Throat Island".

"It seems that this is it," found this big pit, Eric began to think about how to operate this script, of course, this rotten egg is used to trick people, but if you want to make sure that this big hole can have the greatest effect, the best situation is to gather the lineup from the previous life.

In my memory, the hero and heroine of this movie are Gina. Davis and Matthew. Modien, and director Lenny. Harlem is exactly Gina. Davis's husband, Lenny. Harlem was ambitious to make his wife an action actress, but he almost ended up ruining Gina. Davis's acting career, although I don't know the follow-up story development, but according to Hollywood conventions, Eric feels that the last two are likely to divorce.

Eric remembers that last year, he still gave Gina himself. Davis approached Best Supporting Actress in the Golden Man, and later the other party also married another actress, Susan. Sarandon collaborated on the famous feminist film "Killing Flowers", which is also an Oscar hit, and if history does not change, the actress has become devastated with the box office fiasco of "Cut Throat Island", just like another sad male star, Kevin. Kostner the same.

Thoughts swirled wildly, and the thought of Kevin. Costner, Eric couldn't help but think of Kevin again. Costner starred in several excellent films, "The Bodyguard", "Million Arm" and "Dances with Wolves" and the like, if it weren't for the later "Future Water World", Kevin . Costner's status in Hollywood is no less than that of Harrison. How much lower is Ford, Schwarzenegger and others.

Moreover, Eric quickly remembered that the movie "Dances with Wolves" was Kevin. Kostner directed his first work in person, and won awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his directorial debut.

Confused memories with Kevin. Costner's name pulls up a lot of information, and Eric quickly puts the Cut Throat incident behind him for the time being, as he discovers something else.

"Dances with Wolves" seems to be released this year, and because the film is absolutely correct and in line with the characteristics of the American main theme, it won this year's Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture.

This is obviously not good news for "The Silence of the Lambs" a year in advance, although "The Silence of the Lambs" has been recognized as this year's Oscar favorite. Hopkins and Judy. Foster's performance has been full of praise, and praise for the film has also been interrupted in recent months, and it can be said that without "Dances with Wolves", the film would definitely be the big winner of this year's Oscars.

But when it comes to American movies with the main theme like "Dances with Wolves", the disadvantages of "The Silence of the Lambs" as a horror film will be wirelessly amplified and amplified, and it is almost impossible to win the best director and best picture like in the previous life.

Thinking of this, Eric quickly called Alan over again, and explained that the other party immediately put down his work and went to find out the news about the movie. (To be continued......)