What's more, Disney & Bruce. Joey. Robin's contract also included a clause that Eric himself had to be the director of the film, and if the appointed directors could come up with a plan that would satisfy him, Michael. Eisner didn't mind breaking the contract and forcing the Disney director to take over the script, but it backfired. Eisner made today's decision decisively. After all, if Disney forcibly made its own zuò, and the final result was mediocre, it would be better to hand over the script to Eric to make zuò, after all, Eric still has a very strong box office guarantee.

After sitting in the study for a long time, Michael. Eisner took off the plan document in Wen Jiàn's folder, threw it into the trash can next to him, and then got up and walked out of the room.

……

In mid-March, after more than a month of investigation, the Federal Trade Investigation Commission announced the results of its handling of Firefly and UTA's alleged industry monopoly, because of the loss of the impetus behind several major companies, coupled with a series of public opinion pressure, the Federal Trade Investigation Commission did not impose too heavy penalties on Eric. In addition to asking Eric to sell all of his shares in UTA, it was a very symbolic fine of $1 million.

After the results were released, Eric did not raise any objections, happily paid a $10 million fine, and then sold 90% of UTA's shares to ICM, one of the three major Hollywood agencies, for $30 million.

Almost at the same time, Sony Pictures and Firefly also reached a settlement on the project share of "Dark War", and a week later, Sony settled all the more than $88 million share of "Dark War". As for Eric's other three lawsuits, in addition to the withdrawal of the prosecution in two lawsuits, the other lawsuit concerning the Cape plot in Malibu was also closed due to insufficient evidence as the investigation progressed.

The filming process of the TV series "The X-Files", in which Firefly collaborated with Fox, also began. Another program, "Who Will Become a Millionaire", has been heavily promoted since the beginning of March, although some people in charge of this show mentioned yì. In the first episode of the program, some celebrities could be invited as answering guests, but this mention was directly rejected by Eric. Inviting celebrities can certainly attract some eyeballs, but that would also make the show lose its sense of reality. After all, the selling point of this show is that the grassroots get rich overnight, so the program team still adopts the method of national auditions and has set up registration points throughout North America.

Next, Disney announced it very quickly. Will cooperate with Firefly to release Eric. Williams' new film "The Ghost Is Not Over".

So far, the turmoil that began on the first day of the new year against Eric and fireflies for more than two months has completely disappeared.

After a series of awards season prelude awards, on March 26, 1990, the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Los Angeles Music Center.

Eric buttoned up his gown and stepped out of the limousine, when there were enthusiastic shouts on both sides of the red carpet, and Eric faintly heard someone singing the song "new-divide" hoarsely.

Smiling all the way to the crowd, Eric was alone and didn't stay long. went all the way to the red carpet shots, and of course the reporters in the interview area were extremely disappointed, and. What made them even more disappointed was that Eric still didn't bring any female companions today, which made it a lot less topical.

After all, although Eric is still very young, his status and net worth are there, and since his breakup with Aniston, who will be likely to stay in Eric's 'Liberty City' in the tip of Malibu has become the target of many gossip media.

If anyone can hear about it, they will be able to get a good price now.

When we were about to come to the end of the red carpet. Eric was still stopped by the NBC TV host who was in charge of this year's Oscar broadcast, and politely invited Eric to the interview area.

"Mr. Williams. Hello, stepping on the Oscar red carpet for the second time. Did you feel any different? The hostess in a black dress asked, holding up the microphone.

Eric smiled and said, "Of course, the fans have become more enthusiastic, and I would like to thank everyone for their support during this time." ”

The hostess heard what Eric was referring to, and did not continue, after all, in the turmoil some time ago, NBC was not innocent: "So Mr. Williams, tell me what you expect from tonight's awards, not only did you get two nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, but also unexpectedly got a nomination for Best Soundtrack, which is really surprising." ”

When Eric heard this, he leaned into the microphone and repeated the clichés that everyone would say, such as it depends on whether the judges liked it, and then Eric patiently answered a few questions, and the host reluctantly let him go.

As soon as he reached the waiting area, Eric felt a myriad of eyes cast on him. Eric smiled unfocusedly at the crowd before heading over to several of the firefly-related movie crews.

Several of the men in the crew are okay to say, Jonathan. Demy, Al. Pacino, Tom. Hanks and the others came up to greet them warmly, but several of the women were a little reserved, after all, this place can still be photographed by the media.

Eric greeted a few of the older men before looking at the women.

Virginia stood quietly at the edge of the crowd, with a faint smile on her face, and she looked like she was in the world.

Nicole looked eager to try, but she estimated what it was, so she stood there and didn't move, just looked at Eric with some undisguised emotion in her eyes.

As for Julia, at this time, she was holding Elizabeth intimately, and the two girls looked at Eric with inexplicable complications in their eyes.

After thinking about it, Eric walked over to Julia and Elizabeth: "Julie, Liz, that ...... It may be a little late, but I'm sorry. ”

Hearing Eric's words, Julia took Elizabeth's arm and tightened it slightly, and shrank back, Elizabeth stepped forward like a little hen guarding her cub and whispered: "Mr. Williams, there is no need to apologize, I just hope you can stay away from us in the future, Julia and I are grateful." ”

"This ...... Of course no problem," Eric couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his nose with his index finger, looking at the current appearance of the two girls, he always felt a little strange, but he didn't know where it was. But he was sure that his feelings were absolutely right: "By the way, Liz, how did you end up here?" Eric asked again without words.

"Well, of course I have my own way," Elizabeth said, pulling Julia, who had been silent, straight away.

The others thought that Eric had been deflated in front of the two girls, and they all showed teasing looks, but Eric shrugged his shoulders indifferently, said hello to Nicole, and walked over to Virginia under the girl's disappointed gaze.

"Vicky, I'm sorry I didn't make it to the premiere of Reservoir Dogs at the beginning of the month." Walking up to the girl, Eric said with a little apology in his tone, as the debut of the ghost Quentin, because of Eric's support, this version of "Reservoir Dogs" not only did not have a lot of publicity in North America like in the previous life.

This version of "Reservoir Dogs" not only won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January because of its unique narrative style, but also reached 500 screens in North America, and also held a small premiere.

After the promotion of Firefly, the box office of "Reservoir Dogs" reached more than 6 million in the first week. Tarantino also jumped into the ranks of first-line directors because the film's single-theater weekly box office exceeded $10,000, and is currently pondering his next script, of course, the investor is still Firefly, but Eric doesn't know if Quentin can write "Pulp Fiction" again. After all, because of Eric's butterfly effect, although "Reservoir Dogs" was not fanned away by the wings of "butterflies", "Pulp Fiction" hung a lot. Eric also made up his mind to talk to Quentin when he had time, and if Quentin didn't have the idea, he would get the script out himself.

"It's okay, I regretted it a little later, you must have a lot of things to do, how could you find time to attend the premiere. By the way, Eric, my brother asked me to thank you for him," Virginia said softly.

Eric smiled and said Michael. Madsen would certainly not say such a thing, eighty percent of it was the girl's own meaning. He has also followed the situation of "Reservoir Dogs" during this time. After the release of "Reservoir Dogs", Madsen said that he didn't want to cooperate with Quentin anymore in an interview with the crew for the promotion of the movie, and he also called Quentin on the spot in front of several other creators. Tarantino is a jerk, and while filming the scene where he killed the kidnapped police officer, because of some lines, Michael. Madsen thought of his newborn child and almost broke down.

However, Quentin also said on the spot that he liked the asshole evaluation very much, and no one knew if it was a joke.

Because there were so many people, Eric couldn't make any intimate moves, and after chatting with Virginia casually, the group began to enter the Los Angeles concert hall.

"What a coincidence, we sat together last time," Eric said as he entered the concert hall hall and found a seat and looked at Virginia beside him. (To be continued)