The car slowly drove into the parking lot of Sharp Corner Manor, and the driver turned his head to take a look, and found that Eric was closing his eyes and recuperating, so he turned off the engine and sat quietly in the driver's seat, without disturbing Eric. However, Eric, who felt that his surroundings were completely quiet, quickly opened his eyes, looked out the car window, and said, "I'm really sorry, Carl, did I sleep for a long time?"

The driver turned his head and said, "Not long, Mr. Williams, we have only been home for two minutes." ”

Eric stepped out of the car and took a deep breath, the cool, moist air off the coast of Malibu hit his lungs, and he felt much more refreshed.

The driver, named Carl, came out and said, "Mr. Williams, the doorman said Miss Kidman came in the evening. ”

"I see, you go and rest," Eric said, taking his trench coat and briefcase out of the car and walking towards the villa.

In the hall of the villa, the light on the wall was slightly on, and Eric walked to the corner of the hall and saw Nicole lying on the two-seater sofa with a pillow sleeping on her side.

The girl was wearing a thin pale pink knit sweater, her chest rose and fell slightly as she breathed, and her legs wrapped in dark jeans were slender and seductive, Eric glanced at it a few times, although she was a little excited, but it didn't bother Nicole, it was already more than ten o'clock in the night, and Nicole must have been waiting for him for a long time.

After taking a thin blanket from the side and covering the girl, Eric went to the bar in the corner and poured himself a glass of wine, sat down at the small coffee table on the other side, took out a stack of papers from the briefcase he brought back and continued to read.

Because after the Oscars, Eric will go to Oklahoma to shoot "Tornado", and this filming cycle will be as long as three months, and the film will not be closed until the end of June. So Eric had to take advantage of his presence in Los Angeles. Assault on the various affairs of fireflies.

If you settle for the status quo. Eric can completely delegate power more vigorously, anyway, with his current net worth, even if he doesn't do anything, it is enough to live comfortably for the rest of his life. But the body was only twenty years old now, and it was a time of great energy, and Eric didn't want to live so drunk. As a 'passerby' on this plane, Eric is now completely a player mentality, and he wants to see himself as a player before the curtain call. How many levels can be upgraded, and whether it can dominate the entire plane copy, is actually quite an interesting thing.

As the minutes ticked by, the only sound of the page turning was the occasional sound of the page turning in the light.

Maybe she was asleep, or maybe she felt the cold of the night, Nicole, who had been lying on the sofa, moved, opened her eyes, pulled the thin blanket beside her and looked at it in a daze for a moment, and heard a sound not far away, before she propped up her body and looked in that direction.

Lie on the back of the sofa. Poking his head out and looking at Eric, who was sitting on the single sofa with his legs crossed, intently flipping through the information in his hand, for a while. The girl asked, "Eric, what time is it?"

"It's almost twelve o'clock," Eric turned his head to look at Nicole, because she had just woken up, the girl had a touching blush on her cheeks, and a few strands of messy hair scattered in front of her forehead, which was very charming, no wonder many literary works always described the charm of a woman when she just woke up, and Nicole did look charming at this time.

Sensing Eric's gaze resting on her face, Nicole smiled, reached out and brushed a strand of hair that fell on her cheek, sat up and walked over to Eric's side in her high heels.

Eric gave way to the side, and the girl was not polite, and directly squeezed into a single sofa with Eric, both of whom were relatively thin people, so it did not seem crowded to be on a sofa, but it was connected by the thin fabric, coupled with the faint body fragrance on the woman's body, so that Eric felt a little distracted, and couldn't help but hug Nicole, lifted the knitwear on the girl's body and reached into it, gently rubbing it on the slender waist.

Nicole smiled and twisted her waist, but she didn't stop it, leaned sideways in front of Eric and looked at the text in his hand: "What is this?"

Eric said, "Pixar handed me the script for the second 3D animation. ”

As he spoke, Eric picked up another copy and handed it to Nicole: "This is the first draft of their character design, take a look, what do you think?"

Nicole opened the blue paper folder and saw a lot of insect shapes painted on the paper, and after reading it quickly, the girl said, "It's cute, I don't know the rest." ”

"Just think it's cute, and when I first gave John the idea for this story, they said that insects in reality aren't very likable. ”

Nicole gently put her arm around Eric and smiled, "I think as long as you come up with a story, it must be very good." ”

"With such confidence in me, maybe it won't be long before someone will be unlucky because of this blindness. ”

"Then they must have not done a good job. ”

"Hmm......" Erecla's long voice suddenly asked teasingly, "Today's little mouth is so sweet, this style is different from what you used to be, is there something you want me to help with?"

Nicole didn't mean to be weak at all, and said with a smile: "Is your mouth very sweet, do you want to taste it?"

As she spoke, the girl brought her rosy lips together.

Eric smiled and kissed Nicole on the lips, licking his lips pretending to be before he judged: "It's really a little sweet, it's really nothing, while I'm happy now, hurry up and say it, right?"

"I really don't have anything to do, but if someone wants me to help pull the string, I don't think you will agree, so if you don't ask, I won't say it. ”

Eric quickly changed his mind, Nicole is now filming "Captain Hawke", if it was Spielberg, he would definitely not let Nicole bring flowers to him, the relationship between the two was not bad, Spielberg would definitely call himself. Then there could be only one other person besides Spielberg, and don't forget, Nicole's current agent is Pie Kinsley, and Pie Kinsley is also Tom Cruise's agent.

"It can't be Cruise, right?" asked Eric, tentatively.

Nicole looked slightly surprised and nodded, "yes, but I didn't see him." It was yesterday that Ms. Paula Wagner invited me to dinner. said about it. ”

Eric knew what the girl said. Did he want to show that he didn't contact Cruise privately, smiled, and asked, "Is it related to the copyright of "Dark War", or does Cruise want to take the other half of the copyright of "Dark War"?"

Now Nicole was even more surprised: "How do you know?"

"It's easy to guess that I can't think of anything else than that," Eric said.

And. In fact, this kind of speculation also has a 'lesson from the past', in memory Cruise owns half of the copyright of the "Mission Impossible" movie series, and it is precisely in this way that he can bargain with Paramount with his mouth, and even in the end, every time he shoots "Mission Impossible", Cruise gets more than Paramount.

If Cruise didn't own half of the copyright of "Mission Impossible", Paramount would have kicked out this noisy guy a long time ago, although Cruise had a falling out with Paramount in his previous life, but because of copyright issues, Paramount restarted the "Mission Impossible" series. I had to pinch my nose and reconcile with Cruise.

Now the film rights of "Mission Impossible" have been instructed by Eric to Drew to take it down in advance, and Cruise will go it alone. If you want to create your own series of movies, it makes sense to put the idea on the series "Dark War", which has a good foundation.

Hearing Eric say this, Nicole said, "It's strange, if I can't guess, you must have heard something." ”

Eric didn't dwell on this question anymore, but said: "Let's talk about it, I'm still quite interested, how does Cruise want to get half of the copyright of "Dark War", although he is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but I think 100 million dollars in cash can't be squeezed out even if he is squeezed out, right?"

"Cruise's production company should have attracted investment, Paula said yesterday that if you agree, you can talk in person, they plan to pay some cash, and do some other benefits in exchange, such as Cruise helping Firefly shoot a few movies or something. ”

If the historical trajectory does not change in any way, Cruise's salary, or the salary of the entire Hollywood star, will not begin to explode until after 1995, when the 20 million salary club was established, and the first-line stars gradually began to popular the basic salary plus share salary model. In comparison, the current salary of $15 million from Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others is not an exaggeration at all. Eric occasionally thinks about whether he can stop such a crazy trend of salary increases for celebrities, because Hong Kong stars on the other side of the ocean have already suffered the bitter fruit of crazy salary increases, and in the past two years, the film market there has spent most of the production costs on inviting stars because of the sky-high salaries of stars, resulting in a large number of bad films.

If there is no suppression, the unlimited growth of Hollywood stars' remuneration is also likely to cause such a result, in the case of the continuous expansion of the international market, perhaps the producers can grit their teeth and pay such a high salary, once the market is finalized, or even begins to shrink, then Hollywood films will undoubtedly embark on the 'old road' of Hong Kong films.

Before Eric's rebirth, the North American film market had stagnated, the European market had been developed, and only one Asian film market was still expanding, but once the Asian market capacity also reached its peak, then Hollywood's development will also enter a bottleneck.

Nicole watched Eric suddenly stop talking, and waited quietly for a while before she couldn't help asking, "What are you thinking, suddenly so distracted?"

"No matter how you little actors want to exploit you, the capitalists will not have a good time. ”

Ni could joke for Eric again, and he laughed a few times before saying, "Then will I sue Sù Paula directly tomorrow, and you don't agree to this matter?"

"Well, if they just take out the cash, it's not like I can't think about it. Even if you cooperate, you should be able to find that there are few other big-name stars in Cruise's movies, because everyone doesn't like to cooperate with Cruise, and Cruise himself doesn't seem to be willing to cooperate with big names. ”

"Then I'll tell him so," Nicole said, lowering her eyes slightly, stretching out a finger and rubbing it lightly on Eric's arm for a moment before saying, "Eric, I heard that you don't have a girlfriend for Oscar this time?"

"I'm going to go alone," Eric had to repeat what he had already said to several women, "I'm sorry, Nicole, they've all inquired about it." But it looks like you didn't appear in the nominated work last year, right?"

Nicole sighed regretfully and replied, "Pat helped me run a guest for the best photography, so I'll be there this time." ”

Eric didn't want to continue the topic either, and quickly asked, "How was the filming of Captain Hawke?"

"Okay," Nicole said in disappointment, but she quickly realized that her tone was likely to make Eric misunderstand that she was petty about the red carpet, explaining, "I have a feeling that Mr. Spielberg seems to be ...... Anxious, these days, he will often even announce the suspension of filming for no reason. Perhaps, perhaps......"

Nicole wanted to say that maybe it was a mistake for her to fight for this role in the first place, but after thinking about it, she still didn't say it, this role was still begged by Eric after crying once, and now she can't express her disgust, so she can only swallow this bitter fruit silently, judging from the current situation, "Captain Hawke" doesn't seem to be of much help to her acting career.

Thinking that half of the copyright of Eric's "Dark War" could be sold for $100 million, Nicole temporarily had a thought: "Eric, you say, how about I also study filmmaking?"

"Why did you suddenly remember to do this?" asked Eric.

Nicole's face turned red, she can't say that this is more profitable, although she does think so, but deep down, Nicole also envies Julia, Drew and Elizabeth for establishing TG Films. You must know that after the release of a movie "The Silence of the Lambs" through various channels, it can bring more than $100 million in profits to the three daughters. And even if her current salary remains at the level of $5 million, she still has to shoot 20 movies to make so much money.

Besides, although she is a first-line actress, in Hollywood, the real power is the filmmaker who holds the power. If she didn't have any connections, of course, Nicole could only be her own actor honestly, but with a backer like Eric, coupled with the success of Elizabeth and others, she also moved this mind.

"I just suddenly wanted to try, and if they can do it, I should be able to. ”

Eric thought for a moment, and suddenly showed a wicked smile: "It's not impossible, if you can completely pull two people to your side, I will support you to set up a film company." (To be continued......)