After being reminded by the waiter, Eric stood up, but saw that there was not only Murdoch alone, but also Elizabeth holding her father, and the girl looked at him with a faint look of disgust, obviously Elizabeth also knew that Eric chose to meet here to embarrass his father.

After all, it was a woman with whom he had an intimate relationship, so Elizabeth's light and angry expression made Eric a little embarrassed.

Since Eric survived this crisis, because of the Friends lawsuit and "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and "The X-Files" Murdoch has proposed to meet with Eric more than once, and Eric agreed to do so after a while, and refused to go to the Murdoch family manor, nor did he invite Murdoch to his Malibu Sharp Point Manor, but chose the meeting place in this restaurant located in the downtown area on Sunset Boulevard, not only that, Eric also specially asked people to inform the paparazzi.

As long as Murdoch's active contact with him is exposed, then not only will the media think that Fox is actively bowing to Eric, but other major film companies will definitely have bad thoughts about Fox and regard Fox as a traitor to the Big Seven League.

But Murdoch is obviously not a fuel-efficient lamp, not only pulling up his daughter who has an ambiguous relationship with him, but also pretending to be old and frail and needs to be supported by a pitiful appearance, it is estimated that after a little rendering by some media, Eric will definitely be portrayed as ∵ adult and young and unapproachable, so that an old man will come to the door in person to beg for the image of a small belly chicken intestine who is willing to give up.

scolded helplessly, Eric really wanted to pick up a cup of coffee and splash it on Murdoch's head, this pretending to be too fake. The old guy is not yet sixty years old, okay? As a traverser. Eric, however, clearly remembers how Murdoch was in his eighties in his previous life, when he was still in good spirits.

Murdoch saw Eric's expression, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, and came to Eric's side and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Eric, we meet again." ”

"Hello, Mr. Murdoch," Eric shook Murdoch's hand and looked at Elizabeth beside Murdoch. The girl gave him a roll of the eyes, but didn't mean to say hello to Eric.

"Liz, don't be so rude," Murdoch said, although he was very satisfied with Eric's deflated appearance in front of his daughter, on the surface he pretended to be a strict father.

Elizabeth turned her disgruntled look at her father again, and although she had a strong opinion of Eric's insistence on choosing the meeting here, she did not approve of her father's approach, snorted lightly, ignored the two men who had more eyes than a hornet's nest, and went straight to the table and sat down. Pick up the menu and flip through it yourself.

Murdoch and Eric looked at each other awkwardly at the same time.

"Mr. Murdoch, let's sit down too. In the end, it was Eric who spoke first.

Murdoch nodded. Then sat down, the three of them ordered food separately, and after a little silence, Murdoch took the initiative to find a topic: "Liz, how is the movie you are preparing?"

Elizabeth, who originally lowered her head and folded the napkin in front of her, made up her mind not to speak, heard her father ask her directly, so she had to say angrily: "It's all ready, and filming will start at the end of the month." ”

"Oh," Murdoch nodded, "I heard that the heroine is that...... Jodie Foster, it seems that her acting skills are good, and this movie must be very exciting. ”

Elizabeth glanced up at Eric before saying, "Yes, someone recommended me to let Jodie Foster play the lead actress, and after the audition, I thought it was good, so I agreed." ”

Murdoch saw his daughter glancing at Eric, and he didn't have to think about it to understand who the person who recommended the heroine, and looked at Eric with a smile: "Eric, or this movie will be released by Firefly." ”

Eric raised an eyebrow, and before he could say anything, Elizabeth glared at her father dissatisfied: "Daddy!"

Eric followed up and said: "Mr. Murdoch, the release of Firefly doesn't matter, it's just that our overseas channels are not perfect, and I'm afraid it will limit the box office performance of this movie." ”

Eric finally said a heartfelt truth, but Murdoch took Eric's words as proof that he was not optimistic about this movie, he knew that Firefly's distribution ability was limited, and thought that Eric didn't want to use his limited distribution resources on a movie that he was not very optimistic about, so he would refuse so 'tactfully'.

In fact, Murdoch himself has read the script called "The Silence of the Lambs" as a producer of his daughter, after all, Elizabeth invested nearly 20 million in this movie, except for the six million that Julia and Drew put together, all other investments were made by Elizabeth to his father' Although Murdoch has a strong desire to control and is in his eighties in parallel time and space, he still refuses to hand over the power of News Corporation to a few children, but in other aspects, such as economically, he has never treated his children badly, Elizabeth has found a life goal of being a film producer, Murdoch is of course happy to support it, and happily took out this investment, as for whether to make money or not, he didn't think about it at all, it was to exercise his daughter's ability.

Moreover, although Murdoch doesn't know much about movies, he also knows that this script is a limited-level horror film in the cut genre, and this type of movie rarely gets a high box office, and it is difficult to get recognition from awards. That's why he just opened his mouth to let Eric's Firefly release this film, as for the purpose, it is still the same as it was at the beginning, wanting to match Eric and Elizabeth, Eric has now passed the biggest crisis, as long as he continues to fight steadily in the future, he will definitely be able to achieve great achievements in the media industry, if such a man can become his daughter's husband, it will definitely be of great benefit to News Corp. in the future, and besides, when Eric was attacked some time ago, his daughter also quarreled with herself, and Murdoch was therefore sure that her daughter had a good impression of Eric, and Cheng Dù was quite deep, since there is such a foundation, then, of course, you must have more contact, can it blossom and bear fruit, isn't it?

Thinking of this, Murdoch smiled and said to Eric: "Eric, it's just a horror film, isn't the new line originally dedicated to the distribution of horror films, so I believe that Firefly can be operated well, and if it is really necessary to distribute overseas in the future, Fox will definitely cooperate." ”

Murdoch was so 'kind', of course Eric couldn't refuse, turned his eyes to look at Elizabeth, but saw the girl bowing her head angrily, folding a napkin in her hand, and then tearing it into locks.

"What do you mean, Liz?" asked Eric, tentatively.

The girl pursed her lips and said, "You can do it." ”

"Then it's decided," said Murdoch, smiling like a parent, without waiting for Eric and Elizabeth to say anything more.

Seeing that Murdoch said this, Elizabeth did not object, and Eric nodded.

At this time, the waiter of the restaurant began to serve food for the three people, and there was a brief pause in the conversation, and when the waiter opened the red wine and poured it for the three people, Murdoch took a sip of the goblet and praised it a few times, before he said to Eric casually: "Eric, you were born in 1970, right?"

The meat show is coming.

Eric thought so in his heart, and on the surface, he showed a look of reminiscence: "Yes, I was born in London, but I came to the United States when I was eight years old, and I don't have much memory of London. ”

"I remember more than thirty years ago, when Liz's grandfather died of a heart attack, and I had to give up my studies to take over the family business, and I was not much older than you. At that time, Sydney's newspaper business was dominated by three large families, and seeing the success of my business, the Sunday Mail and the News, the idea of these two newspapers began, and after my repeated rejection of their takeover offers, I began to use all kinds of tactics, and within a year, my newspaper company received almost as many reproaches and lawsuits as many years before, and I even received death threats. But I didn't give in, and it took me two decades to not only grow my newspaper company into the largest media conglomerate in Sydney, but also to buy up the companies of my former enemies. ”

Although Murdoch saw Eric pretending to be indifferent, he knew that Eric must be listening to him, so he continued: "So, Eric, what you have been going through during this time is normal. So I think you still have to look forward and don't always focus on that. ”

Eric smiled and looked up, "Of course I'm looking ahead, Mr. Murdoch, otherwise we wouldn't be sitting here so peacefully today." ”

"So," Murdoch said tentatively, "let's drop the lawsuit over 'Friends', and 'The X-Files' can not be in a hurry, but the upcoming 'Who Will Be a Millionaire' originally scheduled for March is now at the end of February, and the whole team hasn't moved yet, Eric, I think you should be in a hurry." I think it's a very good time to spend a month promoting it from now on, and after the Oscars at the end of the month, to launch this show. ”

"I think so too," Eric swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin, and then stared at Murdoch, "But, Mr. Murdoch, you just said that after you became the number one newspaper group in Australia, you bought your former enemy in turn...... So, what should I do this time, the five movies of Firefly at the end of the year, because of this turmoil, the box office loss will not be less than 100 million US dollars, and the loss of Firefly will not be less than 30 million, but I still don't know who my enemy is?" (To be continued......)