I’m in Hollywood Chapter 286: Provoking
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In another villa of Beverly Hills, John.Aniston turned around in front of her daughter ’s door and wanted to knock on the door, but eventually turned around and left. The other side of the door, little girl curled up with his legs sitting On the bed, with his chin on his knees, he listened silently to the radio that Nà shouted like a trapped beast in a cage but revealed a strong ambition. His eyes did not blink and he didn't know what he was trying to write.
After the storm started, after several disputes with his father, Elisabeth Murdoch moved directly to Los Angeles and lived with Julia. Although the two girls pretended to be careless, they put them on the coffee table in the living room. After the tune of "New Divide" was heard on the radio, the two of them glanced at each other. Julia reached out silently and jumped the loudest sound of the radio.
Nicole is making small cakes in the kitchen, wearing big headphones on his head, wearing a simple shirt and jeans, with a small radio pinned to his waist, gently swinging his body with the tune inside, holding in his hands Holding a large bowl, stir the ingredients in the bowl with a blender.
Although Nicole also had short-term concerns after the storm, but when Eric personally called and told her not to make any voices during this time, Nicole was relieved to do what she normally did. She thought, how could such an abominable man not be able to pass it, plus his tone of confidence when he called.
Moreover, he is single now, and she feels that she certainly has to fight for it, even though he is so bad.
Drew turned off the home audio connected to the radio the most, and the deafening sound resounded through the tens of meters of the small apartment, only a minute later, and a white man Fatty from the neighbor's house jumped out angrily. , Yelled at the window opened in the Drew room.
"Mother * er, get out. Don't affect grandma's listening to songs," Drew heard Fatty's scolding sound, and directly picked up a Apple on the table and threw it away. He also raised a **** towards that Fatty.
When Fatty faced Drew's menacing appearance, there was a hint of cowardice in his heart. But soon shouted: "Drew, don't think you are a star, if you don't turn down your voice anymore, I will call 911 to harass you."
"Fight, fight, the old lady's father just dropped the lawsuit, I haven't got enough of it, I just want to come with you again, and prepare more attorney's fees." Drew shoved his body out of the window and yelled again. A Apple went out and just hit Fatty's head.
"You ... are so unreasonable," Fatty said, covering his head angrily.
"For a reasonable amount of a pound, you sell it to me, and if you do n’t have one, you will get me off."
I saw that the girl was so sturdy, and some other neighbors who wanted to go forward to the theory also shrunk back. Fatty stood in his house and took a few breaths. He was about to continue to scold, but he saw Drew I don't know when there is a red brick. I stared at myself violently, and I looked like you would fall down again.
Fatty, but on the newspaper, I saw this crazy girl filming the tragic picture of his own biological father, and then shut up. A few steps back, retracted into his house.
Put the brick in his hand, and the girl returned to the bedroom, and the singing came to the end.
* ……
* Paved the broken road and let the pain converge
* Across new boundaries and reach the other side of truth
* In front of the dark eyes, the ashes flew like snow flakes
* Between you and me, it ’s already collapsed
* On this day, I declare war on the whole world
* ……
"on-this-day, i-declared-war-on-the-world ..." The girl shook the enchanting waist with the beat. Then there was a howl, although the small face was flushed. But because of the incomplete pentatonic sound, it sounds terrible. The song finally ended. The host named Matthew. Lasseard sounded again. Drew reached out to turn off the recorder and stereo, then picked up the bedside phone and dialed Malibu Cliff Peak Manor.
After connecting, the girl did not look like the little lion when she was just scolding with Fatty, and instantly became a docile cat with a soft voice and a sense of grievance: "Eric, I just had a neighbor Bullied me ... "
In the mansion of Malibu, a few people in the living room of Eric made a wait gesture, and then said to the **** the other end of the phone: "If you do n’t bully others, thank God ... um ... no problem ... I Know I know ... "
It took more than ten minutes before Eric hung up the phone and sighed softly.
Because of the reversal of the wind direction, the four lawsuits originally received by Eric, of which the father of Drew and the screenwriter who sued him for plagiarism, directly withdrew the lawsuit, and everyone with a discerning eye can see that it is certain that the forces behind the two understand the current The situation, knowing that things can't be done, gave up their support to the two, and the prosecution of using illegal means when acquiring Malibu pointed land was not cancelled, but news came from Edward. This matter will be delayed for a while. It's gone.
As for Sony Film Industry ’s lawsuit against the 《Running Out of Time》 contract, although they are not reconciled, they also know that if this happens, although the payment of the 《Running Out of Time》 share can be delayed for a period of time, it angers the Eric, and the sequel to 《Running Out of Time》 may become distant in the future. Once a sequel is stranded for a big-selling movie, the loss may be more than tens of millions of USD. Therefore, both parties also started a settlement process.
Of course, Eric did n’t sigh for these things, but after thinking of Drew ’s small girl, Drew ’s father withdrew the complaint, Eric greeted the girl to move back, but Drew refused, saying that he wanted to live with his mother in Culver City, Eric knows that this is the girl who does not want to cause trouble to herself, so no matter when the girl calls over these days, Eric will patiently make phone porridge with small girl.
Walk to the sofa and sit down again. Eric said to Jeffrey sitting around the ring and other people: "What did we say just now?"
Jeffrey reminded helplessly: "The music company."
"Oh, yes," Eric thought about it again, and then said: "About the music company, let ’s call it Firefly temporarily. I want to pass this single release. We can build a simple distribution channel, next For the time being, we mainly release the original soundtrack of our company ’s movies. Robert, Jeffrey and I do n’t know much about the release. How about Record Company under your control for a while? "
Robert Shay smiled and nodded in agreement, he had this idea originally: "Of course no problem. But, what about emi?"
"Keep on cooperating," said Eric. The two talked about EMI EMI Record Company. Eric established the New Territories Record Company named after their first single. It is just an empty shell, and there is no ability to issue at all. Therefore, this time Issue this single. Can only choose to cooperate with the famous EMI records: "Because of the Firefly thing, I suddenly established Record Company, and now several old Record Company are very afraid of this, so we can only maintain cooperation, otherwise we have no chance to develop. Wait for accumulation It ’s not too late to consider solo flying for several years of strength. "
Everyone in the living room laughed, more or less proud in their tone. After all, a newly established music company with nothing but a single can cause several of the world ’s oldest Record Company ’s fear. It is not an easy task.
"Let ’s talk about uta," Eric said to Edward: "Let ’s talk about the progress of the case first."
Edward came up with the pre-arranged data and said: "The current situation is very beneficial to us, because the major companies that had helped behind it must have given up now. No more attempts to affect this case. Therefore, we just need to It is sufficient to respond to the complaint in accordance with normal procedures, because the illegal damage index caused by Firefly and uta ’s violation of antitrust laws is very low. Therefore, without other forces intervening and the current trend of public opinion, the Federal Trade Investigation Commission is unlikely Heavier penalties for Firefly and uta, even if a fine is paid, I think it is only symbolic. What you have to do. Just get uta shares off as soon as possible. "
After listening to Edward, Eric looked at Kapoor sitting on the other side. Asked: "Kapoor, what do you think now. I mean, do you want to take over uta?"
Kapoor smiled bitterly and shrugged: "Of course I think, but I can't afford it."
Eric was silent. Since the antitrust investigation began, the three Brokerage Firm giants of North America, which have now formed a new pattern, caa, wma and icm, all reported to him the purchase price, of which the price of icm is as high as 30 million USD. The quotations of the two also exceeded 20 million USD. You know, Eric bought uta a year ago, and it only cost 1 million USD.
However, icm ’s report of such a high price is certainly after careful consideration. Now uta not only has a series of Al Pacino and other a series superstar, after the acquisition of uta, icm can also get another advantage, that is, once uta and With the merger of icm, Eric's filmmaking will give priority to icm's entertainers, which is beyond doubt.
In just one year, Eric revived Al Pacino with a few movies, and also took several unknown Actor to the world-class superstar seat. This terrifying star-making ability is just three. The big Brokerage Firm giant reported the reason for the high price. And icm is now in the last position among the three major Brokerage Firm, as the signature Hollywooda level superstar is the least, so it is so eager for uta.
I heard Kapoor. So, Eric asked: "Let ’s not talk about money first, Kapoor, I just want to ask, what is your real idea?"
Kapoor thought for a while before saying, "Eric, in fact, Marvin Josephson of icm contacted me. If you have to let me say it, I tend to sell uta to icm, Marvin Josephson also I promised to give me the position of a partner. As for the other two companies, I think you must have not considered CAA, and I have not considered it. Although WMA has carried out a series of reforms and integration in the past six months, it is too old after all , The system is still somewhat rigid. "
Eric nodded, and although he wanted Kapoor to accept uta alone, it was still impractical to think about it, not to mention that Kapoor would not be able to spend 20-30 million USD to buy the entire uta, even if Eric gave all Kapoor, but as uta develops and grows, it is still necessary to introduce partners. Rather than developing to the last three major Brokerage Firm models, it is better to sell uta directly to icm in one step.
Although this will make Eric completely lose its influence on Brokerage Firm, but. In his current identity, he no longer needs any influence on Brokerage Firm.
"If that's the case, then talk to icm. See if you can raise the price a bit more," Eric said to Edward.
Edward nodded. Means write down.
"Okay, now it ’s time to talk about the closing things. After more than a month of groaning, I ca n’t just go through it without doing anything."
As soon as Eric was finished, Jeffrey persuaded softly: "Eric, I think it ’s the best result to let this matter go smoothly."
Eric froze. Looking at other people, whether it is Robert Shay, or rushing from New York in the afternoon, completely nodded with Hollywood and Chris Hansson.
With a bitter smile, Eric said: "Okay, I listen to you, don't do any substantive actions, but still do some gestures, otherwise people will think I'm bully."
Everyone heard Eric say so. With a sigh of relief, they all laughed. They are all worried that Eric will be young and angry, and want to knock down with the seven Film Studio. This is a very unwise behavior, because Firefly and Eric can survive this storm intact, already blessed by God, and now there is not much strength to fight back.
"Eric, what do you want to do?" Jeffrey asked with a smile.
Eric originally thought of some previous life fighting tricks. When a person was besieged by a group of people, he issued a ruthlessly to catch one of the other people ’s group and beat the dead, I believe that the rest will Will show fear. Don't dare to provoke easily.
He originally picked Fox, though. Seeing that all the people around them are not willing to do this kind of thing by themselves, Eric can only give up.
Think for a while. There was another smirk in the corner of Eric's mouth: "Since you can't kill a person, then provoke the relationship between this person and his companion."
The people present were all smart people, and they understood the meaning of Eric with a little thought. At the same time, they also realized that the object selected by Eric must be Fox. After all, the cooperation between the two parties is the deepest. Firefly even holds Fox TV Station10% Of shares.
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The release of "New Divide" single Eric personally sang a wave of popularity in North America, plus the lyrics of this song are not disease-free or incomprehensible, but Eric encountered the most authentic portrayal during this time, Therefore, three days after the release of single records, sales exceeded 1 million sheets, and a week later reached more than 3 million sheets, and also undoubtedly ranked as the champion of various song charts.
At the same time, because of the influence of this song, Eric has gained more and more public opinion support. He now almost no longer has to worry about this storm, and at the same time, several women who are closer to him are in one. Under the guidance of a series of public opinion, it also came out of the shadow of this storm and began to consider the work arrangement for this year.
On February 19, another thing that was crucial to Eric also happened.
On this day, Cisco was officially listed, and the stock issue price was 18USD. Because there is no daily limit on the day of the stock issuance, the stock price of Cisco reached 22USD on the day of the issuance.
Although this result is not too dazzling, but for a while, Cisco began an explosive continuous daily limit, and the stock price doubled in less than a month. Chris used the phone very strangely with envy. The tone praised Eric and asked mysteriously how Eric confirmed that the Cisco stock would explode. Of course, Eric couldn't answer it and could only talk nonsense with Chris.
At the same time, in mid-February, the 62nd Oscar nomination list was announced. 《Scent of a Woman》 won four nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adaptation script, which undoubtedly became a big hit of Oscar In addition, Julia won two nominations for Best Heroine and Best Supporting Actress at the same time with the two films 《Pretty Woman》 and 《Steel Magnolias》, which once again caused a wave of uproar in the media, because for Oscar, the one-time double nomination is very rare. Not to mention the two important performance awards.
As for Eric, all of them won the script nomination, the best adaptation of 《Scent of a Woman》 script, the best Original Script of "The Others", in fact, 《Running Out of Time》 can also get a nomination, but for public relations considerations, Eric gave up, Instead, choose the "The Others" that is most likely to win the prize. After all, because the "Sixth Sense of Soul" has not yet appeared, the theme of "The Others" is still very novel, and the hope of winning is the greatest.
Of course, Eric has just had a trouble with the Seventh Party, so the company responsible for the distribution of these films will definitely not do their best for the public relations of these films. Eric can only do it by itself, and Among the Firefly, only Robert Shay has some experience in this respect, and Eric handed this over to Robert.
He is currently dealing with another thing, that is, the one that provokes a person and his companion.
At the door of a famous Italian Restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, the black luxury car slowly stopped in the parking lot, the driver opened the door, and Rupert Murdoch came out of the car. Just got out of the car and the flashing light was on nearby.
With a wry smile, Rupert Murdoch still sorted out his suit, and Elizabeth, who came out from the other side, also stepped forward to hold his father. The two wanted to go inside the restaurant.
The wait staff recognized the two of them, and greeted them: "Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Williams has been waiting for a while, I will take you there." (To be continued)