I’m in Hollywood Chapter 370: There is something for you

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From the beginning of August, Eric stayed in New York for another half month before returning to Los Angeles in a low profile.

The 'back' ahead of Eric was the cash flow he withdrew from several companies under his own. With the return of hundreds of millions of USD funds to companies such as Firefly, several companies that were in panic because of the sudden depletion of funds The normal operation was quickly restored, and Firefly's financial director Carolyn Eliot also quietly withdrew the Citibank loan application in early August.

At this time, it was the most dull person who also realized that Eric won.

In the Middle East, Saddam did not stop the offensive after annexing Kuwait. One hundred thousand troops directly wiped out the Saudi Arabian border after purging internal resistance in Kuwait. If Kuwait was annexed, Western countries would only be shocked. Now, Saddam ’s actions at this time have scared most Western countries.

Because Saudi Arabia, which has a land area of ​​more than 2 million square kilometers, has only 70,000 conventional troops, on average, it is not as good as Kuwait, and the ability to resist Iraq ’s invasion is not to mention.

Once Saddam invaded Saudi Arabia again and defended the Persian Gulf arteries, Western countries would completely lose control of the Middle East.

The proven crude oil reserves of Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia account for 45% of the world ’s total reserves, and the remaining 55% are scattered around the world. Therefore, once Iraq annexes again Saudi Arabia, then Saddam is shouting the high price of 100USD per barrel, and Western countries can only pay for it.

Facing the threat of bare naked in Iraq, Arab countries that did not want the West to intervene in the Middle East affairs quickly compromised and accepted the American Pie soldier ’s proposal.

At the same time. Western countries quickly imposed large-scale sanctions on Iraq. Not only the hundreds of billions of USD assets of Iraq and Kuwait overseas were frozen. The strictest embargo measures have also been imposed on Iraq.

However, all this did not prevent the price of crude oil from surging, because the Iraqi army was eager to move against Saudi Arabia. In just one week, the price of crude oil soared to 29USD, an increase of more than 40%, until August 7, 1990. The Pentagon announced that the most advanced advance unit of the 82nd Airborne Division of the Federation had arrived in Saudi Arabia. The panic increase in crude oil prices has only slowed down.

When Eric returned to Los Angeles, more than 100,000 men had entered the Persian Gulf, facing a confrontation with the Iraqi army. The rise of international crude oil prices slowed down again, but in the face of a looming war, the rise in oil prices has not stopped. sign.

A black helicopter landed on Playa Vista in the western suburbs of Los Angeles. Eric took a man off the helicopter and introduced each other to the brains of the administrative district who came to greet. Eric said to Stan Winston who came with him: " Stan, what do you think of this place. The place less than a hundred meters ahead is the former Howard Hughes airport. Of course, it is now abandoned, and I plan to buy about 100 hectares of land here to build a shoots base belonging to Firefly. "

Stan Winston looked around for a while before saying, "I just can be sure that you did make a lot of money this time."

Eric smiled slightly and did not answer this topic.

Now many people who know that he fry the oil Pe­tro­leum some time ago are curious how much money he made. During this time, the secret test has never been broken.

But now he does n’t even know the exact number, because New York will take three months to finish.

Noticing the expression of Eric, Stan Winston also laughed. He just ridiculed casually and quickly shifted the topic to the matter in front of him: "This is less than five kilometers away from Venice, if you If you want to build a photography base here, the special effects studio in the digital field may also be moved here. The Tyrannosaurus Rex model in the planned "Jurassic Park" is up to 20 feet and requires a lot of space to operate. "

"I had taken this into consideration," Eric said: "I will not only build a conventional studio here, but also build a special effects film and television base, Stan. If you want, this base can be taken care of by you. . "

Stan Winston was a little bit excited, but he still said cautiously: "Eric, the geographical conditions here are indeed good, but there is a big disadvantage. It is too far away from the urban area of ​​Los Angeles, the traffic is very inconvenient, if you follow your instructions Plan, it requires a lot of professionals. "

"I have also considered this, and I will pay to build a complete system of supporting infrastructure here, including residential areas, supermarkets, schools, etc.," Eric said quickly.

Stan Winston is just a little surprised, but the Playa Vista executives who are with Eric are already excited to be added. If the Eric plan is reached, it will play a huge role in promoting the economic development of this administrative region.

"Mr. Williams, are you talking about the truth?" a tall, thin, middle-aged white man couldn't help asking.

"Of course," Eric looked at the other party seriously and said: "But if you can cooperate fully, I guarantee that the plan will not be completed in more than three years, and the total investment is not less than 1billion USD."

With the Playa Vista executives around Eric, they whispered suddenly, the big project of 1billion USD, they did not dare to think about it before, they did not expect to encounter such a good thing suddenly.

Eric took Stan Winston and others to continue to move forward. The reason for choosing this area is not Eric whim, but because of the DreamWorks created by previous life Spielberg and others in memory, the selected shoots base is here. Since then, it has developed into a famous Playa Vista community, and many well-known movies have chosen shoots here, such as the "Iron Man" series.

In the morning, Eric walked around the Playa Vista area and discussed the preliminary plan with the executives of the administrative district. Near noon, a group of people were standing by an artificial lake and pointing at the surrounding terrain. SUV drove to the road near the crowd, and a few people quickly got off the car.

The current Playa Vista is also equivalent to the suburbs of Los Angeles. It is no exaggeration to describe it as sparsely populated. Therefore, the sudden appearance of off-road vehicles attracted everyone's attention. Many people realize that the people in the car must be related to their group.

Sure enough, as the people in the car came down, Eric recognized the tall and slender girl walking in front, and was a little surprised. How could Nicole find it here.

Nicole in the distance gave an explanation to the accompanying bodyguard, and soon walked over with only a blonde woman around the age of 30.

When there are four or five meters away from Eric, tall and slender girl has shown a faint look of resentment. And his eyes are not concealed, and it is directly locked on Eric.

Eric noticed the ambiguous glance at her right and left, looking at her ambiguously, she was helpless to meet the girl: "Nicole, how do you know I am here?"

"Yeah, it's not easy to find you," Nicole didn't answer this question, just complained softly.

Eric did n’t ask any more. There were just a few people who knew where they were. Think about the news from Nicole. Eric turned to look at the blond woman who followed Nicole: "This is this?"

"Hello, Mr. Williams. This is Pat Kingsley."

Eric looked at this woman up and down in surprise. He just remembered to say Nicole casually. Unexpectedly, this is only a few months, Nicole has changed to manager.

Shaking hands with each other, Eric smiled and said: "Hello, Ms. Kingsley, that, Cruise, how are you doing recently?"

"Very good, thank you for your concern," Pat Kingsley said politely, and also secretly looked at the young people in front of him. Although Eric and Cruise had a cooperation, but at that time, Cruise's manager was still Paula Wagner, so this is still The two met for the first time.

After a few words of greeting with the other party, Eric looked at his watch and said to Nicole: "Nicole, you did not come by coincidence, I happen to go back."

The girl ’s gaze suddenly became very bitter again: "Did you not like seeing me like this?"

When I heard the girl, Pat Kingsley Pico raised the eyebrow quickly took a few steps back, leaving the space for communication to the couple.

Eric shook his head: "No, what I said is true."

"Then can I go to you as a guest?" the girl said again.

"Okay, but I came by helicopter, maybe you have to let your bodyguard assistants go back by themselves."

The grievances on Nicole's face disappeared immediately, and some little nodded noddingly: "I will tell them."

After a while, Eric and Nicole got on the helicopter back to Malibu. As for Stan Winston and Pat Kingsley, they did not make light bulbs.

After half an hour, he got off the helicopter on the tarmac of Cliff Peak Manor, Eric took the girl to the villa, and asked casually: "When did I change the manager, how can I not know?"

"You have never cared about me, how could you know, I ... I still listened to your suggestion and changed it."

Eric embarrassedly cough, and quickly changed the topic: "How do you feel about her?"

"Okay, Pat suggested that I take a low-key and mysterious performing arts route and try to keep distance from the public. For the rest, I haven't seen anything special about her."

Eric just nodded slightly and did not express any opinion. previous life Pat Kingsley was able to manage the business of Tom Cruise in an orderly manner. It seems that this packaging route was used. The image of Cruise has been maintained perfectly for more than a decade. The route is very practical.

Pushing the door open and leading the girl into the hall, the villa looks empty.

Although Drew returned to Los Angeles with Eric, but only stayed in Cliff Peak Manor for one day, he returned to Culver city, and started busy TG's second part movie with Elizabeth.

Connelly was already stationed in the crew of "Hot Shots", and was affirmed by Eric. Fox gave the movie a green light all the way. Now it has started shoots. Therefore, only Eric is left in the villa again, the manor ’s servant Usually you won't come in here.

From the bottom of my heart, Eric actually enjoys the feeling of living alone.

"You sit down first, I call takeout," Eric made a casual look at Nicole and said.

"Let me cook lunch, what are you going to eat?"

Eric did not postpone, said: "I don't know, just do whatever you want."

The girl nodded and walked towards the kitchen. Although Cliff Peak Manor was not frequently visited, Nicole was quite familiar with the villa.

After Eric went upstairs to take a bath and changed out a set of clothes, Nicole had brought a simple lunch to the table.

Eric sat down at the dining table and watched the girl share lunch for herself and sat back to the opposite side, and said, "Oh, how are you doing in this movie?"

Nicole, who just picked up the knife and fork, paused and spit out a word: "flop (flopped)."

"Ah, well, let's eat first," Eric said quickly, and also realized the intention of Nicole today. However, when raising funds some time ago, Eric took 8 million USD from Nicole. It is estimated that this is The girl had all her savings in the past year, and maybe there was also a film reward on the street. As for what the film was, Eric turned his head, but did not remember.

And Nicole's grudge against Eric is also here, the girl thinks that her relationship with Eric should be closer than Julia Roberts.

But now, Julia has three consecutive movies 《Pretty Woman》, 《Steel Magnolias》 and "Sleeping with the Enemy" Box Office broke 100 million, but she only got one "Sleepless in Seattle", then Eric no longer care about her, the last movie is Nicole The original manager was selected with her. "Sleepless in Seattle" had just succeeded, and there was no participation of Eric. The girl did not dare to change the way. The choice was still a love comedy. After the release in July, it was almost a month now. , Only got the Box Office of more than 10 million USD. You know, this movie is because of the same love comedy, but she took the compensation of 5 million USD, the total cost reached 30 million USD, and Box Office needs at least 60 million to recover the cost. The current situation is that the total Box Office of this movie can break through 20 million It's good.

Because she became famous with a love comedy like "Sleepless in Seattle", she is now on the subject matter she is most good at. If she does not work hard to find a chance, she may soon become a Box Office poison.

Annoyingly, during this time, she contacted Eric several times. The little **** in front of her was pushed away for various reasons. Nicole could not bear it. Today, she drove directly to the suburbs to gamble on Eric.

"Oh, I have something to give you later, I hope you will like it," Eric was eating lunch, feeling the scene was a bit deserted, and quickly found a topic. (To be continued ...)

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