I’m in Hollywood Chapter 638: I do n’t want to owe you anything

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"Mr. Katzenberg has personally started your plan with an affiliated private equity fund under the operation of the group. Hathaway, State Street Universal and Firefly investments are also following up. If you want to be undetected by Marvel, we probably It will also take a month, "Kelly handed over the next document and said:" Also, several newspaper groups made a second round of quotations for our paper media assets. The highest bid is currently Condé Nast's 1.4 billion USD . "

Eric quickly read the documents in hand and said: "Let Jeffrey start the acquisition negotiations. Both the Yahoo network and AOL need a lot of money. Tell Jeffrey that there is no need to price too much. As long as the price reaches the expected 1.5 billion USD That ’s fine, but what I want is for the buyer to pay cash as soon as possible. "

Kelly nodded, wrote it down on the memo, then looked up and said: "The only serious thing is this ..."

Eric glanced at the closed office door and joked: "Do you want to do something unscrupulous here?"

Kelly gave him a blank look and handed the last document to Eric, saying: "This is from Murdoch," New York Post "was intended to be published tomorrow, she was stopped. She said to let you see for yourself In order to deal with it, she can stop the report of "New York Post", but can't control other newspaper, and there is a copy of the file related to this news release. "

Eric glanced at the headline of the press release, "The Dark Past of the Genius Girl", his eyes narrowed suddenly.

Seeing the name of Charlize in the article, Eric has almost guessed the general content. After reading the article roughly, Eric determined its own judgment.

In the original space and time, Charlize was shortlisted for the best Heroine in Oscar with 《Monster》. In the subsequent media public relations battle, the news that Charlize's biological father was shot by her mother because of drunken violence at the age of fifteen was hyped by the media again. It was originally a simple victim. Charlize was even forced by the unscrupulous media to be attached to the word 'Father Killing'. Eric didn't pay much attention to that trend, and his own result was that Charlize still successfully won the Oscar post-launch crown.

For now, it may be because Fox's "Dumb and Dumber To" is about to be released. However, the momentum of Box Office of 《Charlie's Angels》 did not weaken in any way. "New York Post" didn't know where to dig this news, so he had similar thoughts to those media of previous life, but. It may be that taking into account the Firefly side, the article does not adopt the way of deliberately distorting the facts as in the original time and space, but the tendency of the lines between the words hints that it will still be tempting.

"Since this matter has been dug up by the media, it can't be concealed," Eric thought about it. After tearing off a piece of note paper, he wrote a line and handed it to Kelly, saying: "You communicate with ICM personally, and let the public relations department also cooperate as much as possible. According to this guideline, I will guide you, and I do n’t want to see anything. News from at sixes and sevens pops up. "

Kelly took the note handed over from Eric, and saw the words "The regrettable family tragedy, the strong girl who walked out of the shadows", nodded, and said: "CEOFrank Makasso of Metro Goldwyn Mayer does not know the phone number here. The phone reached me and wanted to make an appointment with you to talk about the 《Charlie's Angels》. Metro Goldwyn Mayer hopes to open two 《Charlie's Angels》 sequels at the same time. "

"These things let them go to Jeffrey, after a good discussion ..." Eric said halfway, raised his head and asked, "Is there something happened?"

As soon as Kelly was about to speak, Eric suddenly said: "Oh, it must be three of them Penny."

Kelly nodded: "The person in charge of DreamWorks hopes to sign the two sequel contracts with Miss Cruz and the three of them at once, but Ms. Michelle Simmons from ICM has not given a response."

Eric said: "I will help to ask them what they think of the three, so that Metro Goldwyn Mayer can rest assured that it will be released."

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In the following days, with the cooperation of the public relations department of Firefly and ICMBrokerage Firm and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The news about Charlize's past girls began to appear in the media, but most of the information fully expressed Charlize in the perspective of the victim and expressed full sympathy. At the same time, he fully publicized the experience of Charlize alone in Hollywood, completely Shaped into an image of a self-improving young girl who smoothly emerged from the dark shadows.

The first impression effect of ordinary people is very powerful. Since this concept was instilled in them for the first time, then articles that discredit Charlize will appear in the media in the future, which will only arouse the disgust of most people. At the same time, the popularity of Charlize, which was weak in the 《Charlie's Angels》 trio, also rose greatly due to the disaster.

In the second week of July, Fox's "Dumb and Dumber To" was also officially released, but it was affected by the strong decline of "The Lion King" and 《Charlie's Angels》 Box Office. "Dumb and Dumber To" only has 3more than 3 million Box Office in the first three days of the weekend, which is 4million USD lower than 《Charlie's Angels》. It is expected that Box Office will stop within 45 million in the first week. However, relative to the production cost of 《Charlie's Angels》, which exceeds 80 million USD, the biggest cost of this vulgar comedy is only Jim Carrey's compensation, and the total production budget is less than 40 million USD. Therefore, Fox is still very profitable in this film.

After returning to Los Angeles from Boston at the end of May, after more than a month of intensive work, Eric reviewed most of the movie projects that need to be taken care of in person, and the schedule has gradually been relaxed, except for distractions. Marvel Entertainment layout, he also put more time on the preparation of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

In the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show studio, Eric just sent away the head of the Firefly music department who sent a stack of singer tapes. After just going through the Europe and the East Asia tour, the three girls who returned to Los Angeles and Penélope ’s sister Monica walked together. Entering his office, Penélope and Kate are still holding a set of gorgeous angel wings.

Hello to Eric, Penélope ca n’t wait to draw a set of butterfly wings and wings behind him, saying: "Eric, are these the angel costumes to wear on the Victoria’s Secret show? It ’s so beautiful."

Eric smiled and watched the two women put angel wings on their bodies and said, "You must have taken them on the shelf near the door of my office. These are all scraps to be disposed of. The angel wings that are really selected are all Is kept in a vault. "

Kate asked curiously: "These are already so beautiful, those selected must be more amazing, can we have a look?"

Eric shook his head and said: "I will give you a few tickets at that time. Now no one can watch it."

Kate threw a tongue at Eric and said, "It's really stingy."

Eric did not answer. After seeing it, Charlize, who has been very quiet and obviously thoughtful, joked: "Charlie. Are you planning to take the role of Kate in the sequel?"

"No, of course not," Charlize shook his head quickly.

As soon as Eric is about to continue to say something, Penélope ca n’t wait to hear Eric mentioning the film, and ca n’t wait to hug Kate gossip: “Eric. You do n’t know, when we went to Japan Tokyo to advertise, a man saw Kate , Crying on the spot, crying and wowing about what I want to rush towards the stage, frightened us. "

Kate pushed away Penélope with dissatisfaction, and said: "Why do you think he came at me, maybe you want to pounce on you."

Penélope laughed: "Although I can't understand that guy's Japanese, everyone at the pronunciation site" Selena "can clearly hear it."

Eric said: "I have seen on newspaper, Kate is now the most popular Western actress of Japan. How do you feel?"

Kate shook his head and said: "Not very good, people in that country always make people feel weird."

"This is because of cultural differences. Different countries and different ethnic groups will have this feeling when they look at outsiders. Otherwise, there will be no such things as racial discrimination." Eric explained briefly, and said: "No Having said this, someone asked me to ask, what are your three plans for the sequel? "

The three women glanced at each other for a few moments, and did not speak for a while.

Eric stretched his finger to Penélope: "Penny, you."

"Eric, we do n’t mind the shoots sequel. But we do n’t want to rush the two sequels so fast, if one year, we will definitely be stereotyped."

Eric remembered that Metro Goldwyn Mayer wanted to add two sequels of 《Charlie's Angels》 to DreamWorks ’s ten-film plan, and the original ten-film plan was planned within three years. Hearing Penélope's answer, Eric almost understood.

Thinking on the table lightly for a while, and seeing the three girls looking at him more and more anxiously, Eric suddenly smiled and said: "I am so unconfident in me, and worrying that I will sell you?"

Although Eric is very gentle in life, it is often very powerful when it comes to movies. The three girls were really worried that Eric forced them to shoot one a year. After hearing Eric say this, the most brilliant Kate in the brain had already relaxed and laughed and said: "Who makes you so badly spotted."

Eric smiled and said: "It seems that I need to find a time for you to help me recall what bad things I have done."

Kate froze for a moment, Xiao Naogua quickly recalled, but did not remember anything for a while, but still snorted in disbelief.

Eric does n’t care, and explained patiently: "You must have thought too seriously. In this case, you should change to one for two years. In fact, any Film Studio production plan of Hollywood is not fixed. , Involving tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of USD investment, the production process can not be too cautious, and various changes occurred during the period is normal. Although the original agreement was three films in three years, but if in the end because of various The reason was not completed. The remaining projects were either yellowed out or postponed. Like Spielberg, he still owes Universal several movie appointments, which are said to have been contracts more than ten years ago. "

Penélope's eyes rolled around and asked, "What about our compensation?"

"Your film pay doesn't have much to do with me," Eric laughed again: "Although Firefly has a 30% interest in DreamWorks, the film production funds come from Europe, so just let Michelle talk to you. As high as you can, but do n’t play too much, be careful if you shoot twice. ”

Kate asked: "How much do you think we can offer?"

Eric thought about it and said, "The two sequels will be contracted for each person to pack 12 million USD. Do n’t mention the achievements. After all, you have three people. The average 18 million USD starring remuneration is already sky-high. The producers have to invite Other Actor, Actor total payouts may be 25 million. If your asking price is too high, the producer can only compress the shoots budget, which will definitely affect the quality of the sequel and will be harmful to you. "

Eric said it was an understatement, but even the Charlize, which has always been a bit worried, couldn't help but stunned. After all, their film rewards for first part are only two 30 million USD, and they have suffered so much, and now their prices have suddenly skyrocketed to tens of millions. I never thought I could make so much money in the past.

After being surprised, Kate quickly thought of something, saying: "Is there more 45 million? I heard that Nicole Kidman can almost make more than 30 million with a" The Mummy "."

"The Mummy" North America and overseas Box Office are very popular, and various incomes are expected to add up in the next few years. It can bring Universal Pictures a net profit close to 400 million USD. It is precisely because of the "The Mummy" Box Office explosion that Michael Eisner easily regained control of Universal from Michael Ovitz after cardiac surgery.

However, the biggest personal profit of this film is undoubtedly Nicole. The original 8% omni-channel sharing contract will bring Nicole income of not less than 30 million USD, which also makes her the highest paid Hollywood female. Star, it is estimated that it will be difficult to be surpassed in the next ten years.

"Like Jack Nicholson's super high pay in" Batman ", Nicole got so much this time. It was just an accident. Universal is estimated to have regretted their death. They only needed 10 million USD to get Nicole. , But now I paid three times the price. Moreover, Nicole ’s participation in the next sequel will definitely only earn a fixed salary. "

Penélope said: "Then we will talk according to the number you gave."

Eric nodded, looked at the angel wings next to it, and smiled: "These must be worn in Neiyi to look good. There is a fitting room next to them, go and show them to me."

Kate immediately glared at Eric with a red face. Penélope smiled, picked up his wings, and pulled Kate out: "Kate, let's try it, we don't have to show it to a guy."

The two women said they had left the office. Eric looked at Monica with his big eyes blinking, and pointed to the door: "You also go, help your sister change clothes."

"Um ... uh," the little girl with more and more water spirits appeared to realize what she was doing, and walked out panic with her head and foot.

After the office door was closed, Eric asked Charlize: "Is something wrong?"

"No." Charlize shook his head, hesitated, and said: "Michelle told me, I also saw the note you wrote, I ... I just want to thank you."

"Oh," Eric nodded and joked: "You know, I am a capitalist, you made money for me, and of course I will cover you."

Charlize bit his lower lip, tangled for a moment, and said: "I, I don't want to owe you anything."

Eric said with a smile: "Although I really want to say that you do n’t owe me anything, but you know, men all have vanity. So what I actually want to say is, if you think you owe me something, I continue to owe it. Whenever I think of a big beauty who feels that I owe me a debt, I feel very satisfied. "

Charlize finally couldn't hold it back. After arriving at this office, he laughed for the first time, but the girl quickly converged and glared at Eric with annoyance, said: "You, privately Is that how to coax girls here? "

"Not necessarily, it depends on the person, such as you, you have to go the opposite way, using a term in Eastern Art of War, which is to try to escape," Eric smiled and pointed out the door, continue. Talking eloquently: "For Kate, this kind of proud little girl needs to be appropriately strong. For Penny ... it doesn't matter what way."

"You are such an asshole," Charlize couldn't help laughing again, but the girl had moved to the door unconsciously.

Then, in Eric ’s surprised eyes, Charlize reached out and locked the office door, and then walked towards Eric with a vigorous force. Eric was about to get up, but was pressed by Charlize on a large leather chair Then, the girl's slender body bullied and reached out and pulled up the Eric tie, like a suddenly crazy cat, but the panic hidden in the girl's expression completely sold her out.

Just what Eric is about to say, Charlize has put the torn necktie in front of Eric as an eye mask.

Afterwards, the cool thin lips kissed awkwardly.

When the thin lips that were trembling because of tension left him, and two small hands were pulling his shirt randomly, Eric subconsciously joked again: "Charlie, you know, in the United States, some crimes are not Only for men. "

However, just after this sentence fell, Eric suddenly felt a bit of bite on his shoulder.

In the voice of the man breathing coolly, the girl with a slightly trembling voice still insisted and said bitterly: "Let you, ignore me deliberately."

"Sir Queen, this is the office, or let's go home, let's rest assured, I'm sure I won't let you go ..."

"Shut up and do n’t move."

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＊ PS: I watched "Casino Royale" today, and then there is this chapter ...

＊＊＊ (To be continued.)