I’m in Hollywood Chapter 538: Awkward
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Chapter 538
Thinking of the words Rachel told me to take the initiative, Carolyn took a deep breath and gently patted the stack of newspaper in his hand before opening the door of the Eric suite with the spare room card just stuffed into her with Alan .
It's already 8:30 in the morning. Carolyn was the interpreter of Eric last night. He attended a reception with him. Of course she didn't drink any alcohol, but Eric couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the host. So I haven't gotten up until now.
After having breakfast at Carolyn, I walked back to a nearby park and just happened to meet Alan. I am ready for today ’s newspaper and plan to wake up Eric. Alan has a very good impression of this girl who greeted him politely. He also knows that Carolyn likes Eric, so he actively offered opportunities for girls.
Pushing open the door of the luxury suite, Carolyn glanced into the room and glanced, and found no one in the living room before walking in. Put newspaper in the hand on the coffee table, Carolyn walked to the door of the bedroom and reached for a few taps.
"Wait."
There was a voice in the bedroom immediately, which shocked the girl without waiting for her to react. The bedroom door was suddenly pulled open, and then a man and a woman stayed there.
Eric just woke up and thought it was Alan outside the door. It happened to me that I forgot to do something yesterday and planned to ask the assistant to make a phone call to Los Angeles and opened the door without thinking.
Carolyn has never been able to wake a man to bed, why would you think that Eric only ran in a pair of boxers and ran to open the door for herself. The girl was a little petite. After opening the door, her eyes first fell on the Eric bodybuilder upper body muscle lines, and then fell, and then turned around with a cry. He couldn't help covering his hot face with his hands.
The Eric, who was also somewhat stunned, was awakened by the girl ’s coquettish cries. Seeing the cute look of Carolyn turning to cover her face, she could n’t help smiling, turned to pick up the clothes and put it on her body, ridiculed: "I came to take advantage of me early in the morning. Alas, I can lose a lot now, just don't know if I can make it back."
Carolyn stomped gently, knowing that Eric was joking, or could not help but argue: "I do n’t, I just ... I ’m just here to send you newspaper."
Eric heard tremolo in Carolyn's voice. Knowing that the girl's face was tender, she didn't dare to continue to tease her. She put on her clothes three or two times and said, "Okay, you can turn around."
Carolyn originally wanted to escape. But she knew that her face must now be covered with a red cloth, so if she goes out and is touched by someone, she must be laughed to death, so she resisted the urge to escape, but when she heard Eric, the girl But he didn't want to turn around, still carrying Eric and saying: "Eric, you go to wash first. I'll call you to have breakfast."
"Okay, thanks," Eric did not refuse. Walk towards the bathroom.
After more than ten minutes, Eric walked out of the bedroom again, and the figure of Carolyn has disappeared without a trace. Eric smiled and shook his head, feeling a little sad in his heart. In Hollywood, I can never see such a simple and shy girl. .
Coming to Europe again. Eric made a call to London according to the original agreement, but did not expect Carolyn to rush over the same day. Eric certainly understands what the girl thinks about herself. However, the deeper the understanding of Carolyn's pure and flawless character. The more Eric thinks, maybe the girl should continue to return to her original life track. Hollywood, the Vanity Fair, is definitely not suitable for such a little girl, and bringing her in will only hurt her.
Thinking about these things in my heart, Eric thought that Carolyn did not help himself to call breakfast, and was planning to pick up the phone and let the restaurant bring some breakfast over. The hotel waiter rang the doorbell.
The German premiere of "Jurassic Park" has been held a few days ago, but the premiere of Paris will be until July 14, Eric is still visiting the corners of Berlin during the day these days, and the same at night Can't avoid all kinds of invitations.
Germany is the most developed country in Europe, and its economic strength was once equal to Japan after the war. If it were not for the influence of the Cold War, Germany ’s economic strength would definitely not be much worse than the current world ’s second largest economy, Japan. However, even so, Germany ’s national power in this era is still the strongest in Europe, and its GDP is even worth the sum of the UK and France ranking second and third in Europe.
The economic development means that there is a lot of money in hand. Although the Germans do not have the sense of security like the Japanese to dispose of industries around the world, they are also very keen to invest abroad. Because of the special tax policy stimulus and the rapid development of Hollywood, investing in Hollywood movies is one of the most popular investment methods in Germany.
In order to stimulate the development of the film, the German government stipulates that German people ’s investment in film does not need to pay taxes, and Germany ’s personal income tax is as high as 51%, that is, if you earn 1 million a year, if you do not For investment, you need to pay 510,000 personal income tax, but if the money is invested in film production, this 1 million does not need to pay personal income tax, which is equivalent to investors using 510,000 tax to invest. And if this 1 million has doubled the profit in the film and becomes 2 million USD, then after paying personal income tax, the remaining money is basically equivalent to the exemption of the original personal income tax, and even if this fund has not been turned over Times, just earn a large part, to a certain extent, it is also equivalent to the exemption of some taxes.
With this in mind, although the risk of film investment is very high, there are still many German investors who have rushed to throw large sums of money to Hollywood. And this year's summer film Karloc Film Industry two violently thrashing two films "Beifeng Xiongfeng" and "Last Action Hero", most of the production funds come from the German film fund.
Strictly speaking, Firefly's "Jurassic Park" has aggravated the loss of these two major productions to a certain extent. Schwarzenegger's "Recent Action Hero" is basically crushed by "Jurassic Park", but when Eric When I arrived in Berlin, I was still ardently sought after by many German Film Studio and film funds, and experienced the failure of "Bei Ling Xiong Feng" and "Last Action Hero". The Germans are also smarter and understand that simply inviting big stars to make blockbuster movies is not so safe. Finding the right investment target is the most secure. And in the "Jurassic Park", global is now madly refreshing the Box Office record. Firefly Pictures is definitely The most suitable investment objective.
Eric in Berlin these days. Most of the invitations received came from lobbyists of the German Film Foundation. At the same time, he also began to consider this issue. At present, the average budget cost of each movie of the Hollywood big Film Studio is still around 30 million USD, and the budget of announcement is not too high. With the average production of 20 movies per year for the big Film Studio, the production The internal cash flow of funds Firefly can be easily digested. At present, Firefly Pictures rarely introduces external film production funds.
However, with the advent of the era of big production movies, the average announcement budget of each movie in the future is likely to easily break through the 100 million USD mark. Although Eric is still very confident, Firefly at that time can also withstand such a huge amount of capital needs But this is not cost-effective. Take Eric's understanding of Hollywood in recent years. He understands that the biggest advantage of Hollywood is to use other people's money to make movies and make their own profits. Because the risk of film investment is very high, in general, the external investors of Hollywood are not making as much money as imagined. The funds invested in Hollywood can generate 10% to 15% of profits every year, which can already be regarded as very rich. The rate of return.
Of course. Because other Film Studio does not have the Eric's Goldfinger, movie investment is always profitable, so it is possible to leave most of the profits to yourself with Hollywood's internal clever sharing rules. And pass on more losses to external investors. But this rule is not so trial for Firefly. Others are making gambling movies, but Eric, who can see through the dice points, is not. Take the recent "Jurassic Park", for example, if a movie of global Box Office 1 billion USD was introduced with external investment, and the investor was told that the business was not profitable at the end of the settlement, then the investor would not be a genius.
After all. Hollywood now introduces a project operating mechanism that many investors co-produce in most movies, just to reduce investment risks. but. For Firefly, this risk is much smaller in front of Eric. It is completely within the scope of Firefly's own tolerance. At this time, it will operate according to the rules of Hollywood. That is not to share risks, but to share profits moistened.
Until breakfast was finished, Eric did not figure out any more feasible operation plan, and a simple breakfast unknowingly ate more than nine o'clock.
It happened to be Monday today, " Jurassic Park 》 Weekend of the new week Box Office Did not go beyond Firefly The forecast of the statistics department, and " Deep Impact 》 The performance on the first three days of the weekend was better than Eric The imagination is much better, got 4 more than 7 million USD of North America Box Office , Expected first week Box Office Likely to break 70 million , Directly reaching the cost line, while Pixar of 3D Animated movie A Bug's Life 》 North America total Box Office It is also about to break 100 million.
When the newspaper in the hand was almost over, the doorbell rang again and Eric opened the door. This time it was Alan.
"You have just come. I asked Disney to collect some potential computer animation studio data a few days ago. You took the time today to ask me to see how they prepared it. If they are ready, send the information to I have a copy. "
"I know, is there anything else?" Alan nodded and wrote down.
Eric shook his head, and suddenly said, "Also, do n’t let Carolyn do this kind of thing anymore, her personality is too shy, just a little embarrassed just now."
Alan seems to know something, smiled ridiculously, and said: "I'm so sorry, Eric, I didn't think so much."
"Oh, what are you doing here?"
"Miss Wilson asked me to ask you if you can't go out to play today," Alan said more ridiculously.
Eric looked at his watch and nodded: "Okay, I'll go by now."
"She is waiting for you downstairs," Alan finally said, and turned away.
Eric had already set the itinerary today, he decided to go to Museum Island in Berlin to take a look, returned to the bedroom to change a pair of shoes, simply cleaned up, Eric walked out of the room.
Sitting in the lobby downstairs of the hotel and looking at a copy of magazine and Carolyn, she looked as usual, but when she saw Eric, the girl ’s cheeks could n’t help but turn red, making Eric want to The urge to squeeze, to be honest, this thought has circulated more than once in his mind.
"Let's go," Although the thought in my heart was evil, Eric did not show it. After politely greeting the girl, he took her out.
At this time, Berlin was not too prosperous, because the Cold War was divided into East and West Berlin. At that time, most of Berlin was controlled by Soviet Union, and the German capital was also moved to Bonn in the west. However, after the merger of East and West Germany in 1990, everyone unanimously decided to move the capital back to Berlin again, and with the strong economic strength accumulated by West Germany, Berlin's infrastructure construction was very rapid.
Berlin ’s public transportation system is very developed, or the entire German public transportation system is very developed. Both of them did not drive and walked to the subway station side by side. Eric also simply took two bodyguards to follow and quickly took the ride The subway came to Berlin's famous Museum Island.
Eggs ca n’t help but red, let Eric have an urge to pinch, to be honest, this thought has been circling more than once in his mind.
"Let's go," Although the idea in my heart was evil, Eric did not show it. After politely saying hello to the girl, he took her out.
At this time, Berlin was not too prosperous because the Cold War was divided into East and West Berlin. At that time, most of Berlin was controlled by Soviet Union, and the German capital was moved to Bonn in the west. However, after the merger of East and West Germany in 1990, everyone unanimously decided to move the capital back to Berlin again, and with the strong economic strength accumulated by West Germany, Berlin's infrastructure construction was very rapid.
Berlin ’s public transportation system is very developed, or the entire German public transportation system is very developed. Both of them did not drive, and walked to the subway station side by side. Eric also simply took two bodyguards to follow and quickly took the ride The subway came to Berlin's famous Museum Island. (To be continued)