At this time, when Eric took the initiative to mention the two of them’s last bet at the Oscar, Judy couldn’t help but say, “But why did I suddenly feel like I owe you a promise.”

"Since you think so," Eric beats the snake and sticks up: "Or, I'll treat me to dinner later."

"Okay," Judy nodded happily and said, "We'll go to the movie together after dinner."

Eric was even more cheerful: "No problem."

Judy continued, "You can send me home after watching the movie."

Eric was flattered: "Okay."

Judy's heroic Western-style phoenix eyes snatched Eric's bitterly, and a smile on her lips: "You think beautifully."

Eric had a very hurt expression and said, "Uh, Judy, you're not good."

Judy didn't mean to regret it at all, and she smiled and said, "Who made you always think about cumbling on me, little boy."

"Do you know, Judy," Eric said seriously: "From a psychological perspective, the name of little boy means that you are subconsciously worried that you cannot stop the attraction of a opposite sex, so you deliberately use a defensive title that you think can distance yourself from the other party. But in fact, this may only have a counterproductive effect."

Judy leaned against the table and raised her chin with one hand, listened with a smile, and said, "Although I think you are talking nonsense, it seems to make sense."

Eric advised: "You should be more confident and have the courage to admit your mental state."

"Okay, I won't listen to you talking nonsense," Judy smiled and took out a stack of manuscripts from her bag and handed them over: "This is the first draft of the novel "Gravity" written by me. Although it is only half completed, I still want you to take a look first."

When Eric heard Judy talk about the serious matter, he stopped joking. He took the manuscript and said, "Then I will finish reading it on the weekend and reply to you on Monday."

"Don't be so anxious, you can finish watching it anytime," Judy waved her hand and stood up and said, "Then, I'll leave first."

Eric also stood up and sent Judy away, then returned to the workbench and continued to complete today's work log.

It was still the sunshine that was unique to California on Saturday morning.

Although there are also work arrangements today, I don’t have to be as rushing as I do on a weekday.

In the sharp corner manor, Eric got up on time at seven o'clock. After a routine exercise, he sat in the restaurant to read today's newspaper. There was an open laptop on the dining table. The twins were busy in the kitchen. The girl was crazy outside until late at night and stayed in bed as usual. It seemed that she would not plan to get up until noon.

Today is the third Saturday of "Charlie's Angels 3", and the detailed box office data of the film in recent times is displayed on the laptop.

After a record-breaking $95.9 million box office in the first weekend, the box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" finally reached $130.43 million in the first week, continuing to break the box office record of Hollywood movies in all aspects.

Subsequently, the box office of the second week of the film was not disappointing, with the decline of the second week remaining at a very good 43%, and another US$74.34 million, with the total box office of two weeks reaching 204.77 million, successfully achieving a feat of breaking 200 million in both weeks.

Judging from the single-day box office of yesterday's third week, "Charlie's Angels 3" fell 49% compared with last Friday, with a single-day box office of US$8.46 million.

Considering that another A-level production "The Scorpion King" was released this week, this nearly 50% drop is not disappointing.

In Eric's memory, the former "Scorpion King" can only be considered a mid-to-high cost, and the box office does not seem to be considered excellent. But this time, with the ambition of Universal to create the mummy mythical universe, the production cost of this new "Mummy" series of spin-offs reached $90 million.

After its massive release yesterday, "The Scorpion King" received good reviews in both the story and the special effects. The film's midnight show plus the first day also reached 21.86 million US dollars. According to the reputation and opening box office of "The Scorpion King", the box office in the first week is very promising to exceed 80 million US dollars.

This data naturally cannot be compared with "Charlie's Angels 3", but as the first part of the spin-off series, this result is already very outstanding. Only in the North American box office, Universal may recover all the production costs.

In this case, it is almost inevitable that "Charlie's Angels 3" will be hit. The decline does not exceed 50%, which proves the popularity of this agent movie universe blockbuster. Moreover, with a two-million-week period, "Charlie's Angels 3" has basically locked in the first film in 1998, with the box office of North America expected to exceed 300 million US dollars.

Considering the second half of the summer season and the end of the year, except for "Mission: Impossible 3", which is also part of the MGM Agent Cinema Universe, "Charlie's Angels 3" is definitely the most powerful contender for the 1998 North American box office championship.

Overseas, among the major ticket stores that have achieved simultaneous release, the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" also exceeded US$260 million in two weeks. Among them, several important overseas ticket stores such as Japan and Italy have not yet been released.

According to information from all aspects, the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" is conservatively estimated to be twice that of North America's box office. In other words, "Charlie's Angels 3" has a high hopes to hit the global box office billion dollar mark again, becoming the second global box office billion movie in the MGM Agents Cinema Universe.

Last year's "007 Casino Royale" was so popular that the market value of MGM, which had been silent in Hollywood for many years, broke through the 10 billion dollar mark in one fell swoop.

Against the backdrop of the overall rise of North American stock market, with the further success of the MGM Agent Cinema Universe and the rapid development of MGM TV business, according to yesterday's closing price, MGM's stock price has reached a high of US$51.37, with a market value of US$22.3 billion.

MGM, which was on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, could be out of the ranks of Hollywood big-time producers at any time. At this time, if the film and television media business is alone, its strength has far exceeded that of Sony Pictures, which once "joined" at the last place, and its expected profit this year can be ranked among the top three major studios.

While sitting at the dining table and flipping through today's newspaper casually, Eric has begun to consider the issue of MGM's further expansion.

In terms of film and television, MGM's biggest shortcoming at present should be the limitations on the scale of film production and distribution.

Although there are two super blockbusters, "Charlie Angel 3" and "Mission Impossible 3", MGM has only produced and distributed plans for nine films in 1998. "Charlie Angel 3" and "Mission Impossible 3" have booked more than 80% of the box office share of MGM's film business throughout the year.

Although the Agent Film Universe Project has entered its peak stage, it is actually full of dangers in the dark. The most obvious thing is that all three series have begun to face the test of the Hollywood trilogy curse.

Although Eric used strong means to get the 007 series to pass this threshold last year, now, with the increasing importance of the Agent Cinema Universe to MGM, he could no longer easily use the nearly stolen method of last year.

If MGM wants to reduce its dependence on the Agent Cinema Universe, it is necessary to enhance MGM's overall film production and distribution capabilities. In this way, even if there is a change in the Agent Cinema Universe, MGM will not suddenly fall from its peak to the bottom.

Just like Firefly this year, although the entire Firefly Group only has the heavyweight special effects blockbuster "The Day Afternoon" this year, due to Firefly Pictures, Disney Pictures and New Line Pictures' total impressive film production and distribution scale, as well as the subsequent videotape and TV broadcast rights of a series of box office blockbusters in previous years, Firefly Group's film and television business revenue this year can still steadily sit at the top of Hollywood.

The twins brought the breakfast, and Eric temporarily stopped thinking about these things. He ate breakfast, waited for the twins to sit down opposite him, and asked, "Where did you go yesterday, so crazy?"

Natasha looked up and said, "Miss Paltrow's party is to celebrate the completion of "Fast and Furious."

Eric nodded, without saying anything, just reminded: "You two should not drink at these parties, take good care of her."

Natasha replied softly, "Master, we never drink."

"Well, this is a good habit," Eric nodded and asked casually, "What do you usually like to do?"

Natasha was stunned and said, "We will do whatever the boss asks us to do."

Eric thought about it carefully and seemed that he didn't realize that the twins usually have any special hobbies. The twins looked like the shadow of a girl: "Well, haven't you ever thought about what to do in the future, such as getting married?"

Natasha looked over with clear blue eyes and suddenly asked, "Master, do you want us to get married?"

Eric was stunned for a moment, suddenly smiled, shook his head and said, "No, this is not right, you don't know how to speak normally."

However, Natasha did not respond to Eric's words, but asked again: "Master, do you want us to get married?"

Listening to Natasha's completely abnormal words, Eric was surprised and said simply, "Of course I don't want you both to be mine, and neither of you are allowed to run away."

"Well," Natasha responded, as if the conversation had not happened before, and she returned to her usual cold and faint expression, her head drooped slightly, and she began to eat silently.

Eric stared at the two girls opposite him for a few seconds, and suddenly felt like he had just experienced a supernatural incident. He couldn't help asking again: "Nata, do you still remember what you said just now?"

Natasha raised her face again, nodded slightly, and looked at Eric and said, "Master, if you want, you can take us out for the night, but we can't be together, we can only have one at a time."

Only one at a time, so how can you take advantage of the twins?

Eric thought to himself, and glanced at Eve on the other side. Eve felt Eric's gaze, and a little blush appeared on his delicate face, which was exactly the same as Natasha, but he just lowered his head slightly.

Eric withdrew his gaze and turned to Natasha, saying, "Well, what if I had to do two together?"

Natasha's expression did not change much, and she said, "Master, you can't beat us."

“…”

Well, it seems that the truth will always be in the hands of people with big fists.

Eric suddenly found that there were two more abnormal humans hidden deep around him, and inexplicably felt some strange feelings in his heart.

"I remember calling Drew up at 10 o'clock, so I can't sleep too long. In addition, in the evening's "Charlie's Angels 3" celebration banquet, I went directly from the cinema, you don't have to wait for me," After breakfast, before going to work, Eric gave instructions to the twins as usual, waited for the twins to nod quietly, and looked at the two identical beautiful faces in front of me, Eric half-jokingly said, "I'm going to work, do you want to kiss me?"

Natasha nodded, but Eve blushed shyly. The two identical girls, whose reactions were completely different, gave Eric a strange feeling again.

However, after Eric finished speaking, both sides stood there for a while, and no one moved, no movement, no movement.

After a stalemate for more than ten seconds, Eric shrugged slightly and said, "Okay, I must have said something strange just now. It was quite strange all morning. Now, goodbye."

Putting aside some abnormal experiences in the morning, Eric rushed to Firefly Cinema and soon got into work.

He studied the transformation of the astronaut helmet that removed the glass cover in the morning with Robert Byron, a visual effects director of Gravity, but at noon he agreed to a meal with Amy Pascal, and planned to discuss the next development plan for the "Charlie's Angels" series. Of course, the main issue is the Charlize trio's pay.

Generally speaking, the global box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" is expected to hit the global box office of one billion dollars, and the starring actors of this series are already qualified to receive $20 million or even higher.

However, Charlize and the others are three. If each of them gets a single $20 million in salary, just three of them will have to pay $60 million for each sequel. If the series wants to invite one or two powerful supporting roles, then it will be just one pay, which is enough for Hollywood to produce an A-level film.

Under traditional Hollywood rules, poor cost control has always been the main reason for the losses of major studios. Of course, this is not Hollywood lacks producers who are good at cost control, but rather that producers are usually the most direct beneficiaries of this rule.

All major creators who participate in the production of the film can make a profit, and those who are sacrificed are often the interests of shareholders and investors. If Eric is just a director, he naturally hopes to see this form of interest distribution exist for a long time.

However, now, Eric's most important identity is more inclined to shareholders and investors, so he naturally cannot allow this situation to continue to happen within the Firefly system.
Chapter completed!