After more than an hour of busy props, Eric needed props.

The shooting begins soon.

After several repeated adaptations, Judy Foster quickly found the feeling.

In the monitor screen, Judy Foster, whose right calf is fixed on a special bracket, slowly arches his body, and his left leg is gradually bent forward, and his arms are relaxed and placed in front of him, gradually forming a posture of a baby in the mother's uterus.

The shooting process of special effects movies is usually difficult to give too much sense of substitution to performers and bystanders, but at this time, the woman in the camera lens exudes a primitive static beauty all over her body, which makes people unable to stop.

The studio was very quiet at this time, and even the sound of the machine running seemed much smaller.

Eric sat in front of the monitor and admired the picture in front of him. It was not until the woman in the camera rotated in the same weightless camera lens that Eric made an OK gesture to Nickel without any satisfaction.

On the model stand, Judy was reminded, slowly stopped her posture, and then looked at Eric.

Eric ordered the staff to remove Judy, walked to the side of the stage, and said, "Although I really want you to do it again, it was perfect enough just now."

"Actually, I really want to do it again. This feeling is very good, like practicing yoga."

Eric pointed to the bracket under Judy's feet: "If you want, you can take these home and practice it yourself."

Judy thought for a while, shook her head with a smile, "That situation is too strange."

The strap was untied. Although he had only been filming for more than ten minutes, Judy still felt a little numb and walked to the side of the stage with some inconvenience. Eric, who noticed Judy's condition, took the initiative to reach out and support her and sit down on the side of the stage.

For "Gravity", the crew completed a lot of scenes in several days. What Judy just shot was actually just the last short section of a long shot. However, after completing the shot just now, today's shooting was basically over. The remaining time is not enough to prepare other shots.

Eric stood by the model stand and watched Judy shaking her calves gently, chatting with her casually. After a while, he felt that he had recovered almost. Judy pointed to the slippers that were placed not far away with her toes: "Eric, can you help me get the shoes over?"

Eric immediately shook his head and said, "Sorry, I have a cleanliness."

Judy was stunned and said, "Do you want me to step on the ground and walk over?"

Eric looked around: "You can ask them to help you get it."

"I just want you to help me get it, Mr. Director," Judy raised her chin and made a proud expression, saying, "I am the heroine. If you don't treat me well, be careful that the heroine will not be able to make the movie."

Eric glanced at the distance between the slippers and Judy and said, "Why do I carry you over and wear it yourself."

Judy immediately gave Eric a blank look and looked very despised: "Don't you have a cleanliness obsession? Why dare you hug me?"

"It's different," Eric shook his head seriously, "In my opinion, women are made of water and are very pure."

Judy blinked and immediately learned from it: "Where is that man?"

"This, I haven't thought about it yet. You know, I'm not interested in men."

"You're starting to talk nonsense again, please help me get it."

"Come on," Eric spread his hands: "It's better to carry the princess's hug or a robber, or you can carry it on your back."

Judy looked slightly angry and wanted to open Eric's hand, but when she raised her arm, she seemed to be waiting for Eric to hug her, so she felt her body lightening, and she floated forward a few steps before landing on the pink slippers accurately.

It's started again.

In the studio, passers-by who consciously pretended not to exist were amazed and sighed secretly.

The director’s method of flirting with girls is so imaginative. It seems that he wants to break the famous lily in Hollywood straight.

After his feet landed on his shoes, Judy realized that after standing, she quickly glanced around her. Seeing that everyone seemed to be paying attention to this side, she stared at the man beside her and said, "Eric, don't do this in the future, otherwise I would... but I would be really angry."

Eric immediately surrendered and smiled, "Okay, I promise."

Judy immediately realized that what he said just now was too unthreatening, and even seemed a little like... I remembered that he had no disgust for Eric's brief hug just now, and couldn't help but reflect secretly and make up his mind to keep a distance from this guy.

So, in the next few days, although the entire crew still cooperated well, everyone discovered that Judy often deliberately avoided conversations and contacts with Eric outside of work.

While continuing the filming of "Gravity", Eric had to devote his energy to paying attention to many other things, so he naturally had no intention of pursuing and fighting.

The story of the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" continues to ferment.

In a week, not only did major Hollywood film companies react to the script, but even some independent producers participated, but this incident even attracted the attention of well-known Hollywood media such as "Hollywood Reporter" and "Variety Show".

However, even though Warner Bros. has offered a high price of $3 million, both script creators, Terry Rucio and Ted Elliott, have not given a positive answer. Hollywood is even rumored that the two are planning a script bid.

Two years ago, Shane Black, the screenwriter of the "Deadly Weapons" series, sold his script for $4 million through script bidding, once again creating a record of his personal original script price. Although the movie ended up with a terrible box office, the script bidding model still attracted many Hollywood gold medal screenwriters to follow suit.

There is a large group of lunatics in Hollywood, but there are not many fools. Ted Elliott's words are actually very accurate. The delays of the two also made some people realize that the two of them are more likely to be waiting for the Firefly Group's reaction.

These days, even MGM and Twentieth Century Fox have joined in the fun and gave quotations, but after the initial contact, Firefly seemed to have completely forgotten the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean". The Firefly script procurement department originally planned to negotiate with Matt Gilson in the subsequent period.

There are too many uncontrollable factors in a movie to succeed, but in the same way, if a movie wants to fail, there will be more uncontrollable factors. In traditional concepts, Hollywood does not think that anyone can see the success or failure of a movie in advance, but countless facts have proved that this law does not apply to Eric Williams at all.

The currently released "Midnight Bell" is the most direct evidence of this view. Although there are rumors that Eric Williams himself did not expect this movie to be successful, few people in Hollywood would really believe this. To a large extent, it was also strongly stimulated by the box office of "Midnight Bell" that when major film companies heard the news of "Pirates of the Caribbean", they were so urgent.

Similarly, because of the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Cut Throat Island", which was recorded in the Guinness record, was once again mentioned by many people.

Now that I think about it carefully, more and more people are more confident. This is a pit Eric Williams dug for Michael Eisner at the time. After "Cutting the Throat Island", Michael Eisner's control over Disney was severely damaged, and Fireflies were able to successfully complete the snake swallowing of the Disney Group.

So now, what's going on with Pirates of the Caribbean?

Although there is a '4200' plan that many people feel is too radical, Firefly Group has not shown any intention of expanding heavily in Hollywood in recent years. Logically speaking, the possibility of this script being a trap is very small. Firefly Group has been almost out of the box in Hollywood in recent years, and there is no need to dig a hole for anyone. Moreover, with the lessons of "Cutting the Throat Island", any production company that wants to get this script will be careful to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

So, the troubles were disturbed for a while, and gradually calmed down. Everyone turned their attention to the Firefly Group, waiting for Eric Williams' final response.

The script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is here. Even if it is won immediately, it will take at least a year for such a special effects blockbuster project to be developed, and naturally everyone is not lacking in this little patience.

It was soon Friday, and at around 4 p.m., Caroline and Mayer rushed over from Burbank with a thick stack of documents.

After the last set of shots, Eric announced his work to finish work, so he took the two girls to a large workbench in the corner of the studio. After get off work these days, he basically completed the work log in the studio, and this time he did not deliberately return to his office in the cinema.

"Eric, the $4 billion fund was successfully paid yesterday. This is the list of investable short-term bonds sent by Mr. Hansen at noon. He has made detailed notes."

As the Nasdaq index breaks through 2,000 points, neither Firefly Investment nor Clover Fund will invest in stocks.

In comparison, the risk of investing in bonds is much smaller. After selling 10% of the stocks of AOL, Eric and Chris discussed the situation of short-term convertible bonds, which can not only ensure certain returns, offset the losses caused by inflation, but also maintain the security of funds as much as possible. The cash reserves of many large companies are actually carried out in this form, and the proportion of cash actually stored in the bank is actually very small.

The documents brought by the two women were all prepared to be processed by Eric on the weekend. They just introduced them to Eric. Mayer continued: "Also, Eric, this is the private settlement clause proposed by the five major record companies to Yahoo. In addition, they have filed a lawsuit against Fireflyer again. This time they asked Fireflyer to strengthen the encryption and identification of genuine music."

Listening to Mayer's introduction, Eric used a pen to mark several documents that he felt needed to pay special attention to, and asked: "Why is there no news from Morgan Stanley? How is the stock distribution plan of AOL?"

Mayer shook his head and said, "We have not received any relevant information recently."

"Then I'll call Chris to talk in person," Eric nodded, and did not ask again, looking at Caroline beside him and said, "Where is this Los Angeles?"

Firefly Group mainly deals with movies. Although the autumn season of TV series is coming, Firefly's TV business has not made much move this year. MGM's TV business has expanded very quickly, but in this regard, the girl usually talks directly to Eric. Without Eric's instructions, the assistant office will not pay attention directly.

In terms of movies, "Iron Man" has always been under the close attention of Eric. The post-production of "Teddy Bear" has been completed by more than half. "Legend of the Night" has been established and will be rushing to London to shoot. In addition, there are some project scripts and budget materials.

After saying this, Caroline said, "There is one more thing. Eric, in the UK, the reality show "Pop Idol" in charge of Mr. Fuller has been recorded and will be broadcast on Sky TV at the end of next month. The other side calls to ask if you want to send some samples?"

"Just send me the first three episodes after editing," Eric said, seeing that the matter was almost the same, then asked, "Where is the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean"?"

"Terry Rucio and Ted Elliott have been dragging negotiation requests from several other film companies, and now most people are in a wait-and-see state. It seems that they don't dare to take the next move without getting a response from the Firefly Group."

Eric thought about it and understood the joints. He thought for a while and said, "They are smart people. I like to deal with smart people. There is no need to continue to drag this matter on, so that they can meet me at the Pinko Manor tomorrow morning."

Eric has always been determined to win the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean". He has even made a record of bidding prices with several other major film companies. After all, no matter how high a script is, it is impossible to be much higher.

However, judging from the current situation, both screenwriters are smart people. Since this is the case, it may be a good way to cut the mess with open and quick sword.

Caroline responded, wrote down the matter seriously in the memorandum, and looked up at Eric.

Eric did not talk about the serious matters anymore, and relaxedly turned his body and said, "So, are there any arrangements for the weekend?"

"Yes," Caroline nodded, saying, "Rachel is in Los Angeles recently. We have made an appointment to go to Ventura tomorrow, and Mel will come here too."

"Rachel," Eric smiled, "This girl is now an international star and has never thanked me well."

Caroline's mouth curled and said, "We have invited you to dinner a long time ago."

"How can I just have a meal?" Eric admired Caroline's pretty little face and said, "At least I have to kiss you too, now, why don't you do it for her."

Caroline shrank her neck and said, "I will tell my aunt, you bully me."

"Usually, the mother is directed towards her children, so she might be very happy that I bullied you."

"No."

"Or you can kiss me." Eric smiled and said, "And don't worry, I won't tell your aunt about bullying me."

"I didn't bully you."

Eric leaned forward a little, posing, and said, "Come on, bully me."

"It's obviously you're going to bully me," Caroline's face turned red. She looked around. The people in the studio were almost gone, and the few remaining people didn't look at this side. After hesitating, she couldn't help but stumble over and pecked Eric's face gently.

Not far away, the makeup artist's door was pushed open, and Judy Foster walked out of the room with two makeup artists chatting and laughing, and happened to see this scene.
Chapter completed!