Chapter 1063: Bad Food
Because of the temporary replacement of the landline, Eric officially took off after lunch with Yatou and others in Ventura at noon.
Boeing 767 entered the stratosphere smoothly, and Mayer untied his safety belt. Caroline was still recuperating due to foot injury. This time, except for a routine group of bodyguards, she was the only one who followed Eric to London.
After carefully checking Eric's schedule for the next few days, seeing the flight attendant on the plane coming over with coffee, Mayer got up and stopped the other party, smiling and said, "I'll do it."
The flight attendant is a temporary staff member assigned by the aircraft leasing company, with the tall figure and delicate face of a girl in this industry.
Because she wanted to serve Eric Williams, the flight mission distributed by the company in the morning even caused a scramble. She finally got a place. She just heard Eric Williams in the study in the phone call needed coffee, and she dressed up specially. Beautiful women are always not lacking in ambitions. If they can get close to Eric Williams and win the other party's favor, she can directly achieve success.
At this time, Mayer was intercepted. The flight attendant was very unhappy, but the smile on her face remained unchanged, and she said, "Miss Mayer, I'll do it."
"I happen to have a job to talk to Eric," Mayer reached out and took the tray from the stewardess, and at the same time he put away the smile on his face, with a little command in his tone, and said, "You go back."
The flight attendant did not dare to offend Eric's personal assistant, and muttered a few words in his heart, but had to turn back in disgust.
When the stewardess' figure disappeared from the entrance of the lounge, Mayer breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that he had just pretended to be a little bit powerful, and he couldn't help but feel guilty and then walked towards the airplane study on the other side with a tray.
Eric was leaning against the leather chair behind the desk and reading a script intently. When he heard the knock on the door, he didn't raise his head, but just responded softly.
Mayer walked to the desk gently, poured Eric a cup of coffee, placed the coffee pot next to him, and looked at the focused man in front of him, and suddenly remembered what happened in the morning.
It seems that he will definitely not be able to sit in those two Gulfstream Vs in the future.
What a willful guy, with a private jet worth $36 million, and there are two, just thrown aside. It is probably only the man in front of him who has enough confidence to do so in this world.
You should know that the price of two Gulfstream Vs is just the beginning. The annual maintenance and flight costs in the future will be at least 10% of the aircraft's construction cost. This is a long-term expenditure that many people can't bear. This is probably the reason why many rich people would rather rent private jets for a long time than buy them by themselves.
Eric turned the script of "Fighting Club" in his hand a page, and felt that the people around him had not left, so he looked up and interrupted Mayer's daze with a smile: "Mary, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh, no," Mayer realized his distraction, shook his head quickly, and quickly found a topic to let him escape the embarrassment, and said, "I just saw you reading this script. In fact, when I sorted out the information for you, I happened to read it, but I didn't understand what director Finch wanted to express this time."
"It's very simple," Eric said with a smile on his lips, "Finch wants to tell everyone this time that if you have mental illness, you should detect and treat it early. You should not ignore the disease and avoid medical treatment, otherwise it will harm others and yourself."
Mayer was stunned for a moment, realizing that Eric was joking, and immediately covered his mouth and laughed.
Eric looked at Mayer's beautiful appearance in a light gray professional suit and smiled, saying, "If you are interested in this story, you can go and read the original novel of Chuck Paranik, which is a story of a modern person struggling to resist in confusion until he collapses. As for this script, I think Finch himself hasn't considered what he wants to express, so if it is not done properly, this project will definitely turn into a disaster."
Mayer listened carefully and asked, "Then are you going to approve this project?"
"Of course," Eric nodded, saying, "This is actually a very interesting script. As long as you can put more effort into the future distribution and marketing stages, this movie may even become a masterpiece in the hearts of CULT fans."
In history, the experience of "Fighting Club" was almost exactly the same as "A Chinese Odyssey", both of which were failed in box office during the release stage, but with the continuous deconstruction of subsequent fans, it gradually became a classic masterpiece.
Now, the budget given by the new line is $50 million, and Eric thinks that this is probably not enough, because as he just said, Finch himself may not have grasped what he wants to shoot, so he is likely to fall into confusion during the shooting stage and cause project overspending.
However, Eric doesn't plan to let the new line miss the movie.
Firefly Group has sold enough commercial films, and it is necessary to produce a group of unique films to improve the diversity of the company's film library. In recent years, in addition to mainstream commercial films, Firefly's labels have also been maintaining cooperation with personalized directors such as David Finch and Quentin Tarantino.
As for the "Fighting Club" in front of you, although the risk is a bit high, as long as the new line can formulate a special marketing plan in a targeted manner to let the audience understand the movie in advance, at least it should make people who cannot understand it think that this is a very awesome movie. Then, it is still easy for the film to achieve commercial success.
After chatting for a few words and resolving the embarrassment that he had just been dazed, Mayer turned around and left the study.
Eric continued to focus on the script of Fight Club.
To be fair, Eric himself doesn't understand the movie too much, but there are still many classic lines in the movie that are worth carefully scrutinizing and savoring.
After carefully reading the script, Eric opened the laptop next to him and drafted an email according to his thoughts on the movie. He temporarily left it in the draft box and sent it to Kenneth Horn, who was planning to arrive in London, and then picked up another document on the desktop.
Eric had a dinner on the plane, and he rested for several hours, and after waking up, the Boeing 767 had arrived over London.
The West Coast of the United States left Ventura Airport at 1:00 pm. After ten hours of flight, including the time difference, it was already seven o'clock in the morning on November 11.
Without any emotion about this once very interesting day, Eric just got off the plane at London Heathrow Airport when he was rushed to pick him up by Emily, Edward Lazek and others who were brought to the venue for tomorrow's Victoria's Secret Show, the Earl's Palace Convention and Exhibition Center in the West End of London.
Compared with the Lesington Avenue Arsenal in Manhattan, the Earl's Palace Convention and Exhibition Center, which covers an area of more than 40,000 square meters, is extraordinary.
Eric and his group arrived at the destination. The gate of the Earl Palace was covered with huge posters of Victoria's Secret brand. There were also many media reporters holding cameras on the roads around. Seeing that Eric was driving into the Earl Palace, they surrounded them, but they could not see the identity of the characters in the car.
Compared with Los Angeles, which is still as warm as spring, London in November is already very cold and snow is possible at any time.
Get off the car in the parking lot of the exhibition center, Eric subconsciously put his hands into the pocket of the windbreaker he had just changed into. Looking at the gloomy sky in London as always, he said to Emily beside him: "I said, shouldn't you at least let me have breakfast first or something?"
Emily raised her wrist and knocked her watch, saying dissatisfied: "If I remember correctly, you should have arrived in London around five in the morning. Do you know how long you have been waiting for you at Heathrow Airport?"
Eric said a little embarrassedly, "I'm so sorry. I changed the plane temporarily, so I delayed it for a few hours."
"Then why don't you let us know," Emily complained again, but she didn't chase Eric, feeling that she had the initiative, so she said, "Let's go and help us see how we prepared this time?"
This Victoria's Secret show looks like a farewell concert.
Cindy Crawford, Linda Ivan Golinsta and other veteran angels will withdraw from the Victoria's Secret endorsement team after this show. The original five-member group will only be Diane Kruger and Terra Banks. Moreover, the new contract signed with Victoria's Secret will only last three years. Diane Kruger plans to develop more deeply in Hollywood, and Terra Banks also plans to enter the TV industry as before.
At the same time, the Angel Legion with about 40 people will continue to undergo major blood changes in the past two years.
Although Cindy, Linda and others are likely to return to Victoria's Secret TV to make a guest appearance once or twice in the future, LTD did not disclose this in publicity in order to gain more attention, but instead suggested that this may be the last Victoria's Secret show for a group of popular veteran angel supermodels. This trick did play a big role. It is said that some loyal fans of the Victoria's Secret Legion also flew over from North America to watch the show.
Since the venue at Earls Palace is much larger than the Lesington Avenue Arsenal, LTD released a total of 6,000 tickets this time, which is the largest since the launch of the Victoria's Secret show.
With the strong expansion of the Victoria's Secret brand, LTD also pays more and more attention to the holding of the Victoria's Secret show.
In addition to focusing on the promotion of the Victoria's Secret Corps, the lineup of guests this time is also unprecedentedly strong. In addition to the hot girl group, Backstreet Boy and Madonna, LTD also successfully invited Michael Jackson this time. Years have passed, Michael Jackson has also emerged from the haze of that year and successfully returned to the former emperor superstar style.
However, after mastering the operating model of the Victoria's Secret show for several consecutive years, LTD no longer continued to spend money to invite well-known directors to take action. Instead, senior executives such as Edward Lazek serve as producers, personally controlling the operation of the entire show.
Although it was already late at night in Los Angeles, I had been resting on the plane for a few hours, and was at the age of energetic, Eric was pulled by Emily to watch the show arrangements all morning, but he didn't feel tired.
It was not until noon that the group left the show inside the Earl's Palace and came to the Kensington NH Hotel, where the Angels Legion were located nearby.
Speaking of which, the Earl Palace Convention and Exhibition Center is less than two kilometers away from Kensington Garden Street. Eric can still easily communicate between the Kensington Garden Street villa and the Convention and Exhibition Center in the past two days.
It happened to be lunch time, and when I arrived at the NH Hotel, the group entered the hotel restaurant directly.
Tomorrow is the Victoria's Secret show. Although some Victoria's Secret angels go out shopping, most of them stay in the hotel, which also turns the hotel restaurant at lunchtime into a gathering place for beautiful beauties.
Seeing Eric appear, all the Victoria's Secret angels who were dining in the restaurant stood up and surrounded him enthusiastically.
After hugging a large group of stunners one by one, the girls also consciously dispersed, only Cindy, Linda, and Giselle, who participated in the Victoria's Secret show for the first time this year, stayed. Everyone knew that although there were many girls in the Victoria's Secret Legion who had close relationships with Eric, only the three of them were closest to Eric. As for Alexander and Miranda, they did not come to London this time, but stayed in New York together.
Mayer rushed to Kensington Garden Street in advance to help Eric prepare his residence. He was not around. Some other senior executives of LTD were also very sensible and automatically flicked people. They looked for other places to sit down. Only Emily and Eric sat down at a round dining table with the other three girls.
After sitting down in the chair, Eric looked at Giselle opposite him and asked with a smile: "So, how do you feel now?"
Two positions next to Eric were naturally seized by Cindy and Linda. Giselle felt a little bit of a snack, but he still said, "It's great, everyone takes good care of me."
Cindy took the menu from the waiter who came over and handed it to Eric, and said, "Giselle's step is so amazing. I feel a little inferior. Oh, Eric, you can try the steak here, it's very good."
"Then please order one for me," Eric smiled and simply handed the menu to Cindy again, saying, "If it's not delicious, I'll ask you."
"Haha, OK," Cindy chuckled, not minding that many of the people around him had been paying attention to the eyes here, and leaned intimately into Eric's ear and whispered: "If it's not delicious, you can eat me."
The seductive female body fragrance lingers over, and Eric couldn't help but lean over, but he whispered in a strange tone: "Actually, women's meat is not delicious at all, and there is too much fat. I prefer men's. Little boys are the best, and the taste is very tender."
Chapter completed!