In the original plan, Robert Shay planned to wait for "The Silent Lambs" to be released for two weeks, and the attendance rate dropped to a certain level. He justified the transfer of "The Silent Lambs" to "Sleep with the Enemy" and gathered 2,000 theaters for "Sleep with the Enemy".

After two consecutive movies with box office of "Pretty Beauty" and "Steel Magnolia" with a box office of over 100 million yuan, Julia's box office appeal is unquestionable, so the movies starring her can support 2,000 theaters to be released at the same time.

Unfortunately, the box office trend of "The Silent Lambs" was far beyond everyone's expectations. The box office fell by less than 20% the next week. Even Robert Shay is willing to do so, even if the screening theaters of "The Silent Lambs" signed a ladder-sharing contract, it is impossible for the movie to be replaced with "Sleeping with the Enemy". Therefore, there are only 1,700 premiere theaters of "Sleeping with the Enemy".

Of course, the release scale of 1,700 theaters did not affect the performance of "Sleeping with the Enemy". Three days after its release, "Sleeping with the Enemy" won more than 18 million US dollars in box office, which has exceeded the average box office per week of $10,000.

Although the box office success of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been successful, the credit for that movie cannot be counted on Robert Shay. Therefore, the first big production film independently produced was successful. Robert Shay couldn't wait to prepare for a celebration banquet after the box office was released on the weekend, as if he wanted to declare his status to the entire Hollywood.

Anyway, there was a decision before that, by the end of the year, Eric did not intend to have any conflict with Robert Shay, so he readily agreed to pay for all the celebration banquet held at the Hilton Hotel.

After "Sleeping with the Enemy", Eric no longer goes to the Firefly headquarters every day. Although "The Love of Man and Ghost" has entered the final publicity stage, Eric did not run around with starring Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda to make final publicity for the movie. If he was just a film director, these things would definitely not be escaped, but as the boss of Firefly, Eric still has this privilege.

Several cars stopped outside the Dockweiler Beach Park south of Santa Monica in Los Angeles. The door opened and seven or eight people came down one after another. Eric skillfully put on sunglasses and baseball caps, and then he looked at the beach park with confidence.

The group soon gathered over, wearing a sun hat, wearing a simple black T-shirt and dark jeans, Catherine Bigelow, said: "It's here. I've been here once before, I just took a rough look and made some comparisons these days. I found that it's better to be here, let's go in."

"According to the cold and dark tone of "Shock Point", it seems to be a little too beautiful here," Eric said following Catherine Bigelow and looking at the surrounding scenery.

“I plan to choose to come here again to shoot.”

"Cloud days? In Los Angeles, this kind of weather is hard to encounter," Eric shook his head and turned to the photography director of "Shock Point" following behind him: "Donald, do you have any good solutions?"

Donald Peterman is a middle-aged man in his forties. He is also a very excellent photographer. He has participated in the shooting of many excellent movies before. Since "The Stunning Point" has a sufficient budget, Catherine Bigelow and James Cameron, the crew members have chosen the best one. In the early stages of the movie, in order to confirm that the scene chosen by the director is suitable for shooting, the photography director must participate.

Hearing Eric's words, Donald Peterman squinted his eyes and looked around for a while before saying, "If you want the best effect of the film, I certainly hope that the scene here can be shot on cloudy days, but Los Angeles has not encountered many rainy days a year, so it is okay to choose to shoot in the evening. But in that case, due to the light changes, the time for shooting is very short. If it is not completed several times, we can only wait for the next day."

The group of people walked around the dockweiler Beach Park, and wrote and painted without anyone else in the curiosity and doubts of the beach surfers, making some records from time to time. Donald Peterman also used a camcorder to take several shots at the location where Catherine Bigelow was interested in. After nearly an hour of busy work, everyone left.

They did not communicate with the park managers because it was still early to start filming. According to the plan, "Shock Point" will not start at the end of July at the earliest.

After watching the dockweiler Beach Park, everyone quickly drove towards the next target. After running for the whole afternoon, Eric also deeply realized the vastness of Los Angeles County. He ran more than 100 kilometers in a day, but he was still wandering around the streets and alleys of Greater Los Angeles, and he didn't even arrive in the suburbs.

In the evening, the group finished their dinner at a restaurant in Santa Monica and planned to go home.

"Hey, Kate, can you wait?" Eric called out to Catherine Bigelow, who was about to drive home.

Katherine Bigelow stopped by the car door and asked, "Eric, is there anything?"

"That's right. Will you come here tomorrow, Fireflies will hold a celebration party for "Sleeping with the Enemy" at the Hilton Hotel?"

Katherine Bigelow shook his head very directly: "Sorry, Eric, I don't like to attend such parties."

"I mean, you can be with Jim, and a lot of Hollywood executives may come tomorrow, which is very good for expanding your connections."

"Jim went to North Carolina to select the scene for Terminator 2," Katherine Bigelow shrugged: "I can't go alone."

"You can be with me, I think Jim wouldn't mind," Eric said in a relaxed tone.

Catherine Bigelow raised his eyebrows and said with a teasing voice: "Little guy, I want to warn you, don't make any decisions about me."

"Ahem..." Eric didn't expect Catherine Bigelow to be so direct. He couldn't help but cough twice before saying, "Kate, I think you must have misunderstood."

"I can be 100% sure, I have no misunderstanding," Catherine Bigelow opened the car door and planned to leave. After thinking about it, he turned around, hugged Eric like a big sister and patted him hard on the back, and said in a tone of coaxing the child: "Okay, little guy, here, tomorrow we will choose the heroine for "Shock Point". Those young and beautiful little girls are the targets you should aim for."

Although the light fragrance on Catherine Bigelow was very pleasant, Eric still resistedly broke out of the woman's arms: "Okay OK, okay, but can you stop calling me a little guy?"

"Of course," Katherine Bigelow smiled and took two steps back, opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat, waved his hand at Eric: "See you tomorrow, little guy."

"See you tomorrow," Eric waved helplessly at the woman, looking at Catherine Bigero driving the Chevrolet SV to his car, looking at his current expression in the rearview mirror on the windshield. Eric rubbed his cheeks a few times before saying to himself: "It's so embarrassing to be revealed so directly, but I like this kind of personality." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!