"Okay, 80 million is 80 million," Eric quickly figured out Murdoch's situation. Although News Group was firmly controlled by Murdoch, the Murdoch family only had 40% of the shares. If Murdoch wanted to drain all liquidity like Eric treats Fireflies, it would definitely be strongly opposed by other shareholders.

"Eric, I need to give shareholders a full explanation. If you fail to repay the money before the end of the year, I hope to exchange this funds for Firefly shares. What do you think is 10%?"

"5%, Firefly is worth this price now," although Eric is sure to pay the money back within three months, but he is not willing to take risks at all.

Murdoch immediately shook his head: "No, Eric, I can't explain to the shareholders if it is 5% of the time. I heard that you have opened another shell production company..."

The two of them bargained back and forth, and finally made an 8% agreement.

After confirming the deal, the old and the young walked out of the study and heard Elizabeth laughing echoing in the hall from a distance.

"Liz, do you want to demolish my house with a sound wave attack?" Eric asked jokingly when he found the two women sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window.

"I want to remove you," Elizabeth, who was lying on the couch reading the script, sat up and let her father sit down, and at the same time rolled her eyes to Eric.

Eric walked over to Connery and sat down, asking the girl, "What were you laughing at just now?"

"It's a script that imitates Tom Cruise's Top Gun, but it's indeed a comedy route, and the plot is very...jumping." Connery tilted his head and thought for a while before coming up with a suitable adjective.

Eric blurted out with some disdain: "It's "Top Gun" again, this movie is not so easy to replicate. Although the movie was claimed to cost no more than 20 million US dollars, it was a recruitment promotional video with the full support of the military at that time..."

As he spoke, Eric suddenly remembered something and said to Elizabeth: "Liz, I'll read the script."

Elizabeth handed over the script, and Eric took a look at the English title, but he didn't recognize it for a while. However, after reading a few pages of content, he quickly remembered the movie.

The script in my hand is the famous American nonsensical comedy "Anti-Fighting Condor". In my memory, this movie is starring Charlie Xin, the male lead in "Two and Half of the Heroes". The movie conceives a main line similar to "Top Gun", but the content is spoofed to the extreme. Not only does it imitate many classic Hollywood films, it also contains a lot of ridicule of famous politicians and events in recent years.

In the early 1990s, most Hollywood comedies were still pretty normal, so when the spoof of "Anti-Condor" appeared, it immediately caused a sensation.

Noting that Eric's expression changed after seeing the script, Murdoch, who didn't care too much, became curious and asked in a low voice. Elizabeth came to her father and said, "It's Fox's script."

Hearing this sentence, the old fox immediately relaxed, poured himself a cup of coffee, and waited patiently for Eric to open the script.

"Eric. I saw this script first?" Elizabeth said immediately after Eric raised his head.

Eric handed the script to Connery beside him and said to Elizabeth: "The script has been established. Are you planning to dig the corner of Fox?"

"Hmph, of course I won't do this, but don't forget what you said just now. Let me choose a script. I know you have 30% of the investment share, give it to me."

Eric directly threw the girl with a look of 'Did I just say something', which made Elizabeth so angry that she almost jumped up.

After lunch, Murdoch and his daughter were sent away. Eric began to go to Firefly headquarters to prepare for the evening premiere of "The Love of Man and Ghost".

Regarding "Anti-Fighting Condor", Elizabeth then robbed Eric for a few words and gave up asking for Eric's investment. Although the girl had a little temper, she was very smart and rational in major matters and would not make trouble.

There are two female characters with more scenes in "Anti-Fighting Condor", one is a psychoanalyst, who is considered the female lead, and the other is a female pilot nicknamed "Inner Clothes". Among a large number of strong men, this character is quite eye-catching, but there are not many lines. Although Connery is not very satisfied with both characters, Eric has already chosen the script, and the girl obediently chose the female lead role.

The North American distribution of "The Love of Man and Ghost" is a collection of two companies, Disney and Fireflies, with a huge momentum, with as many as 2,300 painting theaters and a grand premiere at the Hollywood Chinese Grand Theater.

Before 6 o'clock in the afternoon, stars began to appear on the long red carpet in front of the China Grand Theater. Although the premiere of "Die Hard 2" a few streets away, the premiere of "The Love of Man and Ghost" is obviously even more starry. In addition to the stars invited by Disney and Fireflies, the family of the male and female protagonists of "The Ghost" is also making efforts. The Coppola family and the Fonda family spare no effort to support the careers of their younger generations. The connections of these two families are enough to circle half of Hollywood.

"Wow, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro came together."

"If Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman come back, that would be amazing."

"This is not easy, it's good to have two."

...

"Look, Judy Foster!"

"It's a pity that she's still so pretty."

"It's just a rumor."

"The Hinckley's incident back then was a lot of stimulation to her. If it were me, I would have changed my sexual orientation."

...

"That's James Cameron. I heard that Terminator 2 has started. I'm looking forward to it. Is the woman next to him his wife?"

"So beautiful and very elegant, probably an actor."

...

"Xue'er, why did she come too?"

"She worked with Nicholas Cage on "The Moonlight" three years ago, and I heard that the two are good friends."

"I still like her singing more."

“…”

“…”

Almost a few minutes later, a star figure appeared on the red carpet that surprised the movie fans, causing bursts of screams and discussions.

Originally, there were only a few hundred fans on both sides of the red carpet, but in less than half an hour, the fans who came to the streets had already crowded with the news. Even many fans who were originally participating in the premiere of "Die Hard 2" rushed over, which made Fox extremely embarrassed but helpless.

As a director, Eric had to start socializing with many guests who came to support him before he even had time to show up on the red carpet. It is estimated that at this time, the fans who were already dizzy with stars shining will not care whether the director, as a director, appeared on the red carpet.

"Eric, I went to watch the preview specially. This movie was made very well, especially the echo of the first and last two music sections, which directly sublimate the theme of this movie to the extreme," Francis Coppola, who came from the set of "The Godfather 3", patted Eric's shoulder and exclaimed.

Eric looked at Cage, who was standing beside Coppola, and said, "Nick's performance is far beyond my expectations. Perhaps in the near future, there will be an Oscar winner in the Coppola family."

"Haha, that's for sure," Coppola said proudly. Westerners do not have too many modesty habits.

After Eric greeted Coppola's uncle and nephew, he quickly walked around the crowd and turned around. He was about to find a corner to rest against the wall for a while, he felt a pair of big hands pressing on his shoulders. He turned his head and saw James Cameron with a fierce smile and Catherine Bigrow.

"Jim, Kate, hello, thank you for coming here," Eric said hello quickly

James Cameron lost the polite smile on the red carpet and asked with a tense face: "Eric, what about money, "Terminator 2" has started casting, but the finance of Black Ant told me that the company had no money, which made me get the deposit to sign a contract with the union. Also, Stan also told me that you suddenly took away all the working capital in the digital field."

"Are there still hundreds of thousands?" Eric asked subconsciously.

Cameron had the urge to pinch Eric’s neck: “What’s the hundreds of thousands of dollars enough? Tell me!”

"Okay OK, Jim, don't worry, a month, I need to use that money for a month, and you will have as much as you want in a month?"

Cameron was about to ask what to do this month, but when he heard what Eric said, he immediately changed his words: "I want to increase my budget, at least...at least add 20 million."

"No problem," Eric nodded happily, and saw that Cameron was about to speak again, and immediately said: "No more."

"Okay, what should I do this month?" Cameron asked.

Eric said: "Take the casting matter slowly. You can go to Stan to figure out how to implement liquid robots. Last time I heard they developed a deformation software for this. By the way, Kate, "Shock Point" may have to step back a little."

"I'm fine," Catherine Bigelow smiled and said, "Anyway, if you drag on it, the movie will only be available for next Easter schedule. What about you who loses it."

"Kate is reasonable, Jim, you have to study hard with your wife," Eric said in a speechless manner, and the woman immediately glared at him.

Because too many celebrities attended the premiere, the ceremony was twenty minutes later than the expected start time.
Chapter completed!