It was already nine o'clock in the evening in Julia's villa in Beverly Hills. Three women sat around the floor next to a few long sections of the side hall, with several stacks of scripts scattered around them. Elizabeth and Drew were both reading them seriously. Only Julia seemed to be a little interested and looked bored at the script of a romantic comedy in front of her. After a while, Julia finally lost interest and raised her head and asked, "Hey, can we pick out good scripts like this? These should be what the agent did."

Elizabeth and Drew gave Julia a blank look. Drew lowered his head and continued to read the script in front of him. However, Elizabeth explained: "Get rid of it, Julie, we are now producers, not actors, okay? And these are recommended by agents from several agency companies. If you don't want to watch it, go watch TV."

Julia wanted to stand up with a little tempted, looked at the two women, and finally sat on the mat: "Forget it, I'll watch it with you, by the way, Liz, didn't you say that the guy picked a comedy for the woman named Jennifer Connery a few days ago? Maybe we can find the screenwriter of that script to write another one."

Drew looked up at Julia with contempt, and Elizabeth said helplessly again: "The screenwriter of that script is also the director of that movie. He should be making a movie now, so he can't have time to write any scripts for us. What's more, even if the other party has time to write it, it may not be a big deal. Not everyone is as distorted as... that guy."

"Okay okay, you guys just pretend I didn't say anything."

As he was talking, the phone next to him suddenly rang.

"I'll answer," Julia stood up and walked to the phone in three or two steps to pick up the microphone: "Hey. This is Roberts' home...ah..."

Julia heard the other party's voice and immediately covered the microphone and silently lipped at Elizabeth and Drew who were looking at him: "Eric..."

Drew, who had originally read the script seriously, immediately jumped up, rushed over with excitement and grabbed the microphone from Julia's hand, and shouted, "It must be for me."

Julia let Drew snatch the microphone. She shrugged and returned to her seat, looked at Elizabeth, and sniffed at Drew and laughed in a low voice: "It's like a puppy who only heard the master's summon."

Elizabeth also smiled and said, "There is no cure."

Unexpectedly, after Drew said a few words to Eric, he turned his head with an unhappy look and shouted, "Julia, look for you."

"Ah..." Julia pointed to herself in confusion, and saw Drew nodding. She reluctantly stood up and walked over again.

"Hey, Eric, what's the matter with me... Yes, Kapoor said that this character doesn't have many scenes and it's easy to shoot. And the pay for Samsung is also very generous, not to mention that it's working with Steven Spielberg...is that way?"

I don't know what I heard, Julia hesitated for a while, looked at Elizabeth as if she was asking for help, and then continued, "But what to do with Kapoor? He really hopes that I will take on this role... myself... I... I... Otherwise, I will..."

Seeing Julia stuttering, it seemed that she had heard something difficult, and remembered the guy's abominable character. Elizabeth immediately stood up and leaned over, and took the microphone from Julia's hand: "Hey, Eric. What do you want to force Julia to do again? I have warned you!"

“…”

"No, why should Julia give up this role? Don't think about it!" Elizabeth said, and hung up the phone with a snap.

"Liz, isn't this suitable?" Julia pointed to the hung-up call nervously.

Elizabeth waved her hand and said confidently: "Don't pay attention to that guy, Julie. You will sign the contract tomorrow, hum. I really think we are easy to bully."

After Elizabeth said that, she pulled Julia and sat back again. The three of them continued to read a lot of scripts, but the atmosphere followed always seemed a little unnatural.

Drew was nothing. Although she had been by Julia's side just now, she heard what Eric said, remembering the woman Nicole Kidman called to ask about Eric's whereabouts a few days ago. Drew quickly understood the whole story of the matter.

It must be Julia and Nicole who fell in love with the same character. Eric wanted Julia to give the character to Nicole. Although he couldn't help but feel a little jealous, this matter had nothing to do with her after all.

But Julia and Elizabeth, who simply rejected Eric, could not rest assured to continue reading the script, and always looked at the phone on the table next to the sofa from time to time, as if looking forward to the machine ringing again.

Unfortunately, after nearly an hour, Eric did not call him again.

"Hey, Drew, you've been staying in New York with Eric last month, right?" Elizabeth finally couldn't breathe and asked first.

Drew pointed without raising his head, and used a pen to mark a small star on the script in front of him, and read the other one.

Seeing Drew's indifferent look, Elizabeth thought there was a chance, so she quickly continued to ask: "Then you should know how much money he made, right?"

Then Drew raised his head, and the beautiful baby had a smile on his face. After seeing Elizabeth with a guilty look, the girl popped up a few words: "I don't know."

"..." Elizabeth curled her lips speechlessly: "If you don't want to say it, just don't say it."

Drew smiled, took out a piece of gum from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and continued to look down at the script.

"I read the newspaper in the morning and said that the price of crude oil futures has risen to $30 now. It was only $14 a few months ago. I heard that many people who trade futures have made a lot of money. Eric should be able to make hundreds of millions of dollars. I guess he will make at least twice the profit now," Julia added unknowingly.

"You don't understand, futures can be magnified by leverage. Ten times or twenty times leverage can magnify the principal to ten times and twenty times." Elizabeth explained in a comprehensible manner.

Then, the two girls who reacted closed their mouths, stared at each other in surprise for a while, and looked at Drew again.

"See what I do, I don't know anything." Drew repeated again.

Elizabeth put his arms around Drew's little shoulder: "Hey, let me reveal a little, Drew, how much did Eric earn? Julia and I promised not to tell it."

Drew shook Elizabeth's shoulder and said the same thing: "If you ask a hundred times, I don't know either. And even if I know, I won't tell you."

"Then what have you done with Eric for the whole month?" Elizabeth asked unwillingly.

Drew said the truth: "Let's play, that's New York, a paradise for rich people, and there are so many fun places to go."

“…”

...

Eric put down the phone at the corner manor and said to Nicole sitting next to him: "Liz snatched the phone and hung up directly. I'll take the time to talk to Julia, and I'm not in a hurry now."

Nicole nodded, she knew that since Eric had promised, she would definitely do her best.

The next day, Eric did not go to Julia's place immediately. Instead, he went to Fireflies as usual.

I learned about the company's operations during this period and paid attention to the release of the following movies. It is now mid-August. "The Love of Man and Ghost" and "Instinct" released in July are still in the top few box office lists.

This summer season has also come to an end. In addition to "The Love of Man and Ghost" with a strong momentum that may exceed 200 million US dollars, no other box office dark horse has emerged throughout the summer season.

Even the Die Hard 2, which was at the beginning, fell by more than 40% in the second week, earning more than 20 million US dollars. This blockbuster with a total box office of 200 million yuan to recover its cost seems to have no hope of making a profit in North America. Fox can only pin his hopes on overseas markets.

As for "Instinct", this hot R-level film with a theme released by Universal in late July has won nearly $70 million in four weeks, and there is definitely no suspense to break the 100 million next time.

At the same time, the negotiations between the global parent company MCA and the Japanese Panasonic Consortium were settled. Panasonic acquired the global parent company MCA for a huge capital of 6.1 billion US dollars, and another Hollywood film giant fell into the hands of the Japanese consortium.

However, Eric knew that Panasonic was not as capable as Sony. After several years of unacceptable conditions and huge losses, Panasonic quickly transferred Global to the next company again.

After staying in the company for most of the day, Eric did not see Robert Shay. After asking, Eric learned that Robert Shay had found another project during this period and was negotiating with the copyright owner. As for the specific content of the script, Robert did not reveal his words to his subordinates. It was obvious that he was guarding against him, which made Eric feel a little funny.

After reporting on some fireflies, Allen then handed Eric a stack of file bags filled with script Jian Gang: "Eric, this is the movie about the pirate type you asked me to look for some time ago. Because you told me to keep it as confidential as possible, I only found 37 movies. This is just a story Jian Gang. If you need a detailed script after reading it, I will contact you again."

"I understand, you go and do things first."

Allen nodded and turned away from the office.

Eric opened a file bag in front of him. Because he had specific goals, Eric read very quickly. He just simply looked at the story summary and threw it aside if it was not the goal he was looking for.

Soon, Eric focused on a thin script outline, with the screenwriter's name written on the screenwriter's column. This name just matches the screenwriter's "Cutting Throat Island" in memory. He quickly read the script outline. The plot and the names of the male and female protagonists were completely correct, but the name of the script was not called "Cutting Throat Island".

"It seems that's it," after finding this big pit, Eric began to think about how to operate the script. This smelly egg is of course used to cheat people, but to ensure that this big pit can have the greatest effect, the best situation is to gather the lineups of the previous life.

In my memory, the male and female protagonists of this movie are Gina Davis and Matthew Modion, and director Lanny Harlem is Gina Davis' husband. Lanny Harlem is ambitious to promote his wife to an action actress, but he almost ruined Gina Davis's acting career. Although he did not know the subsequent story development, according to Hollywood convention, Eric felt that the two of them were likely to divorce.

Eric remembers that last year, he personally gave Gina Davis the best supporting actress Little Golden Man. Later, the other party collaborated with another actress Susan Sarandon to the famous feminist film "The Deadly Flower", which is also an Oscar-like film. If history does not change, the actress became sluggish with the box office defeat of "Seeded Throat Island", just like another tragic actor Kevin Costner.

Thoughts flew around, thinking of Kevin Costner, Eric couldn't help but think of several excellent films starring Kevin Costner, "Body Guard", "Million Golden Arm" and "Dancing with Wolves". If it weren't for the later "Future Water World", Kevin Costner's status in Hollywood wouldn't be much lower than Harrison Ford, Schwarzenegger and others.

Moreover, Eric quickly remembered that the movie "Dancing with Wolves" was the first work directed by Kevin Costner himself, and he won awards such as Best Director and Best Picture with his directorial debut.

In the chaotic memory, as Kevin Costner's name leads a lot of information, Eric quickly temporarily left the matter of "Cutting the Throat Island" behind his mind because he discovered something else.

"Dancing with Wolves" seems to be released this year, and because of the absolute political correctness of this film and its American main theme, it won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture this year.

This is obviously not good news for "The Silent Lambs", which was a year ahead of schedule. Although "The Silent Lambs" has been considered a hit this year's Oscar, the filmmakers praised Anthony Hopkins and Judy Foster's performances, and the praise of this movie has been cut off in the past few months. It can be said that if "Dancing with the Wolves", this movie would definitely become the big winner of this year's Oscars.

But when encountering an American-style main theme movie like "Dance with Wolves", the disadvantages of "The Silence of the Lambs" as a horror film will be magnified wirelessly and then amplified. It is almost impossible to win the Best Director and Best Film just like in the previous life.
Chapter completed!