Eric thought that the scandal between him and Connery would disappear after a while without him and Connery responding positively, but he far underestimated his influence, the media and the public's curiosity about this matter. After the New York Post released the intimate photos of him and Connery at Fox headquarters, in just a few days, he and Connery became the focus of a large number of paparazzi pursuits, and various gossips of catching up in various tabloids have also appeared one after another. ●⌒

Of course, Fox was secretly having fun. Although they didn't dare to write too much to avoid having a quarrel with Eric, they could not stop other media from reporting on this matter in a storm. In the last two weeks before the release, Fox also focused the promotion of "Anti-Condor" on Jennifer Connery. Because of the joint effects brought by this scandal, the promotional effect of "Anti-Condor" was not only much better than expected, but also saved a lot of publicity budget.

Faced with the followers of a large number of paparazzis, Eric has also begun to look forward to the arrival of the era of media monopoly.

In this era, the media channels in the United States were quite dispersed, with almost fifty media companies on various platforms in the local area, so information dissemination is quite free. But ten years later, the media industry in the United States had a large number of mergers and acquisitions and integration, and more than 90% of the information dissemination channels were in the hands of six major media groups. At that time, as long as he had enough voice in Hollywood, someone would solve such trivial matters that were harassed by paparazzi without even having to speak by himself.

Originally, he planned to live with a woman before Joanna returned to Poland to visit her relatives, but due to this incident, and there are more important things to do at the end of the year. Eric, who was unwilling to have another problem, had to move to his own mansion in Beverly Hills under the complaints of the woman.

Entering November, Eric began to make final preparations for expelling Robert Shay. In the first few weeks of November, he held several parties in Beverly mansions, inviting Firefly management and employees to contact each other. At the same time, Eric also had a secret conversation with Robert Shay's deputy Michael Lynn.

After producing "Instinct" in the first half of the year, Jeffrey was preparing to rest for half a year on a farm in Maryland, and wait for Eric's "Tornado" project to be launched next year before starting work. However, after learning about Eric's plan, Jeffrey hurriedly returned to Los Angeles, intending to help Eric stabilize the fireflies after he started.

Jeffrey had no relatives in Los Angeles. The plane from Maryland to Los Angeles arrived at 7:30 p.m. on November 13. Eric went to the airport to greet him. In the pick-up hall, Jeffrey showed up in front of Eric with a small suitcase, hugged Eric enthusiastically, handed over the suitcase to the bodyguard who came with Eric. The two walked out side by side.

"It's really sad to see you look so lonely, Jeffrey. Maybe you should find another companion."

"I don't have this kind of mind, and Chris is not very willing to accept it." Jeffrey shook his head and said with a smile soon: "You are quite lively in the newspapers these days, and another Jennifer, haha."

"It was Fox who made the plan to promote "Anti-Condor". I think it's no big deal, so I made a promise. I didn't expect it to have such a big impact."

Jeffrey said again: "But I think this girl is not as reincarnated as Aniston, and she is too refined."

Although Aniston liked to make a little bitch in front of him, it was due to the girl's personality when facing her lover. However, the girl treats people much more likable than Drew's little girl. Although she has only been together a few times, Aniston is deeply loved by Jeffrey.

Eric couldn't help but sigh. Aniston's agency contract is still with Kapoor, so Eric can get Xiaojiu's recent situation at any time.

Since breaking up at the beginning of the year, Aniston seems to have become a career-oriented woman and devoted herself to the performance. The second season of "Friends" has now been aired more than half, and the average viewership of over 20 million is still impressive.

In addition, Aniston also took on two movies, one cameo with only five minutes of appearance time, which was released in the summer season, and the results were pretty good. The other is a romantic comedy, which was released on Christmas, and Eric accidentally watched a trailer on TV. It was produced by Warner and collaborated with Matt Dillon. It was a film that had no impression in memory, and should be the result of the butterfly effect.

Because of the influence of "The Pretty Beauty", which appeared in advance and was a great success last year, Hollywood has added a lot of romantic comedy this year. It is estimated that after "The Love of Man and Ghost", the proportion of such films will definitely increase in the next two years.

Unfortunately, although Eric has been paying attention to Aniston silently, he believes that Xiao Niu is also paying attention to him, otherwise he would not have received the anonymous gift on his birthday this year, but the two have not met again for almost a year.

Jeffrey subconsciously compared Aniston with Connery, noticing Eric's depressed mood, and did not continue talking.

The paparazzi who followed the airport had already raised their cameras, but when they saw that Jeffrey came out with Eric, they just pressed the shutter a few times. Some of them were not willing to waste films, so they put down the cameras directly. Facing the four or five bodyguards guarding Eric and Jeffrey, these paparazzi came up ignorantly.

Eric and Jeffrey were escorted into the car, and except for the driver, several remaining four bodyguards rushed to the black Chevrolet behind.

"Are you too cautious?" Jeffrey couldn't help but say after the car started.

"It is mainly to prevent the paparazzi from behind. If I am surrounded by them, I will not get out of here," Eric pointed to the back of the car and said, "But in September, a director of Warner was kidnapped while on vacation in Greece. Not only was he blackmailed for one million US dollars, but he almost couldn't come back alive. Be careful, I am a high-risk kidnapping object now. What's more serious is that I don't have any relatives, and if I'm tied up, I can't even find a person who handed the ransom."

Jeffrey couldn't help but smile and said, "How is that possible? We won't ignore it."

Eric joked: "The key is that the kidnappers may not know this. Maybe after they tied me up, they suddenly found that there were no relatives to contact, so they just tore up the ticket."

"Since that's the case, I think you should get married sooner."

"No such intention," Eric shook his head.

Jeffrey knew Eric's personality. The two people's concepts of life were very different. He knew that nothing he said was useless. The two chatted casually and went to Jeffrey's apartment. After getting off the car, Eric and Jeffrey walked in: "I asked someone to clean up for you in the morning, but I didn't buy food. You can go to the supermarket by yourself tomorrow. It's better to hire another servant."

"I don't need any servants. I'm less than sixty years old, so it's not that I can't move anymore."

Jeffrey said, waved to let Eric sit on the sofa, boiling water and making coffee on his own. After a while, Jeffrey handed Eric a cup of coffee and sat down on the other side of the sofa.

Just now, Jeffrey was not able to speak because there was an outsider in the car. Then he asked solemnly: "Eric, isn't it too urgent to do this?"

Eric knew that Jeffrey was referring to the expulsion of Robert Shay, and shook his head: "If Robert had the ability to make fireflies develop rapidly, even if he wanted enough power, I could give him power. But he had limited ability and had no control over the pursuit of company power. He was still thinking about his own small abacus. Such a person was destined to be of no benefit to the development of fireflies."

Jeffrey said again: "But he has 25% of the shares?"

"This is exactly what I am most worried about. I have enough confidence in the development prospects of fireflies. As fireflies grow and grow, if I do nothing, the conflict between me and Robert will be on the table after those years. Coupled with Robert's shareholder, our conflict will have a greater impact on the company, so it's better to kick him out earlier."

"It seems you've thought it through. Who are you going to let the helm after Robert leaves?"

"Michael Lynn, Robert's current deputy, has talked to him several times and promised some benefits. But I won't give him too much power. If a company wants to develop rapidly, only one voice is necessary, just like Disney, and Time Warner is a negative example. Although Warner merged with Time to become the largest Hollywood giant, Time Warner's current personnel disputes have become more complicated and even affected Warner's operations. Even if it has the largest scale in Hollywood, it will definitely be surpassed in the future."

Three days after Jeffrey returned to Los Angeles, on Friday, November 16, with MGM's "Rocky 5", Fox's "Anti-Condor" and Robert Shea's thriller comedy imitating "Ghostbusters" produced by Robert Shay, announcing the official arrival of the Thanksgiving schedule.

In addition to these films, the Christmas season will also include Coppola's "The Godfather 3", "Kindergarten SWAT" starring Schwarzenegger, and the sequel to the 1987 annual box office champion "Three Dads and One Baby", and the "Shock Point" directed by Catherine Bigelow is also scheduled to be released on December 21.
Chapter completed!