First, as Eric expected, the Los Angeles Metropolis Daily exposed the photos of Julia leaving Eric's house again, and specifically mentioned the carnival party held by Eric at home, but mentioned the events of the crew members of the "Home Imperial" in a nutshell, and instead focused on describing the group of young and beautiful beauties.

Then some newspapers followed the trend, and found some specious revelations from some unknown place, which criticized Eric's personal character. Eric gradually changed from an inspirational young man to a playboy who abandoned his girlfriend after becoming famous, had sex with underage girls, and lingered in the luxurious party life.

"... Perhaps Eric Williams is indeed a young man with some talent, but after he gained huge wealth too easily, this young man obviously began to fall at an incomprehensible speed..."

"...After just abandoning his girlfriend from her late childhood and spending her night with Drew Barrymore, Eric Williams immediately changed to a new woman. According to the investigation, the big mouth beauty in the photo is the heroine in the current release of "Modern Cinderella"..."

"...It's hard to imagine that Eric Williams would actually attack Drew, who was only 13 years old. I personally think there must be unknown hidden information in this. In any case, Eric Williams' behavior touched California law. I seemed to see the second Roman Polansky, who is also a talented director, but committed the same unforgivable crime. In order to prevent Eric Williams from absconding like Roman Polansky to evade the responsibility of the law, I think the Los Angeles police should take measures against Eric Williams in time..."

Even some entertainment gossip newspapers without bottom line began to fabricate them out of thin air after they could not find more information. For a moment, Eric originally created a good public image was shaky.

After Fox discovered that the storm had shown signs of escalation, he immediately reacted. The other party's "Return to Seventeen" was still being released in a hot spot, and he had just bought out the overseas distribution rights of "Home Imperial". If Eric, who is the male lead and director, was allowed to suffer direct economic losses, it is obviously them who suffered direct economic losses.

As for Colombia, in addition to continuing to perform the contract in accordance with the betting agreement, it almost looked cold-eyed. Some employees of Colombia's negative publicity department also mentioned to their superiors the issue of doing public relations for Eric, but the proposal was not approved. Blunt Cohen was ruined by Eric last time, and the senior management of the publicity department even doubted whether Blunt Cohen would be instructed by Blunt Cohen, so they were unwilling to take the risk of standing up for Eric.

News Group started out as a paper media, and has played a lot of tricks to increase sales by smearing public figures. Correspondingly, it is easy to deal with it when it is smeared.

Soon, under the negotiation between Fox and Eric himself, the counterattack quickly started. While reversing Eric's image through various media, Fox was familiar with selecting several actors and directors who were not very clean in the movies recently released. For a time, the North American newspapers seemed a little smoky and scattered, and the attention concentrated on Eric was soon dispersed.

The people gradually smelled an unusual meaning from these flying gossips. Although the media is good at manipulating people's hearts, if they really treat the people as fools, they will be the ones they fool in the end.

Soon, a less-known Hollywood Information Newspaper published a special commentary article on the front page headline, completely revealing the undercurrents buried under this storm.

"Christmas farce: It's all the box office"

"When the annual Christmas movie is approaching, the film companies that have tried their best to promote their works in previous years are using a series of despicable smearing methods to suppress their competitors. The beginning of everything comes from the magical rise of a boy named Eric Williams."

"After the box office of the new week, the total box office of the two movies related to Eric Williams has exceeded 100 million US dollars, especially the low-cost comedy "Home Imperial". After the box office rises against the trend in the second week, the box office still has a slight box office drop of 20% in the third week, achieving a box office of 23.15 million US dollars, and the total box office of three weeks is close to 80 million US dollars, directly squeezing into the sixth position of the annual box office rankings. The miracle is unstoppable."

"As we all know, the total box office and number of viewers in the Christmas season are limited, and major film companies will withdraw from a series of annual blockbusters. Therefore, in order to compete for box office share, it is natural that Eric Williams himself has suffered various criticism scandals recently."

"No matter how Eric Williams is, he will not talk about the series of his film and television stars who have been attacked by public opinion recently. We are just here to call on major film and television companies to remain calm and return to the normal competitive track. Suppressing their opponents through abnormal means will only end up suffering from bad consequences."

The Hollywood Information Newspaper's article took a different approach as a signal. While major well-known newspapers were reprinting, the big guys behind manipulating this public opinion storm to knock Eric down the dust had to restrain themselves because they found that Eric was no longer alone. News Group's rapid and fierce counterattack obviously showed that Eric Williams had formed a stable interest alliance with Fox.

Although some tabloids who are unwilling to give up on the topic are getting entangled one after another, most influential newspapers tacitly stopped attacking their competitors.

This storm seems to have passed like this.

A few days later, Eric, who was a little crazy after being chased by paparazzi, finally moved into the Beverly Hilltop mansion and closed the door tightly. Eric no longer had to look up and see a long paparazzi parked outside through the window like he did in his North Hollywood apartment.

Jeffrey Hansen looked at the high wall outside the mansion and rang the doorbell with some envy. After a few minutes, Eric opened the door and welcomed Jeffrey Hansen in.

Parking the car in front of the villa, Jeffrey Hansen asked, "Eric, what have you been doing at home recently? You haven't gone out for several days, right?"

Eric was extremely depressed when talking about this. After the procedures of Firefly Film Company were completed, there were not many things that required him to come forward in person. In addition, he would be surrounded by paparazzi when he went out. Eric has basically stayed at home these days. Compared with the happy life of the otakus in his previous life, this era without the Internet or smartphones really made Eric, a time traveler, crazy.

"Writing novels, writing scripts, watching TV... Anyway, it's very boring. Now I don't even dare to leave the door. Last time I just passed by a convenience store and bought a bottle of drinks. The next day, the tabloid reported that I extended my clutches to the cashier of the supermarket."

Jeffrey couldn't help laughing gloatingly after hearing this.

Eric led Jeffrey Hansen into the study on the second floor of the villa. As soon as he entered the door, Jeffrey saw an oversized wooden writing board hanging on one wall of the study. The dense clippings and manuscript papers full of graffiti were nailed to the writing board.

"What are these for?" Jeffrey walked in curiously and asked.

"It's useless," Eric walked up, pulled off a piece of newspaper clipping, and smiled: "I'm bored at home, so I tried to analyze from the information of these gossip newspapers who was trying to mess with me behind my back. If I develop in the future, I will settle the accounts in the future."

Jeffrey teased: "You think you are Sherlock Holmes. If you can see these things, those old guys will be in vain."

Eric shrugged. He was actually quite lucky because of Fox, a temporary interest alliance, that he was pulled back on the verge of this storm. Compared to Michael Jackson, who had touched too many people's interests in his previous life, but was tortured alone and was dying of ecstasy, Eric did not dare to ask for anything anymore.

Putting aside these thoughts, Eric asked, "By the way, Jeffrey, how are things going?"

After hearing this, Jeffrey took out a large stack of documents from his briefcase with some grievances and said, "You are so leisurely, you throw everything to me. I have been renovating the company's office building, which takes about half a month. Also, these are the information of some brokerage companies you asked me to find. Eric, have you really decided to acquire an agent company?"

Eric took the information and said, "Of course, you have seen the Stewart Longkel incident. CAA is holding the other person tightly in his hand and waiting to knock me. I can't always train stars for others."

"However, the federal monopoly law stipulates that film companies cannot have agent companies at the same time."

Eric looked through the information in his hand and replied: "Of course I know this, and I don't plan to merge the two companies. In my vision, the film company and the agency company are completely independent and there is no legal problem."

"Forget it, you can do it yourself. By the way, have you written the new movie script you mentioned?"
Chapter completed!