Miramax has been very good in recent years, and Fox is absolutely unwilling to part ways with the Weinstein brothers.

Elizabeth frowned and thought for a while, then said to Eric in the back row: "I think Fox can also support Harvey in developing big-scale films, as long as it is a commercial film, isn't it enough?"

"Harvey's business thinking has been limited to art films. Let's not talk about whether he can succeed in getting involved in the field of large-scale commercial films. If it is successful, how do you plan to balance the relationship between the two studios, Twentieth Century Fox and Miramax?"

Elizabeth asked back, "Didn't Xinyi start making big budget videos, how did you deal with this?"

"Firefly's positioning of New Line Film has always been very clear. It focuses on medium and low-cost budgets, either commercial or artistic. The average cost of New Line's production of movies has remained below $20 million in recent years. The high-budget films you mentioned are definitely the "Jedi Men" series and "Rush Hour" series. The first songs of these two series have only $20 to 30 million. Because commercial success has led to an increase in sequel costs, this is inevitable and is just an exception, and it has not changed the positioning of New Line."

"Since Harvey can even have the ambition to appear, does Kenneth Horn, who is in charge of the new line, have no idea to directly participate in the big production?"

Eric shook his head and said, "The total global box office of the new line exceeded $1 billion the year before, and the same was true for the global box office figures last year. All the films released by several brands under Sony Pictures have only $1.27 billion this year. In comparison, the box office performance of just a new line film is almost catching up with one of the seven major Hollywood. What's more, Kenneth Horn is responsible for the entire production and distribution system of the new line. This power is even more powerful than the department head of the individual Firefly Pictures or Bowei International. What he has to say is his dissatisfaction. After all, it's still a matter of strength. Firefly can provide Kenneth Horn with a big pond, and what Fox can give Weinstein is just a swimming pool."

Although Twentieth Century Fox has developed very well in recent years, the entire News Corp.'s business center is still on paper media all over the world, with TV business following closely behind. News Corp.'s film business can only rank third.

In comparison, Firefly regards the film business as the "locomotive" of the entire group, thereby driving the development of an entire industrial chain such as theme parks, surrounding products, media networks, etc. The focus is different, and the two media groups' resource inclination to the film business is naturally not the same. In addition, Firefly Group is far beyond the comprehensive strength of any other media group, compared with Miramax, the platform that Xin Line has is a big pond and a swimming pool, which is not an exaggeration.

Although Elizabeth knew that what Erik was saying was the truth, Elizabeth still gave Erik a blank look in dissatisfaction.

Eric could only give Elizabeth some advice, and they had to decide how to choose. When the control of FFM TV was controlled by the Firefly Group, Eric was largely due to the consideration that Fox might part ways with Miramax. Once this situation was true, the cooperation between FFM TV and Weinstein would not be greatly affected.

Without caring about Elizabeth's slightly angry expression, Eric asked casually: "I haven't seen your old man for a long time. In today's occasion, he should have revealed something, right?"

"Dad is going to Asia," Elizabeth no longer had expectations for changing Eric's name for his father, and answered directly indifferently: "Star Media's headquarters is in Hong Kong Island. After Hong Kong Island returned last year, Dad plans to establish a good relationship with the mainland and see if he can expand his business."

For some reason, when Eric heard this, a woman immediately appeared in his mind. If it were in ancient times, she would definitely be a brilliant woman with the potential to become the second Wu Zetian. I don’t know if Murdoch would be taken down this time.

Elizabeth glanced at the rearview mirror and noticed Eric's strange expression with a smile, and said suspiciously: "What are you thinking about? Your expression is so weird?"

"How could I be such a pure person..."

"Ahhhh!"

Eric sighed exaggeratedly, looked down at Julia, who had repeatedly unbuttoned one of his shirts and then buckled them all the time, and said, "Baby, do you think, am I a good person?"

"No," Julia shook her head honestly, then raised her pretty face and looked at Eric with anticipation.

Eric said slowly and gently, "Hey, only lying will lead to punishment."

"Yes," Julia immediately changed her position without any moral integrity.

Eric patted Julia on her ass gently: "How good."

"I can't stand it anymore," Elizabeth looked at the rearview mirror with disgust and said, "Eric, I think I should hire another psychiatrist for Julia."

Eric hadn't answered yet, and Julia's tone immediately returned to normal, retorting: "I don't want a psychologist."

Elizabeth wanted to say something else, and noticed that Julia buried her head in Eric's arms and covered her ears and pretended to be an ostrich. She could only glar at Eric through the rearview mirror and gave up the topic again.

Back at the mansion on the top of the mountain, Elizabeth parked the car, Eric patted Julia who still buried her head in her arms: "You're home, get out of the car quickly, and continue to punish you for lying just now."

Julia raised her head, hugged Eric's waist and said, "Eric, carry me into the house."

"Liz will be jealous," Eric smiled and said, "If you change one, why don't I carry you."

"Um."

Elizabeth in the front row picked up his and Julia's bag and got out of the car. Looking at the back door of the car, Julia threw off her high heels, and pounced on Eric's back like a little girl, and said to Eric with a sour look: "Why do you think I'm not jealous when I carry her?"

Erick held Julia's light body and walked towards the villa without explaining, but said, "You shouldn't be jealous anyway."

Elizabeth curled her lips, raised her hand and slapped Julia with a taste of eating and patting her.

Julia was not annoyed at all, and she whispered to Eric's ear and called out something.

Eric smiled and turned his head and kissed her face, not forgetting to warn: "You are absolutely not allowed to call me like that in front of outsiders."

Julia chuckled softly: "I can't do it, I'm not a fool."

Elizabeth looked at the two of them and whispered, suddenly understood something, and curled her lips and said, "Two perverts."

"Haha," Julia laughed out loud, looked up at Elizabeth: "Liz, can we play role-playing later?"

Elizabeth's face turned slightly red: "I decided to sleep by myself tonight and stay away from you."

"Then go to bed," Julia's chin hit Eric's shoulder: "Eric, I'm hungry, you want to make me a midnight snack."

"Okay, how about making Chinese egg fried rice for you? This is my unique skill, which is something that ordinary people can't eat."

"Uh-huh."

"You are not afraid of gaining weight when eating this food in the middle of the night," Elizabeth said. "And, Eric, I remember your dad was an Italian chef, why did you cook Chinese food?"

Eric put on Julia's smooth face and said, "Baby, give her a reason."

Julia immediately said to Elizabeth unreasonably: "You have to care!"

"Fight you."

This time Elizabeth raised her hand and twitched Julia's butt.

When I woke up early in the morning, Eric exercised and walked into the restaurant after taking a shower. There was a stack of newspapers on the dining table. Elizabeth and Julia were busy in the kitchen together.

Just as they picked up a copy of the Los Angeles Times and opened it, the two women walked in with breakfast.

Eric looked at the vegetable salad in front of him and said, "This, I am a man. If you only eat this kind of thing, you will starve to death."

Elizabeth poured a glass of juice and put it in front of Eric and said, "I ate such high-calorie food last night. Of course I have to go on a diet today, and the same goes for you. If one day you become fat, Julia and I will never let you in again."

Eric picked up the juice and took a sip, saying, "You are discriminating against fat people."

"Yes, it's just discrimination," Elizabeth glanced at Eric without any concealment, pulled open the chair and sat down, and said, "Eric, I have considered it. I plan to talk to Harvey openly that Fox will pass the project "The Horse Whisperer", but the budget must not exceed $50 million. In the future, the budget limit of the movies produced by Miramax will also maintain this standard."

"It's great, better than the conflict accumulating until the end of the outbreak," Eric nodded and smiled, "But we were busy all night last night. When did you think about this?"

Elizabeth remembered that the three of them had eaten the midnight snack made by Eric last night and kept going until one o'clock in the morning before going to bed. Her face turned slightly red and turned Eric's eyes: "I can't do it just now."

Eric nodded and said, "Of course."

Elizabeth picked up the fork and ate the salad in front of her, and quickly said, "When I talked about it, I suddenly remembered another thing. What if Fox and Harvey really parted ways, what should FFM TV do?"

"I put the control of FFM TV under Firefly Group, which is largely due to this consideration. Even if Harvey leaves Fox and goes alone, as long as you don't make a fuss, his position on FFM TV will not be affected."

Elizabeth also knew that the Weinstein brothers were very realistic people, and after Eric said this, he let go of this matter.

Eric looked at Julia who was stuttering salad and asked, "What about you, has the next movie been decided?"

Julia looked up and said, "I was about to negotiate a script with Working-Title in the UK, and I planned to be released globally by Fox. However, Working-Title is a film company owned by Polygon Records. Some time ago, Sigram asked Working-Title to hand over the distribution rights of all its films to Universal, and I quit."

Eric remembered something and asked, "What's the name of the movie?"

"Notting Hill," Julia replied, "is a romance film that took place in London, England, and the protagonist is sure to be Hugh Grant. After I don't act, they seem to be contacting Meg Ryan and Claudia Shiver."

"It's better not to act, you can try other types of movies," Eric nodded when he heard that it was this 'nonsense' film.

When Elizabeth heard Eric say this, she hummed twice. When Julia mentioned Hugh Grant, she thought of her former girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley.

Two years ago, Eric brought Elizabeth Helise to the crew of "The Ace Spy". At that time, Elizabeth Heli and Hugh Grant had not broken up yet. Elizabeth didn't believe that Erik and Elizabeth Heli would have nothing to do with each other.

But Eric asked inexplicably: "What are you humming?"

"I suddenly regret it."

"It's okay, regretting it often can stimulate a person to keep moving forward."

Elizabeth waved the fork at Eric and said, "You guy, I mean, you exchanged it with me for "The Legend of Death". Now "The Legend of Death" has two movies, each of which has a global box office of over 100 million. Although the first movie of "The Legend of Death" is about the same as "The Legend of Death", both of which are more than 50 million, the overseas box office is only 13 million US dollars, and there is no market at all. Now "The Legend of Death" has basically been completed. I have seen the sample film, and it is no different from the first movie, but the cost has increased to $30 million. I am worried whether it can recover the cost."

Although Elizabeth explained this, Eric understood what she was thinking just now.

Eric wanted Elizabeth Hurley to participate in "The City of Hope", but because of Candice Bushnell's opposition, "The City of Hope" launched the original cast, and Eric stuffed her into the crew of "The Big Spy" to serve as the heroine.

Elizabeth obviously remembered this when he heard Julia talking about Hugh Grant.

When Elizabeth talked about "The Ace Spy", Eric smiled and said, "Or why we'll exchange it for you."

Elizabeth was just worried about the box office of "The Ace Spy", but at this moment she instinctively became alert: "No change."

"That's it," Eric shrugged.

Elizabeth blinked and changed her mouth: "Switch, give me the production cost of "Ace Spy 2" and the copyright of "The God of Death is Coming", and that almost finished film will be yours."

"I regret it," Eric shook his head, picked up a piece of salad and stuffed it into his mouth, and said leisurely: "So, opportunities are fleeting."

Julia immediately laughed gloatingly.

Elizabeth raised his fist and hammered Eric's shoulder: "You bastard, I'll bite you."
Chapter completed!