Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty Connected with the Same Destiny

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"Mentioned about me, what did you say, didn't you speak ill of me secretly?" Rachel walked into the apartment, and sat on the shoe rack by the entrance, changing the boots on her legs, and asked casually.

Caroline was wearing flat casual shoes on her feet. She didn't change them out like Rachel did. She walked directly to the living room sofa and sat down. She blushed slightly when she heard Rachel's words, thinking that she accidentally revealed her good friend. The tattoo in that place is not a bad thing, so he said: "Of course not, I just told him that you are good at acting and you have won awards at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. He thinks you are very interesting, and he said that he can introduce you to him if he has the opportunity. Get to know him."

Rachel took a pair of slippers and put them on her feet before walking over and asked with a smile, "Then when are you going to introduce us? He's a Hollywood tycoon. If I could get to know him, I wouldn't go around all day. Running and auditioning for some small roles."

"Ah, but, I think, I think Mr. Williams is just polite, and it would be too abrupt if he really brought you to her," Caroline looked at Rachel carefully, and said stutteringly. .

Rachael looked at the girl's timid appearance, came over and smack Caroline's face without hesitation: "Okay, just kidding you, I'm not that naive, Hollywood is not our little people. In fact, I don't really like that Eric Williams. Some time ago, an agent came to the UK to choose a role for a Firefly movie. My agent finally handed over my information. They just said that I was not the right age, and they didn't even give me an interview opportunity, so they took me down, thinking about it, it's abominable, it is rumored that the selection criteria for actors are set by Eric Williams."

Caroline listened to Rachel's angry tone and couldn't help but said, "This... this should have nothing to do with Mr. Williams, he is a very personable person."

"You're just too innocent," Rachel couldn't help shaking her head.

Caroline pouted and said, "It's not. I can tell what's real and what's fake."

"Okay, I believe you," Rachel looked at the girl with wide eyes, as if you didn't believe me and I was going to reason with you. Surrender quickly.

Caroline looked at Rachel's careless and insincere appearance, but didn't continue to speak, apparently this situation has happened between the two more than once: "So, Rachel, how is your audition today? ?"

"Won it on the spot." Rachel said excitedly: "It's a character in Detective Moss, there are about two episodes, and after the show, my rent for the next two months will be lost. ."

Caroline was excited for her friend for a while, then remembered the situation where she was eating and living with Rachel, and said embarrassedly: "Rachel, I will help you share part of the rent."

"Don't mention this, you should keep it for your living expenses in the future. I don't have to worry about these things, and you won't be staying here for a few days. You can go to Cambridge as soon as school starts. You have to persevere, Don't give in to your dad," Rachel waved, said a few words, then stood up: "I'll make a pot of coffee, and go out to dinner when it gets dark, and celebrate that I've got another role."

Caroline snorted, looking at Rachel's figure in the kitchen, she said with a little admiration: "I really envy you, you have always been so alone. If it wasn't for this time my father forced me to give up studying and marry Edward's family. That rude and pretentious guy, I don't necessarily have the courage to run away from home."

Rachel in the kitchen listened to Caroline's words and smiled: "There's nothing to envy, at least when you get married. Your father will definitely pay for the wedding, but not at my family, so I only You can save money yourself.

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"I'm not sure. I don't know what I will do in the future if I disobey my father this time. I heard from Aunt Lisa. My aunt broke up with the family because she refused to obey my grandfather's arrangements."

Rachel came out of the kitchen with a pot of coffee and said, "You still have an aunt, I haven't heard your little talk about it."

"I'm not a chatter!" Caroline immediately retorted dissatisfiedly, realizing that this rebuttal must be fruitless, so she could only say: "I do have an aunt, but I have never met her, what I know is still Aunt Lisa secretly told me that it seems that in the year before I was born, my aunt fell in love with a very talented playwright while watching a stage play in the West End of London. She was also very poor, and her grandfather strongly disagreed, and she quickly arranged another blind date for her. My aunt made a big fuss at home, and then moved to Greece alone, and hasn’t come back for 20 years.”

Rachel couldn't help laughing when she heard it: "Caroline, are you sure this is true, isn't it made up by your Aunt Lisa who has watched too many talented and beautiful stage plays?"

"Aunt Lisa is just a servant in our family. How could she have the leisure to watch the stage play?"

"That must have been made up by watching too many daytime soap operas," Rachel laughed again.

Caroline was obviously a little shaken by this fairy tale story, but she refused to admit defeat on the surface, and twisted her little head: "I ignore you."

Rachel laughed again, and reached out and rubbed the girl's head.

The two were frolicing when the phone in the living room rang. Rachel put down the coffee and walked over to pick up the phone. After saying a few words, she covered the microphone in surprise and said to the girl sitting on the sofa, "Caroline. , your phone number, your father called."

Caroline shrank her neck: "How could he know I'm here?"

Rachel couldn't help shaking her head and sighed at the simplicity of this good friend. Although Caroline's family is not very prominent in the UK, it is definitely not comparable to those of the declining nobles. Caroline ran away from home, how could her parents not Regardless, on the day the girl stayed here, Caroline's mother called and asked her to take care of her daughter.

Looking at Caroline's worried look, Rachel said, "How about I tell your dad that you're not here?"

Caroline hesitated for a while, knowing that since her father knew she was here, she would definitely not be able to escape, so she reluctantly came over and took the microphone from Rachel.

"Hey, Dad, it's me..."

Rachel handed the microphone to Caroline, and consciously walked towards the bedroom in order not to embarrass her friend. but. Although Caroline always spoke softly, Rachel could vaguely hear the girl's voice.

After five minutes, Rachael came out of the bedroom when she heard that there was no movement outside. Looking at Caroline's sullen appearance on the sofa, she asked, "Your father asked you to go back?"

"No," Caroline said, sitting up again, "my dad said he wouldn't force me to drop out, but. He, he asked me to invite Mr. Williams to dinner at home, which was, really, really abrupt, How can I say it, if I was rejected, I would be embarrassed to death."

Rachel looked at the tangled appearance of the girl kicking her calf, and she could easily figure out the ins and outs of the matter. On the second day after Caroline appeared in Eric Williams, the British media with great powers investigated the girl's details clearly, and the jewel of the Wilson family personally acted as a tour guide for others. In other cases, even if it can't be regarded as a domestic scandal, it must be stopped by the Wilson family as a very indecent act.

But after so many days, the Wilson family didn't do anything, and didn't respond to the remarks in the media that Caroline and Eric Williams were a perfect match. Obviously, they were happy to see it happen. If Eric was just a slightly famous Hollywood director, the Wilson family might still hold their own identity, but a young rich man with billions of dollars in assets is enough to make the Wilson family let go of their restraint.

Seeing her friend's tangled face with her head lowered, Rachel asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

"I... I don't know." Caroline shook her head.

Rachel was very familiar with this good friend. Looking at Caroline's appearance, she knew that the girl also seemed to want to invite Eric Williams to be a guest at her house, so she encouraged: "Then you can directly Say yes to him. Anyway, this is an invitation from your father, and if he refuses, it has nothing to do with you, and you don't need to feel embarrassed."

"Really?" Caroline looked up at Rachel hopefully.

Rachel didn't hesitate at all, nodded firmly: "Of course."

"Then I will tomorrow. Just, let's say my dad invited him," Caroline blushed: "Rachel, help me think about it, what should I say tomorrow so it won't be too abrupt..."

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Because it is located in a high latitude area, the days in London are very long in June. It was seven o'clock in the afternoon when Eric returned to the hotel, but the sky did not have the slightest tendency to darken.

After an early dinner, Eric went back to his room and started working on the emails that had accumulated throughout the day.

The second weekend box office of "Jurassic Park" has been released, because the box office exploded in the first week. Although the film's reputation is very good, most agencies still predict that the box office of "Jurassic Park" will drop in the second week. More than 40%, even people inside Firefly hold similar views, and some people suggest that Eric prepares to cut the number of screens in "Jurassic Park" in advance.

However, after the real data came out, many people's predictions fell again.

Jurassic Park's weekend box office in the second week fell by only 37% compared to the first week, harvesting more than 42 million US dollars, a drop far lower than the average 50% decline expected by most box office forecasting agencies . In the process of large-scale release of many Hollywood movies, because the box office will explode in the first week, the box office in the second week will often experience a relatively large decline, and the subsequent box office decline will stabilize at a data that is in line with the quality and reputation of the movie. .

Now that Jurassic Park escaped its second-week box-office slump, the film's box-office slump over the next few weeks will definitely not be too big. Firefly's in-house statistics department has given Jurassic Park a $500 million North American box office estimate, $40 million more than the first Star Wars movie that year.

At the beginning, Eric released a billion-dollar global rhetoric. In fact, he expected the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" to be around $400 million, although the North American box office performance of "Jurassic Park" has now surpassed his own. Predictions, but he's also not sure that the film will hit the $500 million threshold in North America.

Because when Eric planned the North American publicity strategy of "Jurassic Park", he used the high-intensity publicity and large-scale distribution strategy that became popular in Hollywood in the original time and space a few years later. This distribution method It is an evolutionary version of the saturated hairstyle that is currently popular in Hollywood. It is more radical than the traditional saturated hairstyle, but it also has great disadvantages. The most important point is that it shortens the release cycle of the movie. A traditional commercial blockbuster is often released within four weeks. In 2019, it received more than 80% of the box office. According to the current "Jurassic Park" box office trend, Eric is confident that "Jurassic Park" will win the North American box office of $300 million within four weeks, but the box office trend of "Jurassic Park" will appear in a month. What is the situation, Eric has no idea in his mind.

After reading the emails related to "Jurassic Park", Eric began to check other emails, and soon knew the information he wanted, which is Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Last Action Hero" .

Not as Eric expected, because of its poor quality and the box office squeeze of "Jurassic Park", this action film costing 80 million US dollars by Carlock Films only got more than 1,600 yuan in the first weekend. $10,000 at the box office, not even Jurassic Park's first-day box office. In the original time and space, Stallone and Schwarzenegger were planted on these two consecutive blockbusters at the same time. These two famous Hollywood action movie stars are also connected by the same fate. They were also born in the 1940s, and they were also late bloomers in their thirties, and within ten years of becoming famous, they were planted in two movies released in the same summer at the same time. . Although Arnold Schwarzenegger has been paid more than $20 million for several sequels to the "Terminator" franchise several times since "The Last Action Hero", his other films have never been released. High price base. Stallone's two popular series "Rambo" and "Rocky" both ended because of the gradually falling box office, and there is no killer that can maintain his value. In the next ten years in the original time and space, Stallone is barely considered a good work. It was only "The Expendables" that was completed after many years of ups and downs. (To be continued.)

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