Chapter 940: Zoom In

In the northern hemisphere in December, snow has already begun to fall in most areas, but Los Angeles is still as warm as ever.

It was past nine o'clock in the morning in Sharphorn Manor.

In the ring-shaped master bedroom of the Shell Villa, all the curtains around it were pulled open, and the bright morning sun seemed to pour in from all directions.

Elizabeth Perkins lay lazily on the big bed, not minding that the quilt on her body was completely pulled away by the man next to her, obediently feeling a slightly rough hand running along her smooth back. Recalling the events of last night and just now, although I was a little embarrassed, I couldn't help but feel a little proud that my mature body could attract the young people beside me.

Eric leaned on the side with his cheeks on his back, caressing the woman's body, his expression fascinated, and he wondered if he really had some kind of plot.

The sudden ringing of the cell phone disturbed the silence in the bedroom.

Elizabeth Perkins, who was looking sideways to find the shadows of birds in the blue sky outside the window, turned her head curiously, but saw a strange expression on Eric's face after picking up the phone. She was about to ask a question when Eric reached out and covered her mouth.

"Jenny... I'm upstairs, just finished exercising and changing clothes... Could you help me prepare breakfast first, um, kiss."

After hanging up the phone, Eric's expression still did not relax.

It's been a few years, and the chick's talent skills have no tendency to fail at all, and it's just a few days before she starts to make big moves again.

Some were glad that the villa was big enough, but Eric didn't hesitate. He picked up his clothes and started putting them on.

Elizabeth Perkins looked at Eric in a hurry, and laughed suddenly. He also heard that Eric just said the word 'Jenny', and there was something in his lazy and hoarse voice. Schadenfreude: "Your girlfriend?"

Eric glanced at the woman lying still on the big bed, nodded, put on a T-shirt, picked up all the clothes and shoes of Elizabeth Perkins next to him, and threw them on the bed, then rolled up the sheets. He wrapped the woman in, picked it up and walked towards the bathroom.

Elizabeth Perkins did not resist Eric's actions, but just grabbed her high heels and carried them outside, still giggling, and asked, "Eric, if she finds out, will I be strangled to death?"

"You won't, I will," Eric joked bitterly, pushed open the bathroom door, put the woman in the big bathtub, and said, "Sorry, Liz, you have to hide here, I'll call when I leave with Jenny."

Elizabeth Perkins changed her position and leaned comfortably in the big bathtub, looking at Eric who was about to leave, and said, "I don't care, but don't you know that women's noses are very smart ?"

Eric was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he had been entangled with Elizabeth Perkins last night, and he hadn't showered after the passion in the morning. It would be strange if Aniston couldn't smell other women on him. .

Thinking of this, Eric searched on the washstand in the bathroom, but couldn't find men's perfume. He didn't have the habit of spraying men's perfume. He just remembered that the girl bought him a bottle before, and I don't know where it was thrown. Failing to find the perfume, Eric had to take off his clothes again and again, and stood under the shower to start taking a shower.

Because it was Saturday, Eric just relaxed and had sex once, but he was almost caught by the chick again.

After taking a shower and checking other traces in the bedroom, Eric went to the study and picked up a notebook before walking downstairs.

Came to the kitchen, kissed Aniston who was preparing breakfast, and made sure that the chick didn't smell anything from him, Eric was relieved, put the laptop on the dining room table, and planned to check today's work mail.

The ibm notebook in front of me has finally achieved bsp; today is December 13th, a week before the Christmas schedule, so there are no new heavyweight releases, Firefly's "Monsters, Inc." and MGM's "Museum" Wonderful Night 2 is still in the lead.

"Monsters, Inc.," which has been released for three weeks, has reached a cumulative box office of 168 million US dollars, which is a gratifying achievement. The box office of "Night at the Museum 2" fell by 58% in the second week, and the cumulative total just exceeded 100 million, reaching 112 million US dollars.

Seeing the results of "Night at the Museum 2", Eric can't help but be a little worried about "Rush Hour 2", which will be released next week, this action comedy film starring Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker, the first production The cost was $33 million and the worldwide box office was close to $250 million.

Although Eric instructed New Line to sign a trilogy contract with the two male protagonists from the beginning, because the first film was a small success, the remuneration of the two protagonists in the sequel rose to $15 million. Therefore, just for the remuneration, the two protagonists took 30 million US dollars this time, and the production costs of other aspects also increased, resulting in the total production cost of "Rush Hour 2" reaching 70 million, although the film production costs in the past two years have been frequent. Set a record, but with a production cost of $70 million, it is still considered a big-budget movie.

Eric has seen the original "Rush Hour" trilogy, but he didn't pay attention to the production costs and box office status of the three films, and he didn't know how much revenue the $70 million production cost could bring to Firefly this time.

Moreover, the schedule of this film is not too optimistic.

In addition to "Jurassic Park 3", which was confirmed to be released a week after "Rush Hour 2", the sci-fi blockbuster "Starship Troopers" produced by Sony Pictures will also compete with "Rush Hour 2" at the same time. Eric remembers this Science fiction films have been accused of too much political metaphor.

However, special effects films are still very popular in recent years, and ordinary audiences obviously do not pay too much attention to political matters. After the fiasco of the summer "Godzilla", Sony Pictures is still close to the production cost of this film. With a $110 million film and a $40 million publicity budget, Starship Troopers will undoubtedly become the biggest threat to Rush Hour 2.

In the summer, the consecutive "Air Prison", "Finding Nemo", "Casino Royale", "Jedi Men 2"...

"Monsters, Inc.", "Night at the Museum 2", "Rush Hour 2", "Jurassic Park 3" in the year-end schedule...

Even if he counts the Firefly system film, Eric also found that the schedule in North America has become more and more crowded.

In my memory, in May, June, July, August and even September, there will be large-scale production films released one after another in the future summer season. months. In addition, Easter and the beginning of November at the end of the year are also gradually releasing blockbuster movies.

Perhaps, it is time to lengthen the popular schedule front or develop new schedules, otherwise, the North American movie schedule will only cause more and more serious internal friction.

Eric thought about these things in his mind, and unknowingly clicked on another email in his mailbox.

Although Aniston had already eaten breakfast, she made two servings and planned to eat it with Eric.

Bringing the breakfast over and putting it on the dining table, the chick came behind Eric, glanced at the laptop screen curiously, and let out a soft 'wow' sound, wrapping her arms around Eric's neck in disbelief. some.

"What's the matter?" Eric pecked the chick's cheek, asked with a smile, and looked at the laptop screen.

This email turned out to be the global box office statistics of "Casino Royale". It is already the end of the year, and the global release of "Casino Royale" has basically ended. Although there are still some sporadic small box office countries that have not bloomed, they have little impact on the total box office data. There will be too much impact again, and future increases will only be a few million dollars at most.

Aniston pointed to the eye-catching box office numbers on the screen: "$1.135 billion, is this the global box office of Casino Royale?"

Eric glanced through the email, and Casino Royale ended up at $372 million in North America and $763 million overseas.

According to the average share ratio of 55% in North America and 35% overseas, MGM's share from the box office of "Casino Royale" is as high as 471 million US dollars, and the total investment in the production and distribution of "Casino Royale" is 160 million US dollars. That said, MGM would have netted $310 million in box office revenue alone. Compared with the summer movies such as "Godzilla" and "Batman and Robin", the performance of "Casino Royale" is even more dazzling.

"$1.135 billion, I didn't expect it." Eric nodded with a smile and said, "However, it can't be compared to Jim's Titanic."

Aniston kissed Eric on the cheek and said, "The combined box office of all your films must be higher than his."

Eric couldn't help but think of this question after hearing what the chick said. He doesn't know how many films he has participated in since his debut in 1988. However, just counting the three most recent "Tornados", "Jurassic Park" and "Casino Royale" he directed, it is probably about the same as Cameron's cumulative box office. Coupled with previous films such as "Home Alone" and "Pretty Woman", there is no problem with surpassing Cameron.

After reading this email, Eric temporarily closed the browser, picked up the cutlery and looked at Aniston who was sitting next to him and said, "Next week is Christmas, do you want to go to New York with me?"

Although he never took the initiative to mention it, Aniston was still inexplicably curious about Eric's two children. After thinking about it, he asked, "Well, will Drew go?"

Eric nodded: "She's been there before. It's fun for everyone to spend Christmas together. I called the day before yesterday, and Vicky said that it might snow in New York for a few days, so that it would have a more Christmas atmosphere."

The little girl was obviously a little moved, but after hesitating for a while, she shook her head and said, "I still won't go, you just need to spend Thanksgiving with me in the future."

"Okay then," Eric didn't reluctantly, changed the subject at the right time, and said, "Where are you going to play after breakfast?"

"I have no plans during the day, but I and Matthew and the others have an appointment to have a party together in the evening. You can go with me."

The Matthew Aniston said should still be Matthew Perry. Although he did not participate in "Friends" at the beginning, Matthew Perry has been in the film circle well in the past few years, but there is no "Home Alone" period. Then it's on fire.

"Okay, then let's go buy some clothes during the day," Eric naturally wouldn't refuse Aniston's small request, took a few bites of breakfast, and suddenly thought of something, "Speaking of Matthew, I just happen to be looking for a male lead for another comedy here, maybe I can let him try it, um, of course, the scale of this comedy may be a little big, and he doesn't know if he will be willing."

Eric's main work during this period is several new films around the Firefly system, "Teddy Bear" is one of them, the original Mark Wahlberg has just made his debut, and it is naturally inappropriate. The roles offered to him by the casting department during this time were also hardly satisfactory. Thinking about it now, Matthew Perry, who looks a little weak and full of comedian temperament, is perfect. In this regard, Mark Wahlberg is even worse.

Aniston raised her head happily. She has always regarded Matthew Perry as a 'good buddy'. In recent years, Matthew Perry's career has not been so good. Eric gave him a hand and said, "Eric, really?"

"Of course, I just said that the scale of this movie is a bit big."

"Are you going to Lulu?"

Eric shook his head and said: "No, it's just, um, there are more swear words, it's the kind of shit that has no bottom line, um, I happen to have a script here, you can read it first."

Eric said, found the script document of "Teddy Bear" from the laptop, opened it and pushed it in front of Aniston.

Aniston was drinking porridge, but he didn't have any preparations. He read the script while eating with a spoon. However, within a few minutes, the chick almost spit out a mouthful of porridge. Fortunately, she turned around in time and smoked again. Covering his mouth with a paper towel, there was no embarrassment.

After wiping the corners of her mouth, the chick laughed arrogantly: "Ha, ha, this is really, so vulgar, it's actually on the floor... The guy who wrote this script must be an asshole."

Eric was suddenly speechless and touched his nose, wondering if he should admit it.

Aniston is naturally not stupid. After noticing Eric's expression, he immediately understood, but he laughed even more happily: "Haha, so you are that bastard, I don't know how many guys who like teddy bear toys will see it in the future. I'm going to scold you after the point." (To be continued.) Browse to read the address: