I’m in Hollywood

Walking into the sharp corner manor again, looking at the streamlined villa that sits on the edge of the cliff like a handicraft, Larry Ellison still has obvious envy and desire in his eyes.

It's a pity that he was even willing to exchange all his properties in Malibu for this manor with Eric, but he was rejected by the other party. At this time, Eric's net worth was almost ten times his, and he wanted to get the manor's property. The odds are infinitely close to zero.

Eric took Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs into the villa lobby, noticed Larry Ellison's expression, and joked: Larry, your property in Malibu seems to be getting more and more If you have more, are you willing to exchange them all with me?

Larry Ellison knew that Eric was joking, but he nodded without hesitation, and said with a smile: Of course, if you want, I can call the lawyer now and let them handle the handover procedures.

Oh, you guy, you are really not polite at all.

Eric said, and brought the two to the reception area by the glass curtain wall, and asked Jobs who was sitting on the sofa at random: Steve, what do you think of this place?

Jobs glanced around and said unceremoniously, If it were me, I would clean up all the messy furniture by the curtain wall.

The glass curtain wall of the villa facing the sea is divided into three parts according to the layout of the furniture. On the east side are two hanging space chairs, in the middle is a row of long sofas, and on the west side, where the three of Eric sat, is a room. The reception area. If the villa is a public place, removing all the furniture and facing the endless sea level will undoubtedly give people a more open view, but as a personal residence, it will appear empty and deserted.

Jobs would say this because of his extreme pursuit of perfectionism. It is said that many of Jobs's apartments are empty because of his strong picky on furniture selection.

Eric smiled and said, If we remove all the furniture, we can only sit on the ground and chat now.

Jobs shrugged. That might not be bad.

Saying so, the sound of footsteps sounded, the twins came over with coffee, one brought three cups of brewed coffee to the three of them, and the other placed a coffee pot and a sugar cube milkshake on the middle coffee table. After doing this, Natasha next to Eric raised her face and looked at him, and asked softly, Master, do you need anything else?

Eric shook his head and said, No, you go to work.

His eyes followed the tall twins until they disappeared, and Larry Ellison retracted his eyes and exclaimed, Eric, I envy you even more now, where did you find them?

Eric joked: You are already an old man, so it's better not to make these ideas, and be careful to be hollowed out.

Hey, you guy, you're really not polite at all, Larry Ellison simply returned Eric's words not long ago.

After a few jokes, Eric turned to Jobs and started talking about business: So, Steve, have you decided to go back to Apple?

No, Jobs shook his head and said, I'm still thinking about it.

Eric picked up the coffee, not surprised,

He asked, Then why are you here today?

That's it, Eric, Larry Ellison said. Steve is looking forward to getting back to Apple, but he also wants some security.

Eric's eyes flashed and he said, Larry, I don't understand.

This time, Jobs took the initiative to answer: Eric, Apple's PC business is already very dangerous. After you buy Apple, in order to give the company more opportunities for buffering, I hope to obtain a patent for an mp3 player for use in Expand Apple's product line.

Eric had already had some hunch in his heart just now. Hearing Jobs' confirmation, he shook his head without hesitation and said, Sorry, Steve, I can't promise you this.

If that's the case, I probably won't go back to Apple, Jobs said.

Eric laughed and said, Steve, it's none of my business.

No, Eric, I can see that you are very interested in Apple, like, Jobston paused and continued: Just like Pixar back then, otherwise, you wouldn't give Larry Set up investment conditions like that.”

Steve, I admit, I'm interested in Apple and you, Eric said: However, it's just interest. If this investment doesn't come through, I won't lose anything, even And you can put that money into companies with better prospects.”

Jobs was at a loss for words, and even stared at Eric angrily.

Larry Ellison was aware of his friend's character, worried that he would say something outrageous, and quickly said: Eric, but you should also know that if Firefly Electronics sticks to the mp3 player patent, In the future, a dominant company will definitely be subject to federal antitrust investigations. Just like Intel, it licensed its x86 chip architecture to companies such as AMD.”

The scale of Firefly Electronics is still very small now, even if it is an anti-monopoly investigation, it must be a long time later, Eric still shook his head with a smile, took a sip of coffee, and said: Also, Intel's x86 architecture , was originally mandated by IBM to authorize it to other companies, not voluntarily.

Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs didn't give up so easily. What else did he want to say? Eric waved his hand and said to Jobs: Steve, the reason why I proposed that kind of investment to Larry. The condition is that I think maybe you can save Apple. So, what you need to do is to bring the company back to life after Larry completes the acquisition of Apple, rather than busy looking for other ways now. To boost Apple's confidence, it must require certain guarantees to go back, so I will now take back the investment commitment I made a few days ago.

Jobs stared at Eric for a while, then stood up suddenly and said, Well, well, I think I should leave.

After saying this, Jobs walked straight out.

Eric sat on the sofa without moving, and watched Jobs leave with a smile.

Larry Ellison got up helplessly and shouted, Hey, stop, you guy, why can't you be patient.

Jobs completely ignored Larry Ellison's words and continued to walk outside the villa.

Looking at Larry Ellison's dilemma, Eric put down the coffee cup, got up and patted Larry Ellison's shoulder, saying, Okay, Larry, he agreed, so, You'd better go back and keep raising money.

Larry Ellison certainly knew that Jobs was more proud than many people imagined. After Eric's aggressive words just now, Jobs would definitely not put down his restraint and ask for a patent license for the mp3 player.

Steve cares about Apple more than anyone else, I knew he would go back, but, shook his head and smiled bitterly, Larry Ellison added: Eric, Steve is very vengeful, You will definitely not get any good looks from him in the future.

This, I really don't care, it's hard to get a good face from this guy, Eric shook his head and said, What about you, there happens to be a movie premiere tonight, do you want to? Come join in the fun?

Forget it, we'll have dinner together next time, Larry Ellison shook his head and said, I'll go back to San Francisco with Steve.

Eric nodded, no longer holding back, and personally sent Larry Ellison to the parking lot of the manor. Jobs had already got into the car and did not say goodbye, like a pissed off child. Eric didn't mind either, sent the two away, turned and walked towards the villa, just in time to meet the twins walking from the entrance of the manor holding a box.

Seeing the twins approaching, Eric asked casually, Do you have new clothes?

Natasha on the left opened the box in her hand and showed it to Eric, saying, It's the evening dress of the master and the boss, which Givenchy just sent.

Eric saw a black suit inside, nodded and said, Take it in, oh, is Drew awake?

I don't know, the boss was still asleep when we came out to get the clothes.

Eric looked at his watch. It was just past two o'clock in the afternoon. A few days ago, when Eric attended Chris' wedding in Maryland, the girl also flew to Europe to deploy 007: Casino Royale. , only returned to Los Angeles one day earlier than Eric, and is still in the stage of jet lag these days, taking a few hours of naps at noon every day.

I thought this afternoon would be spent entertaining Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs, but I didn't expect Jobs to give up in a blink of an eye.

Walking into the villa with the twins, Eric didn't disturb the girl's sleep, but got into the study and read the Iron Man script that Marvel just completed.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, after the girl got up, the two put on their dresses and set off for the Hollywood Walk of Fame together.

Tonight is the premiere of Firefly's first blockbuster of the summer, Prison in the Air, which will be released at the same time as Paramount Animation's The Lion King 2 the day after tomorrow.

In short, Prison in the Air is a story that happened after a retired soldier who was imprisoned for manslaughter was loaded into a plane full of heinous murderers. However, although the story concept is clever, the core still imitates tough action movies such as Die Hard.

To be honest, Eric is not too optimistic about the commercial potential of this traditional Hollywood personal heroism film, and since Charlie's Angels, Mrs. Smith and other oriental action designs with more aesthetic and visual impact have been adopted. , North American fans have apparently lost interest in this traditional type of action film.

However, with the growing scale of Firefly Group, Eric can no longer have enough energy to intervene in the production of all films, and it is inevitable to appropriately delegate production power to his studio. This summer, the three films of the Firefly headquarters studio, Air Prison, Finding Nemo and Tarzan Forest, as well as New Line's Jedi Men 2 and Reaper 2, strictly speaking, Except for the initial project review, Eric did not interfere too much in the detailed production.

Prison in the Air is produced by Bruckheimer, starring Cage, who has been gaining traction at the box office in recent years, and the production cost is also well controlled at $75 million. Coupled with Firefly's strong marketing and distribution offensive, the film is in It is not difficult to recover costs and generate profits at the global box office.

Due to the recent confrontation between Prison in the Air and The Lion King 2, the media has hyped it up. Although the two films basically do not have much competition due to the subject matter, both Firefly and Paramount have made great efforts to make Various topics, such an important event as the movie premiere will naturally not be missed.

In addition to the main creators of Prison in the Air, there are also a large number of big-name stars who are close to the Firefly Group tonight. Eric brought Drew to the premiere of Prison in the Air for the same reason.

Perhaps the cooperation with Michael Bay seems to be very smooth. Bruckheimer has used another commercial director Simon West as the director of Prison in the Air. Of course, there is also a promotion relationship with Eric. After all, without Eric's permission, Bruckheimer wouldn't be able to appoint a new director to direct a big-budget movie with a budget of $75 million.

This is because Simon West was the director of the original Prison in the Air. Eric doesn't have enough energy to intervene in all the films under Firefly in detail now, so creating the 'original team' will undoubtedly become a very safe insurance.

Eric and Drew arrived at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at six o'clock, and just after walking the red carpet, Jerry Bruckheimer brought Simon West over to say hello. In memory, Simon West is not a prolific director, but his films such as Prison in the Air, Tomb Raider and The Expendables 2 are all very successful commercial films.

Everyone stood at the end of the red carpet and chatted for a while. Eric came relatively early. A tall figure in a red dress is posing beautifully on the red carpet.

The girl's name is Helena Christensen, who is also a member of the Victoria's Secret supermodel and plays the wife of Cage's character in this Prison in the Air.

Under Emily's care, the operation mechanism of the Victoria's Secret Legion has become more and more mature in recent years, and the places of the Victoria's Secret supermodel are no longer replaced as frequently as in the previous life. Moreover, even if ordinary Victoria's Secret Angels can't get the same treatment as five spokespersons, they can still get much more resources and exposure than other models in the industry. Correspondingly, even if the salary of participating in the Victoria's Secret catwalk is not high It is high, and very few supermodels will voluntarily give up the status of Victoria's Secret Angel.

Since the members of the Victoria's Secret Legion are relatively fixed, with the cooperation of Firefly, in addition to the annual Victoria's Secret show, ltd has also begun to further increase the influence of the Victoria's Secret Legion.

In recent years, frequent appearances in Hollywood film and television dramas is one of the privileges that Victoria's Secret Angels can get.

Compared with the fashion circle with a narrow audience, the influence of the film and television circle is much greater. If you can show your face in some blockbusters, even a very small role, the influence will be much greater than landing on the cover of some fashion magazines.