I’m in Hollywood

Kim Kardashian stayed up all night because of the fact that Eric asked her name yesterday.

Kim Kardashian instinctively felt that Eric must be interested in her. She was quite excited at first. If she can get close to such a big man, no one will treat her like air in the future.

But all day later, Eric's attitude towards her was nothing special, which made her both uneasy and disappointed. She tossed and turned on the bed for a few hours, looking at the bright light outside the window, she walked out without a trace. Thinking of seeing Eric wake up so early, sitting in the yard reading the newspaper.

Hearing Eric greeting her, Kim Kardashian responded quickly: Morning, good morning, Mr. Williams.

Having said that, Kim Kardashian stood there and waited for a while. Seeing that Eric focused on the newspaper in his hand again, he hesitated, walked over and sat down at the other side of the long table. After poking around for a moment, he said, Mr. Williams, are you reading the Los Angeles Times?

yes.

Eric agreed, took a sip of the milk next to him, and glanced at Kim Kardashian next to him, only to see her sitting across from the long table, leaning slightly towards him, because she was only wearing one The white body vest and the two bulging balls on the chest seemed to be placed on the table. This visual stimulation suddenly made Eric choked, and a mouthful of milk spurted out.

Kim Kardashian originally noticed Eric's eyes, and was a little proud. Seeing him choked out, she quickly got up and came over: Mr. Williams, are you alright.

Eric waved his hand and saw Kim Kardashian hand over the box of tissues on the table. He quickly took it and pointed to the opposite side of the long table: Don't come over, sit opposite.

Kim Kardashian was stunned for a moment, and stepped back with some grievances, but she still deliberately continued to pose just now. After Eric cleaned up the milk stains on her body, Kim Kardashian hesitated, and suddenly said : Mr. Williams, I, it's true.

Eric reopened a newspaper and said casually, It looks like a fake.

No, really, Kim Kardashian shook her head, looked around the empty space, and said boldly, If you don't believe it, you can feel it, you can definitely feel it.

Forget it, I won't give you an identification certificate if you touch it, Eric shook his head with a smile, and said, Are you from New York?

When Kim Kardashian heard Eric take the initiative to ask her a question, she quickly said, Yeah, how did you know?

Eric shrugged: I just think the Hilton family must live in New York.

Kim Kardashian didn't want Eric to treat her as Paris Hilton's sidekick all the time, and explained in a somewhat scattered way: I, she and I are just classmates who came to Los Angeles to play together during the summer vacation, and, um, I Lives at my dad's house, he's a businessman, he used to be a record company, he's in the juice business.

Eric felt that something was wrong, looked up and asked, Your father's name is Robert Kardashian?

Kim Kardashian's eyes suddenly lit up and nodded quickly: Yes, Mr. Williams, do you know him?

now it's right.

Robert Kardashian, the famous defender of Simpson's wife murder case.

But what is wrong is that these are obviously memories of Eric's previous life. According to the information in his mind, Simpson's wife murder case should have happened in 1994, because of the deep-rooted racial issues involved, and the Los Angeles riots just happened. The background of this unsolved case has affected the nerves of the entire United States in the original time and space, which can be described as a sensation.

However, in this time and space, it is now 1997, and Eric has not heard any news of Simpson's wife murder case. It seems that some things have changed again.

I seem to have heard someone say it, Eric perfunctory Kim Kardashian, but suddenly another thought came into his mind, and said, Listen to you, your parents should get divorced, right?

yes,

My stepfather's name is Bruce Jenner, he used to be an Olympic champion, but now his main focus is on TV.

Oh, what about your mother?

Her name is Chrissy, Kim Kardashian said, and she added: My mom likes Project Runway a lot, and she often says that one day she'll be participating in a reality show or something.

Eric didn't expect Kim Kardashian to suddenly mention this, thinking of the idea of ​​a reality show about Hollywood girls yesterday, this project definitely needs a producer. It is impossible for him and the girl to do it themselves, and Bruce Jenner and Kris Jenner, the couple who created Keeping Up With the Kardashians in the original time and space, are obviously very suitable. Perhaps the two of them will lack some experience in program production, but in Hollywood, where there are as many as one million employees in the film and television industry, there is never a shortage of technical production talents. Force, this point, the Jenner couple, who were omnipotent in terms of hype in their previous life, definitely surpassed ordinary producers by too much.

After rationalizing his thoughts, Eric asked with a smile, Is your mother really interested in reality shows?

Kim Kardashian was a little confused, but nodded and said, Yes.

That's it, Eric looked around, simply took a piece of paper from the newspaper at hand, found a pen and wrote a series of numbers on it, handed it to Kim Kardashian, and said, This is me The phone call from the assistant's office, leave this to your mother, of course, didn't you say that your stepfather is currently focusing on TV shows, and in that case, he can also participate.

Kim Kardashian dazedly took over the newspaper with the phone number on it. Although she is still in high school, she has no lack of life experience due to the immersion in the living environment from childhood to adulthood. At this time, she instinctively felt When she arrived, her family might be about to change dramatically because of this newspaper, and she held the number in her hand tightly, and she began to stutter again, saying: Wei, Mr. Williams, I, of course, then what?

Remember that Hollywood girl life reality show idea I mentioned yesterday, tell them about it, and in a week, make a reality show plan for me to see first, if I'm satisfied, this project You can have your stepfather and mother as producers.

Ah, Kim Kardashian felt a little unbelievable. Producer, this is the most powerful class in Hollywood. Moreover, TV show producers have even more power than film producers, and after looking at the number on the slip of paper, Kim Kardashian asked uncertainly, Will, Mr. Williams, you won't, Are you kidding me?

Eric shook his head and joked: You have such a big chest, I'm afraid you can't understand joking.

Kim Kardashian really couldn't understand, but her face became hot and said: But my stepfather and mother are both in New York, and my mother has to take care of my two sisters, Kendall and Kelly are still less than three years old.

Eric shrugged and said, This is not my business. In a week, if you can't see the plan, this matter will be forgotten.

Kim Kardashian didn't dare to bargain with Eric, so she nodded obediently and said, Well, okay.

Since it was summer and weekend, the girls basically woke up one after another near noon. After the twins got up, Eric drove them to his mansion in Trousdale Manor, and handled some work emails in the morning. Ben I wanted to start writing the outline of The Fast and the Furious in the afternoon, but a group of girls rushed over after getting up, and forced Eric to go crazy for a long time.

Three days after the weekend, The Lion King 2 took the top spot with a $38.9 million opening weekend, while Prison in the Air came in second with only $24.1 million, a difference of more than 14 million. Compared with The Fifth Element, which was swindled by Sony in May, it only had a box office of more than 22 million US dollars in the first week. The box office performance of Prison in the Air is obviously not so bad, but, even if it is not said that Firefly has just exceeded 600 million in North America. Titanic, which is officially under the US dollar, is only a failure in the box office figures of Prison in the Air compared with The Lion King.

At the same time, the box office performance of several overseas countries that opened in the same period did not meet expectations. In addition, the word-of-mouth of Prison in the Air barely reached the passing line. Global box office estimates of $300 million were slashed.

Considering that Godzilla and Batman and Robin will be the next blockbusters to compete with audiences, Hollywood Reporter even lowered the North American box office forecast of Sky Prison At 80 million US dollars, the global expectation is only 1.8 billion. The Firefly Group also lowered the global box office forecast for Prison in the Air to $200 million. According to this estimate, it is unlikely that Prison in the Air will bring profits to Firefly at the box office, and the company can only pin its profit prospects on later video tapes and peripheral releases.

Although anyone who knows a little bit knows that The Lion King 2 and Prison in the Sky do not have much box office competition, but The Lion King 2 far surpasses Prison in the Sky at the box office, but it is already indisputable In fact, Paramount Pictures, which was severely suppressed in the early publicity process, even exaggerated the 'hard-won' victory of The Lion King 2. Celebration feast.

Correspondingly, since Paramount Animation's two consecutive animated films Pocahontas and The Lion King 2 have achieved box office success, Firefly did not even launch a single animated film last year, and the industry has followed suit. Voices began to question Eric's decision to sell Disney's hand-drawn animation studio, and a newspaper in San Francisco even criticized Eric's move to sell Disney's hand-drawn animation studio as 'one of the dumbest business decisions in Hollywood'.

Because of these rhetoric, Finding Nemo's box-office performance is even more compelling two weeks later.

The high-level executives inside Firefly have naturally seen the film Finding Nemo, but although everyone affirms the excellence of Finding Nemo, most people are not confident that this animated film can surpass The Lion King 2, after all , the release date of Finding Nemo is sandwiched between Godzilla and Batman and Robin, but, even if you understand this, it is impossible to make any adjustments to the schedule at the moment. I can secretly expect that the box office of Godzilla and Batman and Robin will not explode so high, so as to leave more living space for Finding Nemo.

Although the main actors have not yet been determined, the main creative teams of the two projects Spider-Man and Iron Man have been established. Cameron and his old partner Jon Landau are in charge of Spider-Man, Iron Man is produced by Eric himself, and the director contract between Marvel Studios and Joss Whedon has also been completed.

After the weekend, Eric began frequent meetings with the head of Marvel Studios and the main creators of the two teams to discuss the script, casting, budget and other issues of the Iron Man and Spider-Man projects.

According to preliminary estimates, it will take half a year for the special effects technology development and testing of the two films.

At the same time, due to the large scale of production, once the project is officially launched, the project may lose millions of dollars every day. Therefore, the preparatory work in the early stage also needs to be reconsidered on all details, and this part of the preparation time is even more important. It will take more than half a year, and it is not impossible to drag on for a few more years. The Iron Man in the original time and space has been prepared since the 1990s. The official start of filming has been in 2007, and the sequel of Cameron's Avatar has been delayed. A lifetime series.

Eric certainly wouldn't let the two projects drag on for so long.

Iron Man has initially drawn up the project schedule. The film will officially start shooting in March next year. The shooting is expected to take four months, and the special effects production may take eight months. If all goes well, the film will be released in 1999. It was officially completed in March of this year and was released in the summer of that year.

As for Spider-Man, Cameron basically overturned the script of the year and started to write a new plot himself.

At the same time, Cameron recently had a whimsy. In order to make the footage of Peter Parker flying among the high-rise buildings in New York more realistic, he asked the digital field to develop a whole set of special effects software for him, which obviously takes a lot of time. , Eric only hopes that this project can start shooting around the end of next year. As long as it can be released in time for the summer of 2000, everything will be fine.

While paying attention to these two projects of Marvel Studios, Eric also took the time to write the outline of Fast and Furious, and handed it over to the girl to find a screenwriter to supplement.

Historically, the development of this series has always been stumbling. The success of the first part seems more like an accident. The box office of the subsequent installments was not ideal. It was not until the fourth installment that the series began to enter. Hollywood mainstream blockbuster ranks.

This time, although Eric doesn't need to take so many detours, he can't do it overnight. The script of the first episode still roughly adopts the plot of the first part of the previous life. After all, the success after the fourth part of the series is also the same as the first few episodes. The department gradually laid the result of popularity.

The busy working day passed quickly. On June 6th, while the first week of The Lion King 2 and Prison in the Air were released, Sony Pictures' highly anticipated Godzilla also opened strongly on more than 3,300 screens in North America. painting. (To be continued.)