Five Hundred and Sixtieth IX Have to Believe

Later, Natalie Portman, the little girl who also called Natalie Hushler at this time, looked at the young man who was squatting on the side of the road again after her mother left with Eric's driver, feeling in her heart. Very novel. In her impression, those big directors who occasionally appear on the TV screen are either serious, funny or maverick. She thinks, most of those people are pretending.

At this moment, this guy named Eric Williams, with a series of box office miracles on his head, gave her a feeling of being completely invisible, because according to the normal thinking logic, only those juniors of the same level in the school Boys will pretend to be in front of her.

Moreover, his attire at this time also seemed a bit nondescript. A black jacket was open, revealing a T-shirt with an unknown pattern printed on it, and a pair of trousers looked a little wrinkled. If you iron a colorful broom head, With bright earrings, it is almost the same as the legendary biker party.

Well, it's barely a handsome biker, much more handsome than the skinheads.

Looking at Eric's trance, the little girl followed Eric's gaze to the road. Cars passed by fast or slow. Maybe he was thinking that it would be more cost-effective to rob that car.

Feeling that her thoughts were inexplicably funny, the girl grinned, stepped on her white sneakers and leaned over to Eric's left, then squatted down and looked at the more and more vehicles as they got off work.

Chrysler, Toyota, Chevrolet, Ford, BMW...

It is estimated that the white convertible BMW is the most expensive. I heard that the quality of German cars is very good.

After a few minutes like this, Natalie realized the identity of the guy next to her again, he was a big Hollywood director, and he was also the boss of a film company, so she touched the man beside her with her elbow: "William Mr. James?"

"Um?"

"You... your film company still needs little actors?"

Eric snuffed out the burnt cigarette butt in his hand. Throwing it into the drainage ditch next to him, at the same time, he put away the little emotions in his heart and looked at the girl squatting beside him. He said with great interest, "Yes."

"Then what do you think of me?"

Eric looked up and down at Natalie at this time, her thin body wrapped in a small white T-shirt. A slender calf was exposed under the khaki cropped trousers, and he shook his head and said, "Too thin."

"Hey, aren't all celebrities very thin," the girl immediately defended: "Revlon invited me to be their child model when I was ten years old.

Moreover, I have participated in the drama camp training for two years, and I have also served as a substitute for the heroine of the stage play "Cruel". Well... Although I failed to play in the end, it is enough to prove my acting ability. "

Eric asked with a smile, "Then do you want to be a star or an actor?"

"Hehe. Of course it's a star. I don't want to be a housewife with a constant life when I grow up like my mother. That kind of life is too boring."

"Okay, then I'll give you a chance to be a star," Eric pointed to the car parked next to him: "Help me get the mobile phone in the car, in the front row."

Natalie was still thinking about how to convince Eric to give herself a chance to participate in a movie. Hearing Eric's words, she almost sat on the ground in surprise, but the girl's psychological quality is still good. Hearing that, he jumped up abruptly with his little hands on the ground, opened the door of the Toyota sedan and got into the front row, and quickly handed the Motorola mobile phone to Eric. Staring at Eric without blinking, he pulled out a business card from his pocket and dialed the number.

"Hey, Luc, it's me, Eric..." After Luc Besson's call was connected, Eric didn't chat too much, and went straight to the topic: "I'm still on the road, but the car broke down. ... no no no, of course not. I can do it myself, I mean. I just happened to meet a little girl who I think is a good fit for the role of Matilda. Maybe you can give her that role... I Seriously, now, you two talk."

After saying this, Eric shoved the mobile phone to Natalie, and said nothing, took out a cigarette and lit it again, and raised his chin towards the girl.

Natalie was stunned for two seconds while holding the mobile phone, and quickly put the receiver to her ear: "Hello... Hello, my name is Natalie Hirschler."

Eric vaguely heard Luc Besson's self-introduction voice, followed by the girl's dazed look, but Natalie calmed down after a brief panic and said, "Hello Director Besson, I don't know what the hell is going on with that character named Matilda though, but I think I could try, if you could give me an audition... oh Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen, Tenth Avenue Fan En Hotel... Yes, I remember, tomorrow morning at nine o'clock... I will be there on time, thank you, goodbye."

Hanging up the phone, the girl seemed to have some unbelievable delusions, but when she realized that it was all real, Natalie almost jumped up with excitement.

Carefully returning the mobile phone to Eric, Natalie showed a eager expression: "Mr. Williams, can you tell me some specific information about the role of Matilda, maybe I can prepare a little tonight. a bit."

"A precocious and rebellious little girl, just like you."

Natalie wanted to refute that she was not rebellious at all, and could only be regarded as naughty at best, but she swallowed the sentence and asked again, "Can you be more specific?"

"These are enough," Eric smiled mysteriously: "It's yours, it's yours after all."

Natalie was a little unwilling to continue to ask. Mrs. Hershler, who had just left, drove back here again. Just as the car stopped, the girl ran towards her mother excitedly, dancing to tell her the good news just now.

Carter was taking out a toolbox from the white Chevrolet, and when he heard the girl's words, he glanced at Eric with interest, and walked towards the Toyota parked on the side of the road.

"Mr. Williams, it's a bit presumptuous to say that, but are you kidding Nat?"

Eric handed the business card of Luc Besson just now to Mrs. Hirschler and said, "This is the director's business card, which may be of some help to you."

Mrs. Hirschler took the business card and glanced at it. Since Eric said so, she no longer doubted the authenticity of what Eric just said to her daughter. He just frowned slightly and said, "But Nate has just started school. Will filming delay her study?"

"Mom. No, it's probably just a small role. It won't be delayed for a few days."

Mrs. Hirschler felt that her daughter's idea might be right, and just after her expression relaxed a little, Eric said, "It's not a small role, it's a heroine, if it really needs to be filmed, it may take two to three months. "

"Wow," a somewhat surprised voice sounded.

Mrs. Hirschler frowned immediately: "If this is the case..."

"If Nat can get this role, the company will arrange a special private teacher for her to make up lessons regularly. Of course. It all depends on your own decision."

"Then I need to discuss it with my husband."

"Of course, but the reason for such an opportunity is because the original heroine had to be released from the cast this afternoon because of a sudden appendicitis. Because the cast has already been turned on and consumes a lot of money every day, it is impossible to drag on for one role. For a long time, it is estimated that it will be determined in two or three days at most."

"Mom, mom," Natalie heard the words. Immediately showing a pitiful expression, he pulled his mother's sleeve.

He did what he had to do, and Eric didn't say anything, since he was able to meet Natalie on Long Island, which is thousands of kilometers in radius. Eric thought that Matilda would still belong to that Natalie Portman.

As expected by Eric, the next day, Luc Besson called East Hampton and expressed his satisfaction with Natalie's performance. Although the girl's parents did not agree to the girl's role after reading the script, But I couldn't bear the girl's soft and hard bubbles, and finally agreed.

The Manhattan trip was like a small episode in Eric's life as a dad in East Hampton, and the days that followed were calm again.

Jackson's case is still buzzing, and it is estimated that there will be months of trouble. If this sort of thing falls on Eric. He will do whatever it takes to win this lawsuit, because only then is the best outcome. Also, America as a money society. For the billionaire Jackson, there is a great advantage. Eric's memory of Simpson's wife murder is the most favorable proof of playing with the law under the money offensive.

It is a pity that although Jackson is talented, he is just a child at heart, and he is surrounded by too many people who want to benefit from him, which is doomed to the tragedy of this genius.

After a three-week break, Eric had to start working again with the completion of Firefly's plan to divest from Fox.

After adopting a series of reasonable tax avoidance methods, Firefly finally received $650 million in funds from News Corp.

Because Disney owns hundreds of Disney stores and Disneyland, Firefly's cash flow is far more abundant than the other major Hollywood studios. Combined with lucrative profits from a string of hit movies, Firefly's cash reserves reached a staggering $4 billion in two years, more than three times the market value of MGM, and in the summer of " Several films such as Jurassic Park have closed at the box office, which will be close to the $5 billion mark.

In September, after a fierce 'competition', Firefly Pictures lost to Viacom in the acquisition of Blockbuster videotape chain stores. It's still very bad, because Blockbuster, which could have won $8 billion, has finally increased the purchase price by $600 million because of the involvement of Firefly Pictures. After signing the acquisition agreement, Lei Shidong also realized that Firefly Pictures did not really plan to bid for Blockbuster. The angry old man who spent an extra $600 million in unjust money once again made a cynical statement to Firefly.

After getting rid of the equity of the Fox TV network, under the auspices of Katzenberg, Firefly began to slowly eat into the shares of ab TV in the circulation market. At this time, the actual purpose of Firefly Pictures could no longer be concealed, and the company's top management began to The three TV stations of ab, nb and bs are blatantly exposed at the same time.

After the news was made public, the stock prices of the three major TV stations began to rise at the same time, and the speed of equity circulation in the market became more frequent. For this reason, the action of fireflies secretly eating ab shares was no longer so conspicuous. During this period, Katzenberg submitted a plan to Eric, intending to use several scattered shell companies to absorb about 10% of ab's outstanding shares, and then join ab's board of directors, and at the same time formally initiate a takeover offer.

In late September, Chris, who had been in northern Europe for several months, finally returned to New York, accompanied by Jorma Ollila of Nokia Group.

After Joma Ollila signed some documents with Eric in person, and interviewed Eric for a few hours, she hurriedly left East Hampton and returned to Finland.

Standing side by side with Chris on the road outside East Hampton Manor, watching Yoma Ollila's vehicle disappear. Eric asked: "He doesn't seem to be in a good mood?"

"Of course, it's very obvious," Chris showed a sly smile, walked side by side with Eric to the manor, and said, "I have to say, we really took advantage of this acquisition, you may not know , just five days after we signed the equity transfer agreement, several EU member states publicly announced the use of the gsm digital communication network to replace the original analog communication method. I was worried that the gsm network would be replaced by the network standard developed by other large companies. As soon as this news came out, it basically confirmed that gsm network at least in Europe is unshakable. Nokia's stock price has risen by 27% in the last week. You can imagine what those guys who sold their shares are thinking now. I feel, and Joma Ollila didn't want the shareholders of Finnish Bank to hand over their controlling stakes, so he is so depressed now."

Eric said with a smile, "Then you won't question my original decision now, will you?"

"Of course," Chris said, "Eric, I find that your personal self-awareness is a hundred times sharper than all the smart people I've met in the past thirty years. What information is there to judge these things, like the Gulf War, like Nokia, and Firefly's successful series of films?"

"If I say this is a talent, would you believe it?"

Chris shook his head and smiled: "I don't believe it, but seeing is believing. I don't seem to have a second choice but to believe." (To be continued) (www.. )