Chapter 278: Preacher
Eric said on the phone about the various things that happened in the past and his own guess. Jeffrey in New York also realized the seriousness of the matter and said that he would return to Los Angeles tomorrow morning.
Hanging up the phone, Eric sat alone in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, and as the sunset sank completely into the sea, the living room without lights turned dim. Xiao Nizi did not know where the madness went. Without the instructions, the servants of the manor would not take the initiative to enter here, so only Eric was alone in the whole villa, and it seemed quiet and empty.
I don't know how long it took, the walkie-talkie in the living room slammed, and after Eric got up and pressed the call button, the voice of the manor security came: "Mr. Williams, there is a man named Anon Carpenter. Special people come to visit."
Eric wondered: "I don't know such a person. Does the other person say that he is coming?"
Security Road: "No, but he said that he is a 'speaker.'"
"The messenger," Eric whispered, whispering something quickly, and said to the security guard: "Let him come in."
"Okay, Mr. Williams," said the opposite, terminating the call.
Eric opened all the lights in the living room, and the dimly lit living room quickly became as bright as white. Then Eric walked to the study.
A few minutes later, a white man with a good-looking spectacles carrying a black leather bag into the door, looking at the gorgeous interior of the mansion in bright light, made a few low praises, even though he knew that he might not be a lifetime. There may be such a mansion, but when I think about what I want to do today, I will inevitably give birth to a somewhat deformed sense of self-sufficiency.
The man saw no Eric figure in the living room, and he was not polite at all. He sat down on the sofa on the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the sparkling sea outside the window patiently waiting for the owner to appear.
after awhile. Eric walked out of the study and saw the strange man who had sat on the sofa, slightly frowning. But soon he returned to calm and walked over to a strange man.
Hear the footsteps. The man stood up, but did not move, standing in the same place and waiting for Eric to approach, only to reach out and introduce himself: "Hello, Mr. Williams, my name is Arnold Carpenter."
Eric reached out and shook hands with the other, but did not speak. Seeing Arnold Carpenter didn't care about his coldness. Just waiting to sit down in the in-situ, Eric said: "Sorry, Mr. Carpenter, here is my favorite location, please sit there."
Arnold Carpenter's look changed, but his face soon hanged a sneer, and he stood up and said: "As you wish, Mr. Williams."
Eric sat down in the position that Arnault gave up, only to look at the opposite Arnold Capt: "I heard that you are a 'speaker', then talk about your intentions. ”
Arnold Carpenter did not speak for the first time. Instead, I opened my carry-on bag and took a stack of photos from it and pushed it to Eric: "Mr. Williams. You can look at these first."
Eric took a thick stack of photos and saw the first photo of Drew like a kitten in his arms. It was shot at the door of Malibu Manor a few weeks ago. The child licked his knee to the knee.
Eric’s heart flashed a bit, and it turned out that he felt that he was right. It’s true that someone is tracking and photographing himself. Well, perhaps his other feelings from these days are not wrong.
Although she was shocked, Eric quietly flipped through the next photo, except for his "close photo" with Drew. The woman who had contact with him had never let go, and the time span was a full year. Even a lot of photos Eric didn't think of it at first glance and needed careful memory. In order to remember the time and place of the occurrence. And these photos are quite clever, so you can see the relationship between men and women in the photo at a glance.
After reading the photos, Eric immediately determined that it had nothing to do with Fox, because Murdoch had personally admitted that a reporter from the News Corp.'s New York Post had tracked him for months. Moreover, even a photo of him and Nicole was in this stack of photos, but he and Elizabeth were not there. If these are the handwriting of other forces, then is the relationship between the newly-famous famous director and the media tycoon daughter exposed, is it more sensational?
However, although Fox can be seen in the photo, Eric can be sure that things are far from simple. If only a News Corp family wants to use these tricks to force him to submit, then the result can only be pushed to other forces, whether it is Murdoch or Barry Diller, it can not be so stupid.
I dropped the photo in my hand to the coffee table in front of me. Eric looked up and stared coldly at the opposite Arnold Carpenter: "What does this mean?"
Arnold Carpenter slightly evaded the compelling gaze of Eric's indifference to the freezing point and said, "Mr. Williams, this is what you know and ask."
Eric’s voice said without a trace: “Do you think that with these little tricks, can you affect me?”
Arnold Carpenter said: "Can and can't, depends on my boss's willingness. Mr. Williams, you have to understand that many famous people like you in Hollywood history, maybe because of one or two The scandal that wasn’t too eye-catching is just like a meteor. Do you need me to help list a few?"
Eric Shen said: "These women on the photo and I are yours, I am exposed, I am the most publicly regarded as a playboy, and there are many Hollywood Playboys."
Arnold Carpenter sneered and sat up straight and said: "Mr. Williams, the 'public' in your mouth is the most ignorant group, what kind of people they will treat you, the key is to control The media of public opinion wants them to be like you. The people who let me talk just control a large part of the media in North America. So these photos are enough to make you notorious. And this is just the beginning. However, after a small trouble, there will be more trouble waiting for you."
When I heard that Arnold Carpenter said such a passage, Eric flashed a glimmer of color, but he quickly covered up the emotion and said in a slightly angry tone: "Carpenter Sir, can you tell me who is behind you, or who are the bosses?"
Seeing that Eric was finally irritated by himself, Arnold Carpenter proudly said: "Mr. Williams, you are so smart, how can you guess?"
"Well," Eric continued. "So, what are the conditions for them?"
"Forty percent of the Firefly Film Company shares," Arnold Carpenter said as he endorsed the sentence, and then said: "Look, Mr. Williams, the boss who sent me to talk." Not at all greedy, give up 40% of the firefly shares, then you are still the biggest shareholder of fireflies. But if you disagree, wait for everything to start, and then want my boss to close, the price is far more than that. too much."
Eric snorted, 40% of the shares, it seems that it is not greedy, but lost 40% of the shares, minus the three percent that was recently transferred to Jeffrey. The shares, he only has 42% in his hands, although still the biggest shareholder of fireflies, but it does not reach absolute control.
Although Robert Shea is mediocre, she has always been a very powerful person. If those people get 40% of the shares and promise to give Robert Shea what he wants, Eric can be sure that Robert Shea will definitely fall to the other side. At that time, Eric will also lose control of the fireflies. .
After the merger with the new line, the fireflies that have the distribution channels of the film, although not up to the size of the seven giants, have initially developed into a prototype of the movie giant. Once the control of the fireflies is lost, Eric can be sure that he will have a hard time under the joint pressure of the seven major film companies to develop a film company with a complete distribution channel, plus the advent of the 1990s, the film company and The media group will usher in the big trend of integration. At that time, Eric will only be thrown further and further away from the movie giants who are compatible with the media group. Even if he can still shoot big movies, he can't have the strength to bargain with those movie companies, and he will eventually become a chess piece for the big group, not a player who can play the game.
To think about this, Eric didn't want to go down with the other stranger to make a snake. He went straight to the order: "Mr. Carpenter, go back and tell your boss, if you want a firefly, come and take it. Try it. Try to see if you can get it."
Arnold Carpenter’s expression was more smug, and then said: “Mr. Williams, my boss has already guessed that you will be young and refusal to directly reject this suggestion, so he told me to tell you that you will have tomorrow. Consider the time of the day, calm down and think about it. You see, this villa is so gorgeous and extravagant. If you want to maintain everything here, the annual expenditure will not be less than one million dollars?"
Eric didn't seem to hear Arnold Carpenter's words, pointing to the door: "Mr. Carpenter, actually, a stranger like you here makes me very uncomfortable, so please immediately Leave, I am afraid that I will not be able to control it, let the security guard throw you into the sea, you have to know that this is a private territory, I have the power to do so." (To be continued)