America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 329 327. Take down Avril

"They hate me. Obviously, the judges hate me. I didn't even get a nomination! Damn it!"

"You'd better keep your voice down, Avril. If someone hears you, you'll be on the news."

"What are you afraid of? I'm going to scold you!"

"It doesn't matter. We'll try to produce better works this year. You'll definitely win the grand prize at the Grammy Awards next year."

Avril punched Eric on the shoulder angrily: "It's all your fault. You should have released "something just like this" earlier. If you had released it half a month earlier, I wouldn't have missed the awards ceremony."

Rubbing the sore part, Eric couldn't help but sigh. This girl looks skinny, but how can she be so strong?

He suddenly remembered the news he had seen before. Avril had had many fights with others.

One time, she and her boyfriend were not at all inferior to the four men on the opposite side. The two sides fought evenly.

The key is that she really dared to go up, and in the end she only suffered minor injuries. Although the process is unclear, it is impossible for all four people to beat up her boyfriend alone. Avril must have taken some of the damage.

In short, this is a female man with a hot temper and good fighting ability.

She didn't get a fart at the Grammy this time, but she actually released her second album this year. Although the audience's acceptance was good, it was obviously not liked by the judges.

The official release time of the single "something just like this" happened to be beyond December, so she could not participate in this Grammy, which is why she won nothing.

Otherwise, with this song, she could get a nomination for Best Rock Female Singer or Best Pop Female Singer.

It's hard to say whether she can win the award, but getting the nomination is good enough.

The Meiyi Four is undoubtedly the most eye-catching tonight. All four of them were nominated for this year's Best Newcomer Award, so that this year's nominees reached a terrifying 8 people, which is also a history.

In the end, Brother Mars won the Best Newcomer Award and thanked Michael and Eric on the stage.

Although Taylor Swift did not win the Best New Artist award, she was nominated for Best Country Album and Best Country Song.

It's a pity that she didn't win any awards. After all, it was her first album and she was still a little immature, but it was also a recognition of her creative ability.

Katy Perry was nominated for Best Pop Solo with "Stronger", and Eric was nominated for Record of the Year with her, but unfortunately they were all nominated.

However, the grand prize was finally won by Meiyi because of the song "Let It Go" that brought ice and snow to the whole summer.

After dominating the Billboard charts for 11 consecutive weeks, even though it has fallen from the top position, it has been half a year until today, and the popularity of "Let It Go" is still good. It has not fallen out of the charts and is still ranked 14th in the overall charts. The stickiness is so strong that it is terrible.

This song has become Celine Dion's most widely spread hit song after "My Heart Will Go On", and even kindergarten children can sing a few lines.

With such a great influence, the Grammy Awards cannot be ignored.

Celine Dion was nominated for Best Female Pop Singer, Single of the Year, and Best Song for Film and Television.

As expected, she won all three awards, and her opponents gave her applause. She deserved to lose.

"Let it go" became the most popular song at the awards ceremony.

Compared with the four-member group, Avril, who had just joined the Fine Arts, was naturally very depressed.

She didn't get any, and the key was that she didn't even get a nomination. How could she have the face to be the big sister? Wouldn't she be ashamed in front of her younger sisters?

At this time, the paparazzi came over and took pictures.

Eric was too lazy to stay here, so he said goodbye to everyone and got into the car to leave.

Looking at the golden phonograph in his hand, he couldn't help laughing.

He, who couldn't even read the five-line music, had already won two trophies from the Grammy Awards.

This thing is the lifelong dream of many people. For those who have worked diligently all their lives, it has to be said to be an irony.

Beep beep beep!

Suddenly, a loud horn honked from behind.

Eric looked at both sides. There were not many cars and the road condition was good.

What's going on? If you want to overtake, just overtake. Why honk the horn?

Beep, beep, beep!

At this time, the horn sounded again. He frowned, but saw that the screen of his mobile phone also lit up.

"Huh? Stop the car."

Pete immediately turned the steering wheel and parked the car on the side of the road.

Then the black Hummer came in front of Eric, and Avril hooked her hand: "Get in, go for a ride with me!"

Eric shook his head: "Your car is too ostentatious. It has been recorded by the media. If you really want to go for a ride, you should get mine."

A few minutes later, the two drove towards the seaside, and Pete drove Avril's Hummer away.

"Eric, your car seems to be different from the last one. Is it my illusion?"

"Of course it's different. I change a new car every month to prevent those paparazzi from following me."

"Every month?" Avril was a little surprised.

"Yes."

"Well, you are really rich. This car looks expensive."

"When you have hundreds of millions of dollars in your account every month, the status of money in your mind will become lower and lower, and it will gradually become a string of numbers."

"But I don't just drive luxury cars. Luxury cars are too ostentatious. In fact, I can drive anything worth tens of thousands of dollars. What I want is concealment."

"Why are you so private? Do you always date secretly, for fear of having scandals exposed?"

Eric nodded: "Yes, actually I have six girlfriends. We live together. In addition, I have several other girlfriends outside."

"Hahahaha. Can your body bear it?"

Avril let out a hearty laugh, opened her own beer and downed half the bottle. Obviously she didn't believe what Eric said.

You still live with six girlfriends, why don't you say you are a superman? Bragging!

In this regard, Eric could only sigh, you see, people don't believe me when I tell the truth.

well! Why is it so difficult to trust between people?

"Beer?"

"OK!"

Drinking some beer didn't affect driving, so Avril put the remaining half of the bottle into his mouth and blew it dry in one go.

"Hey! Look at that, do you think I can shoot it accurately?"

"It's a bit far, unlikely."

"Don't underestimate me, just watch bitch."

As she said that, she opened the sunroof and got out, and the beer bottle accurately hit the GG sign high on the roadside, just in time for Aretha Moore's chest to explode, which had not yet evolved into a fan mother.

"Yes! I hit it!"

Eric gave a thumbs up: "Awesome, but I don't understand why you want to hit Aretha Moore?"

Avril spread her hands: "How do I know? Maybe it's because I'm drunk."

"Come on, you look like you're in good spirits, Ivy."

"Really? But I always feel like I'm drunk and want to do things that only a fool would do."

"You're just in a bad mood. I'll compose a song for you in a while. Anyway, the Grammys are held every year. I'll win next year."

It's okay not to mention Grammy, but when I mentioned it, I felt Avril's anger came up again, and she started to curse angrily.

After scolding her for more than ten minutes, Eric could only nod silently in agreement. Anyway, Eric was not familiar with the people she was criticizing, and he had never even heard of many of their names.

Unknowingly, the car drove to the beach.

It's late at night, it's quiet here, there's no one around.

Looking at the punk girl who was still outputting, Eric rolled his eyes.

"Come on, little girl, no matter how fierce you scold me, it won't change the facts."

Avril suddenly looked at Eric's trophy, grabbed it, rolled down the glass, and threw it out the window.

"Ah? What the hell are you doing!"

Before he finished speaking, a burst of hot air hit his face, and Avril's tongue had already penetrated into Eric's mouth.

After being attacked, especially with his vision blocked, he heard a bang and the car hit a tree.

Although the speed was not fast, the airbag that popped up still squeezed the two people together.

Taking off their seat belts, the two got out of the car.

Looking at the dented car at the front, Avril said with some embarrassment: "I seem to have really drunk too much."

"You are indeed very drunk. Why did you kiss me suddenly just now?"

"I don't know, maybe it's because my brain is hot."

"Then continue."

"ah?"

Eric picked her up and put her on the trunk, but Avril seemed to be awake, but her head was shaking like a rattle.

"Eric, I'm really drunk. We can't do this. What if someone sees me?"

"It's so late, no one will show up."

"Wait, wait, it's cold, it's too cold, you'll catch a cold."

"It doesn't matter. Two people can rub together to generate heat. Eskimos like to use this method to keep warm."

"No, I'm afraid of the dark. It's too dark here."

"So you should hug me tighter."

"No, you already have six girlfriends, I can't be the seventh."

"It's all lies, only a ghost can believe it."

"But it's me!"

"Ivy, it's like a dream."

"This is outside the Kodak Theater, where the Oscars are held, and media from all over the world gather here."

"The countdown to the 2005 Oscars has begun, and countless awards will be awarded today."

"Hello everyone, I'm your host Chris Connelly."

"Hi and welcome to awards night, I'm your host Jen Carr and we're going to interview these superstars."

On February 27, the 77th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Kodak Theater.

The same splendor, the same starry sky.

The long red carpet, the venue full of celebrity guests, and countless crazy audiences.

At this moment, even the most senior movie fans will find that there are many stars they don't know when they come here.

There are too many. There is no other occasion in the world that can bring together so many stars in the world.

"Eric, look here, do something cool."

"Nicole, why don't you come closer? It'll make you feel more comfortable."

Eric took advantage of the situation and hugged Nicole tightly. It's what you asked for. I'm just working together.

After a flash of light, the two separated.

"Nicole, your performance in "La Vie en Rose" was wonderful. Are you sure you will win the Oscar for Best Actress?"

"I don't know. It depends on the opinions of the judges. Everyone is excellent. It's no surprise whoever wins."

"Do you think you have the best chance of winning? After all, you have already won the Golden Globe Award."

Eric patted Nicole's beautiful back and motioned her to leave: "I will answer for her. Everyone wants to win an award. I want to win it too, but no one is absolutely sure."

"It would be great if you win, but it doesn't matter if you don't. Didn't Forrest Gump's mother say that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what the next one will taste like, right?"

After saying that, he was about to leave, but was stopped by the host Chris Connelly.

"Eric, I found you."

Eric smiled and thought to himself, what the hell is Pete?

"Recently, MGM's movies have been withdrawn from the schedule one after another. May I ask why they did this?"

Since the collapse of the Big Six, not only MGM, Universal, Sony, Paramount, and Fox are happy, but many second- and third-tier companies are also happy.

It can be said that the entire Hollywood, except for Disney and Warner, is happy.

Then DreamWorks, New Line, Lionsgate and other companies came to us together and complained about the grievances and losses they had suffered in the past year.

What they meant was that they hoped to re-plan the schedule.

The younger brothers had a large number of backlogged films, and the older brothers gave up some schedules so that we could go first.

The request was actually very reasonable, and Eric also had this idea.

Give them some benefits so that they would not be lured away by Disney and Warner again.

Then the companies were organized to hold a meeting again to sort out the current chaos.

Finally, it was decided to leave two months of schedule for the second and third-tier companies. In principle, the five of them would only release two movies a month at most, and they could not include A-level productions.

This request was not excessive, after all, large productions would generally be released in late May.

And after a year of battle, the A-level inventory in the hands of several companies had almost been consumed.

As the new leader, MGM, Eric set an example by ensuring that no new films would be released within the two-month schedule, so some of the originally scheduled movies were announced to be withdrawn.

As for two months later, we will naturally return to the previous model, and everyone will discuss and ensure that everyone can get a share of the profits.

Disney and Warner were not invited to this meeting. MGM will launch precise sniping against the two companies in the future.

"Withdrawal is a more complicated issue, involving many aspects, and it can be regarded as a behavior of re-regulating the market."

"In other words, will Hollywood return to its previous state?"

"Yes, this is good for everyone. I mean every practitioner and countless shareholders. Everyone can enter the market with confidence. The times have changed."

"But Disney and Warner don't seem to have made any relevant statements. Why?"

Eric smiled and said, "I don't know about this. You can go interview Michael Aeneas and Barry Meyer."

After that, he ignored the host and pulled Daddario and Liu Yifei, who happened to pass by, and left the red carpet.