I’m in Hollywood Chapter 102: Awarding guests

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The time goes into March, and it is getting closer and closer to the 61st Oscar Oscar Award ceremony. With the increasing influence of Hollywood movies in the world, Oscar has also received more attention.

Although this Oscar award is destined not to have much to do with Eric, no one can ignore this 18-year-old who has risen less than half a year.

In several movies related to him, "17 Again" and "Home Alone" have entered the 15th week of the release since November 18 last year. Although "17 Again" is not as strong as "Home Alone", but After four months of screenings, Box Office also reached 100 million and 7 million, making it the sixth Box Office film in 1988 to break 100 million.

If you do not compare it with "Home Alone", this data is also very dazzling. So far, the potential of Box Office of "17 Again" has been completely exhausted, and only two 30 million Box Office can be harvested on less than three hundred screens per week, and it may be downgraded at any time.

At the same time as "17 Again" was released to "Home Alone", Box Office is already close to 240 million, and "Home Alone" can still harvest Box Office around 5 million on more than one North America1200 screen every week.

In this era, the local Box Office and 200 million USD of Hollywood movies are a super-selling watershed. Only the George Lucas 《Star Wars》 series can easily be reached. Even the Spielberg's 《Indiana Jones》 series does not have this confidence.

And the local Box Office of 300 million USD can only be a legend. The last and only time to realize this legend was Spielberg's "Alien et" in 1982. After six years, the Home Alone was born again. Has the potential to touch the threshold of legend.

In this case, Columbia, which started the acquisition negotiation with Sony, has no longer considered the question of how much it can get because of the gambling contract, but is wondering how to send the North America Box Office of "Home Alone" into 300 million USD mark. Everyone knows that once "Home Alone" Box Office breaks through 300 million, it is the beginning of another round of Columbia stock price skyrocketing.

"What? Let me be the award-winning guest for the best supporting actress?" Eric looked at Amy · Pascal who came to visit suddenly: "Can this matter be decided by Columbia?"

"We have passed the Producer Alan · Carr of this Oscar awards ceremony. With your current influence, you are fully qualified. Eric, as long as you nod, you will soon receive an invitation."

Eric is hesitant. His exposure is high enough, and his private life has been harassed by reporters paparazzi for three days. But he can also understand the intention of Columbia to do so, whether it is for the still-released "Home Alone" or the summer 《Running Out of Time》, it is very good for him to show his face at the award ceremony where the number of viewers reaches four 50 million .

Although since Blunt · Cohen left and started the acquisition negotiation with Sony, Columbia made a 180-degree turn on the attitude towards Eric and actively promoted "Home Alone".

But at that time, "Home Alone" has missed the most operational Golden Globe Award, and the Oscar nomination has also been announced. "Home Alone" only got a very sweet nomination for the best soundtrack. Everyone knows that this is a consoling nomination given by the academy in order to attract the public's attention and because of the outstanding Box Office score of "Home Alone".

If Columbia is actively involved in public relations at the beginning, "Home Alone" can still refer to a few more nominations, and may eventually win a small gold person.

But now it's too late to say that, and not to mention that it has been less than two weeks since the Oscar judges voted, and it doesn't make much sense to conduct public relations. Only with the soundtrack level of "Home Alone", if you can beat the 《Rain Man》, 《Gorillas in the Mist》, 《Dangerous Liaisons》 and other excellent movies to get the little gold man, it will be a bit of a test of the IQ of the audience.

In the final analysis, "Home Alone" is just a young comedy film for children, without any artistic connotation.

After a little consideration, Eric nodded and agreed.

Columbia does this, although it is for their own consideration, but Eric can also get a lot of benefits from it. As long as he tries to cooperate with Columbia, "Home Alone" Box Office hopes to break through 300 million USD. Hopefully, once this goal is achieved, the Eric share will reach 120 million USD.

Amy also conveyed the promise of Columbia executives to Eric. After the downgrade of "Home Alone", Columbia will pay the full share of Eric within one month. This can alleviate the economic situation of Eric to the greatest extent. It should be known that Eric recently loaned a huge amount of 50 million USD from the bank for the smooth shoots of 《Scent of a Woman》 and "The Others" and the construction of Malibu mansion. He now has a full debt of 100 million USD. In Hollywood, he is undoubtedly the person with the highest debt.

"Since you agree, I will inform Alan · Carr to send you an invitation letter as soon as possible." Amy took a sip of coffee with satisfaction and asked again: "Eric, I heard that you are with Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks Negotiations are deadlocked, do you need Columbia to come forward? "

Eric shook his head and refused. This kind of stalemate was what he expected, and he was also sure that the stalemate would not exceed one month.

Because during Easter, Richard · Gere gave up the actor of 《Pretty Woman》 and participated in United Artists's action drama "Road House" is about to be released, he does not have the memory of this movie in his mind, he can only deliberately ask some people I inquired that the result was that even within United Artists, the most optimistic Box Office expectations for this movie were only around 30 million USD.

With the example of Richard · Gere, even if Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks are both Hollywood's a-level superstar, it is impossible to do the same stupid thing of refusing to participate in the new Eric film.

The more top-notch superstar, the more cautious you are when choosing a film. In case you accidentally step on a bad film, the damage to your reputation is difficult to measure.

Al · Pacino Four years ago because Warner investment 30 million USD Big bad movie Box Office It was a disastrous defeat, and under the pressure of huge public opinion, having to rest for four years is a lesson to be learned. Before that, Al But five times Oscar Nominated winner, undoubtedly Hollywood a superstar .

The films that Eric participated in have experienced three consecutive successes, and Hollywood is undoubtedly the most protected by Box Office and word of mouth. What's more, after seeing script, Cruise and Hanks also unanimously recognized the prospect of Box Office of 《Running Out of Time》.

The reason why the two let caa ’s manager and Firefly stand still is that in addition to saving face for Michael · Ovitz, the most powerful person in Hollywood, it is more about getting higher pay and share.

Eric believes that if CAA acts deliberately to break the negotiations, the two will definitely come forward to stop it. From the script talks that day, the two of Eric just knows have made up their minds to appear in this movie, otherwise they will not be able to discuss script with them for up to four hours.

"No need, Amy, caa will be relieved in less than a month," Eric did not want to owe Columbia a favor: "I just can use this time to complete the preparation work for the movie. Compared to the first two The production cycle of the film is less than one month, and 《Running Out of Time》 has plenty of time. It is now more than four months away from the release in July. "