I’m in Hollywood Chapter 27: Eyes of shock

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On November 18th, the day after Eric flew to New York, "Home Alone" and "17 Again" officially ushered in the premiere. "Home Alone" opened the screen for 1000 pieces, while "17 Again" opened the screen for it. 1,279 yuan, more than two hundred more than "Home Alone", Fox has no scruples about the gambling agreement, so I tried my best at the beginning.

At the same time, there were also 1395 screens of the animation 《The Land Before Time》 of Universal Pictures and 952 screens of the animation 《Oliver & Company》 released by Bowei International under Disney.

Three children-oriented movies are released at the same time, which makes the media feel that Eric is less likely to win a bet, but Eric is not too worried. The early stage of these two animations may cause a certain Box Office crowding of "Home Alone" Pressure, but in the later period, it certainly cannot be compared with "Home Alone". previous life "Home Alone", but Box Office has been above 10 million for 10 consecutive weeks.

After attending the two premieres, when Eric and the crew returned to the hotel, it was already over 11pm. This era is not as advanced as the Box Office statistical system, so we can only wait until next week to get the Box Office data of "Home Alone" and "17 Again".

Going back to the room, Eric took a shower and was about to go to sleep. The phone rang suddenly. Only Aniston was called over so late.

"Hi, Eric, are you asleep?" Aniston asked with a little excitement in his tone.

Eric was sitting on the bed, wiping his wet hair with a towel and saying, "Not yet, just after taking a shower, Annie, what happy things happened?"

"Guess what?"

Eric ridiculed: "Oh, I know, you must be pregnant, rest assured I will be responsible."

"Bah, you big wolf, just knows thinks about those dirty things." Aniston took a sip with his microphone: "I just went to watch" Home Alone "and encountered an interesting thing Oh."

Eric smiled: "Tell me about it?"

"This is the case. I came out of the cinema and I just saw a five- or six-year-old boy shouting to see Kevin. The child ’s parents disagreed, saying that they had just watched it, and the boy lay on the ground There was crying. Some people mistakenly thought that the parents were human traffickers when they saw the scene. They beat up the poor young parents and called the police. Finally, there were several police cars. It was really fun, haha. "

Aniston just took this matter as an anecdote to Eric while watching movies, but Eric saw more meaning from it. He chatted with Aniston again and hung up the phone. Eric was lying on the bed, slightly excited.

Because things still happen according to the previous life track. The reason why previous life "Home Alone" can get such amazing Box Office is because a big wave of bear kids is watching "Home Alone" over and over again and again, and they are competing to imitate the actions of Kevin in the film, and finally promote the film to get amazing Box Office results .

The matter is indeed as Eric guessed. On the first day of the movie, "Home Alone" was basically similar to the other two animations Box Office, but with the word of mouth of "Home Alone" spreading at an alarming rate among the children, the first On the second day, the Box Office on the day of "Home Alone" doubled directly. On the third day, Box Office increased significantly again, and some popular theaters have queued up.

After all, the cartoons can be watched at any time, and Kevin, the eccentric monster, is not something you can meet at any time. Most children dream of growing up too fast and can do many things that they ca n’t do now. From the perspective of children, the movie "Home Alone" has realized what most children want to do in reality, but they can't do it, dare to do it or can't do it.

The North America group of children quickly caught a wave of imitating Kevin. The San Francisco family newspaper even reported a real "Home Alone" incident. A nine-year-old boy watched "Home Alone", and the whole family was going to go Hawaii secretly locked himself in the room while on vacation.

The parents with six children did n’t find out about it. After the family flew to Hawaii, they discovered that the boy was gone. The boy ’s parents had to give up their vacation and flew back from Hawaii to San Francisco. At the same time, the boy had already messed up his family and waited for the arrival of the ‘stupid thief’. Unfortunately, the parents who were really worried were waiting.

One week later, Box Office in the first week of the movie finally counted. Although the previous hot signs have made people have some psychological preparation, but the amazing 27.55 million USD of Home Alone Box Office in the first week still shocked everyone ’s eyeballs.

The Box Office of more than 20 million USD may not be comparable to the Box Office 100 million blockbuster in the first week of later generations, but in this era, this score directly completed all high Box Office movies in recent years, even Spielberg's "et". Without such a stunning start, only 《Star Wars》 series of George · Lucas can be surpassed by "Home Alone", but the production cost of 《Star Wars》 is more than 100 times that of "Home Alone"!

At the same time, "17 Again" also achieved second place with a good score of 13.12 million. The two 《The Land Before Time》 and 《Oliver & Company》 cartoons that competed with "Home Alone" only got 7.12 million and 3.98 million Box Office, which is far lower than the expected values ​​of the two major Film Studio. There is no doubt that the two animations of Box Office were "Home Alone". "The suppression was very miserable. While Universal and Disney executives lamented that" Home Alone "Box Office was too unfavourable, they also envy the good luck of Columbia.

Columbia is really good luck, but when I saw Columbia Chairman Blunt · Cohen of Box Office in the first week, I was not in a good mood, and even couldn't hold back the tea cup in my hand several times.

According to the Box Office data of the first week, Columbia reassessed that the North America Box Office of "Home Alone" is definitely above 200 million USD, and may even exceed 300 million USD. Blunt · Cohen is very regretful. If you insisted on buying out the "Home Alone" copyright plan instead of signing a dog gambling agreement, then this year Columbia will make a profit of hundreds of millions of USD with this movie.

Now, according to the matchmaking agreement, if "Home Alone" Box Office 300 million USD, Columbia will pay the share of 120 million USD to Eric, it can only get 45 million USD, minus the issue cost, Columbia may only earn more than the fraction of Eric 120 million USD .

Blunt · Cohen has had the idea of ​​tearing down the agreement many times. However, the content of the gambling agreement is now known to entire US. If the agreement is rashly broken, Columbia is difficult to win the lawsuit. Not to mention, it will become the laughing stock of entire US, he This Chairman will certainly be swept away as a scapegoat.

"No, you must find a way to recover the loss, you must ..." Blunt · Cohen muttered to himself, the assistant knocked on the door and said: "Mr. Cohen, everyone is here, you can have a meeting."

Blunt · Cohen rubbed his temple and got up to the meeting room.

After sitting down in his place, Blunt · Cohen directly asked Lester · Reed responsible for the "Home Alone" project: "Lester, how is the data analysis going?"

Lester · Reed was supposed to come back to the flight with the crew of "Home Alone" late at night today, but Headquarters had an emergency call that made him return to Los Angeles half a day earlier than others. After coming to Columbia Headquarters and learning that "Home Alone" Box Office in the first week, Lester Basic Instinct felt a little bad.

He looked at the expressionless Blunt · Cohen with a guilty conscience, and decided to accept the gambling agreement Blunt · Cohen, but he first responded to the agreement at the original meeting. According to the character of Blunt · Cohen who has just been stunned for self-use, eight out of nine out of ten will anger himself.

"Mr. Cohen, according to the analysis of the data department, according to the gambling agreement, we can only get a share of about 50 million USD, the peak value of the share is probably 225 million USD, this is the data curve."

Blunt · Cohen took over the analysis file and glanced at the red parabola representing the profit of Columbia, and the green curve that represented the rise of Eric, and the temple could not help jumping again.

Bang —

Another teacup was dropped on the mahogany floor by Blunt · Cohen, and a muffled noise was heard. Everyone else in the meeting room shook slightly, and subconsciously lowered his head and froze.

In general, 50 million USD ’s Box Office split has made many Film Studio high-level dreams wake up with laughter. After all, even the six giants, this year ’s Box Office has the best profit in the whole year, it is about 100 million to 200 million.

Compared with the 100 million and USD profits that Eric might get, all the excitement that Blunt · Cohen should have had disappeared instantly.

"So, you are responsible for signing the gambling agreement, what should you do now?" Blunt · Cohen glanced coldly around the crowd, and finally focused on Lester · Reed.