I’m in Hollywood Chapter 33: The initiative
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The next day, the impact of this incident continued to expand. While most newspapers fell to the ground to denounce Columbia, somehow, they angered Columbia ’s owner Coca Cola Group and began to accuse Coca Cola of Columbia ’s business strategy. . After all, the results of Columbia Film Studio have really hit the streets in recent years. The Coca Cola Group originally didn't care about this 'little thing' at all.
Surprisingly, after the opening of the stock market that day, the stock price of Coca Cola, which had been very stable, fell directly by 1.7%. This number may seem insignificant, but after multiplying the market value of the number 10 billion USD, it is not so calm.
Coca Cola CEO Guo Sida scolded Blunt · Cohen directly on the phone and ordered Blunt · Cohen to resolve this matter quickly, otherwise he would get out of the position of Columbia Chairman.
Under the high pressure of Coca Cola Headquarters, at 10 am, Blunt · Cohen personally held a press conference at Columbia Corporation, and politely apologized to Eric, and promised to seriously implement the agreement on gambling.
Of course, the Eric who got the news will not make things more rigid. Immediately, his personal lawyer Edward · Lewis issued a statement of understanding on 《Los Angeles Times》. As soon as the storm rose, it quickly calmed down.
Perhaps because of this breach of contract, according to the general rule, there should be a certain drop in "Home Alone" Box Office. Not only did it not fall in the second week, but it rose a lot, and got 27.67 million USD Box Office in two weeks. It broke the 50 million USD mark.
At the same time, the "17 Again" Box Office, which got 14730,000 USD, is still the second in the Box Office list. The two movies related to Eric, the total of Box Office even exceeded 50% of the total Box Office of North America this week, which once again surprised some people.
Although the results are still amazing, the media's attention to Eric has slowly dropped. Journalists near Eric's home finally left after finding no useful news for several days in a row.
This week, Eric basically stayed at home and concentrated on the creation of "Resident Evil" of Michael · Claus, previous life's "Resident Evil" story has two versions, one is Capcom's game story line, one is The storyline of the movie version featuring Alice. It is a pity that Eric has only played the fourth and sixth generations of the "Resident Evil" game, so I don't know too much about the story of the game version.
The story line of the movie version is obviously not much to write. On the basis of the game content, it is completely the personal opening and closing show of the female man Mila Jovovich.
Therefore, the writing of the novel "Resident Evil" is not as easy as "Jurassic Park". It took Eric three days to conceive an outline for actor Leon. The content started from Leon from joining police department and continued until everyone escaped from the raccoon city where the virus broke out.
Eric cleverly integrates the characters of previous life's protagonists Chris, Jill, and Wesker into this novel. Of course, Sister Wang, the most popular among Chinese game fans, is definitely indispensable. Eric very interestingly shaped the relationship between Ada Wang and Leon into the relationship between Queen Queen and pet boy.
This is not the original Eric. On the previous life network, some game fans comment on the relationship between two people.
In the game, when the elegant and evil Ada Wang often performs tasks, he encounters the small Leon in the depths of the water and calmly helps him out of his predicament. The printed bazooka flew away.
Every time you play these plots, it is easy to reminisce about some evil pictures: small Baby, come here ... (touch ~ touch ~ head ~) ... well, it ’s nothing to do with you while playing Go for it.
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Getting out of the kitchen with boiling water, Eric is making coffee for James · Brooks who is sitting on the sofa in the living room and reading some of the manuscripts of "Resident Evil".
"James, how do you like it?" He handed the brewed coffee to James and Eric sat down opposite and asked.
“It ’s quite picturesque, and it makes people feel immersive, like watching a movie, it ’s wonderful.”
Eric nodded, and the evaluation of James is very pertinent. Because of the previous life career, when writing Eric, a lot of montages were used in the text unconsciously. The biggest feature of this writing method is to give people a sense of picture.
"What if it is made into a movie?" Eric asked again.
James put down the manuscript and said seriously: "I think this novel is not suitable for making a movie at this stage. Although there are many people who love zombies, but the base is too small after all, so the film can only be used for small and medium investments. And if this novel is made into a movie, it needs a lot of special effects. Too little investment will definitely not achieve the effect, and it will become incoherent. Therefore, the best special effects technology will become cheaper in the next few years. "
It is worthy of the gold medal Producer. In a few words, it outlines the limitations and adaptation prospects of "Resident Evil". previous life's biochemical fans often complain that the "Resident Evil" film series has too little investment, and the special effects picture is not hot enough. Why is it that Mila has no other big names repeatedly, and I don't know if I really want to shoot according to the wishes of the fans, because the movie ratings For the sake of the audience, the Film Studio minute loss is absolutely not negotiable.
After talking about "Resident Evil" again, Eric asked James about it.
"Invite me to attend the Fox reception?" I thought that James came from overseas copyright of "Home Alone", but I didn't expect it to be another thing.
In the past few days, Eric has received several calls and invitations related to "Home Alone", and even the Michael · Eisner that originally planned to join him with Columbia pit calls again in person. But he already had his own plans in mind, so he refused all of them directly.
After seeing some unexpected expressions on Eric, James smiled and said: "Of course, you think I came for" Home Alone "? Many people stick out olive branches to you these days. I heard that you refused. I think, Maybe you are waiting for the initiative of Fox, right? "
The surprise in Eric's eyes flashed away, and he was indeed waiting for Fox to contact himself first so that he could take the initiative. Now that the other party has guessed it and let James · Brooks, the gold medal Producer, personally invite himself, Eric will be a little maddened to deny it again.
Shrugged and smiled, Eric said: "I do have this idea, James, after all, our cooperation is still relatively pleasant."
James sincerely said: "So, I came here today personally. Actually Barry · Mr. Diller wants to meet you and talk about" Home Alone "," Jurassic Park "and your ... next movie."
"Oh, is Fox really greedy?"
James smiled and said: "This has nothing to do with greed, Eric, this is business. If Fox does not take action, other companies will also be interested in these. Of course, Fox will certainly not be as short-sighted as Columbia. We hope that both parties can cooperate on an equal basis. , Mutual benefit. "
Just listen to these words, Eric will not be stupid enough to really believe. Fox said so because they did not get the right to issue "Home Alone". Otherwise, because of the gambling agreement, maybe the other party will sort out what cheap trick, previous life broke the eavesdropping scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of these giants' private behavior.
But at present, Eric has to choose a giant as a backer, so as to reduce the covetment of the outside world and better protect itself while secretly developing its strength. After some comparison, Eric selected Fox.
In the next few years, the main goal of Fox led by Barry · Diller is to create Fox TV Network, so relatively speaking, the focus on the film will definitely be reduced, which gives Eric this little sparrow to occupy more places in the turtle nest Resources have created a good time.