"Yesterday, a shocking betting agreement was signed at the headquarters of Columbia Film Corporation. The two parties to the betting are Eric, a young genius who has recently become famous with "Jurassic Park" and "Back to Seventeen". Williams and Columbia-Three Pictures.”
"It is reported that after Eric Williams completed the filming of "Return to Seventeen", relying on the remuneration of "Return to Seventeen" and the advance payment of part of the "Jurassic Park" royalties, it took only fifteen days Time, wrote and directed a 100-minute low-cost comedy "Home Alone". Leaving aside the quality of this movie, Eric Williams can only accomplish this feat at the age of 18 , is worthy of the word genius."
"The film "Home Alone" went through a lot of ups and downs, and finally it was unanimously favored by senior executives at Columbia. According to insiders, Mr. Blunt Cohen, president of Columbia, offered to buy out the copyright of "Home Alone" at a price of 10 million US dollars, but Eric K Williams turned down a tantalizing offer that would make him Hollywood's youngest multimillionaire, and instead proposed a bet deal that was as crazy as it was stupid."
The article then introduces the content of the two-party bet in detail, and then analyzes the possibility of Eric winning the bet. The author of this article is obviously an insider. He listed the box office data of a series of comedy movies of the same type, combined with the information revealed by "Home Alone", and came to a pessimistic conclusion that Eric Williams lost The probability of this bet is more than 80%.
Because "Home Alone" neither has any actors with box office appeal, nor is it a big investment and big production. Generally, if the quality of this type of comedy is good, only a small part can get 20 to 30 million box office, and most of them can earn 20 million to 30 million at the box office. Only a few million at the box office. Therefore, the possibility of "Home Alone" breaking $50 million is very low. And the author concluded with a sort of conspiracy theory that Columbia wouldn't 'allow' Home Alone to exceed $50 million at the box office.
What the public likes to talk about most, one is a genius who surpasses himself too much and has no jealousy at all, one is a tragic hero, and the other is a conspiracy theory.
The "Los Angeles Times" article more or less combined these three factors, more or less explicitly, and the public was raging for a while. Originally, due to Fox's early promotion of "Returning to Seventeen", the public had already paid attention to AI. Rick became interested, as evidenced by the steadily rising sales of Jurassic Park.
Now, the public opinion bomb of "Home Alone" suddenly exploded, raising the public's interest in Eric to the highest point. Public interest means sales and ratings. Soon, Eric received more than ten interview applications in just a few days. And Jeff, who hadn't contacted for a while, suddenly called and said that someone asked their restaurant for news about him. Eric felt keenly that some paparazzi had begun to pay attention to him.
At the same time, after the "Los Angeles Times" article was published, Fox and Columbia cooperated very tacitly to promote "Seventeen Back" and "Home Alone" at the same time.
Although Karta Hunter, director of distribution at Fox, regretted that he hastily rejected Eric's "Home Alone" without even watching the film, his professionalism as a professional manager made him quickly forget this emotion. After negotiating with Colombian high-level officials, the publicity plan of "Returning to Seventeen" was revised. The two giants worked together, and the effect can be imagined.
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"Annie, how's the situation? Can I go home?" Eric, who was hiding in Aniston's den, saw Aniston open the door and asked quickly. He hadn't been home for a week.
Aniston shook his head, put the convenience bag in his hand on the coffee table and said, "I drove by your house and found at least seven or eight paparazzi still guarding your house. Fortunately, they didn't know that I was driving your car , otherwise they will definitely follow, it's too scary."
Eric lamented the insanity of the paparazzi, because the two giants promoted "Home Alone" and "Return to Seventeen", Eric became a popular topic in North America in just one week, and even the other side of the Atlantic Information about Eric appeared in all British newspapers. After all, Eric was an insider in his previous life. After receiving Jeff's call, seeing that the limelight was not right, he hid directly in Aniston's den. The two major film companies have already promoted his film enough, and the next thing to rely on is the quality of the film itself. So Eric didn't bother to go out and provide topics for the paparazzi, not to mention that these paparazzi might write something messy.
Although Eric hid in time, he still became a completely transparent person in front of the public. The paparazzi couldn't interview him, so they dug out all his experiences from childhood to adulthood, British immigrants, high school grades Shan, the experience of working in Jeff's Italian restaurant, Aniston watched with relish, commenting on it from time to time.
Until a few days later, a gossip tabloid appeared about his love triangle with the talented child star Drew and an unknown actress. The author of the article obviously got inside information from the crew members of "Return to Seventeen", so the newspaper The story on the Internet is written vividly, as the author has seen with his own eyes, and even made an inference that Drew Barrymore quit drugs because of Eric's infinite proximity and fact. Because of this article, 'some unknown actress' made Eric sleep on the sofa for two days because of jealousy.
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Michael Klaus has been very excited recently, because the two giants' high-intensity promotion of the two films and Eric made the sales of "Jurassic Park", which had already exceeded 100,000 weekly sales, skyrocket again. In the second week of the book, "Jurassic Park" finally topped the "New York Times" North American bestseller list with sales of 250,000 copies. According to the current sales trend, it is not a problem to break through one million copies within the year.
After repeatedly calling Eric's home to no avail, Michael Krause learned of Eric's whereabouts through Penny Marshall, and went directly to Aniston's den.
"Hey, Michael, how did you find this place?" Eric asked curiously as he let Michael Klaus into the room.
"Also, if I can't find you again, I'm going to call the police, you're hiding here... um..." Michael Klaus was about to say something when he saw Aniston coming out of the bedroom in cool pajamas, She closed her mouth in surprise.
"Michael, this is my girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. Annie, this is Mr. Michael Claus, the manager of my novel publishing house."
Michael and Aniston greeted each other, and Aniston walked to the bathroom on his own.
"Hey, Eric, is this the little actor? I still like Drew a little bit, she is so cute in "et"." As soon as Aniston disappeared, Michael couldn't help gossiping.
Eric poured Michael a cup of coffee, and whispered: "Michael, if you want to be kicked out by Anne, continue with this topic, even I dare not mention Drew's name now."
Michael Klaus obviously felt that Eric was not joking, and decisively changed the subject: "Well, Eric, "Jurassic Park" is selling so well now, don't you think we should continue to write a sequel? "
Eric shook his head without hesitation. The film and television copyright of "Jurassic Park" has been obtained. Although it has been mortgaged to the two firms responsible for the gambling agreement, he is not worried. At the same time, I don't want to waste any more time writing a sequel.
"The novel is already a complete story, and I don't think there's anything left to write, Michael."
Michael Klaus was not discouraged, and continued: "So, do you have any other works now?"
Eric shook his head again. He was so busy some time ago that he finally finished "Home Alone" and signed a gambling agreement with Columbia. Eric directly gave himself a vacation. And he can't rest for a few days. One week before the movie's release, Eric will follow the crew to promote the movie non-stop. Fortunately, the two companies have reached a cooperation agreement, and the progress of the tour promotion is basically the same, so Eric doesn't have to divide himself into two halves, one on the east coast and one on the west coast.