The next day, the impact of this matter continued to expand. While most newspapers condemned Colombia overwhelmingly, they somehow turned their anger on Coca-Cola, the owner of Colombia, and began to criticize Coca-Cola’s business strategy for Colombia. After all, the results of Columbia Pictures have been really impressive in recent years. The Coca-Cola Group was completely indifferent to this 'little thing'.
Surprisingly, after the stock market opened that day, the stock price of Coca-Cola, which was originally very stable, fell by 1.7%. This figure may seem insignificant, but when multiplied by tens of billions of dollars in market value, it makes people not so calm.
Coca-Cola CEO Guo Sida directly scolded Blount Cohen on the phone and ordered Blount Cohen to solve the matter quickly, otherwise he would get out of the position of president of Columbia.
Under the high pressure from the Coca-Cola headquarters, at ten o'clock in the morning, Blunt Cohen personally held a press conference at Columbia, where he politely apologized to Eric and promised that he would earnestly implement the VAM agreement in the future.
Eric, who got the news, of course wouldn't make things worse, and immediately asked his personal {lawyer Edward Lewis to issue a statement of understanding in the Los Angeles Times.
Perhaps because of this breach of contract, the box office of "Home Alone", which should have experienced a certain decline according to the general rules, not only did not fall in the second week, but rose a lot. hit the $50 million mark.
At the same time, "Back to Seventeen" got a box office of 14.73 million US dollars, still ranking second in the box office list. The total box office of the two films related to Eric even exceeded 50% of the total box office in North America this week, which once again surprised some people.
Although the results are still amazing, the media's attention to Eric has gradually dropped. The reporters near Eric's house finally left one after another after failing to catch useful news for several days.
During this week, Eric basically stayed at home, concentrating on writing and agreeing to Michael Krause's "Resident Evil". There are two versions of the story of "Resident Evil" in the previous life, one is Capcom's game story line , a movie version of the storyline with Alice as the main character. It's a pity that Eric has only played the fourth and sixth generations of the "Resident Evil" game, so he doesn't know much about the story of the game version.
And the story line of the movie version obviously doesn't have much to write about. Based on the content of the game, it's completely Milla Jovovich's personal opening and closing show.
Therefore, the writing of the "Resident Evil" novel is not as easy as "Jurassic Park". It took Eric three days to conceive an outline with Leon as the male protagonist. The content starts from Leon joining the police department, and continues until everyone works together to escape the virus outbreak in Raccoon City.
Eric skillfully integrated the protagonists Chris, Jill, Wesker and other characters from the previous life into this novel. Of course, Sister Wang, who is the most popular among Chinese game fans, must be indispensable. Eric portrayed the ambiguous relationship between Ada Wang and Leon as the relationship between Her Lady Queen and the pet boy in a wicked way.
This is not Eric's original creation. In the previous life, some game fans commented on the relationship between the two of them.
In the game, when the elegant and charming Ada Wang often performs tasks, he encounters Little Leon who is in dire straits, calmly helps him out of the predicament, flirts with him as usual, and leaves behind a bazooka with lip marks Fly away.
Every time I play these plots, it is easy to remind people of some evil images: "Little baby, come here... (touch~touch~ head~)... Well, it's none of your business, let's play while you're at it.
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Walking out of the kitchen with boiling water, Eric made coffee for James Brooks who was sitting on the sofa in the living room reading part of the manuscript of "Resident Evil".
"James, what do you think?" Eric handed the brewed coffee to James, sat down opposite him, and asked.
"It's very graphic, and it gives people an immersive feeling, just like watching a movie, it's very exciting."
Eric nodded, and James' evaluation was very pertinent. Because of his previous career, Eric unknowingly used a lot of montage techniques in his writing when writing. The biggest feature of this writing method is to give people a sense of picture.
"What if it's made into a movie?" Eric asked again.
James put down the manuscript and said seriously: "I don't think this novel is suitable for making a movie at this stage. Although the theme of zombies is loved by many people, the base is too small after all, so it is decided that the movie can only use small and medium investment. And this If the 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 nondescript. Therefore, it is best to develop special effects technology for a few years to become cheaper."
As expected of a gold medal producer, he outlined the limitations of "Resident Evil" and the prospect of adaptation in a few words. Resident Evil fans in the previous life often complained that the investment in the "Resident Evil" movie series was too low, and the special effects were not popular enough. Why did Mira have no other big names over and over again? They didn't know that they were filming according to the fans' wishes, because the movie was graded. Because of the audience and audience, it is absolutely undiscussed that the film company loses every minute.
After talking about "Resident Evil" for a few more words, Eric asked James why he came.
"Invited me to Fox's reception?" I thought James was here for the overseas copyright of "Home Alone", but it turned out to be another matter.
In the past few days, Eric has received several calls and invitations related to "Home Alone", and even Michael Eisner, who was planning to co-operate with Columbia to cheat him, called again in person. But he already had his own plans in mind, so he directly rejected them all.
Seeing Eric's surprised expression, James smiled and said, "Of course, you think I'm here for "Home Alone", right? Many people have extended olive branches to you these days, and I heard that you have rejected them all. I think, Maybe you're just waiting for Fox's initiative, right?"
The surprise in Eric's eyes flashed away. He was indeed waiting for Fox to contact him first, so that he could take the initiative. Now that the other party has already guessed it, and asked James Brooks, a gold medal producer, to invite him in person, it would be a bit petty for Eric to deny it.
Shrugging and smiling, Eric said: "I do have this idea, James, after all, our cooperation is quite pleasant."
James said sincerely: "So, I came here in person today. Actually, Mr. Barry Diller wants to meet with you to talk about "Home Alone", "Jurassic Park" and your... next movie. "
"Oh, Fox is really greedy?"
James smiled and said: "This has nothing to do with greed, Eric, this is business. If Fox does not make a move, other companies will also be interested in these. Of course, Fox will definitely not be as short-sighted as Columbia. We hope that both parties can cooperate on an equal footing. mutual benefit."
Just listen to these words, Eric will not be stupid enough to really believe it. Fox said this because they didn't get the distribution rights to "Home Alone". Otherwise, because of the gambling agreement, it is uncertain what kind of moth the other party will make. The wiretapping scandal that broke out in the previous life is just the tip of the iceberg of these tycoons' dirty behavior in private.
But at present, Eric has to choose a giant as a backer, so as to reduce the coveting of the outside world, better protect himself and secretly develop his strength. After some comparison and consideration, Eric chose Fox.
In the next few years, the main goal of Fox led by Barry Diller is to create the Fox TV network, so relatively speaking, the focus on movies will definitely be reduced, which will give Eric a little more in the turtledove's nest. Occupying some resources creates a good opportunity.
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