I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 25

[Chapter 25 Propaganda]

“Yesterday, a shocking gambling deal was signed at Columbia Pictures headquarters between Eric, the genius who recently rose to fame with “Jurassic Park” and “Back to Seventeen.” Williams and Columbia-Samsung Pictures Group.”

“It is reported that Eric Williams relied on the remuneration of “Return to Seventeen” and the advance part of “Return to Seventeen” after the filming of “Return to Seventeen”. Jurassic Park” royalty, it took only 15 days to write and direct a 100-minute low-cost comedy “Home Alone”. Not to mention the quality of this film, only Eric Williams is 18 years old to complete this feat, he is worthy of the word genius.”

“The film “Home Alone” was eventually unanimously favored by Columbia executives. According to insiders, Columbia President Blunt Cohen The husband once offered $10 million to buy out the copyright of “Home Alone”, but Eric Williams rejected this tempting offer that was enough to make him the youngest multimillionaire in Hollywood, and instead proposed A crazy and stupid gambling agreement.” The

article then detailed the content of the bet between the two parties, and then analyzed 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” has neither actors with box-office appeal, nor does it belong to large-scale investment and large-scale production. Generally, if this type of comedy is of good quality, only a small part can get 20 to 30 million box office, and most of them are Only a few million at the box office.

So the possibility of “Home Alone” breaking $50 million is very low.

And the author concluded with a conspiracy theory that Colombia would not ‘allow’ Home Alone to exceed 50 million at the box office.

What do people like to talk about the 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 article “Los Angeles Times” more or less combined these three factors more or less, and for a while, the crowd was surging. Originally, due to Fox’s early publicity of “Return to Seventeen”, the public has 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.

The interest of the public means sales and ratings. Soon, Eric received more than ten interview applications in just a few days.

And Jeff, who had not been in contact for a while, suddenly called and said that someone asked their restaurant for news about him. Eric keenly felt 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 very tacitly worked on the promotion of “Back to Seventeen” and “Home Alone” at the same time.

Although Fox’s distribution director Karta Hunter regretted rejecting 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 “Return to Seventeen” was revised. The two giants worked together, and the effect can be imagined.

“Annie, how is the situation, can I

go home?” Eric, who was hiding in Aniston’s den, saw Aniston open the door and came in, 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 past 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. , or they will definitely follow, it’s terrible.”

Eric sighed the paparazzi’s madness, because the two giants vigorously promoted “Home Alone” and “Back to Seventeen”, Eric became a popular topic in North America in just one week, and even on the other side of the Atlantic Information about Eric appeared in the British newspapers of .

After all, Eric was an insider in his previous life. After receiving a call from Jeff, seeing that the limelight was wrong, he directly hid in Aniston’s nest.

The two major film companies have enough publicity for his film, 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, what’s more, 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 could not interview him, so they dug up all his experiences from childhood to adulthood. British immigrants, high school grades Shan, the experience of working in Jeff’s Italian restaurant makes Aniston relish and discuss it from time to time.

It was not until a few days later that a gossip tabloid appeared about his love triangle with the talented child star Drew and an unknown actress. The author of the article apparently got inside information from the members of the “Back to Seventeen” crew, so the newspaper The story above was written vividly, as the author saw it with his own eyes, and even made the inference that Drew Barrymore quit drugs for Eric’s infinite proximity and fact.

Because of this article, ‘some unknown actress’ made Eric slept on the sofa for two days because of jealousy.

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Michael Krause has been so excited recently, because the two giants’ high promotion of the two movies and Eric has caused the sales of “Jurassic Park”, which had already exceeded 100,000 copies per week, to skyrocket again. In the second week of November, “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 exceed one million copies within the year. .

After calling Eric’s house many times to no avail, Michael Krause learned of Eric’s whereabouts through Penny Marshall, and went directly to Aniston’s nest.

“Hey, Michael, how did you find this place?” Eric asked curiously, letting Michael Claus into the room.

“Also said, if I can’t find you again, I’ll call the police, you’re hiding here… er…” Michael Kraus was about to say something when he saw Annis walking out of the bedroom in cool pajamas. Suddenly, he closed his mouth in surprise.

“Michael, this is my girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. Anne, this is Mr. Michael Krause, the manager of my novel publishing house.”

Michael and Aniston said hello, UU reading www. sonicmtl.com Aniston walked to the bathroom on his own.

“Hey, Eric, is this the little actor? I still like Drew a little bit, she’s so cute in ET.” As soon as Aniston disappeared, Michael couldn’t help but gossip.

Eric poured Michael a cup of coffee and whispered, “Michael, if you want to be kicked out by Annie, just continue this topic, even I don’t dare to mention Drew’s name now.”

Michael Crow Si obviously felt that Eric was not joking, and decisively changed the subject: “So, Eric, “Jurassic Park” is selling so well now, don’t you think you should make persistent efforts to write a sequel?”

Eric Shaking 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 time writing a sequel.

“The novel is already a complete story, and I don’t think there is anything left to write, Michael.”

Michael Krause was not discouraged, and continued, “So, do you have other works now?”

Eric shook his head again, Some time ago, I was so busy that I finally completed “Home Alone” and signed a gambling agreement with Columbia. Eric directly gave himself a vacation.

And there will be no rest for a few days. Nearly a week before the movie is released, Eric will follow the crew non-stop to promote the movie.

Fortunately, the two companies have reached a cooperation agreement, and the progress of the tour is basically the same, so Eric does not have to divide himself into two halves, one on the east coast and one on the west coast.

[End of this Chapter]