Chapter 24: Jumped
Amy Pascal, who sat at the bottom of the conference table, felt that this was not as simple as it was supposed to be. Although she had only been in contact with Eric for just a few hours, she still noticed this. The boy has a kind of calmness that is unmatched by his peers. This kind of person will definitely not have a fever in the brain, and proposes a gambling agreement with a very low odds ratio. Well, this gambling agreement is most likely Eric Williams has been well thought out.
Amy Pascal ignored the other people's support for the gambling agreement. After thinking for a long time, he said: "Mr. Cohen, I think it's a little cautious. There is no white lunch in the world. We can raise the buyout price slightly, and then with Ai. Rick Williams negotiated, it is not good, signing a share agreement, anyway, with the box office potential of this film, we can certainly make a profit."
"Amy, I think you are too conservative, even the child is not as good." Lester Reid, who spoke first, retorted: "Do you know the potential of this film? If we fully obtain the copyright of this film Then, in addition to opening the box office, in the next video copyright, TV broadcast and other various peripheral authorizations, at least we can earn tens of millions of dollars in profits, let alone we can also shoot a sequel. If you choose to share the agreement, The copyright is still in the hands of the boy, and we have to give the boy a big split in the next operation."
Amy Pascal said: "We can also raise some buyout prices, maybe, $15 million, the boy will definitely agree."
"According to the potential of such a small-cost comedy in the past, under normal circumstances, 50 million US dollars has been regarded as a box office dark horse, most of the excellent quality can only get 20 million US dollars at the box office. Then, more than 80% The chance to get the full copyright of the film for free, why do we have to pay more than $10 million. The boy can make such a crazy gambling agreement in less than 20% chance of winning, can we Doesn't this have the guts for gambling?"
"But..." Amy Pascal looked at the greed and fanaticism in her colleagues' eyes. The sixth sense of women's uniqueness made her feel that this was even more inappropriate.
"Well, Amy," Blount Cohen interrupted Amy Pascal's speech: "Although Jeffrey Hansen and Eric Williams may be your friends, when you must Understand that you are an employee of the Columbia company and must be considered for the benefit of the company."
Blount Cohen's words made Amy Pascal stunned. She was a friend of Jeffrey Hansen, but she was a professional manager who was always very ethical.
But now it is only for the sake of prudence to express their opinions, and even suspected of eating out and helping the outsiders to fight for their interests. The strong sense of humiliation caused Amy Pascal to tremble with the right hand of the pen. Finally, Amy Pascal suddenly stood up and said coldly: "Mr. Cohen, since your opinion has produced this idea, I think, I am no longer suitable to participate in this project, I will leave first, goodbye."
After that, Amy Pascal hurriedly put the documents in front of her eyes and silently turned and left the office.
The entire office was in a short silence.
"Woman!"
I don't know who sighs first. Amy Pascal is a high woman. In the patriarchal society, she will definitely be subject to various kinds of discrimination. I just don’t know, this is a sigh. What kind of emotions.
Blount Cohen has slightly regretted the words, Amy Pascal's ability to work and professional ethics are obvious to all, or it is impossible to sit in this office as a woman. However, although Blount Cohen lacked courage in the management company, he was very self-sufficient. He felt that although he spoke a little bit, Amy Pascal left the meeting room, which was also a provocation against his majesty. It is natural to attribute all the mistakes to Amy Pascal.
The office was silent for a dozen seconds, and Blount Cohen said: "Well, since everyone agrees to this gambling agreement, then come here today, Leicester, from tomorrow, you are solely responsible for "The devil." Let's take this project."
In the envious eyes of everyone, Lester Reid agreed with excitement. If he wins the bet, this credit will definitely count him. It will be a matter of course to get a promotion and raise salary in the future.
"No problem, Mr. Cohen, I will try my best to accomplish this."
On the second day, Eric received a notice from Colombia accepting the gambling agreement. At the same time, Jeffrey also contacted the firm that Eric needed. After the two firms evaluated the value of Jurassic Park, I agreed to send a team to assist Eric to draft and supervise the implementation of the gambling agreement.
On October 31, although I was very interested, Eric was still unable to participate in the first Halloween parade since the rebirth. Instead, I stayed in a conference room in Colombia with a lot of boring middle-aged men and women. The specific content of the agreement.
On the basis of the conditions proposed by Eric, the specific content of the agreement is gradually refined. In order to ensure that the Colombian company makes every effort to promote the release of "Little Devils", the content of the agreement is published in different famous newspapers. They are all listed in detail, as well as how many screens are needed to increase or decrease the number of screening screens, the daily number of screenings and the time of filming in the cinema, and so on. Moreover, once Colombia violated the content of the agreement, it also made different penalties for breach of contract according to the degree of breach of the agreement.
The last few dozens of contracts were drafted, and Eric himself was stunned and couldn't help but admire the professionalism of the accounting and lawyer team that Jeffrey Hansen had found.
On the Colombian side, Lester Reid, who is in charge of the "Little Ghosts" project, believes that "Little Ghosts" is basically a thing in Colombia, so he did not pay too much attention to this dozen-page contract. Some ridiculed Eric's fuss, the two teams invited by the other party, the commission is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is a waste.
Lester Reid feels that even if the contract is detailed, the box office potential of "Little Ghosts" is there, and Colombia’s top executives’ expectations for the box office of "Little Ghosts" are no more than the current ranking of the first box office. Framed the rabbit Roger, this animation is a perfect combination of real movies, only 150 million North American box office.
The plan originally proposed by Colombia was to release "Little Ghosts" during Christmas in December, and Eric strongly opposed it. No one knows more about the tragic situation of the high-end box office movie crocodile strangle in December. In one month, the top ten movies in the annual box office accounted for three, and the past of the "Little Ghosts" was released after the November release. After more than two months of long-term screening, it made an amazing box office.
In the end, Colombia made a compromise and decided to release it on November 18th, the same day as "returning to seventeen," which was also proposed by Eric. The two films related to him were simultaneously released because of the theme and Different audiences will not only squeeze each other's box office, but will play a mutually reinforcing role. To this end, Colombia even postponed the drama "New Horse", which was originally scheduled to be released on November 18, to December, and vacated about 1,000 screens for "Little Ghosts".
From the screen figures, you can see the contradictions in Colombia. Under normal circumstances, only the number of theaters in the box office that are favored by the box office will exceed one thousand. Therefore, this figure shows that Colombia is very optimistic about the box office of "Little Ghosts". But at the same time, because of the gambling agreement, Colombia does not want to have more than 50 million "Little Ghosts", so that not only can all the box office share of "Little Ghosts" be swallowed, but also all the "Little Ghosts" including the sequel Copyright, so there are no more than 1,000 screens.
Eric is not dissatisfied with this. It is normal for Colombia’s top management to have this mentality. Moreover, in the dozens of pages of gambling agreements, it is clearly stipulated that the box office must reach a certain number to increase the corresponding screen if Colombia If you refuse to do so, then wait for the lawsuit. Eric believes that the income of a movie is not enough for a giant such as Colombia to tear his face and lose his business reputation.
After the signing of the gambling agreement, because the signing parties did not intend to conceal the agreement, they hoped that the gambling contract would spread, so the content of the agreement quickly spread throughout Hollywood.
Under the operation of the Columbia Film Company's Propaganda Department, the next day, the Los Angeles Times Entertainment Headline published an article about the bet.
"Genius boy to gambling giant Colombia: crazy or stupid? 》