Chapter 25: Propaganda
“Yesterday, a shocking gambling agreement was signed at the Columbia Film Company headquarters. The two sides of the gambling were respectively the genius Eric, who recently made a name for himself with Jurassic Park and “Return to Seventeen”. · Williams and Columbia - Samsung Pictures Group."
"It is reported that after the filming of "Returning to the Seventeenth Anniversary", Eric Williams relied on the return of the "17 years old" and the advance payment of some of the "Jurassic Park" royalties, which took only fifteen days. Time, self-directed and directed a small-cost comedy "Little Ghosts" for a hundred minutes. Not to mention the quality of this film, only Eric Williams can complete this feat at the age of 18 There is no such thing as a genius."
"The "Little Ghosts" film has been swayed by the top of the Colombian team. According to insiders, the president of Colombia, Mr. Blount Cohen, has offered a price of 10 million US dollars to buy out the copyright of "The Little Devil", but Irene K. Williams rejected the tempting offer to make him the youngest multi-millionaire in Hollywood, but instead proposed a mad and stupid gambling agreement."
The article then details the content of the gambling, and then analyzes the possibility of Eric winning the bet. The author of this article is obviously a circle of people, listing a series of box office data of the same type of comedy movie, combined with the information revealed by "Little Ghosts", pessimistically reached a conclusion, Eric Williams lost The possibility of this bet is over 80%.
Because "Little Ghosts" has neither the actors who have the box office appeal nor the big investment big productions. Generally, this type of comedy, if the quality is good, only a small number can get two or 30 million box office, most of them There are only a few million box office. Therefore, the possibility that "Little Ghosts" breaks $50 million is very low. Moreover, the author finally concluded with a conspiracy theory that Colombia would not 'allow' the box office of "Little Ghosts" more than 50 million.
What people like to talk about most is a genius who surpasses himself too much and has no emotion at all. One is a sad hero and the other is a conspiracy theory.
The article in the "Los Angeles Times" has combined these three factors more or less in a clear or dark manner. At one time, the crowds were in a state of turmoil. Originally because of Fox’s propaganda on the "Return to the Seventeen-year-old", the people had already Rick has an interest, as evidenced by the steady increase in sales in Jurassic Park.
Now, the public bomb of "Little Ghosts" suddenly popped open, and the public's interest in Eric was mentioned to the highest point. The interest of the people means sales, which means ratings, and soon Eric received more than a dozen interview applications in just a few days. Jeff, who had not been in contact for some time, suddenly called and said that someone had inquired about their news from their restaurant. Eric was keenly aware that there were already paparazzi who began to pay attention to themselves.
At the same time, after the publication of the article in the Los Angeles Times, Fox and Columbia worked very **** the propaganda of "Returning to Seventeen" and "Little Ghosts".
Although Foxta Hunter, the head of Fox's distribution department, regretted that Eric's "Little Ghosts" was sloppy even if the film was not seen, the professionalism of a professional manager quickly made him forget this emotion. After negotiating with the top leaders of Colombia, the propaganda plan of "Returning to the Seventeen Years Old" was revised, and the two giants worked together to produce results that could be imagined.
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"Annie, how is the situation, can I go home?" Eric, who was hiding in Aniston's nest, saw Aniston open the door and asked quickly that he had not returned home for a week.
Aniston shook his head and placed the convenience bag in his hand on the coffee table: "I drove past your home and found that at least seven or eight paparazzi were still in your home. Fortunately, they didn't know that I was driving your car. Otherwise, they will definitely catch up, it’s terrible."
Eric sighed at the paparazzi's madness, because the two giants made great propaganda on "The Little Devil" and "Return to the Seventeen", Eric became a topic in North America in just one week, even on the other side of the Atlantic. Eric’s information appeared in the British newspapers. After all, Eric’s past life was a circle of people. After receiving the call from Jeff, he saw that the limelight was wrong, and he directly hid in Aniston’s nest. The two major film companies have enough to promote his film, and then rely on the quality of the film itself. So Eric is too lazy to go out to show the topic for the paparazzi, not to mention that these paparazzi may not write anything messy.
Although Eric hid in time, he still became a transparent person in front of the public. The paparazzi could not interview him personally, and he dug all his experiences from small to large. British immigrants, high school results Single, working in Jeff's Italian restaurant, I can see that Aniston is relishing, and I have a good time.
Until a few days later, in a gossip tabloid, he had a love triangle with a talented child star Drew and an unknown actress. The author of the article was obviously insider information from the members of the "Return to the 17-year-old" crew, so the newspaper The story written on the story is like the author's own eyes, and even made Drew Barrymore's detoxification for Erik's infinite proximity and factual inference. Because of this article, ‘an unknown actress’ was jealous and made Eric sleep for two days on the sofa.
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Michael Klaus has been so excited recently that the sales of the two Jurassic Parks, which have already exceeded 100,000 weekly sales, have soared again in November, as the two giants advertised the two films and Eric’s high-intensity propaganda. In the second week, Jurassic Park finally topped the New York Times North American bestseller list with 250,000 copies. According to the current sales trend, it is not a problem to break through one million copies during the year.
After repeatedly calling Eric’s home, Michael Klaus learned about Eric’s whereabouts through Penny Marshall and went directly to Aniston’s nest.
"Hey, Michael, how did you find it here?" Eric asked Michael Kraus into the room and asked curiously.
"I still can't find you, I will call you, you are hiding here... amount..." Michael Klaus was about to say something, seeing Annes coming out of the bedroom in a cool pajamas. Sud, I closed my mouth with some surprise.
"Michael, this is my girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. Anne, this is Mr. Michael Claus, the manager of my novel publishing house."
Michael and Aniston greeted each other and Aniston walked to the bathroom.
"Hey, Eric, this is the little actor? I still like Drew a little. She is so cute in ET." When Aniston disappeared, Michael couldn't help but gossip.
Eric poured a cup of coffee to Michael and whispered: "Michael, if you want to be driven out by Annie, continue this topic, even I don't dare to mention Drew's name now."
Michael Klaus clearly felt that Eric was not joking and decisively shifted the topic: "This way, Eric, Jurassic Park is selling so well, don't you think you should continue to write a sequel?" ”
Eric shook his head without hesitation. The film and television copyright of Jurassic Park has already been obtained. Although he was mortgaged to the two offices responsible for the gambling agreement, he is not worried. At the same time, I don’t want to waste time anymore.
"The novel is already a complete story. I don't think there is anything to write about, Michael."
Michael Klaus was not discouraged, and then said: "So, do you have any other works now?"
Eric shook his head again. Some days ago, he was busy and dim. He finally completed the "Little Ghosts" and signed a gambling agreement with Colombia. Eric gave himself a vacation. And they can't rest for a few days. Near the week before the movie was released, Eric will follow the crew around the film to promote the movie. Fortunately, the two companies have reached a cooperation agreement, the progress of the tour is basically the same, Eric does not have to divide himself into two halves on the east coast and one on the west coast.