Chapter 102 Awards Guests

The time has entered March, and the 61st Academy Awards ceremony is getting closer and closer. With the increasing influence of Hollywood movies around the world, the Oscars have also received more attention.

Although this Oscar award is destined to have little to do with Eric, no one can ignore this 18-year-old boy who has risen for less than half a year.

Among the several films related to him, "Return to Seventeen" and "Home Alone" have entered their 15th week of release since November 18 last year. Although "Return to Seventeen" does not have "Little Ghost" "Master" has a strong momentum, but after four months of screening, the box office also reached 107 million, becoming the sixth film in 1988 to break the 100 million box office.

If you don't compare it with "Home Alone", this data is also very eye-catching. Up to now, the box office potential of "Return to Seventeen" has been completely exhausted, and it can only earn 200,000 to 300,000 box office per week on less than 300 screens, and it may drop at any time.

"Home Alone" was released at the same time as "Return to Seventeen", but the box office has already approached 240 million, and "Home Alone" can still reap about 5 million box office per week on more than 1,200 screens in North America.

The domestic box office of Hollywood movies in this era, 200 million US dollars is a watershed of super sales. Only George Lucas' "Star Wars" series can easily achieve it, and even Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" series has no such confidence. .

And the domestic box office of 300 million US dollars can only be a legend. The last time and the only time to realize this legend was Spielberg's "Alien ET" in 1982. After six years, "Alien ET" was born. Home Alone has the potential to touch the legendary threshold again.

Under this circumstance, Colombia, which has started acquisition negotiations with Sony, has completely stopped considering the issue of how much revenue can be obtained because of the gambling contract, but is pondering how to send the North American box office of "Home Alone" into the third quarter. billion dollar mark. Everyone knows that once the box office of "Home Alone" exceeds 300 million, it will be the beginning of another round of soaring stock prices in Colombia.

"What? Let me be the best supporting actress award guest?" Eric looked at Amy Pascal who suddenly came to visit in surprise: "Can Columbia decide this matter?"

"We have communicated with Alan Carr, the producer of this Oscars ceremony. With your current influence, you are fully qualified. Eric, as long as you nod your head, you will receive an invitation soon."

Eric was a little hesitant, his exposure rate was high enough, and his private life was harassed by the reporter paparazzi every three days. But he also knows what Columbia is doing, whether it's for "Home Alone", which is still in theaters, or "Dark War" in the summer, letting him show his face at an awards ceremony with 40 to 50 million viewers. is very beneficial.

Although since Blunt Cohen left and started acquisition negotiations with Sony, Columbia has made a 180-degree turn in Eric's attitude and actively promoted "Home Alone".

But by then, Home Alone had missed out on the Golden Globes for the most actionable, and Oscar nominations had been announced. "Home Alone" only got a tasteless Best Score nomination. Everyone knows that this is a consolation nomination given by the Academy in order to attract public attention and also because of the dazzling box office results of "Home Alone".

If Colombia had been active in public relations from the beginning, Home Alone would have gotten a few more nominations, and maybe even won a golden statuette in the end.

But it's too late to say that now,

Not to mention that it has been less than two weeks since the Oscar judges voted, and there is not much point in doing PR. Only with the soundtrack level of "Home Alone", if you can beat such excellent films as "Rain Man", "Mist Locking Dangerous Love", and "Dangerous Relationship" to get the Golden Man, it will test the audience's IQ a bit.

After all, "Home Alone" is just a young children's comedy without any artistic connotation.

After a little consideration, Eric nodded and agreed.

Columbia does this, although it is for their own consideration, but Eric can also get a lot of benefits from it. As long as he cooperates with Colombia as much as possible, the box office of "Home Alone" has a great hope of breaking through 300 million US dollars. Once this goal is achieved, Eric's share will reach 120 million US dollars.

Amy also hinted to Eric that Columbia’s executives promised that after the release of “Home Alone”, Columbia would pay Eric’s share in full within one month. This can alleviate Eric's economic situation to the greatest extent. You must know that Eric recently loaned another 5,000 to the bank for the smooth shooting of "Scent of a Woman" and "Frightening Island", as well as the construction of the Malibu mansion. million dollars. He now has a full $100 million in debt, and he is undoubtedly the most indebted individual in Hollywood.

"Since you have agreed, I will inform Alan Carr to send you an invitation letter as soon as possible." Amy took a sip of coffee with satisfaction and asked again: "Eric, I heard that you and Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks talks are deadlocked, need Colombia to step in?"

Eric shook his head and refused. This stalemate was something he expected, and he was sure that the stalemate would not last longer than a month.

Because during Easter, Richard Gere gave up the actor of "Fengyue" and participated in the action drama "Dragon Killing Array", which was about to be released. He did not have the memory of this movie in his mind. I specifically inquired about some people, and the result was that even the most optimistic box office expectations for this film within United United States were only about 30 million US dollars.

With Richard Gere as an example, even if Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks were Hollywood A-list stars, they couldn't have done the same stupid thing.

The reason why the two Toms let CAA's agent and Firefly go on stalemate, Eric felt that apart from saving face for Michael Ovitz, the 'most powerful man in Hollywood', it was more to get a higher salary and divided.

Eric believes that once CAA deliberately causes the negotiation to break down, the two will definitely come forward to stop it. From the script negotiation that day, Eric knew that the two had made up their minds to appear in this movie, otherwise they would not have discussed the script with him for four hours.

"No need, Amy, CAA will let go in less than a month," Eric didn't want to owe Columbia a favor: "I can just use this time to complete the preparation of the movie. Compared with the first two movies With less than a month's production cycle, "Dark War" has plenty of time, and now there are still more than four months before its July release."