Chapter 370: Fantasy can never become a reality
"Boss, what do you think of Pauline Kyle's writing?" asked Dani, putting down the newspaper and looking at John.
"Quite true!" John nodded slightly.
While the two were chatting about movie reviews, Devin Morgan came over with a fax, and when he walked up to John, he put the fax on the table in front of John, and said, "Congratulations, the box office has broken the record again!"
"No, it won't!" John picked up the fax in disbelief and looked at it, his face twitching when he saw the box office numbers on it.
Seeing his convulsive face, Dani on the side asked curiously, "Boos!
"$740 million. John replied, and then asked blankly: "Aren't all yesterday's movies free? Why is there such a high box office?"
"Could it be that someone chartered the venue yesterday?"
"The private screening only accounts for a part, and there is another part of the tickets that ordinary movie fans buy after watching the free screening. Devon Morgan swallowed the food in his mouth and replied, then added: "By the way, the people who chartered the most venues yesterday were your parents and Arzie, and the three of them each chartered 20,000 games. ”
John's face darkened when he heard this, old Morgan was trying to squeeze his money clean, too ruthless.
However, what surprised him the most was the behavior of ordinary movie fans, he didn't expect that these people would actually spend money to buy new tickets after watching the free screening, and the money was more than they would have paid. He underestimated the influence of public welfare in this country, underestimated the trust of people here in public welfare, and he felt that he had created a virus that was infecting the entire United States at the fastest speed, and now this virus is beyond human control, and it may not end until people have seen "Forrest Gump" and no longer enter theaters.
And just when John felt that he was playing too big this time and was playing freely, Michael Ovitz of CAA looked at the box office of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Vulgar" in his hand with a dark face.
Affected by "Forrest Gump", the box office of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Vulgar" was only 1.07 million and 2.33 million, not to mention making money at the box office, whether it can keep the capital is a problem.
In the previous life, the box office of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Vulgar" was not too high, and in this life, "Forrest Gump" is also much stronger than the previous life, and now Forrest Gump has become a national idol, and everyone talks about "Forrest Gump", and most of the people who go to the cinema to watch it are also "Forrest Gump", in this environment, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Vulgar" will not get much box office, and it is not only "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Vulgar" that have been impacted , many movies in the same schedule have been affected, and even some movies have temporarily changed their schedules, for fear of being impacted by "Forrest Gump".
Of course, John didn't know these things, and now he doesn't even watch TV except for a little newspaper, and he doesn't go out.
But he doesn't pay attention to the outside world, but the outside world pays attention to him, and fourteen black people in a rental house in Los Angeles have been paying attention to him for a long time, since the day the Borderless Foundation was established and Chris Gardner announced that he would donate all the proceeds of Forrest Gump.
"The boss, director Chris Deng, is really willing, and the box office of more than one billion dollars will be donated. A young black man in the room licked his fat lips as he watched the report about John on TV.
Ever since they saw Chris Gardner announce that John would donate all the proceeds from Forrest Gump, they decided to tie John up and make some money.
"Hehe, the richer the better, so that we can make a big profit. The black man who was called the boss sneered, he had already treated John as a fat sheep, and he was a fat sheep with no bodyguards.
After a period of covert investigation, these people have mastered some information about John, such as John has no bodyguards, and every time he goes out, there is only one "female secretary" and a middle-aged man who is similar to a bodyguard, and every time he goes out, he basically goes to Crown Studios and New Line Film Company, but most of the time he stays at home.
As for John's villa, the precautions are very low, and there are basically no bodyguards to be seen except for the servants.
Such a rich person who has nothing to guard against is really a good target for them.
"I decided to do it at his house, sneak into the villa in the middle of the night, get rid of the four bodyguards as fast as possible, and then snatch the cash and jewelry in the villa, and finally ask Chris Deng to write the check, and when the bank opens, we are pressuring his secretary to go to the bank to cash the check, and then kill them all, and when the police find out, we are already in Alaska. When the time comes, we will all become rich people after hiding for a year and a half. The black boss proudly announced his plan like a group of little brothers.
After hearing this, the little brothers' eyes lit up, and they were so excited that they fantasized.
"When I have money, I will go to Caesar's Palace to charter a presidential suite, and gamble every day when I wake up, and sleep when I am tired of gambling. "This is a gambler's greatest wish in life.
But if John knew, he would definitely have an itchy tooth.
"If I had money, I would buy a private jet, charter a group of Hollywood female stars, and try the taste of "doing things" at high altitudes. ”
"In addition to gambling money and women a day, can you have some noble wishes, if I have money, I will buy dozens of sports cars, and feel the peak speed every day. ”
"Shh......h
The ideals of car enthusiasts are despised by everyone, and in their opinion, the ideals of car enthusiasts are not much better than theirs.
And the car enthusiast didn't care about the boos of the crowd, he thought that this ideal of his own was what he should do in his life, and he firmly believed that he would definitely become a great driver.
"Okay, don't talk about it, let's go and rest, let's do it tonight, no one can leave the room and contact the outside world before the action. "The black boss stopped the unrealistic fantasies of the younger brothers, and let the younger brothers rest and recuperate themselves to act at night.
Watching these little brothers leave one by one to rest, the corners of the black boss's mouth inadvertently revealed a sneer, fantasy is always fantasy, it is impossible to achieve.
As a veteran, he knew that only he would not betray himself in this world, and the less people knew about him like this, the safer it would be, so he had decided to let these people bury John after the fact, and then only he would know about it, and all the money for the kidnapping would go to him.