Yesterday, a shocking VAM agreement was signed at Columbia Pictures' headquarters between Eric Williams, a young genius who has recently made a name for himself, and Columbia-Samsung Pictures. ”

It is reported that Eric Williams wrote and directed a 100-minute low-budget comedy in just fifteen days after the filming was completed and part of the royalties advanced by him. Regardless of the quality of the film, it is a genius to be able to accomplish this feat at the age of 18 by Eric Williams. ”

According to insiders, Colombian President Blunt Cohen had offered $10 million to buy out the rights, but Eric Williams rejected the tempting offer that would make him the youngest multimillionaire in Hollywood, and instead offered a crazy and stupid gambling deal. ”

The article goes on to detail the bet between the two sides, and then analyzes Eric's likelihood of winning the bet. The author of this article, who is obviously an insider, lists a series of comedy films of the same genre at the box office, and combined with the information revealed, pessimistically concludes that Eric Williams has a more than 80% chance of losing the bet.

Because there are no actors with box office appeal, nor do they belong to the big investment and big production, generally this type of comedy, if the quality is good, only a small number can get a box office of 20 or 30 million, and most of them only have a few million box office. So the probability of breaking $50 million is very low. And the author finally determined, with a conspiracy conjecture, that Colombia would not 'allow' to exceed 50 million at the box office.

What the people like to talk about the most, one is the genius who surpasses himself too much and has no jealousy at all, one is the tragic hero, and the other is the conspiracy theory.

This article, more or less explicitly and implicitly, fused these three factors, and for a while the crowd was surging, originally due to Fox's publicity in the early stage, the public had become interested in Eric, which can be seen from the steady increase in sales.

Now, this public opinion bomb suddenly exploded, and the public's interest in Eric was suddenly raised to the highest point. Popular interest means sales, it means ratings, and soon, Eric received more than a dozen interview requests in just a few days. And Jeff, who hadn't been in touch for a while, suddenly called and said that someone had asked their restaurant for news about him, and Eric keenly felt that some paparazzi had begun to pay attention to him.

At the same time, after the article was published, Fox and Columbia were very tacitly working on propaganda at the same time.

Although Karta Hunter, the head of distribution at Fox, regretted that he hastily rejected Eric without even watching the film, his professionalism as a professional manager made him quickly forget about this situation, and after negotiating with the Colombian executives, he revised the publicity plan, and the two giants worked together, and the effect can be imagined.

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"Annie, how's it going, can I go home?" Eric who was hiding in Aniston's den saw Aniston open the door and came in, and quickly asked, he hadn't been home for a week.

Aniston shook her head, put the convenience bag in her 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, otherwise they would definitely follow, it's terrible." ”

Eric sighed the paparazzi's frenzy, because of the vigorous publicity of the two giants, Eric became a popular topic in North America in just one week, and even British newspapers on the other side of the Atlantic appeared about Eric. After all, Eric was an insider in his previous life, and after receiving a call from Jeff, he saw that the limelight was not right, so he hid directly in Aniston's nest. The two major film companies have enough to promote his films, and the next thing to rely on is the quality of the film itself. So Eric didn't bother to show up to provide a topic for the paparazzi, not to mention, these paparazzi might write some messy things.

Although Eric hid in time, he still became a completely transparent person in front of the public, and the paparazzi couldn't interview him personally, so they dug up all his experiences from childhood to adulthood, British immigration, high school transcripts, and the experience of working in Jeff's Italian restaurant.

It wasn't until a few days later that a gossip tabloid appeared about his love triangle with the talented child star Drew and an unknown actress, and the author of the article apparently got the inside information from the crew members, so the story in the newspaper was written vividly, as I saw it with my own eyes, and even made the inference that Drew Barrymore was rehabilitated because of Eric's infinite proximity to the facts. As a result of this article, 'an unknown actress' was jealous and made Eric sleep on the couch for two whole days.

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Michael Krauss has been thrilled lately, because the two giants' high-intensity promotion of the two films and Eric has caused the sales that have already exceeded 100,000 copies to skyrocket again, and in the second week of November, it finally topped the North American bestseller list with 250,000 copies sold, and according to the current sales trend, it is not a problem to exceed 1 million copies this year.

After several unsuccessful phone calls to Eric's home, Michael Claustone Guò Penny Marshall learned of Eric's whereabouts and went directly to Aniston's nest.

"Hey, Michael, how did you get here?" asked Eric, letting Michael Kraus into the room, curious.

"Besides, if I can't find you again, I'm going to call the police, and you're hiding here...... Forehead......" Michael Krauss was about to say something when he saw Aniston coming out of the bedroom in cool pajamas and closed his mouth in some surprise.

"Michael, this is my girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston. Anne, this is Mr. Michael Krauss, the manager of my fiction publishing house. ”

Michael and Aniston said hello, and Aniston walked to the bathroom on her own.

"Hey, Eric, is this the little actor? I still like Drew, she's so cute in it. As soon as Aniston's figure 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, go ahead with the topic, even I don't dare mention Drew's name now." ”

Michael Krauss clearly sensed that Eric was not joking, and decisively changed the subject: "So, Eric, now that the sales are so good, don't you think you should continue to work hard to write a sequel?"

Eric shook his head without hesitation, the film and television rights had been obtained, although it was mortgaged to the two firms in charge of the VAM agreement, but he was not worried. At the same time, I don't want to waste any more time writing a sequel.

"The novel is already a complete story, and I don't feel like there's anything to write about, Michael. ”

Michael Krauss was not discouraged and continued: "So, do you have any other works now?"

Eric shook his head again, it was busy some time ago, and it was finally completed, and he signed a gambling agreement with Columbia, and Eric directly gave himself a vacation. And he couldn't rest for a few days, and a week before the movie was released, Eric had to follow the crew around to promote the movie non-stop. Thankfully, the two companies have reached a partnership agreement, and the progress of the tour is basically the same, so Eric doesn't have to split himself in half, one on the east coast and one on the west coast.