The next day, the impact of the incident continued to expand, and while most of the newspapers overwhelmingly denounced Colombia, somehow ignited their anger on Coca-Cola's owner, the Coca-Cola Group, and began to blame Coca-Cola's business strategy against Colombia. After all, Columbia Pictures' achievements have really hit the streets in recent years. The Coca-Cola Group was completely unconcerned about this 'little thing'.

Surprisingly, after the stock market opened that day, the stock price of Coca-Cola, which was originally very stable, fell directly by 1.7%, which may seem insignificant, but after multiplying by the market value of tens of billions of dollars, it is not so calm.

Coca-Cola CEO Guo Sida directly scolded Bronte Cohen on the phone and ordered Bronte Cohen to quickly resolve the matter, otherwise he would get out of his position as president of Colombia.

Under the pressure of Coca-Cola's headquarters, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Bronte Cohen personally held a press conference at Columbia, euphemistically apologized to Eric, and promised to seriously implement the VAM agreement in the future.

Eric, who got the news, of course, did not make things more stale, and immediately asked his personal lawyer, Edward Lewis, to issue a statement of understanding on it, and the turmoil quickly subsided as soon as it arose.

Perhaps because of this default turmoil, according to the general law, the box office, which should have a certain decline, not only did not fall in the second week, but rose a lot, getting a box office of $28.76 million, and breaking through the $50 million mark in two weeks.

At the same time, it got a box office of $14.73 million, still in second place on the box office list. The total box office of these two films related to Eric even exceeded 50% of the total box office in North America this week, which once again amazed some people.

Although the results are still impressive, the media's attention to Eric has slowly decreased. After several days of not being able to catch useful news, the reporters in Eric's neighborhood finally left one after another.

For the week, Eric basically stayed at home, concentrating on creating two versions of Michael Krauss's story, one is Capcom's game storyline, and the other is the movie version of the storyline with Alice as the main character. It's a pity that Eric has only played the fourth and sixth generations of the game, so he doesn't know much about the story of the game version.

The story line of the movie version obviously doesn't have much to write about, and on the basis of the content of the game, it is completely the personal opening show of Milla Jovovich, a female man.

So it was so easy that it took Eric three days to conceive an outline with Leon as the male lead. The content begins with Lyon joining the police department and continues until everyone works together to escape from Raccoon City, where the virus broke out.

Eric skillfully integrates characters such as Chris, Jill, and Wesker, who are the protagonists of his previous lives, into this novel. Of course, Sister Wang, who is the most popular among Chinese game fans, must be indispensable. Eric has a bad taste for the relationship between Ada Wang and Leon into the relationship between the queen and her pet boy.

This is not Eric's original, and in previous lives, some game fans on the Internet commented on the relationship between the two people.

In the game, the elegant and evil Ada Wang often meets little Leon in dire straits, calmly helps him out of his predicament, and plays as usual, leaving a bazooka with lip prints floating away.

Every time I play these plots, it is easy to conjure up some evil images: Baby, come here...... (Touch ~ Touch ~ Head ~) ...... Okay, it's none of your business, let's play.

……

Coming out of the kitchen with boiling water, Eric made coffee for James Brooks, who was sitting on the living room couch reading part of his manuscript.

"James, what do you think?" asked Ezric, who sat down across from him as he handed the brewed coffee.

"It's quite graphic, it makes people feel immersive, it's like watching a movie, it's exciting. ”

Eric nodded, and James' assessment was very pertinent. Because of his professional talent in his previous life, Eric unconsciously used a lot of montage techniques in the text when he wrote, and the biggest feature of this writing method is to give people a sense of picture.

"What if it was made into a movie?" asked Eric again.

James put down the manuscript and said seriously: "I think this novel is not suitable for making a movie at this stage, although the zombie theme is loved by many people, but the base is too small after all, so it is decided that the film can only use small and medium-sized investment." And if this novel is made into a movie, it will require a lot of special effects, and if the investment is too small, it will definitely not achieve the effect, and it will become nondescript. So, it's better that special effects technology becomes cheaper for a few more years. ”

It is worthy of the gold medal system, and the limitations and adaptation prospects are outlined in just a few sentences. In the previous life, biochemical fans often complained that the investment in the movie series was too small, and the special effects pictures were not hot enough, why did Mira have no other big names over and over again, but I don't know if it was really shot according to the wishes of the fans, because of the movie classification and audience, the film company lost absolutely no time in minutes.

After a few more conversations, Eric asked James what he meant.

"Invite me to Fox's drinking party?" I thought James was coming for overseas rights, but I didn't expect it to be something else.

In the past few days, Eric has received several calls and invitations related to this, and even Michael Eisner, who was originally going to join forces with Columbia, has called him personally. However, he already had his own plans in mind, so he directly rejected them all.

Seeing Eric's somewhat surprised expression, James smiled and said, "Of course, you think I'm here for, right? I think maybe you're just waiting for Fox to take the initiative, right?"

The surprise in Eric's eyes flickered, and he was indeed waiting for Fawkes to contact him first so that he could take the initiative. Now that the other party has guessed it, and asked James Brooks, a gold medal player, to invite him personally, Eric is a little childish if he denies it.

Shrugging his shoulders and smiling, Eric said, "I do have this idea, James, after all, we have a good time working together." ”

James said sincerely: "So, I came here in person today. Actually, Mr. Barry Diller wants to meet you and talk about your ...... The next movie. ”

"Oh, Fawkes is really greedy?"

James laughed, "It's not about greed, Eric, it's business. If Fox doesn't make a move, other companies will be interested in it as well. Of course, Fox will certainly not be as short-sighted as Colombia, and we hope that both sides can cooperate on an equal footing for mutual benefit. ”

Just listen to these words, and Eric won't be stupid enough to really believe it. Fox said that because they didn't get the distribution rights. Otherwise, because of the VAM agreement, there may be something the other party will do, and the eavesdropping scandal that broke out in the previous life is just the tip of the iceberg of the dirty behavior of these giants in private.

But at present, Eric has to choose a giant as a backer, so as to reduce the outside world's coveting of him, better protect himself and secretly develop his strength. After some comparison, Eric chose Fox.

In the coming years, Fox, led by Barry Diller, will be primarily focused on creating the Fox television network, so there will certainly be less focus on film, which is a good time for Eric, a little sparrow, to occupy a little more resources in the turtledove's nest.