At half past six in the afternoon, Eric belatedly walked out of the studio where the Victoria's Secret show studio was located, he had too many things to do, if it wasn't for dinner with Buffett and others, Eric might have worked overtime until eight o'clock.

The driver and his new assistant, Kelly Haynes, were already waiting outside, and Eric and Kelly Haynes got into his car together, and the driver consciously started the car and drove towards the agreed restaurant.

"Mr. Williams, this is the document you need, I've made four copies," Kelly Haynes handed Eric the morning document again.

Eric thanked him and took the folder to look through it.

Although she had been Eric's assistant for a few weeks, this was the first time that Kelly Haynes had been in the same car with Eric, and it took several minutes for the female assistant to relax, casually glance at the young boss next to her, and suddenly feel a little distracted.

After the box office of "The Lion King" came out, hearing the news that Eric was about to close Disney's hand-drawn animation department, Kelly Haynes, like many people, thought that Eric must be crazy.

But in recent days, under Eric's orders, Kelly Haynes led the team to sort out the document in Eric's hand at this time, and she suddenly felt that if it were herself, she would definitely close Disney's hand-drawn animation department, because the document was too convincing, and she couldn't find a reason to refute it.

At the same time, Kelly Haynes was shocked by the keen insight of her big boss, and you must know that many of the data in this document are not related at first glance. But assembled. But a very strong chain of evidence has been formed.

Kelly Haynes couldn't help but think. Perhaps it is this keen insight that allows him to make one super hit movie after another.

Eric read the document in his hand, and at the same time that there was a strong smell of Chanel No. 5 perfume beside him, he also felt that this female assistant with a good face and a great figure had been staring at him for at least a minute, which made him a little uncomfortable, Eric was not narcissistic enough to think that he had the charm to make a mature neodymium man a nymphomaniac.

Moreover, the problem in Kelly Haynes' mind is nothing to Eric, if Eric is not a reborn. Then it is difficult for him to see the decline trend of 2D animation, but with the memories of his past life in his mind, he can make a reverse deduction based on the results, which is enough for him to discover the reason why a series of 2D animated films will inevitably decline.

After reading most of the paperwork, Eric finally couldn't resist the gaze of the woman next to him, moved his body, turned his head to glance at Kelly Haynes's left hand, and did not find the wedding ring.

Eric's sudden movement also woke up Kelly Haynes, who retracted her gaze in a panic and realized what she had just done. Inexplicably a little flustered.

Eric senses the woman's panic, in order to avoid embarrassment. Putting his eyes on the document again, he said casually: "Kelly, ask a more abrupt question, are you married?"

Kelly Haynes's face was slightly red, and she subconsciously wanted to refute that you knew it was very abrupt and still asked, but when the words came to her mouth, it turned into another answer: "Married once, but divorced, I now live with my daughter, her name is Nina, and she is seven years old this year." ”

"Sorry for delaying your daughter's dinner. ”

Kelly Haynes shook her head and smiled, "It's okay, Nina is very sensible and has a nanny with her." ”

A simple conversation defused the slightly awkward atmosphere between the two, and Eric could feel the female assistant's crampedness, and in order to avoid falling silent again in the carriage, he took the initiative to ask, "Do you like Chanel No. 5 very much?"

Kelly Haynes didn't expect Eric to be able to directly say the name of the perfume she used, remembering some of the subconscious motivations when she first chose this perfume, her face was a little unnatural again: "I, recommended by a good friend, I just started trying it recently, and I feel that it's okay." ”

Kelly Haynes tried her best to make her tone natural, and Eric didn't hear anything unusual, saying: "Although Chanel No. 5 matches your temperament, this fragrance is most suitable for use at parties, and in daily work, in fact, light perfume will seem more appropriate." ”

"I'll consider your suggestion, Mr. Williams," replied Kelly Haynes in a low voice, a little embarrassed and apprehensive, since Eric knew so much about the perfume, he must have been aware of some of the special effects of the perfume, such as ...... Cui Qing.

Eric never took his eyes off the document in his hand, just as a casual chatter, so he didn't notice the strange look that flashed in Kelly Haynes' expression just now, and felt the female assistant's voice turn low, thinking that she was a little resistant to her suggestion, he looked up at her and said, "I'm sorry, I just said it casually, you don't have to care, if you like it, just continue to use it." ”

"Of course not," Kelly Haynes shook her head, "I also think this fragrance is too flamboyant, and I'm going to change it soon." ”

Eric closed the last page and said, "Oh, that's fine, actually, I prefer women's natural body fragrance, which is the innate charm of women." Just like you, I think you're more ...... without any perfume now" Eric said casually, this time finally noticing Kelly Haynes's obviously red face, and quickly stopped the topic, saying, "I'm really sorry, I'm not harassing you, just ......"

Seeing Eric's slightly embarrassed expression, Kelly Haynes suddenly became bolder, and then Eric's words teased, "...... It's just a natural habit of playboys to coax women?"

Eric smiled wryly and nodded, realizing something, and said, "Looks like I've been talking about a topic that isn't very pleasant. ”

Kelly Haynes laughed, "You finally realized, I thought it was an inherent emotional intelligence flaw of genius." ”

"I'm not a genius," Eric shook his head and was about to continue saying something, when the sedan stopped in front of an ordinary Italian restaurant, Eric looked out the window at the restaurant and asked, "Is this it?"

Kelly Haynes pulled out the memo and confirmed. "That's right. Here it is. Noticing Eric's doubts, Kelly Haynes explained: "This should have been chosen by Mr. Buffett, who has always been more ...... Frugal. ”

Eric knew that the word Kelly Haynes really wanted to use was 'stingy', because the whole world knew that Buffett was stingy.

Getting out of the car with the document, Eric looked at the female assistant who was still sitting in the car, and suddenly asked, "Why don't you come along, if." If you're not in a hurry to go home with your daughter?"

Kelly Haynes was a little moved, but looked at her serious professional suit, shook her head, and said, "Still no, my current outfit is not suitable for the dinner party." ”

Eric pointed to the food stall-level Italian restaurant behind him and said with a smile: "Do you think the old man who can choose such a restaurant will care about what the guests wear?"

Kelly Haynes laughed and got out of the car generously.

The two walked into the restaurant, Eric looked around, fortunately did not see the three Buffetts in the lobby, knowing that it was meal time, not to mention the need for confidentiality of the topic to be discussed next. Eric believed that if he had eaten in the lobby, he would have been watched by reporters who had heard the news.

I said a few words to the waiter who greeted me. The two were taken to a private room.

Warren Buffett, Tom Murphy, and David West stopped talking and stood up when Eric came in.

Eric shook hands with the three of them and said, "I'm really sorry, everyone, I've been too busy with work lately, so I couldn't pick you up at the airport in person." ”

"It's okay, work is the most important thing," Buffett said with a smile, Tom Murphy and David West both nodding in agreement.

Eric introduced Kelly Haynes to a few more people, and the five sat down.

The waiter didn't recognize Buffett's three old men, thinking that they were just ordinary guests, but Eric was absolutely impossible not to know, and even recalled Buffett's identity, looking at the several big people sitting in front of him, the waiter was a little excited, and at the same time couldn't help but think about how much tip he would get next, and said eagerly: "Gentlemen, do you want to order now?"

Buffett didn't finish speaking, and looked at Eric together.

Eric smiled at the waiter, "Sorry, can we order in fifteen minutes, we still have something to discuss?"

"Of course, of course, Mr. Williams, at any time," the waiter was a little flattered by Eric's tone of discussion, smirked and nodded, and voluntarily exited the box.

After the waiter left, Eric took out the folder he had brought with him, and Kelly Haynes took the initiative to get up and put aside the cutlery on the table, and then sat down quietly beside Eric.

Handing the photocopied documents to the three of them, Eric smiled and said, "In order to have a pleasant dinner for the rest of the dinner, I think we have to solve this problem first." ”

Fifty-five-year-old David West was the youngest, the president of a large foundation, and the most sociable, so he smiled along with Eric's joke, while the other two old men eagerly opened the documents and read them, and Tom Murphy put on reading glasses in earnest.

Eric looked at Buffett, who had quickly turned the first page, and said: "I believe that after reading these materials and data, everyone will definitely be able to understand some things, but I will explain it myself, so that it is more simple and clear." ”

Buffett has the ability to read fast and calculate data beyond ordinary people, however, after reading the first article "The Full Distribution Trend of Hollywood Movies" quickly, Buffett did not see any factors related to Eric's imminent closure of Disney's hand-drawn animation department, hearing Eric's words, Buffett decisively stopped continuing to turn the page, looked at Eric, who was confident, and the other two also paused with Buffett's movements.

Eric sorted out his thoughts and said: "First of all, I want to state that "The Lion King" is an "event movie" similar to "Star Wars", "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Home Alone", "Feeling that the three of them showed puzzled expressions about the term "event movie", Eric could only continue to explain: "The so-called event movie is a movie whose box office is far from the pre-forecast of the film company, and the appearance of this kind of movie is full of chance, maybe ten or twenty years may not be able to meet one." Strictly speaking, even my "Jurassic Park" last year cannot be regarded as an event movie, the success of "Jurassic Park" can only be regarded as the expansion of the global box office market and the inevitable development trend of large-scale CG special effects films favored by audiences, and in the next few years, there will definitely be CG special effects films with a global box office of more than $1 billion. ”

David West asked, "Eric, since you said that Jurassic Park is an inevitable trend in the development of the market, why can't The Lion King be regarded as a normal manifestation of the market's demand for animated films?"

"Because before "Jurassic Park", we have seen the clues from the box office market reaction of special effects films such as "Terminator 2" and "Tornado", the global box office of "Terminator 2" is 500 million US dollars, and the global cumulative amount of "Tornado" should be close to 700 million US dollars, right?" Eric's last sentence was to look at Kelly Haynes beside him.

Kelly Haynes was already watching Eric's eloquent conversation with a little emotion, and when he suddenly turned to himself, he inexplicably remembered Eric's sentence in the morning, 'I like women who are sensitive to numbers', and instantly felt her heart beat a lot, but the female assistant still did not hesitate to report a number: "According to the final statistics, the global box office of "Tornado" has accumulated 688 million US dollars, a difference of less than 700 million by 12 million. ”

Eric nodded, turned to the three people opposite, and said: ""Terminator 2" is 500 million in the world, "Tornado" is 700 million in the world, and then, "Jurassic Park" is 1 billion in the world, these data should be able to prove the development trend of the market, but in terms of 2D animated films, I don't see this trend at all, there is a corresponding analysis in this document, and you can see it next." ”

David West, who asked the question, was a little unwilling, but found that he could not refute it, but Warren Buffett nodded slightly and motioned to Eric: "Eric, please continue." ”

So, to confirm that The Lion King is a hard-to-replicate event movie, let's first look at an important change in Hollywood's film distribution model in recent years. ”

Eric said, flipped through the document in his hand, and said: "After the first saturation distribution model of "Jaws" appeared in 1975, it has gone through 20 years, although this distribution model has been recognized by Hollywood, but before the 90s, the saturated distribution and long-term distribution models still coexist in commercial films, which you can see in the data statistics table in the file. ”

Leaving a few people with some time to look through the data, Eric continued: "But with the advent of the nineties, the saturated release strategy of the upgraded version quickly emerged, and in recent years there has been a proper term - full release. This distribution model is more radical than the traditional saturation distribution, the film company invests huge sums of money in the early stage for large-scale advertising, and after accumulating enough influence, it immediately rolls out 2,000 to 3,000 theaters, and under normal circumstances, through eight weeks of screening, it reaps about 80% to 90% of the total box office, whereas ten years ago, in the case of Universal's "Back to the Future", the cumulative box office of this film in eight weeks was only 57% of the total box office , even because of the word-of-mouth accumulation of the first part, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", which adopted a similar full-scale release model in the second part, only 77% of the box office in eight weeks, and the screening time of "Back to the Future" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" is also a very interesting number, "Back to the Future" ran for a total of 37 weeks, while "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" was only screened for 20 weeks. As we can see from the documents, the films that have been released in recent years have had a significantly shorter run-time than in the eighties. The drastically shortened showtime means that theaters can free up more time and canvas to schedule more films, and the rapid rise of Hollywood's box office in recent years has a lot to do with the popularity of this model, so full distribution will be an inevitable trend in Hollywood's future film distribution model. (To be continued.) )