Amy Pascal expressed her interest in Eric very directly: "Oh, Eric, you are younger than I thought, I was your age, and I had just entered college. ”

"You look young too, Ms. Pascal," Eric complimented.

Amy Pascal laughed, "Thank you, Eric. Just call me Amy, I like it a lot, do you still have the rights to the movie you wrote?"

Eric raised an eyebrow, "Of course." ”

During this time, as the fame grew, many film companies have contacted the film copyright, but all of them have been rejected by Eric. Until he has enough strength to win considerable benefits for himself, Eric has no plans to sell the film adaptation rights.

"So, I don't know if you're willing to sell the film adaptation rights to Colombia, and we'll offer a very good price?"

Eric said: "Amy, this is not the topic we are discussing today, and besides, the current special effects technology is not very mature, and I have no plans to sell the movie rights for the time being." ”

"That's a pity, okay, let's talk about it, Jeffrey appreciates this movie, and with what I know about Jeffrey, he still has a lot of vision. By the way, I heard that you were going to have Twentieth Century Fox release this movie, but what happened?"

Eric shrugged his shoulders and said truthfully, "Mr. Karta Hunter, the head of distribution at Twentieth Century Fox, refused without even watching the film. ”

"Karta Hunt, I know him, a very arrogant guy. Amy Pascal laughed, "Well, I think we'd better watch your movie first." ”

Eric nodded, and Amy Pascal led Eric and Jeffrey directly to a screening room at Columbia Pictures headquarters to hand over the copies to the projectionist, who sat in the leather chairs with the other two.

"Eric, don't you look forward to it?" said Amy Pascal as she happened to see Eric's expression before the movie show.

Eric smiled helplessly: "Amy, you know, I made the film from beginning to end, I have every shot of the movie in my head, and I have seen it many times." You won't be disappointed, though. ”

The lights in the screening room dimmed, Amy Pascal nodded, retracted her gaze, and at the same time spread a feeling of urgency to go to the doctor, Columbia Pictures is now lacking good film projects, but how can she be reduced to the point where she can't even let go of a high school student's movie, thinking of this, Amy Pascal sighed softly in the dark.

As one of Colombia's top executives, Amy Pascal knows everything about Colombia. Columbia Pictures' performance in the past two years has not been sluggish, and if it were not for the copyright income brought by the accumulation of a strong film and television drama library over the years, the company would definitely face huge losses.

Compared to the thriving Disney and Twentieth Century Fox, and Paramount, which is still in its heyday after the Barry Diller era, Colombia looks as twilight as an old man, and after winning the second place in the North American annual box office list in 1984, Columbia has not had a single film squeeze into the top 10 of the box office for three consecutive years, and if nothing else, this year. This is simply a shame for an established film giant.

Coca-Cola, the parent company of Colombia, suffered heavy losses in last year's stock market crash, and if Coca-Cola is still so unpopular that it cannot bring profits to the parent company, it is likely to be sold, and in fact Japan's Sony consortium has released the signal of buying Columbia Pictures.

Amy Pascal has done a little bit about Eric, a boy who has just graduated from high school, and in just a few months, he has published a science fiction novel that has been photographed by Twentieth Century Fox, and has shocked everyone to play the leading role, if it weren't for these halos, maybe Amy Pascal would have been as dismissive of Eric's film as Karta Hunt of Twentieth Century Fox.

The script was originally received by Columbia Pictures, and several producers of the company were also interested in the film, but Eric's additional condition of playing the leading actor made it difficult for Columbia, which is now cautious in investment, to accept it, and finally had to give up.

Hearing that Barry Diller himself approved the plan, Amy Pascal sighed that the current state of the company was inseparable from the president's lack of courage and conservative character.

As it plays, the witty plot and Stuart Runkel's sassy performance quickly pulls Amy Pascal's scattered thoughts onto the movie screen.

After the movie ended, Amy Pascal was surprised and surprised, she didn't believe that this excellent comedy movie was made by this eighteen-year-old teenager in front of her.

Amy Pascal stood up with excitement on her face and said to Eric, "Eric, can you wait here for a moment? I'm going to make a call." ”

From Amy Pascal's expression, Eric knew that it was more than half the way through.

Half an hour later, seven or eight Columbia Pictures executives, including Bront Cohen, president of Columbia, gathered in the screening room to watch again.

After watching the movie again in a cheerful atmosphere, it was almost time to get off work, but everyone had no intention of leaving in a hurry. More than halfway through the screening, these top officials in Colombia are already talking about it.

In the office of the president of Columbia Pictures, Eric and Jeffrey sat opposite Blunt Cohen, who was in his sixties, and after the assistant served coffee, Bront Cohen took a few sips of coffee before he spoke: "Eric, to be honest, we are very optimistic about the potential, so we plan to buy out all the rights for 10 million dollars, what do you think?"

Hearing the price of 10 million US dollars, Jeffrey Hansen, who was sitting next to him, suddenly had a happy expression. The cost of one million has increased tenfold in the blink of an eye, and if it were him, he would probably nod his head and agree immediately.

Blunt Cohen noticed Jeffrey Hansen's expression and showed a satisfied smile, the company estimated that the box office of this film was about 50 million US dollars, and the film could easily shoot a sequel, and the potential for mining peripheral copyrights was also very large, so after some discussion, it was directly decided to completely buy out all the rights of the film at a price that they seemed to be higher, and it was natural to bargain after the price, so the senior management of Columbia Company has determined the upper limit of 12 million US dollars.

If you want to buy it out for 10 million dollars, are you wronged by me? Eric scolded, but that's how business works, sit on the ground and pay back on the spot.

"Mr. Cohen, I guess you have a preliminary estimate of the box office value, can I know the number?"

Eric didn't immediately agree, and Bront Cohen was a little disappointed, but still said, "Of course, we think that if it is properly announced, the North American box office should be around $30 million." As a rule, you, as a producer, get a share of about 20 percent, so Eric, the $10 million buyout price is still very reasonable. It shouldn't cost you more than two million to make this movie, so, Eric, what are you hesitating about? Just say yes, and you'll be the youngest multimillionaire in no time. ”