Shay felt that the New Line Company suffered a bit of a big loss in "Two Big Smoking Guns", so he was in a hurry to find a way back in the "Seven Deadly Sins" division negotiations.

Considering Shay's mood at the moment, Leeter made a slight concession, after all, this time the new line company invested 40 million US dollars in "The Seven Deadly Sins", and the new line company would never agree to a sharing agreement like "Two Big Smoking Guns".

The new line needed a film like "The Seven Deadly Sins" to prove that the company had the ability to attract top stars, directors, and shoot A-level productions, and Jude needed to use the film to prove to Hollywood that his success was based on strength rather than luck.

The two sides are in the honeymoon period of cooperation, and of course they know how to carry out the cooperation well.

The head of CinemaScore was tragically forgotten, but there was no way around it, as both Shay and Leett's attention had completely shifted to the contract negotiations for The Seven Deadly Sins, and the box office of Two Smoking Guns didn't really need to be cared about anymore.

As predicted by CinemaScore, after three days of hot releases, the film has grossed $21.57 million in its first weekend, successfully leading the North American weekend box office charts.

In the second week of its release, the scale of the film's response was further expanded to 1,001 theaters, with a weekend box office of $15.21 million, a full week box office of 27.13 million, and a total box office of nearly $50 million, winning the weekend box office list for a second time.

The media exclaimed that the entire spring file has been completely ignited by "Two Big Smoking Guns", and some people even boldly predicted that the North American box office of the film is expected to exceed 100 million.

But there are people who don't want things to be forgotten so quickly.

Just ten days after the release of "Two Smoking Guns", the cumulative box office officially exceeded the $50 million mark, Sharon Stone suddenly announced through her agent that she had found a lawyer to prepare to respond to the lawsuit.

Many people found out that the lawsuit between Jude and Sharon Stone that had been hyped up before had not officially started until now.

As a result, the headlines of entertainment newspapers that have been dominated by "Two Smoking Guns" for two weeks have finally been replaced with new content, and some media have ridiculed this matter in a very sarcastic tone, saying that the legal dispute between Jude and Sharon Stone may be the most high-profile lawsuit this year except for Simpson's wife murder case, and the funny thing is that the cause of this incident is actually Jude pouring a cup of coffee on the face of Sharon Stone's former assistant.

The farce over a cup of coffee lasted for a whole week in the newspapers, and according to CinemaScore's predictions, the box office of "Two Smoking Guns" would drop sharply this week, but the final result was that the box office of the film only fell by 30% in the third week, and the weekend box office broke through $10 million without danger, dominating the weekend box office for three consecutive weeks, and the total box office also reached $65 million in one fell swoop.

At this time, the media was surprised to find that the slogan of breaking 100 million at the box office just to attract attention seems to really become a reality, of course, provided that the film can continue to maintain the current box office growth.

"This week's box office trend is just an exception, I think the remaining box office potential of the film has been exhausted, and it is estimated that theaters will significantly reduce the number and size of screenings by this time next week, and then there will be two weeks at most before the film will be completely withdrawn from the North American market." Jude walked into the kitchen with his phone, lowered his head and bit half of the biscuit from Kate's hand, turned around and opened the refrigerator to get the milk out.

But the new line company didn't see it that way, and even in the middle of yesterday's negotiations, Shay asked about it...... You also know what it means for New Line to make a movie that grosses over 100 million dollars. ”

Leet's voice came from the other end of the phone, and Jude paused as he poured milk into the cup.

"Then put an end to their fantasies, you know what to do!"

"Are you sure you want to do this? Some people will be disappointed. Leete's tone was a little strange, and it was clear that the people he was referring to were not Shay White and New Line.

Jude put down the milk in his hand, glanced at Kate, who was setting breakfast at the table, and replied in an indifferent tone: "I've been letting them hype up this matter for a week, and it won't do us any good to continue, so why continue to act with them?" ”

Li Te sighed with some regret, if Jude was not so stubborn, there was actually some room for maneuver in this matter.

"Okay, just do as you say."

Putting down the phone, Jude's mind had not yet fully recovered, and by this time Kate had prepared all the breakfast, just two glasses of milk in his hand.

Kate walked over and looked at Jude, who was distracted with a milk carton in his hand, and asked, "Do you need my help?" ”

"No!" Jude came to his senses and handed over a poured glass of milk.

Kate looked at Jude with some concern, "Did something happen?" ”

Jude didn't have anything to hide from the call with Ritt just now, "It's about the lawsuit between me and Assistant Sharon Stone, and recently this matter has been hyped up by the media again, so I want to end it as soon as possible." ”

Kate has been busy memorizing the script of "The Seven Deadly Sins" for a while now, and she hasn't paid much attention to it.

"Hasn't this been under your control all along?"

"There was a little accident, and some people were unwilling to end the matter like this, and wanted to take advantage of it in turn." Jude shrugged, "They wanted to repeat the hype before the release of "Two Smoking Guns", but they didn't see who was in charge of this matter. ”

Kate was well aware of Jude's role in this incident and reacted immediately.

"Sharon Stone also has a new film released recently?"

Jude poured himself a glass of milk, and then sat down at the table with Kate.

"Sharon Stone In order to break through the transformation of 'off the star', Sony Pictures hired Sam Raimi as the director, and the actors worked with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, the latter is said to be not favored by the producer at first, so Sharon Stone had to pay DiCaprio's salary out of her own pocket, and it can be seen that she has high expectations for this movie."

Speaking of this film called "Deadly Fast. Jude has to admire Sharon Stone's vision of choosing a male partner for himself in the play, Russell Crowe will win the Oscar for "Gladiator" in the future, and "Little Plum", who has just emerged at this time, will be a top Hollywood actor in the future, plus "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi, such a lineup is absolutely unimaginable in ten years.

But now in addition to director Sam Raimi, the other two are unknown, so Kate, as an audience, is more concerned about the role played by Sharon Stone in this movie.

"A western female gunslinger who avenges her father, the upcoming version is said to put Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe in a fierce way. The love scenes were all cut, and viewers who rushed to Sharon Stone to see the movie were expected to be disappointed. ”

Jude put a piece of bacon in the bread, but thought to himself that Sharon Stone and her agent would probably be even more disappointed when they saw the statement made by Little.