Litt gave Shay a grateful look and walked out of the office door with his phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, Ovitz's loud voice came from the other end of the microphone.

"Rhett, you really gave me a huge surprise!"

"It's nothing, it's mostly Jude......"

Before Leet could finish speaking, he was directly interrupted by Ovitz.

"I've said before that you're doing a good job in everything else, but there's one thing I'm not happy with, you're too modest, which is not the quality of a good agent."

Li Tet was silent and did not refute, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that everything about himself was closely related to Jude, and he was nothing without Jude.

"Okay, I'm making this call to congratulate you, and I'm also going to tell you a piece of news...... After careful consideration, I have decided to leave CAA next month and become President of Disney. ”

Hearing the news, Leete's mood instantly fell to the bottom.

"I know you've been against this, but my attitude hasn't changed, I'll keep a position for you at Disney, and I'd love to hear when you come back, although I always hoped you could come back as soon as possible before yesterday, but now I hope you never need this retreat, because you've found your own career direction, and you'll gain more if you keep going...... Maybe we'll have a chance to work together in the future. ”

"I'm sure there will be a day." Litt replied in a firm tone.

"I'll wait for you."

Ovitz's answer before hanging up was intriguing, but Littlet didn't have time to think about it, and when he turned back to the office, his face was already calm.

Seeing this, Shay didn't ask much, just turned to look at the person in charge of CinemaScore: "Where did we just go?" ”

"From the age distribution data of the moviegoers on the day of the premiere, the young people aged 18 to 32 accounted for 76%, which is basically the same as the data conclusion we reached in the UK survey, that is to say, the main consumer group of this film is the current young people, although the rating of the R-rated film will exclude the 13 to 17-year-old people who are also interested in the film, but in the next two weeks, the box office trend of the movie will be relatively stable, and the box office should exceed $20 million in the first weekend, Next week's box office will be generally comparable to this data, but after the third week, there will be a big decline in the box office data, because at this time, most young people have already seen this movie, and the departure of mainstream consumers will make the box office in the third week can only maintain half or less of the current one. CinemaScore's prediction for the film's final North American box office is $80 million. ”

"I have a question." Shay held his chin with his left hand and his right hand, and stared at each other with his eyes: "Before the movie was released, you predicted that the North American box office of the film could exceed 100 million, why is it lower now?" ”

"That estimate is based on the film's box office performance in the UK and the final box office results of last year's "Pulp Fiction", although we believe that there is not much difference between the two films in terms of standards, but "Pulp Fiction" won awards at Cannes and various film festivals after that have attracted a large number of audiences for the film, "Two Smoking Guns" obviously cannot achieve that effect only by relying on publicity and topic hype, and we also consider the difference in taste between British and American audiences, so we have lowered the interest of " Two Smoking Guns' box office estimates, and we believe the final result won't be too far off from the prediction. ”

Shay frowned and was silent, the box office breaking 100 million is a watershed for any movie released in North America, and it can be said that the movie has achieved a huge box office success, on the contrary, even if it is only one or two million, it will not feel so strong.

The person in charge of CinemaScore stood there a little embarrassed, and Litte had to stand up and say: "The box office of 80 million US dollars is not bad, more than twice the box office in the UK, after all, this is Jude's first official film, we have to leave a little room for his subsequent films to rise at the box office, Mr. White, what do you think?" ”

The subtext of these words is actually to remind Shay that the two sides will cooperate on "Seven Deadly Sins" soon, if the box office of "Two Big Smoking Guns" is too high, both Jude as an investor and Jude as a director will feel a lot of pressure, a film with an investment of 40 million US dollars and two Hollywood first-line movie stars to join, and in the end, if it can't do a movie with an investment of only 2 million US dollars and no stars to join, everyone's faces will not look good at that time.

The $2 million investment in exchange for the $80 million box office, a 1-for-40 box office return is enough to make other studios jealous and red-eyed, a result that Shay didn't even think about when he decided to invest in the film in the first place.

The main reason is that the performance of the film when it was released in the UK was so unfavorable that the entire new line company was full of expectations for the film's North American box office, and the prediction given by CinemaScore was lower than expected, and disappointment was inevitable.

Shay silently calculated the gains and losses in his heart, in the short term, of course, he hopes that the higher the box office of "Two Smoking Guns", the better, because this represents the most direct income, but in the long run, he has to admit that Leete's words are reasonable, "Two Smoking Guns" is too successful, and the pressure is all focused on "Seven Deadly Sins", and this film is the key for New Line Company to compete for admission to the mainstream Hollywood commercial film market, from this point of view, The box office predictions given by CinemaScore are also acceptable.

"There's nothing wrong with me, please continue." Shay spoke, finally easing the tension in the office.

The head of CinemaScore also knew that his box office forecast was lower than the company's expectations, so he immediately felt that the good news that he was going to put at the end of the report was released in advance.

"In fact, the complexity of the plot of the film itself determines that the box office of the film will definitely be affected when it is released, and this is also proved from our questionnaire feedback, 32% of the respondents said that they would buy the videotape of the film, and 18% said that they would like to watch it again in the cinema, and we predict that after the release of the film, the performance of the film in the home video market may surprise everyone again."

Shay and Leet glanced at each other in unison.

When the filming agreement was signed, Jude insisted on participating in the family video market, and Shay felt that it was still unknown whether the film would be released in the end, so he agreed to this request, and no one expected that it would be such an outcome in the end.

Shay stared at Leet for half a minute, and then suddenly said, "I think there are some details about the filming agreement of "Seven Deadly Sins" that we should talk about more seriously. ”