It's a new week, and the spirit of Christmas is getting stronger. Major shopping malls and stores have decorated the most prominent Christmas trees in the most conspicuous positions, and various activities have also attracted a large number of shoppers.

Counting the days, there are only a few days left until the day of Santa Claus' annual gift distribution.

The movies released during this year's Christmas schedule have achieved quite good results in the first week.

The third film in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Vanishing Chamber of Secrets", got off to a good start, with a box office of nearly 100 million in the first week, which also shows the amazing energy of the original author J.K. Rowling.

As the world's greatest female best-selling author at the beginning of the 21st century, the Harry Potter series has sold more than 350 million copies, been translated into more than 70 languages, and is available in more than 200 countries and territories.

As for "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", which ranked second at the weekly box office, it is also adapted from the novel of the same name by British novelist Tolkien.

Although "The Lord of the Rings" is regarded as the first orthodox fantasy novel, written in the 60s of the last century, the reason why New Line chose to shoot this masterpiece is due to the popularity of the "Harry Potter" series of movies, which has set off a boom in adapting fantasy novels.

Of course, the Lord of the Rings movies did not disappoint anyone, and the weekly box office was second only to "Harry Potter".

"It's really interesting that the British are responsible for writing novels and Americans are responsible for making films."

Link had a smile on his lips. Sitting comfortably behind the desk, listening to Fat Jack's debriefing.

"That's pretty much it, and the second week of "Eight Mile" has more than 3,000 movie theaters. It reached 3,547. Again, this is a decision that we made after careful selection. ”

"Oh?" Link suddenly asked strangely, "Didn't you say that there were only two thousand at most in the second week?" Why did it suddenly directly exceed 3,000? ”

He remembered very well that Fat Jack said that the number of films in the third week could reach 3,000.

Fat Jack straightened his fat belly and said with a smile: "The bosses of those theaters are not fools, seeing that "Eight Mile" is so popular. Of course, we are rushing to release our movie. It's not the same face at all when we looked for them the first week. ”

Fat Jack had a relieved expression and said proudly: "I said it so badly last week, which convinced several large cinema companies. But now it's different. It was those large cinema companies that took the initiative to come to me, and for the sake of money, I had to agree to their request, haha. ”

I couldn't see his eyes when I saw his fat face and smile. Link couldn't help but laugh too.

"Yes. It's all about money, who doesn't like money? ”

For those big cinema companies, the attitude has changed sharply, and Link doesn't have much doubt. When "Eight Mile" was first released, everyone said it was a garbage movie, and it was reasonable that those theater companies were reluctant to release "Eight Mile".

However, when the box office data of "Eight Mile" in the first week came out, the shareholders of those theater companies, they didn't care if "Eight Mile" would teach young people badly, as long as there was money to make, it was the last word. Box office splits don't lie.

"But let's be honest." Fat Jack suddenly frowned, and glanced at Link a little nervously: "Little boss." Although "Eight Miles" is very profitable, if it really causes any bad social phenomena, it will be more than worth the loss. Anyway, we are also in the media, which is likely to affect the ratings of CAA TV. Parents of those children, I don't know how many people are calling to complain about us. ”

Link glanced at the fat man lightly, he knew that the fat guy still cared too much about it. He has a deep affection for CAA TV and is unwilling to affect CAA TV's ratings because of a movie.

"Don't worry." Link shook his head absently, and suddenly looked at the other party solemnly: "Do you know what I want to say that "Eight Mile" is a garbage movie?" ”

Fat Jack paused for a moment, not understanding why the little boss asked this question. Whether "Eight Miles" is a garbage movie or not, not only the small boss said it from the very beginning, but those critics have been criticizing it aggressively.

Isn't that obvious? Even you yourself say that "Eight Mile" is a garbage movie, and can you still let others praise it?

Seeing the fat man's expression, Link knew what he really thought. Link also slowly stood up, walked up to Fat Jack, and patted him on the shoulder: "Everyone says I'm hype, and of course I won't deny anything." That's right, I'm just hype! ”

Speaking of this, Link suddenly smiled, stared into Fat Jack's eyes and said, "Until what is the highest level of hype?" ”

Fat Jack shook his head stupidly.

But Link smiled even more proudly: "The highest level of hype is to hype the Bible into garbage." And then put a halo on the garbage again, and hype it up as the Bible! ”

"Garbage? Scripture? So what exactly is "Eight Miles"? ”

While Fat Jack was still thinking blankly about Link's words, Link had already walked out of the office door.

……

Willing, a housewife, came home with a large number of discounted items purchased for Christmas Day, only to see that the living room was empty and the TV was turned off, which made Vicin wonder.

"Why didn't Darren watch TV today? Is he sick? ”

Putting the groceries in the fridge, Willin worriedly knocked on her son's door, and walked inside.

As soon as she entered the door, Wei Lin saw her son lying on the small desk writing something, looking so attentive that she didn't even hear her knock on the door.

She walked over softly and glanced down. But he was surprised to find that his son Darren was doing his homework, and a piece of paper was pasted on the lower right corner of the desk.

Vilyn gave a strange look, because he had cleaned the spot yesterday and hadn't found anything at the time.

When Wei Lin saw the contents of the paper, she couldn't help but smile with relief.

On that piece of paper was a string of crooked little letters: "From today onwards, study hard!" I have to work as hard as Eminem and compare all my classmates who used to laugh at me. I'm sure I'll be as successful as Eminem, I'll be able to do it. ”

And Darren, who was doing his homework, suddenly felt a drop of water fall on the paper in front of him, and he couldn't help but look up, but saw his mother wiping tears with a smile.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Darren put down the pen in his hand and asked anxiously.

Wei Lin shook her head with a smile, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and couldn't help but hug her son tightly.

"Darren, you're a good son for your mother. Mom believes that you will succeed. ”

Darren felt his mother's strong maternal love and nodded fiercely.

"Eminem is my idol, and if he succeeds, so can I."

Wei Lin was a little curious about her son's Eminem, and she wanted to know what kind of person she was who would make her son change so much.

Holding her son's hand, Wei Lin sat on Darren's cot and asked with a smile, "Darren, who is your idol Eminem?" ”

When Darren heard his mother mention his idol, he laughed all over his face: "Eminem is amazing, he's a big star." It was only after watching "Eight Miles" that I realized that he was so miserable before, ridiculed by so many people, and surrounded and beaten. And then he won, Mom, you don't know how happy I was at the time, my friends, and everyone in the theater, were cheering for him, Eminem was the best. ”

"Eight Miles?" Wei Lin thought about it slightly, and thought she had heard of this movie.

After chatting with her son for a while, Wei Lin kissed her son on the forehead and encouraged him a few words before walking out.

"Just one movie has changed my son so much. "Eight Miles"? It seems that the TV set was still saying the name yesterday. ”

While thinking, Wei Lin turned on the TV, and suddenly a female anchor appeared in the picture.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is N News Channel. The recently released movie "Eight Miles" has caused concern among many parents. Many people called and told them about their anger because their children were starting to stay up at night for "Eight Mile." ”

While watching the report on the TV, Wei Lin's brows furrowed slightly.

The picture on the TV has become the door of a movie theater, and a female presenter is standing in front of the camera to report: "...... Following the cameraman's lens, we can see that in front of the AMC cinema, a large number of young people who do not return home at night are already crowded. It's 12 o'clock in the evening...... We found that in the crowd, there was a little girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and two patrol officers had already rushed over......"

The television set showed two patrolmen taking the little girl away, one of whom was being interviewed by reporters.

“…… Parents are reminded that something like this is dangerous. The little girl had just come to the AMC cinema alone, and her parents had already called the police to look for her before they disappeared, and we had just found her. As for the security of the Christmas season, the New York police have stepped up patrols to ensure that nothing bad happens......"

When the female reporter reappeared in the camera, Wei Lin couldn't help but turn off the TV.

She frowned and turned her head to look at her son's room, but thought to herself, "Why don't you let that little girl go to see 'Eight Mile'?" (To be continued......)