Chapter 27: Shocking the eye

On November 18th, the day after Eric flew to New York, "The Little Devil" and "Returning to the 17th" officially ushered in the premiere. The screen for the opening of "The Little Ghost" was 1000 pieces. At the age of seventeen, the screen was 1,279, which was more than two hundred pieces more than "The Little Ghost". Fox had no scruples about the gambling agreement, so he did his best at the beginning.
At the same time, there are 1395 screens of Universal's animated film "Small Footboards" and 952 screens of the animated film "The Adventures of Orihua" released by Disney's Bo Wei International.
The three children-oriented movies were released at the same time, which made the media feel that Eric was less likely to win the bet, but Eric did not worry too much. The two animations may have a certain effect on "The Devil". Box office squeezed, but in the late stage, it is certainly not comparable to "Little Ghosts" in the endurance. The previous "Little Ghosts" is more than 10 million at the box office for 10 consecutive weeks.
After attending the two premieres, Eric and the crew returned to the hotel at 11 o'clock in the evening. There is no such advanced box office statistics system in this era, so we can only wait until next week to know the box office data of "Little Ghosts" and "Return to Seventeen".
Back in the room, Eric took a shower and was about to go to sleep. The phone ring suddenly rang. It was only Aniston who called this night.
"Hey, Eric, are you sleeping?" Aniston asked with a little excitement in his tone.
Eric sat on the bed and wiped the wet hair with a towel: "Not yet, just after taking a shower, Anne, what happy things have you encountered?"
"Guess it?"
Eric tweeted: "Oh, I know, you must be pregnant, rest assured that I will be responsible."
"Hey, you are a big color wolf, you know what you want to do." Aniston took a microphone and took a sip: "I just went to see "The Little Devil" and met a very interesting thing.

Eric smiled: "Talk about it?"
"This is the case. I came out from the cinema. I just saw a five-year-old boy who was screaming to see Kevin. The parents of the child did not agree. They said that they had just seen it. As a result, the boy was lying on the floor and crying. Someone saw this scene mistakenly thinking that the parents were traffickers, beat the poor young parents, and reported the police, and finally came several police cars, it was so fun, haha."
Aniston just used this as an anecdote on the way to watching Eric, but Eric saw more meaning. He also talked with Aniston a few words, hung up the phone, Eric lying in bed, slightly excited.
Because things still follow the trajectory of past lives. The reason why the previous "Little Ghosts" was able to achieve such an amazing box office was because a large wave of bear children clamored over and over again to watch "Little Ghosts" and competed to imitate the moves of Kevin in the film, and finally promoted the film to an amazing Box office results.
Things are indeed as Eric guessed. On the first day of the film's release, "The Little Devil" is basically the same as the other two animated box office, but with the word-of-mouth of "Little Devils" spread at an alarming rate among children. The next day, the box office of "Little Ghosts" doubled directly on the day, and the third day of the box office once again increased significantly, and some popular theaters have already appeared in the queue.
After all, cartoons can be seen at any time, and Kevin, who is a stranger, is not always ready to meet. Most children are imagining that they grow up quickly and can do a lot of things that they can't do now. From the perspective of the child, this movie "The Little Devils" has realized what most children want to do but can't do, dare to do or can't do.
A group of children in North America quickly spurred a wave of imitations of Kevin. A newspaper in San Francisco even reported a real "Little Ghosts" incident. A nine-year-old boy read the "Little Ghosts" and was ready to go in the family. When I was on vacation in Hawaii, I secretly locked myself in the room.
The parents with six children did not really find this. After the family flew to Hawaii, they found that the boy was gone. The boy’s parents had to give up their vacation and fly back to San Francisco from Hawaii. At the same time, the boy had already made a mess of his family, waiting for the arrival of the
stupid thief
, but unfortunately the parents who were really worried.
A week later, the box office of the first week of the movie was finally counted. Although the various hot signs have already made people feel psychologically prepared, the amazing $27.55 million in the first week of the "Little Ghosts" boxing still shocked everyone's attention.
The box office of more than 20 million US dollars may not be comparable to the blockbuster blockbuster in the first week of the next week, but in this era, this score directly blew all the high-bay movie in recent years, even Spielberg’s "ET" Did not achieve such a stunning start score, only more than "Little Ghosts" is only George Lucas's "Star Wars" series, but the production cost of "Star Wars" is more than 100 times the "little master" !
At the same time, "returning to seventeen years old" also achieved second place with a good score of 13.12 million. The two cartoons of "Small Foot and the End of the World" and "The Adventures of Orihua", which competed with "Little Ghosts", only got 7.12 million and 3.98 million box office respectively, far lower than the expected value of the two major film companies. Undoubtedly, the box office of the two animations was very badly suppressed by "Little Ghosts". Global and Disney executives lamented that the "Little Ghosts" box office was too bad, but also envied Colombia's good luck.
Colombia’s luck was really good, but the Colombian president, Blunt Cohen, who saw the first week of the box office, was not in a good mood. He even managed to drop the teacup in his hand several times.
According to the first week's box office data, Colombia's reassessment of the "Little Ghosts" North American box office must be more than 200 million US dollars, and even more likely to exceed 300 million US dollars. Blount Cohen is extremely remorseful. If he insisted on buying out the copyright scheme of "The Little Ghost", instead of signing a gambling agreement, Colombia will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in profits this year.
Now, according to the gambling agreement, if the "Little Ghosts" box office of 300 million US dollars, Colombia will pay 120 million US dollars to Eric, it can only get 45 million US dollars, minus the cost of issuing, Colombia may earn Only a fraction of the $120 million in Eric.
Blunt Cohen has repeatedly thought of tearing up the agreement. However, the content of the gambling agreement is now well known. If the agreement is ruined, it will be difficult for Colombia to win the lawsuit and it will become the laughing stock of the whole country. It will certainly be seen as a scapegoat.
"No, you must find a way to recover the loss, you must..." Blount Cohen was muttering to himself. The assistant knocked on the door and said, "Mr. Cohen, everyone is here, you can have a meeting."
Blount Cohen licked his temple and got up and walked to the conference room.
After sitting down in his position, Blount Cohen directly asked Lester Reid, who was in charge of the "Little Ghosts" project: "Lester, how is data analysis?"
Lester Reid had to come back to the "Little Ghosts" crew to take a flight back late at night, but an emergency call from the headquarters allowed him to return to Los Angeles a little longer than others. After coming to the Colombian headquarters and learning that the "Little Ghosts" was in the first week of the box office, Leicester instinctively felt a little bad.
The guilty face of the expressionless Blount Cohen, the decision to accept the gambling agreement is Blount Cohen, but he first responded to the agreement at the original meeting. According to Bronte Cohen’s self-use personality, ten out of ten will anger himself.
"Mr. Cohen, according to the analysis of the data department, according to the gambling agreement, we can only get a maximum of about 50 million US dollars, divided into peak value of about 225 million US dollars, which is the data curve."
Blount Cohen took the analysis paper and glanced at the red parabola that represented Colombia's profit, and the green curve that represents Eric's share of the road. The temple couldn't help but jump twice.
boom--
Another teacup was thrown on the mahogany floor by Blount Cohen, and a muffled sound was heard. The rest of the room was slightly shocked, and the subconsciously lowered his head and became chilling.
Under normal circumstances, the box office share of 50 million US dollars has already made many movie companies laugh at the top of their dreams. After all, even the six giants, the best box office profit in this era is about one or two hundred million. .
But in contrast to the more than $100 million that Eric could have, the all the excitement that Blount Cohen would have had was gone.
"Then, the gambling agreement is your responsibility to sign, what should I do now?" Blount Cohen glanced coldly at the crowd, and finally his eyes fell on Leicester Reid.