Chapter 25 (1/2)

CHAPTER 25 – PROMOTION IN FULL SWING

“Yesterday, a shocking ganed at the headquarters of Columbia Pictures, between the recently fahteen-year-old prodigy Eric Williams, and Columbia Pictures of the Coca-Cola Group”

“It was reported that, after Eric Williaain, he relied on the paycheck he received as a starring actor, as well as his royalties fees from Jurassic Park, to, in only fifteen days of tiet comedy of one hundred and fortyaside what the quality of the filhteen-year-old Eric Williaenius’”

“After seeing Ho, the Colu to insiders, Mr Blount Cohen, president of Coluinally wanted to buy the entirety of the Hohts for 10 htforwardly refused this offer, which would have been enough to est multimillionaires in Hollywood, and instead proposed a coreement”

The article was detailing the two sides of the bet, and analyzing the possibility of Eric winning it The author was obviously an insider, he had included a series of data of similar past box office comedies, and esti was more than 80

Because Home Alone didn’t star a celebrity, and hadn’t had any investors, for this type of good but low-budget comedy, only a few could make 2 to 3 millions at the box office, most would just make athe 50that Columbia would most likely never ‘allow’ Home Alone to pass that mark

Most people liked to talk about all kinds of things, but their favorite topics would be; geniuses -the ones that were so out of their reach that they couldn’t even feel envy-, tragic heroes, and conspiracy theories

The Los Angeles Times article, had explicitly or implicitly,the public sentiain publicity stunt, people had already begun to develop an eagerness towards Eric, this could be seen by the sudden increase in Jurassic Park’s sales

Now, the appearance of Home Alone was like a bomb, the public’s interest in Eric had exploded, which s would too, and soon, in a few days of time, he had already received a dozen requests for interviews Jeff, who hadn’t contacted him in a while, suddenly called him to tell him that some people had come to inquire about him at the restaurant Eric realized that the paparazzi had started to pay attention to him

Meanwhile, after the publication of The Los Angeles Times article, the 20th Century Fox and Colu as both the pro

Although Carter Hunt, the head of the Distribution Depart to watch Eric’s Hoot over his otiations with Columbia, launched a si forces, the results could well be iined

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“Annie, how’s the situation, can I go hoirlfriend open the door, Eric quickly asked He had been hiding at Annie’s and hadn’t gone home in a week

Aniston shook her head, she put the groceries bags she had in her hands on the coffee table and said: “I drove past your ho watch on your neighborhood Fortunately they didn’t know that the car I drove was yours, otherwise they would have certainly come after me, that would have been terrible”

Eric sighed Thanks to the two giants united publicity caure in North America, and even across the Atlantic, British newspapers had started to pick the subject up Eric was knowledgeable about how things worked in this industry, so after receiving Jeff’s phone call last week, he i the h, the rest would be to just rely on the quality of the filet interviewed by the paparazzi, not to s as he stated them

Although Eric pro and the paps hadn’t been able to interview hi around and his whole life was laid out for the public to feast on: his irades, and even his time passed at Jeff’s Italian restaurant Aniston was relishi+ng in it all, teasing him from time to time