Amy Pascal, who was sitting at the bottom of the conference table, felt that this matter was not as simple as imagined. Although she and Eric had only been in contact for a few hours, she still realized that the boy had a calmness that was incomparable to his peers. People with this personality would definitely not have a fever in their brains and proposed this bet agreement with a very low chance of winning. Then, this bet agreement was most likely considered by Eric Williams.

Amy Pascal ignored the others and supported the betting agreement one by one. After thinking for a long time, he said: "Mr. Cohen, I think it's better to be cautious. There is no free lunch in the world. We can raise the buyout price slightly and negotiate with Eric Williams. If it really doesn't work, it's better to sign the share agreement. Anyway, with the box office potential of this movie, we will definitely make a fortune."

"Amy, I think you are too conservative, not even as good as that child." Lester Reed, who spoke first, retorted: "Do you know the potential of this movie? If we fully obtain the copyright of this movie, in addition to the box office share, we can at least make tens of millions of dollars in profits in the next videotape copyright, TV broadcasting and other peripheral authorizations, let alone we can shoot sequels. If we choose a share agreement, the copyright is still in the hands of the boy, and we have to share the big share of the boy again in the next operation."

Amy Pascal said: "We can also raise the buyout price, maybe 15 million US dollars, that boy will definitely agree."

"Based on the potential of such low-cost comedy in the past, usually 50 million US dollars is considered a box office dark horse, and most of the outstanding quality can only get 20 million US dollars. Then, with more than 80% chance of getting the full copyright of this movie for free, why do we have to pay more than 10 million US dollars? That boy could propose such a crazy betting agreement in less than 20% chance of winning. Do we have no courage to even bet on this little bit?"

"But..." Amy Pascal looked at the greed and fanaticism in the eyes of his colleagues. The sixth sense unique to women made her feel that this matter even more inappropriate.

"Okay, Amy," Blunt Cohen interrupted Amy Pascal's remarks, "While Jeffrey Hanson and that Eric Williams may be your friends, when you have to understand that you are now a Columbia company employee and must consider the interests of the company."

Blunt Cohen's words made Amy Pascal stunned. She was indeed friends with Jeffrey Hansen, but as a professional manager, she has always been quite professional ethics.

But now he expressed his opinions only out of caution, but was suspected of being scammered and helping outsiders to fight for benefits. The strong sense of humiliation made Amy Pascal tremble slightly with his right hand holding the pen tightly. Finally, Amy Pascal suddenly stood up and said coldly: "Mr. Cohen, since your opinion has this idea, I think I am no longer suitable to participate in this project. I will leave first, goodbye."

After saying that, Amy Pascal pursed his lips and hurriedly sorted out the documents in front of him, turned around silently and left the office.

The entire office fell into a brief silence.

"Woman!"

I don’t know who sighed first, Amy Pascal holds a high position as a woman, and in a patriarchal society, he will definitely be discriminated against all kinds of things. But I don’t know what kind of emotions this sigh carries.

Blunt Cohen regretted his words just now. Amy Pascal's work ability and professional ethics are obvious to all, otherwise it would not be possible to sit in this office as a woman. However, although Blunt Cohen lacks courage in managing the company, he is very stubborn. He feels that although he speaks a bit abruptly, Amy Pascal leaves the conference room, which is also a provocation to his majesty, so he naturally attributes all the mistakes to Amy Pascal.

After the office was silent for more than ten seconds, Blunt Cohen said: "Okay, since everyone agrees to this bet agreement, then let's come here today. Leicester, from tomorrow, you will be fully responsible for the project of "Home Imperials".

Amid everyone's envious eyes, Lester Reed excitedly agreed that if he won the bet, the credit would definitely be his. It would be natural for him to get promoted and raise the salary in the future.

"No problem, Mr. Cohen, I will do my best to accomplish this."

The next day, Eric received a notice from Columbia to accept the betting agreement. At the same time, Jeffrey also contacted the firm that Eric needed. After evaluating the value of "Jurassic Park", the two firms agreed to send a team to assist Eric in formulating and supervising the implementation of the betting agreement.

On October 31, although he was very interested, Eric still failed to participate in the first Halloween parade since his rebirth. Instead, he stayed in the conference room of the Columbia headquarters with a lot of boring middle-aged men and women, formulating the specific content of the betting agreement.

Based on the conditions proposed by Eric, the specific content of the agreement was gradually refined. In order to ensure that Columbia does its best to promote and distribute "Home Imperial", the content of the agreement is listed in detail, such as how many promotional soft articles are published in newspapers of different popularity. There are also the screen screens that need to be increased or reduced as much as the attendance rate of theaters, the daily schedule and schedule time of cinemas, etc. Moreover, once Columbia violates the content of the agreement, different breach of contract punishment measures are also made according to the degree of violation of the agreement.

When the last few dozen pages of the contract were drafted, Eric himself was stunned and couldn't help but admire the professionalism of the accounting and lawyer team that Jeffrey Hansen found.

In Colombia, Lester Reed, who is in charge of the "Home Imperial" project, believes that "Home Imperial" is basically Colombia's possession, so he did not pay too much attention to this contract that lasted tens of pages. Instead, he mocked Eric for making a big deal. The two teams invited by the other party would probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in commission, which was a waste.

Lester Reed thinks that even if the contract is detailed, the box office potential of "Home Imperial" is there. Colombia's top executives' boldest expectations for "Home Imperial" are not higher than the box office of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", which currently ranks No. 1 in the year. This movie that perfectly combines animation with live-action has only 150 million North American box office.

Colombia originally proposed the plan to release "Home Imperial" during Christmas in December, and Eric firmly opposed it. No one knew better than him about the tragic situation of the high-box-office movies in December. Within one month, three of the top ten movies in the year's box office accounted for. Moreover, "Home Imperial" achieved an amazing box office in its previous life after its release in November and lasted for more than two months.

In the end, Colombia made a compromise and determined that the release date was November 18, the same day as "Return to Seventeen", which was proposed by Eric. Two movies related to him were released at the same time. Because of the differences in the subject matter and audience, it will not only not squeeze the other party's box office, but will instead play a mutually promoting role. For this reason, Colombia even postponed the drama "New Horse", which was originally intended to be released on November 18, to December, freeing up about 1,000 screens for "Home Imperial".

From the screen numbers, we can see Colombia's ambivalence. Generally speaking, only the number of movies with good box office performances will exceed 1,000 theaters, so this number shows that Colombia is very optimistic about the box office of "Home Imperial". But at the same time, due to the betting agreement, Colombia does not want "Home Imperial" to exceed 50 million. This not only can it monopolize all the box office share of "Home Imperial", but also obtain all copyrights of "Home Imperial", including the sequel, so the number of screens does not exceed 1,000.

Eric was not dissatisfied with this. It is normal for Colombia's senior executives to have this mentality. Moreover, the dozens of pages of betting agreement clearly stipulates that the corresponding screen should be increased to reach a certain number of box offices. If Colombia refuses to execute, then wait for a lawsuit. Eric believes that the benefits of just a movie are not enough to make a giant like Colombia break up and lose its commercial reputation.

After the betting agreement was signed, because neither party to conceal the agreement, they hoped that the bet would spread, so the content of the agreement quickly spread throughout Hollywood.

Under the operation of the Columbia Film Company's publicity department, the next day, the Los Angeles Times entertainment page headline published an article about the bet.
Chapter completed!