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Chapter 33

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The next day, the matter continued to grow, the majority of the newspapers overwhelmingly denounced Columbia at the same time, and maybe because they started to run out of places to vent, they even begun to accuse the owner of Columbia, the Coca-Cola group, to have played a part in that lowly business strategy. Columbia Pictures’ results had hit rock bottom long ago, so Coca-Cola Group had originally not cared much about this ‘trivial’ company.

Surprisingly, the day after the market opened, Coca-Cola who had always been very stable, had its share price directly fall by 1.7%. This figure might seem insignificant, but if you linked it to the tens of billions of dollars in market value, the higher ups weren’t so calm.

Coca-Cola’s CEO, Roberto Goizueta, directly called Blount Cohen and madly cursed at him, ordering him to quickly resolve this matter or he would have him step down from his position of Columbia’s CEO.

Under the pressure from the Coca-Cola headquarters, at ten o’clock, Blount Cohen personally held a press conference in Columbia. He politely apologized to Eric, and promised that they would seriously uphold their part of the gambling agreement.

Eric got the news, and didn’t intend to let things run amok any longer, he immediately let his personal lawyer, Edward Lewis, publish a statement in The Los Angeles Times about accepting their apology. Thus, the emerging storm started to rapidly subside.

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Although the results were amazing, the media’s attention slowly died down. And after several days of not being able to get any useful news, the reporters that had been camping around Eric’s neighborhood finally began to leave.

As for the movie version, there was obviously not much that could be written, since it was based on game content, it only featured Milla Jovovich’s badass moments.

The protagonists from his past, Chris, Jill, Wesker and more were cleverly integrated into the . Of course, the most popular amongst Chinese fans’, sister Wong, was certainly indispensable. Eric very wickedly portrayed Ada Wong and Leon’s relationship as a Queen and her toyboy.

This was not something Eric had come up with, in the internet of his past, many fans of the game had expressed their desire for the two’s relationship to be this way.

In the games, the sultry and elegant Ada Wong often appeared when Leon was in trouble, calmly helping him before drifting away.

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“James, what do you think ?” He pushed a cup of coffee he had just brewed in front of James as he sat opposite him and asked.

“It give the sense of a screen, people have a feeling of being there, like watching a movie, it’s very exciting.”

Eric nodded, James’ assessment was on point. In his past career, Eric had spent a lot of time writing and had become proficient in giving a sense of vividness to his texts.

“If it were to be made into a movie ?” Eric asked again.

James put down the manuscript, and seriously said: “I think at this stage, it’s not suitable for the to be adapted to the screen. Although people enjoy the zombie theme, the audience is still quite sparse, so you wouldn’t be able to invest a lot in it for fear of making a loss. If you want to adapt it into a movie, you’ll need a lot of special effects, and too little investment will ruin this. So I think it would be better to wait for the technology to develop further, maybe a few years later the cost of production would be cheaper too.”

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a little, James told Eric why he had come.

These days, Eric had already received several phone calls about the movie, even Michael Eisner who had initially joined hands with Columbia was no exception. But he had already his own plans in mind, so he directly refused them all.

Eric’s eyes flashed briefly with surprise, he had indeed been waiting for the Fox’s offer so as to have the upper hand. Now that the other party had guessed it, if Eric denied it in front of James Brooks, he would look petty.

He shrugged and smiled: “That was indeed my intention James, after all, our mutual relationship is quite a happy one.”

“Oh my, is the Fox getting greedy ?”

James smiled and said: “This has nothing to do with greed, Eric, this is business. If the Fox does not do it, others will become interested instead. Besides, we are certainly not as short-sighted as Columbia, we hope that our two sides can cooperate in mutual benefit.”

But right now, Eric had to rely on the backing of one of those giants, so as to reduce the others’ covetous intents, he had to first better protect himself to secretly increase his strength. After a comparative assessment, Eric selected the Fox.

For the next few years, the company’s main goal under Barry Diller’s leadership would be to launch the Fox’s television network, so relatively speaking, their attention in movie would certainly decrease, which would be Eric’s opportunity to spread his wings.

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