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CHAPTER 33 - INITIATIVE

CHAPTER 33 – INITIATIVE
Posted on February 20, 2017 by Elawn

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.

Because of the controversy, they expected that Home Alone's tickets sales would experience a decline, but after receiving the week's data, not only did it not fall, the sales had risen instead. The movie had made 28,760,000$, breaking the 50 million $ mark in its second week of running.

17 Again made 14,730,000 $, maintaining its second place at the box office. Eric's two movies together had made more than 50% of the total North American box office this week, which again left people in wonder.

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.

This week, Eric basically stayed at home and concentrated on writing Resident Evil that he had promised to Michael Klaus. His past world had two version of the series, one was the Capcom game story line, the other was the film version with Alice as the main lead. Unfortunately, Eric had only played the fourth and sixth chapters of the game series, so he didn't understand a lot about it.

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.

Therefore, writing the Resident Evil novel wasn't as easy as writing Jurassic Park, Eric spent three days before he conceived the outline for Leon alone. From him joining the police at the beginning, until all of them working together to escape Raccoon City's outbreak.

The protagonists from his past, Chris, Jill, Wesker and more were cleverly integrated into the novel. 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.