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Eric nodded: “It's nothing.
Just have someone prepare artificial snow.
I'll try to put the outdoor scenes of Little Boss 2 at the end of shooting, but even if we delay it, it won't be for a long time.
So I think there's a 90% chance we'll use artificial snow.”

“I have already had someone estimate according to your script, although it does not need to be filled with scenes.
However, artificial snow needs to be realistic enough for the audience to believe.
The budget will increase by around 1.5 million US dollars.”

Eric could tell from Jeffery's tone that he was in emotional pain, so he patted Jeffery's shoulder.
Although Firefly had grown increasingly in scale, Jeffery was still the same thrifty person that Eric had first seen him as.
But such a personality was also best suited to be a producer: “Jeffery, it's not last year now.
When we were making the first 《Home Alone》 last year, we had to be thrifty and even had to go to a remote Canadian town in the north to shoot.
But our budget for this movie is very generous, so there's no need to save money on where it should be spent.”

“I also know, I just subconsciously think, if the schedules of 《Sleepless in Seattle》 and 《Home Alone 2》 were switched, then maybe the 1.5 million could be saved.”

Eric smiled, “According to what you said, we could save 1.5 million if we wait for natural snow, however, by delaying 《Home Alone 2》 to Christmas, we may lose tens of millions in box office.
You should know that from the box office performance of 《Home Alone》, it is a children-oriented movie that is suitable for long-term release, so we must try to extend the schedule within the holiday season, and the peak of the Christmas box office will start in late November.”

“Why not put 《Sleepless in Seattle》 in late November as well, even if it doesn't compete viciously with 《Home Alone 2》? I think it could be delayed by a week too,” Jeffrey asked again.

“Because 《Sleepless in Seattle》 is not only heading for the Christmas season, but also rushing to the Valentine's Day season in February, as it is a romantic comedy, if it's released one month in advance, then by February, the popularity of the film will be almost exhausted.
But if it's released around December 24, after two months of screening, then when entering the Valentine's Day season, it can give the romantic film a rebound in box office.
You know, my movies, the large-scale box office harvest period is more than eight weeks, such as last year's first 《Home Alone》, took 10 weeks of box office champion, and later 《Pretty Woman》, 《Running Out of Time》 are the same.”

Jeffrey smiled and said, “I really don't know where you learned all this.
I was going to tell you about the schedule of 《The Others》, You encouraged Michael Eisner to put 《The Others》 on November 1st, and I also think it's not very appropriate.
Halloween is indeed suitable for horror movies, but those are small-budget horror movies with no box office ambitions.
Although 《The Others》 is also a small budget production, we have high expectations for its box office.
Now it seems that you must have your own ideas.”

Eric nodded, not explaining further to Jeffrey, who didn't press for an explanation.

In fact, the concept of movie schedules in the US is relatively mature now, but it is still very crude compared to more than twenty years later.

Although Erick from later generations did not direct the movie or do distribution work, he naturally understood some of the distribution rules of the movie under the influence of the information explosion in that era.