Chapter 43

"Martin, what do you think? Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

After Martin publicly spoke out for"Titanic" and James Cameron, his agent Jeff immediately called him

"We at CAA have evaluated this movie. It may have a high box office, and may even exceed a global box office of over 600 million, but it is absolutely impossible to recover its investment through box office. 20th Century Fox made a wrong decision."Titanic" It is destined to be a failed product"

"Martin, I know you want to show favor to 20th Century Fox and Cameron, but it's too early for you to stand up and speak for it, really, it's too early."

"You have to know that until now, even Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, the two absolute stars of the movie, have not publicly spoken out for the movie!"

"You should wait until a month after the movie is released before coming forward. By then, the people who should be targeted have already been targeted, and the heat has passed. By then, nothing you want to say will be criticized too much. Oh no, predicting the box office is not good. , absolutely not. You must know that even the most professional box office data forecasters cannot accurately predict the box office of each movie."

"Martin, do you know what your behavior is? You are putting yourself on the fire!"

Jeff Barabara said a lot, but Martin did not refute, let alone reprimand, because the other party's original intention was for his own good, but he just didn't have his own"front and rear eyesight." The outside world's opinions on"Titanic" and James Carter Mellon's ridicule continues, and now Martin is added.

Three days after the first weekend, the box office of"Titanic" came out, with 28.62 million U.S. dollars, beating"Tomorrow Never Dies" and ranking No. 1 in the North American box office rankings Second place, second only to"Scream 2" with 33 million.

The sarcasm suddenly became louder, many of which were directed at Martin

"Martin predicts that the North American box office of"Titanic" will exceed US$600 million. If the first week's box office data is used and its decline is calculated as 30% (generally, the decline of movies after the first weekend is around 40%), this will The film would have to be released for more than 120 days to achieve this goal. Haha, this is really the biggest joke of the century"

"I think this movie has failed. Although Martin is a genius, he is still too young and made a joke. Everyone can forgive him.……"

"The talented young writer Martin stood up for"Titanic" and James Cameron, which greatly damaged his image. His behavior was suspected of flattering James Cameron and 20th Century Fox."

"《"Titanic" is destined to freeze, and it will sink like that huge cruise ship. This time there is a little passenger named Martin on board.……"

All the people who ridiculed it seemed to have ignored it. Martin also said that the film's box office in the first three days of the weekend may not exceed 30 million.

But the slap in the face came quickly.

On the first Monday after its opening weekend,"Titanic"'s box office dropped very little, less than 10%, and it ranked first at the box office that day.

Countless film critics and critics collectively lost their voices. They had never seen a movie drop so little after its first three days, and Spielberg couldn't do it either.

The miracles continue.

On Tuesday,"Titanic"'s box office decline was still very low compared to Monday, less than 5 percent.

On Wednesday, losses remained minimal.

After another weekend, the box office miraculously increased slightly. Although the increase was not high, it was still shocking.

This box office trend is so strange that it has never happened before in the history of Hollywood movies.

The theaters are overjoyed. Such a stable box office trend can bring them much greater benefits than those movies that exploded in the first few days.

As we all know, theaters’ share increases as time goes by. After a movie is released for more than three months, theaters earn almost nothing and do not need to distribute money to distributors.

In this way, as time passed day by day, Dachuan's box office remained extremely stable, and the sarcasm and doubts became less and less until they disappeared.

Three months later, people were shocked to find that"Titanic" still ranked first at the box office that day, while its two former competitors"007: Tomorrow Never Dies"》、《"Scream 2" has already been released.

At this time, more and more voices began to sing praises for"Titanic".

And Martin's prediction was mentioned again, but this time it was not ridicule, but praise.

"This is the vision of a genius. When the first-day box office of"Titanic" came out, who could have imagined that it could reach the current box office result of 470 million U.S. dollars. Although it is still some distance from the 600 million U.S. dollars predicted by Martin, I believe it Theaters will definitely not release"Titanic" at this time, as its box office trend is still stable."

"《"Titanic" broke everyone's usual thinking about movie box office. No one could have imagined that a movie could still maintain a single-day box office of more than 5 million per day after being released for more than 90 days. This is simply incredible. Equally incredible is our little genius, Martin Meyers. He is the only person who made bold predictions after the box office came out on the first day. He is even more knowledgeable about the movie than James Cameron. confidence……"

"Martin's mouth must have been opened by God, James Cameron should thank him……"

"The genius prediction of genius, Martin Meyers, this time he succeeded again, maybe his vision should be taken seriously by those big companies.……"

"Martin Meyers, James Cameron, this is the 'handshake' between two geniuses 30 years apart who shocked the world together……"

Martin successfully caught on to the popularity of"Big Ship".

On March 23, 1998, the 70th Academy Awards of the United States were announced in Los Angeles.

The super blockbuster"Titanic", which cost more than US$200 million to produce, won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Music.

When James Cameron took the stage to receive the award, he shouted the most famous words,"I am the king of the world."

But different from the original timeline, he also specially thanked Martin at the end of his speech, which made Martin's popularity rise to another level.

""The Big Ship" continues to sail.

Martin knew that from the end of 1997 to 1998, the"Titanic" ship tirelessly sailed in the cinema circuit for 281 days, setting a record for the longest number of days in theaters in North America. At that time, the world Already feeling numb to the skyrocketing box office figures.

In the end, the box office of Big Boat reached US$600 million in North America, US$1.2 billion overseas, and a staggering total of US$800 million worldwide, breaking the box office record in film history.

This record It remained until James Cameron's next epic masterpiece"Avatar" appeared.

At this time, Martin's"The Perfect Match" had already been released, with a global box office of 157 million and a North American box office of 108 million.

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