Chapter 24: Box office exceeded expectations
Monday, April 8
10 o'clock in the morning.
The first weekend box office results of "Lola Run" have already been released.
This weekend, ranked first in the North American box office. As expected by Zhuke, it was Paramount’s "First Class Horror" with a box office of 23.8 million US dollars in the first weekend;
Columbia’s "Little Monkey Monkey" earned $18.2 million in the first weekend box office, ranking second; "The Parrot Is So Beautiful" and "Old Man's Day" ranked third and fourth respectively, and the box office received 14.903 million in the three days of the weekend. , 10.8 million US dollars.
No other movies have more than 10 million U.S. dollars in box office results over the three days of the weekend.
"Lola Run" reported $1.82 million for three days over the weekend, ranking 12th.
"Yeah, our movie box office is not bad." Zhuke was in a wonderful mood.
1.82 million US dollars in the box office result is indeed not much, but compared with the cost of only 800,000 US dollars, it is already amazing enough.
The cost has been recovered, what do you want from it? !
"Boss, good news!"
"Just this morning, I received several calls, all of them were from the theaters."
At this time, Victor walked into the office with a smile on his face.
"Are you going to expand the screen of "Lola Run"? Zhu Ke asked.
"That's right."
Victor said excitedly: "Although it is not the three North American theater giants of AMC, Emperor Entertainment, and Xi Keman, the several theaters who contacted us are not small in strength. The number of screens that can be provided to us is expected to not be low. At 300 yuan."
300 movie screens, plus the original 355 screens, totaling more than 650.
"This is really good news."
Yes, this is certainly good news for Zhu Ke. This means that "Lola Run" can harvest more box office.
With more than 650 screens, it’s incomparable to "Jurassic Park", "X-Men", "Avengers" and other films with the number of three or four thousand openings, but that's because they are high-cost blockbusters. And the publishers behind them are Hollywood companies such as Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Disney.
Wald Pictures, what is that?
Among the hundreds of film and television production companies in Hollywood, it is also an inexperienced existence, which is unremarkable. Being able to win over 650 screens is already a remarkable improvement.
"boos, it seems that we are going to raise our box office expectations for "Lola Run"."
For a while, Victor became confident.
His self-confidence is not only derived from the box office performance of the first weekend three days, but also because of the high reputation of "Lola Run".
Yes, "Lola Run" has a pretty good reputation!
on imbd, the score is 8.4 points;
Popcorn Index, 75%;
The freshness of rotten tomatoes is 92%.
In 1996, the Internet in North America, although the number of people surfing the Internet cannot be compared with that of the 21st century, it also exceeded 40 million people. Its high reputation will certainly attract some people.
Of course, you can't expect too many people to walk into the cinema specifically for "Lola Run". After all, the illiterate and rough guys of the United States are famous all over the world. The first choice for most of them to watch movies is the same as the audiences of China, they all like to watch blockbuster movies!
"Victor, since our film doesn't have a lot of word-of-mouth, let's work harder to win more screens."
Zhuke waved his arms in mid-air excitedly.
The box office results of "Lola Run" surpassed Zucker's expectations.
"I remember that in the original time and space, "Lola Run" in North America, only collected more than 7.5 million US dollars."
"Furthermore, the original version of "Lola Run" is a German film. It is a non-English film in the United States and is naturally unpopular. It can earn 7.5 million US dollars. It is unreasonable that the English version I shot cannot surpass it at the North American box office. "
The original time and space of "Rola Run" has a mediocre performance in the box office in North America, but in Europe, it is known as a ‘savior for European films’, especially in countries such as Germany, France, and Italy. Throughout Europe, the box office harvested more than 100 million U.S. dollars.
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In a blink of an eye, a few days passed and it was Friday again.
"Lola Run" reported $690,000 on Monday, and $730,000, 520,000, and 490,000 in the other days; the box office of these four days plus the box office of the first weekend, a complete seven-day box office cumulative Up to 4.25 million US dollars.
The North American box office result of "Rola Run" is expected to fall between 13 and 15 million US dollars.
Even though this box office result is not enough to rank in the top 50 in this year's North American box office rankings, it is already quite proud of Wald Pictures, which is just starting out.
"I, Zhu Ke, deserves to be a director's genius, a big director with a box office of tens of millions of dollars, well, this name is good."
Zuke is proud.
swelled.
The whole person is about to explode!
Of course, this is not because of the box office of "Lola Run", but because today, Yahoo is listed!
In 1994, David Filo and Yang Zhiyuan, the two founded Yahoo in the United States.
On April 12, 1996, it was officially listed on Wall Street. The total stock price on the first day of listing reached 500 million U.S. dollars. However, YAHOO's 1995 turnover was only 1.3 million U.S. dollars and an actual loss of 630,000 U.S. dollars until the end of 1996. Only made a mere $90,000.
But, who cares? !
An American investor in this period said: "The Internet does not look at current income, but future income. As long as there are enough users, it will definitely make a lot of money!"
Investors and stockholders are crazy;
Zuke is also crazy, or frantic!
Zhuke invested all of his working capital at one time, including the US dollars obtained by collateralizing a building in Silicon Valley. Today, he invested a total of US$10 million.
and it is still ten times the leverage!
Zhu Ke, who was in trouble, made a profit of 8.2 million US dollars after the closing of the stock market ~www.wuxiaspot.com~. Even if the income is not as crazy as Pixar was when it went public, it is still terrifying. A total of more than 18 million US dollars of wealth is deposited in Zhuke's personal account.
Of course, the funds of more than tens of millions of dollars did not stay in the account for too long.
After two days on Saturday and Sunday, after the stock market opened on Monday, Zhu Ke invested again in Yahoo stock, investing a full 10 million U.S. dollars.
In this operation, no leverage was used because Zhu Ke intends to hold it for a long time. After all, this is Yahoo! By January 2000, before the peak of Yahoo's share price of $475, Zhu Ke sold all the shares, and at least $130-140 million of wealth could be reaped.
More than ten times the income, that is, the crazy Internet in the 90s, can achieve such a terrible income ratio.
...
Good news always comes!
The "Run Lola Run", which expanded the number of screens on the next weekend for three days, reported a box office of 2.127 million US dollars, surpassing the box office of the first three days at the end of the week.
total box office reached 6.377 million US dollars!
The reason why good news came one after another was because there was good news from the UK.
At present, the BBC Broadcasting Company and the Ragdoll Production Company are bound to obtain the copyright of "Teletubbies". The problem now is just the price.
So, Zhu Ke, CEO Victor, and negotiator Condy, took the flight to London with a smile.
On the plane, Zhuke suddenly came up with a crazy idea: "J.K. Rowling’s "Harry Potter" series of novels seems to have been completed between 1996 and 1997. If the opportunity is right, I can Dig into a gold mine."
