The same scene was seen in most of North America, countless theaters poured in countless family and couple packages, and Home Alone was in full bloom on its first day of release!

Everywhere, the nose of a journalist is the most sensitive, and in this part of Hollywood, a journalist is the best at catching the news.

On the third day of its release, the film was reported in major newspapers in Los Angeles, after all, a large number of people were still unsatisfied after watching it, and from a professional point of view, "Home Alone" seems to have nothing to say in literature and art except for making people pay attention to family relationships.

But its only virtue is that it's funny, which is a perfect fit for the upcoming Christmas. And some professional black movie agencies have also found some places to complain, they think that some of the plots of this movie are exaggerated, and the plot of children designing traps is very easy for people to imitate, which is not a good thing for childhood growth.

There is black and there is white.

The most famous "Los Angeles Times" has a professional review:

"It's a very heartwarming movie, although the parents of this family are simply idiots, but the naughty children are so impressive that it is easy for countless people to find resonance, not only children, but also adults will recall their own childhood.

And although the plot against the thief is extremely exaggerated, after all, it is a comedy movie, and its plot does not need to have much profound meaning, as a comedy, as long as it can make people happy, it is the greatest success!"

After the third day, all major theaters changed their broadcast plans because of this popular movie, because the original set was too small, not enough to watch, the customer is God, and the movie theater is not stupid, of course, it is necessary to increase the playback screen.

However, adding a screen is to copy the disk, David Klein received dozens of calls in a row urging the copy disk of "Home Alone", these are all people who have a little relationship, and his subordinates have more calls.

Fortunately, the Columbia company is not small, the entire industrial chain has been integrated, and after a phone call, its own factory immediately stopped other projects and copied a copy of "Home Alone".

A week after the film's release, the box office results for the first week in North America were announced: $23 million!

"Home Alone" won the first place at the weekly box office with an absolute advantage, and in the whole of 1978, it was also ranked third.

However, the difference is that the number of screens in "Home Alone" at the beginning was not much, only more than 1,000, and after the follow-up box office was hot, although many theaters increased the number of shows, but due to the lack of copy disks, the box office of this first week was not the peak at all.

In the second week, as the urgently processed copy discs were airlifted to major theaters, after rescheduling, the number of screens in Home Alone exceeded 3,000, but the average occupancy rate was still more than 70%.

The box office for the second week was also quickly counted: $48 million.

This data is not only unexpected by film critics, but even Columbia's side feels that this data is too exciting, they are indeed optimistic about this movie, but the initial estimate is that it can reach 100 million US dollars, and with the current box office, in less than three weeks, the number can exceed 100 million US dollars.

And with the current data, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand that if there are no big problems in the future, this movie must already be a super dark horse.

After entering the third week, Christmas is coming, the first batch of audiences at Home Alone has finished watching, the data has begun to fall, and major theaters must also release many Christmas movies as planned.

But in fact, at this time, many film companies are shouting bad luck, although the data of "Home Alone" has dropped a little, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and in the face of this super dark horse, major movies will be affected by it.

As many expected, in the third week, Home Alone dropped to 30 million at the box office, but still beat all the movies released at Christmas.

It's really funny that a Christmas movie was robbed of the first place by a non-Christmas movie, but for countless film companies, it's not so funny!

With the rise of this box office dark horse, countless media began to turn their attention from the movie to the movie behind the scenes: "Who is the investor of this movie?"

Considering that the official cost of "Home Alone" is only $5 million, and now it has only been released, and the box office has exceeded $140 million, the profit of which is so high that it is estimated that even film giants like Paramount covet it.

The director of the movie is Terry, it's no secret, his name is on the big screen of the movie, and after the reporters touched the melon, they naturally discovered Xu Zhi behind it.

As the investigation deepened, Xu Zhi's information was slowly unearthed, and some reporters were doping it, and after New Year's Day in 1979, the Los Angeles Times spent half a page introducing the people behind the scenes.

The next day, the Los Angeles Times had a catchy headline on the front page — "The Rise of the Youngest Billionaire in History"

“…… At present, the box office in a single month exceeded 150 million US dollars, and the popular movie "Home Alone" in the United States was directed by the director of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" 5 years ago, but according to this newspaper, the creativity and conception of the movie "Home Alone" came from a teenager Eric ~ Xu in Xiangjiang, Huaguo, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Speaking of this Mr. Eric Xu, born in an ordinary family in Xiangjiang, Asia, he started his business a year ago and started filming the famous movie "Drunken Fist" in Xiangjiang, which was not released in North America, but the tape can still be rented in many cities in the United States.

Since the era of Li Xiaolong, Xiangjiang's martial arts films have begun to be too repetitive, and a large number of movies with the same plot are destroying the genre, but "Drunken Fist" by Eric Xu has brought a new era to martial arts films, and it is his unique invention to dissolve comedy into martial arts.

Unlike ordinary businessmen, after the success of "Drunken Fist", Eric Xu did not continue filming, but changed careers to enter the electronics industry.

The crane machine that was once popular in Asia and Japan, the Xiangjiang Cube, the tank battle, and Pac-Man that countless players are looking forward to, are all successful works of this young man who is less than 20 years old.

Because sole proprietorships are not required to publish their annual reports, but the tank battles that are currently popular in the United States have completely defeated the space invaders that were all the rage last year.

According to the annual report of Japan's Taidong Company, last year, the space invaders earned more than 100 million US dollars in net profits for the company, and in this regard, if there is no new 'arcade dark horse', the arcade machine of tank battles alone is enough to make a profit of more than 100 million US dollars. ”