Chapter Seventy-Nine: If Life Deceives You
Please allow me to pretend B once and write the chapter name like this)
After the Starbucks incident, John and the publicity team left Seattle the next day and entered Philadelphia.
As the publicity team ran announcements in various cities in North America, the box office of "Stealing Love" was also constantly refreshing.
Wednesday grossed $1812364.
Thursday grossed $1863587.
On Friday, the box office reached $2140369.
By Saturday, the 700 theaters and 900 screens added by the new line film company were all in place, plus the 630 theaters in the early stage, "Stealing Love" had a total of 1,330 theaters and 1,530 screens.
As the number of theaters doubled, "Stealing Love" doubled at the box office, earning $4,712,400 for a full day on Saturday.
By Sunday, the box office had once again hit a new high, breaking the $5 million mark and reaching $5102369.
The total box office of the weekend exceeded the 10 million mark and reached $11955138. And "Stealing Love" also rushed into the third place in the weekly box office list with this result, second only to the two movies "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Sleeping with the Enemy".
Although it is only the third in the weekly box office list, this is the first time that "Stealing Love" has entered the weekly box office list, and it is also the first time in John's life, so John was very happy when he saw this result.
John believes that by the time the box office charts are announced next week, "Stealing Love" will definitely win the title, because New Line Films has decided to add another 1,200 theaters and 1,400 screens next Wednesday, and then "Stealing Love" will have 2,530 theaters and 2,930 screens.
And the two movies "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Sleeping with the Enemy" have been released for almost 2 months, and by the end of next week, the potential will slowly run out, and the number of theaters and screens will continue to decrease, and they will no longer be the opponents of "Stealing Love".
No matter how hot a movie is in the early stage, it has the potential to exhaust the day when it comes off the theater, which is the final destination of the movie. Just like people, there are ignorant teenagers, impulsive and enthusiastic youth, and twilight old age, and one day they will be removed from the theater of life like a movie and become the memories of some people.
Just when "Stealing Love" was crazy to attract money in the theater, the publicity team came to the last promotional city - Salt Lake City.
The publicity team will hold a fan meeting in the city's downtown plaza to conclude the North American promotional tour of "Stealing Love".
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Tido appeared and officially kicked off the fan meeting with a song "Thank You".
The song "thank you" has now become a household name in North America, reaching number two on the B chart, behind Whitney Houston and Mary Carey's "When You Believe."
Tido also made her name remembered by the whole of North America for this song, and RCA Records will also produce a solo album for her around this song "thank you". Her musical path in this life, because of John's intervention, not only debuted earlier than in her previous life, but also smoother than in her previous life.
After the music ended, Jim Carrey and Sandra Bullock appeared at the venue with their fingers clasped, and the artificial golden boy and girl were in the limelight during this time, not only attracting the attention of the media, but also the attention of boys and girls.
John believes that when "Stealing Love" ends, whether it is Jim Carrey or Sandra Bullock, the salaries of the two of them will definitely increase significantly, not to 8 million, but at least 5 million US dollars, and in a few years both of them can become members of the 20 million club.
But no matter how high the salary of the two is, it has nothing to do with John, for John, this is the first and last cooperation, and his future film roles have already been chosen, if there is no accident, Jim Carrey and Sandra Bullock will not be considered again.
After Jim Carrey and Sandra Bullock appeared, John, who was the director of the film, also walked out. During this time, as the box office of the movie continued to increase, the media's attention to John also became more, and some reports about John were published in some large and small newspapers one after another.
As for the attention of the media, John doesn't care, as a director, after all, he has to rely on his works to speak. Today the media can hold you high for your temporary success, but tomorrow if you fail, these guys will definitely not hesitate to stomp you in the back and stomp you into the abyss.
After three hours of interaction, the final fan meeting finally came to an end, and John was ready to go back to the hotel to rest with a tired body, which could exhaust him from running between cities.
Just as John left the makeshift stage and walked out of the venue, a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old among the fans, holding a poster in one hand and a soundtrack in the other, watched John scream loudly. "Director Chris Deng, can you sign it for me?"
John looked at the girl's appearance and stopped, then nodded to the security guard, and asked the security guard to let the girl in, although he was tired, if a fan asked him for an autograph, he would usually be satisfied.
"Hello, Director John Chris Deng, can... Can you sign it for me?" After the girl was let into the venue by the security guard, she looked at John with an excited face, others like the hero and heroine in the movie, but she likes the director, especially after knowing that the movie soundtrack was created by John himself, she regarded John as an idol.
In order to participate in today's fan meeting, she deliberately took a two-hour car ride from Provo City to Salt Lake City early in the morning, just to see John at the meeting and get John's autograph.
John on the side looked at the excited girl and smiled. "Do you want me to sign it on the poster or on the soundtrack?"
"Hmm...... Can you sign them all!" The girl looked at John expectantly.
"Of course!" said John, taking the poster from the girl's hand.
Just as John was signing his autograph, the girl opened her mouth and begged again: "Director Chris Deng! Can you write: I wish Stephanie Morgan Mayer a happy day!"
"Of course!" John agreed to the girl's request again, and after his signature he wrote, "Wish: Stephanie Morgan Mayer ...... every day." ”
Writing and writing, John suddenly stopped his pen and looked at the girl in front of him with a surprised expression, "Your name is Stephanie Morgan Meyer?"
The girl nodded, "Yes, my name is Stephanie Morgan Meyer, and I studied English literature at Brigham Young University." ”
When John heard that the girl was attending Brigham Young University, he finally confirmed his thoughts.
Looking at the girl in front of him, John felt that everything came too suddenly, too unexpectedly, too bloody, he never thought that one day Stephanie Morgan Mayer would actually ask him for an autograph.
After lamenting the blood of life, John wrote his blessing in accordance with Stephanie Morgan Meier's request, and he flipped over the back of the poster and wrote:
If life deceives you,
Don't be sad, don't be anxious!
Calm down on a gloomy day:
Believe it, happy days will come!
The heart is always yearning for the future;
Now it's often melancholy.
Everything is instantaneous, everything will pass;
And what has passed will become a cordial nostalgia.
John wrote this poem because he knew that Stephanie Morgan Mayer had become a housewife after marriage and that her life was not going well, so John hoped that Pushkin's "If Life Deceives You" would accompany Stephanie Morgan Mayer through that desperate life.