Chapter 80: Time will tell

After the North American promotional trip of "Stealing Love", John returned to New York to get together with Morgan Sr. and Mrs. Morgan for a few days, and when he flew back to Los Angeles from New York, "Stealing Love" had new box office figures.

In the third week of the film's release, two days before the working day, "Stealing Love" earned $3,855,200 on Monday. Got $3862143 on Tuesday.

And on Wednesday, due to the addition of 1,200 theaters and 1,400 screens by New Line Film Company, 2,530 theaters and 2,930 screens were played all day on Wednesday, achieving a box office result of $7,383,900, refreshing its best box office data.

But that number lasted only one day before Thursday's $7441231 box office performance was refreshed.

On Friday, the weekly box office chart battle began, and "Stealing Love" won $8638704 at the box office.

And on Saturday, the box office increased again, earning $8994052.

It can be said that in the two days of this weekend, the market performance of "Stealing Love" was very good. If nothing else, the box office does not dive on Sunday, then the top of the weekly box office list this week must belong to "Stealing Love".

Late on Sunday night, when the clock in Crown Studios pointed to the early hours of Monday morning, John, Dani and Nancy sat on the couch sipping Blue Mountain coffee, their eyes glancing at the fax machine not far away, waiting for New Line Films to announce the Sunday box office results of "Stealing Love".

"John: We've got the top spot this week. Nancy looked at John excitedly. She never imagined that "Stealing Love" would one day compete with other movies.

And John smiled confidently: "Of course, this week's champion must belong to "Stealing Love". ”

John's self-confidence is not arrogant, and the current opponents of "Stealing Love" are only two films, "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Sleeping with the Enemy".

But the market potential of these two films has been exhausted, and on Friday and Saturday, the box office results of these two films are less than $6 million, so they are definitely not the opponents of "Stealing Love".

For these two films, John, the reborn, is very familiar, he has seen it more than once in his previous life, especially "The Silence of the Lambs" he particularly likes.

"The Silence of the Lambs" not only achieved a box office result of $130 million, but also reached fourth place in the North American box office list in 1991. He also won five awards at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Another film, "Sleeping with the Enemy", although its performance was not as good as "The Silence of the Lambs", the box office of $101 million made the film achieve the eighth place in the North American box office in 1991.

It can be said that these two movies are excellent films in 1991, and if "Stealing Love" is released in February with them, it is really difficult to say who will kill the deer.

Just as John was thinking about something, the fax machine not far away suddenly made a "didi" sound, and Dani immediately rushed to the fax machine to receive the fax.

After getting the fax, Dani looked at it carefully, and then came to John with a happy face. "Boss, congratulations, you've won your first weekly box office chart. ”

“YES……！”

Nancy jumped up from the couch and swung her fist into the air when she heard the news. She had been waiting for this day for a long, long time.......

After signing a contract with John, she became a laughing stock in ICM, and everyone was rumoring behind her back that John was the little white face she raised, saying that she was fake and used the company's resources to help the little white face get ahead.

Nancy can't explain these rumors, she can only endure them silently, and she doesn't hesitate to secretly make things bad for this, just to make John retreat and quit the entertainment industry. But after staying with John for a long time, she was gradually infected by John, which made her give up the idea of targeting John.

And now that "Stealing Love" is a big hit, she can finally raise her eyebrows, walk into the company with her head held high, and shut everyone up.

Just when Nancy was enjoying the joy of being a daughter-in-law for many years, John on the side was also very excited, although the top spot in the box office charts for a week was nothing, but this was the first time he had won it, so it meant a lot to him.

"What is the Sunday box office number?" Although John knew that "Stealing Love" would definitely win the weekly box office chart, he could not predict the final box office results.

"Yes, yes, yes...... Tell me about the results!" Nancy was also interested in Sunday's box office numbers.

Just as Dani was about to announce Sunday's box office data, in the office of the president of New Line Film Company not far away, Joanna was also holding a copy of the box office data of "Stealing Love" and was reading it to Shay.

"All day on Sunday, "Stealing Love" was released in 2,530 theaters and 2,930 screens in North America, and earned a total of $9001242 at the box office, of which a single screen grossed up to $3,650. The cumulative box office over the three days of the weekend was 26645110 US dollars, a result that made "Stealing Love" the top of the weekly box office charts for the week. ”

"Not bad... Not bad.... Shay smiled proudly after listening to Joanna's words, he was right this time. "Who are the second and third in the weekly box office rankings?"

Joanna replied, "The second is 'The Silence of the Lambs' 6831423 dollars." The third is that "Sleeping with the Enemy" has a box office result of 5693154 dollars. ”

With a box office of five or six million dollars, it is not impossible to get the top few results of the weekly box office list in the off-season of the movie. But if it's in the summer vacation or Christmas file, this box office is not enough to see at all, and some big-budget films have better weekday box office results than this.

Shay nodded after listening to Joanna's report, he felt that it was natural for "Stealing Love" to surpass these two movies to become the top of the weekly box office charts, after all, "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Sleeping with the Enemy" have been released for 2 months, and the potential of the movie has been almost exhausted, and it will be out of the stall after staying in the theater for 2 weeks at most. This is also due to the fact that these two movies have a strong box office, otherwise they would have been removed from the theater long ago.

However, to Shay's surprise, John, as a newcomer, actually achieved such a result in his first film, which made him feel that the decision to give up Michael Ovitz and choose John was extremely correct.

At the same time, it also made him feel that Joanna in front of him was very pleasing to the eye, and it was precisely because of Joanna's method that John, a potential director, was dug into the new line of warships and obtained the distribution rights of the next two films.

But fate is sometimes ironic, and just when Shay thinks that he should be rewarded and Joanna, the hero who poached John to the new line, he has no idea that Joanna is digging a disaster star for the new line.

John's arrival sounded the death knell for the seriously injured new line, directly kicked the new line into the abyss, and finally made the new line change his surname to Morgan. But the new line, which changed its surname to Morgan, is stronger than ever, and Shay's influence in Hollywood has grown.

If Shay knew that the story ended like this, I don't know if he should laugh or cry.