Chapter Eighty-Six: Final Box Office
With the advent of the summer vacation in North America, the box office of "Stealing Love" fell rapidly in the eighth week of its release, with only a pitiful hundreds of thousands of dollars coming in every day.
$512,530 was received on Monday.
On Tuesday, he received $473,421.
$441,241 was received on Wednesday.
$387,853 was earned on Thursday.
$524,712 on Friday.
$542,319 was received on Saturday.
$561,241 was earned on Sunday.
The weekly box office totaled $3,443,317. The total box office totaled $131.06 million.
And when the time came to the ninth week, the box office of "Stealing Love" was even more miserable, with only a few hundred thousand dollars a day, and only $887,000 in a whole week.
With the arrival of the early morning of Monday in the new week, "Stealing Love" officially dropped from the theater, ending its mission on the big screen. And $131,947,440 became its final box office, a figure that will forever be recorded at the fourth highest box office in North America.
When the sun shines on Hollywood Boulevard in the new week, the Crown Studio is full of joy, and the crew members sit around to share the joy of the box office success of "Stealing Love".
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
When John arrived in the conference room, he tapped the table a few times, and the bustling conference room suddenly fell silent. He gathered the crew together today, firstly, to celebrate the box office success of "Stealing Love". The second is to arrange the future work of the crew.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" John cleared his throat and looked at the happy crew members in the audience, "I brought everyone together today because there are two things to announce to you. The first thing everyone should know is that "Stealing Love" was a box office hit, earning $131,947,440. ”
"Wow....... ”
As soon as John finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers and applause in the conference room, and the crew celebrated the success of "Stealing Love" with each other.
John pressed his hand towards the elated crew, calmed the cheers and applause in the conference room, and continued: "The reason why "Stealing Love" has achieved such results is because of everyone's dedication and hard work, so I decided to hold a celebration reception for everyone tonight, no one is allowed to be absent, and the most important thing is that everyone has a bonus to get. ”
"Stealing Love" was a big hit, and John, as an investor and director, naturally held a drinking party to thank the crew members, and also gave bonuses to the crew.
When the crew in the audience heard that John was going to give out the bonus, they immediately cheered again: "Long live the boss... Hooray......!"
For these crews, any drinking party and any thanks are not as real as bonuses, so they are naturally overjoyed when they hear that John is going to give bonuses.
After saying the first thing, after the excitement of the crew eased a little, John immediately said the second thing. "As you all know, our second film is currently in preparation, and the initial shooting time will be in the middle of next year, so we now have a year of free time, in order to keep everyone's craft from being wasted, and in order to make everyone earn more money, so I created a TV series script during this time, and prepared to hand it over to director Ke Luojie, who will lead everyone to complete the production of this TV series. Do you have any questions?"
"No problem!" replied in unison.
They wished they had more studio projects so they could get more money, so naturally they wouldn't object to John's decision.
After hearing the answer of the crew, John looked at Zack Schneider sitting in the crowd and said, "Zack! you have to study hard with Director Corroger, I hope that when I see you next year, you will make progress." ”
John originally considered making Zack Schneider the director of this TV series and leading the entire crew to shoot together. But then John considered that Zack Schneider was too young to control the crew.
And the most important thing is that his directing style is completely out of tune with the style of this TV series created by John, so John can only ask Nancy to invite the well-known Hollywood sitcom director Corroger to take the helm.
And Zack Schneider in the crowd heard John's words, and immediately stood up and patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, boss, I will not let you down." ”
"Hmm!" John nodded. He then threw a thick folder to Zack Schneider. "This is the script of the TV series, you guys take a good look at it for yourselves. If you don't understand something, you can always come to me. ”
"Good boss. Zack Schneider took the script and couldn't wait to open the folder. Then the name of the TV series "Friends" appeared in his eyes.
The TV series created by John during this time is the famous European and American TV series "Friends".
This TV series premiered by NBC in 1994, with a total of 10 seasons and 236 episodes, a total of ten years, is one of the most popular TV series in history, all ten seasons of the ratings are in the top 10 of the year, and also won the 54th Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series, nominated for a total of 62 primetime Emmy Awards. At the same time, it is also the first place in the 100 most popular American dramas selected by the authoritative American media "Hollywood Reporter" in 2015.
John chose "Friends" not only because of its excellent results and reputation, but also because of its super long episodes, it is no exaggeration to say that NBC can continue to broadcast for ten years with the TV series "Friends".
The TV drama market in the United States is different from that of Huaxia, in which Chinese TV dramas are calculated according to the department, a TV series has at least 30-40 episodes, and more can reach more than 100 episodes.
In the United States, TV dramas are counted by season, with only a dozen to twenty episodes per season. The reason why seasons are counted is because American TV dramas are broadcast according to seasons.
Every year at the end of the summer movie file, it will usher in the peak season of TV dramas, from mid-September to May of the following year is the season for TV dramas, at this time, major TV stations will launch their own annual new TV series, one episode a week, and when the TV series is finished, the summer file of the new movie will come.
So John thinks that the American people will enjoy it, and every summer after watching a blockbuster movie, they go home to watch a new TV series, watch an awards ceremony, or watch the Super Bowl. After watching these, you can go into the theater to watch summer movie blockbusters. It can be said that life is not endless, and the cycle continues.