Chapter 022: A Little Try

Lionsgate regretted it a little after talking about the sale of the movie "Hurricane Rescue", he was still young and inexperienced, is 10 million too much? But if the box office results are not satisfactory, it can only be slowly recouped through the release of follow-up videotapes, after all, there are still quite a lot of action movie lovers, and many people also have the habit of buying or renting videotapes, but the cycle may be a little long.

On April 27, the results of the screening day of "Hurricane Rescue" were sent to Lionsgate, and the attendance rate of 150 midnight broadcasts in 50 theaters was 10%, the results were very average, and the box office just passed 100,000, and it can continue to be broadcast next week. But when the box office results of the next day were released, everyone was taken aback, and the attendance rate suddenly increased to 35%, with a box office score of 350,000. When Lionsgate thought this was a good result, "Hurricane Rescue" once again delivered outstanding results, with an attendance rate of 64%, a box office of 640,000, and a cumulative box office of 1.09 million over the weekend. The tap water of Chinese Americans in North America is very fierce, otherwise it would not have been possible for "Hero" to win the North American box office championship for two weeks, our biggest feature is that there are many people!

Lionsgate decided to increase the number of theaters to 750, with many cities having multiple theaters. In terms of publicity, he is also extremely braggartic, and he is a talented Chinese director, and he is the pinnacle of Chinese action movies, and he is about to believe what he says. Don't say it's really a bit effective, Lao Mei's feeling for the East is curious and mysterious, coupled with the strong recommendation of his Chinese friends, he naturally wants to go to the theater to find out, so the box office journey belonging to "Hurricane Rescue" officially began: in the first week, because there were only 50 theaters playing, the box office score was 2.18 million, ranking 15th in the North American box office list, you must know that the two movies before and after it have been screened in at least 1000 theaters, and the box office champion "Rear Window Horror" has reached an exaggerated 3047!

With such excellent box office results, Lionsgate is full of expectations for the final results of the new week's 750 theaters, knowing that 750 is the limit of what Lionsgate can reach, because this week "Spider-Man 3" was released. "Spider-Man 3" really lived up to expectations, with a weekly box office of $182 million worthy of its fame, but what the hell is this "taken" in second place? It is Lionsgate's "Hurricane Rescue", which got 7.44 million in 750 theaters, beating the 7.32 million box office of "Rear Window Horror" and ranked second. To say that the schedule of "Hurricane Rescue" is indeed quite aggrieved, there is "Spider-Man 3" in the past, "Shrek 3" in the front, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in the back. (Why are they all 3?) but "Hurricane Rescue" is stunned that under the repeated impact of these blockbusters, it has a lot of box office revenue every week.

In the second week of June, when "Hurricane Rescue" was released to the 7th week, the box office and theaters began to decrease on a large scale, and the cumulative box office reached 50.29 million US dollars, which cannot be compared with those blockbusters with hundreds of millions, but it is still a pretty good result. At the same time, there is also good news in Europe, "Hurricane Rescue" also won 48.27 million in the tragic summer file, and the global cumulative box office exceeded 100 million US dollars! Lionsgate's executives who are committed to buying "Hurricane Rescue" have been happy as if they are going to bite people in the past few weeks, and the purchase cost of 10 million US dollars has been exchanged for more than 90 million box office, and Lionsgate can finally get more than 40 million pre-tax profits, which is simply doubled!

Li Xiang and Optical Fiber naturally learned the news, and the eldest Wang sighed, he sold less at the beginning, and was madly despised by Li Xiang, it is good that domestic movies can be sold overseas, not to mention 10 million, it is really not enough to swallow elephants. Don't put people into publicity? Don't contact the theaters? We don't have any resources, it's good to have a soup to drink, and this is not just soup, at least a piece of the big cake, what else are you not satisfied with, wait for the sequel to operate overseas, and then it won't be 10 million that can be won. Li Xiang was busy preparing for his new film in May, and the sixth week of the release of "Hurricane Rescue" in North America, his new movie began shooting.

Time loop is a good idea, which first came from "Groundhog Day", and later there were many excellent works that were also set up in this way, such as "Source Code", "Horror Cruise", "Lola Run", etc. This kind of movie must be built on the premise that the script is solid enough, otherwise the monotonous and repetitive scenes can easily bore the audience. The plot synopsis of "Happy Death Day" is simple and clear, the heroine was repeatedly killed by a mysterious killer on her birthday, and the heroine tried to find the real murderer between life and death.

The cost of "Happy Death Day" is only 4.8 million US dollars, which is in 17 years, think about the exchange rate of 17 years, you know how low this cost is, but no one expected it to be a dark horse, not only won the box office championship in the third week of October, but also finally handed over a box office report card of 55.68 million US dollars, beating the competitor "Blade Runner 2049" in the same period. And what people didn't expect was that in 18 years, it was actually introduced into the domestic theater, you must know that the foreign horror films that can be released in our country can be counted on one hand. This is talking about films that are mainly based on horror elements, and many imported films also contain horror elements, but they are not based on horror. You must know that the quota for the introduction of films in our country is quite limited, and being able to stand out from many competitors can also prove the excellence of this movie.

Although the movie is good, there is still a little bit of unsatisfactory point. This is a campus youth film, although the heroine of the original movie, Miss Jessica Rhodes, is very beautiful, but unfortunately she is 30 years old, and Europeans and Americans are particularly old, and the beautiful face that needs to be covered by a thick foundation that has lost collagen does not look like a college student, although the body is still hot. (By the way, she also played Sister Shi's best friend in "La La Land", if I hadn't looked at the cast, I might have ignored it, and her new film "Always My Girl" is also very good-looking, with a small cost of 3.5 million, close to 15 million at the North American box office.) )

Da Mimi doesn't have this kind of problem, even if she is 32 years old when she is 18 years old, she still feels girlish, and it's embarrassing to think about it. 07 years is not yet 21 years old, it is the best time in life, plus 20-year-old Zhang Xinyu, 26-year-old Liu Yan, what kind of sparks can the three excellent players collide with?