Chapter 60: Wall Street Box Office

Lester followed the Back to the Future crew to shoot at Universal Studios and Los Angeles, and time passed quickly.

With the arrival of September, there are no big-budget movies, and all kinds of movies have been released.

The most dazzling is the film "Mozart" adapted from a stage musical, which became the box office champion of the September weekend in the first week, beating the films that were not long in the same time.

The art of "The Biography of Mozart" has won word-of-mouth box office double results.

Time came warmly to September 28th, and the commercial film "Wall Street" distributed and produced by Bird Film and Television was officially released in North American theaters.

At the same time, Lester's "Stuttering" was shown in Hall 3 of the New York Film Festival, and the film was packed to capacity because of Leicester and Time magazine.

At the end of the short 13-minute short film, the audience applauded.

In the audience, four people watched the film differently than others, they watched the whole film with a critical eye, and at the end, several people looked surprised.

"Jack, do you think this one can make it to the jury?"

Of the four, a slightly chubby Rick asked a middle-aged man with glasses.

Jack pushed his eyes, groaned and said: "The props in it are very delicate, the storyline is very good, and I think it can be selected for the Oscar judging process." ”

"Then take this selected film and make a copy!"

Lester's "Stuttering" movie was selected for the Oscar jury by the decision of the four.

Under the premise that there were few good-looking movies in September, "Wall Street" overtook the "Mozart" movie in just a few days and became the weekend box office champion.

Thanks to Lester's publicity at the Olympics and Time magazine, Bao or Oliver took Michael Douglas's main creative staff to promote everywhere, so that "Wall Street" will be in 900 theaters in North America and some overseas theaters, not in the previous life, only in 730 theaters in North America.

In the last week, "Wall Street" has performed well at the box office, and its word-of-mouth has also been well received, and it has been praised in the film critics' circles.

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Vincent Canby, a film critic at The New York Times, praised actor Michael Douglas for giving "the best performance of his career" in his article, although he criticized the overall performance of the film.

Chicago Sun-Times film review columnist Roger Albert gave the film three and a half stars (up to four stars), praising the film for "dealing with all the unscrupulous aspects of financial transactions in a complex but plausible way that anyone can understand the film, because the greed and shady aspects of its stock trading are clearly and transparently reflected, so that all viewers know what it is all about, and they all understand why."

Time magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, "This time he was sweating but he didn't get there, like a triathlete on a treadmill." But as long as he doesn't stop, there's a terrible pleasure in watching him go on with his business."

Jay Scott praised the performances of the two lead actors in The Globe and Mail, and Rita Kempley of The HSD Post argued that the film's moral propaganda meant that it degraded the overall quality, and that those didactic passages were the weakest link in the film's performance.

Fast forward to early October, and the total box office of "Mozart" was 51973029 US dollars, and the follow-up was unable to be dismissed, bringing the final box office results to "Wall Street".

Until late October, the already dying "Wall Street" met the new "Terminator 1", and became powerless to be killed by theaters in the future.

"Wall Street" grossed $63.4 million at the box office in North America and overseas, and the data was sent back to Asuka Films, winning the applause of the company's film department employees.

They have been watching the abundance of Asuka Comics, and they are envious, although the box office of "Wall Street" cannot be compared with the results of Asuka Comics, but it is the success of their first film of Asuka Films, and the signboard has also been played.

The blue bird logo was played at the beginning of the theater, which won the love of many audiences and was affirmed by the audience who had watched the movie.

Looking at the box office data of "Wall Street" and the new "Terminator" in his hand, Dimes was amazed by Lester's operation, and he knew why Lester avoided "Terminator 1" this time.

The box office of "The Terminator" in just one week is not something that "Wall Street" can match, it is a blockbuster film with a cost of only $6.4 million, and the box office is comparable to that of a blockbuster.

Dimes informed Leicester of the total box office of "Wall Street" and made him feel that the publicity for the operation had been successful.

However, even the current "Wall Street" is higher than the box office in the previous life, reaching $64.3 million, deducting the share of the protagonist Michael Douglas and the theater chain, only $30 million has arrived.

Although the film was dropped, the videotape of "Wall Street" began to go on sale, bringing in $8.5 million in revenue for Bird Films.

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In the residential area of Los Angeles, Lester had just finished filming all his scenes, and the assistant took the phone call from Dimes to remind the call.

Taking the assistant's mobile phone and connecting the buttons, Lester listened to Deems' report, and after hearing the good news of the box office of "Wall Street", he told Deems to arrange other things.

Hanging up the phone, Lester sat on a stool and supervised the shoot with Spielberg.

After two months of running around the world, "Back to the Future" is progressing at an accelerated pace, and the storyboard drawn by Robert Zemeckis is almost finished.

Looking around and not seeing anyone from Universal Pictures, Lester asked Spielberg, wondering, "What about Ms. Katherine Kennedy, why didn't you see him?" ”

"You know, he's one of the founders of Amperin Entertainment and needs to go back and do things. Spielberg said;

Amperin Entertainment belongs to Universal Pictures, most of which are Spielberg's good friends, and Ms. Katherine Kennedy is not only the CEO of Lucasfilm, but also one of Spielberg's friends.

Since he was not there, Lester didn't care, Ms. Katherine Kennedy, sent by Universal Pictures, was indeed a Hollywood gold producer.

But during the shooting, the two had differences of opinion, so Lester quarreled with Katherine Kennedy a lot, and when the two quarreled, Spielberg acted as an intermediary to ease the atmosphere.

"Everyone, rest, tomorrow we will finish filming the last few scenes. ”

After filming the male protagonist Fox and the female protagonist Claudia Wells in the script, she and Martin and the Doctor take a time machine to the world scene 30 years later, Robert Zemeckis announced that today's filming is complete, so everyone can rest for the night.

The crew quickly packed up the props, lights and other things, and after a group of people finished eating in the hotel where they stayed, the crew went back to their rooms.

Lester did not return to his room, he ran to Robert Zemeckis's room, accompanied by Spielberg and Bob Gale.

In Katherine Kennedy's absence, the four chatted about post-production issues for Back to the Future.

Several people are behind the scenes, and they need to discuss the next things for the film "Back to the Future".