The next morning, Lin Youlun was woken up by a ringing phone.

The microphone was just put to his ear, and Lucas's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hey Lin, how was last night?"

Lin Youlun looked up at the clock on the wall, it was only more than 9 o'clock in the morning, last night he and Guan Zhilin had been tossing until midnight before they really fell asleep, and at this moment they were woken up by Lucas's phone, and they couldn't help but feel a little irritable.

"Damn, didn't you go celebrate last night? Why did you call me so early? ”

"You're not really going to do that, are you?" Lucas teased maliciously on the phone.

"Damn, I really sleep!" Lin Youlun sat up from the bed, rubbed his head, and said angrily.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but there's something really important for you to call." Lucas said this, but there was no guilt in his tone.

"The box office of "Jurassic Park" on the first day has been counted?"

Lucas was slightly stunned on the other end of the phone, and said a little unwillingly: "Lin, your biggest shortcoming is that you are too boring, I was going to surprise you." ”

"Would you still be surprised if you were woken up?"

"Okay, I apologize again, but this time you won't have guessed the box office on opening day, and in fact I was in disbelief when I received the news." The more Lucas spoke, the more excited he became, and he almost became incoherent.

"Then you'll have to tell me the answer first, right? Is it ten million or twenty million? ”

"It's 30 million!"

Lucas almost said this number in a roaring way, even across the phone, Lin Youlun's ears were shocked by him.

"Thirty million. A real good result. ”

Lin Youlun took the microphone a little farther away. Then he yawned.

"That's 30 million! No film in American history has achieved this on its premiere day. Do you feel like this when you hear this? Lucas was depressed on the other end of the phone.

"Do I have to be yelling like you to be normal?" Lin Youlun replied angrily.

"But this is 30 million, according to this trend, the box office of this movie will break 100 million in less than a week, at such a speed, there is no second film in American history." Lucas was afraid that Lin Youlun would not know what this box office figure meant, and especially emphasized.

"Not now, doesn't mean there won't be in the future, okay. I think the most important thing you should do now is to calm down, this is just the beginning, and there will be more exciting things to come. ”

After saying that, he hung up the phone directly, not giving Lucas any chance to speak at all.

Lin Youlun continued to bury his head in sleep, but the American media had already exploded at this time.

Given how popular "Jurassic Park" was before its release, the media was mentally prepared enough, but as soon as the $30 million first-day box office was announced, they were still overwhelmed.

There are so many box offices in just one day, which is directly worth the entire box office of many movies, how can other movies live?

More critically. The box office exceeded 30 million on the first day of release, so it should be very easy to break through 100 million in a week. And what about a month? 300 million is no longer a luxury, 400 million is also possible - before this, such box office data will definitely be ridiculed when it comes out, just like that Chinese, but now the person who laughs at him has become the object of ridicule, and this sudden change really makes it difficult for many people to adapt for a while.

has become a joke together, and the one who claims that "Jurassic Park" has a global box office of more than 700 million. Ben's host, the relevant media spared no effort to satirize him.

"I think Mr. Cooks could have started thinking about his future at this point. Ben's route, as long as "Jurassic Park" can maintain this box office growth rate, it is only a matter of time before he fulfills his promise. ”

Lucas mentioned Lin Youlun in an interview with a television station that evening, and he appeared depressed when facing the camera.

"When I told him the news that the box office exceeded 30 million on the opening day, damn it, I was actually despised by him! In his opinion, the 30 million estimate is not a great achievement at all, and I would definitely laugh at him if it were someone else, but Lin said this, I always felt that he might really have his reasons for saying this, and maybe it won't take too long for him to prove to us with his actions that the only function of the existence of records is to be broken. ”

The next morning, Lin Youlun saw the show on TV and immediately called Lucas and asked him what was going on.

"I just told you the truth about your reaction, what, do you think there's anything wrong?" Lucas pretended to be innocent with Lin Youlun on the other end of the phone.

"Did I say that the record of 30 million at the box office on the first day is easy to break? You're revenge, outright revenge! Lin Youlun disregarded his identity and quarreled with Lucas directly on the phone.

"Okay, don't be angry, I didn't just want to joke with you about what I said to the reporter yesterday, of course I said that absolutely from the bottom of my heart, I believe that it won't be long before you will bring us a more wonderful work!"

"So I should thank you?"

Lin Youlun forced himself to calm down, and then immediately realized that something was wrong with this matter.

Lucas was about to explain, but Lin Youlun followed and asked: "Don't lie anymore, you definitely did it on purpose!" ”

"Lin, I'm really sad when you say that......"

"Stop, I don't want to listen to your nonsense, just tell me, why do you want to do this?"

Lucas was completely out of control, so he had to confess honestly: "Okay, I admit that this does have a purpose, but I definitely have no intention of harming you, as you said, after the establishment of Oriental DreamWorks, it will inevitably cause a sense of crisis among other film companies, and they may even unite against us, so we need a way to divert their attention." ”

"And then you pushed me out of the road?"

Lin Youlun immediately understood what Lucas meant, but this did not mean that he had forgiven the other party.

"Okay, Lin, I'm sorry to you again, but this is the only way I can think of at the moment, you are the largest shareholder of the company, as long as other film companies think you are arrogant, they will let down their guard against us, which can buy us more time to gain a foothold in Hollywood, and when we have a firm foothold, we can naturally show them our muscles, and then they will have to weigh it first if they want to deal with us!"

Lin Youlun couldn't laugh or cry at this, "So I have to help you continue to play this play?" ”

Lucas replied slightly apologetically, "If you don't want to, I can do it for you, as you saw on TV." ”

"Okay, you can do whatever you like, anyway, I won't play with you, I'll return to Hong Kong tomorrow!" Lin Youlun hung up the phone after speaking.

Lucas thought that Lin Youlun was just joking at first, but he didn't expect Lin Youlun to come for real, he didn't even wait for the next day to leave the United States by plane, and directly missed the celebration party the next day.

Lin Youlun returned to Hong Kong to learn that "Jurassic Park" won 10 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the day of its release, which certainly had the impact of double ticket prices, but the actual number of moviegoers also broke a new record.

And the crazy ticket sellers of this movie are not only in the United States and Hong Kong, Taiwan's film won nearly 30 million Taiwan dollars at the box office on its premiere day, and changed Taiwan's film classification system.

In Asia, "Jurassic Park" swept the box office charts of various countries with a crushing attitude, setting the highest number of moviegoers and box office records in Japan and South Korea, and once again let Asian filmmakers see the power of Hollywood's big-budget films.

"When we were still complacent about co-producing a special effects movie like "Godzilla" with Hong Kong, "Jurassic Park" gave us a resounding slap in the face, and then completely woke us up, we did succeed in "Godzilla" in the past, but we have been standing still all these years, not to mention Hollywood, even Hong Kong has left us far behind, Japanese filmmakers, should seriously reflect on it!"

At a time when "Jurassic Park" exceeded 2 billion yen at the box office in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun published such a review article, pointing directly to the lack of progress in the Japanese film industry over the years.

At the same time, there is also the reflection of the Korean media, in recent years, the Korean film market has almost been occupied by Hollywood and Hong Kong films, local films have done nothing, with "Jurassic Park" in the Korean film box office continues to break records, the Korean film industry calls for the government to change the restrictions on the introduction of films, and the call for the protection of the development of local films is becoming stronger and stronger.

Only in Hong Kong, this kind of skepticism is a little quieter, because "Jurassic Park" itself is a collaboration between Hong Kong and Hollywood, although this film cannot be completely classified as a Hong Kong film, but it cannot be regarded as a completely foreign film.

Of course, the impact of "Jurassic Park" on Hong Kong films in the traditional sense is still very huge, and the simplest example is that during the release of this film in Hong Kong, the box office of Hong Kong films released at the same time was dismal, and even a movie with a box office of more than 10 million did not appear.

Although many people don't realize it, "Jurassic Park" has indeed overwhelmed the original pattern of Asian films to some extent, and a new era has begun.

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