"It's not going to be high, I'm mentally prepared for it."

Sunlight shines through the window and into the dining room, Jeff? Robinov took the glasses from his daughter's hand and sat down at the table, "After all, this is an R-rated film, and the audience is relatively limited. ”

"It's a shame, Dad, you didn't go to the premiere yesterday."

Put down the newspaper in your hand, Amanda? Robinov looked sorry for his father, "Do you know how strong the reaction of the audience was? My classmate, the one who came to our house as a guest...... Miley, she's almost going crazy. ”

Jeff? Robinov picked up his coffee cup and looked at his daughter.

Amanda continued, "Not only her, but all the young people in the scene are going crazy, I never thought that the movie could be so cool, so handsome, so fun. ”

"Honey, don't read the newspaper at breakfast."

A middle-aged woman walked in, and Amanda stuck out her tongue mischievously, "Mom, I've WWW.UUXS.CC finished breakfast." ”

"Lisi, haven't you arrived yet?" Jeff? Robinov asked his wife.

Ritz? Robinov sat next to him and shook his head, "Doug? Walter had just called, and there was a slight problem with the statistics company, and the statistics might not arrive a little later. ”

"Are you talking about the midnight box office of The Matrix?" Amanda asked curiously.

Oh, yes. ”

Hearing her father's words, Amanda rolled her eyes, "Dad, can you know what your expectations are for the midnight box office?" ”

Jeff? Robinov put down his coffee cup and replied, "I said, it's not going to be very high, and the expectation for me and Warner is $5 million." ”

"What about the first week?"

"$35 million."

Amanda pouted, "You're too conservative! You guys have no idea how popular Duke's movies are among young people! ”

"My dear. Don't forget it's an R-rated movie......"

Jeff? Before Robinov could finish his sentence, the maid at home walked into the dining room with a fax. Robinov took it and put it in front of her husband.

"The statistic jù has arrived." She said.

"How many?" Amanda asked curiously, "Dad?" ”

"Looks like I'm a bit conservative."

Got your glasses, Jeff? Robinov said. "$7.85 million! If I'm not mistaken, this is the midnight box office record for an R-rated film. ”

“yes！”

Amanda shook her fist hard, "Great! ”

Seeing the eyes of her father and mother at the same time, she shrugged her shoulders playfully, "I'm just happy for my favorite movie!" ”

Then she picked up her bag from the other side, "I'm leaving, Dad, Mommy." I made an appointment with my classmates last night. ”

"What are you going to do?" Ritz? Robinov asked.

Amanda looked back and said, "Go see The Matrix." We're going to live in the theater today. ”

The girl's figure vanished, and the dining room was quiet again, except for the sound of the Robinovs chewing their food until breakfast was over, Jeff? Just as Robinov was about to go to work, the cafeteria began to talk again.

"Congratulations, dear." Ritz? Robinoff said to her husband, "Warner has another movie to sell." ”

"It's just midnight. The specific North American trend depends on the results of the first week. ”

Santa Clara Cinemas is one of Imperial Entertainment's chain of theaters, located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Close to Silicon Valley and Stanford University, it is one of the top five largest theaters in the entire San Francisco area.

Zhou Xin works in this theater, responsible for the sales counter, although he is a first-generation immigrant, but whether it is language or living habits, he is gradually integrating into this society.

Park your car. When he walked to the door of the theater, Zhou Xin found that the theater had not yet opened, and there were people waiting outside the door. Someone was wearing a long black trench coat......

However, thinking of the film that will be released on a large scale today, Zhou Xin understands what is going on.

"It's just an imitation, and it's still different from Neo's version."

He shook his head, walked into the theater, finished his routine attendance, went directly to the warehouse to transport boxes of goods out, opened the shelves and placed them on the shelves of the theater sales cabinet, including windbreakers, sunglasses, dolls, and keychains......

"Why do you still have a mobile phone?"

A colleague passed by, looked curiously, and asked, "George, when will our merchandise be on the phone?" Can it be sold? ”

"Who knows?"

Zhou Xin shrugged his shoulders, removed the two samples, and put a total of fifty Nokia pop-up phones under the container.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, the theater started to open on time, although it was Friday in the summer, but under normal circumstances, there would not be many people in the morning, but as soon as the main entrance of the theater opened, nearly 100 young people poured in, most of them did not look at the introduction of the films in the theater at all, and walked directly to the ticket office.

"The Matrix ......"

"I want tickets to The Matrix!"

Similar voices come and go, and it seems that everyone is coming for the film, which was only released on a large scale today.

Because there were very few people who came to ask about the surroundings, and because the location was facing the corridors that entered the various theaters, Zhou Xin couldn't help but roughly estimate the number of people who walked into different theaters in boredom.

"Taxi Express", it seems that there are 3 spectators in the first show in the morning.

"Heaven and Earth Collision" has been released for a week, and the first show is much better than "Taxi Express", with 6 audiences.

"Cold-Blooded Warrior", not a single ticket has been sold, and it is estimated that it will not be screened.

"The Matrix", forget it, or don't count it, there are so many people that I can't count how many people there are.

Under normal circumstances, there are about 6 audiences in a small theater to recover the cost of screening, and for a few first screenings in the morning, theaters can only count on "The Matrix" if they want to make a profit.

The colleague selling popcorn on the other side asked, "George, isn't it open yet?" ”

"Nope!"

Zhou Xin shrugged his shoulders and looked at the busyness of the ticket office with some envy, and more people walked into the theater one after another, among which words such as 'cool', 'explosive time', 'Neo and Trinity', and 'illusory and realistic' kept coming here.

Looking at the merchandise of the new "The Matrix", Zhou Xin sighed, his income is closely related to sales performance, and it has not opened until now, which is really not a good sign.

"Perhaps, something will change after the end of The Matrix?"

I sat here bored and waited for nearly two hours, and today's first "The Matrix" finally ended, and after Zhou Xin saw quite a few men and women coming out, their faces were not tired after watching the movie, but excited! No, it should be excited! In his words before he immigrated, it was like being beaten with chicken blood!

These people were chattering and chaotic, and their voices came from afar, and almost every sentence had a cool one, as if they couldn't say anything else except this word.

"Where did you buy your trench coat?"

Walking out of the theater, Adam asked his companion, "It's still very different from Neo, when you're outside the theater, Roman, I think you're cool, but after watching the film, ......"

He shook his head.

"I asked my sister to change it from my father's old trench coat according to the poster." Roman scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

Adam didn't listen to him, but his eyes shone and quickened, and he saw that in the hallway, Neo's black trench coat hung on the display case......

It is not unreasonable for the peripheral sales department to enter and exit the corridor facing the theater.

"Hey, I want a trench coat!"

Like many people, Adam came to the front of the counter, managed to squeeze to the front row, and shouted in a loud voice, "And sunglasses!" Got Neo's leather boots? If you have a pair, I'm ...... yardage."

In just a few minutes, Zhou Xin, who had nothing to do before, was completely busy, because there were too many people, and he had to ask his colleagues to make temporary cameos to help.

There were more than 20 people crowded in front of the counter to buy merchandise, and the most basic of these people was to buy trench coats and sunglasses, and a few girls even chose Trinity's leather jacket and boots, and even sold two luxurious limited edition trench coats for $999.

Got the trench coat and sunglasses, Adam almost immediately dressed up on his body, very savior, when he was about to swipe the card, he heard the salesman introduced, "We still have Neo's mobile phone." ”

"Is it a Nokia pop-up phone?" Adam asked impatiently.

"Yes!" Zhou Xin immediately took out the sample, "The original, genuine Nokia pop-up mobile phone, is on the market on the first day today!" ”

Big deal this month to nibble on bread! With this thought, Adam gritted his teeth, "Get me one, I just want to buy a mobile phone too!" ”

More than 20 people in different costumes when they came turned into a group of Neo and Trinity when they left.

This is almost a portrayal of the day, from the beginning of sending away this group of customers, Zhou Xin has never been idle, as more and more people have watched "The Matrix", the sales of his peripheral products have increased dramatically, and when he is about to get off work at night, not only the relatively cheap things such as windbreakers and sunglasses are almost sold out, but even fifty Nokia mobile phones are sold out!

"Boss, we need to buy as fast as possible."

Dialing the phone of the person in charge of the theater, Zhou Xin said as concisely as possible, "Sunglasses need to be restocked, keychains need to be restocked, windbreakers need to be restocked, and mobile phones need to be restocked,...... Otherwise, the merchandise will be out of stock tomorrow! ”

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Xin let out a sigh of relief and began to count the sales performance, and when the calculation was completed, his eyes widened, today he sold $58,950 of "The Matrix" peripherals!

That's pretty much a one-day box office performance for a normal weekday theater in a non-peak season!

Because he doesn't work at the ticket window, Zhou Xin doesn't know how much "The Matrix" box office has been sold in the theater today, but he is sure that the box office performance of such a hot film around him will not be bad! (To be continued......)

ps: Three changes every day ~~ Asking for tickets every day ~~R1292