I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 1228

[Chapter 1193 First Week Box Office]

“Do you still remember this?”

Judy’s beautiful eyes gave Eric a light glance, but there was some strange feeling in her heart.

She still clearly remembered a meeting last year, when she unceremoniously refused the invitation of the little man in front of her to invite her to dinner under the pretext of cashing in on her bet.

I didn’t expect that a year later, I still couldn’t escape this guy’s clutches.

“Of course,” Eric nodded and said with a dignified look on his face: “I am such an honest person, how could I deliberately owe someone something and not pay it back. Hey, I’ll treat you to dinner tonight.”

“You are really creative, “Judy teased a little: “It’s just for dinner?”

“How about we eat at Jiaojiao Manor?” Eric said with a smile on his face: “After dinner, what do you want to do, am I still Can you resist?”

Judy spat lightly, not agreeing, but not rejecting, and said, “Don’t be so rude, let’s talk about the novel, it will be published next month.”

Eric also accepted With a smile on his face, he turned his attention to the draft in front of him again, and said, “The idea of an open ending is very good, but it is a bit inappropriate for the ending to stay on Ryan’s successful return to Earth. It doesn’t need to be too long, but it needs to give readers more room for imagination.”

After chatting like this, the afternoon time passed quietly without knowing it.

In the evening, Eric mentioned the invitation in the afternoon again, Judy hesitated a little, and returned to the Sharphorn Manor with Eric.

Woke up the next morning, Eric was no longer around, but Judy did not give birth to any hesitation of a little woman.

I have always been very interested in this Shell Villa, which has become an iconic building in Los Angeles, so after dressing and washing, I left the exaggerated large bedroom and walked around the villa curiously.

Occasionally, she stopped to look at the artwork on the wall. She didn’t know much about it, but she recognized that some of it should have been painted by the guy himself, but he took it out and hung it with those famous artists.

She laughed at him a little in her heart, but realized that that guy now has this qualification, and she is still carefully collecting his local gravity storyboard script.

Thoughts are always inseparable from a certain little man, inexplicably reminded of the bet he mentioned yesterday, as well as some recent plans.

She had already wanted a child last year, but it was only delayed by a year because of gravity.

perhaps.

It seems that no special protective measures were taken last night.

She asked for it on her own initiative, and lied to him that she was in the safe period.

Thinking about it now, I also have some expectations in my subconscious.

After all, she has quite a few friends of the opposite sex, but he is the only one who can make her develop certain affections that the opposite sex should have.

However, she was still a little hesitant about his identity. She didn’t want to be suspected of having any plans for the eye-popping huge assets in his name, and she even hoped that her children would stay away from them in the future.

As a teenager, she has never been troubled by things like making a living, so she is very light on things like money.

If he can get pregnant, then since he still owes him a bet, he can ask for raising the child alone.

He has no shortage of women, and he already has three children, and he will not refuse if he wants to.

Thinking of these things, I unknowingly walked to the kitchen downstairs.

He was busy beside the kitchen counter, wearing a light gray turtleneck sweater with cuffs rolled up and khaki casual trousers underneath. His tall figure and angular profile made her stop. After a few more glances, I felt a certain heartbeat again.

The man smiled at her when he found out, so he walked over, leaned beside the kitchen counter and watched him skillfully cut an apple, and then again noticed the bite mark on his right arm.

Bitten crooked.

This thought occurred to her inexplicably, and she couldn’t help but laugh.

Eric turned his head to look at the woman and said, “What am I happy about?”

“No,” Judy pointed to Eric’s right hand: “Well, what’s the matter?”

Eric raised his right hand to look at his watch After a few glances, there were doubts in his eyes, as if he had just discovered it, and turned to the woman: “You bit me secretly last night?”

Judy rolled her eyes suddenly, looking disdainful of talking nonsense with him.

Eric was just joking, put the cut apples into a glass bowl, mixed them with salad dressing, and said with a smile, “I met a girl and thought I was bullying her, so he rushed over and bit me.”

Zhu Di showed a look of disbelief, and caught a certain word: “Think?”

“Yeah,” Eric nodded and said, “I didn’t know her before, and she didn’t see me, first of all. We met for the first time, and then it happened.”

Judy realized that Eric was telling the truth, and wanted to laugh at him, but remembered another thing: “And then?”

“And then, the prince and The princess lived happily together. Look, what a good man I am, and the worst story can turn into a fairy tale in my hands.”

“I’ve never seen you boast so much about yourself.”

Judy He rolled his eyes at the man again, not wanting him to think that he was paying too much attention to his private life, so he stopped asking, and stepped forward to help prepare breakfast together.

Get ready for breakfast and go to the restaurant together.

There was a laptop on the dining table, and a page of emails full of data was opened, and he glanced curiously, probably movie box office information.

Without looking closely, Judy sat down and ate fruit salad before asking Eric, “How was the box office on the first day?”

Eric handed Judy a glass of milk, sat down and said, “$24.29 million.”

Judy paused, although Eric had explained some things to her yesterday, the woman still wondered: ” It seems, is it lower?”

If it is another film, it can be said to be a success if it is 24.29 million US dollars on the first day.

But for Eric, this result is obviously low.

Eric shook his head and explained in detail: “2000 3D screens, with an attendance rate of 82%, and a box office of 20.65 million US dollars. 100 IMAX screens, an attendance rate of 100%, and a box office of 3.64 million US dollars. A total of 24.29 million US dollars, so you still Do you feel low?”

Judy has lived in Hollywood since she was a child, and Eric immediately understood when Eric explained it.

Yesterday, Eric said that Judy is not too surprised that the zero-point field is almost full. Many popular movies can do this.

But after the large-scale opening of the painting throughout the day, the attendance rate can still exceed 80%, which is a bit surprising.

“It’s so high, it’s a pity, it would be nice if there were more screening halls.” The

two were talking about this in the restaurant of Jiaojiao Manor, and the outside world about the first-day box office of Gravity was also quickly fired.

The first day was 24.29 million US dollars. Although the high attendance rate attracted a lot of media attention, the overall single-day box office of less than 30 million US dollars was still not qualified for Eric.

As a result, more and more teasing and mocking voices appeared in the media for a while.

Of course, there is definitely no shortage of people who understand.

The Los Angeles Times wrote that according to the current box office trend, if Gravity can achieve a zero drop next week, Eric’s new film is still very hopeful to break through the $300 million box office in North America.

However, if you want to reach a higher level, you must increase the number of 3D and IMAX theaters, but since Firefly Group has no relevant plans, this is obviously impossible in the short term.

Moreover, due to the limitation of 3D film sources, even a cinema dealer cannot rashly increase the number of 3D screens.

At the same time, because 2,000 screens accounted for only 5% of the total screen size of 36,000 screens in North America at this time.

Although the Firefly Group has achieved nationwide coverage as much as possible, in the end, it can only take care of the mainstream key ticket warehouse cities, which inevitably leads to a large number of fans unable to see the film at all.

As a result, related complaints quickly appeared on the Internet, and the traditional media began to follow up keenly.

In the blink of an eye, this incident has been characterized as a major mistake in the Firefly Group’s distribution strategy.

Immediately afterwards, some media also took the initiative to propose that the Firefly Group open up the 2D version of gravity, and even some high-level executives of the Firefly system had similar ideas.

While even the 2D version of Gravity is definitely a classic, it can’t possibly match the viewing experience of a 3D movie.

Eric made Gravity mainly to promote 3D and IMAX film formats in advance, and naturally he would not give up this goal for short-term interests, so he did not hesitate to refute the relevant proposal.

Then, on the two weekends, Gravity’s 3D theaters again received $22.35 million and $19.36 million at the box office, while the IMAX theater was still full.

In fact, the 100 IMAX theaters in North America have basically sold out their movie tickets within a week, and there have even been scalpers selling tickets at high prices in the market.

Taken together, Gravity’s final three-day opening weekend grossed $76.78 million.

Between Jurassic Park, 007’s Casino Royale and Iron Man, where Eric has already set a billion-dollar worldwide box office, this result is only higher than Jurassic Park’s $71 million opening weekend six years ago. Out of about 5 million.

If you factor in inflation, Gravity’s opening weekend was definitely the lowest of any film.

Although the 25th is Thanksgiving, most people still have to work until the 24th to spend a four-day vacation.

So, on Monday, November 22, the working day came as usual.

According to the normal box office rules of most films, the box office on weekdays tends to drop by 60% to 70% compared to the weekend. Due to the overall downward trend, the box office on a four-day weekday is usually only 30% of the box office on a three-day weekend.

According to this ratio calculation, the theoretical box office of Gravity’s first four-day working day may only be 23.03 million US dollars, and the first-week box office is expected to be 99.81 million US dollars, barely close to the 100 million US dollars mark.

Although according to the word of mouth of gravity, the decline is likely to be less exaggerated, but the outside world generally does not believe that this film can break through the conventional box office decline limit.

Moreover, the media also has a very clear factual basis for the gravity of the weekday box office may plummet.

After all, the 2,000 3D theaters in North America are too concentrated, most of them are distributed in mainstream cities, and the number is not enough.

Since the cinema is ultimately in the hands of cinema operators, it was impossible for Firefly to flexibly set up the distribution of 3D cinemas evenly according to the size of the audience.

This already excludes a large portion of the remote audience.

If it is a weekend, perhaps many viewers will drive to a nearby city to watch the movie in order to experience the effect of the 3D visual spectacle.

But entering the working day, there will undoubtedly be far fewer people willing to do so.

However, it turned out that many people ultimately underestimated the box-office appeal of Gravity and the appeal of the new 3D and IMAX movie modes to audiences.

On the early morning of Tuesday, November 23, the box office of the first day of the local Gravity working day was released, which instantly shocked the eyes.

All day on Monday, Gravity’s 2,000 3D theaters in North America collected another $14.13 million at the box office, a drop of only 27% month-on-month compared to Sunday’s $19.36 million.

In addition, 100 IMAX theaters are still full without any suspense.

Therefore, even the media who had been very optimistic about the box office of Gravity felt a little incredible at this time.

In this kind of shock and stunned emotions, the next few days, the gravity of the box office momentum did not diminish.

3D theaters grossed $13.99 million on Tuesday, and IMAX theaters were full.

On Wednesday, 3D theaters grossed $14.53 million, and IMAX theaters were full.

On Thursday, 3D theaters grossed $12.27 million, and IMAX theaters were full.

In four days, except for a significant drop on Thanksgiving on Thursday, Gravity’s attendance at 2,000 3D theaters in North America reached a terrifying 50% or more.

In the end, Gravity earned $120.33 million in just 2,000 3D theaters in the first week. The other 100 IMAX theaters, starting from midnight last week, almost all showed a full box office, contributing another $25.74 million to the film. Dollar box office.

According to comprehensive statistics, Gravity’s box office reached 146.07 million US dollars in its first week, far exceeding the expectations of all box office forecasting agencies, including the distribution department of Firefly Group.

There’s no question that Gravity has created some kind of phenomenal moviegoing frenzy that surpassed Eric’s previous three films.

The local Gravity finally came out at the box office, and all parties who were still on the sidelines could no longer sit still.

Even if the attendance rate of more than 50% can be maintained on weekdays, the prospect of UU reading www.sonicmtl.com 3D movies is obviously very bright.

The major theater chains in North America completely abandoned the 3D theater promotion plan given by the Firefly Group, and immediately began to contact the senior management of the Firefly Group, hoping to immediately increase the number of 3D theaters.

On the other hand, the dazzling market performance of IMAX theaters has also attracted the attention of theaters and Hollywood, and this attention has even surpassed 3D movies.

After all, just 100 IMAX theaters in North America contributed $25.74 million to Gravity’s box office in a week.

This means that, ideally, just these 100 IMAX theaters would have grossed more than $1 billion for the year.

This is already one-seventh of the current North American full-year box office.

However, the number of 100 IMAX theaters is only equivalent to three thousandths of all 36,000 movie screens in North America.

Of course, no one expects that the IMAX theater will always be 100% full, but even if the IMAX theater’s occupancy rate is reduced by 70% under normal conditions, with the continued expansion of the number of IMAX theaters, compared with North America The ratio of the total screen to the IMAX box office share, the business newspaper in the IMAX theater is still crazy.

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