Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 74 Missing Million

On the fourth day of the release of "Paranormal Activity", the three-day weekend box office results are released.

The film grossed a total of $14 million in 159.6 theaters, with an average daily box office of $3.8 per theater.

The average daily performance of a single venue on weekends reached 5.6 US dollars, the attendance rate reached more than 92%, and almost every show was full.

Because the movie was so popular, many viewers wanted to see it but found that it was not showing in the theaters around them.

Many movie fans have reported to theaters, demanding that the scale of "Paranormal Activity" screenings be expanded.

AMC Theaters saw that the movie's preview box office performance was very good, and also suggested to Link to end the preview early and show "Paranormal Activity" in more of its theaters.

Under the coordination of Guess What Pictures and AMC Theaters, starting from Monday, "Paranormal Activity" expanded from 14 to 437 theaters, and was released in major cities across the United States.

Influenced by the movie viewing highlights, more audiences flocked to the cinema to watch "Paranormal Activity".

"Paranormal Activity" itself is also good, and the plot is very thrilling. After watching it, many viewers recommended it to people around them.

"Paranormal Activity" has not yet been released on a large scale, but it has already become a hot trend in the American film market.

In view of this situation, Emperor Cinemas, Cinemark Cinemas, Carmike and other cinema chains took the initiative to contact Guess the Movies and expressed their willingness to provide more theaters and screening rates for this film.

Under the contact and coordination of Guess Pictures, "Paranormal Activity" will be released in 1873 theaters in North America, with a total of 14417 screens, starting from next Monday.

The screening scale is not much different from that of several commercial films released at the same time.

In its second week of release, "Paranormal Activity" earned $437 million from 1318 theaters under AMC Theaters, soaring from 13th place in the weekly box office rankings to third.

The box office champion is the action thriller "Patriot Games", which was released this Friday and stars Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Anne Archer and other stars.

The film was produced by Paramount Pictures and cost $4500 million to produce.

It grossed $2365 million in 1851 theaters in its first three days, becoming the box office champion of the week.

not bad.

The runner-up was the drama film "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" which was released at the beginning of the summer vacation.

The film is jointly produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Pictures, starring big stars such as Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, and Kiefer Sutherland.

The production cost was $2000 million.

It earned $1925 million in 6312 theaters in its first three weeks.

It earned $2201 million in 1618 theaters this week, with great box office potential. It is also considered one of the top ten films of the year and one of the highest-grossing films of the summer.

Ranked third is "Paranormal Activity" produced by Guess What Films. It has no big-name actors, is produced by a small company, and has a production cost of 2 US dollars.

Box office this week was $1318 million.

The cumulative box office after ten days of release was 1477 million US dollars.

Ranked fourth is the commercial blockbuster "Batman Returns", which was released for the sixth week.

The box office this week was 812 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office was 1.47 million US dollars.

Ranked fifth is "Unsung Heroes", which was released at the same time as "Paranormal Activity".

The film stars Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia, who was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor last year.

It’s almost an all-star and all-acting lineup.

However, the box office performance was mediocre.

It was released in 1826 theaters this week and only earned $521 million, less than one-third of "Paranormal Activity."

In this week's box office rankings, there are also popular movies such as "Unforgiven", "Up" and "The Little Mermaid", and their box office performance this week ranked behind "Paranormal Activity".

After the list was released by media such as Total Film and The Hollywood Reporter, public opinion was in an uproar, mainly because the box office performance of Paranormal Activity was too amazing.

With a cost of only $2 and released in 437 theaters, the weekly box office exceeded $1318 million, reaching a staggering $ million.

It even trampled on commercial blockbusters and high-quality films such as "Batman Returns", "Unforgiven" and "Up".

This result is so terrifying, even more terrifying than "Paranormal Activity" itself.

"$1318 million?! Paranormal Activity earned $1318 million this week? How is that possible? The film only cost $2 to produce and was shown in over theaters. How could it possibly earn so much?"

At Miramax Films, Harvey Weinstein's fat on his face trembled slightly when he saw the data in the newspaper.

Shock!

Unbelievable!

Regret! Annoyance!
The thought of missing out on 100 million kept running through my mind.

"How can the box office be so high? Damn it! At the preview that day, my attitude should have been more resolute and I should have given Link more benefits. If we had the distribution rights of this movie, we would have had a share of the box office revenue."

Harvey Weinstein said with chagrin.

“It’s too late to say this now, just like we missed Buried at Sundance.”

Bob Weinstein drooled with envy when he saw the box office performance of "Paranormal Activity".

The production cost of the film was US$2, and it earned US$1477 million in ten days of release, with a profit ratio of more than 700 times, and this was only the result of 10 days of release.

How much will the box office be in a month?
Based on the current situation, there is a great possibility that the box office performance of "Paranormal Activity" will surpass "Buried" and create a higher box office revenue ratio record.

This movie is so profitable.

It would be a big loss if I couldn't participate and get a share of the pie.

"How could this be?"

Harvey Weinstein said with trembling lips, "After watching Paranormal Activity, I can see that this movie is good and I am willing to buy it for distribution, but the profit-sharing method proposed by Link is a bit exaggerated, and this movie will also cost a lot of money to promote. Considering that Link's last movie was a big hit, the probability of two consecutive movies being a big hit is not high, so I did not continue to pester him.

But who would have thought that Link's first movie would be a big hit, and his second movie would still be a big hit, with even better box office revenue than the first one. This is incredible, and no one has ever done it before."

Bob Weinstein exhaled, no one had ever been able to do this before.

Many directors' debut films were amazing, with good box office and reputation.

By the second or third film, there will be great fluctuations in quality. Some will grow in the fluctuations and become famous directors, while others will degenerate in the fluctuations and become a shooting star in Hollywood.

It is rare for a new director's first two films to be a huge hit and the second one to be even better than the first.

But now Link has done it, accomplished something that seemed impossible.

I'm afraid it's not just Harvey who can't accept this. Many of his Hollywood colleagues also find it hard to accept.

"I was wrong. I underestimated Link. He deserves our sincere attitude to win him over."

Harvey quickly recovered from his shock and picked up the phone on his desk to call Link, ready to congratulate him on the success of his new movie.

I called but the number didn't go through the first time, and it was still busy the second time. I called again after more than ten minutes and finally got through to Link.

Harvey sighed secretly. With the huge sales of "Paranormal Activity", Link's reputation in the entertainment industry will be further enhanced. In the future, more and more people will seek him for cooperation, and it will not be easy to cooperate with him in the future.

If I had known that Link was so powerful, I would have said I wanted to buy his movie at the Sundance Film Festival.

Harvey once again regretted not being more patient with the Chinese director Link at the Sundance Film Festival.

(End of this chapter)