Hollywood Starts with Animation

Monday, April 8

10 o'clock in the morning.

The first weekend box office results of "Lola Run" have already been released.

This weekend, the No. 1 box office in North America, not Zucker's expectations, was Paramount's "First-Class Horror", which grossed $23.8 million in its first weekend;

Colombia's "Little Monkey Monkey" earned $18.2 million at the box office in its first weekend, ranking second; "Parrot So Beautiful" and "Old Man's Day" ranked third and fourth respectively, with box office receipts of $14.903 million over the three weekends respectively. , $10.8 million.

None of the other films made more than $10 million at the box office over the three-day weekend.

"Lola Run" reported $1.82 million over the weekend, ranking 12th.

"Hey, our movie box office is not bad." Zu Ke was in a very good mood.

The box office achievement of 1.82 million US dollars is indeed not much, but compared with the cost of only 800,000 US dollars, it is already amazing enough.

The cost has been recovered, what else do you want? !

"Boss, good news!"

"Just this morning, I received several calls, all from the theater party."

At this time, Victor walked into the office with a smile on his face.

"Are you going to expand the screen of "Lola Run"?" Zucker asked.

"That's right."

Victor said excitedly: "Although they are not the three North American theater giants, AMC, Emperor Entertainment, and Xikeman, the several theaters who contacted us are not small, and the number of screens they can provide us is not expected to be low. at $300."

300 movie screens, plus the original 355 screens, total more than 650.

"That's really good news."

Yes, this is of course good news for Zucker. This means that "Lola Run" can harvest more box office.

More than 650 screens are not comparable to the number of films such as "Jurassic Park", "X-Men", "Avengers" and other films that often open three or four thousand, but that is because they themselves are high-cost blockbusters, And the distributors behind them are big Hollywood companies such as Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Disney.

Wald Pictures, what is that?

Among the hundreds of film and television production companies in the entire Hollywood, it is also a low-end existence and is inconspicuous. To be able to win more than 650 screens is already quite an improvement.

"Boos, it looks like we're going to raise our box office expectations for Lola Run."

For a time, Victor became full of confidence.

His confidence is not only due to the box office results in the first weekend and three days, but also because of the high reputation of "Lola Run".

Yes, the reputation of "Lola Run" is quite good!

On imbd, the score is 8.4;

Popcorn index, 75%;

92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Although the number of Internet users in North America in 1996 cannot be compared with that in the 21st century, it is still more than 40 million people, and its high reputation will definitely attract some people.

Of course, you can't expect too many people to go to the cinema specifically for "Lola Run". After all, the illiterate and rough people of the old beauty are famous all over the world. Most of them are the first choice for watching movies, which is the same as the audience of Huaxia, who like to watch blockbusters!

"Victor, since our films don't have much reputation, let's work hard and try to win more screens."

Zucker excitedly waved his arm in midair.

The box office performance of "Lola Run" exceeded Zucker's expectations.

"I remember that in the original time and space, "Lola Run" in North America only earned more than 7.5 million US dollars."

"Also, the original Lola Run is a German film,

In the United States, it is a non-English film and is naturally not popular. It all made $7.5 million, and there's no reason my English version couldn't top it at the North American box office. "

"Lola Run" in the original time and space, although the box office results in North America, although the performance is average, but in Europe, known as the "rescue work of European movies", especially the results of Germany, France, Italy and other countries, but it is quite good. Across Europe, it grossed more than $100 million at the box office.

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In a blink of an eye, a few days passed, and it was Friday again.

"Lola Run" was reported to be $690,000 on Monday, and $730,000, 520,000, and $490,000 in other days; the box office of these four days plus the box office of the first weekend, a complete seven-day box office accumulation amounted to $4.25 million.

It is expected that the North American box office of "Lola Run" will fall between 13 million and 15 million US dollars.

Even though this box office result is not enough to rank in the top 50 in this year's North American box office rankings, it is enough to be proud of the fledgling Wald Pictures.

"I, Zucker, deserves to be a director genius, a big director with a box office of ten million dollars. Well, this name is not bad."

Zucker is proud.

inflated.

The whole person is about to explode!

Of course, this is not because of the box office of "Lola Run", but because today, Yahoo!

In 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang founded Yahoo in the United States.

On April 12, 1996, it was officially listed on Wall Street. The total stock price on the first day of listing reached 500 million US dollars, while YAHOO's turnover in 1995 was only 1.3 million US dollars, and the actual loss was 630,000 US dollars. Until the end of 1996, Only made a mere $90,000.

But, who cares? !

American investors in this period said: "The Internet does not look at the current income, but the future income. As long as there are enough users, it will definitely make a lot of money!"

Investors and stockholders are crazy;

Zucker is also crazy, or insane!

Zucker put all of his working capital in one shot, including the dollar he got from a mortgage on a building in Silicon Valley, for a total of $10 million today.

And it's ten times the leverage!

After the stock market closed and settled, Zucker, who was in a rut, made a profit of $8.2 million. Even if the income is not as crazy as Pixar's listing, it is terrifying. A total of more than 18 million US dollars of wealth has been deposited into Zucker's personal account.

Of course, more than ten million dollars of funds did not stay in the account for too long.

After two days on Saturday and Sunday, after the market opened on Monday, Zucker invested in Yahoo's stock again, putting in a full $10 million.

This time, no leverage was used because Zucker intends to hold it for a long time. After all, this is Yahoo! Until January 2000, before Yahoo's stock price peaked at $475, Zucker sold all the shares, and he could reap at least a fortune of $130-140 million.

A dozen times the income, that is, the crazy Internet in the 1990s, can achieve such a terrifying income ratio.

......

Good news always comes!

In the next three days, "Lola Run", which expanded the number of screens, reported a box office of 2.127 million US dollars, exceeding the box office of the first weekend of three days.

The box office totaled $6.377 million!

The reason why the good news is said to be coming one after another is because there is also good news from the UK side.

At present, the BBC Broadcasting Company and the ragdoll production company are bound to win the copyright of "Teletubbies". The problem now is just the price.

As a result, Zucker, CEO Victor, and negotiation expert Candy took the flight to London with a smile.

On the plane, Zucker suddenly had a crazy idea: "J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of novels seem to have been completed in 1996-97, if the opportunity is right, I can Dig a gold mine."