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The box office results of "Three Stupies in Bollywood" in the first week were finally fixed at the number of 1,765,200. In the last three days of additional screenings, the average attendance rate of movie theaters participating in the screening still did not drop, and it could still be maintained at a percentage. Of about 40.

The weekly box office score of $1.7652 million also made "Three Fools Raise Bollywood" logically boarded the US weekly box office chart (between March 10 and March 17); ranked 13th; The first one is the war masterpiece "We were Warriors" released by Paramount Pictures. This is also the first week of its release, with a weekly box office of 46.536 million U.S. dollars; and the 12th place is one The comedy movie "Golden Rush", which has been released for more than a month, has a weekly box office of US$2.3264 million.

At a glance, this result is not eye-catching. The rankings did not make the top ten. The 35,000 box office data of the single library can only be ranked 56th on the current film history list. The distance caused a sensation or creation. The record still has a long, long way to go, and it seems that it is not worth mentioning at all.

But this requires comparison. Without comparison, where does the harm come from?

The position of No. 13 is indeed not surprising, but the "21 theaters" only increased to "200 theaters" a few days later, and the score of 1,765,200 was really shocked by the industry.

The distribution department of Paramount Pictures couldn't help laughing. This is the first week's box office, so the cost of the announcement is wiped out. Can you worry about not getting back the cost of buying out the copyright?The most important thing is that even after the expansion of "Three Fools in Bollywood" still maintains the market potential, the prospects revealed by the audience's praise and approval rate are: this is definitely a masterpiece with a superb reputation.

Let’s put it this way, the "Personal Speed" released by Miramax is the film that won the Jury Prize in one fell swoop at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. It can get a box office of 340,000 US dollars.

Moreover, you have to know that "Three Fools in Bollywood" is still a non-English film, which is why Paramount Pictures was worried at the beginning.

Why did Europa Pictures put pressure on the cooperative distribution? Isn't it because Paramount didn't give a fair price for the distribution fee?In the end, under the situation of multi-party competition, it was reluctant to win in order to grab this French ally.

Let’s do some calculations. As of 2002, in the North American film market, the top three non-English works were 128 million for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and 57 million for "A Beautiful Life". And 33 million in "Angels Love Beauty".

Let's take a look, can't such a set of data explain the problem? A random masterpiece by Paramount can get more than 40 million box office in the first week, which can easily kill this crowd of foreign movies.

It can also be seen that non-English works have encountered obstacles and neglect in the North American market.

Everyone says that the RB market is amazing. Manga movies can easily kill live-action movies. They also love xenophobia and are not easily taken seriously.

For Lehman, Hollywood is the most exclusive and closed film market in the world. The American people have an unfounded sense of pride. They look down on the culture of other regions, not to mention that the film itself has the ability to convey regional culture. The carrier too.

As an Hindi-language film, "Three Fools Raise Bollywood" cannot compete with the box office record of English works. Doesn't it seem normal?

Under the premise of continuous success in decision-making and planning, Paramount Pictures no longer flinched in the second week of the movie's release, and directly increased the number of 200 screening theaters to 800.This number is really not too small for a movie that is biased towards literary and artistic genres.

Although everyone's impression of "Three Fools in Bollywood" is a masterpiece, they also label it as a "dark horse" in their hearts.

But the film's market performance in the second week (between March 18 and March 25) still stunned everyone. This dark horse is a bit too dark!

33,645,800 dollars!This is the data given by the theaters, and it also made "Three Fools Raise Bollywood" directly ascended the weekly box office champion this week!

Generally speaking, the winter stalls formed in January and February of each year are the coldest times in the market. First, the cold weather allows everyone to hide in their homes to warm up, and secondly, the noise of the awards season also takes away everything The attention of sight, even if it is a little better in March, it is still an unpopular period.

It seems that, in front of a deserted and inexperienced competitor, winning a weekly box office champion is nothing remarkable.

Ah... fart!

It’s nothing, but you just look at the results of a weekly box office champion. I didn’t see Harvey Weinstein venting his temper when he heard the news and ruining his favorite cigar— —He has been paying attention to the screening of this movie. In Sundance, even with Lyman in the end, he still feels uncomfortable. It has not happened for a long time because he was rejected by an unfamiliar director. On him, especially when he personally invited it.

It's a pity, he is upset, Lehman is particularly upset.

When Lehman heard the news, he didn't know how happy he was. Ryan was even more excited and slammed into the door of the hotel, saying "Champion, champion, we are going to post", Thomas Better, it's just like having Alzheimer's, playing stupidly and laughing like this all day long.

As for "Three Fools in Bollywood" can achieve such excellent and outstanding results, from the media newspapers to the film critics to the audience, they also won a lot of praise.

The discussion of movies on the Internet has always been rising, which makes the distribution department of Paramount Pictures even more beaming.

The only bad thing is that compared to "We were Warriors", which plunged 40% of the box office this week, although this kind of result is destined to rely solely on box office revenue, it will not be able to recover the original. Send the cost, save a little loss.Of course, it’s bad news for Paramount Pictures, but for those in the distribution department, it’s still worth the joy.

Where is there no competition, and they belong to the same company, so they can't gloat for misfortune?

Can the failure of the production department better reflect the strength of the publishing department?

And the two movies are both my own children. Now that the "pro son" is dead, of course it is the "god son"'s turn to take the place.

In this way, the mood of the issuing department is better.

What is this called, this is called entrusting the task, which shows that their work ability has been exceptionally affirmed.

You see, "Three Fools in Bollywood" was negotiated by me to take over the publishing rights. Now it has become a hit on the market. Doesn't it mean that I have a good eye?Tony Slok really wanted to win over Lyman at this moment. It was not a good relationship in the previous sense, with a kind of polite hypocrisy, but really felt that this person could be worthy of a heavy responsibility and was a personal talent.

Moreover, he also got a good news...

Tony Slok has been really breezy recently. Not only was he praised by the board of directors for the release of "Three Fools in Bollywood", his position was stronger, and he had the opportunity to peek at higher positions.

Now he has set up an appointment with Lyman in a coffee shop, and besides wooing him, he also tells him the good news.

"Mr. Slok, what kind of news is it? It's not convenient to talk on the phone. I have to meet."

Lehman looked at Tony Slok with a mysterious face, took a sip of coffee, and said angrily: "I hope this news can make up for the loss of my getting up. If you know that I received your call during my nap, I immediately Came here."

Tony Slock smiled and said: "Well, Lyman, I won't sell it anymore. We received an invitation from "Oprah Talk Show". He wants you and your team to participate in the next interview." The win-win process failed. I have said so much before, but I am still talking politely.However, this news still needs to be notified, which will be a good thing for Paramount Pictures.

"Oprah's talk show? Why is this?" Lehman asked, although a little surprised.Because he felt that this incident would be contributed by Paramount Pictures alone.

That is Oprah, the most famous and highest-rated talk show in the United States. Not everyone can go on it.

Seeing Lehman’s strange reaction, Tony Slok also reacted. He picked up the coffee cup, nodded with a smile, and said, “No, no, not what you think. We didn’t intervene in this matter. It’s Oprah’s talk show’s program group. I called myself because you don’t have an agent. They notified us of the news. I just relayed it. Of course, it’s up to you to go or not.” He took a sip of coffee. , Finished the last sentence.

Go to record the Oprah talk show?This is something that Lehman did not expect.

He never thought that a non-English work like "Three Fools Havoc in Bollywood" could be on such a mainstream media platform.

Lehman hesitated.

This is like a double-edged sword, once it is useless, it will hurt yourself.

But he didn't think about it for too long, and he nodded and agreed.

The advantage is that this kind of platform promotion will be very obvious in promoting the film.He needs this benefit.

Because he knows better than anyone that Hollywood is a world that lives under the spotlight. If you want better success, you must deal with all kinds of media forces. They are the real uncrowned kings of this industry.

What's more, he is a director, he really wants to get better exposure channels for his work.

The opportunity came, he had to seize it!

"Then put it this way, the show will be recorded next week, so you can prepare yourself in advance."

After speaking, Tony Slok left the cafe.

Oprah?Hope it will be a good result, Lehman thought silently.