Hollywood starts with animation

Monday, April 8

10 o'clock in the morning.

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

This weekend, ranked first in the box office in North America. As expected by Zhuke, it was Paramount’s "First Class Horror" with a box office of $23.8 million in the first weekend;

Columbia’s "Little Monkey Monkey" earned $18.2 million at the box office at the first weekend, ranking second; "Parrot is so beautiful" and "Old Man's Day" ranked third and fourth, and the box office received 14.903 million for the three days of the weekend. , 10.8 million US dollars.

For other movies, none of the three-day box office results on the weekend exceeded $10 million.

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

"Yeah, our movie box office is not bad." Zhu Ke was in a wonderful mood.

The box office performance of $1.82 million is indeed not much, but compared to the cost of only $800,000, it is already amazing enough.

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

"Boss, good news!"

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

At this moment, Victor walked into the office with a smile of joy.

"Is it going to expand the screen of "Lola Run"? Zhu Ke asked.

"Yes."

Victor said excitedly: "Although it is not the three North American theater giants, AMC, Emperor Entertainment, and Xi Keman, the several theaters who contacted us are not small in strength. The number of screens that can be provided to us is expected to not be low. At 300 yuan."

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

"This is really good news."

Yes, this is certainly good news for Zhu Ke.This means that "Lola Run" can harvest more box office.

With more than 650 screens, it’s incomparable to films such as "Jurassic Park", "X-Men", and "Avengers" with the number of openings of three or four thousand, but that's because they are high-cost blockbusters. And the publishers behind them are 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 Hollywood, they are also unremarkable.Being able to win over 650 screens is already a remarkable improvement.

"Boos, it seems we are going to raise our box office expectations for "Lola Run"."

For a while, Victor became confident.

His confidence is not only derived from the box office results in the first weekend, but also because of the high reputation of "Lola Run".

Yes, "Lola Run" has a pretty good reputation!

On imbd, the score is 8.4 points;

Popcorn index, 75%;

The freshness of rotten tomatoes is 92%.

Although the number of people surfing the Internet in North America in 1996 could not be compared with that of the 21st century, it also exceeded 40 million people, and its high reputation will certainly attract some people.

Of course, you can't expect too many people to walk into the movie theater specifically for "Lola Run". After all, the illiterate and rough guys of the United States are famous all over the world.The first choice for most of them to watch movies, it is the same thing as the audience of China, they all like to watch blockbuster movies!

"Victor, since our films don't have a lot of public praise, we should work hard to win more screens."

Zhuke waved his arms excitedly in the air.

The box office results 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.

"Furthermore, the original version of "Lola Run" is a German film, and it is a non-English film in the United States. It is naturally unpopular. It can earn 7.5 million US dollars. It makes no sense that the English version I shot can not surpass it in the North American box office. "

The original "Run Lola" in the original time and space, although the box office performance in North America is mediocre, but in Europe, it is known as the "savior of European movies", especially the results of Germany, France, Italy and other countries, but it is quite beautiful.In the whole of Europe, more than 100 million US dollars were harvested at the box office.

.......

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

"Lola Run" reported $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 cumulative Up to 4.25 million US dollars.

It is estimated that the North American box office score of "Rola Run" will fall between 13 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 already quite proud of Wald Pictures, which has just started.

"I, Zhu Ke, deserves to be a director genius, a big director with a box office of tens of millions of dollars. Well, that's a good name."

Zhuke 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 Yang Zhiyuan, the two 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. However, YAHOO's 1995 turnover 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 current income, but future income. As long as there are enough users, it will definitely make a lot of money!"

Investors and stockholders are crazy;

Zhuke is also crazy, or frantic!

Zhuke invested all of his working capital at one time, including the US dollars obtained by collateralizing a building in Silicon Valley. Today, he invested a total of US$10 million.

And it's still ten times the leverage!

After the stock market closed and settled, Zhu Ke, who was in trouble, reaped a profit of 8.2 million US dollars.Even if the income is not as crazy as Pixar was when it went public, it is still terrifying. A total of more than 18 million US dollars of wealth is deposited in Zhuke'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 opening of the stock market on Monday, Zhu Ke invested again in Yahoo's stock, investing a full 10 million US dollars.

This time, no leverage was used, because Zhu Ke intends to hold it for a long time.After all, this is Yahoo!By January 2000, before the peak of Yahoo's share price of $475, Zhu Ke sold all the shares, and at least $130 to $140 million in wealth would be reaped.

Ten times the income, that is, the crazy Internet in the 90s, can achieve such a terrible income ratio.

.......

Good news always follows!

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

The box office totaled $6.377 million!

The reason why good news came one after another was that good news also came from the UK.

At present, the BBC Broadcasting Company and the Ragdoll Production Company are bound to obtain the copyright of "Teletubbies". The problem now is just the price.

Ever since, Zhu Ke, CEO Victor, and negotiator Conti three people took the flight to London with a smile.

On the plane, Zhuke suddenly came up with a crazy idea: "J.K. Rowling’s "Harry Potter" series of novels seems to have been completed in 1996-97. If the opportunity is right, I can Dig into a gold mine."