Monday, April 8

    10 a.m.

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

    This weekend, the number one box office in North America, not surprisingly, was paramount''s first-class horror, which grossed $23.8 million in the first weekend;

    Columbia''s "monkey Munch" first weekend box office revenue of 18.2 million U.S. dollars, ranked second《 Parrot is so beautiful and old man''s Day ranked third and fourth respectively, with box office receipts of 14.903 million US dollars and 10.8 million US dollars on the three days of the weekend.

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

    "Lola Run" closed for $1.82 million on three days over the weekend, ranking 12th.

    "Yell, our movie box office is not bad." Zucker was in a wonderful mood.

    The $1.82 million box office is not much, but compared with the $800000 cost, it is amazing enough.

    The cost has been collected. What do you want from it?!

    "Boss, good news!"

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

    At this time, Victor walked into the office with a happy face.

    "Is it to expand the screen of" Lola Run " Zhuke asked.

    "That''s right."

    Victor excitedly said: "although it is not AMC, Emperor Entertainment and Hickman, the three giants of North American Theaters, the strength of our several theaters is not small. It is estimated that the number of screens that can be provided to us will not be less than 300."

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

    "That''s really good news."

    Yes, it''s certainly good news for Zucker. This means that "Lola Run" can reap more box office revenue.

    More than 650 screens are not as many as Jurassic Park, X-Men, the Avengers and other films, which are often painted by three or four thousand. But that''s because they are high-cost blockbusters, and the distributors behind them are big Hollywood companies such as universal, 20th Century Fox and Disney.

    Wald pictures, what''s that?

    In the whole Hollywood hundreds of film and television production companies, also belong to the bottom of the existence, insignificant. It''s a great progress to be able to win over 650 screens.

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

    For a moment, Victor became confident.

    His confidence, not only from the first weekend three days of box office results, but because of "Lola Run" high reputation.

    Yes, "Lola Run" has a good reputation!

    In IMBD, the score was 8.4;

    Popcorn index, 75%;

    The freshness of rotten tomato was 92%.

    Although the number of Internet users in North America in 1996 can not be compared with that in the 21st century, it is also more than 40 million. Its high reputation is bound to attract some people.

    Of course, you can''t expect too many people to go into the cinema specially for "Lola Run". After all, the illiterate and rude men in Laomei are famous all over the world. Most of them are the first choice for watching movies, which is the same as the Chinese audience. They all like to watch blockbusters!

    "Victor, since we don''t have much reputation for our films, we should work hard to win more screens."

    Zucker waved his arm excitedly in the air.

    The box office results of "Lola Run" exceeded Zhuke''s expectation.

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

    "Moreover, the original version of" Lola Run "is a German film, which belongs to non English film in the United States, so it is naturally not popular. It can earn 7.5 million US dollars. It doesn''t make sense that the English version I shot can''t surpass it at the box office in North America. "

    Although the box office performance of "Lola Run" in the original time and space is average in North America, in Europe, it is known as "the salvation of European films", especially in Germany, France, Italy and other countries, but it is quite beautiful. Across Europe, the box office is more than $100 million.

    .......

    In the twinkling of an eye, a few days passed, and then came Friday.

    "Lola Run" reported $690000 on Monday and $730000, 520000 and $490000 on other days; The box office of these four days plus the box office of the first weekend, a total of 4.25 million U.S. dollars for a full seven days.

    It is estimated that the North American box office performance of "Lola Run" will be $13 million to $15 million.

    Even though the box office results in this year''s North American box office ranking, not enough to rank in the top 50, but for the just started Wald film, it is enough to be proud.

    "I''m a director genius. I''m a big box office director with tens of millions of dollars. Well, that''s a good name."

    Zucker is proud.

    It''s 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 founded Yahoo in the United States.

    On April 12, 1996, it was officially listed on Wall Street. The total price of shares on the first day of listing reached 500 million US dollars. However, Yahoo''s turnover in 1995 was only 1.3 million US dollars, and the actual loss was 630000 US dollars. Until the end of 1996, it made only 90000 US dollars.

    But who cares?!

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

    Investors and shareholders are crazy;

    Zucker is crazy, or insane!

    Zucker put in all his working capital at one time, including the US dollars he got by mortgaging a building in Silicon Valley. Today, he put in a total of US $10 million.

    And it''s ten times the leverage!

    After the stock market closed, Zhuke made a profit of 8.2 million US dollars. Even if the proceeds are not as crazy as Pixar was when it went public, it can be called horror. More than $18 million of wealth has been put into Zhuke''s personal account.

    Of course, more than ten million dollars of funds have not stayed on the account for too long.

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

    This time, leverage was not used, because Zhuke intended to hold it for a long time. After all, this is Yahoo! Until January 2000, before the peak of Yahoo''s share price of $475, Zhuke would sell all the shares again, and gain at least $130 million to $140 million.

    Ten times of revenue, that is, the crazy Internet in the 1990s, can achieve such a terrible revenue ratio.

    .......

    Good news always follows!

    "Lola Run", which expanded the number of screens in the three days of the next weekend, closed for us $2.217 million, exceeding the box office of the three days of the first weekend.

    The total box office is $6.377 million!

    The reason why good news is coming is that good news is coming from Britain.

    At present, the BBC broadcasting company and the doll production company are bound to get the copyright of Teletubbies. The problem now is just how much it costs.

    So, Zhuke and CEO Victor, as well as negotiation expert Kangdi three people, smile to fly to London.

    On the plane, Zhuke suddenly had a crazy idea: "J.K. Rowling''s Harry Potter series seems to have been completed in 1996-97. If the opportunity is right, I can dig another gold mine."