v2 Chapter 552： Rise and fall

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Saturday is very important for movies that are released on the weekend. This is often the highest box office time for a single day during a movie's release, especially for non-sequel movies.

No matter how overwhelming the publicity before the screening, the audience's reputation of the film will take some time to ferment. Quite a lot of big-selling movies will generally reach the peak of attendance on Saturday after a day of screening and dissemination on Friday.

Correspondingly, Saturday is also the busiest day for every commercial theater.

The Nokia Theater in Los Angeles does not allow any employees to take vacations on Saturday in order to cope with peak passenger flow.

As night fell, Philip James was standing behind the counter, looking up and looking forward. Only a black head was visible. There were really many people who chose to watch movies in this famous multi-hall theater.

As the person in charge of the sales department, although he does not need to stand in front of the ticket booth, Philip James does not dare to relax, and will come and take a look from time to time. After all, sales performance is directly related to his income and even future promotion.

"My dear, aren't you interested in airplanes?"

In front of the counter, a customer’s voice suddenly heard. Philip James looked up. It was a couple. The story of 27 is a young woman. She asked her husband, “Here is a movie about airplanes. It’s called Air Combat. "Heroes", we can choose it."

"No, no, no..." The husband kept shook his head, "Don't watch this movie. I checked it on the Internet. Most people said it was a bad movie. A colleague of mine also watched it."

"Oh?" the woman asked with interest, "what did he say?"

"He fell asleep after watching for more than ten minutes." Her husband's eyes did not look at the poster of "Air Combat Heroes" at all.

The woman scanned the title column of the movie, and there was a handsome guy in "The Kingdom of Heaven", but there was no lineup. There will be one show until it’s close to midnight; “Heroes of the Air” will be screened after fifteen minutes, but how boring is it to make a sleepy movie?

In the end, her eyes fell on "Batman: Hour of War", although she was not particularly interested in superhero movies, she still chose it.

The reason is simple, in the movie being shown. This seems to be the only movie worth watching.

Although this is a superhero movie, she knows very well that the name Duke Rosenberg in the director's column is a guarantee of movie quality!

"Two pieces of "Batman: Hour of War"..."

Hearing the choice of the couple, Philip James did not have any surprises. More than 60% of those who came to the Nokia Theatre to watch a movie today chose "Batman: Hour of War", which is also the big production and the first week of "Air Combat". "Heroes" has few people interested, and even the number of tickets sold for a few niche genres is not as good.

It may be an accident that the box office on the first day yesterday was not as good as expected. Based on Saturday’s performance, Philip James is convinced that "Air Combat Heroes" is definitely a bad film, at least for theaters.

The criteria used by theaters to judge movies is very simple. Movies that sell well are good movies, and movies that don’t sell well are bad movies.

Fifteen minutes passed. Philip James had just returned to the office when a technician in charge of the screening hurried in.

"Phil..." the man said in the fastest and most direct way, "I am afraid that the screening of "Sky Hero" at 7:15 will be cancelled."

"What?" Philip James couldn't help frowning.

The man quickly explained. "There is no audience here."

"There is no audience?" Philip James made a decision without even thinking about it. "Cancel the screening and add the number of "Batman: Hour of War" in half an hour."

The technician left quickly. Philip James sat behind the desk and shook his head slightly. The performance of "Air Combat Heroes" was simply worse than expected.

This is the second empty show at the Nokia Theatre today, and it all happened in "Air Combat Heroes". It's Saturday, and it was super prime time just now. No one cares about it. How bad is the audience's reputation for this aerial combat movie?

Philip James took time out this morning to watch the film. Although I haven’t finished reading it, I’ve seen all of the main plots. Frankly speaking, "Heroes of Air Combat" uses a lot of elements that seem to be successful, such as handsome guys, love, heroes, and salvation, but these elements combine The movie, it seems to give people a very awkward feeling, as if they were mechanically copied together.

In a blink of an eye, he thought of "Batman: Hour of War", the main competitor of "Air Combat Heroes". This restarted Batman masterpiece's creativity about fear, anger and power is indeed brilliant, but the sections are also Hollywood. The old stalks, but these old stalks were integrated into a film by Duke Rosenberg, which brought the audience enjoyment from sight to hearing to emotion.

In Philip James's opinion, it is not wrong to lose "Batman: Hour of War", which was released the first week, to "Batman: Hour of War" which was released the following week.

Having said that, how many people think Duke Rosenberg should not win?

I have been working in theaters for a full ten years. Philip James has long been used to it. Duke Rosenberg’s movies are released. Duke Rosenberg’s movies win and Duke Rosenberg’s. The movie took away the box office champion...

Putting down these thoughts, he picked up the phone and dialed a number, "Boss, this is Phil. Regarding the screening of tomorrow, I have a bit of suggestion. It is enough to reserve only one theater for screening of "Air Combat Hero". And analysis, a cinema is a lot..."

If it hadn't been stipulated in the screening contract, Philip James wouldn't even want to show the bad film that was destined to make theaters lose money.

This film will not be used for a few weeks, I am afraid it will be forced to download it?

With this thought, Philip James finished his day of work and got the general data on movie ticket sales. As expected, "Air Combat Heroes" showed a clear downward trend, while "Batman: Hour of War" Continue to maintain the momentum of the rebound.

The sun sets and rises again, and a new day begins.

Pete Ke, the largest offline seller of West Coast movie peripheral products, took his girlfriend into the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, glanced briefly at the theater, and then went to his chain store.

"Hi, George."

"Hello boss."

George Zhou Xian shook hands with Pete Ko, then turned to look at him, smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Seyfried, your performance in "Hurricane Rescue" is great."

Amanda Seyfried knew this was someone her boyfriend trusted very much and said politely, "Thank you."

There were many customers in the store. Many people probably recognized Amanda Seyfried, and they couldn't help glancing here. George Zhou hurriedly led two people into the store manager's room.

After sitting down, Pete Ke asked, "How's the sales going."

"Very good." George Zhou smiled very brightly. "Duke’s movie has always been the peak of sales in our store during the release of Duke’s movies. Since the release of "Batman: Hour of War", sales have been growing every day. Above 150,000 U.S. dollars, this does not count as five Batmobiles sold."

"So much?" Amanda Seyfried was a little surprised.

One hundred and fifty thousand dollars may not seem like a lot, but she knows very well that Pete Co’s stores are almost all over the large and medium-sized cities in the Midwest. Even if the sales of these stores cannot reach the level of Santa Monica Plaza, they are Together they are bound to be very scary numbers.

Besides, the movie surroundings are basically low-cost and high-profit commodities.

"It's okay." Pete Ke looked very calm, "There is still a gap between the surroundings of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Matrix."

Amanda Seyfried flatly pleased, "Then you can also make a lot of money."

"Me?" Pointing to himself first, Pete Ke shook his head again, and said, "We make small money. The people who really make big money are Warner Bros. and Duke Rosenberg. Not surprisingly, Duke Rosenberg can get a high salary again."

Pete Ke talked about how terrifying the director’s ability to accumulate money. Amanda Seyfried knew very well that the other party’s movie remuneration was definitely ranked first in Hollywood!

Seeing that Pete Ke and George Zhou started talking about work, Amanda Seyfried closed her mouth and looked at the containers and goods outside through the glass windows that could only be seen from the inside out. When the discussion between the two men came to an end, they couldn't help but ask a question curiously.

"Why didn't you see products related to "Air Combat Heroes"?"

The movie products sold by Pete Co. only use Duke's movies as the main product, and it does not sell peripheral products of other movies.

"There were displays in the store the day before yesterday and yesterday."

The person who answered was George Zhou. He said as concisely as possible, "But only a few James Franco’s dolls and dolls were sold in the past two days, and the single-day sales were less than $100. This morning, "The Heroes of Air Combat." After the box office came out on Saturday, I asked people to withdraw all the products related to it and display products from other Duke films."

"Other stores," Pete Ke added, "I also have people withdraw."

According to statistics, the peripheral sales of Heroes in the Sky are not even comparable to those of Batman: Hour of War. Driven by the chain effect of the new film, they are not even as good as the peripheral sales of Duke's films ten years ago.

If such movie peripheral products are not removed, what are they left for?

Amanda Seyfried asked another question of concern, "How many box-offices did "Heroes of Air Combat" sold on Saturday and asked you to withdraw its goods directly."

"US$2.62 million!" Pete Ke shook his head. "The film's box office on Saturday dropped a lot from Friday. The box office numbers for the first weekend might be so low that investors vomit blood." (To be continued. ...)