Chapter 259 First Week Box Office
"A love story worse than a shipwreck accident!"
"The Titanic itself is a serious historical event worthy of our reflection. However, Ryan Jenkins copied a vulgar love story that lacked logical thinking. The movie lacked enough creativity, but the copy of old Hollywood-style love was full of hypocrisy!"
"What is worse than the story is the hero and heroine. In the film, Ruth called Jack eighty times, which is not counting as many times as he called Mr. Dawson, and Jack called Ruth fifty times."
"This shows that the script is extremely lacking in dialogue that can allow them to have, which shows that Ryan Jenkins's inspiration, which claims to never run out, has reached its limit. His talent and potential are far lower than our estimates. "Titanic" will be a proof of his downhill and failure!"
After the movie was fully launched in North America, the New Englander's "Observing Titanic" column once again issued an attacking comment.
"Historical errors in the movie are everywhere. This blockbuster that took years and hundreds of millions of dollars will only make people feel extremely disappointed. Perhaps it is because Ryan Jenkins has never found his own love. "Titanic" focuses too much on romantic ideals and ignores credibility, responsibility and heroism, such selfless virtues that we have always mentioned and cared about!"
"In addition, there are performances of Ryan Jenkins and Kate Winslet, which are useless..."
These critical remarks are mixed with various praises. Although it makes people feel uncomfortable to see, they have nothing to do with the overall situation. Even if they shout or make criticism, they will not stop the audience's craze for movie viewing.
Especially as time goes by, the movie has produced a huge good reputation, and the direct effect brought by this word of mouth is even better than any publicity and momentum.
There were no accidents or exceptions. Just this summer, there was another terrifying wave of queues in front of cinemas across the United States.
"I'll see it again!"
This sentence has become the most popular and common language among the audience, even if they are heartbroken and cry in tears during the movie viewing process.
In this country, the profits of money can almost overwhelm everything. Seeing that "Titanic" is so popular, more theaters have joined the negotiation ranks. Among them, there are many theater companies that are deeply influenced by Disney.
When the time comes to the last day of this weekend, the number of theaters released in North America has increased from about 3,500 to nearly 3,900, and hundreds of theaters are under negotiation. The number of theaters released next week may reach an astonishing number.
The hot rhythm brought a lot of work, but whether it was Jenkins Film, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and other film companies, all the staff involved in the release of this film were enthusiastic.
The motivation for creating history is amazing, and the motivation for getting high bonuses after the movie is sold is amazing!
"Ryan, our copy is a bit tight."
In the lounge of the largest theater in Pittsburgh, Jon Landau was a little worried, "We are still stepping up production at the moment. We are afraid that there will be too late to go."
“Salary is not a problem for staff to work overtime.”
Sitting in a chair in front of the glass window, listening to the huge thunder and rain outside, frowned. "Jon, when will the weather forecast stop?"
"It will last for two to three days." Speaking of rain, Jon Landau was more helpless than Ryan.
After leaving Los Angeles, the crew headed straight to the East Coast. The entire publicity itinerary took a city and encountered extremely bad weather. Thunderstorms enveloped the northeastern United States, Pennsylvania, New York and other regions, and almost all of them were cancelled. The crew was temporarily trapped here.
When I opened the window, the thick moisture and rumbling thunder came in at the same time. Ryan looked out at the front of the theater. Hundreds of people were scattering away, but more people stayed in front of the theater, waiting to buy tickets to watch "Titanic" again.
Seeing these people, Ryan couldn't help but remember the meeting of the crew just now. The terrifying scene almost scared everyone.
Think about it, the scene of nearly a thousand girls shouting a person's name and wishing they could rush to the stage and snatch him home was absolutely chilling.
Even many women who were too crazy took off their shirts on the spot, looked at the camera, and showed words such as ‘r-y-a-n’ tattooed on their chests.
"Ryan, these girls will definitely wait in line to enter your room if you want." This was the end of the event, and James Cameron deliberately mocked him.
"It's not just them, there are a lot of girls waiting in Hollywood." Kate Winslet is also interesting.
The rain did not weaken at all. After someone came to inform him, Ryan and others got into the car from the back door of the theater. Just as they were about to leave quietly, a large number of paparazzi rushed out, and the lighted flash almost illuminated the dark sky. The problems raised by a cannon were even suppressed by huge thunder.
"Mr. Jenkins, it's June 8th, and it's the last day of the week. How much is the box office of Titanic? How much is the number you're still estimated at the premiere?"
"Ryan, The New Englander once again issued a criticism, believing that the recent achievements of the film are completely a victory in computer technology and will definitely not last long. The box office of the movie will drop significantly next week. What do you think?"
"Ryan! Ryan! Mr. Gary Graham of the New York Times, think your performances in "Cat and Mouse" and "Titanic" are a disaster, it's a face-selling show. Don't you want to respond?"
Listening to the sound from outside the car, Ryan lowered the car window. The reporters didn't care about the heavy rain and instantly stuffed dozens of small tape recorders in front of him.
"The first week of the movie will be announced tomorrow. Everyone just needs to wait. Everyone, patience is a virtue." Ryan started to talk nonsense again, and the reporters rolled his eyes. "Also, the development of film technology and the use of computer technology are like the industrial revolution that year, unstoppable and reversed. As for what you are talking about... Mr. Gary, sorry, who is he?"
The last sentence made the reporter pause. Although Gary Graham is not a top critic, he is also quite famous throughout the United States...
"drive!"
Just as Ryan's words, the car rushed away.
After returning to the hotel and taking a shower, Ryan began to call and asked someone to notify the staff stationed in major cities across the United States to keep a close eye on the local theater chains signed.
The crew has allocated a considerable amount of money in case of use. Although it is inevitable to break the first week of Jurassic Park according to the current momentum, if there is a sudden large-scale refund...
This kind of thing has happened in Hollywood history.
As he gets older, Ryan needs to ask more and more things. Even if ninety-nine percent of them are left to professionals to handle, some things still need to be paid attention to.
It is not uncommon to own a controlling stake but be undermined by others and still unaware of it.
In the middle of the night, the rain was still falling, and the lightning that lighted up from time to time always shone half of the sky. These would have some impact on the movie's seat, but what made Ryan bored was that the thunderstorm hindered his itinerary.
Pittsburgh is less than four hundred miles from New York. If you take a business plane rented by the crew, you will arrive soon. Even if you take the expressway, more than six hours will be enough.
What should I do if it doesn’t change after dawn? Take the expressway? I’m afraid I can only move forward at a snail-like speed.
But I agreed to Nat to celebrate her sixteenth birthday!
For Americans, the sixteenth birthday means too much. He may not care about his sixteenth year. After all, there has been one time, but Natalie is different. When she was on the phone, Ryan still remembers her tone of speaking but stopping.
Perhaps because of random thoughts at night, Ryan got up a little late the next day. After washing up, he looked at the heavy rain outside and the lightning that lighted up from time to time. He felt a little depressed. He simply left the room and went to the hotel restaurant booked by the crew for breakfast.
Just as he walked into the restaurant, Ryan found that all the crew members participating in the promotion were waiting here, staring at him with strange eyes, as if... it seemed like he was a monster from ancient times...
"Is something happening?"
Everyone gradually surrounded him with their hands behind their backs. Ryan was very puzzled. Did he arouse public anger?
“It’s now~”
Kate Winslet suddenly shouted, took out his hands from behind, twisted them hard, and the colorful strips in the sky flew towards Ryan.
Immediately afterwards, more colored bars flew on Ryan, and the barely suppressed expressions of the people completely collapsed, showing all of them - ecstasy!
That's right! The crew was extremely excited. Even James Cameron almost laughed and even Jon Landao's fat body trembled.
"Ryan! We did it! We set records! The first week of North America box office record now belongs to Titanic! It belongs to us!"
James Cameron came first, first giving Ryan a big hug, then slapped his back hard, almost killing him.
"Jim, you're murdering!" Ryan complained.
"And there is me, Ryan~"
Kate Winslet came up and printed a hard mark on his face.
"etc……"
Looking at Jon Landao's fat body, Ryan quickly flashed to the side, pulling the color bar on his head and asking, "Who can tell me what the box office in the first week was?"
"The latest statistics are $109.53 million!"
The person who spoke was James Cameron. At this time, he was not only excited, but also relaxed after the huge pressure disappeared. "Ryan, "Titanic" sets a record! We created history!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!