Chapter 066

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In the media's praise for "Lola Run", the weekend passed quickly.

However, since February 16 is the third Monday in February, President's Day is one of the federal statutory holidays. By convention, the weekend box office of the new week is calculated from February 13th to February 16th, which is actually an important reason why Orion chose to set the schedule on February 13th.

Tuesday, February 17.

Due to the recent busyness, Mike Medova, president of Orion Pictures, has not had much rest during the past three days of vacation. However, he still arrived at the company early today.

Sitting in the office, recalling the ups and downs of the Orion Films over the past year, Mike Medova even felt a little bit of the rest of his life in his heart.

In 1985, Orion produced and released 12 films, but the best one, "Finding Susan", only got $27 million at the North American box office, and 9 of them were facing losses.

Due to a series of film box office failures, just beginning in 1986, Orion, who was in serious financial crisis, was faced with the fate of being taken over by the well-known Wall Street investment group Warburg Pincus.

At a critical moment, the company's CEO Arthur Kerim persuaded his friend, the media tycoon John Kruger, to buy 6.5% of Orion's stock, bringing the most needed working capital to the company, which made everyone's job. be preserved.

Then, everything seemed to be going smoothly.

Orion's summer release "Back to School" completely pulled the company out of financial trouble with over $90 million at the North American box office. At the end of last year, the company's key release of "Field Platoon", as of last week, has accumulated more than 40 million US dollars at the box office. According to the current box office curve, the North American box office of this film can easily sprint to the $100 million mark.

In addition, in terms of awards, Orion has also harvested a lot this year. With the excellent reputation of the three films "Field Platoon", "Hannah Sisters" and "Pitch Ambition", Orion has won a total of 18 nominations at the upcoming 59th Academy Awards, more than any of the seven.

Now, in the blink of an eye, it's 1987, and Orion seems to have fully inherited the good luck of last year.

At the beginning of the new year, the company picked up a small box-office 'dark horse' from the seven majors.

"Lola Run".

Although I haven't seen the box office numbers for the opening weekend, based on the feedback from various sources over the past few days, Mike Medova has no doubts that the film will give 1987 Orion a good start.

While flipping through a document, thinking about these things, the secretary knocked on the door: "Mr. Medova, Miss Johnston is here."

"Let her come in," Mike Medova responded. After thinking about it, he stood up and asked, "By the way, have you sent the box office data from last weekend?"

The secretary shook his head: "Do you need me to urge you?"

"No, just take it to my office later, and also, make two cups of coffee," with this order, Mike Medova has turned his desk and stretched out his hand to Janet, who has entered the door: "Johnston Miss, it's still so early today."

Janet smiled and shook hands with Mike Medova, "Aren't you?"

"This is my job, of course I have to work harder," Mike Medova said, motioning Janet to sit down in the reception area at will, and sitting across from the coffee table, "Usually it's delivered at 9:30. Yes, it's almost time."

Janet also heard the conversation that Mike Medova had just had with the secretary, and just nodded slightly.

The two sat down. Mike Medova was about to ask a few words about Simon's recent situation, but the office door was pushed open again. The secretary raised a fax in his hand and said, "Mr Medova, box office, delivered."

Mike Medova felt that the secretary's tone was a bit stumbling, his face was puzzled, and he even had some bad premonitions in his heart, so he simply got up and went forward to receive the box office report.

Just a glance, Mike Medova's expression also became strange, he turned his head and asked the secretary, "Are you sure?"

The secretary didn't seem to have recovered, and said, "Me, Mr. Medova, how about I call and ask?"

Although he felt that there was little chance of a problem with the data in his hand, Mike Medova still nodded.

Janet also got up and walked over at this time, stretched out her hand and said, "Mr. Medova, can I take a look?"

"Oh, of course," Mike Medova said, handing Janet the box office report. "The numbers should be fine, but it's incredible. It's much higher than I thought."

Janet didn't answer, but her eyes fell on the box office report in her hand, and she saw the name and box office numbers of "Lola Run" at a glance.

$5.51 million.

not bad.

This was Janet's first thought. Then I started to calculate, 5.51 million US dollars, according to the 15% fixed box office share negotiated by Simon and Orion, just the box office of the past four days, I can get back more than 800,000 US dollars, even if I count the future payment. The cost of copying is already paid for.

Mike Medova noticed that Janet only raised her eyebrows slightly and showed a satisfied smile at the corners of her mouth, although she knew that she was new to the industry and it was difficult to realize that the box office data of "Lola Run" meant that

What, but I still want to wake up the woman in front of me aloud: "Is this your reaction?"

At the same time, in Century City, Beverly Hills, and Fox Studios, which is less than a kilometer away from the headquarters of Orion Pictures, Ronald Goldberg waved the box office report in his hand in a gaffe toward his assistant. Loudly questioned: "$5.51 million! How is this possible, did the theater line make a mistake?"

The assistant was holding the folder in his hand, but he was not as flustered as Secretary Mike Medova, and answered with certainty, "Mr. Goldberg, I have called to confirm, that's right."

Listening to the calm tone of the assistant, Ronald Goldberg took a deep breath and waved to her.

The assistant left, and Ronald Goldberg, who sat down again, opened the drawer next to the desk, glanced at the humidor inside, but closed it again, picked up the box office report again, and swept it line by line. .

North American box office data for the seventh weekend of 1987.

1st place: "Field Platoon"; $12.87 million; Orion.

Second place, "Cruel Fate"; $6.31 million; Bo Wei.

No. 3, "Spirit"; $5.99 million; Fox.

Fourth place, "Lola Run"; $5.51 million; Orion.

Fifth place, "Leap to the Top"; $5.15 million; Warner.

In the top five list, except the box office of "Field Platoon", which is currently the top hit, has exceeded 10 million US dollars, the box office of the other four movies does not seem to be much different. However, if you continue to compare the number of screens shown in several films, you will see how wide the gap is.

Among the five films, besides "Lola Run", even Fox's "Beautiful", the number of screens reached 932. The other three movies all have more than 1,000 screens, and the screen size of Stallone's new work "Leap to the Peak" this time has reached 1,758.

In comparison, the number of screens shown in "Lola Run" is only 207, which is not even one-fourth of that of "Spirit" and one-eighth of "Leap to the Peak".

However, with such a negligible 207 screens, "Lola Run" has reaped $5.51 million at the box office, forcibly squeezed into the top five of the North American weekend box office list.

How can this not be surprising.

Moreover, it got such an excellent box office at the beginning, so what's next?

You know, Orion is currently only released in a few West Coast states, including California, even if this second-tier independent film company cannot reach overseas markets. However, in the central, eastern and even northern Canada, "Lola Run" has not yet been released.

Well, according to this box office momentum to continue.

Ronald Goldberg shuddered suddenly, barely daring to think about it. He couldn't help but have a lot of things in his mind over the past few months.

Simon Westeros completed "Lola Run", and the first contact was Fox Pictures. After the film was well-received at the Sundance Film Festival, Westeros still preferred to hand the distribution rights to Fox, until the film finally won the Sundance Film Festival, and Fox still had a chance to win the film.

only.

All these opportunities were missed.

Now.

Oh, God.

What did you miss?

Leaning back in his chair and thinking quickly for a moment, Ronald Goldberg pressed the landline call button on his desk, and his assistant soon came in again.

"Say hello to David Gilles and the others. I'm going to see a rough cut of The Butterfly Effect this afternoon. Also, another script by Simon Westeros, um, what's it called?"

The assistant reminded skillfully: ""Death is Coming"."

"That's right, it's "Death is Coming", you can contact wma and send the script over. Besides, Simon Westeros..."

Ronald Goldberg pondered for a moment, and before he made a decision, the assistant had already taken the initiative: "Mr. Goldberg, Simon Westero is currently in Arizona, participating in the filming of De Laurentiis Entertainment Investment. A movie called "The Night of Blood Corpse"."

Ronald Goldberg suddenly wondered: "Is there anything special about this movie?"

"No," the assistant shook his head and said, "However, the director of the film is Catherine Bigelow. During the filming of "Lola Run", Catherine Bigelow served as Simon Westero's assistant director. He should be in Humane."

Hearing the assistant's words, Ronald Goldberg's mind flashed the question of who Katherine Bigelow was, but he didn't ask any further, just waved his hand and said, "If that's the case, forget it for the time being, you go ahead and do what just happened. thing."

No matter how surprised, gaffe, and secretly regretted the film company executives who had the chance to get the distribution rights of "Lola Run" in Hollywood, the astonishing box office data of "Lola Run" in the first weekend still spread quickly, and it appeared in many afternoons that day. Important pages of the Evening News.

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