Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1641 The Desperate Wolf
No one could have imagined that a movie that was only rationed by six theaters at the beginning of its release, and even the distributor of this movie did not have any confidence in it, suddenly had a reversal.

Director Oliver Stone began working on the film shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

For this reason, he ran around to find funds for "Platoon", but Hollywood film companies did not think that this film would be a hit.

Most of the studios refused to invest on the grounds that the film was "too cruel" or "too depressing" because there were too many studios.

It was not until a few years later that Oliver Stone came to England to complete the filming with the funding of Hemdale Productions, but the major Hollywood film companies were unwilling to distribute it.

Even Orion, which distributes the show, has little confidence in it because it's too much like a documentary and doesn't have a big star in the show.

Under such circumstances, Oliver Stone still insisted on releasing it, although he didn't think that "Platoon" would make any waves in the North American film market in the end.

But anyway, it took so many years to finish filming this movie, as long as it can be seen by others, he thinks everything is worth it.

On December 12, "Platoon" was released as scheduled. Without any publicity, some viewers bought tickets to enter the venue just looking at the promotional posters outside.

The theater assigned to "Platoon" is very remote, with few seats, and the ticket price is 1-2 dollars lower than those blockbuster films.

If this is not the case, it may be difficult to attract the audience to buy tickets.

But even so, the attendance rate on the first day was still pitifully low, less than [-]%, thanks to the Christmas schedule, otherwise the attendance rate would have been even worse.

After the first day's box office came out, Oliver Stone looked at the statistics after the statistics, and his heart was half cold.

On the first day of its release, "Platoon" earned only US$[-] at the box office with a [-]% attendance rate in six theaters.

Even with the current situation, if "Platoon" is allowed to continue to be screened, the box office of this movie will only be 36 in three months, and the attendance rate will not drop.

But this is obviously impossible. After all, movie theaters want to make money, and even this kind of remote movie theater can't just let "Platoon" keep showing for the sake of cheap.

According to the current situation, "Platoon" can only be shown in these six theaters for three weeks, and then it will be forcibly withdrawn.

"Forget it, we've tried our best, everyone, let's take a look."

Oliver Stone himself didn't have any confidence in "Platoon", even though he thought it was definitely a good movie, but...

And just when Oliver Stone and his team had all but given up, a strange thing happened.

After the first day of "Platoon" was released, the audience who watched the film gave a surprisingly high evaluation of the film.

On the second day, many people bought tickets to watch the event under the introduction of relatives and friends.

And some small newspapers began to report on this underappreciated movie one after another.

Ten thousand... thirty thousand... fifty thousand... two hundred thousand.

Because the attendance rate has been soaring, theaters began to add theaters to "Platoon", and the box office has been pushed up.

By the end of the first week, the box office of "Platoon" had soared from US$50 on the first day to US$[-].

In the entertainment news newspapers, "Platoon" has become a popular fried chicken, so newspapers and magazines began to report on this movie in a big way.

"Looks like Hollywood is such an interesting place..."

Lin Daoqiu couldn't help laughing when he read the newspaper reports on "Platoon". After all, a good movie has not been buried, which is definitely a happy thing for filmmakers.

What makes Lin Daoqiu happy is not just the drama "Platoon", of course the main reason is that "Rush Hour" and "Life of Dawn" have already narrowed the distance with "Star Trek 4: Rescue the Future" at the box office.

After the end of the first week, "Rush Hour" and "Life of Dawn" remained high due to the high attendance rate. Lin Daoqiu got 2000 yuan of screens from other independent theaters and Universal.

As for Paramount's "Star Trek 4: Rescue the Future", the attendance rate has dropped from [-]% at the beginning to about [-]%.

Although it got a box office score of 9000 million, for "Star Trek 4: Saving the Future", the single-day box office of this show has dropped from 800 million on the first day to 800 million.

"Living at Dawn", which followed closely behind him, has broken through the box office of 7000 million, and "Rush Hour" has also won the box office of 5000 million.

Everyone originally thought that "Star Trek 4: Saving the Future" should be the box office champion of the Christmas season, but now it seems that it is only a matter of time before it is surpassed by "Living by Dawn".

The decline in the attendance rate of "Star Trek 4: Saving the Future" also caused Chris Wolf to bear tremendous pressure within the ACC.

"It is said that Paramount has planned to reduce the number of screens by 4000 yuan. I wonder what the chairman plans to do?"

The 8000 yuan screen is a bit too much for "Star Trek", so Barry Diller made a decisive decision and planned to cut the number of screens in half to maintain the attendance rate of "Star Trek".

However, 3000 yuan of the reduced number of screens is from ACC Cinemas.

In other words, if Chris Wolf doesn't want to come up with a solution, is it possible to let these cinemas show old movies?
"Please rest assured, I have already prepared a proper plan for this unexpected situation."

Just when the directors were attacking Chris Wolf, Chris Wolf seemed to have already thought of a solution to this matter.

Under everyone's puzzled eyes, Chris Wolf said with a smile.

"I have already negotiated with Oliver Stone, and I plan to use the vacant 3000 yuan screen to show "Platoon"."

At this time, the popularity of "Platoon" has not diminished. In Chris Wolfe's view, it is definitely a wise choice to use all the 3000 yuan screens vacated by Paramount to screen "Platoon".

After the directors and executives at the scene heard what Chris Wolff said, everyone fell into deep thought.

Most of those who were still questioning Chris Wolf just now thought that his approach seemed to be quite good, and the voices against him gradually disappeared.

But just when Chris Wolf thought that this matter was settled, Joel Lopez suddenly said.

"I object to this decision..."

When Kriswoff heard someone objecting to his decision, he immediately turned his head to the other party, and when he found that the person who opposed him was Joel Lopez, Chriswoff's face was pulled down all of a sudden.

(End of this chapter)