Made in Hollywood

"It won't be very high, I'm mentally prepared for it."

The sunlight filtered through the window and fell into the dining room. Jeff Robinoff took the glasses from his daughter and sat at the dining table. "After all, this is an R-rated movie, and the audience is relatively limited."

"What a pity, Dad, you didn't go to the premiere yesterday."

Putting down the newspaper in her hand, Amanda Robinoff looked sorry for her father, "Do you know how strong the audience's reaction was? My classmate, the one who came to our house as a guest... Miley, she Almost insane."

Jeff Robinoff raised his coffee cup and looked at his daughter.

Amanda continued, "It's not just her, all the young people on the scene are going crazy. I never thought that the movie could be so cool, so handsome, so fun."

"Honey, don't read the newspaper at breakfast."

A middle-aged woman walked in, and Amanda stuck out her tongue mischievously, "Mom, I've finished breakfast."

"Ritz, haven't you arrived yet?" Jeff Robinoff asked his wife.

Ritz Robinoff sat next to him and shook his head, "Doug Walter just called. There is a small problem with the statistics company, and the statistics may not arrive a bit later."

"Are you talking about the midnight box office of The Matrix?" Amanda asked curiously.

"yes."

Hearing her father's words, Amanda rolled her eyes, "Dad, do you know what your expectations are for the midnight box office?"

Jeff Robinoff put down his coffee mug and replied, "I said, it's not going to be very high, and Warners and I are expecting $5 million."

"What about the first week?"

"$35 million."

Amanda pouted, "You are too conservative! You have no idea how popular Duke's movies are among young people!"

"Honey. Don't forget this is an R-rated movie..."

Before Jeff Robinoff finished speaking, the servant at home walked into the restaurant with a fax. Ritz Robinoff took it and put it in front of her husband.

"The statistics are here," she said.

"How many?" Amanda asked curiously, "Dad?"

"Looks like I'm a little conservative."

Fixing his glasses, Jeff Robinoff said. "$7.85 million! If I remember correctly, this is the midnight box office record for an R-rated film."

"Yes!"

Amanda shook her fist hard, "Great!"

Seeing her father and mother looking at them at the same time, she shrugged playfully, "I'm just happy for my favorite movie!"

Then she picked up her bag from the other side, "I'm leaving, Dad. Mom. I made an appointment with my classmates last night."

"What are you going to do?" asked Ritz Robinoff.

Amanda looked back and said, "Go and watch The Matrix, we're going to live in theaters today."

The girl disappeared, and the restaurant was quiet again, except for the sound of the Robinovs chewing food. It was not until the end of breakfast, when Jeff Robinoff was about to go to work, that there was another voice in the dining room.

"Congratulations, dear," Ritz Robinoff said to her husband. "Warners has another movie to sell."

"It's just a midnight game. The specific North American trend depends on the results of the first week."

Santa Clara Cinemas is one of the theater chains under Emperor Entertainment. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it is close to Silicon Valley and Stanford University. It is the top five super-large theaters in the entire San Francisco area.

Zhou Xin works in this theater and is in charge of the sales counter. Although it is the first generation of immigrants, regardless of language or living habits, they are gradually integrating into this society.

When he parked the car and walked to the entrance of the theater, Zhou Xin found that the theater had not yet opened, and there were people waiting outside the door. What's more exaggerated is that San Francisco in May was definitely not cool, and some people were wearing long black windbreaker...

However, thinking of the film that will be released on a large scale today, Zhou Xin understands what is going on.

"It's just an imitation model, which is still different from the Neo version."

He shook his head, walked into the theater, finished the routine attendance, went straight to the warehouse and shipped out the boxes of goods, opened them on the shelves of the cinema sales showcase, among them were windbreakers and sunglasses. , there are dolls, there are keychains...

"Why do you still have a cell phone?"

A colleague passed by, glanced curiously, and asked, "George, when did our peripheral products get on the phone? Can they be sold?"

"Who knows?"

Zhou Xin shrugged and put a total of fifty Nokia mobile phones under the container except for the two displayed.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, the theater opened on time. Although it was a summer Friday, there were usually not many people in the morning. However, as soon as the main entrance of the theater opened, nearly a hundred young people poured in. Most of them didn't. After watching the introduction of each film in the cinema, I went directly to the ticket office.

""The Matrix"……"

"I want tickets for The Matrix!"

Similar voices are heard one after another, and it seems that everyone is here for the film that was released on a large scale today.

Because there were very few people who came to ask the surrounding, and the location was opposite the corridors that entered the various theaters, Zhou Xin couldn't help but roughly estimate the number of people who walked into different theaters when he was bored.

"Taxi Express", it seems that there are only 3 audiences in the first show in the morning.

"The Clash of Heaven and Earth" has been released for a week, and the first show was much better than "Taxi Express", with 6 audiences.

"Cold-blooded Warriors", not a single ticket has been sold, it is estimated that it will not be shown.

"The Matrix", forget it, or not count it, there are too many people, and it is impossible to count how many people there are.

Under normal circumstances, there are about 6 audiences in a small theater to recover the cost of the screening. For the first screenings in the morning, if the theater wants to make a profit, it can only rely on "The Matrix".

The colleague who sold the popcorn on the other side asked, "George, isn't it open yet?"

"No!"

Zhou Xin shrugged and looked at the busyness of the ticket office with some envy. More people walked into the theater one after another. Among them, 'Cool', 'Blast Time', Neo and Trinity were illusory. Words such as ' and reality' keep coming here.

Looking at the newly released "Matrix" peripherals, Zhou Xin sighed. His income is closely related to sales performance. It has not yet opened today, which is not a good sign.

"Perhaps, things will change after The Matrix ends?"

I sat here bored and waited for nearly two hours. Today's first "The Matrix" finally came to an end. After Zhou Xin saw quite a few men and women come out, their faces were not tired after watching the movie, but excited! No, it should be excitement! In the words of his pre-immigration, it was like being beaten with blood!

These people were chattering and chaotic, and the voices came from far away, almost every sentence had a cool, it seemed that there was nothing else to say except this word.

"Where did you buy your trench coat?"

Walking out of the theater, Adam asked his companion, "The difference with Neo is still very big. When you were outside the theater, Roman, I thought you were cool, but after watching the movie..."

He shook his head.

"I asked my sister to use my dad's old trench coat to change it according to the poster." Roman scratched the back of his head embarrassedly.

Adam didn't listen to what he said, but quickened his steps with shining eyes. He saw that Neo's black trench coat hung on the display cabinet was so striking...

It is not unreasonable that the surrounding sales department is facing the entrance and exit corridor of the cinema.

"Hey, I want a windbreaker!"

Like many people, Adam came to the sales cabinet, managed to squeeze into the front row, and shouted in a loud voice, "And sunglasses! Do you have Neo's leather boots? If you have any, bring a pair, my size. Yes……"

In just a few minutes, Zhou Xin, who had nothing to do before, was completely busy. Because there were too many people, he had to ask his colleagues to make a cameo to help.

There were more than 20 people crowding the counter wanting to shop around. These people basically bought windbreakers and sunglasses. Some girls even chose Trinity's leather jackets and boots, and even sold them. Two of the luxurious limited-edition trench coats priced at $999 were sold.

After getting the windbreaker and sunglasses, Adam dressed up almost immediately, feeling like a savior. When he was about to swipe the card, he heard the salesman introduce, "We still have Neo's cell phone here."

"Is it a Nokia flip phone?" Adam asked impatiently.

"Yes!" Zhou Xin immediately took out the sample, "The original, genuine Nokia mobile phone with a flip cover is on the market on the first day today!"

Big deal this month to eat bread! With this thought in mind, Adam gritted his teeth, "Get me one, I just want to buy a mobile phone too!"

More than 20 people who came in different costumes turned into a group of Neo and Trinity when they left.

This is almost a one-day portrayal. Since sending these customers away, Zhou Xin has never been idle again. As more and more people have watched "The Matrix", the sales of his peripheral products have increased sharply, and he is about to get off work at night. At the time, not only relatively cheap items such as windbreakers and sunglasses were sold out, but even fifty Nokia mobile phones were sold out!

"BOSS, we need to stock up as quickly as possible."

After dialing the number of the person in charge of the theater, Zhou Xin said as simply as possible, "Sunglasses need to be purchased, keychains need to be purchased, windbreakers need to be purchased, mobile phones need to be purchased,...otherwise, the surrounding products will be out of stock tomorrow!"

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Xin let out a long sigh and began to count the sales performance. When the calculation was completed, his eyes widened. Today, he sold $58,950 of "The Matrix" peripherals!

This is almost the box office performance of an ordinary weekday theater in a non-peak season!

Because he doesn't work at the ticket window, Zhou Xin doesn't know how much "The Matrix" the theater has sold at the box office today, but he is sure that such a hot film around, the box office results will not be bad! (To be continued ~^~)

PS:  Three shifts every day~~Seeking tickets every day~~