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It was known as the " Empire State of the South " and was also the most populated state in the United States.
Warner Bros.'s ability to execute was self-evident.
Capital was often profit-driven. Previously, they saw the possibility of a box office explosion from Bruce Lee, so they spared no effort to promote Mi Di's Kung Fu and create a trend of Kung Fu.
With that, they released Bruce Lee's new movie," River Crossing the Dragon." Now, Warner Bros. suddenly realized that Lin Li's " Léon: The Killer " would have a higher box office.
In an instant, Warner Bros. began to vigorously promote Léon: The Assassin.
According to Warner Bros.'s initial plan, Léon: The Assassin would be released in two weeks. But now, more people were paying attention to Léon: The Assassin.
Léon: The Assassin had a huge box office boom.
The strength of Warner Bros. was naturally not to be underestimated. In the 1940s, the eight major Hollywood film companies had a total of 2,642 cinemas. Among them, Warner Bros. had at least 500 of their own cinemas. Seventy-seven percent of the first-round box office earnings were controlled by the eight major Hollywood companies.
Although they had no choice but to abandon the theater chain because of the Anti-Monopoly Law, there were policies and countermeasures. After a series of dazzling equity allocation, the eight major Hollywood film companies and several large theater chains had broken bones and tendons.
Once Warner Bros. decided to promote it, it would immediately cause a huge sensation. Back then, it was the same for Jing Wu Men. They first screened it on a small scale to see how well it did at the box office.
After that, the large-scale screening of the movie directly caused a martial arts craze in the United States.
And now, Warner Bros. was clearly planning to replicate Bruce Lee's success.
Of course, this was on the premise that it was the off-season of the theater chain and there were no good movies.
Warner Bros. was also willing to bet that Lin Li wouldn't have a chance during the summer or Christmas seasons.
October 24th, Sunday. It was an ordinary day.
Outside the ticket window of a movie theater under Warner Bros., some bored citizens began to watch movies to kill time.
It was the off-season for watching movies now, so not many people came to watch movies.
These people weren't here for a particular movie. In fact, they didn't care what movie it was, as long as it was a movie.
It was just to kill some boring time.
"Hey, are there any good movies today?”A white man asked the ticket seller. As he spoke, he waved at his girlfriend who was not far away.
"This Killer Is Not Cold in the Sky is not bad.”the ticket seller replied.
"Give me two tickets!"
The white man didn't even bother to ask what the movie was. He directly paid for two tickets and then hugged his girlfriend's waist to buy snacks.
The movie hadn't started in the theater yet, and there weren't many seats in the audience. The Caucasian man was hugging his girlfriend, preparing to do something under the dim light. For a moment, he didn't know what the movie was about.
When the movie appeared, the Caucasian man was suddenly stunned and cursed,""F * ck, why is it an Asian film!"
Westerners were generally face-blind to Asians, so they naturally didn't know who the other party was. In fact, it was just like how Chinese people looked at African black uncles.
However, when the first scene was shown, they were still attracted.
Assassins were really cool!
The combination of an uncle and a loli was quite interesting.
But no matter what, this movie had already deeply attracted them.
Unlike Bruce Lee's gorgeous kung fu, Lin Li's killing moves were vividly displayed in the film.
"Oh, this guy's fighting is really direct and powerful!”
Exclamations could be heard from time to time in the theater.
After that, when the movie continued, it was a delicate emotional scene. Many people were attracted by this kind of emotional scene.
The fight was only one of the attractions, and the development of the plot made them unable to stop.
Could this lonely killer really be with this lonely girl?
In particular, every line in Léon: The Assassin was too cool.
When the final credits ended, everyone in the audience fell silent. They looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
After coming out, many people started discussing the plot of Léon: The Assassin.
Warner Bros. went all out to promote the movie. On its first day of release, Léon: The Assassin earned 1.2 million yuan at the box office.
The first-day box office earnings naturally shocked Warner Bros.
A film from Asia could actually sell at such a high box office on its first day.
And this number actually started to rise.
Léon: The Assassin's box office sales fell on the second day, only reaching over 800,000 yuan.
In the first round, many people went to watch Léon: The Hitman because of Bruce Lee. Secondly, there were not that many Chinese people in the United States, so the drop in box office sales was within Lin Li's expectations.
On the third day, the box office still dropped to only 750,000 yuan.
The higher-ups of Warner frowned at the number, but they still chose to persist.
At that time, it was the same for " Jingwu Gate ". It was released during the off-season, and a few days later, it ushered in a huge explosive period.
On the fifth day, the box office sales that had been dropping suddenly began to increase, from 750,000 to 850,000.
On the sixth day, the box office sales exceeded one million once again, reaching 1.1 million.
On the seventh day, the box office sales actually surpassed the first large-scale broadcast, reaching 1.5 million.
Such data was naturally shocking.
Warner Bros. even sent people to do a survey of the audience. The results were very surprising. About one-fifth of the audience said they had seen the advertisement, and the remaining four-fifths said they were introduced by friends.
Purely relying on word of mouth?
When Michael heard this news, he couldn't help but sigh in admiration. It seemed that his judgment was correct. The American audience still liked Léon: The Assassin.
"Lin, looks like we really created a miracle!”Michael said excitedly as he looked at Lin Li.
"Yes!" Lin Li could not help but laugh.
In the off-season of American movies, if they wanted to sold well at the box office, they had to have a good reputation. Secondly, there had to be no competitors at the same time.
Léon: The Assassin was one such case. During the off-season of the movie, no matter how good the publicity was, it wouldn't be able to increase the audience. Only if the film could attract the audience into the cinema and was willing to help promote it in the circle of friends around them could it develop more audiences.
Léon: The Assassin's first week box office earnings were 6.17 million yuan. It had accidentally entered the top spot of the weekly box office.
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