After just three days of release, Paranormal Activity's first week box office earnings were set at 8,056,600 USD!
On Sunday, it actually soared by 5 million!
The moment the news came out, the American film and television industry couldn't sit still!
One had to know that this movie was not a big production by a famous director.
In the early stages, there were no overwhelming posters, no celebrity tour promotions, no premiere, and no press conference!
Many of the film media reporters were dumbfounded. It was as if Paranormal Activity had suddenly appeared from underground!
He climbed to fourth place in the North American box office in the first week without anyone noticing?
It was simply a ghost!
This week's box office champion was the recently popular action blockbuster," The Fall of the White House "!
The movie was starred by action superstar Gerard Butler and veteran actor Morgan Freeman.
It was about the famous building in North America, the White House, which was captured by terrorists and important people were taken hostage.
The story of retired agent Gerard Butler receiving a mission to rescue the hostages alone.
The plot was very simple. The main thing was that the gunfight and explosion scenes were outstanding.
After three weeks of screening, it was not too much to ask for a box office win of 40.73 million dollars.
In second and third place were the sci-fi film, Mobile Escape Room, and the animated film, Crazy Martian.
The films ranked fifth to eighth were also big productions or movies starred by famous directors and Oscar-winning actors.
Among the many films, only " Paranormal Activity was an anomaly.
Horror films, grassroots new directors, new female leads…
How could he get fourth place with this?
He was simply the biggest dark horse of the year! How did Legendary Pictures find this film?
All of his peers were puzzled.
As for the distribution managers of those big name film companies, their intestines were green with regret.
It was said that 20th Century Fox even fired a distribution manager because of this.
Even though the results were shocking enough, the box office sales for Paranormal Activity in its second week…
It completely subverted everyone's understanding!
The box office earnings were 41,253,300 USD! He had won the box office championship in one fell swoop!
Boom!
It was as if a bomb had exploded in everyone's heads!
The film companies, entertainment media, and even the news media were all shocked!
The film critics and movie fans were dumbfounded!
What was this? Dark horse?
No…this was no longer a dark horse! Don't be so dark!
In fact, many people did not understand. What was Paranormal Activity?
With a DV camera in hand, the scene was like a home video. How did it become the box office champion?
What a joke!
Moreover, Legendary Pictures had only been promoted to 1000 cinemas so far!
1000 cinemas had defeated the action blockbuster,'The Fall of the White House', which was screened in more than 8000 cinemas?
A horror movie with a budget of 6000 USD defeated an action blockbuster with an investment of 150 million USD?
No wonder there was only one word in the headline of the entertainment section of New York Times.
“Crazy! Crazy!"
As one of the biggest ticket holders in North America, the market in Luo Shengdu had exploded. Paranormal Activity was hard to get a ticket.
The other big ticket warehouse was Apple City.
At the entrance of the city's largest cinema, Infinite Cinemas, a reporter from the BBC was holding a microphone and reporting to the camera.
"I'm at the entrance of the cinema now. It's already 11 p. m., but this place still looks like a huge party! There were also many people gathered here, queuing up to buy tickets.”
"I'm sorry, may I ask what movie you're here for?”
The young man who was interviewed by the female reporter was extremely excited.
"Paranormal Activity! Whoosh! It's almost my turn!"
The female reporter continued to ask,"Why are you so eager to watch this movie and even queue up until late at night?"”
The young man said," My friends around me have all seen it. They've blown up the movie and said that they're very scared. I don't believe in evil. No horror movie can scare me.”
The female reporter interviewed a few more people in the audience. They were all lining up to watch Paranormal Activity.
In the end, she concluded," I can see that this movie is really popular. I want to go in and see it myself.”
"Now there's a problem. Everyone says that the movie is a real event.”
"Later on, the rumors were refuted, saying that it was just a movie.”
"Then…who is the director of the movie and who are the two main actors? Were they really dead? Why did you choose DV to shoot a movie?”
"I hope we can get an answer soon.”
……
Legendary Pictures. Xuan had already stepped into this place countless times.
At first, he was mistaken by the receptionist for a salesman. Now that Marlene saw him, she came over happily with a glass of water.
"Director Chu, please wait a moment. I'll call the CEO over.”
Not long after, the president of Legendary Pictures, Joe Drake, rushed over.
The current Xuan was a money tree in his eyes!
In less than two weeks, the box office had already reached 50 million dollars.
According to this trend, wouldn't it break through 100 million?
This kid was right!
However, he didn't care about that now. More importantly, he wanted to win Xuan over and let him create more profitable works.
"Chu, our company has been in trouble recently.”
"Oh? How so?" Xuan didn't believe a single word of this old fox's pitiful act.
"There are people surrounding the company every day, or calling to ask about Maica.”
"Everyone wants to know if Maica is really dead.”
Xuan was speechless. He had already mentioned in the end credits,"This film is purely fictional."
Why are they all blind?
Joe Drake explained," You know, most people's brains are a little…emmmm."
Indeed, the North American citizens were a little lacking in intelligence, so it was normal for them to not see the notification.
"Then let's completely release the publicity. There's no need to use real events as a cover now.”
"Understood." Joe Drake nodded." There's another thing.”
"Oh?"
"We calculate the box office earnings every week, so we have already transferred the share of the first week's box office earnings to your account according to the agreed ratio in the contract.”
The two then talked about the next promotional strategy and Xuan's new movie.
Regarding the new movie, he had not decided to continue working with Legendary Pictures, so he did not reveal any information for the time being.
As he walked out of Legendary Pictures, Xuan found his account information on the bank app.
Balance: $5,039,730.12
After deducting the profits and personal taxes, it was a total of 5 million USD!
And this was only the first week's box office. Based on the second week's 40 million box office, Xuan would earn at least 25 million USD!
Only now did Xuan clearly realize how profitable movies were!
It seemed that it was necessary to start preparing for the new film!
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