Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 516 The box office also exploded

"Rick, what happened?" Ronald returned home and immediately called his agent, Nisita, "It seems that the audience is crazy, they shouted not to let the creator go, and dragged them to sign half a contract. Many hours of fame. You must know that they were still little actors that no one cared about before."

"You're going to make a fortune, Ronald." Nisita put the receiver on the other side and took the note from the secretary, "I heard about the premiere and sent five assistants to the cinemas in each district to watch it. , the field is hot, I guess you should print a copy."

"Wait, don't hang up, Ronnie," Nisita picked up another phone, "Hey, it's me, I'm Ronald Lee's agent. Would you like to ask him to talk about the new script? He But the hot new star... yes, I'll arrange that when he gets back from Cannes."

   "Ronnie, the agent and producer who has a good sense of smell, has already started to contact me. I will answer them together and talk to them when you come back from Cannes."

   "Hello?" Another phone rang. Nisita seemed to have opened a hotline. Every time she put the phone back, it rang again after a while.

"Ronald, I have to hang up first. You have a good rest. It is estimated that starting from tomorrow, many people will come to you, or the media will interview you. I will send Richard to help you handle things. Paula also Go, she's more experienced in PR, you're on fire, man."

   Ronald put down the phone excitedly, walked around the room twice, and then threw a fist, "Yeah!", is he going to get angry?

   "But why?" Ronald was still a little confused. You didn't play very well, did you? He picked up the phone again and called Donna in New York.

   "Donna? My new movie 'Break Dance' is out, have you watched it yet?"

   "I bought a ticket for the first game tomorrow." Donna is going to watch it on Saturday, and she has to learn calculus in advance on Friday.

   "Okay, do me a favor. When you go to see it, chat with other people why they like to watch it. The audience here in Los Angeles seems to be very enthusiastic. I'm a little unsure."

   "Okay, but it's not necessarily hot here in New York. I'll call you when I'm done watching." Donna hung up the phone.

"Yes, not necessarily the East Coast also likes this kind of dance, they have their own style of hip-hop, and their own style of rap music." Ronald's mood calmed down a little, "But even if the West Coast is hot, the box office is far beyond expectations. Right."

   Ronald, who was at home, couldn't help walking around the house, he felt a suffocation in his chest. He was very sure of his directing achievements every time, but this time he did not expect such a strong reaction from "breakdance".

  Why?

   Ronald picked up the phone again and called former boss Roger Coleman.

   "Roger, you are about to become famous, and the audience likes your performance very much."

   "Hahaha, isn't it? You're a good boy. You gave me a lot of lines, and I played it very well." Roger Coleman hasn't gone to his own show yet.

   "I have a question, the audience seems to be going crazy today, and it is estimated that the box office will exceed expectations. I don't understand what happened."

   "Hahaha, do you feel that the movie you made has become popular for no reason, and you don't know where to make it right?" Coleman has decades of filmmaking experience and is very experienced in this.

   "Yes, yes, I'm a little dizzy. A voice inside of me seems to be saying, I'm not that good, but another voice says, maybe you are that good!"

   "Yes, you can still keep a clear head now, much better than when I was young." Roger Coleman told a story.

"I read the news in the newspaper one year, there was a gang of gangsters riding motorcycles, they called themselves Hell's Angels, and I went to Peter Bogdanovich, who was still a film critic at the time, to change a script, and then Starring Henry Fonda.

  I think it's okay to shoot, but it's just average. Who knows what happened to this 'Wild Angels' suddenly, and it sold for tens of millions of dollars all of a sudden. All the movies I've done before, add up to nothing.

  Sometimes, God will be on your side. As long as you stay in this industry for a long time, there will always be one or two encounters. Your movie will just hit the trend of the times, and it will be inexplicably popular. "

   "So it is!" Ronald put down the phone and realized something. He felt that he should have stepped on the trend of the era of breakdancing.

  Break dancing has been developed for more than ten years since it was invented by blacks. After the Latinos continued to develop in the 1980s, the skills continued to improve. Now the skills and art of breakdancing have reached a very high level, more and more people are dancing, and it is gradually becoming popular and gradually entering the field of mainstream media.

   Last year, there was a "Lightning Dance", which included a minute of break dancing, which made more people pay attention to this dance, and more and more teenagers danced this dance in the streets. Breakdancing seems to be on the verge of breaking out, and it's just about to fail.

   From this point of view, it is a huge advantage to shoot quickly and get ahead of Orion's movie "Hot Street Kid" with the same theme.

   By the next morning, Ronald got up early, picked up newspapers from the past few weeks, and started researching the box office.

   March is the peak season, and a large number of hot films released at that time have gradually passed for nearly ten weeks today.

Like Robert Zemeckis' "Emerald," Ronald himself nearly directed "All Over," and the comedy "Police Academy," and finally a Diane nearly co-starring with Tom Hanks "Mermaid", these four films have received 40 to 50 million box office, gradually showing fatigue, the box office is declining week by week.

   just hit a gentle bottom, "Break Dance" turned out, and it should explode this weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, Donna first called from the phone booth outside the movie theater to report, "I went to see it, Ronnie. There were a lot of people. The audience went crazy, and after watching it, a lot of blacks and Latinos, jumped in front of the screen. The stage jumped up on its own. There are still many white people learning from the scene below..."

   "Huh? Do you think it looks good? Where is it good?" Ronald asked loudly, and he started to get excited again. It seems the east coast is also blowing up.

   "I don't know. Anyway, those dances were all too exciting. By the way, MJ's spacewalk was really taught by Ma..."

   "Is that so?" Ronald's chest began to hold a breath of joy again.

   It seems that those blacks and Latinos on the east coast didn't mind that the dance in this movie was west coast style, and they were ecstatic to see their dance appear on the big screen. The small style gap between the east and west coasts should be nothing.

   This is really going to make a fortune.

   "Meinahan, congratulations, you are about to make a fortune." Ronald called Meinahan immediately.

   "We're going to get rich, you bastard, we're going to get rich! You're a genius, you're a genius, a genius! Quack..."

  Meinahan is also incoherent. For so long, the two Israeli brothers have always suffered from the scorn of other big studios in the American film circle, and this is finally successful.

   He put down the phone and looked at his cousin, Yoram, who was also full of tears. The two hugged each other tightly and cried.

   "Yoram, Yoram, it turns out that we can still make money making movies in America! Woohoo..."

   "Yeah, let's sell it to Europe, East Asia, and the world! Woohoo..."

   "Stop, park..."

  Donna walked out of the phone booth in New York, and was about to pick up a taxi and go home with her best friend Diane. But the taxi didn't seem to be able to see the two of them, so it didn't mean to slow down.

   "You should come this way." Diane took out a ten dollar bill and waved to the driver.

   "Gah..." The taxi stopped.

  The two chatted in the taxi, talking about Ronald's new movie.

   "Ronnie is going to be famous this time!" Donna said in Diane's ear.

   "The dance is so beautiful, in fact, the performance of this movie is not difficult." Diane looked reserved, but the regret in her heart was also clearly displayed on her face.

   "Then let Ronnie take you to shoot." Donna slapped Diane's armpit.

"I do not want it."

  The two girls were joking and joking in the car.

  The car turned the end of the street, and there was a long queue outside the theater, all patiently waiting for the "breakdance" tickets.

  The big billboard of the "Break Dance" movie put on by MGM was carried out by the staff from the corner of the inner wall and placed in the most conspicuous position in the hall.

  Everyone was very happy, except for a thin Latino young man who squatted on the ground in remorse and kept patting the ground.

   "I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid! I believe in your ghost!"

   It was he who rejected Ronald and played his "crazy legs" in Orion Pictures' "Hot Street Kid".

   This was originally mine!

"Hot Street Kid" hasn't been released yet, and breakdance stole everyone's limelight. For a time, all the New York kids were practicing the authentic West Coast dance moves of the Bugaloo prawn in "Breakdance", and no one came to practice "Lightning Dance" "Here, New York's East Coast-style space pace.

  It was originally a mature dance. After the mass media such as movies, it was enlarged and played on the big screen. It seems that the dance steps of the East Coast will be completely overwhelmed by the West Coast in the future.

   "Orion sucks, sucks!"

  Ronald hid at home, again excitedly staying up for most of the night.

   On the third Sunday, the day when the first weekend schedule ended, Ronald simply waited at Cannon Films, staring at the fax machine with Minahan, watching the numbers reported by MGM.

   After midnight, after the early morning, until the sky is already bright.

   "Squeak..." The fax finally began to stand out on a sheet of paper.

   "Crack", Minahan tore off the fax paper, which was the preliminary statistics of MGM.

The box office of "Breakdance" in the first weekend reached 7.86 million, and it was released in 1,000 theaters. , which is twice as many as "sixteen candles".

   (end of this chapter)