Failure??

After the movie ended, the screen turned black and lights of the theater were turned on. There was no voice and response for a while.

Sarah was a little panicked. Although the responses at the film festivals were very good, but she doesn't know if the general audience and critics will also like the movie.

Just as she was feeling a little lost, the sound of clapping sounded. At first, it was small, but then the volume increased more and more. After a while, almost all of the theater was clapping.

Jennifer Garner patted Sarah: "Don't worry so much, I told you people will like it."

She knows how it feels when your first work is released in theaters. The expectations from audience, from critics, from yourself and from the box office, any one of these is enough to make a person go mad. Looking at the young actress, she couldn't help but remember her time.

She herself isn't much worried about the success or failure of the movie. Her daughter is young only two years old, and she is her first priority now. She only did this movie because she liked the script, especially as it revolves around the concept of anti-abortion.

Sarah accepted the comfort and smiled, but only she knows whether she was really okay or just pretending to be okay.

After a successful small premiere, the movie was released in theaters. Despite a successful premiere and few positive articles, people didn't pay much attention to the newly released literary movie.

In Hollywood, movies are released during four seasons: Winter, summer, autumn and spring. Among these four, first two are the peak seasons for the movies. Most of the movies are released during this time, and more than 70 percent of the annual box office revenue is also collected during these two seasons.

Therefore, in such a peak season of Winter, where one after another blockbusters were coming out, almost no one paid any attention to a small literary film like "Juno". Although the websites like imdb and Rotten Tomatoes have already opened pages for "Juno", but there were only few reviews and responses on them.

"Who is this Sarah Wilson? Haven't heard of her before."

"She seems to be a new actress. She is so beautiful."

"I will watch the movie for Michael Cera. I liked his "Superbad" very much."

After the first week, the box office results came out. Juno grossed 600 k dollars in the first week. This amount was a little low considering the fact that it was released in 350 theaters. Compared to the other big movies like "Enchanted" and "Golden Compass" which were released in the same time period, "Juno's" box office doesn't even deserve to be compared to them.

The only good thing was the fact that studio didn't decide to cut down the screens immediately and decided to give movie another week. It meant that distributors still have some expectations from the movie.

In hollywood, the box office of literary and artistic films like "Juno" is not explosive at the beginning, as compared to the commercial blockbusters. Therefore, distribution companies follow the strategy of releasing literary movies on small scale first. If the response from the audience is good, then the screens will be increased accordingly.

But such situations have become very rare now, because in this age of blockbusters, audience doesn't want to waste their money on small art films and only go to cinema for blockbusters. As for literary films, they prefer to watch them when their DVD's are out.

Alan looked at the unpleasent expressions on his client's face, and couldn't help but comfort: "We don't have to be too sad. It's only first week, and the results will be better in next one."

Although he said the words of comfort, but his own look clearly told that he himself was in need of comfort. The results of literary films are indeed not good in the opening days, but they are also not this bad. It seems that he had too much expectations from the movie. He shouldn't have been overly excited at the beginning. Now he only hopes that the movie can cover its initial budget, otherwise it would be a very bad start on Sarah's resume.

Sarah nodded and stood up to go back to her apartment. She has been listening to such comforting words for a whole week now, and now they all seem to be same in her ears.

She payed the fare to the driver and got out of the cab. Looking at the people going in and out of the community, they look the same as last week. Her failure doesn't seem to have any affect on anyone. It doesn't matter to the world whether she succeed or fail.

She exited the elevator and went toward her apartment. Just as she was about to hit the wall, a hand pulled her from behind.