Chapter 75: Jenny's Appreciation

 'This is the best summer blockbuster of the year, and I'm already looking forward to seeing how it will perform on the market, and Gore Wipinski tells a full-bodied, funny and thrilling story in two hours. Johnny Depp's Captain Jack is the most distinctive movie character of the year...

 It's fair to say that Johnny's performance is original in every way. In no other movie has there ever been a pirate or anyone like him... Of course, it is also worth noting that Jennifer Jefferson contributed a completely opposite image to her previous works, showing a high degree of plasticity. '

 'The plot is interesting, and I can't find more faults than some bluff episodes that are too long, will it be the big winner this summer?' Jennifer plays Elizabeth Swan and Johnny Depp's Captain Jack is full of sparks, but sadly, most of Jennifer's rivalry is done with the bland Josh Blanche...

 "Empire", "Variety", "Chicago Sun", "New York Times", with the development of premieres in various places, these important magazines and newspapers have also published film reviews of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and these positive content has also promoted the public's desire to watch the movie, after all, they have not heard of the gossip of the previous viewing meeting, and their impression of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is still limited to "this is a big investment with many special effects".

 "Now these blockbusters with special effects, if you don't go to the cinema within the schedule, you will never be able to watch them. In an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Jon's father was flipping through the newspaper and commenting.

 Jon, who was on summer vacation, had been depressed for a few days because she couldn't make it to the premiere in Los Angeles, and she was only then refreshed by her father's comments. "yes, Dad, let's go to the premiere together, shall we take Harry with us. "

 She was still in high school, so she was curfew, and it was a risk to stay and wait for Jenny before watching the show, but fortunately, there were not many times, and Jon usually had good grades, so she escaped the doom of being grounded. However, since the premiere starts at 12 midnight, it will be difficult for Jon to see the premiere without the permission of his family, and he will definitely be called home.

 "Alas. Father Jon folded the newspaper and reluctantly exchanged a look with his wife, "It's for J.J. again, isn't it?"

 If it weren't for his daughter showing him the interview with Jennifer Jefferson, so that he could understand the history of J.J's struggle from the predicament, which made Jon's father have a good impression of Jennifer, and his daughter's grades did not regress, he would not approve of his daughter suddenly starting to chase stars.

 "J.J's acting has been well received this time," Jon immediately opened up the conversation, "plus Johnny and Josh, and the trailer is so exciting, and my classmates are all talking about this film, I have a hunch that it must be very difficult to buy tickets on the premiere day." In this case, we might as well watch the midnight show, there should be fewer people to buy tickets for that one, and if you go to buy tickets during the day, you may have to wait in line for hours. "

 Jon's father doesn't often go to the cinema, so he believes his daughter's words, he loves Jon very much, otherwise Jon wouldn't have the money to fly to Los Angeles, he muttered for a moment, and asked, "Are you going with Harry?

 "It's definitely Harry. Mother Jon helped, "The problem with J.J. is always Harry. "

 Harry and Jon have become very good friends because of J.J., and Harry has also played at home, and Jon's father has a good impression of him, so after thinking about it, he agreed, "Then you go with Harry, remember, go straight home after watching the movie, and let Harry drive you to the door." "

 "Okay, Dad. Jon immediately smiled, and she kissed his father on the cheek, "Then I won't be back for dinner on Wednesday, just in time to go to Harry's house to work on my dissertation together." "

 "Whatever you want. Father Jon thought for a moment and added, "If it's pretty, tell us that I'll go with your mom and I on the weekend." "

 "No problem, if it's good, I'll definitely urge you to see it. Jon immediately contracted the job, and when she saw her mother looking at her helplessly, she wiped her mouth weakly, "I'm full, I'm going out first, I love you." "

 Jon's words that were used to fool her father just now can only fool people like her father who don't often watch movies - although in the United States, watching movies is not a very expensive consumption, but because movie tickets in the United States have no seats, and there are few online pre-sales, so if you want to watch a movie, you generally have to queue up at the cinema to buy tickets, decide which movie to watch on the spot, and then queue up to enter, and the audience in front of the queue will pick a seat first.

 For the audience who have leisure, they can avoid these links by watching movies on weekdays, as well as watching movies during unpopular periods, and even in the most unpopular time, you can watch various movies in a row after buying a ticket, and no staff will come to check the tickets, anyway, it is empty, you can watch it if you like. But for a social stalwart like Jon's father, the time he has to spare and enjoy watching movies is the most popular time, and he is certainly unwilling to spend his precious weekend queuing in line to buy tickets and admission, rather than buying tickets last every time and then watching the movie in a poor seat, he would rather rent some videotapes and DVDs and enjoy them calmly in front of the TV. So in the 90s of the 20th century before the popularity of special effects films, Jon's father rarely went to the cinema, that is, in recent years, special effects blockbusters have become popular, and many big scenes are not shocking enough on TV, so he gradually regained the habit of going to the theater, he didn't know at all, it was not so easy to buy tickets for the midnight show, especially for blockbusters like "Pirates of the Caribbean", the premiere must have been sold out early, and Jon and Harry planned the week Go to the queue early in the morning to buy tickets, and start queuing at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night to get a good spot for the 12 o'clock movie.

 Since it was the summer vacation, there were a lot of students who had to spare, and their plan could only allow them to successfully buy two tickets, but they did not let them rank first in the queue - in New York, the entertainment life of teenagers is actually relatively poor, if they are good students, if they don't smoke big hemp and fool around, there will only be some sports and entertainment and watching movies, and there will always be many idlers who will be willing to spend a lot of time and start queuing in the afternoon.

 While waiting, Jon and Harry found themselves relatively lonely, because there are not many students in the student party who can afford or are interested in going to the musical, and now the queue is almost all fans of Johnny Depp and Josh Blanche, of course, very fanatical and rare, but they are almost all for these two people to queue, although they are positive about Jennifer's several appearances in the trailer, and think she is quite beautiful, but it is obvious that no one will run to wait in line for a few shots for so long.

 "It would be nice to have a computer now. Jon regretfully said to Harry, "We can see how our friends online are queuing up to buy tickets." "

 "Even if you have a computer at hand, you probably won't be able to see the post, so I guess everyone is waiting in line for the premiere right now. Harry rationally speculated, "And the weekends may not be so active, after all, this is the first time J.J. has played a leading role, and it has been released nationwide, and everyone must want to see it first." "

 Due to the 'poverty' period of penchant Jennifer but lack of resources, J. J's fans cherish the opportunity to see her. She went to the cinema for three minutes for "Chicago", and now she is playing the starring role, how could she miss it, of course, she is discussing in the forum about buying tickets to see the premiere. The reason why Jon bothered to watch the premiere was also because of such emotions, and he wanted to be the first group of people to see in the psychology of conformity.

 Johanney, Josh ... Of course, these popular actors also have their own fans, Johnny's actors want to see his performance in mainstream commercial films, Josh's fans are even more impatient, after "Star Wars Prequel 2", Josh has not had a new work, a year has passed in a blink of an eye, except for some tidbits of "Pirates of the Caribbean", there are almost no resources leaked, and their hunger and thirst are no less than Jennifer's fans.

 Coupled with the curious fans brought by the strong publicity campaign, as well as some boring people who wanted to pass the time, these people are the audience composition of the midnight show, and it is also the result of the purest publicity and distribution + actor popularity, because it is still rare to find boring people who are willing to wait in a long line. At midnight, the quality of publicity determines the base of curious fans, the distribution channel determines the probability of curious fans going to the cinema, and the popularity of the actor determines the number of loyal fans - if you do a good job of publicity, the people of the whole country will see it, the number of fans interested in it will be more, the distribution will be done well, and the large-scale release can reach three or four thousand movie theaters, and it is convenient for fans to go to the movies, and the probability of stepping into the cinema is great, as for the popularity of actors, there is no need to say more.

 And these fans of the midnight show are also the barometer of the box office of the whole movie, if the box office of a movie at midnight is high and the audience feedback is good, then the follow-up trend curve will definitely not be too bad. On the contrary, if the box office of the midnight show is not high, and the audience's reputation is also very poor, then don't mention it, wait to lose money, generally such movies will be narrowed after the first round of screenings, and no follow-up publicity will be arranged, but will begin to prepare DVDs in full swing, at least to make some money in this market.

 "I've been to a few nearby theaters. Mary called Jenny at ten o'clock, "All the tickets are sold out, and the trend seems to be even better than we predicted." "

 Although she is only an assistant, she has been following Jenny for more than a year, and she can be regarded as loyal and clever, so Jenny and Cesare are becoming more and more avoidant of her when they have meetings, and she also knows some data predictions. - Indeed, although "Pirates" has a good reputation in the film critics' circles, the box office prediction curves set by major media, especially the box office at midnight, are not very high, and they are definitely not sold out anyway.

 This is not without reason, after all, there are still not many fans who are willing to watch a movie at 12 o'clock and go home at 2 o'clock, not fans who are so troublesome? And Depp and Josh, who carry the box office, are not Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and other popular superstars with their own fan groups, in the filmmaker's estimate, the best situation is that the midnight show is not high or low, because the film is on Wednesday, and the data on Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be mediocre. It's satisfying to be able to collect three or four million, mainly depending on the box office of the three days on the weekend, and even the box office on Friday is difficult to count, after all, Friday is not a rest day, even if it goes down, it doesn't mean that there will be a difference in the end.

 Now judging from the situation of several theaters around me, the box office is relatively good, and ordinary people should have jumped up with excitement a long time ago, at least they have to be nervous or something, but Jenny is unusually calm, she estimates that she should be the most confident person in "Pirates of the Caribbean" among all stakeholders.

 "Very well, Mary, go to bed early," she said, "and I'll say goodnight first—I'm going to sleep." "

 Mary's tone can be wrung out of grievances. "... Well, good night, Jenny. "

 Jenny specially turned her phone to silent, and fell asleep soundly after doing her evening routine - in Los Angeles, she definitely belongs to the group of early sleepers, especially in the entertainment industry, which has a lot to do with the night, most people are more and more energetic at night, and tonight alone, there are many practitioners who do not plan to fall asleep before 5 o'clock in the morning.

 At two o'clock in the morning, after the two-hour screening, the audience at midnight was discussing the plot and walked out of the screening hall one after another. "

 This is a staff member of a data statistics company hired by major magazines or websites, or the filmmaker itself, who is responsible for counting audience satisfaction, and audience satisfaction at midnight is also a very important data for major companies, which is also closely related to the follow-up box office trend. After all, all the pre-publicity is just to attract you into the theater, and in the end, how the audience feels about the TV copy itself, the number of audiences and critics in the internal preview screening is still too small, and it is difficult to give the filmmaker confidence. The best samples are those who save until midnight to watch the movie, and they have a strong interest in the copy itself, watch it attentively, and will also give some relatively objective ratings.

 "I think it's very good-looking. Jon was still immersed in the mood of watching the movie, and she couldn't help but chuckle when she thought of the funny and rich details, "Yes, I'll promote it with my family, and I decided that this is the best movie I've seen in the summer..."

 She didn't overdo it because this was a J.J. movie, just now in the theater, many scenes made the audience laugh, and the plot also made her feel interesting, although the plot is far-fetched, but Jon is not very demanding about this, many battle scenes are very complete details echo and develop, making her feel that this is a rigorous and cerebral film, but the plot is so funny and witty, and the pirate theme is also very fresh. In short, even without J.J., she would have the urge to watch it again, and judging from the heated discussion she heard during the appearance, many viewers had the same idea as her.

 "For whom this movie is coming to see," Jon wrote without hesitation, "Jennifer Jefferson." "

 Not only did the questionnaire point to such an obvious question, but there was also a more blatant question, 'Who do you think is the best performer' - this is also because the filmmakers collect data, and this feedback is directly related to their future evaluation of the actor, and the major film companies have such a core confidential database in their hands, listing the evaluation of the real value of the actor, which is convenient for negotiation and the bottom line when cooperating. If it is a survey by a magazine or a data analysis agency, it is impossible to ask such a 'provocative' question.

 After thinking about Johnny Depp's performance for a few seconds, Jon still wrote Jennifer's name very 'faithfully', she looked at Harry on the side, and found that he wrote Johnny Depp's name before Jennifer, and couldn't help but glare at him, so she returned the questionnaire to the staff and retrieved a ballpoint pen.

 "What. Harry defended himself, "Johnny is very well acted, as good as Jennifer, am I not writing it right?"

 The two audience members walked out of the screening hall while talking, and the staff of the data company continued to work at the entrance of the theaters of more than 200 premieres in the United States. They will sort out the questionnaires collected tonight within a few working days, and then send the report to the filmmakers. So tonight, you only need to finish this wave of crowds and go back to rest, but in the movie theater, there are still many accountants and other staff who are calculating the ticket price for the midnight show, or doing simple calculations, counting the revenue figures of tonight's midnight show, and then sending an email or fax to Exhibitor Relations, a box office statistics research company.

 This professional data company, which specializes in analyzing, researching, and predicting the box office, will count the box office of the new midnight movies released in the United States this weekend within a few hours, and sell them to major news websites and newspapers Obviously, it is higher than the film company, and many times, the relevant people still have to know the box office at the first time through the news.

 Of course, studios also buy box office analysis data, and the staff on duty will also interface with Exhibitor Relations, so that at four or five o'clock in the morning, the midnight box office report is sent into the mailboxes of various people, who either stay up all night, just waiting for the report, or get up early, in short, most stakeholders will not be at ease if they do not see the report in the first place.

 "$4.7 million?"

 At the breakfast table, Disney CEO Michael Eisner exclaimed, "$4.7 million?"

 His wife, Jane Eisner, asked curiously, "What 4.7 million?"

 "The midnight box office of 'Pirates of Calibbean', baby. Michael re-read the email in disbelief, such as "Pirates of the Caribbean" such a blockbuster with a billion-dollar investment, the entire company's senior management is very concerned about its box office performance, after all, if it loses, it will be hundreds of millions of dollars, even a behemoth like Disney will feel pain, so even if he is a CEO, he will pay attention to the box office report. "That's more than double our best estimates. "

 He immediately mentally adjusted his expectations for Johnny and Josh's box office appeal, and at the same time lost interest in eating breakfast, hastily stuffed some cereal into his mouth, and wanted to quickly go to the office.

 But while he was still chewing, the phone call came in, "Michael, did you see the midnight box office report?" Damn, Robert is going to be proud this time. "

 Although you are the CEO of Disney, this does not mean that Michael can be "cool and broken", it is true that he is now in power at Disney, but in the end, he and his senior management are hired by the board of directors to manage the company, and the loss of any investment will make him passive in front of the board of directors, it is said that he should not want "Pirates of the Caribbean" to lose money at the box office, but this news does not make Eisner very happy, because he was not optimistic about this item from the beginning Although he did not show a bad attitude towards "Pirates" outside, the leader of this project, Disney CEO Robert Iger, has always been at odds with Eisner, and now that "Pirates" is high at the box office, Eisner must be uncomfortable.

 "This is good news for the company. Of course, the CEO's demeanor must still be taken care of, in the final analysis, this is also a good thing for the company, Eisner's discomfort is a momentary matter, he smiled and replied, "Your call is just right, today I want to see the publicity department's follow-up publicity strategy report on "Pirates... If the box office report of today's opening is good, there will be more resources in the follow-up... With such a performance in a cold period like Wednesday, the potential of "Pirates" must not be exhausted. "

 Although he attended the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean", the schedule for "Pirates" was not very good, generally speaking, movies are released on Fridays, but perhaps in order to avoid "Fallen from the Sky" that was released this week, "Pirates" is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, which also fully reflects the film's expectations for the film, as well as some of Eisner's own style of doing things.

 "Yes, of course. The voice on the other end of the phone also calmed down, "I'll also make a congratulatory call to Robert in a moment - do you want to contact the surrounding development department to do some follow-up development work?"

 "This can be said after the weekend box office comes out. Eisner said a few more words to him, then hung up, and he ate his breakfast calmly, but his movements slowed down, as if he were thinking about something.

 "What are you thinking, dear?" asked Jane Eisner kindly. "Isn't this something to be happy about?"

 "Jane, if you have time later, you can take the kids to the movies. Michael took a sip of orange juice, "Just watch Pirates of the Caribbean and pay attention to the reaction of the audience around you, especially the young ..."

 Eisner hid his worries about the decline of his ability very deeply, but the market will not slow down the pace of his feedback, "Pirates of the Caribbean" received 12 million on the first day, 14 million on the second day, and it rose in a straight line after entering the weekend, handing over 52 million good results over the weekend, and 78 million in five days of release, beating "Fallen from the Sky" to the point that it could not be found in the north, and this blockbuster with high hopes received 23 million in three days after its release, which is not as good as the results of "Pirates of the Caribbean" on weekdays.

 Since the definition of this film is not a fan movie, the box office trend curve is relatively stable, and if you predict from the results of the five days of release, as well as the good audience reputation and audience composition, the North American box office forecast of this film has been raised to more than 300 million US dollars, which can be said to be the biggest dark horse this summer. And then, of course, there is also a big explosion of popularity of several leading actors, and the IMDB actor rankings have received the most intuitive response, Johnny Depp, Josh Blanche and Jeffrey Rush's IMDB rankings have all risen greatly, Johnny and Josh's rankings have reached the top five, but this is not as good as Jennifer Jefferson's rankings - since Wednesday, her rankings have risen as fast as a rocket, and on Saturday, she successfully reached the top, becoming the most concerned by IMDB users this week of movie stars.

 The author has something to say: Note:

 1 The pirate box office mentioned here does not correspond to reality, and I made a high profile.

 2 Robert Egger and Jane Eisner appear in this chapter as real people. That box office stats company is also true.

 3 IMDB has noted before, right?IMDB rankings can visually reflect the popularity.

 4 It is also true that American movie theaters have the wrong number of seats, or no number at all...

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 Let's talk about two recent issues...

 1 Comment on the wording, everyone likes this article, I'm really happy, I'm happy to have a passionate discussion, whether it's criticism or praise, I'm welcome, but whether it's criticism or praise, it can't affect my arrangement of the plot, you can rest assured. But I found that there are some over-wording problems in the comment area recently, and I hope that everyone will restrain their emotions, discuss them in a friendly manner, and objectively say whether they are positive or negative, and do not involve people

 2 The problem of 'water', I understand that everyone wants to see different things when they read the article, this article is not water in general, maybe everyone has a different opinion, today's chapter Jenny did not appear, almost all of them are talking about the box office, and many readers may feel very watery. But what I'm trying to say is, if I don't write about why the midnight show is important, if I don't write about the lack of confidence in the box office by putting the pirates on Wednesday, if I don't write about the questionnaire and the attitudes of the audience in Jon's family towards Jenny and the pirates, then how can everyone be happy about Jenny's achievement? How can there be a sense of realism? If you don't like realism, I'm sure there are a lot of entertainment that can be seen with lifelong achievements in two years and three years after being a movie queen. I don't say what I'm writing is true, but it's these actings, box office figures, social and gaming that make up a Hollywood that at least is closer to the existing rules of society. I accept that people don't like a certain chapter, feel that this aspect of the content is not interested, will skip, but I do not accept that I write 'water', analysis, research also takes time and effort, if I write a chapter of the interaction between the gold owner Mogill and Jenny, and then this person never appears again, it is called water, called the number of deceptions, the reader left a message pointing out, I see that the heart will be empty. But with the current 400,000 in this article, I can say without hypoguity that I don't have water, and this subscription is really not enough to let me go to the water. I write Hollywood with a lot of words, because I like this article, it's comfortable, fast, and naturally has a lot of words, not because I want water.

 In short, thank you for your enthusiastic support, Jenny's road to dominance has just begun, I hope we can finish this story in a relatively short time with good quality and a lot of updates, because I still have a lot of articles to write after that, Hollywood is really a very sudden event...