Vol 2 Chapter 301: Box office record at midnight

"Not very high, I am mentally prepared for it."
The sun came through the window and entered the dining room. Jeff Robinoff took the glasses from his daughter and sat at the dining table. "This is an R-rated film after all, with a relatively limited audience."
"It's a pity, Dad, you didn't go to the premiere yesterday."
Putting down the newspaper in her hand, Amanda Robinoff looked sorry for her father, "Do you know how strong the audience's reaction is? My classmate, the one who came to our house as a guest... Miley, she It's almost crazy."
Jeff Robinoff picked up the coffee cup and looked at his daughter.
Amanda continued, "It's not just her, all the young people on the scene are going crazy. I never thought that the movie could be so cool, so handsome, and so fun."
"My dear, don't read the newspaper at breakfast."
A middle-aged woman came in, Amanda stuck out her tongue mischievously, "Mom, I have finished breakfast."
"Ritz, are you here yet?" Jeff Robinoff asked his wife.
Ritz Robinoff sat next to him and shook her head, "Doug Walter just called, and the statistics company has a little problem. The statistics may take a little later."
"Are you talking about the midnight box office of "The Matrix"?" Amanda asked curiously.
"Yes."
Amanda rolled her eyes when she heard her father's words, "Dad, can you know what your expectations for the midnight box office are?"
Jeff Robinoff put down the coffee cup and replied, "I said, it won't be very high. Warner and I expected 5 million dollars."
"What about the first week?"
"35 million dollars."
Amanda pouted, "You are too conservative! You don't even understand how popular Duke's movies are among young people!"
"Honey. Don't forget that this is an R-rated film..."
Before Jeff Robinoff had finished speaking, the servant at home took a fax and walked into the restaurant. Ritz Robinoff took it and put it in front of her husband.
"The statistics are here," she said.
"How many?" Amanda asked curiously, "Dad?"
"It seems I am a little conservative."
He helped his glasses, Jeff Robinoff said. "$7.85 million! If I remember correctly, this is the midnight box office record for an R-rated film."
"Yes!"
Amanda shook her fist hard, "Great!"
Seeing the eyes of her father and mother at the same time, she shrugged playfully, "I'm just happy for the movie I like!"
Then she picked up her bag from the other side, "I'm leaving, father and mother. I made an appointment with my classmates last night."
"What are you going to do?" Liz Robinoff asked.
Amanda turned around and said, "Go to watch "The Matrix." We are going to live in the theater today."
The girl's figure disappeared, and the dining room was quiet again. Only the sound of Robinov and his wife chewing food. It was not until the end of breakfast that when Jeff Robinov was about to go to work, there was another voice in the dining room.
"Congratulations, dear," Liz Robinoff said to her husband, "Warner has another movie going on sale."
"It's only midnight. The specific North American trend depends on the results of the first week."
Santa Clara Cinema is one of the theater chains of Emperor Entertainment, located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is close to Silicon Valley and Stanford University, and it is the super-large theater with the top five passenger traffic in the entire San Francisco area.
Zhou Xin works in this theater and is in charge of the sales counter. Although he is a first-generation immigrant, he is gradually integrating into this society regardless of language and living habits.
Park the car. When he walked to the entrance of the theater, Zhou Xin found that the theater hadn't opened yet, and there were people waiting outside. What's even more exaggerated was that San Francisco in May was definitely not cool. Someone is wearing a long black trench coat...
However, thinking of the film that will be released on a large scale today, Zhou Xin understood what was going on.
"It's just an imitation, it's different from the Neo version."
He shook his head and walked into the theater. After doing his routine attendance, he went directly to the warehouse and transported the boxes of goods out, and opened them on the shelves of the movie hall's display cabinets. Among them were windbreakers and sunglasses. , A doll, with a keychain...
"Why do you still have a cell phone?"
A colleague passed by, glanced curiously, and asked, "George, when will our peripheral products go on the phone? Can they be sold?"
"Who knows?"
Zhou Xin shrugged, excluding the two ostentatious ones, put a total of fifty Nokia pop-up phones under the container.
As soon as nine o'clock arrived, the theater opened on time. Although it is a summer Friday, there are usually not many people in the morning. However, as soon as the front door of the theater opened, nearly a hundred young people came in. Most of them did not. Watching the introduction of each film in the cinema, I walked directly to the ticket office.
""The Matrix"……"
"I want a ticket for The Matrix!"
Similar voices came and went one after another, and it seemed that everyone was coming for this film, which was only released on a large scale today.
Because there were very few people coming to ask the surroundings, and the location was right across the corridors that entered each theater, Zhou Xin couldn't help but roughly estimate the number of people who walked into the different theaters.
"Taxi Express" seems to have 3 spectators in the first morning.
"Clash between Heaven and Earth" has been released for a week, the first show is much better than "Taxi Express", with 6 viewers.
"Cold-Blooded Titans" has not sold a single ticket, it is estimated that it will not be screened.
"The Matrix", forget it, it's not counting, there are too many people, it is impossible to count how many people there are.
Under normal circumstances, there are about 6 audiences in a small theater that can capture the cost of the screening. For the first screenings in the morning, the theater can only count on "The Matrix" if it wants to make a profit.
The colleague selling popcorn on the other side asked, "George, isn't it open yet?"
"No!"
Zhou Xin shrugged and looked a little enviously at the busyness of the ticket sales department. More people entered the theater one after another. Among them,'cool','explosion time, Neo and Trinity' were unreal Words such as'and reality' continue to spread here.
Looking at the merchandise of the new "The Matrix", Zhou Xin sighed. His income is closely related to sales performance. It hasn't opened today, which is really not a good sign.
"Perhaps, something will change after the end of The Matrix?"
Sitting here boringly and waiting for nearly two hours, today's first "The Matrix" finally ended. After Zhou Xin saw quite a lot of men and women come out, his face was not ordinary fatigue after watching movies, but excitement! No, it should be excitement! In his words before immigrating, it was like a chicken blood!
These people were chattering, and it was very chaotic. The voice came from a long distance, and almost every sentence carried a coolness. It seemed that there was nothing to say except this word.
"Where did you buy your trench coat?"
Walking out of the theater, Adam asked his companion, "The difference with Neo is still very big. When outside the theater, Roman, I think you are cool, but after watching the movie..."
He shook his head.
"I asked my sister to use Dad's old trench coat according to the poster." Roman scratched his head embarrassedly.
Adam did not listen to his words, but quickened his pace with shining eyes. He saw the place facing the corridor, Neo's black trench coat hanging on the showcase so eye-catching...
It's not unreasonable that the surrounding sales department is facing the hallway.
"Hey, I want a trench coat!"
Like many people, Adam came to the sales cabinet and finally squeezed to the front row and shouted with a loud voice, "And sunglasses! Do you have Neo's leather boots? If you have one, I will also have a pair, my size. Yes……"
In just a few minutes, Zhou Xin, who had nothing to do before, was completely busy. Because there were too many people, he had to let his colleagues come to help temporarily.
There are more than 20 people crowded in front of the counter who want to buy the surroundings. The most basic of these people is to buy windbreakers and sunglasses. A few girls even chose Trinity’s leather jackets and boots, and even sold them. Two of the luxurious limited edition trench coats priced at $999 were sold.
After getting the windbreaker and sunglasses, Adam dressed up almost immediately. He felt like a savior. When he was about to swipe his card, he heard the salesperson introduce, "We still have Neo's cell phone."
"Is it a Nokia flip phone?" Adam asked impatiently.
"Yes!" Zhou Xin immediately took out the samples. "The original, genuine Nokia pop-up phone will be available today on the first day!"
Big deal to eat bread this month! With this thought, Adam gritted his teeth and said, "Give me one. I just want to buy a mobile phone too!"
More than twenty people in different costumes when they came, turned into a group of Neo and Trinity when they left.
This is almost a day’s portrayal. Starting from sending away these customers, Zhou Xin has never been idle again. As more and more people have watched "The Matrix", the sales of his peripheral products have increased sharply, and he will be off work at night At the time, not only windbreakers, sunglasses and other relatively cheap things were almost sold out, even fifty Nokia phones were sold out!
"Boss, we need to purchase goods as quickly as possible."
After dialing the number of the person in charge of the theater, Zhou Xin said as concisely as possible, "Sunglasses need to be purchased, keychains need to be purchased, windbreakers need to be purchased, mobile phones need to be purchased, ... otherwise, the surrounding products will be out of stock tomorrow!"
After hung up the phone, Zhou Xin took a sigh of relief and began to count the sales performance. When the calculation was completed, his eyes widened. Today he sold the surroundings of The Matrix for $58,950!
This is almost a day's box office performance of the theater on an ordinary weekday in non-peak season!
Because he is not working at the ticket window, Zhou Xin does not know how many "The Matrix" box office the theater has sold today, but he is sure that the box office results of such hot movies around it will not be bad! (To be continued...)
ps: Three shifts every day~~ Daily tickets~~