Chapter 068 (1/2)

Coolidge, Arizona.

When ”Lola Run” was just released, in the face of the media's praise, most of the crew still just thought Simon was a slightly more talented young man.

However, with the release of the box office data of the film, in recent days, everyone's eyes on Simon are obviously different, even Catherine.

The box office of the first week was $6.97 million.

This kind of data, put in 20 years later, maybe even the box office of the first week of a super blockbuster is not as small as a fraction. But in the 1980s, especially when the number of screens was only 207, it was enough to surprise many people.

You know, in 1986, of the 451 films shown in North American Theaters, less than 90 films with a total box office of more than $6.97 million. In other words, in this era, more than 80% of Hollywood's films are sold every year, and the total box office in North America is less than that of ”Lola Run” for more than a week.

Moreover, for ”Lola Run,” the first week's box office is obviously just the beginning.

Judging from the film's current public praise and media popularity, ”Lola Run” has been successfully promoted to a standard ”event film”. This is Hollywood's general term for those films that have achieved far more than expected social repercussions and box office data.

Before ”Lola Run”, only films such as ”Exorcist”, ”Star Wars”, ”great white shark” and ”et” could be called event films. However, films such as ”Star Wars” still belong to Hollywood standard commercial films.

Although Hollywood also has such low-cost successful films as crazy max, the total box office of Mad Max in North America was only more than 8 million US dollars, which is quite impressive, but far less than the miracle that the box office of Lola Run in the first week had exceeded the production cost by 10 times.

Now, ”Lola Run” is ahead of time to create a similar time and space in the original ”the witch Blair”, ”ghost record” and other low-cost high box office films.

In addition, what scares some people even more is the prediction made by some media on the box office prospects of ”Lola Run”.

150 million to 200 million dollars.

It's still a box office figure that won't look too special in 20 years.

However, in the whole of North America, even if we count the ”field platoon”, which is only expected to break the 100 million mark, in fact, it has not yet broken the 100 million mark. In 1986, only five Hollywood films broke the 100 million mark in North America.

Among them, ”top gun”, which promoted Tom Cruise to a world-class superstar, only made $176 million in North America.

Now, let's see Lola Run.

The total box office of North America is expected to reach 150 million to 200 million US dollars, which means that if the next Hollywood films released this year are a little less competitive, the North American box office champion in 1987 will probably be taken away by an independent film with a production cost of only 650000 US dollars.

18 years old.

650000.

The first movie in my life.

North American box office champion.

Many people seem to be watching a legend being born.

The hotel where the crew of ”blood corpse night” stayed.