Chapter 396: Box office record-breaking, terrifying movie return rate
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The more this happens, the more curious the American people who have never seen it become.
One after another they started buying tickets and went into the theater.
The number of movies scheduled has also gone from single digits at the beginning to over 30 in just three or four days.
There was even no theater promotion at all.
Now the movie poster of "Saw" is simply placed in the most conspicuous place in the theater.
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Within one week of its release, "Saw" grossed more than 60 million U.S. dollars at the box office.
On average, the box office for that day is around 10 million.
And even though a week has passed, the popularity of this movie on the Internet has just begun to grow.
More audiences will come to the theater in the future.
You know, the investment cost of this movie was less than five million US dollars.
The rate of return has almost reached a terrifying level of more than ten times.
At the call of the company's employees, Martin held a celebration banquet.
Although it is not the first time that Martin has held a celebration party.
In order to defraud Wesker of money before, related movie celebration parties were actually held much more frequently.
Of course, as for whether there is a need to celebrate, Martin himself actually knows it.
So this time it was a completely different experience from his previous experiences.
He looked very excited.
I really succeeded.
At first I always felt that Xu Ji was deceiving people.
But now Martin knew that what the other party said was true.
I also thought about what Xu Ji once said, that he would completely conquer the entire American film and television industry.
Even with all the eight major film studios under his feet, Martin feels that he is now very ambitious and longing for the future.
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At the same time, at Paige Pictures, Wesker was talking on the phone with some of his old friends.
"'Saw'? I don't know."
"Oh, it's just a kid doing it casually. You know, that kid Martin never listens to my arrangements."
"That's not clear. I'll ask him when I have time."
...
Wesker hung up the phone, even though he just said it was nothing.
But actually his expression was quite proud.
This time "Saw" has already achieved the best results among American horror films in recent years.
Although it has only been released for a week now.
But judging from the current box office growth trend, the final box office it can get is at least 200 million US dollars.
This kind of result is already a very good result for many feature films.
What's more, this is an R-rated horror movie.
What's more important is that the investment in this movie was less than US$5 million.
A proper low-budget film.
Even if you compare it to Paige or the other eight major film studios, it is difficult to see the rate of return.
Although it is not Paige's project, the money earned is not his own.
But his son was in charge of the movie project, which made Wesker happier than Paige making money on his own.
"Mr. Wesker, do you need to contact Master Martin?"
"Let him come back."
The assistant asked at this time.
After all, Martin achieved pretty good results this time.
And it can be seen, because this Wesker is also quite happy.
Presumably at this time, the other party is very willing to see his son.
Wesker was also moved after hearing this.
But he hesitated and waved his hand.
"never mind."
"Since that kid is getting down to business now, I won't bother him anymore."
"Just tell me his movements from time to time."
The assistant didn't say much after hearing this and nodded silently.
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But not everyone is so happy.
Wesker has two sons.
Martin is the second son, and he has always been recognized as a playboy of the second generation, uneducated and incompetent.
He is a representative figure who embarrasses Paige.
Unlike Martin, his brother Caiden Mason is completely the best candidate for Paige's successor.
Caiden himself graduated from a prestigious university in the United States.
After graduation, I joined Paiqi, starting from the most basic level.
Now he is one of the managers of Paige headquarters.
At the same time, there have been many outstanding achievements, and the final profitability of the film projects he was responsible for was very good.
Among them, there is a commercial film with a box office of more than 300 million.
Basically, the outside world now agrees that Kaiden must be the future heir to Paige and has not run away.
After all, compared to Martin, the gap between the two is too huge.
If Wesker wasn't an idiot, then Paige would definitely be handed over to Caiden.
"The box office is 70 million a week, and it's a movie with an investment of less than 5 million."
"How can this be?"
Kaiden couldn't believe it.
Especially, although the outside world has not said it, it has now spread throughout the circle that Martin is the person in charge of this "Saw".
"It's just good luck, and it's not our Paige project."
"Mr. Kayden, don't worry, Martin will not affect you."
Next to Kaiden was a department manager from Pai Qi.
Everyone is not a fool, since it has basically been confirmed that Kaiden is the successor of Paige in the future.
Then you must try to please them while you can still get in touch with them.
When Kaiden inherits the company, he will definitely get a promotion and a salary increase.
Kaiden nodded after hearing the department manager's words.
"That's how it should be."
"But this is such good luck. Why don't I have that kind of luck?"
Kaiden said.
He knew his younger brother too well.
He is completely uneducated and always thinks about how to swindle money from his father.
For such a person, the film project he is responsible for can achieve such good results. There is no other explanation other than luck.
Is it possible for him to admit that his brother Martin is actually a very powerful person, but he just didn't show it before.
Caiden actually didn't care much about Martin coming to ask for money and spend the night.
He just hopes that the other party will not affect his inheritance rights.
As for the rest, they are actually just trivial matters to him.
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The box office results of "Saw" in its first week also spread back to China.
Of course, the people who are mainly concerned about this matter are actually the people from Tongji Entertainment.
At present, this film has not been released in China, so basically many people have no idea that this is a film produced by Tongji Entertainment and written by Xu Ji.
Xu Ji was actually a little surprised when he saw the news that the first sixty million dollars were close to US$70 million.
Because he remembered that in his previous life, although "Saw" was a box office hit, it definitely didn't do that well.
The final box office should be about 100 million US dollars, and it is also the cumulative box office worldwide.
But now, the market in the United States alone is basically certain to exceed 100 million.
However, the market and era of the two worlds are also influenced by various factors, but it is not something that is completely beyond cognition.
Of course, in fact, in the previous life, what really made money for "Saw" was not the movie box office.
It’s about the subsequent IP value, the sales share of the audio tapes in the video hall, etc.
In this life, there is probably no chance, and the video halls in the United States and China have basically been eliminated.
But I can make another fortune from online copyrights.
It seems that Martin is not completely incompetent. It was also the right choice to hand over the American company to the other party.
Xu Ji had already begun to think about what kind of script he should give Martin next.
That guy was also impatient. "Saw" had only been released for a week, and he had already started asking him for the script for the next movie.