A blessing in disguise

Turns in many things in the world often stem from unintentional trivial things.

After a week of coping, although he succeeded in disrupting the direction of public opinion into a pool of muddy water, Simon understood that the clarifications to be made on NBC's "Tonight Show" would not completely free him from doubt, and it will take time next Dilute this matter.

However, the video that suddenly appeared on ABC completely reversed the whole thing.

Previous questions were basically focused on whether Simon has professional capabilities such as photography, editing, and soundtracking. But after watching that video, anyone with a little independent thinking ability no longer doubts Simon's personal skills in music.

Obviously, how can Simon, a guitarist who has almost entered the room, fail to complete the soundtrack of a movie.

Now that Simon can complete the soundtrack, he can also complete photography and editing, which should be easier for ordinary people. So, what is doubtful about the final production of "Lola Run"?

Of course, doubts will naturally not be so easy to stop.

The media soon pointed out that in the video broadcast by ABC, Janet Johnston and Catherine Bigelow were obviously present, and Simon Westero used a collector's edition that should be worth about $1,000. Gibson acoustic guitar.

These details are enough to prove that the video is probably only recently set-up, rather than Simon Westero's performance video in Venice Beach before his fortune.

The obvious reason.

A poor boy with no money, where did an expensive brand guitar go to the show!

So inferred, Simon Westero's "Bumblebee Flying" should have only recently been hurriedly learned, just to deal with the current situation. Of course, this boy may have some talent for guitar, but he still can't prove anything.

However, the doubts in this regard were beaten every minute.

Local media in Los Angeles conducted an investigation directly in Venice Beach. The tourists naturally disappeared, but many of the surrounding vendors were impressed by the little miracle Simon made last year.

Later, the old Spanish man who ran the hotel even appeared in a talk show on a local Los Angeles TV station with his acoustic guitar, narrating in detail the whole incident, and patted his chest firmly to protect Simon.

On the new Monday, in the anticipation of many people, Simon officially appeared on the "Tonight Show" show.

As the media trend has changed, Simon has shown a series of handwritten scripts, shots and even Simon's own work notes during the production of "Lola Run" on this trump card talk show on NBC TV. It has been a week of events. The dust is basically settled.

Originally, Simon thought that as long as he could successfully escape from this public opinion storm, it would be good.

But everyone did not expect that perhaps the ABC video tape once again stimulated a lot of popularity. In addition to the rumored period, the guitar sales of all musical instrument stores in North America have greatly increased, and "Rola Run" appeared again at the box office in the following week. Unexpected changes.

Since "Lola Run" has been rolled out on a large scale last week, according to the usual box office curve of most movies, the box office of the film should have a certain decline in the fifth week. Affected by the questioning storm, Orion even predicted that "Lola Run" this week is likely to fall by more than 30%.

However, the reality is that from March 13th to March 15th, three days of the weekend, compared with the same period last week, the box office of "Rola Run" not only did not fall, but there was a rebound of about 6%, and another 19.65 million. Dollar.

This is not over yet.

In the final week from March 13th to March 19th, the overall box office decline of Run Lola further expanded, reaching about 10%, and the box office in a single week also created a new high of 28.16 million US dollars.

So, within five weeks of its release, "Lola Run" had a gross box office of $85.87 million.

Immediately after.

Unexpected by everyone, it was obviously expected.

Entering the sixth week, "Run Lola" with a box office of 16.35 million US dollars for another weekend and three days, the cumulative box office officially broke through the 100 million US dollars mark, reaching 102.22 million US dollars.

Due to the limitations of market size and distribution model, in the entire 1980s, at least before 1987, there were only a handful of movies that could achieve a box office of over 100 million in six weeks.

According to Orion's original prediction, even in the best case, "Rora Run" will take a full week from the sixth week to reach the 100 million yuan club. The most likely one is to enter the billion yuan club in the seventh week.

But the fact is that "Run Lola Run" successfully achieved this goal in only five and a half weeks.

Moreover, it is not the most important thing that "Lola Run" achieved a box office of 100 million in advance. Since its release, it has been clear to anyone that this movie seems to be easy to achieve this goal at the box office.

but.

Hollywood's original North American box office forecast for "Run Lola" was only between 150 million and 200 million US dollars.

But now, after a public opinion storm has come down, the popularity of "Lola Run" has begun to dissipate once again, and the box office decline has also slowed down significantly.

In the fifth week, the box office curve that was supposed to go down suddenly changed its trend, and there was an abnormal decline. The result was an overall increase in the subsequent box office curve.

So, after a new estimation, many people were surprised to find out. After five and a half weeks of breaking the 100 million mark, the final box office potential of "Lola Run" has clearly exceeded the 200 million dollar limit.

As for how much it can eventually reach, too many people are no longer willing to predict.

However, some people want to evade reality. Many good news media have directly compared movies with the box office trend of "Lola Run" in the past few years. This movie is the 1985 North American box office champion "Back future".

This hot-selling science fiction film directed by Robert Zemigis also achieved a box office exceeding 100 million in the sixth week of its release. It's just that "Back to the Future" was a full week after the sixth week, and only got a box office of $10.92 million, barely breaking the $100 million threshold.

But just like this, the final North American box office of "Back to the Future" has reached 210 million US dollars.

Well.

Look at "Lola Run" again, how much can there be? !

Reminiscing about the movie's next box office potential, in some offices deep in Hollywood, some people who just made small moves to curb the movie's box office even gave birth to a strong regret.

I originally wanted to suppress the box office of "Lola Run", but I didn't expect it to make this movie cross a more miraculous threshold.