103 Chp 97.1 : Day Off Report
On a beautiful morning at one of the houses in the Beverly Hills neighborhood, Tom Cruise who was back from the CAA office yesterday began his day in a bad mood.
He grabbed some newspaper that had a movie review in it. After reviewing them for a half-hour, he threw it all into the trash can.
It was another classic, that brat has just made another classic, and even most of the audience and critics praised that film. It was so different from his film, <Top Gun> which has a mixed review.
"The film's heart is in the right place and Ferris Bueller is slight, whimsical, and sweet. 3.5/4 stars, 2 thumbs up." Roger Ebert from Chicago Sun-Times.
"Ferris and his adventure represent the teen's dream of glory: to have, one's at fingertips, technical skills to sabotage the adult world's machinery of oppression and at the tip of one's tongue, the perfect squelch for grownup's moralistic blather. 4/4 stars." Richard Schickel from Time.
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off should warm the heart of every student who would love to play hooky from school. It also may bring back memories for grownups who think back to the good old days. As he said in the movie, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Kenneth Turan from Los Angeles Times.
"It's an outrageous, clever, and charming comedy of youth in revolt that John Hughes is accustomed to. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a classical coming-of-age film filled with countless humor, slick and sleek performance from Alphonse Brandt, and smart script, making this a recognizable film of the decade. 4/4." Janet Maslin from New York Times.
It was all different from his movie review. Monotonous and boring, if not for his face, cheesy soundtrack, and cool jets.
Also, they insulted his acting! It's not his fault that the editor cut his good acting part and replace it with his close-up cool face.
Then he came to the phone and made a call to his agent. "Paula, I want to play in that film, how about the screenwriter from CAA said? And don't forget about my payment, I also want a box office share."
"You mean <Cocktail>? Yeah, the CAA screenwriter said it was good, and I could assure you that you will get at least $15 million-plus box office share. Imagine, even Alphonse only get paid $10 million from that film." Then she laughed lightly.
"Please Paula, I don't want to hear that name." He said angrily over the phone. "Just send me the script."
"Okay." Paula immediately closed the line, afraid that she would anger him more. Then she shook her head, to get angry over a boy, well looks like Tom was still a 19-year-old boy she met a few years back.
Of course, not all the reviews were good but that's it. Although the bad review did not come today but rather it came a week after the film was having a theatrical release.
"The whole script is off-balance, 1/4." Paul Lenny from Washington Post.
"A film that doesn't seem to know what it's about until the end. 2/4." Gene Hawkins from Chicago Tribune.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a few nights later after the film was released; a woman carrying a mic and her partner a cameraman arrived in one of the theatres in the downtown area.
She saw a group consisted of teenage girls were laughing happily after they went out of the theatre hall. So she approached them and asked one of the girls who coincidentally looking in her direction.
"Good evening everyone, my name is Sarah from NBC, Can I ask one of you for an interview."
One of the girls from that group nodded and permit the reporter to interview her.
"Okay, first of all, I saw both of you just came out from the theatre and I'm curious, which film did you watch?"
"Of course it was Ferris Bueller, it was Al's film! I grow up watching his film." The girls behind her were also nodded in agreement.
"How do you rate this film, from the scale of 1 to 10."
"11! This was the funniest film I ever watched. I love Al, his quirkiness, funny, and super cute! Did you see when he was topless?"
The reporter unconsciously nodded in agreement and bit her lower lip.
There was also a weird accident that happened. In few weeks after the film was released. As soon as the gossip of Al being topless out, the number of females who went to the theatre to watch this film increased and filled up to 50% of seat occupancy, which 75% majority of them being a teenager.
Not only that, in Santa Barbara, California; 2 teenagers were caught bringing their vibrating loyal friends to the theatre.
And how did they knew that, it was her loud moan that was heard in the first 10 minutes after the film started. Everyone was laughing at her, and the security decided to kick her out of the theatre.
The accident was all over the local newspaper and the identity of the two girls remained confidential.
"Oh Jesus, he also grows up just like me. We are the same age as him and looking at him now, I didn't realize that we also have grown up. I still remember that cute kid from <E.T> and <Sixth Sense>." She said dreamily.
After some questions, she thanked them then moved out to search for another source. She saw a couple near the ticket booth and overheard their conversation.
"I wanna watch Top Gun, it has fighter jet there." The man whined.
"Baby, we must watch Ferris Bueller!" His date retorted.
"But It also had Tom Cruise and you said you like him." He said sourly.
"I like his film baby not him, don't be jealous. And I liked Al's more! Remember our first date, we watched his film! He's really adorable."
The man then smiled while daydreaming about their first date watching <E.T.>. "Okay let's watch it." He said happily.
Hearing the couple banter, she decided to reach them for an interview.
"Excuse me..."
~~~
The 3-days box office report dated back from Memorial Days on 23rd to 25th May 1986 was finally out and <Ferris Bueller's Day Off> became the highest-grossing of 3-days box office yet.
With 3 days box office of $10 million, it has beaten the highest earners of box office <Top Gun> who only had earned 3 days box office of $8 million, dethroning them from 1st place.
For the next week's box office competition, <Ferris Buller's> vs <Top Gun> had become the headline news on the film article in the newspaper.
Of course, both of this film was released by Paramount Pictures and their stock increased leap and bound.
Frank Mancuso, Paramount pictures CEO wasn't able to hide his smile at the board meeting. Although he still pissed at one of the executives on Paramount.
They have been in a difficult position as a result of their Paramount Motion Pictures president, Ned Tanen; who they had spent so much time and money to bring him here, was having a cold war with both Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis.
Because of that alone, a long time ago when they knew he had trouble, the board meeting was held to decide whether they should fire him or not.
But he as the one who brought him here suggested asking the truce to them by asking Alphonse Brandt, their protegé with a nice compensation for playing their film.
But if Alphonse himself rejected this offer, they would fire Ned Tanen immediately because they would be losing one of the best box-office-hit persons.
Fortunately, he accepted it and he was really grateful to him.
The next week, <Ferris Bueller's Day Off> when they thought that the box office would decrease, it rebounded back up, earned another $13 million with a cumulative box office of $23 million.
<Top Gun> on their second week only earned $21 million, maintaining their lead in the second place.
Entering June, another heavy opponent came. <Karate Kid Part II> was finally released with an opening 3 days box office of $12 million, defeating the previous winner of $10 million.
Too bad on the first week, it only earned another 8 million, 29% decrease, maintaining their position in the third place.
1 month passed since and <Ferris Bueller's Day Off> has again become the champion of the months, with a cumulative box office of $50 million with each week brought them at least $5 to 7 million.
<Top Gun> and <Karate Kid II> were unable to fight back as their 1 monthly box office respectively stayed on $43 million and $40million.
No other film released could beat back <Ferris Bueller> and <Top Gun> in 1st and 2nd place, until Paramount Pict. released film <Crocodile Dundee>.
Until next year, before the film was pulled from theaters, Al's film earned a domestic box office of $199 million.
Became the highest box office beating <Top Gun> with 179 million and <Crocodile Dundee> $174 million.
Now, anyone could no longer question Alphonse Brandt's box office hit ability, although this film has become the lowest box office he ever got.
There's also an urban legend that came throughout Hollywood: if you want to become the box office champion, just let Alphonse Brandt played in your movies.
To Be Continued...
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