Success Formula

Home Alone's 1 through 5 was super-ultra low budget due to the private production facade that the Creeds put it under.

Its mega-earnings could be explained from a marketing angle and its low cost can be calculated due to the array of dollar-level labor pays and abysmal location renting payments.

Run Lola Run would not be put under that facade because it was produced after the Creed Film company was established.

However, it was still ultra-low cost due to sets of reasons. The 1998 version was reportedly budgeted 1.78 million dollars to make and under Alexander's machinations and Sullivan's magic, a million or so was shaved off for their version.

Like previously mentioned, the film earning 20+ million total was already a thing to celebrate.

Now that it is estimated to earn 50+ million dollars, the major studios boiled over it.

300,000 dollars to 400+ million dollars, they can accept as a fluke from a newcomer.

750,000 dollars to 50+ million dollars, they can also accept as a fluke from a newcomer.

However, when these two separate flukes happen to come from the same newcomer company, then something was up.

Perhaps true magic and taking it as an act of God was the answer to their confusion but all still became logical after they did some of their research on the matter.

Creed Films' success all boiled down to a simple formula that they already know.

Low Investment + Quality Product + Effective Marketing = Good to even Amazing Profits.

The Creeds perfected a low-cost strategy for what they consider a product that their targeted audience would like. Then, they tempt their target audience through their marketing strategies. After that, all they had to do was wait for the audience's response and count their money.

The process was all too simple but it would become complicated when the fickleness of the target audience is as unpredictable as life itself.

Everyone knows that the film market is not too different from a gambling game.

It is clear to any data-savvy people that the Creeds were going for low risks but guaranteed profits.

300,000 dollars and 750,000 dollars were clear indications of that.

The major studios can also tell that the Creeds 'guaranteed profits' ballooned through luck and paying their cards to maximum efficiency.

Magic and God were not the reason for their success. It was their maximization of everything maximizable that made them win. Granted, minimizing risks and faults is still a thing to be maximized.

Their research about the Creed company's secret to success proved pointless because they also follow that same strategy. Only that they have used a sweetener that comes from employing big-name stars, skilled directors, and proven producers.

It was like Plankton finally reading the Krabby Patty formula but in the end, he finds out that the ingredients were just the same as his chum. The only thing that Plankton did wrong was that he didn't have the sweetener or even a mixer in the form of Spongebob.

However, the major studios did draw one insight from this extensive research. It was that a true blue competitor from nowhere had inserted itself in their supposedly private game.

The competing people suddenly found an unfamiliar face with top-level skills at their gaming table. Naturally, they gang up on it due to its threat.

Dreamworks SKG was the most public example of this event but Creed Films took their spot earlier.

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Halfway through the domestic run of Run Lola Run, the 3rd of March 1989 came into the picture.

Damon's pitiful face still made people feel pity for Manni and Kidman's pretty running face still mesmerized some people.

Like any sci-fi movie, it already garnered some conspiracy theorists and geeky debates from people.

It was small scale though because Reddit and all the interconnecting stuff still wasn't on the market.

Peripherals were also on an all-time high from all the boyfriends who want their girlfriends to look like Lola. Nicole Kidman's strange attractiveness elevated the edgy-clothed character up a level.

The red wig and tacky clothing brought authorization earnings for the company. The Manni vests and paraphernalia also pulled in some pocket money.

However, some boyfriends earned the ire of their girlfriends. It was reportedly looked into by some social research tabloids that couples broke up because the boyfriends absentmindedly shouted Nicole instead of Lola in their fictional bed play.

Nicole Kidman, on the set of Happy Death Day, was happy from the spread of her name while appalled by the manner it spread.

Without hassle, Lola was still on her route to the estimated 50 million.

Now that the troubles were already spearheaded towards them, Alexander saw no point in wishing for a decline and just hoped that Lola runs even further than it should.

It was already turning the heads of the people who should care, so there was no point in trying to suppress everything.

On this month's first Friday, another Creed Films movie was set to premiere in another inconspicuous theater.

It was too inconspicuous that the cinema chosen was the cinema where the Home Alone crew watched the Home Alone debut.

The premiere was on the edges of San Fernando Valley and quite far from Hollywood central.

Yet, no matter how low-key and saving up on red carpets the Creeds would employ, there was still someone likely to ruin the plan.

A lot of reporters and gossip writers at the scene and local moviegoers were drawn in by the crowd and wondered what kind of first-line actor had his movie released in their locality.

The top answer in their heads was Stallone who had some porn roots before he jumped to the legal actor level with the Rocky movie.

It was too bad for them when they looked through the cast list which had no widespread name.

Even when the actors stepped onto their runway, they were frightened by the ton of flashing cameras and the disappointed looks that the crowds were giving them.

Good thing that the management had already prepped them on the abnormality of things so they were more or less prepared.

They were happy nonetheless to have their photos taken and printed by the paper companies that these uninvited reporters represented.