"It won't be very high, I'm mentally prepared for it."

The sunlight passed through the window and fell into the restaurant. Jeff Robinoff took his glasses from his daughter and sat at the dining table. "This is an R-level film after all, and the audience is relatively limited."

"What a pity, Dad, you didn't go to the premiere yesterday."

Putting down the newspaper in her hand, Amanda Robinov looked regretful for his father, "Do you know how strong the audience's reaction was? My classmate, the one who came to our house as a passerby... Miley, she almost went crazy."

Jeff Robinoff picked up the coffee cup and looked at his daughter.

Amanda continued, "It's not just her, all the young people on the scene are going crazy. I never thought that the movie could be so cool, so handsome, and so fun."

"Dear, don't read the newspaper at breakfast."

A middle-aged woman walked in, and Amanda played a naughty way and stuck out her tongue, "Mom, I've finished breakfast."

"Risch, haven't arrived yet?" Jeff Robinoff asked his wife.

Ritz Robinoff sat next to him and shook his head, "Doug Walter just called, there was a little problem with the statistics company, and the statistics may not arrive later."

"Are you talking about the midnight box office of The Matrix?" Amanda asked curiously.

"yes."

Hearing his father's words, Amanda's eyes turned, "Dad, can you know what you expect from the midnight box office?"

Jeff Robinoff put down his coffee cup and replied, "I said it won't be very high, Warner and I expect it to be $5 million."

“Where is the first week?”

“$35 million.”

Amanda curled his lips, "You are too conservative! You don't know how popular Duke's movies are among young people!"

"Dear. Don't forget that this is an R-rated film..."

Before Jeff Robinoff could finish his words, the servant at home walked into the restaurant with a fax. After Ritz Robinoff took it, he put it in front of her husband.

"The statistics are here," she said.

"How many?" Amanda asked curiously, "Dad?"

"It seems that I'm a little conservative."

With glasses in hand, Jeff Robinoff said, "$7.85 million! If I remember correctly, this is the midnight box office record of the R-rated film."

“yes!”

Amanda waved her fist hard, "That's great!"

Seeing the look of her father and mother looking at each other, she shrugged playfully, "I'm just happy for the movie I like!"

Then she picked up her bag from the other side, "I'm leaving, dad, mom. I made an appointment with my classmate last night."

"What are you going to do?" asked Rith Robinoff.

Amanda turned around and said, "Go to watch The Matrix. We are going to live in the theater today."

The girl disappeared, and the restaurant became quiet again. Only the sound of Robinoff and his wife chewing food. It was not until breakfast was over and when Jeff Robinoff was about to go to work, the restaurant was talking again.

"Congratulations, my dear." Rith Robinoff said to her husband, "Warner has another movie to sell."

"It's just a midnight game. The specific North American trend depends on the results of the first week."

Santa Clara Cinema is one of the chain theaters under Emperor Entertainment, located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is close to Silicon Valley and Stanford University, and is the top five super-large theaters in the entire San Francisco area with passenger flow.

Zhou Xin works in this cinema and is responsible for the sales counter. Although he is the first generation of immigrants, he is gradually integrating into this society, both language and living habits.

Parked the car. When I walked to the entrance of the theater, Zhou Xin found that the theater had not opened yet, and there were people waiting outside the door. What was even more exaggerated is that San Francisco in May was definitely not cool. Some people were wearing long black windbreakers...

However, thinking of the film that will be released on a large scale today, Zhou Xin understood what was going on.

"It's just an imitation model, but it's still different from the Neo version."

He shook his head, walked into the cinema, finished his routine attendance, went directly to the warehouse to transport boxes of goods out, opened the shelves of the display cabinets in the cinema, including windbreakers, sunglasses, dolls, and keychains...

"Why do you have a cell phone?"

A colleague passed by, looked at him curiously, and asked, "George, when will our peripheral products be sold on our phones? Can we sell them?"

"Who knows?"

Zhou Xin shrugged, and with the two units arranged, he placed a total of fifty Nokia cover phones under the container.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, the theater started business on time. Although it was a summer Friday, there were generally not many people in the morning. However, as soon as the main entrance of the theater opened, nearly a hundred young people rushed in. Most of them did not watch the introductions of various films in the theater at all, and walked directly to the ticket office.

“The Matrix…”

"I want the ticket to the Matrix!"

Similar voices come one after another, and it seems that everyone is coming for this film that was released on a large scale today.

Because there were very few people coming to ask around, and the location was opposite to the corridors of each cinema, Zhou Xin couldn't help but roughly estimate the number of people entering different cinemas in boredom.

"Taxi Express" seems to have three viewers in the first game in the morning.

Although "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" has been released for a week, its first show is much better than "Taxi Express" and has 6 viewers.

"The Cold-Blooded Warrior" has not sold a single ticket and is probably not going to be screened.

"The Matrix", forget it, I won't count it anymore. There are too many people, and I can't count how many people there are at all.

Generally speaking, about 6 viewers in small theaters can recover the screening costs. In the first screenings in the morning, the theater can only rely on "The Matrix" if it wants to make a profit.

A colleague who sold popcorn on the other side asked, "George, haven't opened yet?"

"No!"

Zhou Xin shrugged and looked at the busyness of the ticket office with some envy. More people walked into the cinema one after another. Among them, words such as "cool", "explosion time", "Neo and Triniti", "illusion and reality" were constantly spread here.

Looking at the newly launched peripheral products of "The Matrix", Zhou Xin sighed. His income is closely related to sales performance. It has not opened yet, which is really not a good sign.

"Maybe, will there be some changes after the Matrix ends?"

I sat here and waited for nearly two hours bored. Today's first "The Matrix" finally ended. Zhou Xin saw a lot of men and women walking out, his face was not as tired as a movie-watching person, but excited! No, it should be excited! In his words before his immigration, it was like he was injected with chicken blood!

These people were chattering and messy, and their voices came from afar. Almost every sentence was filled with a coolness, as if there was no other word except this word.

"Where did you buy your windbreaker?"

Walking out of the theater, Adam asked his companion, "There is still a big difference from Neo. When I was outside the theater, Roman, I think you are cool, but after watching the video..."

He shook his head.

"This is what I asked my sister to use her father's old windbreaker based on the poster." Roman scratched the back of his head embarrassedly.

But Adam did not listen to his words, but his eyes shining and speeded up. He saw that Neo's black windbreaker was so eye-catching on the showcase, just opposite the corridor...

It is not unreasonable that the surrounding product sales department is facing the entrance and exit of the cinema hall.

"Hey, I want a windbreaker!"

Like many people, Adam came to the front cabinet and finally squeezed into the front row. He shouted loudly, "There are sunglasses! Are there Neo's leather boots? If so, I'll have a pair, my yardage is..."

In just a few minutes, Zhou Xin, who had nothing to do before, was completely busy. Because there were too many people, he had to let his colleagues make a guest appearance for help.

There were more than twenty people who wanted to buy the surrounding area. The most basic thing for these people was to buy windbreakers and sunglasses. Several girls even chose Triniti's leather jackets and long boots, and even two luxury limited-edge windbreakers priced at $999 were sold.

After getting the windbreaker and sunglasses, Adam dressed up almost immediately, feeling like a savior. When he was about to swipe the card, he heard the salesperson introduce, "We have Neo's cell phone."

"Is it the Nokia Covered Phone?" Adam asked impatiently.

"Yes!" Zhou Xin immediately took out the sample, "Original, genuine Nokia bullet cover phone, will be available on the market on the first day today!"

At worst, I can eat bread this month! With this idea, Adam gritted his teeth and said, "Get me one, I also want to buy a mobile phone!"

More than twenty people in different outfits came, but when they left, they turned into a group of Neo and Triniti.

This is almost a portrayal of the day. Zhou Xin has never been idle since he sent off this group of customers. As more and more people have watched "The Matrix", the sales of his peripheral products have increased dramatically. When he was about to get off work at night, not only were the relatively cheap things such as windbreakers and sunglasses sold out, but even fifty Nokia phones were sold out!

"WoSs, we need to purchase goods as fast as possible."

When calling the person in charge of the cinema, Zhou Xin tried to say as concisely, "Sunglasses need to be purchased, keychains need to be purchased, windbreakers need to be purchased, mobile phones need to be purchased, otherwise, the surrounding items will be sold tomorrow!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xin let out a long sigh and began to count the sales performance. When the calculation was completed, his eyes widened. Today he sold the surrounding area of ​​"The Matrix" of $58,950!

This is almost a non-peak season, a day of box office performance in theaters!

Because he is not working in the ticket window, Zhou Xin doesn't know how many box offices of "The Matrix" the theater sold today, but he is sure that the box office results of such hot films around him will definitely not be bad! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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