Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

In Lin Daoqiu's opinion, if "Star Trek 4: Save the Future" received a box office of 18 million on the first day, the guys at Paramount will definitely be very happy.

And it was completely different from what he expected. After learning about the box office of "Star Trek 4: Save the Future" on the first day, Barry Diller's brows have been furrowed.

"The pre-sales situation on the third and fourth days is not ideal, only between 30% and 40%. According to past experience, the attendance rate will probably remain at around 80%."

Jeffrey Katzenberg is a little worried about the attendance of the upcoming "Star Trek 4: Salvation".

Because after the box office was released on the first day, combined with the word-of-mouth reviews from viewers who have already watched the show, it seems that the show has no chance of becoming a hit.

"Three "Star Trek" films have been filmed before, and the audience group interested in this show has long been fixed. It is unlikely that it will suddenly attract a large number of viewers."

In fact, this time it was also the convenience of the Christmas schedule that allowed the drama "Star Trek" to gain a lot of attention.

In addition, the number of screens vacated by MGM's withdrawal from ACC theaters was added to "Star Trek", which is why this drama achieved such good results.

"Tell me about the final box office forecast for this drama."

Barry Diller wants to hear his people's predictions for Star Trek.

"One hundred and fifty million..."

"One hundred and eighty million..."

Everyone's predictions for the movie "Star Trek" are that the final box office result will not exceed 200 million.

Except for the North American market, other regions are not very receptive to this type of film.

The previous version of "Star Trek 4: Save the Future" received a box office of 109 million US dollars in North America, and the total global box office was only 133 million US dollars.

It can be said that the majority of this drama is in the North American market, and the acceptance of "Star Trek" in other regions is still very low.

Compared with the movies released by Paramount this year, "Top Gun" has a box office of 170 million US dollars in North America, and the total global box office has reached 350 million US dollars.

The same goes for "Crocodile Dundee", which grossed US$170 million in North America. The global box office was slightly lower than that of "Top Gun", but it was still close to US$330 million.

Originally, Paramount did not attach great importance to the drama "Star Trek", but because of Lin Daoqiu's sudden withdrawal, ACC had to give Paramount the vacated screen time.

This led everyone to mistakenly believe that Paramount had high expectations for "Star Trek". Otherwise, how could it have allocated 8,000 screens to this drama.

"It doesn't matter. Judging from the current situation, it will be difficult for Lin Daoqiu's two dramas to break the 100 million mark. We will still be the final winners."

What Barry Diller said actually meant that it could beat the two films made by Lin Daoqiu.

As long as "Star Trek" can get more than 150 million at the box office, in Barry Diller's opinion, it will be enough to beat Lin Daoqiu.

As for the income of this drama, Barry Diller has no longer thought about it. The worst he can do is make less. Anyway, as long as he does not lose money, it will be fine.

It's just that although Barry Diller is optimistic, the situation at the ACC theater chain is not optimistic.

If "Star Trek" can maintain an attendance rate of 80% in its first week, Chris Wolf will be able to accept it.

But if the attendance rate is less than 80%, there will probably be a lot of noise from the board of directors, especially since Joel Lopez has already reported the MGM affairs to the board of directors.

Now the guys on the board of directors have begun to feel dissatisfied with themselves. The reason why they haven't attacked themselves yet is because nothing has happened yet.

If ACC's income is significantly reduced during this year's Christmas period due to his relationship, Chris Wolf will definitely be blamed by those guys.

At this time, the situation that worried Chris Wolf had begun to happen, or there were already signs.

"The pre-sale situation for "Star Trek" tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is not ideal. The highest number has only sold 40% of the tickets, and the lowest number has not even sold 30%."

When Chris Wolf heard the news, his face was as dark as water, and it was clear from a glance that he was not in a good mood at this time.

"It doesn't matter. The pre-sale is just a reference. Most of the audience is still accustomed to buying tickets on site. The final result will not be known until the day."

After saying this, Chris Wolf himself felt ridiculous. If the pre-sale situation is hot, it will prove that the demand for this drama exceeds supply.

But if the pre-sales situation is very poor, it can also prove that the "Star Trek" drama will not attract audiences.

Naturally, the secretary did not dare to contradict Chris Wolf. He could say whatever he liked and just listen to it.

Although Chris Wolf is secretly hoping that "Star Trek" will be a box office hit like it was on the first day.

But unfortunately, "Star Trek"'s good luck only lasted three days including the premiere.

On the fourth day, "Star Trek" began to decline slightly. Although the box office had accumulated more than 57 million US dollars, on the fourth day, the attendance rate had dropped to 70%.

You must know that Christmas is coming soon. Logically speaking, the theaters should be full by this time. How can the attendance rate become lower and lower?

On the other hand, the two movies released by MGM, "Rush Hour" and "The Living Daylights", have always had high attendance rates.

"The Living Daylights" has always been a full house, and even the pre-sales situation is very ideal, almost 80%, and the box office has exceeded 30 million US dollars.

"Rush Hour" was a little worse, falling from the initial full house to 90%, but the box office in four days still exceeded 20 million US dollars.

But even so, most people still believe that "Star Trek 4: Save the Future" will eventually become the champion of this year's Christmas schedule.

After all, "The Living Daylights", which is most promising to surpass it, has so far closed the gap with "Star Trek" from 10 million on the first day to 27 million.

Even Richardson believes that it is almost impossible for MGM to beat Paramount this year.

However, he does not feel pessimistic, because in Richardson's view, after MGM has negotiated the theater chain next year, Paramount will never have a chance to win against MGM again.

Not only did Richardson have such an idea, almost everyone within MGM thought so, but Lin Daoqiu was not included.

Just when everyone thought that this year's Christmas schedule should be settled, the release of a movie has caused a lot of changes in the Christmas schedule war.