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Chapter 422: The First Morning of Christmas
🕑 Added 2025-08-12 15:01:34 +0000 UTCAfter taking Lily to have a simple midnight snack near Lincoln Square, Nanaya hurried to the address given by Shion to meet her.
After all, the night is long and we always need something to pass the time.
For example, with the beautiful chairman, he conducted a series of theoretical and practical explorations on the issue of human reproduction.
Nanaya could swear on the light bulbs in the hotel that he absolutely viewed this issue with academic rigor.
However, as a producer, he can date, but other staff members of the "Iron Man" crew still have to continue to be busy with work.
You should know that the midnight show of the movie will be coming soon after the premiere. The scale of this round of screenings in nearly 3,000 theaters across the United States is second only to the official release of the movie during the day on the 22nd.
All key personnel in Washimine's publicity and distribution department need to rush to the screening halls of large cinemas as soon as possible to wait for the show to end, so as to collect information at the first possible moment and facilitate the company to make adjustments to the film distribution plan.
On the other hand, the Fox staff were a little more relaxed.
"Night at the Museum" is not an adapted film like "Iron Man", and the main audience, families, rarely bring their entire family to watch a movie at night.
In addition, although the lead actor Ben Stiller is very popular, he is not as handsome as Tom Cruise who makes people linger on.
After all, even in North America, where commercial films are most developed, midnight shows are still exclusive to hardcore movie fans.
In this regard, the combined box office appeal of Ben Stiller and Robin Williams, the leading actors in "Night at the Museum", in late-night shows may not be as great as that of Downey before the scandal.
Therefore, Fox's focus was initially on the daytime of the movie's official release on the 22nd.
As for the advance box office in the evening, "Iron Man" can take it if it wants. What they want is the ultimate victory.
The results did not exceed everyone's expectations.
While Nanaya was hugging his female boss and dreaming about Zhou Gong, the box office of the two movies' advance and midnight screenings had already been counted.
"Iron Man" grossed $43.95 million from advance screenings and midnight shows on Thursday, while "Night at the Museum" only grossed a pitiful $13.45 million.
But Fox was not discouraged. Although they were arrogant, they were not stupid.
Fox's top management is well aware that market rules cannot be changed by individual will.
Even without the competitor of "Iron Man", they estimated the first-round box office performance of "Night at the Museum" to be around 15 million US dollars.
Therefore, the result of 13 million US dollars is completely acceptable to Fox. The next few days of the Christmas season will be their real battlefield with "Iron Man".
Only Fox President Jim Gianopulos knew that the actual first box office performance of "Night at the Museum" should be just over 10 million US dollars, and that more than 2 million US dollars of the box office performance was obtained by cheating.
But he had to do it. Whether from the perspective of publicity and promotion, company morale, box office reports and many other aspects, the $2 million was worth it.
Next, if "Night at the Museum" can gain enough market share in the family market, its box office will rise and surpass "Iron Man".
"I hope everything goes well. The victory will belong to Fox in the end."
Looking at the rising sun outside the office, Jim Ganopoulos, who had not slept all night, prayed.
When the sun rises above the horizon and spreads its light all over the earth, a new day comes to people.
Although Christmas is still a few days away, the festive atmosphere has already begun to spread across North America.
Especially for those children who have already had winter vacation, they have long forgotten about their winter vacation homework.
Now all they think about is how to have a passionate Christmas.
"Look, Dad. That's Iron Man!"
A father and his two children get out of a car in Times Square, New York.
The older one held his father's hand and pointed at the movie posters on the side of the road and shouted.
"Dad, don't you think this is super cool? Let's go watch it?"
"Paris, how many times has this happened to you?"
The father scratched his head in annoyance. He really didn't want to spoil his eldest son's fun, but the problem was...
"Dad."
The younger children pulled their father's trouser legs and looked at their dad with their big, cute eyes.
"Dad, a big dinosaur."
"Why."
The father sighed, knowing that his youngest son was talking about the dinosaur skeleton model from Night at the Museum.
“It’s really troublesome.”
The father was deeply distressed as he looked at his two children who had different opinions.
Today is the day for general cleaning at home. In order to prevent the two naughty children from making trouble at home, the mother asked her father to take them to the movies.
The suggestion was indeed good, but the two children disagreed on which movie to watch.
The older brother likes the cool Iron Man, while the younger brother is more interested in the big dinosaurs in "Night at the Museum".
Since they left the house, the two of them have been arguing non-stop, and the father felt like his head was about to explode.
"Dad, let's go watch Iron Man." The brother begged, holding his father's arm, "Museum is so boring, I don't want to watch it."
The younger brother didn't say anything. He just pulled his father's trouser leg and looked at him with tearful eyes, as if he would cry in the next second.
This made my father even more troubled.
If the father really had to choose for himself, he would probably choose "Iron Man" like his eldest son. As a fan of Marvel comics since he was a child, he certainly wants to see his childhood hero on the screen.
Pity...
"Paris," his father sighed, "you are the older brother, you must learn to be humble."
But there was no such thing in the dictionary of a ten-year-old child. Paris said with a sad face: "Dad!"
"Obedient."
My father warned in an unquestionable tone.
"Well...I'll go and see it by myself then!"
"No. You're not old enough yet."
"Iron Man" is rated PG-13, and my eldest son is only 10 years old.
If it was a movie theater in a small city, it would be fine. A ten-year-old kid, let alone a PG-13 movie, might be able to go and see an R movie if he had the connections.
But this is New York, and theaters may face random inspections by censorship agencies at any time, and they dare not break the rules.
But the child didn't understand any of this. When he found out that there was no hope for him to watch his favorite movie, he felt like his whole world had collapsed.
So Paris thought of the simplest way to fight for her rights - crying.
When the father saw his eldest son inhaling, he knew something was wrong, and he hurried to dissuade him but it was too late.
“Wow wow wow!”
The child's heart-wrenching cries instantly spread throughout the street.
"Stop yelling."
The father felt that he was the one who wanted to cry the most, and he turned to look at his youngest son.
But before he could say anything, his youngest son shook his head firmly and took a deep breath.
The meaning is very clear. If you dare to agree to him, I will cry in front of you.
【Children nowadays are really hard to manage. 】
Just when the father was feeling helpless and thinking about not watching the movie at all, a voice saved him.
"Team Leader, why are you here?"
My father turned around and saw a familiar face, who was his subordinate in his unit.
The other person was holding a promotional poster in his hand. He looked at his boss who was standing at a loss on the side of the road, and a glimmer of interest flashed in his eyes.
The leader, who was usually very dignified, was actually reduced to tears because of two little kids on the street. This contrast made the young white-collar worker feel very interesting.
"It's Marshall."
My father became embarrassed because his subordinates saw his embarrassing side.
"Team Leader, what's wrong with you?"
The father picked up his eldest son who was still crying and replied helplessly: "It's nothing. I took the children to see a movie, but they had a big fight over which movie to watch. I was at a loss. What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to watch a movie, too." Marshall laughed. "It's a rare honor for my boss to give me a three-day Christmas holiday this year, so of course I'm going to relax."
"Are you here to watch a movie, too?"
The father finally saw his savior. He quickly grabbed Marshall's arm and asked anxiously, "Which movie are you going to watch?"
Marshall was no fool. He looked at the condition of the two children and the anxious face of his boss and knew what was going on.
"I plan to watch Iron Man, and the team leader plans to let me take care of a child?"
"Yes. Can I trouble you?"
Now in his father's eyes, this subordinate is closer to him than his wife.
"No matter how big a deal it is, leave it to me."
Marshall immediately took over the responsibility. Although the quality of watching the movie might be reduced with a naughty child around, it was obviously more important to have a good relationship with his boss.
So the two adults and two children went to the ticket office of the cinema together.
Because it was still early, there weren't many people waiting to buy tickets, and it was soon their turn.
"Two tickets for Iron Man and two tickets for Night at the Museum, please." My father said as he handed over a few bills to the ticket window.
The ticket seller moved quickly and completed the transaction in less than a minute.
So the father took his younger son to say goodbye to his subordinates at the door of the theater. Although he didn't see the movie he wanted to see, being able to stop his two children from making noise was already the greatest luck for him.
However, the father did not know that his entire act of buying the ticket was seen by someone and became a record in the other person's writing.
"Ah, I envy that guy Ed, who can live and eat with big stars. But I have to get up early to collect information."
The other party yawned and complained helplessly.
