Starting as a Champion

Universal Pictures.

That evening, a group of Universal Pictures executives gathered once again, their faces filled with distress and, naturally, expressions of fury.

"Damn it!"

"Saw is nothing more than a film directed by a rookie, with a production budget barely over a million dollars, but look at it now? Based on the data coming in from theaters everywhere, its opening day box office is very likely to exceed four million dollars."

"Bastards!"

"The people in charge of execution below are absolute bastards!"

"Exactly. We emphasized repeatedly, more than once, that we must not underestimate or ignore Wald Pictures, and that we must exert immense pressure on them. Yet, the people responsible for the execution didn't take any of it to heart."

The Universal Pictures executives cursed in anger one after another.

They were stunned!

A first-day box office of over four million dollars would be an unremarkable figure during the Christmas Release Window, the summer season, or the Thanksgiving window. After all, during those periods, daily box office numbers of several million or even ten million are common occurrences.

However!

Do not forget, this is the April window.

It is the worst off-season of the year!

To date, the film with the highest daily box office in this year's April window is A Beautiful Mind, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, yet it barely exceeded 3.2 million dollars—and that was with the boost from the Oscars.

A daily box office of four million dollars in the April window is an absolute ceiling-shattering result.

Consequently, the executives at Universal Pictures were shocked.

Of course, they were even more infuriated.

"We emphasized repeatedly, more than once, that we must not underestimate or ignore the works of Wald Pictures and that we must exert immense pressure on them, but the people responsible