Chapter 811: Too Optimistic
The True Colors of Heroes won 10 million at the box office in three days after its first weekend release.
This opening result is only average in Hollywood, and the box office of 4 million on the first day, 3.5 million on the second day, and 2 million on the third day.
The decline is so large that it can be said that it has been cut in half, and it is not healthy at all.
But for a pure Hong Kong film, this result is definitely very good.
And with the fermentation of word-of-mouth, and more Chinese entering the cinema to contribute to the box office, although the schedule of this film has begun to decrease, but in general, the decline in the daily box office has stabilized.
Ten days later, when the box office of the hero's true colors exceeded 18 million, the bloody duo was released.
The opening scale of the bloody duo is much larger than the hero's true colors, and there are more than 700 theaters to show it.
And due to the wide spread of the reputation of the hero's true colors, many people who were not so interested in Hong Kong films also fell in love with the romance and chic of Hong Kong-style action movies, and fell in love with the heroic spirit of Hong Kong-style gangster heroes.
As a result, the box office on the first day of the Bloody Duo's release directly doubled the box office on the first day of the hero's true colors, reaching $8 million.
Such a first-day box office can be ranked at the top of the annual release of films even if it is placed in Hollywood.
"Brother Fa, Wu Yusen is going to be on fire."
The first time he knew this data, Zhong Chuhong, who had cooperated with Wu Yusen and Zhou Runfa and was good friends with Zhou Runfa, called Qiao Feng excitedly.
"Well, it's really going to be on fire." Qiao Feng said with a smile.
"I've heard people say that with such a first-day box office, the bloody duo can win at least $50 million at the box office in the end." Zhong Chuhong is a good friend and extremely happy for the success of his man.
"50 million dollars? too optimistic." Although Zhong Chuhong couldn't see it through the phone, Qiao Feng shook his head after listening to her words.
What is the concept of 50 million dollars?
At that time, Li Xiaolong's record-breaking Dragon Fight was still in North America, Europe, and Hong Kong, and the final box office was only 210 million.
And the unit is Hong Kong dollars.
Of course, if inflation and other factors are taken into account, the box office of 210 million Hong Kong dollars is definitely not comparable to the current 210 million Hong Kong dollars.
But although Li Xiaolong played the starring role, because Hollywood still didn't trust him, in order to guarantee the box office, he found two American movie stars to co-star to share the role.
So, strictly speaking, Enter the Dragon is not a pure Chinese action movie.
"Enter the Dragon" is indeed outstanding in terms of entertainment effect, but it has lost the martial arts style of "Raptors Across the River", and Li Xiaolong can no longer control the filming and action scenes of the film as he pleases.
Hollywood and Hong Kong are different from each other, the male protagonist is either an elegant gentleman or a blue-collar tough guy, and he can't stand the childishness of men. Li Xiaolong in the film is a man of reading and contemplation, calm and tolerant in the face of provocation, and tries to solve problems with strategy.
As a result, although the plot of "Enter the Dragon" is the most compact in Bruce Lee's works, the martial arts scenes are still inferior to "Raptors Across the River".
But just in terms of box office, it was an absolute success.
Even after the death of the Hollywood commercial number that year, it surpassed the box office of many first-line blockbusters released at the same time.
This is also one of the main reasons why Li Xiaolong is popular all over the world, the movie is a big hit, and he will be so famous as the protagonist.
Even, he became synonymous with kung fu, and even because of him, people all over the world thought that Chinese knew kung fu and were all kung fu masters.
And how much is $50 million? At the current exchange rate, that's far more than the $210 million global box office that the dragon won back then.
Qiao Feng likes the Bloody Duo very much, and also thinks that the Bloody Duo is not bad at all compared to the Dragon Fight that does not belong to the same type.
But Qiao Feng will not be blindly optimistic that he thinks that the bloody duo can win a higher box office than the dragon fight.
Even if Enter the Dragon is a movie more than ten years ago.
"But that's what a lot of media in Hong Kong reported." Zhong Chuhong felt that Qiao Feng was a little pessimistic.
The box office won 8 million US dollars on the first day, and even if it has been falling since then, falling by 1 million a day, then when the daily box office falls to 1 million US dollars, the total box office will be more than 30 million or 40 million US dollars.
Moreover, it is not possible to fall so much.
The decline of any movie is relatively large at the beginning, and after a few days of release, the attendance rate will gradually stabilize to a certain extent as the film schedule decreases.
With the normal release of a Hollywood movie in two or three months, no matter how you look at it, the box office of the bloody duo can break 50 million US dollars.
"If you can believe the words of the media, the sows will be able to go up the tree." Qiao Feng couldn't help but feel funny.
Zhong Chuhong is also concerned about it, otherwise as a perennial person who deals with the media and knows what the media has to do, she would not say such naïve words.
"The reason why the bloody duo can have such a performance on the first day is because there are many Hong Kong film lovers who support it, and secondly, because the reputation of the hero's true colors is good, Fa Ge is very handsome, and many people who have seen the true colors of the heroes are interested in such a film so they support it, and thirdly, the scale of the release is relatively large, so there are more people who enter the theater to buy tickets."
Qiao Feng explained: "But in addition to those audiences who are attracted to the cinema because of the large scale of the screening, there are more of the first and second types, but these two types of audiences have one thing in common, that is, they belong to the purposeful viewing of the movie, and it can also be said that they belong to the FMCG audience.
They like movies like this, so they will buy tickets to support them as soon as possible, so they will push the daily box office very high at the beginning.
But when the enthusiasm of these audiences is consumed, there is more of a third kind of audience left, they enter the scene without a purpose, which means that their choice of the Bloody Heroes is very random, and because the Bloody Heroes is a pure Hong Kong film, the probability of being randomly selected will be far less than those English-language movies produced by Hollywood."
Zhong Chuhong doesn't understand what the fan economy is, and he doesn't know what a fan movie is, otherwise he won't need Qiao Feng to say that he will understand why Qiao Feng is not optimistic about the box office of the bloody duo reaching 50 million US dollars.
For Qiao Feng, the first-day box office of the Bloody Duo is so high, largely because of the support of its fans.
And for a fan movie, what is the biggest problem, that is, the box office at the beginning rose fast, and the box office fell quickly after that.
When such a movie has a good box office, it is naturally good, but when its fans are not so large, its box office is definitely not as good as those non-fan movies.
Because one is mainly supported by fans, and the other is that ordinary people also have a high chance of choosing.
The positioning of the target audience of the two films determines whether the decline of the film is stable or cliff-like at the beginning.
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