"The Story of Little Eight" was very popular, reaching a box office of 225 million yuan in the first three days of its release, which was higher than "The Gift of Room No. 7".

The reason is not that "The Story of Little Eight" is better than "The Gift of Room No. 7".

There are two main reasons.

First of all, "The Gift of Room No. 7" was only released on 3,500 screens, while "The Story of Little Eight" was released on 6,000 screens.

The number of screens almost doubled, and as a result, "The Story of Little Eight" only led the box office by 20 million.

This shows the number of die-hard fans, "The Story of Little Eight" is not as good as "The Gift of Room No. 7".

Then "The Gift of Room No. 7" was released in October 15, and now "The Story of Little Eight" was released in March 17, and a year and a half have passed.

In the past year and a half, people's consumption habits have grown enough, the consumption on entertainment has become higher and higher, and the number of people watching movies has also increased.

Therefore, it is reasonable that more people watch "The Story of Little Eight".

But Shen Huan can see from here that at least in China, the stamina of "The Matter of Little Eight" is not as good as "The Gift of Room No. 7".

The extended version of the director's cut DVD of "The Gift of Room No. 7" can sell more than 3 million copies in China, what an honor is this?

According to the situation of whiteness cloud disk and Thunderbolt BT downloading everywhere in China, it is the first time that genuine DVD can sell so much.

This shows the importance of die-hard fans.

Among the fans who came to see "The Story of Little Eight" this time, there must be many fans of "The Gift of Room No. 7"!

Let's talk about foreign box office.

"The Story of Little Hachi" has a very strong box office trend in Japan and South Korea, directly occupying the first place in the box office of the week, and the advantage is unshakable.

The cultural circle, which is also a Confucianism, talks about the topic of "loyalty", which everyone likes, and of course, the Japanese and Korean audiences also like it.

And there are a lot of people who have pets in these two countries, and it is natural that "The Story of Little Eight" is popular.

This time, Guo Hang and Yang Shu talked about advertising endorsements, including the largest pet food company in Japan and pet supplies companies, who had already signed contracts and were ready to start shooting advertisements.

In Europe and the United States, "The Story of Little Eight" is also trending well, with a box office of more than 10 million US dollars.

A film without any European and American actors, and it is a literary film, it is already commendable to have such a result on the first weekend.

But the most showy is not "The Story of Little Eight", but "Joker".

Yes.

This film, which Shen Huan fully invested, also began to be released in the aftermath of the Berlin Film Festival.

Warner Bros. gave them 2,000 screens, and as a result, they hit a box office of 53 million in the first weekend, directly becoming the box office champion, and became the single-week box office champion in March since North American film history!

The average daily income of a single theater is close to $10,000, and it has earned $53 million at the box office with only 2,000 screens, which is amazing!

Not only the box office results, but the evaluation of "Joker" is particularly high, with a freshness of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 9.5.

This is already the highest-rated movie in the past two years!

"It's so real, it's so painful! The director and the main character are amazing! I watched it three times!"

"I used to hate this neurotic idiot, but now I know that the clown has such an unbearable past!"

"Is it the clown's fault? In the beginning, he loved acting, he loved this society, he took care of his mother, he was willing to help people, and he wanted to make the children in the orphanage happy! What is wrong with this? It was all this cruel society that forced him into this situation step by step!"

"When I saw the clown, I seemed to see myself, but I could still hold on, so I didn't despair like the clown!"

"Jacques Phoenix's acting skills are definitely at the level of an Oscar, and I am very much looking forward to him winning the next Oscar!"

"It's a pleasure to see a movie like this!

“......”

Seeing these reviews, Warner Bros. was overjoyed and immediately arranged an expanded screening for the second week, preparing to keep it at 3,000 screens even on weekdays.

But, in the midst of their joy, they began to rage again.

The reason is simple.

Because when they were talking to Todd Phillips, they were deceived!

Todd Phillips represents Shen Huan's Fengxiang Film and Television, and bought the remake rights of the role of the Joker for $20 million, plus gave up the box office share of "Joker".

10 million US dollars to buy the remake copyright, there is no problem, the normal price.

But the operation behind made Warner Bros. people heartbroken!

Because they were not optimistic about the prospects of "Joker", their vice president in charge of negotiations, under the coaxing of Todd Phillips, took a price of $10 million and gave up the box office profit share of "Joker".

That's where $20 million comes in.

Under normal circumstances, "Joker" has to get $200 million at the box office, and Warner Bros. can get a share of $10 million.

There's really nothing wrong with that.

Even if the box office of "Joker" is now set to exceed 200 million, and may reach four or five billion US dollars, it is not too much of a mistake.

After all, Warner Bros. also has a 12% distribution share, which is a guarantee that the higher the box office, the greater their profits.

What makes Warner Bros. even more sad is that Fengxiang Film and Television used 30 million US dollars to take away 30% of the peripheral copyright share that should belong to Warner!

This peripheral copyright includes TV broadcast copyright, network broadcast copyright, and more importantly, DVD copyright, and the copyright of various peripheral product development!

If the clown develops like this and gets a box office of three to five billion dollars, according to normal estimates, its income from peripheral rights should also be this amount.

Then Warner Bros. will arrive at least $100 million!

It is a shame for the company to sell this interest for only 30 million US dollars!

But no matter how big your Warner Bros. name is, the contract you sign is a contract, and you can't be fooled at all.

Warner Bros. can also play tricks and manipulate distribution, such as reducing the scale of the release or something.

But this is also undermining the influence and value of the "Joker" brand owned by Warner Bros.

Thinking that he would have to make a lot of money by relying on "Joker" in the future, Warner Bros. was reluctant at all.

In desperation, they could only pinch their noses and continue their previous decision - 3,000 screens on weekdays, and then increase to 5,000 on weekends, striving to get more box office for "Joker"!

In any case, the honor of "Joker" always belongs to Warner Bros.

It's the only place they can comfort themselves!