Chapter 273: The North American Explosion
In the early morning of the 11th, the box office results of "The Three-Body Problem" were released, with 257 million (including zero point games). It was less than the 400 million on the first day of Super Seven, and it failed to break the first-day box office record of 300 million set by "Nuwa Mending the Sky". This is quite a pity for Longlin Pictures.
In the final analysis, it is the bad impact caused by the release of "Small Times 4" on the same day, and the distribution of films and audiences. If there is no "Small Times 4", the film schedule of "Three-Body Problem" will definitely be more than 60%.
In this regard, most of the employees of Longlin Pictures are indignant. At the meeting, someone proposed to ask the navy to scold "Little Times" to death.
Song Ge smiled and said: "It's useless, even if you can brush its Douban score to two points, should fans support it or support it!"
When everyone heard this, they nodded their heads, this Nima is really invincible. Just like someone commented on the US-Vietnam War, Lao Mei threw a bomb down and blew up a bamboo building for the Vietnamese.
How much is an aerial bomb, how much is a bamboo building. Fight with Germany, you can blow him up back to the agricultural era, people are already in the agricultural era!
In general, movies still need a good reputation, and people don't care about word-of-mouth at all. Even if there are 100,000 sailors, they have nowhere to go!
"Small Times 4" chose to be released on the same day as "The Three-Body Problem", and he also killed 100 enemies and lost 1,000 himself.
In another time and space, the film was scheduled for 48.05% on the first day and won 100 million box office. But this time, it was 28% of the films, with a box office of 58 million, less than the 110 million of "Small Times 3", far lower than the expectations of the producers and distributors.
In other words, when Leshi's Zhang Zhao saw such an achievement, although he had expected it, he still refused in his heart.
Last year's Chinese New Year, "On the Taiping Wheel" lost a mess, and this summer, "Little Times 4", which pinned all my hopes, pointed to making a fortune from it, and even "The Other Side of the Taiping Wheel" chose to give up the naked hair!
It shouldn't be, competing with "The Three-Body Problem" on the same day, people have enough momentum at the box office, and it's no problem for the key to be sold for two or three months, and it's still released simultaneously worldwide.
"Small Times 4" is not good, it is all aimed at fans, and the box office harvest period is only about a week. In this way, the box office reputation is double, and no one will watch it!
"Hey, why did you listen to that little man!" Zhang Zhao was depressed in the office.
However, although the producer and distributor of "Gardenia Blossom" has Huayi, they are all joint parties, not the main control. In addition, director He Jiong is from the "Happy Family", which has a bad reputation in the film industry, and the starring and plot are not attractive, so only 20% of the films are scheduled on the first day. But the box office has strangely exceeded 70 million, which has surprised many people.
What these people don't know is that "Gardenia Blossom" is in another time and space, but with 30% of the film schedule and a Douban score of 4.1, it exceeded 100 million on the first day.
This Nima, if "The Tenth Screening Room" is still there, "Gardenia Blossom" can account for most of the episodes, and the rest are "Small Times" and "Why Sheng Xiaomo".
Although "The Tenth Screening Room" is not there, there are still many voices in the circle of "Small Times 4" and "Gardenia Bloom".
In particular, some mainstream media commented: July 10 is a day that should be remembered in the history of Chinese films, on this day, the best domestic science fiction movie "Three-Body Problem" was released, the king of bad movies "Small Times 4", and the newcomer Wang "Gardenia Bloom" was released on the same day, and both achieved good box office results.
The rotten nature of "Small Times 4" is as bad as ever. And the rot of "Gardenia Blossom" is also inherited in an orderly manner.
Director He Jiong's "Happy Family" has contributed countless bad movies to Chinese films. "Xi Travel", which was produced in 10 years, was also scolded by the starring Xu Zheng for bad movies on Weibo after the film was drawn, and self-reviewed.
But the rest of the "Happy Family" has never had the idea of "self-examination", and they are running wild on the road of bad movies. Over the years, he has participated in countless bad movies, and the Douban score is mostly 2 to 3 points.
Speaking of which, "Gardenia Blossom" can score 4.1 points, which is still a lot of ...... improvement.
"Gardenia Bloom" has been criticized in various ways, but it still makes a lot of money. On the 11th, the film schedule rose to 22%, "Small Times 4" fell to 23%, and "Three-Body Problem" rose to 48%, and the total number of the three films was 93%, and there was almost no room for other films to survive.
By noon, the box office results from all over the world were released one after another. The most important North American market, on Friday, actually broke out an astonishing result of 46.8 million US dollars, surpassing the 42.6 million of "Minions with Big Eyes", and landed on the North American film market on Friday's box office.
After all, the Yankees love the science fiction theme too much, and the biggest opponent in the same schedule is animation, where do you care if this film is Chinese or Hollywood?
Besides, how many of these Americans, who wear them on their bodies and use them at home, are made in China. Lao Tzu went to the theater and watched a sci-fi blockbuster made by Chinese, why don't you love America? Go to the damn capitalist!
Enthusiastic audiences frantically poured into the theater, queuing up to buy tickets, watch movies, and go to the Amazon website to buy the physical book of "The Three-Body Problem", and few people took the sour words in the media such as "The Hollywood Reporter" and "The Philadelphia Investigator" seriously.
What's more, it is rumored that even President Mr. Obama went to watch "The Three-Body Problem" on the day of the premiere. It's just that for security reasons, the secret presence was not announced!
The president said that it was good, and Lao Mei also followed the trend. In another time and space, as soon as the news of Obama's reading of "The Three-Body Problem" came out, the sales ranking of the English version on Amazon soared from more than 20,000 to more than 1,400, ranking 16...... on the real-time sci-fi sales list.
The "Three-Body Problem" movie exploded in North America, which instantly made many Hollywood studios hot and Warner ecstatic. Although it is a pity that I was not able to participate in the investment, the distribution of "The Three-Body Problem" in China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia is all handled by Warner, plus the distribution of videotapes in North America, cable TV on-demand and many other benefits, it is also very rewarding!
For this reason, Richard Fox made a special call to Lu Lin, excitedly saying that the box office in the North American market has the hope of exceeding 200 million in the first weekend, and Warner will increase publicity efforts, hoping that Lu Lin can take time to cooperate with the publicity.
Although Lu Lin's side is busy with the filming task of "The Battle of the Deer", the best box office harvest period of "The Three-Body Problem", the critical moment of making money, no matter what, we must squeeze out the time to cooperate with the promotion.
For this reason, he sent someone to contact Deng Chao and Wang Qianyuan, and asked Jing Yan to ask for leave from the crew of "The Great Wall" and flew to Los Angeles urgently.
After getting off the plane, the group stayed in a five-star hotel arranged by Warner. And not long after resting, the old guy Fox entered Lu Lin's room, and after a few words of greeting, he got straight to the point: "Director Lu Lin, we were all wrong before!"
Lu Lin laughed and said, "How do you say this?"
"In fact, compared with "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun" and "Nuwa Mending the Sky", we Americans still prefer the theme of science fiction. I think "The Three-Body Problem" is fully capable of competing for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!"
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