Chapter 49: There are still some regrets

The news that the box office of "The Matrix" exceeded 100 million yuan on the first day of release occupied the front page headlines of more than 90% of the media in China on the second day!

All the other movies currently in theaters combined, even achieved more than 50 million box office on the same day - "The Matrix" dominated 66.1% of the total national box office on that day!

53% of the film scheduling ratio, 66% of the box office ratio!

At this time, all the media went crazy.

This achievement is absolutely a record for Chinese films and the Chinese film market, and it is certainly worth mentioning by various media.

Overnight, "The Matrix" stood at the top of Chinese film history.

At this time, there is even some faint light flickering on it!

All eyes on it.

Look up at the amazing box office records it has set!

"Blood", "Laughing Heroes", and "The Princes of the Beacon Theatre" all seem to have become so worthless at this time! Except when the media needs to compare them with "The Matrix", they have almost disappeared overnight, which still occupied an important position in the major media last week.

At the box office of the day, they basically showed a collective diving posture!

However, it is clear that this is just the beginning.

In the afternoon of the same day, the box office in North America closed, and the real-time box office situation there was not so quickly transmitted to the Chinese media, but Minghu Culture got the approximate data from the distributor as soon as possible.

On Saturday, the first day of release in North America, including last night's midnight early theater, "The Matrix" received a total of $23.53 million at the box office in more than 2,200 theaters in North America!

In the box office that has been counted so far, it won the top of the box office list of the day!

When the news came out, including the high-level leaders of Minghu Culture and the two teams headed by Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu who were carrying out propaganda in other places, all those who knew the news were all jubilant.

And at four o'clock in the afternoon on July 22nd, Sunday, the official website of Minghu Culture officially launched a banner to promote - warm congratulations on the box office of "The Matrix" on the first day of simultaneous global release of more than 100 million US dollars!

When they first saw this title, many people were shocked, and many people's first reaction was to question its authenticity, suspecting that this was a gimmick and propaganda by Minghu Culture.

But when you click on it, everyone is speechless.

The above clearly lists the release of Minghu Culture in various box office markets around the world on July 21 and the box office on the same day!

The three major box office heavyweights, China, North America and Japan, combined, have reached $86 million!

In fact, the global market is added up, on July 21 alone, just a rough calculation, the global box office of "The Matrix" is $116.25 million!

The whole country was shocked.

Even, even Li Qian's most die-hard fans will have a feeling of being dumbfounded and unbelievable when they see this data!

Because in the past, there has never been a Chinese film that has achieved too good global box office results, so in fact, whether it is Chinese filmmakers or the media, the statistics of global box office results are at best in the surrounding units - in fact, even if it is only domestic box office statistics, the concept of single-day box office has only just become popular every two years. Because in the past, the first thing was data collection and statistics, which was really not that convenient.

And now, Minghu Culture is the first to make a movie's global box office single-day data!

And such amazing data!

After receiving this data, many media began to panic to collect past data, wanting to analyze the data of Hollywood's famous blockbuster movies that were sold around the world in the past, and try to come up with a similar comparison the next day.

However, the editors and reporters have not finished their work yet, and in the middle of the night, the Sunday box office in China has come out again - "The Matrix" continued to cut a single-day box office of 83.26 million on the second day of its release!

This means that "The Matrix" was released for two days, and the box office in the first week was 186.62 million!

As a result, on the Chinese media the next day, this box office figure once again made the front page headlines of more than 95% of the media!

"The Matrix" is so red that it turns purple!

Many media have written that the box office of all domestic films in the past is not the goal of "The Matrix", and "The Door of Life and Death" should be its goal!

Subsequently, the box office of the film in the first week of North America was officially released.

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Bang Bang Bang!

There was a knock on the door, and Glen Shire, who was distracted, looked up and said, "Please come in!"

John Days pushed the door in.

Glenshire was leaning on his desk and looking out the window with his back to the office door, when he heard the voice and glanced back, and quickly turned around with a smile and greeted him.

"Hi John!"

"Hey, Glenn!"

The two shook hands.

John Days said: "I heard that the batch of clothes shipped from China is already in place?"

Glen Shire smiled and pretended to be displeased, "Hey, John, those trench coat peripherals are our business!

John Days smiled, "Of course, of course, I'm just asking, after all, we're partners in the distribution of this film, aren't we? It's our business! And if the trench coat can be in place in time, and it's better to have countless people on the street wearing that trench coat, that's the best free publicity, isn't it?"

After a pause, he emphasized: "I'm concerned about the box office!"

Glen Schal smiled, "Yes, the box office!

That being said, but in fact, there are some things related to trade secrets, and although Oriental Dream Pictures and Columbia Pictures are behind the same boss, he still won't reveal anything. That is, on the first day of the launch, more than 30,000 pieces of windbreakers made and shipped from China have been sold!

It is beautifully made and made of exquisite materials, and it is said that it is copied from the original design and original fabric of Neo's clothes in the movie, but it is not a brand, but it can be sold at the price of mid-range fashion!

Priced at a whopping $588 a piece!

Anyway, more than 30,000 pieces were sold in one day!

The sale of sunglasses priced at $98 has exceeded 100,000 pieces!

And that's just the beginning!

With years of experience, Glenshire can clearly feel that the power of "The Matrix" has just begun to be unleashed, and this achievement is far from its peak.

As he spoke, he invited John Days to sit down, but Glen Charles couldn't help but turn around and pick up the report again, glance at it, and smile - it was the first week box office results of "The Matrix" in North America.

$23.53 million on the first day of release, $27.04 million the next day!

"The Matrix", which won $50.57 million at the box office in the first week, although it did not have an absolute advantage, after all, it was only released for two days, and it didn't even feel like it had completely exploded, but it was already ahead of the second place with an advantage of more than $6 million, sitting at the top of the box office list in North America!

This is, of course, his own boss, China Li, who won the first weekly box office list in North America!

For the distributor Columbia, this will become a glittering sign in the future, but more importantly, if the film can continue to be as popular as he expected, it will bring Colombia a huge cash flow and huge net profits!

The secretary came in and brought John Days a cup of coffee.

Glen Charles also went over to sit down and smiled, "Actually, Qian has done a miracle again, hasn't he?"

John Days laughed as he held his coffee cup, "No, Glenn, it's not a miracle!"

He laughed and said, "It's a normal thing for this Chinese boss of ours!"

Glenshire couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

However, I don't know if he thought too much when he was distracted just now, at this time, he was far less excited than John Days, he just smiled when he heard this: "However, it actually has a lot of birth defects, we all know it, don't we?"

John Days shrugged, "Of course! Yes, birth defects!"

But after a pause, he added: "His hero and heroine are indeed congenital defects! If it were a pair of American actors...... You know, before the film was launched, I had expressed my advice to Qian about it, and it was extremely vehement, but the boss insisted on his decision!"

Glenshire nodded.

In fact, he feels that with the popularity of this movie in the past two days, the sales of 30,000 windbreakers seem to be somewhat lacking in strength and heat - if it can sell more than 50,000 pieces, it would be great!

What's the problem?

The actor of the male protagonist Neo is an oriental face, and in his opinion, of course, the key to the problem.

In the land of North America, an oriental face is naturally less popular and sought after by everyone than a white man, and this is a reality that no one can change!

If the hero and heroine of "The Matrix", or even just the male lead, are played by a handsome American actor, Glenshire believes that its current popularity in North America will immediately rise to a whole level!

If that's the case, I'm afraid that the box office in the first week will not be able to beat 60 million US dollars, after all, the audience's reputation and evaluation of it are so good!

Of course, it is even more commendable to be able to win a box office of up to $50 million in two days in such a situation with huge birth defects!

It's just that as a distributor, he thinks that the potential of this movie should be more than that, so there will be some regrets and some dissatisfaction.

At this time, after thinking about it, Glen Shire said: "It is precisely because of Qian's decision that the box office we got in North America is even worse than the box office that this movie got in China...... It's really ......"

John Days laughed.

"Glenn, you've been to China, so I don't think you should say anything like that!"

Glen Shire looked at him in amazement.