Chapter 408: Special Audience
While "The Wandering Earth" was a success at the domestic box office, it also caused a storm of moviegoers in the United States, Europe, South Korea, Japan, and even India.
In the United States, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" broke $50 million on the first day, and the second day was basically the same as the first day, earning $48 million at the box office, and the third and fourth days were weekends, and the box office exceeded 60 million on both days, and at the end of the first week, "The Wandering Earth" led the North American box office charts with a record-breaking box office score of $218 million.
In Europe, whether in the United Kingdom, France or Germany, "The Wandering Earth" has broken a series of box office records previously held by these countries. Due to time reasons, coupled with the different box office statistical standards in various countries, the media can only make a rough prediction, even so, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" in Europe in four days combined reached at least 200 million US dollars.
The rest of Japan contributed $100 million to the box office, South Korea contributed $60 million, and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other regions combined to $60 million. In addition, South America, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa add up to about 50 million US dollars, plus China's first week of 1.5 billion yuan, equivalent to about 240 million US dollars.
Therefore, when the global box office of "The Wandering Earth" came out on the first four days, not only fans were dumbfounded, but even major media fell into a state of aphasia.
$928 million!
"The Wandering Earth" immediately became one of the fourteen highest-grossing films of all time.
The thirteen films ahead of it are Harry Potter 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $934.0 million.
Harry Potter 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, $937.0 million.
Harry Potter 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I. $946.1 million
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World (2007), $958.4 million
Harry Potter 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). $968.7 million
Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight (2008), $1,001.9 million
Alice in Wonderland (2010). $1,023.3 million
Toy Story 3 (2010), 1,063.0 million
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Coffin of the Dead/Treasure of the Dead (2006), $1,065.9 million
The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King (2003), $1,129.2 million
The Village Teacher (2011), $1,736.5 million
Titanic (1997), $1,835.3 million
Avatar (2009), $2,781.5 million
The headline in the New York Times read: James Cameron, your opponent is coming.
Last year, Cybertron's "Country Teacher" was defeated by "Titanic" with a gap of less than $100 million. Let the Chinese media sigh for it.
And the terrifying start of "The Wandering Earth" this time made people vaguely see the shadow of "Avatar" killing all sides back then, and even surpassed it.
Even James Cameron himself stood up and said that "The Wandering Earth" is a great science fiction movie, and it is natural to have this kind of expression. He even vaguely threw an olive branch to Cybertron Digital, claiming that he likes Liu Cixin's science fiction novels very much, and hopes to one day cooperate with Cybertron Digital to adapt some of Liu Cixin's other short works, such as "Micro Era", "Mountain", "Supernova Era", etc.
As for the domestic media. It was even more of a frenzy.
CCTV reported on the movie-watching boom set off by "The Wandering Earth" for several days in "NEWS Network", and said that after a long period of reform and accumulation of Chinese films, a leading company such as Cybertron Digital finally appeared. This is inseparable from the leadership of XXX and so on.
In addition, "People's Daily", "Nandu Weekly", "China Youth Daily", "Global Times" and other paper media also praised "The Wandering Earth", which contributed to the popularity of "The Wandering Earth".
Time. The whole of China is caught up in the craze of "The Wandering Earth", as if not going to the cinema is contributing to the box office of the film. It's like a lot of the times.
And the watch of "The Wandering Earth" still lived up to expectations, at the end of the first week. The seven-day box office pre-sale in the second week was still hot, and it was sold out in less than two hours, which also provided room for many scalpers to make profits.
Chen Xin is not surprised by this kind of expression of "The Wandering Earth", compared with other types of movies, science fiction movies themselves are a world language, especially disaster films, which have an indescribable charm in themselves, coupled with those wonderful shots in the film that exceed the limits of people's imagination, it is natural to get such good results.
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Even Chen Xin himself is now in the theater again, accompanying others to watch "The Wandering Earth".
It's just that this time, whether it's the viewing location or the moviegoer, it's more special.
The theater is located in ZNH, with a total of about 20 positions, sitting on his left hand side is the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Putin, and on the right hand side is the No. 1 elder.
Yesterday, after Prime Minister Putin's visit to China, after a series of activities, the Chinese side made a request to meet with Chen Xin, and expressed the hope that they could enjoy the sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" shot by Cybertron Digital.
At this moment, Chen Xin couldn't refuse.
After all, the visitor is a guest, and "The Wandering Earth" is still a movie produced by its own company, plus "The Wandering Earth" received a lot of preferential treatment when it entered Russia, and it got more than 60 million US dollars at the box office in Russia alone, which is even much higher than that of the United Kingdom.
Chen Xin naturally had to come forward to accompany him.
It's just that in this way, the Great Elder also needs to come forward.
So in the end, after tripartite negotiation, the viewing location was set at ZNH, and the time was on the afternoon of July 5th.
Luckily, there is a small movie theater in the heart of the new China's politics itself, which can play 3D blockbusters, so just send a copy over.
This time, the process of the three-party meeting was very pleasant, and Chen Xin's treatment had no intention of being with the head of other countries, and the three of them did not have in-depth talks, but chatted like old friends.
After the movie began, Putin and the Great Elder were attracted by the plot of "The Wandering Earth", and some of the topics that the three occasionally talked about were only related to the content of the film. (To be continued......)