Sure enough, as predicted by publicity director Prem Gill, "Angel of Justice" earned $1.07 million in its first week of release in North America, ranking 18th on the weekly box office list in North America, and a staggering $179256 per theater box office. Opening with six museums and achieving more than a million dollars in a week is very rare in the history of the North American box office.

In Chinese mainland, "Angel of Justice" easily won the weekly box office championship with a first-week box office of 790 million, and accounted for nearly 70% of the weekly box office. Under the strong pressure of "Angel of Justice", in addition to the high-reputation "Hacksaw Ridge", which maintained good box office results, new and old films such as "The History of the Disappearance of Romantic", "Your Name", and "28-Year-Old Minor" all had a weekly box office of less than 50 million, and most of them will soon be swept out.

The industry is very optimistic about the box office of "Angel of Justice", thinking that it can reach 2 billion, "Angel of Justice" is not only of high quality, but also avoids the shortcomings of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", and will not be like "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", which is reluctant to watch it a second time after watching it once.

When "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was released, many people said: "There is no high tide in the whole film, so that the emotions precipitated in 145 minutes can never find a breakthrough to erupt, and can only be suffocated into internal injuries." ”

"Angel of Justice" avoids this problem very well, and the first half of the movie is also very depressing, but in the second half of the movie, Zhang Chunru broke through the obstruction of Dongying's right-wing and made "Nanjing Massacre" successfully published and appeared on the New York bestseller list; The audience will also be sad and sad after watching "Angel of Justice", but they will not feel like watching "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", feeling that they will never be able to get out of their hearts in one breath.

"Angel of Justice" has not only performed well in mainland China and North America, but has also achieved excellent results in other countries and regions.

In South Korea, "Angel of Justice" achieved 890,000 people in the first week, defeating many opponents and successfully reaching the top, and in Xiangjiang, "Angel of Justice" achieved a box office result of 12.37 million in the first week, reaching the top without suspense!

In addition, "Angel of Justice" also easily topped the box office in the entire Southeast Asian region. In Europe, Angel of Justice has not been as strong as in Asia, but it has also done quite well, with Germany doing particularly well. As Rabe's hometown, the Germans gave great support to "Angel of Justice", allowing the film to easily win the weekly box office championship.

Zhang Ran was particularly happy with the good performance of "Angel of Justice" overseas, but what made him even more gratified was that many overseas viewers watched the comments and messages of "Angel of Justice" on Fly.

"After watching "Angel of Justice", I was completely angry, not only because of the atrocities of the Dongying soldiers, but also because of their denial and cover-up of the truth. I can't understand why the people of Toying should deny these things. What makes them so hard to admit? Is it national pride? It's terrible to think!"

"I understand why the Chinese keep emphasizing this. The 911 incident killed 3,000 people in the United States, and the sacking of Nanjing by Dongying led to the brutal murder of more than 300,000 Chinese. What is even more terrifying is that the Dongying people actually denied this incident and tried to cover up the truth, can you imagine that German officials denied the Holocaust? If Dongying continues to deny the facts, then they should not be forgiven!"

"The atrocities committed by Dongying soldiers in the city of Nanjing are almost unimaginable, but Dongying has always believed that the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women and other issues are propaganda tools and lies used by the Entente powers. Many people in Toying consider themselves victims of the war and people who have been wronged by the war. Light a lamp to shine a light on these facts so that the world knows and understands them, regardless of what the outcome will be. ”

Zhang Ran was very relieved to see these comments, he filmed "Angel of Justice" in the hope that the whole world would know the truth about the Nanjing Massacre, that the Dongying government had not officially apologized until today, and that the Dongying right-wing was still trying to erase and cover up history.

Zhang Chunru's last wish was to make a film about the Nanjing Massacre, because she understood that the speed and scope of film dissemination were incomparable to that of books. Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" is a bestseller, and it has only sold a few hundred thousand copies, and if it is made into a successful movie, it will allow hundreds of millions of viewers around the world to understand that period of history.

Zhang Ran felt that he had really done it, and he had really fulfilled Zhang Chunru's last wish!

In the second week of the film's release, the North American release of "Angel of Justice" expanded to 58 venues. Due to the expansion of the scale of film releases, the data of single museums has naturally dropped significantly. During the week, "Angel of Justice" grossed $3.35 million, ranking 14th on the weekly box office list, and the single-store box office grossed $57,823, which is still a very good result.

This week, because of the blessing of Christmas, "Angel of Justice" achieved a box office of 630 million yuan in China, with a cumulative box office of 1.42 billion yuan, while outside China, due to the impact of the Hollywood super blockbuster "Star Wars Story: Rogue One", the box office of "Angel of Justice" fell sharply.

In the third week of the movie's release, the box office of "Angel of Justice" in China also fell sharply, only achieving a box office of 310 million yuan, but the total box office of the film still reached 1.73 billion yuan, and 2 billion yuan is in sight.

During the week, "Angel of Justice" expanded to 147 theaters in North America, achieving $4.15 million, ranking 12th in the North American box office list, and $28,243 in a single theater.

With the global popularity of "Angel of Justice", the deeds of Zhang Chunru, Rabe and Weitling have become known to more people, and their feats have infected countless people. Many Germans, as well as travelers to Germany, made a special trip to Rabe's tomb to lay flowers, and in the United States, the tombs of Zhang Chunru and Weitling were also wrapped in flowers.

By this time, Angel of Justice's Rotten Tomatoes freshness had soared to 92, with an average score of 8.8, and MTC's overall score had reached 91. After the premiere of "Angel of Justice" in New York, it received a lot of bad reviews, many people thought that the final score of the movie should only be more than 60 points, no one could have thought that the reputation of the movie could achieve a big reversal, even Zhang Ran didn't expect to get this score.

This benefits two things, one is that "Angel of Justice" itself is good enough, and the other is that many film critics are biased against China and like to interpret Chinese movies from a political perspective, but after it was revealed that Shelly Kratzer and others paid to smear "Angel of Justice", those who are biased against China do not dare to give "Angel of Justice" a bad review easily. Someone gave a bad review of "Angel of Justice", and immediately a bunch of Zhang Ran fans jumped out to accuse them, saying that they collected money.

On IMDB, more than 100,000 viewers gave Angel of Justice a high score of 8.3. Originally, the score of "Angel of Justice" should have been higher, but it was maliciously swiped with a large number of 1 stars, and most of these 1-star IPs came from Dongying. This kind of trick does not change the good reputation of "Angel of Justice", which is an excellent movie in the eyes of the North American public.

However, due to the small scale of the release of "Angel of Justice", many cities in North America have not yet been released, and many fans want to watch it but can't watch it. They have left messages on Fly and the official website, asking for the release to be expanded as soon as possible.

After Zhang Jingchu saw these messages, she said to Zhang Ran that the movie has a good reputation, and the audience wants to watch it, so they should take advantage of the victory to pursue it and expand the scale as soon as possible!

"Angel of Justice" is about the Nanjing Massacre, and the vast majority of Americans are not interested in this subject. If the propaganda of "Angel of Justice" adopts the propaganda of casting a net, it will definitely not work, and it must be targeted and gradually promoted, so as to achieve the best effect. According to the plan, the release of "Angel of Justice" in the United States will be divided into three phases.

The first phase is aimed at the Chinese community and the movie-going group of art theaters. Needless to say, the Chinese community naturally has relatively high-end fans of art films, and the focus of publicity is on film reviews, "Time" magazine, and "Sight and Sound" Best Picture of the Year and other appeals. After the high-grade reputation is stabilized, the next stage of the plan will begin. Following the spread of the established core audience to the surrounding areas, we began to hold test screenings to capture urban and traditional audiences.

The second phase is primarily aimed at a female audience. "Angel of Justice" is a big heroine movie, Zhang Chunru is a feminist herself, and her achievements are a model for many women. Zhang Chunru's deeds are attractive to female audiences. A month after the film's release, the second wave targeted female audiences. When the film is promoted, it will invite field notes, female models, nurses, and various female-dominated industries to entertain them to watch test films, and spread word of mouth through them. In addition, in order to attract housewives, special time slots are chosen for advertising during the daytime soap operas.

The third stage is mainly aimed at Christians, that is, the believers in North America. Many of the foreigners who rescued civilians during the Nanjing Massacre were missionaries, and Weitling was sent to China by the Christian Missionary Federation. After "Angel of Justice" was released in the United States, the Christian Science Monitor gave the movie a perfect score. The Christian Science Monitor is not a religious newspaper, but its tastes are closer to those of North American Christians. Therefore, in the third stage of the film's release, special screenings will be held for religious groups to attract believers.

The time quickly came to January 8th. On this evening, the stars were shining in front of the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. In front of the Hilton Hotel, in addition to a large number of media and fans, there is also a large number of TV satellite signal broadcast vans parked. Because today is the day of the Golden Globe Awards, the world is paying attention!

Among the many broadcast vans, the distribution vans of the movie channel are particularly eye-catching, and there are far more Chinese journalists standing on either side of the Golden Globe red carpet than in previous years. "Angel of Justice" has received seven nominations and is the favorite for this year's Golden Globes, and the attention of Chinese fans and audiences is extremely high, and the Chinese media is naturally flocking to it.

So far, Zhang Ran has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film twice, and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, but has never won the Golden Globe Award for Best Film. Prior to this year, Zhang Ran had been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture three times, with "Future Apocalypse" being the most promising to win the award, but unexpectedly losing to "Escape from Tehran". This time with "Angel of Justice" is back, the Chinese media and the audience undoubtedly hope that Zhang Ran can have the last laugh.

In addition, Zhang Jingchu is also a big favorite for Best Actress in a Drama at the Golden Globe Awards. So far in the awards season, more than half of the various film critics association awards have been awarded. Zhang Jingchu won the Best Actress award in nine of the tournaments, ranking first, and Isabella Huppert ranked second with eight. Public opinion generally believes that the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama is a contest between Zhang Jingchu and Yu Peier, but the movie "She" starring Yu Peier is a foreign language film, and Zhang Jingchu is more likely to win.

Until now, Chinese actors have not won the Golden Globe Award, and Zhang Jingchu is undoubtedly the closest Chinese actor has come to the Golden Globe Award.