Chapter 131: Simple Thoughts
"Once Upon a Time" has been released in North America.
It lasted more than eight weeks and grossed $66.43 million.
Not only exceeded Disney's expectations, but even exceeded Paohui's expectations.
The higher the local box office in North America, the higher the TV rights, DVD sales, including peripheral development.
Among them, the TV copyright is clearly stipulated, which is basically equivalent to 15 percent of the North American box office, almost 10 million US dollars, and DVD sales are very good, and more than 300,000 DVDs have been sold in just one month after opening, which is a lot of money.
According to Wang Ermazi, director of Huiwen Tianxia's Disney office... No, Wang Futian's words say that for the entry of "Once Upon a Time" in North America alone, Disney may have to pay $30 million to Huiwen World this year!
Note that this is only for North America!
European countries, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany contributed 8 million, 11 million, and 7 million US dollars respectively, equivalent to more than 50% of the total box office results in the entire European region.
However, there are too many countries in Europe, and it is a bit difficult to calculate the box office, and I only know the approximate data, which is about 50 million US dollars.
Japan is the country that contributes the most to the box office outside of the United States and China, with a box office of 4.6 billion yen, equivalent to more than 40 million US dollars! (Ps: Chibi 'Shangxia' directly broke 10 billion yen at the box office in Japan, adding up to a total of 10.6 billion yen... Kure Hakuge's film is very popular in Japan... )
Coupled with several small countries in Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa, the overseas box office of "Once Upon a Time" actually reached $190 million!
Pao Hui has made new history!
"Hero" is very hanging, and the overseas box office is only $170 million.
Huiwen Tianxia only got the news in October, and originally wanted to post it directly on Weibo to announce it, so that the industry friends could pay their respects.
Huang Wen has been suppressing this news, and when he is preparing for the promotion of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", he will talk about it again!
By the way, the popularity of "Once Upon a Time", Disney has developed peripheral models and the like, and the sales are quite hot...
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Time magazine is very high-end and atmospheric.
People also take the elite route, North America, the best-selling paper media, is always a daily newspaper, like "Variety", "Time", including "National Geographic" and other single issues sales of no more than 500,000 copies...
But it is one of the most famous magazines in the world.
What's more, it's already a global magazine, and it has a lot of followers all over the world...
At home, including abroad, many actors and directors who are engaged in film work hope to put their faces on the cover of "Time"!
Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Fan Bingbing have appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and one is named Liu Yun, but her editor wanted to find a woman who could represent the new generation of women born in the 80s in China, representing the new generation that has just grown up in China. They are young, happy, unfettered, uninhibited, authentic and natural. Obviously, Liu Yun is the cover character simply because she is a member of the new generation of Chinese, not because of her work or the role she plays...
Although it is now the age of the Internet, high-end print media and magazines have not been replaced, and they are still a symbol of character.
After receiving the news of the interview with "Time", Xu Hui first announced it on Weibo, and a bunch of fans, including friends in the circle, expressed their envy...
He was interviewed by a bespectacled male journalist in his forties named James.
A little disappointed ha...
After hearing his name, I was even more disappointed, the foreigner's name is James, Angela and the like are like we name our children dogs, stupid girls, it's too ordinary!
"Director Xu Hui, hello. ”
"Hello, please be seated. Tea or coffee?"
After a brief greeting, James sat down.
After just one glance, Xu Hui felt that the man in front of him was a typical foreigner who had been devastated by Western etiquette, his hair was combed very smooth, every strand of hair could be seen, and he wished that flies could split on it, and he was very particular about wearing a suit on his upper body, and his bow tie was very neat...
"Black tea, thank you..."
After the tea was served, the two began to talk.
Pao Hui was a little worried that some words were too professional, and he couldn't understand them, so he found a professional translator and sat on the sofa.
“… A lot of people are curious about you, how did you shoot that kind of action? I once watched "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", although the action in it is gorgeous, but it is really fake, "Once Upon a Time" is different, although I know it is fake, but it looks very real?"
Xu Hui could understand this sentence, waved his hand at the translation brother, and replied in English: "First of all, I defined "Huang Feihong" as a kung fu movie, and he is intertwined with history, so you can't use the previous martial arts effect of flying around. However, the effect of the real fight is not interesting, if you really want to see the real fight, it is better to watch the boxing match, you must have that kind of elegant feeling, the action is like flowing water, I just thought of this half-truth and half-false fighting method in between, of course, the specific fighting method in the movie was not designed by me, thanks to my action director Mr. Li Zhongzhi. ”
"Did you know that Once Upon a Time sold $66 million at the North American box office?"
"Yes! Disney has told me. ”
“… Is there anything you'd like to say?"
"I think it's normal, kung fu movies themselves are a movie genre that people all over the world love, and the people of North America will be no exception!"
The expression on Xu Hui's face was very calm.
Well, it's a bit too pretentious, and in order to avoid being killed, he added: "However, to be able to sell such a high box office result, I think Disney's distribution ability is also very strong!"
"I heard you want to make 'Once Upon a Time' a series of movies, just like '007'?"
James took a sip of black tea and continued to ask.
"Well, with this idea, I think the character of 'Huang Feihong' can completely represent the image of the Chinese for a century, he can be a chivalrous and righteous man in the rivers and lakes, or a self-contained scholar class, or a progressive youth..."
This sentence needs the help of a translator, and Xu Hui does not have the ability to translate it into English completely.
“… I watched Jenny's interview about you, and you said that you won't take into account Hollywood developments for the time being, and I want to know the exact reason. ”
"In fact, Hollywood films have become more and more global in recent years, and in 20 years at most, the Chinese film market will become the largest film market in the world.