In terms of the amount of investment by the slum millionaires and the time period of the release, it is definitely a huge surprise that the first week of release can be grossed at the box office of $43.17 million on the weekend and three days plus midnight.

At least on the bright side, the film has recouped its investment costs in just three days after its release in North America.

One of the most interesting things in the film industry is that films that do well at the box office at the beginning will always do well during their release. And movies that are a mess at the box office at the beginning generally rarely have a chance to turn over. usually ends with a dismal box office and is forced to release the film.

Although this law cannot be said to be absolute, it is definitely a norm.

The main reason for this is that excellent films can be promoted very quickly after being disseminated by the audience. Especially after entering the information network age, any information will be transmitted at a very fast speed. Good things are naturally getting better and better, and poor quality can't deceive a large number of audiences into entering the cinema.

Slumdog millionaires have a good reputation among viewers, with more than 90 percent of the audience giving a score of 8 or more in a random survey after the show, and many of them even giving a perfect score of 10.

Under this strong positive news, Disney quickly launched and opened up theaters in a very short time, increasing the number of screens in North America to more than 2,000 in the second week!

This is the treatment of a real summer production!

Thanks to a good audience reputation, strong publicity channels, and a rapidly increasing number of screening screens. Who Can Become a Millionaire Earns $41.93 Million at the North American Box Office in the Second Week!

After entering the new century, Hollywood movies basically follow a box office law. That is, the best time for box office results must be in the first week, after which the box office revenue will slowly decline. The only difference is that some movies have a slow decline in box office revenue, while others have collapsed like an avalanche.

Under normal circumstances, the box office drop in the second week is more than 30 percent, and even classic masterpieces are about 20 percent. As for the bad movies that plummeted by more than half at the box office a week later, there are countless of them.

Judging by the all-important box office, the slumdog millionaire is super competitive.

Compared with box office revenue, Zhang Fan pays more attention to the performance of this film in the awards season. And if you want to gain something at the Oscars, the box office can't be too bad.

Almost all of the Oscar winners have had good box office results as the bottom line. Maybe it's not those super big productions in the summer file, but it has to be a well-known work that is well-known and has a good box office.

The Oscars can be PR, but also shady. But at least they are very hidden, and there are no obvious flaws to look for. No matter which film wins, it is not bad at the box office and word of mouth. You can't fault it.

Unlike the awards ceremonies in some countries, awards are given to films whose names have never even been heard of, or even officially released in cinemas. You can't even play shady!

Although it is said that all kinds of film awards are for people who play movies to entertain themselves, at least the shortlisted and award-winning works must have a certain audience base. Otherwise, it will really become your own people playing by yourself, and there will definitely be no audience to pay attention.

At the award ceremonies in some places, this is not even done well. thought that awarding an actor or actress would attract the audience, but in addition to the fans of those award-winners, the ghost would go to see it.

Not to mention other aspects, including technical gaps, just in terms of the behind-the-scenes operation of the award ceremony. In some places, the level is more than 50 years behind Hollywood!

They are also in the sense that they are high above the benefactor, believing that whatever they do is representative of the industry. But I didn't think that it was now the Internet era, except for fans and water armies, no one would even take a second look at this kind of thing that can't even cheat!

And their final fate can only be a dismal business that feels good about themselves, until they completely disappear after losing all their financial support!

By the third week, North American box office receipts had finally begun to decline significantly, amounting to $33.92 million.

Three weeks later, the North American box office exceeded 100 million. is not a role on the stage at all in the summer file or Christmas file that is gathering in a large number of movies. But in the current off-season, it is a very outstanding achievement!

And, from the third week, under the strong operation of Disney, the film began to be released in several countries around the world. This includes India, where the film takes place.

At first, India tried to prevent the film from entering its own market, but Disney's strong PR eventually granted permission to enter. This shows the enormity of Disney's power.

You must know that this slumdog millionaire knows just by listening to the name that it is not a positive movie that promotes the quintessence of the country and the excellent national culture. This is a film that reflects the dark inside story and tragic life of Indian society. As long as Indian officials have a little more normal thinking, they will not allow such films to appear on the movie screens of their own countries.

However, the unthinkable arose. Disney's PR was a huge success, and it successfully obtained the license to release it in India.

Of course, Zhang Fan would not believe that such Indian officials would want to reflect and use this critical film to inspire the Chinese people to be angry and strong, and to build a better country. This kind of science fiction thing has only been done in the entire history of mankind by Huaxia!

When Zhang Fan asked Disney's people how they did it, Disney's response was very simple, just give money.

This is the real situation in India, even if it is this kind of obviously critical film, it can be released in India as long as there is money!

India was a British colony for hundreds of years. In fact, not only the British, but also the Portuguese as well as the French once colonized India. It's just that in the end it was the British who took the lion's share.

Because of its long-standing colonial relationship, India is not a strange country in the European and American world. Even their official language is English, and there are a lot of Indian immigrants from all over the world.

The developed countries in Europe and the United States have always had a mentality of looking down on the world like God. Former colonies such as India are the focus of their attention.

Many film critics in Europe and the United States like to see movies that promote the backwardness of other countries, because this can bring out the superiority of their own country. It can even be said that they like to watch this kind of film that will please them. For this kind of film, these people have always been stingy with various awards.

Many years ago, a great Chinese director often shot this type of film, and won countless awards at various foreign film festivals. Those rustic heroines, with two big braids and tattered floral jackets, have also become the queens of international film festivals one by one. They used to be truly beautiful.

But when the big director began to turn his head and shoot those big productions and big movies that were approaching Hollywood. But he returned again and again, and he didn't get a single hair. It's because he doesn't make critical films that can please European and American film critics, but wants to compete with Hollywood. Isn't that encouraging filmmakers from other countries to go against Hollywood?

Hollywood doesn't know how much energy and money it has spent, which has smashed the local film markets of many countries one by one and created an unprecedented overall situation in the world of Hollywood.

What they want is for the filmmakers from all over the world to continue to make these niche films that criticize themselves, so as to cede the market to Hollywood! If they can, it will be a piece of cake to give these films various awards.

Slumdog Millionaire began to be released in several countries around the world. The UK grossed more than $15 million in its first week. France grossed more than $9 million in its first week. The German box office exceeded $13 million in its first week. Italy grossed more than $7 million in its first week, and so on.

By the time Slumdog Millionaire was officially released for a month, the global box office revenue had exceeded $370 million!

Compared to the investment in this movie, such a high box office income is already more than ten times the rate of return!

Of course, all this money cannot fall into Zhang Fan's hands.

Disney, as the distributor, first charges a distribution fee. Secondly, each cinema chain will deduct the cinema share in accordance with the contract. This share is roughly between 40 and 45 percent of box office revenue.

In addition to this, there are also essential taxes, and the tax rate varies from country to country. Plus Disney's share and the money invested in the early stage, etc. In the end, after the calculation of the financial assistant, Zhang Fan was able to obtain about 80 million US dollars.

It's just that this money didn't fall into Zhang Fan's pocket all at once. After all, the settlements of various movie theaters are different, especially the revenue from the overseas box office according to the urine nature of Hollywood, it is normal to drag it to the end of the world.

For Hollywood studios, the interests of investors have become a professional habit for them. It's normal to be pitted, but it's a problem if it's not. The difference is only in the number of pits.

Hollywood film companies have once made hundreds of millions of overseas box office revenues into a negative state through various accounting methods. Instead of distributing the benefits to investors, investors are even asked to pay for non-existent losses.

The courage of Hollywood filmmakers is simply terrifying, they even dare to cheat Wall Street money, what else in this world is not daring to do?

Of course, those investors are not good at it. There are too many things about Hollywood studios constantly going out of business, being bought out, going out of business, and being bought again. There are also many filmmakers who are either infamous and imprisoned, or die in a car accident or overdose.

Zhang Fan does not have the power to be judged by the police as an overdose. But he had the money to hire a lot of good lawyers!