Chapter 43: Let the box office fly
"Hello everyone, I am an entertainment broadcaster, and the kung fu blockbuster "Huo Yuanjia" written and directed by Lin Yuquan, a young director who is currently being screened, was exposed to set off an amazing movie-watching frenzy in North America, according to the number jΓΉ, its first-day box office was 4.3 million US dollars, the next day box office was 4.6 million US dollars, and the North American box office of 8.9 million US dollars in two days was second only to the first three-day result of 17.6 million US dollars in the first three days of the release of Zhang Yi's "Hero" in North America this year. Next up is the exclusive report brought to you by Entertainment Broadcast. Zhejiang Satellite TV Entertainment broadcast the program, and the host introduced the movie "Huo Yuanjia" with a sweet smile.
Immediately following the picture, holding a microphone, a beautiful female host in professional clothes appeared on the TV, under the lens of the camera, she said a little faster: "Hello everyone, where I am now is the door of a movie theater in Los Angeles, at the door of the movie theater we can clearly see a huge poster printed with "Huo Yuanjia", and there are many young Americans taking pictures next to the poster. β
As she spoke, the hostess walked quickly to the poster and asked a white guy in front of her in English, "Hi! Hello, are you here to watch the movie "Huo Yuanjia"? β
"Yes, I came with my friends, I didn't get tickets for the last show, we are waiting for the next one." The white man excitedly pointed to the two white men next to him.
"May I ask why you came to watch a Chinese movie like "Huo Yuanjia"?" The hostess continued to ask.
The white young man's expression suddenly became very excited: "Oh, we watched its teaser on the Internet, the kung fu in it is simply cool, we came to the cinema to watch the kung fu, according to netizens who have seen it, there are several violent fight scenes in the movie!" It's absolutely enjoyable to watch. Speaking of which, the white guy also gestured with a fist at the camera.
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation." The hostess then turned sideways to the camera and said, "Next, let's go to the ticket hall of the cinema to have a look." β
The screen turned again, and there was a long queue in front of the ticket window in the huge ticket hall.
"Hello, what movie are you watching?" The figure of the female host reappeared, interviewing a middle-aged black man.
The black man glanced at the camera lens facing him, and then said extremely tongue-twisting: "Huo Yuanjia".
"Why did you come to see this movie?" The hostess asked.
"I'm here for the ring inside, and that guy is even better than Stallone and Statham." The black man replied.
After the hostess looked at a blonde girl again and asked, "What movie are you watching", and the blonde girl replied "Huo Yuanjia", the picture quickly switched, and more than a dozen Americans of all kinds replied to the camera "Huo Yuanjia", "Huo Yuanjia", "Huo Yuanjia"
Immediately following the picture back to the entertainment studio, the voice was sweet and said with a smile: "At present, in the United States, "Huo Yuanjia" is becoming a phenomenon, through the interview, we found that almost all American audiences appreciate the kung fu in the movie, so what kind of kung fu is so fascinating? Seriously, even Yoyo himself can't help but want to go to the cinema, and those who are interested should hurry up! Well, it's time for the end of the show again, thank you for your strong support of the entertainment broadcast, and we'll see you next time! β
Zhejiang Satellite TV is just one of the many TV media, under the bombardment of major TV news media and entertainment magazines, the North American box office table of "Huo Yuanjia" and the appreciation and comments of American audiences for the movie continue to appear in the public eye.
At the same time, the network marketing strategy of "Huo Yuanjia" is also in full swing, MSN, blogs, BBS, and everywhere on the Internet can be seen "Have you seen "Huo Yuanjia"? I heard that it's very good-looking", "Please, you haven't even watched "Huo Yuanjia", it's too OUT", "I just came back from watching "Huo Yuanjia", I highly recommend it". Coupled with the crazy reprint of the teaser by netizens, more and more young audiences are either curious or determined to flock to the cinema.
And under the impetus of such a shape, the mainland box office of "Huo Yuanjia" naturally rose.
Soon, the box office number for the week was released.
In the office of the boss of Shuguang Film Company, Lin Yuquan and others were happily watching the box office situation this week.
According to statistics, the results of "Huo Yuanjia" this week, excluding 4.2 million on the first day and 4.5 million on the second day, the box office from Wednesday to Friday was about 5.25 million every day, and the two days on the weekend were full, with a single-day box office of 8 million, so that the box office of "Huo Yuanjia" in the first week reached an astonishing 40.15 million, far exceeding the previous expectation of 35 million.
The weekly box office result of 40.15 million also helped "Huo Yuanjia" become the runner-up of the weekly box office in the mainland without any suspense, as for the champion, aside from the unreleased "Kung Fu", naturally only Feng Xiaogang's "No Thieves in the World" has the ability to beat "Huo Yuanjia" at the top of the list. After setting a single-week box office of 30 million for Feng Xiaogang's personal best last week, the box office of "No Thieves in the World" this week has risen instead of falling, and another 50 million has been collected, and the single-week box office alone has exceeded his previous highest-grossing "Mobile Phone" of 45 million. At the same time, the cumulative box office of 80 million in two weeks also made "No Thieves in the World" temporarily become the fourth place in the domestic annual box office list, second only to "Ambush on All Sides", "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Return of the King", and "The Day After Tomorrow", and in addition to Zhang Yi's "Ambush on All Sides", it is difficult to catch up, the box office of the two films "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "The Day After Tomorrow" are 86.3 million and 82.5 million respectively.
Although it is only the runner-up at the mainland box office, Lin Yuquan and others are already extremely satisfied, not to mention the excellent results achieved by "Huo Yuanjia" overseas.
On the North American weekly box office list, "Huo Yuanjia" became the box office champion with $35.5023 million and more than $30.2 million "The Unfortunate Adventures of Raymond Snick", and also became the weekly box office champion in Hong Kong, with a single week of 15.5 million Hong Kong dollars, Taiwan 33.6 million Taiwan dollars, 1.81 million pounds in the United Kingdom, 1.6332 million US dollars in Japan, 1.05 million US dollars in Russia, 600,000 US dollars in South Korea, plus the box office of Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, with a total box office of 44.7076 million US dollars.
44.7076 million US dollars, according to the current RMB exchange rate, equivalent to RMB 370 million, and then counting the domestic box office, the cumulative box office of "Huo Yuanjia" in a single week has reached 410.15 million yuan, which has made a profit of more than 200% for Shuguang Film Company in just one week.
For such a box office table, can Lin Yuquan ask for more? In fact, even if it is the whole box office, it is enough to make people happy, and besides, this is the first week, which is crazy enough to think about.
"It's crazy." Ding Wei was speechless with excitement, such box office figures were unimaginable to him before, not to mention the fiasco of CITIC, the best record of the films he participated in at the Kyoto Film Studio in the early years was only 12 million yuan, and the difference between the two is simply worlds apart.
"Wow, converted into RMB, more than 400 million box office, now we can make a lot of money." Xiao Yang shouted excitedly: "No wonder Zhang Yi has specialized in making costume martial arts films in recent years, I have to say that such movies are too marketable overseas and too profitable, Yuquan, why don't you make kung fu movies like "Huo Yuanjia" in your next movie!" β
ps: In the director's ** work, Lin Yuquan's box office results are probably only Wang Yang and Stephen. Zhou, Evan. Bale, the three directors who are mixed in Hollywood, can compare, even Adrian can't compare, I don't know if you still think it's reasonable.