Chapter 141 140: The North American Box Office Explodes! Too Crazy!

Chapter 141: 140 The North American box office explodes! too crazy!

It is said that the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. This sentence has been proven wrong in many cases.

But that also depends on how fragrant the wine is.

As far as "Three-Body Problem 1" is concerned, the problem of deep alleys does not exist much.

In fact, several major distributors in Hollywood had negotiated with Wang Huan very early on.

Even before the finished film comes out, there are already film studios vying for distribution rights. This is a treatment that other Chinese-language films cannot get, and all of them come from big distributors, all Hollywood giants.

Not only in Hollywood, but also in other places around the world, it is the giants who talk about it.

It's just that the first talk was about buying out the contract.

It is a sum of money to directly buy out all the distribution rights in a certain market.

For example, in the North American market, the trilogy's highest bid was 120 million US dollars, which of course also includes the right to sell CDs.

Don't underestimate this figure, it is already an unprecedented high price.

120 million U.S. dollars, which means that the total box office of the three films must exceed 200 million U.S. dollars, and a large number of CDs must be sold to barely maintain their capital.

This is already a huge gamble for Hollywood giants.

It's all due to Wang Huan's high popularity in North America and the huge influence of Three Body.

After all, two years ago, Wang Huan made a fuss in the United States, and countless people still remember it vividly.

Not to mention that the Three-Body Problem series has created a sales miracle in the United States. I don’t know how many people have read this book.

Of course, the most important thing is the bet between Wang Huan and the President of the United States.

The impact is just astonishing.

No one knows, no one knows.

It is precisely because of this that the North American distribution giant is willing to spend 120 million to purchase the distribution rights and audiovisual rights of the three films.

But Wang Huan refused, and he directly asked for a share of the box office.

At that time, the other party directly said: "Mr. Wang Huan, if you talk about the share, it will be very unfavorable to you. Our enthusiasm may not be so high. If it is a buyout, the company may try its best to promote it in order to recover the cost."

But Wang Huan still resolutely adopted the sharing system.

As for the publisher, Wang Huan finally chose Sony.

Not because he is from Japan, but the relationship between this distribution giant and the Chinese film industry is considered good, because it is the most active in entering the Chinese market.

More than half a year ago, people from Sony also attended the first internal screening of Three Body 1.

After watching it, he shook his head and said bluntly: Mr. Wang Huan, American audiences are used to first-class special effects scenes. Your film is doomed to lose in the North American market. We will only open in 1,500 venues at most.

In fact, this number of openings is already very good.

The number of heroes with the best results was barely 1,000 at the beginning. At that time, there was the wind of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

In another world, those movies that have created miracles in China, such as "Nezha" and "Operation Red Sea", have only three or four hundred screening venues in North America, and most of them are in Chinese areas.

Therefore, the arrogance of the North American market can be imagined!

And to the second screening.

Three people from the Sony publisher also came.

After watching the finished film, they were completely stunned.

It is completely unbelievable that someone in this world can actually surpass Hollywood in terms of special effects and pictures.

It's too scary!

Then, they just said one sentence, and hurriedly rip copies, the more the better, the more the better.

Next, Three Body 1 set an unprecedented record in the Chinese market.

In its opening weekend, that equated to $30 million.

The box office in the first week is equivalent to 43 million US dollars.

The scariest thing was the next week's box office curve, which showed an astonishing reverse decline.

The news has also reached the North American market.

But the collective reaction of the American media, as well as the audience, is that.

"China's internal self-promotion, a patriotic marketing."

"The Chinese are cheating, and the government is helping Wang Huan to win the box office, trying to beat the "Star Wars Episode 3" trilogy."

"All of us know that the internal screening more than half a year ago was a disaster. The person in charge of Industrial Light and Magic also went to see the finished film and said that the special effects and pictures were extremely bad. And in half a year, they To be able to complete the production according to the bad effect is already very remarkable, and there is no improvement at all. But it is such a bad movie that broke the unprecedented box office record in the Chinese market. It is really a great sadness. I should say Chinese Is it too patriotic, or have they not seen a good movie?"

"Later I found out that there is actually a very magical behavior in their country, that is, booking venues. Governments at all levels will set up pocket venues and organize people from all units and schools to watch movies."

"So, the box office miracle of Three-Body Problem 1 in China was born in this way."

"Furthermore, Wang Huan tried to use the so-called box office miracle in China to stimulate the North American and global markets. He is too naive. Americans have watched movies for more than a hundred years. We have the best discerning ability. Deceived by your low-level tricks."

"On July 25th, I will buy a ticket to watch it as soon as possible, and it will be in IMAX3D, waiting for my review report when I come back."

"Love you film critics, John Connor."

This is an article by a famous film critic. Of course, the voice is almost the same throughout the United States.

Distributor Sony initially wanted to do a PR, but then found the sound was too loud and gave up, letting the quality of the film speak for itself.

After a series of trade-offs and negotiations.

In the end, "Three-Body Problem 1" opened in 2,800 venues in North America.

This is already an unprecedented treatment, and it is definitely super luxurious for foreign films.

Even when "Hero" won the weekly box office championship, it was only screened in 2,000 venues.

The opening of 2,800 stores is already a great effort and courage of Sony.

On the North American side, there is also a tradition of zero points.

However, there will not be large-scale screenings at zero o'clock, and there will not be too many audiences, unless it is some extremely popular Hollywood masterpieces.

Therefore, the zero-point premiere of Three-Body 1 was just so-so.

Sony once persuaded Wang Huan to hold a grand premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood and invite a lot of stars to come.

The most important thing is that Wang Huan must be present, even Sony is willing to pay the money.

But Wang Huan refused.

In Sony's eyes, Wang Huan is really too stubborn.

Therefore, this film does not have a star-studded premiere, which seems a bit deserted.

No matter how curious Americans are, they are reluctant to watch a Chinese movie in the middle of the night.

Therefore, the attendance rate of this zero point field is really just so-so.

About 15%.

Not bad, but definitely not good either.

Those who can watch this movie at this time are either die-hard fans of Three-Body Problem, or they want to see how bad it is, or they are professional film critics, such as that John Connor.

Another example is that many media reporters want to vote for Rotten Tomatoes.

To be honest, they are really hard to bear.

And I'm upset.

Because there is no English dubbing for this film, the copy was given too late, and there was no time to dub it.

Of course, there is a small part of English in the plot, but most of them are in Chinese.

So almost all the time, you have to watch subtitles.

This feeling is too unpleasant to concentrate on.

but……

Almost as soon as the movie started, they froze.

Because the 3D effect is amazing, surpassing all existing Hollywood movies.

And the colors of these pictures are great.

These live shots are so powerful.

When the first big scene of special effects, the catastrophe of the Trisolaran planet, which lasted for a minute and a half, was shot to the end, and the picture stretching for hundreds of miles was played.

The audience was shocked.

Next, shock again.

Qin Shihuang's million-strong soldier flesh computer.

Finally, completely dumbfounded.

The nine-dimensional proton unfolded and turned into a huge two-dimensional plane. During the whole process, several civilizations inside the proton were destroyed and counterattacked, which brought a huge impact on the Trisolaran civilization.

Finally, printed circuits on a two-dimensional plane, transformed into a computer.

This magical scene really stunned everyone, unprecedented movie magic.

The end of the movie!

Three-body civilization migration.

The incomparably huge Trisolaran fleet, mighty and mighty, covered the sky and covered the sun, and flew towards the earth.

So far, the first movie of The Three-Body Problem is over.

The audience stood still.

Then there is no menu, it's all the cast and crew list, and it lasts for a few minutes.

But almost everyone sat where they were.

After all the subtitles were over, the audience applauded.

The Chinese market is extremely enthusiastic about this movie, and it is extremely sought after. After the movie is over, few people applaud.

But in the North American market, it got applause.

Of course, it's not that North American audiences are better, but because Chinese audiences love this movie more.

I love it so much that I don’t want to use the formulaic form of applause, but after I go home, I post like crazy and call like crazy to recommend.

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Film critic John Connor wrote a blog post on his blog after he got home.

First, he uploaded a photo.

He prepared a large bucket, filled it with ice cubes and water, and poured it over his head.

"I was wrong, Mr. Wang Huan, and I formally apologize to you."

"The miracle of the box office in the Chinese market is real, and it's not done by the government."

"This movie is a miracle of this era. Regarding the plot, I have nothing to say, because it is too shocking, which keeps me distracted and missed a lot of plots."

"But I just want to say that the special effects technology displayed in this movie surpasses that of Hollywood by two decades."

"That's right, we're behind."

"Even, I would call it movie magic."

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There are almost countless film critics like John Connor.

And the most attractive is a scientist's film review.

"I'm a PhD at USC, a physical scientist."

"I went to this movie with a sense of superiority, and I wanted to see how many mistakes were made in it."

"Then, I was preached."

"There is a person in the movie who taught me the knowledge of space and latitude. After I watched it, I just felt suddenly enlightened, inspired and shocked."

"The latitude unfolds in it, I don't know if it's right. But at least it's decades ahead of our existing research."

"Our school is holding a meeting and plans to use this special effects scene as part of the research textbook."

"Of course, this requires the consent of Mr. Wang Huan, and we are applying for it."

Of course, this is not Wang Huan's credit. Even the original version of the movie in 2035, the picture about the unfolding of nine-dimensional protons is full of mistakes.

But after Wen Xingxing's modification, it is hard to say whether it is completely correct.

But in the study of latitude space, at least tens of hundreds of years ahead of the world.

Therefore, the special effects of this screen instantly conquered many physicists.

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Of course, the media opinion in North America is not as crazy as in China.

But... it's hot and amazing enough.

First up is Rotten Tomatoes.

Rotten Tomatoes has an astonishing 95%.

Followed by IMDB score, unexpectedly 9.0 points.

In an instant, the entire film market was in an uproar.

This... this score is too exaggerated.

On the Rotten Tomatoes index, 95% of them are already ranked very high. Most of them are rated by film critics. They will evaluate a movie more comprehensively, even if it is the picture and special effects, it can bring good results fresh index.

The IMDB scores are very, very strict.

"Titanic", which has swept the global market, has a score of 7.7 on IMDB.

Just 7.7 points.

In another world, "Avatar", which created countless box office records, only scored 7.8 points.

IMDB's scoring is more focused on the plot, as well as the so-called profound themes and so on.

So The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, etc., all get super high marks.

Basically, being able to score more than 8 points in IMDB is considered a miracle to some extent.

And "Three-Body Problem 1" turned out to have a score of 9.0, which directly entered the top five of the IMDB overall list. To put it more directly, it is the fourth place in the overall list.

This is a historical list, which summarizes almost all movies.

This... is too scary.

Of course, this score may drop in the future.

And to a certain extent, because it is a foreign language film, the previous expectations were too low, but after watching it, it brought an unparalleled surprise.

Most importantly, it's not a popcorn flick.

He's not like Transformers, and it's not even like Avatar.

It's a very deep movie.

And to some extent, it's not even very friendly to the audience, and there are often a lot of show-offs.

But it is precisely this that has conquered the most demanding fans in North America.

So just at the beginning, there was an astonishing 9.0 IMDB score.

Soon the box office data for July 25 came out.

$8 million.

This data is very good!

But to some extent, this data is also general.

Very good because, this is Wednesday, this score has surpassed all previous Chinese-made movies.

Hero's opening weekend grossed just $18 million in three days.

But when the hero opened in the first week, there were only more than a thousand venues, only half of "Three-Body 1".

Experts from Sony Pictures predicted that North American audiences felt that they were left out by Wang Huan, so they had psychological rejection.

Because shortly before the upcoming release, Wang Huan announced that China will be released on July 18, and other markets around the world will be released on July 25 at the earliest.

So the audience in North America is arrogant, and we don't care about watching you like this.

Therefore, the box office in North America on the first day is of course considered good.

But... lower than Sony Pictures expected.

It shouldn't be this number.

This movie is so good and cool, it should be very popular in the North American market.

Moreover, it has such a high popularity, which is well known to all the people.

After the box office data came out on the first day, major institutions in the United States immediately made predictions.

"Three-Body Problem 1" had a box office of US$26 million in the first weekend in North America, and the final box office was US$80 million.

Are the forecasts of these agencies accurate?

To be honest, it is very accurate. The actual box office data of 90% of the movies basically match the predictions, which can be regarded as close to each other.

If it ends up with a box office of 80 million U.S. dollars, it is still a super good result, surpassing Hero's North American box office of 50 million U.S. dollars.

But... For Wang Huan, it was a complete failure.

The distributor, Sony Pictures, will also be extremely disappointed.

Because according to their estimates, the box office of this film in North America should be about 150 million, which will exceed the 128 million of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Because it's so hot and the video quality is so good.

But now this expressiveness, it is difficult to surpass Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

As for the comparison with "Star Wars Prequel", let alone mention it.

However, Thursday's box office figures came out.

It surprised countless people.

North American box office on Thursday, 11 million US dollars.

This... this is a bit scary!

This kind of curve is a bit bewitching.

Immediately afterwards, the box office came out on Friday, $16 million.

Sony Pictures, cheers.

It worked, the film worked.

Immediately afterwards, Saturday's box office data came out, $23 million.

The publisher, Sony Pictures, couldn't hold back anymore and directly held a celebration party internally.

And it has already begun to discuss with major theaters to increase the number of films.

The number of museums opening next week will directly soar to 4,000, which is completely the treatment of A-level major productions.

As for whether this will make the President of the United States lose?

Sorry, maybe one day, American capital interests will once again unite to suppress.

but not now.

Now, let's make money first.

In the capital market, no one has trouble with money.

And when the Sunday box office came out, everyone was speechless.

Even the issuer himself was completely shocked.

Sunday box office, $25 million.

Sunday was even higher than Saturday, and this curve came again.

This monstrous curve came again.

It's reversed again.

On Monday, Sony Pictures officially announced the box office data of "Three-Body Problem 1".

The three-day box office in the first weekend, 64 million US dollars.

The box office in the first week, 83 million US dollars.

The entire North American market was in an uproar, and the whole world was completely shocked.

And the scariest thing is not the box office data, but the box office curve it shows.

An unprecedented monster.

All agencies dare not predict how much its final box office will be.

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