Chapter 1192 One Hundred Million a Day! !

In Asia, the main point of Kirin Group is to become a star, but in the United States, Kirin Group also has a blockbuster movie released.

It is the much-anticipated "The Lion King."

"The Lion King" began large-scale advertising in May, making it almost unknown to everyone in the United States.

But what attracts the most attention is not "The Lion King" itself, but the bet surrounding "The Lion King".

When Yin Jun announced the production of "The Lion King", he once made a bet with Hollywood reporters. If the global box office of "The Lion King" does not reach 800 million US dollars, then he will quit Hollywood.

It hasn't happened two years yet.

When "The Lion King" began to be promoted on a large scale, the group of reporters did a good job of adding fuel to the flames. Not only did "The Lion King" become more popular, it also made the audience pay attention to this matter.

This is good. When Tang Shuxuan called to talk about it, he bluntly said that they had contributed at least the equivalent of 20 million US dollars in advertising effects.

In mid-June, students are all on vacation, and Disney’s years of efforts to deeply cultivate the children and teenagers market are also showing their power at this time.

United Artists Film Company and Disney worked together to win 3,860 screens in North America, and the total number of screens in Europe and South America exceeded 6,000. Adding in the countries and regions in Asia, the entire number Ten thousand tickets were posted!

With such a high film schedule, the box office results on the first day were also extremely amazing.

First of all, it earned 18 million US dollars in box office in North America, which was higher than "The Terminator" released in April. It quickly broke the first-day box office record in North America.

Europe and South America jointly contributed a total box office of 25 million US dollars, and Asia was also an unexpected surprise. Under the leadership of the film market led by Japan and South Korea, "The Lion King" swept a super high box office of 20 million US dollars, which also exceeded The United States has the world's largest voting base.

As a result, the global box office of "The Lion King" on its first day reached an astonishing US$63 million!

As soon as the data came out, it immediately shocked film companies and theaters around the world!

The most important thing is not the high box office, but the unprecedented popularity of "The Lion King"!

Judging from North America, the benchmark for the world's movie box office, yesterday a total of 83 film critics gave A-level reviews and recommendations in 73 newspapers across the United States, and 55 of them gave it super strong recommendations!

Only 3 critics gave it a B rating, but they also said that at least for children and young people, this is a rare and good movie.

The last time they made such a concerted effort to score a high-scoring movie was back in "E.T."

As for how high the box office of "E.T." is, we don't need to remind you, right?

Film critics can influence a lot of audiences, but the real reactions of the audience are even more infectious.

"Wow, Simba is so awesome! When dad takes his next vacation, we will go see him again!"

"Alan watched the first show yesterday and I watched the second show, but we both felt we hadn't seen enough. But when we queued up again, we couldn't buy tickets for the day!"

"I took my son and wife to see it together, but I was the first to cry! I saw many things from Simba..."

"Oh my God, this Disney cartoon is so good! My girlfriend is crying!"

"Every animal here is so unique. Disney pays so much attention to it! It's worth watching again!"

"This is an animal version of "The Revenge of the Prince," but we can learn a lot from it. Family and love, these are the eternal themes! The story written by Mr. Yin Jun is so amazing that I, who is in my forties, All the men couldn’t help but want to cry.”

"You guys are all idiots. What's the most enjoyable thing about watching "The Lion King"? It's the IMAX version! Believe me, if you watch it, you will definitely want to watch it three more times! I came here early this morning to queue up tickets for the night! "

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The success of "The Lion King" in its previous life was largely due to the fact that "The Lion King" was a family-friendly movie.

If children go to watch it, they will at least get an adult ticket, and many even have their parents go along with them.

As we all know, children’s nature is to show off.

When the children are playing in the community or in the park the next day, they will definitely be talking about "The Lion King". People are happily talking about the plot, but you don't know anything. Isn't it a bit embarrassing?

So children who haven’t watched it will definitely pester their parents to go and watch it.

Not just for children, the template of "The Lion King" is actually very similar to the template of another animation company later.

The company is called Pixar.

Pixar is an animation company, but its animations are not for children at all, but for adults.

It is not easy for children to understand, but adults look at it with sighs and sighs.

This also makes Pixar's animations not so high at the box office, but they still go their own way and just want to keep doing this.

Of course, Pixar still has a reputation.

The slogan "Pixar must be a high-quality product" is not something that any company can claim, and it is recognized all over the world.

Otherwise, do you think Disney is so good that you just let them mess around, regardless of time or performance?

Disney is also very smart. It has established a strong reputation for its company. This is obviously a good deal.

Okay, back to the topic.

"The Lion King" is a "Prince's Revenge", and adults can also feel this story and like it.

Although it is an animation, it is definitely not childish, especially not as childish as the Chinese animations after 2000. On the contrary, there are many philosophies of life in it.

In the past ten years, Yin Jun watched it three times, but he had different insights each time. When he was writing the script, he included these insights, so many adults also liked it.

The active contribution of adults to the box office is naturally one of the necessary factors for the success of "The Lion King". Otherwise, judging from children alone, no matter how good a movie is, it will at most be the box office level of Pleasant Goat and Big Bear II.

And there is another selling point of "The Lion King" - the IMAX version!

Many Americans have watched the IMAX version of the movie.

When "Terminator" was released in April, many people queued up day and night to watch the IMAX version because the effect of the giant screen was so amazing and it was so enjoyable to watch!

Therefore, "Terminator" has been playing in the IMAX hall of Kirin Cinema Line, and it has always maintained an attendance rate of about 80%. This includes the mornings during the day on weekdays. If we only count evenings and weekends, it can be played at any time. It was full.

As soon as the IMAX version of "The Lion King" came out, the screenings of "Terminator" were temporarily stopped and all were transferred to "The Lion King".

This time, not only the adults want to see the IMAX version, but the children are also excited to see how these giant screens that the adults have praised so much are different from the ordinary versions.

As a result, as soon as the children left, their eyes and mouths were wide open throughout the whole process, and they were completely shocked.

Then after they went out, they didn't go home. At least five or six out of ten begged their parents to watch one more show, just one more show!

But the IMAX cinema only has 100 screens and only 150 seats per show. Of course, so many children and parents cannot be satisfied, let alone young couples coming to watch together.

Wu Siyuan is a typical Xiangjiang businessman.

Seeing how popular "The Lion King" was, he immediately set the lowest ticket price during the day at 20 yuan, and the three evening shows directly became 25 yuan a ticket, which was 20% higher than the ticket price of "Terminator" about.

Then, Wu Siyuan also announced that because everyone was too enthusiastic, the IMAX theater would open another midnight show after 12 o'clock. Fans in need can watch it at this time.

Before he could even finish his words, movie fans who got the news from the ticket window immediately snapped up all the midnight movie tickets that day.

In this way, everyone is still calling and suggesting that there can be another show from 2 to 4 in the morning. Anyway, we adults don't have to worry about our sleep, we can stay up late.

After much consideration, Wu Siyuan still rejected such a proposal.

After all, watching a movie too late will cause you to worry about many aspects, and it is not a normal way to do it. Opening a movie at midnight is already considered risky, and no matter how much it is, it will not be worth it.

He is very satisfied to be able to use 100 screens and generate a turnover of 2.3 million US dollars in one day.

This is equivalent to the normal turnover of hundreds of screens - after all, other people's attendance rates have not reached 100% these days.

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With such favorable conditions, it is not surprising that the North American box office on Saturday was 25.5 million the next day, once again breaking the box office record of "Terminator" and setting a new North American box office record.

On this day, the global box office revenue exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, which shocked countless people, made them happy, and... despaired!

Filmmakers across Asia and Yin Jun's fans around the world are all delighted and happy that Yin Jun's movie has set a record again.

A person's success is nothing to be proud of.

But people who have continuous success, and are demonstrated by continuous record-breaking success, can really be regarded as geniuses!

Those who were fully expecting Yin Jun to get out of Hollywood, and those who were prejudiced against Hong Kong filmmakers, all held their heads in disbelief, why a movie actually hit a box office of 100 million US dollars in one day! ?

How many movies, even if they are released for several months, still fail to reach the box office of 100 million US dollars!

Now it's better, I can reach it in one day!

The total global box office in the two days was almost 170 million US dollars. So, is it still far away from the 800 million US dollars in global box office that Yin Jun said?

Even the most idiotic person already knows that a mere US$800 million in box office is not the end of "The Lion King" at all!

The goal of "The Lion King" should be "E.T.", the world's number one!