Chapter 433: Six Hundred Million in Three Days, Another Miracle
After the premiere of "Youth Yi" in Venice, due to the time difference, a few hours later, China started the first large-scale midnight screening.
Before the midnight screening, the reputation of the premiere at the Venice Film Festival had spread widely on the domestic Internet.
Fans and book lovers from all over the country have been looking forward to "Youth Yi" for a long time. The originally quiet and quiet theaters in the early morning became very noisy.
In 2013, Meituan Maoyan appeared on the Internet and began to grow. Chuhe Film and Television was the first private film and television group to reach a strategic cooperation with it.
Jiahe Cinema Line and Douban Rating are both important partners. Zhong Lifang and Yang Liu are very optimistic about the prospects of online ticketing platforms. Shanhe naturally understands the role of online ticket sales in movie box office.
Chuhe Film and Television Group has started negotiations with Meituan to invest in "Maoyan.com" since the beginning of the year. Meituan could not refuse the olive branch thrown by Chuhe Film and Television. In the domestic entertainment and film and television circles, there are too many benefits to cooperating with Chuhe Film and Television. The two sides have reached a consensus.
"Maoyan.com" will be jointly funded by Meituan and Chuhe Film and Television next year, and will be independent from Meituan to become a new online ticketing company.
Although the prospects for online ticketing are promising, online ticket purchase is still in its infancy at this time, far from being as convenient as it is later, and of course there is no "ticket subsidy" that is extremely chaotic later, but many young people have already started to buy tickets online to watch movies.
The release of "Youth Yi" just gave "Maoyan" a huge opportunity for promotion. When it comes to grabbing tickets, online pre-sale is the fastest way.
"Youth Yi" did not live up to the expectations of "Maoyan.com". A week before the movie was released, "Maoyan"'s online pre-sale box office exceeded 50 million yuan for the first time.
Although this number is very different from the data of later generations, it was already a groundbreaking number in 2013.
Since the establishment of China's first online ticketing platform in 2009, no movie's pre-sale box office has exceeded 10 million yuan.
"Youth Yi" directly helped "Maoyan.com" to make a triple jump!
The midnight show and the first day's movie tickets are the main selling points of online pre-sale. There are too many fans of "Youth Easy" and Shanhe, and there is no shortage of consumer groups. After all, there are too many viewers who want to see the movie as soon as possible.
"Youth Easy" also enjoyed the benefits of online ticket purchase. The midnight show tickets were quickly sold out, and the 3DIMAX shows in the first three days were hard to get.
When the midnight show box office was released that night, Shanhe once again created a miracle for Chinese-language movies!
The midnight show box office of "Youth Easy" broke 30 million yuan, and it went a long way forward, 34 million!
When the news came out the next day, the entire Chinese film and television industry was in an uproar. They knew that "Youth Easy" would have a strong explosive power, but no one expected it to explode like this.
After all, the midnight show box office record created by "Take Her Eyes" two months ago was only 15 million yuan. At that time, everyone was already exclaiming at this data!
Originally, the media and filmmakers predicted that the box office of "Youth" at midnight was about 20 million, which had already taken into account the blessing of the original work of "Youth".
But Shanhe and "Youth" are so unreasonable that they beat "Take Her Eyes" by a multiple of one at the beginning!
Chinese filmmakers couldn't help but complain:
The box office of the midnight show was 34 million, so the box office on the first day must have exceeded 200 million?
How high is the ceiling of Chinese-language films? Only Shanhe can come up with such abnormal energy!
This is indeed the case. More than 70% of the national theaters have scheduled the film, and with the influx of Shanhe fans, "Youth" easily broke 200 million yuan in the domestic box office on the first day, reaching 210 million yuan, breaking the domestic first-day box office record set by "Take Her Eyes" two months ago.
It opened the milestone threshold of domestic single-day box office exceeding 200 million.
The entire Chinese film industry was shocked again!
The movie also received excellent reviews from the audience. In just one day, tens of thousands of fans on Douban gave their own reviews, with a score of 9.3!
"Shanhe never disappoints. The movie is better than the novel, and the special effects are superb!"
"Compared with the original novel, Shanhe changed some of the plots of the drifting trip, but it is more shocking than the description in the novel. The performance of the little cousin is almost perfect, exactly the same as the young Yi I imagined!"
"I have always said that "Young Yi" is the most difficult work to adapt in Shanhe's novel. The drifting trip is too magical, and it is almost impossible for normal people to imagine it. Moreover, to make it come true, it is estimated that only Shanhe himself has this ability. He has completed it better than expected. I give it 9. 19 points, the remaining one point is for the next movie! "
"The movie "Youth" can almost meet the needs of all types of audiences. If you want to watch a commercial blockbuster, there are dazzling 3D special effects to satisfy your senses; if you want to watch a story, the whole movie is smooth without any boring moments; if you want to watch an art film, the artistic conception of the film is like a poem, and it is endless aftertaste. Shanhe's control of the film has reached the point of perfection, and it exudes a masterly style everywhere!"
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Domestic media have pushed the news that "Youth" has a box office of over 200 million on the first day to the front page headlines.
"Shanhe broke the domestic box office ceiling again, with over 200 million on the first day. What will be the final box office of "Youth Yi", over 3 billion?"
"Youth Yi lived up to expectations, blazed a trail for Chinese-language films, and opened up a vast world!"
"There is a miracle called Shanhe's work, and there is a kind of person who is born to write the future. Breaking 200 million is far from the end. For Shanhe, this is just a new starting point!"
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The popularity of "Youth Yi" is not only limited to China. North America, Europe, and Asian countries are also explosive. The original novel and Shanhe's accumulated audience influence are directly reflected in the box office data on the first day.
More than 4,500 theaters in North America and nearly 7,000 screens were released at the same time, creating the largest opening scale of Disney!
All theater managers in North America knew that this movie would definitely explode, and gave "Youth Yi" the largest share in scheduling.
The North American midnight box office was also a huge success, with 17.6 million US dollars, which not only broke the midnight box office record of "The Dark Knight Rises", but also raised the ceiling by 3 million!
The first day box office still did not disappoint the media and the public, breaking 80 million US dollars in a single day, and also breaking the North American single-day box office record of 75 million US dollars of "Batman".
When Bruckheimer called Shanhe, his voice was trembling with excitement!
80 million US dollars!
Shanhe was also very surprised when he got the news. How much was the first-day box office of Ang Lee's version of "Life of Pi", it should not be 20 million US dollars, right?
The same subject matter, he actually broke the North American single-day box office record directly, which is a bit amazing!
The reason lies in the blessing of the original work and Shanhe's own influence!
Even a garbage movie like "Twilight" could break 160 million US dollars in the first week a few years ago. It can be seen how much a best-selling original book can boost the box office explosiveness of the film!
The influence of the novel "Young Yi" is not comparable to "Twilight".
In addition to Shanhe's unbeaten golden body and good reputation accumulated over decades, his appeal is beyond the reach of Ang Lee even with a fire ladder.
It is unexpected to have such a magical single-day box office data, but it is reasonable!
European countries do not have the scale of opening in North America, and their explosive power is much inferior to that of North America!
But "Young Yi" also effortlessly landed on the top of the box office rankings of various countries on the same day, with a cumulative box office of 55 million US dollars on the first day, which caused waves of exclamations in the European film industry.
The viewing storm of "Young Yi" was more intense in Asian countries than in Europe and the United States. Not only did it set a single-day box office record of 1.6 billion yen for non-animated films on the first day in Japan, but it was also not to be outdone in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and broke their own single-day box office records.
The most exaggerated is Southeast Asia. All cinemas in Singapore were crowded with audiences, and all movie tickets for that week were pre-sold out!
Chinese from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Luzon and other countries also filled local cinemas.
On the first day of its release, "Young Easy" achieved a god-like box office data around the world:
The global first-day box office exceeded 200 million US dollars!
Media from all over the world no longer know what words to use to describe Shanhe and "Young Easy"'s performance, and can only call it "abnormal", "miracle", and "incredible"!
At this time, the "Young Easy" crew in Venice was already boiling with excitement. 200 million US dollars a day, what about a week, a month?
Will we set an incredible record?
Shanhe was of course very surprised. This box office data was much higher than he expected, but his expression was still very calm.
It was not intentional to show off, but in his memory, the box office data of later generations was more amazing. The global box office data of "Avengers" in one week could exceed 1 billion US dollars, but the total box office was still not a match for "Avatar".
It can be seen that the rise of the Internet has a huge impact on the box office of movies. The development of information has improved the effect of publicity. The explosive power of the box office will become stronger and stronger, but the duration is getting shorter and shorter.
It is still difficult to judge how much box office "Youth Yi" will eventually have!
The other members of the crew are not as calm as him, including Xu Ahui, who is also immersed in excitement at this time.
Tang Xiaoyu is the youngest member of the crew, and naturally the one who is most eloquent. Although he is young and relatively simple, everyone knows what the phenomenal success of "Youth Yi" will bring him!
For Tang Xiaoyu, the role of "Youth Yi" has brought him not only a king bomb start, but also a king bomb with spring in hand!
The good news of 200 million in one day made him forget where he was. After a round of cheering, Tang Xiaoyu looked at Shanhe who brought him all this. Shanhe's calm face made him calm down a little. He sighed to Xu Ahui beside him:
"Brother Shanhe is really stylish. He is not proud of such great news. He is really a big boss!"
During this period, Xu Ahui and Tang Xiaoyu also became familiar with each other. He regarded this boy, whose fate was changed by Shanhe like himself, as his little brother.
"That's right, who is Brother Shanhe? He has seen all kinds of scenes. Xiaoyu, you have to learn from Brother Shanhe. You have to be shrewd in your heart and generous on the surface. Don't be too proud. For you, this is just the beginning!"
"Well, but I can't hold it back. Now I want to shout loudly. I'm so excited!"
"Hehe... I didn't ask you to hold it back. Have you called your mother?"
"Oh, I forgot!"
"Hurry up and tell your mother the good news. This time your grandparents will be very happy!"
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The first day of the big hit of "Youth Yi" made Shanhe's popularity even higher. His every move in Venice was recorded by the cameras of reporters and became a hot report of the day.
"Huaxia Qiu attended the China-Italy Cultural Forum and was welcomed as never before!"
"Italian Minister of Culture and Tourism Dario praised Huaxia Qiu at the forum and called him the ambassador of cultural exchange between China and Italy!"
"Huaxia Qiu attended the Venice Film Festival Filmmakers Forum and did not mention the box office success. He said frankly that there is only art in Venice, nothing else!"
"Huaxia Qiu took Fisher Tang to visit Venice and lingered on the streets of Venice..."
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Shanhe and Tang Xiaoyu have become the focus of global media during this period. Shanhe is okay, he is an old hand at dealing with reporters, but Tang Xiaoyu is not as experienced as Shanhe. Under the various routine attacks of reporters, he almost got the color of his underwear out of the reporters!
The three-day screening of "Youth Easy" on the first weekend ended in the noise of the media.
Both Disney and Chuhe Films announced the first weekend box office data to the outside world.
In China, the first day was 210 million, the second day was 215 million, and the Sunday was 196 million. The first three days of the box office exceeded 600 million, reaching 621 million!
It broke all the first week box office records in China that "Take Her Eyes" had just set.
The North American box office was not to be outdone, and also broke all Hollywood first weekend box office records!
Friday, 80 million US dollars, Saturday, 81 million US dollars, Sunday, 78 million US dollars, three days accumulated 239 million US dollars.
It left behind the midnight box office, single-day box office, and first weekend box office records of "The Dark Knight Rises".
In European countries, the cumulative box office in the first weekend was 153 million US dollars.
In Asian countries, the first three days of the first week surprisingly exceeded 100 million, reaching 110 million US dollars.
The global first-week box office exceeded 600 million US dollars, occupying the top spot in the global single-week box office rankings, not only leaving the second place far behind, but also breaking the global first-weekend box office record, becoming the fastest movie in the world to break 600 million US dollars!
It took only three days for "Life of Pi" to basically catch up with the box office data of Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" in the previous life, which really made Shanhe sigh.
At the beginning, I was very impressed by Ang Lee's "Life of Pi", but now I have jumped to a higher place on his shoulders, which can be regarded as not disappointing Ang Lee's efforts in his previous life!
"Life of Pi" has both box office and reputation, and the media's reports on him are naturally full of praise. The public's eyes will naturally be attracted by success, especially this kind of news gossip that goes beyond the norm, which is particularly popular!
Although Shanhe doesn't care about the outside world's flattery and praise, Xu Ahui still carefully and responsibly collected the media reports and handed them over to Shanhe Reading in different categories.
Shanhe took a large stack of newspapers and magazines from Xu Ahui's hand, looked at the translations and narrations next to the newspapers and magazines in different languages, nodded and gave Xu Ahui an appreciative look, and then said casually:
"Ahui, don't spend time on these stereotyped flattering reports in the future. These things are meaningless to us. Instead, you can show me some film reviews, preferably articles that criticize and find faults. I'm tired of listening to their flattery every day!"
"Hehe...Brother Shanhe, 600 million US dollars in three days, breaking the global single-week box office record. If the media doesn't flatter you, I guess no one will buy their newspapers and magazines. Everyone likes to see reporters praising you in various ways!"
"That's why I'm too lazy to read these things. I'll take them seriously if I read too much!"
"I think some of them are well written!"
Xu Ahui picked up the newspapers and magazines that Shanhe had thrown aside,
"Brother Shanhe, how about I read a few to you!"
"Really? Then pick the one you like!"
"This is a report from The Hollywood Observer - Hua Xia Qiu once again broke the routine. Whether it is the box office or the movie, he tells a reality in the movie: life and self are not for victory, but for getting along! Although some things are unreasonable, you must believe them, and some things are not solid, but you must rely on them..."
"This is a local newspaper in Venice - Qiu is a very interesting genius. "Young Yi" broke box office records in countries around the world, breaking 600 million US dollars in the first weekend, but he always told reporters in Venice that there is only art in Venice, nothing else. In fact, he is wrong. Venice's art in the past few hundred years has all been based on prosperous business. Venetian businessmen only think of art when they make money, and the same is true for the Venice Film Festival! Qiu will gain a lot here because he perfectly fits the temperament of Venice..."
"My favorite report is the review of Paris Weekly - I watched "Room" at home, and then went to the cinema to watch "Young Yi". No one will deny Qiu's talent. In two completely different works, I found the same sadness.
We doubt all the beauty in the world, and refuse to admit the cruelty of reality. In our minds, society is mostly just a mirror. It doesn't have too many emotions. You can only see your own reflection in the mirror. We are helpless, but Qiu tries to add more things to this reflection, such as courage, value, and perhaps innate love..."
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