280 million on Friday, 350 million on Saturday, 310 million on Sunday, and 50 million on Monday's movie, "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue" only took three days to push its box office figures to 990 million yuan.

It's just a few million to break 1 billion, but it's stuck on this threshold, which makes countless fans sigh. If I had known it, I would have gone to the second and third swipe and help me get over it!

The high-reputation commercial blockbuster is willful enough in the box office, and it surpassed the cumulative box office of "Farewell My Concubine" in three days.

So far, the daily box office of "Farewell My Concubine" is still close to 10 million. Its screening license has been extended for a month, and it will be broadcast from June to August. When it comes to the next month, it will be impossible to have many screenings. It is estimated that it will be worth hundreds of thousands a day. Now it has a total box office of more than 800 million, and it is impossible to exceed 1 billion.

Fortunately, this result is already excellent enough, and it is already the highest box office of art films this year, which is much higher than that of many large-scale investment films!

Zhang Chu was very satisfied with this achievement. He could not expect more. Chinese people have never caught a cold in drama movies. It is a rather dull and heart-wrenching art film that can allow tens of millions of people to go to the cinema to watch. It is a collection of various factors.

The Cannes Film Festival has made great contributions. From the beginning to the Palme d'Or, reports on all aspects have never stopped. In addition, several acting actors co-starred and director Xu Ji retired, perhaps the original work has some popularity, which has made "Farewell My Concubine" successful.

However, the release time of various countries has not been unified. Europe has been released one after another, East Asia and Southeast Asia are also released, but North America has no movement at all!

This is not to say that there is no release plan, but is highly expected by North American publishers.

The Cannes Film Festival is indeed very famous and can be enjoyed worldwide, but audiences in North America are not interested in this film festival at all. Except for film critics and movie enthusiasts, no one will care about which movie won the award, nor will anyone care about who won the Best Actress Award.

Because North America has its own different award ceremony, it is not the European style at all!

What are the People's Choice Awards, Youth Choice Awards, Regional Critics Awards, Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Actors Union Awards, Directors Union Awards, and the most famous are of course the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

"Farewell My Concubine" is not very popular in North America, so the publisher wants to show it during the awards season at the end of the year. The Palme d'Organ Theatre of the Cannes Film Festival is a strong contender for the Golden Globes and Oscars' best foreign language films in previous years.

As long as you make steady efforts during the awards season and don’t expect to win the box office championship, it is possible to be released for three or four months in a long period of time!

In other words, "Farewell My Concubine" has a great possibility of colliding with another film of Zhang Chu in November, which will also impact the awards ceremony season and Christmas "Boy Pi".

The first movie that was first seen by Hollywood, Li An finally met the audience after nearly two years of shooting and production. Warner Bros. announced the schedule early and the movie will be released on Thanksgiving Day.

The fourth Thursday of November is the traditional Thanksgiving Day. Americans and Canadians will have holidays on Thursday to weekends, and many movies will choose to be released in that schedule.

The summer season that starts in late April, as well as the Christmas season and awards season starting from Thanksgiving are periods of rapid box office growth in North America, and blockbusters will choose to be released in these two time periods.

The rest of the time period is a bit deserted, such as our lively Spring Festival or the Love (River Crab) Human Day, and there are almost no movies in North America.

"Pi's Fantasy Drift" is scheduled to be released at that time, because the competitors it faces are very strong. If it wants to recover its costs, the box office in North America cannot be lower than the cost line.

Most of the time, only one person invests a lot of money in visual effects with a tiger. It will compete with many superhero movies and science fiction movies for the best visual effects. Anyway, people who have watched the movie are very confident about it.

The reason I chose that time is because Warner Bros. analysts believe that it is extremely competitive during the awards season and even the Oscars.

There are many middle-aged and elderly people in North America, and they are all loyal viewers during the awards season.

Speaking of "Farewell My Concubine", there is also a little tragedy. During the summer season, we competed with Zhang Chu's "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue" in China. During the awards season, we have to go to North America to go to another adaptation of his movie "Pi's Fantasy Drift" pk.

Originally they were born from the same root, so why not worry about each other?

Art films focus on help during the awards season, while commercial films will be a little miserable.

"Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue" not only sold the screening rights in Europe, Australia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and South America, but also found Twentieth Century Fox as the publisher in North America.

However, the North American schedule during the summer vacation is very crowded. "Avengers 4" and "Superman 3" performed strongly. Since the end of April, six movies have had box offices of over 100 million, including many dark horses, and there are piles of new films released at each time.

Twentieth Century Fox has many movies to be released, and it is impossible to focus on a foreign commercial film, so there is little investment in publicity and not many cinemas released.

Normal commercial blockbusters are more than 3,000, and more than 4,000 museums are released at the same time. "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Jingjue Ancient City" has only 1,800 theaters released, which is inherently deficient and has a big gap after birth!

The publicity failed to keep up. In addition to some Chinese, there are many viewers who like adventure movies and Chinese culture.

The imdb scored it with a 7.1 rating, while the freshness of rotten tomatoes is as high as 88%, and the audience loves it 91%. Everything looks pretty good, but the box office is not very good.

It only won $12 million in the first three days of the first weekend, ranking fourth in the weekend box office list, which looks a bit miserable.

The box office is indeed a bit miserable, but "Ghost Blows Out the Light" successfully won the global box office list this week with its box office in China!

According to the current exchange rate of RMB 990 million, it is US$143 million, which is its largest vote.

In addition to China and the United States, the box office in East Asia and Southeast Asia is very good. These areas are the radiation areas of Chinese culture. They also know about Feng Shui and have related customs, so they can understand it more.

South Korea earns $10 million in three days, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and other countries also have millions of dollars. The UK and Europe are not doing well, but it is already very satisfying!

In three days, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" hit a box office of US$184 million worldwide, successfully winning a global championship in the fiercely competitive summer season.

As a Chinese-language film, it is very difficult to be released on a large scale in so many foreign markets.

This is also the first global box office champion won by the movie adapted from Zhang Chu's work. Even if it is just Zhou's champion, it is very good!
Chapter completed!