Chapter two hundred and fortieth harvest season
The sensation caused by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" shocked everyone inside and outside the circle.
In the past, when there were very few TV sets and poor TV shows, any better TV series could cause a sensation, and there were so many people in the streets, so it was not difficult to create super high ratings.
But now it is almost the 21st century. Not only are there many kinds of TV programs that are dazzling, but people have more and more ways to entertain, so it is becoming more and more difficult for TV series to create high ratings. The ratings of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" exceeded 50 points on the airing, which sounds more like a myth.
And this is just the beginning. Just three days later, the ratings of the four major TV channels that are currently broadcasting "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" all broke through 60 points.
Although the ratings reflect only the highest point in some areas and the statistical methods have great limitations, it can be imagined that even if you look at the whole country, at least more than half of the audience are watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" at night.
The ratings of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" are so high and rising rapidly, which is unimaginable. How much ratings will eventually soar in this unprecedented martial arts drama.
Because of the emergence of the martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the box office of all movies this week has even dropped to varying degrees.
The domestic box office of "The Lion King" on March 1 and 7 was still above 300 million. After the broadcast of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", as of March 5, the box office last week suddenly shrank to 200 million, ranking second in the single-week box office list, with a sharp contrast with the previous few weeks.
Fortunately, "Tang Bohu's Tiger's Autumn Fragrance" performed quite well. In the second week of the screening, the box office in a single week reached 380 million in one go, firmly sitting on the box office championship.
However, without the influence of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the box office of "Tang Bohu's Dots of Autumn Fragrance" should have been stronger, and there is no problem with the box office reaching 400 million in a single week, but it has been greatly affected.
Including Li Xiaohu, no one expected that the power of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was so powerful that it could actually affect the box office of the movie.
If he had known this result, Li Xiaohu would have staggered the schedules of the two. Now it is too late to say anything. Fortunately, even if there is any impact, the box office of "Tang Bohu's Dots of Autumn Fragrance" is still enough to surprise people.
What’s even more surprising is that the overseas box office of "The Lion King" is extremely strong, and the total overseas box office, including the North American box office, has exceeded US$400 million.
The global box office of "The Lion King" in his previous life was US$7.8 billion, but the box office in China was not high, only more than US$30 million.
In this world, it is a foregone conclusion that the domestic box office of "The Lion King" exceeded 2 billion. At this time, the exchange rate between the US dollar and 91● was close to 2 US dollars.
Moreover, if the global release effect of "The Lion King" is not calculated, it will be higher than in the previous life just by judging from the box office figures. If you calculate this way, it is entirely possible that the final global box office of "The Lion King" exceeds one billion US dollars or even higher.
Although it is still early to settle the dust, it can be expected that there is no problem for the North American box office to exceed 300 million US dollars, so Gu Changfeng and Thunder Pictures were very depressed.
From the standpoint of Thunder Film, the North American box office of "The Lion King" is the best one, so that they can get the most share, almost 52 million US dollars.
But if the box office of "The Lion King" exceeds 300 million, according to the original agreement, Thunder Pictures' share of the profit will be reduced by 10%, and they want to get a box office of 52 million US dollars, then the North American box office of "The Lion King" will reach at least 430 million US dollars, which will be a little slim.
If Li Xiaohu cannot accurately predict the box office of "The Lion King" and directly sold the North American distribution rights of 30 million yuan, then the consequences will be him.
Even if Thunder Film has a rich imagination, it is impossible for them to think that the North American box office of "The Lion King" can exceed 300 million US dollars, otherwise they would not have agreed to the share plan proposed by Li Xiaohu at the beginning. It is too late to say anything now. Although it is no longer a surprise to pick up tens of millions of dollars for free, it is considered a big profit, but because of a mistake in judgment, it is impossible to waste a big opportunity to make a fortune in vain and say that it does not regret it.
In the next week, the ratings of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" continued to rise sharply, easily reaching 70 points, tied the ratings record set by "My Fair Princess 2". It is probably only a matter of minutes to break the record.
When the first film "My Fair Princess" set a rating record of 65 points, many media and insiders were excited to make predictions, claiming that this record would not be broken.
But in just four months, "Return of the Condor Heroes 2" easily set a new record of 70 points in viewership, successfully surpassing the previous work's achievements. At this time, the media dared not assert that this record was unbreakable.
As expected, a year later, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was about to break this record. In order to extend the playback time and create more benefits, the four major satellite TV stations only played two episodes a day, and the entire playback cycle lasted for nearly three weeks. Now that it has only been aired for less than two weeks, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has plenty of time to sprint towards the new viewership record.
The box office of "The Lion King" also continued to soar, with a box office of 420 million yuan per week, which is much higher than the previous week. At the same time, it also successfully set a single-week box office record of "The Lion King" just set a month ago.
"The Lion King" has been screened for nearly 50 days, and the domestic box office was still more than 100 million last week, and the attendance rate is even higher than many newly released movies. It seems that the release cycle will be quite some time.
So far, the domestic box office of "The Lion King" has reached an infinitely close to 2 billion, and it may break the domestic box office record at any time.
However, it is estimated that this record will not last long. Although the overseas box office of "Tang Bohu Dessert" is far inferior to "The Lion King", the domestic box office upward momentum is more exaggerated than "The Lion King". Perhaps "The Lion King" has just set a new box office record, and "Tang Bohu Dessert" will immediately refresh this record.
At the beginning, Li Xiaohu was worried that the vulgar plot in "Tang Bohu's Flavor" might attract a lot of criticism, which was not an unfair concern. "Tang Bohu's Flavor" was indeed criticized by many professional film critics, and was not much different from the previously released "The Gambling Saint".
The only thing that made the film critics show mercy is that the main actors in "The Gambling Saint" and "The Tang Bohu's Love" have excellent acting skills, so most of the criticisms target the vulgar plots in the movie, especially the fact that they are full of many ** hints, which is the most criticized.
Amidst the criticism, the box office of "Tang Bohu's Tiger's Autumn Fragrance" is soaring every day. The public's choice is obviously completely different from the appetite of film critics. On Rotten Tomato, popular film reviews make people like the eyes, with all five-star reviews.
For Li Xiaohu and Li's brothers, the spring of 1999 is a season of harvest.
ps: There is still another chapter tonight, but it may be very late...To be continued.
Chapter completed!