Chapter 565 The popular "Harry Potter"
"Loyal to the original magical legend, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" continues the trend."
"The film breaks the series The film's inherent tendency to get worse has become the best film in the series outside of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."
"Mike Newey did not retain the many branches of the original work. , but made certain deletions, but at the same time, he also retained the interesting points and magic in the original work.
Let the audience watch the tense adventure of the Gryffindor trio. A light-hearted laugh.
The pace of the film is not sluggish, and the story structure is very complete. It is worth watching. "
After the premiere, comments about "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" were flying all over the place, most of which were positive.
The few negative comments were concentrated on Editing, and some scenes being too dark, etc. were also criticized for issues such as Harry Potter's affection for Zhang Qiu, played by the fairy sister, and the lack of subtlety in the portrayal of the distress after falling out of love. < br>
But this is understandable. After all, the entire story of "Harry Potter" is actually about the growth of a magical boy, not the troubles of a magical boy's love.
What attracts the audience the most is undoubtedly the strange magic and all kinds of weird things.
If you want to see the love between young boys and girls, it is better to watch Little Gilbert's "Heartbeat".
Before the premiere, a preview screening of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was held as usual. In two fan previews, the film received a favorable rating of 91%, with an average score of around A.
Praise from the media and good word-of-mouth from the audience helped the midnight opening of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" to gross $11.23 million.
The box office of this midnight show ranks among all the "Harry Potter" movies, second only to the previous one "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
The reason is simple. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released in the summer season, while "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the autumn/winter season of November, so the effects are naturally different.
However, when the film was officially released on November 18th, it grossed US$37.09 million at the box office. The film lifted the ceilings of dilapidated theaters in one fell swoop, and the endless flow of people instantly swept away the ice and snow during the autumn and winter schedules.
As the revenue focus of Disney and Warner at the end of the year, the two companies invested huge resources in promoting and promoting this movie.
It can be said that as long as it is not isolated from the world, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" can be seen in any city, town, or village in North America.
The film continued to be popular on Saturday, taking in a box office of US$42.68 million that day, entering into a frenzy of box office harvesting.
On Sunday, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" continued to take in US$32.25 million at the North American box office, pushing the film's first-week box office in North America to US$112.02 million.
This data is quite outstanding. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" also follows "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", "Spider-Man 1", and "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith". And after "Shrek 2", it is the fifth movie to have a first-week box office of over 100 million in North America.
The first-week box office result of US$112.02 million also made "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" the fourth-highest first-week box office in film history.
Needless to say, number one is the pinnacle work of little Gilbert, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
In addition to North America, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was also released simultaneously in 19 countries and regions around the world, taking in US$88 million in its first week.
Among them, the UK box office reached a box office of US$28.57 million in the first week, Germany also had a box office of US$20.31 million, and Mexico generated a box office of US$6.63 million.
In the next week, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" will be launched in 70 countries and markets around the world, and it will definitely get more box office.
The box office is only one aspect, the bigger surprise comes from the surrounding areas.
We all know that every time a "Star Wars" movie is released, it can drive huge sales of peripheral products, and the same goes for the "Harry Potter" series. In the first three days of the first weekend, the peripheral sales of "Harry Potter" in North America exceeded 80 million U.S. dollars. Even if it was not released in most overseas regions, the accumulated peripheral sales amounted to 66 million U.S. dollars.
A long time ago, Little Gilbert cooperated with Disney and Warner Pictures to open peripheral factories in China.
When these peripheral products, whose cost price is calculated in RMB, are sold all over the world and are sold in US dollars, you will know the huge profits of the peripheral industry.
To put it simply, the average production cost of each Hermione 10cm doll is only fifteen RMB. The more produced, the lower the cost.
But the dolls can be sold in North America at a price of US$39.9 per doll, which is about 8.27 to RMB per US dollar today.
That is to say, the selling price of a single doll is equivalent to RMB 329.97, which is a full twenty-two times increase.
This is just the price of one doll, there are many products. Magic wands, wizard hats, wizard robes, the list goes on and on.
Especially the magic wand, the production cost ranges from five to more than ten RMB, but it can be sold for more than ten or even hundreds of dollars in North America.
There are also limited-edition magic wands, which are designed by jewelry masters. The price of a magic wand can even reach tens of thousands of dollars, and demand exceeds supply.
It is conceivable how terrible the ability of the "Harry Potter" series to harvest fans' wallets is.
Also because of the huge profits in the surrounding industries, which can be called a money grab, even the Mexican gangsters and drug dealers stopped selling drugs during the movie's release.
They turned to the Mexicans who gathered at the US-Mexico border to make pirated peripherals as a family unit.
As a result, when the pirated goods arrived in the United States, the supply exceeded demand, and the drug dealers were shocked. Drug trafficking makes money faster than piracy, and the risk is smaller than drug trafficking.
Unfortunately, only those popular movie series have this effect. They are unstable and cannot be pirated for a long time. When the heat wears off, you still have to sell drugs.
Of course, whether it is drug trafficking or piracy, it is essentially a crime and must be cracked down by the federal government.
Today's federal government is still very serious about these two things, especially piracy. If you don't take it seriously, just wait for the congressmen sponsored by Gilbert Jr., Disney, and Warner to cause trouble!
There are not many fools in film companies. In recent years, including Universal, Paramount, and the parent company of 20th Century Fox, they have invested in and built factories in China.
The good profits immediately led to more surrounding factories settling in China, and the local government strongly welcomed them.
Universal Pictures took this opportunity to discuss a Universal Studios project after Disney and Warner launched a park project in Shanghai, and it was immediately implemented.
The butterfly effect blew through like a hurricane, blowing the details that little Gilbert knew so well into pieces. But fortunately, the general direction and trend have not changed, and little Gilbert can still find a familiar trajectory.
Far away in Australia, little Gilbert is always paying attention to the commercial performance of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
He was not disappointed. The film's commercial performance was very, very strong, setting off a wave of movie viewing at the end of the year.
He noticed that the character played by Robert Pattinson has received a lot of attention, maybe because he is more handsome?
The reason why Gilbert paid attention to Robert Pattinson was mainly because he thought of another magical work called "The Twilight Saga" in the post-Harry Potter era, which is Robert Pattinson. starring.
Little Gilbert doesn’t want to direct this work himself, as that would be a bit pricey,
but he can get the copyright and let Cantaloupe Studio produce it! No one can have too many successful movie franchises.
(End of this chapter)