Faced with the first-day box office of "A Sound of Rain" and "Star Conquest" which are far higher than those of other movies released in the same period, various media outlets naturally sang praises. As of now, both movies have both box office success and good reputation. Unless something unexpected happens, there is basically no possibility of subsequent weakness.
On the contrary, "Ford" was the first to be released and once led or even eliminated "Tomorrow". It is hard to say whether this movie suffered from being released too early or its plot was inferior to "The Sound of Rain" and "Conquest of the Stars". With the release of the latter two, this movie, which was initially predicted to get at least 1.5 billion box office, saw its box office gradually decline day by day.
It is precisely because of this that many media have used "A Tale of Two Cities" to describe the current grand occasion of the Lunar New Year movie season. In their view, this year's Lunar New Year movie season champion is about to be decided by these two films.
Judging from the subsequent box office trends, the media's speculation does not seem to be wrong.
After finishing second to "The Sound of Rain" with 80 million on the first day, the box office of "Star Conquest" not only did not decline, but showed a clear upward trend. By the third day, it even defeated "The Sound of Rain" for the first time and topped the box office list of the day with 120 million.
This trend is not surprising.
It is true that "The Sound of Rain" looks unstoppable, but compared to the recently released "Star Wars", the peak days of "The Sound of Rain" seem to have passed, and it is not surprising that it lost to the newcomer "Star Wars" at the box office on the same day.
Then, just when people thought that the box office of "The Sound of Rain" would naturally drop, the situation reversed again on the fourth day - the latter tenaciously surpassed "Star Wars" again with a box office of 100 million.
Everyone was attracted by this real-life “Tale of Two Cities”.
It was during this time when the battle between the two sides was in full swing that no one noticed that as time went on, the number of people talking about Harry Potter suddenly increased:
"I watched Harry Potter three times in the theater, and it really gets better the more I watch it. The first time I watched it, I focused on the special effects. The second time I started to focus on the main storyline. The third time I watched the details, I realized that this movie is really exquisite. Every character has his or her own characteristics. It's really interesting!"
"The details are very good. It was very relaxing to watch. Ron is really a genius at complaining. There are also twins who will die if they don't make trouble. When I was sitting in the cinema, I thought that sooner or later I would be laughed to death by them!"
"I have already dragged my whole family to watch it twice. Although it is an animated film, basically people of all ages can find something that interests them in it. I personally feel that this is the most suitable movie for the whole family to watch during the Lunar New Year holiday, no doubt about it."
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Zheng Xinqing was wandering around the movie forum casually.
Almost every movie fan will subconsciously want to see other people's reactions and resonances after watching their favorite movie. Zheng Xinqing is no exception. Since she finished watching "The Sound of Rain" three days ago, she has watched all the reviews and commentary videos of "The Sound of Rain".
The effect of doing this is very obvious.
First of all, she satisfied her own emptiness of wanting to praise "The Sound of Rain" to the sky but not knowing how to express it, and she resonated with other people's reviews. But at the same time, there were some not-so-good things in it - with the help of these reviews or videos, she recalled the famous depressing scenes in "The Sound of Rain" again and again.
After three days of nearly addictive browsing, when the initial excitement slowly faded away, Zheng Xinqing was now left with only depression and boredom in her heart.
"Would you like to watch some other movies to heal yourself?"
With this thought in mind, Zheng Xinqing opened the movie website she was most familiar with, intending to check out the reviews of other movies being released at the same time, in order to decide which movie she would watch next to wash away the heaviness in her heart.
Then she saw a Harry Potter section with a style that was clearly different from other movies.
While fans in the "Sound of Rain" section were obsessed with writing short essays about the depth and breadth of the movie, fans in the "Harry Potter" section were quarreling.
While fans in the "Star Conquest" section were talking about the famous scenes in the movie with great relish, fans in the "Harry Potter" section... were still arguing.
This statement is actually a bit exaggerated. In fact, there are many fans in the Harry Potter section who analyze the details of the movie and speculate and look forward to the subsequent movies. However, it has been proven that the noisy ones are more impressive than the well-behaved ones. For example, Zheng Xinqing accidentally clicked on this post:
Let's talk about reason. Are all Slytherins idiots
Just as the title says.
When I was watching the movie, I really wanted to ask this question. This college is full of idiots from students to teachers. Let's not talk about how much Draco deserves a beating. Who didn't have such a little jerk in their class when they were young? Snape is really confusing. As a teacher, is it really okay to be so vicious to students? In real life, I'm afraid he would be reported by students' parents in minutes, right
1st Floor: ... What a coincidence, I also want to know if all Gryffindors are idiots.
2nd floor: Here it comes, here it comes again, the daily routine of this page! The front row sells melon meal sets, melon seeds, soda and small stools, buy one get one free, dear! Click to watch the lion and snake battle!
3rd floor: In the movie, the lion and the snake fight each other, and outside the movie, they also fight each other. Aren’t you too real? Hahahaha, sorry, I really want to laugh. What’s with this feeling of returning to kindergarten in a dream
Floor 4: No, that's enough, stop making trouble, look at you all crowding in the front, what are you doing? Are you going to stop having a pleasant fight
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Zheng Xinqing blinked blankly.
Having never read "Harry Potter", she actually couldn't understand a lot of the language in this post, but this didn't affect her feeling of a sense of relaxation that was completely different from "The Sound of Rain", which made her, a passerby, develop some interest in "Harry Potter".
I don't quite understand it, but it looks like fun
As if by some strange coincidence, when she stood in front of the cinema door again, the wonderful memories of browsing the movie forums online immediately emerged from her mind, indirectly helping her make a decision: "Let's get a Harry Potter movie."
Similar things are happening in other parts of the world.
As more and more people went to the cinema with the idea of giving it a try, another voice soon emerged from Harry Potter fans:
"It's amazing. I still can't believe that the depression brought to me by "The Sound of Rain" was cured by an animated film!"
"Am I the only one who watched Harry Potter first and then The Sound of Rain? The feeling couldn't be more bitter! I burst into tears. Before I could even get out of the magical fairytale world, The Sound of Rain pushed me into the cruel and depressing adult world. It was so sad."
“I strongly recommend all friends who are still stuck in The Sound of Rain to watch Harry Potter! There is no trouble that cannot be solved by Harry Potter. If it doesn’t work, just watch it a few more times!”
Facing this situation, Luo Gaofeng, as an old fan of Huaying, undoubtedly had the most complicated feelings.
Is he dreaming
Huaying Animation, which has always been ruthless in its attacks and wants to make you depressed with every animated film, has made its first CG animated film a salvation for the collective audience who were depressed by another movie
Is this true or false
Just when Huaying’s fans were confused and didn’t know how to associate “healing and redemption” with Huaying, the relevant movie website announced the sixth day’s single-day box office as usual!
Single-day box office… 130 million
Huaying fans were stunned.
The media, who were originally curious about when the winner would be decided between "The Sound of Rain" and "Star Conquest", were also stunned.
Wait, isn't this supposed to be a Tale of Two Cities with "The Sound of Rain" and "Conquest of the Stars"? Where on earth did this "Harry Potter" come from? And it's an animated movie
The media were a little confused. After all, they had never considered the possibility of "Harry Potter" entering the battlefield between the two. Faced with behemoths like "A Sound of Rain" and "Conquest of the Stars", even an excellent commercial film like "Ford" had to stand aside, not to mention the animated film whose box office has never been as good as that of live-action movies
Seeing the media unable to react, Huaying's fans remained calm.
As a die-hard fan who has followed Huaying for more than three years, although the sudden surge in single-day box office was unexpected, it made familiar fans immediately understand - hasn't Huaying always been making a comeback in this way in the past three years
Obviously, from this moment on, this so-called Shura-like New Year's Day box office will probably enter the familiar rhythm of painting and film.
It seemed to confirm their guess.
This sudden 130 million seemed to have turned on a switch for "Harry Potter". The box office of "Harry Potter", which had always been stable in third place, suddenly ushered in its first explosive growth. The daily box office firmly suppressed "A Sound of Rain" and left "Conquest of the Stars" far behind!
This rhythm is about to explode!
Realizing this, the fans and employees of Huaying, who had been depressed because the box office was always lower than that of "Twin Cities", began to cheer and celebrate. The media, which had always been unscrupulous, also quickly changed direction and praised Huaying's first CG animated film. For a while, the entire Huaying office building was filled with joy.
Except for Muxiuxing.
In fact, compared to other Huaying employees who had already started celebrating in advance, Mu Suxing not only did not show any obvious joy on his face, but looked extremely depressed.
"Are you not satisfied with the movie's box office?" Fang Lian asked.
Muxuxing shook his head.
Now that "Harry Potter" has been released for 15 days, the total box office has reached 2 billion, and the huge cost of the CG animated film has been basically recovered. Considering the peripheral income and subsequent film plans, this series will undoubtedly become a cash cow for Huaying in the future for a long time.
Of course he would not be dissatisfied with such box office results.
The group of people asked all the possible questions they could think of, but no one got to the point. They asked Mu Suxing why he was in a bad mood, but he didn't say anything. In desperation, they had to give up the idea of digging deeper.
The system, which had been watching silently, suddenly spoke up: "Are you sad about the plot later?"
"The subsequent plot is indeed very sad, but I had already come to terms with this when I first started writing the animation plan, so it's okay," said Mu Suxing.
"Then why?" The system was also a little confused.
"It's nothing, actually. I just calculated that if we want to finish the Harry Potter series, one movie a year, it will take us at least seven years," Mu Suxing said regretfully. "I feel particularly sad when I think that it will take six years for fans to get the heart-wrenching plot buried in the early stages of the movie."
system:
Listen, are you speaking human language