Without the malicious sniping from other movies, the box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" has been rising steadily and is far ahead of others.
On February 20, the tenth day after the release of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the total box office has reached 3 billion, of which the single-day box office has reached 410 million. This number is already on par with the highest daily box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and it seems that there is a momentum to surpass this number.
As expected.
February 21st.
When everyone's attention was once again focused on the real-time box office displayed on the relevant webpage, even though they had expected it, when their own guesses turned into real money facts before their eyes, they couldn't help but gasp.
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", today's box office, 490 million!
When Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone set the record of the highest single-day box office of 410 million credit points, many people predicted that no movie would be able to reach such a terrifying daily box office in the short term, not even the sequel to the Harry Potter series - after all, in the film industry, it has long been an indisputable fact that the box office of a series of movies is just like that of the previous one.
However, no one expected that this sequel, which had been sentenced to death due to brutal suppression long before its release, would soar to such a level after the darkness that had suppressed it dissipated layer by layer.
"This is Huaying..." A film critic said with emotion: "Everything that can't kill it will only make it stronger."
“I have a feeling that the era of quality-first movies that we all dream of may really be coming.”
Ten days ago, people watched the box office changes of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to bid farewell to Huaying. Ten days later, when people watched the film again, they wanted to witness how far this conscientious work of Huaying could go without any external interference.
When it came to the third month of this year, the real-time total box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" had reached 5 billion.
This data has broken the Blue Star global box office record set by "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
Many industry insiders have made predictions based on the box office growth and decline trends of movies. They believe that when "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is removed from theaters, the historical high of Blue Star's global box office list will be raised to at least 7 billion. Combined with various peripheral products, the total profit of Huaying Animation from this movie will probably not be less than 5 billion.
This is not surprising.
For animated films, the bulk of their revenue comes largely from animation-related derivatives. Before Huaying Animation, there were cases where the box office of an animated film was only over 300 million, but the profit of the derivative products was as high as 1 billion.
Considering the extremely high popularity of the "Harry Potter" series throughout the entire Blue Planet, the actual profit that Huaying Animation will make from it will only be more, not less, than what professionals predict.
Realizing this, the entire film industry fell silent.
"This is too scary..." Many people couldn't help but laugh bitterly as they calculated. Even if their live-action movies were hits, the bulk of their revenue still came from the box office profits themselves, unlike the Harry Potter series, which has now become a cash cow for Animation Studios.
The profits are huge and it stands firm.
At the same time, on the Zhidao app, a question about Huaying animation that had already been answered by many people also had a new answer with the highest number of votes -
#How do you evaluate the animation after "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
Shen Nian [Editor-in-chief of Anime Online.]
20.7k Likes
Thanks for the invitation.
Without further ado, let me state the conclusion first: for those investors who have always been wary of Huaying, the things they are most worried about have gradually become a reality.
Capitalists all like to reap profits, and the thing they worry about most is, naturally, that they will no longer be able to reap profits so easily.
If the audience's aesthetic taste remains at a relatively ordinary level, they can use their successful routines to carry out assembly-line production, thereby achieving the goal of continuous profit. Therefore, what they least want to see is that truly excellent and conscientious works are recognized by the market, because this means that the leeks they have raised have begun to become conscious.
Once people have tasted sweetness, it is difficult for them to endure hardship.
The same goes for movie games.
Once players and audiences have tasted good works, their own aesthetic tastes will improve, and they will no longer be able to lower their standards and accept mass-produced inferior products. When there are more and more such consumers, it will be difficult for capital to reap consumers' wallets like cutting leeks.
Huaying Animation is the type of company that capital hates the most. It can make money without doing anything, but it chooses to raise the industry average.
This is why the capital would rather risk its own losses than destroy Huaying Animation. As long as Huaying Animation exists, the Blue Star audience's requirements for various works will only become higher and higher, and it will become increasingly difficult for the capital to make a profit without thinking. So they took advantage of the tight capital chain of Huaying Animation and acted without hesitation.
In fact, at this point, the capital judgment is not wrong—if they want to destroy Huaying, this is their best chance and also their last chance.
As long as the box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" collapses, the capital chain of Huaying will be broken, and the theme park will be stuck there without being able to come up with money. The project will suffer huge losses every day if it is not stopped. At that time, under the pressure from banks and other aspects, Huaying will naturally and inevitably go to destruction.
The same is true in reverse.
For Huaying Animation, the box office performance of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is actually a watershed for the future of Huaying Animation: if the box office collapses, it will be doomed, but if the movie is a big success, the business chain gradually matures, and Huaying Animation, which has become self-contained, will enter an invincible position. Even if the next big-budget movie fails at the box office, there is a huge business chain of comics-animation-games-theme parks to make up for the losses, and it will never encounter the difficult situation like two weeks ago.
So back to the title, how do you evaluate the animation after Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? My answer is eight words: unstoppable, promising future.
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Things are going well for Huaying, but things are not going so well for the film and television companies that once attacked Huaying.
First, under pressure, the movies that were supposed to be released were forced to postpone. When Harry Potter was about to be released, and several companies had agreed to stagger the release dates to avoid losses, a dark horse suddenly appeared from nowhere in the theater chain, disrupting everyone's plans and suppressing other movies.
The strange thing is that this movie that caught everyone off guard is actually an animated movie.
The movie is called "Born to be a Craftsman". As the name suggests, the whole movie tells the life story of the protagonist who comes from a family of carpenters. In addition to being humorous and interesting, the animation also popularizes a lot of knowledge about carpentry to the audience, allowing the audience to enjoy the fun of the animation while learning about the development history of Blue Star woodworking over thousands of years.
Not only that, the details of the entire animation are also extremely sophisticated. Although the picture is 2D, every detail is incredibly exquisite, and the texture on the wood carving is carved smoothly and clearly, as if you can feel the taste of years of precipitation from the lens through the screen.
Just when everyone was secretly curious about where this movie came from, information about the investment and production of this movie soon appeared in front of everyone -
Movie title: Born to be a craftsman
Director: Xu An
Production company: Huaying Animation
When seeing the name "Xu An", a name they had never heard of before, many companies were delighted, thinking that this was a good opportunity to poach him from their own companies. However, as soon as this idea arose in their minds, it was suppressed by the familiar words in the production company column the next second.
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The companies were naturally very depressed, but the appearance of "Born to be a Craftsman" just took over the gap left by "Harry Potter". The novel subject matter and the profound expression attracted many young people to this animation, and for a while, they even forgot about other live-action movies.
Therefore, although the box office of "Born to be a Craftsman" is not as good as that of phenomenal movies like "Harry Potter", it has remained at the top of the box office list in March.
With the huge success of "Born to be a Craftsman", the chief director Xu An also entered everyone's attention.
As the saying goes, no one cares about you after ten years of hard study, but you become famous overnight. With the great success of "Born to be a Craftsman", Xu An, the animation director, has naturally seen his worth rise. At the same time, Xu An's past experiences have also been dug up by various news and newspapers.
After graduation, he worked as a cartoonist for Rose Animation. After Rose Animation was renamed Huaying Animation, he participated in the production of "is" as a cartoonist. However, when "is" was at its peak, he resolutely chose to resign from Huaying Animation in order to pursue his animation dream.
Xu An’s dream-chasing journey was not smooth.
In order to produce "Born to be a Craftsman", which was still in the script stage at the time, this animation producer from an ordinary family sold his house and car to fill the funding gap. After he ran around and finally raised enough funds for the animation production of "Born to be a Craftsman", he unfortunately encountered Ji Xinrong's "Grass and Trees" box office failure, so that the investors who had been discussed originally also chose to withdraw.
Until Huaying Animation took over.
Perhaps it was because of personal principles, or perhaps it was to repay Huaying's kindness in helping him in desperate times. Later, Huaying Animation was mistakenly believed to have seized the subsidy funds for independent animation producers, and its reputation fell to the bottom. Countless animation studios that originally accepted Huaying's investment withdrew and accepted investment from Yunsu Group. Only Xu An, from beginning to end, never wavered even for a moment.
As the box office of "Born to be a Craftsman" reached 2 billion, this report about Xu An's relationship with Huaying Animation also appeared in front of everyone.
At the end of the report, the reporter wrote:
"Some people say that although the Huaying incident caused a great stir, it actually did not change anything - in fact, it was just the opposite. In a subtle way, under the conscious or unconscious guidance of Muxuxing and Huaying Animation, some things have indeed become different."
It seemed like overnight.
Even the most unpopular stand-alone games have begun to climb to the top of the sales charts due to their quality and word of mouth from fans. Animated films like "Born to be a Craftsman", which are not popular with the public and have traditional cultural themes, have also been able to get the investment they deserve with their solid plots, becoming the box office king of the same period.
Those seeds that were buried deep under the soil and were once thought to be hopeless finally bloomed quietly at dawn one morning, fearless of wind and rain.