Almost all media agreed with the World Science Fiction Film Festival. Without "The Matrix", it was not legitimate to win the Lighthouse Award for any other movie. .

Not to mention film critics, even the audience can tell the quality of the film. Although Koreans want to keep the highest awards in the film festival, they can't help but resist the rest!

"The Matrix" conquered the media and judges with its own qualities. It would rather leave the award vacant than publish it indiscriminately!

If there were no series of events such as stolen recordings, this film festival might have become a talk about by science fiction fans.

Of course, it is destined to be forgotten now. Wikipedia has followed the trend and updated the results of the closing ceremony of the film festival, and media from all over the country are also rushing to report on it.

Under this circumstance, the exposure of "The Matrix" began to surge, and many people know that there was a film festival that opened the awards for it!

Lin Han and others were naturally very excited to receive such good news the day before the release. It was equivalent to having a free advertisement, and the scope was the whole world.

Thursday seemed to be over, and Galaxy Pictures staff basically regarded overtime as a habit. Movies that will be released around the world on Friday will have midnight shows in the early morning!

So at this time, it is basically the time to count the pre-sale box office. Through the comparison of the pre-sale box office, you can basically determine the popularity of a movie on the first weekend.

In fact, the pre-sale time of the movie is very short, only less than four days. Therefore, various box office forecasting agencies are not particularly optimistic about the first weekend of this movie, but think that it can take the long-term sales path.

This is actually a completely different route from many science fiction blockbusters. Many science fiction movies sell specials in the first one or two weeks, and then start playing ten-meter jumps, with various plummeting!

"As of 9 p.m., the pre-sale box office has reached 68 million yuan, of which 19 million yuan was launched in the midnight event, 15 million yuan was pre-sale on Friday, 21 million yuan was pre-sale on Saturday, and only 13 million yuan is currently on Sunday."

Lin Han looked at the box office data in front of him and said to Miao Hong: "Do you really want to say what those movie prediction agencies said? The popularity will not increase in the short term, and it depends on the long term."

Miao Hong sighed. The result in front of him is not particularly ideal for a blockbuster, but it is not a failure. It is a relatively normal and moderate level.

He replied: "Our results are quite good compared to "Immortality", but it is quite different from "Martian Rescue" in the same period last year. Fortunately, there have been no blockbusters released in recent days, so I hope they can get more box offices."

Let’s not talk about the 61 million box office record of the midnight show of the film "Jurassic Park" released this summer, at least the 19 million midnight show of "The Matrix" can rank among the top ten in the history of mainland China's films!

You will know by comparing horizontally that the midnight show of "Martian Rescue" is 12 million yuan, but "The Matrix" has reached 19 million yuan, not to mention that it is not the last moment.

It's only nine o'clock in the evening, and there are three novels before the early morning. Maybe they can barely squeeze into the 20 million club!

In fact, midnight shows are usually when real fans go to watch it. Passers-by hardly choose to watch a movie in the early morning, let alone after two or three o'clock, they have to go home to sleep and get up to work.

Especially now it is still winter, how cold is winter in the north?

As soon as the night came, there were probably not many people on the streets. Who would have run to watch the movie in the middle of the night?

Even if I want to see the video again, compared with the cold weather outside, I still plan to take a look tomorrow.

Lin Han was quite confident in his movie, and he continued to ask: "How is the pre-sales overseas? More than 2,000 theaters are released. I hope to open a midnight show of four or five million US dollars."

Speaking of North America, Miao Hong's face showed a relaxed look, "Then you can start celebrating now. The pre-sale of the rough midnight event has reached $5.4 million, and now they are just Thursday morning, and it is estimated that it will increase a lot by the early morning, and it will probably reach $7 million!"

The novel "The Matrix" has gained a lot of fame worldwide. Coupled with the coquettish trailer, praise from the film festival, and the 20th Century Fox's all-out publicity, the results are quite good.

At least it can get 7 million US dollars at the level of 2,500 cinemas, which is a very amazing achievement!

A considerable number of films that were opened in 4,000 cinemas failed to reach this box office. It just so happened that Leonardo's "Bouquet for Algeron" was released this week and had no competitiveness in the midnight show.

Midnight shows have always been the world of commercial films, and there is no soil for art films to survive!

"Originally, there was hope of sprinting for $10 million in midnight games, but 20th Century Fox and Walmart cooperated to hold an early event."

Lin Han couldn't help but become curious, "Isn't Walmart a retail supermarket? Why can you hold a movie in advance?"

Miao Hong explained: "Walmart is the largest retail supermarket in the United States. They are starting to sell for $10 per ticket. It is said that many people are queuing up to buy it early in the morning."

You can watch a 3D movie for $10, and it is a little earlier than midnight show. Of course, audiences who want to save money cannot miss this opportunity!

This early ticket can only be purchased through Walmart discounts, which is equivalent to the cooperation between the two parties and taking advantage of each other's advantages.

In other words, "The Matrix" will be released at 7 p.m. local time in North America!

This kind of early game will consume a considerable amount of the popularity of the midnight game, so the midnight game that was originally in sight was only more than 5 million.

"Then how many box offices are there in advance?" Lin Han was very concerned about this issue, which harmed the midnight event. If the box office was not good, he would probably cry!

Miao Hong spread his hands and said, "It's not estimated that it's not available yet, but the estimated number reported by Wal-Mart to the 20th Century Fox Distribution Department is about 8 million."

"Then there may be $15 million in total, it's very strong!"

This result is probably ranked in the top 50 in the North American box office market. For the first work of a non-sequel, the result is obviously beyond expectations!

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The north wind whistled, and the sky was dark and there was no trace of light. The entire community was extremely quiet, with only orange street lights working hard to stand guard. Occasionally, a few barkings sounded very clear.

Chen Zhiqiang put on his hat, gloves and scarf, then took his cell phone and car keys and walked out of the warm room as spring as spring, taking the elevator to the underground parking garage.

It was already 11 o'clock in the evening, and almost everyone was in a deep sleep, but he drove out of the car and headed towards the business center in the distance!

Fortunately, there was no snow today, the roads were not frozen, and there was no traffic jam along the way, and I came to the cinema unobstructed.

This temperature, the one who watches movies at this time is definitely true love!

If he didn't have a car, Chen Zhiqiang didn't know what to do. Not to mention taxis on the road, even ordinary vehicles were very few.

This is actually because the box office of "The Matrix" is not particularly high in the midnight show. How do people without cars come to the cinema and then go home!

After Chen Zhiqiang parked the car, he quickly jogged to the indoor elevator entrance. The cinema built next to the shopping mall looked brightly lit, and there were indeed many people inside.

But there are indeed not many single dogs like him, most of them are paired up, and you can even see some college students who talk and laugh in teams to watch movies. The youthful and energetic look can be seen at a glance!

The heating dispelled the chill on his body. After Chen Zhiqiang looked at his phone, he took a photo of the crowd waiting for the movie to be released and sent it to the forum of the Hanlin Academy. He wrote: "The coordinates are Har. Binxuefudian GV Star Gathering, there are a lot of people."

This is a post that brings together the grand occasions of cinemas across the country. Bachelors of Hanlin Academy from all over the world have uploaded photos of their cinemas here!

Some theaters are sparse and a few people are crowded, and there are even people from the same theater identifying their fellow villagers!

They all want to be the first audience of The Matrix. Whether they really like the movie or were dragged up by friends to make up the numbers, they were extremely excited when checking the tickets.

When Chen Zhiqiang and others walked into the screening hall, the movie's midnight box office rough report was officially released!

As Miao Hong guessed, the box office of RMB 19 million at 9 pm has risen to RMB 22 million at 11:50 now!

Not only did it successfully break through the 20 million mark, it also rose a lot at the same time to avoid shrinking when the precise box office comes out tomorrow!

This result can be said to be quite amazing. The box office of the movie in this period is enough to surpass the box office of the other movies on Thursday and Sunday.

When nearly one million viewers enjoyed the shock brought by "The Matrix" in the cinema, Lin Han and others also announced the result with satisfaction!

Without even their announcement, some netizens who like to follow the box office of the movie have learned about the results of the midnight show through channels such as special fund office, Maoyan Movie, and Yien's real-time box office.

It cost about one-tenth of Jurassic Park, but the midnight box office was close to one-third of it, which was a hearty victory for Lin Han!

Judging from such a high midnight box office, this weekend is completely its own stage. Those box office forecasting agencies seem to have miscalculated the purchasing power and curiosity of Lin Han fans and ordinary audiences.
Chapter completed!