The day passed quickly, and at around 12 o'clock in the evening, the attendance and box office collected by cinemas in major cities in the United States.

Under Li Changheng's strong and urgent request, he quickly summed it up and appeared in his hands.

Looking at the box office of only 7.2 million US dollars, Li Changheng couldn't help but frown, which was much worse than his expected premiere box office of 10 million US dollars.

Fortunately, the average attendance rate of 80% throughout the day was pretty good, but Taylor and the people from Lianmei Film Company were so excited that their faces turned red.

According to the average ticket price of US$3 per ticket, 2.4 million people will enter the movie to watch "Roman Holiday" in one day.

No, the actual number of people is definitely far exceeding 2.4 million.

Due to inflation in recent years, the average price of movie tickets in the United States last year was US$2.38, and this year the ticket price has increased by 20 to 30%.

New York, Philadelphia and other places with the largest increase, due to the surge in rent and labor expenses, the fares in some prosperous areas have exceeded US$9.

But what surprised many laymen and even film practitioners was that ticket prices rose, but the number of viewers also increased.

But Li Changheng knew very well that in a period of inflation and bad economy, watching movies can be said to be a very low-cost entertainment activity compared to other entertainment projects.

Moreover, the average annual income in New York is over 10,000 US dollars, and the monthly income of 800 US dollars is only a few percent of the income ratio for spending 6 to 9 US dollars to watch movies.

Otherwise, the US would not have broken box office records one after another in the mid-to-late 1970s, and several movies had box offices exceeding 100 million yuan every year.

It can be said that the entire 1970s was definitely the golden period for Hollywood to make money.

Moreover, movies of this era are basically in three to five months or even one year of long-term screening.

What is even more surprising is that as long as the box office is good, some movies will be released again after they are released in the previous year and a half.

The very famous Exorcist in film history, premiered by 66 million yuan, but after the re-screening, he actually received US$62 million, and the global box office exceeded 400 million.

According to the modern people of Li Changheng, the plot of that movie is really not scary. The main reason why the movie is successful is not only the pioneering fact that there are prototypes in reality.

And it is very famous among Christians.

But Li Changheng believed that because of his existence and Anne, as well as the sudden robbery and explosion that broke out this time, the popularity of "Roman Holiday" will never be less than that of "The Exorcist".

Even more than that.

With so many favorable circumstances, according to Lianmei Film's estimates, the United States has a high probability of directly exceeding 200 million.

As long as there is always a topic and attention, 300 million is not impossible.

As for the world, some media have already obtained the press release from Lianmei and predicted that 500 million should not be a big problem.

Anne was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night, while the people of Lianmei were also looking forward to the box office hit, and then some people began to think about the script for the second part.

Unfortunately, no matter how people from Lianmei expect it, will there be a meaning of the second part that depends entirely on Li Changheng.

Moreover, how to write the script depends entirely on Li Changheng.

After all, no matter how powerful the screenwriter of Lianmei is, he cannot know what Li Changheng and Anne have experienced after they separated from Rome.

If the screenwriter writes casually, I believe that no screenwriter from United States or other screenwriters from the outside world really dares to do that.

Just Li Changheng's lawyer group will sue the person who will go bankrupt, and it will not even be able to change the name or the metaphor.

Not to mention that Lianmei Film has a backer of Li Changheng and a media group to acquire shares. After obtaining 20% ​​of the shares, the company has already escaped the crisis of being at the bottom and turned into the first most profitable film companies in Hollywood.

Lianmei can make screenwriters and directors who do not belong to the company have no money to take care of themselves, and even have no job or show to film.

The only person who can truly influence and change Li Changheng's ideas is probably Anne.

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One night passed again, and the next day during the day, the media in the United States began to report a large number of US$7.2 million on the first day of "Roman Holiday".

This data was beyond Li Changheng's expectations, but the media reported that due to the New York bombing, the number of viewers in various major cities should be much less than normal.

Otherwise, there should be no problem with more than 89 million.

But as the fear of the people gradually decreases, the number of viewers should have a rebound increase.

Countries outside the United States were also officially released, and the box office on the day of the premiere exceeded everyone's expectations.

15.9 million US dollars is equal to 2.2 times the premiere box office in the United States.

This start is definitely a fantasy level.

Even in the future, Hollywood blockbusters rarely appear in movies with overseas box offices that exceed 2 times the local box office.

Once it appears, it will be a big box office bomb.

The countries where "Roman Holiday" had a big box office hit, no surprise are island countries, England and Italy.

The island country's viewership has just exceeded 2 million, forcing countless film practitioners to re-examine the island's box office potential.

But senior practitioners and senior executives of the Eight Hollywood leaders knew very well that the box office of the island country would explode on the first day, which would definitely be unrelated to Li Changheng helping Aoki Group to regain 600 million US dollars in bonds.

Although the 600 million bond was taken back, it was safely stored in the vault at Citi headquarters.

But if Aoki Group wants to take it back, it not only needs to negotiate with Citi, but the biggest resistance is the US government.

Because even though everyone knows that bonds belong to Aoki Group, it is indeed not sufficient, and there is no doubt that bonds belong to them.

Citi does not intend to blackmail bonds, which does not mean that the US government and some politicians will not take other thoughts.

If Citi hadn't made it clear that it would have returned it to Aoki Group, maybe the money would have been returned to some American government agencies, with reasons that the owner of the funds was unknown, or that the explosion and robbery had not been solved, and they would not return it secretly or dragged it.

Therefore, in order to get the 600 million US dollars of bonds as soon as possible and hand over the money to the rich people of the island country managed by Aoki Group, Aoki spared no effort to help promote movies in offline channels such as enterprises, communities, streets, etc. for free.

They even contacted their friends and partners openly and secretly, lobbying together, forcing local movies to shift gears, and theaters also gave all the screen and broadcasting sessions to "Roman Holiday".

In addition, under the publicity of the island media, the islanders are grateful to Li Changheng and admire the strong.

This has led to the fact that cinemas in major cities such as Tokyo not only basically all broadcast "Roman Holiday", but there are also long queues in many cinemas in downtown areas.

What surprised the islanders was that the number of female audiences was far beyond anyone’s expectations.
Chapter completed!