No matter how much the movie's reputation was debated, the box office would not lie. Although "Pokemon: Green Caterpillar Evolution!" It set a box office record for midnight showings, but the box office after that continued to decline compared to its predecessor. Finally, in the third week of release, the weekly box office fell to less than 100 million US dollars, becoming the fastest-falling Pokemon movie in history.
At this time, "Pokemon: Green Caterpillar Evolution!" In the Northern American market, the total box office was just over 400 million USD, which was also the lowest in history.
"Pokemon: Green Caterpillar Evolution!" It seemed like it was already a Waterloo, and the filmmakers in the United States applauded.
They previously thought that the fall of "Fantastic Four" was an accidental failure.
Now, it seemed that the magic of the Daqian movies was coming to an end. The story of wanting every movie to create a box office legend was also coming to an end. This made the filmmakers in the United States, who had been suppressed by the Daqian movies in recent years, feel a little suffocated, secretly happy.
The Oscar committee was also very happy. They and the Daqian were destined to be enemies. There was nothing in the world that made them happier than seeing the Daqian suffer.
However, while these people were happy, they did not seem to realize that even if the total box office in North America was only a little over 400 million USD, it was still a movie that could enter the top five of the North American box office rankings in 1998. The Daqian did not lose out!
Moreover, with "Pokemon: Green Caterpillar Evolution!" Ending, the Daqian's "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" would also be released worldwide.
The filmmakers were generally not optimistic about the release of "Lord of the Rings".
First of all, the original book of "Lord of the Rings" was famous overseas and had a large number of fans. However, "Lord of the Rings" was a fantasy work. The main characters in it included dwarves, elves, dragons, wizards, orcs, treants, and so on. There were too many strange races.
In addition, the various scenes in the novel were also extremely magical. If these things were to be shown in a movie, the special effects and technical standards were too high.
It was extremely difficult to perfectly recreate them.
Don't think that just because there were many fans of "Lord of the Rings", the box office would be very high. Actually, it was the exact opposite. The more fans there were, the more disputes there would be.
The Lord of the Rings was a well-known hardcore novel. The author, Tolkien, even created a language called Elvish for the Lord of the Rings. This showed how hardcore this novel was.
Therefore, the fans of this novel were also very hardcore. They were very familiar with every detail of the novel and could even fight over it.
If there was even the slightest flaw in The Lord of the Rings movie, it would be immediately criticized by angry fans, and in the end, the box office would fail miserably.
Did you not see the Daqian's 《Pokemon: Space Ripper Constellation Evolution》? It was because of the collapse of the fans' reputation in the later stages of the movie. Many fans who watched the movie went home and complained that the movie had dug a hole and did not fill it up. As a result, the box office in the later stages of the movie suffered a huge drop, causing the Daqian movie to suffer two consecutive defeats.
In fact, The Lord of the Rings novel had already been published in 1955, but it was only released now. With so much time in between, could it be that no filmmakers were interested in this novel?
Of course not. It was just that everyone knew how difficult it was to film this novel and no one dared to take it on.
After the Daqian announced that they would invest in The Lord of the Rings movie, many fans immediately jumped up to oppose it. They accused the Daqian of being a philistine filmmaker who did not understand the essence of The Lord of the Rings.
The movie they made would only ruin the original novel of The Lord of the Rings. This was an evil act that destroyed a classic and must be stopped.
This was not empty talk. On the contrary, in a year's time, the headquarters of the Daqian movie in the United States had more than ten demonstrations by fans of The Lord of the Rings. The largest number of people had reached the scale of 3,000 people.
This was not a bluff. The Lord of the Rings in the other world had the same fate. Since the announcement of the project, it had been criticized by fans from all walks of life.
Even when the movie was released and achieved unimaginable box office success, it was still criticized for not understanding The Lord of the Rings and for ruining it.
Sometimes, fans were a very strange group of people. They kept saying that they loved the things they liked and preached these things to everyone. They could not wait to praise them to the heavens.
However, it was also the fans who stopped all kinds of development. The biggest reason why The Lord of the Rings could not be adapted into a movie for 40 years was because of these fans.
Even comics related to The Lord of the Rings and other things were not allowed by the fans. Even if the publishers wanted to correct some of the words that were obviously wrong, they were stopped by angry fans.
They believed that these words were not wrong, but deliberately done by the author. If the editor did not understand The Lord of the Rings, then don't destroy a classic.
All in all, the fans were the ones who pushed the work to the heavens, but the fans were also the ones who stopped the work from developing further.
Back to the topic, it was because of these reasons that the whole world was not optimistic about The Lord of the Rings. However, this did not stop The Lord of the Rings from premiering in the United States.
The box office on the day of the premiere was released very quickly. It was less than 20 million USD, which was lower than Pokemon. This made many people feel relieved, thinking that The Lord of the Rings was going to be a flop.
This also made many of the staff of the Daqian movie worried, but our Boss Jia did not care at all.
This was because unlike many of the movies that Boss Jia had modified, this "Lord of the Rings" movie was not modified at all by Boss Jia.
From the movie to the main actors, everything was filmed by the original cast of the other world. After watching the movie in advance, Boss Jia also felt that it was basically the same as the movie in his previous world. There was no difference.
A movie that was so popular in his previous world would not be a flop in this world.
Sure enough, although the box office results were not satisfactory, everyone who came out of the movie theater was full of excitement. They wanted to tell everyone that they had seen a magical world.
Therefore, on the second day, The Lord of the Rings' box office started to increase. In the end, the box office reached 60 million USD on the first day. Then, the box office broke 90 million USD on the second day, and the box office hit 200 million USD on the first weekend.
This made everyone who was not optimistic about the movie feel a sense of foreboding. A whirlwind gradually formed around the world.
At this time, Boss Jia did not care about the future of The Lord of the Rings. He was more concerned about another movie, Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion.
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