In fact, the crew of the movie version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was still shooting in an orderly manner in China.
In order to make up for the regret of the previous TV version of the Battle of Red Cliffs, and to fully reflect the reality of the battle, Director Wang Fulin had completely let himself go after getting enough financial support. He had directly invested an extra 10 million dollars in the Daqian Film and Television City to build a naval battalion.
Then he had spent nearly 40 million dollars to build more than 600 wooden warships of various sizes as props for the movie.
In the end, the warships would be set on fire in the last scene, which would become one of the most expensive long-distance scenes in the history of film.
Alas, Director Wang Fulin had not had such an arrogant idea. However, the sinking of the Titanic and the explosion of the Enterprise in the Pacific Ocean had been a disaster.
This shocked the audience all over the world and made Wang Fulin feel disdainful.
"Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancestors of Hua Xia set fire to an entire fleet!" Director Wang Fulin said domineeringly. Then he proposed the idea of setting fire to an entire fleet.
Boss Jia could do nothing about it. He could only let them do whatever they wanted.
However, these scenes and scenes were in the fourth movie. The plot of the first movie, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, had been shot more than a year ago and had entered the intense post-production.
Now, after spending a total of 140 million US dollars, all the special effects and post-production of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" had been completed, and the director's edited version had been sent to Mr. Jia.
It happened to be the night when Boss Jia had sent Liu Chuanzhi away.
It was said that Boss Jia had not slept at all. He had been watching the movie with his wife in his arms.
"Very good. This is an epic movie. It will break the world's understanding of Hua Xia. Let's try to release it within this year!" Boss Jia ordered his staff after watching the movie.
Since Boss Jia had given such a fate, the whole Daqian movie naturally dared not slack off. Soon, it was confirmed that the movie would premiere in the Northern American, Hua Xia, and Fusang markets on October 1, 2000. After that, it would be released worldwide within a month.
Well, there were still five months between October and May. These were all used to promote the movie. Boss Jia had specially approved an additional 50 million USD to promote the movie "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" around the world. It could be seen that Boss Jia was very satisfied with this movie.
For a while, related reports about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion appeared in the relevant media all over the world. All kinds of titles and terms such as the greatest historical epic of Hua Xia, the Daqian movie, the epic political drama, and so on were piled on the title of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion. Soon, people all over the world knew that such a Hua Xia movie was going to be released.
Many people were full of curiosity about it.
"This is the great starting point of the rise of our Hua Xia culture!" Boss Jia said this to people more than once. Anyway, the movie "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" had not been released yet. Even before the trailer was released to the public, this movie had been hyped up to be the hottest movie of 2000.
However, this movie had not been released yet. Therefore, when "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was released on May 15, the popularity of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" was suppressed. Almost everyone was discussing and lamenting about "The Lord of the Rings: The Third Redux".
It couldn't be helped. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was really well filmed. Whether it was the special effects or the graphics, as well as the final battle between thousands of cavalry and the Orc army, all the movie fans were stunned. They had never imagined that they could see such a tragic and realistic battle in a movie.
Well, it was said that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" would have 10000 actors participating in the movie. It was a war that truly belonged to the peak of cold weapons. People who watched "The Lord of the Rings: The Third Redux" were eager to try it out.
Most importantly, thanks to the accumulation of the previous two movies, as well as the various contradictions and story components, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was filled with great anticipation.
Therefore, on the first day of the movie's release, it directly broke the first-day box office record in the United States, no, in the world, earning 136 million USD.
What kind of concept was this?
Let's put it this way. When "Avengers 4" was released, the first-day box office was only 142 million USD. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was about to break the box office record of more than 20 movies in "Avengers 4"!
Therefore, in the end, it only took half a month for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"'s global box office to exceed 1 billion USD. There was nothing strange about it.
It was normal for it to exceed 1.62 billion USD in a month.
Anyway, this was destined to be the second movie in the world to exceed 2 billion USD in the global box office. This shocked everyone in Hollywood and made them speechless. "The Lord of the Rings: The Third Redux" was probably going to be the box office champion of 2000.
Wait, that's not right. Wasn't there a popular "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" recently?
The faces of the big shots in Hollywood changed. Although it was unlikely for the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to exceed 2 billion USD, the people of the United States would not be interested in a Hua Xia war epic.
However, it was still possible for the box office to exceed 1 billion USD.
Thinking that in the entire year of 2000, there might be three Daqian movies that exceeded 10 billion USD, the Hollywood filmmakers felt helpless.
By the way, who was the third movie to exceed 1 billion USD?
Of course it was our cute classmate Harry Potter. His third movie was released in January. With the accumulation of the first two movies, the third movie naturally took a total of 1.089 billion USD in the global box office.
The year 2000 was destined to belong to the Daqian movies again!
Wait, it seemed like every year belonged to the Daqian movies!
Just as everyone was sighing helplessly, some people discovered that the Daqian movies had quietly released a piece of news to the public. It was a Daqian and Dynasty studio's animated movie, "Lotus Lamp", that would be released in November.
If the Pokemon series in December was included, then the Daqian movies would have five movies released in 2000. This lineup was really amazing, although "Lotus Lamp" was definitely just a side show.
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