After the first week at the top of the North American box office rankings, "Treasured Lotus Lamp" didn't fall from the top of the rankings for ten consecutive weeks.
That was to be expected. After all, the Treasured Lotus Lamp had garnered a lot of attention from all over the world. From its initial release to its initial popularity in the Fusang film market, it swept the entire Golden Dragon Awards and won the world's attention.
Then, such a movie was presented to the audience. Do you think the audience would be interested in such a legendary movie?
Lastly, and most importantly, the Treasured Lotus Lamp was truly an outstanding movie. It was so outstanding that any other animated movie would feel inferior. It was so outstanding that Qian Xun delayed its release for two whole years just to be as outstanding as the Treasured Lotus Lamp.
In the end, Boss Jia had spent hundreds of millions of US dollars on this movie, so these were all things that "Treasured Lotus Lamp" deserved.
After ten weeks, which was close to May 2001, the Treasured Lotus Lamp was pushed to the second place with the release of Monster Inc.
However, this was no longer important because "Lotus Lantern" had already earned an astonishing 1.238 billion USD at the box office in North America. It had become the third movie after "Titanic and the Lord of the Rings 3" to break the 1 billion USD box office in North America. The most important thing was that it was an animated movie. It was a movie that came from animation and described the mythical world of animation.
But that was only the North American box office. In Fusang, the Treasured Lotus Lamp had earned a staggering 40 billion yen. Following the Treasured Lotus Lamp's popularity in the United States, many Fusangs began to watch it twice and thrice in order to make the Treasured Lotus Lamp's box office even more amazing in Fusang. Then, the Treasured Lotus Lamp's box office reached an unprecedented 50 billion yen.
That was the equivalent of 400 million dollars in box office.
In addition, in Europe, the Treasured Lotus Lantern had also swept across Europe. The movie market of many countries was directly dominated by the Treasured Lotus Lantern. Even Africa was no exception. Many African uncles had become the audience of the Treasured Lotus Lantern.
However, the funniest thing was actually the Hua Xia market. After the Treasured Lotus Lantern broke the 1 billion USD box office in foreign countries, the domestic audience began to become interested in this movie.
After that, the movie started screening again in theaters in China, and every theater was sold out. In the end, the Hua Xia market contributed 400 million yuan to the box office, barely reaching half a billion USD.
Although the box office sales were a little embarrassing, the Treasured Lotus Lantern still became a god in China. After all, the Hua Xia people had the deepest understanding of the Hua Xia myth. They could also understand the meaning of the Treasured Lotus Lantern movie.
However, Hua Xia's prejudice was too deep, and she did not have the habit of watching animated movies, which led to this particularly funny outcome.
Moreover, the 400 million RMB box office was definitely second to none in the domestic box office. It was only slightly lower than the previous Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Titanic.
In the end, the Treasured Lotus Lantern collected 2.386 billion USD box office worldwide. Although it was still a distance away from Titanic, it had already surpassed The Lord of the Rings 3 and became the second best-selling movie in the world. This made all the filmmakers exclaim. They could no longer understand the movie market.
However, with the rise of the Treasured Lotus Lantern and The Lord of the Rings 3, the global movie market had already realized that in the future, the movie market would gradually move away from the theme of realism and toward the direction of magical themes or magical realism.
Because only magical themes could maximize the movie's special effects to the extreme and make a movie that the audience wanted to watch.
At the same time, for the first time, the filmmakers considered the world of eastern mythology and western mythology on the same level. At the same time, for the first time, the western people understood the eastern mythology and related culture for the first time.
After watching the movie, many westerners began to go to the library or the Internet. Some clumsily asked, "Why did Erlang Shen rebel against his uncle? Why wasn't he made a duke? Why was he only in charge of the rivers? "
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While the world's audiences were still immersed in the magical world brought by the Treasured Lotus Lantern, most of the gamers received an unprecedented piece of news. Nintendo and Sony had entered into a partnership.
On April 1st, the day of the PS1's launch, Sony held a press conference in Fusang.
When the press conference started, many reporters were talking about it.
First, the day of the press conference was also the day of the PS1's launch, and Sony Games was holding the press conference at the same time. Without a doubt, Sony Games is going to make a big announcement, and it will be on the same level as the PS1's launch.
But Sony's PS2 was released last year, and the new console will be released at least 5 years later. So, this cannot be the PS3's launch.
Is it a PS2 game? Or is it an improved version of the PS2?
This should not be possible. First, Sony Games will never hold a press conference for a single game. Secondly, Sony's PS series rarely have any improved versions. At most, they will change the color scheme of their games. Sony will never hold a press conference for these versions of their games.
So, the question is, what is Sony Games trying to do?
Luckily, the question was answered soon.
When the press conference started, Hideki Ken stood in the middle of the stage and showed the small rectangular box in his hand to the audience. Everyone finally understood that Sony is going to release their own handheld console!
This surprised all the media. According to the gaming industry's usual practice, the console's launch will not be sudden. It will be gradual. Before the launch, the console will be released in various ways to promote the product. At the end of the day, a grand press conference will be held to promote the product to all gamers.
This is just like how before the iPhone is released, all users can see the iPhone's appearance on the internet.
But this time, Sony's handheld console came out of nowhere. Many of the gaming media did not even know about it. It was only when Ken Yoshiki took out the PSP that they realized how big of a commotion Sony had made this time.
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