"Oh my god, it's actually 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Three Parts of the World'. Guanyin actually got a pre-screening of this movie!!" Everyone almost went crazy when they saw the name of the movie.
When the first movie, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Yellow Turban Rebellion' was released in 2001, no one thought that this movie series would be so crazy.
In fact, the box office of the first movie, 'Yellow Turban Rebellion', wasn't that dazzling. The final box office was more than 800 million USD worldwide. Although it was in the top three of the annual box office rankings, if it wasn't for the appearance of 'Lord of the Rings 3', it wouldn't be impossible for 'Yellow Turban Rebellion' to take first place.
However, this movie was a movie that the Daqian invested a lot of money to promote. Originally, industry insiders predicted that the box office would exceed 1 billion USD worldwide. The movie's results were actually considered bad.
Therefore, when the second movie, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Burning the Capital' was released in 2002, the audience and filmmakers all over the world were not optimistic about this movie.
For a movie series, the first movie's results were very important. This was because the next few movies either continued to have a high box office, surpassing the previous movie.
Or the box office plummeted all the way to the end.
Most of the movies had the second ending. The first movie suddenly became a force to be reckoned with and achieved very terrifying results in the world. Then, the second movie's shooting plan was released as fast as possible. Then, the world's best actors were mobilized, and there were all kinds of free promotions. In the end, the second movie's box office flopped. Everyone who watched the movie cursed that it had lost the soul of the first movie.
This was the fate of most of the sequels. Of course, there were a few movies that could surpass the previous one and finally become a god.
However, there weren't many such series. So far, there were only the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings series in the world. Although the Terminator series seemed to count, the problem was that only the second installment of the Terminator series had a positive impact. The subsequent installments had a negative impact.
In fact, the Harry Potter series didn't live up to its name because the box office of the third and fourth movies weren't as good as the second movie's peak. It wasn't until the fifth movie that it took off again.
Now, it was the sixth movie, 'Deathly Hallows'. Because the Daqian made a three-hour movie in one go, the pace of 'Deathly Hallows' was also very tight.
In the end, the last movie in the "Harry Potter" series, which was released last year, finally set an unprecedented box office record. It took in $1.98 billion at the global box office, which almost broke the $2 billion mark.
The Harry Potter movie series had officially become the number one movie series in the world, with a total box office of 9.882 billion USD, almost breaking the 10 billion mark. Countless filmmakers were wringing their hands.
It was precisely because of this situation that many people were quite pessimistic about the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series. After all, it was set in an Eastern culture, and at the same time, there was excessive publicity. The actors were all Eastern, and so on. With all these factors added together, it would be strange if the second series could become popular.
The official release of the second movie seemed to confirm these claims. The box office for the first weekend only added up to 104 million USD. It was only half of the first movie's results. It seemed that this movie was doomed.
But … but … but in the second week, the box office in the US rose to 152 million, and it was still rising in the third week. By the fourth week, the box office in the US had exceeded 500 million, and then almost overnight, everyone was talking about the story of the three heroes against Lu Bu.
Everyone was discussing who would win if the three heroes and Lu Bu fought to the end.
Especially on the Internet, all kinds of discussions, debates, and arguments never stopped, and even the whole movie continued to sell well.
After the first movie was a flop in Hua Xia, the second movie, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Burning of the Imperial Capital", didn't have much plot, just crazily piled up all kinds of super special effects, and wonderful fighting scenes, so the box office also exploded in China, becoming the first blockbuster in China to break the 1 billion RMB total box office. Globally, it was 120 million USD.
Not to mention in Fusang and South Korea, the movie had reached the point where it was difficult to get a ticket. Even the European market, which had no interest in the first movie of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", added up to a total box office of 80 million USD.
Although the whole of Europe combined was not as good as the developing Hua Xia, this seemed to be a bit shameful.
But in any case, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Burning of the Imperial Capital" slapped everyone in the face, and finally took a huge box office of 1.32 billion USD worldwide, almost double the previous movie's box office.
The reason for such a situation was that foreigners underestimated the story of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which could be called the second climax, second only to the Battle of Red Cliffs.
First of all, this story could be called a perfect starting point, a declining noble who was not valued by the royal family, led two top knights he subdued, in front of a large group of nobles, played the pig to eat the tiger, slapped the face, and finally defeated the invincible super demon king.
And in the end, it was accompanied by the destruction of an empire and a raging fire, this was simply the best structure in the world!
In addition, the novel and movie's portrayal of the characters was also unparalleled, whether it was the three brothers of Emperor Liu, Lu Bu, or even Hwa Xiong and Dong Zhuo, the portrayal of the characters was very deep.
For many failed movies, their biggest failure was not the failure of the actors, filming techniques, and special effects, but the failure of the plot.
But the original plot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as long as it did not add a lot of its own things like the first movie, there was almost no possibility of failure. Especially for foreigners who never understood the Three Kingdoms, there was even less of a possibility of failure. They were all pure newbies, without the interference of spoilers, and without the original novel's fans, of course, they loved the movie to the extreme.
In addition, whether it was the special effects or the actors, the movie was done to the extreme, so it was natural for the box office to explode in the end.
And the most amazing thing was not when the movie was released, but after the movie was taken off the screen.
It was said that overnight, almost all the novel websites in the world had a translated version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Countless readers who could not bear to wait another year and were eager to see the follow-up story were looking for the translated version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
As a result, all the websites that had a translated version were pleasantly surprised to find that their website traffic had increased by more than ten times, or even more than a hundred times.
Especially the non-English translated version, because there was no such thing before, many non-English websites began to translate and serialize it on their websites. As a result, there were countless readers on the websites, all of them chasing the translated version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that was being serialized, and the traffic skyrocketed by hundreds of times.
Later, according to the investigation, in the whole of 2002, the global electronic novel industry, because of the appearance of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the market value increased by six times in one go.
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