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Chapter 774 [Star Wars 8] [Justice League]

Friday, January 11th.

[Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi] will have its premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, North America.

In fact, at the beginning, Disney Pictures planned to put [Star Wars 8] on the Christmas screen.

After all, the Christmas season in North America is similar to the Spring Festival season in the Mainland, which is very suitable for blockbusters.

But Warner Pictures has already officially announced that [Voldemort 3] will be released in the North American Christmas season.

On the value of IP.

[Star Wars 8] is definitely not inferior to [Voldemort 3], the [Harry Potter] spin-off, and is even a head above water.

But with "Voldemort 3" starring Zhang Nan, Disney Pictures has to admit that "Voldemort 3" started with a global box office of one billion US dollars, even from the perspective of its rivals.

If [Star Wars 8] and [Voldemort 3] are released at the same time, they will definitely affect each other's box office a lot.

George Lucas: "..." What you said is so irritating.

In the screening room of the [Star Wars 8] premiere.

Warner Pictures, the producer, looked at the nearly shot scenes of "Justice League" and felt that the style was too dark compared to "The Avengers" and seemed unlikely to make money, so they tried to get Zack Snyder De change.

George Lucas said goodbye and said, "You don't know that this matter is such a big deal?"

George Lucas continued: "Warner Pictures originally thought that [Star Wars: Episode VIII] would be released on Christmas Day, at the same time as [Voldemort III], so they set [Justice League] on November 8th, but now Disney The film industry has postponed [Star Wars 3].”

"I just said hello to Jack Emmerich, the new president of Warner Pictures. Why does his face look a little wrong?" Zhang Nan asked George Lucas with some confusion.

Then he was rejected by Zack Snyder and said that this is the only way I would shoot.

"Isn't this good? Things are going according to Warner Pictures' ideas?" Zhang Nan was still puzzled.

Warner Pictures couldn't coddle Zack Snyder, so they fired him directly and hired Joss Whedon, the director of "Avengers 1.2", to take over.

Zhang Nan, who came to the screening room after walking the red carpet, was chatting with George Lucas, the founder of the "Star Wars" IP.

Then George Lucas didn't hide it, he just talked about it straightforwardly.

So after some struggle, Disney Pictures moved [Star Wars 8] to November.

It's just Warner Pictures' new DC movie universe work, "Justice League", which is aimed at "Avengers", and the producer and director had conflicts.

……

Because there are no ups and downs in what happened with Warner Pictures.

"I will return to the mainland in July, and there are so many wives who have children. How can I care about the gossip here and talk about it carefully?" Zhang Nanbei George Lucas aroused curiosity.

Although George Lucas has sold the rights to "Star Wars" to Disney, he will not hold any position in this "Star Wars" trilogy.

Disney Pictures has already felt the decline in the popularity of the "Star Wars" series from the changes in the global box office of these two movies, "Star Wars: Episode VII" and "Star Wars: A Star Wars Story: Part 7".

But every time the [Star Wars] movie series premieres, George Lucas is still invited.

Moreover, the [Star Wars] series has the tradition of the trilogy’s box office getting lower and lower, so when encountering this situation, it is natural to choose to avoid war.

The most important thing is.

Zhang Nan suddenly realized what he said.

It was really uncomfortable to be caught with a lame leg and kicked violently after trying to steal a chicken.

But fortunately, it has little to do with him, and it wasn't him who kicked it anyway.

Of course. He is not afraid of kicking even if he is hanging.

……

Early the next morning, Saturday, November 11th.

The premiere box office of [Star Wars 8] is out.

It relies on the legacy of its predecessor [Star Wars: Episode VII], which exceeded US$7 billion in global box office, and the popularity of its own IP.

[Star Wars: Episode 8] grossed US$1.04 million in one-day box office in North America, accounting for % of the box office in the North American movie market that day.

In terms of box office share alone, it is higher than the previous film [Star Wars 7].

But if we only look at the box office data.

[Star Wars 8]’s North American box office result of US$1.04 million on the first day is more than US$7 million less than [Star Wars 1.19]’s US$ million North American box office result, but on November , This month's schedule is already quite good.

Because at the same time as "Star Wars Episode VIII", there was also a remake of a well-known detective novel - "Murder on the Orient Express".

The premiere box office was reduced to less than 8 million U.S. dollars, which shows the dominance of "Star Wars " in the North American movie market.

However, although the North American box office of "Star Wars 8" exceeded 8 million US dollars in its first day, there are still a few sensitive people who discovered the decline of "Star Wars ".

Then the decline of [Star Wars 8] was quickly noticed by other less sensitive people.

Because the single-day box office data of [Star Wars 8] dropped directly to 6399.3 million US dollars the next day.

The decline was as high as 40 percent.

This is a very bad sign for a well-known IP series that has only been released for the second day.

Fortunately, [Star Wars: Episode VIII] stabilized its single-day box office data on Sunday, the third day of its release, with a decline of only 8%, and collected another US$5133.1 million at the box office.

Finally, the first three days.

[Star Wars: Episode VIII] grossed US$8 million at the box office, ranking first in the North American single-week box office rankings.

But this can also be said to be the final glory of [Star Wars 8].

Because on the Monday of the following week, the single-day box office of "Star Wars: Episode VIII" once again took a big dive, by more than 8%, with only US$2155.6 million in box office reported in a single day.

What followed was a four-day losing streak on weekdays.

As of Thursday, the single-day box office of [Star Wars: Episode VIII] has dropped to US$8 million.

And there shouldn't be much improvement in the three days over the weekend.

Because on Friday, November 11th, Warner Pictures brought [Justice League] to North American theaters.

……

In fact, movie fans in Europe and the United States are also very emotionally involved.

And [Justice League] brings together well-known IP characters such as Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, etc.

And the director who subsequently took over Zack Snyder still produced Joss Whedon in "Avengers 1.2".

With such a lineup, anyone who sees the promotion but doesn’t see the actual movie will be confused.

So even if there are bad movies like [Superman: Man of Steel] and [Batman v Superman] ahead of them.

[Justice League] still took in $100 million at the box office in its first three days.

(End of this chapter)