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Chapter 565 The Popular Harry Potter

“The magical legend of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire continues with a story that is faithful to the original work.”

"The film breaks the series' inherent trend of getting worse and worse, becoming the best film in the series besides Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

"Mike Newey did not keep many of the details in the original book, but made some deletions and revisions. But at the same time, he also retained the fun and magic of the original book.

The audience can have a lighthearted laugh while watching the Gryffindor trio's tense adventures.

The film has a fast pace and a complete story structure, and it is worth watching. ”

After the premiere, reviews about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were flying all over the place, and most of them were positive.

The few negative reviews focused on editing and the fact that some scenes were too dark.

There were also criticisms about Harry Potter's affection for Zhang Qiu, played by the Fairy Sister, and the lack of detail in the portrayal of his distress after a breakup.

But this is understandable. After all, the whole story of "Harry Potter" is actually about the growth of a magical boy, rather than the troubles of a magical boy in love.

What attracts the audience most is undoubtedly the strange magic and all kinds of strange and weird things.

If you want to see the love story of young boys and girls, you might as well watch "The Fault in Our Stars" by Gilbert Jr.

Before the premiere, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire held previews as usual. In the two previews, the film received 91% positive reviews, with an average score of around A.

Thanks to media praise and good audience reputation, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" grossed $1123 million at the midnight show.

Among all the Harry Potter movies, the box office of this midnight show is second only to the previous one, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

The reason is simple. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released in the summer season, while "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the autumn and winter season in November, so the effects are naturally different.

However, the film grossed $3709 million on its official release on November . The film overturned the roof of the decadent theaters, and the constant flow of people instantly swept away the ice and snow of the autumn and winter season.

As the revenue focus of Disney and Warner at the end of the year, the two companies invested huge resources to promote and publicize this film.

It can be said that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" can be seen in any city, town, or village in North America, as long as it is not isolated from the world.

The film continued to be popular on Saturday, taking in $4268 million on the day and entering a frenzy of box office harvesting.

On Sunday, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" continued to take in $3225 million in North America, pushing the film's first-week box office in North America to $1 million.

This data is quite outstanding. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is also the fifth movie to exceed 3 million yuan in the North American box office in the first week after "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", "Spider-Man 1", "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" and "Shrek the Monsters 2".

The first week box office of 1 million US dollars also made "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" the fourth highest-grossing movie in the history of the first week.

The first one, of course, is Gilbert's masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".

In addition to North America, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released simultaneously in 8800 countries and regions around the world, earning million US dollars in its first week.

The box office in the UK in the first week reached 2857 million US dollars, Germany also had a box office of 2031 million US dollars, and Mexico created a box office of 663 million US dollars.

In the next week, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" will be released in 70 countries and markets around the world, and it is expected to get more box office revenue.

Box office is only one aspect, the bigger surprises come from the surrounding areas.

It is well known that every time a Star Wars movie is released, it can drive the sales of peripheral products. The same is true for the Harry Potter series. In the first three days of the weekend, the sales of Harry Potter peripherals in North America exceeded 6600 million US dollars. Even though most overseas regions did not release the movie, the cumulative sales of peripherals amounted to million US dollars.

A long time ago, Gilbert Jr. cooperated with Disney and Warner Pictures to open peripheral factories in China.

When these peripheral products, whose cost prices are calculated in RMB, are sold all over the world and their selling prices are converted into US dollars, we can see the huge profits in the peripheral industries.

To give a simple example, the average production cost of each 10cm Hermione doll is only RMB. The more you produce, the lower the cost.

But the dolls can be sold in North America at a price of US$39.9 per doll. Currently, one US dollar is equivalent to about 8.27 RMB.

That is to say, the selling price of a single doll has reached RMB 329.97, which is twenty-two times the price.

This is the price of just one doll, there are many other products, such as magic wands, wizard hats, wizard robes, etc.

Especially the magic wand, the production cost ranges from five to more than ten RMB, but it can be sold for more than ten or even hundreds of dollars in North America.

There are also limited edition magic wands that are designed by jewelry masters. The price of a magic wand can even be as high as tens of thousands of dollars, and they are still in short supply.

It is conceivable how terrible the Harry Potter series' ability to reap fans' wallets is.

It’s also because of the huge profits in the surrounding industries, which was a money grab, that even Mexican gangsters and drug dealers stopped selling drugs during the release of the movie.

They turned to mobilizing Mexicans who gathered on the US-Mexico border to produce pirated peripherals as a family unit.

As a result, when the pirated goods arrived in the United States, they were in short supply, and drug dealers were shocked. Drug trafficking did not make money as fast as piracy, and the risks were lower than drug trafficking.

Unfortunately, only those popular movie series can have this effect, which is unstable and cannot be pirated for a long time. When the popularity is over, you have to sell drugs again.

Of course, both drug trafficking and piracy are crimes in nature and are subject to crackdown by the federal government.

Today's federal government is still very serious about these two things, especially piracy. If you don't take it seriously, just wait for the trouble from the congressmen sponsored by Gilbert Jr., Disney, and Warner!

There are not many fools in the film companies. In recent years, Universal, Paramount, and the parent company of 20th Century Fox have all gone to China to invest and build factories.

The good profits immediately attracted more surrounding factories to settle in China, and the local government warmly welcomed it.

Universal Pictures took this opportunity to discuss a Universal Studios project after Disney and Warner developed the theme park project in Shanghai, and it was immediately implemented.

The butterfly effect blew through like a hurricane, blowing the details that Gilbert was familiar with into pieces. But fortunately, the general direction and trend did not change, and Gilbert was still able to find the familiar track.

Far away in Australia, Gilbert Jr. is keeping a close eye on the commercial performance of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

He was not disappointed. The film's commercial performance was very strong, and it set off a wave of movie-watching at the end of the year.

He noticed that the character played by Robert Pattinson received a lot of attention, maybe because he was handsome?

The reason why Gilbert paid attention to Robert Pattinson was mainly because he remembered another fantasy work called "Twilight", which was called the post-Harry Potter era and starred by Robert Pattinson.

Gilbert Jr. didn't want to direct the film himself, as that would be a bit cheap.
But he can get the copyright and let Cantaloupe Studios produce it! No one can have too many successful movie series.

(End of this chapter)