£8.49 million!

That's right, the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" achieved a box office record of 8.49 million pounds on the day of its premiere, which was equivalent to 12 million US dollars.

It doesn't look tall ~

The "Spider-Man" movie achieved a box office record of more than $40 million on the day of its premiere in the United States.

But!

You have to know that these are the British islands with a small territory!

The box office on the premiere of £8.49 million was the top of the daily box office championship list in 2000!

The Times immediately posted: "Harry Potter's box office of 8.49 million pounds on the first day, ranking as the 2000 daily box office champion. Looking at the history of British movie box office, it is second only to the Lion King released in 1995, and the Titanic released in 1998, ranking third in the box office list of film history!"

"Judging from daily box office alone, it surpassed the Star Wars Prequel 1 released in 1999, the Toy Story 2 released in early 2000, and the Light Pig Six Heroes released in 1997......"

The whole article sang a hymn to "Harry Potter".

Similarly, other local media colleagues in the UK were not willing to be lonely and wrote articles and published them.

The British Mirror published an article saying: "The Harry Potter movie is expected to become the British box office champion in 2000!"

The Sun published an article saying: "Harry Potter's first-day box office was as high as 8.49 million pounds, and its box office in the first three days will inevitably exceed 20 million pounds. The box office results of these three days alone are enough to rank among the top 5 in the UK box office rankings this year."

Top 5 in the ranking?

you do not say!

As of December 9, the top five UK box office rankings in 2000 are:

1. Toy Story 2, £44.3 million;

2. "Gladiator", £31.2 million;

3. "Chicken Run", £29.5 million;

4. "American Beauty", £21 million;

5. "Breaking Out of My World", £18.3 million;

Let’s take a look at the movie “Harry Potter”. The box office on the first day alone was as high as 8.49 million pounds. In the next two days, the box office revenue will definitely not be low. In three days, the box office will exceed 20 million pounds, which is definitely a breeze.

In three days, it achieved a high box office that many movies could not achieve even in half a year!

British media are rushing to report that British movie audiences are so popular, while local British film colleagues are collectively losing voice...

Everything shocked many people!

Hollywood film companies are so sad!

"My God, is it over!"

After learning the news, Harvey Weinstein, president of Miramax Films, said in amazement: "First, Spider-Man achieved a global box office of more than $900 million, and now "Harry Potter" is out again? Why, there is Juke Wald everywhere?!"

Shei, the boss of Xinyi Film, is very jealous.

Patrick, one of the three giants in Peak Entertainment, exclaimed: "Fortunately, our "Red Maple Family" movie was withdrawn from the UK in time, otherwise he would have been crushed to no aura."

Warner's Barry Mayer raised his eyebrows and sighed: "He dug another gold mine!"

The Hollywood colleagues were shocked.

but!

More Hollywood film companies, while shocked, smelled the smell of a war coming.

“Awesome ~”

Gusta, the president of Lionsgate Pictures, laughed and said: "Originally, this Christmas schedule, I thought I would still be so bored in previous years. I still watched the six major Hollywood fights, haha, but this year is probably different~"

"Harry Potter premiered in the UK and achieved such excellent results. So the top six high-ranking guys in Hollywood are probably going to panic now!"

In fact, that's exactly the case!

Warner Bros. Pictures, because of its own reasons, withdrew from the competition during this Christmas schedule early and was unable to strive for the top spot. However... several giant companies such as Disney and Universal have never given up on competing for the first place.

Paramount Pictures.

"cannot!"

"Absolutely not, we can't let Wald Pictures make another move..."

"Harry Potter can win the box office in the UK, so it can also win the box office in the US."

"We were able to suppress Wald Pictures in both media and theaters before."

"But, what about now?"

"It won't take long to see the greedy theaters and the media reporters who are like fence-breasted animals, the cocktail party will turn to Wald Pictures. What will we use to stop it?!"

President Shirley Lansing looked solemn.

The atmosphere in the entire conference room was almost dripping with water.

At the same time.

Jinshuguang Entertainment Group.

Zhuke also got box office data at the first time. Well, to be precise, Zhuke received the news earlier than many people.

“Beautiful job!”

Zhuke laughed and said, "It seems that Old Bill's decision was correct! It turns out that the old man is like a treasure in the family. Old Bill's decades of Hollywood experience are one of our company's most precious wealth."

Alexander, who was standing by, also smiled and said, "I just got the news from Mr. McNick that several major mainstream theaters in the UK will increase the schedule of "Harry Potter". It is expected that the number of cinemas will be released today will increase from 620 to 800."

Add 180 cinemas?

Don't think it's too little!

The number of 620 theaters released on the day of the premiere of "Harry Potter" already accounted for 35% of the UK that day. Now there are 180 more theaters, and the total screening volume has increased to 47%, nearly half.

.........

A few days later.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" achieved a box office record of US$28.75 million in the first three days of the first weekend.

The box office results of these three days alone are enough to be ranked fourth in the 2000 British annual box office rankings, and it is only a few hundred thousand pounds less than the total box office of the third-place movie "Chicken Run".

It's hot!

Completely popular!

In recent days, if you haven't watched the Harry Potter movie in the UK, you will be embarrassed to say that you have gone out.

At the same time, the popularity of the movie also made the Harry Potter series of books sell well again. peripheral products such as dolls, keychains, clothing, etc. are also big sales.

Of course, the most popular ones are the young actors who starred in the movie "Harry Potter".

Daniel, the actor of Harry Potter;

Ron Weasley's actor - Rupert Grint;

Hermione's actor - Emma Watson;

The three young actors in the Iron Triangle of Hogwarts are British nationalities. Now, the three of them have completely become household names in the UK. Their popularity is that even some superstars cannot be compared at this moment.

The popularity is so terrifying!

In recent days, teenagers wearing magic robes, wizard hats and magic wands can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of many cities in the UK, passing through the streets.
Chapter completed!