The latest website: The day passes quickly. At 12:00 pm, the attendance and box office of cinemas in major cities in the United States are collected.

Under Li Changheng's strong and urgent request, it was quickly put together in his hands.

Looking at the box office of only 7.2 million US dollars, Li Changheng couldn't help frowning, which was a lot worse than the 10 million box office he expected for the premiere.

Fortunately, the average attendance rate of 80% throughout the day was not bad, but the people from Taylor and United Artists flushed with excitement.

According to the average ticket price of 3 US dollars, it is equivalent to 2.4 million people entering the movie to watch "Roman Holiday" in one day.

No, the actual number must be far more than 2.4 million.

In recent years, due to inflation, the average price of movie tickets in the United States last year was 2.38 US dollars, and this year, the ticket price has directly increased by 20% to 30%.

In New York, Philadelphia and other places with the largest increases, due to the skyrocketing expenses such as rent and labor, the fares in some prosperous areas have exceeded 9 US dollars.

But to the surprise of many laymen and even film practitioners, as the ticket price has risen, the number of moviegoers has also risen.

But Li Changheng is very clear that in a period of inflation and bad economy, watching movies can be said to be a low-cost entertainment activity compared to other entertainment items.

Moreover, the average annual income of New Yorkers exceeds 10,000 US dollars, and the monthly income is 800 US dollars. It is only a few percent of the income ratio for 6 to 9 US dollars to watch movies.

Otherwise, in the mid-to-late 1970s, the United States would not break box office records one after another, and there would be several movies that break the 100 million box office every year.

It can be said that the entire 1970s was definitely a golden period for Hollywood to make money.

Moreover, the films of this era are basically three to five months, or even one year's long-running mode.

What is even more surprising is that as long as the box office is good, some movies will be released again after a year and a half.

The famous exorcist in film history, the premiere was 66 million, but after the re-screening, it actually got 62 million US dollars, and the global box office exceeded 400 million.

According to Li Changheng's modern eyes, the plot of the movie is really not scary. The main reason for the success of the movie, apart from creating a precedent, is that there are prototypes in reality.

And very famous among Christians.

But Li Changheng believes that because of the existence of himself and Annie, as well as the sudden robbery and explosion, the popularity of "Roman Holiday" will never be smaller than that of "The Exorcist".

Even more than that.

Under so many favorable circumstances, according to the prediction of Lianmei Pictures, the United States has a high probability of directly breaking 200 million.

As long as there is always a topic and attention, 300 million is not impossible.

As for the world, some media have predicted that 500 million should not be a big problem after receiving the press release from Lianmei.

Annie was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night, and the people at Lianmei were also looking forward to a big box office hit, and then some people started thinking about the script for the second part.

It's a pity, no matter what the people of Lianmei expect, will there be any intention of watching Li Changheng completely in the second part.

And how the script is written depends entirely on Li Changheng.

After all, no matter how powerful the screenwriter of Lianmei is, there is no way to know what happened to Li Changheng and Annie after they separated from Rome.

And let the screenwriter write casually, I believe that no screenwriter of Lianmei, or other screenwriters in the outside world really dare to do that.

Just Li Changheng's team of lawyers will sue the person going bankrupt, and they can't even change names and metaphors.

Not to mention that Lianmei Pictures has the backing of Li Changheng, and has a media group as a shareholder. After obtaining 20% ​​of the shares, the company has already gotten rid of the crisis at the bottom and has turned into the top few most profitable film companies in Hollywood.

Lianmei can make screenwriters and directors who do not belong to the company, who can't afford to walk around, or even have no jobs and no scenes to shoot.

The only person who can really influence and change Li Changheng's thoughts is probably Annie.

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One night passed again, and the next day, the media in the United States began to report extensively on the $7.2 million box office of "Roman Holiday" on the first day.

This data is beyond Li Changheng's expectations, but the media reported that because of the New York bombing, the number of viewers in various major cities should be a lot less than normal.

Otherwise, there should be no problem with more than 8,9 million.

However, as the people's fear gradually diminishes, the number of moviegoers should have a rebound in nature.

And countries other than the United States were also officially released, and the box office on the day of the premiere exceeded everyone's expectations.

$15.9 million is equal to 2.2 times the box office of the premiere on this side of the United States.

This start is absolutely fantastic.

Even for future Hollywood blockbusters, it is rare for a movie with an overseas box office to exceed twice the domestic box office.

And once it appears, it will be a big box office bomb.

The countries where "Roman Holiday" has exploded at the box office are not surprisingly the island countries, England and Itali.

The number of viewers in the island country has just passed 2 million, so that countless film practitioners have to re-examine the box office potential of the island country.

However, the senior practitioners and the top executives of the eight major Hollywood companies know very well that the first day of the island country box office will break out, which is absolutely inseparable from Li Changheng helping Aoki Group regain the 600 million US dollars in bonds.

Although the 600 million bonds were recovered, they were also safely stored in the vault at Citi's headquarters.

But if Aoki Group wants to take it back, it not only needs to negotiate with Citi, but the U.S. government is the biggest obstacle.

Because even though everyone knew that the bonds belonged to the Aoki Group, it really wasn't enough, and there was unquestionable evidence that the bonds were theirs.

Citi doesn't plan to hack bonds, which doesn't mean the U.S. government and some politicians won't have other thoughts.

If Citi had not made it clear, it would have been returned to Aoki Group~lightnovelpub.net~ Maybe the money would have been secretly stolen by some U.S. government agencies on the grounds that the owner of the funds is unknown, or that the bombing and robbery cases have not yet been solved. Or delay it and not pay it back.

Therefore, in order to get back the 600 million US dollars in bonds as soon as possible, and to hand over the money to the wealthy people in the island country who are managed by the Aoki Group, they spared no effort to help them through offline channels such as enterprises, communities, streets and so on in the island country for free. Promote the movie.

They even contacted their friends and partners, both overtly and secretly, to lobby and coerce local movies to change gears, and the theater chain gave all the screens and broadcasts to "Roman Holiday".

In addition, under the propaganda of the island nation's media, the island nation's gratitude to Li Changheng and the worship of the strong.

As a result, cinemas in major cities such as Tokyo not only basically broadcast "Roman Holiday", but there are actually long queues outside many downtown cinemas.

And to the surprise of the islanders, the number of female audiences far exceeded anyone's expectations.

No need to guess, these young girls from the island country must have come to Li Changheng.