There is no essential difference between North American audiences and audiences around the world. When faced with a new big-budget special-effects movie, they will instinctively not reject it.
What's more, this movie is the second part of the fate movie that was very popular last year, which makes movie fans more interested in it.
Therefore, on Friday daytime when UBW began to be released on a large scale, the movie easily surpassed other movies in the same period in terms of both the number of viewers and the attendance rate.
No, it should be a crushing victory. For a time, all other movies in American theaters were compressed, and all the best resources were given to UBW.
Unsurprisingly, UBW has become the most popular film in the summer season.
This alone is not enough. As a die-hard supporter of Nanaya, William is calling on members of the Kiryu fan club he formed to support director Kiryu's new movie as much as possible.
Although William had some misunderstandings about Nanaya at the beginning because of the issue of "Goblins Slayer", William is now undoubtedly a die-hard fan of Nanaya, even a brain-dead one.
Thanks to his work at Washimine Entertainment, William is able to obtain many resources that outsiders cannot get, such as limited edition movie posters.
Relying on these things, William easily set up a fan discussion group on IMDB specifically to cheer for the Seven Nights movie.
Although it was working hours on Friday, William was browsing the discussion group without a care in the world.
After all, as a publicity and promotion staff member of UBW, he is now also doing publicity work for the movie.
"UBW is a movie that is worth watching repeatedly. No, it is a movie that must be watched repeatedly to be understood."
As a fan group, most of its members watched the movie at the premiere, and now what William has to do is to trick more members into going to the cinema for the second time.
"When you watch UBW for the first time, you will ignore many details because of the intense and exciting action scenes. At this time, you need to watch it a second or even a third time to appreciate the movie carefully."
William was talking nonsense on the Internet in a serious manner, even though he had no such intention at all. He was actually promoting his favorite movie very seriously.
"And you won't be satisfied with such excellent action scenes if you only experience them once. The high-speed shots of the servants fighting like racing, the wonderful sound effects of metal knocking, and the background music that makes your blood boil are the ultimate enjoyment that can only be experienced in an IMAX theater.
"I don't believe that anyone will not feel the same excitement when watching this movie as when they watched Titanic for the first time."
William posted the review online immediately after writing it. He nodded with satisfaction as he watched the number of likes keep rising.
William then sent a message to his friend Ed, asking him if he had been to the movie.
As a result, Ed told him that because the actor he had to look after (Downey) was filming these days, the first viewing of UBW would have to wait until Saturday.
"What a pity."
William let out a sigh, and then he was caught by his supervisor for being lazy.
"William! Don't be lazy, kid! Hurry up and leave a review on Rotten Tomatoes!"
"Yes!"
It's not a lie when I said before that William was posting for work, after all, his job is to attract more audiences into the cinema.
To this end, they also have to write soft articles such as "25 UBW Easter Eggs You Haven't Noticed" on various websites, trying to get some viewers who have already watched the movie once to watch it a second time.
Any box office hit, such as "Titanic", "Avatar" or even "Endgame", not only triggers a nationwide phenomenon and attracts a large number of audiences to watch the movie, but also makes old audiences go back to the cinema to watch it repeatedly, which is also a necessary component of the box office.
For example, there is a certain author who felt that watching the premiere was not enough and ended up watching "Endgame" four times during the movie's release period.
The publicity and promotion department of Washimine is now working hard towards this goal.
By the evening of that day, Nanaya had already received ratings data about UBW from all major platforms including major media.
Judging from the overall word-of-mouth reviews, UBW is undoubtedly a commercial film that starts off strong and ends strong. Even on popular movie rating websites, UBW's performance is quite good.
With an IMDB score of 8.6, professional film critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 87% freshness rating, while the popcorn rating for commercial films reached 90%.
CinemaScrore, the most authoritative box office rating organization in North America, gave an A+ overall audience rating and predicted that UBW's first weekend box office performance is likely to exceed 100 million.
All of this indicates that UBW will be a box office hit. At least in North America and Japan, two of Washimine's old strongholds and big box office holders, the box office will definitely not be too bad.
And this is indeed the case.
Early on Saturday morning, Washimine's staff passed on the North American first-day box office statistics of UBW to Nanaya.
The film opened simultaneously in 4,319 theaters in North America, according to Hollywood's rules that advance screenings will be calculated for the first-day box office.
UBW's first-day box office performance was 47.1 million US dollars, which was directly more than half of Fate's first weekend box office performance last year.
This can be said to be the best first-day box office result since Nanaya became a director.
This result made Nanaya very excited, and he hugged Rin and kissed her fiercely.
The result of 47.1 million U.S. dollars can basically guarantee that UBW's box office revenue in its opening weekend will not be lower than the 100 million U.S. dollars that everyone expected.
From this perspective, UBW has already taken one foot into the door of success.
Naturally, UBW's reputation and first-day box office figures were used by Washimine as a gimmick for publicity and hype.
After all, for passers-by, box office results are the most real data and the biggest motivation for them to buy tickets and enter the cinema.
Unlike those who go to the movies frequently, these viewers only go to the movies a few times a year.
In this case, it is natural to go watch whichever movie has the highest box office.
UBW's outstanding box office performance naturally attracted some passers-by to go to the cinema.
The outstanding performance of the film also made Fate's fanatical fans happy and celebrated.
You have to know that last year, all the viewers of Fate, after watching the first half, lived their lives in anticipation for the next part and fear of a bad ending.
The release of UBW not only dispelled their concerns, but also far exceeded everyone's expectations.
Human beings are animals with the properties of springs. The more they are suppressed before, the more intense the rebound will be.
Many Fate fans started to post comments and began to brag about the awesomeness of UBW on their own platforms, as if Fate was going to dominate the world.
The popularity of UBW is also a good thing for Hollywood, as the box office in 2006 had been sluggish for most of the year.
UBW has ignited the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies and made a good start for the summer season, which is great news for other manufacturers.
At least there is no need to worry about your movie losing money just because audiences have no desire to watch it this year.
But there was one film company that was very unhappy, and that was 20th Century Fox.
The grudge between Fox and Washimine can be said to have been going on for a long time.
But if we really want to discuss it, the relationship between the two companies is just a normal business competition.
The feud between the two families began in July last year.
At that time, the first half of the Fate movie could be said to have dominated the entire North American July schedule.
Except for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" which has a huge difference in audience and achieved good results.
Other sci-fi blockbusters such as "War of the Worlds", a collaboration between Tom Cruise and Spielberg, and "Fantastic Four", produced by Fox, all suffered fatal blows at the box office.
If it were just that it would be fine, but I don't know which Marvel fan has nothing better to do.
After watching "Fantastic Four", he felt that the movie was terrible and ruined what he considered a classic.
So he started to mock the film online and wrote an article titled "100 Comparisons of Why Fate is Better than the Fantastic Four".
One of the passages says this:
"You can ignore the plot and setting, but as a summer popcorn movie, the most intolerable thing about Fantastic Four is the special effects action scenes.
"It is incomprehensible that this kind of action scene, which should have been abandoned after The Matrix, would appear in a big-budget movie in 2005!"
"Compared to Fate, the action scenes in Fantastic Four are just like those of elementary school students fighting. The latter is not even worthy of carrying the shoes of the former! This is a rubbish fan-made movie!"
Originally, this kind of talkative article was just posted.
But somehow, the article quickly went viral online and was eventually seen by Fox executives.
I don't know if it was because I felt guilty or if it was an accident.
Anyway, Fox's CEO flew into a rage at the company's senior management meeting and vowed to be irreconcilable with Washimine.
It just so happened that at this time Marvel came to the door regarding the "X-Men" characters.
Fox, thinking it had something on Washimine, mocked the Marvel representative and then drove him away.
"If you want the copyright of Wolverine, Marvel should give us Iron Man for free. We just need a villain in X-Men 3, and Tony Stark is the perfect fit."
Not to mention that Marvel was already producing "Iron Man" at the time. Even if they hadn't made the movie, they would never have agreed to Fox's request.
After all, the publicity capabilities of movies and comics are completely different. If Iron Man really appears as a villain, then Tony Stark's villain attribute will never be washed away within ten years.
Perhaps Fox feels that it is one of the Big Six in Hollywood and can completely ignore Washimine.
But their arrogant attitude directly irritated Shion.
"Fuck! Do you think I was brought up by being scared?!"
At that time, Shion was slamming the table in the office.
"You old fox are so cruel, don't blame me for being unjust! Someone, release the Ministry of Justice!"