Zhang Zhong stood in the square of the Viscik Stadium. There were still many readers outside who had not been let in. There were still about a few hundred readers left in the stadium. The sun had been setting in Zadar for a while, but it was still very lively outside the stadium.
The autograph session here will end in another hour, so the queue outside was stopped early. However, the readers who came to attend the autograph session did not disperse because the autograph session was over. Instead, they continued to gather around and party outside the stadium.
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Zhang Zhong glanced at the queue behind him. Since the queue had stopped, he simply slowed down the autograph signing process and occasionally let out a few special autographs. If a book friend wanted to chat with him, he would also chat with them.
A few sentences.
"Pz, will you continue signing in Zadar tomorrow? I have many friends waiting outside." A blond boy asked timidly.
Zhang Zhong said regretfully, "I'm sorry, my autograph signing in Zadar is only for one day. If your friends still want to participate in the autograph signing, they may need to go to Germany."
The blond boy said disappointedly, "Oh, we could have come earlier, but there was a traffic jam on the road. We are from Germany, and when you go to Germany, we will definitely go too."
Zhang nodded and said, "Thank you for your support."
As he spoke, he thanked the blond boy for a special sign.
This time I came to Zadar, his special picks were very simple.
To so-and-so, wish so-and-so...
There are no other special signatures.
Even so, the blond boy was still very happy, and rushed out of the gymnasium with Zhang Zhong's special lottery, as if he had won a multi-million dollar jackpot.
As for those friends he just mentioned, he has completely forgotten them.
He already got the special draw anyway, who cares if they can get the signature?
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Zhang Zhong had finished his book signing in Zadar and was still taking his family to enjoy the scenery of Zadar when news about the movie "The Last Starfish" was already flooding domestic and foreign news websites.
Especially in China.
Because the protagonist of "The Last Starfish" is Chinese, the North American box office was affected. For such a big IP, it only took over 50 million in the North American box office on its first day.
But in China, it is a plus point for Chinese people to be the protagonists.
The film's first-day box office in China reached 358 million, far exceeding the 220 million first-day box office of "Ten Little Indian Boys" at the time.
In fact, people thought before that it was almost certain that it would exceed the first-day box office of "Ten Little Indian Boys".
This time "The Last Starfish" has great advantages.
Compared to before, Zhang Zhong's popularity today is far from the same as before, and the traffic he can bring to movies is definitely much higher than before.
And in addition to Zhang Zhong, this movie also has Affleck directing and starring.
Affleck has a large number of fans around the world, and of course he also has a large number of fans in China. These two people alone can bring very considerable box office revenue to the movie.
In addition, "The Last Starfish" also uses the banner of the rise of Chinese science fiction movies. The protagonist is Chinese, which is full of gimmicks.
It was the combination of these gimmicks that finally reached a box office of 358 million on the first day.
Unfortunately, even so, it still did not break the first-day box office record of 370 million set by "Tengu 3".
On the one hand, "Tengu 3" has the advantage of being a sequel; on the other hand, "Tengu 3" is released during the Spring Festival and has great advantages in filming.
But no matter what, "The Last Starfish" can get a box office of 358 million on the first day in China, which is already a very impressive figure.
For a time, various movie websites gave predictions, saying that "The Last Starfish" may set a domestic movie box office record. If the momentum is strong enough, it may surpass the 6.3 billion box office of "Tengu 3".
Became the box office champion of mainland movies.
At that time, the final box office of "Ten Little Indian Boys" was 4.4 billion, ranking eighth in the box office of mainland film history. If nothing happens, "The Last Starfish" this time should eventually surpass the box office of "Ten Little Indian Boys"
With a box office of 4.4 billion, it ranks among the top eight in mainland film history.
No matter what, everyone firmly believes that the box office of "The Last Starfish Man" will eventually help Zhang Zhong become the next writer whose film history-changing work has a box office of more than 10 billion Chinese dollars.
Some people even boldly predict that Zhang Zhong is very likely to achieve a box office of tens of billions of Chinese dollars with "The Last Starfish Man".
Today, the ratio of U.S. dollars to Chinese coins is seven to one, which means that the box office of "The Last Starfish" can reach more than 1.4 billion U.S. dollars.
According to the prediction data from the Hongdou Box Office Forecasting Station, the final global box office of "The Last Starfish Man" is about 1.3 billion US dollars, which seems to be not far from 1.4 billion US dollars.
The reason why Hongdou Box Office Forecast Station can give this box office is because of the film’s continued impact in North America.
In addition to the box office of more than 50 million US dollars on the first day, "The Last Starfish" took a total of 200 million US dollars in box office throughout the weekend, directly becoming the weekend box office hegemon.
The mediocre box office on the first day was immediately forgotten by people. For a time, the film became a hit in the North American film market during the summer, surpassing "Sundown 2" and "Thieves 3" and making great strides.
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In the past two days, Chen Qing has been paying attention to the news about Zhang Zhong's book signing in Europe and the release of "The Last Starfish Man".
It has been five days since the movie was released in North America. The movie has been released in 43 countries around the world, and now the total box office has reached nearly 400 million US dollars.
Now they and Affleck's company have been able to share US$120 million from the box office, which can basically cover the cost of the movie.
The remaining box office, divided by one-sixth, is the money the company can earn.
If the final movie box office can reach 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, then the company should be able to receive one billion Chinese dollars in cash.
The division of one billion Huaxia coins is a big profit even for Zhang Zhong's company. It took so long for Zhang Zhong's best-selling book "Dune" to earn one billion Huaxia coins.
Just coins.
The one-billion-dollar account is second to none. The most important thing is that after the success of "The Last Starfish", I am afraid that there will never be any question about the influence of Zhang Zhong's IP in the future.
In the past, "Ten Little Indian Boys" was a box office hit and "Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller" won awards everywhere. Later, "The Last Starfish Man" soared into the sky. Zhang Zhong only used three film adaptations of his works to achieve success.
Let me tell everyone a fact: as long as it is a movie adapted from Zhang Zhong's work, it is definitely a masterpiece.