The success of "Avatar" made everyone at Fox excited, and they even shouted the slogan of defeating "Madoka Magica" and regaining the title of film history.
In response to this, Washimine Entertainment naturally treated it as a formidable enemy and began to use various targeted promotional methods.
However, Nanaya, the director of "Madoka Magica", was very calm.
The success of the movie "Avatar" was already a certainty in Nanaya's plan.
After all, if a movie can achieve the same visual effects as "Avatar", with a simple but clear story, it will be impressive.
Then there will definitely be no problem for such a movie to be successful.
The only difference is whether this success can satisfy the producers.
Nanaya didn't think he could interfere in other people's affairs, even if he was a time traveler.
In the box office battle between "Madoka Magica" and "Avatar".
Nanaya and Washimine Entertainment may be able to manipulate public opinion, but Nanaya is powerless to change the film production results of "Avatar" itself.
He is not like some journalists who are unscrupulous and do things without any bottom line to attack their opponents.
Anyway, based on the current box office data feedback, Nanaya is full of confidence in his own "Madoka Magica".
It doesn't matter if Nanaya personally doesn't care, but it's impossible for the publicity and promotion department of Washimine Entertainment not to care.
Similarly, after watching Madoka Magica gain popularity for a month and a half, Fox and News Corporation, which have been gearing up for a while, cannot help but care.
So, with the release of "Avatar", the debate over which one is better, Madoka Magica or not, began to escalate.
In fact, these audiences who support "Avatar" or "Titanic" do not dislike "Madoka Magica".
But in their minds, Cameron is an unsurpassed existence.
It's like those fans who think The Godfather is the greatest movie in the world.
It's not that they can't appreciate the goodness of other movies, but in their minds, "The Godfather" is the best.
No movie can top The Godfather.
This is also why on IMDB, as long as there is a movie with a higher score than "The Godfather", fans of "The Godfather" will use the method of inflating the score to suppress it.
In their view, this is the glory that belongs exclusively to "The Godfather".
The same principle applies to Madoka Magica.
In the minds of Cameron's fans, the position of No. 1 in film history belongs to their idol.
The only person who can surpass the first record in film history is Cameron, no one else.
These fan audiences are generally older and less able to accept new things.
They've gotten used to the fact that Cameron is number one at the box office.
To them it is as much a part of the truth as the earth revolving around the sun.
So when the success of "Madoka Magica" exploded, these people began to find ways to discredit "Madoka Magica" and support "Avatar" in various ways.
But there are also many fans of "Madoka Magica".
These fans are generally young, and they don't have much impression of the grand occasion when"Titanic"swept everything.
Therefore, in their opinion, "Titanic" is indeed a great movie, and Cameron is an admirable director.
But the movie era of the 21st century belongs to the old thief Nanaya Kiryu!
Madoka Magica is the best in the world!
If you don't agree, come and argue!
People tend to indulge themselves more easily on the Internet, and when it comes to taking sides, everyone will always make their position very clear.
As a result, Cameron's fans and Nanaya's fans started to fight on the Internet.
Of course, the shadows of Washimine Entertainment and Fox are naturally indispensable behind this war of words.
Well, or maybe it would be more appropriate to say that it is fanning the flames.
However, both Washimine and Fox were very restrained in guiding public opinion.
After all, the ultimate goal of both parties is to make money.
The Christmas season is not the summer season, and it is not a continuous period with sufficient moviegoers.
Therefore, even though the "Madoka Magica" faction and the "Avatar" faction quarreled very fiercely, they were both confined within a certain range.
The quarrel between the two sides did not end up at the level of a verbal fight.
The quarrel between the two sides was more to create topics and attract audiences to go to the cinema to watch movies.
Rather than when they attack each other, resulting in loss of customers.
However, as a new movie, "Avatar" still has more advantages than "Madoka Magica" during the Christmas period.
Although I don't want to admit it, Madoka Magica is an old movie that has been released for six weeks.
No matter how much the audience likes "Madoka Magica", they will at least be interested in "Avatar".
Especially those viewers who love 3D special effects, after getting tired of the visual effects of "Madoka Magica", they don't mind watching "Avatar" again to try it out.
Although the North American market has matured, simple visual effects are no longer the only factor that attracts audiences to watch movies.
However, in the field of 3D, there are still large market gaps in North America.
Nanaya himself knows this best.
In the previous life, after "Avatar", the global market has been in a state of 3D famine.
This allowed many movies that were later converted to 3D to take advantage of the situation, using 3D as a gimmick to be released and earn a lot of box office revenue.
The most obvious example is Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
This movie, which is not an outstanding movie in any way, grossed $1 billion worldwide simply because of its 3D subtitles.
Of course, due to the existence of a number of crudely made pseudo-3D movies such as "Alice in Wonderland", the reputation of 3D was not very good in the first one or two years of 3D movies.
Many viewers even shouted the slogan "No 3D, 2D".
Of course, this kind of talk is just for fun.
Neither the producers nor the theaters will choose to go back to the 2D era.
Because the difference in ticket profits between the two is too great.
Nanaya once heard a very interesting statement that there are 2D and 3D versions abroad, but there is only 3D version in China.
This is a forced act on consumers...blah blah.
I used to think it made sense, but after actually understanding the North American market in this life.
Nanaya finally realized that it was not North America that gave audiences the choice between 2D and 3D.
Instead, there are some old theaters in North America that have been in operation for decades, and their equipment is so old that they can only play 2D movies.
Or there may be some private screening rooms where the owners are too stingy to upgrade the screening equipment.
After all, for cinema practitioners, everything else is virtual, and the profit from movie tickets is real.
3D movies bring much higher profits than 2D movies, so everyone will choose this version.
Who would complain about having more money?
Otherwise, why would cinemas upgrade their 3D playback equipment with such fanfare?
Is it just to show "The SpongeBob Movie"?
In terms of profit, most theaters will give priority to showing 3D movies.
However, Nanaya believes that Alice in Wonderland will not have such good luck in this life.
After all, the global 3D market this time will not be as barren as it was in his previous life.
In addition to the two 3D masterpieces "Madoka Magica" and "Avatar", "The Avengers" to be released by Washimine Entertainment next year will also have a 3D version.
Although the core of the special effects technology of "Avengers" is not 3D effects.
However, since "Avengers" has included the 3D version in its production scope from the very beginning, its 3D effect will definitely be much better than that of "Alice in Wonderland".
When film companies found that they could not make money by temporarily converting to 3D in post-production, they had no choice but to take 3D format movies seriously.
For example, you can ask a good special effects studio for help to make the post-production 3D production more perfect.
Or you could learn from Madoka Magica and Avatar and start shooting in 3D from the very beginning.
No matter which one it is, Nanaya and Washimine can make a fortune.
The reason is simple. Currently, a large number of patents related to 3D movies are in the hands of Weta Workshop, Cameron and Washimine.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces.
Nanaya has always believed in this sentence.
Three days later, the North American box office results for the new week were released.
After six consecutive championships, "Madoka Magica" finally gave up its box office champion throne.
Its successor is unsurprisingly the Christmas blockbuster "Avatar".
It's just a pity for Fox that although the performance of "Avatar" is very dazzling for an original movie.
But the first weekend's performance of $91 million still made them a little disappointed.
Because the first weekend performance of "Madoka Magica" was 94 million US dollars.
Although the gap of 3 million US dollars is small, it is so annoying in the eyes of Murdoch Jr. and other Fox executives.
But no matter how many times they counted the data, there was still a gap in the first weekend results between the two sides.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Jim tried to dissuade Murdoch, "After all, they have a much larger budget for publicity and promotion than we do."
Because Washimine only spent money on the promotion of "Madoka Magica", and Washimine had abundant cash flow.
The scale of publicity and promotion of "Madoka Magica" is much higher than that of "Avatar".
In fact, everyone knows that it is precisely because of the vigorous promotion of "Madoka Magica" that "Avatar" has opened up the market much faster than originally expected.
But because of this, Murdoch Jr. became even angrier.
How could he accept such a thing considering Cheng Washimine's kindness?
Little Murdoch slammed the table hard. "Damn it! Washimine Shion, Kiryu Nanaya, you damned couple!"
Jim lowered his head and remained silent, as if he didn't hear the words at all.
As for Nanaya, who was cursed by Little Murdoch, he didn't know about this.
Perhaps because little Murdoch's curse ability was too low, Nanaya didn't even sneeze.
At this time, Nanaya, after finishing his intensive promotion in North America, boarded his Washimine business jet.
This week, he will travel across the Pacific Ocean to China to host the premiere of "Madoka Magica" there.