"As the first film in the Merlin series, this movie is expected to gross at least 1 billion RMB in Guanghua Kingdom, and if things go well, it could break 2 billion RMB."
Hollywood blockbusters haven't fared well in China in recent years, and neither has the Harry Potter series.
The original Dumbledore barely grossed over 100 million RMB, and the later sequel, The Mystery of Dumbledore, only managed to barely break 200 million RMB in the Chinese market by riding on the magic craze.
It's worth noting that even the re-release of the first Harry Potter film, The Philosopher's Stone, grossed over 100 million yuan in China.
The later installments of the Fantastic Beasts series completely ruined the reputation of the Harry Potter series.
Li Miaomiao continued, "It's been a long time since a Hollywood movie has been this strong."
After watching it, Zheng Li began to strategize how he could put on another large-scale magic reality show.
Given the strength of the magicians on Earth, they wouldn't last a single move against him before they were going to meet their maker.
Most of them are elderly people in their seventies or eighties, and their magical abilities are limited to fire spells.
The only way is to direct and act in it yourself, playing the villain and fighting against yourself.
The question is how to get the Earthlings to discover this, so that they feel a sense of urgency.
And they need to believe that the villain is real, not just an actor playing a role.
While making plans in his mind, Zheng Li replied:
"It's amazing, but real-world magic can't achieve this level of magic."
Li Miaomiao asked, "Is it because we are now in the Dharma-ending Age?"
“I saw them discussing on Weibo that the reason there are so few magicians now is because we are now in the end times of magic.”
"Compared to ancient mages, modern magicians, with the same magical power, can only cast spells with less than one percent of the power they used to have."
Zheng Li replied, "I don't know the specific reason."
"Magic has only existed on Earth for a very short time, and it's highly likely that magic didn't exist in ancient times."
"Whether in China or abroad, most of the myths and strange tales told by the ancients were just their fantasies."
"As for Merlin's true identity, it remains undetermined."
"But as far as magic is concerned, it's not because of the end times, but because our understanding of magic is still very superficial."
"Movies don't need logic, but even magic in reality needs to respect logic."
Zheng Li's words were half true and half false, and there were security personnel around. He was certain that what he said would be relayed to some people.
Zheng Li dared to say this because Academician Zhao told him about the chaos that has occurred since the emergence of magic, both among the public and relevant institutions, in their efforts to excavate the history of ancient magic.
Academician Zhao once clearly stated that, based on existing evidence, it is almost impossible for magicians to have existed in ancient times.
It's not surprising that there are even experts who create portraits of him.
Li Miaomiao asked curiously, "How did you deduce that there was no magic in ancient times?"
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