Chapter 1001 1001 Battle of the Focus
The competitive drama of "Night Visit to Vampire" and "Pulp Novels" became the focus of November. This show is popular, with a burst of points, and a focus on the show of attention. Almost all media reports have attracted the controversy of all media, especially the confrontation between Hugo and Tom, the two most popular actors today. Hugo and Brad have been unresolving their grudges since two years ago, and Tom and Brad's tense battle in the same work has caused the showdown to ignite all topics.
Under such circumstances, Disney's family-friendly work "Santa Claus" seems a little lonely.
In fact, "Santa Claus" is very popular among family audiences when there are two weeks left before Thanksgiving and more than a month left before Christmas. This work, which only invested 22 million US dollars, was released in 2200 theaters, but it did not disappoint Disney's earnest expectations and won a box office of 19 million US dollars.
The premiere of 19 million US dollars, in November, was definitely an excellent result, and it was a result of the pressure of more than 36 million yuan in the premiere of "Night Visit to Vampire", which is even more rare.
But no matter how Disney hypes or promotes it, it is impossible to remove the media's focus from "night visits to vampires" and "pulp novels". There is no way, this is the energy of the explosive point, this is the energy of popularity.
In the second week of November, the North American movie weekend box office rankings were really interesting. "Night Visit Vampire" and "Santa Claus" both topped the top with super high standards, ranking first and second place. "Pulp Novel" once again with a decline against the sky and stayed at the third place. "Cosmic Strike" ranked fourth with a good reputation, and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" ranked fifth.
However, under such circumstances, no one discussed the box office of "Santa Claus" of 20 million, no one discussed the outstanding performance of the third week of the release of "Cosmic Shock", and no one discussed the terrible decline of "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" of 66%.
All eyes are focused on "Night Visits to Vampires" and "Pulp Novels", which is really a rare sight.
It seems that major production companies still think that the records set in the fall of 1994 were not enough, and the competition dramas were even more exciting in the next month, and also pushed the struggle between Tom, Brad and Hugo to **.
In the third week of November, "Star Travel 7: Star.trek: Generations" came strongly. This work relied on strong fans to grab a weekend box office of 23 million US dollars in the first week and won the box office championship this week.
The box office of "Night Visit Vampire" fell by 52% the next week, and the box office fell to 17.4 million on the weekend. This performance is far from the decline of only 9% of "Pu Li Novels" during the same period. Of course, "Night Visit Vampire" has also had a higher box office. But it is undeniable that the disadvantages of the media comprehensive reviews are gradually reflected, and all signs show that the long-term box office performance "Night Visit Vampire" will probably lose to "Pu Li Novels".
"Santa Claus" once again continued his fate of running with him. This week's box office fell by only 11% and received $17.2 million, only 200,000 behind the "night visit to vampires" and could only occupy the third place. This not only makes people regretful, but also lost the initiative in terms of topic and was stolen from the limelight.
Objectively speaking, the box office performance of "Santa Claus" accumulated 40 million US dollars in two weeks is amazing compared to its cost of 22 million US dollars, but unfortunately, she was born at the wrong time and never could steal the focus.
"Pulp Novel" this week achieved a weekend box office of $6.6 million with a 20% drop in the week, ranking first. Since its release, the box office decline of "Pulp Novel" has always been within an amazing range, which also makes this work with a low start and a premiere of $16.8 million, and is qualified to hit the threshold of 100 million box office. This is really a myth of an independent film.
The focus of this week is still "night visit to vampires". The huge decline made the final accumulation of box office of this work immediately shrink. People were originally speculating whether this work had hope of hitting $200 million, but the expected target suddenly dropped to $150 million. Relatively speaking, "Pulp Novel" once again delivered an astonishing decline. The possibility of box office exceeding $100 million has exceeded $95%. People are waiting for the arrival of historical moments.
On the fourth week of November, Thanksgiving is approaching, and the box office of movies during holidays has increased to varying degrees. "Santa Claus" targeting the family market has finally ushered in a good opportunity to rise!
"Santa"'s box office increased by 19% this week, winning a box office of 204 million US dollars. This result even exceeded its premiere box office and delivered a perfect counterattack answer, which really made Disney smile.
Logically speaking, "Santa Claus" always takes away the focus. This result made the film make it counterattack in the third week after two weeks of its release, and won the title of North American movie box office weekend championship! But what is surprising is that the focus is still not on "Santa Claus", because this week's "pulp novels" created history: the box office successfully exceeded 100 million!
"Pulp Novel" is not a family movie, but its strong reputation and praise from critics and audiences made the work attract a large number of holiday audiences, which made the movie's box office counterattack by 20%, making it the movie with the highest box office increase this week, and won a weekend box office of $7.9 million, which also brought the movie's box office to a 100 million threshold.
The so-called "bringing over" is a literal meaning, because the cumulative box office of "Pulp Novel" seven weeks after its release was US$1.09 million, just passing the threshold of 100 million.
In an instant, all the focus, all the glory and attention were snatched away by "pulp novels". It has to be said that "Santa Claus" is very sad, even more sad than the front competitor "night visit to vampires".
As the box office of "pulp novels" exceeded the 100 million threshold, a series of records were born. This work became the first independent film in film history to have a box office of over 100 million yuan. With this record, the entire North American film market was sensation. Maybe it was just a flash of inspiration, maybe it was just a special phenomenon, but in Hollywood, any coincidence will become a breakthrough point for major companies to seek benefits. Independent films have received great attention from major film companies almost overnight.
Not only have top production companies begun to pay attention to the operation and planning of their independent brands, major brokerage companies have also begun to pay attention to the potential value of this field, which will directly give rise to the strong rise of joint elite brokerage companies in the future.
This can almost be said to be a record of adapting the film territory!
At the same time, "Pulp Novels" also created another legendary record. Hugo became the first actor in American film history to have a box office of over 100 million yuan! From "Yihai Xiongfeng" to "Pulp Novels", Hugo's five consecutive movies have exceeded the threshold of 100 million yuan in box office, including two or 200 million yuan, which is enough to make Hugo a veritable box office superstar.
Before this, no actor had ever made such achievements. Whether it was the once powerful Malone Brando, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson, or Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger who had risen strongly after the second half of the 1980s, action stars Sylvester Stallone, Shangrgo Yundon, etc., they were unable to set such a record!
Being able to become the leading actor of a $100 million box office movie is a huge success; being able to cross the $100 million threshold for two consecutive works is a brilliant achievement; being able to achieve such a thing three times in a row is enough to be proud of the whole United States.
Now, Hugo has achieved five consecutive movies with a box office of over 100 million, directly laying the foundation for him to be the number one player in the United States. At this time, there is no actor who can compete with Hugo in Hollywood. This box office achievement is enough to make him at the top of the pyramid.
It can be said that "pulp novels" not only created a history, but also broke the Hollywood pattern. All of this happened in such an independent film with an investment of 8 million US dollars, which is even more mythical!
Therefore, in the fourth week of November, everyone became witnesses to the creation of history of "Pu Novels". No work can be compared with "Pu Novels" in terms of topic, and even "night visits to vampires" cannot.
"Star Travel 7: Star Ark" box office this week was 13 million, down 42%, "Night Visit Vampire" box office this week was 11.7 million, down 32%. There is also the newly released work "Junior", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, with an investment of 60 million but only contributed $9.8 million.
In addition to the "Santa Claus" who counterattacked and won the championship, "Pulp Novels" can only rank fifth in the box office rankings of this week's weekend movies, but no one can steal the style of this work.
It is worth mentioning that the decline of "Night Visit Vampire" once again exceeded 30%, and it created such a decline in the case of the box office increase of competitors. It became even more terrifying. What is even more incredible is that the box office numbers of the movie during the same period have gradually remained the same as "Pulp Novels", with little advantage in the premiere box office, and the subsequent box office is even more worrying; and the "little guy" joins the battle, which makes Arnold, Tom and Hugo, the three box office superstars collide head-on. Unfortunately, Arnold fired a squib, and handed over a failed 9.8 million yuan for 60 million yuan, which is very disappointing.
In this focus battle that is destined to be impossible to win, "Santa Claus" became a victim, and has achieved successes repeatedly but has never been able to go further; "Night Visit Vampire" loses energy step by step in the witness of everyone, and is powerless after successors; "Pulp novels" create history in the cheers of millions of viewers!
Chapter completed!