The performance of comedy movies in the summer season has always had an excellent traditional history. Last year's "Man in Black", "Elf in 1995", "Disguise Weird" in 1994, etc. Especially after entering the 1990s, exaggerated comedy represented by Jin Carrey became the mainstream, and with the outstanding momentum of a number of works, it is the best proof that it has become a member of the "20 million club" although only one work has received such a pay.

However, it is very difficult for comedy movies to make the audience laugh due to the limitations of the subject matter. In addition, the cost limitations, the publicity methods and the audience base are limited, so there is not much room for comedy movies in the summer season.

Although the "Men in Black" who created excellent box office results last year is a comedy, it is more of a science fiction comedy, which is still a difference; and the "Disguise Weir" who received countless praises four years ago only won a weekend box office championship. More often, comedy movies are still active in the holiday season. Thanksgiving and Christmas atmosphere allow works such as "The Little Imperials", "Ah Dai and Agua", "The Slim Dad", and "The Short" to have innate advantages and can often create better box office results.

The disadvantages of comedy movies are also advantages: they are cheap, but their audiences are far more wide than those of horror movies. This makes comedy movies the best carrier for small profits. Universal Pictures started out with comedy movies, and often invested 10 million or 20 million in North America box offices. The videotape market was even more popular, allowing Universal Pictures to occupy a place in the eight major Hollywood production companies.

As a comedy movie, the cost of "Trumen's World" is already a high investment and production, but considering the joining of Hugo, Nicole Kidman, Alexander Lorraine and others, all this is acceptable. However, what kind of box office results this work can create is a huge question mark.

People have enough confidence in Hugo and undoubtedly believe that "Trueman's World" can achieve box office success. However, in the current hot topic of "Supernatural Sixth Sense", many media have also put forward the view that comedy movies are Hugo's first attempt "Sleeping in Seattle at Night", and the upcoming "Supernatural Sixth Sense" is also Hugo's first attempt as a horror movie. No one knows what kind of sparks will be created by horror movies and comedy movies, but at least now we can see some tricks from the box office performance of "Trueman's World", that is, how can people accept Hugo's other images?

This refers not to the character image, but the style image. Simply put, the audience has the most adaptable image to every actor. Tom Hanks's family manly taste, Tom Cruise's creamy temperament has turned into a macho man after "Mission Impossible", Brad Pitt's sexuality, Jim Carrey's exaggerated and funny style, Leonardo DiCaprio's exquisite and beautiful boy appearance has also become the biggest cage that shackles his acting career, and so on.

Before this, Hugo has appeared in many movies, with varying roles, but overall, Hugo's complex temperament that wanders between men and boys has become the deepest impression on people. Even though Hugo starred in "Friends" and won an Emmy Award for this, Hugo and Funny still have no way to directly connect humor and funny. Hugo has a humorous style but does not have the ability to have funny skills; similarly, Hugo and horror movie temperament are not considered horror movies that are suitable for plasma types.

Now, "Trumen's World" can become a touchstone. Let's see how Hugo performs in comedy movies and how wide the audience's ability to accept Hugo is. This will not have much impact on Hugo's future career. Even if both works "Trumen's World" and "Supernatural Sixth Sense" fail, with Hugo's current status, he only needs to return to the plot movies to succeed again, so this is not the focus of media discussion; what the Uncrowned Kings are discussing is that whether comedy movies and horror movies can succeed determines the width and breadth of Hugo's future career, which is the limit range of the top superstar Hugo.

So, how should this success be defined as the "Trumen's World" be able to achieve box office success?

Judging from the horizontal comparison of the same type of movies, the box office of "Men in Black" last year was 51 million, while the box office of "The Disguised Strange" was 23 million, the premiere of "A Dai and Agua" earned 16 million on the weekend, and the "Slim Dad" won 20 million on the first weekend.

From this set of data, it can be seen that it is difficult for comedy movies to burst out with disaster movies, action movies, and science fiction movies. The box office data fluctuating up to 20 million is already a huge success. The "Man in Black" is mainly known as science fiction movies. Comedy movies rely more on the spread of word of mouth, and have a strong long-term cap selling ability, and can even be compared with family-friendly animated movies. This is also an important reason why comedy movies are difficult to make a name for themselves. Only works that have outstanding reputation and please the audience can stand out in the long-term competition.

Since the summer season entered this year, although the two movies "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" have not been able to show the box office momentum of "Independence Day" and "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", the box office of both works is very good. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" has a box office of 41 million yuan and has won the championship for two consecutive weeks; "Godzilla" has a box office of 44 million yuan, which is also a two-week championship.

It can be seen that the box office of these two disaster blockbusters was at 40 million, and compared with the investment level, this result did not really meet everyone's expectations. Especially "Godzilla", Roland Emmerich's work released again after "Independence Day" once again demonstrated his demeanor of a disaster master, but it was met with a double cold reception from reputation and audiences.

The media review score was only 32 points, and the theater score was only "c". The most important thing is that the box office was not able to show strong momentum. The box office on the premiere weekend was only at the same level as the $36 million revenue on July 4th. This performance was really disappointing.

Many media have begun to criticize Roland, causing the reputation of "Godzilla" to slide further into the abyss. This is also the situation expected before the movie was released. After "Independence Day" created an insurmountable peak, people will inevitably expect more of "Godzilla". Once the reality is lower than expected, the surging disappointment will cause large fluctuations in the feedback information.

To make matters worse, after "Godzilla" barely holds the championship throne for two consecutive weeks, he is about to face the impact of "Trumen's World", which is not good news for Roland.

Compared with the box office results of comedy movies in previous years, and compared with the box office energy of this summer, and referring to Hugo's strong box office attraction to the audience, major media have given relatively close data in terms of premiere box office predictions.

The Los Angeles Times believes that the movie's premiere box office can reach 31 million US dollars, and media that support this view include the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, etc.; while the New York Post believes that the premiere data should fluctuate around 25 million, and media that are close to this data include the San Francisco Chronicle, the United States Today, etc.

The highest prediction is the Seattle Times, where they say the Truman World has the ability to win a box office of 33 million US dollars, while the lowest prediction is the Daily News, with the 22 million US dollars premiere box office being their speculation results.

From the media's speculation data, we can see that even if there is a controversy about the "supernatural sixth sense", people still give full recognition to Hugo's box office ability. What's more, this comedy movie is a collaboration between Hugo and "teacher" Peter Will after ten years, which makes people look forward to it.

Although the predictions of the Uncrowned Kings are quite different, they actually set new highs for comedy movies. The highest historical record for the premiere of comedy movies is $51 million for "Man in Black", followed by $26 million for "Real Lies" and $25 million for "Fatty Professor".

Although "Man in Black" and "Real Lies" are both summarized into the category of comedy movies, it is well known that the success of these two works is not due to the "comedy" part. Therefore, the premiere box office record of a truly pure comedy movie is the 25 million US dollars of "Professor".

In other words, everyone is optimistic that Hugo will break the record again and create a premiere of comedy movies. Even under a series of unfavorable situations, people still expressed this view, which shows that the current confidence in Hugo in North America is in the North American market. However, the media's predictions are relatively conservative, and the overall gap is not big. Everyone's views are almost consistent, which also shows the media's current reservation attitude towards "comedy movies".

Even Paramount Pictures' attitude is no exception, and they released their internal premiere box office expectations: $30 million.

This data is fair, but it is also Paramount's expectation for "Trumen's World". In other words, as long as the premiere box office reaches this data, Paramount will breathe a sigh of relief. The forecast of $30 million is basically consistent with the overall media trend, and it can also show the relatively unified attitude of the entire North American market at present.

However, predictions are just predictions, and the real results still need to be known after the movie is released. On June 1, 1998, it was a Monday. "Trump World" made a brilliant debut in Los Angeles China Theater held a grand premiere to promote the upcoming U.S. release this Friday.
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