The last week of the 20th century came to an end in a mighty and vigorous manner. The thousand-year insect crisis that people are worried about did not bring about the end of the world. The sunshine of the 21st century still fell on the earth safely. The calendar turned from 1999 to 2 years, and the world seemed to have become different, but it seemed that everything had not changed at all. The passage of time slowly settled down, and only the restlessness in the air still savored the extraordinary moment.

The North American weekend box office rankings in the last week of the 20th century also released the millennium fanaticism. The entire box office market rose 53 percentage points, making the film market in 1999 wild at the last moment. All the works in the top ten on the list showed a green increase, making major film companies deeply feel the madness of the arrival of the new century.

Among them, "Beautiful Mind" once again created an incredible miracle. With the data of 12,000 US dollars in a single-store box office, it wrote a myth for the third consecutive week. It swept the box office of 21.6 million US dollars in three days on the weekend, with an increase of 20%. Although this is not the work with the highest increase this week, it is enough to make "Beautiful Mind" burst into a box office of 20 million. It achieved such an amazing result in the third week of release, and walked out of the development curve of the sky-defying level, completely igniting the last weekend of the 20th century.

Faced with the strong performance of "Beautiful Mind", "Elf Mouse" delivered a weekend box office of 16 million US dollars with a box office increase of 36% and followed closely behind; "Toy Story 2" released for seven weeks became the biggest winner of this year's holiday season, with box office up 20 percentage points this week, occupying the third place with $12.4 million, and the cumulative box office officially exceeded the 200 million threshold!

"Beautiful Mind" became the North American weekend box office champion in the last week of the 20th century. The performance was beyond everyone's expectations, showing the destructive formation of a commercial film, which was completely different from "Death-infernal Walk". It even burst out with box office driving force comparable to "Schindler's List", which made the three giants of DreamWorks stunned.

Compared with the terrifying box office performance of "Beautiful Mind", the box office of works such as "genius Ripley" and "Man on the Moon" was disappointing. The former was only ranked in the palace this week, and even lagged behind the box office counterattack "Toy Story 2"; the latter actually fell by 28 percentage points in the overall market, and the cumulative box office of the two weeks of release was only 24 million. The investment of 82 million is obviously going to lose all its money, which made Universal Pictures cry without tears.

The box office performance of "genius Ripley" is not only far lower than expected, but most importantly, although the critics and audiences have good reputations, they always lack a little enthusiasm. The fanatical pursuit in their imagination has not appeared. This is not good news. Miramax Films suddenly became anxious. The figure of the Weinstein brothers can be seen in every corner of Hollywood. Internal screenings, small movie parties, screenwriters' cocktail parties, actor parties... At the moment of the century, these two brothers are busier than anyone else.

In sharp contrast, from preview to limited screenings, to full release, every step is creating history, showing the box office potential that shocks everyone. With the power of high-energy box office driving force for three consecutive weeks, the cumulative box office has reached 50 million US dollars in one go, which obviously brought surprises again.

Originally, people criticized the investment cost of this work as high as 60 million US dollars, which is almost equivalent to 120 million commercial action movies for a biographical movie, making people deeply worried about the profitability of DreamWorks. But now, everyone obediently shut their mouths and obviously, the box office results of "Hugo" never need them to worry about.

With the strong rise of "Beautiful Mind" and the recovery of the "genius Ripley", a remark began to circulate in Hollywood: "Beautiful Mind" is indeed an excellent work, but is it really outstanding enough to rival "Forrest Gump"? Hugo Lancaster has swept the entire North American continent. Should we really continue to watch him dominate?

Behind Hugo's four little golden men, no one should forget that he is not yet 33 years old this year. What does this mean? This means that Hugo's artistic life will have at least ten years or twenty years. He will show incredible dominance in the entire Hollywood, becoming a cancer in Hollywood, restricting the development of other actors. Even many outstanding actors cannot get corresponding recognition, let alone new actors?

For example, last year Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Kevin Spacey, Leonardo DiCaprio... These actors have contributed wonderful performances in the past few years, but they have not been recognized by the Oscar Little Golden Man. There is only one reason: Hugo stands in front of them like a mountain.

It is hard to imagine whether the newcomers will have a chance to make a comeback if this continues.

The name of "Hollywood Cancer" spreads wildly in the circle, especially with the box office results of "Beautiful Heart" becoming more and more courageous, and this kind of remark becomes more and more popular. Even "Saturday Night Live" joked about Hugo in the live broadcast of the program.

However, the box office momentum of "Beautiful Mind" has no way to stop, especially the competition in the holiday season has always been weak. After January, it has arrived at the winter season where all film companies have rested and adjusted. The popularity of the entire film market is falling, which has made the "Beautiful Mind" stand out more and more.

In the first week of two years, "Beautiful Mind" further expanded its screenings, increasing its theaters to 2,200, and finally handed over only 8% of the decline. It won a weekend box office of 20 million for the second consecutive week, and ranked in the North American weekend box office rankings with 2,200 US dollars without any suspense, opening up the prosperity of the 21st century film market with a proud attitude.

This week, only three movies were previewed in small quantities. In the competition for the weekend box office rankings, all of them were old faces, "Elf Mouse", "Green Ripley", "Genius Ripley" and "Challenge Sunday" respectively ranked second to fifth on the list. Unfortunately, even the runner-up "Elf Mouse" only has a weekend box office ability of 11 million, and no one can shake the dominance of the "Beautiful Mind".

It is worth mentioning that "genius Ripley" finally stopped the downward momentum. While the cumulative box office crossed the cost line, it finally began to recover amid the hard shouts of the Weinstein brothers.

The winter season will last until February, and the entire market will appear calm.

The next week, the comedy movie "Next Friday (.f-Day)" held a grand premiere. This small-cost movie with only investment of 11 million yuan burst out with amazing energy, winning 14 million yuan in premiere box office, making the whole of North America cheer.

Unfortunately, this result did not shake the championship momentum of "Beautiful Mind". It delivered a weekend box office of 17.2 million yuan with a drop of 22%, achieving three consecutive championships, which has completely lost people's language ability. First, the "Supernatural Sixth Sense" achieved seven consecutive championships in the summer, and then the "Beautiful Mind" achieved three consecutive championships during the New Year's Eve. Moreover, these two works are subjects with relatively weak box office driving force. People have no other ideas except to lament Hugo's box office appeal.

In the third week of January, the low-cost romantic comedy movie "Down.to.Teat" landed in North America, but unfortunately the performance was not satisfactory. The box office of $7.6 million was only ranked third. Although the box office plummeted by 44% on "Next Friday", it still continued to occupy the runner-up with a score of $8 million.

Without competitors, "Beautiful Mind" completed four consecutive championships without any suspense. Only two percent of the box office decline shows that the entire market is currently dominated by "Beautiful Mind", and no work can shake its leading position.

After the glory of four consecutive championships, the cumulative box office of "Beautiful Mind" officially exceeded the threshold of 100 million US dollars. To be more precise, on Monday of the third week of January, the box office of the movie had reached such a high. Coupled with the 17 million box office performance on the weekend, "Beautiful Mind" accumulated 124 million US dollars five weeks after its release!

Although the momentum is far less than that of the "Supernatural Sixth Sense" or "Trueman's World", the overall development curve is close to "Los Angeles City Secret", showing the huge potential of the box office in North America exceeding 200 million.

As a biographical film, the attention of "Beautiful Mind" has far exceeded imagination. Although people have mixed praises and criticized Hugo's adaptation, some people believe that Hugo distorted reality and re-written a fairy tale, which has far no practical significance and has misinterpreted the meaning of the biographical; but some people believe that Hugo has artistically treated reality, and the story he created focuses on the theme, which is more humanistic and caring, showing the wisdom and keenness of a screenwriter.

But it is undeniable that with the advancement of the release time of the movie, more and more patients with mental illness and their families have boldly entered the cinema to appreciate this work. At the same time, more and more people have realized that there are such suffering people around them, and even psychological risks they have, which has caused social culture to change little by little invisibly.

The "beautiful soul" who sets out in a low-key manner has shown the box office potential of a commercial movie with a counterattack attitude. It even hopes to hit the box office of 200 million US dollars, while also relying on its own power to influence society.c
Chapter completed!