The dawn of the 21st century has shrouded over the earth. Every year has finally officially entered the "2" from the word "1". As the last year of the 20th century, 1999 was the last year of the 20th century, and the tides were rising. Although the miracles of 1996 and 1997 did not erupt, and the blooming of flowers in 1998 did not show the overall box office of 1999, the overall box office of 1999 still rose by one percentage point. "Hugo Lancaster" is no longer the only highlight of the movie box office market throughout the year.

After Hugo won the North American annual championship twice in the past three years, the emergence of this year's "Star Wars Prequel" has broken this situation, not only triggered a movie viewing frenzy, but also reawakened people's memories and obsession with Star Wars, allowing this series that changed American cultural history to enter the sight of the new generation again.

"Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat" became the fourth film history work in North America with a box office of over 400 million yuan, winning the annual box office championship in 1999 with a box office of 430 million yuan, which is enough to make 1999 a year comparable to 1996 and 1997.

The "Supernatural Sixth Sense" delivered a box office of 380 million US dollars in a dark horse manner, ranking second in the annual North American box office list. This is indeed a situation that no one could have expected at the beginning of 1999; the third-placed work was the "beautiful soul" that showed its might at the end of the year. Although this work failed to reach the threshold of 300 million US dollars, the result of 280 million US dollars still shines in 1999.

Although Hugo missed the annual championship, "Supernatural Sixth Sense" and "Beautiful Mind" ranked second and third place respectively. The combined box office of the two works reached 660 million, achieving another personal breakthrough for Hugo. This is the highest annual box office for actors so far. An actor created a box office of 660 million in one year. This was completely unimaginable before. Even if "Titanic" created a box office of 600 million US dollars, it is still the case. But now, Hugo has become the first person in film history again.

It can be said that Hugo once again became a crucial part of the glory of 1999.

After these three works, "Toy Story 2", "Ace Spy 2", "The Matrix", "Tarzan of the Ape", "Dad forward (forcing g.daddy), "Mummy", and "Running Bride" occupy the third to tenth place respectively.

A total of five works have a box office of over 200 million yuan throughout the year, and twenty-two works have a box office of over 100 million yuan. Among them, the most shocking performance was not Hugo, but "Witch Blair", who ranked 11th in the year-end box office rankings. This work, which cost only 35,000 US dollars, eventually swept 145 million US dollars in the North American market, and without any suspense, became the most profitable work in film history, truly making fairy tales a reality.

In addition, the emergence of the "Matrix" has also opened a new era of science fiction movies. This work with a whim has reawakened people's curiosity and interest in science fiction with its ingenious ideas. More importantly, the innovative shooting skills and new ideas of the film have had a crucial impact on the entire Hollywood industry. In addition to the box office of 171 million US dollars that created a new box office record for "r-rated" movies, many insiders have called this work "a work that is "competent to "Star Wars"."

From the restart of the "Star Wars" series to the opening of the "Matrix" series, science fiction movies ushered in the second peak since the 1980s in 1999 of the Millennium Worm Crisis. This is also the first significant feature of the blockbuster era. There is no doubt that the impact of computer special effects on science fiction movies has been affected by science fiction movies. After disaster movies, science fiction movies have become an important part of the new era movies.

On this North American box office list, Disney became the biggest winner, "Supernatural Sixth Sense", "Toy Story 2" and "Tarzan of the Apes" were all produced and distributed by them. However, the eyes of industry insiders did not focus on Disney, but quietly noticed the rise of the elite brokerage company in Fenjin.

Of course, there is no need to say more about Hugo. "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural Sense" and "Beautiful Mind" are completely produced by the Enjin Elite Brokerage Company. In addition, Keanu Reeves of the "Matrix" and Adam Sandler who "dad rushed forward" are also customers from Enjin Elite Brokerage Company. In addition, "Green Ridge", "Storm Men", "American Pie", "Ghost Invasion" and other works that have entered the top 20 box office list are also works by Enjin Elite Brokerage Company customers.

Not only Hugo and Tom Hanks, other clients of Fenjin Elite Brokerage Company have also experienced a full-scale explosion, which has substantially improved the company's overall strength. In addition, the adaptation rights of the "Harry Potter" series were won by Warner Brokers, which makes Fenjin Elite Brokerage Company indeed have the capital to break the "three major" rule.

Compared with the North American box office market, the pattern of the global box office market has not changed much. However, there is an interesting data comparison. Among the top ten global box offices at the end of the year, only three works have higher box offices than overseas markets. In other words, after the full outbreak of the North American market in 1996 and 1997, the overseas market also ushered in a period of rapid growth in 1999, and the importance of overseas box office to Hollywood is increasing step by step.

"Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Threat" undoubtedly occupies the annual championship position. Unfortunately, the global box office of the movie ended up at 983 million US dollars, and it was not able to break the billion threshold and create history again. This is undoubtedly a huge regret.

The "Supernatural Sixth Sense" followed closely, with a box office data of US$890 million enough to make him stand above ten thousand people; "Beautiful Mind" still ranks third in the overseas box office performance without further breakthrough, and narrowly defeated "Toy Story 2" with a slight gap of US$5 million, which also made the latter regretfully slip into the position of the palace army.

The top four rankings have maintained a high degree of consistency between the North American box office and the global box office, but some changes have occurred at the beginning of the fifth place.

"The Matrix", "Tarzan of the Ape", "Mummy", "Notting Hill", "The Black Sun Crisis of 007 (the.world.is.not.enough), and "Ace Big Spy 2" occupy the fifth to tenth places respectively.

It can be seen that the two new faces of "Notting Hill" and "007's Black Sun Crisis" rely on the outstanding performance of the European market, especially the enthusiastic response from the British market, have made these two works occupy a higher position in the global box office. The two works with obvious American imprints, "Dad Running Forward" and "Bride Running" have been squeezed out of the top ten, especially the former, comedy with distinct American characteristics, which obviously cannot do better in the world.

Judging from the global year-end box office rankings, commercial films in the era of blockbusters still occupy the mainstream. "The Sixth Sense of Supernaturalness", "Beautiful Mind" and "Notting Hill" are the only three different types of films, namely horror, plot, and love works. These three works can occupy a place in the global list, which is even more valuable.

There is no doubt that Hugo is still the king of the year-end list. People have long been accustomed to this pattern. When the last year of the 20th century came to an end, looking back on these ten years, people suddenly discovered that Hugo has become the most important label in the entire 1990s, no doubt about it.

The same pattern has also appeared on the music chart. In fact, in the past year, Glory has completely lost any activity until death, and even the single has not been released. However, despite this, "Storm and Storm" has still become the focus of attention, staying on the Billboard Album Ranking for 172 consecutive weeks, and is still sprinting to the top ten consecutive weeks.

In the 1990s, there was only one album with more than two hundred weeks on the album: Nirvana's "Don't Mind", which is currently on the chart for a total of 278 weeks, and it was not released until early 1998. However, this result can only rank 12th in history. To make a record, there is still a long way to go.

The music market in 1999 showed unprecedented prosperity, and the Backstreet Boys ushered in its peak period. After the release of the album "Millennium" in May, it won 500,000 in the first week, and successfully obtained the 11th Platinum certification in December, with annual sales of 11.3 million copies; then, Britney Spears was born, and her debut album "Baby, Baby.one.Touch.time" was released on January 12, 1999. Finally, on December 9, 1999, the sales exceeded 10 million copies, and the sales of 10.5 million copies throughout the year. These two works have become the third and fourth works in the 1990s that could achieve 10 million copies in a single year after "storm" and "double scenes".

The sales of the two albums exceeded 10 million in one year, which was definitely an unprecedented prosperity. Backstreet Boys and Britney ranked as the year-end champion and runner-up respectively.

After them, Ricky Martin's album of the same name achieved sales of 7.3 million, ranking third place in the year-end; Santana, Soft Cookie Band (limp.Zkit), Christina Aguilera (chris stina.aguilera), and TLC's album sales all exceeded 5 million, occupying the fourth to seventh place respectively.

The sales of seven albums in the year-end sales list exceeded 5 million, which almost created the peak of music history. In any previous year, it was an unimaginable result. In particular, the strong rise of the three idol singers, Backstreet Boy, Britney and Christina, changed the composition of the music market, further increased the proportion of pop music, and dominated the entire market.
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