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After exploding the "super-perfect murder case", killing "six days and seven nights", narrowly defeating "X-Files: Conquering the Future"... The box office development trajectory of "Trumen's World" made a lot of experts exclaimed that they couldn't understand it. The entire movie market is turbulent.

"Trumen's World" was in the summer of 1998, which made many people in the industry joke, "Maybe this is the box office champion of this year", which caused a lot of laughter. Why is this a joke? Because since "Home Alone" won the North American year-end box office championship with an incredible $285 million in 1990, no comedy has reached such a high level in the past seven years—not even the end of the year. After winning the championship, it has become extremely difficult to even make it into the top ten at the end of the year.

But apart from this year's year-end list, it can also be seen from this aspect that the performance of "Trumen's World" in the summer file is too shocking.

This is a very interesting thing: "Independence Day" set off a frenzy of commercial large-scale visual effects, which in turn sparked controversy between conservatives and reformers; but "L.A. Confidential", "Perfect Perfection" and "Trumen's World" With outstanding reputation, wonderful stories, and beautiful box office, people once again deeply felt the powerful appeal of retro movies.

Hugo alone has turned the entire North American film market upside down.

However, after three consecutive championships, it is obviously not so easy for "Trumen's World" to continue to dominate-this is the summer file, even if it is a summer time that is extremely difficult to win the championship for a week, almost every week will usher in fierceness. compete. In the fourth week of June, "Trumen's World" will directly face the encounter of another comedy film: "Weird Doctor Dolid (dr. led by Eddie Murphy is about to strike!

"Weird Doctor Dolittle" invested 71 million U.S. dollars, and Eddie, who is the lead star, is currently the top comedian in the North American market that is comparable to Kim Carey, Robin Williams, and Billy Christo Although as a black actor, a breakthrough in salary is bound to be more difficult than others-this also makes him lag behind Jin and failed to be the first to join the 20 million club, but the identity of a black actor can be said to have both advantages and disadvantages, unique His image and unique market have made Eddie a top star.

This work is adapted from the music film of the same name in 1967. At the beginning, this film received a lot of praise and won the nomination for the 40th Oscar for Best Picture. Now the classic remake, and Eddie injects new vitality into the movie, the attention it attracts is naturally extraordinary.

"Weird Doctor Dolittle" has undoubtedly become the favorite to win this week.

After the hot box office list came out in the fourth week of June, "Strange Doctor Dolittle" was criticized, with only 46 points in the media review and only "c-" in theaters. It can almost be said that it failed across the board; but in the end The movie still continued Eddie’s appeal at the box office, and the box office data of 29 million US dollars was eye-catching-if it weren’t for the "Trumen's World" jewel in front, this would be breaking the history of comedy movie box office records. The data.

The situation of "Weird Doctor Dolittle" also shows people the real situation of comedy movies-making people more aware of the difficulty of "Trumen's World" to achieve such results, but even if the reputation is bad, it can still attract enough audiences to go. Enter the cinema, smile, and thoroughly enjoy ninety minutes of relaxation. This is also the reason why comedians such as Eddie, Kim, Robin, and Billy have become more and more rare-high quality and low price, small and large.

As expected, the US$29 million premiere box office was enough for "Weird Doctor Dolittle" to win the box office this week, even if the decline of "Trumen's World" went against the sky-unless something like " "Titanic" has the same reverse growth. Otherwise, with the box office of $30.4 million last week, it would be impossible for "Trumen's World" to complete four consecutive championships.

In the end, "Trumen's World" surrendered a 20% drop for the second consecutive week and won a weekend box office of 24 million US dollars. Although it failed to achieve four consecutive championships, it fell behind the "Weird Doctor" this week. Under Doolittle, it occupies the second place, but the 20% drop is still jaw-dropping. The box office performance of 20 million for four consecutive weeks is still among the top five in movie history. Once again, the film’s excellent reputation has been transformed into box office data. Let the works make great strides on the road of making history.

The audience's enthusiastic discussion and controversy about "Trumen's World" attracted more and more audiences to enter the cinema, join the ranks of this social frenzy, and finally turned into a performance of 20 million box office for four consecutive weekends. ——Only three works in the entire film history have achieved such results, "Titanic", "Independence Day", and "Speed ​​of Life and Death". Now, add another one!

Although it is said that "Weird Doctor Dolittle" won the championship this week, but also as a comedy movie, "Trumen's World" still showed a performance of 20 million in the fourth week. While people admired Eddie’s comedy talent and box office appeal, they were even more amazed at Hugo’s understanding and interpretation of the work. "The World of Truman" has gradually become one of the best in the entire movie history.

All the focus is on the "Trumen's World", and the high-level performance in all four weeks has brought the cumulative box office of the work to 181 million! "Trumen's World" has surpassed "L.A. Confidential" and brought a stronger impact to the entire market. It has been firmly established, but now the focus of people's curiosity is: How high can this impact be?

Over 285 million US dollars of "Home Alone"? Reach the $300 million height that comedy movies have never been able to make? The final box office performance of "Trumen's World" will determine how much the film has contributed to the historical process, and how deeply it will change the composition of the film market in the next ten years.

In the fourth week of June, "Weird Doctor Dolittle", "Trumen's World", and "Mulan" ranked the top three.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Mulan" dropped by only 25%, counterattacking the "X-Files: Conquering the Future", demonstrating the strong box office endurance of Disney animated films as always. The end of the box office is also eye-catching.

The first two months of the summer vacation in 1998 ended, and "Trumen's World" unexpectedly became the front runner so far this year. The outstanding performance allowed the heat of midsummer to enter the real world. Immediately afterwards, "Peerless Tribulation ( directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will land in the first week of July, ushering in Independence Day weekend and becoming the leader of this year's Independence Day. , The box office battle became more intense.

However, the North American weekend box office championship battle has nothing to do with "Trumen's World". Under the cover of strong word-of-mouth, how good the movie's follow-up box office can be is that this is the biggest focus.

The fact is also true. The $36 million weekend box office of "Peerless Tribulation" is a disappointment. Michael's magic seems to have weakened. Whether it is media reviews, theater scores, or box office performance, they are far from reaching expectations. . The box office performance of "Peerless Tribulation" with an investment of up to 140 million US dollars is not only far behind "Trumen's World", but also inferior to "World Clash" and "Godzilla". of. Especially in the context of Independence Day, this result has become more and more unremarkable.

But even so, "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" successfully won the box office championship in the first week of July.

Correspondingly, the pressure of "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" on "Trumen's World" is also very limited, which makes "Trumen's World" this week's box office drop of 25%, winning 18 thousand. With the million-dollar weekend box office, the film’s cumulative box office easily surpassed the 200 million threshold, reaching 206 million US dollars. As expected, it began to hit the film history record of "Home Alone".

Unconsciously, "Trumen's World" has surrendered a drop of less than 30% for four consecutive weeks. This is also an unimaginable achievement for a comedy movie, making the cost of this film only 6,000. Ten thousand U.S. dollars of works have reached 200 million U.S. dollars within five weeks of release. Although this performance is not as good as "Independence Day", the box office performance in the same period has ranked third in film history, only lagging behind "Independence Day" and "Independence Day". Titanic".

Is "Trumen's World" going to hit 400 million box office?

This is obviously impractical, because "Trumen's World" neither has the explosive power of the early days of "Independence Day" ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ nor the endurance of the "Titanic" afterwards. The box office of 400 million US dollars is really good. It's too difficult, but 300 million US dollars seems to be waving to "Trumen's World"-of course, provided that the subsequent box office decline can continue to be strong.

In the second week of July, the decline was 25%; in the third week of July, the decline was 21%; in the fourth week of July, the decline was 26%...Finally, "Trumen’s World "The second week of August ushered in a historical moment. The cumulative box office reached 288 million U.S. dollars. This not only made "Trumen's World" surpass "L.A. Confidential" and became Hugo's personal work. The works second only to "Independence Day" set a new box office record; at the same time, "Trumen's World" officially surpassed "Home Alone" and became the new box office champion of movie history comedy movies.

This is a historical moment. It is not a simple comedy movie with a new record at the box office. It is a historical moment when the era of visual effects blockbusters began to sweep through the summer of 1998. The script-first retro movie once again made a **** road, with two hundred and eighty million. The box office data of 8 million U.S. dollars ranks among the top ten box office in movie history, once again rebalancing the balance of power between traditional conservatives and radical reformers, making the film market before the turn of the century more prosperous and noisy.

What's more ironic is that "Trumen's World" itself is a black fairy tale, and its core ideas are even more realistic and ironic, making this box office victory an epic of reality!