Chapter 1005: 1005 Another Victory
In the following week, Columbia Pictures carefully added a venue, from six to seven. This move shows that Columbia Pictures was hit by the whole situation, and the expansion rhythm is so conservative.
However, "The Years of Love" still relied on the hype of "Second Showdown", and the box office of the single venue finally improved, rising directly to 36,000 US dollars, and won 25 in seven point-screening theaters. At the weekend box office of $10,000, this result is not so ugly; but "Pulp Fiction" once again received a box office data of $3.1 million with a sky-high decline, and still easily beat its opponents.
In fact, Columbia Pictures' caution soon paid off, and the box-office performance of "Burning Years" exceeded expectations -- compared to critics and audience responses after the premiere.
Thanks to the hype of the showdown between Hugo and Brad, after entering 1995, when "The Years of Love" was held in 2,000 theaters, it handed over a good answer sheet, with a single theater of 7,000 US dollars. The data won the weekend box office of 14 million US dollars. The winter season in January is when everything is quiet and the competitors are generally not strong. With this data, "The Years of Love" actually reached the top in 1995. Top North American Weekend Box Office Charts for the second week of January!
At this moment, the "Pulp Fiction", which has entered the second half of the box office, still controls its decline within 15%, but there is no way to break out a strong increase, and naturally it cannot be formed with "The Years of Burning Love". confrontation. This is the true sense of the non-same level of the contest.
Afterwards, the North American film market was dead silent for the whole month of January, and the newly released films lacked competitiveness. With strong and intensive publicity, "The Years of Love" actually achieved three consecutive championships! Although it is said that the box office data of winning the championship is less than 10 million, the box office result of the third week winning weekend is only 6 million, which is really unsightly, but three consecutive championships are three consecutive championships. Years" has swept away the haze of the earlier period and regained its vitality.
In this wave of intensive publicity, Brad Pitt has become the biggest beneficiary, not only because he is the protagonist of "Second Showdown", but also because of his perfect image in "The Burning Years". The welcome, coupled with the popularity and enthusiasm left by "Interview with the Vampire", also allowed Brad to touch the edge of the first-line lineup for the first time in a real sense.
When the handover in 1994 and 1995, Brad officially rose!
"The Years of Love" flourished in the deserted January, but in fact the results were not as exaggerated as imagined. Due to the constraints of the film's theme and word of mouth, the final film was only released for twelve weeks, and the box office also stopped at six. Eleven million, which is completely inconsistent with the data of its three consecutive championships. Not only the data for the championship weekend is bleak, but the cumulative box office data during the week is also really ugly. The final box office is not to mention the 100 million threshold, even 80 million is far away.
Such a three-peat, I'm afraid Columbia Pictures can't laugh at it.
It is worth mentioning that although the box office of "Burning Years" in North America is only 61 million, it is only an unsuccessful figure. Compared with the book cost of 30 million, it is not enough to make Columbia Pictures. happy. However, the overseas market performance of "Burning Years" has been exceptional, and the global box office market outside North America has witnessed Brad's sexuality. Feeling hit, the overseas market swept the box office of 94 million US dollars, which not only far exceeded the North American results, but also brought the global box office of "The Years of Love" to 160 million US dollars in one fell swoop.
This achievement made everyone's eyes shine, at least not much compared to "Interview with Vampires". It not only allowed Brad to add another "over 100 million box office" work, but also made "The Years of Love". "It's not too embarrassing in the showdown with Pulp Fiction.
Therefore, when people talk about "The Burning Years" again, they seldom mention the embarrassment and desolation of the "Second Showdown" head-to-head confrontation, but more often mention that this movie has made Brad and has become a The first milestone in the Brad and Hugo showdown.
Although it is said that "The Years of Love" has a very good global box office performance of 160 million US dollars, compared with its competitors, this result is really unmanageable. The biggest significance of this film's achievement is to let cloth Ladd is strong. Next, it's time to see how "Burning Years" and "Pulp Fiction" performed at the awards ceremony.
The global box office of "Burning Years" is not comparable to the box office of "Interview with the Vampire", which is 101.7 million in North America, 118 million overseas, and about 220 million in the world. , and more importantly, in the face of "Pulp Fiction", it can only be said that he did not lose his underwear.
Although it is said that after 1995, the "Burning Years" dominated for a while when there was no king in the mountains, but the performance of "Pulp Fiction" was strong from beginning to end, and its coherence and durability made people amazed and amazed.
Before the end of 1994, with the momentum of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the box office of "Pulp Fiction" did not drop but rose, with a 15% and 47% box office increase successively. The "Night Interview with Vampires", which was determined to go offline early, and the "Burning Years", whose box office momentum was not strong, formed a world of difference, and the audience's support has never weakened.
Many media have ridiculed that last year's "Schindler's List" indirectly caused the early offline of "Farewell to the Love of Love", and this year's "Pulp Fiction" indirectly caused the early offline of "Interview with Vampires" and "Burning Love". The long-term downturn of the years", although everyone knows that this is just a joke, but Hugo still got the nickname of a "cold killer", which really makes people laugh and cry.
After entering 1995, "Interview with the Vampire" went offline, "The Burning Years" was expanded, and competitors moved a lot, but "Pulp Fiction" was not affected in any way, and it continued its strength steadily.
From the Golden Globe Awards to the Oscars, this work, which has been praised by journalists, film critics, and academics, has gained momentum. It actually started its second round of expansion in mid-February, and the entire expansion was completed compared to January. The "Burning Years" is not inferior.
From the first week of the new year, "Pulp Fiction" has grown to 50 to 100 theaters every week, and expanded again; by mid-February, the theaters had once again exceeded 1,000, and it continued By the end of March, such a release curve was really unexpected.
The reason why the expansion can be carried out is naturally because there are still audiences coming into the cinema continuously. In mid-February, "Pulp Fiction" was still able to maintain a box office of more than 2,000 in a thousand theaters. The cinema chain is naturally very willing to continue to allocate venues to show this work.
In the end, Pulp Fiction's release curve dragged and dragged until the second week of April, and it was released for a full twenty-seven weeks, not to mention the eight-week release of "Interview with the Vampire", even with Comparing most of the films that were released after 22 weeks of release, the long-term sales of this film are also very amazing, and the 12-week period of "Burning Years" is also far below the average level.
Which is higher and lower is clear at a glance.
"Pulp Fiction" officially hit $150 million at the box office in the second week of February. Although many media had predicted that this work could set a target at this value, when "Pulp Fiction" really When the goal was achieved, it exceeded people's expectations again. At that time, the media were talking about it. Does this independent film that has created countless miracles still want to challenge the 200 million box office threshold? Actually!
From 50 million to 100 million to 150 million, the box office growth of "Pulp Fiction" costing only 8 million is enough to leave all competitors behind and thriving.
However, the facts have proved that "Pulp Fiction" has created enough history, and the mid-1990s was not the best time to make further breakthroughs. This is the restriction of the entire society of the entire era, and it takes time to precipitate and brew. It requires the accumulation and superposition of works, not a breakthrough that can be accomplished by a "pulp novel". Although "Pulp Fiction" was released until April, the cumulative box office was unsustainable, and the pace of progress gradually slowed down. In the end, the cumulative box office in North America was 172 million US dollars!
This achievement is obviously still a long way from the 200 million threshold.
The 172 million North American box office also means that all speculations are settled. Behind the glory of Hugo's five consecutive film box office breakthroughs of 100 million yuan, it also declares that Hugo's three consecutive film box office breakthroughs of 200 million epics have not happened. It can be achieved; in addition, this box office performance is also the worst among Hugo’s recent five works, only higher than the 170 million US dollars created by “Yi Hai Xiong Feng” released at the end of 1992, which means that Hugo has continuously Five films' continued upward momentum at the box office came to an abrupt end.
Of course, this is just nitpicking.
"Pulp Fiction" won a box office of 170 million yuan, easily overwhelmed "The Years of Love", and strongly suppressed "Interview with Vampires", and achieved a hearty victory with an absolute advantage. If you consider the movie again Only eight million investment? It can be said that this matter is still an incredible milestone no matter what point of view it is from, no matter what time point in history it is standing at - even 20 years later. This work proved to everyone that independent films also have a broad market, and the entire North American film market has been surging since then.
More importantly, "Pulp Fiction" faced the direct impact of "Interview with Vampires", faced the squeeze of good works such as "Santa Claus", faced new forces such as "Burning Years", and faced the holiday season. It was chaotic, but it never showed any signs of decline. Relying on its strong word of mouth and huge fan base, it was released on the North American film market for 27 weeks before going offline. Such a momentum is even more powerful than "Schindler's List". No less.
Therefore, there is no doubt that "Pulp Fiction" created history, created an incredible history, and created a history that none of its successors can surpass; at the same time, Hugo created history, and created a history that Hollywood actors must look up to, Created a history that even he himself would have difficulty surpassing.
With the real ending of "Pulp Fiction", the first wave of head-to-head confrontation between the three top actors Hugo, Tom, and Brad also settled, and the result ended with Hugo's overall victory. The first battle was won, and the momentum was amazing!