Chapter 2013 2013 Comedy Box Office
On the day of the premieres of "The Truman Show" and "A Perfect Murder," the same-day confrontation was the talk of the town, and Gwyneth Paltrow revealed her love for Hugo in an interview. Dissatisfaction and exclusion have become the focus of lively discussions among reporters.
As the number one man in the world today, although Hugo has not been able to be re-elected as the world's sexiest man of the year by "People" magazine in the past two years. Sensitive man, but whether it is Brad Pitt the year before or George Clooney last year, the gap compared with Hugo is very obvious.
It is worth mentioning that although George Clooney suffered successive box office failures of "Batman and Robin" and "Peacemaker", he still successfully defeated Tom Cruise, Leonardo Dee Caprio and Hugo, successfully became "People" magazine's Person of the Year. This has also become an anecdote: Can George really replace Brad and compete with Hugo?
Due to Hugo's strong influence, Hugo's emotional dynamics have always been the focus of people's attention. Gwyneth's rather critical attitude towards Hugo made people start to imagine: Gwyneth and Hugo What happened in between? Could it be that Hugo hurt Gwyneth? Or was Hugo rejecting Gwyneth? Otherwise, Hugo's attitude angered Gwyneth? What does the "chemistry" between these two have to do with the breakup of the golden couple Gwyneth and Brad, and what does it have to do with the breakup of Hugo and Cameron?
The countless gossips behind it made the enthusiasm of the paparazzi blazing. After the premiere on June 1, the paparazzi began to focus on digging out the story behind this guess. Get more lively.
People don't know the truth between Gwyneth and Hugo for the time being, but there is no doubt that Gwyneth and Hugo are not friends, which makes the difference between "Super Perfect Murder" and "The Truman Show" The confrontation between them has added a new aspect.
After the premiere ended, the vastly different reviews and word-of-mouth of the two films did not directly affect people's expectations for the premiere box office. Because there is such a paradox in the commercial blockbusters of the summer vacation: movies with a bad reputation can also explode at the box office at the premiere. Ten-thousand-dollar performance-the box office decline since then is naturally earth-shattering. This is mainly because the premiere box office mainly depends on the appeal of the cast, as well as the attractiveness of the film company's early publicity.
In the four days from the first to the fifth, the overwhelming publicity of "Super Perfect Murder" was huge, and the two leading actors Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow went from the east to the middle and then to the west, from From the south to the north and then to Canada, I have intensively participated in more than 20 promotional trips. It can almost be said that I don’t even have time to sleep. I can only rest on the way.
In comparison, the publicity of "The Truman Show" is obviously much weaker. Hugo joined hands with Nicole Kidman and Alexander Lorraine to only attend a few important promotional programs, first completing the "Tonight Show" ", then participated in three radio shows, and arrived in New York on Friday to attend the "Today" live broadcast, and held a fan meeting in the plaza where the broadcast was live. That's all.
Although more than 3,000 people were gathered on the "Today" live broadcast of "The Truman Show", which almost made half of Manhattan Island boil, and the momentum was huge, but "Super Perfect Murder" did not show any weakness in the promotional battle , the performance was extremely strong, completely suppressing the competitors of the same period. That further adds to the suspense at the opening box office this weekend.
On Friday, June 5th, all the audience frantically flocked into the cinema to enjoy the relaxation and beauty of the weekend, and all eyes were drawn to this weekend's box office battle. From the fierce collision on Friday, to the smog on Saturday, and to the final fight on Sunday, the North American film market has demonstrated the frenzy of the summer holiday, surpassing the previous May in one fell swoop, and truly unveiling this year's summer season. The curtain of the file!
On June 8th, the North American weekend movie box office rankings are released!
"The Truman Show" was only screened in 2,500 theaters. It can be seen that Paramount is still relatively conservative about the prospects of this comedy drama movie, and it does not follow the standard of 3,000 theaters for commercial blockbusters. Plan the scale of the premiere. But the result proved that Paramount still underestimated the powerful appeal of Hugo today-even if it was the first challenge to a comedy movie, it did not stop the audience from frantically walking into the cinema.
The box office of a single theater is 18,000 US dollars, which has almost reached the first-level level of commercial films, surpassing last year's "Men in Black", and also surpassing "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" before this year. It has become one of the most outstanding large-scale release works in the summer file in the past two years. In terms of single-house performance, it is only inferior to "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", which was smashed at the box office at the premiere of the summer file last year.
The incomparably outstanding single-house box office made "The Truman Show" hit $45 million at the opening weekend, making it the best premiere so far this year. This is really something no one expected, because disaster blockbusters such as "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" are already in the forefront, and the appeal of these commercial blockbusters is obviously more than that of comedy movies. But the result is that "The Truman Show" has achieved the best premiere performance this year!
Before "The Truman Show" was released, people had predicted the film's premiere performance, and most people were unanimously optimistic that this work could achieve a premiere data of 30 million, surpassing "Grandmaid in Disguise", " Works such as "Slim Daddy" and "Professor Fatty" set a new high for the premiere of comedy movies, but even so, people still underestimated the performance of "The Truman Show"—or, to be more precise, underestimated the performance of "The Truman Show" The impact of the fruit on the current North American market.
From drama movies to romance movies, from action movies to commercial movies, from thriller movies to art movies, and now to comedy movies, Hugo’s ability to control movies with different themes has been fully reflected. Regardless of the horror movies he shot, Hugo’s ability in different types of works is enough to make him a hall-level actor. Maybe ten years—or five years later, when people mention "Hugo Lancas "Special" will be like mentioning Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Katharine Hepburn and other outstanding actors, and I will be amazed again and again.
More importantly, different types of works have not only won the praise of film critics, not only won the recognition of certain awards, but also achieved outstanding results in the box office, which is precisely the most important thing in the entire film industry. One of the important links: Even if it is an art film, the outstanding box office performance can further expand the influence of the work.
As today's top box office superstar, Hugo once again changed the history of comedy movies with the momentum of King's Landing—starting from "The Truman Show", the premiere box office of comedy movies opened an era of 40 million, which is also It means that comedy movies are not only represented by Xiaoboda, but also have the ability to keep pace with other types of movies and become a new force in the summer file-after all, comedy movies can be said to be one of the best choices for family fun, and the box office potential is far away. Didn't get 100% digging.
But now, "The Truman Show" has shown this potential!
The 45 million US dollars opening weekend data not only blows up the 25 million US dollars premiere score of "Professor Fatty", but also directly raises the box office history record of comedy movies from 20 million to Forty million, which is almost twice the previous record, and even comparable to the $51 million box office of "Men in Black" last summer, which shocked the entire North American market.
Exclaimed the exuberant vitality of comedy movies, exclaimed Hugo's powerful appeal, and exclaimed another miracle in the film market.
Although people have long been accustomed to the momentum of Hugo, and the release of almost every movie is accompanied by the birth of countless historical records, the record of this comedy movie still made countless professionals dumbfounded-just before the movie was released. Just like the controversy caused by "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", the reason why genre movies become "genres" is because each genre of movies is a model formed after years of precipitation in the market-this is not something that some experts gathered together to discuss. conclusions, but a choice made by the entire market itself. Therefore, it has never been an easy task to break the shackles of genre movies.
Now, "The Truman Show" has almost completely changed the influence of comedy movies in the market, and the box office ability of comedy movies has also risen to the average level of other commercial movies. Independence Day" is comparable.
Especially under the premise that "Independence Day" and "Titanic" have officially opened the era of blockbuster films, the outstanding performance of "The Truman Show" once again continued the outstanding performances of "LA Confidential" and "As Good as It Gets", And the fact that "The Truman Show," a satirical black comedy aimed at entertaining to death corruption, has such strong support from its audience has once again rejoiced among Hollywood conservatives :
Even though Oscar has put the "Titanic" on the throne, there are still variables in the change of history!
At this time, people remembered that "LA Confidential" and "As Good as It Gets" each won three statuettes, and all of them were important awards in major departments, and they did not lose a bit in the confrontation with "Titanic". Now, "The Truman Show" has once again continued this pattern, and no one can accurately predict the future development of the film market.
Facing the premiere box office performance of "The Truman Show" that changed the entire film history record and the entire market structure, "Super Perfect Murder" seemed bleak.