Chapter 2014: 2014 The Crushing Trend
The $45 million opening box office, even in Hugo's personal box office history, can also rank second, only behind "Independence Day", surpassing "Speed", "Seven Deadly Sins" Together with "LA Confidential", such excellent results prove to everyone that Hugo's box office appeal in the summer season is unparalleled!
Especially compared to the US$60 million investment in "The Truman Show", this premiere data is even more outstanding. Although this is only the first week of the film's release, the word-of-mouth feedback from the media and audiences is astonishing. It can be seen that there is no problem with making a profit for this work—the key point is how much it can make a profit. Can "The Truman Show" finally surpass the "Seven Deadly Sins" at the box office and pass the 200 million threshold? Can it surpass the record of "L.A. Confidential" and hit 300 million?
This is the topic that people are most concerned about, and it is also people's confidence in Hugo's box office appeal.
In the face of the strength of "The Truman Show", "Perfect Murder" did not show any weakness. The large-scale release of 3,000 theaters far exceeded the scale of competitors, and became the largest screening in the first week of June. The work shows the strong confidence of Warner Bros.
From screening theaters to publicity, from topic rendering to importance, it can be said that Warner Bros. has concentrated almost all resources on "Super Perfect Murder". Relatively speaking, "The Truman Show" was also produced by Paramount itself three weeks before "The Truman Show" was released, because Paramount's estimate of the performance of "The Truman Show" was biased-not Paramount No mistake, after "Independence Day", disaster movies themselves are highly anticipated, coupled with the frenzy caused by "Titanic", and the box office pull of sci-fi disaster movies in the summer file is already higher than that of comedy movies, so Pai It is understandable that Ramon concentrated most of his power on the "Clash of Heaven and Earth".
Therefore, "Perfect Murder" can almost be said to occupy the right time and place. Even if people are still optimistic about "The Truman Show" winning the weekend box office champion in the first week of June, the potential of "Perfect Murder" is absolutely Not to be underestimated. But the fact is that in the end, the premiere box office results of "Super Perfect Murder" were still unsatisfactory-not only unsatisfactory, but even disappointing.
The appeal of Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow teaming up is not worth mentioning in front of the name "Hugo Lancaster". The final box office score of the opening weekend was still only 16 million US dollars. Such a box office figure was not only completely blown by "The Truman Show", but even for itself, this result is not outstanding at all.
Lost the box office, lost word of mouth, lost face, and lost reputation.
People had expected such an ending, "Super Perfect Murder" could not launch an effective attack on "The Truman Show", Hugo's aura will still make the audience frantically flock to "Truman Show" in the first week of June The venues of "The World" form a strong suppression of "Super Perfect Murder". But even the "Los Angeles Times" did not expect that the final victory of "The Truman Show" would be so hearty, and "Super Perfect Murder" actually ushered in a brittle defeat, as if the powerful publicity momentum, huge The cast of the film is simply vulnerable.
The overwhelming failure almost made people dumbfounded!
There is no comparison between 16 million and 45 million. It is as if a movie that has been released for three weeks is facing the premiere of this week. The "Super Perfect Murder Case" broke out, and the absolutely strong performance caused a lot of exclamations.
In the face of "Perfect Murder"'s poor performance, there is not much interest in the media to even mention this movie. It's just a tasteless deliberate hype-and the reporters all know that Hugo will not have any interest in these news, so Gwyneth's criticism of Hugo at the premiere seems to be a It was as if a grain of sand had fallen into the sea, with little ripples, not even a splash, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Is this a good thing for Gwyneth? Or is it a bad thing?
Compared with the lace news of "Super Perfect Murder", the excellent performance of "The Truman Show" in making history is more worthy of discussion. Almost everyone is lamenting the new box office record of the comedy movie, almost everyone They are all singing the praises of Hugo writing history again.
In the head-to-head confrontation between "The Truman Show" and "Super Perfect Murder", which was released on the same day, the former ended with a complete victory without a doubt but with surprises.
Another focus this week is the collision between Hugo and Roland Emmerich. "Godzilla" has come to its third week of release this week. The cumulative box office in the previous two weeks has reached 99 million US dollars. Before Friday, the box office had successfully exceeded 100 million, but the box office trend of the film was not optimistic. The box office fell by as much as 59% in the next week. This is definitely not good news for the investment cost of 130 million However, this week's decline in "Godzilla" will determine whether the film can retain its hope of hitting $150 million at the North American box office.
It can be said that this week is crucial for "Godzilla". It is almost impossible for Sony Columbia Pictures to rely on the North American box office to achieve profitability, but at least ensure that the North American box office can exceed the book cost, and then rely on overseas The ultimate goal of making a profit at the box office is what Sony Columbia Pictures desperately wants.
So, how much box office will "The Truman Show" steal and how much pressure it will bring to "Godzilla". Hugo and Roland, the two heroes who jointly created the "Independence Day" miracle, will hand over their What kind of answer sheet, this is a topic worth looking forward to.
Now, the answer is revealed.
The US$45 million premiere box office of "The Truman Show" has had an impact on the entire film market. "The World" alone accounts for more than 50 percent, and all other films are inevitably squeezed.
In the end, "Godzilla" fell as much as 47% this week, which was the biggest decline for this week except for several works that were released for more than a month. It can be clearly felt that "Godzilla" has been most affected. On the one hand, the powerful momentum of "The Truman Show" further promoted the audience to choose the former when choosing between Hugo and Roland; On the one hand, "Godzilla" is also trapped by its own quality and has not been able to attract more audiences.
"Godzilla" has only been released for the third week, and the weekend box office has dropped to less than 10 million. It only earned 9.7 million box office in three days, pushing the film's cumulative box office to 114 million US dollars. This is undoubtedly a bad news, marking the complete shattering of the film's hope of hitting 150 million US dollars, and even the cost line of reaching 130 million US dollars is already in jeopardy.
The duel between Hugo and Roland - Hugo wins!
This is also the result that everyone expected. When "Independence Day" achieved record-breaking box office results, most of the credit was assigned to Hugo. Compared with Roland, the great director, Hugo, who is the leading actor, is undoubtedly the biggest contributor. And this time is also the case. The confrontation between "Godzilla" and "The Truman World" is not a confrontation, and it ends with the former's heavy loss and the latter's writing history.
In the first week of June, "The Truman Show", "Perfect Murder" and "Godzilla" ranked the top three in the North American weekend box office rankings, but almost all the focus was on the champion, not only Because this is the work of Hugo, not only because of the 45 million US dollars winning the championship, it has set a new high this year, but also created a new record in the history of comedy movies, and because this movie itself has become the biggest focus in the past two years Carrier!
Undoubtedly, the release of "The Truman Show" ignited a wave of frenzy in this year's summer season. Under the cover of the $45 million premiere box office, the discussion about this movie has become more and more heated , not only film critics, but also more audiences joined the discussion, thanks to "The Truman Show" presenting those profound and obscure topics in an easy-to-understand way like black fairy tales, making it easy for the audience to understand Be able to read and understand more.
With the full release of the movie, the cinema score has dropped from "A+" to "A". The support and praise of the audience, such performance also complemented the comprehensive media reviews and the premiere box office, pushing such a comedy film to the peak of history.
As a comedy film, "The Truman Show" triggered a frenzy of reflection far beyond imagination, even deeper than many drama films, Roger Ebert used this film with "Forrest Gump" is not without reason in comparison.
Now, after the box-office explosion of the opening weekend, the discussion is getting more mixed, more heated, more esoteric, and more high-end. In the absence of the Internet as a platform for expressing opinions, countless viewers have begun to submit articles to major newspapers and magazines, eager to find someone to exchange their views on.
Seeing such a situation, the "Chicago Tribune" ingeniously opened up a special topic on letters from readers, which actually triggered a series of chain reactions, pushing the movie "The Truman Show" to the position of a classic masterpiece. , vaguely developing towards a divine work, this is also something that no one expected.