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During the summer vacation, it is a battleground for military strategists.
Because of the midsummer climate, people are often more willing to leave their homes and go to public places to enjoy rare leisure time, which also makes summer movie theaters more popular, and it is easy to break out box office miracles.
Last year, "LA Confidential" achieved unbelievable results in the autumn file, almost breaking all the records in the autumn file-all the records that have not been broken are temporarily "seven deadly sins"; now, "The Truman Show" has landed in the summer file, although It's going to be tough to top the super-high bar set by "Independence Day," but there's no question that this film will do better than "LA Confidential."
But the premiere was 45 million US dollars, the next Wednesday was 18 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office was 108 million US dollars. Such a result is not enough to describe it as incredible, which is enough to compare with "Independence Day" and "" The comparable performance of "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" directly pushed "The Truman Show" to the position of blockbuster at the box office.
Is this a joke?
A comedy film, a dark fairy tale reflecting social reality, a realistic work that explores the disadvantages of conservative ideology, and a heretical work that criticizes religious beliefs have become a blockbuster at the box office!
This is not a joke. This is precisely the process that the entire American society must go through to gradually move toward prosperity after the economic crisis and turmoil. Different ideas from different classes collide fiercely, causing social contradictions hidden under the water to erupt, and then Alert everyone.
However, these problems are deeply rooted in the soil of society, and it is still unknown whether they can be solved. It's like planting. family. The problem of discrimination is general. Even if the whole society has standardized relevant policies in all aspects and made unremitting efforts to protect ethnic minorities, discrimination still cannot be completely eliminated in life. The conflict between conservative thinking and the pursuit of freedom, as well as the conflict between free will and spiritual home reflected in "Truman's World" has run through almost every period of the entire human history, and it is bound to continue in the future.
Therefore, "The Truman Show" is not just a comedy movie, nor is it just a sensitive nerve of a certain group of people. This movie is a combination of the entire ideological contradiction. Ke's departure hinted at the thinking of the entire creative group: the pursuit of freedom is the nature of human beings, and this is the essence that cannot be annihilated by any force.
It is under the implementation of this spirit that "The Truman Show" set off a frenzy of heated discussions within two weeks of its release, and it also set off a storm at the box office.
"Six Days, Seven Nights" staggered to a $16 million opening weekend with such strong performance from its competitors. This result is basically the same as the premiere data of "Super Perfect Murder" last week, but since there are only 2,600 screening venues, the overall performance of "Six Days and Seven Nights" is actually better than "Super Perfect Murder" Although Harrison Ford's momentum has declined, he still attracted a lot of audiences for the movie.
However, this result still has no way to launch an effective attack on "The Truman World", it can only become a witness of the "Truman World"'s strong two consecutive championships.
"The Truman Show" and "Six Days and Seven Nights" ranked first and second in the North American box office rankings in the second week of June, and the intensive publicity of "Super Perfect Murder" finally took effect, and the topic effect drove many Audiences went into the movie theater one after another, but due to their poor reputation, the decline in the next week still reached 35%. the third place position.
A very interesting phenomenon occurred in the summer file of 1998. "Clash of Heaven and Earth", "Godzilla" and "The Truman Show" all completed two consecutive championships. The championship has won back to back, but so far "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" have only stopped at two consecutive championships and failed to achieve three consecutive championships. Then, how will the performance of "The Truman Show" be?
In order to achieve three consecutive championships, "The Truman Show" faces unprecedented challenges-"X-Files: Fight. The Future" and "Mulan (Mulan)" are about to Team up and attack this week!
After the "X-Files" TV series came out in 1993, it became very popular. The story of exploring the unknown world and unknown creatures has aroused the pursuit of fanatical fans and has become one of the hottest TV series on the small screen. Thanks to the great success of the TV series, the main creative team decided to put the TV series on the big screen. This idea was supported by Twentieth Century Fox, so they got a budget of 70 million US dollars and filmed "X-Files: Conquering the Future". ".
The setting of the movie "X-Files: Conquering the Future" is very interesting. It is not an independent story. The five seasons will continue to develop, and at the same time, there will be suspense at the end of the story, connecting with the sixth season that will be broadcast in September. It can be said that this movie is equivalent to a special edition between the fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series. It can exist independently, but it is more about connecting the whole story.
This bold idea of the creators is bound to attract loyal viewers of countless TV dramas to the cinema, and at the same time, countless audiences who are curious about the unknown world but unwilling to watch TV dramas for a long time will enter the cinema. You know, the current "X-Files "It is the highest-rated TV series in the United States, and each episode can attract more than 20 million viewers to watch regularly.
Therefore, the box office prospects of "X-Files: Conquering the Future" are optimistic about the box office prospects of countless professionals. Even if "The Truman Show" is still strong, "X-Files: The Future of Government" can still spend 33 million to 35 million With the ability to box office at the million-dollar opening weekend, it defeated its opponents and successfully climbed to the top, ending the dream of "The Truman Show" for three consecutive championships.
If the ending is really like this, then the box office trend of this year's summer file will be even more interesting-because "The Truman Show" also continued the pattern of the previous two works with only two consecutive championships.
However, before "X-Files: Future of Government" wants to defeat "The Truman Show", it still needs to withstand the strong impact of "Mulan".
"Mulan" is an animation blockbuster created by Disney at a cost of 70 million US dollars. In the past few years, Disney has maintained the frequency of one classic masterpiece every year, which continues to impact the film market. "The Lion King", "Toy Story" , "Beauty and the Beast", etc., almost every work has been recorded in history, and has achieved great success in the box office.
This time, Disney once again launched a change from the middle. China's "Mulan" was favored by people when it was set. The director of this work is Barry Cook (Barry. Cook), who previously served as the visual effects supervisor of two works of "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast", which makes people have more confidence in the film, while Disney consumes more During the four years, I studied countless middle schools. Chinese traditional ink painting and martial arts ensure the quality.
In the summer season, family-friendly movies such as cartoons always occupy an important market position-although comedy movies are also targeted at family audiences, if you choose between comedy and animation, most families with children will choose animation . "The Truman Show" has had a huge momentum in the past two weeks, and a very important part of the reason is that there is no competition from movies of the same type, but now "Mulan" is bound to snatch the market-and "The Truman Show" is Noir Fairy Tales - Parents have little doubt when choosing between the two.
Therefore, the impact of "Mulan" on the box office market of "The Truman Show" is even stronger than that of "X-Files: Conquering the Future".
If you compare the previous box office data of "The Lion King" and "Toy Story", the opening weekend can break out more than 30 million results. If "Mulan" can also maintain this level, then this also means that June's third Zhou's weekend box office list will be in a big melee.
Three weeks after the release of "The Truman Show", even if the decline is against the sky, it is bound to fall back to about 30 million; and the predicted box office of "X-Files: Conquering the Future" and "Mulan" is also 30 million US dollars Left and right, the fight between these three works can definitely be said to be close combat.
Among the predictions of many media, it is generally believed that "X-Files: Conquering the Future" will win the box office champion this week with a slight advantage of less than 2 million, and "Mulan" narrowly beat "The Truman Show" to occupy the runner-up position. "The Truman Show", which has already won two consecutive championships, will once again hand over an incredible drop, but unfortunately it can only rank third.
This prediction is not deliberately biased, and it has also been recognized by authoritative media such as the "Los Angeles Times" and "New York Times". After all, in the face of the strength of "X-Files: Conquering the Future", even if "The Truman Show" falls against the sky, it will be difficult to form a head-on confrontation, not to mention the coveted "Mulan".
This week, it can be said that the top three players are regardless of their status. Originally, the duel between "X-Files: Conquering the Future" and "Mulan" was a strong collision. Now with the addition of an indeterminate time bomb "The Truman Show", it is very interesting. There may be a tragic ending with all three losers. This is the most exciting situation in the summer file. The expectation even exceeds the "Saving Private Ryan" scheduled to be released a month later. It is considered to be the 1998 summer file. The most noteworthy draw of the week.
In the third week of June, the North American film market ushered in the busiest week since the opening of this year’s summer season. More than 500 media outlets focused their attention on this week’s box office competition.
"X-Files: Conquering the Future" took the lead in occupying the bridgehead at the premiere, and the grand premiere with more than a thousand people attracted everyone's attention. To contend, the smell of gunpowder in the air has begun to permeate.