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After the explosion of "Super Perfect Murder", it killed "Six Days and Seven Nights" in seconds, and narrowly beat "X-Files: Conquering the Future"... The box office development track of "The Truman Show" made many experts exclaimed that they couldn't understand it. The entire film market is surging.
"The Truman Show" was so popular in the summer of 1998 that many people in the industry joked, "Maybe this year's box office champion", which caused a lot of laughter. Why do you say this is a joke? Because since "Home Alone" won the North American year-end box office with an incredible $285 million in 1990, no comedy work in the past seven years has reached such heights-not even, let alone year-end. After winning the championship, it became extremely difficult to even rank among the top ten at the end of the year.
But regardless of this year's year-end list, it can also be seen from this aspect that the performance of "The Truman Show" in the summer file is too shocking.
This is a very interesting fact: "Independence Day" set off a frenzy of visual effects commercial blockbusters, which in turn ignited debates between conservatives and progressives; but "LA Confidential", "As Good as It Gets" and "The Truman Show" With excellent reputation, wonderful stories, and good box office, people once again deeply felt the strong appeal of retro movies.
Hugo alone turned the entire North American film market upside down.
However, after three consecutive championships, it is obviously not so easy for "The Truman Show" to continue to dominate-this is the summer vacation, even if it is extremely difficult to win the championship for a week, there will be intense competition almost every week compete. In the fourth week of June, "The Truman Show" will directly face another comedy movie: "Dr. Dolittle" led by Eddie Murphy is coming!
"Doctor Dolittle" invested 71 million US dollars, and as the lead actor, Eddie is also a top comedian in the North American market that is comparable to Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and Billy Crystal , although as a black actor, breakthroughs in salary are bound to be more difficult than others-this also makes him lag behind Kim and fail to take the lead in entering the 20 million club, but the identity of a black actor can be said to have both advantages and disadvantages, unique His outstanding image and unique market made Eddie a top superstar.
This work is adapted from the 1967 musical film of the same name. At the beginning, this film received a lot of praise and won the nomination for Best Picture at the 40th Oscar. Now a remake of the classic, with Eddy breathing new life into the film, the attention it draws is extraordinary.
"Doctor Dolittle" has undoubtedly become the favorite to win the championship this week.
After the box office list was released in the fourth week of June, although "Doctor Dolittle" was criticized, the media's comprehensive evaluation was only 46 points, and the theater score was only "C-", which can almost be said to be a failure in all aspects; but in the end The film still continued Eddie's appeal at the box office. The box office data of 29 million US dollars is impressive-if it is not for the "Truman Show" gem, it will break the box office record of comedy movies The data.
The situation of "Doctor Dolittle" also shows people the real situation of comedy movies-more and more people are aware of the difficulty of "The Truman Show" achieving such results, but even with a bad reputation, it can still attract enough audiences to leave. Go into the cinema, have a good laugh, and enjoy 90 minutes of relaxation. This is why comedians such as Eddie, Kim, Robin, and Billy have become more and more rare—high quality and low price, small and big.
As expected, the opening box office of $29 million is enough for "Doctor Dolittle" to win this weekend's box office, even if "The Truman Show" falls against the sky-unless it can be as good as "Doctor Dolittle" "Titanic", otherwise, with a box office of 30.4 million US dollars last week, it would be impossible for "The Truman Show" to complete four consecutive championships.
In the end, "The Truman Show" posted a 20% drop for the second consecutive week and took in a weekend box office of 24 million US dollars. Dolittle” took the runner-up spot, but the 20% decline is still jaw-dropping, and the box office performance of 20 million for four consecutive weeks is still among the top five in film history. Let the works stride forward on the road of creating history.
The audience’s heated discussions and controversies about "The Truman Show" attracted more and more audiences to enter the cinema and join the ranks of this social frenzy, which eventually turned into a performance of 20 million box office for four consecutive weekends ——In the entire film history, there are only three works that have achieved such results, "Titanic", "Independence Day", and "Speed". Now, add another one!
Although "Doctor Dolittle" won the championship this week, as a comedy movie, "The Truman Show" still showed a performance of 20 million in the fourth week. While people are admiring Eddie's comedy talent and box office appeal, they are even more impressed by Hugo's comprehension and interpretation of the work. "The Truman Show" has gradually become one of the best absolute masterpieces in the entire film history.
All the focus is on "The Truman Show", four weeks of continuous high-level performances, which made the cumulative box office of the work reach 181 million! "The Truman Show" surpasses "LA Confidential" and brings a stronger impact to the entire market. It is already certain, but now the focus of people's curiosity is: how high can this impact be?
Beyond "Home Alone"'s $285 million? Reaching the $300 million height that comedy films have never been able to achieve? The follow-up box office performance of "The Truman Show" will determine how much this film contributes to the historical process, and how deep it will change the composition of the film market in the next ten years.
In the fourth week of June, "Doctor Dolittle", "The Truman Show" and "Mulan" ranked the top three.
It is worth mentioning that the box office drop of "Mulan" was only 25%, and it counterattacked "X-Files: Conquering the Future", showing the strong box office endurance of Disney animated films as always. The box office finish is also notable.
The first two months of the 1998 summer season ended, and "The Truman Show" unexpectedly became the leader so far this year. The outstanding performance brought the heat of midsummer into a real climax. Immediately afterwards, "Armageddon" directed by Michael Bay and co-starred by Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will land in the first week of July, ushering in the Independence Day weekend and becoming the leading Independence Day this year. Or, the box office war has become more intense.
However, the battle for the weekend box office title in North America has nothing to do with "The Truman Show". Under the cover of strong word-of-mouth, how good the film's follow-up box office can be is the biggest focus.
The fact is the same. The weekend box office of "Peerless Heist" was a big disappointment of 36 million US dollars. Michael's magical magic seems to have weakened. Whether it is media reviews, theater scores, or box office performance, it is far from meeting expectations. . The premiere box office performance of "Peerless Hell" with an investment of up to 140 million US dollars is not only far behind "The Truman Show", it is also much inferior to "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" of. Especially against the background of Independence Day, this achievement seems even more unremarkable.
But even so, "Peerless Hell" still successfully won the box office champion in the first week of July.
Correspondingly, the pressure brought by "Peerless Catastrophe" on "The Truman Show" is also very limited. The million-dollar weekend box office made the film's cumulative box office easily exceed the 200 million threshold, reaching 206 million US dollars. As expected, it began to attack the film history record of "Home Alone".
Unknowingly, "The Truman Show" has dropped less than 30% for four consecutive weeks, which is also an unimaginable result for a comedy movie, making the cost of this movie only 6,000 10,000 US dollars, it has reached 200 million US dollars within five weeks of its release. Although this performance is not as good as "Independence Day", the box office performance during the same period has already ranked third in film history, only behind "Independence Day" and "Independence Day". Titanic".
Is "The Truman Show" going to hit the 400 million box office?
This is obviously not practical, because "The Truman Show" has neither the explosive power of "Independence Day" in the early stage, nor the later endurance of "Titanic". The box office of 400 million US dollars is really too difficult, but $300 million seems to be waving towards "The Truman Show"-of course, the premise is that the subsequent box office decline can continue to be strong.
In the second week of July, the drop was 25 percent; in the third week of July, the drop was 21 percent; in the fourth week of July, the drop was 26 percent... Finally, "Truman's World "The second week of August ushered in a historical moment, and the cumulative box office reached 288 million US dollars. This not only made "The Truman Show" surpass "L.A. Confidential" and became one of Hugo's personal works, Second only to "Independence Day", it set a new box office record; at the same time, it also made "The Truman Show" officially surpassed "Home Alone" and became the new box office champion of comedy movies in film history.
This is a historical moment, not a simple historical moment for a new box office record for a comedy movie, but when the era of visual effects blockbusters began to sweep through the summer of 1998, the script-oriented retro movies once again made a bloody road, with 280 million The box office data of 8 million US dollars ranks among the top ten in box office history, once again rebalancing the balance of power between traditional conservatives and radical innovations, making the film market before the turn of the century more prosperous and noisy.
What's more ironic is that "The Truman Show" itself is a black fairy tale, and its core idea has the value of realistic irony, making this box office victory a real epic!