Chapter 2080: 2080 Intriguing

Under the background of the blockbuster era, five comedy films ranked among the top ten in the year-end box office rankings in North America. This is undoubtedly a very strange sight. Among them, "The Truman Show" led by Hugo actually beat "Saving Private Ryan" , "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" won the year-end championship. Even though people have long been accustomed to Hugo's strength, they still can't help but marvel.

Comedy movies and horror movies stand side by side as representatives of low-budget films. Although the film potential of comedy movies far exceeds that of horror movies, the confrontation between comedy movies and commercial blockbusters has the former having the last laugh. This is different from the 1996 and 1997 The pattern presented a completely different picture, which became one of the most notable features of the changing North American film market in 1998.

However, the rumors of the "awards season" at the end of the year spread like wildfire, making people in the industry gradually realize the huge changes in the market, which is completely different from the trend of the year-end box office rankings, which also means that people are bound to be concerned about market changes. Continue to pay attention, looking forward to being able to take the lead in grasping the market context and standing on the top of Hollywood.

It is not surprising that "The Truman Show" dominates the North American market. After all, this is Hugo Lancaster—the Hugo Lancaster who has created countless miracles; then, "The Truman Show" Dominating the global market again is a real miracle, even for such a brutally realistic noir fairy tale, even for such a cynical reality comedy about the perfect life of middle-class America, even for such a comedy that entertains to death. Hollywood's fable of awakening the world, the world is still bursting with unprecedented enthusiasm!

In fact, in terms of overseas box office, "The Truman Show" won 296 million US dollars. Although this performance is not bad, it is only on the same level as "Saving Private Ryan". Ranked runner-up in 1998. The winner of the overseas box office is "Peerless Catastrophe". This vigorous commercial blockbuster has swept 352 million US dollars in overseas markets, becoming the only overseas box office work to break through 300 million this year.

From this point of view, in fact, the enthusiasm for "The Truman Show" in overseas markets is still slightly weakened. Not only is it not as good as in North America, but it is also not as good as commercial blockbusters like "Peerless Cataclysm". Even compared to the main theme movie "Saving Private Ryan", it doesn't have much advantage.

Despite this, "The Truman Show" still relies on the strength of its local performance, and has swept 624 million US dollars worldwide. The top annual global box office champion.

This is also the second time since "Independence Day" that Hugo has won the North American box office champion and the global box office champion!

No matter how many words of praise are used to describe Hugo's global appeal today, it will still make people feel that the vocabulary is poor and pale. For many people, Hugo is Hollywood, Hollywood is Hugo, just like ten years ago, people always equated Steven Spielberg with Hollywood, it was a sign, a symbol, in Every corner of the world has symbolism.

Such outstanding results also brought "The Truman Show" to the forefront again. Professionals believed that this work could be worthy of "the perfect combination of commercial films and art films", even better than last year's "L.A. Confidential" "One step closer, it mocks the cruel reality of today's entertainment industry with black humor. The overall quality is not inferior to that of "Saving Private Ryan", and it has the level of a classic masterpiece in terms of details. Therefore, this work is fully qualified to compete for important awards such as best picture and best director.

Of course, the most important Best Actor Award cannot be missed.

In Hugo's career, "Schindler's List" won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1993, and "Death Row Walking" in 1995 made him the only actor in film history who won the Oscar before the age of 30. In 1997, "As Good as It Gets" made him the second artist after Emma Thompson to win two awards for acting and screenwriting.

There is no doubt that Hugo has surpassed Emma, ​​tied with Tom Hanks as the most affirmed actor in the past ten years, and has even been promoted to Jack Nicholson, Meryl Stella Tripp height. However, Hugo created an appalling record, three prizes in six years, which is one of the few in the long history.

So, here comes the question. Three years ago, "Death Row Walking" won the Best Actor Award, and last year "As Good as It Gets" won the Best Original Screenplay Award, and this year won the Best Actor Award again? Is this too crazy? Is this too unreasonable? Can't all statuettes be awarded to Hugo? This is Hollywood, and besides Hugo, there are tens of thousands of actors. Could it be that Hugo really "will be the best"? Outside of Hugo, is there no other good actor worthy of an Oscar?

In 1995, Hugo was facing a vote-sharing crisis. The outstanding performance of the three works "Before Sunrise", "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row" made it difficult for people to choose, but the other way around can also be considered—the three works Hugo's excellent performance is enough to prove Hugo's excellence, making his victory more logical; but now in 1998, Hugo is facing "support", he has already stood at the pinnacle of Hollywood, and he is only 31 years old Years old, in the face of a bright future, whether jealous, or ridiculed, or disdainful, or relaxed, or ignored, people can choose other actors who perform equally well, and there is no need to pursue Hugo, who has too many honors, to "do nothing".

Therefore, "The Truman Show" is considered to be one of Hugo's best works since his debut, whether it is from the perspective of performance or the quality of the finished film, even if Hugo won the Oscar for Best Actor for this work, it is absolutely It is enough to convince the public. But now, Hugo is facing the dilemma of not even being nominated—not because he is not good enough, but because he is too good. Human actors are still queuing up.

It's like "People" magazine's selection of the sexiest man this year, and Hugo once again became the most popular candidate. This is the fourth time in the past six years that this has happened. In these five years, Hugo Won the title twice in a row, with Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington and George Clooney taking one each. This year, Hugo was once again a no-nonsense candidate.

However, choosing Hugo again makes this selection meaningless. Naturally, "People" Weekly cannot award this title to Hugo every year. In the end, "People" magazine chose Leonardo DiCaprio, who swept the world, and this choice made people have no way to refute.

As a result, this year's Oscar nomination list has not yet been announced, and it has become the focus of people's attention early: When will Hugo's momentum last? Or do you end up with a list of unsuccessful nominees?

After "The Truman Show" won the global box office championship, "Peerless Heroism" relied on its outstanding performance at the overseas box office to rank second; "Saving Private Ryan" also performed strongly, sweeping 480 million US dollars worldwide , occupying the third place at the end of the year.

The top three in the year-end list remained the same as the North American market, except that the runner-up and third runner-up had switched places.

After that, "Godzilla", "I'm Crazy About Mary", "A Bug's Life", "Clash of Heaven and Earth", "Mulan", "Doctor Dolittle" and "Lethal Weapon 4" respectively occupied the top spots. Ten remaining seats.

Among them, "Mulan" and "Lethal Weapon 4" replaced "Tea Boy" and "Rush Hour" in the top ten worldwide. "Mulan" relied on the excellent word-of-mouth of Disney cartoons, and the happy family atmosphere attracted a large number of audiences to the theaters, while the rise in the ranking of "Lethal Weapon 4" is worth pondering carefully.

Looking at the entire list, "Godzilla" is only tenth in North America, but it has risen to fourth in the world; "Clash of Heaven and Earth" has risen from ninth in North America to seventh. "Peerless Catastrophe" and "Lethal Weapon 4" which completed the counterattack, in the global box office rankings, commercial blockbusters occupy four seats, three of which are disaster films, this is not only "Independence Day ", "Titanic" continued the disaster movie event, and it is also the most direct manifestation of the arrival of the era of blockbuster movies.

In the global list, comedy movies have three seats, disaster movies have three seats, animation movies have two seats, and finally action movies and war movies have one seat each. It can be seen that, on the whole, works with magnificent scenes, powerful momentum, and shocking visual effects still dominate. Even if "The Truman Show" won the global box office championship, the dominance of commercial blockbusters worldwide Still unshakable.

This is in harmony with the current overall trend in Hollywood.

In this way, the coming of the "awards season" in the North American market has been explained: everyone knows that the Oscars are Hollywood's most influential ultimate weapon in the world. Hitting the Oscars not only means the industry's recognition, not only the prosperity of the video rental market, not only the development of peripheral markets, but also the development of global strategies. A title of "Oscar Nominated Work" is enough to attract People stared.

Compared with the bustling film market, the music market in 1998 was definitely not inferior. Like the film market, the overall average level of the entire music market is rising, and there is another album with a dominant performance in the music market. , After dying without glory, the prosperity of the music market has entered a new stage, as if the last energy before the collapse is erupting, pushing the bubble to its peak. At this point, the entire entertainment industry has a similar thread, which also makes people feel the calm before the storm. It seems that the entire market is brewing the next round of storms, but no one knows when this storm will come. Coming, is it 1999 or 2000?