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On August 6th, an ordinary Friday, the hustle and bustle of the summer vacation was not weakened by the arrival of the holiday frenzy. On Friday alone, the box office of four works exceeded 5 million US dollars. The prosperity of the summer holidays has continued in a mighty way, and such a grand occasion has far exceeded people's expectations.
"The Blair Witch" topped the pack with $10 million Friday, followed by "Game of Thrones" with $8.8 million and "The Sixth Sense" with $8.0 million. Friday's figure of US$700,000 ranked third, while "Runaway Bride" handed over US$7 million, occupying fourth place.
Among the four works, there are two works that premiered this week. The intensity of competition between "Game of Thieves" and "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" has completely exceeded expectations. It turns out, instead, that "The Blair Witch," a student production that relied on viral video to spread, has achieved a miracle in North American cinema.
This immediately made the competition for the weekend box office rankings present an unpredictable development curve. The four newly released works may not be able to win. Instead, it took the lead on Friday, and the suspense increased sharply.
Interestingly, "The Iron Giant" only took in $2.3 million at the box office on Friday, which surprised everyone. In the case of word-of-mouth, this family carnival cartoon did not show the corresponding Its box office pulling power, even losing to horror movies like "The Sixth Sense", this is really a situation that no one expected.
After the competition ended on Friday, people's expectations for the weekend box office rankings did not drop but rose, especially the excellent performance of "The Sixth Sense" theater score gave the market a shot in the arm, and a large number of audiences poured into the show. Movie theaters added fire to the slightly lower North American summer schedule, completely detonating the hottest competition pattern in the past month.
To everyone's surprise, "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit" became more and more courageous as it fought, and it was unanimously praised by film critics. The super high rating adds fuel to the fire.
The crew members appeared on major talk shows under the leadership of Hugo, and talked in depth about many behind-the-scenes tidbits about the movie. The interaction between Hugo and Haley has always conveyed a message to everyone, "This is a movie. An atypical horror movie that is not scary", fans of horror movies can find highlights that make adrenaline burst, and fans who don't like horror movies can also enjoy this wonderful viewing process.
"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" handed over a box office development curve that all film companies dream of. The box office on Saturday is higher than that on Friday, and the box office on Sunday is higher than that on Saturday. It will only appear in the movie, showing the powerful power of publicity and word of mouth, and more and more audiences are flocking to the cinema.
Coupled with the united strength of films such as "The Blair Witch", "The Runaway Bride", "The Game of Thieves", "The Mysterious Man", "The Iron Giant" and other movies, the August, which is a summer holiday season that is gradually recovering, bursts out unprecedented energy of. The five major theaters in the United States took the lead in handing over the report on the number of viewers who entered the theaters on Sunday afternoon. According to incomplete statistics, this week is the third week of the entire summer vacation after May—"Star Wars Episode 1: The Ghosts" The week that The Menace premiered. Such an achievement made the major film companies smile.
Full of countless suspense, the weekend box office rankings for the first week of August have also been officially announced!
"The Sixth Sense" took in a box office of 8.7 million U.S. dollars on Friday and ushered in a small climax on Saturday, handing over 13 million U.S. dollars at the box office. The growth rate surprised everyone It lost its color, but it rose slightly again on Sunday, taking over 14 million figures, and finally the box office in the three days of the weekend reached 36 million US dollars.
With a single box office of 160 million US dollars, this work, which was only screened in 2,200 theaters, exploded with unimaginable energy, surpassing the record-setting "The Haunting of Ghosts" not long ago, Once again, it pushed the history of the horror film's first box office to a new level. The box office of such a single theater has even caught up with the previous "LA Confidential" and "The Truman Show". For a horror movie, even if it is described as unbelievable, it seems pale and powerless.
Such a scene once again awakened people to welcome "The Truman Show" in the midsummer last year.
People can predict the appeal of the name "Hugo-Lancaster" to the market. Regardless of the quality of the film, the box office of the film's premiere has given a very high expectation, but it is really the first weekend of the film's premiere. After the data came out, everyone was still shocked and speechless.
After the comedy movies, Hugo once again proved his precise and keen vision for film selection. A "Sixth Sense of the Spirit" was applauded by film critics and audiences, and directly exploded to 36 million. The box office data in US dollars not only became the third horror film in film history with a premiere score of more than 25 million US dollars, but also raised the box office specification of the horror film's premiere to 35 million in one fell swoop.
shock! Still shocked!
People have long been accustomed to Hugo's footsteps in making history, but horror movies? This is still too unbelievable, from love movies to drama movies, from action movies to science fiction movies, from comedy movies to horror movies...even from independent movies to commercial movies, Hugo has shown his uniqueness in almost every field. He has an accurate sense of script and has contributed one after another acclaimed and well-received works.
Recall last year when people learned that Hugo "abandoned" "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" and chose "The Sixth Sense of Psychics", there was an uproar in the United States, and it even triggered crusades from Star Wars fans. Everyone agrees that Hugo made the dumbest choice of his career - even stupider than when he appeared in "Hudson's Eagle", because a horror movie may have ruined Hugo's career at the peak of his career .
But now that "The Sixth Sense" is out, people once again find themselves underestimating Hugo—even though people have been raising the bar, Hugo not only injects soul-shaking emotions into horror movies, but also makes horror movies feel the same. The theme of the genre has risen to the height of "the separation between life and death", and it deeply and delicately explores human beings' fear of life and death and human fear of trust.
There is no doubt that this is another revolution in genre films since horror films gradually became plasma films in the second half of the 1980s. "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" makes people deeply feel the fact that a good movie should never choose a theme, because the theme of a truly excellent work is just a medium, and the idea and core conveyed are the real core.
Once upon a time, people thought Tom Cruise was a superstar, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a superstar, Harrison Ford was a superstar, Tom Hanks was a superstar... Once upon a time, people thought that Brad Pitt, George C. Wayne Rooney, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, et cetera can challenge Hugo for superstar status...but only now has it been understood that the word "superstar" is not for everyone, not even Catherine- Superstars such as Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Charlie Chaplin used to be top figures who could call the wind and rain with a gesture of their hands. In the face of the powerful momentum of Hugo, they all have to bow down.
It is no exaggeration to say that Hugo has redefined the meaning and benchmark of the term "superstar". This is not a height that anyone can achieve.
Faced with the extremely strong box office performance of "The Sixth Sense", the outstanding performance of other works has become lackluster.
"The Blair Witch" made 24 million US dollars at the box office this week. For a work with an investment of only 35,000 US dollars, it is appropriate to use "miracle" to describe it, especially its The cumulative box office has reached 80 million US dollars, easily killing a large number of works in the North American market. However, in the face of the explosive performance of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit", in the end, it could only be the runner-up for the second consecutive week.
Two horror films occupy the first and second places in the North American weekend box office rankings. Coupled with the previous good performance of "The Haunting of Ghosts", in the summer when commercial blockbusters are rampant, horror films that have always been ignored have exploded. Fighting power, this is also the most beautiful scenery in the hot summer of 1999.
"Runaway Bride" is the first collaboration between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere after "Pretty Woman" in nine years. The excellent performance of one million dollars, but the word-of-mouth far below expectations caused the work to usher in an avalanche of decline in the next week. After the 40% decline, it only won the box office of 21 million dollars this week. slipped to third place.
"Stealing the Sky" has attracted a lot of attention, and its performance on Friday can only be said to be fair, but under the circumstances of a satisfactory reputation, it was robbed of all its charm by two horror movies in the next two days. In the end, the weekend box office was only Fifteen million dollars surprised everyone. Not only did they not show the strength of the favorites to win the championship, but even compared with themselves, their results were not satisfactory.
However, in front of Hugo, any performance cannot be called abnormal, after all, this is the only superstar in the United States at present!
The other two works that premiered this week are even more incomprehensible. "Mysterious Man" grossed 10 million dollars at the weekend box office, while "The Iron Giant" actually only won 6 million dollars at the weekend box office amidst all the applause... This is not normal , is really too abnormal. The North American movie box office rankings in the first week of August, under this weird but strong pattern, the dust has settled!