Chapter 2157 Chapter 2157

In the last week of the 20th century, the curtain came down with vigor and vigor. The Y2K crisis that people were worried about did not bring about the end of the world. The sunshine of the 21st century still fell on the earth safely. Turning the year to 2000, the world seems to be different, but it seems that nothing has changed. The passage of time has slowly settled the passionate emotions, only the remaining restlessness in the air, reminiscing about the extraordinary An unusual moment.

The North American weekend box office rankings in the last week of the 20th century also released the frenzy of the millennium. The entire box office market rose by 53 percent, making the 1999 film market wild at the last moment. The top ten on the list All the famous works showed a green growth momentum, which made the major film companies deeply feel the madness at the dawn of the new century.

Among them, "A Beautiful Mind" once again created an incredible miracle. With a single box office of 12,000 US dollars, it wrote a myth for the third consecutive week, and swept the box office of 21.6 million US dollars in three days on weekends. , an increase of up to twenty percent. Although this is not the work with the highest growth rate this week, it is enough to make "A Beautiful Mind" break out at the box office of 20 million. It achieved such an amazing result in the third week of its release, and it has stepped out of the sky-defying development curve and completely ignited The last weekend of the twentieth century.

In the face of the strong performance of "A Beautiful Mind", "Little Elf Mouse" with a box office increase of 36%, handed over 16 million US dollars in weekend box office, followed closely; "Story Mobilization 2" became the biggest winner of this year's holiday season. This week's box office rose by 20 percent, occupying the third place with 12.4 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office has officially passed the 200 million threshold!

"A Beautiful Mind" became the North American weekend box office champion in the last week of the 20th century. The box office pull that was comparable to "Schindler's List" broke out, and the three giants of DreamWorks were stunned for a while.

Compared with the appalling box office performance of "A Beautiful Mind", the box office of works such as "The Talented Ripley" and "The Man on the Moon" were disappointing. The counterattack of "Toy Story 2"; the box office of the latter dropped by 28 percent despite the jubilation of the entire market, and the cumulative box office in the two weeks of its release was only 24 million, with an investment of 82 million Obviously going to lose everything, which made Universal Pictures want to cry.

The box office performance of "The Talented Ripley" is not only far below expectations, but most importantly, although critics and audiences have a good reputation, they still lack a little enthusiasm. Not good news, Miramax Films immediately became anxious, the Weinstein brothers can be seen in every corner of Hollywood. Internal screenings, small movie viewing sessions, screenwriter receptions, actor parties... At the turn of the century, the two brothers were busier than anyone else at any time.

In stark contrast, "A Beautiful Mind" has been making history every step of the way, from spot screenings to limited screenings, and then to full releases, showing a box office potential that astonished everyone. With three consecutive weeks of high-powered box office Pulling the momentum, the cumulative box office sprinted to 50 million US dollars in one breath, which obviously brought another surprise.

Originally, people also criticized the investment cost of this work as high as 60 million US dollars, which is almost equal to 120 million commercial action movies for a biographical film, which made people deeply worried about the profitability of DreamWorks. But now, everyone obediently kept their mouths shut—obviously, they never needed to worry about the box office performance of "Produced by Hugo".

With the strong rise of "A Beautiful Mind" and the recovery of "The Genius Ripley", there is a saying in Hollywood: "A Beautiful Mind" is indeed an excellent work, but it is really good enough to be compared with "The Talented Ripley". Forrest Gump" comparable? Hugo Lancaster has swept across the entire North American continent, should we really continue to watch him run amok?

Behind the four Hugo statuettes, no one should forget that he is not yet thirty-three years old this year, what does that mean? This means that Hugo will have at least ten or twenty years of artistic life, and he will show incredible dominance over the entire Hollywood, becoming a cancerous tumor in Hollywood, restricting the development of other actors, even many outstanding actors. Actors can't get the corresponding affirmation, let alone a newcomer actor?

Like last year Sean Penn, like Denzel Washington, like Brad Pitt, like George Clooney, like Matt Damon, like Kevin Spacey, like Leonardo DiCaprio... These actors have given wonderful performances in the past few years, but none of them have been able to win the affirmation of the Oscar statuette. There is only one reason: Hugo is like a mountain lying in front of them.

It's hard to imagine, if things go on like this, whether the newcomer will have a bright future.

The title of "Hollywood cancer" has spread like wildfire in the circle, especially with the box office results of "A Beautiful Mind" getting stronger and stronger, this kind of remarks have become more and more popular, even "Saturday Night Live" broadcast live on the show During the process, Hugo was ridiculed in this way.

However, the box office momentum of "A Beautiful Mind" has no way to stop, especially the competition in the holiday season has always been weak. After entering January, it has come to the winter season when all film companies rest and adjust. The popularity of the entire film market is going down. Slide down, which makes "A Beautiful Mind" stand out even more.

In the first week of 2000, "A Beautiful Mind" was further expanded, increasing its theaters to 2,200, and finally handed over a drop of only 8%, and won 20 million for the second consecutive week. With a weekend box office of the same level, it unsurprisingly topped the North American weekend box office rankings with 22 million U.S. dollars, and opened the prosperity of the film market in the 21st century with a proud gesture.

Only three films were shown in small numbers this week, and all of them are old faces in the race for the weekend's box office charts, "Mice Boy," "The Green Mile," "The Talented Ripley" and "Sunday Challenge." They occupy the second to fifth places on the list respectively, but unfortunately, even the runner-up "Little Elf Mouse" only has 11 million weekend box office capacity, and no one can shake "A Beautiful Mind" at all. dominance.

It is worth mentioning that "The Genius Ripley" finally stopped its downward trend, and after the cumulative box office surpassed the cost line, it finally started to pick up amidst the Weinstein brothers' hard work.

The deserted winter stalls will last until the end of February, and the entire market appears calm.

In the following week, the comedy movie "Next. Friday" held its grand premiere. This small-budget movie with an investment of only eleven million broke out with amazing energy and won 14,000. The million-dollar premiere box office made the whole of North America cheer.

It is a pity that this result did not shake the championship momentum of "A Beautiful Mind". It handed over a weekend box office of 17.2 million with a 22% drop, and achieved a strong three consecutive championships. People have completely lost their language skills. First, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" achieved seven consecutive championships in the summer, and then "A Beautiful Mind" achieved three consecutive championships on the New Year's Eve, and these two works are relatively weak in box office. People have no idea other than to lament Hugo's box office appeal.

In the third week of January, the low-budget romantic comedy film "Down. To. You" landed in North America, but unfortunately, it did not perform as well as expected. The box office of 7.6 million US dollars only ranked third, " Next Friday" continued to occupy the runner-up spot with $8 million despite a 44 percent drop at the box office.

With no competitors, "A Beautiful Mind" has won four consecutive championships without any suspense. The box office drop of only 2% shows that the entire market is currently dominated by "A Beautiful Mind", and there is no one at all. This work can shake its leading position.

After four consecutive championships, the cumulative box office of "A Beautiful Mind" has officially passed the threshold of 100 million US dollars. In fact, it is more accurate to say that the movie's box office has reached such a high level on the Monday of the third week of January. Last weekend's 17 million-level box office performance, "A Beautiful Mind" has accumulated 124 million US dollars after five weeks of release!

Although the momentum is far behind "The Sixth Sense" or "The Truman Show", the overall development curve is close to that of "LA Confidential", showing the huge potential of breaking the 200 million box office in North America.

As a biographical film, "A Beautiful Mind" has received far more attention than imagined. Although people have different opinions on Hugo's adaptation, some people think that Hugo distorted reality and re-wrote a fairy tale, which is far from any. The practical significance even distorts the meaning of biography; but some people think that Hugo has artistically dealt with the reality, and the re-created story focuses on the theme, has more humanistic care, and shows the wisdom and sensitivity of a screenwriter.

However, it is undeniable that with the advance of the film's release time, more and more mentally ill patients and their families have boldly walked into the cinema to appreciate this work. At the same time, more and more people realize that there are such suffering people around them, and even they themselves have psychological hidden dangers, which makes the social culture change little by little invisibly.

"A Beautiful Mind", which started low-key, showed the box office potential of a commercial film with a counterattack attitude, and even hoped to hit the box office of 200 million US dollars, while also relying on its own strength to influence society.