Chapter 2159 Chapter 2159

In Hugo's acting career, there are many years worth remembering. 1993 dedicated "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Schindler's List", and shook the market with "Speed" and "Pulp Fiction". In 1994, "Before Sunrise", "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row" ushered in 1995, when acting skills exploded...Now Hugo ushered in the year of full-scale explosion again, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" and "Beautiful The two works of "Spirit" broke 200 million at the box office, making 1999 a perfect ending for the film market of the twentieth century.

Hollywood is a place where miracles are created. It is not uncommon to become famous overnight and become famous overnight. However, it is never easy to replicate the glory; An extremely difficult matter.

Hugo can not only create brilliance, but also replicate brilliance, and even constantly refresh his own brilliance, which is undoubtedly the most shocking. Don't you see, even the uncrowned king lowered his head proudly in front of him—the uncrowned king is ultimately uncrowned.

Due to the hot response from the market, the release lineup of "A Beautiful Mind" was very long. Although it was not as good as the exaggerated forty weeks of "The Sixth Sense", it was still released until the third week of July. It has been released for 30 weeks, which is also the best proof that the film has a strong social influence.

Especially half a year after the film was released, the impact on patients with mental illness and related relatives and friends is undoubtedly far-reaching. Although there is still a long way to go to change the views and opinions of mainstream society, at least for those parties who feel the same way, it has gradually produced effects. , which is undoubtedly a good start.

The North American box office of "A Beautiful Mind" finally settled at 280 million US dollars. Unfortunately, it failed to reach 300 million US dollars again. ...One cannot be so greedy. For a biographical film with an investment of 60 million US dollars, this box office result is enough to make DreamWorks rejoice.

According to estimates by Wall Street insiders, the work "A Beautiful Mind" has achieved more than 100 million US dollars in profits for DreamWorks in North America alone-and it is only based on box office results. This data continues to improve, and this is also the most successful work since the establishment of DreamWorks-the profit amount far exceeds last year's "Saving Private Ryan".

Although the box office of "A Beautiful Mind" failed to exceed 300 million, which temporarily slowed down the momentum of Hugo's past three box office figures, the final box office figure still surpassed that of "LA Confidential", which is an outstanding performance. It still sparked the amazement of all the media.

In the box office rankings of film history, "A Beautiful Mind" finally ranked fourteenth, becoming one of the 19 works with a box office of more than 250 million US dollars. Such performance is undoubtedly exceptional. Not even the New York Post would be foolish enough to repeat the mistake, arguing that "it's a sign that Hugo's career is torn apart."

It is worth mentioning that there are currently only 33 works in the history of film with a box office of more than 200 million, and Hugo alone occupies seven seats-and none of them are series films or sequels. Absolutely The dominance is evident.

Following the US$280 million achievement in North America, "A Beautiful Mind" also performed very well in overseas markets.

"A Beautiful Mind" has been screened in 43 overseas countries and regions - the overall release scale is far from being comparable to "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", and the distribution department of DreamWorks, which has just been established for one year, still has a lot of room for improvement. However, these 43 countries and regions cover the main box office markets, which also makes the film's box office results hand in a good answer.

After the film was released, "A Beautiful Mind" successfully won the championship in 24 countries and regions in its premiere weekend, and its dominance was far inferior to that of "The Sixth Sense". There are as many as 40 countries and regions in China, and 31 countries and regions have won consecutive championships. Like the North American market, the follow-up momentum is unstoppable.

Japan, Germany and Italy became the largest box office in the overseas market. The box office results of the three regions all exceeded 20 million US dollars. Among them, Japan, which performed the best, won the championship in the overseas market with 24 million US dollars. This data is completely incomparable with the "sixth sense of the supernatural", which surprised many people.

Although "A Beautiful Mind" is a biography, in the final analysis, it is still a love movie, a movie about mental illness. In terms of genre, it should have more box office appeal than the horror movie "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", and The overall quality and core content of the movie are not inferior to "The Sixth Sense", even if the overseas box office of "The Sixth Sense" cannot be replicated - the figure of 510 million US dollars is really unbelievable, but at least it should not be different too far.

But in the end, the top three performances at the overseas box office were not at the same level at all.

Some people have carefully studied the reason, mainly because the content of "A Beautiful Mind" is full of American culture, from game theory to Princeton University, from the background of the times to the content of John's fantasy, all have a strong American color. Although there are not many on the whole, it just serves the movie, but compared with "The Sixth Sense", which is completely free of any political and cultural coloring, the mass base of "A Beautiful Mind" is still slightly inferior, which restricts the movie. Further development at the box office.

However, this is only relatively speaking. The appalling box office performance of "The Sixth Sense" in overseas markets has proved Hugo's strong appeal, and this time is no exception. The overseas box office performance of "A Beautiful Mind" is already extremely good. The top three have jointly contributed 70 million US dollars in box office, which is almost the sum of the box office of other films in overseas markets.

In addition to Japan, Germany and Italy, the box office of "A Beautiful Mind" in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Australia also reached 15 million US dollars; in addition, the box office of Mexico, South Korea, and Brazil all exceeded 1,000 US dollars. The overall performance of the global market can be said to be in full bloom.

In the end, "A Beautiful Mind" swept 210 million US dollars in overseas markets, which was far inferior to the performance in the North American market, and it was far from the 350 million US dollars of "LA Confidential". It can be seen that the box office of works with strong American culture will still be affected in overseas markets. For example, the overseas performance of "Forrest Gump" is not as good as that of "The Lion King", and "Pulp Fiction" is another example. In North America, the influence of overseas markets pales in comparison.

But even so, the overseas performance of "A Beautiful Mind" has still steadily passed the 200 million threshold, and the overall momentum is not as good as "The Sixth Sense", which is still enough to become one of the most outstanding works this year, proving once again Thanks to Hugo's strong appeal in overseas markets, he is unique in the world, and other actors or directors cannot match it at all. Especially considering the premise of DreamWorks' limited overseas distribution capabilities, this achievement is even more worthy of recognition.

From the momentum of the counterattack in North America to the steady progress overseas, even DreamWorks defines "A Beautiful Mind" as a situation where the box office performance does not have a strong pulling ability, but "A Beautiful Mind" has exploded with abnormal box office energy. The box office data of 490 million US dollars was harvested within the scope.

Exchange 60 million for 490 million - some people may say that "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is 60 million for 890 million - but no one can ignore the outstanding performance of "A Beautiful Mind". It also continued Hugo's strong momentum since "The Speed ​​of Life and Death", and once again made the film company's investment obtain an incredible return.

In fact, after "Independence Day" and "LA Confidential", people in the Hollywood industry have been questioning that Hugo's salary is really too high. Hugo is not only the number one person in the current "20 million club", but he can always win more profit dividends as a producer.

For example, "The Sixth Sense" and "A Beautiful Mind" in the past year, the former earned Hugo $45 million in pay, while the latter's final pay was as high as $50 million. Although the North American box office of "The Sixth Sense" is much higher than that of "A Beautiful Mind", the former is in cooperation with Bowei Films, and Hugo gets 12% of the dividend; while the latter is in cooperation with DreamWorks , Hugo received 18% of the dividends as the producer, actor and screenwriter. Therefore, in the end, Hugo's salary showed such a pattern.

It is unimaginable that an actor's salary is as high as 40 million or more, and even broke through 50 million, and this is not an occasional work, it can even be regarded as the norm of Hugo. After "Independence Day", rain Guo Guo's overall salary has never been less than 30 million US dollars.

Therefore, the major Hollywood film companies are always waving checks of 20 million US dollars, eager to cooperate with Hugo, because compared with Hugo's final salary of 40 million, "20 million" is really a big deal. The numbers couldn't be cheaper.

This has also caused many people in the industry to shake their heads frequently, thinking that Hugo has completely destroyed the norms and structure of the entire industry chain. If things go on like this, the 20 million club will soon become the 30 million club. is very unfavorable.

But now, looking at the two works of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" and "A Beautiful Mind", they are only the box office performances in North America. It won a dividend of 100 million US dollars for DreamWorks. If the box office in overseas markets and the profits of the follow-up video tape market are added, the income will reach a higher level.

It's not just value for money, it's value for money. Therefore, even the pickiest and harshest insiders in the industry can’t say anything negative about Hugo, because they know—behind the 20 million club, Hugo’s benefits to the entire film industry chain It is unimaginable, and they are also among the beneficiaries.

So, they all shut their mouths obediently, and sat down to plan honestly. How can they enrich their pockets?