Chapter 2160: 2160 The End of the Year
The dawn of the 21st century has shrouded the sky above the earth, and the year of each year has finally officially entered the beginning of "2" from the beginning of "1", and 1999, as the last year of the 20th century, is surging , although it did not break out the miracles of 1996 and 1997, nor did it show a hundred flowers blooming in 1998, but the overall box office in 1999 still rose by one percentage point, and "Hugo-Lancaster" is no longer the best in the world. The only bright spot in the movie box office market this year.
After Hugo won the North American annual championship twice in the past three years, this year's "Star Wars Prequel" turned out to break this situation, not only set off a frenzy of movie watching, but also reawakened people's memories and memories of Star Wars. Fascination, let this series that changed the history of American culture come into the sight of the new generation again.
"Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" became the fourth work in film history with a North American box office of over 400 million. It won the annual box office champion in 1999 with a box office of 430 million US dollars. A vintage comparable to 1996, 1997.
"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has a box office of 380 million U.S. dollars as a dark horse, ranking second in the annual North American box office list. This is indeed a situation that no one could have expected at the beginning of 1999; The third runner-up work is "A Beautiful Mind" which showed its strength at the end of the year. Although this work failed to reach the 300 million threshold, the achievement of 280 million US dollars still shined in 1999.
Although Hugo missed the championship of the year, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" and "A Beautiful Mind" ranked second and third respectively. The combined box office of the two works reached 660 million, achieving another personal breakthrough for Hugo ——This is so far the highest annual box office figure for a single actor. A single actor can create a box office of 660 million within a year, which was completely unimaginable before, even "Titanic" "Created a box office of 600 million US dollars, and it still does. But now, Hugo has become the first person in film history—once again.
It can be said that Hugo once again became a vital part of the glory of 1999.
After these three works, "Toy Story 2", "Ace Powers 2", "The Matrix", "Tarzan of the Apes", "Big. Daddy", "The Mummy", "Fall "Running Bride" occupied the third to tenth positions respectively.
In the whole year, five works had a box office of over 200 million, and 22 works had a box office of over 100 million. Among them, Hugo performed the most appallingly, but "The Blair Witch", which ranked eleventh in the year-end box office list. The cost of this work was only 35,000 US dollars, and it finally swept 145 million US dollars in the North American market. It became the most profitable work in film history without any suspense, and truly made the fairy tale a reality.
In addition, the birth of "The Matrix" also ushered in a new era of sci-fi movies. This style-filled work has reawakened people's curiosity and interest in sci-fi with fantastic ideas. Shooting skills and new ideas have had a vital impact on the entire Hollywood industry. In addition to creating a new box office record for an "R-rated" movie with a box office of 171 million US dollars, many people in the circle called this work "comparable to 'Star Wars'".
From the restart of the "Star Wars" series to the beginning of the "Matrix" series, science fiction films ushered in the second peak since the 1980s in 1999 during the millennium bug crisis, and this is also the first significant in the blockbuster era. Features - The influence of computer special effects on sci-fi movies is undoubted. After disaster movies, sci-fi movies have become an important part of new era movies.
On this North American box office list, Disney has become the biggest winner. "The Sixth Sense", "Toy Story 2" and "Tarzan of the Apes" are all produced and distributed by them. However, people in the industry did not pay attention to Disney, but quietly noticed the rise of Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company.
Needless to say, Hugo, "The Sixth Sense" and "A Beautiful Mind" are completely bundled and packaged works by the Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company; in addition, Keanu Reeves of "The Matrix", "Old Adam Sandler of "Dad Going Forward" is also a client of Endeavor Elite Agency. In addition, "The Green Mile", "Wild Storm", "American Pie", "The Haunting of Ghosts" and so on are among the box office charts The top 20 works are all the works of the clients of Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company.
Not only Hugo and Tom Hanks, but other clients of the Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company have also ushered in a full-scale explosion, which has substantially improved the overall strength of the company, coupled with the "Harry Potter" series Warner Bros. won the right to adapt the movie, which makes Endeavor Elite Brokers indeed have the capital to break the rule of the "Big Three".
Compared with the North American box office market, the pattern of the global box office market has not changed much. However, there is an interesting data comparison. Among the top ten global box office at the end of the year, only three works have a higher box office in the North American market than in overseas markets. In other words, following the full-scale explosion of the North American market in 1996 and 1997, the overseas market also ushered in a period of rapid growth in 1999, and the importance of overseas box office to Hollywood is increasing step by step.
"Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" undoubtedly occupied the position of the annual champion. Unfortunately, the film's final global box office stopped at 983 million US dollars, failing to break through the one billion threshold, creating another History, this is undoubtedly a great regret.
"The Sixth Sense" followed closely. The box office data of 890 million US dollars is enough to make it stand below one person and above ten thousand; "A Beautiful Mind" has no further breakthrough in overseas box office performance. Under the circumstances, it still occupies the third place, narrowly beating "Toy Story 2" by a narrow gap of five million US dollars, which also makes the latter only regrettably slip to the third place.
The North American box office and the global box office have maintained a high degree of consistency in the top four positions, but there have been some changes since the fifth place.
"The Matrix", "Tarzan of the Apes", "The Mummy", "Notting Hill", "007 (The. World. Is. Not. Enough)" and "Ace Powers 2" took the No. Positions from fifth to tenth.
It can be seen that the two new faces of "Notting Hill" and "007: Black Sun Crisis", relying on the outstanding performance of the European market-especially the enthusiastic response of the British market, made these two works top the global box office. occupied a higher position. However, two works with obvious American brands, "Daddy Going Forward" and "Runaway Bride", were squeezed out of the top ten, especially the former, which is a comedy with distinctive American characteristics, which is obviously difficult to achieve in the world. There are better things to do.
Judging from the entire global year-end box office rankings, the commercial films of the blockbuster era still occupy the mainstream. "The Sixth Sense", "A Beautiful Mind" and "Notting Hill" are the only three films of different types. Horror, drama, and love works, these three works can occupy a place in the global list, which is even more commendable.
There is no doubt that Hugo is still the king of the year-end list. People have long been accustomed to this pattern. It has become the most important label in the entire 90s, not one of them.
The same pattern also appeared on the music charts. In fact, in the past year, Glory to Death has not had any activities at all, and even a single has not been released, but despite this, "Storm" has still become the focus of attention. Focus, staying on top of the Billboard album chart for 172 consecutive weeks, is still sprinting for the top ten seats in the list for consecutive weeks.
Throughout the 1990s, there was only one album with more than 200 weeks on the list: Nirvana's "Never Mind", which has been on the list for a full 278 weeks, until the beginning of 1998. , but this result is only ranked twelfth in history. To hit this record, "Squall" still has a long way to go.
The music market in 1999 showed unprecedented prosperity, and the Backstreet Boys ushered in their peak period. After the album "Millennium" was released in May, it sold 500,000 copies in the first week, and In December, it successfully obtained the 11th Platinum certification, with annual sales of 11.3 million copies; then, Britney Spears was born, her debut album "Baby, Again (Baby. One) .More. Time)" was released on January 12, 1999, and finally on December 9, 1999, the sales volume exceeded 10 million copies, and the annual sales volume reached 10.5 million. Zhang's work has also become the third and fourth works in the 1990s to achieve sales of 10 million copies in a single year after "Storm" and "Double Live".
The sales of the two albums exceeded 10 million within one year, which is absolutely unprecedented prosperity. Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears ranked the year-end champion and runner-up respectively.
After them, Ricky Martin's self-titled album achieved 7.3 million sales, ranking third at the end of the year; Santana, Limp. Bizkit, Christina Aguilera. Aguilera) and TLC have all exceeded five million album sales, occupying the fourth to seventh places respectively.
In the year-end sales list, seven albums sold more than five million copies, which almost created the peak of music history. It was an unimaginable achievement in any previous year, especially Backstreet Boys, Britney, Christie The strong rise of the three idol singers has changed the composition of the music market, further increasing the proportion of pop music, and dominating the entire market.
However, even in the face of menacing pop music, the rising momentum of rock and roll has not weakened at all. In addition to the soft biscuit band, many other rock bands have also begun to explode with amazing energy, occupying a place in the year-end list.