Chapter 373 373 Strong Recovery
"Sleepless in Seattle" won the two-week championship in the summer season of strong player Rulin, which has also become the biggest news in this summer's season. Jurassic Park" pales in comparison.
Even more frightening is that "Sleepless in Seattle" in the confrontation with the direct competitor "Sugar-Coated Trap", in addition to losing a slight disadvantage to Sidney Pollack and Tom Cruise in the first week. In addition to this work, for the next three weeks, he will stubbornly step on the opponent's position, which is too strong.
And "Sleepless in Seattle" is obviously not over yet, with a 21 percent drop in the following week, making the film $9 million on three days over the weekend, just behind this week's newly released "Rising Sun" Rising. Sun," was No. 2 on the North American weekend box office charts in the last week of July.
The follow-up performance finally returned to normal, "Fire Line Sniper" ranked third, and "Sugar Coated Trap" also stabilized, surpassing "Jurassic Park" and continued to rank fourth. It can be said that the most eye-catching on the box office list this week is "Sleepless in Seattle". Although "The Rising Sun" is the champion, the 15 million winning result is really unachievable, not even comparable." "Sleepless in Seattle" box office figures for its third week of release.
This also makes "Sleepless in Seattle" still far ahead in the hot list of media topics.
In the first week of August, "Sleepless in Seattle" ushered in the second topic collision. It was reported that "The End of the World", which had Hugo removed from the cast list because of being late to the audition, officially hit.
In fact, strictly speaking, this collision does not make any sense, because "Sleepless in Seattle" has entered its seventh week of release, and there is no possibility of any head-on competition with "Desperados", which premiered this week. However, the gossip psychology of the reporters will inevitably come into play again.
Hugo has successively become a seed player on the list of leading actors in big productions such as "Sugar Coated Trap" and "Desperate World". He originally thought that Hugo would use such a commercial blockbuster to once again attack the breakthrough that was not able to be achieved by relying on "Deadly Moment" in the past. , But unexpectedly, Hugo not only failed to become the leading actor of these works, but also broke the scandal after the Golden Globe incident, and ended up joining "Sleepless in Seattle", a work that was disliked by everyone. , which is embarrassing.
However, almost everyone thought that Hugo's super popularity accumulated by "smell the fragrance and know a woman" and "Yihai Xiongfeng" was about to become a bubble, but "Sleepless in Seattle" fought a beautiful turn over and let the "Jurassic Park" broke out in a cold sweat, and then managed to capture the "sugar-coated trap", which became the second work of Hugo's actor career with a box office of over 100 million yuan. omnipresent.
Therefore, people will naturally look forward to the results of "Desperate World", and they are also curious about what kind of answer sheet "Sleepless in Seattle" can deliver in the face of the impact of "Desperate World".
As a result, "The End of the World" won the weekend box office championship in North America this week with $23 million without any suspense, while "Sleepless in Seattle" once again handed over an ultra-low drop of 24% and won three days on the weekend. Down $6.8 million, placing it third on the list behind "The Rising Sun".
I have to say that the box office drop of "Sleepless in Seattle" has repeatedly created surprises, and it has remained strong in the face of such a huge impact as "Desperados", which has made people see the huge potential of this work at the box office. Now that the cumulative box office has reached 142 million US dollars in seven weeks of release, the historical record of "Pretty Woman" seems to be close at hand.
Regardless of the final box office figures of "Sugar-Coated Trap" and "Desperados", the low-budget romance movie "Sleepless in Seattle" delivered a perfect answer! Following the "Righteous Sea Heroes", Hugo also officially entered the front line by relying on the outstanding performance of "Sleepless in Seattle".
It is particularly worth mentioning that Hugo's remuneration for "Sleepless in Seattle" is cash plus dividends. Now that the film has achieved box office success, it also means that Hugo's remuneration will likely exceed $8 million. This is the decisive factor for Hugo to hang the "first-line actor" label.
"Sleepless in Seattle" is still in theaters, and it has been rumored that Paramount Pictures is planning to make a big-budget movie, and is willing to offer $8 million in remuneration to invite Hugo to star. At the time of the release of "The Hero of the Sea of Righteousness", it was only a "front line of rumors", but now a production company has put forward such an invitation. For Hugo's actor career, the real breakthrough has been completed suddenly!
However, Joseph is obviously not in a hurry to approach a new job for Hugo, because the performance of "Sleepless in Seattle" is not over yet, and "Pretty Moon" is still waiting for the highest record of the $178 million romantic comedy Beyond "Sleepless in Seattle".
"Sleepless in Seattle" did not disappoint the reporters who were looking forward to it, with a 15 percent drop in the second week of August, a 16 percent drop in the third week, an 18 percent drop in the fourth week, and an eighteen percent drop in the fourth week. By the end of the month, the film's cumulative box office totaled $160 million.
Although with the advancement of time, the rate of box office accumulation will definitely become slower and slower, but after entering September, the box office of "Sleepless in Seattle" actually experienced a counterattack for two consecutive weeks, with an increase of 35 Percentage points and fifteen percentage points, followed by another 10% drop in the third week of September, which also made the film's cumulative box office rise rapidly to 177 million US dollars, and the historical record of "Pretty Woman" has been At your fingertips!
Sure enough, in the fourth week of September, the historic moment officially arrived. "Sleepless in Seattle" received 3.3 million at the box office with a 30% drop, and the cumulative box office also reached 181 million US dollars. Location, this also marks that "Sleepless in Seattle" officially surpassed "Pretty Woman", occupying the throne of the first box office in the history of love movies in North America!
No one could have expected such a result. Just like "Pretty Woman" became popular at the beginning, "Sleepless in Seattle" also exploded with shocking energy in an instant when everyone was not optimistic. It surpassed its own limits, refreshed the historical record of box office data, and finally surpassed "Pretty Woman" and became the movie with the best box office performance among romance works!
"Sleepless in Seattle" broke "Pretty Woman"'s all-time record with 14 weeks in theaters, but it didn't stop completely. It was released for another six weeks after that, and it wasn't officially until the second week of November. Off the assembly line, the entire release cycle lasted for 20 weeks, and the final cumulative box office figure reached 189 million US dollars!
Although unfortunately not able to cross the threshold of 200 million US dollars, but the box office data of 189 million US dollars has surpassed "Yihai Xiongfeng", becoming the highest-grossing film among Hugo's current personal works. Hugo himself could not have foreseen the situation.
Relatively speaking, the performance of "Sleepless in Seattle" is inferior in overseas markets. Although the commonality of love stories makes the movie also have a strong appeal in overseas markets, Hugo still lacks some appeal as a male protagonist, and A medium with an American imprint, such as radio, has also weakened its resonance in overseas markets. The most important thing is that neither Hugo nor Meg have arranged any overseas promotional itineraries, which undoubtedly greatly weakened the film's box office competitiveness in overseas markets.
In the end, the overseas market handed over a performance of 140 million US dollars. This figure is much lower than the North American box office, but it is still an achievement worthy of celebration, which also makes the global box office performance of "Sleepless in Seattle" in one fell swoop Coming to the position of 329 million US dollars, this is not only Hugo's current work with the highest global box office, but also Hugo's first work with a global box office exceeding 300 million.
With a mere $20 million investment, "Sleepless in Seattle" eventually created an incredible box-office miracle to brighten the summer and became the talk of 1993.
Relying on the strong performance of "Sleepless in Seattle" at the North American box office, Hugo got a 10% dividend - Joseph only competed for Hugo's right to the North American box office dividend, so Hugo can get a full thousand The dividend of 8.9 million US dollars, which also made Hugo's final official pre-tax remuneration data exceed 20 million, after becoming a group of top stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and then again. An actor who can earn more than $15 million.
Joseph also joined the ranks of first-line brokers overnight with Hugo's strong performance. During the negotiation of the salary of "Sleepless in Seattle", Joseph showed courage and wisdom. Hugo won an unprecedented competition. The contract, which has also become the most eye-catching resume in Joseph's career. This also allowed Joseph to earn the first million of his brokerage career!
It is conceivable that Joseph will win the trust of more and more people as an agent, and Joseph's career will officially take off.
There is no doubt that the haze of the past six months has completely dissipated, Hugo has officially announced a full recovery, and the clouds brought about by the Golden Globes event have been swept away, and people's dissatisfaction with "Sleepless in Seattle" has become. Now the impetus for the Hugo's strong rebound has allowed the Hugo to soar into the sky.
Under such a situation, people's attitudes towards "Schindler's List" have also changed involuntarily. After all, this movie was originally blessed by Steven. Is "Schindler's List" such a serious and serious film? Can World War II movies also work wonders? Many media have already begun to express their expectations.
However, compared with the media cheering for Hugo's strong recovery, many people are also heavy-hearted because of the success of "Sleepless in Seattle".