Chapter 905

Looking back at history from the height of twenty years later, "The Lion King" is an irreplaceable work in Disney's history. This work has pushed the artistic quality of animation to an incredible height, and has also evolved animation since then. It has become one of the most profitable genres in the North American film market, and at the same time, animation has also become a powerful fighting force in the Oscar competition. After a few years, it has directly spawned the best animated feature film and the best animated short film. The birth of , then led to the gradual rise of the entire animation market.

In 2014, many outstanding animation production studios such as Pixar, Lighting Entertainment, Blue Sky Studio, and DreamWorks formed a fierce confrontation with Disney, making animation a non-negligible member of the North American film market every year.

This shows the historical status of "The Lion King".

In 1994, this history has not changed, even the "speed of life and death" against the sky, even the influence of the little butterfly Hugo, has not been able to shake this historical trajectory.

"The Lion King", which was released in 2,550 theaters, easily won the box office of 40.88 million US dollars. Since last week's screening was the opening weekend, "The Lion King" also became a The first work in history to break through the $40 million box office in the second weekend, with such sturdy historical data, topped the North American box office chart in the fourth week of June.

Such a result can be said to be without suspense. The victory of the "Lion King" was completely expected, and the three consecutive championships of "Life and Death" were already an incredible miracle. However, in the face of the 40 million-level box office of "The Lion King", the performance of "Life and Death" is the most eye-catching!

Under the huge impact, "Life and Death" handed over a 10% drop in the answer sheet, causing the entire North American film market to be in an uproar. Even in the face of "The Lion King", "Life and Death" The performance is still so strong, This is the result that really surprised everyone.

Not "Wolf", not "Little Devil", but "Lion King", the huge oppression brought about by the 40 million-level weekend box office, actually only caused "Life and Death" to lose 10% of the box office. With a box office of 23 million US dollars, no words of praise can express the shock and surprise of the heart.

There is no doubt that this is the so-called phenomenon-level performance, and this is the real dark horse against the sky!

For the fourth consecutive week, the weekend box office exceeded 20 million, which also made "Life and Death" officially surpassed "Jurassic Park" and became the only work in film history to achieve such a result. Naturally, "Life and Death" ranked fourth Weekend box office also ranked first in film history.

In just four weeks and a month, "Life and Death" completed the triple jump, and the results were better week after week, breaking a series of magical records, and bringing his cumulative box office to 140 million US dollars, surpassing 140 million US dollars. "Terminator 2"'s box office data of 133 million US dollars in the same period, as long as "Life and Death" can persist like this, creating a new history is beyond doubt.

In the fourth week of June, "The Lion King", "Life and Death" and "Wolf" each occupied the top three weekend box office charts in North America.

Interestingly, there is also a high-profile "law enforcement titan (Wyatt. Earp)" released this week, this work invested 63 million, by Kevin - Costner teamed up with Dennis - Quaid, Gene - starring Hackman, who is a savage, but completely submerged in the frenzy of "Life and Death" and "The Lion King", only to hand over $7.5 million in the opening box office to let Warner Bros. Pictures He sighed abruptly, but couldn't let it out.

In the first week of July, the release of "The. Shadow", "Blown. Away" and "I. Love. Trouble" failed to set off enough Waves, Alec. Baldwin (Alec. Baldwin), Jeff-Bridges (Jeff. Bridges), Julia-Roberts The three works led by three big-name stars formed a melee, but the media expected chaos in the world did not appear.

"The Lion King" has no doubt won the championship with a box office of 34 million US dollars. "Life and Death" faced a huge impact, and its strong performance finally fell back, but the 28% decline was still dazzling. It won the box office of 16 million US dollars in the weekend and easily continued to stay in the runner-up position. This data is also the first in film history for the fifth weekend box office, which is 500,000 more than the score of "Jurassic Park" in the same period. Dollar.

Among the three new works, only "The Phantom" barely passed the score, and the data of 12 million made it come to the third place.

Obviously, the astonishing performance of "Life and Death" has gradually lost its "surprise" and has gradually been accepted by people. This masterpiece, which has brought its cumulative box office to 160 million US dollars in five weeks, is a "dark horse". Words are no longer suitable. This is a masterpiece with absolute domineering. When to break through the threshold of 200 million and when to surpass "Terminator 2" is the focus of discussion.

With the advancement of the summer program, people gradually understood a fact: 1994 was a year of classics.

"Life and Death" is still strong, "The Lion King" is not too much, followed by "Forrest Gump", followed by "True Lies", then "Geezes in Disguise", and finally "Browsing Pursuit" ", there is no time to rest in the whole summer season. After you sing, I will come on stage, wonderful round after round.

When "Forrest Gump" premiered in the second week of July, the results can only be said to be good, and it did not reach the level of surprise. The score of 24.45 million narrowly beat the $25,000 of "The Lion King". Small data, won the North American weekend box office championship, shattered the dream of "The Lion King" for three consecutive championships. Immediately after, "Forrest Gump" delivered a sky-high drop of 1.3% in the following week, stunning the entire North American market, but it was still won the championship by "True Lies", and its performance was not comparable at all. The strength of "Life and Death" and "The Lion King".

But what is unexpected is that this work became more and more brave, and returned to the championship four times before and after, and easily brought its cumulative box office over the threshold of 200 million before the end of the summer vacation, and it is incredible. At $220 million, the strength of this work directly pushed Tom Hanks, who had just won the Oscar for Best Actor in March, to the pinnacle of his career.

However, compared with the myth of "Forrest Gump", the powerful impact of "True Lies", and the uncompromising dark horse quality of "Geek in disguise", "Speed ​​of Life", a small company with only an investment of 28 million US dollars The magical journey of cost production runs through the whole summer season, witnessing the debut of various classic works, but still relying on strong word of mouth to persevere, this is the most amazing part.

Facing "Forrest Gump" in the sixth week, it handed over a 33% decline. In the seventh week facing "True Lies", it fell below everyone's eyes again with a 29% decline. The eighth When Zhou faced the "Ultimate Witness", he continued to be amazed by a 23% decline...

It can be said that "Speed ​​of Life and Death" has proved itself with excellent performance time and time again. After the test of time, the classic name of "Speed ​​of Life and Death" has truly been recognized, and together with "True Lies", it has become a classic in 1994. The representative works of action movies in the gathering will forever remain in the long river of history.

Relying on such a strong performance, "Life and Death" officially crossed the 200 million threshold at the box office in the fifth week of July, and broke the historical record of "Terminator 2" with a score of 206 million. The film history box office champion title in the bag.

"Speed ​​of Life and Death" not only became Hugo's fourth consecutive work with a box office of over 100 million, but also became Hugo's second consecutive work with a box office of over 200 million.

In fact, strictly speaking, "Schindler's List" only broke the 200 million threshold in early August 1994, that is to say, "Life and Death" took the lead in reaching this result, causing a media uproar, but the following week , "Schindler's List" then created a miracle. The two works led by Hugo successively achieved a box office of 200 million US dollars, which is definitely a sensational achievement for the North American film market.

If we want to distinguish in more detail, then Hugo in "Schindler's List" is only a supporting role, and "Speed ​​of Life and Death" is the work starring the real Hugo, which also makes those who are concerned about "Hugo's personal box office call The voices of "power" questioning all shut up in an instant. Hugo did not rely on the cooperation of big-name actors, nor did he rely on the call of big-name directors. Through the work of "Life and Death", Hugo proved himself, proved his excellence, proved his excellence. appeal.

"Life and death", Hugo's career has a historical milestone.

What did 200 million box office mean in 1994? In fact, not only in 1994, but even in 2014, 20 years later, 200 million box office means an incredible achievement. Although the number of works that achieved this achievement in 2014 has far exceeded 100, there are also more outstanding and powerful works. Achievement, but being able to achieve 200 million box office still means top box office superstars, only a few actors are lucky enough to be members of the 200 million box office club.

However, in 1994, the 200 million box office was obviously more difficult. So far, only 16 works have achieved 200 million US dollars at the North American box office. On this list, "Alien E.T" temporarily ends with With $399.8 million, it is the No. 1 box office in film history. The runner-up is "Jurassic Park", which achieved incredible results last year, and "Star Wars" which ranked third. This is 1994. There were only three works that crossed the threshold of 300 million at the box office before the year.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, the $200 million box office is an unquestionable top star, and its box office appeal is unquestionable, and now, the two works of "Life and Death" and "Schindler's List" will also be added successively. This club, in one sentence, made Hugo an actor with two $200 million box office, and the momentum is unrivaled.