Chapter 942
If you were looking for a suitable word to describe the performance of "Fury Road", it would be "despair"-the strength that makes all competitors despair, and "The Undertaker" clearly and accurately describes the strength of "Fury Road". Don't talk about works such as "The Return of Superman", "The Banshee", and "Monster House". Even "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has been completely misfired. , There is no power to fight back, even the idea of confrontation is completely defeated, let alone counterattack, that kind of absolute advantage really makes people desperate.
After winning the North American box office championship in a record-breaking way for three consecutive weeks, "Fury Road" is still not slowing down in the summer. This is terrible news for every competitor——Sony Pictures Karma now has the heart to die.
In this year's summer season, Sony Pictures holds a good hand. The industry generally believes that they are expected to achieve a good box office performance and compete with Disney and Warner Brothers. Therefore, Sony Pictures is naturally unwilling to take risks and hurt its own interests in order to suppress Chaos Pictures-the original purpose of this plan is for profit, and Sony Pictures will naturally not put the cart before the horse, but they obviously don't want to see The rise of Chaos Films, so Michael Layton played a little trick-now it seems that this trick is really stupid.
"Remote Control of Life", which was released in the fourth week of June, was bombarded by "Superman Returns", "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "Fury Road", which seriously affected the follow-up trend of the box office; The two works of "Monster House" completely lost their way in the bombardment of "Fury Road"; if it weren't for the box office success of "The Da Vinci Code", I am afraid that Sony Pictures will be in a worse situation this summer than Warner Bros. Not going anywhere.
Now, Sony Pictures' blockbuster comedy of the summer, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," has suffered yet again. This "big money" comedy, which cost 75 million to create, once again encountered a powerful snipe from "Fury Road", not only lost the duel in the championship battle in the first week of August, but also lost a championship The free publicity effect brought by the title, and the box office on the opening weekend also fell to 30 million levels. A sap, let Sony Pictures be dumb and eat coptis, and it is hard to tell.
The entire July schedule has been emptied by the joint works of "Fury Road" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2". There is almost no living space for comedy movies. It is hard to imagine that the only comedy movie in this summer's file is "Life Remote Control" This film has successfully exceeded 100 million, so people in the industry are very optimistic about "Talladega Night".
This comedy created by the original crew of "Ace Announcer" can be regarded as the most trustworthy comedy creative team outside of the Bad Boys. The investment of 75 million is really incredible, mainly because the crew and American Motors The organizers of the championship obtained cooperation and were allowed to enter the high-speed track for on-site shooting. The gimmick of "entering the national F1 track for shooting for the first time" became the most eye-catching hot spot during the promotion period. What's more, the leading actor Will Ferrell is very popular now. Last year, he surpassed Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp with an income of 40 million to become the most profitable actor in the United States. His personal appeal is absolutely trustworthy.
Therefore, many professionals believe that "Talladega Nights" is expected to achieve box office data of more than 40 million in its opening weekend, and may even end the consecutive championship momentum of "Fury Road". Sony Pictures is obviously planning on such a wishful thinking. With the trend of summer duels gradually weakening, "Talladega Nights" will take advantage of the fisherman's profit and take the lead in August, and suppress "Rage" The follow-up box office decline of "The Road" gave an explanation to the partners of the blockade alliance.
But expectations are good, but reality is cruel. I am afraid that everyone underestimated the pulling power of the topic of "Fury Road"-even after three consecutive weeks of outbreaks, people still underestimated the endurance of the work.
The topic of Europe's "Sons of War" swept across the continent, and crossed the ocean to ignite a new round of movie-watching boom in North America. The box office was 36 million in three days on the weekend, which undoubtedly broke the film history record of 28 million in the fourth weekend created by "Titanic" in 1997. Such stamina is indeed desperate.
It is already the fourth week of its release, but it still broke out with a box office capacity of 30 million. Although the pace of box office pulling power began to slow down in the middle of the week, "Fury Road" still showed its dominance in the box office curve trend. The level of dominance completely extinguished the resistance of all challengers. "Talladega Nights" earned a good 34 million in its premiere weekend, but regrettably became the witness of "Fury Road"'s four consecutive championships. This is also the week with the smallest gap since this summer. Champion and runner-up results.
It can be seen that "Talladega Nights" is indeed a champion, but it is a pity that it encountered a stronger "Fury Road" and unfortunately lost. This is the most depressing and most embarrassing for Sony Pictures Where it hurts, this is equivalent to using one's best horse of the highest level to face the opponent's inferior horse in Tian Ji's horse race. In the end, he lost. Michael Layton should be crying at this time.
"Fury Road" once again crowned the North American weekend box office champion with record-breaking momentum, becoming the only work with four consecutive titles this year, and this record was created in the summer file, even Warner Bros., Sony Pictures I can only shake my head with regret, willing to admit defeat.
What's even more gratifying is that the cumulative box office of "Fury Road" has grown by leaps and bounds to 462 million! what does that mean? This means that "Fury Road" has finally surpassed "E.T the Extraterrestrial", surpassed "Shrek 2", and finally surpassed the box office of "Star Wars" with 460 million. , just behind "Titanic" with a total box office of 600 million, occupying the runner-up position; this also means that "Fury Road" has already broken through 500 million, and the guess of 600 million has been divorced from theoretical possibilities. Step by step it evolves into reality.
Twenty-six days, "Fury Road" broke through the box office skyrocket of 450 million in North America in only 26 days, while "Titanic" took 81 days to reach such a height.
In the entire long film history, only six film works have reached a box office of 400 million in North America, which is also considered to be the highest level that any film can touch. Each of these six works is enough to be recorded in the annals of history and can be called a classic. Among them, the "Star Wars" series occupies two seats-"Star Wars" and "Star Wars Episode 1". A direct portrayal of the far-reaching influence of popular culture. No one could have expected that when "Star Wars" debuted in 1977, this cult movie, which was considered to be a fantasy of tech nerds, has been deeply imprinted in the blood of American culture, and it has truly promoted the cult of the niche. became popular.
Now, after "Star Wars", the success of "Fury Road" has made people realize whether the so-called minority, so-called cult, and so-called dimensional culture are really "non-mainstream". If "Spider-Man" can sweep 400 million box office in the North American market, and if "Fury Road" can smash all stereotypes, then is there more wealth to be tapped in the world of comics?
The miracle written by "Fury Road" in just four weeks is not just as simple as rewriting every record. The way of thinking has produced revolutionary ideas. At the same time, people will not forget that "Iron Man" is likely to be the next work of Chaos Films. Does this mean more?
In comparison, the records created by "Fury Road" themselves seem to be less important.
In the first week of August, on the North American weekend box office rankings, "Fury Road" won four consecutive championships, "Talladega Nights" was runner-up, and "Crazy Farm" was third-this cartoon produced by Paramount , there was almost no noise, the investment of 50 million yuan was only exchanged for 15 million box office at the opening weekend, and even the media was not interested in reporting it.
"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "Miami Vice" occupied the fourth and fifth positions respectively. The former fell again to a height of 45% this week, harvested 10 million weekend box office, and the accumulated box office staggered past 360 million. 400 million is still possible, but Disney must use The whole cast is trying their best to promote it; the latter fell as much as 60% in the next week, and in the case of the terrible box office of the premiere, this officially announced the possibility of resurrection After being cut off, the cumulative box office in two weeks has just passed 40 million, which is terrible compared to the investment of 135 million.
In addition, the third week of "Water Banshee" once again crossed the 60% threshold. The weekend box office was only 2.5 million, and the cumulative box office was 38 million. It is hopeless to return; "Superman Returns" "Entering the end of the screening, the cumulative box office in six weeks is 190 million, and the box office this weekend is 2 million. If Warner Bros. is gritting its teeth and holding on, it should be no problem to barely pass 200 million. At least the reputation will be better." Billion works" is not too shabby.
It can be said that "Talladega Nights" made the final powerful impact on "Fury Road". The work can shoulder enough expectations to complete the sniping. So, in the summer vacation of 2006, from the tripartite confrontation to the two dragons, and then to the dominance of one family, it finally became a one-man show of "Fury Road"!