Chapter 985: Hackers and Dinosaurs
"Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" is coming with a lot of momentum.
After the 1998 "Titanic" slammed open the doors of countless markets around the world with great ferocity, the 2002 "Jurassic Park" once again directly crushed the world with a realistic dinosaur image.
The film has achieved a staggering box office in more than 150 countries and regions around the world. In the end, although compared with the global box office of "Titanic" of 1.92 billion US dollars, it was still left behind by a large margin. , but the box office of 1.23 billion US dollars is more than 200 million US dollars higher than the 1.02 billion US dollars global box office of "Star Wars: The New Order" released in 1999!
As a result, it was able to sit on the second place in the global movie box office rankings!
Last year's "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Invincible King" was once considered to be very promising to surpass it, but in the end, even though that movie was extremely successful, it harvested box office crazily around the world, and even the Chinese film market contributed more than 100% to it. 270 million yuan at the box office, but in the end, it only got a box office of 1.12 billion US dollars worldwide, failing to squeeze out "Jurassic Park".
To some extent, the current Hollywood industry has reached a consensus that one billion dollars at the global box office is almost the limit of a blockbuster movie - the overall size of the market determines this limit.
Of course, there will be very few movies that break this limit, and there are even unreasonable giants like "Titanic", which directly raised the global box office to nearly 2 billion US dollars, but that kind of pioneering work and masterpiece The level of quality is really an unrivaled level, and it is not something you can get out of if you want to.
As a result, the other three movies with more than one billion US dollars in the current global movie box office rankings are recognized as phenomenal - 1.23 billion for "Jurassic Park", 1.12 billion for "Lord of the Rings 3: The Invincible King", and 1.02 billion for Star Wars Episode IV: The New Order!
As long as they appear on the stage, it must be the gods and ghosts Piyi!
"The Lord of the Rings" is definitely over and there will be no more sequels, but "Jurassic Park 2" and "Star Wars 5" will almost definitely appear!
Therefore, as early as when "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" had just reported various news reports such as project approval and filming start, almost all Hollywood film companies and distribution companies unanimously labeled this film as "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World". : Grade A+++!
Meaning, definitely avoid it!
Although its second film has changed directors, and some people questioned the film's extremely thin plot at the theater preview meeting before it was released, it is still recognized as the one that any film encounters will be rejected. Crush that level - as long as the dinosaurs are scary enough, that's enough!
Before its release, a number of professional box office evaluation agencies in North America have already given a box office estimate of US$350 million in North America and US$850 million worldwide.
In fact, as soon as it was released, the movie quickly set off a worldwide movie-watching boom-the North American market sold more than seven million dollars just in advance!
It has been two years since the first film, and movie audiences all over the world are eager to see dinosaurs.
Therefore, in the first week of its release, the movie quickly began to explode with the biggest box office bombing ability!
On Monday alone, including advance shows, it earned an astonishing box office of US$31.62 million in North America-note that this is Monday, which is a weekday box office.
However, quite unexpectedly, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", which earned more than 30 million US dollars in box office in a single day on weekdays, was not as everyone had guessed in the past few weeks. Become the monopoly and hegemony of the entire film market.
Because with the sudden popularity of "The Matrix" in the two days of last weekend, even if the movie faced the impact of "Jurassic Park"-level blockbusters, even in order to welcome the release of "Jurassic Park", many theaters All the lines had to temporarily reduce the film schedule for "The Matrix" and give more canvases to "Jurassic Park", but on this Monday, "The Matrix" actually bucked the trend in the third week of its release. Cut a North American single-day box office of up to 17.33 million US dollars!
Note, this is of course a weekday box office too!
And the subsequent box office development trend also proved that although "Jurassic Park" is extremely powerful, so powerful that almost no movie is willing to encounter it, under its strong pressure, "The Matrix" is affected even if it is scheduled. Although it has been squeezed to a certain extent, it is still extremely tenacious and always rushing against the trend!
On Tuesday, "Jurassic Park 2" had a single-day box office of 25.48 million, and "The Matrix" 16.51 million!
On Wednesday, "Jurassic Park 2" 24.37 million, "The Matrix" 15.82 million!
Just these three days is enough!
Film production companies and distribution companies may still have dizzy moments, and may not be able to resist a certain director's will, and invest in the production of a literary film that is likely to lose money, but the theaters are 100% commercial retail organization!
A good movie is one that makes money!
Because of the release of "Jurassic Park 2", because of its highly anticipated expected box office, and its status as a giant, even though the attendance rate of "The Matrix" was quite high at the time, However, the major theaters still adjusted the film schedule in unison, taking out quite a few films that originally belonged to "The Matrix" and giving them to "Jurassic Park 2"-as for other films that originally had limited attendance, Needless to say, the treatment that can be obtained at this time.
However, "Jurassic Park 2" is indeed fierce enough, but it doesn't seem to be as fierce as expected-it was released in the first week, and it got a record of 3,756 openings in North America. In the first three days, It got as high as 43.5% of the filming in the entire North American region!
In North America, where movie theaters and film commercial box office systems are relatively complete, this has almost reached the pinnacle level of film scheduling! No matter how high it is, it will violate many agreements in the industry.
Compared with "Jurassic Park 2", "The Matrix", which is also being screened, only got a 17% screening rate - there is no doubt that the reason why North American theaters and screening systems are considered to be relatively complete , It is precisely because here, even the most popular movies, it is impossible to get more than half of the screening rate, even if it is an art movie with a mediocre box office, they will have multiple professional art theaters to play.
In fact, the two films teamed up, and in the first three days of this week, they won a total of more than 60% of the film schedule and more than 80% of the box office in the entire North American region, which is already a relatively rare situation!
And all theater operators can predict that by this weekend, the first weekend of "Jurassic Park 2", the movie's box office will definitely usher in a wave of explosion.
But... what happened at that time, let's talk about it at that time!
But what everyone is going to do now is to cut down the schedule for "Jurassic Park 2"!
There is no doubt that the attendance rate of "Jurassic Park 2" is good enough to make the theaters happy, but at this time, the key is that there is another "Matrix" out there to compare with!
Given more than 43% of your film schedule, your single-day box office has dropped to more than 22 million US dollars, and the film schedule is only 17%, which is only one-third of your slightly stronger "The Matrix", although the single-day box office It is also falling, but until Wednesday, there are still close to 16 million!
This data is specific. According to the final statistics of the major theaters, when Wednesday comes, the average score of tens of thousands of screenings in North America, the attendance rate of "Jurassic Park 2" is 27.4%. Today, this attendance rate is already against the sky, but unfortunately, the attendance rate of "The Matrix" is as high as 52.9%!
How does this compare?
Theater operators are pure businessmen, and three days of observation are enough.
To put it bluntly, in fact, the next two days are superfluous in their eyes, all because the title of "Jurassic Park" is too big, big enough to arouse the greed and enthusiasm of all theater parties just by the name. expect!
But now, on Wednesday, as soon as the statistical data came out, the experienced theaters in North America immediately made corresponding adjustments—no matter how big the "Jurassic Park" series is, it has reached this point, obviously. It is impossible to continue to give face to things that will delay the theater's money-making!
So, when Thursday came, many viewers who didn't care which movie to watch walked into the cinema, and they would find that it seemed that when they came yesterday, the movie "The Matrix" was in the small cinema in this community. Genius only had three or four film rehearsals, but today there were six film rehearsals in the whole day!
So well, there are more shows to choose from. Audiences who originally thought they could watch it or not, but now they find that the time is all right, so they won’t delay their original other arrangements, so let’s watch one, after all, this movie The movie seems to have a very good reputation recently, and it seems to have won the box office champion for two consecutive weeks, and some friends enthusiastically recommended it, it should be very good!
So...there are more performances, of course more tickets will be sold!
On Thursday, the film schedule of "The Matrix" bucked the trend, and it won a full 26% of the film schedule in North America, rebounding to almost the highest peak since its release!
In contrast, the film schedule of "Jurassic Park 2" dropped accordingly, reaching 36%!
Afterwards, when the single-day box office of this day was released, the theater dealers all laughed.
With the increase of the number of films, the audience of a single show has a certain diversion, making the attendance rate of "The Matrix" not as strong as the previous three days, but it still maintains a high level of 37%! However, the reduction in film schedule has increased the attendance rate of "Jurassic Park 2", and the attendance rate of this movie has suddenly increased to the level of the day it was just released on Monday - 33%!
Therefore, on Thursday, "Jurassic Park 2" reported a revenue of 22.92 million U.S. dollars, which was a stable decline compared with yesterday's box office, and "The Matrix" suddenly saw a small increase with the increase in the number of films. Daily received $16.82 million!
Excluding the factors of other movies, and only counting the operating income brought by these two blockbuster movies to North American movie theaters, compared with Wednesday, Thursday, it only dropped by less than one million US dollars!
Except for Universal Pictures, the publisher of Jurassic Park 2, it's a happy ending!
Of course, even in terms of Universal Movies, in fact, after the end of the day's screenings, it can announce with its head high that "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" has exceeded 100 million at the North American box office!
So, even though some theaters made fine adjustments to the film schedule after Friday, they basically kept this film schedule ratio, and everyone came to the weekend together.
And because of the advent of "Jurassic Park 2", this week, even if the film market is developed and perfected to the extent of the North American market, there are only a few low-cost literary films and independent films on a very small scale. Released, apart from "Jurassic Park 2", there is not even a decent commercial blockbuster.
It's just that "Jurassic Park 2" was expected to monopolize the market and sweep everything, but now, it has encountered a diversion that is too hard to handle!
With the end of the working day, on Friday afternoons and evenings, the movie theater suddenly became lively—the reason why the summer file has become a heavy box office for the year, of course, the student party has contributed a lot, but it is undeniable Yes, even in the summer season, the weekend box office will still account for more than 50% of the box office for the entire week!
Because of the economic strength of white-collar workers, the box office they can contribute will always exceed that of the student party!
On Friday, "Jurassic Park 2" reported a single-day box office of 32.46 million US dollars, and "The Matrix" reported a single-day box office of 23.2 million US dollars!
On Saturday, "Jurassic Park 2" made $41.35 million in a single day, and "The Matrix" made $29.58 million!
On Sunday, "Jurassic Park 2" earned $32.83 million, and "The Matrix" earned $28.81 million!
In the first week of release of "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", the box office in North America exceeded 200 million US dollars, reaching 211.03 million US dollars, and the global box office in the first week was as high as 450 million US dollars!
This data is extremely astonishing!
This data far exceeds the first part of its predecessor "Jurassic Park", and it is also far behind "Lord of the Rings 3: The Invincible King", only slightly weaker than the epoch-making masterpiece "Titanic" - if Just looking at the first week's data and predicting its final box office according to the law, it is even enough to draw an astonishing conclusion that the final global box office of this movie will exceed 1.5 billion, or even reach 1.8 billion!
However, under such first week box office data, many box office forecasting agencies in North America have given out bad box office forecasts - everyone has predicted that the North American box office of this movie may exceed 400 million US dollars, but it will never exceed 450 million. As for the global box office, several major forecasting agencies believe that it can be moderately adjusted from the original forecast of 850 million US dollars to 900 million US dollars.
Because the word-of-mouth evaluation of this movie on the Internet is really bad!