Chapter 986 Surprised!

This is a commercial film, purely a blockbuster commercial film with special effects, the word-of-mouth of film critics can be ignored, and of course the major box office forecasting agencies will not consider these, but the ratings and word-of-mouth of the audience are decisive for the subsequent box office development. influential!

In fact, since the movie was released, it has been full of complaints about it on the Internet-such as "It's scary for the sake of scaring, but it's not scary at all", such as "The plot is so thin that there is almost no Any story", comments such as "The work of the dog's tail continued the mink", the screen is full!

Under such circumstances, in such a mature North American market, those box office evaluation agencies have to evaluate the box office trends of thousands of movies every year, and they have evaluated the box office trends for more than ten years or even decades. Their changes in box office trends are very unusual. Sensitive!

In this regard, Universal Films and the director of the film dismissed this assessment, regardless of what they thought, at least when facing the media, they still agreed that the ultimate goal of the film is to reach and surpass the No. 1 box office in the world. 1.23 billion for one!

Drooling!

You come and go with all kinds of talk!

But even so, "The Matrix", which earned a box office of 148.07 million US dollars in the third week of its release, and Zhou Baoshan, who is so popular in North America, have not been ignored or forgotten by the media.

Because they have created or are creating new records——

Highest third-week box office in North American history, "The Matrix"!

The highest-grossing overseas film in the history of North American film box office, "The Matrix"!

The oriental actor with the most box office appeal in North America, Zhou Baoshan!

And at the same time, there is a new record, which has been repeatedly mentioned by major media in North America and has been hyped up in various ways. That is, in the past week, "Jurassic Park 2" teamed up with "The Matrix", and the collision of the two blockbusters in the same period brought a new record for the weekly box office market in North America!

In the past week, 57 films screened simultaneously in North America created a total box office of 458.33 million US dollars!

Of course, the Chinese media was not idle during the same period, because the global box office war between "The Matrix" and "Jurassic Park 2", China is also one of the main battlefields.

Under such fierce collisions, in the past week, Chinese films also set a record for the highest weekly box office in history - in May 2002, because of the box office battle between "Life and Death" and "Huang Feihong", This record was once thought to be unbeatable in the short term. But just over two years later, "The Matrix" battled "Jurassic Park 2" and successfully raised this single record of more than 300 million by a full 54 million!

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"The Matrix" was released for three weeks, a total of 16 days, and the total box office has reached 297.23 million US dollars!

At this time, considering the film's reputation among North American audiences and its unrivaled advantages in the Chinese and East Asian markets, several box office forecasting agencies in North America have significantly adjusted their final forecasts for the film. Global box office forecast data——

The box office in China, they are expected to fall above 500 million US dollars!

North American box office, they are also expected to exceed 400 million US dollars!

As for the global box office estimate of "The Matrix", the figure they gave is - 1.3 billion US dollars!

The release of this data immediately triggered a spontaneous discussion within the American film industry - no one would believe, or be willing to believe, that a Chinese film can actually get such a high global box office!

You know, once successful, "The Matrix" will most likely become the second highest-grossing movie in the history of global movies! And before this, the best result of a Chinese movie was No. 27 on this blockbuster list!

In 2002, China's Qin Wei and his "Gate of Life and Death" once had a global box office of 354 million US dollars, stayed in this position for just 35 days, and then fell all the way. Today, it has fallen out of the box office. Top 50!

In fact, everyone has hesitation about whether the Chinese film market has enough capacity to support a film with a domestic box office of more than 500 million US dollars, that is, 1 billion Chinese yuan!

Because even though China’s film market seems to have been growing rapidly in recent years, for a country where citizens do not regard watching movies as normal consumption, the rise of the market and the absorption capacity of a single film at the box office, There is a limit to the upper limit!

But the problem is that after three weeks of release, in fact, despite the fact that "The Matrix" has lost its reputation even in China, its home base, under the strong impact of "Jurassic Park 2" in the past week. The weekly box office champion, but after three weeks of its release, the film's total box office has reached a high of 647 million Chinese yuan-breaking 1 billion, in fact, it is completely possible! Even many domestic media in China believe that this movie is fully capable of hitting a higher box office!

However, those who do not believe do not believe!

It has to be something that really happened, and you put the data in front of him, so he has to shut up!

There are even cases where, even if things have already happened, some people will continue to clamor, saying that this is impossible, this is fake, someone cheated... Wait!

Of course, such people are rare after all.

In fact, when the time came to the middle of the next week, many people had to shut up after seeing the box office of "The Matrix" in the fourth week of its release.

When this week's box office came out, something that shocked the entire Hollywood, and even the entire world's film industry, just happened so unbelievably——

The next week's box office of "Jurassic Park 2" showed an astonishing drop!

This movie seems to do something scary every step of the way!

Over 210 million in the first week, although a bit scary, but considering its such a huge background, it can be barely accepted, but the box office plunged to only 65.22 million in the second week, what the hell is this?

The word "diving" is no longer enough to describe its rapid drop in the box office, and it's not even enough to cut it in half - it's simply less than one-third of what it was last week!

In the North American film market, because the market is developed and the market mechanism is perfect, new films are released almost every day of the year, and in the peak season of the film market, new commercial blockbusters are released almost every week. Compared with China, our choices are extremely rich.

Therefore, for normal commercial blockbusters, if the word-of-mouth is not particularly good, the next week’s box office dive, or even cut in half, is completely acceptable to everyone. If the decline can be less than 30%, it will definitely be a blockbuster movie that will continue to sell well in the future. up!

However, there are of course other situations as well.

For example, there are many movies with huge investment, famous directors, big names, and bright stars. When they are released, they are also very popular, but their reputation is too bad, and there is almost no point of view. Such movies don’t have to wait a full week, and they are often released. On the second day of the film, there were already overwhelming negative reviews, so it couldn't even hit the box office in the first week, so naturally it didn't matter whether it was diving or not in the second week.

There are some more, which are also very bad, but it is obvious!

In the case of its special blessing for its ability to absorb money, even though it has a bad reputation, many people still think: no matter what, you have to go and see it before drawing conclusions, right? Even if it's for XX, it's worth it!

The most typical example, such as "Star Wars"!

Although the fourth film in this series was filmed and the box office was a big hit, the word-of-mouth in the United States and the world is very bad, but there is no doubt that after a few years, as long as the producer continues to shoot the fifth film, When it is released, there will still be countless fans who will buy tickets to enter the theater!

Its point of view is too obvious: the Star Wars series!

However, the United States already has the unique so-called Star Wars culture in the world!

This is almost unsolvable.

Now it seems that the same can be said for Jurassic Park 2.

There are dinosaurs. For many viewers, this point of view cannot be ignored. Even after reading a lot of bad reviews in advance, for the sake of dinosaurs, he finally bought a ticket and went to see it. After reading it, he came out. Despite all kinds of scolding and dissatisfaction, it is still impossible to get back the ticket money!

As for the people who are willing to pay for the second time to enter the movie theater just because of the dinosaur... It is impossible to have none at all, but there are too few.

As a result, the box office of "Jurassic Park 2" exploded in the first week to be scary! But in the second week, when the group of moviegoers who loved dinosaurs so much and would go to see them even for the sake of dinosaurs were consumed, its box office quickly withered!

But you must know that since the release of "The Matrix", its reputation has always been so good!

And Zhou Baoshan has recently participated in various activities frequently in North America, which has attracted the attention of countless people. I want to make a special trip to the cinema to watch "The Matrix".

Not to mention, because of the inherent philosophical thinking of this movie, it has aroused the desire of many deep movie fans to explore. Therefore, there are even a small group of audiences in North America. In the past period of time, they have even repeatedly watched Run to see this movie!

And when the heroine He Yingyu, who was originally promoting in Southeast Asia and China, came to the United States and officially joined Zhou Baoshan, she immediately attracted quite a group of fans who were interested in the heroine's sexy figure.

In short, all combinations of fists go on, although the box office decline is a trend, and no one can change it, but "The Matrix" just insists on the fact that it has reached the fourth week of its release. In this week, it cut it again. Weekly box office of up to 83.27 million US dollars!

It's back at the top of the box office charts!

Everyone was amazed by it.