Chapter 161： Follow-up box office

The pursuit of the media, the support of fans, "Yihai Xiongfeng" set off a whirlwind at the end of 1992 with a strong posture, carrying the strong box office of the first week, and in the subsequent box office journey, "Yihai Xiongfeng" The performance has always been maintained at an ultra-high level, and it has become a box office masterpiece that is comparable to the three consecutive titles of "Home Alone 2" at the end of the year.

In the third week of December, the North American film market ushered in two heavyweight works.

&el. . lee. ) Created "The Famine Is Unexpected(. Mel relied on the "Deadly Weapon" series to become famous, and Jamie Lee had a "color" performance in "A fish named Wanda (wanda... , The director chose to prove his Steve Miner (steve.) through the TV series "The Years of Innocence (the...years, and the script was later sought after for the American drama "Lost" Science fiction upstarts are now just fledgling j. j. Written by Abrams (j.j.abrams). This work was screened in 1,800 theaters and is considered to be the strongest contender for the box office championship this week.

Robin Williams () teamed up with Barry Levinson to bring another movie "Toys (. The two creators have collaborated with Hugo. The former cooperated with the "Death Poetry Society" and the latter. It is the director of Hugo's female "small restaurant". This combination competes with "Yihai Xiongfeng" and is also dubbed by the media as "the reunion of the North American box office rankings..." It can be seen at 1,300 Wenyuan The “toys” shown online are still considered to be competitive.

However, after the box office data came out, everyone sighed for surprises. It was not because the performance of "Unexpected Famine" and "Toys" was not strong enough, nor because "Yihai Xiongfeng" won the championship without any suspense. It's because the combat effectiveness of "Yihai Xiongfeng" is really terrifying.

Only "handed in" a 28% drop in the answer sheet, "Yihai Xiongfeng" captured $20.5 million in the weekend box office the next week, second only to "Batman Returns" this year. "Home Alone 2" has the third highest weekly box office data and has won the championship. Such a result, even the bold box office forecasting professionals can't imagine it.

Originally, people were still looking forward conservatively, saying that as long as the decline of "Yihai Xiongfeng" in the next week remained at 40%, it would be a victory. As a result, "Yihai Xiongfeng" not only achieved this goal, but also far exceeded it. Level line. Two weeks after the release, the cumulative box office of "Yihai Xiongfeng" has reached 55 million U.S. dollars, and the rate of converging the box office is almost ‘home Alone 2’. In an instant, the dawn of the "Yihai Xiongfeng" eventual box office in North America was over 100 million yuan.

……Yihai Xiongfeng, easily repelled the challenger, and won the North American weekend box office ranking champion by absolute advantage!" The New York Times, the best-selling newspaper on the East Coast, reported this week's box office ranking for the first time.

"The two newly released movies this week are disappointing. The overall media rating of'The Famine Is Not Over' is only 61, and'Toys' has suffered unprecedented bad reviews. The 48-point media review indicates that this is one. A disaster. The two new works failed to show sufficient combat effectiveness. The former occupies the fourth place in the top ten, while the latter is only in the sixth place.

Relatively speaking, in terms of the performance of the old works,'Aladdin', which continued to expand, and'Little Ghost Street 2', which maintained a decent decline,'handed in' a more satisfying weekend box office answer sheet. They performed well and ranked respectively. This week's runner-up and third runner-up.

The work that showed the most "color" this weekend is undoubtedly the dark horse at the box office "Yihai Xiongfeng". This new work co-starred by Hugo Lancaster and Jack Nicholson continues the hot state after its premiere last week and caused The fanatical pursuit of all walks of life, this week with an ultra-low decline of 28%, won the top of the North American weekend box office chart. Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Barry Levinson opened in Hugo Lan Facing the powerful combat power of Stur, they all retreated."

In 1992, there was only the last week left, but the Christmas schedule was not as brilliant as Hugo had expected. The North American film market still has not been tapped into enough potential, and even the summer competition is not "exciting" enough. Lie, let alone the usual holiday season schedule.

Two new works "Hoffa ( and "trespass", which are newly released this week, have their own topic of sex, but both have only selected 1,000 theaters for online screening, which is obviously wrong for Christmas. There are more expectations in the schedule.

"Hoffa" is a work starring Jack Nicholson. He left the crew early during the filming of "Yihai Xiongfeng" just to make this film; "Entry" was made by participating in "Alien 3(.h斗l) ) Directed by Bill Paxton (bdoul.), who has performed well in "Terminator Little "Alien 2".

Obviously it is difficult for these two new films to attack the North American box office rankings. When the new films are not attractive and there is demand in the fake holiday market, "Yihai Xiongfeng", "Aladdin", "Home Alone 2", " Eleven movies including "Bodyguard" have added theaters. "Yihai Xiongfeng" has been screened in 2,100 theaters, and "Aladdin" has the largest increase, increasing to 2,300 theaters in one breath. Released.

Such a large-scale increase in screening theaters also made the weekend box office of the last week of 1992 show a rising green word. The most violent rise is that "Aladdin" has grown by a full 85 percent, and the box office on the weekend has risen to a level of 13.4 million, which has had a strong impact on the North American box office leaderboard.

Relatively speaking, the style disadvantages of "Yihai Xiongfeng" are reflected at this time, whether it is the family-friendly "Aladdin", "Home Alone 2" or the lingering "Bodyguard" and "Unexpected Love" at Christmas Driven by the festival, they all have a stronger box office appeal, and the serious and tense "Yihai Xiongfeng" has fallen, not to mention that it is compared with "Aladdin", and is compared with "Home Alone 2", which was released into the sixth week. In comparison, the box office increase of "Yihai Xiongfeng" is also very limited. The growth rate of only 20% ranks the lowest among the top ten.

Despite this, "Yihai Xiongfeng" still relied on the advantages it had accumulated before. With an increase of 20%, it won a box office of 24 million U.S. dollars and successfully completed another three consecutive championships, accumulating box office. In one breath, he came to the position of 82 million US dollars.

Judging from the current level, there is not much suspense for "Yihai Xiongfeng" with a box office of over 100 million yuan, and the paper cost of 40 million US dollars can definitely be recovered in full, and it has also allowed Columbia Pictures to obtain gratifying benefits. Coupled with the praise of word-of-mouth, then the victory of "Yihai Xiongfeng" is already a certainty.

In the last week of the weekend box office in 1992, behind "Yihai Xiongfeng" three consecutive championships, "Aladdin", "Home Alone 2", "Bodyguard", and "Unexpected Love" together constituted the top five, which was newly released. "Hoffa" and "Penetration" can only helplessly occupy the sixth and seventh places.

After entering the New Year, no new work was released during the usual holiday, but this does not mean that the weekend box office competition in North America has not been'excited'. "Yihai Xiongfeng" has maintained a 3% increase. The weekend box office data in the early 14 million years brought him a fourth consecutive championship, while the box office continued to grow "Aladdin" won 16 million US dollars data again ranked runner-up, ranking of other works Basically there is not much change.

However, compared to the four consecutive titles of "Yihai Xiongfeng" this week, the more gratifying news comes from the cumulative box office data." On January 1, 993, the fourth week after the release of "Yihai Xiongfeng", the cumulative box office The data officially crossed the 100 million threshold, becoming the first work of Hugo's actor career with a box office of over 100 million!

This is the early 1990s. Box office of over 100 million means great success. "In 990, nine movies had a box office of over 100 million. In 1999, this set of data was eight. As a movie The lead actor of, can have a box office of more than 100 million yuan, which is one of the few in Hollywood, and the so-called box office superstar is of such a level.

Since Hugo first appeared on the big screen in 1982, he has starred in ten movies, and "Yihai Xiongfeng" is his first box office to pass the 100 million threshold~www.novelhall.com ~ This can definitely be regarded as a historical breakthrough, even if there is more description or more admiration, it does not have to be directly related to this data. Hugo's position in Hollywood immediately moved from the second-rate actor area to the first-line camp. Although it can only hang at the end of the first line, any failure will directly demote Hugo, but this is Hugo's first time in ten years. It can be called the "first line" in the true sense of the first line, and it is of extraordinary significance.

It’s really appropriate to describe Hugo’s 1992 with a term like "No Jitai Lai". After the Golden Raspberry Award at the beginning of the year, people almost thought that Hugo had fallen away, and perhaps they would never see the green onions in the "Death Poetry Society". A handsome young actor, but after entering the second half of the year, Hugo announced his revival with two consecutive works, and moved towards a new peak with a vigorous momentum.

"Yihai Xiongfeng" dominated the championship for four consecutive weeks. This is probably a situation that no one could predict before the movie was released. Not only the news media, but even the publisher of "Yihai Xiongfeng", Columbia Pictures did not anticipate. Arrived, everyone was caught off guard.

And with the strong four consecutive championships of "Yihai Xiongfeng", as the protagonist, Hugo's popularity has increased at a speed like the Sahara Desert in the hot July, refreshing people's understanding time and time again, like a shining star In general, the stars are rising rapidly in the North American film market, and its popularity has reached an unprecedented height!