Chapter 997: Big explosion

\"&   If someone does a cost statistic, they will find that Hugo has never been willing to take over major productions since his victory reached the lowest point in his career. Among his past six works, the highest cost was actually the third of "". Thirteen million dollars, this is also the only work with a cost of more than thirty million dollars. This time the "" has created a new low. The investment of only eight million dollars can only be regarded as a fraction of the big productions.

If someone does a box office statistics, they will find that among the six Hugo works in the past three years, except for the "" which is currently in theaters, the box office of the remaining four works is rising, and the lowest score is "". Ten million North American box office, the highest score is "" just created 239 million, five consecutive works-no, it should include "Pulp Fiction". All six consecutive works are profitable, and four consecutive works have a box office of over 100 million. The box office of two consecutive works exceeded 200 million.

Comparing these two sets of data together, we will get a result that has everyone astonished and taken for granted: Hugo is the most profitable actor in the United States in the past three years! At the same time, he is also the most cost-effective actor, almost no one can match this data.

Not to mention that Hugo's highest salary did not exceed 6 million, just to say that the book cost and box office revenue ratio is enough to make people jealous. Not to mention, people have not yet counted the peripheral income of these six works-these films are extremely popular in the video tape market.

From this perspective, it is not surprising to look at the recent 20 million remuneration.

Such a super cost-effective actor not only has a strong appeal, but also has a solid performance foundation. At the same time, it is also a popular heartthrob in the United States. It is normal for major film companies to flock to it. The opposite is abnormal.

"" In the first week of the release, the myth of Hugo was continued, and the $16.8 million score that set a new record for the premiere of October film history became the focus of major media reports for the first time. Coupled with the increasingly fierce "20 million" dispute with the film industry, and the disappearance of the Hugo on the European continent, all of these have achieved a special phenomenon in the year 1994 when the masterpieces gathered: October when no one pays attention. , Has become an important footnote for being named a classic in 1994.

The third week of October that followed immediately became a solo platform for "".

The "Love Story (. adapted from "" is obviously intended to replicate the glory of last year's "". It invited Hollywood's most famous talented and beautiful group (warren.beatty) and Annette Benin (ante.) to partner, and There are also guest appearances, which can be described as star-studded.

Warren is a well-known Hollywood director and actor. The movie "" made him an epoch-making pioneer. After he took off the Little Golden Man in 1981, he became the most talented representative of Hollywood, but compared to his Talent, he "sleeps. Over ten thousand people" wind. flow. rhyme. Things are more famous.

But it is such a gifted love sage, but because of the strong rise of the acting rookie representative Annette in the past three years, he changed his evil and returned to the right, and willingly stepped into the marriage palace. Although Hollywood is not optimistic about this marriage, Hugo knows that two decades later, they still hold their hands and are the most enviable couple in Hollywood.

"Love Story" can be said to be Warren's special preparation for Annette's postpartum comeback. Warren is the producer, starred in the actor, and made an investment of 60 million US dollars! It can definitely be said to be menacing.

But just such a "love story", a "love story" that tried to replicate "" success, and a "love story" with an investment of 60 million yuan and clusters of stars, has become a stepping stone to "" and witnessed the history with my own eyes. Birth.

Obviously, the drop of "" in the next week will not be too high. It can be predicted from the comments of film critics and the reputation of the audience. However, the generally predicted 20% is still too conservative, and box office experts obviously did not predict it. To the popular appeal of "Pulp Fiction", the recollection and admiration of retro culture in the film has awakened the long-term memory of countless audiences and gained countless resonance. In other words, box office experts underestimated the "uncertainty factor" of Hugo.

Nine percent! "" In the second week of the show, after the cinema chain increased by 150 rooms, the weekend box office data of 15.3 million showed a 9% drop against the sky. This is simply... cruel. .

You know, two weeks ago, the "Bomb Expert" set a new box office record for October weekend box office in film history, and it was only 14 million. "" Now not only has the premier box office broken this record, it has also broken the box office the following weekend. This record simply makes all languages ​​pale and weak in an instant. Even the magnificent rhetoric cannot describe the miracle created by "Pulp Fiction" this week.

A miracle, yes, this is a miracle. Apart from a miracle, there is no vocabulary that can express the consternation of the North American film market at this time.

Under such crude box office data of "", "Love Story" was directly exploded. The US$5.4 million premiere box office result can be declared in advance that it has no return. This result can only be ranked this week. Third place; the second-placed "Bomb Expert" lost another 30% of his blood. The box office at the weekend has fallen to 5.4 million. It only defeated the "love story" with an advantage of less than 30,000 US dollars. Column runner-up.

"" There is no suspense, no challenge, easy throne!

The autumn archives have always been waning, so once a strong work appears, the entire movie market will become a one-man show for that work, and there is no object to compete with. This is completely different from the summer archives. Now, "" is performing its one-man show!

In the fourth week of October, Stargate with an investment of $55 million was screened in two thousand theaters. This film produced by the distribution was originally planned to be released in the summer file, but the competition for the summer file this year is too fierce. After careful weighing, MGM can only arrange the work in the autumn file, hoping to get it in this off-season. Unexpectedly good results.

But who knows, "" turned out.

However, the recent hype is obviously still useful, and "" was originally eligible to compete in the summer season. From here, we can see its competitiveness. Sure enough, after the movie was released, it quickly became the focus of attention in the off-season in October. ——Although it cannot be compared with "", it is still a hot topic.

After the premiere of "", it grabbed 16 million US dollars of box office results in three days over the weekend. This result will undoubtedly break ""'s two consecutive championships and win this week's weekend box office championship. What is frightening is that, This year seems to have a lot of strange events in October. First, the "Bomb Expert" exploded once, then the "Pulp Fiction" exploded for two consecutive weeks, and now it is the turn of the "Universal Raiders".

Although the weekend box office of 16 million did not break the record that "" just created, it still surpassed the "Bomb Expert" and is currently the second best performance in the film history premiere in October, and it is not far from the record of "Pulp Fiction". Too big a gap, this is really amazing again and again.

However, ""invested 55 million yuan, but the box office of the premiere was lost". From this aspect, we can also see the strength of "Pulp Fiction".

Under the squeeze of "", ""'s box office has inevitably declined. Because the autumn season is indeed the off-season, the entire movie box office market is limited. In other words, the number of audiences willing to enter the cinema during this period has drastically reduced-unlike the summer season, the more intense the competition, the more audiences enter the cinema. .

In the fall season, the audience in the movie theater is a fixed circle. After ""taking away the audience," "" is naturally squeezed.

This week, "" directly broke a "huge" drop of 30%. Although this achievement is gratifying for any film, it is for the "pulp fiction" that has performed miracles for two consecutive weeks. Said, on the contrary, it surprised people.

In the end, "" won a weekend box office of $10,700,000 in the third week of the release, and ranked second after ""; "Bomb Expert" and "Love Story" ranked third and fourth respectively.

Although the 30% drop exceeded expectations, "" still shocked everyone with a weekend box office of tens of millions of dollars for 30 consecutive weeks. The continuous explosive power for three consecutive weeks is absolutely against the sky, which is also a breakthrough after "" for four consecutive weeks. After 20 million box office, Hugo created another miracle Relying on such a result, ""Only three weeks after the movie was released, relying on the phenomenal performance of the big explosion, it brought his cumulative box office to 57 million dollars!

This is an incredible achievement for an independent film. What's more interesting is that if the "" subsequent decline can be controlled properly, the film seems to retain the hope of hitting the 100 million threshold.

Independent film made 100 million US dollars at the box office? This is an unprecedented feat; the box office of Hugo's five consecutive movies exceeded 100 million? This is an unprecedented record.

""Whether the box office can pass the 100 million threshold has immediately become the focus of everyone’s attention. Whether Hugo is advancing on the road of making history, or is it taking a sigh of relief in the journey of creating miracles, although it is said that "Pulp Fiction" is now The box office has been exceptionally good, but people are still involuntarily curious about such a result.

When people realize that they are likely to be witnessing the birth of history, they can't help but start to boil over. However, whether this history can be born or not still needs to be decided by the market. What choice did the North American audience make? supply. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Kazakhstan to read it, and vote for recommendations and monthly tickets for the work. Your support is the biggest motivation for me to continue to create! ).