Chapter 1592: Dare to imagine

Box office, this is just one of the factors that refer to the success of a work, and it is only one of the factors that measure whether a work can be called a classic, and even for many artists, this is a factor that is not worth mentioning. . But for major film companies, for the film industry, this is a decisive factor.

However, if the box office exceeds a certain level, whether it is a film company or an artist, whether it is the film industry or other economic industries, the box office can have an immeasurable impact. For example, "Forrest Gump", which has won the box office of 677 million U.S. dollars, the "Lion King", which has earned 870 million U.S. dollars, and the "Lion King" which has achieved 980 million U.S. dollars. Jurassic Park".

If a movie can get two billion dollars in the box office worldwide, whether it is an art movie or a commercial movie, it is a good movie; no matter whether it is an artist or a businessman, there is no denying that this movie is excellent.

In the summer of 1996, "Independence Day" made its debut amidst anticipation and controversy. However, this film broke out with an unimaginable power, destroying countless controversies bit by bit with an absolutely strong box office performance. Now, "Independence Day" has achieved a box office of 412 million U.S. dollars in North America, and the temporary cumulative box office in overseas markets has reached 384 million U.S. dollars, which means that the current "Independence Day" The cumulative box office has reached 796 million U.S. dollars, and this performance is absolutely undisputed.

However, the doubters still cannot help but pick the bones. Although "Independence Day" has created a new history of North American box office, it has not surpassed the global box office accumulation of "Lion King" and "Jurassic Park", so "Independence" The historical position of "Japan" is still inconclusive.

This is true, but no one dared to easily predict the final box office of "Independence Day" because people’s imagination is too scarce to imagine what kind of scenery the end will be. They can only cling to it closely. The spacecraft "Independence Day" is slowly exploring the unknown world after the "400 million box office".

In the second week of August, "Independence Day" was broadcast simultaneously in 20 countries and regions around the world. Fourteen of these countries and regions held their premiere ceremonies. After the topic was fed back to North America, all major news media aroused discussions. This is already the seventh week of "Independence Day" in North America, but the topic has not only not cooled down, on the contrary, it has continued to heat up with the successive releases in overseas markets.

This week, the North American film market still appears waning. It is noisy but not lively. There are five movies released on a large scale in more than 1,500 theaters, but they generally do not have the strength to break the box office. Among them, the most attention is paid. The ones are "Tin Cup (.cup and "Crazy Fan (the.fan.

"The Tin Cup" is starring Kevin Costner. This movie is Kevin's new work following the fiasco of "Future Water World". "Bull. Durham", the original team once again collaborated and transferred the scene to the golf course.

"Crazy Fan" is about a thriller movie about a baseball fan losing control, starring Robert De Niro, with an investment of up to 55 million U.S. dollars, and the addition of Ellen Barkin (ellen.) also makes the cast lineup. Quite topical.

The scale of the theaters of the two works has reached more than 2,000, which is obviously a work that hopes to be able to perform in the box office, but the media is generally not very optimistic. On the one hand, the two works are both sports themes, "fanatic" or thriller, it is not easy to create good results during the summer period; on the other hand, the appeal of the two actors, Kevin and Robert, is obviously unable to confront Hugo head-on. -Even though "Independence Day" has been in theaters for seven weeks.

This also makes this week's North American weekend box office competition lack a lot of highlights, but when the rankings came out, people still underestimated the infinite potential of "Independence Day"-this work once again brought a huge surprise!

On the weekend of the seventh week of the release of "Independence Day", it surrendered a decline of only 20% and grabbed a $14.4 million weekend box office. This achievement once again broke the "slim daddy". The box office record for the seventh week of the weekend set in 1993 has continued the record-setting momentum vigorously.

At the same time, the US$14.4 million weekend box office was enough for "Independence Day" to complete a terrible seven consecutive championships. The performance of the two main competitors was very weak, and the "Tin Cup" weekend box office barely crossed the 10 million threshold. , And "Crazy Fan" has only six million dollars in income, occupying the second and fifth positions respectively this week; in addition, "Family Has Jack" and "Killing Hour" ranked third and fourth. Both handed over 8 million U.S. dollars at the box office.

Hollywood's summer vacation archives have always been known for fierce competition, especially after entering 1990, with "Terminator 2" as a watershed, Hollywood box office competition has entered a brand-new stage of intense competition.

Before the 1990s, it was not too difficult for a movie to win the box office. "Detective Beverly Hills" won the championship for 13 consecutive weeks, and "Mr. Duss" won the championship for 13 consecutive weeks. Starman e.t" has been a non-consecutive champion for 16 weeks.

However, after the 1990s, due to the complete fierce competition in the film market, it was almost impossible. At the beginning, "Yihai Xiongfeng" won eight consecutive championships in the winter, which is incredible. This is also Hugo's work. After that, the reason why it has attracted much attention, and "Home Alone" created an incredible twelve consecutive championships in 1990, which is the last epitome of winning the championship in recent years.

In the 1990s, let alone ten consecutive championships, even three consecutive championships have become extremely difficult. But now, "Independence Day" has completed seven consecutive championships in one breath-and it is still in the summer. Such a feat complements the film's box office performance and illuminates the excitement and glory of the entire summer.

Relying on the strong performance of seven consecutive championships, the cumulative box office of "Independence Day" reached 432 million US dollars! It can be seen that after the "Independence Day" box office exceeded 400 million, there is no plan to slow down at all, and it is still advancing in big strides. The weekly box office growth rate can be said to be against the sky!

In the third week of August, facing the impact of "Interceptor Island (the.Island.of.dr. and "Offline Family 2 (a.very.brady.sequel, "Independence Day" scored a percentage. The eighteenth drop yielded a weekend box office of 11.8 million U.S. dollars, and neither of the two competitors could break through the 10 million threshold. Thus, eight consecutive championships!

In the fourth week of August, which is also the last week of this year’s summer vacation, "Raven 2: City of Angels (the.: of. angels and "The First Son (. held their grand premieres for the summer vacation. The file draws a perfect ending, but the weekend box office of the two works failed to exceed 10 million.

In contrast, under the stimulus of the last week of the summer vacation, "Independence Day" and other works have ushered in a rebound in the number of film viewers, and the box office has seen a green increase, which naturally dominates the summer vacation this year. "Independence Day" received the most attention and easily became the biggest beneficiary this week. The box office rebounded by a full 21%!

In the nine weeks since its release, in addition to a weekly box office drop of more than 30%, "Independence Day" has not only delivered a weekly drop of less than 30%, but now it has also shown a 2% drop. The increase of eleven, such a performance has made people wonder how to evaluate, maybe it can only be a smirk.

Relying on the last craze of the summer vacation, "Independence Day" handed over $14.3 million in the weekend box office this week, achieving nine consecutive championships without any suspense! At the same time, the weekend box office records of the eighth and ninth weeks of film history are also included in the bag.

When people woke up, they realized that the summer vacation was over. "Independence Day" stretched its strength from the first week of July to the last week of August. It performed so well under the impact of many competitors. People were stunned, and finally defended his championship throne firmly and ended the 1996 summer vacation with a strong record of nine consecutive championships.

Even more frightening is that the cumulative box office of "Independence Day" has quietly reached 465 million US dollars. This history-making work has not only become the first film in the first round of North American film history. A 400 million box office work, and it directly surpassed the 450 million threshold in one fell swoop, this... Is "Independence Day" really going to sprint toward the 500 million US dollar box office?

When this idea came out, everyone was taken aback by themselves. This was almost an unattainable height Leonardo said on the red carpet of the premiere without hesitation. "Five Million Dollars" ended up making everyone laugh, and even Leonardo himself laughed. This is just a little humor unintentionally. It's like when people praise beautiful women when they are young, they always say "You are like eighteen years old". This is a "dream" that cannot be seen.

Everyone thought that the US$500 million box office was a joke at the beginning. This is the current status of the entire North American film market. Even "US$400 million" is an unattainable dream, let alone 500 million. It has never been. People imagine that the box office of a work can exceed 500 million, maybe...maybe it will not reach this height in twenty years.

But now? The outstanding performance of "Independence Day" not only gave people the right to imagine, but also relied on solid performance to create a basis for this "imagination" to become a reality. It seems that the fabulous $500 million box office has already been rolled out in front of our eyes. Come, use the bright stars in the sky to outline a magnificent blueprint.

The summer season is over, and the next is the fall season where competitors are generally weak. It can be said that from September to November, it is difficult to produce works that will truly shake the North American film market-after all, the "seven deadly sins" are not every year. Can appear. This also means that after "Independence Day" has struggled to defend its nine consecutive championships, there is a Pingchuan right in front of us. Maybe... Maybe "Independence Day" can really grow up every step of the way, creating that unparalleled US$500 million box office!