Chapter 1156 Silence
Silence.
Russell Crowe did not make any sound, not even anger.
To be more precise, it should be sluggish.
Because it was so shocking, unexpected, and intense that it broke through my own limits, and all the thoughts in my mind disappeared completely.
In the end, there was an endless void left, and the ability to react was completely lost.
After a long time, Russell finally moved, mechanically turning his head to look at the assistant and showing a smile.
"This newspaper has a typographical error, please buy another one."
Assistant: ..."Russell."
Russell's eyes glared, and murderous intent leaked out instantly, "You buy another one. Now and now. Don't let me say it a third time."
Not only Russell, but half of Hollywood are doubting:
Are you sure there is nothing wrong with this data?
The answer is no. It is very cruel but extremely realistic. There are no mistakes, no accidents, and no statistical errors. The data is all normal.
The shock was so overwhelming that people didn’t know what to say.
"The Fight in the Furious Sea" took advantage of the right time, place and people, showing its determination to win. The excellent performance of media reviews became the biggest driving force. Everything predicted the success of the movie, but it turned out to be a 2003 movie. The biggest dud of the year——
Is this an annual event?
The box office during the opening weekend was only 22 million US dollars. Even if the film relies on word-of-mouth and continues to go beyond the sky-high curve, it may not be able to save the film's loss crisis.
The investment of US$150 million, coupled with the pre-publicity of more than US$20 million, all made the opening weekend box office figures seem like a drop in the bucket.
Now, 20th Century Fox can only pray silently that a "Titanic"-style miracle will happen again, otherwise it will be a real disaster.
How did things take such a turn?
No warning!
No wonder the whole of Hollywood was silent. They looked at each other in silence and exchanged glances, but no one dared to express their opinions easily.
Before the movie was released, industry professionals in North America had predicted that the premiere box office of "The Great Fight" should be between 40 million and 50 million. A small number of media saw the comprehensive review of the media. After the good momentum, it is even believed that the film is expected to gross 60 million in its opening weekend.
However, what about reality?
Twenty-two million US dollars, even if you don’t know anything about numbers, you can see that such box office figures are so tragic that the media does not even dare to add insult to injury——
Isn't that too cruel?
Perhaps the era of "naval battle" movies is really over?
What is equally absurd and astonishing about all this is the other two works.
"Christmas Elf", starring Will Ferrell, was released last week. It is obviously a Christmas movie but it was released before Thanksgiving. It is confusing. The media review score of 66 points also indicates that The situation is not good.
The movie turned in 32 million yuan during its opening weekend, which is a good performance. Compared with the investment cost of 33 million yuan, it is even more impressive.
This week, the movie's three-day weekend box office dropped only 15.3%, continuing its strong performance with incredible performance, which can be called a dark horse.
The box office performance in the second week of its release actually surpassed the opening weekend of "Into the Wild". Such performance was enough to make the entire Hollywood speechless.
Will Ferrell, a member of the "Bad Boys", once again proved that he has the ability to carry the box office alone. The film's cumulative box office easily exceeded 70 million US dollars in the two weeks after its release. There is no doubt that it will become the winner of this year's holiday season. one.
People did not expect the box office performance of "Christmas Elf" in the first week, and they also did not expect the movie's amazing box office performance in the second week - who could have expected that in the melee, it turned out to be A movie like this?
If it was shocking enough to say that "Christmas Elf" beat "The Last Day", then "The Butterfly Effect" debuted with the second-highest weekend box office performance of this holiday season, which was enough to make the entire Hollywood The wind was messy.
As mentioned before, the current holiday movie market is still full of unknowns, and there are no clear rules for box office performance. The major Hollywood film companies have been exploring.
As of this year, it is difficult to summarize the box office records of November and December in film history.
At present, the record for the highest opening weekend in November is still held by "Harry Potter and the Wizards". When it was released in 2001, it grossed 90 million US dollars in three days over the weekend.
This year’s holiday season, two weeks ago, “The Matrix 3” ranked among the top five on this list with a three-day weekend box office of $48 million——
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", "Monsters, Inc." and "The Grinch" ranked in the top four respectively.
Originally, "The Matrix 3" was expected to set a new record, but Warner Bros. chose to release it on Wednesday. Naturally, the three-day weekend data was difficult to compare with the first five-day data. The final weekend box office data "only" ranked third in the historical list. five.
Now, it’s the turn of the “Butterfly Effect”.
In just two weeks, the second film achieved great results and entered the top ten in the all-time list of November opening weekends, narrowly finishing at sixth place.
Forty-five million US dollars is really unbelievable, even if it is said to be "exploding the brain", it is not an exaggeration.
The reason is very simple.
On the November opening weekend box office list, the top five are all works with an investment cost of more than US$100 million, including "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" starring Jim Carrey, which cost as much as US$1100 million. Three million dollars.
In other words, although it is a holiday release, these works with great success are not much different from those in the summer release. They are still typical commercial blockbusters.
However, "Butterfly Effect" is different:
The production cost is 10 million US dollars, and the publicity cost... New Line Cinema has not released data, but industry estimates should be less than 2 million Dollar.
Not even a fraction of "The Grinch" and "The Grinch", not even half of the ultra-low-cost "Christmas Elf".
It is precisely this kind of work that made a comeback amidst controversy and attention, and took home a box office of 45 million US dollars in one fell swoop, which is eye-catching.
In the first week of its premiere, "The Butterfly Effect" has already entered the profit stage. No matter how the subsequent box office performance is, New Line Cinema can just sit back and count the money.
The impact can be imagined.
Perhaps, someone has boldly predicted that the "butterfly effect" may bring surprises, and never underestimate Anson; but after the media comprehensive review came out, these voices almost all fell silent, and the general view is that this week may This is the standard ending of "Fighting" to dominate the box office market.
What’s the result?
Not only did "The Last Day" lose to "The Butterfly Effect" in an upset, it even lost to "Christmas Elf" in its second week of release. Such a scene could be called a horror movie.
The "Butterfly Effect" not only topped the North American weekend box office rankings for the third week of November, but also ranked among the top ten in film history during its opening weekend.
Then the noise disappeared -
No admiration, no questioning; no cheering, no attack.
Nothing.
All the noise and discussion disappeared, and the world finally found its silence. Thousands of eyes were watching the North American weekend box office list this week, and they fell into a long silence, with only the roar in their minds continuing to stir.
They all need to be quiet.
(End of this chapter)