Chapter 1164 Perfect Ending
2003, Thanksgiving long weekend, North American weekend box office rankings.
First, the "Butterfly Effect", $30 million.
Second, "The Cat in the Hat," $24.4 million.
Third, "Haunted Mansion," $24.2 million.
The list was released, and it was overwhelming at once.
There are so many focuses that people don’t know which one to focus on first.
Perhaps it is the "Butterfly Effect" that has topped the list for three consecutive weeks, and the weekend box office for the third week was still over 30 million. The weekend box office drop is incredible.
Rather than saying that the "Butterfly Effect" is a strong performance, it is better to say that it is all based on the support of peers. None of the competitors can beat it, which reflects Anson's excellence.
Maybe it's because the difference between "The Cat in the Hat" and "The Haunted Mansion" is less than $200,000. I don't know whether I should be amazed that the former didn't completely collapse, or I should be surprised by the inability of the latter to break out.
Perhaps it's the continued weakness of "The Last of Us" that lags behind not only "Christmas Elf" but also "The Haunted Man," which has slipped to $10 million this weekend for a total of $66 million so far. US dollars, Russell Crowe's 20 million club dream is temporarily on hold.
Topics, one after another.
Accidents come one after another.
This year's holiday season is an all-out experimental mess. Major film companies are frantically disrupting the rules, throwing out large-scale productions worth $100 million in a mess, trying to find a new model between holidays and break out of the fierce competition. Stand out and seize the opportunity.
However, I never expected that New Line Cinema would become the biggest winner, and "Christmas Elf" and "The Butterfly Effect" would undoubtedly become the biggest dark horses in this year's holiday season.
Similarly, although the success of "Cat and Mouse Game" last year was the starting point for this year's chaos, people still did not expect Anson's rise to come just like this. With a production cost of only 10 million US dollars, he continued to The second year turned the entire holiday season upside down.
Moreover, what is even more surprising is that the disaster still failed to brake——
The following week, Tom Cruise's ambitious work "The Last Samurai" debuted, which is the highlight of Warner Bros.'s layout for this year's holiday schedule.
This year’s holiday season, Warner Bros. will bring three works: "The Shadow Man", "The Matrix 3" and "The Last Samurai", and in conjunction with New Line Cinema's layout, the latter's "Christmas Elf", "The Butterfly Effect", "Lord of the Rings 3" is in full swing, with scheduling and planning interoperable, creating an undercurrent.
Although there is no "Harry Potter" series in the holiday season this year, Warner Bros. is still fully deployed. It is undoubtedly the most confident and experienced member of the top large companies in the Hollywood pyramid. They are already competing for the holiday season. Seize the opportunity and be slightly ahead by half a body.
"The Last Samurai", a work with an investment of 140 million US dollars, is a work that can compete with "The Last Knight" and "Lord of the Rings 3" and continues Hollywood's strong emphasis on Eastern culture in the past two years. Interest——
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Kill Bill."
Warner Bros. is confident in "The Last Samurai" not only at the box office, but also in the film's prospects during this year's awards season, and has started promoting it early.
The result... was thrown.
Pounced vigorously.
Judging from the list, "The Last Samurai" ended the three consecutive championships of "Butterfly Effect" and topped the North American weekend box office rankings in the first week of December——
Sure enough, Tom Cruise is at his peak. If anyone can resist Anson's momentum, it is definitely Tom.
But judging from the data, the box office of "The Last Samurai" in its opening weekend was only... $24 million, which was almost the same as the previous week's performance of "The Haunted Mansion".
A month ago, people repeatedly exclaimed that the opening weekend box office of "The Great Fight" was disastrous; but now looking back, the box office data of subsequent works are worse than the last. The data is actually barely reasonable. Really amazing.
Strictly speaking, it's not that "The Fight" is too bad, but that "The Butterfly Effect" is too good.
Although the result is the same, at least 20th Century Fox is a little more relieved and they should concentrate on the upcoming awards season.
As for whether Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise can maintain such a peaceful mentality, it is unknown.
However, these are no longer important. For the "Butterfly Effect", the exit effect has been achieved, the box office success has been achieved, and the dark horse of the year has been achieved. After easily becoming the biggest winner of this year's holiday season, every subsequent step has It is a feat of surpassing oneself.
Step by step, step by step——
After relinquishing the top spot at the North American weekend box office, the "Butterfly Effect" reputation backlash gradually became apparent, and subsequent box office explosive power dropped significantly.
However, competitors did not put enough pressure on them, especially as movies of the same type basically had no enemies. The "Butterfly Effect" relied on its long-lasting topical effect to continue its momentum, and it still stood out among the sluggish box office data, ranking either second or third. The performance is incredible.
I'm afraid Anson himself didn't expect this scene, let alone others.
In the end, "The Butterfly Effect" was released miraculously for a full twenty-four weeks, that is, six months. It was not until next summer that the movie slowly kicked off that it was announced to be offline. The long standby posture is definitely a spectacle. .
The news media checked the North American box office list every now and then, and then discovered that "The Butterfly Effect" was still in theaters, and one or two heads exploded.
When "The Butterfly Effect" ended, the film's cumulative box office in North America reached 230 million U.S. dollars, once again detonating the media and ushering in exclamations.
So, US$230 million in North America, what is this level?
One data can be compared horizontally. "Lord of the Rings 3", the final film in the series, was released after "The Butterfly Effect" and ended with US$249 million in North America.
At this point, it should not be difficult to understand the turmoil caused by the "butterfly effect"——
It's not just amazing, it's a perfect ending.
A film with a production cost of only 10 million U.S. dollars performed a box office miracle. In the end, the North American box office exceeded 200 million U.S. dollars, and the entire Hollywood was dumbfounded.
No one expected this. No one!
According to analysis by industry professionals, New Line Cinema achieved a profit of more than 100 million U.S. dollars with just "The Butterfly Effect."
boom! Boom boom boom!
Total shock.
Not to mention 2003, even in the new millennium, "Butterfly Effect" has undoubtedly become one of the most profitable works, a model of using small to win big.
Regardless of the production cost or publicity and distribution, the success of "Butterfly Effect" is like a breeze, blowing quietly and calmly, but creating a stormy sea, setting off a roaring tsunami across the entire North American continent, and finally vigorously Write history and subvert the holiday season again.
People in the industry repeatedly exclaimed, "I can't understand."
"Fighting" came out, "The Last Samurai" came out, and a series of super genre blockbusters all hit the streets, but the result was the sudden rise of the "Butterfly Effect"?
So, what does this mean?
There is no pattern, no context, no reason. Perhaps, the only explanation for all this is——
Anson Wood?
(End of chapter)