Chapter 169 First Week Box Office
Although the film was met with protests, the film’s first day box office data was still good. The biggest impact on the film was actually the rating system.
On its first day on Friday, the film took in $10.256 million at the box office, which is a pretty good figure for an R-rated movie.
Little Gilbert, who was far away in Europe, learned about the midnight show and the first-day box office, and also learned about the black protests that the film encountered, so he told the film's starring actors about the situation.
Upon hearing this box office data, the leading actors, including Tom Hanks, excitedly waved their fists in celebration.
After hearing about the black protest, everyone couldn't help but frown.
Vin Diesel, who has a bad temper, even cursed angrily: "Are their brains pig brains? Or are they born with less brain capacity than normal people?"
Tom Hanks had a rare bit of humor: "You are wrong, a pig's brain is smarter than these people."
Everyone looked at each other and smiled, agreeing with this statement.
However, little Gilbert still reminded the protagonists: "Don't talk nonsense in front of the media, otherwise you will get burned."
"I understand the director..."
"Don't worry, this is just for us to scold us internally, and we won't talk nonsense when we go out." A group of actors assured.
They also understand the priorities of the matter. Although black people's protests make them very angry, if they respond and someone goes up the pole and backhands them to accuse you of racial discrimination, that will be troublesome.
So the best thing to do is not to respond, ignore them, and let these black protest groups enjoy themselves.
Of course, you can also do some social welfare activities just like you did before to please parents and children. For example, pay attention to the living conditions of black people, or make donations.
But little Gilbert has no interest in licking a black man, he is a noble squid man.
You say I discriminate against black people and ignore their contribution in World War II. I also talked about the huge sacrifices we squids made in World War II. Do you black people have any?
If we really talk about it, we won’t even give you a chance to speak. If we discriminate against you, we will discriminate against you. No one pays attention to you. Who pays attention to you? Are you being discriminated against?
Of course, that was an act of smashing the table under extreme circumstances. Normally, just ignore it.
Compared to black protests, parent protests are relatively troublesome.
Perhaps it was the controversy over the classification of "The Island" that aroused dissatisfaction among parents. This time, "Saving Private Ryan" was still protested by parents.
After watching the film, many parents said that this protest was indeed correct. The film should be rated a higher level. The R rating is too light.
They don't care, their main concern is their children.
At the age of seventeen, Evans secretly went to the cinema to watch "Saving Private Ryan" despite his father's objections.
Facing his father's stern eyes after returning, Evans swore to his father: "Dad, I promise, "Saving Private Ryan" is a great movie.
It is by no means a movie that promotes and encourages war violence as parents protest.
We should not be biased and look at this movie fairly. The spirit it promotes is worth learning from. "
With Evans's assurance, Evans' father doubtfully went to the cinema to watch "Saving Private Ryan." After returning, he apologized to his son Evans: "I'm sorry, Evans, I almost missed a wonderful movie.
This movie deserves a good review. "
The father and son reconciled, and while socializing with other families on the weekend, the father and son transformed into running water.
“Watching a movie on the weekend, of course Saving Private Ryan.”
"Yes, if you miss this movie, you will regret it for the rest of your life."
Compared with the vague parent protests in the newspapers, more parents still believe in their neighbors.
So, driven by families who had watched the film, many families chose to watch "Saving Private Ryan" over the weekend, despite continued protests from parents in newspapers and media.
Under such circumstances, the film continues to create good box office results in North America.
On Saturday, May 5, the film grossed US$15.098 million at the box office in a single day, and US$11.632 million at the weekend box office. The North American box office in its first week reached US$42.226 million.
This result ranks second in the box office of an R-rated film in its first week in North America, which is a pretty good result.
The first place is "Terminator 2", which made 52 million US dollars in its first week in North America, and the North American box office ended up being 208 million US dollars.
But this is a sequel to a popular science fiction movie. Although "Saving Private Ryan" has a World War II background and prototype characters, it is a non-sequel movie.
This result is already excellent enough.
The North American market performed well, and the European market also achieved good results.
Unlike North America, which faced protests, the film in Europe went smoothly, earning US$21.35 million in several markets in its first week.
Together with the North American box office, the film's global box office total reached US$63.546 million, successfully becoming the first-week box office champion in North America and many countries where it was released, as well as the global weekly box office champion.
More importantly, the film aroused widespread discussion and thinking. Film critics, media, and audiences all praised the film.
The few negative reviews were automatically ignored by fans who loved the movie.
After watching a movie, many people will unconsciously look for relevant movie reviews to see what others have to say about the movie. If you see someone who agrees, you will agree unconsciously, and then read other people’s comments with a smile.
This is usually a process of finding a psychological identity. In the past, everyone looked at newspapers and media to find this sense of identity. But after the emergence of IMDB, and with the development of the Internet, movie fans can leave comments online to express their feelings. own point of view. Ever since, movie fans have discovered that they can leave comments about the film in the comment area of IMDB.
The comment area also has like and comment functions, allowing everyone to find a common sense of identity and belonging.
Of course, because a small number of viewers who don't like the film will leave negative reviews, it will also attract movie fans to watch it. Then, in order to protect the film, there will be quarrels with the viewers who left negative reviews.
In this barbaric era of the Internet, although the pages are simple and the websites are primitive, the Internet has initially shown that it has advantages in public opinion that other channels do not have.
Little Gilbert certainly noticed the reviews of his film on IMDB. The IMDB score of the film is as high as 9.0, second only to "The Godfather" and "The Shawshank Redemption", and after "The Godfather Part II".
Of course, this is just the initial score, and the film's score will drop later, but stabilizing it above 8.5 is not a problem.
However, not many people pay attention to IMDB's ratings and reviews yet. It will take a few more years for the Internet's influence to expand before film companies can pay attention to the influence of this website.
Little Gilbert had planned it very early. After all, he invested in this website and planned to build a navy army in advance.
Whether it's touting one's own movies or discrediting one's opponent's movies, this is a very useful trick. The trick of letting the navy set the pace was no longer new, but it was quite a rare gameplay in this era.
After the first week, the film went through two working days and finally ushered in May 8th, which is the Victory Day in the West and the day when this year's Cannes Film Festival is held.
In order to counter the Venice Film Festival under the control of the FXS regime, the French government planned to hold its own film festival in 1939.
However, due to the outbreak of World War II, preparations were halted.
It was not until the end of the war that the first film festival was held in September 1946. Because it was located in the French town of Cannes, it was also called the Cannes Film Festival.
Since 1951, the Cannes Film Festival has been moved to May every year in order to catch up with the Venice Film Festival. The highest award is the Palme d'Or.
However, "Saving Private Ryan" is not a participating film, but one of the opening films of the Cannes Film Festival. The crew and crew received an invitation to attend the red carpet ceremony in Cannes.
Although the influence of the three major European film festivals in North America is far less than that of the American Film and Television Golden Globes and Oscars, they are global awards after all and still have great influence in other parts of the world.
Having this platform for promotion will do no harm to "Saving Private Ryan".
This year's Cannes Film Festival has two films from the Chinese-speaking region participating. One is "Feng Yue" directed by Chen Gege and starring Guorong Zhang and Gong Li.
One is "Goodbye, Southland, Southland" directed by the well-known Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, which is a typical film of the New Wave Movement of Taiwanese films.
Of course, little Gilbert also saw the Chinese Legion. When Gong Li asked photographers to take photos of her on the beach, little Gilbert happened to walk by with Sophie Marceau and Emmanuelle Béard in his arms and saw them.
Gong Li obviously also recognized little Gilbert, who is well-known in the Chinese film industry.
The lecture he gave at Nortel allowed all Nortel students to publicize it to show how awesome their school was.
National Preceptor Zhang also mentioned little Gilbert on several occasions, saying that he had a pleasant exchange with little Gilbert and the two sides had a great conversation. Gong Li was also present when I was bragging.
Later, I became interested and went to find out more. Unexpectedly, I met little Gilbert here.
But seeing the two beauties next to little Gilbert, both well-known actresses, Gong Li was stunned for a moment, and then gave up.
The Cannes Film Festival is about to be held, and many celebrities will appear. It is not surprising to see little Gilbert, Sophie Marceau and Emmanuelle Béard.
Just to let the French know that little Gilbert was alone with two French flowers in his arms, and he would probably be angry from the bottom of his heart, and then get angry for a while.
Besides, many people like to read this kind of tidbits of news.
Little Gilbert flirts with two French roses. It's very exciting to think about it.
There are many people playing in the water and enjoying the sun on the beach, both men and women, and it is not uncommon to see people taking photos like Gong Li.
But little Gilbert, Sophie Marceau, and Emmanuelle Béard were obviously not here to take pictures.
Sophie Marceau put down her work and traveled to major cities in Europe with little Gilbert to support little Gilbert.
She is very famous in Europe and hopes to use her own way to help little Gilbert promote the movie.
Of course, she slept in little Gilbert's room at night. After all, little Gilbert loved learning French and she was happy to be a teacher.
But after a few days, Sophie Marceau said she couldn't bear it anymore. Little Gilbert was as strong as an ox and was too strong for her to teach alone.
So Emmanuelle Béard, whom she had met at the premiere, was pulled over to save the day by Sophie Marceau. The three of them had been studying French enthusiastically in the hotel last night and came over to bask in the sun today.
Sophie Marceau also told little Gilbert that if neither of them could handle him, they would have to ask their seniors to take action.
If little Gilbert didn't care about age, she'd already contacted Isabelle Adjani to come to Cannes.
The third book of today’s sacrifice...
I think I’ve recommended this novel about Huayu before. It’s pretty good. I think it’s better than mine. You can check it out.
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