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Chapter 2019

The "super perfect murder case" was completely destroyed, and the "six days and seven nights" was instantly defeated by "x archives: conquering the future"... The box office development trajectory of "Trumen's world" made many experts exclaim that they couldn't understand it, and the entire film market was surging for a moment.

The "Trumen's World" in the summer season in 1998 made many industry insiders joke, "Maybe this is the box office champion this year", which caused laughter. Why is this a joke? Because since "The Little Imperial" won the year-end box office championship in North America with an incredible $285 million in 1990, no comedy has been able to reach such a height in the past seven years, let alone the year-end champion, it has become extremely difficult to even enter the top ten in the year-end.

But not to mention this year's year-end list, it can also be seen from this aspect that the performance of "Trumen's World" in the summer is really too shocking.

This is a very interesting thing: "Independence Day" set off a frenzy of visual effects commercial blockbusters, and then triggered a debate between conservatives and reformists; but "Los Angeles Secret", "Excellent Beauty" and "Trueman's World" have successively made people feel the powerful appeal of retro movies with outstanding reputation, wonderful stories and beautiful box offices.

Hugo alone has upended the entire North American film market.

However, after three consecutive championships, it is obviously not that easy for "Trump World" to continue dominating. This is the summer season. Even if you win the championship for one week, it is extremely difficult. Almost every week will usher in fierce competition. In the fourth week of June, "Trump World" will face the encounter of another comedy movie: "Dr.dolittle" led by Eddie Murphy is about to attack!

"Monster Doctor Doride" invested 71 million US dollars, and Eddie, the leading actor, is also a top comedian in the North American market who is currently comparable to Jim Carrey, Robin Williams and Billy Christo. Although as a black actor, a breakthrough in film pay will inevitably be more difficult than others, which also makes him lag behind Kim and fail to be the first to enter the 20 million club, the identity of a black actor can be said to be a coexistence of advantages and disadvantages. His unique image and unique market have made Eddie a top superstar.

This work is adapted from the musical film of the same name in 1967. The film received a lot of praise and won the 40th Academy Award for Best Picture. Now it is a classic remake and Eddie injects new vitality into the film, and the attention it attracts is naturally extraordinary.

"Miracle Doctor Du Lide" undoubtedly became the favorite to win this week.

After the box office list was released in the fourth week of June, although the "strange doctor Do Lide" was criticized, the media's comprehensive review was only 46 points, and the theater score was only "c-", which could almost be said to be a failure in all directions; but in the end the movie continued Eddie's appeal in terms of box office, and the box office data of 29 million US dollars was eye-catching. If it weren't for the "Trueman's World" being the first, this would be the data that broke the box office history of comedy movies.

The situation of "Monster Doctor Do Lidd" also shows people that the real situation of comedy movies is becoming more and more aware of the difficulty of "Trumen's World" in achieving such results. However, even if the reputation is bad, it can still attract enough audiences to enter the cinema, smile happily, and enjoy 90 minutes of relaxation. This is also the reason why comedians such as Eddie, King, Robin, and Billy become more and more rare, and they are cheap and profitable.

As expected, the premiere of $29 million is enough to allow "Monster Doctor Doride" to successfully win the weekend box office championship this week. Even if the decline of "Truman's World" is against the sky, unless it can counter-growth like the Titanic, it will be impossible for "Truman's World" to complete four consecutive championships with a box office of $30.4 million last week.

Finally, "Trumen's World" lost 20% for the second consecutive week and won a weekend box office of 24 million US dollars. Although it failed to achieve four consecutive championships and was behind "Monster Doctor Du Lide" this week, the 20% decline was still shocking. The box office performance of 20 million for four consecutive weeks is still ranked among the top five in film history, once again transforming the excellent reputation of the movie into box office data, allowing the work to make great strides on the road to creating history.

The audience's heated discussions and controversy about "Trumen's World" attracted more and more audiences to enter the cinema and joined the ranks of this social frenzy, and eventually turned into a box office of 20 million for four consecutive weeks. Only three works in the history of the film have achieved such results, "Titanic", "Independence Day", "Life and Death Hour". Now, another one is added!

Although the winner of the championship this week was "The Strange Doctor Do Lidd", as a comedy movie, "Truman's World" still performed at 20 million in the fourth week, which was immediately obvious. While praising Eddie's comedy talent and box office appeal, people even sighed that Hugo's understanding and interpretation of the work, "Truman's World" has gradually become one of the best masterpieces in the entire history of the film.

All the focus is on the "Trumen's World", and the continuous high-level performance around it has brought the cumulative box office of the work to 181 million! The "Trumen's World" surpasses "Los Angeles City Secret" and brings a stronger impact to the entire market, which is a foregone conclusion, but the focus of people's curiosity now is: how high can this impact be reached?

285 million US dollars surpassing the "Home Imp"? Achieving the 300 million US dollars that comedy movies have never been able to reach? The subsequent box office performance of "Trumen's World" will determine how much the film will contribute to the historical process, and how deep the changes will be to the film market composition in the next ten years.

In the fourth week of June, "The Strange Doctor Du Lide", "Trumen's World", and "Mulan" ranked in the top three.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Mulan" fell by only 25%, counterattacking "X Files: Conquer the Future", showing the strong box office endurance of Disney animated films as always. The next box office end of this work is also noticeable.

The first two months of the summer season in 1998 ended, "Trumen's World" unexpectedly became the leader so far this year, and its outstanding performance brought the heat of midsummer into a real ***. Immediately afterwards, "Armageddon" directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will be launched in the first week of July, ushering in the Independence Day weekend, becoming the leader of this year's Independence Day, and the box office battle is becoming increasingly fierce.

However, the North American weekend box office championship battle has nothing to do with the "Trueman's world". Under the cover of strong reputation, the ultimate focus of how outstanding the movie's subsequent box office can be.

The same is true. The weekend box office of "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" was disappointing with $36 million. Michael's magic seems to have weakened. Whether it is media comprehensive reviews, theater scores, or box office performance, they are far from meeting expectations. The premiere box office results of "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" with an investment of $140 million are not only far behind the "Trumen's World", but are also much inferior to "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla". Especially in the context of Independence Day, this result seems more and more dull.

But even so, "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" successfully won the box office championship in the first week of July.

Correspondingly, the pressure brought by the "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" on the "Trumen's World" is also very limited, which has caused the box office of "Trumen's World" to fall by 25% this week, winning a weekend box office of 18 million US dollars. This makes the cumulative box office of the movie easily exceed the 200 million threshold and reaching 206 million US dollars. As expected, it began to launch an impact on the film history record of "the little devil".

Before we knew it, "Trumen's World" had a drop of less than 30% for four consecutive weeks, which is also an unimaginable result for comedy movies. This work, which cost only US$60 million, reached US$200 million in five weeks of release. Although this performance is not as good as "Independence Day", its box office performance during the same period has ranked third in film history, only behind "Independence Day" and "Titanic".

Is the "Trumen's World" going to hit a box office of 400 million?

This is obviously not practical, because the "Trumen's World" neither the explosive power in the early stage of "Independence Day" nor the battery life of the "Titanic". The box office of 400 million US dollars is too difficult, but the 300 million US dollars seems to be waving to the "Trumen's World". Of course, the premise is that the subsequent box office decline can continue to be strong.

In the second week of July, the decline was 25%, the decline was 21%, and in the fourth week of July, the decline was 26%. In the end, the "Trumen's World" ushered in a historical moment in the second week of August, with a cumulative box office of 288 million US dollars. This not only made the "Trumen's World" surpass the "Los Angeles City Secret", and became the work second only to "Independence Day" among Hugo's personal works, setting a new box office high; it also made the "Trumen's World" officially surpass the "Home Imperial" and become the new box office champion of comedy movies in film history.

This is a historical moment, not a simple new record in the box office of comedy movies, but a time when the era of visual effects blockbusters began to sweep the summer season of 1998. The script-first retro movies once again broke out, ranking among the top ten in the box office in film history with a box office of 288 million US dollars, once again rebalancing the power balance between traditional conservatives and radical reformists, making the film market before the turn of the century more prosperous and noisy.
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