In the first week of December, the "Twelve Arhats" showdown "killing people with a knife" and the premiere box office battle came to an end...

"Borrowing a Knife to Kill" swept 45 million box offices in an almost entirely disadvantageous situation, winning the North American weekend box office champion this week. This result ranked third in film history in the premiere box office data in December, and only lagged behind the "Lord of the Rings" series trilogy. Its excellent performance surprised everyone.

The "Twelve Arhats" made a huge debut and made a brilliant debut, but ended up suffering a tragic defeat. They earned 39 million on three days of the weekend, lagging behind their direct competitors who premiered on the same day and ranked second. In fact, this result can rank fifth on the historical list of box office data for the December premiere, just behind "killing with a knife", and before the "Eleven Arhats".

In this way, the box office performance of the "Twelve Arhats" is not bad. After all, the box office revenue of $39 million was already very rare in December, but this is only relative.

In fact, the premiere box office of the "Twelve Arhats" was only two percentage points higher than the previous work "Twelve Arhats", and the increase was almost negligible. This means that the sequel movie did not bring any bonus to the movie, which is the biggest failure for the series of movies. At the same time, the "Twelve Arhats" lost to "borrowing a knife to kill people" by a gap of 6 million, with a huge investment in early publicity and the grand grand premiere could not be cashed into profit income, which already means a loss.

In contrast, "Borrowing a Knife" released a series of theaters, screening ratios, and publicity stances lag behind competitors, but it burst out with such amazing energy, becoming the most beautiful scenery in the December holiday season. Only then did people realize that among the previous box office predictions of "Borrowing a Knife" that were generally considered the most unreliable "New York Post", the "New York Post", which is generally considered the most unreliable, is the closest to the results.

"Borrowing a Knife to Kill" won the box office championship in the first week of December. This also became the second consecutive work by Lance as a director to win the championship on the weekend, continuing his wonderful performance of the "day-afternoon" in the summer season. At the same time, it went further and gained box office and also received praise from the media. It has become the new director with the most prominent topic discussion in the past two years and the strength of the work. The upward momentum is simply unstoppable.

What's even more surprising is that "killing with a knife" or Lance's debut as an actor is not a playful nature. Lance's dedicated performance has almost been praised by many media and is impressive.

From "City of God" to "the day after tomorrow" to "killing with a knife", Lance completed an incredible triple jump in two years, making the penniless Chaos Film instantly a Hollywood upstart. Even the "City of Sin" under preparation became popular in an instant, which was incredible.

But this is Hollywood, which has never lacked fairy tales of overnight fame, attracting thousands of young people with dreams to rush towards this dazzling world of fame and fortune.

In the first week of December, in addition to the highly anticipated "killing with a knife" and "Twelve Arhats", the performance of "national treasure" also became another focus. After the film only achieved a mediocre performance of 35 million on the premiere weekend, it delivered an amazing decline of 8% in the next week and won the championship again. This week, it once again achieved a weekend box office of 17 million with a decline of 45%, and still ranked third in the week. When it was not optimistic at the beginning of the release, the cumulative box office of this work reached 110 million US dollars in three weeks of release, and it became a dark horse in this holiday season.

Especially considering that the two works "Borrowing a Knife to Kill People" and "Twelve Arhats" have both achieved box offices of 30 million, and the "National Treasure" can achieve such outstanding results, which is even more exciting.

After these three works, "Escape from Christmas", "Polar Express", "Superman Mobilization", "Stealing Heart", "SpongeBob Adventures", "Alexander the Great", and "Looking for Dream Island" ranked fourth to tenth respectively.

It is worth noting that "Alexander the Great" released last week had a box office of only 13 million in its premiere, but it actually saw a 65% drop in the next week, and earned 4.7 million US dollars in the second week. The accumulated box office in two weeks did not even cross the threshold of 30 million. The investment of 155 million US dollars almost made Warner Bros. Even the bottoms were lost.

According to internal rumors, Warner Bros. has decided to give up "Alexander the Great" in advance, not only because of the box office and the reputation has been defeated, but also because the negative news of the crew has been overwhelming and can hardly bear it.

Angelina's news was mentioned again. Although there was no activity to boycott "Alexander the Great" on the Internet, in the street interview of "David Letterman's Late Night Show", it was found that people were generally on the side of Jennifer Aniston. The impression of Angelina was very bad not only because of the positive impression that "Friends" brought to Jennifer, but also because Angelina played the role of this "infidelity", but also because her rebellious and outrageous image has been challenging people's bottom line in the past few years. This also led to people not being interested in "Alexander the Great".

At the same time, the male protagonist Colin Farrell was also plagued by negative news. The paparazzi revealed that he once again entered the rifle center due to alcoholism and medication problems. Even during the publicity period of "Alexander the Great", he kept smoking and was absent-minded. Even during the interview, he would be distracted. His private life was really bad.

It can be said that "Emperor Alexander the Great" has now become an abandoned son.

To make matters worse, after the box office rankings in the first week of December were released, the relationship between Angelina and Brad once again became the focus of attention. The works of the two people were released one after another, and the publicity period overlapped, so how could the media be willing to let it go easily?

At the New York fan meeting of "Alexander the Great" this week, a reporter asked Angelina directly, "Will you go to the cinema to watch the Twelve Arhats?" The atmosphere on the scene froze to ice. Angelina yelled back, "What movie I'm going to the cinema to watch, it's all your business?" The gunpowder smell was a little out of control for a while, and then some reporters even asked without scruples, "The box office of the movie is so bad, who should be responsible for Angelina? Do you think it has something to do with you?"

At present, the "Twelve Arhats" have only experienced the premiere, and the publicity has not been fully launched. However, the box office of the movie's premiere weekend is really unsatisfactory. It is conceivable that the crew will face the next promotional period.

Jason looked up at the room, and the room was full of seats. Not only the main actors, directors, producers, Warner Bros. senior executives, etc., all came to the scene, and important members of Diorama and Project B were also present.

However, at this moment, the whole room was silent, and everyone was bowing their heads and silent. The depressed emotion almost made people breathless.

George, who was always calm and composed, was holding a cigarette in his mouth. The curling smoke enveloped his face, making it impossible to see his expression clearly. His calm fingertips and elegant cross-legged legs seemed to show his inner peace. But Jason knew that this was George's fourth cigarette in an hour. Just this detail could show George's true emotions at this time.

"Although the box office of the premiere weekend was not as good as expected, it was far from bad." Jerry Wintraub said, but the awkward words were dry and powerless. After echoing lightly in the room for two rounds, it disappeared completely without anyone responding.

Jason looked at Ryan and Tucker, and he wanted to say that from "Troy" to "Twelve Arhats", all this proved that propaganda is only an auxiliary means, and works are essential work. It is still time for them to adjust the plan of the "Saharan Cavalry" now. But the words turned twice in the chest and finally swallowed.

George put his left hand on his knee, tightened, and even then, he still couldn't vent his inner aggrievance and anger. He could accept that the premiere box office data of the "Twelve Arhats" was not ideal, and he could also accept that the media feedback and audience responses of the "Twelve Arhats" did not meet expectations, but he absolutely could not accept that the "Twelve Arhats" lost to "killing with a knife, which is a shame, a great humiliation.

As long as he recalls his confidence and grace and calmness at the premiere, as long as he recalls his condescending attitude in front of Lance, as long as he recalls Lance, who was thrown around, actually climbed onto his head, as long as he recalls Lance's stupid and persistent insistence on the movie, he feels like his chest is about to explode, and the whole world is dizzy. No, he cannot accept that he cannot accept the ugly performance of the premiere box office, he cannot accept the accusation of the media and audience of the movie, and he cannot accept that he "killed someone by borrowing a knife" to win the weekend box office championship, and he absolutely cannot accept that he lost to Lance Lot Strello.

The scorching cheeks seemed to have been slapped for more than a dozen times, and the glittering eyes of Lance in his mind were mocking his cowardice and failure.

George just felt his stomach rolling and he wanted to vomit.

"Maybe I should be absent from the propaganda behind it." Brad rubbed his painful temple and said impatiently, but the words were interrupted by a voice as soon as they were said. "Coward." Brad suddenly opened his eyes and looked over the sound angrily, then saw George's deep eyes. George looked over and said again, "Coward" Brad slapped the table and slapped it.

But George was unmoved. He took his left hand away, "If you escape now, just tell others that you are afraid and they need to attack your weapon, you hand the weapon to them, then raise your butt and still punish them. What is it not a coward?" George's thunderous voice made people clearly feel the trembling of his emotions, "We have not lost yet. If you want to surrender, please give in, I will never admit defeat."

He will give tenfold congratulations to continue today's shame.

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Chapter completed!