In the fourth week of December, "Meeting Father-in-law 2" won the North American weekend box office championship with its third highest record in film history, once again awakening the silent holiday box office market; more importantly, this record high was created on Wednesday and Thursday, and the movie received a box office of 70 million in five days on its first release, and its outstanding performance was amazing.

This is really a huge surprise. The holiday season, which was a melee, actually appeared in two consecutive works with a box office of 40 million in just one month, both of which ranked among the top five in film history. If we add the "Superman Mobilization" and "National Treasure" that are still popular, the holiday season in 2004 can be said to be full of flowers. But what are the rules?

"Superman Mobilization" is an animation, "National Treasure" adventure, "Borrowing a knife to kill" is a crime, "Meeting the Father-in-law 2" is a comedy, these are four completely different types of movies, and the common point that can be seen is "family joy". The holiday atmosphere is always linked to the family, but this is not news. Moreover, the trend of the North American weekend box office list this week also proves that not all family-friendly works can win audiences during the holiday, so after going around, saying it means not saying it, and returning to the starting point.

"Borrowing a knife to kill" once again continued its strong performance since its release. Due to the different theme types, there was almost no impact of "Meeting Father-in-law 2". It can be seen from the 25% drop data. This makes the movie still earn more than 18 million US dollars in three days on the weekend three weeks after its release. This result is enough to be comparable to the box office blockbusters in the summer season, and even surpasses the performance of "National Treasure", becoming the most shiny dark horse in the holiday season this year.

The 18 million weekend box office not only allowed "killing someone with a knife" to easily win the runner-up, winning two weeks of the release and two weeks of the runner-up. Such a dazzling result made all words lose their meaning; at the same time, it also pushed the cumulative box office to 156 million, and the success of the work immediately reached a new height.

At the end of November, "National Treasure" was released. It achieved a counterattack without being favored, and it released shocking data one after another. The cumulative box office of 140 million in six weeks of release, which made Disney smile. However, in just four weeks, the cumulative box office of "Borrowing a Knife" exceeded 150 million, which is an incredible result. This also makes "Borrowing a Knife" second only to "Superman Mobilization" and becomes the box office runner-up so far in this holiday season. This result is really an unexpected surprise.

Originally, people were still questioning that the starting point of "killing with a knife" was not high, and it was not easy to break through 100 million, and it was even more distant. More importantly, as a thriller crime-themed work, it was already very rare to break through the threshold of 100 million. In the long history of film, there is only one crime-type movie with a box office of over 100 million, and a "pulp novel" released in 1994. After that, the best box office performance was the "Mysterious River" released in 2003, with a box office final reaching 90 million. The box office of 2000 million is almost an impossible task for criminal movies.

But now, the accumulated box office of "killing with a knife" has reached 156 million in the past four weeks. It not only easily surpassed "Pulp Novels", but also broke the box office record of criminal movies in history and improved a big step. The record of "Pulp Novels" is 107 million. At the same time, because of the next New Year's Day holiday, there is a great hope to usher in a gratifying box office recovery, so 200 million is no longer an out of reach.

Almost no one noticed it, "killing someone with a knife" has created history, and it is close to writing a brand new history.

Regardless of whether "killing people with a knife" can finally achieve this breakthrough, Lance has successfully attracted the attention of all Hollywood. Compared with the emergence of "City of God", the two works of "acquired day" and "killing people with a knife" show that Lance's superb control of commercial films "acquired day" is a large-scale scene scheduling with multiple lines; "killing people with a knife" is the atmosphere control in a narrow space, and both works can feel the mature and experienced Lance's control of rhythm, which is crucial for a director, especially a commercial director.

Compared to a visual special effects blockbuster like "The Day Afternoon", "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" as a thriller crime movie was originally at a disadvantage in box office competition, but Lance still turned decay into magic and created a historical record. This is the most precious asset for major Hollywood film companies.

Of course, if you look into it deeply, "killing with a knife" can achieve such a good result, Tom's appeal and the box office hype of the "Twelve Arhats" have made great contributions. But compared to the public, what the film company sees is deeper: Lance, who serves as producer, director, screenwriter and actor, has definitely made great contributions.

Therefore, the final accumulation of box office of "killing with a knife" is no longer important. The performance so far is enough to prove Lance's ability and talent. This is an important breakthrough for Hollywood to change the game. Of course, everyone is keen on record being broken because only if the record is broken can it have historical significance. People are now looking forward to it, hoping that "killing with a knife" can hit a new high.

The box office of the comedy movie "Meeting Father-in-law 2" broke out in its premiere, and the box office of the crime movie "Borrowing a Knife" continued to be high in the fourth week. These are just the top two in the box office rankings in the fifth week of December. You can see the elusive trajectory of the holiday season, and the next ranking is even more confusing.

The fantasy film "Ramonsnitch's Unhappy Adventures" plummeted 58% the next week, and only earned 12 million weekend box office. In two weeks of release, it completely announced that this work, with a cost of 140 million, would bring huge losses to Paramount and occupy the third place on this week's list.

The comedy movie "Fat Abbott" premiered this week and was completely exclaimed by competitors of the same type of "Meeting Father-in-law 2". The premiere weekend data of only 10 million is really terrible, but due to the low investment and the recycling cost is not a problem, it was drowned in a bunch of lively news and disappeared, ranking fourth in this week.

The plot movie "Flyer" continues to expand. This biography film, which was jointly produced by Martin Scorsis and Leonardo DiCaprio, became a hit in the awards season as soon as it was released. Leonardo's call for the best actor was even more popular. This week, it won $8.6 million in box office, ranking fifth on the list. Compared with the huge investment of $110 million, the ambition of this work is not above the box office, and the intention to point to the Oscars is called "Sima Zhao's Heart".

In the fourth week of the release of the comedy crime movie "Twelve Arhats", the box office continued to decline, with a drop of 40% of the 40% drop of only $4.5 million. It was so bad that it made people laugh and cry. Even the anger could not be even angry. The accumulated box office was slow to reach 88 million. The hope of whether it could exceed 100 million was placed on the outbreak of New Year's Day next week, ranking eighth on the North American box office list this week.

When "killing people with a knife" is constantly breaking records, the "Twelve Arhats" have completely lost their competitiveness. Even the crew raised white flags and gave in to Europe. They have made unremitting efforts to expand the world market, leaving the North American market completely to "killing people with a knife".

At this moment, people realized that everything was as expected. Two works of the same type were premiered at the same time and had no match in the head-on competition. One side would inevitably be completely defeated. This was a direct showdown of life and death. Although the result came a little late, it still did not deviate from the track.

However, people did not expect that the "Twelve Arhats" would be the one who collapsed in full swing.

In addition, the frustrated work "Polar Express" and the small-scale release work "Dark" ranked sixth and seventh respectively; the "Spanish Maid" released last week directly fell to ninth place.

On this list, the comedy movies "Meet the Father-in-law 2" and "Fat Abbott" who are both comedy movies, "Murder by Borrowing a Knife" and "Twelve Arhats" who are both criminal movies, "Meet the Father-in-law 2" and "Raymondsnitch's Unhappy Adventures", "Twelve Arhats" and "Polar Express" are all completely different, while the horror movie "Dark" that has nothing to do with the holiday season has achieved remarkable results. Coupled with the expected outbreak of the awards season movie "Flyer", the box office performance of the genre movie is indeed obvious.

Therefore, the pattern of the holiday period is still a fog; this pattern has continued to the fifth week of December, not only the last week of 2004, but also the first week of 2005, New Year's Day is Saturday.

In the fifth week of December, without any new works released, the audience ushered in a movie viewing frenzy, so almost all works ushered in a box office increase of counterattack. The focus is still on the two works "Meeting Father-in-law 2" and "Killing with a knife". As for the "Twelve Arhats", it is already a waste of tomorrow. The media's attention is always limited, even if the cast lineup is as strong as the "Twelve Arhats".

"Meet the Father-in-law 2" only lost 9% with a large number of viewers entering the cinema, and achieved a weekend box office of 4,000 for the second consecutive week. What's even more terrifying is that thanks to the surging crowds of holidays, the cumulative box office of the movie has reached an incredible 160 million in two weeks. It's only a matter of time before it surpasses "killing with a knife". It's about to compete with "Superman Mobilization" for the holiday box office champion.

The innate advantages of comedy movies are fully demonstrated at this moment; while the innate disadvantages of criminal movies can be seen in "killing with a knife", they are not obvious.

This week, "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" ushered in an astonishing increase of 26%, and it is only one step away from the box office of 200 million.

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