Thanks to the gap between Christmas and New Year's Day holidays, North America ushered in the last movie-watching peak. "Meeting Father-in-law 2" swept over 50 million box offices from Monday to Thursday, and once again won 41 million data on three days of the weekend. In just two weeks of release, the accumulated box office reached 162 million, as if the previous month's depressed enthusiasm was completely released within this week. Even Universal Pictures, which was used to making small profits, was overjoyed because of this dazzling result.

"Borrowing a knife to kill" also took advantage of the box office frenzy at the end of the year, and the box office rebounded by 26% over the weekend. Even among the all-round increase on the list, it still attracted a lot of attention.

Among the movie-watching craze this week, the "National Treasure" and "Superman Mobilization" have the most amazing increase, but the box office of both works was lower than five million last week's weekend. Even if the increase is amazing, the number of actually rising is very limited. In addition, the most outstanding performance is the "Flyer" who shines during the awards season, with box office up 33% this week, and the shocking "killing with a knife" during the holiday season.

Relying on the counterattack of the box office this week, "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" earned 22 million in three days on the weekend. Not only did it firmly occupy the runner-up position in the last week of 2004, but also thanks to its outstanding performance in the middle of the week, the accumulated box office achieved a qualitative leap, reaching 193 million in one fell swoop.

The data of 193 million is really amazing. Although it is still not enough to watch "Meeting Father-in-law 2" and "Superman Mobilization", for a thriller crime movie, such results are unprecedented, and it is extremely difficult to have someone in the future.

"Pulp Novel" was born in 1994. With the attitude of a movie, it swept 107 million yuan in box office, becoming the first criminal film in history to exceed 100 million yuan in North America. However, no one expected that in the next ten years, no work had reached this level.

Now, "killing with a knife" has not only reached this level, but also the box office of 200 million is close to the corner. What is now discussed is not whether it can exceed 200 million. There is no doubt that the box office of 200 million will reach next week; what is now discussed is where it will eventually settle, whether it can reach 250 million or even further.

Every box office increase in "killing with a knife" means the driving force of the historical process. This significance even exceeds the importance of breaking the shackles of 300 million yuan in box office for ordinary works. This is not only the success of a movie, but also the hope seen by the entire film industry. It proves that crime-type films still have strong appeal and have unlimited box office potential.

Things have developed to this point, completely deviating from people's expectations of "killing with a knife" and even moving in an unpredictable direction. Not to mention Paramount, even Lance himself did not expect that the online publicity was so outstanding, he did not expect that the head-on decisive "Twelve Arhats" would burst out with such a strong chemical reaction, and he did not expect that the feedback from the film market would be so surging. This reminded Lance suddenly of a word: butterfly effect.

Amazon's butterfly flapped its wings slightly, which could trigger a tornado in Texas, USA two weeks later.

The trajectory of history is changing little by little because of him. After the "City of God" was published, Lance realized this. This is also his purpose. He must hold his destiny in his own hands, change the trajectory of history bit by bit, and then write his own history. However, the explosive reaction of "killing with a knife" still brought Lance a huge surprise.

For the second consecutive week, "Meeting Father-in-law 2" and "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" have become the main themes of the box office market, but other films have also performed well this week.

"Raymonsnich's Unlucky Adventure", "Flyer", and "Fat Abbott" all achieved box offices of more than 10 million, occupying the remaining three positions in the top five respectively; "National Treasure", "Spanish Maid", "Polar Express", "Twelve Arhats" and "Phantom of the Opera" ranked sixth to tenth respectively.

The only thing worth mentioning is that the "Twelve Arhats" rebounded 12% of the weekend's box office this week, and received 5 million US dollars. Relying on the mid-week movie viewing craze, the cumulative box office of the movie still successfully exceeded the 100 million threshold, barely reaching 102 million. The cost line of 110 million is still in the range, but the situation of a crushing defeat is irreversible. It only retains some cast lineups with star-studded faces and stars at this time, but if you haven't even passed the 100 million minimum standard line, it is estimated that George, Brad and others must avoid the limelight.

No one will compare the "Twelve Arhats" and "killing people with a knife" on the same level, but even if the "Twelve Arhats" are compared with the "Eleven Arhats", the result is disappointing. The $100 million box office in North America can only be considered a fig leaf, and if George, Brad and others do not want to be covered in clothes, overseas box office is their last hope.

After entering 2005, the box office market in the first week of January fell silent. "Borrowing a knife to kill people" suffered the largest drop since its release, and a decline of 40% seemed to suffer heavy losses. However, considering that this is the sixth week of the movie's release, this number is not that scary; even so, the weekend box office of 13 million helped "Borrowing a knife to kill people" to successfully break through the 200 million threshold, and the cumulative box office reached 211 million.

At this point, "Killing with a knife" once again wrote history, becoming the first criminal film in film history to exceed 200 million in North America, filling a big gap in genre films and realizing an incredible myth when it was not favored. At the same time, this achievement also brought many records, allowing "Killing with a knife" to truly be recorded in history.

First of all, this is Tom's first work that has exceeded 200 million in box office since "Mission Impossible 2" in 2000, which once again allowed people to see the pinnacle of North America's number one idol; at the same time, this is Tom's fifth consecutive work that has exceeded 100 million in box office. In the long river of movies, there is only one who can reach this level, that is, "Tom Cruise" is himself. He once created this feat between "Yihai Xiong" in 1992 and "Mr. Sweetheart" in 1996, and then temporarily interrupted because of "Eye Opening Ring" and "Magnolia". Now, Tom has once again set this record, tying his highest record, and is well deserved to be the most box office actor in North America after Harrison Ford.

Interestingly, this is also Tom's first work since "Mission Impossible 2" that paid $20 million. Because, at the beginning of preparation, the ultimate goal of "killing someone with a knife" was not box office, but the surprise appeared like this, caught people off guard.

Secondly, this is Lance's first work as an actor. Although it cannot occupy a place in the "Actor's debut box office rankings", the first work has achieved a box office of 200 million, which is enough to let people see his potential. Moreover, from the beginning, Paramount took a fancy to Lance's appearance advantage, and his acting skills are definitely icing on the cake. It can be imagined that Lance's actor status will attract a lot of attention in the future.

At the same time, this is also the second consecutive work of Lance as a director in North America with a box office of over 200 million. From "the day after tomorrow" to "borrowing a knife to kill", Lance showed his ability to control different types of movies, and his box office money-making ability has made major film companies covet. If we add the three Oscar-like little golden men in "City of God", even if Lance is the hottest director in North America now, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Lance is the hottest director in North America now.

Within three years, Lance completed the triple jump, and Chaos Film's rise curve was unstoppable

After creating history, the pace of "killing with a knife" has slowed down significantly. After not having the ability to compete for the North American weekend championship, the growth momentum has gradually slowed down. Even so, thanks to the troubles of award ceremony such as the Golden Globes and the Oscars, whether it is the "killing with a knife" work itself or Tom and Lance as actors, they have received a lot of attention during the awards season, which has caused the work's box office curve to fall back, but it has shown a long tail power.

After the noisy months of January, the silence in February, the recovery in March, and the decline in April, "Borrowing a Knife to Kill People" was announced to be offline in the third week of April. The release curve for the first and next twenty weeks was very long, far exceeding the fourteen weeks of the "Twelve Arhats". However, the playback cycle of the works in the 25-week period was still slightly shorter than that of the awards ceremony season. The most important reason is that the works exploded in December, which burned a lot of market potential by leaps and bounds, and the space for later development was naturally relatively limited.

In the end, the box office of North America, which "kills with a knife", was at 240 million yuan, and unfortunately it was not able to exceed 250 million yuan to further create history. However, for a work with an investment of 60 million yuan, such achievements are absolutely amazing for a thriller crime movie, and triggered a series of chain reactions.

The first thing to be affected is the acquisition of the copyright of "Infernal Affairs". After Warner Bros. felt the huge potential of criminal films, he struggled to find a suitable script; but because works such as "Troy" and "Twelve Arhats" were dragged down by weak scripts and had poor results, Warner Bros. seemed much more cautious. In the end, they locked in the "Infernal Affairs" of reviving the "Infernal Affairs" of Chinese Hong Kong movies and purchased the adaptation copyright. This action also triggered a lot of discussion.

Not only Warner Bros. In addition to Universal Pictures, the six major Hollywood film companies have begun to review the box office potential of crime movies to a greater or lesser extent. And everything is closely related to "killing with a knife". Is this considered an unintentional way to become a willow

The powerful momentum of "killing with a knife" in North America has allowed Paramount to enter the profit stage early. Unlike "City of God", this time the profit dividend is enough to make Paramount overjoyed. Even the failure of "Raymond Snitch's unfortunate adventure" is not that bad.

Shortly after entering 2005, Shirley Lansing announced his resignation from Paramount. Paramount then announced that Brad Gray took over as CEO. Brad, who was only 47 years old, had no experience in operating a top production company before, but took over Paramount's helmsman position, which was really surprising.

But youth, vitality and sharpness are exactly what Paramount needs, a century-old tree. To be continued.

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