At this time, the media’s controversy about movies has gradually subsided, and the controversy on the Internet has become more and more lively as time progresses. In a silent manner, the “City of Sin” is following the trajectory of “vulgar novels”, permeating people’s lives from all aspects, leaving the film field, and affecting more fields with a cultural attitude.

Perhaps ten years later, just as people compare "City of Sin" with "Pulp novels", "City of Sin" will also become a benchmark for many cult movies.

In the first week of May, when both premiered works this week lacked impact, "City of Sin" achieved a tens of millions in the fifth consecutive week with a drop of 25%, once again refreshing people's perception of the box office driving force of this work. After handing over the weekend data of 11 million US dollars, the cumulative box office reached 174 million US dollars, and before the summer season arrived, it occupied a favorable position.

Two hundred million, this is no longer a "legendary" height. After five weeks of hard work, the "City of Sin" is within reach.

Although the summer season is about to come next week, the impact will be extremely strong, and the box office momentum of "City of Sin" will be severely tested; it is undeniable that on the road to hit the box office of 200 million, "City of Sin" has already taken the lead, especially considering that the current reputation and controversy of the movie have flown together, and people's enthusiasm for watching movies has never weakened. After the summer season begins, there is also a torrent of audiences who have opened the gates.

Opportunities and challenges are always coexisting. If nothing unexpected happens, the box office of "City of Sin" is almost certain to be achieved by 200 million yuan.

Facts have also proved this.

In the second week of May, the "Dynasty of Heaven" made a brilliant debut in 3,500 theaters, vigorously opening the curtain of the 2005 summer season, but the result surprised everyone. The premiere box office was only 19 million. The terrible performance was poured with a bucket of ice water in the summer heat wave, making the news media, film companies, and audiences eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the summer season come and return with great excitement.

This epic blockbuster created by Ridley Scott attracted actors such as Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, and Edward Norton to join. Among them, Eva, the least famous, relied on the "City of Sin" released six weeks ago and became famous all over the world, further increasing the cast thickness of the "Chen of Heaven".

After the release of "City of Sin", Eva and Jessica's beautiful women's army completely ignited the enthusiasm of male audiences. The invitation to take photos from major magazines alone had already submerged them. The popularity was as close to Angelina Jolie, who is currently the most topical, which is shocking.

But even so, the "Celestial Dynasty" was still unable to turn the tide. The huge investment cost of 130 million yuan only achieved 19 million yuan in premiere box office, which was a huge failure. This also made the movie the second dud this year after the "Saharan Cavalry"; it also continued the craze for the defeat of epic films in which "Troy" and "Alexander the Great" were successively dismantled last year, and once again proved to major film companies that this type of work no longer has market appeal.

Objectively speaking, although the media reputation of the "Celestial Dynasty" did not arouse fanaticism, it still reached the passing line. The 63-point media comprehensive review exceeded that of "Alexander the Great" and "Troy", and it was much better than the "Saharan Cavalry" who had been defeated not long ago.

Even so, it still has not been able to save the decline of epic movies.

The summer season is coming, but it does not bring enough pressure to crush it. The same is true in the third week of May. The three works were premiered simultaneously, but none of them showed enough appeal. The romantic romantic comedy "Monster Monster" starring Jennifer Lopez and the sports comedy "Football Dad" starring Will Ferrell both achieved box office of 20 million yuan, but neither of them was able to burst out with greater box office potential. In this battle of fighting, both suffered losses.

For two consecutive weeks, the summer season has not been able to exert its corresponding power, especially under the weak performance of the premiere works, those old works that have accumulated, accumulated, and fermented reputation have won a lot of room for development. Looking back on the past month, the audience's best reputation is undoubtedly the "City of Sin" and only the "City of Sin".

Cranes and clams fight each other, and fishermen gain benefits.

With its excellent quality, "City of Sin" still showed vitality after the arrival of the summer season. It first grabbed 6.1 million yuan in weekend box office with a drop of 45%, and then incredibly won 6.8 million yuan in three days on weekends with an increase of 13%.

Astonishing declines and unpredictable increases, after entering the summer season, the audience who flocked into the market contributed box office to the "City of Sin" after they could not find excellent films, and truly brought the advantages of controversy and reputation to the extreme.

Immediately afterwards, this summer highlight "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" made a brilliant debut. This work lived up to expectations and the premiere exploded with a box office of $108 million, becoming the second film industry in film history that had a box office of over 100 million on weekends after "Spider-Man". In addition, the 50 million achieved in advance screening on Thursday, the movie accumulated a box office of 158 million in four days at the end of the first week of screening, which truly brought the summer boom to the North American continent.

"City of Sin" suffered a heavy blow. The box office fell by 60% this week, and only earned 2.8 million weekend box office, and the pace of hitting 200 million was significantly slowed down. Until this moment, the advantages and disadvantages brought by the schedule completely erupted. It is obvious that "City of Sin" is impossible to reach the height of "killing with a knife". The serial attacks in the later stage of the summer season made "City of Sin" have no advantage in the competition. After the leading advantage of box office at the same time was gradually eroded, it fell behind "killing with a knife".

Moreover, this is just the beginning. After that, works such as "World War", "Spider-Man Prequel: The Mystery of the Shadow", "Fantasy Four", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" will appear one after another. The market space of "City of Sin" will be further compressed, and the room for rebound will become smaller and smaller.

Despite this, "City of Sin" relied on the huge advantages accumulated before, successfully broke the threshold of 200 million in the third week of June, and the accumulated box office reached a position of 201.3 million.

It happened, and it happened like this! Before the release of "The Day Afternoon", people did not expect the ending of 200 million; before the release of "Killing with a Knife", people could not believe that the work had the potential of 200 million; before the release of "City of Sin", people did not expect that 200 million was within the range of the range. However, this is reality. Reality really happened, and the outstanding performance of 200 million in North America was once again created.

This not only made "City of Sin" the eighth R-level movie in film history with a box office of over 200 million, leaving its name in history; it also made Lance truly become "Mr. Two hundred million". The feat of three consecutive works in North America's box office exceeding 200 million is truly unprecedented.

Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas... and Lancelot Strello. This is a brand new situation. Hollywood is ushering in a genius, a wizard, a genius, and a future movie master.
Chapter completed!