If you look for a suitable word to describe the expression of "Raging Road", it is "despair" - the strength that makes all competitors desperate, and the "Mortgager" clearly and accurately describes the power of "Raging Road". Tianlai Novel | 2 Don't say "The Return of Man", "The Banshee in the Water", and "Monster House" and other works, even "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has been completely silent. In the face of the box office harvest momentum of "Raging Road" that swept through thousands of troops and winds overturned the clouds, there was no power to fight back. Even the idea of ​​confrontation was completely defeated, let alone counterattacking. That absolute advantage really makes people despair.

After winning the North American box office championship for three consecutive weeks in a record-breaking manner, the pace of "Rampant Road" in the summer season has not slowed down, which is extremely bad news for every competitor - Sony Pictures is now in a desire to die.

During this summer, Sony Pictures held a good hand, and the industry generally believed that they were expected to achieve box office results and competed with Disney and Warner Bros. Therefore, Sony Pictures was naturally unwilling to take risks and hurt its own interests in order to suppress Chaos Pictures. The original purpose of this plan was for profit. Sony Pictures naturally would not put the cart before the horse, but they obviously did not want to see Chaos Pictures' rise, so Michael Leighton played a trick - now it seems that this trick is really stupid.

The "Life Remote Control" released in the fourth week of June has encountered the bombings of "Return of Man", "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", and "Raging Road" seriously affected the subsequent trend of the box office; while the two works "Dwarf" and "Monster House" have completely lost their way in the "Raging Road" bombing; if it weren't for the happy box office of "Da Vinci Code", I'm afraid Sony Pictures will be in much better position this summer than Warner Bros.

Now, Sony Pictures' most important comedy work this summer, "Taladega Night: Ricky Bobby's Folk Ballad" has also suffered heavy losses again. This "huge" comedy, which cost 75 million yuan, has once again encountered a powerful sniper of the "Raging Road". Not only did it lose the showdown in the first week of August, but it lost the free publicity effect of a championship title, but the box office of the weekend also dropped to the 30 million level, making Sony Pictures a dumb and unable to say what it was.

The entire July schedule was cleared by the two works "Rampage Road" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2". Comedy movies can hardly find any living space. It is hard to imagine that the only comedy movies in this summer this summer have successfully exceeded 100 million. Therefore, industry insiders are very optimistic about "Taladega Night".

This comedy created by the original cast of "Ace Announcer" can be regarded as the most trusted comedy creation team outside the Ragnarok. The investment of 75 million is really incredible, mainly because the crew has cooperated with the organizers of the National Automobile Championships and is allowed to enter the high track for on-site shooting. The gimmick of "filming the National F1 track for the first time" has become the most eye-catching hot spot during the publicity period. What's more, the leading actor Will Ferrell is now very popular. Last year, he beat Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp with a revenue of 40 million yuan, becoming the most profitable actor in the United States. His personal appeal is absolutely trustworthy.

Therefore, many professionals believe that "Taladega Night" has the hope of achieving box office data of more than 40 million on weekends, and may even end the "Raging Road" consecutive championships. Sony Pictures is obviously also taking on such a wishful plan. As the trend of the summer showdown gradually weakens, "Taladega Night" reaps the benefits and takes the lead in August, and suppresses the subsequent box office declines of "Raging Road" and gives an explanation to the partners who block the alliance.

But expectations are beautiful, reality is cruel, I'm afraid everyone underestimated the motivation of the topic of "Raging Road" - even after three consecutive weeks of explosions, people still underestimated the endurance of the work.

The European "Son of War" swept the whole film of the 6th topic, crossing the ocean and igniting a new round of movie viewing craze in North America. The "Raging Road" delivered an incredible decline of 35% for the second consecutive week, and achieved a box office of 36 million in three days on the weekend, undoubtedly breaking the film history record of 28 million in the fourth weekend set by the Titanic in 1997. Such a momentum is indeed desperate.

It was already the fourth week of release, but it still revealed the box office ability of 30 million. Although the pace of box office driving momentum in the mid-week has begun to slow down, the "Raging Road" still showed the dominance of the overlord level in the box office curve, completely extinguishing the resistance of all challengers. "Taladega Night" received a remarkable 34 million on the weekend, but unfortunately became a witness to the four consecutive championships of the "Raging Road". This is also the smallest gap in the week of championship and the League.

It can be seen that "Taladega Night" is indeed a champion, but unfortunately he encountered a stronger "razy road" and unfortunately lost. This is the most depressing and painful thing about Sony Pictures. This is equivalent to using his highest-level good horse to compete against the opponent's inferior horse in Tian Ji's horse racing - he lost. Michael Leiden should be crying at this time.

"Rampant Road" once again crowned the North American weekend box office champion with a record-breaking momentum, becoming the only work to win four consecutive times this year. And this record was created in the summer season. Even Warner Bros., Sony Pictures could only shake its head regretfully and be willing to accept the loss.

What is even more gratifying is that the cumulative box office around the "Raging Road" has made rapid progress to 462 million! What does this mean? This means that the "Raging Road" finally passed "Alien e.t", "Monster Shrek 2", and finally passed the 460 million box office of "Star Wars". In the box office rankings of North American film history, it only lags behind the "Titanic" total box office of 600 million, and occupies the runner-up throne; this also means that the "Raging Road" has exceeded 500 million, and the conjecture of 600 million has deviated from theoretical possibilities and has evolved into reality step by step.

Twenty-six days, the "Raging Road" broke through the box office barrier of 450 million in North America in just 26 days, and the "Titanic" took 81 days to reach such a height.

In the long history of film, only six films have reached a box office of 400 million in North America, which is also considered the highest level that any movie can touch. Each of these six works is enough to be recorded in history and can be called a classic. Among them, the "Star Wars" series occupies two seats - "Star Wars" and "Star Wars Prequel 1", which is also a direct portrayal of the series' profound impact on American pop culture. No one could have expected that when "Star Wars" debuted in 1977, this cult movie, considered a fantasy of technology, has now been deeply imprinted in the blood of American culture, and has truly promoted the niche cult to popular.

Now, after "Star Wars", the success of "Raging Road" has made people realize: Are the so-called niches, so-called cults, and so-called dimensional culture really "non-mainstream". If "Spider-Man" can sweep the box office of 400 million in the North American market, and if "Raging Road" can break all fixed concepts without any storm, then is there more wealth in the world of comics?

The miracle written by the "Raging Road" in just four weeks is not just a simple rewrite of records, but more importantly, this film has revolutionized ideas about the film industry, pop culture, and even the way of thinking of industry practitioners. At the same time, people will not forget that "Iron Man" is likely to be the next work of Chaos Pictures. Does this mean more?

In comparison, the records created by "Rampant Road" itself seem to be less important.

In the first week of August, North America's weekend box office rankings, "Rampant Road" won four consecutive championships, "Taladega Night" runner-up, and "Crazy Farm" ranked third. This cartoon produced by Paramount had almost no news. The 50 million investment only earned 15 million weekend box office, and even the media had no interest in reporting.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "Miami Storm" occupy the fourth and fifth positions respectively. The former's decline this week once again reached a height of 45%. The weekend box office with a harvest of 10 million yuan, and the cumulative box office was shaky and exceeded 360 million yuan. There is still a possibility of 400 million yuan, but Disney must do everything possible. The entire cast lineup is working hard to promote it; the latter's decline in the next week was as high as 60%. In the case of a terrible box office, this officially announced that the possibility of a resurrection was cut off. The cumulative box office in two weeks had just exceeded 40 million yuan, which is simply terrible compared to the investment of 135 million yuan.

In addition, the "Banshees in the Water" fell by another 60% threshold in the third week. The weekend box office was only 2.5 million, and the cumulative box office was 38 million, and there was no hope of making a profit. "Return of the People" entered the end of the screening, with a cumulative box office of 190 million in six weeks and a weekend box office of 2 million this week. If Warner Bros. gritted his teeth and held on, it would be fine if he could barely procrastinate over 200 million. At least his reputation was better, and the "200 million works" would not be too shabby.
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