New York, USA.
Even with a publicity budget of US$50 million according to the specifications of a blockbuster movie, the ultra-high production cost of US$200 million has made "Titanic" well known, but the film opened in North America on December 12. The painting still seems a bit tepid.
Mainly because there is so much noise about this movie.
In Manhattan, a flagship theater of the Odeon Cinema chain in Soho, Jack Henderson, who had gotten off work from American Express, hurried over. After all, he was still a little late. Fortunately, his girlfriend Daniella Holly did not criticize him. , because another couple, Alexander Kennett and Kate Henderson, who also arrived early, were bickering.
Alexander is obviously as disinterested in "Titanic" as Jack is, and probably because his girlfriend is a Leonardo fan, this disinterest is even more serious.
What's more, today is the first week of the Christmas season. In addition to "Titanic", there are also MGM's "Lord of Fighters 2" and Sony Pictures' "As Good As It Gets" opening at the same time, even after last week's screening. This week's large-scale release of "Shakespeare in Love" is also better than "Titanic" in Alexander's opinion. "Shakespeare in Love" features actor Daniel Day-Lewis and "Charlie's Angels" actress Kate Bekin Purcell's.
Kate Beckinsale!
Compared with Rachel Weisz, another British rose who took the intellectual lady route in "Titanic", the cold and sassy Kate Beckinsale is more able to stir up men's emotions.
Even worse, there are a series of blockbusters in the Thanksgiving season.
All in all, nothing is better than watching James Cameron's over-budgeted "Titanic", right? Moreover, it is said that the film is still three hours long. If the film is too bad, wouldn't it be more uncomfortable
However, when Jack arrives, the dispute quickly ends.
In the end, Alexander couldn't outdo his girlfriend, and the four of them chose "Titanic".
Even though a screening of "Titanic" happened to be over during the after-show, Alexander still sneered when he saw some women coming out of the theater crying.
Then enter.
Then, three shocking hours.
They each held their girlfriends who were wiping away tears and walked out of the screening room. The two young men, Jack and Alexander, looked at each other.
Maybe it's really a good movie
Kate, who was huddled in her boyfriend's arms and wiping her tears with a tissue, repeatedly reprimanded James Cameron for letting her beloved Jack die. Then she looked up at Alexander: "Eric, I Jump, Do You Jump?"
Alexander: “…”
If you were just falling in love in college, you would definitely jump in without hesitation. Now, after both graduates and working together, we have been living together for several years and have started talking about marriage. Are you still jumping
Jumping yarn.
Not in the mood.
Cursing in his heart, Alexander felt his girlfriend's gaze and knew that it was impossible not to jump this time. He could only nod his head, raised his voice and said in an obviously perfunctory tone: "Jump, Jump!"
On the other side, Daniela, who was also a little impulsive about asking her boyfriend this question, laughed out loud, put her arm around Jack's arm and leaned over, teasingly saying: "I almost thought it was my Huhu who ran away."
Huhu is a Pomeranian owned by Jack and Daniela.
Kate also gave her boyfriend a helpless blow. After all, she had passed the most emotional teenage stage. She did not continue to force her boyfriend, but looked at Daniela: "Dana, how about we watch it again tomorrow morning without them being a burden? ?”
Daniela was a little moved, but still shook her head: "Tomorrow morning, Jack and I plan to go to Chinatown. By the way, did you watch the video I recommended to you last night?"
"Well, it's not bad," Kate said and understood: "You want to go to Chinatown, that, to look for those things in the video?"
"Yes," Daniela nodded: "Jack and I also plan to go to China for vacation during the New Year, just to the places in the video."
Alexander had obviously seen the videos recommended by Daniela and said: "I think those videos are all deliberately staged. At least, they are definitely not as beautiful in person as they are in the camera. You will most likely be disappointed when you go there."
Kate, however, was already moved. She ignored her boyfriend's interruption and asked, "It should be quite troublesome to go to China, right?"
"It's not clear yet," Daniela said: "We are planning to consult with some travel agencies over the weekend, and there is also a visa issue."
Kate immediately looked at her boyfriend.
They haven't vacationed together for a long time.
Alexander thought of some of the videos he had watched last night. He didn't like it, but he didn't hate it either. Seeing his girlfriend looking over eagerly, he nodded helplessly again: "Jump, Jump!"
"You really think you are Huhu," Kate punched her boyfriend again and turned to Daniela: "Then let's go to Chinatown together tomorrow morning and consult about going to China. Also, "Titanic", tomorrow Let's go see it again tonight, oh, Leon... I mean, I want to go back to the theater now, Dana, okay?"
Daniela glanced at her boyfriend and saw that Jack had no objection, but had no intention of continuing to accompany him, so she nodded and said, "Okay."
It was settled that the four of them had arrived on the streets of Manhattan at night, planning to find a restaurant for dinner.
Kate continued to discuss the movie with Daniela for a while, entered a restaurant, sat down and took out her mobile phone: "I'm going to call Kelly to talk about this movie. We talked about it two days ago, and she didn't like it. My Jack, how can this work! Well, I have to call my mother again later, and she should take her dad to see him, oh, my Leon, he is so handsome."
"Jump, Jump!"
"Shut Up!"
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In recent years in Hollywood, almost all films that have achieved phenomenal box office results are inseparable from a word-of-mouth effect.
When the word-of-mouth effect surrounding "Titanic" was quietly brewing, neither Daenerys' officials nor the major media noticed it at the first time, because this was not an easy thing.
What the outside world saw was only the first-day box office of "Titanic" on the second day.
$12.67 million.
The single-day box office championship, however, is only an expected result.
12.67 million on the first day, and is expected to earn around 35 million in the first weekend, and around US$55 million in the first seven days.
The first opening gross was between 5000 and 600 million, with a total box office of 150 million in North America and 400 million worldwide. This is Daenerys Entertainment's basic expectation for "Titanic" after its world premiere in Venice. Now, things are developing according to predictions, which can be said to be neither surprise nor surprise.
Just like the previous Thanksgiving file.
The Thanksgiving period that has passed, whether it is the super blockbuster "Terminator 3" or the slightly dark horse "The Wedding Singer", or Pixar's "A Bug", the box office week before December 12th can be said to be It was so good that the entire Thanksgiving episode was stolen by a video game.
After the first day and the first three days, "Titanic" earned $38.03 million.
Still within expectations.
Many media have already begun to predict that "Titanic" will be crushed by "The Flash 2" next week, and then the super blockbuster with a budget of 200 million and a announced release of 50 million will also end sadly. Even if it's better than Kevin Costner's "Waterworld," which was also out of control, it's still limited.
For Daenerys Entertainment, "BJ's Diary" went from strength to strength at the beginning of the year until the end of the year. As a result, "Titanic" gave a very imperfect and lukewarm ending.
It can only be said that things are unpredictable.
This trend of public opinion changed slightly after the box office was released for a complete week from December 12th to December 18th.
After 38.03 million in the three days of the weekend, "Titanic" finally earned 61.34 million US dollars in seven days a week, unexpectedly exceeding the 60 million US dollars range.
Not only that, insiders familiar with the film industry quickly saw the key.
Under normal circumstances, unless the working day spans a holiday, such as Thanksgiving on Thursday, the three weekend days generally account for 65% to 70% of the box office in the entire week. For a film with a poor reputation, it may exceed 70%, because no one will watch it after the weekend. On the contrary, for a film with an excellent reputation, a large number of viewers will buy tickets and enter the theater on weekdays.
In the first week of "Titanic", the box office was US$38.03 million, accounting for only 61% of the total box office of US$61.34 million in the entire week.
This illustrates a point.
Many viewers, for some reason, chose to go out to watch this movie on busy weekdays after missing their weekend leisure.
why
Of course it can't be a supernatural event.
It can only be said that "Titanic" is more popular with audiences than many media predicted.
On December 19, the day when a new box office week begins, the nominations for the 55th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were announced. "Titanic" won the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Drama Series. It leads the way with 8 nominations including Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Drama Series. Although it will inevitably encounter some criticism from 'public relations', combined with the film's box office, it seems to indicate something again.
However, even if the signs are getting better, everyone's attention is still attracted more by the new week's "The Flash 2".
After the overall tepid performance of the Thanksgiving season, everyone can only look forward to "The Flash 2" to carry the banner for the two major releases at the end of the year. This is also the only super blockbuster at the end of the year that is generally considered to be expected to exceed the domestic US$300 million.
Faced with the strength of "The Flash 2", several other movies in the same week, and even movies of the same period the week before, including "Titanic", were eclipsed.
Warner Bros. is also looking forward to this completely exclusive project.
On the basis of a production budget of US$150 million, Warner invested an additional US$70 million in promotional expenditures, bringing the total cost to 220 million, almost close to the 250 million of "Titanic". However, the $250 million spent on "Titanic" was out of control and a failure, and no one felt inappropriate about "The Flash 2."
Last year's "Wonder Woman 2" had a global box office of US$1.053 billion, not to mention the equally popular DC movie universe peripherals.
Although "Wonder Woman 2" is based on the remnants of the Batman war, and also involves the participation of three major heroes, "The Flash 2" even if it cannot be compared with "Wonder Woman 2", has a global minimum of 700 million US dollars, and then rushes into it. 800 million or 900 million, everyone thinks it’s not a big problem. Therefore, the total investment of US$220 million is definitely a huge profit.
Therefore, the release scale of "The Flash 2" also reached the largest at the end of the year, with 4,091 screens spread out at once, which was nearly 1,000 more theaters than the 3,159 screens of "Titanic" the previous week.
When everyone thought that some kind of reversal tendency of "Titanic" would be easily crushed by "The Flash 2", December 20, Saturday, the box office was released the day before. It was thought that there would not be much suspense in the cross-Christmas box office week. On the first day of data, there were still surprises.
First of all, there is no suspense about the success of "The Flash 2".
On the first day of filming, including midnight screenings, this DC movie universe super blockbuster easily earned 23.76 million U.S. dollars. After a good start, it is expected to be around 65 million in the first three days of the weekend. In the first seven days, it is very likely to directly exceed 100 million.
The problem, however, isn't The Flash 2.
But "Titanic" actually fell under the attack of "The Flash 2" and other old and new movies!
On the first day of the following week, this mega-production with a total investment of US$250 million had a single-day box office of US$13.82 million, which was a full 9% more than the US$12.67 million on the first day of the first week.
Many people's first thought when they get the single-day box office data on December 19 is confusion.
What's happening
Throughout the Christmas season, many movies were trembling in front of "The Flash 2", but one movie bucked the trend and rose
Do you look down on the DC Cinematic Universe so much
Or is this an April Fool's joke mistimed for Christmas and someone got the data wrong
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PS: The target of 300,000 words has only been updated by 210,000. I am a failure.