The first week of the fiercely competitive Thanksgiving season ended on November 19, and the box office data was released the next day.
The leading film "On Earth" undoubtedly won the top spot at the box office that week. However, as predicted, the film's box office in the first seven days was finally set at US$93.27 million, failing to meet the expectations of exceeding 100 million in its first week.
Of course, this achievement is still beyond the reach of several other films of the same period.
"Gangs of New York", which ranked second, had a box office of only $31.46 million in the first seven days compared to "Collision" which opened with more than $90 million. Old Martin's long-cherished wish came true, and DiCaprio, who was at the peak of his popularity, helped out. After all, it just proved once again that there is no longer much market for gangster movies in Hollywood.
The third place went to Denzel Washington's new film "Total Siege" produced by Warner Bros., which took in US$23.67 million in the first seven days.
Denzel Washington is a relatively popular first-line black movie star in recent years. However, compared to when he was promoted to another black movie star with "Training Day" in 2002, he is still a little behind now.
Moreover, because history has changed and Denzel Washington is not a direct descendant of Daenerys Entertainment, it is difficult to say whether he can still be promoted to actor this time.
In any case, "Total Siege", Warner's collaboration with Denzel Washington, grossed $23.67 million in its first week. Even if it does not meet expectations, it is not a failure. After all, it proves Denzel Washington’s box office appeal.
In fact, the results of "Gangs of New York" and "General Siege" are considered normal in Hollywood. The only problem is that the first-place "Collision" really set the tone too high.
After that, the fourth place is "Annabelle 2".
The box office performance of this series of branches of the Conjuring movie universe can be described as solid. In the third week of its release, in the face of the impact of new films such as "The Conjuring", it still maintained its fourth position, continuing to earn 13.73 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office also reached $77.29 million.
Breaking 80 million is imminent.
Even if the competition will become more intense in the future, there is no suspense for "Annabelle 2" to collect another 20 million yuan and break into the 100 million yuan box office club.
This was followed by another new film, "A Date of Life," which premiered on November 13. This love movie produced by Disney and starring Brad Pitt ended up grossing $13.54 million in the first week and seven days, which was the same as the previous one. The difference between "Annabelle 2" and "Annabelle 2" is less than 200,000.
But after all, we still lag behind.
What's more, "Annabelle 2" is already in its third week of release, while "Love" is in its first week.
Disney can only be thankful that the cost of this project is not high. The budget of 35 million US dollars, including publicity and distribution, is only about 50 million. The film's first week revenue was 13.54 million, and the total domestic box office is expected to be between 25 million and 30 million. Including overseas, the global box office is expected to be equal to the total investment. Taking into account follow-up channels, cost recovery is not a big problem.
So it doesn't count as a failure.
It can only be said that Disney was busy in vain and wasted a good time slot.
While the first week of Thanksgiving is underway, several new films for another box office week have been undergoing their final publicity such as premieres in the past few days on weekdays.
On November 20, a new box office week covering Thanksgiving begins.
In terms of cost, there are two mainstays this week, namely "The Mummy 2", a collaboration between Fox and Daenerys, and "The Mummy", a heavyweight action thriller blockbuster produced by Bai Gewu and Paramount. Coincidentally, both movies had a budget of $100 million.
Therefore, during the promotion stage, the two films were in direct opposition to each other, and even held a grand premiere in Los Angeles on the same day, November 18.
It was a coincidence that after the premiere, the word-of-mouth ban was lifted, and the media reviews of the two movies were almost the same. "The Mummy 2" received a comprehensive media score of 7.5, while "American Police" was slightly higher at 7.6.
The last thing is the scale of the painting.
As Fox's biggest project this year, and with the cooperation of Daenerys, "The Mummy 2" received 3,543 opening screens. For "American Police", Paramount also tried its best to raise 3,465 opening screens.
In addition, sandwiched between the two blockbusters is a new film "Tea Boy" starring Hollywood comedy actor Adam Sandler, produced by Daenerys's New World Pictures. Compared with the other two blockbusters, The bombshell was so huge that even though "Tea Boy" tried its best to promote it, it was still suppressed and received almost no attention.
The film's reputation was even a bit poor.
It premiered on Thursday the day before. According to the statistics on the day of release, the comprehensive media score was only 4.3, which was far inferior to Sandler's popular "The Wedding Singer" last year. "Variety" magazine unceremoniously criticized the film as 'A worst-quality popcorn movie made up of blunt and funny scenes'.
Although compared with previous memories, the two versions of the film are similar, and this time is even better, but even Simon does not have high expectations for "Tea Boy" anymore. However, based on the success of "The Wedding Singer" last year, the New World Pictures team still provided 2,654 opening screens.
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Competition in the film market is fierce, and Simon also had a busy week.
After finishing the affairs in New York, Simon flew to Boston on Thursday evening to visit two Ukrainian women and their little boy. He stayed in Boston for one night and another morning, and returned to New York in the afternoon.
At the same time, two Jennys also flew to the East Coast from Los Angeles with a group of little ones.
On the afternoon of November 20, the Westeros family officially moved into the super mansion on the top floor of the Westeros Tower in a low-key manner.
In 1987, the idea of building a Westeros building imitating the "Avengers Tower" in memory first came up. It was prepared for five years. In early 1992, the super building with a design height of 622 meters and an initial budget of 1 billion US dollars was officially started. It was topped out at the end of 1996. In 1998 Now officially moved in, the time span is as long as 11 years.
In these 11 years, Simon has allowed the whole world to see the rise of a miracle of wealth. Similarly, 11 years later, Simon has also contributed an architectural miracle to the world.
Not counting the top antenna equipment and lightning protection measures, the 622-meter-high Westeros Tower is nearly 200 meters higher than the previous tallest building in the world, the 443-meter Empire State Building. Moreover, in terms of architectural connotation, it is actually already The rather dilapidated Empire State Building is far from comparable to the Westeros Building, whose details from top to bottom, inside and out, exceed the current world's highest architectural standards.
Not to mention the terrifying budget that ultimately totaled US$2.6 billion, the top of the Westeros Tower is definitely not just a high-altitude apron, it is definitely a stunning presence in the history of modern architecture. If the Westeros family is willing to disclose detailed architectural details and technical information, it will definitely become a classic case that cannot be avoided by any university architecture department in the world.
After an afternoon of tedious settlement, and after dinner, leaving Jennifer to continue dealing with various details after moving into the new home, Janet took Simon with her to the master bedroom on the 135th floor, the highest.
Without turning on the lights, they stood hugging each other in front of the transparent full-width glass windows. Even though neither of them was afraid of heights, looking at the city below them like an inverted galaxy, the feeling of being in the clouds still inevitably made people feel short of breath.
Janet subconsciously tightened the arm of the man hugging her from behind, raised her face, kissed the man who came over passionately, and murmured: "Little boy, little bastard, my dear..."
Simon also agreed softly: "Yes."
Janet looked out the window again: "I suddenly discovered that after being with you for so many years, my life, and your life as well, can be so wonderful."
Simon smiled and joked: "Does it feel like you've made a lot of money?"
"Yeah," Janet did not deny it, and turned to kiss the man again, and then said: "We are now at the top. My dear, do you think our relationship will be more exciting in the future, more exciting than now? ?”
"Of course," Simon said without hesitation, and teased again: "Only a little woman like you will feel that you are at the top. In my opinion, everything we have is just the beginning, and it will only be more exciting in the future. It’s getting more exciting.”
Of course Janet knew.
If the man's grand plans can be realized, everything now is, indeed, just the beginning.
Thinking of this, Janet also quickly laughed.
Simon asked cooperatively: "What are you laughing at?"
Janet said: "I'm wondering, will our story gradually change from a commercial miracle to a science fiction legend in the future?"
Simon still quickly gave the answer: "That's for sure."
"Why?"
"Have you read Jules Verne's novels?"
Janet nodded: "Of course, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"."
Simon said: "Let's talk about "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The Nautilus was only a fantasy at the time, but now, it has been realized by people. Therefore, if we look at it from the perspective of people 100 years ago, what we have now is This world is just like a science fiction scene. Similarly, the world in the next hundred years will probably also be a science fiction world in the eyes of our modern people."
Janet nodded slightly, and her hoarse little voice suddenly sighed with emotion: "100 years."
The woman in his arms didn't say it clearly, but Simon certainly understood where her sigh came from. He smiled and hugged her tighter, and said firmly: "Believe me, we can definitely see the world 100 years from now."
"I was actually thinking," Janet suddenly turned around and hugged Simon face to face: "Will you still love me in 100 years?"
Simon again did not hesitate: "Of course, you know, I am a piece of ice that is constantly melted by you. The longer the time goes by, the more love I will have for you."
"Well..." Janet responded with satisfaction, pressed her face against Simon's chest, felt it for a moment, and finally said again: "My dear, let's go to bed."
"OK."
Simon agreed, gently picked up the woman in his arms, and walked towards the big bed in the center of the master bedroom.
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The next day it was Simon who woke up with the two Jennys.
This is November 21st.
Saturday.
In the small circle of Manhattan, everyone who should know that the Westeros family has moved into the Westeros Tower already knows. However, at the public media level, under the strong operation of the Westeros family media and public relations team, there is no news. Even in today's increasingly open Internet, there are only sporadic information spread by a very small number of people.
After being discovered, it was quickly deleted.
No reason.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the Internet in this life has the surname 'Westeros'.
Through companies such as Igret, Cisco, and AOL, Simon controls the Internet, which also means he controls the absolute rules. In such a virtual world, if Simon wants to, he can become the master at any time.
Therefore, the so-called open Internet is just the wishful thinking of some people.
Just like there is never absolute freedom in this world.
In order to provide maximum cover for the relocation of the Westeros family, the most exciting news today, whether it is the major mainstream media or the Internet platform, is the news of the first launch of the International Space Station capsule yesterday.
The International Space Station, which was jointly built by 16 countries around the world, was exaggerated by the media and became a sign that mankind has officially entered an era of permanent peace after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Everyone reveled.
As for the Gulf War that has occurred in recent years, as for the ongoing conflict in Kosovo, and as for the super melee with heavy casualties in Africa, of course, these are just scabies diseases.
Even if he could see through this, Simon had no intention of revealing anything.
It is not easy for everyone to live in a dream.
Even for the International Space Station project itself, Simon just looked on with a cold eye.
It is said that human society jointly develops space. In fact, just like the aborted International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor a few years ago, the entire International Space Station project is really full of too many calculations by various member countries. My own thoughts.
As for countries outside the project, due to lack of strength, it is even more extravagant to get a ticket.
Just one thing, this world has more than 200 countries and regions, and only 16 countries participate in the International Space Station. How can this be considered the joint development of space by mankind
This is actually true.
When the Cold War ended, it almost announced the sudden end of mankind's continuous exploration of cutting-edge technology in modern times.
Without fierce competition that may be on the verge of collapse at any time, there is no motivation to keep moving forward. Even the information age that everyone talked about in the following twenty or thirty years had its most fundamental technological foundations all produced in the turbulent years of the 20th century.
Therefore, although it seems to be prosperous, progress is actually limited.
This morning, with the hustle and bustle of the International Space Station taking off, Simon and Janet hid in the mansion on the top floor of the Westeros Tower, and continued to sort out the various projects of their 3G plan without much impact.
Simon is very clear about the direction of the world situation in the next twenty years. Even if his influence as a big butterfly becomes stronger and stronger, fundamentally, some things will basically not change if he does not do it himself.
Of course Simon is going to do it.
Partly for the world, but more for myself, for the people I love around me, and for 100 years from reality to science fiction, or even 1,000 years from now.