Even if they were mentally prepared, many people were still stunned when the box office data of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" began to be released.
On December 22, the first day of the large-scale opening, including the midnight show, the film earned US$35.27 million.
On Saturday, December 23, it earned $37.69 million.
On Sunday, December 24, due to Christmas Eve, the box office shrank significantly, still reaching US$23.91 million in a single day.
In the three days of its first weekend, the cumulative box office reached US$96.87 million.
Almost over 100 million!
On December 25, Christmas Day, although it was a Monday, due to the legal holiday, the box office rebounded sharply again, with a single-day revenue of 31.78 million US dollars.
On Tuesday, December 26, it was back to work, with a revenue of $16.69 million.
On Wednesday, December 27, it earned $16.31 million.
On Thursday, December 28, it earned $15.51 million.
According to final statistics, from December 22 to December 28, the first week of release, the cumulative box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" reached US$177.16 million.
The first-week box office record of US$177.16 million surpassed the first-week box office record of US$129.13 million set by this summer's "Jurassic Park 2" by nearly US$50 million.
There were an average of 3,443 screens, and the average in the first week reached US$51,400.
Among them, the much-watched IMAX theater, with a total of 26 screens, also contributed US$5.73 million to the box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in the first seven days. Compared with the movie's total box office of US$177 million in the first week, it seems that Not much, however, the average price of an IMAX screen is as high as $220,000.
For a week, a total of 26 IMAX theaters across North America were completely full, with demand exceeding supply.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that if the number of IMAX screens of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is increased to an objective number, even 100, just these theaters are expected to achieve a box office of US$20 million for a movie in a single week. Many blockbuster films may not reach $20 million at the box office in their first week.
Even Daenerys and Time Warner did not expect that the first-week box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" would be so high. Prior to this, the publicity teams of the two companies once gave The best forecast is probably only around US$150 million in the first week.
As long as this figure can be reached, the total North American box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is very hopeful to hit the US$500 million mark.
Now, with 177 million US dollars in the first week, it is difficult to imagine where the total North American box office of this DC movie universe super blockbuster will eventually go. Perhaps, 600 million in the local area is not impossible. Moreover, just a phased gathering of the DC superhero universe can achieve such a high box office. How grand will the future "Justice League" be
Due to the strong impact of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", other films during the Christmas week can be described as miserable.
The 3D animated film "Beauty and the Beast", which has consistently topped the box office every week since its release on Thanksgiving, saw its box office plummet 46% in its sixth week of release, the largest single-week decline since its launch. The box office also halved to US$11.43 million from US$21.15 million last week.
In its six weeks of release, "Beauty and the Beast" has grossed a cumulative box office of $211.97 million.
Considering that the single-week box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" exceeded expectations and may continue to remain strong, with the weekly box office of "Beauty and the Beast" almost halved, it is likely that it will not even reach the 250 million expected by Daenerys Entertainment. The dollar cannot reach it.
This is already the case for the second-placed "Beauty and the Beast". The third-placed "Until I Wake" directed by Forest Whitaker also saw a box office drop of 43% in the second week, taking in US$10.81 million.
This black-themed drama had obvious dark horse potential, but it was a pity that it was unlucky. The production cost was US$15 million, and after two weeks of release, the cumulative box office reached US$29.77 million. There is still a lot of suspense about whether it can reach the $50 million mark.
Later on, films such as "The New Era" starring Harrison Ford and "Dracula" starring Leslie Nielsen are completely worth mentioning.
December 29th.
A new box office week has begun.
Speaking of which, if all kinds of publicity and distribution investment had not been spent, many films would have the urge to withdraw temporarily.
However, a total of 9 movies still opened on time on December 29, 4 of which were commercial films with openings of more than 1,000 yuan, and 5 of which were small-scale films during the awards season.
The first is Oliver Stone's new film "Nixon." This biographical film produced by Disney cost 44 million U.S. dollars. It is obviously intended for this year's awards season, with a screen size of 1,310, and an attempt to adopt a long-term distribution strategy.
After "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", Warner Bros. Pictures also launched the independent comedy film "The Brawler 2" this week, which is a sequel starring Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren and other Hollywood actors. Starring veteran movie stars, the first film was released two years ago and grossed more than US$70 million at the box office. The film opened on 1,995 screens.
After the blockbuster "Street Fighter" at the end of last year, MGM once again cooperated with Jean-Claude Van Damme to launch another B-level action film "Sudden Death", which opened on 1,681 screens.
The last commercial film to be released on a large scale was "The Adventures of Tom" produced by Fox and adapted from Mark Twain's novel, opening on 1,609 screens.
In addition to the four films with more than 1,000 screens, there are five other small-scale films.
Among them, Daenerys Entertainment accounts for two.
The first is Kathryn Bigelow's new film "Detroit." This film about the 1967 Detroit riots was completed last year. It ultimately cost $30 million and was of medium production quality. Because of their personal relationship, Simon has been involved since the script stage and has been personally supervising until the post-editing is completed. He has also placed the film at the end of this year in an attempt to win some nominations for Catherine.
However, although the final effect of the movie is good, it is undeniable that the subject matter of this movie is not very flattering. Every country has its own past that it doesn’t like to be revealed, not to mention the very sensitive black riots.
In any case, the film was successfully released.
As a small-scale on-demand film, the number of opening screens is 63.
Another real-life story, "Death Row," was completed by the tentatively named film studio team that produced "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bloody Romeo." Simon incorporated the film company two years ago, and the team Three films have been produced before, including "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bloody Romeo" directed by Quentin, both of which have achieved very good box office success. This "Death Row" is directed by Tim Robbins. Directed, starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, it will be screened on 27 screens.
In Simon's memory, "Death Row" was a box office and award-winner. Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon also won her first Oscar for Best Actress for this film.
In addition to Daenerys Entertainment's two award-winning films, there are also three other films, namely "Georgia", "Love" and "Richard III". Hoffman directed it, and the other two are not worth mentioning.
In the week that spans New Year's Day, nine new films have arrived, and they have not been able to stop the devastating success of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Under the attention of a large amount of media and fans, on December 29, the first day of the following week, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" still made as much as 26.86 million US dollars, a decrease of only 24% compared to the same period last week.
Immediately afterwards, in the three days of the following weekend, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" continued to earn 71.33 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of only 26%.
A new Monday is also January 1, 1991, New Year's Day.
On a statutory holiday in North America, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" once again took in $23.17 million at the box office.
It was not until the beginning of January 2, the working day of the new year, that the box office data of this DC movie universe super blockbuster began to decline significantly. However, from January 2 to January 4, three days Time income still reached 31.39 million US dollars.
In the end, after a super high first week of 177 million US dollars, the box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" still reached an astonishing 128.89 million US dollars in the second week.
In the second week of its release, unlike many media predictions of a halved or even deeper drop in the second week after the super high box office in the first week, the actual box office drop of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in the second week was only 27%.
In two weeks, the cumulative box office of this DC movie universe blockbuster reached US$306.05 million.
The cumulative box office in the first two weeks exceeded 300 million, which is unprecedented.
Since it has created such a box office miracle at its opening, more and more people believe that "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will very hopefully directly increase the domestic box office volume of Hollywood movies from 400 million US dollars to 600 million US dollars in one go. .
Not only that, the box office performance of this superhero blockbuster assembled by the three DC giants in overseas markets is also strong.
With a total of 31 countries and regions including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Australia opening simultaneously with North America, the overseas box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" also quickly exceeded the US$200 million mark in two weeks. As major overseas box office locations such as France, Japan, and China will open films one after another in the coming period, the film's overseas box office volume will not be inferior to that in North America.
"Jurassic Park 2", released this summer, has basically completed its worldwide distribution so far, with a cumulative global box office of US$1.159 billion, of which the North American box office is US$413 million and the overseas box office is US$746 million.
There is no doubt that the cumulative global box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will only be higher than that of "Jurassic Park 2".
1996.
Before you know it, the new year has arrived with movie fans around the world celebrating "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Australia.
In the territory of the Westeros family in the northwest of Tasmania.
The time is already Saturday, January 6, 1996.
After Christmas, the Simon family flew from Los Angeles to Melbourne to spend the New Year with the Johnston family. Two days ago, they quietly arrived in Tasmania, where the Westeros family's private domain has continued to expand. island.
Over the years, more than one-third of the land on this large island in southeastern Australia has been purchased by Simon, with the total area of private territory reaching 23,000 square kilometers, equivalent to more than 5 million acres. In order to expand these private territories, the Westeros family also invested heavily in closing many mining sites and timber mills mainly located among the grasslands, hills and mountains of western Tasmania, and also provided high subsidies to the territories. The residents within the project will be relocated as a whole.
Because of Simon's continued private buying behavior, various rumors and even conspiracy theories have even arisen around Tasmania.
This makes this large island located in the south of the earth increasingly becoming an adventure destination for travelers from all over the world.
Moreover, many people still want to break into the private territory of the Westeros family, which has caused many crises. In many cases, the Westeros family has to use the maintenance team here for search and rescue.
For Tasmania, Simon's original intention was to own a large private territory away from the crowds.
In addition, there are some plans for the future.
Simon has always been a pessimist. The higher he stands, the more pessimistic Simon becomes about the future of mankind. So if a future inevitably arises, Simon wants his family to have a place of escape. In this regard, Tasmania is undoubtedly the most suitable. This big island is not only located in the extreme south of the earth, but also has the entire Australian continent as a barrier.
If the world is in turmoil, this is undoubtedly the area least likely to be affected.
In an estate bordering forest and pasture.
Simon and Janet sat under the broad eaves of the manor's country-style villa facing north, enjoying the sunset in the summer evening of the southern hemisphere. While personally taking care of the two youngest children, Greenwich and Snow, they watched Jennifer take the other two children. Three little guys were playing in the wide grass surrounding them.
Putting little Snow, who had just woken up crying and fell asleep in her arms, back into the cradle, Janet returned to Simon, looked at the thick stack of information that the man was flipping through, and continued the topic: " The next step to enter the medical industry will definitely not be easy. The medical industry is actually subject to strong government control, and the pattern of this field seems to have been determined for a long time, and it is unlikely that there will be too large-scale changes. If If we go in, we will most likely be attacked by a group."
After the announcement some time ago, Westeros Company has completed the first reduction of its holdings in Daenerys Entertainment Company shares, and will continue to conduct similar operations in the future.
The tens of billions of dollars in cash expected to be recovered will certainly need to be reinvested.
Entering the medical industry is a general direction Simon is considering during this time.
Leaving aside other countries, what is the most profitable industry in the United States
Many people will first think of the military industry or finance.
Actually, it should be medical.
The United States is world-famous for its high medical expenses, and they are not ordinary high, but abnormally high. A cold costs $8,000. This line in Simon's memory seems to be a joke, but in the United States, it is It's true, and it's not just what those aristocratic clinics charge, it's what many ordinary people charge for a cold treatment.
At its peak, U.S. medical spending accounted for 20% of GDP. In comparison, U.S. defense spending was less than 5% of GDP, so we can see the huge benefits contained therein.
The Westeros system wants to continue to expand, and expand significantly. The next step is to enter the medical industry, which is almost inevitable.