In its sixth week of release, although "Spectre" was pushed to third place on the weekly box office list, it still had a box office of US$15.52 million in a single week. Two and a half months after its release, the cumulative local box office of this super blockbuster has reached as high as 247.73 million U.S. dollars, just over 50 million away from the 300 million threshold itself, basically locking in the 300 million box office club.
"Sleepy Hollow," which opened two weeks behind "Spectre," ranked fourth on the list in its fourth week of release, earning $15.17 million. After one month of release, the film's domestic box office reached US$129.56 million.
The box office volumes of "Sleepy Hollow" and "Spectre" are obviously not in the same order of magnitude. However, the box office performance of this fantasy horror film, in which every frame can be used as wallpaper, has already met Simon's expectations. The film's estimated domestic box office has increased from the initial 150 million to 170 million. Just the local theater release has made Danielle Daenerys Entertainment has recovered more than 90% of the total investment of 100 million. The global box office accumulation so far has allowed Daenerys Entertainment to quickly enter the profit stage.
After the top four, the single-week box office of "The Birdcage", which ranked fifth on the list, fell directly into the range of 10 million US dollars, with a box office of 9.07 million US dollars in its third week of release.
This alternative gay comedy starring Robin Williams has a cumulative box office of over 100 million US dollars in North America. This time, due to various reasons, the box office of the film in the three weeks after its release was only 47.95 million US dollars, although the box office is expected to be around 70 million US dollars. It still exceeded MGM's expectations, but it failed to replicate the outstanding results in history.
The box office performance of "The Birdcage" was also better than Disney's "The Island".
In the original version, only Sean Connery, the veteran 007 actor, was left behind among the original three main creators. Although it still burned through Disney's production budget of up to 70 million US dollars, the same box office in the third week of release was the same in a single week. Only US$8.13 million is left, and the cumulative box office in three weeks is US$46.255.
Last year, Vivendi of France ambitiously swallowed up this old film company, which can be called an American cultural icon. As a result, just like Sony when it acquired the Statue of Liberty, basins of cold water were poured on it one after another.
On July 26, a new box office week begins.
In the last box office week, due to the opening of the Olympic Games, the single-week box office volume in North America fell from US$167 million to US$111 million, a drop of 35%, which was a significant impact.
The Olympics continue to be hot this week, and there are no commercial movies with openings of more than 1,000 yuan in North American theaters. The only one that is relatively good is the new work of the Coen brothers "Fargo" produced by Gomen Films, which is a crime drama. It won the Best Director Award at the previous Cannes Film Festival and had a very good reputation in the media. It opened on 715 screens.
Entering the weekend, the Atlanta Olympics, which had been going smoothly for a week, suddenly changed.
Atlanta's Olympic Century Park, which was specially built to welcome the Olympic Games, suddenly exploded at an open-air concert with thousands of people at around one o'clock in the morning on July 27. Because the crowd at the time of the explosion was too dense, more than 200 people were present. Injured, 11 people died directly. In the ensuing clamor and chaos, people who were seriously injured and died one after another continued to die.
Such a heinous bombing shocked the whole world.
Clinton paid attention to the bombing overnight and asked the FBI to set up a special investigation team. Countries around the world also expressed concern and sympathy for the bombing and condemned the criminals.
Speaking of which, there were a lot of bombings in the United States in the 1990s, such as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the Woodfield Manor bombing in 1994, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and even this time the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Bombings, these are only bombings with relatively large impacts and casualties, and they only count within the United States.
Apart from anything else, Simon basically knew the ins and outs of the Atlanta Olympics bombing as a latecomer.
First of all, the casualties in this explosion were obviously more than what Simon remembered, because in the past, the bomb backpack was discovered in advance by a patrolling policeman, but there was no time to detonate it, but it happened during the evacuation of the crowd. There was an explosion, so the number of deaths was very small, and more were just injuries. However, this time it was not discovered in advance, resulting in more than 10 direct deaths.
Speaking of irony, the policeman who discovered the explosive backpack in advance was once slandered as a suspect, faced a nationwide crusade, and his life was almost ruined.
Moreover, in the original time and space, Eric Rudolph, the suspect in the 1996 bombing, was not captured until 10 years later. After interrogation, he was still a habitual criminal. He had carried out multiple bombings in succession starting in 1977, targeting Atlanta. The Olympic attacks were in protest of the Clinton administration's deregulation of abortion.
Even if he knew the inside story, Simon just watched all this with cold eyes.
The several consecutive operations two years ago were entirely for the purpose of establishing his authority, telling some people that if they tried to get the wrong ideas of the Westeros family, he would not hesitate to kill them all, and even interfered in the mid-term elections that year, which were actually very risky.
If he intervenes in the Atlanta Olympics bombing this time, he will definitely end up with the same fate as a certain policeman who was wrongfully accused and collapsed.
Therefore, it is business as usual within the Westeros system.
After a chaotic and volatile weekend, Verizon Telecom officially announced the launch of its IPO road show on July 29, and the listing date was set on August 15.
Because he plans to take a family vacation after Verizon goes public and will stay in Australia for about half a month, Simon's recent work schedule is also fuller.
I'm busy, August is coming soon.
The first major event in August is the inauguration of Yeltsin for his second term on August 3.
Regarding Yeltsin's re-election, the outside world is undoubtedly paying attention to the Russian business oligarchs who have successfully penetrated into the Kremlin, such as Berezovsky, who is rumored to be vying for the position of prime minister.
Simon noticed one detail.
On the day of the inauguration, the Yeltsin government released a group photo of the core of the new Kremlin authorities. A middle-aged man of short stature and thinning hair seemed to appear casually in the corner of the photo.
More precise news soon came.
On the second day of Yeltsin's inauguration, someone was included in the first adjusted core list of the Kremlin, and he was promoted from the previous deputy director of the presidential affairs bureau to deputy director of the presidential office.
The powers of the two positions are very different. The former is equivalent to the deputy general manager of the chamber. After all, he is just a minister of Yeltsin and can not intervene in many national affairs. The latter is the deputy director of a confidential department of the Russian government that is directly responsible to the head of state. Moreover, according to the announcement from the Moscow authorities, a certain deputy director will be in charge of foreign economic relations and the formulation of relevant legal policies, which is close to the core of state power.