Chapter 280: Chapter 282
For a large-scale commercial film, if the box office of the second week surpasses the first week, it will undoubtedly be a miracle, and "Titanic" is undoubtedly a miracle.
The film's North American box office increased in reverse for two consecutive working days, which has caused many people to fall through their glasses. On Thanksgiving Day, due to the lack of strong enough competitors in the market as before, "Titanic" became a large family audience. The first choice, and the film will not disappoint. The pg-13 rating is enough to kill both young and old.
Compared to the working day on Wednesday, on Thursday this Thanksgiving holiday, "Titanic"'s single-day box office rose again by as much as 55 percent, with a single-day report of $27.59 million.
One week after its release in North America, the box office of "Titanic" officially broke through the $100 million mark, reaching $123.36 million!
At the same time, the film also landed in the UK for a week. In the hometown of the Titanic, the film performed equally well, winning 29.55 million US dollars during the same period.
The trend of "Titanic" completely contrary to the laws of the market is only the beginning, and it is far from the end.
After Thanksgiving, the number of North American theaters of the film increased again, from 3358 to 3398, and the rate of mainstream commercial theaters exceeded 7% ≥±, 10, reaching 76%. Horrible figures.
As we all know, since Hollywood films can be released on a large scale, especially since the 1980s, the box office of the first weekend has become more and more important for commercial films, and its proportion has increased. After the box office of the first weekend, the box office has shrunk every weekend. The most normal pattern, even a movie whose box office drop can be controlled within 30% every weekend, can be called a **** trend.
After Thanksgiving, "Titanic" ushered in the second weekend after its release, and the box office on Friday had a certain degree of volatility as expected. It fell to $19.5 million, but on Saturday, the single-day box office skyrocketed to $26.75 million again. After this weekend, the box office of the next weekend of "Titanic" made everyone open their mouths.
Compared to the first weekend, the North American box office not only did not dive. On the contrary, just like the performance of this week's workday, there was an incredible reverse increase, the weekend reverse increase was as high as 25%, and 55.8 million US dollars in three days!
This also set a record, which is the highest weekend box office ever in Hollywood!
At this time, everyone, including those who have been singing bad "Titanic" all the time, understood one thing, don't judge this big ship by normal commercial film laws!
The trend of this sea epic is extremely stable. In the past, commercial films often dived 30% or even 40% in a single day, which can only be described as extremely rare.
After the new week began, Duke returned to Los Angeles. Continue his work, while "Titanic" is still rampant, its box office trend is stable, can only be described as incredible.
Monday is 17.55 million US dollars, Tuesday is 15.21 million US dollars, Wednesday is 13.22 million US dollars, Thursday is 12.14 million US dollars...
When the film was released for two full weeks, the North American box office totaled $237.28 million. Those who predicted that the North American box office of "Titanic" will not exceed 250 million US dollars at most have completely disappeared, even the most layman can see it. This number is definitely not the end of the North American box office. Several Wall Street forecasting agencies have quietly changed the film's North American box office forecast to $400 million...
"It is said that Las Vegas has opened a handicap for the film's final North American box office."
Outside of busy work, "Titanic" is naturally the focus of discussion by Duke and others. Mike Dawson said recently that "400 million US dollars is only one loss. 500 million US dollars is only one loss. Point five..."
Duke laughed, "Everyone, are you interested in having a fun?"
The operability behind handicap is too strong, and Duke will not be naive enough to think that he has invested a lot of money. You will be able to receive the corresponding return, but throwing a small amount of money in, it is still okay to use it as an adjustment in your spare time.
"Okay." Anna Prinz came interested, and first agreed, "I choose the $500 million handicap."
Zach Schneider gave her a look of contempt, and then said, "I also choose the $500 million handicap."
Everyone knows the dangers of indulging in gambling, just as a small entertainment to regulate emotions.
Duke turned to Tina Fei and said, "Similarly, buy me $100,000."
Tina Fei rolled her eyes, "Then I should buy 100,000 dollars."
This little money is nothing to them. Everyone joked for a while and reinvested in work, while Tina Fei left the editing room and continued to stare at the box office trend of "Titanic" for Duke.
I have to say that the success of "Titanic" is inevitable, but there are also accidental factors. The most typical example is the lack of truly competitive films in the Thanksgiving Christmas file, such as "Starship Team" released by Sony Columbia Pictures. The investment is huge and the box office Performance is not even generally considered, let alone the length of the battle with "Titanic", even relying on the box office to recover the cost is very questionable.
And on the third weekend, "Titanic" finally encountered a relatively strong film in Duke's memory, "Mind Catcher" produced and released by Miramax and starred by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The film's final box office was quite good, but it implemented a typical Miramax-style award announcement strategy. There were only seven theater numbers in the first week that brought no threat at all.
Without a strong competitor, "Titanic" easily won the third weekly box office list, winning $39.52 million in three days and the North American box office totaling $2076.8 million.
Also at this weekend, 20th Century Fox has made full preparations to promote the film to overseas markets such as Latin America and Western Europe. The big-selling films in North America, except for the typical vulgar comedies and cult films, Basically, they can achieve good results overseas, and "Titanic" is naturally no exception. A cultural wave belonging to the big ship has begun to spread all over the world.
However, in the fourth weekend of "Titanic" in North America, it finally ushered in a heavyweight competitor. The eighteenth "Empire of Tomorrow" in the James Bond film series landed in North America with 2,807 theaters.
But this is destined to belong to the year of "Titanic". This well-made Bond movie can only be screened in the shadow of the ship, even if the former has come to the fourth weekend, the latter is only released in the first week!
"Empire of Tomorrow" was obviously impacted by "Titanic". The first three days only received a lower-than-expected $25.14 million. This result may be placed at other times and is enough to win the box office championship position, but in the ship Not enough in front of you.
The trend of "Titanic" was unusually stable. It collected another $33.31 million in three weekends and won the fourth consecutive weekly box office championship. Together with the box office of $28.75 million in four working days this week, the North American box office has been piled up. -$338.86 million!
As soon as this figure came out, Las Vegas changed its handicap, changing the North American box office from 500 million US dollars to 1 to 1...
In the following week, Christmas was approaching, and more films began to be released together to grab the important annual schedule cake, but whether it was Miramax's "Scream 2" and "Life Is Beautiful", or Sony Columbia Pictures The industry's "Perfect Perfection" can not form a real competition with "Titanic". The relative weakness of the market except for the big ship has also caused the "Titanic" to dominate.
The success of the ship is inevitable, and inevitable factors occupy an absolute dominant position, but it has never encountered strong competitors and it is an objective fact that cannot be ignored.
In short, the internal inevitability and the accidental addition of the external created the unprecedented super brilliance of this film.
Before Christmas in 1997, "Titanic" was released in North America for 37 days, and the number of theaters has been maintained at a super high of more than 3,300. Despite the ups and downs of the box office, there have been many unbelievable large reverse increases. The box office totaled 375.62 million US dollars.
At the same time, the film was also released on a large scale worldwide. The overseas box office has grown at an incredible rate to 250 million U.S. dollars. Even if the box office in North America adds up, it is not enough to recover the total investment of the three companies in the film. In fact, everyone understands that it is only a matter of time before "Titanic" becomes profitable.
Before Christmas, "Titanic" ushered in an important peripheral sale. The original soundtrack of the film was officially on sale. In the first week alone, 443,000 copies were sold in the North American market. The second week was sold. Out of 519,000, the sales reached a peak in the third week-765,000, and then the sales fell to 658,200 in the fourth week, and in the fifth week, it rose to 758,800, just like a rebound in the box office...
In these five weeks, "Titanic" has not only completed an incredible five consecutive titles on the box office rankings, but also beat the pop queens and kings who released records on the bulletin board record sales list. It won five consecutive sales!
The soundtrack album is super selling, not only the three major investors of Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and Duke's Studio, but also Celine Dion. After years of hard work, she finally relied on "My Heart "Eternity" ranks among the top female singers in North America, and is even compared with Madonna Siconi, Maria Carey and Whitney Houston.
The sales of soundtrack albums in overseas markets are equally scary, with sales at the same time almost double that of North America.
In addition to these, a team of three investors is also actively opening up other peripheral products of the film, striving to drain every drop of oil from this big ship, and has reached a series of licensing agreements with many manufacturers, whose income is enough to make all People are jealous to envy. (To be continued...)
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