Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 366 Breaking the Record (Part [-])
"'The Hangover' Beats 'National Treasure' to Top the Weekly Box Office Chart!" -- Los Angeles Times

"4328 million in the first weekend! "The Hangover" is off to a stunning start!" - "The New Yorker"

"Unexpected! 'The Hangover' smashes box office records! 'Alexander the Great' flops!" --Seattle Chronicle

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Last week, a total of 5 new films were released, including "The Hangover", and "National Treasure", which broke Uncle Cage's first box office record last week!
Facing the competition from strong enemies and the doubts from the North American media, "The Hangover" broke through and unexpectedly won the weekend box office champion.

北美周末票房排行榜（2004年11月26日-2004年11月28日）：

No. 1, "The Hangover", released for 5 days, 4328 million U.S. dollars, Tianchi Films, with a cumulative box office of 5686 million U.S. dollars, and 3200 theaters;
No. 2, "National Treasure", released for 10 days, 3310 million US dollars, Disney, with a cumulative box office of 8727 million US dollars, 3286 theaters;
No. 3, "The Incredibles", 10 days of release, 2410 million US dollars, Disney, cumulative box office 6328 million US dollars, 3052 theaters;
No. 4, "Escape from Christmas", released for 5 days, 2270 million US dollars, Sony Columbia, with a cumulative box office of 3220 million US dollars, and 2842 theaters;
No. 5, "The Polar Express", released for 17 days, 2010 million US dollars, Warner Bros., with a cumulative box office of 8220 million US dollars and 3200 theaters;
No. 6, "Alexander the Great", released for 5 days, 1350 million U.S. dollars, Paramount, with a cumulative box office of 2160 million U.S. dollars and 3200 theaters;
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Directed by Chen Hao, the fast-released new film "The Hangover" unexpectedly topped the box office rankings with a three-day weekend box office of $4328 million!
The box office score of 4328 million US dollars also broke Chen Hao's first weekend box office record of 2982 million previously held by "The Ninth District"!
Among them, the single-day box office of "The Hangover" on Friday was 1654 million US dollars, which also refreshed Chen Hao's personal best single-day box office record!
In addition, "The Hangover" had a total box office of 5 million US dollars in the first 5686 days, which also broke Chen Hao's personal best first week and single-week box office records!
This film, which was not favored by the media before, directly broke Chen Hao's personal box office records in the first week.

At the same time, after the movie was released, the comprehensive score of the media was B, which was not as bad as the media said before it was released.

Many media even changed their previous critical and pessimistic attitudes, and sang praises to "The Hangover".

After its first week, "The Hangover" did surprisingly well at the box office, and word of mouth wasn't that bad!
Ranked second on the list is last week's box office champion "National Treasure". After creating Nicolas Cage's first weekend box office record last week, the film's performance in the second week is still good.

3 million in the 3310 days of the weekend, and the cumulative box office has exceeded 10 million in the 8700 days of the release. Disney's investment will obviously make a fortune.

And the actor Nicolas Cage, who has been lonely for a long time, has once again returned to the public's attention with this movie!
Judging from the current box office performance of "National Treasure", Disney must be planning to launch "National Treasure 2"!

The third place on the list is also the animated film "The Incredibles" from Disney. It is worth mentioning that the later stages of "National Treasure" and "The Incredibles" were both completed by Pixar.

Another new film on the list this week is the comedy "Escape from Christmas" starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, which ranked No. position.

Since its release on Wednesday, "Get Out of Christmas" has grossed $3000 million, which is much better than earlier expectations.

"The Polar Express," starring Tom Hanks, slipped one spot from last week to rank fifth, with a box office receipt of $[-] million.

It has grossed $8000 million so far.The $20 million Christmas cartoon is produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment.

However, judging from the current box office, Warner Bros. should lose money this time!
Ranked sixth on the list is also a new film, and the performance of "Alexander the Great", which was previously given high expectations by the media, was also somewhat surprising.

With a weekend box office of only $1350 million, I believe many people did not expect it.

In everyone's assumption, the box office performance of "The Hangover" and "Alexander the Great" should be interchanged.

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

For a generation of kings, Alexander the Great, maybe conquering the world was an easy thing, but conquering the North American box office charts is another matter entirely.

"Alexander the Great", directed by Oliver Stone, made its debut on the North American box office chart this Wednesday. It only ranked sixth on the list with a box office of 350 million in the three days of the weekend, which can be described as a bad start.

This three-hour epic blockbuster can be called the strongest regardless of its creative team or production lineup.

In terms of lineup, Colin Farrell plays Alexander, Val Kilmer plays Alexander's father, King Philip, and Angelina Jolie plays Alexander's mother, Queen Olympias.

Anthony Hopkins plays historian Ptolemy, Rosario Townsend plays Alexander's wife Roseanne, and Jared Leto plays Alexander's gay lover Hephaestion.

"Alexander the Great" was released last Wednesday in order to catch up with the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, and its total box office so far is 160 million US dollars.

This self-funded film by the famous Hollywood director Oliver Stone fulfilled his 15-year wish.

According to relevant reports, the shooting cost of "Alexander the Great" was actually as high as 1000 million US dollars, and it was filmed on three continents in Europe, Asia and Africa. It will become one of the most expensive films in film history.

Unfortunately, the film has received rave reviews since its release.

A large number of bad reviews mainly focus on the film's exaggeration of Alexander's bisexuality and incest plot, as well as the emptiness of the story and character creation.

Some people said that the film "if placed in Alexander's era, the gods would send down angry lightning".

Adding to the chaos is the Greek lawyers' lawsuit against Oliver Stone for misrepresenting Alexander's sexuality.

"Alexander the Great" seems to be meeting Waterloo in North America!

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The box office performance of "The Hangover" was $4328 million in the first weekend and $5686 million in the first week, not only beyond the expectations of the media and film critics, but also beyond the expectations of the leading actors.

Even the prodigal Donnie shook his fist excitedly after seeing the box office results.

Because judging from the box office performance of "The Hangover" in the first week, breaking through [-] million is a certainty.

And Downey will also successfully achieve three consecutive films with over [-] million box office with "Taken", "District [-]" and "The Hangover", which will undoubtedly be of great benefit to his career.

As for Zach, he was even more overjoyed, yelling like in the movie, excited like a fat man of three hundred catties.

Such a strong box office performance also made everyone motivated and worked harder to promote it.

At the same time, after entering the second week, media film critics' comments on "The Hangover" also began to appear in the newspapers.

Chen Hao smiled maliciously, and wanted to see what the media film critics who questioned before wrote now!

(End of this chapter)