Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 371 Dominating the Second and Third
"'Ocean's Twelve' overwhelms 'The Hangover' and tops North American weekend box office charts!" --- "Entertainment Weekly"

"'The Hangover' grossed $2675 million over the weekend, ending its winning streak and retiring to runner-up!" --- "Rolling Stone"

"The Chinese-language film "Man Without a Last Name" made $1805 million in its first weekend, and it was airborne to the third place in the weekend box office rankings in North America!"--"Los Angeles Times"

"Chen dominates the second and third box office charts alone!" --- "San Francisco Chronicle"

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In the North American film market last week, a total of 3 new films were released, namely "Ocean's Twelve", "Blade Warrior 3" and "Man with No Surname"!
Two of them are sequels, and the other is Chen Hao's science fiction film.

The media's box office estimates for these three films are relatively optimistic, especially "Ocean's Twelve".

It is the sequel to "Ocean's Eleven" three years ago. The movie, which cost $3 million, took in $8500 million in North America and $1.8 million worldwide.

And "Ocean's Twelve" once again convened the original cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and other movie stars, plus the sexy beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones.

With an investment of 1.1 million US dollars, this sequel was made!
Just watching celebrities is worth the ticket price, and the box office of the first film is really impressive, so the media is very optimistic about "Ocean's Twelve"!
"Blade Warrior 3" is the third part of the series. It has a base of comic fans and fans of the first two works. It is also the only sci-fi horror film in the Christmas file, so its box office results are also expected.

The last one is "The Man With No Surname". Although it is a Chinese film, it is written by Chen Hao, and it is even more of a science fiction film. In addition, Chen Hao's "The Hangover" is now a big hit at the box office, and the media is also optimistic about its box office.

Many media believe that the box office of "No Surname" should surpass Guoshi's "Hero". As for whether it can hit the box office record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in North America, it depends on its box office performance in the second week. up.

With Chen Hao's current name and popularity, the first week's box office should not be bad. The key is whether "Man Without a Surname" can break Americans' prosopagnosia and habit of not reading subtitles after the second week!
And when the box office came out last week, it was almost as predicted by the media!
北美周末票房排行榜（2004年12月10日-2004年12月12日）：

No. 1, "Ocean's Twelve", released for 3 days, 4088 million U.S. dollars, Warner Bros., with a cumulative box office of 4088 million U.S. dollars and 3400 theaters;
No. 2, "The Hangover", released for 19 days, 2675 million U.S. dollars, Tianchi Films, with a cumulative box office of 15082 million U.S. dollars, and 3200 theaters;
No. 3, "Man Without a Surname", released for 3 days, 1805 million U.S. dollars, Haotian Film and Television, with a cumulative box office of 1805 million U.S. dollars and 2100 theaters;
No. 4, "Blade Warrior 3", released for 3 days, 1613 million US dollars, New Line Films, with a cumulative box office of 1613 million US dollars, 3025 theaters;
No. 5, "National Treasure", released for 24 days, 998 million US dollars, Disney, with a cumulative box office of 12407 million US dollars, 3086 theaters;
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As expected, "Ocean's Twelve" defeated "The Hangover" which won two consecutive championships with its fantastic star lineup, and topped the North American weekend box office rankings with a super high box office of 4088 million US dollars!
It was the fourth-highest December debut in North American history, behind "Lord of the Rings" and surpassing the $3810 million of its first film, "Ocean's Eleven."

The plot of "Ocean's Twelve" is nothing new, and most of the box office is due to its strong star lineup.

Moviegoers love movies where all the stars are in one place, and seeing a movie like this is like one-stop shopping for Hollywood's top stars.

"Ocean's Twelve" cost about $1 million, but not much was spent on these big-name stars.

Because it still adopts the dividend distribution method of "Ocean's Eleven", the stars only get a very small salary at first, and then distribute dividends from the profits.

Seeing such a good box office in the opening weekend, it is estimated that these stars have already begun to look forward to it.

"Ocean's Eleven" finally grossed $1 million in North America, and many Hollywood analysts are now predicting that "Ocean's Twelve" will continue the success of the first film, and that it will earn more than the first film.

"The Hangover" earned US$18.4 million with an ultra-low drop of 2675%, but unfortunately it could only rank second on the list, ending its consecutive championship journey!

However, the ultra-low decline of "The Hangover" made analysts more optimistic about its final box office. Now everyone thinks that "The Hangover" has broken 2 million. There is no big problem.

The question now is whether "The Hangover" has a chance to break "Beverly Hills Cop"'s 20-year-old box office record for an R-rated comedy in North American film history!

The cumulative box office of "The Hangover" broke 1.5 million US dollars, which is one step away from Chen Hao's North American box office record, "The Ninth District"'s 1.57 million US dollars.

Next week, Chen Hao should usher in a new North American box office record!
"The Man Without a Surname", which is ranked third on the list, is also written by Chen Hao, and it is really rare for one person to monopolize the second and third places in the box office rankings!
The US$1805 million in the first weekend of "No Surname" directly broke the US box office record for a Chinese-language film directed by Chen Hao, which was previously the US$976 million of "Moon"!
At the same time, it also refreshed the first weekend box office record of US$1780 million created by "Hero" for foreign language films in North America!

Moreover, "Man Without a Last Name" has already entered the top ten of the box office rankings of foreign language films in North America after only 3 days of box office in the first weekend!

Second only to the US$2042 million of "A Cage of Fools" in France, it ranks No. 9 on the list!
The only three movies on the list with more than $5000 million, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Life is Beautiful" and "Hero", these are the goals of "No Name".

"Amelie" from France ranked fourth with only US$3322 million. Perhaps "Man Without a Surname" can surpass this box office in the second week!
How far can "Man without a Surname" be ranked on the list? The next thing we need to do is to see the film's box office performance in the next week!

Another big premiere was "Blade 3," but the vampire-hunting warrior seemed to be a bit of a loser this time around, taking in just $1613 million over the three-day weekend.

Its five-day opening, which premiered on Wednesday, wasn't much, with $2460 million.

Before it was released, many people predicted that it would be at least similar to the $2 million premiere box office of "Blade Warrior 3500", but unexpectedly it was a bit less.

The performance of "Blade Warrior 3" is undoubtedly disappointing. Now only the spokesperson of New Line Pictures believes that as the only sci-fi horror film in the Christmas file, the film's box office still has hope.

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"The Hangover" failed to achieve the third consecutive weekend box office, which made Chen Hao a little disappointed, but the box office performance of "No Surname" gave Chen Hao a big surprise.

Then the surprise was far from over, and soon Chen Hao received another piece of good news!

(End of this chapter)