Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 588

North American film market weekend (2006.12.1-2006.12.3) box office list:

No. 1, "I Am Legend", with a weekend box office of 1920 million U.S. dollars and a 3-day release, Liang Tianchi Films, with a cumulative box office of 1920 million U.S. dollars and 2600 theaters;
No. 2, "Happy Feet", weekend box office of 1704 million US dollars, 17 days of release, Warner Bros., cumulative box office of 12100 million US dollars, 3804 theaters;
No. 3, "007: Casino Royale", weekend box office 1510 million US dollars, 17 days of release, Sony Columbia, cumulative box office 11586 million US dollars, 3640 theaters;
No. 4, "The Effect of Time and Space", with a weekend box office of 1103 million U.S. dollars and 10 days of release, Disney, with a cumulative box office of 4409 million U.S. dollars and 3100 theaters;
No. 5, "The Birth of Jesus", weekend box office 802 million US dollars, 3 days of release, New Line Films, cumulative box office 802 million US dollars, 3183 theaters;
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Chen Hao's new sci-fi film "I Am Legend" beat "Happy Feet" which had won two consecutive championships in the first week of its premiere, and successfully won the weekend box office champion!

As a well-known young director in North America, the films directed by Chen Hao, especially science fiction films, already have enough fans in North America.

Therefore, even though "I Am Legend" is a Chinese film, it relies on the strong word-of-mouth accumulated by "Moon", "District [-]", "Man With No Surname" and "The Martian".

Numerous North American film critics and movie fans still walked into the theater one after another, wanting to see it quickly.

Therefore, even though "I Am Legend" has only 2600 screening theaters, it still won the box office champion in the first weekend of December with an average performance of 7384 US dollars per theater!
"Director Chen is very good at handling luxurious scenes. The first half of the world is sad and the second half is thrilling and exciting. The battle is just right, but the CGI monster looks a little weird!" --- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"The film's entertainment elements are handled well, and at the same time, the sense of lingering urban despair is impressive." -- "Chicago Reader"

"The acting skills of the actors are superb, and Chen is describing to everyone the hidden worries that may be brought about by the development of science and technology, and how a person's choice corresponds to his future life. A literary film dressed in a sci-fi cloak is very old!" ---- " variety show

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The media's evaluation of "I Am Legend" is also quite good. From the media's point of view, "I Am Legend" can be regarded as Chen Hao's normal level, but it is less amazing than before.

On IMDB, "I Am Legend" has a rating of 8.2, but it has only been released for 3 days, and the rating should drop after that.

"I Am Legend" will definitely not create Chen Hao's new IMDB score record. Currently, Chen Hao's highest IMDB score is 8.1 points from "The Ninth District".

Followed by "The Moon" and "The Martian" scored 8.0 points, and Chen Hao's lowest score was the controversial "Da Vinci Code", and now the score has dropped to 6.8 points.

This is Chen Hao's only film with a score lower than 7, but it is also the highest-grossing film in the world!
It can only be said that it is indeed too difficult to perfectly integrate art and commerce!

On Rotten Tomatoes, the freshness of the film is 80%, and the audience's Rotten Tomatoes score is also 80%. It can be seen that film critics and audiences still quite approve of "I Am Legend".

At the same time, the $1920 million of "I Am Legend" surpassed the $1805 million of "No Surname", creating a new North American box office record for a Chinese-language film directed by Chen Hao.

This made Liang Tianchi and Sony Columbia look forward to the final box office of "I Am Legend". After all, "The Martian" only had a box office of 1520 million in the first weekend, and the final North American box office was 6050 million.

"I Am Legend" is likely to be another hit.

Undoubtedly, Chen Hao has become a unique landscape in North America, and Chen Hao is the only one who can make foreign language films have such strong box office competitiveness in the North American film market!

Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" by Li An with US$1.28 million topped the North American foreign language film box office rankings, only this one film by Li An ranked in the top ten.

Chen Hao's "No Surname" and "The Martian" ranked No. 2 and No. 4 respectively on the list, and judging from the box office performance of "I Am Legend".

Chen Hao is very likely to win three of the top five films. In terms of quantity and stability, Chen Hao can be said to be the winner.

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At the same time, in the mainland film market, Mr. Xun's "Yun Shui Yao" won the box office of 3 million yuan in the first three days, losing to the 1500 million yuan of "Mo Gong", and ranked second.

Influenced by Chen Hao's butterfly effect, Liu Dehua starred in "I Am Legend", and Fan Yaojing went to play "Transformers", so the hero and heroine of this "Ink Attack" became Liang Chaowei and Li Lianhua.

Released on the same day, "Dancing Out of My Life" starring Xiaohu only had a box office of 300 million.

Don't look at "Dancing Out of My Life" which has a strong box office in North America, and the nickname "International Yang" is getting louder and louder, but Xiaohu's box office appeal is not strong.

In the first ten years of the early [-]th century, the mainland film market was the era of the four major directors, and audiences were more superstitious about the big directors, unlike the era of later generations, where actors had great box office appeal.

Of course, there has never been a market for youth musicals in the mainland, which is one of the reasons, and it can be regarded as pouring cold water on the fox-tailed old Gao Xiaohu.

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The North American box office of "I Am Legend" made Chen Hao feel relieved, and once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to the post-production of "National Superman Hancock".

Time flies, a week passes by, and a new week is coming.

"I Am Legend" took in US$1080 million at the box office in its second weekend in the North American film market, losing to "Happy Feet", which earned US$4 million in four weeks, ranking fourth on the list.

In the second week, the total box office of "I Am Legend" in a single week was 1540 million, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was 3460 million US dollars!
In the second week, "Yun Shui Yao" in the mainland won 1878 million yuan, beating "Mo Gong" to grab the top box office for the week!
The box office of "Dancing Out of My Life" was 220 million, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was 520 million. This box office made Xiaohu, who was full of expectations, a little autistic.

Unknowingly, the time came to the end of December, and Chen Hao officially completed most of the post-production of "National Superman Hancock", and now he is only waiting for the special effects part to be completed.

Then, "National Superman Hancock" is completely finished.

During this period, the box office of "I Am Legend" also officially exceeded 4000 million US dollars, reaching 4400 million, and continued to move towards 5000 million.

However, in the nomination list for the 64th Golden Globe Awards announced not long ago, Chen Hao got nothing!
Neither "The Da Vinci Code" nor "I Am Legend" received any nominations, which made Chen Hao frown, and was also a little worried about the box office of "I Am Legend".

Although the Golden Globes often guess wrong about the Oscars, it is a weather vane after all. There is not a single nomination for the Golden Globes, and the Oscars are likely to be the same.

This is very detrimental to the box office after "I Am Legend".

"No Surname" and "The Martian" both made a wave of popularity by relying on the Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, and rebounded to harvest a wave of box office.

Now it seems that "I Am Legend" may not get the bonus of Oscar.

In addition, the mainland film market has been surging since it entered the Lunar New Year file. Guoshi's "Curse of the Golden Armor" has landed in the most popular Lunar New Year file in mainland China. It can be described as overwhelming and unstoppable.

It even caused a grievance, a dispute between Yu Zhang!

From 2002 to the present, the box office of films released by Yudong Company accounted for an increasing proportion of the total annual box office in Mainland China.

And this year, Yu Dong took a fancy to "Scarred City" and wanted to make it a perfect ending for the company's 2006 Lunar New Year file.

I don't know if Yu Dong is full of self-confidence, or if he wants to touch the porcelain "The Golden Armor in the City", Yu Dong actually wants to fight Zhang Weiping, and the first battle "Battle of the Yellow City" begins, officially opening the two battles. People have grievances that last for many years.

The cause of the grievance is that this year, the third part of Guoshi's ancient costume martial arts trilogy "Full City with Big Boss Girls" was released in an attempt to sweep the Lunar New Year file and look down upon the world.

Zhang Weiping tasted the sweetness of shouting "Whoever doesn't cry, come to me" when "House of Flying Daggers" was released, so he opened his mouth again this time and shouted wildly: "I want to eat all the box office at the end of the year!" ""City of Wounds" will die miserably!"

There is a trend of "my flowers bloom and a hundred flowers kill them". The rest of the small and medium films are afraid that they will not be able to dodge.

In this confrontation, "City of Hurting", which took the lead, was supposed to be released first, but "Full City with Golden Armor" suddenly announced that the schedule will be advanced by 9 days, instantly squeezing the opponent's "exclusive schedule" to less than a week. .

Seeing the army of "Mancheng" "soldiers coming to "City"", Yu Dong was a little at a loss for a moment and did his best: he actually postponed the schedule of "Scarred City" for half a month!

In this way, not only will the opponent be released first, but also the prime time in mid-December will be ceded, so that "The Golden Flower" will occupy the Lunar New Year slot for ten days.

Although Yu Dong has since launched a fierce bombardment aiming at "the monopoly and exclusive screening agreement signed between "The Golden Flower" and digital theaters", but the opportunity has been lost, and the general situation is gone.

In 2006, the chrysanthemum terrace was finally built for the Lunar New Year holiday, and "Curse of the Golden Flower" swept the box office in the mainland with a momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers.

It also made Yu Dong, who had been successful in his career all these years and complacent, began to secretly hate Zhang Weiping.

What I have to say is that although Zhang Weiping doesn't understand movies, he knows that the national teacher is very good at it, and he is very talented in publicity and distribution.

In addition to all kinds of publicity, Zhang Weiping has been emphasizing that this is the last film before the Olympic Games, and it is bound to surpass Chen Hao's "I Am Legend".

Coupled with the already terrifying box office appeal of the National Teacher, as well as a strong star lineup, it can be said that once "Full City" comes out, there will be no grass left!

Before the release of "Golden Flowers in the City", the film was confidently screened on a large scale, and it had a box office hit of 1500 million yuan before it was released.

This figure surpassed the box office record of "The Promise" at the box office of 800 million in mainland film history, and "The Promise" broke the previous record of "Hero".

Subsequently, "The Golden Flower in the City" was released on Thursday, and won a box office of 8100 million yuan, plus a box office of 1500 million points.

With a box office of 9600 million in the first week of "Curse of the Golden Flower", it broke the first-week box office record of 4 million created by "I Am Legend" just 9300 months ago!
What's even more frightening is yet to come. In the second week, the box office of "Curse of the Golden Flower" actually broke through 9000 million again, reaching 9400 million RMB!

It was even higher than the box office of "I Am Legend" in the first week, and it naturally broke the box office record of the second week of mainland film history set before "I Am Legend"!

The box office of "Curse of the Golden Flower" reached an astonishing 1.9 million RMB in two weeks!

""Golden Armor in the City" breaks the top 3 box office records in mainland film history!" --- Sohu Entertainment Report
""Golden Armor in the City" exceeded the box office of "I Am Legend" in the same period by 1650 million yuan in two weeks!"-- Netease Entertainment
"The battle for the crown of the year has come to an end! Ginger is still hot!" --- New Wolf Entertainment
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The crazy box office of "Curseful of Golden Flowers" not only shocked the media, but also opened up a feast for the media, with all kinds of praises.

As for Chen Hao, who had a dispute with the national teacher for the title of the year, and "I Am Legend", it was no surprise that they became supporting roles and were used for various comparisons and analyzes.

In the end, it turned out that Guoshi's "Golden Armor in the City" will surpass "I Am Legend" and win the 2006 Mainland annual box office champion!
It can be said that the box office record set by "Curse of the Golden Armor" was basically obtained by stepping on the corpse of "I Am Legend", and the media that has always praised the high and trampled the low naturally turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone.

How did you tout that "I Am Legend" would win the title of the year, and now it is used in "Full City" again, and I don't blush at all!
However, "Man City" has a bad reputation in the mainland, just like "Hero" in 2002, which was not well received.

At the same time, in the third week of the release of "Full City", the box office dropped sharply to 3 million, not as good as the 3200 million box office of "I Am Legend" in the same period!
Moreover, as China's first film to be released simultaneously globally in the true sense, "Full City" opened in 1234 theaters in North America, but only earned 187 million US dollars in the first weekend!
It was far inferior to the box office performance of "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers", but the North American media praised "Full City".

American film critics and media people generally praised the film as "an epic work", "a grand drama spectacle" and "extremely brilliant visually".

As a result, "Man City" had two extreme performances in the mainland and North America, one was well received but not well received, and the other was well received but not well received!

In any case, 2006 is over, and "I Am Legend" temporarily won the annual box office champion with a box office of 2.74 million yuan.

"Man City" was released for 3 weeks, with a cumulative box office of 2.22 million, temporarily ranking the runner-up of the year!

Feng Dapao's "Night Banquet" ranked No. 1.3 on the list with 3 million RMB!

Ranked fourth is "The Da Vinci Code" directed by Chen Hao, with a box office of 4 million!
《霍元甲》和《金刚》分别以1.05亿和1.03亿排名第5和第6，这就是内地电影市场2006年仅有的6部票房破亿的影片。

Now everyone is more concerned about the final ownership of the annual championship. Although "I Am Legend" temporarily won the championship, "Full City" is 850 million yuan higher than "I Am Legend" in the same period.

It's just that the box office of "Man City" collapsed a bit too badly in the third week, and lost to the box office of "I Am Legend" at 3 million in the same period, which made the media a little confused for a while.

During the summer, I thought that "I Am Legend" would be the best of the year, but until the Lunar New Year file "Mancheng" box office was even stronger.

It seems that the 2006 championship battle will continue to remain in suspense!

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