China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 156 Doomsday Box Office, World Ranking

It is the audience's business to watch the films directed by Li Mu, but it is not only the audience who care about the box office of the films directed by Li Mu.

First of all, directors, stars, producers, entertainment company bosses, theater chains, and theater directors in the entertainment industry. As part of the entertainment industry and related stakeholders, they are of course very concerned about the box office performance of Li Mu's movies.

The second is the relevant departments and leaders at all levels. In a sense, Li Mu's film's siege of cities around the world itself represents that these people are more effective in their usual work.

Again, of course, it is the people around Li Mu, such as his parents, relatives, seven aunts, classmates, teachers, and even Liu Yifei’s relatives. These people also care about Li Mu very much. market performance of the film.

Especially Liu Yifei's mother, Liu Xiaoli, basically every time Li Mu's new movie is released, she has to grasp the box office information of the movie as soon as possible, not only to know how much box office Li Mu's movie has won this time, but also to try her best Find out exactly how much Li Mu will get for the new movie.

In the end, there are a large number of ordinary netizens who have never watched Li Mu's movies.

Some of these people are temporarily economically unable to do such a "luxury" thing as watching movies, and some are simply not interested in the art of movies, but this does not prevent these people from making Li Mu movies worldwide. proud of its great success.

Although these people did not go to the theater to support Li Mu, but when the news of Li Mu's movie hit the box office again on the Internet, they would often be very excited about it.

Of course, in reality, there will inevitably be a large number of groups who envy and hate Li Mu's achievements. Of course, such people will pay special attention to the box office data of Li Mu's new movies.

Then, in this atmosphere of almost universal attention, the domestic and foreign box office results of "The Doomsday Collapse" were calculated day by day, and then everyone was amazed!

The first is the box office in the domestic market.

After "Doomsday Collapse" won 7 million box office on the first day on Friday, July 24, its box office performance on the next day did not disappoint fans across the country, because it is the third movie in the country with a box office of over 7500 million in a single day It was officially born on this day.

On Saturday, July 7th, the national box office of "The Doomsday Collapse" was 25 million!Basically the same as the box office performance of "Taken 10250" the next day.

On Sunday, July 7, the national box office was 26 million yuan, far better than the 9100 million yuan box office figure of "Taken 2" on its first Sunday.

On Monday, July 7, the national box office of "Taken 27" took another 4400 million, while the box office of "Taken 2" had dropped to 3400 million in the same period before. The initial box office of "Taken 2" was comparable to that of "Taken [-]", but The follow-up box office trend is far stronger than the latter.

7 million on Tuesday, July 28.

Wednesday, July 7, 29 million.

Thursday, July 7, 30 million.

Friday, July 7, 31 million.

On Saturday, August 8st, 1 million yuan, the ninth day after its release, the single-day box office of "Collapse" broke through the 8200 million yuan mark again.

On August 8nd, Sunday, the movie "Doomsday Collapse" took another 2 million yuan in the national box office. So far, the movie has been officially released nationwide for a total of 6500 days. Within 10 days, it has accumulated a national box office of 10 million yuan, surpassing the previous "Hurricane Rescue". 6.389" with a domestic box office of 2 million yuan.

After the film was released for the third week, the single-day box office decline of the film began to become obvious, but at this time the single-day box office of the film still remained at around 1500 million to 2000 million yuan per day.

In the third week, the box office data on Saturday and Sunday even rebounded slightly, and then quickly fell back after the weekend, and even fell to a daily level of several million yuan a few days later. At this time, "Doomsday Collapse" The national box office of the movie has also reached about 7.4 million yuan.

According to the predictions of relevant agencies, the final national box office of "Collapse" should be between 7.8 million and 8.1 million yuan.

There is no doubt that this is another blockbuster at the national box office.

The box office appeal of Cheng Long, Liu Yifei, Yang Ziqiong, and Li Mu, the unprecedented scale of disaster scenes, and the timing of the release before "2012" all these factors have created the "Doomsday Collapse" film. The brilliant performance of a blockbuster super special effects blockbuster with a mediocre plot but the special effects scenes definitely exceeded the psychological expectations of all audiences.

In the North American film market, the box office performance of "Doomsday Collapse" is also good.

From July 7th to July 24th, "Crash" won the North American box office of 7 million U.S. dollars, beating Disney's animated film "Guinea Pigs", and won the North American box office champion of the week.

"Guinea Pigs" finished second with $3200 million in its opening weekend.

After that, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which has been released for the third week, won the third place with a weekend box office score of 3000 million US dollars.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was followed by Sony Columbia's "The Ugly Truth," which took in $2700 million in its opening weekend.

As soon as the first weekend box office results of "The Doomsday Collapse" in North America came out, many people in China breathed a sigh of relief.The film's performance is slightly better than "Taken 2", which was released last month, and the global box office of "Taken 2" is 4.683 million US dollars!
There is hardly any doubt that "The Doomsday Collapse" is obviously another movie that has sold well in the global movie market.

The second week in North America, from July 7st to August 31nd.

"Doomsday Collapse" won the North American box office with an absolute advantage of 3700 million US dollars. Compared with the box office of 6300 million US dollars last weekend, the box office of the film this weekend fell by 41%, and this is actually a quite normal decline.

I remember that when "Taken 2" was released, the box office dropped by as much as 51% in the second week!

Universal's "Funny People" won the runner-up with a box office of 2400 million US dollars in the first weekend; "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which has been released for the fourth week, won the third place with a box office of 1800 million US dollars.

Disney's animated film "Guinea Pigs", which was released in the second week, ranked fourth at the weekend box office with 1700 million US dollars, and the box office fell by as much as 46%.

Basically, as soon as the news that "Collapse" won the North American box office champion came out, everyone knew that the global box office of "Collapse" must be more than 5 million US dollars.

So far, just over half of 2009 has passed, and Li Mu has released three films.

One of them has a global box office of more than 9 million US dollars, one has a global box office of more than 4 million US dollars, and the other has basically locked in a box office of more than 5 million US dollars.

In half a year, the cumulative global box office of the three films may even exceed 20 billion US dollars, not to mention that at the end of the year there will be a "Gravity", which is said to be Li Mu's most important, to be released.

Domestic filmmakers have been so shocked by Li Mu's achievements this year that they can hardly speak, while domestic netizens have directly turned on the carnival mode.

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This week, the sci-fi action blockbuster "Special Forces: Rise of Cobra" produced by Paramount has an absolute advantage of 5700 million US dollars at the box office, and the disaster movie "Doomsday Collapse" directed by director Li Mu easily knocked off the North American box office champion. throne.

"Crash" came in second with $2200 million.

In third place is the biopic "Julie and Juliet," released this week by Sony Columbia, with $2100 million in its opening weekend.

In fourth place is Disney's animated film "Guinea Pigs," which grossed $980 million this weekend.

So far, it has been three weeks since the global release of "Doomsday Collapse", and its total box office in the domestic film market has also accumulated to 7.6 million yuan. At this time, the global cumulative box office of "Doomsday Collapse" has reached 2.1 million US dollars.

At this time, the total box office of the film is still rising, and it seems that there is no problem in harvesting another 2000 million US dollars before it is officially released.

In the first half of 2009, Li Mu released a total of three films, among which "Inception" has a global box office of 9.56 million US dollars, "Taken 2" has a global box office of 4.68 million US dollars, and "Doomsday Collapse" has not yet been released. It has grossed $5.53 million worldwide.

And if you add up the total global box office of these three films, you get a figure of 19.77.

In half a year, the global box office of Li Muxin's films has reached 19.77 billion US dollars, which is only 2300 million US dollars away from breaking through the 20 billion US dollar mark. It is obvious that "Doomsday Collapse" will take another 2300 million US dollars at the box office before it is released. The difficulty is not great.

This is quite a sensational and shocking news. All major print media, web portals, four major TVs, and even CCTV have taken turns to report on it. Numerous experts and scholars across the country have reported on it from various aspects. to interpret.

Even director Zhang Yimou, who had just successfully directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, became somewhat gloomy in front of Li Mu one year after the Olympics, but what Li Mu and the audience across the country never expected was that some netizens even Li Mu got in touch with a duo actor who suddenly became popular this year.

"No one can beat Xiao Shenyang in 2009, unless it is Li Mu in 2009!"

The most fucking exaggerated thing is whether it is Li Mu's parents, Liu Yifei, or Li Mu himself, they all have to admit that there must be more people who know Xiao Shen in the whole country than Li Mu.

This is outrageous.

Li Mu's achievements in the film industry are exaggerated enough. In less than 8 months, he directly won nearly 20 billion US dollars in the global box office. At this time, Li Mu did have a bit of an atmosphere of fighting for the front.

But you go to the whole country, especially the northern region, to inquire and find out whether there are more people who know Xiao Shen or Li Mu?
There is almost no doubt about this question, the answer must be that there are more people like Xiao Shen.

But if the scope is expanded to the whole world, then people who know Li Mu will have an almost crushing advantage over people who know Xiao Shen.

Not to mention the fact that the total sales volume of his novels worldwide has officially exceeded the 1 million mark at this time, but just talk about the field of movies.

At this moment, although "Doomsday Collapse" has not yet been officially released, its ranking in the box office list of world film history has climbed to 45th.

At this time, the 1998 film "The End of the World" was ranked ahead of it, followed by the 2005 film "King Kong", and then "Mission: Impossible 47", which ranked 2th. ", and "The Day After Tomorrow" ranked 48th.

"The Doomsday Collapse" is definitely not like "The Day After Tomorrow" which is a disaster movie as a whole, but its box office performance has indeed surpassed the other party.

And as of now, in less than 8 months, Li Mu has already had five works that have directly entered the top [-] global box office charts, of which three new films released this year alone as much.

[When the time came to August 2009, Li Mu's title as a world-class director should no longer be questioned like before! 】

The above is a piece of news published in a special column of Sina Entertainment. The author of the news is Zhong Wenkai, a reporter from Sina Entertainment.

After Zhong Wenkai published this column, he calculated the total box office of all Li Mu's works since his debut.

"Taken" $2.836 million, "Assassin" $3.76 million, "Super Body" $3.81 million, "Inception" $9.56, "Taken 2" $4.68.

Up to here, the total is 24.64 billion U.S. dollars. If you add the box office of director Li Mu's several films mainly for the domestic film market, then his personal global box office has already reached 25.63 billion U.S. dollars!
If the US$5.5 million box office of "Doomsday Collapse", which has not yet been released at this time, is also added, then Director Li Mu's global box office since his debut has reached as much as US$31.13 billion!
"31.13 billion US dollars? This figure sounds quite amazing, but I don't know what level this achievement is in the world!"

Thinking of this, Zhong Wenkai immediately searched for keywords like "ranking list of the world's highest-grossing directors".

There is very little information of this kind on the Huaxia Internet, Zhong Wenkai had no choice but to search on the American website and found a related report.

The director who currently ranks first in the world's total box office is of course Steven Spielberg.As of August 2009, he has directed and released a total of 8 films. The total box office of his works in North America is 24 billion US dollars, and the total global box office is 37.65 billion US dollars.

That's a pretty explosive and one-of-a-kind number.

Chris Columbus (director of Harry Potter and the Home Alone series), with a total global box office of 36.25 billion US dollars.

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump director), with a global box office of 36.08 billion US dollars.

Michael Bay (director of the Transformers series), with a global box office of 34.59 billion US dollars.

George Lucas (director of the Star Wars prequel series), with a total global box office of 33.144 billion US dollars.

Gore Verbinski (director of the Pirates of the Caribbean series), with a total global box office of 32.19 billion US dollars.

James Cameron (Terminator and Titanic director), with a global box office of 30.57 billion US dollars.

Seeing this, reporter Zhong Wenkai's expression suddenly froze, and then his eyes wandered repeatedly on the seventh name.

"James Cameron, with a global box office of 30.57 billion US dollars—that is to say, director Li Mu's global box office has already ranked eighth in the world and surpassed the legendary director James Cameron?"

Zhong Wenkai immediately had the urge to publish another news report, but just as he was about to start writing a related report, a new idea flooded into his mind.

"Eighth in the world, although already very strong, but still not eye-catching enough!"

"Actually, if we really want to talk about the popularity of foreign directors in China, there is no doubt that Spielberg and James Cameron are definitely ranked first and second. It only ranks seventh, but the directors who rank second to sixth are definitely not as famous in China as James Cameron."

"So why does the news have to focus on the fact that director Li Mu's global box office has already ranked eighth in the world? Then let the news focus on the fact that director Li Mu's global box office has surpassed the world-renowned director James Carter Can Mellon go up? Of course!"

"By the way, in order to show my rigor, at the end I have to point out that this ranking is not rigorous enough, because the box office of the other directors above is really just the total global box office of the films directed by these directors themselves, while the statistics of director Li Mu's The global box office has already included the box office of films written by director Li Mu himself but shot by other directors."

"For example, the director of "The Way to Steal the Key" is director Shen Junsheng of Li Mu's company, and the director of the "Hurricane Rescue" series is the director of Xiangjiang Chen Musheng. Strictly speaking, these are Li Mu's works, but they are not Li Mu' Director' works. But it doesn't matter, firstly, these films are firmly labeled as director Li Mu in the hearts of netizens across the country, and secondly, rigor is not the focus of this news at all, okay? The key point is one - that is, director Li Mu's global box office is already comparable to that of director James Cameron!"

Finally, after some deliberation, Zhong Wenkai's latest news was finally released.

[The total global box office is 31.13 billion US dollars? !The movie "Doomsday Collapse" helped Director Li Mu's global box office officially surpass James Cameron! 】

　Thanks to "xgdxjh" and "boring middle-aged man" for their rewards.

　　
　
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