China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 162 North American box office, breaking ten-year record

It was released in China for three days, and the total box office exceeded 3 million yuan, breaking a series of records in Chinese film history. Movie fans all over China suddenly found the mentality they had when watching "Inception" sweeping the world at the beginning of the year.

"What did director Li Mu say at the beginning of the year? 'This movie may be the pinnacle of my life', and the result? It's less than a year away, and there is another even more awesome "Inner Earth" Gravity"?! What about the peak of this life? You liar!"

"The big regret at the beginning of the year is that the box office of "Inception" failed to break through the double ten, that is, the domestic box office broke 10 billion yuan, and the overseas box office broke one billion US dollars. It is a pity that in the end, the double tenth was a little bit short. Originally, I wanted to It may take another five or six or even seven or eight years before we have another chance. I never thought that director Li Mu could really make a living. It’s less than a year away. The opportunity to break Double Ten is a good one. come yet?"

"Break the double ten? The box office of "Inception" is already the seventh in film history? If it can break the double ten this time, the global box office of "Batman Episode 2: The Dark Knight" will be exactly 10 billion US dollars. They are now the film history fourth!"

"Double Ten is not as good as Double Eleven? Didn't Boss Ma Yunma organize a Double Eleven Singles Shopping Festival this year? It seems that the sales in one day reached 5000 million yuan. I feel that Double Eleven is very good, otherwise this Let’s take Double Eleven next time.”

"Damn it, you really dare to think about it! The box office double eleven? I just checked, and now the second place in the global film history is "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" directed by Peter Jackson, with a global box office of 11.19 billion US dollars. Eleven, do you want "Gravity" to become the second in the world's film history?"

"Is there anything you dare not think about? You speak from your conscience. Is "Gravity" shocking? Have you seen such a shocking movie in ten years?"

All in all, movie fans across the country are now paying close attention to the overseas box office of "Gravity", especially the North American box office in the overseas box office.

The domestic box office of "Gravity" has already broken the record of "Inception". If its overseas box office can break the record of "Inception", then "Gravity" will definitely surpass "Inception". At that time, it is not impossible to think of a global box office of US$10 billion or even US$11 billion.

On November 2009, 11, the latest week's North American box office list was officially announced.

The box office of "Gravity" was US$2400 million on the first day, US$2700 million on the second day, and US$2800 million on the third day. The total box office in the first weekend was US$7900 million, ranking first in the North American box office list this week.

Roland Emmerich's "2012" came in second with $6100 million this week.

In third place was Disney's "A Christmas Carol," with $2100 million in its opening weekend.

"Gravity" grossed US$7900 million in the first three days of its opening weekend. This is already a pretty explosive result, but domestic movie fans are inevitably a little disappointed.

There is no other reason. The three-day box office of "Inception" released at the beginning of the year was 8700 million US dollars in the first weekend. Although "Gravity" has exploded in word-of-mouth, the box office in the first weekend in North America was a full 800 million US dollars lower than "Inception".

In this way, wouldn’t the box office of Double Ten or Double Eleven, which were full of confidence before, come to an end?

Do foreigners understand movies? ! The movie "Gravity" is so awesome, but the box office in the first weekend is not as good as "Inception"?
When the box office of the first week in North America was officially released, Li Mu, Gong Li and others were in Shanghai to promote the movie.

Roadshow scene.

The beautiful reporter interviewed Li Mu and said, "Excuse me, Director Li, we saw that the North American box office of "Gravity" has come out in the first weekend, 7900 million U.S. dollars. ", do you have anything to say about this?"

"Well, this." Li Mu said after organizing his words, "In the movie "Gravity", Ms. Gong Li's character once said: 'Either I bring back a legendary story and return to the earth safely, or Burned to ashes in minutes, I'm open to it either way, it's been a remarkable journey no matter how it turns out.'”

"What I want to say is, regarding "Gravity", I have tried my best to make it the best. In the end, it really succeeded in breaking through the double ten box office and entered the top three in global movie history, or the box office is far from ideal. It doesn’t matter if it’s not as expected, no matter what the ending is, I’ll accept it, no matter what the result is, the process of making this movie has been an extraordinary journey, thank you.”

After Li Mu finished speaking, the audience began to applaud enthusiastically.

In fact, the box office of "Gravity" is really exaggerated.

The film was officially released on November 11th. As of November 13th, the film has been officially released for three days. Its box office in China is 11 million yuan, the North American box office is 15 million US dollars, and the overseas box office outside North America is 3 million US dollars. .

In just three days since the film was released, the global box office has accumulated 2.3 million US dollars, which has actually become the best global box office debut of a non-sequel film. Li Mu received a lot of sympathy.

"I feel sorry for Director Li. The North American box office of such an awesome movie is not as good as "Inception"."

"It's completely understandable that the box office is not as good as "Inception". After all, Inception is already a masterpiece in the hearts of countless movie fans, but it's really a pity. I'm afraid this time the wish to enter the top four or even the top three in global film history will be in vain."

"I hope Director Li can continue to work hard, and don't take this little setback to heart."

Looking at the comments from netizens, Li Mu was a little astonished. "Gravity" had a global box office of 2.3 million US dollars in three days of release. Why did it seem like he was on the street this time?

Isn't it just that the North American premiere box office is not as good as "Inception" at the beginning of the year?so what?Even if Cameron's "Avatar" is brought in, wouldn't the premiere box office still be inferior to his "Inception"?
Unexpectedly, not only these netizens, but also many friends from the entertainment industry came to enlighten Li Mu.

Han Sanping from China Film Group, Huang Jianxin from Xiying Film Group, Yu Dong from Bernard, Wang Changtian from Guangjian, Yan Yiyun from Xiying Film Group, and even Cheng Long and Li Lianjie called him specifically to tell him not to be discouraged and unable to surpass "" Inception" doesn't mean that "Gravity" isn't good enough, and it doesn't mean that Li Mu didn't do well enough this time.

Of course Li Mu knows this, so if these people think that the North American premiere box office of "Gravity" is not as good as "Inception", Li Mu will be very depressed?

The global box office has reached 2.3 million US dollars in three days. What is Li Mu not satisfied with?
Why do you think Li Mu has such high demands on him?

the second week.

The domestic box office of "Gravity" is still maintained at a high level of 8000 million yuan, which is far better than that of "Inception" in the same period. According to reports on movie tickets, the price of a movie ticket was even hyped up to three to five hundred yuan by scalpers.

One of the elder sisters angrily told the reporter that she bought two 300dimax movie tickets of "Gravity" at a price of 3 yuan each. After paying and getting the ticket, I found out that it turned out to be a movie ticket three days later.

This made her very angry, because she planned to take the train back to her hometown in the countryside in three days.

And in the magic capital.

"Gravity" has a strong visual impact on its super-large screen, clear and realistic three-dimensional images, and an extremely shocking viewing experience, which has caused a large number of audiences to rush to buy movie tickets.

Watching the 3dimax version of "Gravity" with the whole family has become a new fashion for the citizens of Shanghai, so that tickets are released three days in advance, and they are often sold out within a few hours in the morning.

The leaders of Media Group, Shanghai Film Group, New World Group and Daguangming Cinemas decided to pre-sell 11dimax movie tickets for the whole month of November in advance after research on the spot, so as to further ease the contradiction of the audience's difficulty in buying tickets.

A number of newspapers have even published the horror headline that buying a "Gravity" movie ticket is sad to buy a Spring Festival train ticket, which caused a huge sensation in the whole society.

Not only that, but many theaters have already turned on the 24-hour mode for the filming of "Gravity", and even the second half of the night can be full.

At this time, almost all domestic filmmakers were dumbfounded, and even the entire entertainment industry, almost no one could describe this unprecedented grand occasion of watching movies by all the people in words.

The only regret is that the film's North American box office is not as good as "Inception", otherwise, everyone can't imagine how much global box office this film can win.

Is it really going to be among the top three in film history?
And it is in this almost crazy atmosphere of the whole people that "Gravity" finally ushered in its second weekend since it was released.

2009年11月20日—11月22日。

North American box office charts.

01, "Gravity", $7700 million.

02, "Warmth Rugby", $3500 million.

03, "2012", $2700 million.

04, "Planet 51", $1300 million.

……

When the news spread back to China, the general audience didn't feel much for the time being, but the entertainment reporters who have been paying attention to the North American box office chart all the year round were all dumbfounded.

It can be said that the $7700 million box office of "Gravity" in the second week is even more incredible than the $1 million in the first week of "Gravity".

Under normal circumstances, the box office of a film in the second week will be far lower than its premiere box office in the first week. The box office drop between two weeks is often between 40% and 60%, sometimes even higher.

When "Taken 2" was released this year, the box office dropped by 51% in the second week compared to the first week.

The box office of "2012", which is currently in theaters, was $6100 million in the first week, and fell to $2700 million in the second week, a drop of up to 55%.

And this week's Gravity?

The box office in the first week was 7900 million US dollars, and the box office in the second week was 7700 million US dollars. Compared with the first week, the box office in the second week dropped only 200 million US dollars, a drop of only 2.5%? !
This is a miracle, right? !
And it is an undisputed box office miracle!

In 1997, "Titanic" directed by James Cameron was officially released worldwide, and its box office trend can be described as one wave after another.

The box office of the second week and the third week even surpassed its box office of the first week in turn, and its miraculous box office trend even lasted for two full months.

Everyone knows the following things, "Titanic" finally won a box office of 18 billion US dollars in the world, and has firmly occupied the first place in the box office of the world's film history for 12 years. Can break.

Today, the miracle of the past has finally reappeared.

"Gravity" had a box office of US$7900 million in the first weekend and US$7700 million in the second weekend, a decrease of 2.5%. Since "Titanic" was released in 1997, there has never been a film in the North American film market that has achieved such a sky-defying result. box office trend.

In other words, "Gravity" has at least broken the North American film market's 10-year second-weekend box office decline.

"Inception", also directed by Li Mu, had a box office of US$8700 million in the first weekend and US$6200 million in the second weekend, a drop of 28% in the box office of the second weekend, while the drop of "Gravity" was only 2.5% in the second weekend. %!

[The box office of "Gravity" fell slightly in the second week of its release, and it continued to be the North American box office champion. 】

In this press release, the entertainment reporter specifically sorted out the box office trends of "Titanic", "Inception", "Gravity", "Taken 2" and other movies, and finally came to a conclusion: " Gravity's second-weekend box office trend almost perfectly reproduced the "Titanic" that swept the world 12 years ago.

Then fans all over the country were excited.

"I have long said that the box office of "Gravity" cannot be worse than that of "Inception". Which movie has this immersive viewing experience before? That kind of satellite debris hits most of the audience When did the movie that you unconsciously reach out to block it appear? How could such a powerful movie not be as good as "Inception" at the box office? It is obvious that the number of 3D screens and 3dimax limits the upper limit of the movie's box office, but its subversive Film technology has allowed it to successfully win the same box office trend as "Titanic"!"

"Double 12 at the box office? I don't think it will be able to hit Double 12 this time, at least Double Twelve! The domestic box office is [-] billion yuan, and the international box office is [-] billion US dollars!"

"Fuck, the world's second-largest box office in movie history is only 11.19 billion U.S. dollars. Isn't Double Twelve going to kick off the world's second place?"

"What happened to the second in film history?! "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" had a box office of 7400 million US dollars in the first weekend, and 5100 million US dollars in the second weekend, and the box office fell by as much as 31% in the second weekend! Now we Li Mu's "Gravity" The box office in the first weekend was higher than it, and the box office in the next weekend was even higher than it. The drop in the box office in the second weekend was only 2.5%! Everywhere is the second best in film history. Why can't "Gravity" compete for the first place? Two?"

"Fuck, from your calculations, it is almost a certainty that "Gravity" surpasses "Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King"?"

"Suddenly I remembered the year when "The Promise" was released. At that time, many Chinese people said that foreign directors could make "Lord of the Rings" with a few hundred million dollars, and Huaxia directors could only make "One "The Murder Case Caused by Steamed Buns", Chinese movies lagged behind the West by decades—well, it's only been a few years? We, Huaxia, can also make movies of the level of "Lord of the Rings"!"

Immediately afterwards, the media compiled the total global box office data of "Gravity" so far.

If all calculated in US dollars, the box office in mainland China was US$1.03 million, the box office in North America was US$2.01 million, and the box office outside North America was US$2.41 million. As of the weekend of the second week, the total global box office of "Gravity" was US$5.45 million.

Some netizens immediately searched the global box office rankings on the Internet, and then searched from top to bottom.

"No. 41, "King Kong," with $5.49 million worldwide."

"No. 42, "Mission: Impossible 2," with $5.46 million worldwide."

"No. 43 - "Gravity" has successfully entered the top 10 in global film history in just 50 days after its release? Awesome!"

At the same time, Director James Cameron finally watched the movie "Gravity" directed by Huaxia in the 3dimax hall of the theater. After 90 minutes, when the screen dimmed, the name of 'Director Li Mu' It finally appeared on the big screen, and Director Cameron finally came to his senses at this time.

He wanted to say something to the people around him, but in the end he chose to remain silent.

"Li Mu... Li Mu!"

In the end, the old man only said Li Mu's name twice.

(End of this chapter)