China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 212 Breaking domestic records in a row, North America counterattacks all the way
On May 5, the North American first-day box office statistics of "The Martian" came out. It was 27 million US dollars, which is a good result.

However, the daily box office champion is also not "Kung Fu Panda 2". Its box office on the first day was only 580 million US dollars. In US dollars, the box office of "Kung Fu Panda 1.6", which has no popularity basis, has reached 500 million US dollars on the first day. The 1 screens in 2030 theaters are not inferior to the opening scale of the first film, and the result is only a quarter of the box office on the first day of the first film. I am afraid that DreamWorks will not be able to laugh this time anyway.

Carefully analyzing the box office composition of "Kung Fu Panda 2", there are 4000 family 2800D theaters among the 3 theaters opened. The gap is even greater.

According to common sense, the box office of cartoons is generally based on a long-term strategy, but unfortunately, another animated sequel "Toy Story 6" will be released in mid-June. If it wins a decent box office, it will suffer heavy losses after being impacted by the latter.

5月26日的北美日票房冠军实际上是另一部续集作品《宿醉2》，前年《宿醉1》曾以3500万美元的制作成本一举斩获了4.69亿美元的全球票房，成为当年最引人关注的票房黑马。今年的《宿醉2》延续了其前作的辉煌，首日3161万美元票房的成绩让其毫无悬念地登上了日票房冠军的宝座。

Box office analysis agencies in North America are busy analyzing the reasons for the failure of "Kung Fu Panda 2". In the past four months, too many "family and parent-child" animated films have wiped out most viewers' desire to watch movies, such as "Save the Bunny", which has a good box office, is one of the culprits.

This week, Li Mu and the main creators of the film continued to be busy with publicity in the United States, and at this time the box office situation in the North American market has been quickly transmitted back to China.

Netizen "meat-eating wolf" once said convincingly that "The Martian" is by no means an opponent of "Kung Fu Panda 2". At that time, he also cited "Shrek" as an example.

《怪物史瑞克1》的全球票房是4.88亿美元，结果其续集的票房就达到了9.29亿美元。吃肉的狼便以此为依据，断定首部票房高达6.33亿美元的《功夫熊猫1》，其续集很可能会达到惊人的12亿美元票房。

In fact, the netizen "meat-eating wolf" is not really so optimistic about "Kung Fu Panda 2", he just wants to attract the attention of netizens.In the current Internet environment, if you only say that "The Martian" will definitely surpass "Kung Fu Panda 2", then few netizens will reply to you at all. Who doesn't know that Li Mu is awesome? "The Martian" has a higher box office, do you need to say?
After posting the post belittling "The Martian" and promoting "Kung Fu Panda 2", a large number of netizens replied to his post. Although many people came to scold him specifically, they still let the "meat-eating wolf" I feel a sense of accomplishment.

After the two films were officially released, and when the domestic first-day box office came out, "The Martian" had a first-day box office of 1.2 million, breaking the previous record of 1.15 million first-day box office held by "Tai囧", while "Kung Fu Panda 2" The first-day box office of "The Martian" was only 6900 million yuan, which was almost half of that of "The Martian". Now many netizens remembered the previous remarks of the meat-eating wolf.

"Remember that kid said earlier that "The Martian" may only have a global box office of 2 to 12 million US dollars, while "Kung Fu Panda [-]" is likely to have a global box office of [-] billion US dollars? Go, go to @ him, and see what he says now !"

What can a wolf that eats meat say?I pretended to be dead, and was anxious when asked, so I said, "Why are you so anxious? I thought "The Martian" swept North America and broke the record for the highest box office of the day. Opening champagne in advance is a no-brainer!"

After replying this sentence, the meat-eating wolf disappeared, and made up his mind that after the North American box office of the two films came out, no matter what the netizens said, he would never respond again.

At present, the daily box office record in North America is "The Hunger Games", with 8531 million U.S. dollars. The first week box office record is "The Hunger Games", which is as high as 1.88 million U.S. dollars - Li Mu is a pervert at all, so let's touch it and pay attention That's fine, it's making yourself uncomfortable if you compare it to Li Mu's movies.

Then finally on May 5th, the meat-eating wolf accidentally saw a news headline while surfing the Internet. As a result, he sat upright all of a sudden, and then stared at the computer screen with his eyes fixed, and read the headline consecutively. Three times, as if I was afraid that I misunderstood it—"This week's North American box office review: "The Martian" regrettably finished second!"

"I'm stupid! What's the situation? Li Mu really fell this time?"

"Damn, the fans really have no brains, I have analyzed the most likely situation to them so clearly, yet no one believes me, no one believes me, and even attacked me personally, what happened? ?”

"But to be honest, my vision is really amazing!"

After being intoxicated for dozens of seconds, the netizen, the meat-eating wolf, finally clicked on the relevant link, and the result:

"Fuck, did you make a mistake? The first-day box office of "Kung Fu Panda 2" was only 580.04 million US dollars? Isn't this too outrageous? "The Martian" is not that high, only 2472 million US dollars, according to "The Hunger Games 1 " is far worse than that. Shit, the daily champion turned out to be "The Hangover 2"?! The box office on the first day was 3161 million US dollars-let me just say, "The Martian" doesn't look like a serious movie at all, this is a movie. Essay! How is it? Lost to the more down-to-earth "The Hangover 2"?"

Now the meat-eating wolf is completely alive, and then I collect online reviews of several movies to analyze why "The Martian" lost to "The Hangover 2".

Half an hour later, another masterpiece of this person came out—"Sure enough, as I expected, Li Mu failed this time, "The Martian" lost to the foreign version of "People on Journey" "series!"

In this new post, the meat-eating wolf compares the "The Hangover" series to the "囧" series, which is also the work of Li Mu, and uses this to analyze why "The Martian" lost. Not to mention, it really attracted considerable attention .

Next.

On Friday, May 5, "The Martian" had a domestic box office of 27 million yuan and a North American box office of 1.12 million US dollars.

On Saturday, May 5, "The Martian" had a domestic box office of 28 million yuan, breaking the previous domestic box office record of 1.55 million yuan held by "Lost in Thailand". On this day, its North American box office was 1.42 million US dollars.

On Sunday, May 5, "The Martian" had a domestic box office of 29 million yuan and a North American box office of 1.47 million US dollars.

至此影片一共上映四天时间，其国内市场累计获得5.34亿元票房，分别打破最快破3亿、4亿、5亿等一系列最快记录，而且4天破5亿的恐怖吸金速度更是让国内同行们纷纷倒吸凉气。

而同日上映的《功夫熊猫2》首映四天票房分别为6900万元、5100万元、7900万元和7300万元，四天累计票房2.72亿元，比《火星救援》累计票房的一半刚好多了500万元。

It seems that "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "The Martian" are not of the same magnitude at all. The previous debate about which of the two films is better has now been answered by the market.

Compared with the big hit in the domestic market, the performance of "The Martian" in the North American market is somewhat unsatisfactory.

It earned US$7571 million in the first week, ranking second on the North American box office list this week.

Among all Li Mu's films, this score has been ranked in the top four. The top three are "The Hunger Games 1" with 1.88 million US dollars, "Inception" with 8700 million US dollars, and "Gravity" with 7900 million US dollars.

In fact, the cumulative North American box office of "The Martian" has reached 1.04 million US dollars at this time, but according to the North American practice, the box office of the first week only counts the box office of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so the first day of the film, That is to say, the box office of 2472 million US dollars won on Thursday will not be counted in the box office of the first week.

This week's North American box office champion unsurprisingly fell on "The Hangover 2", with a box office of 8648 billion US dollars in its first week, and a cumulative box office of 1.18 million US dollars in the first four days.

The third runner-up is "Kung Fu Panda 2", with a box office of 4800 million US dollars in the first week, which is a full 1 million US dollars less than the previous "Kung Fu Panda 1200". However, the performance of the film in overseas markets is better than that of the previous work. Difference.

During the publicity period in the United States, Li Mu also took time to meet with people from Lionsgate Films. Li Mu had sold the copyright of "Divergent" to the other party before. According to the agreement between the two parties, Li Mu will share its global box office. 4% will be used as a dividend. In addition to this, Li Mu will not intervene in the production of the film unless there are special circumstances.

The problem is that Lionsgate just wants Li Mu to intervene. Let's sort out the movies Li Mu has made since his debut—this person has never missed a shot, okay?
"Divergent 1" is expected to invest 8500 million US dollars. It seems that the investment scale is not too large, but the problem is that Lionsgate is not considered a top company in Hollywood, and it cannot squeeze into the top six Hollywood companies. Therefore, this investment is very important to Lions Gate. Men Films is still under considerable pressure.

Therefore, in line with the idea of ​​adding an extra layer of insurance, Lionsgate Pictures will always think about asking Li Mu for advice during the film production process. This time Lionsgate approached Li Mu to determine the candidates for the relevant leading actors.

A few days later, a reporter photographed Li Mu having dinner with an Asian beauty in Los Angeles.

The photo was not very clear, but both of them were public figures in the photo, and they were highly recognizable, so they were quickly identified by sharp-eyed netizens.

The man is of course Li Mu, and the Asian beauty is Li Meiqi, who once starred in "The Naked Agent".

There is an important Asian character Tori in "Divergent". She was born in the Erudition School, but in the end she chose the Fearless School. In the film, she will help the hero and heroine pass the tendency test.

The reason why Li Mu met Li Meiqi at the restaurant was, of course, to recommend her to play the role of Tori.Liu Yifei was not there when we met. Of course there is nothing wrong with the relationship between him and Liu Yifei, but at the same time he is not a "strict wife". He will not dare to meet with the opposite sex alone for fear of Liu Yifei's misunderstanding. If there is a misunderstanding, take her with you wherever you go.

After the photos of the two meeting were exposed, Li Mu thought that there would be media hype that there was a relationship problem between him and Liu Yifei. Unexpectedly, most of the media were guessing that Li Mu would invite Li Meiqi to play a certain role, which made Li Mu There are some surprises.

"Shouldn't it be said that scandal speculation is more topical?"

Li Meiqi, who was recommended by Li Mu, successfully got the role of Tori. In order to express his gratitude, Li Meiqi called to invite Li Mu to dinner, but Li Mu refused.

Liu Yifei, who usually doesn't like to dress up very much, specially put on a pair of black silk stockings that day, and then called Li Mu as shyly as when they first met, how could Li Mu bear this?So I worked an hour of overtime in the hotel that day. I was sleepy and tired after working overtime, and I lost my appetite even for delicacies. How could I be in the mood to have dinner with anyone?

In China, this week, the netizen "meat-eating wolf" continued to publicize that he had already predicted in advance that "The Martian" would be difficult to win the North American championship. Not to mention, he really fooled him into some forum noobs who didn't know the truth, and he really gained a lot. got some fans.

For the next week or so, this person kept preaching how "The Hangover 2" was better than "The Martian". Because it was collected online comments, including answers from some foreign netizens, some of the opinions were true. There is also a certain truth.

Then came the second week. From Monday to Friday, the domestic box office of "The Martian" was between 5000 million and 8000 million. It was released for 1.03 days, with a total box office of 8400 billion yuan, making it the fastest film in China with a box office of over 11 billion.

In the North American market, from Monday to Thursday, the daily box office of "The Martian" fluctuated between 500 million and 800 million U.S. dollars, increased to more than 1400 million U.S. dollars on Friday, further increased to more than 1900 million U.S. dollars on Saturday, and fell on Sunday. It reached more than 1400 million U.S. dollars, so far the total box office in North America is 1.71 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of the second weekend is 4700 million U.S. dollars, still ranking second.

However, this week's box office champion is neither last week's champion "The Hangover 2", nor "Kung Fu Panda 2", but the newly released 6th Century Fox film "X-Men: First Class" on June 3. It grossed $5600 million in its opening weekend.

As for last week's champion "The Hangover 2", it ranked third this week, with a weekend box office of 3244 million US dollars, a box office drop of 62.2%, and was successfully overtaken by "The Martian".

And "Kung Fu Panda 2" this week won a box office of 2430 million US dollars, ranking fourth in this week's list, and the box office fell a bit better than "The Hangover 2", which was 49%.

In the original time and space, "The Martian" and "The Hangover 2" were not released at the same time, but the box office trend was similar to that in this time and space. It surpassed it, and it even staged a counterattack back to the championship in the fourth week of the film's release.

And in the country.

The netizen "meat-eating wolf" spent almost a week analyzing why "The Hangover 2" is better than "The Martian". As a result, the North American box office chart from June 6rd to June 3th was announced. Good guy, "The Martian" overtake?Although it is still the runner-up, the weekend box office is actually more than 6 million US dollars higher than "The Hangover 5"?

He was still here to analyze the future of "The Hangover 2" and R-rated movies, but Li Mu made a counterattack. Seeing that some fans have begun to question his level, you say this is not nonsense what?

Fortunately, this netizen whose ID is "meat-eating wolf" has a very strong mentality. After turning his mind, he began to analyze the advantages of "X-Men: First Class" compared with "The Martian".

In his opinion, next week "The Martian" will be the third week of its release, and the third week of general movies has already had no box office. If you don't believe it, you can make another counterattack!

"Superhero movies and series of movies are undoubtedly the main trend of commercial blockbusters in the future, from the "Iron Man" series to "Captain America" ​​which will be released in July this year, and "X-Men: The First Movie" which will be released this week. "The War", all of which illustrate this point. "The Martian" does have its merits, but this kind of super blockbuster, which is single-handedly, is defeated in the face of the superhero series movies that are bound to rise completely in the future. It's just a matter of time, this time "The Martian" lost to "X-Men: First Class is a preview of the future!"

Now his fans can't stand it anymore, yes, the first week of "X-Men: First Class" beat the second week of "The Martian", what is there to brag about?Shouldn't this be a shameful thing to win and lose?
However, if Li Mu sees the remarks of "meat-eating wolves", I'm afraid he has to give him a thumbs up. As a time traveler, he knows better than anyone else that "Avengers 1" will be released next year. It will officially bring commercial blockbusters into a decade that belongs entirely to the Marvel universe.

The time soon came to the third week of the film's release. This week, the domestic box office of "The Martian" remained between 3000 million and 4000 million, 5100 million on Saturday and 4400 million on Sunday, with a total domestic box office of 13.3 billion yuan.

In the North American market, "The Martian" grossed US$3785 million in the three-day weekend of its third week, successfully counterattacking and topping this week's box office chart!
And this time the runner-up is neither "The Hangover 2", nor "Kung Fu Panda 2", nor last week's box office champion "X-Men: First Class", but the new release of Paramount on June 6. Produced the film "Super 10", which grossed 8 million US dollars at the weekend.

"Super 8" is another low-budget counterattack film. The production cost of this film is only 5000 million U.S. dollars. In the first week alone, it won 3700 million U.S. dollars in North America.

And in the country.

Netizen "meat-eating wolf" felt a little stomach ache looking at the brand new North American box office.

He couldn't figure it out, how could "The Martian" become the champion in the third week?If you want to become the champion, can't you do it in the first week?

Also, is this "X-Men: First Class" too useless?Can't beat the third week of "The Martian" in the second week?It's outrageous!

As for "The Hangover 2", which was still awesome in the first week, it is almost impossible to watch now. This week's box office has dropped to 1800 million US dollars, not even half of "The Martian".

Compared with "The Hangover 2", "Kung Fu Panda 2" is considered to have a smaller decline. This week's 1700 million US dollars is almost on par with "The Hangover 2".

At this time, Li Mu had already returned to China with the crew of "The Martian".

　There should be another chapter tonight, it should be very late

　　
　
(End of this chapter)