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The crew has passed through major European cities all the way, and it has also caused a lot of waves. Starting from this Thursday and Friday, "City of Chaos" will be released in important Hollywood markets in Europe, Latin America and the Far East, although the film The type is not a typical summer popcorn, but the reputation and box office in North America can also play a lot.

After four working days of screenings, "City of Chaos" received another more than 30 million U.S. dollars in North America, and the North American box office totaled nearly 100 million U.S. dollars.

The excitement of a series of good news, coupled with the full firepower of the crew, especially when Murphy was promoting in Madrid, he also led the crew to visit the Real Madrid club. This time, Hollywood’s friendship with the world’s top football giants also attracted considerable attention. s concern.

Murphy also received a jersey bearing his name from the Real Madrid club.

In short, "City of Chaos" easily became the most watched movie in the entire European region this week. After three days of the weekend, it replaced "Thor" without any suspense and became the latest overseas box office champion.

This film was the first to be painted in Australia, and it easily earned $6.2 million in four days from Thursday to Sunday.

At the same time, Argentina and Brazil started painting on Thursday, which received more than $2.3 million and nearly $4 million, respectively.

Starting from Friday, "City of Chaos" has made a large-scale launch in Europe, earning US$8.6 million from the United Kingdom, US$5.4 million in France, US$9 million in Germany, US$4.8 million in Spain, US$3.5 million in Italy, and US$5 million in Russia over the weekend. U.S. dollars...

The Far East region also has a good record, with South Korea over 3 million U.S. dollars and Japan nearly 4 million U.S. dollars.

Among the more than 60 countries and regions that were screened at the same time this weekend, "City of Chaos" ranked first in the weekly box office charts in more than forty countries.

In the first week of its overseas release, "City of Chaos" easily surpassed the North American box office, winning $125 million.

This is a relatively rare situation in Murphy's films. In the past, the response of his films in the overseas market is obviously not as good as that in North America. This is also the general trend. After all, the total volume of the overseas market is much larger than that of North America.

Compared with "City of Chaos", "Thor", which was launched in the global market last week, has naturally entered a period of recession. This weekend, it has collected more than 40 million US dollars from overseas and returned to the second place in the overseas box office list.

At the same time, "City of Chaos" has also been highly praised in Europe.

In an interview with Le Figaro, the famous Spanish director Pedro Almodova expressed some views on the status of Hollywood movies. Almodova said: “For me, go to the cinema to find a movie I like. It's getting harder and harder, much harder than before."

"Maybe it's because I'm old." He said, "Hollywood movies are much worse than before. For example, Thor and many naive superhero movies are terrible."

He said that the current superhero movies are tiresome. He used to like adventure-themed movies very much. The special effects at that time were far from the perfect ones now. Now the movies pay more attention to the special effects. Those computer-synthesized characters make him reluctant to do so again. Watch this kind of movie.

At the same time, Pedro Almodovar expressed his admiration for "City of Chaos" and believed that Murphy's films are rare in Hollywood commercial films.

There is a general suspicion of this kind of statement, even Murphy himself knows that in this age of entertainment to death, the most important thing about commercial movies is actually entertainment.

There is no doubt that the darkness and heaviness of "City of Chaos" also contains enough entertainment factors.

However, in some overseas markets, the box office results of "City of Chaos" are not ideal.

For example, the market on the other side of the Pacific, which Fox developed vigorously in the 20th century, received a mediocre market response. It only took more than 300,000 U.S. dollars in revenue during the four days it was released, which was seriously lower than the expectations of Fox Fox in the 20th century.

Although the film was successfully approved for release on the other side of the Pacific, it was unavoidable that it suffered a lot of scissors. The original dark and depressive theme was not very suitable for mainstream audiences in the market. After many shots were cut, some plots It's inevitable that it looks sloppy, and the box office results are unlikely to be so good.

A film is always affected by the social and environmental situation in the area where it is shown.

Fortunately, Murphy himself did not have much expectations for the release of "City of Chaos" on the other side of the Pacific, and he was not surprised by such box office numbers. On the contrary, 20th Century Fox placed a lot of expectations on the other side of the Pacific. At the box office, it is inevitable to feel disappointed.

Carla Fess also specifically called and talked to Murphy about this issue. Murphy has nothing to do for the time being. After all, the market there has just developed. Simple, popular and pure popcorn movies have a wider audience, similar to darkness. Depressed films also have a certain number of fans, but the number is much smaller.

In a few years, things will be much better.

In addition to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, "City of Chaos" has also received mediocre response in a few international countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. The overseas film market in these regions is still the world of "Thor".

But in the North American market, which has the largest market volume, the second weekend of "City of Chaos" did not encounter a strong challenge and continued to sit firmly on the top of the North American box office chart.

Compared to the first weekend, "City of Chaos" showed a steady trend the following weekend, with a drop of only 43%, and another $35.6 million. The North American box office successfully surpassed the $100 million mark, with a cumulative total of $131.2 million.

"Thor" did not maintain its second place in the box office list. It plummeted by 61% the following weekend and received 18.75 million U.S. dollars. The North American box office can only continue to work towards 100 million U.S. dollars.

And what squeezed "Thor" to the third place was "Best Bridesmaid", which was newly released this weekend. This typical "Apatou Party" movie is attractive to comedy audiences who like **** and piss. It's quite large, with a strong collection of US$27 million in the first three days of the weekend, which is quite impressive relative to the production cost of US$35 million.

However, "The Hottest Bridesmaid", a **** comedy, still cannot threaten "City of Chaos" to achieve two consecutive titles at the North American box office.

In this way, the global box office of "City of Chaos" also exceeded the $250 million mark.

For a film without previous work and audience base, it is very rare that the global box office has exceeded 250 million U.S. dollars in ten days.

Both the media and Twentieth Century Fox believe that "City of Chaos" is a success.

Murphy and the crew ended their European propaganda trip, and went around in Japan, South Korea and Australia. The following third weekend, "City of Chaos" achieved three consecutive titles in the North American box office rankings, and the cumulative North American box office also reached It is almost inevitable to exceed US$200 million for US$177.2 million.

Overseas, the number of film screening locations has increased from more than 60 to more than 90 countries and regions, and an additional US$76 million has been collected.

The film's global box office also quietly approached 400 million U.S. dollars.

Rejecting David Robbie and Margot Robbie’s invitations to visit the Australian farm, Murphy went on a flight to Tel Aviv alone with the crew in Sydney. After meeting Gal Gadot, he followed Her mother met and talked.

Perhaps it was because we knew that the situation could not be changed, coupled with Murphy's status today, the atmosphere of this meeting was quite pleasant, and Murphy and Gal Gadot were also blessed by her family.

Since there are still many work affairs waiting for Murphy in North America, after only two days in Tel Aviv, he and Gal Gadot returned to Los Angeles by plane.

After returning to Los Angeles, Murphy immediately came to the post-production studio rented by Seth Logan and Jonah Hill to participate in the dubbing of some scenes of "The End of the World".

The filming of this film was completed at the end of April. Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill immediately went into post-production. Both Murphy and Carla Faith hoped that this film could be released within the year. From the perspective of Rogan's work efficiency, the problem is not too big.

When shooting, most of the scenes were recorded on-site. For a few shots that did not meet the requirements, the actors needed to re-dub. Originally, Murphy's shots were not too many. The scenes that required him to be dubbed were completed within two days. All done.

"The most suitable schedule for this film is between Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December."

In the post-production studio, Carla Faith, who rushed over, said to Seth Rogen, “In early October, you have to complete all post-production, and then Twentieth Century Fox will conduct trial screenings and theater promotion in order to win More screens."

Seth Rogen was confident, "No problem, it will definitely be done on time."

Murphy nodded to Carla Firth, "I watched some of the clips, which are very good."

Although this kind of spoof comedy cannot become a mainstream commercial film in the North American market, just like "Best Bridesmaid", there has never been a lack of audiences in North America. As long as the quality is guaranteed and the announcement can be in place, it is similar to horror movies. It is possible to use a small boast.

And for today's film market, this kind of spoof film that brings true identity into the film and combines horror and horror is relatively new.

Murphy talked with Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill for a while, and left the studio with Carla Faith.

With "The Hangover" hitting the front, and with enough knowledge, Murphy is more at ease with Seth Rogen. Not surprisingly, with the ability of Twentieth Century Fox to publish this film, The possibility of losing money is still very small.

The two walked into the parking lot, Carla Fisla opened the door, turned to look at Murphy's side before getting in the car, and reminded, "Don't forget the party tomorrow."

Murphy made an OK gesture, "Gail and I will arrive on time."

Tomorrow night, James Murdoch, the new co-chairman and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, will host a grand reception party in the name of Twentieth Century Fox.