Superstar

On August 6th, an ordinary Friday, the hustle and bustle of the summer vacation was not weakened by the arrival of the holiday frenzy. On Friday only, four works had a box office that exceeded 5 million U.S. dollars. The prosperity of the summer holiday lasted vigorously, and such a grand occasion far exceeded people's expectations.

"Blair the Witch" was proud of the crowd with a Friday box office of 10 million U.S. dollars, while "Stealing the Sky" followed closely with 8.8 million U.S. dollars. The "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" was at a slight disadvantage and won eight hundred. Friday's data of 700,000 U.S. dollars ranked third, and the "runaway bride" surrendered seven million U.S. dollars, occupying fourth place.

The four works include two works that premiered this week. The fierce competition between "Stealing the Sky" and "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" has completely exceeded expectations. On the contrary, "Blair the Witch" actually achieved a counterattack. This student work relied on the spread of viral videos to achieve a miracle in North American movies.

This suddenly made the competition for this week’s weekend box office rankings present an unpredictable development curve. The four newly released works may not be able to win. The follow-up performance of last week’s box office champion "Running Bride" is worth looking forward to, and "Blair the Witch" Instead, it led the way on Friday, and the suspense increased sharply.

Interestingly, "Steel Giant" only won a box office of 2.3 million US dollars on Friday, which surprised everyone. In the case of word-of-mouth, this family carnival cartoon did not show the corresponding The box office pulling power of, even lost to horror movies like "Spirit Sixth Sense", this is really a situation that no one has expected.

After the competition ended on Friday, people's expectations for the weekend box office rankings rose instead of falling, especially the excellent performance of the "Supernatural Sixth Sense" theater scores, which injected a boost into the market, and a large number of audiences poured in. Cinemas have once again added a fire to the slightly declining North American summer vacation, completely detonating the hottest competitive landscape in the past month.

To everyone’s surprise, the “Sixth Sense of Supernatural” became more and more courageous in the war, with unanimous praise from film critics, and the title of “the most popular horror movie in film history” spread throughout the entire North American continent. The super high evaluation adds another fire.

The crew members appeared on major talk shows under the leadership of Hugo, and discussed many behind-the-scenes highlights about the film. The interaction between Hugo and Hailey always conveyed a message to everyone, "This is one A non-horrible **type horror movie." Fans who love horror movies can find the highlights that make adrenaline explode, and fans who don’t like horror movies can also enjoy this wonderful movie watching process.

The "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" handed over a box office development curve that all film companies dream of. The box office on Saturday was higher than that on Friday, and the box office on Sunday was higher than that on Saturday. The three-day box office curve on weekends that gradually climbed upward is only in the legend. It will only appear in China, showing the powerful power of publicity and word of mouth, and more and more audiences are pouring into the cinema.

Coupled with the solidarity of movies such as "Blair the Witch," "The Runaway Bride", "Stealing the Sky", "Mystery Man", "Steel Giant" and other movies, the summer season of August, which is gradually resurgence, bursts out like never before. energy of. The five major theaters in the United States took the lead in handing over the report on the number of audiences entering the theaters on Sunday afternoon. According to incomplete statistics, this week is the third week of May in the entire summer-"Star Wars Episode 1: Ghost The week of the premiere of "Threat". Such achievements made the major film companies smile.

The box office rankings of the first week of August, which is full of countless suspense, are also officially announced!

After winning a box office of US$8.7 million on Friday, the "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" ushered in a small gangster on Saturday and handed over a box office of 13 million US dollars. The outstanding increase has made everyone big. Shocked, and on Sunday, it rose again by a small margin, winning a data of early 14 million, and finally the box office for three days on the weekend was as high as 36 million US dollars.

With a single box office of $160 million, this work, which was only screened in two thousand two hundred theaters, exploded with unimaginable energy, surpassing the "ghost invasion" that broke the record not long ago in one fell swoop. Once again, the horror movie's premier box office history has been pushed to a higher level. Such a single box office has even caught up with the previous "L.A. Confidential" and "Trumen's World" level, and for a horror movie, even the use of incredible descriptions seems pale.

Such a scene once again awakened the situation of people welcoming "Trumen's World" in the midsummer of last year.

One can expect the appeal of the name "Hugo Lancaster" to the market. Regardless of the quality of the film, it has given high expectations for the premiere box office of the film, and it can truly be the premiere weekend of the film. After the data came out, everyone was still speechless in shock.

Following the comedy movie, Hugo once again proved his precise and keen vision for film selection. A "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" directly exploded out of 36 million in an atmosphere of unanimous applause from film critics and audiences. The US dollar box office data has not only become the third horror movie in film history with a premiere of more than 25 million US dollars, but also raised the box office size of the horror movie to 35 million in one fell swoop.

Shocked! Still shocked!

People have long been accustomed to Hugo's footsteps in making history, but horror movies? This is still too unbelievable. From romance movies to drama movies, from action movies to sci-fi movies, from comedy movies to horror movies... and even from independent movies to commercial movies, Hugo has shown uniqueness in almost every field. Accurate sense of the script, and dedicated one after another well-received and popular works.

Recall last year when people learned that Hugo "gave up" "Star Wars Episode 1: Phantom Threat" and chose "Spiritual Sixth Sense", there was an uproar across the United States, and even led to crusades by Star Wars fans. Everyone thinks that Hugo made the stupidest choice of his career-even stupid than he was when he appeared in "Hudson's Eagle", because a horror movie is likely to ruin Hugo's career at its peak. .

But now that the "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" is in theaters, people once again find themselves underestimating Hugo-even though people have kept raising the bar, Hugo not only injects horror movies with emotion that makes the soul tremble, but also makes horror. The subject matter of the type has risen to the height of "the separation of life and death", which deeply and delicately explores the human fear of life and death and the human fear of trust.

There is no doubt that this is another revolution in genre films since the horror films in the second half of the 1980s gradually reduced to plasma films. The "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" makes people deeply feel the fact that a good movie should never choose the subject matter, because the subject matter is only a medium for a truly outstanding work, and the ideas and cores conveyed are the real core.

Once upon a time, people thought Tom Cruise was a superstar, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a superstar, Harrison Ford was a superstar, Tom Hanks was a superstar... Once upon a time, people thought that Brad Pitt and George K. Rooney, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and others can challenge Hugo’s superstar status... But until now, people have understood that the term "superstar" is not available to anyone, even Catherine- Superstars such as Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Charlie Chaplin were once top figures who could call the wind and rain with their gestures. Now, in the face of Hugo's strong momentum, they all have to bow down to the wind.

It is no exaggeration to say that Hugo redefines the meaning and benchmark of the term "superstar". This is not a height that anyone can reach.

In the face of the extremely sturdy box office performance of the "Supernatural Sixth Sense", the outstanding performance of other works has become lackluster.

"Blair the Witch" turned over 24 million U.S. dollars in the box office this week. For a work with an investment of only 35,000 U.S. dollars, it is appropriate to use "miracles" to describe it, especially its The cumulative box office has reached 80 million US dollars, easily killing a large piece of work in the North American market. But in the face of the explosive performance of the "Sixth Sense of Spirituality", in the end, he could only finish runner-up for the second consecutive week.

Two horror movies occupy the first and second place in the North American weekend box office rankings. Coupled with the previous good performance of "ghost invasion", in the summer archives of commercial blockbusters, horror movies that have always been ignored have exploded into powerful Combat power, this is also the most beautiful scenery in the hot summer of 1999~www.readwn.com~The running bride" is the two of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere after the "Beautiful Girl in Wind and Moon". The collaboration again in 2015 was highly anticipated before the release. The premiere weekend delivered an outstanding result of 35 million U.S. dollars. However, the much lower than expected reputation caused the works to usher in an avalanche decline in the next week, 40%. After the decline, this week only won a box office of 21 million U.S. dollars, slipping directly to the third place.

"The game of stealing the sky" has attracted much attention, and Friday’s performance can only be said to be good, but under the well-known situation, the next two days were actually robbed of all the style by two horror movies, and the last weekend box office was actually only The US$15 million shocked everyone. Not only did they fail to show the strength of the favorites to win the championship, but even compared to their own, their results were not satisfactory. It can be said to be a big hit.

However, in front of Hugo, no performance can be said to be abnormal. After all, this is the only superstar in the United States at present!

The other two works that premiered this week are even more incomprehensible. "Mysterious Man" had a box office of 10 million on the weekend, while "Steel Giant" only won $6 million in the box office on the weekend... This is not normal. , It's too abnormal. In the first week of August, the North American movie box office rankings, under this weird but strong pattern, the dust settled!