Chapter 2117： Strong counterattack

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In the second week of May 2009, "Star Trek" was released in 3,800 theaters and made $61 million at the weekend box office with $16,000 in a single venue; "The Hangover" was released in three Simultaneous screening in 1,400 theaters, with a figure of 17,000 US dollars for a single venue, it broke the box office of 58 million US dollars!

When these two sets of data came out, almost everyone was dumbfounded.

The champion is "Star Trek" as predicted, the runner-up is "The Hangover" as predicted, and the third place is last week's champion work "Wolverine" - the box office plummeted 70% to only 26 million US dollars The box office was a fiasco!

Although the top three in the North American box office list are exactly the same as the predictions of professionals, the point is that the difference in the box office numbers is so great that it is almost impossible to say anything that would make people stunned.

"Star Trek"'s $61 million premiere set a new high for its own series, while also breaking a series of records. It also won a good reputation in the media, with an overall media score of 84, Rotten Tomatoes The freshness of the website is also as high as 95%, which can definitely be called a big hit.

However, it was the runner-up work "Hangover" that really won the championship. This comedy work, which only invested 35 million yuan, has a super high peak of 58 million yuan in its premiere, making everyone stunned. , easily breaking the 2001 "American Pie 2" record for the premiere of a $45 million comedy film. In terms of word of mouth, the media's comprehensive score is 73, and the Rotten Tomatoes freshness is 78 points, still performing well. .

Although "Hangover" failed to overthrow "Star Trek" and become the champion of the North American weekend box office chart, this achievement still made the entire North American market exclaim again and again. The incredibleness of Eleven Studio is indeed uncontrollable. own exclamation.

In the following week, "Angels and Demons" with an investment of 150 million US dollars was undoubtedly the absolute focus. - Howard teamed up with Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor to create it. At the beginning, it suffered heavy losses during the writers' strike, and it has gone through all kinds of difficulties and is now officially released. It is definitely a well-deserved focus.

In the face of the impact of "Angels and Demons", "Star Trek" suffered a 43% drop, and "Wolverine" dropped by 45% again. In this comparison, "Su Drunk.” The 25 percent drop is staggering. While the word-of-mouth of "Star Trek" is better than that of "The Hangover", it has created a larger decline. This can also be seen that the mass base of comedy movies is still broader, and the good word-of-mouth of "The Hangover" is in The generational power of the entire huge market base is obviously better.

As a result, "The Hangover" earned $44 million at the box office the following week, surpassing "Star Trek"'s $35 million and "Angels and Demons"' $43 million, reaching the top in May The champion of the North American box office chart in the third week, and the almost impossible counter-attack task has been successfully completed.

Eleven Studios once again achieved a victory in the summer season. This time, it withstood the suppression in the first week of Paramount's "Star Trek" and overturned the impact of the second week of Sony Columbia Pictures' "Angels and Demons". The box office performance of "Drunken" instantly became a dazzling dark horse in 2009.

The cumulative box office of "The Hangover" has reached 125 million US dollars. This achievement is really impressive, and compared to its 35 million investment, this achievement is even more impressive. Let the entire North American film market be envious.

"The Hangover" was a big hit at the box office, and it made the top-scoring recommendations of professional magazines such as "Variety", "Entertainment Weekly", "Hollywood Reporter", and "Movie Review" sparkling. It has become a golden signboard that is as trustworthy as "Evan-Bell"!

In the fourth week of May, in the face of Ben Stiller and Amy Adams' "Wonderful Museum - Night 2" and Christian Bale's "Terminator 2018", it is naturally difficult for "Hangover" to continue to win the championship. the throne, but an 18 percent drop still earned it $36 million at the weekend box office, compared to the $54 million for the champion "Museum Wonder-Night 2" and the $4 million for the runner-up "Terminator 2018". Twenty million is no less.

What is even more rare is that the 18% drop is completely beyond the general laws of the film market, which can be called a social phenomenon, which also makes the "hangover" officially a special phenomenon! Even if "The Hangover" is included in the 2009 full-year movie map, there is no doubt that it will be the best-performing box office dark horse of the year as a comedy.

After the release of "The Hangover", it completed the counter-attack of the sketch comedy with a terrifying situation, creating a height that was not achieved by the original "Big One Night", "Super Bad", "Pineapple Express" and other masterpieces, and broke through at the box office. After 100 million, it quickly approached the threshold of 200 million. Thanks to the unanimous good word of mouth, the box office drop of "The Hangover" has always been controlled below 30%, and even thought that the audience's voice was too high, Eleven Studio increased the screening venues for two consecutive weeks, This also makes this shiny and black box office dark horse rush towards the 200 million box office with lightning speed.

In the eyes of everyone's astonishment, in the fourth week of June, the box office of "The Hangover" officially exceeded the 200 million threshold, and then it did not slow down its pace of reducing the box office, and the cumulative box office reached 240 million in the second week of July. Wan became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy in movie history, replacing the previous record holder "Beverly Hills Super Detective" for 25 years. After the release time has reached six weeks, it still attracts this large number of audiences, and it still stays at the fifth place in the box office rankings. .

Twenty-five years of records are now gone, who would have thought that Eleven Studio's first attempt at a comedy film would be so defiant?

This is definitely an invisible blow to Universal Pictures, which started with comedy movies. Of course, they can only comfort themselves: this is just a flash of inspiration at the box office. But in fact, no one would think that Eleven Studio's box office success that lasted for nearly seven years was a "snapshot", including Universal Pictures itself, and it was difficult to convince themselves.

However, this is not the final destination of "The Hangover". Its record-setting pace has not stopped. The rave reviews have kept the box office results rising, even in "Transformers 2, "Harry Po Among the formidable enemies such as "Special and the Half-Blood Prince", there has always been an astonishing drop in numbers.

In the end, "The Hangover" with an investment of 35 million US dollars passed the 300 million door at the North American box office, and fell behind at the 310 million position. This nearly ten times the box office income makes people in addition to sigh. Besides, nothing else. Eleven Studio's boutique line of focusing on quality and not weight has continued in 2009, and the "Hangover" is a good start, and it has announced to everyone that Eleven Studio's ranking among the "Big Seven" is not a vain name. .

In the fourth week of May, after the "Wonderful Museum - Night 2" won the championship, in the fifth week of May, Eleven Studio's annual Pixar time officially came, and "Flying House" was officially released on May 29 In the face of the third joint work between Eleven Studio and Pixar, no one from the major Hollywood studios dared to challenge its authoritative position. This week, only one movie, "Flying House", was released. This is the current Eleventh movie. The power of the studio.

After experiencing the miracles of "Ratatouille" and "Robot Wall-E" successively, "Flying House Travels" became one of the most watched works by major media in the summer when it was promoted as early as the beginning of the year.

In the case that Evan Bell did not participate in the live-action film, "Flying House", "Transformers 2," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" have become the three recognized giants this summer, which shows that Now Pixar's momentum.

Although it is said that people like to use "things but three" to judge one thing, that is to say, any good or bad thing must be based on the number of three, and "Flying House Travels" is Eleven Studio and The third work of Pixar's cooperation, it is ugly to say that if there is a problem, now is the time; but this time, there is no media mentioning this matter, the combination of Eleven Studio and Pixar has been absolutely confirmed~ www.novelhall.com~ The good reputation accumulated by Pixar in the past ten years has a profound foundation, and the 100% success rate after the rapid rise of Eleven Studio is even more speechless. Why should such a strong alliance be necessary? Question again and again? What's more, "Ratatouille" and "Robot Wall-E" have already slapped many people in the face, and no one wants to be slapped again.

Faced with the opening scores of "Ratatouille" 70 million and "Robot Wall-E" 87 million, professionals' predictions for the premiere of "Flying House" generally fall between 85 million and 80 million yuan. Between 87 million people, people are still a little uncertain about whether "Flying House" can break the premiere record of "Robot Wall-E". However, some people think that the overall theme of "Flying House Travel Notes" is more popular than the previous two, and it is more suitable for the general market. It is not without a chance to impact the premiere of "Shrek 2 108 million." .

Faced with these questions one after another, "Flying House Travels" revealed the mystery on May 29th. The film was released in 3,800 theaters across the United States, which created a premiere scale of Eleven Studios. New record - It can be seen from this that the distribution area of the eleventh is gradually expanding, and finally "Flying House" was released on the third day, and the opening weekend grabbed a box office of 95 million US dollars in the North American market, with a very proud. At the same time as it broke a series of records, it also announced to everyone: The third collaboration between Eleven Studio and Pixar, are you ready?

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