"Ocean's Twelve beats The Hangover and tops the North American weekend box office charts!" ---Entertainment Weekly"

"The Hangover grossed $26.75 million over the weekend, ending its winning streak and retiring to second place!" --- "Rolling Stone"

"The Chinese film 'No Name' $18.05 million in its first weekend, landed third in the North American weekend box office charts!" --- Los Angeles Times

"Chen alone dominates the second and third place in the box office charts!" ---San Francisco Chronicle"

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At last week's North American Film Market, a total of 3 new films were released, namely "Ocean's Twelve", "Blade 3" and "The Man with No Name"!

Two of them are sequels, and the other is Chen Hao's science fiction film.

The media's box office estimates for these three films are relatively optimistic, especially "Ocean's Twelve".

It is a sequel to Ocean's Eleven three years ago, when the $85 million film won $180 million in North America and $450 million worldwide.

And "Ocean's Twelve" once again gathered the original cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and other movie stars, plus the sexy beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones.

invested $110 million to make this sequel!

It's just that the stars are worth the ticket price, and the box office of the first part is really bright, so the media is very optimistic about "Ocean's Twelve"!

"Blade 3" is the third part of the series, with a comic book fan base and fans of the first two games, and it is the only sci-fi horror film in the Christmas file, so the box office results are also optimistic.

The last is "The Man Without a Surname", although it is a Chinese film, it is from Chen Hao, and it is a science fiction film, and now Chen Hao's "The Hangover" is a box office hit, and the media is quite optimistic about its box office expectations.

Many media believe that the box office of "The Man Without a Name" should be able to surpass the "Hero" of the National Teacher, and as for whether it can hit the box office record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as a foreign language film in North America, it depends on its box office performance in the second week.

With Chen Hao's current name and popularity, the box office in the first week should not be bad, the key is that after the second week, "The Man Without a Name" can break the face blindness of Americans and the habit of not liking to read subtitles!

And when the box office came out last week, it was about the same as the media predicted!

North American Weekend Box Office Charts (December 10, 2004 – December 12, 2004):

No. 1, "Ocean's Twelve", released for 3 days, $40.88 million, Warner Bros., with a cumulative box office of $40.88 million, and 3,400 theaters released;

No. 2, "The Hangover", released for 19 days, $26.75 million, Measuring Ruler Pictures, with a cumulative box office of $150.82 million and 3,200 theaters;

No. 3, "The Man Without a Surname", released for 3 days, $18.05 million, Haotian Film and Television, with a cumulative box office of $18.05 million, and 2,100 theaters released;

No. 4, "Blade 3", released for 3 days, $16.13 million, New Line Pictures, with a cumulative box office of $16.13 million, and 3,025 theaters released;

No. 5, "National Treasure", released for 24 days, $9.98 million, Disney, with a cumulative box office of $124.07 million, and 3,086 theaters released;

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As expected, "Ocean's Twelve" defeated the two-time "The Hangover" with a fantastic superstar lineup and topped the North American weekend box office charts with a super high box office of $40.88 million!

It was the fourth-highest debut box office in North American film history in December, behind "The Lord of the Rings" and surpassing its first installment, Ocean's Eleven, with $38.1 million.

There is nothing new in the plot of "Ocean's Twelve", and the box office is largely due to its strong star cast.

Movie fans love to watch this kind of movie where all the stars are concentrated together, and watching such a movie is like a one-stop shopping for Hollywood's top stars.

"Ocean's Twelve" costs about $110 million, but not much is spent on these big-name stars.

Because it still adopts the dividend method like "Ocean's Eleven", the stars only get a very small salary at first, and then dividends from the profits.

Looking at such a good box office on the opening weekend, it is estimated that these stars have begun to look forward to it.

"Ocean's Eleven" grossed $183.4 million at the end of the year, and many Hollywood analysts are now predicting that "Ocean's Eleven" will continue the success of the first installment and that it will earn more than the first.

"The Hangover" got $26.75 million with an ultra-low drop of 18.4%, but unfortunately it could only rank second on the list, ending its streak of championships!

However, the ultra-low decline of "The Hangover" has made analysts more optimistic about its final box office, and now everyone thinks that "The Hangover" has no big problem breaking 200 million.

The question now is whether "The Hangover" has a chance to break the 20-year-old R-rated comedy box office record in North American film history held by "Beverly Hills"!

The cumulative box office of "The Hangover" broke 150 million US dollars, which is one step away from Chen Hao's North American box office record, and the 157 million of "District 9" is also one step away.

Next week, Chen Hao should usher in a new North American box office record!

"The Man Without a Surname", which ranks third on the list, is also from Chen Hao, and it is rare for one person to monopolize the second and third places in the box office list!

The $18.05 million in the first weekend of "The Man with No Name" directly set a new box office record in the United States for a Chinese-language film directed by Chen Hao, which was previously $9.76 million for "The Moon"!

At the same time, it also broke the opening weekend box office record of $17.8 million for a foreign language film in North America set by "Hero"!

And "The Man Without a Name" has already squeezed into the top ten of the North American foreign language film box office list just for 3 days in the first weekend!

Second only to France's "A Caged Fool" with $20.42 million, it ranks 9th on the list!

The only films on the list that exceed $50 million are "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Life is Beautiful" and "Heroes", which are the goals of "The Man Without a Name".

In fourth place, "Angel Amelie" from France is only $33.22 million, and maybe "The Man Without a Name" will be able to surpass this box office in the second week!

"The Man Without a Name" can finally rank first on the list, and the next thing depends on the box office performance of the film in the next week!

Another premiere highlight was Blade 3, but the vampire-hunting warrior seemed a bit disappointed this time, grossing just $16.13 million over the three days of the weekend.

It didn't make much money in five days when it premiered on Wednesday, at $24.6 million.

Originally, before its release, many people predicted that it would be at least the same as the $35 million debut box office of "Blade 2", but I didn't expect it to be a little less.

The performance of "Blade 3" is undoubtedly disappointing, and now only a spokesperson for New Line Pictures believes that as the only sci-fi horror film in the Christmas file, the film has hope at the box office.

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"The Hangover" failed to achieve three consecutive weekend box office titles, which made Chen Hao a little disappointed, but the box office performance of "The Man with No Name" gave Chen Hao a big surprise.

Then the surprise was far from over, and soon Chen Hao received another piece of good news!