Chapter 408: 88 Million!
"This is the most shocking movie of the year so far!"
When Bill came out of the premiere, he couldn't help but praise it when he faced reporters.
To this day, I can't believe I could be in a movie like this. ”
Edward Norton couldn't have been more excited at the premiere.
"Although I'm the heroine, when it comes to talking, I still don't understand something, but it's not the movie's problem, it's mine. I'll watch it again, ha......"
Charlize Theron was very happy, and even told the truth, yes, she did not understand too much that she hadn't seen it, you know, she didn't have many scenes, and she didn't know much about the plot of this movie.
All of this happened after the premiere of Inception, and there was so much talk about the film that more interesting things happened soon.
The North American box office generally depends on the performance of an early morning show, and the early morning show can roughly see the pre-publicity effect of the movie, and then it is necessary to look at the performance of the first day, and then the first week, that is, the two days of Saturday and Sunday.
But because of the reasons to take care of the Japanese side, the premiere of this movie was given on Saturday, who made Japan not a unified weekend now, so there was no early morning show on Saturday.
However, there is also a good trick, which is to hold the premiere in the morning and then release it on a large scale.
As a result, Inception can only be watched for the first week, that is, only a day and a half.
In fact, this arrangement is also related to the fact that Warner's recent performance in several blockbusters in the North American film market has been very sluggish, and the theater chain does not like to give them more schedules.
If there is one of the most successful films of the year, commercially speaking, it is "The Mummy", which was produced by Universal and has indeed grossed well around the world.
Although Warner's "The Matrix" was great before, but recently...... So be it.
But no one expected that this movie would win more than $30 million at the first-week box office in a relatively small period of release time and the film schedule was not particularly outstanding!
Here's the data.
In the first week, $34.5 million at the box office!
Ranked number one!
This box office result is very amazing, and the number one thing is even lucky, because there are no blockbusters released at this point in time.
That is, the previous "Eyes Wide Opening" was not released, and the remaining opponents are not worth mentioning at all.
But even so, the first is still the first.
The movie itself was very hot in the previous topic, and now it has won the first place, and, in terms of box office, it is much better than "Eyes Wide Opening", and there is some gossip.
The Tom Cruise couple didn't agree to star in this movie before, and there were some small disturbances at that time.
Later, there were rumors of competition between Yuki Kusano, a young director, and the posthumous work of a big director, of course, Warner came out with all kinds of operations, and they always said that there was nothing to do, nothing to do.
But who can believe it?
Now that the results are out, it has surpassed the posthumous work of the great director all of a sudden, can this topic not be hot?
The media reporters will never agree!
"Super directors will also miss?"
"Who is Yuki Kusano?"
Let's get to know the Japanese director from Asia, who has already won several international film awards. ”
"According to rumors, this Kusano director is also a person with quirks, which is not inferior to Kubrick!"
Coming and going, for a moment it was as if scavenging vultures were flying all over the United States, and they were constantly hyping up the story of the two directors.
In fact, Yuki Kusano had never met Kubrick at all, and only laid flowers at his grave, but at the moment, the gushing momentum of the American media makes people feel that the two of them are natural rivals.
It's really eye-catching.
And such an excellent box office performance, of course, quickly triggered a wave of real word-of-mouth.
It's 1999, and although many people are talking about the end of the world and millennium bugs or something, you can still see a lot of new things.
Rotten Tomatoes website,This is a website that was only started by a few students last year.,At the beginning, it was similar to a web page.,Now it's been more than a year.,It's a bit of a look.。
Moreover, it is very popular with young people.
James, a 'depressed' black strong man, of course, watched this movie, and it was clearly written on the previous webpage that all the mysteries were revealed on the day of the movie's release.
No matter, anyway, Lao Tzu just wants to see it, as for movie tickets or something, this thing is really not expensive in the United States, and besides, James also has depression-related subsidies, which is nothing at all.
That's it.
As a result, after reading it, James was so excited that he didn't say anything, and went straight home to post on the Internet, which is the Rotten Tomatoes website.
What did he say on the Internet?
"This movie is really Fak! It's so good-looking! It's wonderful! It's making my whole body too hard! You have to ask why Fak is so good-looking? This movie is good-looking, I'm not understanding Fak's! But I just think this movie is shit!"
The black community, their slang is like this, it's either shit or Falker, James is good, he didn't make the whole article Falk, it's already a good article for him.
So is this a positive or negative review?
There is a rating on Rotten Tomatoes.,Of course, you can see it at a glance.,It's a big praise.。
That is, high freshness.
James is just one of them, and his Fark words only represent the level of education of blacks, and nothing else, and besides, Americans actually like this, and many whites follow the blacks to learn this.
The most valuable part of black slang is black music, and many of those kinds of scripture chanting raps are also liked by white people, and many people join in.
In particular, the word shit originally meant that thing, and it didn't mean anything else, but because the blacks made it work, it came to mean 'good'.
This is something that has been passed down from the slave era, and there was nothing the Negro could do about it, and even their freedom itself was not fought for by themselves, as can be seen in the statue in Washington, D.C., that Lincoln was next to a kneeling Negro, and Lincoln held him up.
So, back then, they just spoke 'in reverse,' and the white people said good and they said bad, and so, shit became good.
Now, that evolution has changed, and James's article has sparked a lot of people to follow suit.
Everyone made sentences one after another, and it was very lively.
Moreover, soon there was a problem that even Yuki Kusano did not expect.
"Fack's! I don't understand either, but it's great!"
"Super Big Fake! How did this movie come about, what does that damn spinning top mean?"
"Why am I so confused? That Saito is a coward, just a stupid bitch! Why don't you go and kill the rival company? Why are you so cowardly?
"Yes, Fake, it's cool! How did that city turn upside down? What's going on? What's going on with that shootout? And Theron, this beauty, Fake! I admit it, I'm very much thinking about her!"
It's unsightly, but, many American viewers say they don't get it.
This situation was really unexpected by the overseer, but fortunately, the overseer did not know about it yet.
However, it is interesting that although many viewers in the United States say that they don't understand it, the vast majority of them say that the movie is great.
Indeed, those special shots, the folding of the city, the mirrors that appear out of thin air, and the shootouts, as well as the glamorous Theron full of combat power, make people have to applaud.
If you don't understand it, should you read it again?
Many people have already said this, and movie tickets are not expensive anyway.
It's so lively, especially the traffic on Rotten Tomatoes has increased, so is this site so quiet?
The Rotten Tomatoes website was actually created by three Asian students, and the movie is also full of Asian elements, how could they not seize the opportunity?
So, there was a 'Fake' conference on "Inception" on Rotten Tomatoes.
All of a sudden, it was really a crowd of demons dancing.
This is the place in the United States, and the Internet is full of all kinds of things.
And so, when the second week is over ...
"Inception" slashed $88.6 million!
Won the weekly champion of the North American box office charts!