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After the release of "500 Days with Shamo", the word-of-mouth became popular across the board, even surpassing the word-of-mouth of "The Hangover" and "Flying House Travel" not long ago, and it can be said that this independent film is unique in the critics' circle. In the audience rating, the freshness of the Rotten Tomatoes website actually reached 94%, overwhelming praise, and IMDB's score actually came to 8.6 points for a while, squeezing into the 84th place in the TOP, far exceeding the previous "hangover" 130 results, which is really amazing. But comparatively speaking, "500 Days with Shamo" will hardly make a difference at the box office.

Anyone who is a little sensitive to numbers knows that in order for a movie to achieve a good box office, the first condition is that the theater in which it is released, or the number of screens that are screened must be sufficient. Simple arithmetic problems, a movie is shown in a thousand movie theaters, and a movie is shown in a hundred movie theaters, even if the former's reputation is poor and the number of viewers is small, this base is different, and the former is destined to create good results at the box office. In addition, generally speaking, the number of movie theaters is gradually decreasing as the number of movie theaters increases, unless a small number of movies with good reputation will increase the number of movie theaters.

Compared with Lee Joon-yi's first two movies, this truth is clear at a glance. The first week of "Twilight" reached 3,419 theaters, which generated an astonishing $92 million at the box office in the first week, and then because of the film's poor reputation, the box office shrank very quickly, and finally ended with a North American box office of $211 million, while the first week of "The Hangover" had 3,260 movie theaters, which was much less than "Twilight" - "Twilight" was only profitable because of the shift of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and finally achieved a box office of $45 million, although it could not be matched"Twilight", but it still fell through the eyes of countless people, and then because of its excellent reputation, "Hangover" was expanded and continued to create miracles at the box office. Until now, "The Hangover" has been released for five weeks, and it still ranks fifth on the North American box office charts.

Compared with the figures of "Twilight" and "Hangover", which casually went to 3,000 movie theaters, "500 Days with Shamo" was only piloted in 27 movie theaters, and this gap is really speechless. Therefore, if a movie shown in 27 cinemas wants to create a box office result of more than 10 million, dream of it. Twenty-seven, is really a bleak number, just a fraction of the "twilight" and "hangover" premiere movie theaters, and it is no wonder that Lee Joon-yi and others have no burden at all on the box office.

Looking at the competitors of "500 Days with Shamo", it is even more understandable that Lee Joon-yi and others are relaxed about the box office.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", after the withdrawal of last year's Christmas schedule, is to occupy a good position in Warner Bros. this year's summer schedule, it premiered on the same day as "500 Days with Summer"; after the previous two series have achieved brilliant results, "Ice Age 3" has made a comeback, and it is currently in theaters for two weeks, and the box office performance is very good, plus "Transformers 2", which has been released for three weeks, is also a strong contender for the top spot at the year-end box office. It can be said that these three major battles are enough to make the box office rankings fiercely competitive.

In addition, films that are popular at both word-of-mouth and box office, including "The Hangover", "Flying House Travel", and "Fake Marriage", are still in the top ten box office rankings, and the competition is very fierce.

As a result, the summer competition in the North American box office rankings has officially entered a white-hot stage, and the small freshness of "Five Hundred Days with Shamo" is not worth mentioning at all, although the word-of-mouth is almost the sky, but the box office is almost negligible. Therefore, everyone does not have much expectation for the box office of this movie.

In fact, after the release on July 17, there was no need to say anything about the box office on the first day, and the cumulative results of the 27 theaters could not be seen anywhere, and the cumulative box office for three days over the weekend was $1.01 million.

After comparing the box office of "Twilight" and "The Hangover" in the first week, you can see how miserable the "one and one thousand dollars" is. Look at "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" released on the same day, 4,325 theaters - this number is nearly 1,000 more theaters than the original "twilight", the first box office is nearly 60 million US dollars, and the box office in the first week is 160 million US dollars, which is staggering.

It stands to reason that the box office results of the first week of this million and 100,000 US dollars are really pitiful, and Li Zhunyi and others should be in a bad mood, but on the contrary, Mark Webb, Lee Zhunyi, Blake Lively and others held a celebration banquet, which made people who didn't know the truth wonder: Are they crazy because the box office results are too bleak?

But in fact, not only the crew themselves, but also Fox Searchlight, and all the media were shocked by this first-week box office result. What? $1010,000 is still a big surprise, isn't it too bad? On the contrary, everyone is high-fived and celebrated, and this result also confirms that there is a reason why the media praised "500 days with Shamo".

A closer look shows that "500 Days with Sammo" was shown in 27 movie theaters and achieved a box office of $1.01 million, which means that the average box office of a single theater reached $37,407. Also compare this week's box office champion "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which grossed $18,376 per store, so the comparison shows even more that "500 Days with Sammo" is a rare box office, and her single box office performance is more than twice that of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". With such an achievement, how to keep the media from excited, how to make the crew not excited, of course, the celebration banquet is going to be opened.

As a result, this week's North American box office charts showed such a result, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Ice Age 3" and "Transformers" were in the top three, and "Five Hundred Days with Shamo" was only in the eleventh place, not even in the top ten, but this movie has become a topic that can be compared with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which is really a very strange sight.

It is worth mentioning that this week's "hangover" actually advanced one place on the box office charts, from sixth last week to fifth place, and collected a total of $8.5 million this weekend, ranking eighteenth in the "Earnings of the Seventh Weekend after the Opening of Film History", which is shockingly strong. And "Flying House Travel" is only ranked eighth, losing to "The Hangover" again, and Pixar's ambition this time is indeed a "hangover".

This week's "500 Days with Shamo" is reminiscent of "Slumdog Millionaire" at the end of last year, a film that was once released by no manufacturer in North America and almost released directly to DVD, and it was precisely because of the vision of Fox searchlight that it was allowed to play smoothly, and finally created hundreds of millions of box office and won a big win at the Oscars. Of course, it doesn't mean that the future trajectory of "500 Days with Sammo" will be the same - at least there are still differences in subject matter, just that the film has been a huge success in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.

At this point, no one will question Lee Joon-yi's decision at the beginning: after "Twilight" became popular, why did he take over the two movies "The Hangover" and "Five Hundred Days with Sammo", everyone seems to have forgotten the original disdainful attitude, and they have also forgotten the ignorance of Lee Joon-yi on "Oscar Night", and gave all the words of praise to Lee Joon-yi. This is the fact of the entertainment industry, although there are many people who are popular, even if there are many non-positive, as long as there are achievements and good works, it is king.

Although "500 Days with Shamo" is an independently produced film, and the cost is only 7.5 million, as long as the person who makes the movie, he still hopes to recover the cost: Fox Searchlight will buy the distribution rights of this less than a movie, and of course it is not bought for a loss. Therefore, even if everyone doesn't care about the box office, they hope that the cumulative box office can recover the cost in the end. However, at present, it seems that the first week's result of 1.01 million is still far away, so it is necessary to expand the theater line.

In the second week, the number of theaters in "500 Days with Sammo" increased to 85, and the box office was $2 million in three days over the weekend and $3.95 million in two weeks. This week, he is still in 11th place.

As for the battle for the top spot at the North American box office, the new "Guinea Pig Attack Team" this week defeated "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to occupy the championship. "Flying House Travel" was even more tragic, and it fell directly to the twelfth position, not only losing to "The Hangover", but also losing to "Five Hundred Days with Shamo", which really made Pixar go out directly.

According to this trend, with the increase in theaters, it is not a problem for "500 Days with Shamo" to recover its costs, and it is even possible to make a profit, after all, the reputation of the movie has been high, and the number of theaters willing to release has been increasing, and more and more audiences will enter the cinema to appreciate the charm of this realistic fairy tale.

The trend of most movies is that the theater chain is gradually declining, and the box office is slowly declining, and finally fades out of the list. However, independent films such as "500 Days with Shamo" that have gained a good reputation are on the contrary, they will gradually increase the number of theaters with the continuous circulation of word of mouth, and more and more audiences will enter the cinema, and the box office increase curve will continue to rise. However, no one knows where the upward curve of the box office of "500 Days with Shamo" will stop in the end, and no one can predict it, so it can only be walked for a week and watched for a week.

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