On the North American weekly box office list released the next day, the first place was Paramount's movie, which took $14.4 million at the box office.

This February was originally the off-season in the off-season, and it was already very good to be able to 14.4 million, and the third place fell directly to 6.7 million US dollars, which is not surprising.

However, there was an outlier in the leaderboard, which was a big surprise.

5th place: "Saw Horror"

Distribution Company: United Arts Film Company.

Screening scale: 600 screens.

Weekly box office (Sunday single-day box office): 3.3 million.

What is this stuff?!

Everyone took the data report and was immediately stunned.

Looking at the name, "Chainsaw" is supposed to be a horror movie, but it was only released yesterday, that is, on Sunday night, 600 screens is already good for a horror movie, but how did it suddenly have a box office of 3.3 million US dollars!?

This is not scientific!

According to the usual practice, a horror film has an attendance rate of 30%-50% at most, and if it can reach a box office of 3.3 million on 600 screens in two showtimes, it will be at least 80% attendance!

What kind of horror movie is this, and it has so much box office?

Industry insiders hurriedly found the detailed information of "Chainsaw" to watch.

Oh, it turned out that it was the work of Jun, the genius screenwriter and owner of the Kirin Group, and then this genius actually appointed a little-known director and producer of Xiangjiang to jointly create this film.

Thankfully, they chose all American actors, which proves why the box office is so high.

But if you look closely at these actors, they are not famous roles at all, for example, the jigsaw actor is an actor who has been playing tricks in Hollywood for thirteen years, but at most he can only play in supporting roles, and most of his previous appearances are comedies, God knows how he was discovered to have a talent for making horror movies.

Because they couldn't figure it out, many film critics and people in the industry went to buy a movie ticket that morning and went to see "Chainsaw".

To their surprise, in the morning, the attendance rate of these movie theaters is not low, and it seems that there are at least about 30% of the attendance.

You know, even if it is a box office hit, there will not be too many people on Monday morning, and the morning show is basically just to keep the cost, and the attendance rate of 30% is definitely profitable.

After watching a movie, even the people who specifically went to find fault finally walked out with a heartbeat and a heartbeat.

"Chainsaw" is worthy of the word "horror", it looks terrifying, endless psychological pressure and horror scenes, as well as the weird atmosphere that is superimposed on top of each other, and outsiders will be driven crazy, let alone the characters in the play.

Film critics and industry insiders can still hold back and slowly reminisce, but those ordinary audiences, when they left the movie theater, they were excited and scared to discuss, and the atmosphere was very lively.

They could all hear it, and the ordinary audience members were threatening to let their friends come and watch this amazing unconventional horror film when they returned.

"Saw Horror" is probably going to explode at the box office again!

Seeing the reaction of ordinary audiences, film critics and industry insiders have speculated like this.

The genre of horror movies is actually a relatively niche group, and generally speaking, people who like it are less than one-tenth of the movie-watching crowd.

But these people are different from ordinary audiences, they like it, they like it, and they are very diehard.

As long as it is a good horror movie, it will inevitably trigger their collective viewing, and pass it on one by one for everyone to watch.

So if you look at the box office charts in North America, whether it was before, now or in the future, horror movies will inevitably occupy a large proportion of those movies that are small and big.

To be precise, horror movies don't care about which star actor they care about, but the entire storyline and atmosphere, as long as you are qualified in this aspect, then you can wait to count the money.

There is no doubt that in the eyes of experts now, "Saw Horror" is such a typical example.

And Monday's single-day box office also proved their point of view correct.

3.58 million!

Jumped to the top of the North American Monday box office!

On average, the box office of each venue has reached almost $6,000!

Good guys, that's a really great achievement!

In the past five years, there has never been a horror film that has reached such a box office!

I didn't say it, expand the release!

The people in the United Arts Film Distribution Department immediately attacked everywhere without being urged by others, and began to desperately increase the number of screens screened in second- and third-tier cities.

By Wednesday, Saw had 1,030 screens, making it the number one screen owner of all time.

This is related to the fact that it is now an off-season, and some screens can be selected for "Chainsaw", but it is definitely related to the word-of-mouth and box office of "Chainsaw".

The bosses of the theater chain can eat anything, but they just won't suffer, and there are movies that can make money, and they will definitely follow.

As a result, the box office of "Chainsaw" rose day by day.

Tuesday was 4.01 million, Wednesday was 5.05 million, Thursday was 5.22 million, Friday was 6.12 million, Saturday suddenly soared to 10.22 million, and Sunday it slipped to 7.33 million.

In the second week of release, 40.52 million, and the total box office was as high as 43.82 million US dollars!

There is no doubt that such a high result has made "Chainsaw" stand at the top of the North American box office charts, and it has also become the holder of the highest weekend box office this year, and also set a record for the highest single-week box office in February since North American film history.

With such good results, United Arts Film Company announced that it will actively distribute the film to all over the world, so that horror movie fans all over the world can enjoy this "masterful film".

Looking at the high-spirited United Arts Film Company, the remaining six giants of Hollywood are full of feelings.

They never expected that a low-budget horror movie would cause such a big sensation, directly making it the highest-grossing horror movie in history, not to mention, it also suddenly added a money-making category to Lianyi Film Company, and it is also a very useful series of movies.

Think about it, the production and publicity cost of "Chainsaw" is only a mere $3 million.

Even if they make a sequel to "Electric Drill Horror" every other year, as long as the plot is not too collapsed, they can earn two or thirty million net profits at the global box office alone, and then the videotapes and other peripheral products are added together, and it is not impossible to make 100 million US dollars!

At present, Hollywood film companies, even if they are the seven giants, how much net profit does they make in movies a year? 100 million, 200 million? At best, it is only 200 million or 300 million!

After all, when making movies, you can't say that every drama makes money, and there are profits and losses, this is the norm.

For example, after Yin Jun bought Disney and United Arts Film Company, the movies they produced also lost money, but none of Yin Jun's own movies lost money, which greatly supported the profitability of the film company and gave it great forward momentum.

Originally, the remaining six movie giants were still thinking about sniping the Kirin Group on this year's Cameron and Schwarzenegger movies, but they didn't expect that an unsightly horror film had already disrupted their plans and made them a little helpless.

As the director of "Electric Drill Horror" and the soul of "Electric Drill Horror", creating such an earth-shattering movie, Yu Yunkang naturally gained a lot of media attention.

Yu Yunkang has always disliked the media, so he pushed the task of being interviewed to producer Chen Xunqi.

Chen Xunqi's personality is very jumpy and extroverted, and when he deals with the media, he blows it out of the blue, so that American reporters who have a lot of flowers and intestines will be confused, and when they return to the office, they can't find anything useful.

Of course, in this way, Chen Xunqi is also famous as a producer, in the eyes of Americans, the producer is equal to the producer, and the producer's sequence is usually higher than the director's, so they believe that Chen Xunqi also plays a great role in controlling the crew.

So not only did someone come to dig up Yu Yunkang, but there were also people who contacted Chen Xunqi.

Back at the rented hotel, Chen Xunqi picked up the braised vegetables and beer he bought from Chinatown and asked Yu Yunkang to drink and chat.

During the filming some time ago, they passed the time every day when they were free, because they were all from Xiangjiang and knew the movie very well, and they discussed the plot while eating, which is also one of the reasons for the outstanding performance ability of "Electric Drill Horror".

In this way, the two people who were not familiar with each other gradually became very good friends, so they didn't have the rustiness they used to talk about.

"Lao Yu, what do you think about next?" After eating and drinking for a while, Chen Xunqi peeled peanuts and asked casually, "Do you want to stay in Hollywood or go back to Xiangjiang?"

"What about you?" asked Yu Yunkang without answering.

"I, if Junshao lets us continue to make new films, then I will stay in Hollywood, otherwise, I still want to go back to Xiangjiang. Chen Xunqi said, "Although the United States is good, it is not our home after all." ”

"What if I'm going to make a horror movie?" Yu Yunkang asked him.

"Please, why are you addicted to making horror movies?" Chen Xunqi said helplessly, "You don't know how hard we worked to shoot this movie, if I don't rest for a while, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out...... If you keep making horror movies, it's not good for you. ”

"Look at this script. Yu Yunkang smiled slightly, and pulled out a stack of documents from the bag next to him.

"Is it Junshao?!"

Chen Xunqi took it in surprise and looked at the cover, which had a line of Chinese characters written on it.

X-Files.

"Huh, it's that kind of suspense movie?...... Oh, the TV series!?"

Chen Xunqi changed his tone while watching, but after a while, he slowly stopped talking, but immersed himself in the atmosphere of the script.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Xunqi raised his head, with excitement on his face, "How will this TV series be filmed?

"What, you're not going back to Xiangjiang?" Yu Yun said with a smile.

"What are you going back for? It's a waste if you don't shoot such a TV series!" Chen Xunqi said, "It's rare to have this opportunity to sharpen myself, how can I not participate? How can I let you suffer alone?"

"Hahaha......"

Yu Yunkang laughed and picked up the beer can, "Come on, cheers!" Lao Chen, it's better to work with you to make me feel at ease!"

"That's, the two of us are golden partners!" Chen Xunqi also touched him with a beer can, "By the way, are the actors confirmed?"

"The actor Junshao introduced a person who had just come from England called Pierce Brosnan, whom I haven't seen yet. ”

"Well, let's take a look in two days, and if it's okay, it's him! The sooner we start work, the better! It's too sad to have a boring day. ”

"Good!"

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