The trend of the media is not only affecting a few newspapers, but also the entertainment news of public television networks, including NBC, ABC and CBS, all of which have reported on the media stomping on "Pearl Harbor" and praising "Harry Potter".

Such a peculiar spectacle that even the Fire Lion executives dare not imagine. On the Disney side, the chickens and dogs that had been making trouble for a long time jumped up.

The one-sided evaluation of the media, coupled with the fermentation of the word-of-mouth effect, finally affected the box office trend of both sides in a short period of time.

On Sunday's box office results on the third day, everyone was stunned.

"Pearl Harbor" plummeted, closing just over $10 million that day. And "Harry Potter" has risen wildly, and in the not-so-good time of Sunday, because everyone has to go to work tomorrow, he has a crazy score of $45.48 million.

After three days, the box office results of the first weekend and three days - "Pearl Harbor" are 43.69 million US dollars, which is not bad just looking at this number, but if you look at the film's investment of 140 million US dollars and the publicity and distribution cost of 100 million US dollars, the whole person is suddenly not good.

Then let's look at "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the result of the three days of the first weekend combined is - 99.86 million US dollars!

And this also set a new record – the highest opening weekend in North America to date!

Although this does not mean that "Harry Potter" is better than "Titanic" or "Jurassic Park", which is the runner-up at the global box office. However, the hot first-week box office results can still reflect the popularity of the film to a certain extent, as well as the future trend.

And back to the showdown between "Harry Potter" and "Pearl Harbor", whether it is the overwhelming box office advantage of "Harry Potter" or the sharp decline in the box office curve of "Pearl Harbor", "Pearl Harbor" is in a very bad situation.

The box office results of the next few weeks also clearly illustrate this.

In the second week, "Pearl Harbor" was $19.72 million, while "Harry Potter" was $67.48 million.

In just two weeks, "Pearl Harbor" fell below the warning line of 20 million, while "Harry Potter" still stubbornly remained close to the box office line of $70 million.

In the third week, "Pearl Harbor" even fell directly out of the box office red line of 10 million, and only received $9.91 million. And "Harry Potter" continues to maintain at $28.64 million.

The result is already very clear, "Harry Potter" beats "Pearl Harbor" completely!

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"Actually, if Michael Eisner hadn't had to snipe us with Pearl Harbor, they wouldn't have been so bad. Sid said lightly as he stirred the Ceylon black tea in the cup.

"Who would have thought that the squeezing effect would be so obvious?" said Shirley Sandberg, who was on the other side, as she picked up her coffee and laughed.

"Harry Potter" was released on the same day as "Pearl Harbor," something that would never have happened in modern Hollywood. And "Pearl Harbor", which has a larger investment and more crazy publicity, will not get too bad results even as long as it maintains the level of ordinary commercial films.

Even if you are scolded by film critics, what can you do?

People who make commercial films, everyone doesn't take film critics seriously, right.

But "Pearl Harbor" is miserable, and ordinary audiences don't like it and find it boring.

On the other hand, "Harry Potter" in the same schedule received rave reviews, everyone went to the cinema, and in the end, more and more audiences were brought to the side of "Harry Potter". The two films, which were supposed to have no conflict, had a serious squeezing effect.

As the box office of "Harry Potter" soared, "Pearl Harbor" was squeezed for a long time.

In fact, the performance and success of the film reflect the strength and essence of a director. Sid said lightly, "Although the explosions are still those explosions, but Exploding Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer both mistake war for disaster and love triangle for love." ”

"The whole film, except for those gorgeous empty shelves, is nothing. This only reflects the merchant nature of Blast and Jerry Bruckheimer's philistines, and the successive successes that have made them arrogant think that they have become an invincible god. ”

"It's stupid to want to compare it with "Titanic" for such a thing. They can't even compare to "The Terminator" and "True Lies". ”

"It's not comparable. Shirley Sandberg corrected with a smile, "It's to surpass "Titanic", Disney's slogan was to 'defeat "Titanic" and create a new box office miracle'." ”

"Just Blast and Jerry Bruckheimer?" Sid smiled disdainfully, "It's like fighting a few fights in the middleweight division and trying to challenge the king Ali is self-defeating." ”

At this point in time, no one will doubt Sid's assessment anymore, or rather, Sid is just saying what everyone thinks.

Because the total cost of "Pearl Harbor" was $240 million, only $73.32 million was recovered in three weeks, which is not even as good as the first week of "Harry Potter".

And "Harry Potter" not only broke 100 million at the North American box office in two weeks, but also reached $195 million at the box office in three weeks, approaching the 200 million mark infinitely.

At this moment, all insiders know that next, "Pearl Harbor", which has been driven off the red line of tens of millions of box office in a week, will be questionable whether the North American box office can recover $100 million.

As for the previous "rhetoric" of punching "Harry Potter" and kicking "Titanic", they have all become stupid words that make people laugh.

But that's just the surface, as everyone in Hollywood knows that the film industry is a high-stakes industry, and every big-budget film failure is bound to be accompanied by a violent corporate upheaval.

After the box office data for the third week of "Pearl Harbor" was put on Michael Eisner's desk, Disney production chairman Peter Schneider was immediately summoned into his office by Michael Eisner.

After a suffocatingly long conversation, Peter Schneider announced that he would resign because of the massive failure of "Pearl Harbor."

Although the whole of Hollywood knows that no Disney film can be without the imprint of its CEO Michael Eisner. But this time, in order to keep his position, Michael Eisner's behavior of letting his subordinates carry the black cauldron still caused everyone to be cold.

Even within Disney, there has been renewed opposition to the godfather-level leader, and opposition forces such as Roy Disney have re-emerged, wanting to overthrow Michael Eisner's position and restore the glory of the Disney family.