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Since its inception in 1954, Godzilla has been arguably the most recognizable monster in the world. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As Godzilla's first big movie after entering Hollywood, it has the most popular CG special effects in recent years as a gimmick, even if you don't talk about Godzilla fans all over the world, just relying on the popularity of this monster is enough to attract a large number of viewers to automatically enter the cinema.

Therefore, Sony Pictures has high hopes for "Godzilla", not only extending an invitation to Roland Emmerich with an unprecedented salary of $20 million plus 15% of the North American box office, but also ambitiously formulating a trilogy plan from the beginning, and the production budget of the first part of the film has been increased from the initial $120 million all the way to 150 million. Stimulated by the global box office explosion of "Titanic", Sony Pictures, which confidently wants to hit the global box office of $1 billion, has raised the film's publicity budget to $70 million.

Intensive TV trailer bombardment and overwhelming poster promotion have made "Godzilla" the most watched super blockbuster in this summer file from the beginning, and the audience's expectations have far exceeded that of summer blockbusters such as "Batman and Robin" and "007: Casino Royale".

Under the profligate marketing and publicity offensive of Sony Pictures, almost no one in Hollywood doubts that "Godzilla" will become the most box office appeal film in the summer file, in order to avoid the edge of "Godzilla", the week after June 6 can be said to be completely monopolized by "Godzilla". Even those small film companies who like to follow the summer blockbusters to grab food and eat alone did not dare to choose to release this week. The opening scale of more than 3,300 screens also equaled the opening screen record set by "The Mummy 2" last year.

In the context of "Titanic" has just set an unprecedented box office record, the entire film industry is not sure for a while whether Hollywood will soon have another box office monster, so except for Sony Pictures, most Hollywood studios are concerned about the box office data of "Godzilla". Even if "Godzilla" only shows half of the box office potential of "Titanic", in the case of one or the other, the other films that follow will also be affected to varying degrees.

"Godzilla" also seems to have lived up to expectations, grossing $6.25 million at midnight on the opening day, and "Jurassic Park", which broke the box office record at midnight a few years ago, was only $4.59 million at the time.

However, it may also correspond to the saying that the higher you stand, the worse you fall.

After the midnight show got off to a good start, on Friday, the major newspapers and media in North America poured cold water on this super blockbuster.

"It's spectacular, it's spectacular, and it seems that special effects blockbusters aren't everything. ”

Beverly Hilltop mansion, early in the morning, flipping through the fax from the Fox distribution department, Elizabeth was obviously a little excited to sigh so much, but there was a little sour feeling in her tone.

Although it has the convenience of the Firefly Alliance, and also has a stake in the Australian branch of the digital field, which can easily use the industry's top special effects production resources, Fox has not released CG special effects blockbusters this year, except for "Star Wars Prequel", which is basically not involved in production, and several special effects film projects prepared by Fox are in the early stages of preparation.

Eric took the breakfast from Julia, opened the laptop on the dining table, glanced at Elizabeth, and joked: "What age is it, and you still use such an old-fashioned communication method as fax, come, let me introduce you to Yahoo's enterprise email system." ”

Elizabeth gave Eric a roll of her eyes and said disdainfully, "Besides, the offer is so expensive, when I submitted the budget, it was almost rejected by the board of directors." I knew I would have used AOL," suddenly remembering that AOL is also a company owned by Firefly Investment, Elizabeth added stiffly: "Microsoft's is not bad." ”

Julia went to the kitchen again to bring her and Elizabeth's breakfast, sat down at the table, and asked, "Liz, what spectacular did you just say, the Godzilla movie review?"

Elizabeth was interested again and said, "Yes, listen to me read it to you, this is a part of the movie reviews that the company just counted this morning." ”

Entertainment Weekly: Despite some clever and exciting shots, the embarrassment of this $150 million junk sci-fi blockbuster is far more than shocking. ”

"Variety": Not to mention the big scenes that make people feel boring, this monster movie as a whole gives people a sense of incongruous eccentricity, and the director obviously fails to capture the soul of the story. ”

"Also, Roger Albert published a review in the Chicago Sun: 'You have to use your brain at all to take a film like this, but my brain repeatedly insists on using logic where it's not popular.'" Haha, Roger is probably being PR, but although the film review sounds very mild, the irony is really embarrassing. ”

"The Arizona Daily Star is not at all merciless: 'It's so unbearably dull and boring that I can't imagine how anyone could like such a pile of excrement.'" Tsk, I don't know if Sony offended this film critic and scolded so hard. ”

“……”

Elizabeth pulled more than a dozen newspaper reviews in one go, and Eric only heard two reviews that were barely complimentary. Several major Hollywood studios are basically paying attention to the box office performance of "Godzilla", Eric opened his email, and Firefly also passed on some word-of-mouth and data analysis of "Godzilla".

According to the results of dozens of film reviews in mainstream American newspapers on Friday, "Godzilla" has just been released, and the comprehensive score of the movie has been pulled to the level of 3 points, which is not worth watching at all.

Although the box office of "Godzilla" reached $6.25 million at midnight, the Firefly distribution department predicted that under the influence of this ultra-low word-of-mouth, the box office of "Godzilla" in the first week may not exceed $80 million, far from Sony's expectations of breaking 100 million in the first week.

Julia listened to Elizabeth read a series of film reviews, and said in disbelief: "The production cost of $150 million can't be worse than that, right?"

""Future Water World" cost 175 million, which is not a bad review, but "Godzilla" seems to be even worse, I remember that the overall score of "Future Water World" is still 4 points. Elizabeth said, flipped through the stack of faxes in her hand again, and said: "The comprehensive score of "Godzilla" is only 3 points now, and it is estimated that in a few days, there will only be one or two points left." This, Eric, can't you be the one who is making trouble?"

Eric closed the analysis file of "Godzilla", opened the box office statistics email from last week, and asked with a smile: "What does your family do, can't you see if I am a troublemaker?"

"Hmph, who knows what tricks you're going to play behind your back, but, with such a bad super blockbuster, I'm suddenly a little curious, why don't we go to watch it together at night?"

"Not tonight, Robert Iger is in New York, and Jeffrey and I have agreed to have dinner together. Tomorrow, I'll have someone book a small hall in advance. ”

"Would you like to stay with us on the weekend? Elizabeth had joy in her eyes, and habitually sarcastic, and in a blink of an eye, she changed the subject with interest: "By the way, how was the box office situation last week?"

"The Lion King 2 ranked first, $55.7 million. "Prison in the Air" is $34.2 million, ranking second," Eric just introduced the two films, did not continue, looked up and smiled: "The box office performance of these two films is not too high, and the total box office in a single week is only $130 million, far from reaching the limit of about $200 million in the summer file." So, if you had listened to me and put "Ice Age" a week before "The Lion King 2", under the mutual stimulation of two animated movies of different genres, "Ice Age" would definitely perform very well at the box office. ”

"I don't want to be dragged by you as cannon fodder, "Ice Age" is the first movie of Blue Sky Studio, and it will be very shocking if it is smashed. Why didn't you put Finding Nemo in front of The Lion King 2?"

"I'm leaving a way for Paramount to live, we can't bully people too much, right? "Ice Age" is different, the cost is only 59 million US dollars, the investment is not high, and the return pressure is not great, so it is more suitable for coexisting with big men. ”

"Ahh ”

Due to the impact of ultra-low word-of-mouth, although the midnight box office performance of "Godzilla" was gratifying, it only received $17.5 million on Friday, and the box office performance on Saturday only slightly increased to $19.3 million, and on Sunday, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" fell directly to a low of 16.7 million.

Although the total box office in the first weekend reached $59.75 million, it easily won the position of the summer weekend box office champion. However, due to the continuous bombardment of bad reviews from the media for three consecutive days, on weekdays, the box office potential of "Godzilla" seemed to suddenly dissipate, and the single-day box office fell directly to only more than $4.3 million, and in the following working days, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" continued to decline.

In the end, the first-week box office of "Godzilla" was only $7,366, although this box office looks far more than the first week of "The Lion King 2" of $55.7 million, but, considering Sony Pictures' bombardment-like publicity offensive in the early stage and the industry's general tone of "Godzilla's" first-week box office exceeding 100 million, the box office of $73.66 million is still far from a success.

What's more, the extremely poor word-of-mouth is also destined for this film to usher in a big box office drop the next week. After the box office of "The Lion King 2" in the first week of 55.7 million US dollars, the box office of "The Lion King 2" fell by only a very weak 24% in the second week, and then received 42.33 million US dollars, and in two weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King 2" reached 98.03 million US dollars, which is only one step away from breaking 100 million, which undoubtedly brings more pressure to the upcoming "Finding Nemo".

However, because the market performance of "Godzilla" is not so strong, the box office decline of "Prison in the Air" in the second week is also very considerable, only 32.3%, on the basis of $34.2 million in the first week, another $23.15 million, and a total of $57.35 million at the box office in two weeks, which seems to show the potential to break 100 million again.

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"The Lion King 2 ranked first, $55.7 million. "Prison in the Air" is $34.2 million, ranking second," Eric just introduced the two films, did not continue, looked up and smiled: "The box office performance of these two films is not too high, and the total box office in a single week is only $130 million, far from reaching the limit of about $200 million in the summer file." So, if you had listened to me and put "Ice Age" a week before "The Lion King 2", under the mutual stimulation of two animated movies of different genres, "Ice Age" would definitely perform very well at the box office. ”

"I don't want to be dragged by you as cannon fodder, "Ice Age" is the first movie of Blue Sky Studio, and it will be very shocking if it is smashed. Why didn't you put Finding Nemo in front of The Lion King 2?"

"I'm leaving a way for Paramount to live, we can't bully people too much, right? "Ice Age" is different, the cost is only 59 million US dollars, the investment is not high, and the return pressure is not great, so it is more suitable for coexisting with big men. ”

"Ahh ”

Due to the impact of ultra-low word-of-mouth, although the midnight box office performance of "Godzilla" was gratifying, it only received $17.5 million on Friday, and the box office performance on Saturday only slightly increased to $19.3 million, and on Sunday, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" fell directly to a low of 16.7 million.

Although the total box office in the first weekend reached $59.75 million, it easily won the position of the summer weekend box office champion. However, due to the continuous bombardment of bad reviews from the media for three consecutive days, on weekdays, the box office potential of "Godzilla" seemed to suddenly dissipate, and the single-day box office fell directly to only more than $4.3 million, and in the following working days, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" continued to decline.

In the end, the first-week box office of "Godzilla" was only $7,366, although this box office looks far more than the first week of "The Lion King 2" of $55.7 million, but, considering Sony Pictures' bombardment-like publicity offensive in the early stage and the industry's general tone of "Godzilla's" first-week box office exceeding 100 million, the box office of $73.66 million is still far from a success.

What's more, the extremely poor word-of-mouth is also destined for this film to usher in a big box office drop the next week. After the box office of "The Lion King 2" in the first week of 55.7 million US dollars, the box office of "The Lion King 2" fell by only a very weak 24% in the second week, and then received 42.33 million US dollars, and in two weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King 2" reached 98.03 million US dollars, which is only one step away from breaking 100 million, which undoubtedly brings more pressure to the upcoming "Finding Nemo".

However, because the market performance of "Godzilla" is not so strong, the box office decline of "Prison in the Air" in the second week is also very considerable, only 32.3%, on the basis of $34.2 million in the first week, another $23.15 million, and a total of $57.35 million at the box office in two weeks, which seems to show the potential to break 100 million again. (To be continued.) )