836 [Birth of a God Film]
The year-end schedule in North America starts in November, and no one could have predicted that the best of the year-end schedule is actually a cartoon.
"Aladdin" is a Disney animation released in mid-November, and it got a super high box office of more than $19 million in three days after its release, and it directly exceeded 100 million at the box office in less than a month. And this cartoon has a lot of stamina, and it still maintains a good attendance rate when Christmas is approaching, and the box office is pointing to the $200 million mark.
followed by "Few Good People" starring Tom and Demi Moore, which was released a month later than "Aladdin", with a box office of more than 15 million on the first Wednesday. and "The Bodyguard" starring Whitney Houston was sandwiched between the two films, and the box office was greatly affected.
"Jurassic Park", co-directed by Kang Jianfei and James Cameron, was released on the same day as "Few Good People". The dinosaur special effects in the film obviously shocked the theater dealers in the United States, and 2574 premiere canvases were arranged for "Jurassic Park", which shows that the theater has great expectations for this movie.
Jurassic Park spent $20 million in North America, equivalent to two-fifths of the production cost, and advertising posters were everywhere on every street in the United States and Canada. And the commercial for "Jurassic Park" on TV is only three seconds, and the content is very simple, directly the Tyrannosaurus rex overturns the car, and then roars to the sky.
I don't know how many North American viewers can't wait to run into the cinema to watch "Jurassic Park" because of this short three-second commercial.
Released on Friday, December 11, in just three days, "Jurassic Park" grossed $47.02 million in its first week, directly three times higher than the box office of "Few Good People", which was released on the same day.
No matter how handsome Brother Tom is, he has to lose to the dinosaurs.
Audiences in the U.S. and Canada went crazy with the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park," while filmmakers and critics in the U.S. went crazy with the box office success of "Jurassic Park," which broke first-day and first-week box office records in North America!
In the second week of its release, the number of screened canvases for "Jurassic Park" increased to 2,680, and the box office reached $64.48 million in a single week.
In just two weeks of release, in just 10 days, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" directly exceeded 100 million!
The animated film "Aladdin", which was released in November, has shocked many people's jaws with a box office of 200 million. I didn't think that there would be an even more fierce one in December, and the box office exceeded 100 million in 10 days like a fantasy, and few people would believe it.
Before the release of "Titanic" and "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" was the highest-grossing movie in the world, and its box office could be less?
Although the male and female protagonists have been replaced by Asian actors, and many of the supporting characters are Cantonese-speaking Asian faces, the main dialogue is still in English, so North American audiences will not be affected in the slightest when watching the movie.
By the time Christmas arrived, the single-day box office of "Jurassic Park" reached a new peak, with a total of more than 190 million box office in 17 days in three weeks, and after New Year's Day, the box office of "Jurassic Park" had soared to $260 million.
The box office curve is simply intoxicating, with the single-day box office peaking at Christmas and New Year's Day, respectively, and the rest of the time only declining slightly, with a weekly box office drop of no more than 10.
The Los Angeles Daily commented: "Jurassic Park has been unstoppable, and this Tyrannosaurus rex has taken out all the movies released at the same time. The box office of 200 million is far from over, this is just the beginning, let us witness the birth of a box office miracle together. β
The miracle was soon born, and after New Year's Day, although the attendance rate of "Jurassic Park" dropped significantly, the weekly box office was still above 20 million. From its release on December 11 until late January 1993, "Jurassic Park" won the weekly box office for five consecutive weeks.
After 48 days of screening, "Jurassic Park" finally finished in North America, grossing a terrifying $357 million, setting a new record at the North American box office.
With such a box office, "Jurassic Park" is no longer purely a movie, it has set off a dinosaur craze in North America, and even affected the funding of American academic institutions for dinosaur archaeological research.
The original novel of "Jurassic Park" was influenced by this, and since then it has often topped the best-selling list in North America and has been selected as a recommended book in the American Literature Guide.
Since the day Jurassic Park became a hit, the world has been obsessed with dinosaurs, a species that has disappeared for hundreds of millions of years. Including the United States, China, Russia, large and small dinosaur exhibition halls and playgrounds have been built all over the world; TV, magazines and other media constantly report all kinds of news about dinosaurs; Shop windows display dinosaur models in different postures and colors; Children show off to each other in costumes with dinosaur motifs......
"The story of the United States, the language of the United States, the special effects of the United States...... It's a standard Hollywood movie, just funded by Hong Kong. βThe New York Times
"A glamorous, breathtaking, and terrifyingly creepy sci-fi movie." -- The Christian Monitor
"The special effects of the digital company are amazing and make you believe that the big guys on the screen are really alive." - The Hollywood Reporter
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Not just in North America, the Jurassic Park trend is trending all over the world.
On November 20, "Jurassic Park" was released in Singapore and Malaysia; On November 27, "Jurassic Park" landed in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia; On December 4, "Jurassic Park" grabbed the beach in Japan and Australia......
In Japan alone, "Jurassic Park" earned 8.3 billion yen at the box office, equivalent to 75 million US dollars.
Japan's "Film Shunbao" praised "Jurassic Park" as a "masterpiece of the century" and commented on Kang Jianfei: "Director Kang Jianfei is a genius-like strange man, his directing techniques are mature and changeable, and "Jurassic Park" is his pinnacle masterpiece of internationalization. β
The Japanese praised Kang Jianfei to the sky, and the Hong Kong and Taiwan media also praised it, mainly because the global box office of 500 million US dollars was too terrifying, and this number is still growing.
"Wen Wei Po" praised Kang Jianfei as "the pride of the Chinese", while "Ming Pao Weekly" called him "the most powerful and influential Chinese director of our time, and a representative figure of Chinese films".
In the list of the world's most influential directors (alive) by Time Magazine at the end of the year, Kang Jianfei's ranking directly rose by more than ten places, ranking in the top five for the first time.
Time Magazine once again sent out an interview request, hoping to send an interview team to Hong Kong to conduct systematic and in-depth exchanges and interviews with Kang Jianfei.
In Taiwan and South Korea, "Jurassic Park" is still in a hot state. Especially in Taiwan, "Jurassic Park" is estimated to be screened for more than half a year, and the final box office will be at least hundreds of millions of Taiwan dollars.
The film has not yet been released in Europe and West Asia, and its global cumulative box office has reached 500 million US dollars!
Manufacturers of toys, stationery, and clothing around the world have contacted Oriental Entertainment Publishing Company to obtain the right to use the merchandise of "Jurassic Park".
As the filming of "Jurassic Park", Brunei's Mirror Island suddenly attracted the attention of the world. Not only has the number of visitors to Mirror Island exploded, but tourism has also flourished on other islands in Brunei.
As the heroes and heroines of "Jurassic Park", Leung Jiahui and Keiko Matsuzaka have blown up their faces all over the world, and their fame is rising like a rocket. Even Cheng Kuian, who played the security boss of Jurassic Park in the film, has also risen in fame, and his salary has exceeded one million to match Wu Mengda.
The most regrettable thing is probably Shochiku Pictures, Kang Jianfei invited Keiko Matsuzaka to be the heroine in order to cater to the Japanese market. "Jurassic Park" is easy to become a popular actor, and it is naturally impossible for him to help others make stars, so he bought Keiko Matsuzaka's agent from Shochiku Pictures before filming started.
At the same time, Oriental Entertainment Agency officially opened a branch in Japan, which is dedicated to managing its Japanese artists and Chinese artists who have developed in Japan. R1152