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After four working days of screenings, "City of Chaos" earned more than $30 million in North America, and the cumulative North American box office was close to $100 million.

Stimulated by a series of good news, coupled with the crew's full firepower, especially when Murphy was promoting in Madrid, he also specially led the crew to visit Real Madrid Club, and this time the friendship between Hollywood and the world's top football giants also attracted considerable attention.

Murphy also received a shirt with his name on it as a gift from Real Madrid.

In short, "City of Chaos" easily became the most watched film in the entire European region this week, and after three days of the weekend, it also replaced "Thor" as the latest overseas box office champion.

The film, which was first filmed in Australia, earned an easy $6.2 million over the course of four days from Thursday to Sunday.

Also on Thursday were Argentina and Brazil, which earned more than $2.3 million and nearly $4 million, respectively.

Starting on Friday, "City of Chaos" landed in Europe on a large scale, taking $8.6 million from the United Kingdom, $5.4 million from France, nearly $9 million from Germany, $4.8 million from Spain, $3.5 million from Italy, and $5 million from Russia over the three days of the weekend......

The Far East also has a good record, with South Korea at more than $3 million and Japan at nearly $4 million.

Among the more than 60 countries and regions that were released simultaneously this weekend, "City of Chaos" topped the weekly box office list in more than 40 countries.

In its first week of overseas release, "City of Chaos" easily surpassed the North American box office and earned $125 million.

This is a relatively rare situation in Murphy's films, and the response of his films in the overseas market in the past is obviously not as good as that in North America, which is also the trend of the times, and the total volume of the overseas market is far larger than that of North America.

Compared with "City of Chaos", "Thor", which opened in the global market last week, naturally entered a period of recession, and this weekend it earned more than $40 million from overseas, retreating to the second place in the overseas box office list.

At the same time, "City of Chaos" has also received high praise in Europe.

In an exclusive interview with Le Figaro, the famous Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar expressed some opinions on the status of Hollywood films, Almodóvar said: "It's getting harder and harder for me to go to the cinema and find the movies I like, it's much harder than before."

"Maybe it's because I'm old". "Hollywood movies are a lot worse now than they used to be," he said. For example, Thor and a lot of infantilized superhero movies are terrible."

He said that the current superhero movies are tiresome, he used to be very fond of adventure-themed movies, and the special effects at that time were far less perfect than they are now, and now the movies pay more attention to special effects, and those computer-generated characters make him reluctant to watch this kind of movie anymore.

At the same time, Pedro Almodóvar expressed his admiration for "City of Chaos" and believes that Murphy's film is a rare masterpiece of Hollywood commercial films.

This kind of remark is suspected of being partial and comprehensive, and even Murphy himself knows that in this era of entertainment to death, the most important thing for commercial movies is actually entertainment.

There is no doubt that the darkness and heaviness of "City of Chaos" also contain enough entertainment factor.

However, in some overseas markets, the box office performance of "City of Chaos" is not ideal.

For example, the market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which Twentieth Century Fox vigorously developed, received a mediocre market response for this film, and only earned more than $300,000 in four days of release, which was seriously lower than Twentieth Century Fox expected.

Although the film successfully obtained the release permission on the other side of the Pacific, it inevitably suffered a lot of scissors, and the original dark and depressing theme was not very suitable for the mainstream audience in the market over there.

A film will always be affected by the social environment situation in the region where it is released.

Fortunately, Murphy himself did not have much expectations for the release of "City of Chaos" on the other side of the Pacific, and he was not very surprised by such box office figures, but Twentieth Century Fox placed a lot of expectations on it, and it was inevitable that he would be disappointed when the box office came out in the first week on the other side of the Pacific.

Carla Firth also called specifically to communicate with Murphy about this problem, and Murphy has nothing to do for the time being, after all, the market over there has just developed, and simple, hot and pure popcorn films have a wider audience, and similar dark and depressing films also have certain lovers, but the number is much smaller.

In a few years, things will be much better.

In addition to the other side of the Pacific, "City of Chaos" has also received a mediocre response in a few international countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia, and the overseas film market in these regions is still the world of "Thor".

However, in the North American market, which is the largest in the market, "City of Chaos" did not encounter strong challenges in the second weekend of its release, and continued to sit firmly on the top of the North American box office list.

Compared with the first weekend, "City of Chaos" had a solid trend in the second weekend, falling only 43 percent, and collecting another $35.6 million, and the North American box office successfully exceeded the $100 million mark, accumulating $131.2 million.

"Thor" did not retain its No. 2 spot at the box office, plunging 61 percent the following weekend to $18.75 million, and the North American box office could only continue to work towards $100 million.

And squeezing "Thor" into third place is the new release of "The Hottest Bridesmaids" this weekend, this typical 'Apatu' party' movie, which is quite attractive to comedy audiences who like, pee, and fart, with a strong income of $27 million in the first three days, which is quite impressive compared to the production cost of $35 million.

However, the, pee, and fart comedy of "The Hottest Bridesmaids" still can't threaten "Chaos City" to achieve two consecutive championships at the North American box office.

In this way, the combined global box office of "City of Chaos" also exceeded the $250 million mark.

For a film that does not have the foreshadowing and audience base of its predecessor, it is already very rare to have a global box office of more than $250 million in ten days.

Both the media and Twentieth Century Fox considered "City of Chaos" a success.

Murphy and the crew ended their promotional tour in Europe and circled around Japan, South Korea and Australia, and on the third weekend of the following, "City of Chaos" achieved three consecutive North American box office rankings, and the North American box office also reached $177.2 million, and it was almost inevitable that it would exceed $200 million.

Overseas, the number of screenings has increased from more than 60 to more than 90 countries and regions, and another $76 million has been collected.

The film's global box office is also quietly approaching $400 million.

Declining an invitation from David Robbie and Margot Robbie to visit an Australian farm, Murphy parted ways with the crew in Sydney and boarded a flight to Tel Aviv alone, where she met up with Gal Gadot and met up with her mother for a conversation.

Perhaps knowing that the situation could not be changed, coupled with Murphy's status today, the meeting was quite pleasant, and Murphy and Gal Gadot were also blessed by her family.

With a lot of work waiting for Murphy in North America, he and Gal Gadot flew back to Los Angeles after only two days in Tel Aviv.

Immediately after returning to Los Angeles, Murphy moved to the post-production studio rented by Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill to work on the voice acting of some scenes of "Armageddon."

The film was all shot at the end of April, and Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill immediately put themselves into post-production, both Murphy and Carla Firth hoped that the film could be released within the year, and judging from Seth Rogen's work efficiency, the problem was not very big.

When filming, most of the scenes were recorded on site, and a small number of shots that did not meet the requirements of the recording required required need to be re-dubbed by the actors.

"The most suitable time for this film is between Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December."

In the post-production studio, Carla Firth said to Seth Rogan, "At the beginning of October, you're going to finish all the post-production, and then Twentieth Century Fox will do a test screening and theatrical promotion to get more screens." ”

Seth Rogan is confident, "No problem, it's definitely going to be done on time." ”

Murphy nodded to Carla Fez, "I watched some of the clips that were cut out, and it was good. ”

Although this kind of spoof comedy cannot become a mainstream commercial film in the North American market, just like "The Hottest Bridesmaids", there has never been a shortage of audiences in North America.

And for today's film market, this kind of spoof film that brings real identity into the film and combines thriller and horror is still relatively new.

Murphy spoke with Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill for a while, and left the studio with Carla Firth.

With the big hit of "The Hangover" in front of him, and with enough understanding, Murphy is still relatively relieved about Seth Rogan, if nothing else, with the publicity ability of Twentieth Century Fox, the possibility of losing money for this film is still very small.

The two walked into the parking lot, and Carla Fisla opened the door, turned to look at Murphy before getting in the car, and reminded, "Don't forget tomorrow's party." ”

Murphy made an OK gesture, "Gail and I will arrive on time." ”

Tomorrow evening, James Murdoch, the new co-chairman and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, will host a gala reception party in the name of Twentieth Century Fox. (To be continued.) )