If we were looking for the right word to describe the performance of the "Fury Road", it would be "despair" - the strength that makes all competitors desperate, and "The Undertaker" clearly and accurately describes the strength of the "Fury Road". Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info don't talk about "Superman Returns", "Banshee in the Water", "Monster House" These works, even "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" have been completely dumb, in the face of the sweeping and wind-swept box office harvest momentum of "Fury Road", there is no way to fight back, and even the idea of confrontation has been completely defeated, let alone counterattack, that kind of absolute superiority is really desperate.

After three consecutive weeks of record-breaking North American box office wins, "Fury Road" is still showing no signs of slowing down its summer season, which is terrible news for every competitor - Sony Pictures is now desperate to die.

In this year's summer file, Sony Pictures has a good hand, and the industry generally believes that they are expected to achieve box office success and compete with Disney and Warner Bros. So, Sony Pictures was naturally reluctant to risk his life and harm his own interests in order to suppress Chaos Pictures - the original purpose of this plan was for profit, and Sony Pictures naturally would not put the cart before the horse, but they also obviously did not want to see the rise of Chaos Pictures, so Michael Layton played a little trick - and now it seems that this plan is really stupid.

"Life Remote Control", which was released in the fourth week of June, was bombarded by "Superman Returns", "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", and "Fury Road", which seriously affected the follow-up trend of the box office; The two works of "Little Man" and "Monster House" were completely lost in the devastating bombardment of "Fury Road"; If it weren't for the box office success of "The Da Vinci Code", I'm afraid that Sony Pictures would not be much better off this summer than Warner Bros.

Now, Sony Pictures' biggest comedy of the summer, "Talladega Night: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," has also lost a lot again. This "huge" comedy, which cost 75 million to build, once again encountered the powerful sniping of "Fury Road", not only lost the duel in the championship battle in the first week of August, lost the free publicity effect brought by a championship title, but also slipped to the 30 million level at the box office in the opening weekend.

The entire July schedule has been emptied by the two works of "Fury Road" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", and comedy movies can hardly find any living space, it is hard to imagine that only the "Life Remote Control" of this year's summer comedy movies has successfully exceeded 100 million, so people in the industry are very optimistic about "Talladega Night".

This comedy created by the original cast of "Ace Announcer" can be called the most trusted comedy creation team outside the Rotten Boy Gang, with an investment of 75 million is really incredible, mainly because the crew has cooperated with the organizers of the National Automobile Championship and is allowed to enter the high-speed track for on-site shooting, and the gimmick of "entering the national F1 track for the first time" has become the most eye-catching hot spot during the publicity period. What's more, the leading actor Will Ferrell is hot now, beating Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp with 40 million last year to become the most profitable actor in the United States, and his personal appeal is absolutely trustworthy.

Therefore, many professionals believe that "Talladega Night" is expected to achieve more than 40 million box office figures in its opening weekend, and may even end the streak of "Fury Road". Sony Pictures is obviously also thinking about such wishful thinking, and when the trend of the summer showdown is gradually weakening, "Talladega Night" will take advantage of the fisherman's profit, take the lead in August, and easily suppress the follow-up box office decline of "Fury Road", and give an explanation to the partners of the blockade alliance.

But the expectations are good, the reality is cruel, and I'm afraid everyone underestimated the momentum of the topic of "Fury Road" - even after three consecutive weeks of explosion, people still underestimated the endurance of the work.

The topic of "Children of War" in Europe swept the entire continent, and the ocean drifted across the ocean ignited a new round of movie-watching craze in North America, and "Fury Road" handed over an incredible drop of 35% for the second consecutive week, and collected 36 million box office in three days over the weekend, undoubtedly breaking the "Titanic" in 1997 The record of 28 million in the fourth weekend of film history, such stamina is indeed desperate.

At this time, it is already the fourth week of release, but it still broke out with a box office capacity of 30 million, although the pace of box office momentum in the middle of the week began to slow down, but the "Fury Road" still showed the dominance of the hegemonic level in the box office curve, completely extinguishing the resistance of all challengers. "Talladega Night" received a good 34 million in its opening weekend, but unfortunately became a witness to the four consecutive championships of "Fury Road", which is also the smallest gap between the champions and runners-up of the week since this summer.

It can be seen that "Talladega Night" does have a championship appearance, but unfortunately encountered a stronger "furious road" and unfortunately lost, which is the most depressed and painful part of Sony Pictures, which is equivalent to using his own highest-level good horse to play against the opponent's inferior horse in the field horse race - and lost, Michael Layton should have wanted to cry without tears at this time.

"Fury Road" was once again crowned the North American weekend box office champion with record-breaking momentum, becoming the only work to win four consecutive titles this year, and this record was set in the summer file, even Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures could only shake their heads with regret and be willing to lose.

What's even more gratifying is that the cumulative box office of "Fury Road" has grown by leaps and bounds to 462 million! What does this mean? This means that "Fury Road" finally surpassed "Alien e.t", "Shrek 2", and finally surpassed the 460 million box office of "Star Wars", and only lagged behind the 600 million total box office of "Titanic" in the box office list of North American film history, occupying the runner-up throne highly; This also means that the "Fury Road" has exceeded 500 million, and the conjecture of 600 million has been separated from the theoretical possibility and has evolved into reality step by step.

In 26 days, "Fury Road" only took 26 days to break through the box office barrier of 450 million in North America, and "Titanic" took 81 days to reach such heights.

In the entire long history of cinema, only six films have reached the box office of 400 million in North America, which is considered the highest level that any film can touch. Each of these six works is enough to go down in history as classics, of which the "Star Wars" series occupies two seats - "Star Wars" and "Star Wars Prequel 1", which is also a direct portrayal of the series's profound influence on American pop culture. No one could have imagined that when "Star Wars" appeared in 1977, this cult movie, which was considered a tech otaku fantasy, has now been deeply imprinted in the blood of American culture, truly popularizing the niche cult into mass popularity.

Now, following "Star Wars", the success of "Fury Road" again has made people realize: whether the so-called niche, the so-called cult, and the so-called dimensional culture are really "non-mainstream". If "Spider-Man" can sweep the box office of 400 million in the North American market, and if "Fury Road" can break all fixed notions in a hurry, then is there more wealth to be tapped in the world of comics?

The miracle written by "Fury Road" in just four weeks is not only as simple as rewriting all the records, but more importantly, the film has a revolutionary idea for the film industry, for pop culture, and even for the way people in the industry think. At the same time, people will not forget that "Iron Man" is likely to be the next work of Chaos Pictures, does that mean more?

In comparison, the records set by "Fury Road" itself seem to be less important.

In the first week of August, "Fury Road" won the North American weekend box office chart for four consecutive years, "Talladega Night" was runner-up, and "Crazy Farm" was in third place - this animated film produced by Paramount was almost silent, and the investment of 50 million only paid 15 million for the opening weekend box office, and even the media was not interested in reporting it.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "Miami Vice" occupy the fourth and fifth positions, respectively. The former fell to a height of 45% again this week, harvesting 10 million weekend box office, and the cumulative box office staggered past 360 million, 400 million is still a possibility, but Disney must do its best, and the entire cast is working hard to promote; The latter fell by as much as 60 percent the next week, and in the case of the terrible box office of the premiere, this also officially announced that the possibility of resurrection was cut off, and the cumulative box office in two weeks just exceeded 40 million, compared to the investment of 135 million, it is simply miserable.

In addition, the decline of "Banshee in the Water" in the third week once again crossed the 60% threshold, and the weekend box office was only 2.5 million, with a cumulative box office of 38 million, and there was no hope of recovering the cost; "Superman Returns" has entered the end of the screening, with a cumulative box office of 190 million in six weeks, and a box office of 2 million this weekend.

It can be said that "Talladega Night" made the final powerful impact on "Fury Road", and after that, the summer file completely fell under the control of "Fury Road", and no work can shoulder enough expectations to complete the sniping. So, in the summer of 2006, from the three-legged tripod to the two dragons playing with pearls, and then to the monopoly, it finally became a one-man show of "Furious Road"! (To be continued.) )