In the first week of December, the "Twelve Oceans" showdown "Killing with a Knife", the battle for the premiere box office came to an end.

"Murder with a Knife" swept the box office with 45 million at the box office in an almost complete disadvantage, and strongly bagged the North American weekend box office this week, which ranked third in the history of the film history in terms of the number of box office sales in December, only behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

"Ocean's Twelve" made a big and vigorous debut, but it was a painful loss, earning 39 million in three days over the weekend, behind its direct rival who premiered on the same day and was runner-up. In fact, this result can be ranked fifth on the all-time list of the box office number of December premieres, just behind "Murder with a Knife" and before "Ocean's Eleven".

In this way, the box office performance of "Ocean's Twelve" is not bad, after all, the box office of $39 million is already very rare in December, but this is only relative.

In fact, the premiere box office of "Ocean's Twelve" was only two percentage points higher than the previous work "Ocean's Eleven", and the increase arc was almost negligible, which means that the sequel movie did not bring any bonus to the movie, which is the biggest failure for the series of movies; At the same time, "Twelve Arhats" lost to "Killing with a Knife" by a margin of 6 million in the case of overall superiority, and the huge investment in early publicity and the grandeur of the premiere were not able to be realized into profit income, which already means a loss.

In contrast, "Killing with a Knife" lagged behind its competitors in the number of theaters, film scheduling ratio, and publicity position, but it burst out with such amazing energy and became the most beautiful scenery in the December holiday file. At this time, people realized that among the previous box office predictions for "killing with a knife", the "New York Post", which was widely considered the most unreliable, was the closest to the result.

"Killing with a Knife" won the box office championship in the first week of December, which also became the second consecutive weekend champion of Lance as a director, continuing the wonderful performance of "the day after tomorrow" in the summer file; At the same time, he has also gone further, reaping not only the box office, but also media praise, and has become the most interesting rookie director in the past two years, and the rising momentum is simply unstoppable.

What's even more surprising is that "Killing with a Knife" is still Lance's debut as an actor - not in the nature of a ticket, Lance's performance has been praised almost unanimously by many media, which is impressive.

From "City of God" to "The Day After Tomorrow", and then to "Murder with a Knife", Lance completed an incredible triple jump in two years, making the penniless Chaos Pictures an instant Hollywood upstart, and even the "Sin City" in preparation became unbelievably hot in an instant.

However, this is Hollywood, and there has never been a shortage of fairy tales for overnight success, attracting thousands of young people with dreams to rush to this radiant Vanity Fair one after another.

In the first week of December, in addition to the much-anticipated "Murder by a Knife" and "Ocean's Twelve", the "National Treasure" table Xiàn also became another focus, the film only received a mediocre table of 35 million in its opening weekend, and the next week it delivered a stunning drop of 8 percent to win the championship, and this week it again received 17 million weekend box office with a drop of 45 percent, still ranking third this week. When it was not optimistic at the beginning of its release, the cumulative box office of this work reached 110 million US dollars in three weeks after its release, and it became a dark horse in this year's holiday stalls.

Especially considering that the two works "Murder by Knife" and "Ocean's Twelve" have achieved a box office of 30 million, and "National Treasure" can still achieve such excellent results, which is even more exciting.

After these three works, "Escape from Christmas", "Polar Express", "The Incredibles", "Stealing Hearts", "The Adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants", "Alexander the Great", and "Finding Neverland" ranked fourth to tenth, respectively.

It is worth noting that "Alexander the Great", which was released last week, ushered in a 65 percent drop in the second week when the box office was only 13 million, and the second week received $4.7 million, and the cumulative box office in two weeks did not even cross the 30 million threshold, and the $155 million investment almost made Warner Bros. lose even the leggings.

It is rumored internally that Warner Bros. has decided to give up "Alexander the Great" ahead of schedule, not only because of the box office fiasco and word-of-mouth fiasco, but also because the negative news of the crew has been overwhelming, and it is almost unbearable.

Angelina's news was brought up again, although there was no boycott of "Alexander the Great" on the Internet, but in the street interview of "David Letterman's Late Night Show", it was found that people were generally on the side of Jennifer Aniston, and their impression of Angelina was very bad - not only because of the positive impression that "Friends" brought to Jennifer, not only because of Angelina's role in this "cheat door", but also because in the past few years, Her rebellious and outrageous image has always challenged people's bottom line. This also led people to have no interest in "Alexander the Great" at all.

At the same time, the actor Colin Farrell is also riddled with negative news, and the paparazzi broke the news that he once again entered the rehab because of alcohol and drug problems, and even during the "Alexander the Great" propaganda period, he kept his cigarette in his hand and was absent-minded, even during the interview, he would be distracted, and his private life was really bad.

It can be said that "Alexander the Great" has now become an outcast.

To add insult to injury, after the box office rankings were released in the first week of December, the relationship between Angelina and Brad once again became the focus of attention.

At this week's "Alexander the Great" New York fan meeting, a reporter asked Angelina directly, "Will you go to the cinema to watch 'Ocean's Twelve'?" The atmosphere at the scene directly froze into ice, and Angelina choked back, "What movie I'm going to watch in the cinema, it's your business!" The smell of gunpowder was a little out of control for a while, and then a reporter even asked without scruples, "Who should be responsible for the bad box office of the movie?" Angelina, do you think it has anything to do with you? ”

At present, "Ocean's Twelve" has only experienced the premiere, and the publicity has not been fully launched. But the box office of the film's opening weekend is really unsatisfactory at present, and it is conceivable that the crew will face a severe test in the next promotional period.

Jason looked up at the room, which was packed, not only the main cast of "Ocean's Twelve", but also the director, producers, and Warner Bros. executives, as well as key members of Diorama Pictures and Plan B.

However, at this time, the whole room was silent, everyone lowered their heads, silent, and the suppressed emotion was almost breathless.

George, who has always been calm and calm, was holding a cigarette at this time, and the curling smoke shrouded his face, making it impossible to see his expression clearly, and his calm fingertips and elegant legs seemed to show his inner peace. But Jason knew that this was George's fourth cigarette in an hour, and just this detail could show George's true feelings at this time.

"The box office of the opening weekend, although it was not as good as expected, was far from bad." Jerry Weintraub spoke, but the jerky words were so dry that they had no power, and after two fluttering circles around the room, they dissipated - no one responded.

Jason glanced at Ryan and Tucker, and he wanted to say that from "Troy" to "Ocean's Twelve", this qiē proves that propaganda is only an auxiliary means, and the work is the essential work, and it is still too late for them to adjust the plan of the "Saharan Cavalry". But...... The words swirled twice in his chest, and finally he swallowed.

George's left hand was on his knee, tightened, tightened and tightened, but even so, there was still no way to vent the grievances and anger in his heart. He can accept that the box office of the premiere of "Oceans Twelve" is not ideal, and he can also accept that the media feedback and audience response of "Oceans Twelve" did not meet expectations, but he definitely can't accept that "Oceans Twelve" lost to "Borrowing a knife to kill people, this is a shame, a great shame!"

As long as I think back to my confidence and elegance at the premiere, as long as I think back to my condescending posture in front of Lance, as long as I think back to Lance, who was dumped by myself, actually climbed on his head, as long as I think back to Lance's stupid insistence on the movie...... He felt like his chest was going to explode, and the whole world was spinning. No, he can't accept it! He couldn't accept the ugliness of the premiere box office, he couldn't accept the criticism of the film from the media and the audience, he couldn't accept the "murder with a knife" that won the weekend box office, and he definitely couldn't accept the loss to Lancelot Strello.

His hot cheeks looked like he had been slapped a dozen times, and Lance's sparkling eyes in his mind were mocking his cowardice and failure.

George only felt his stomach tumble and he wanted to throw up.

"Maybe I should be absent from the rest of the propaganda ......" Brad said impatiently, rubbing his aching temples, but before he could begin speaking, he was directly interrupted by a voice, "Coward." Brad snapped his eyes open, angrily followed the voice, and then saw George's deep eyes, George looked straight at him, and said again, "Coward! "Brad went straight to the case!

But George was unmoved, he retracted his left hand, "If you run away now, you are just telling others, you are afraid, they need to attack your weapon, you hand them the weapon, and then cock your ass, still punished by them, not a coward!" George's thunderous voice made people clearly feel the trembling of his feelings, "We haven't lost yet, if you want to surrender, please take care of yourself, I will never admit defeat!" ”

He will pay back today's shame tenfold! (To be continued.) )