In the fourth week of December, "Meet My Father-in-law 2" won the North American weekend box office championship with the third highest December premiere in film history, once again awakening the silent holiday box office market; What's more, this record high was set on Wednesday and Thursday when it was already released in advance, and the film received 70 million at the box office in the first five days of its release.

This is really a huge surprise, a chaotic holiday file, in just one month, there have been two works with a box office of 40 million premieres in a row, both of which are among the top five in film history, if you add the "Incredibles" and "National Treasure" that are still being screened, the holiday files in 2004 can really be said to be full of flowers. But what exactly is the pattern?

"The Incredibles" is an animation, "National Treasure" adventures, "Murder with a knife" is a crime, and "Meet My Father-in-law 2" is a comedy, these are four very different types of movies, and the common denominator that can barely be seen is "family fun", and the festive atmosphere of the holiday stalls is always tied to the family - but this is not news, and the trend of this week's North American weekend box office charts also proves that not all family-friendly works can win audiences during the holiday season, so ...... After going around in a circle, saying it is equal to not saying it, or returning to the original point.

"Killing with a Knife" this week once again continued the strong performance since its release, due to the different genres, almost no impact of "Meet My Father-in-law 2", which can be seen from the 25% drop jù, which makes the movie still earn more than 18 million US dollars in three days over the weekend three weeks after its release, which is enough to compete with the box office blockbusters of the summer file, and even surpasses the table of "National Treasure", becoming the most shiny dark horse in this year's holiday file.

The 18 million weekend box office not only made "Killing with a Knife" easily re-runner-up, but also won the championship and runner-up for two weeks in four weeks of release, so dazzling that all words lost their meaning; At the same time, it also pushed the cumulative box office to 156 million, and the success of the work immediately entered a new level.

At the end of November, "National Treasure" was released, and when it was not optimistic, it achieved a counterattack, and broke out an astonishing number of jù one after another, with a cumulative box office of 140 million in six weeks of release, which made Disney smile; But now in just four weeks, the cumulative box office of "Killing with a Knife" has exceeded 150 million, which is an incredible achievement, which also makes "Killing with a Knife" second only to "Incredibles" and has become the runner-up at the box office so far during this year's holiday.

Originally, people were still questioning, the www.biquge.info of "borrowing a knife to kill" is not high, and it is not easy to break through 100 million, as for 200 million, it is even more distant; more importantly, as a thriller crime work, it is already very rare to break through the threshold of 100 million, and in the long history of film history, there is only one crime movie that has exceeded 100 million at the box office, and the "pulp fiction" released in 1994, and after that, The best box office table is "Mystic River" released in 2003, and the box office performance finally landed at 90 million, and 200 million box office is almost an impossible task for a crime movie.

But now, the cumulative box office of "Murder with a Knife" has reached 156 million in four weeks, which not only easily surpassed "Pulp Fiction" and refreshed the box office record in the history of crime movies - but also raised a big notch, the record of "Pulp Fiction" is 100.7 million; At the same time, because of the next New Year's Day holiday, it is very promising to usher in a gratifying box office recovery, so 200 million is no longer an unattainable moat.

Almost without anyone noticing, "killing people with a knife" has already created history, and it is close to writing a new history.

Regardless of whether "Killing with a Knife" can finally achieve this breakthrough, Lance has successfully attracted the attention of all Hollywood, compared with the birth of "City of God", the two works of "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Killing with a Knife" show Lance's superb ability to control commercial films - "The Day After Tomorrow" is a multi-line large-scale scene scheduling; "Killing with a knife" is an atmosphere control in a narrow space, and in both works, Lance's mature and sophisticated approach to rhythm control can be felt, which is crucial for a director, especially a commercial director.

Compared with a visual effects blockbuster like "The Day After Tomorrow", "Murder with a Knife", as a thriller crime movie, was originally at a disadvantage in the box office competition, but Lance still turned decay into magic and set a historical record, which is the most valuable asset for major Hollywood studios.

Of course, if you dig deeper, the fact that "Killing with a Knife" can achieve such a good result, Tom's appeal and the box office showdown hype of "Ocean's Twelve" are all indispensable. But compared with the public, the film company sees a deeper level: Lance, who is also a producer, director, screenwriter and actor, is absolutely credited!

Therefore, it is no longer important where "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" finally accumulates at the box office, and the performance so far is enough to prove Lance's ability and talent, which is an important breakthrough for Hollywood to change the game. Of course, everybody is keen to have the record broken – because only when the record is broken does it have historical significance, and people are now looking forward to the new heights of "killing with a knife".

The comedy movie "Meet My Father-in-law 2" premiered at the box office, and the crime movie "Murder with a Knife" continued to be high at the box office in the fourth week, which is only the top two in the box office list in the fifth week of December.

The fantasy film "The Unfortunate Adventures of Raymond Snich" plummeted by 58% at the box office the next week, earning only 12 million weekend box office, and two weeks after its release, it was completely announced that the work, which cost as much as 140 million, would bring huge losses to Paramount, occupying the third place on this week's list.

The comedy film "Fat Abbott" premiered this week, and was completely exploded by the same type of competitor "Meet My Father-in-law 2", and the number of opening weekends of only 10 million was really miserable, but due to the low investment, the recovery of costs was not a problem, so it was drowned in a bunch of lively news, disappeared, and ranked fourth this week.

The drama film "The Aviator" continues to expand, and this biographical film starring Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio has become a big hit in the awards season upon its release, and Leonardo's best actor is even more popular, earning $8.6 million at the box office this week, occupying the fifth place on the list. Compared with the huge investment of 110 million US dollars, the ambition of this work is not above the box office, and the intention of pointing at the Oscars can be called "Sima Zhao's heart".

In the fourth week of the release of the comedy crime movie "Ocean's Twelve", the box office continued to decline, with a drop of 40 percent and only 4.5 million US dollars, which was so bad that people couldn't laugh or cry, and even couldn't get angry, and the cumulative box office came to 88 million, and the hope of breaking 100 million was all pinned on the outbreak on New Year's Day next week, ranking eighth on the North American box office list this week.

When "Killing with a Knife" is continuing to break records, "Ocean's Twelve" has completely lost its competitiveness, and even the crew has put up a white flag and retreated to Europe, making unremitting efforts to expand the world market, leaving the North American market completely to "Killing with a Knife".

At this moment, people realized that one qiē was as expected, two works of the same type that premiered at the same time, there was no tie in the head-to-head competition, and one side was bound to be completely defeated, which was a direct duel between life and death. Although the result came a little late, it still didn't deviate from the track.

It's just that people didn't expect that it was the "Twelve Arhats" who collapsed completely.

In addition, the street hit work "Polar Express" and the small-scale release work "Darkness" ranked sixth and seventh respectively; "Spanish Maid", which was released last week, slipped straight to ninth place.

On this list, "Meet My Father-in-law 2" and "Fat Abbott", both comedy movies, "Murder with a Knife" and "Twelve Oceans", both crime movies, "Meet My Father-in-law 2", "The Unfortunate Adventure of Raymond Snick", "Ocean's Twelve", "Polar Express", ...... The tables are all completely different, but the horror movie "Dark", which has nothing to do with the holiday file, has achieved good results, coupled with the expected outbreak of the film "The Aviator" during the awards season, the box office table of genre films does have obvious differences.

Therefore, the law of holiday stalls is still a fog; This pattern continued into the fifth week of December, not only the last week of 2004, but also the first week of 2005, with New Year's Day being a Saturday.

In the fifth week of December, without any new works being released, the audience ushered in a movie-watching frenzy, so almost all the works ushered in a counterattack posture box office increase, and the focus of attention still revolves around the two works "Meet the Father-in-law 2" and "Kill with a Knife" - as for "Ocean's Twelve", it is already a thing of the past, and media attention is always limited, even if the cast is as strong as "Ocean's Twelve".

"Meet My Father-in-law 2" only handed over a 9% drop in the case of a large number of audiences pouring into the cinema, and received a weekend box office of 4,000 for the second consecutive week, and what is even more terrifying is that thanks to the surging crowds of people during the holiday, the cumulative box office of the movie has reached an incredible 160 million in two weeks, surpassing "Killing with a knife" is only a matter of time, and it is about to compete with "Incredibles" for the holiday box office champion.

The innate advantages of comedy movies are vividly displayed at this moment; And the innate disadvantages of crime movies, although they can be seen in "borrowing a knife to kill", are not obvious.

This week, "Killing with a Knife" ushered in an astonishing increase of 26 percent, and there is only one step left before the box office of 200 million! (To be continued.) )