Entering the fourth week of April, no one has compared "Sin City" to "Saharan Cavalry" anymore, this is not two works that can be compared on the same level, the focus is on "Sin City", and people are enthusiastically discussing the possibility of this work hitting the box office of 200 million. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the fourth week of April, the release scale of the two premieres was relatively limited, and "Translation Storm" is undoubtedly a strong candidate for this week's champion, and the facts have proved it, with 22 million opening weekend box office data, so that "Translation Storm" was easily crowned this week's North American champion, but compared to the investment of 80 million, this achievement can only be said to be decent and futile.

Another work that held a premiere is "See You Early", this youth romantic comedy cost 30 million to build, which is already a medium-to-upper scale for works of the same genre, but unfortunately the premiere results are disappointing, only 7.5 million weekend box office, which has indicated that it is almost impossible to recover costs, even if the North American box office wants to cross the book cost line, it is very difficult.

"Hate to Meet" failed to show any competitiveness, finishing fourth on the weekend charts, behind last week's premiere of "Devil May Cry."

"Devil Cry God" fell by 41% at the box office this week, which can be called a decline against the sky for a horror movie, with a box office of 13 million over the weekend, occupying the third place on the list, and the cumulative box office in two weeks also reached 43 million, which was a big surprise. Especially considering that its investment cost is only 19 million, which also means that it will enter the profit stage next week, which is a good sign for Sony, which has just acquired MGM.

Of course, the biggest highlight of the week is still the "Sin City", the unique "Sin City".

After entering its fourth week of theaters, this R-rated crime film still maintained its high energy, maintaining an excellent decline of 33% for the second consecutive week, sweeping the box office of 15 million dollars in three days over the weekend, and deservedly occupying the second place in this week's list, successfully achieving a counterattack on "Devil May Cry" - considering the excellent decline of this work, "Sin City" can still achieve a comeback after four weeks of release, which is all the more commendable, and more importantly, The cumulative box office of the movie has reached 158 million.

Such a box office trend curve has completely lost the language of the media, and everyone just quietly observes the process of the film's cumulative box office approaching 200 million, and then exclaims again.

At this time, the controversy about the film in the media has gradually calmed down, and the controversy on the Internet has become more and more lively with the advancement of time.

Perhaps in 10 years' time, "Sin City" will become the benchmark for many independent cult films, just as "Sin City" is compared to "pulp fiction."

In the first week of May, when the two films premiering this week lacked impact, "Sin City" achieved a 10-million-level weekend box office for the fifth consecutive week with a 25% decline, once again refreshing people's perception of the box office pull momentum of this work. After handing over $11 million in weekend figures, the cumulative box office reached $174 million, and it was in a good position before the summer season arrived.

Two hundred million, this is no longer a "legendary" height, after five weeks of fighting in the "Sin City", such a height is already within reach.

Although the summer season is coming next week, the impact will be extremely strong, and the box office stamina of "Sin City" will be severely tested; But it is undeniable that on the road to the 200 million box office, "Sin City" has taken the lead, especially considering that the current reputation and controversy of the film have not weakened people's enthusiasm for watching movies.

Opportunities and challenges are always two sides of the same coin. If nothing else, the 200 million box office of "Sin City" has been secured.

This is also confirmed by the facts.

In the second week of May, "Heavenly Dynasty" made its debut in 3,500 theaters, vigorously opening the curtain of the 2005 summer season, but the result surprised everyone, the first box office was only 19 million, and the terrible performance poured a bucket of ice water in the summer heatwave, so that the news media, film companies, and audiences who were eagerly waiting for the arrival of the summer season came and went home in disappointment.

This epic blockbuster, created by Ridley Scott, attracted actors such as Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Edward Norton, and more. Among them, Eva, who is the least famous, has relied on the "Sin City" released six weeks ago to become famous all over the world, further increasing the thickness of the cast of "Heavenly Dynasty".

After the release of "Sin City", the army of beauties led by Eva and Jessica completely detonated the enthusiasm of male audiences, and just the photo invitations of major magazines have overwhelmed them, and the popularity is close to Angelina Jolie, the most topical at present, which is staggering.

But even so, the "Heavenly Dynasty" still failed to turn the tide, with a huge investment cost of 130 million, but only received 19 million premiere box office, which can be called a huge failure, which also makes the movie the second dud of this year after "Sahara Cavalry"; At the same time, it also continued the frenzy of defeat of epic films that fell one after another last year, once again proving to major film companies that this type of work no longer has market appeal.

Objectively speaking, although the media reputation of the "Heavenly Dynasty" did not arouse fanaticism, it still reached the passing line, and the 63-point media comprehensive evaluation surpassed that of "Alexander the Great" and "Troy", and it was much better than the "Saharan cavalry" that had been defeated not long ago.

Even so, it has not been able to save the decline of epic films.

The summer season is coming, but it has not been able to bring enough crushing pressure, and the same is true in the third week of May, three works premiered at the same time, but none of the works showed enough appeal, Jennifer Lopez starring the romantic comedy "Monster Mother-in-law" and Will Ferrell starring the sports comedy "Soccer Daddy" both achieved a box office of 20 million, but neither was able to burst out of greater box office potential, in this tearing war, both lost.

For two consecutive weeks, the summer file has not been able to exert the corresponding power, especially under the weak performance of the premiere works, those old works that have accumulated word-of-mouth, precipitation, and fermentation have won a lot of room for development, looking back on the past month, the most outstanding audience reputation is undoubtedly "Sin City", and only "Sin City".

Cranes and mussels compete, and fishermen profit.

With its excellent quality, "Sin City" still radiated vigor after the arrival of the summer season, first grabbing the weekend box office of 6.1 million with a drop of 45 percent, and then unbelievably raising 6.8 million yuan in three days of the weekend with an incredible increase of 13 percent.

The astonishing decline, the rise against the sky, after entering the summer season, the torrent of audiences who poured into the market contributed to the box office of "Sin City" after looking for excellent film works, and truly brought the advantages of controversy and word-of-mouth to the extreme.

Immediately afterwards, the highlight of this year's summer file "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" debuted, this work lived up to expectations, and the premiere exploded at the box office of 100.8 million US dollars, becoming the second work in film history after "Spider-Man" to break 100 million at the box office in the opening weekend, plus the 50 million obtained from the early screening on Thursday, the film reached 158 million at the end of the first week of screening, and the cumulative box office reached 158 million within four days, truly bringing the summer craze to the North American continent.

"Sin City" suffered a heavy blow, and the box office plummeted by 60% this week, only harvesting 2.8 million weekend box office, and the pace of hitting 200 million has slowed down significantly. Until this moment, the advantages and disadvantages brought by the schedule have completely exploded, obviously "Sin City" wants to reach the height of "borrowing a knife to kill" is no longer possible, the serial attacks in the later part of the summer file made "Sin City" have no advantage in the competition, and after the box office lead in the same period was gradually eroded, it fell behind "borrowing a knife to kill".

Moreover, this is just the beginning, after which "War of the Worlds", "Spider-Man Prequel: Mystery of the Shadows", "Fantastic Four", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and other works will be released one after another, and the market space of "Sin City" will be further compressed, and the room for rebound will become smaller and smaller.

Despite this, "Sin City" relied on the huge advantages accumulated before, and successfully broke through the 200 million threshold in the third week of June, and the cumulative box office came to the position of 200 million 1.3 million.

It happened, and it just happened! Before the release of "The Day After Tomorrow", people did not expect the ending of 200 million; Before the release of "Killing with a Knife", people couldn't believe that the work had the potential of 200 million; Before the release of "Sin City", people did not expect that 200 million was within range. But, that's the reality, the reality really happened, and the outstanding performance of 200 million in North America was once again created.

This not only made "Sin City" the eighth R-rated movie in film history to break 200 million at the box office, but also left its name in the annals of history; At the same time, it also made Lance truly "Mr. 200 Million", and the feat of breaking 200 million at the North American box office of three consecutive works is truly unprecedented.

Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas...... And Lancelot-Strello. It's a whole new world, and Hollywood is welcoming a genius, a genius, a ghost, and a future cinematographer. (To be continued.) )