Under the escort of 82 points in the comprehensive evaluation of the media, "City of God" landed in the North American film market, although it only has the scale of screening of seven art theaters, but it deservedly became the king of the topic of the week, and even stole the limelight of "Super Daredevil Man" who continued to be screened in 3,400 theaters.

In the third week of February, "City of God" grossed $298,830 at $42,690 per theater, ranking 26th on the weekend box office charts in North America.

At a cursory glance, this achievement is not eye-catching, the top 30 on the list, and the number of 40,000 at the box office of a single museum is only ranked 46th on the current film history list, and there is still a long, long way to go before the history of zào, which seems to be worth mentioning at all.

But industry insiders exclaimed, Paramount Pictures cheered, and the whole Hollywood was amazed.

As of 2003, the top three grossing non-English films were "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (128 million), "Life is Beautiful" (57 million), and "Angels Love Amelie" (33 million). At present, the top three single-theater box office of non-English films are $45,000 for "Angel Amelie", $41,000 for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and $34,000 for "Monsoon Wedding".

A simple two-set number jù shows the hindrance and neglect of non-English works in the North American market.

As a Portuguese-language work, "City of God" naturally cannot compete with the historical record of English-language works, but the single-theater box office of $42,000 is enough to make it the runner-up in the list of single-theater box office all-time non-English-language works, and even surpasses

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

This achievement is not only amazing, but also makes everyone exclaim. During the screening period, it achieved such an excellent single-hall box office, which shows that the film has gained excellent reputation and recognition among professional fans, and has also laid a solid foundation for the film to hit the box office of 10 million or even higher.

Against the backdrop of this outstanding performance, the number of screenings in the seven theaters of "City of God" is insignificant among the top 50 productions of the week, and it is the only one with fewer than 100 theaters.

Generally speaking, the winter season of January and February is the coldest time of the year, because the cold winter makes everyone hide at home to keep warm, and the hustle and bustle of the awards season steals all attention, and even the Valentine's Day schedule is difficult to achieve more bright results. But this time, the "City of God" has achieved such excellent and outstanding results in the cold of February, from film critics to media people to audiences, all have won a lot of praise, especially thanks to the preservation of Javier's blog, so that the film has always been discussed on the Internet, which is obviously an incredible thing, which makes Paramount Pictures happy up and down.

Compared with the "Super Daredevil Man", which plunged by 55% at the box office this week, the single-theater box office of "City of God" approaching the historical record is obviously the biggest attraction.

"Daredevil Man" continued to be the top box office in North America this week with a mediocre result of 18 million, and the diving decline combined with the poor reputation made this work a huge joke; "The Single Men's Club," which premiered this week, earned $17 million at the weekend box office, ranking second.

Objectively speaking, the box office figures of the two works were still very good in the cold February, but unfortunately, the poor reputation and weak topics could not arouse more interest at all.

In contrast, "City of God" has achieved such outstanding results as a dark horse of non-English works, and has made breakthroughs in word-of-mouth, topics, publicity, box office, etc., and easily occupies the headline position in Hollywood this week.

After the box office statistics of the first week were released, Paramount couldn't wait to cater to the people's hearts and announced as soon as possible that "City of God" will have its first round of expansion in 47 theaters in major cities in the United States next week! Although the pace of expansion is still cautious, it is an unimaginable leap for a Portuguese-language work.

The emergence of the "City of God" has not only sparked a lot of discussion in the film industry, but also attracted attention in society.

With the passage of time, the possibility of the United States starting a war is continuing to rise, and even triggering condemnation from all sides of the world, but the United States still insists on obtaining the consent of the United Nations to start a war. The controversy on an international scale has become more and more intense, which has also led to the growing contradiction between the anti-war faction and the main war faction in the United States.

As Paramount Pictures expected, "City of God" is a non-English title, and it is difficult to cause much repercussions, but it still attracts a small amount of attention. On the "Late Show" hosted by David Letterman, he half-jokingly said, "We have seen the deplorable state of the City of God, so let's pray that Iraq does not have to face such despair and fear, at least, in our homeland we do not need to worry about our children facing this qiē." ”

As one of the most popular talk shows in the United States, "The Late Night Show" has always been in the top 10 in terms of ratings, and can attract an average of 4 million viewers during the late night schedule, and is listed as Americans' favorite talk show along with "Oprah Talk Show", "Tonight Show", "Saturday Night Live", etc., and its influence cannot be underestimated.

In fact, David's remarks on the "Late Night Show" quickly fermented, and "Saturday Night Live" also arranged a clip of Xiaodouzi shooting Dumb in "City of God" in this week's program, which further heated up the anti-war rhetoric. There are also growing voices calling on the academy to stop hosting this year's Oscars, but the response of the academy is intriguing, they have always been firm in their stance on maintaining peace, but they have gritted their teeth and are unwilling to take a stand on the issue of stopping the ceremony.

This qiē has made the whole of Hollywood lively. As a collateral effect, the "City of God" has never been the main focus of people's attention, but even so, the movie-watching craze is heating up step by step.

In the fourth week of February, "City of God" continued its fiery stance, and after a small expansion of 47 theaters, the result of 33,000 US dollars in a single theater once again amazed everyone, although this number was behind the 34,000 US dollars in the second week of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and temporarily ranked second in the box office of foreign language films in the second week, but the almost negligible decline made "City of God" follow in the footsteps of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and handed over the box office curve.

The box office of more than 30,000 in a single venue allowed "City of God" to collect $1.55 million in three days over the weekend, which made "City of God" directly in the top 20 on this week's weekend box office charts, ranking 16th. It is worth mentioning that among the top 50 works, there is still only one "City of God" with less than 100 theaters.

"God! Oh, God! Oh, God! ”

Entertainment Weekly's ass became a microcosm of Hollywood's response, even though the City of God had already been amazed once when it won the Grand Prix at the Sundance Film Festival; Although it is said that the "City of God" delivered amazing results at the box office in the first week, people have already marveled for the second time. However, at this moment, people still couldn't help but exclaim.

"In just two weeks, the box office of a single theater has delivered 30,000 consecutive results, and the cumulative box office has directly reached 2.35 million US dollars, which is an incredible box office table for a small-budget independent film with an investment of only 3 million US dollars."

Chris-Lawson, a reporter for Entertainment Weekly, commented, "Just when everyone is wondering where the director named Lancelot Strello came from, we should be more puzzled about why this Portuguese-language film has caused such a wide range of discussions, and it seems that in just one month, the Sundance heat wave has begun to spread to the whole United States." ”

As Chris says, almost everyone is curious about how the "City of God" came to be, the miracle of foreign language films.

Different from the distinctive Chinese/Chinese martial arts style of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Hollywood has a long history of worship and love; Unlike the unique and glamorous French style of "Angel Amelie", Hollywood has never had much resistance to this, and the "City of God" is filled with Latin American enthusiasm, restlessness, darkness, chaos and turmoil, which Americans have always disliked.

However, it is precisely such a Latin American film that has achieved excellent results at the box office of a single theater for two consecutive weeks, and the rapid accumulation of several jù has made the possibility of "City of God" hitting the box office of 15 million dollars skyrocketing.

Everyone tried to figure out how this miracle was born, and invisibly focused the conversation on the "City of God"; At the same time, the craze caused by the "City of God" on the Internet continues to ferment, and gradually bursts out with more powerful energy.

Under the advice of Reims, Javier's blog and Paramount Pictures have created an ingenious campaign in which they encourage all netizens to go to the cinema to watch "City of God" in person, and then write their own feelings or feelings, or even movie reviews, from which Javier will personally select some of his impressions and post them on his own blog, so that everyone can communicate on the same platform. Among them, the most discussed creators will have the opportunity to visit Paramount Pictures headquarters, accompany a day trip to Universal Studios, and have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with the crew of "City of God".

This immediately detonated the enthusiasm of all netizens!