72_72291 The summer is over, but the "summer file" belonging to the North American film market is still not over, and the strong momentum of "Independence Day" began in the first week of July, sweeping July, sweeping August, and colliding with September.

In the first week of September, a drop of 25 percent, the weekend box office was 10.7 million, and the 10 consecutive championships were completed strongly; In the second week of September, the drop was as high as 27 percentage points, and the weekend box office fell below the 10 million level for the first time, although it only earned 7.8 million US dollars, but still defeated a group of opponents who did not have any competition, and continued to win the championship for 11 consecutive weeks!

Although the weekend box office officially fell to the 10 million level, "Independence Day" still continued its pace of making history, and the 11th week weekend box office of $7.8 million still became the record holder of the 11th week weekend box office in film history, defeating the original record holder "Aladdin" by a narrow margin of less than 150,000 US dollars.

In this way, in the eleven weeks since the release of "Independence Day", it has not only won the championship for 11 consecutive weeks with its indisputable performance, but also bagged all the weekend box office records in the first 11 weeks after the release of a movie in the history of film, completely completing the screen swiping work.

At the same time, "Independence Day" brought the number of weeks of its consecutive championship to double digits, becoming the first work to win the championship for more than ten weeks after "Home Alone" in 1990, and the first work in history to be able to win the championship for more than eight weeks since the concept of North American summer was born. At present, "Independence Day" has won 11 consecutive championships, and on the list of film history, it is only ranked fourth in film history after "Detective Beverly Hills" and "Mr. Duss", who also won 13 consecutive championships, and "Home Alone", which won 12 consecutive championships!

Carrying the strong momentum of the eleventh consecutive championship, "Independence Day" brought its cumulative box office to $488 million in one go, and the "$500 million" that I once thought would never be touched was actually close at hand in the blink of an eye, just one step away.

At a time when people thought that $400 million was the limit of the North American film market, Independence Day easily broke that shackle and headed for a higher level that no one had ever imagined. Who would have thought that Leonardo's joke was about to come true now.

Eleven weeks, a total of 488 million US dollars, only 12 million US dollars at the box office, "Independence Day" can set a new record high that no one could have dreamed of before, and according to the experience of the Hollywood film market, considering factors such as the release time, the box office decline in the tenth and eleventh weeks, and the current audience popularity, this little distance is not a problem at all, and it is definitely not a problem for "Independence Day" to break through the sky, and the only problem now is "when", " When will "Independence Day" make history?

Therefore, not only ordinary audiences, but also news media, film practitioners, and the bigwigs behind the scenes of major film companies, as well as the pundits on Wall Street who control the lifeblood of the economy...... The whole of Hollywood, the whole of North American society, and the whole world are watching the progress of "Independence Day", and everyone is looking forward to the day when history will be made.

Just when all eyes were on "Independence Day", in the third week of September, the North American film market changed dramatically. first。 wives。 club)" came out of nowhere, ending the eleventh consecutive crown of "Independence Day" and topping the box office list of North American movies this week!

Because the "Independence Day" table is so strong, even in the summer season where strong players gather, no one can shake its dominance, and in the empty and boring September, naturally no one would imagine that there can be a work that threatens the king of "Independence Day", except for "Independence Day" in the first two weeks, the best weekend box office is only more than 7 million US dollars, there is no threat at all; What's more, people are now concerned about when the cumulative box office of "Independence Day" will really cross the historical line, but no one pays much attention to the North American weekend box office charts.

Under such circumstances, the rebellion of the "Ex-Wives Club" has caused almost all the media to be in turmoil, "The 'Ex-Wives Club' ends the eleventh week of 'Independence Day'!" Such headlines spread across the United States overnight, and the time for a change of dynasty came at a time when people were completely unprepared.

"Ex-Wives Club" is distributed by Paramount Pictures, with only $26 million investment, starring Diane Keaton and Maggie Smith, as a comedy movie, Paramount does not have much hope for the film at all, but the scale of the 2,000 screenings is not even as much as the new release of "The Last" this week. man。 standing）”。

New Line Pictures' "The Ultimate Warrior," starring Bruce Willis and released in 2,600 theaters, is considered a contender for the 12th Independence Day title this week.

However, as a thriller action movie, "The Ultimate Warrior" has some overlap with "Independence Day", so the market potential is limited; Second, Bruce's situation in the past two years has been really average, "Die Hard 3" has a mediocre box office, and "Twelve Monkeys" has been stolen from the limelight by Brad. So people don't think that the "ultimate titan" has the ability to pull down the "Independence Day".

Indeed, the "Ultimate Warrior" earned only $7 million at the opening weekend box office, a drop in the bucket for a $67 million investment, and the film, which had just premiered, had already flown a box office fiasco. But who would have expected that what the "Ultimate Titan" was not able to do, but the "Ex-Wife Club" was completed.

"Ex-Wives Club" was a huge hit in the cold of September, and it grossed $19 million at the box office for three days on the third weekend of September, which was the best number of premieres in the second half of the summer season since the release of "Independence Day" in the first week of July. Even in the weeks ahead, it has the ability to compete with Independence Day - of course, if it had been in the first few weeks, not September, the "Ex-Wives Club" might not have received so much attention, and the timing of its release was a delicate matter.

In the face of the strong performance of the "Ex-Wife Club", the "Independence Day", which entered the twelfth week of the release, naturally could not burst out with such a powerful energy, so it could only give up the throne and end the eleventh week of the "Independence Day", which not only announced that the "Independence Day" had no chance to surpass the "Home Alone" consecutive championship record, but also officially announced that the unparalleled magic of "Independence Day" in 1996 finally came to an end temporarily.

In the end, in the third week of September, "Independence Day" handed over a 20% box office decline, grabbing $6.2 million at the box office in three days over the weekend, ranking third behind the "Ex-Wives Club" and "The Ultimate Warrior" in the North American weekend box office charts this week.

Although the 11-week dynasty of "Independence Day" is temporarily over, this does not mean that the pace of setting a record has slowed down, on the contrary, this week's box office drop of 20% has once again handed over a magical answer, which also makes the "Independence Day" impact of 500 million US dollars a big step forward again, it is very likely that before the arrival of October, "Independence Day" will create the history of Zào!

The summer file has won eleven consecutive championships, and this record can be announced in advance and cannot be broken, perhaps...... Maybe it's possible in other schedules, for example, "Yihai Xiongfeng" has created eight consecutive championships in the winter file, but in the summer file, it is difficult to surpass, because the competition will only become more and more fierce, the opponent will only become stronger and stronger, and three consecutive championships are a difficult task. Eleven consecutive championships? It's simply impossible.

Therefore, with the success of the "Early Club", "Independence Day" officially has a strong record of its own: the eleventh consecutive championship in the summer file!

After the change of dynasty, the "Ex-Wife Club" was obviously very popular with the audience, and completed three consecutive championships with super popularity, and the cumulative box office directly exceeded 60 million US dollars, and there is hope to hit the super high threshold of 100 million US dollars, which is definitely a big win for a comedy with an investment of only 26 million US dollars, and even far better than "Ace Correspondent".

Jim Carrey is lying down again. As one of only two members of the 20 million club, although Kim has not done anything wrong, nor has he taken the initiative to provoke or compete, he has inevitably become a topic of ridicule in the media. Although "Ace Correspondent" and "Independence Day" are not qualified for direct head-to-head comparison due to the different subject matter, they ...... This is life, the stronger the expression of "Independence Day", the more sad Jin's day becomes, and it is completely a pond fish.

After the end of his midsummer dynasty, the "Independence Day" table still did not have any decline, and the "Independence Day" after the end of the eleventh consecutive championship ushered in a new round of movie-watching frenzy in the fourth week of September, and the young volcano organized a huge movie-watching event in the United States, uniting all the fans, and everyone gathered together to sprint to the historical record, even the "Tonight Show", "Oprah Talk Show", "Saturday Night Live" and other programs also called on people to go into the cinema together to join this collective movie-watching heatwave.

Although it failed to hit the twelfth consecutive championship, the box office of "Independence Day" ushered in a rebound in the weekend of the fourth week of September, and the box office soared by 60% this week, becoming the only work in the North American box office list this week to hand over a green word increase.

What's more, the weekend box office table of "Independence Day" last week was very good, and this week it actually counterattacked and handed over an increase, which means that ...... This means...... $500 million at the box office! The cumulative box office of "Independence Day" finally exceeded 500 million US dollars, and it has truly become a unique existence in North American film history!

Five billion dollars, it really appeared!.