In the third week of June, the high-profile "X-Files: Conquer the Future" took the lead, and with a box office figure of more than $11,000 per store, it exploded to a score of $30 million, and lived up to expectations.

The $30 million opening weekend box office is not outstanding, which is slightly inferior to the 40 million level of the previous three weekend champions in this summer's file; And it has not been able to climb further to the 35 million level, increasing the competitiveness of the film in this week's box office confrontation. But this box office figure has already met the expectations of Twentieth Century Fox and the media, allowing the media to predict a short-handed battle as expected.

In fact, the media review of "The X-Files: Conquest of the Future" was only 60 points, barely achieving a passing grade in praise and criticism, but the theater score reached "B", showing the audience's positive attitude towards the film.

This is also in line with the media's prediction before the film's release, as a work derived from the TV series, the audience's support will become the film's biggest weapon. And the audience gave a "B" evaluation, which also means that the movie will be able to do more at the box office, and the follow-up performance is worth looking forward to.

The box office data of 30 million US dollars is better than the previous works such as "Super Perfect Murder" and "Six Days and Seven Nights", so is this result enough to beat "Truman's World" in the third week of release?

First of all, "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" won in a direct confrontation with Mulan.

After the release of "Mulan", the word-of-mouth did not reach the height of the works of "The Lion King", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Aladdin", and the comprehensive evaluation of the media was only 71 points, which was far from the expected results. However, considering the large number of Chinese elements in the movie, which is far from Western aesthetics, especially in 1998, the United States has a very limited understanding of Eastern culture, so it is very rare for the media comprehensive evaluation of "Mulan" to achieve such results. Among them, several authoritative film critics, represented by Roger Ebert, have given the movie a high score of 90, which shows the quality of this work.

Because of this gap in aesthetic concepts, "Mulan" also had a weaker box office impact in its opening weekend than expected, with $23 million on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and less than $8,000 for a single theater, which is still far below Disney's expectations.

However, Disney cartoons have always been known for their long-term performance, and the box office pull momentum after the elongated front can often burst out with amazing energy, coupled with the theater score reaching "B+", it can be seen that the audience's evaluation of the movie is still higher than expected, which also gives people reason to expect more from the box office endurance of the movie.

The rivalry between "The X-Files: Conquer the Future" and "Mulan" was expected, but it was unexpected, but overall, it met the expectations of the media. In particular, these two works have won more than $50 million at the box office together, accounting for almost half of the entire North American box office market, leaving "Truman's world" with very limited room to play.

"Truman's World" continues to advance amid the frenzy of social buzz, and Paramount has added another 50 venues this week to meet the audience's high expectations. Quietly, "Truman's World" has become the largest work to be released this week, and it occupies such a height as a comedy movie, which is also a rare sight in the summer file.

Paramount's rhythmic pace of expansion proved not to be a loss of mind, but a boon for the audience - "Truman's World" only handed over a 20% drop in the third week of its release, and swept the box office figure of $30.4 million in three days over the weekend!

Three million and four hundred thousand dollars!

The box office exceeded 30 million for three consecutive weeks, and before you know it, "Truman's World" has become the third work in film history to achieve such results - the first two works are "Titanic" and "Independence Day". Who would have thought of this?

People have imagined that it may be "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", maybe "Godzilla", maybe "Saving Private Ryan", which will be released next month, but absolutely no one thinks it will be "Truman's world". It's not that people don't have faith in Hugo, it's that it's too difficult for a comedy film to reach such heights – it's hard to get to the top.

But now, "Truman's World" is constantly accumulating momentum with a sweeping posture, and it has the potential to further challenge the market dominance of science fiction movies, action movies, or disaster movies. The sky-defying box office decline has created a sky-defying weekend box office, written a new history of the sky-defying level, and "Truman's world" is entering the palace of glory step by step!

At that time, the glory of "Independence Day" had become a thing of the past, and the glory of "Titanic" had not yet arrived, and "Los Angeles Confidential" carried the banner of traditional retro movies, making people deeply believe that visual effects commercial blockbusters have not really been able to occupy the mainstream of the market, and works with story-oriented, accurate patterns and delicate characters are still the essence of film art.

Now, "Truman's World" is at a completely different point in time, facing a completely different pattern and environment, but it has achieved more incredible results than "L.A. Confidential", with a box office of more than 30 million for three consecutive weeks, not only making "Truman's World" one of the only three works in film history to create such a record, but also making "Truman's World" stand shoulder to shoulder with "Independence Day" and "Titanic", and truly stand on the same level.

Although purely from the box office comparison, "Truman's World" is still a little different from the two commercial films, and it is difficult for this work to reach the level of 400 million in the end, but compared with the box office data, "Truman's World" is on par with the two film history record holders in terms of box office pulling ability.

In the case of the judgment made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "Truman's World" once again brought the script first, the role first, and the core to the extreme, which not only triggered a wave of social controversy, but also made people clearly realize once again that visual effects commercial blockbusters have inevitably arrived, but the wonderful movies made with real heart can still occupy a place in the market, not only film critics, but also the audience is very happy to cheer.

As a realistic black fairy tale comedy with timeless significance, "Truman's World" achieved far beyond imagination in June 1998.

The weekend box office performance of more than $30 million for three consecutive weeks brought the cumulative box office of "Truman's World" to $150 million in one fell swoop, and judging from the decline curve of the first three weeks, there is no doubt about the film's 200 million box office, which has made all the media already cheer - not for Hugo, but for the revival and rise of comedy films.

Following the strong rise of Jim Carrey, "Truman's World" has pushed comedy films to a new level, making people feel the powerful influence of comedy films at their peak once again - not only as a carrier for making people laugh, but also as a way to refract reality and satirize history, but with the invasion of commercial factors, comedy films are gradually losing their original charm and gradually declining.

Now, people have seen the excitement of comedy at its peak from "Truman's World"!

No amount of praise can be given to "Truman's World", but people are even more curious about who is the box office winner of this week in "Truman's World" and "The X-Files: Conquer the Future"?

In fact, judging from the box office data, both films grossed $30 million in weekends, which makes it impossible for the exhibitors to draw conclusions directly from the estimated box office, and can only wait patiently until Monday's real-time box office statistics are over to make a judgment, such fierce and hot competition is rare at any time.

"The X-Files: Conquer the Future" grossed $30.14 million in its opening weekend, and "Truman's World" grossed $30.41 million in its third weekend. This also means that "Truman's World" once again topped the North American weekend box office charts with a slight advantage of less than $270,000!

Triple Crown!

"Truman's World" narrowly defeated "The X-Files: Conquer the Future", becoming the first work to complete three consecutive championships since the summer of 1998, achieving the results that "Heaven and Earth Collide" and "Godzilla" were not able to achieve, and it was also in the face of the joint impact of two powerful opponents, it achieved re-election by a narrow margin, which made the pace of "Truman's World" to create history more and more solid and stronger!

In the third week of June, "Truman's World", "The X-Files: Conquer the Future", and "Mulan" ranked in the top three of the list, and the box office contributed by these three works together accounted for 70% of the total box office this week.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Godzilla" plummeted by 50% again this week under the strong squeeze of three works, and the weekend box office of less than $3 million only made the cumulative box office climb to 129 million, which is only a thin line away from the cost of 130 million US dollars. At least Sony Columbia Pictures doesn't need to worry about not being able to recover the book costs.

In the three weeks since its release, "Truman's World" has shown a strong dominance, winning almost unbeatable titles for three consecutive weeks, which is simply incredible for a work with an investment of only 60 million dollars - and it is also a comedy, such a strong performance has to be admired, once again showing Hugo Lancaster's strong dominance of the box office market.

Even in the summer season, the opponents who can impact Hugo are very limited; Even if it is a comedy film with weak competitiveness, Hugo's appeal to the audience is still unparalleled; Even in the case of the strong rival of visual effects commercial blockbusters, Hugo's works are still the first choice of all audiences!