The box office development trajectory of "Super Perfect Murder", "Six Days and Seven Nights", narrowly defeated "The X-Files: Conquer the Future", ...... "Truman's World", made a group of experts exclaim that they couldn't understand it, and the entire film market was surging for a while.

"Truman's World" called for wind and rain in the summer of 1998, which made many industry insiders joke, "Maybe this is this year's box office champion", which caused laughter. Why is this a joke? Because since 1990, when Home Alone topped the North American year-end box office for an incredible $285 million, no comedy has reached such heights in the past seven years — not even making it to the top 10.

But putting aside this year's year-end list, it can also be seen from this side that the performance of "Truman's World" in the summer file is too shocking.

Here's an interesting story: Independence Day sparked a frenzy of VFX commercial blockbusters, which in turn sparked a debate between conservatives and reformists; However, "L.A. Confidential", "Perfect" and "Truman's World" have successively made people deeply feel the strong appeal of retro movies with outstanding word-of-mouth, wonderful stories, and beautiful box office.

Hugo alone turned the entire North American film market upside down.

However, after three consecutive championships, it is obviously not so easy for "Truman's world" to continue to dominate - this is a summer file, and even if it is extremely difficult to win the championship for a week, the summer file will usher in fierce competition almost every week. In the fourth week of June, "Truman's World" will face another comedy movie encounter: "Dr. Doolittle," led by Eddie Murphy. Dolittle) "It's coming!

"Strange Doctor Doolittle" invested 71 million US dollars, and as the leading actor, Eddie is also the top comedian in the North American market that is enough to compete with Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and Billy Christo, although as a black actor, the breakthrough in salary is bound to be more difficult than others - which also makes him lag behind Kim and not be able to take the lead in the 20 million club, but the identity of a black actor can be said to be a combination of advantages and disadvantages, and a unique image and unique market have made Eddie a top superstar.

The film is based on the 1967 musical film of the same name, which was critically acclaimed and was nominated for Best Picture at the 40th Academy Awards. Now that the classic is being remade, and with Eddie breathing new life into the film, the attention it has attracted is unusual.

"Doctor Doolittle" is undoubtedly the favourite to win this week.

After the box office list was released in the fourth week of June, although "Strange Doctor Doolittle" was criticized, the media comprehensive evaluation was only 46 points, and the theater score was only "C-", which can almost be said to be a failure across the board; But in the end, the film continued Eddie's appeal at the box office, with a $29 million box office figure that was eye-catching — if it weren't for the "Truman's World" jewel in front of him, it would have been a record-breaking figure for comedy movies at the box office.

The situation of "Doctor Doolittle" also shows people the real situation of comedy movies - more and more people are aware of the difficulty of "Truman's World" to achieve such results, but even if the reputation is bad, it can still attract enough audiences to enter the cinema, laugh and enjoy 90 minutes of relaxation. This is also the reason why comedians such as Eddie, King, Robin, and Billy have become more and more rare - good quality and cheap, small and big.

As expected, the $29 million debut box office was enough for "Doctor Doolittle" to win the box office this week, even if "Truman's World" fell even more sharply - unless it can reverse the growth like "Titanic", it is impossible for "Truman's World" to complete a quadruple crown with last week's box office of $30.4 million.

In the end, "Truman's World" handed over a 20% drop for the second week in a row, getting a weekend box office of 24 million US dollars, although it was not able to achieve four consecutive championships, this week behind the "Strange Doctor Doolittle", occupying the runner-up throne, but the 20% decline is still jaw-dropping, and the box office performance of 20 million for four consecutive weeks is still among the top five in film history, once again transforming the film's excellent reputation into box office data, making the work make great strides on the road to making history.

The audience's heated discussion and controversy about "Truman's world" attracted more and more audiences to the cinema and joined the ranks of this social frenzy, which eventually translated into a box office performance of 20 million for four consecutive weekends - only three works in the entire film history have achieved such results, "Titanic", "Independence Day", and "The Speed of Life and Death". Now, add one more!

Although it is said that "Strange Doctor Doolittle" won the championship this week, but also as a comedy movie, "Truman's World" still showed a performance of 20 million in the fourth week, and it was immediate. While admiring Eddie's comedic talent and box office appeal, people also lamented Hugo's comprehension and interpretation of the work, "Truman's World" has gradually become one of the absolute masterpieces in the entire film history.

All the focus is on "Truman's World", and the four consecutive high-level performances have made the cumulative box office of the work reach 181 million! It is certain that "Truman's World" will surpass "L.A. Confidential" and bring a stronger impact to the entire market, but now people are curious about how high can this impact be?

$285 million beyond "Home Alone"? Reaching the $300 million height that comedy films have never been able to reach? The subsequent box office performance of "Truman's World" will determine how much the film will contribute to the course of history, and how deeply it will change the composition of the film market in the next decade.

In the fourth week of June, "Strange Doctor Doolittle", "Truman's World", and "Mulan" ranked in the top three.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Mulan" fell by only 25%, counterattacking "The X-Files: Conquer the Future", showing the strong box office endurance of Disney animated films as always, and the next box office end of this work is also eye-catching.

The first two months of the 1998 summer season came to an end, and "Truman's World" surprisingly became the frontrunner so far this year, and its outstanding performance brought the summer heat into a real climax. Immediately afterward, Michael Bay's "Armageddon" starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will land in the first week of July to usher in the Independence Day weekend, becoming the dominant Independence Day of this year, and the box office war is becoming more and more intense.

However, the North American weekend box office championship has nothing to do with "Truman's world", and under the cover of strong word-of-mouth, how good the subsequent box office of the movie can be, this is the biggest focus.

In fact, the $36 million weekend box office of "The Peerless Apocalypse" was a huge disappointment, and Michael's magic seems to have waned, whether it is the media roundup, the theater score, or the box office performance, it is far from meeting expectations. The premiere box office results of "Peerless Tribulation", which invested as much as $140 million, are not only far behind "Truman's World", but also much inferior to "Heaven and Earth Collision" and "Godzilla". Especially in the context of Independence Day, this achievement is all the more unremarkable.

But even so, "Peerless Tribulation" managed to win the box office in the first week of July.

Correspondingly, the pressure brought by the "peerless catastrophe" to "Truman's World" is also very limited, which makes "Truman's World" fall by 25% at the box office this week, winning $18 million at the weekend box office, which makes the cumulative box office of the movie easily exceed the threshold of 200 million and reach $206 million.

Unconsciously, "Truman's World" has delivered a decline of less than 30% for four consecutive weeks, which is also an unimaginable achievement for comedy films, making this work, which costs only 60 million US dollars, has reached 200 million US dollars in five weeks of release, although this performance is not as good as "Independence Day", but the box office performance in the same period has ranked third in film history, only behind "Independence Day" and "Titanic".

Could it be that "Truman's World" is about to hit the box office of 400 million?

This is obviously not practical, because "Truman's world" has neither the explosive power of the early stage of "Independence Day" nor the endurance of "Titanic", and the box office of $400 million is too difficult, but $300 million seems to be beckoning to "Truman's world" - of course, provided that the next box office decline can continue to be strong.

In the second week of July, it fell by 25 percent; In the third week of July, it fell by 21 percent; In the fourth week of July, it fell by 26 percent...... In the end, "Truman's World" ushered in a historic moment in the second week of August, with a cumulative box office of $288 million, which not only made "Truman's World" surpass "Los Angeles Confidential" and became Hugo's personal work, second only to "Independence Day" works, and set a new box office high; At the same time, it also made "Truman's World" officially surpass "Home Alone" and became the new box office champion of comedy films in film history.

This is a historical moment, not a simple historical moment for a new box office record for comedy films, but a time when the era of visual effects blockbusters began to sweep through the summer of 1998, and the script-oriented retro films once again fought their way out, ranking among the top 10 box office figures in film history with a box office figure of $288 million, once again rebalancing the balance of power between traditional conservatives and radical reformers, and making the film market more prosperous and noisy before the turn of the century.

What's even more ironic is that "Truman's World" itself is a black fairy tale, and its core idea is even more realistic and ironic, making this box office victory evolve into a realistic epic!