For a commercial film to be screened on a large scale, it is undoubtedly a miracle if the box office trend in the second week overwhelms the first week, and "Titanic" is undoubtedly creating a miracle.

On Thanksgiving, due to the lack of strong enough competitors in the market as before, "Titanic" has become the first choice for many family audiences to watch the movie, and the film will not disappoint, PG-13 rating is enough to kill all ages.

Compared with Wednesday's weekday, on Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday, the single-day box office of "Titanic" rose again, as high as 55 percent, and the single-day box office collected $27.59 million.

One week after its release in North America, the box office of "Titanic" officially exceeded the $100 million mark, reaching $123.36 million!

At the same time, the film also landed in the United Kingdom for a week, and in the homeland of the Titanic, the film performance was also excellent, taking in $29.55 million in the same period.

The completely contrary trend of "Titanic" is only the beginning, far from the end.

After Thanksgiving, the number of North American theaters of the film increased again, from 3,358 to 3,398, and the mainstream commercial theater scheduling rate exceeded 70% in one fell swoop, reaching the terrifying figure of 76%.

As we all know, since Hollywood films can be released on a large scale, ±especially since the 80s, the box office of the first weekend has become more and more important for commercial films, accounting for more and more proportions, and it is also the most normal law for the box office to shrink every weekend after the box office of the first weekend.

After Thanksgiving, "Titanic" ushered in the second weekend after its release, and the box office on Friday unexpectedly had a certain shock. It slipped to $19.5 million, but by Saturday, the single-day box office had skyrocketed again to $26.75 million, and when the weekend was over, the next weekend box office of "Titanic" had everyone's mouth wide open.

Compared with the opening weekend, the North American box office not only did not dive. On the contrary, like the table of this week's week, there was an incredible inverse increase, with a reverse increase of 25% over the weekend, and 55.8 million US dollars in three days!

It also set a record, the highest second-weekend box office ever in Hollywood!

At this time, everyone, including those who have been singing about "Titanic", understood one thing, don't measure this big ship with the normal laws of commercial films!

The trend of this maritime epic is unusually stable, and the situation of commercial films diving 30% or even 40% in a single day at every turn in the past can only be described as extremely rare.

After the start of the new week, Duke returned to Los Angeles. continues to work on its own, while "Titanic" is still on a rampage, and its box office trend is so stable that it can only be described as incredible.

$17.55 million on Monday, $15.21 million on Tuesday, $13.22 million on Wednesday and $12.14 million on Thursday......

By the time the film was released for two full weeks, it grossed $237.28 million at the North American box office. The voices that predict that the North American box office of "Titanic" will not exceed $250 million at most have completely disappeared, and even the most uninitiated person can see it. This figure is definitely not the end of the North American box office, and several Wall Street forecasting agencies have quietly changed the film's North American box office forecast to $400 million......

"Las Vegas is said to have set the mark for the film's final North American box office."

In addition to busy work, "Titanic" is naturally the focus of discussion among Duke and others. Dawson said of what he had heard recently, "$400 million is just one for one." $500 million is only one and a half ......."

Duke laughed, "Guys, are you interested in having a game?" ”

The maneuverability hidden behind the handicap is too strong, and Duke will not be naïve enough to think that he has invested a lot of money. You can receive the corresponding return, but it is still okay to throw a little money into it as an adjustment to your spare time.

"Okay." Anna? Prinz became interested and first chimed in, "I'll pick a $500 million handicap." ”

Zack? Schneider gave her a disdainful look and said, "I'll pick the $500 million handicap too." ”

Everyone knows that the danger of indulging in gambling is just a small entertainment to regulate emotions.

Duke turned to Tina? "Again, buy me $100,000." ”

Tina? Fei's eyes rolled, "Then I'll buy $100,000 too." ”

The money was nothing to the rest of them, and everyone joked for a while and got back to work, and Tina? Faye left the editing room and continued to keep an eye on the box office trend of "Titanic" for Duke.

I have to say that the success of "Titanic" is inevitable, but there are also accidental factors, the most typical is the lack of truly competitive films in the Thanksgiving Christmas file, such as "Star Troopers" released by Sony Columbia Pictures, the investment is huge, and the box office table is not even general, let alone competing with "Titanic", and it is very problematic to even rely on the box office to recover the cost.

And on the third weekend, "Titanic" finally met the stronger film in Duke's memory, distributed by Miramax and Matt? Damon and Ben? Affleck's "Soul Catcher", which ended up doing quite well at the box office, but it executed a typical Miramax-style award promotion strategy, and the number of only seven theaters in the first week did not pose any threat at all.

Without enough competitors, "Titanic" easily topped the box office list for the third consecutive week, earning $39.52 million in three days and a total of $276.8 million at the North American box office.

Also on this weekend, Twentieth Century Fox made full preparations to promote the film to overseas markets such as Latin America and Western Europe, and the films that sold well in North America, except for typical genre films such as vulgar comedy and cult films, basically achieved good results overseas, and "Titanic" was naturally not excluded, and a cultural wave belonging to the big ship began to spread around the world.

However, the fourth weekend of the release of "Titanic" in North America finally ushered in a heavyweight competitor, James? The eighteenth film in the Bond series, "Tomorrow's Empire", landed in North America with 2,807 theaters.

But this is destined to be the year of "Titanic", a well-made Bond film that can only be screened in the shadow of a big ship, even if the former is already in its fourth weekend, and the latter is only the first week!

"Tomorrow's Empire" was obviously hit by "Titanic", and only earned less than expected $25.14 million in the first three days, which may be enough to win the top spot at the box office at other moments, but it is simply not enough to see in front of the big ship.

"Titanic" was unusually stable, collecting another $33.31 million over the three days of the weekend, winning the fourth consecutive weekly box office top, plus $28.75 million in the box office for four days on weekdays this week, piling up the North American box office to $338.86 million!

As soon as this figure came out, Las Vegas changed the handicap, changing the North American box office from $500 million to 1 to 1......

In the following week, Christmas is approaching, and more films begin to be released in a heap to grab the important schedule cake of the year, but whether it is Miramax's "Scream 2" and "Life is Beautiful", or Sony Columbia Pictures' "Perfect", they cannot form a real competition with "Titanic", and the relative weakness of the market except for the big ship has also caused the situation of "Titanic" being dominant.

The success of the big ship is inevitable, and the inevitable factors occupy an absolute dominant position, but it has not encountered a strong competitor is also an objective fact that cannot be ignored.

In short, the combination of internal necessity and external chance has created an unprecedented super brilliance in the history of this film.

By Christmas 1997, "Titanic" was released in North America for 37 days, and the number of theaters has been maintained at a super high of more than 3,300, although the box office has ups and downs, there have been many incredible large reversals, and the North American box office has accumulated 375.62 million US dollars.

At the same time, the film has also been released on a large scale around the world, and the overseas box office has grown at an incredible rate to $250 million, even if it is added to the North American box office, it is not enough to recover the total investment of the three companies in the film, but everyone actually understands that it is only a matter of time before "Titanic" becomes profitable.

Before Christmas, "Titanic" ushered in an important peripheral release, the film's soundtrack album was officially on sale, in the first week alone, 443,000 copies were sold in the North American market alone, 519,000 copies were sold in the second week, and sales reached a peak in the third week - 765,000 copies, and then sales fell to 658,200 chapters in the fourth week, and in the fifth week, like a rebounding box office trend, it rose to 758,800 copies......

In these five weeks, "Titanic" not only completed an incredible five consecutive titles on the box office charts, but also beat a number of pop divas and kings who released records on the Billboard record sales charts, achieving five consecutive sales titles!

The soundtrack album is a super hit, and it is not only Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Duke Studios that are the three major investors who have benefited from it, but also Celine? Dion, after years of hard work, she finally became one of the top female singers in North America with "My Heart is Eternal", and was even compared to Madonna? Siconi, Maria? Kylie and Whitney? Houston is on a par.

The sales of the soundtrack album in overseas markets were equally terrifying, with sales almost double that of North America at the same time.

In addition to these, a team of three investors is also actively opening up other peripheral products of the film, striving to squeeze every drop of oil out of this big ship, and has reached a series of licensing agreements with many manufacturers, and its income is enough to make everyone jealous. (To be continued......)

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