2136.Chapter 2136 2136 Breaking records again
won the championship for five consecutive weeks, and was still able to explode with 30 million box office data on the weekend of the fifth week, and in the entire film history, there is only one movie that has achieved such a feat - "Titanic". Even the "Independence Day", which is currently the second in film history, has not been able to set this record, only "Titanic", the only one.
But now, the name of another work must be added to the list of film history, and that is "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural".
In this way, even the use of astonishment to describe it is not enough to express the intricacies of people's hearts. If "Independence Day" set such a historical record, then there are still traces of the studio, even "Truman's World" makes sense - at least a comedy movie for everyone to watch, but a "supernatural sixth sense"? A horror movie? It's so scary, not even a surprise, it's a horror, and the kind of panic that has thrown the entire Hollywood film industry into a fog, but no one knows when the final pace of the film will stop.
Two hundred million dollars in five weeks, 300 million is already beckoning not far away, is it really going to hit 400 million? If it's true, then ...... Then it's horrible!
In the second week of September, the low-budget thriller film "Stigmata" finally showed its competitiveness again, with an investment of $29 million and an opening weekend box office figure of $18 million, which made people breathe a sigh of relief that there was finally a work that qualified for competition, and that it was no longer the "sixth sense" alone.
However, the competitiveness of such a performance of "Stigmata" is still limited, and "The Sixth Sense" has exploded a 25% drop under the impact of competitors of the same genre, which is also the largest drop since the release of the movie, exceeding 20% for the first time, but even so, the weekend box office of the work still reached 25.5 million US dollars, and it still did not encounter any challenges, bringing its consecutive weeks of winning the championship to six weeks - and it is a weighty six weeks!
In the second week of September, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" won six consecutive championships, and "Stigmata" unfortunately fell to the runner-up.
Then, in the third week of September, "The Sixth Sense" fell by as much as 30 percent, but it still narrowly beat the two new releases, "Blue." Strak), "Baseball Love (For. Love。 Of。 The。 Game)", to achieve an incredible seven consecutive championships!
Until the fourth week of September, the thriller and suspense film "Deadly Pursuit (Double)" starring Tommy Lee Jones. Jeopardy" delivered $23 million at the opening weekend box office, ending the seven-week period of "The Sixth Sense" and reshuffling the entire North American box office charts.
But even so, "The Sixth Sense" still wrote an unsurpassed historical record, winning for seven consecutive weeks, which can also occupy a place in the long history of film, becoming the third most consecutive victories among Hugo's personal works, only behind "Independence Day" and "Yihai Xiongfeng". At the same time, this is also the best performance of horror movies, no one has ever come before, no one has ever come since, and no one has come close to this record until twenty years later. To be precise, there are only a handful of horror movies that have achieved three consecutive titles, let alone seven weeks of champions - four of which are within the scope of the summer season, which is indeed a historical feat that cannot be replicated and surpassed!
In the second week of September, the cumulative box office of "The Sixth Sense" surpassed "The Exorcist" and "Ghost Busters", ranking second in film history; In the third week of September, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" once again took a step forward, surpassing "Jaws" and achieving the highest peak of the box office list of horror movies in the long history of the film; The fourth week of September, the week that will go down in history.
Although this week's "Fatal Pursuit Order" ended the seventh consecutive championship of "The Sixth Sense", the "Sixth Sense" still stands on the shoulders of history, and the cumulative box office officially crossed the threshold of 300 million and came to the position of 300 million US dollars, truly creating the history of the film industry.
"The Sixth Sense" has become the first horror movie in film history to break 300 million at the box office, and what is even more incredible is that in the next 20 years, no horror work has reached such a height, in fact, in the film history list after 20 years, there are still only a handful of works of the same type that have reached 200 million US dollars, let alone touching the threshold of 300 million, which also makes "The Sixth Sense" create an almost unsurpassable historical highpoint, and truly enter the classic palace of film history.
Last year's "Truman's World" created an all-time high for comedy movies, and this year's "The Sixth Sense" created a new all-time high for horror movies, and these two works have one thing in common - the actor is the same actor, even if Hugo's momentum is no longer able to compete, but at this moment, everyone can't help but have an urge to worship.
Compared with "Truman's World", the breakthrough of the "supernatural sixth sense" is undoubtedly more difficult and more arduous. After more than a decade of decline, horror movies have finally exploded again and become a part of the film industry that cannot be ignored.
No matter how much it is emphasized, it is still impossible to describe the shock and magic of horror movies to achieve such a good result, and without seeing the historical context, people really can't find any other reason except "Hugo Lancaster", and can only sigh that the times create heroes, and the final prosperity of the film industry and music industry in the 90s has created unique top superstars.
Along with this, horror films have entered a new production frenzy - which is not surprising, but it has also led to the gradual withdrawal of genre films such as Westerns and musical films from the stage of history, which makes people laugh and cry. Clearly, in the context of the blockbuster era, people are beginning to learn to open their minds to more possibilities. After that, there were also excellent works such as "Chicago" and "Moulin Rouge", which was an unexpected surprise.
All the media's questions have been answered: "The Sixth Sense" became the first work in film history to break 300 million at the box office, and it is also the eleventh work in film history to break 300 million at the box office, which really made up for a gap in the North American film industry - the long-standing horror genre has been justified, and "Alien E." T", "Forrest Gump", "The Lion King", "Truman's World" and other works together created the history of genre films.
However, after the box office broke through the threshold of 300 million, the box office footsteps of "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" did not stop, and the weekly decline was almost controlled below 20 percent, such an outstanding performance made people clearly feel the audience's pursuit of this work, from September to October, and in the blink of an eye, November and December passed, and it entered 2000, after experiencing the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, the movie was actually released to the first week of May in 2000, with a 40-week screening cycle. There is no need to elaborate in any language to appreciate the strong appeal of this work in the North American market.
In the end, the cumulative North American box office of "The Sixth Sense" staggered to $380 million, and unfortunately failed to cross the 400 million threshold - but no one will feel sorry, because such an achievement is a myth for a horror movie.
"The Sixth Sense" replaced "Truman's World" and "L.A. Confidential" and became Hugo's second-best box office performance after "Independence Day". This is the third time in a row that this has happened in the past three years. Now "L.A. Secrets" has surpassed "Speed of Life and Death", then "Truman's World" has surpassed "L.A. Secrets", and now it is "Psychic Sixth Sense" that has replaced "Truman's World". From this detail, it can be seen that Hugo's career development curve is constantly climbing up with a strong attitude, and considering Hugo's supremacy today, such a development curve is even more numb.
Not only that, but at the top of the box office list in film history, "The Sixth Sense" also surpassed "The Lion King", "Forrest Gump" and "Jurassic Park", ranking sixth in film history, only behind "Titanic", "Independence Day", "Star Wars", "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" and "Alien E". T" five works.
Needless to say, a series of historical records is enough to prove the greatness of the "supernatural sixth sense". More importantly, "The Sixth Sense" has created a new peak of the reputation of horror movies after "The Exorcist", and also created a new record for the commercial performance of horror movies after "Jaws", which truly revitalizes the horror genre movies that span half a century of film history.
Ever since Alfred Hitchcock pushed horror movies into the classics, this has been an integral part of the North American film market, and now, "The Psychic Sixth Sense" proves it again in the most direct, vivid and effective way. Avid lovers of countless horror movies have come to life again.
Even what Robert Iger and David Vogel didn't expect when they planned the project, their trust in Knight, their trust in Hugo, and their game with DreamWorks and Endeavour elite agencies have all paid off today, with $60 million in investment in exchange for $380 million at the box office, which is enough to be the highlight of anyone's career.
At the same time, this is also Hugo's third work as a producer, "L.A. Confidential", "Perfect", "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", Hugo's 100% success rate once again caused an uproar on the entire Wall Street, which also made the "Beautiful Mind" invested in post-production quickly become the most anticipated work in the second half of the year.
The surprisingly outstanding performance of "The Sixth Sense" in North America is no accident, as evidenced by the film's outstanding performance in overseas markets, and the popularity of this film, which bears little of American cultural imprint, is far beyond imagination!